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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mathew Brady
Photographer
15-Jan-1823 15-Jan-1896 Civil War photographer
Benjamin H. Bristow
Government
20-Jun-1832 22-Jun-1896 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1874-76
Anton Bruckner
Composer
4-Sep-1824 11-Oct-1896 Mass in D Minor
João de Deus
Poet
8-Mar-1830 11-Jan-1896 Flores do Campo
John Langdon Down
Doctor
18-Nov-1828 7-Oct-1896 Down's syndrome
Ernst Engel
Economist
26-Mar-1821 8-Dec-1896 Engel's Law
George Ferris
Engineer
14-Feb-1859 22-Nov-1896 Ferris Wheel
John Gibbon
Military
20-Apr-1827 6-Feb-1896 Led the Civil War's Iron Bigade
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Astronomer
27-Sep-1824 26-Nov-1896 American astronomer and star-catalogist
Horatio Hale
Anthropologist
3-May-1817 28-Dec-1896 Ethnologist studied polynesia
Michael D. Harter
Politician
6-Apr-1846 22-Feb-1896 Congressman, committed suicide
H. H. Holmes
Criminal
16-May-1860 7-May-1896 The Devil in the White City
Thomas Hughes
Author
20-Oct-1822 22-Mar-1896 Tom Brown's School Days
Friedrich August Kekulé
Chemist
7-Sep-1829 13-Jul-1896 Theory of chemical structure
Frederick Leighton
Painter
31-Dec-1830 25-Jan-1896 Classical Victorian English painter
George du Maurier
Artist
6-Mar-1834 6-Oct-1896 British caricaturist, Punch
John Everett Millais
Painter
8-Jun-1829 13-Aug-1896 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
William Morris
Artist
24-Mar-1834 3-Oct-1896 Arts and Crafts Movement
Alfred Nobel
Inventor
21-Oct-1833 10-Dec-1896 Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize
Bill Nye
Columnist
25-Aug-1850 22-Feb-1896 Bill Nye and Boomerang
Sir Henry Parkes
Politician
27-May-1815 27-Apr-1896 Father of Australian confederation
Coventry Patmore
Poet
23-Jul-1823 26-Nov-1896 The Unknown Eros
Henry B. Payne
Politician
30-Nov-1810 9-Sep-1896 US Senator from Ohio, 1885-91
William A. Richardson
Politician
2-Nov-1821 19-Oct-1896 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1873-74
José Rizal
Activist
19-Jun-1861 30-Dec-1896 Philippine national hero
Clara Schumann
Pianist
13-Sep-1819 20-May-1896 Romantic pianist and composer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Novelist
14-Jun-1811 1-Jul-1896 Uncle Tom's Cabin
Paul Verlaine
Poet
30-Mar-1844 8-Jan-1896 Leader of symbolist poetry movement


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