LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sir Redvers Henry Buller	Military	7-Dec-1839	2-Jun-1908	Chief of Staff during Boer War
Adolphus Busch	Business	10-Jul-1839	10-Oct-1913	Made Anheuser's brewery profitable
Paul Cézanne	Painter	19-Jan-1839	22-Oct-1906	Post-Impressionist French painter
Josephine Cochrane	Inventor	8-Mar-1839	3-Aug-1913	Invented the dishwasher
George Armstrong Custer	Military	5-Dec-1839	25-Jun-1876	Battle of the Little Big Horn
Henry George	Economist	2-Sep-1839	29-Oct-1897	Progress and Poverty
J. Willard Gibbs	Physicist	11-Feb-1839	28-Apr-1903	Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics
James A. Herne	Playwright	1-Feb-1839	2-Jun-1901	Shore Acres
Machado de Assis	Novelist	21-Jun-1839	29-Sep-1908	Dom Casmurro
Nelson A. Miles	Military	8-Aug-1839	15-May-1925	Army volunteer promoted to Commanding General
Modest Mussorgsky	Composer	9-Mar-1839	16-Mar-1881	Boris Godunov
Ouida	Novelist	1-Jan-1839	25-Jan-1908	Under Two Flags
Walter Pater	Critic	4-Aug-1839	30-Jul-1894	Marius the Epicurean
Charles Sanders Peirce	Philosopher	10-Sep-1839	19-Apr-1914	Founder of Pragmatism
Thomas B. Reed	Politician	18-Oct-1839	7-Dec-1902	Speaker of the House, 1889-91 and 1895-99
John D. Rockefeller	Business	8-Jul-1839	23-May-1937	Founder of Standard Oil
Robert Smalls	Politician	5-Apr-1839	23-Feb-1915	Slave elected to Congress from South Carolina
Sully Prudhomme	Poet	16-Mar-1839	7-Sep-1907	Parnassian poet
Sir Spencer Walpole	Historian	7-Feb-1839	7-Jul-1907	History of England from 1815
Sarah Winchester	Relative	Sep-1839	5-Sep-1922	Winchester Mystery House

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