LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Robert Adams, Jr.	Politician	26-Feb-1849	1-Jun-1906	Congressman, committed suicide
Edmund Barton	Head of State	18-Jan-1849	7-Jan-1920	First Prime Minister of Australia
Charles F. Brush	Inventor	17-Mar-1849	15-Jun-1929	Street lights
Luther Burbank	Botanist	7-Mar-1849	11-Apr-1926	Botanist and plant breeder
Frances Hodgson Burnett	Novelist	24-Nov-1849	29-Oct-1924	Little Lord Fauntleroy
Lord Randolph Churchill	Politician	13-Feb-1849	24-Jan-1895	Father of Winston Churchill
William R. Day	Judge	17-Apr-1849	9-Jul-1923	US Supreme Court Justice, 1903-22
John Ambrose Fleming	Engineer	29-Nov-1849	19-Apr-1945	Invented the vacuum tube
Murphy J. Foster	Politician	12-Jan-1849	12-Jun-1921	Governor and Senator from Louisiana
Henry Clay Frick	Business	19-Dec-1849	2-Dec-1919	Robber baron, Johnstown flood
William Jay Gaynor	Politician	1849	10-Sep-1913	NYC mayor, shot in throat
John W. Griggs	Politician	10-Jul-1849	28-Nov-1927	Governor of New Jersey, 1896-98
W. E. Henley	Poet	23-Aug-1849	11-Jul-1903	Invictus
John Hopkinson	Engineer	27-Jul-1849	27-Aug-1898	English electrical engineer
Sarah Orne Jewett	Author	3-Sep-1849	24-Jun-1909	The Country of the Pointed Firs
John W. Kern	Politician	20-Dec-1849	17-Aug-1917	US Senator from Indiana, 1911-17
Saionji Kinmochi	Government	23-Oct-1849	24-Nov-1940	Twice Prime Minister of Japan
Emma Lazarus	Poet	22-Jul-1849	19-Nov-1887	The New Colossus
Georg Luger	Inventor	6-Mar-1849	22-Dec-1923	Invented the Luger pistol
Charles Nagel	Government	9-Aug-1849	5-Jan-1940	US Secy. of Commerce & Labor, 1909-13
Max Nordau	Critic	29-Jul-1849	23-Jan-1923	Zionist and cultural critic, Degeneration
William Osler	Doctor	12-Jul-1849	29-Dec-1919	Father of psychosomatic medicine
Ivan Pavlov	Scientist	14-Sep-1849	27-Feb-1936	Conditioned reflexes
Armand Peugeot	Business	26-Mar-1849	2-Jan-1915	Built the first Peugeot automobiles
Jacob A. Riis	Journalist	3-May-1849	26-May-1914	How the Other Half Lives
James Whitcomb Riley	Poet	7-Oct-1849	22-Jul-1916	The Hoosier Poet
W. T. Stead	Journalist	5-Jul-1849	15-Apr-1912	Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1883-89
August Strindberg	Playwright	22-Jan-1849	14-May-1912	Röda Rummet
Bernhard von Bulow	Head of State	3-May-1849	28-Oct-1929	German Chancellor, 1900-09
Alfred von Tirpitz	Military	19-Mar-1849	6-Mar-1930	German admiral, pushed U-boats
John William Waterhouse	Painter	6-Apr-1849	10-Feb-1917	British Pre-Raphaelite painter

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