1
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Famous For his Essay 'Nature' and Speech Entitled 'The American Scholar')
58
17
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 25th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: April 27, 1882
2
Hector Berlioz
(French Composer and Conductor Known for His Work ‘Symphonie fantastique’, ‘Harold in Italy’ and ‘Roméo et Juliette’)
32
9
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 11th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: La Côte-Saint-André, France
Died: March 8, 1869
3
Black Kettle
(Leader)
24
2
Birthdate: 7th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Black Hills
Died: November 27, 1868
4
Christian Doppler
(Mathematician & Physicist)
39
3
Listed In: Mathematicians
Birthdate: 29th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Salzburg, Austria
Died: March 17, 1853
5
Albert Sidney Johnston
(Military general)
4
1
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 2nd February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Washington, Kentucky
Died: April 6, 1862
6
James Brooke
(Politician, Writer, Diplomat)
5
2
Listed In: Historical Personalities
Birthdate: 29th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Varanasi
Died: June 11, 1868
7
Robert Stephenson
(Engineer, Civil engineer, Politician)
6
0
Listed In: Civil Engineers
Birthdate: 16th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Willington Quay
Died: October 12, 1859
8
Justus von Liebig
(German Chemist Who is Considered One of the Principal Founders of Organic Chemistry)
6
1
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: 12th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Darmstadt, Germany
Died: April 18, 1873
9
Joseph Paxton
(Gardener & Architect)
9
0
Birthdate: 3rd August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Bedfordshire
Died: June 8, 1865
10
Sarah Childress Polk
(U.S. First Lady)
5
1
Listed In: First Ladies
Birthdate: 4th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States
Died: August 14, 1891
11
Adolphe Adam
(French Music Critic, Teacher, and Composer Best Remembered for His Ballets, 'Le corsaire' and 'Giselle')
3
0
Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: 24th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: May 3, 1856
12
Prosper Mérimée
(French Writer and One of the Pioneers of the 'Novella')
3
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 28th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: September 23, 1870
13
John Ericsson
(Inventor)
3
1
Listed In: Inventors & Discoverers
Birthdate: 31st July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Långbanshyttan, Värmland, Sweden
Died: March 8, 1889
14
Alexander Turney Stewart
(American Textile Merchant)
6
0
Listed In: Retailers
Birthdate: 12th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Lisburn, North Ireland
Died: April 10, 1876
15
Princess Alexandrine of Prussia
(Aristocrat)
4
0
Listed In: Empresses & Queens
Birthdate: 23rd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: April 21, 1892
16
Flora Tristan
(Writer)
2
0
Listed In: Feminists
Birthdate: 7th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Bordeaux, France
Died: November 14, 1844
17
Peter Chanel
(Priest)
3
1
Listed In: Priests
Birthdate: 12th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Montrevel-en-Bresse, France
Died: April 28, 1841
18
Arthur Cotton
(Engineer)
1
0
Birthdate: 15th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Combermere, Cheshire, England
Died: July 24, 1899
19
John Gorrie
(Physician)
1
0
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 3rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Died: June 29, 1855
20
Susanna Moodie
(British-Born Canadian Author Who Wrote About Her Experiences as a Settler in Canada)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 6th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Bungay, England
Died: April 8, 1885
21
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony
(Regent)
3
1
Listed In: Empresses & Queens
Birthdate: 6th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Died: May 18, 1829
22
Adele Foucher
(Writer)
1
0
Birthdate: 27th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: August 27, 1868
23
Prudence Crandall
(Connecticut's official State Heroine)
4
3
Listed In: Civil Rights Activists
Birthdate: 3rd September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Rhode Island
Died: January 28, 1890
24
James Challis
(British Clergyman and Astronomer Famous in the History of Astronomy for His Failure to Discover the Planet 'Neptune')
3
0
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 12th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Braintree, Essex, England
Died: December 3, 1882
25
Ferenc Deák
(Statesman)
1
0
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 17th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Söjtör, Hungary
Died: January 28, 1876
26
Orestes Brownson
(American Preacher and Philosopher)
2
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 16th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Stockbridge, Vermont, United States
Died: April 17, 1876
27
Sarah Helen Power Whitman
(Poet)
1
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 19th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died: June 27, 1878
28
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
(Estonian Writer Regarded as 'Father of the National Literature for Estonia')
2
0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 26th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Jõepere, Estonia
Died: August 25, 1882
29
Luiz Alves de Lima e Silva, duke de Caxias
(Military Officer)
1
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 25th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Duque de Caxias, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: May 7, 1880
30
James Clarence Mangan
(Poet)
1
0
31
Jacques Charles François Sturm
(French Mathematician)
1
0
Listed In: Mathematicians
Birthdate: 29th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Died: December 15, 1855
32
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville
(French cartoonist)
0
0
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 13th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Nancy, France
Died: March 17, 1847
33
John Williamson Nevin
(Theologian)
2
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 20th February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Strasburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: June 6, 1886
34
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(Writer)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 25th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: London, England
Died: January 18, 1873
35
Theodore Dwight Weld
(Abolitionist)
0
0
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: 23rd November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hampton, Connecticut, United States
Died: February 3, 1895
36
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
(Inventor)
1
0
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 15th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Hannover, Germany
Died: December 20, 1877
37
William Smith O'Brien
(Politician)
0
0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 17th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Dromoland Castle Hotel, Newmarket on Fergus, Ireland
Died: June 18, 1864
38
Egerton Ryerson
(Educator, minister known for Championing free schooling in Canada, influence in the design of the Canadian Indian residential school system)
1
1
Listed In: Educators
Birthdate: 24th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Walsh, Canada
Died: February 19, 1882
39
Henry Darcy
(French Engineer Who Made Several Important Contributions to Hydraulics)
0
0
Listed In: Civil Engineers
Birthdate: 10th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Dijon, France
Died: January 3, 1858
40
John Sutter
(Swiss Immigrant Known for Establishing 'Sutter's Fort' in the Area that Would Eventually Become Sacramento, California)
1
2
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 23rd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kandern, Germany
Died: June 18, 1880
41
Christopher Memminger
(Politician)
1
1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 9th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany
Died: March 7, 1888
42
Joseph Whitworth
(British Engineer, Entrepreneur, Inventor and Philanthropist Who Devised the 'British Standard Whitworth System')
1
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 21st December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Stockport, Cheshire, England
Died: January 22, 1887
43
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
(French Ornithologist and Naturalist)
0
1
Listed In: Ornithologists
Birthdate: 24th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: July 29, 1857
44
Gerrit P. Judd
(Physician)
0
0
Birthdate: 23rd April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris, New York, United States
Died: July 12, 1873
45
Edgar Quinet
(French Poet, Historian, and Political Philosopher Known for His Contribution to the Developing Tradition of Liberalism in France)
0
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: 17th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Died: March 27, 1875
46
James Douglas
(British colonial governor on Vancouver Island (now British Columbia))
3
3
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 15th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Demerara
Died: August 2, 1877
47
Aleksander Wielopolski
(Statesman)
0
0
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 13th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Sędziejowice, Poland
Died: December 30, 1877
48
Henri Herz
(Austrian-born French Composer, Pianist, and Piano Manufacturer)
1
1
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 6th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: January 5, 1888
49
Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès
(Politician)
1
0
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 16th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Marseille, France
Died: October 31, 1878
50
Alexandre Decamps
(Painter)
1
1
Listed In: Artists
Birthdate: 3rd March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: August 22, 1860
