Abraham Lincoln12th February, American
American President.
Edgar Allan Poe19th January, American
Writer
Charles Darwin12th February, British
Naturalist
Albert Pike29th December, American
Military Leader
William Ewart Gladstone29th December, British
Kit Carson24th December, American
Explorer & Soldier
Hannibal Hamlin27th August, American
15th Vice President of the U.S.A
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon15th January, French
Politician
Louis Braille4th January, French
Inventor of Braille
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio18th April, Indian
Poet
Cyrus McCormick15th February, American
Inventor of mechanical reaper
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.29th August, American
Writer, Physician
Alfred Lord Tennyson5th August, British
Poet
William Barret Travis1st August, American
Military Leader
Alfred, Lord Tennyson6th August, British
Poet
Felix Mendelssohn3rd February, German
Composer
Nikolai Gogol1st April, Russian
Playwright
Owen Jones15th February, British
architect
William B. Travis1st August, American
Military personnel
Raphael Semmes27th September, American
Confederate naval officer
Joseph Jenkins Roberts15th March, Liberian, American
President
Sterling Price14th September, American
Politician
Samuel Ajayi Crowther30th November, Nigerian
Linguist
Robert Cornelius1st March, American
Photographer
Bruno Bauer6th September, German
Philosopher, Theologian, Historian
Benjamin Robbins Curtis4th November, American
Jurist
Fanny Kemble27th November, British
Actress
Hermann Grassmann15th April, German, Polish
Polymath
Juliusz Słowacki4th September, Polish, Ukrainian
Poet
Manuel Blanco Romasanta18th November, Spanish
Serial killer
John A. Dahlgren13th November, American
Inventor
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Louis Charles Delescluze2nd October, French
Revolutionary leader
Georges-Eugène Haussmann27th March, French
Official
Shimazu Nariakira28th April, Japanese
Feudal Lord
Benjamin Peirce4th April, American
Mathematician
Karl Bodmer11th February, Swiss
painter, photographer
Mariano José de Larra24th March, Spanish
Journalist, novelist, playwright, politician
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard5th May, American
Scientist
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton19th June, British
Poet
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust13th January, Austrian, German
Statesman
Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky23rd August, Russian
Statesman
James Burke8th December, British
Boxer
James David Forbes20th April, Scottish
Physicist
Thomas Story Kirkbride31st July, American
Physician
Jules Favre21st March, French
Statesman
Bénédict Morel22nd November, Austrian, French
Psychiatrist
Cornelia Connelly15th January, American
Religious Leader
George Engelmann2nd February, German, American
Botanist
François Certain de Canrobert27th June, French
Military Leader
Manuel Montt4th September, Chilean
Statesman
Giuseppe Giusti12th May, Italian
Poet
James MacCullagh30th November, British
Mathematician
Tryon Edwards7th August, American
Theologian
Theodor Benfey28th January, German
Philologist
Albert Brisbane22nd August, American
Author
François-Xavier Garneau15th June, Canadian, French
Notary
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden19th December, Belgian
Paleontologist
Alessandro Gavazzi21st March, Italian
Preacher
Feng Guifen30th November, Chinese
Scholar
Petrus Borel26th June, French
Writer
Aleksey Koltsov15th October, Russian
Poet
Heinrich Hoffmann13th June, German
German physician and writer
John Liptrot Hatton12th October, British
Composer
Isaak August Dorner20th June, German
Church Leader
Joseph Gungl1st December, Austrian
Composer
George Augustus Selwyn5th April, New Zealander
Bishop
Friedrich August von Quenstedt10th July, German
Geologist
John W. Griffiths6th October, American
Naval architect
Lewis Edwards27th October, Welsh
Educator
Frederik Paludan-Müller7th February, Danish
Poet
Mary Aloysia Hardey30th November, American
Nun
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel17th January, French
Historian
David Dickson6th July, American
Farmer
William E. Gladstone29th December, British
Politician
Hermann Günther Grassmann15th April, German, Polish
Polymath
Edmond Leboeuf5th December, French
Military Officer
W.E. Gladstone30th November
Prime Minister
Edward FitzGerald31st March, British
Poet, Writer
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle9th July, German
Physician
Edwin, Freiherr von Manteuffel24th February, German
Military general
Hŏ Ryŏn30th November, North Korean, South Korean
Painter
Laura Maria Sheldon Wright10th July, American
Missionary
Leopoldo O'Donnell, duke de Tetuán12th January, Spanish
Prime Minister
Nakamura Nakazo III17th November, Japanese
Actor