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Abraham Lincoln
(16th President of the United States (1861-1865))
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Birthdate: 12th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Larue County, Kentucky, United States
Died: April 15, 1865
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Charles Darwin
(Naturalist known for His Contributions to Evolutionary Biology)
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Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: 12th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: The Mount House, Shrewsbury, England
Died: April 19, 1882
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Edgar Allan Poe
(Writer and Poet - Widely Regarded as a Central Figure of Romanticism in the United States)
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Listed In: Critics & Connoisseurs
Birthdate: 19th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 7, 1849
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
(Poet)
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Birthdate: 6th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
Died: October 6, 1892
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Kit Carson
(Explorer & Soldier)
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Madison County
Died: May 23, 1868
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Felix Mendelssohn
(Best Known for His Solo Piano Composition 'Songs Without Words' and Founder of 'Leipzig Conservatory')
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Birthdate: 3rd February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: November 4, 1847
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Louis Braille
(Inventor of Braille)
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Birthdate: 4th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Coupvray
Died: January 6, 1852
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William Ewart Gladstone
(Prime Minister)
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Birthdate: 29th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died: May 19, 1898
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Nikolai Gogol
(Playwright)
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Birthdate: 1st April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Velyki Sorochyntsi, Ukraine
Died: March 4, 1852
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Hannibal Hamlin
(15th Vice President of the U.S.A)
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Birthdate: 27th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Paris
Died: July 4, 1891
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William Barret Travis
(Military Leader)
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Birthdate: 1st August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Saluda County, South Carolina, United States
Died: March 6, 1836
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Cyrus McCormick
(Inventor of mechanical reaper)
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Birthdate: 15th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Shenandoah Valley
Died: May 13, 1884
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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
(Indian Poet and Educator Who Disseminate Western Learning and Science Among the Young Men of Bengal)
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Birthdate: 18th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Kolkata, India
Died: December 26, 1831
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
(Physician & Poet)
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Birthdate: 29th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 7, 1894
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James Glaisher
(Meteorologists)
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Birthdate: 7th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Rotherhithe, London, England
Died: February 7, 1903
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther
(The First Ever African-Anglican Bishop of West Africa)
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Fanny Kemble
(Actress)
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Birthdate: 27th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: London, England
Died: January 15, 1893
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Georges-Eugène Haussmann
(Official)
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Birthdate: 27th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: January 11, 1891
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Robert Cornelius
(Photographer)
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Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Died: August 10, 1893
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Juliusz Słowacki
(Poet)
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Birthdate: 4th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Kremenets', Ukraine
Died: April 3, 1849
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Khachatur Abovian
(Writer)
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Birthdate: 15th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Yerevan, Armenia
Died: April 14, 1848
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Bruno Bauer
(Philosopher, Theologian, Historian)
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Birthdate: 6th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Eisenberg, Germany
Died: April 13, 1882
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Edward FitzGerald
(Poet, Writer)
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Shimazu Nariakira
(Feudal Lord)
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Birthdate: 28th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Edo, Japan
Died: July 16, 1858
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Prince Albert of Prussia
(Prince)
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Birthdate: 4th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Königsberg, Germany
Died: October 14, 1872
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Heinrich Hoffmann
(German physician and writer)
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Birthdate: 13th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died: September 20, 1894
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Cornelia Connelly
(Religious Leader)
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Birthdate: 15th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: April 18, 1879
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Owen Jones
(architect)
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Birthdate: 15th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: London
Died: April 19, 1874
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Hermann Grassmann
(German Polymath Best Known for His Work as a Mathematician)
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Birthdate: 15th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Szczecin, Poland
Died: September 26, 1877
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Thomas Story Kirkbride
(Physician)
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Birthdate: 31st July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Morrisville, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: December 16, 1883
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts
(President)
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Birthdate: 15th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Died: February 24, 1876
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Karl Bodmer
(Swiss Artist Best Known for His Participation in Prince Maximilian Zu Wied-Neuwied’s Missouri River Expedition)
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Birthdate: 11th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Zurich, Switzerland
Died: October 30, 1893
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Bénédict Morel
(Psychiatrist)
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Birthdate: 22nd November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: March 30, 1873
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James David Forbes
(Scottish Physicist and Glaciologist Known for His Research on Heat Conduction and Glaciers)
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Birthdate: 20th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: December 31, 1868
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Leopoldo O'Donnell, duke de Tetuán
(Prime Minister)
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Birthdate: 12th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Died: November 5, 1867
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Albert Pike
(Military Leader)
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Birthdate: 29th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: April 2, 1891
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Benjamin Peirce
(Mathematician)
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Birthdate: 4th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Died: October 6, 1880
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Mariano José de Larra
(Romantic Writer and Journalist Best Known for His Numerous Essays and His Infamous Suicide)
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Birthdate: 24th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
Died: February 13, 1837
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(French Socialist and Politician Regarded as the 'Father of Anarchism')
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Birthdate: 15th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Besançon, France
Died: January 19, 1865
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Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
(Paleontologist)
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Birthdate: 19th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Mechelen, Belgium
Died: January 8, 1894
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Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
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Birthdate: 7th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hartford , Connecticut, U.S.
Died: January 4, 1894
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Raphael Semmes
(Confederate naval officer)
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Birthdate: 27th September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Charles County, Maryland
Died: August 30, 1877
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Sterling Price
(Politician)
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Birthdate: 14th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Prince Edward County, Virginia, U.S.
Died: September 29, 1867
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Friedrich August von Quenstedt
(Geologist)
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Birthdate: 10th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Eisleben, Germany
Died: December 21, 1889
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Elizabeth Greenfield
(American Singer Who was Considered the Best-Known Black Concert Artist of Her Time)
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Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Natchez, Mississippi, United States
Died: 1876 AD
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Juan Donoso Cortés
(Politician, Writer)
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Birthdate: 6th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Valle de la Serena, Spain
Died: May 3, 1853
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Leopoldo O'Donnell
(Prime Minister of Spain)
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Birthdate: 12th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Died: November 5, 1867
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James MacCullagh
(Mathematician)
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Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Landahaussy, Northern Ireland
Died: October 24, 1847
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis
(Jurist)
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Birthdate: 4th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
Died: September 15, 1874
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Prince Eduard Franz of Liechtenstein
(Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein's son)
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Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: June 27, 1864
