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Queen Victoria
(Queen of the United Kingdom (1837-1901))
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Listed In: Empresses & Queens
Birthdate: 24th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom
Died: January 22, 1901
2
Walt Whitman
(One of the Most Influential Poets in the American Canon, Regarded as the 'Father of Free Verse')
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11
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: 31st May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: West Hills, New York, United States
Died: March 26, 1892
3
Albert, Prince Consort
(Prince Consort of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1840 - 1861))
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6
Listed In: Royal Family Members
Birthdate: 26th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Schloss Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Rödental, Germany
Died: December 14, 1861
4
George Eliot
(English Novelist, Poet and One of the Leading Writers of the Victorian Era)
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5
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 22nd November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Warwickshire, England
Died: December 22, 1880
5
Herman Melville
(Novelist & Short Story Writer of the American Renaissance Period Best Known for His Works 'Moby-Dick' & 'Typee')
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3
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1st August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: September 28, 1891
6
John Ruskin
(Art Critic and Painter)
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8
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 8th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: England
Died: January 20, 1900
7
Clara Wieck Schumann
(Musician & Composer)
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Allan Pinkerton
(Founder of Pinkerton National Detective Agency)
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9
Birthdate: 25th August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Died: July 1, 1884
9
Gustave Courbet
(French Painter and Leader of the 19th Century Realist Movement)
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1
Listed In: Artists & Painters
Birthdate: 10th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Ornans, France
Died: December 31, 1877
10
Abner Doubleday
(Military Leader)
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1
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 26th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Ballston Spa, New York, United States
Died: January 26, 1893
11
Christopher Latham Sholes
(Inventor of the QWERTY Keyboard)
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15
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 14th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Mooresburg, Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: February 17, 1890
12
Jacques Offenbach
(Composer)
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0
Listed In: Composers
Birthdate: 20th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Cologne, Germany
Died: October 5, 1880
13
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
(Irish English Physicist and Mathematician)
11
1
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 13th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Skreen, Ireland
Died: February 1, 1903
14
James Russell Lowell
(Was an American Romantic Poet, Critic, Editor, and Diplomat)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died: August 12, 1891
15
Thomas A. Hendricks
(21st Vice President of the U.S.A.)
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1
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 7th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Fultonham
Died: November 25, 1885
16
William A. Wheeler
(19th Vice President of the U.S.A)
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0
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 30th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Malone
Died: June 4, 1887
17
Léon Foucault
(Physicist)
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2
Listed In: Physicists
Birthdate: 18th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Paris
Died: February 11, 1868
18
William S. Rosecrans
(Inventor)
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0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 6th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Delaware County, Ohio, U.S.
Died: March 11, 1898
19
Joseph Bazalgette
(British Civil Engineer Who Created a Sewerage System for Central London)
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2
Listed In: Civil Engineers
Birthdate: 28th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Enfield, London, England
Died: March 15, 1891
20
Julia Ward Howe
(Known for Writing the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’)
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0
Listed In: Poets
Birthdate: 27th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: New York City, United States
Died: October 17, 1910
21
Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
(Prime Minister)
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0
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 31st March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany
Died: July 6, 1901
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Franz von Suppé
(Austrian Composer of Light Operas)
2
0
Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 18th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Split, Croatia
Died: May 21, 1895
23
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
(Former President of the South African Republic (1866 - 1871))
3
0
Listed In: Political Leaders
Birthdate: 17th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Graaff-Reinet, South Africa
Died: May 19, 1901
24
Stanisław Moniuszko
(Polish Composer and Conductor Regarded as the 'Father of Polish National Opera')
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1
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Maria Wodzińska
(Artist)
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1
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Francis V, Duke of Modena
(Prince)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 1st June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Modena, Italy
Died: November 20, 1875
27
Arthur Bell Nicholls
(Pastor)
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1
Listed In: Pastors
Birthdate: 6th January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Killead, County Antrim, Ireland
Died: December 3, 1906
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William Worrall Mayo
(Chemist, Politician, Gynaecologist, Editor)
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0
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John Couch Adams
(Mathematician, Astronomer, University teacher)
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0
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Carlotta Grisi
(Ballet dancer)
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0
Listed In: Ballet Dancers
Birthdate: 28th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Vižinada, Croatia
Died: May 20, 1899
31
Arthur Hugh Clough
(Poet)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 1st January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Liverpool, England
Died: November 13, 1861
32
Hippolyte Fizeau
(Physicist, Astronomer)
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2
Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 23rd September
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Paris
Died: September 18, 1896
33
Ottilie Assing
(German-American Abolitionist, Freethinker, and Feminist)
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0
Listed In: Feminists
Birthdate: 11th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Died: August 21, 1884
34
John Bidwell
(Soldier)
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0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 5th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chautauqua, New York, United States
Died: April 4, 1900
35
La Paiva
(Investor)
2
0
Listed In: Investors
Birthdate: 7th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: January 21, 1884
36
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
(Noblewoman, Journalist)
2
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 8th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Monastyryshche, Ukraine
Died: March 9, 1887
37
Charles A. Dana
(American journalist)
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0
Listed In: Media Personalities
Birthdate: 8th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Hinsdale, New Hampshire, United States
Died: October 17, 1897
38
Alexander Melville Bell
(Philologist)
1
0
Listed In: Intellectuals & Academics
Birthdate: 1st March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: August 7, 1905
39
Alfred Escher
(Swiss Railways Pioneer, Politician, and Business Leader)
1
0
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George V of Hanover
(Former King of Hanover (1851 - 1866))
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3
Listed In: Emperors & Kings
Birthdate: 27th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: June 12, 1878
41
E. R. Squibb
(Inventor)
2
0
Listed In: Inventors
Birthdate: 4th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Died: October 25, 1900
42
Jane Roberts
(First Lady)
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0
Listed In: First Ladies
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Virginia, United States
Died: January 10, 1914
43
Edwin Drake
(American Businessman and the First Person to Successfully Drill for Oil)
3
3
Listed In: Oil Barons
Birthdate: 29th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Greenville, New York, United States
Died: November 9, 1880
44
Butrus al-Bustani
(Syria's First Nationalist and Founder of the Bi-Weekly Magazine 'Al-Jinan')
1
0
Birthdate: 30th November
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Died: May 1, 1883
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Edward Stafford
(Prime minister)
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1
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 23rd April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: February 14, 1901
46
E. D. E. N. Southworth
(Author)
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0
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 26th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Washington, D.C., United States
Died: June 30, 1899
47
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
(German Physician and Physiologist)
1
0
Listed In: Physiologists
Birthdate: 6th July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: January 7, 1892
48
Maria II of Portugal
(Queen of Portugal (1826 - 1828))
2
2
Listed In: Empresses & Queens
Birthdate: 4th April
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died: November 15, 1853
49
Lucile Grahn
(Ballerina)
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0
Listed In: Ballet Dancers
Birthdate: 30th June
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: April 4, 1907
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Otto Wilhelm von Struve
(Astronomer)
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