Lewis Carroll27th January, British
Novelist, Mathematician & Photographer
Maximilian I of Mexico6th July, Austrian
Monarch
Louisa May Alcott29th November, American
Writer
Édouard Manet23rd January, French
Artist
Gustave Eiffel15th December, French
Architect, Civil Engineer
Mary Ann Cotton31st October, British
Serial Killer
Wilhelm Wundt16th August, German
Philosopher
Horatio Alger13th January, American
American writer
Mary Edwards Walker26th November, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
John George Nicolay26th February, American
Biographer
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Khurshidbanu Natavan6th August, Azerbaijani
Poet
Gustave Doré6th January, French
Artist
Mary Fields30th November, American
Mail carrier
Hudson Taylor21st May, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia13th October, Russian
Military personnel
Tippu Tib30th November, Tanzanian
Businessman
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts30th September, British
Military General
Joseph Smith, III6th November, American
Religious leader
Edward Burnett Tylor2nd October, British
Anthropologist
Lucretia Garfield19th April, Belgian
Politician
Osman Nuri Pasha30th November, Turkish
Military Commander
Nicolaus Otto14th June, German
German engineer
John Brown Gordon6th February, American
General
William Crookes17th June, British
Chemist
Ivan Shishkin25th January, Russian
Painter
Henry Steel Olcott2nd August, American
Military Officer
Sir Leslie Stephen28th November, British
Author
Caroline Harrison1st October, American
First Lady
Jules Ferry5th April, French
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer, Journalist
Felice Beato30th November, British
photographer, journalist, war photographer,
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson8th December, Norwegian
Writer
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Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier30th January, Spanish
Duchess
Joseph Hayne Rainey21st June, American
Politician
George, King of Saxony8th August, German
Military personnel
Sarah Boone31st January, American
Inventor
Adele Spitzeder9th February, German
Singer
Miguel Miramón29th September, Mexican
Politician
Wilhelm Busch15th April, German
Poet
Edwin Arnold10th June, British
Poet
Julius Sterling Morton22nd April, American
Politician
Andrew Dickson White7th November, American
Historian
Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg31st August, German
Prince
Te Kooti30th November, New Zealander
Leader
Philip Danforth Armour16th May, American
Entrepreneur
William Le Baron Jenney25th September, American
Architect
Benjamin Bristow20th June, American
Lawyer
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld18th November, Finnish, Swedish
Geologist
Octave Chanute18th February, French
Civil engineer
Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire15th June, German
Duchess
Mary Everest Boole30th November, British
mathematician, philosopher
Hannah Whitall Smith7th February, American
Author
Charles Lecocq3rd June, French
Composer
Hubert Howe Bancroft5th May, American
Historian
James James4th November, Welsh
Minister, Poet
Émile Gaboriau9th November, French
Writer
William Russell Grace10th May, Irish, American
Politician
Pavel Tretyakov15th December, Russian
Businessman
José Echegaray19th April, Spanish
Civil Engineer
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev29th January, Russian
Statesman
Walter Q. Gresham17th March, American
Politician
Charilaos Trikoupis11th July, Greek
Politician
George Shiras Jr.26th January, American
Jurist
Howell Edmunds Jackson8th April, American
Attorney
Samuel Colman4th March, American
American painter
Charles Friedel12th March, French
Chemist
Charles Russell, Baron Russell10th November, British
Jurist
Amos Whitney8th October, American
Mechanical engineer
John Kirk19th December, Scottish
Physician
Moncure D. Conway17th March, American
Writer
Narcisa de Jesus29th October, Ecuadorian
Saint
Julius von Sachs2nd October, German
Botanist
Luigi Palma di Cesnola29th July, Italian, American
Soldier
Jules Vallès11th June, French
Journalist
Werner Munzinger21st April, Swiss
Explorer
John Ceiriog Hughes25th September, Welsh
Poet
Emilio Castelar7th September, Spanish
Politician
Juan Montalvo13th April, Ecuadorian
Author
Theodore Watts-Dunton12th October, British
Critic
Isaac Israel Hayes5th March, American
Explorer
William Quiller Orchardson27th March, British, Scottish
Painter
Juan Leon Mera28th June, Ecuadorian
Essayist
Elizabeth Akers Allen9th October, American
Poet
Alexander Lyman Holley20th July, American
Mechanical Engineer
Horatio Nelson Lay23rd January, British
Diplomat
Theodor Gomperz29th March, Austrian
Philosopher
Léon Gautier8th August, French
Historian
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith6th July, British
British politician
Louis Paul Cailletet21st September, French
Physicist
Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf25th January, Polish
Statesman
Charles Tilston Bright8th June, British
Electrical engineer
Count Gustav Kálnoky29th December, Austrian, Hungarian
Diplomat
Ernest de Sarzec11th August, French
Archaeologist
Gaspar Núñez de Arce4th August, Spanish
Poet
William Thomas3rd April, Welsh
Poet