Louisa May Alcott29th November, American
Writer
Lewis Carroll27th January, British
Author, Mathematician and Photographer
Maximilian I of Mexico6th July, Austrian
Monarch
Édouard Manet23rd January, French
Artist
Gustave Eiffel15th December, French
Architect, Civil Engineer
Wilhelm Wundt16th August, German
Philosopher
Mary Ann Cotton31st October, British
Serial Killer
Horatio Alger13th January, American
American writer
Mary Edwards Walker26th November, American
Surgeon, Feminist, Activist
John George Nicolay26th February, American
Biographer
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Poet
Edward Burnett Tylor2nd October, British
Anthropologist
Mary Fields30th November, American
Mail carrier
Hudson Taylor21st May, British
Physician, Translator, Theologian, Non-fiction
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts30th September, British
Military General
Lucretia Garfield19th April, Belgian
Politician
Caroline Harrison1st October, American
First Lady
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia13th October
Military personnel
Nicolaus Otto14th June, German
German engineer
Henry Steel Olcott2nd August, American
Military Officer
William Crookes17th June, British
Chemist
Osman Nuri Pasha30th November, Turkish
Military Commander
Ivan Shishkin25th January, Russian
Painter
John Brown Gordon6th February, American
General
Felice Beato30th November, British
photographer, journalist, war photographer,
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson8th December, Norwegian
Writer
Jules Ferry5th April, French
Politician, Diplomat, Lawyer, Journalist
Andrew Dickson White7th November, American
Historian
Wilhelm Busch15th April, German
Poet, Painter, Essayist, Writer, Autobiographer
George Shiras Jr.26th January, American
Jurist
Octave Chanute18th February, French
Civil engineer
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Miguel Miramón29th September, Mexican
Politician
Te Kooti30th November, New Zealander
Leader
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld18th November, Finnish, Swedish
Geologist
José Echegaray19th April, Spanish
Civil Engineer
Howell Edmunds Jackson8th April, American
Attorney
William Le Baron Jenney25th September, American
Architect
Julius Sterling Morton22nd April, American
Politician
Philip Danforth Armour16th May, American
Entrepreneur
Edwin Arnold10th June, British
Poet
William Quiller Orchardson27th March, British, Scottish
Painter
Hannah Whitall Smith7th February, American
Author
Walter Q. Gresham17th March, American
Politician
Sarah Boone31st January, American
Inventor
Émile Gaboriau9th November, French
Writer
Mary Everest Boole30th November, British
mathematician, philosopher
Hubert Howe Bancroft5th May, American
Historian
Benjamin Bristow20th June, American
Lawyer
Charles Friedel12th March, French
Chemist
Julius von Sachs2nd October, German
Botanist
Charilaos Trikoupis11th July, Greek
Politician
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev29th January, Russian
Statesman
William Russell Grace10th May, Irish, American
Politician
Pavel Tretyakov15th December, Russian
Businessman
Samuel Colman4th March, American
American painter
Amos Whitney8th October, American
Mechanical engineer
Emilio Castelar7th September, Spanish
Politician
Moncure D. Conway17th March, American
Writer
Juan Montalvo13th April, Ecuadorian
Author
Jules Vallès11th June, French
Journalist
Luigi Palma di Cesnola29th July, Italian, American
Soldier
Isaac Israel Hayes5th March, American
Explorer
Charles Lecocq3rd June, French
Composer
John Ceiriog Hughes25th September, Welsh
Poet
Nikolaus Otto10th June, German
Engineer, Inventor
Werner Munzinger21st April, Swiss
Explorer
Alexander Lyman Holley20th July, American
Mechanical Engineer
Elizabeth Akers Allen9th October, American
Poet
Theodore Watts-Dunton12th October, British
Critic
William Thomas3rd April, Welsh
Poet
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith6th July, British
British politician
Charles Tilston Bright8th June, British
Electrical engineer
Horatio Nelson Lay23rd January, British
Diplomat
Louis Paul Cailletet21st September, French
Physicist
Theodor Gomperz29th March, Austrian
Philosopher
Ernest de Sarzec11th August, French
Archaeologist
Léon Gautier8th August, French
Historian
Count Gustav Kálnoky29th December, Austrian, Hungarian
Diplomat
Gaspar Núñez de Arce4th August, Spanish
Poet
Sir Leslie Stephen28th November, British
Author
Hermann Steudner1st September, Polish
Botanist
Octave Pirmez19th April, Belgian
Author
Robert Eitner22nd October, German, Polish
Musicologist
Rufus Henry Gilbert26th January, American
Surgeon
John Kirk19th December, Scottish
Physician
Tippu Tib30th November, Tanzanian
Businessman
Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf25th January, Polish
Statesman
Joseph Smith, III6th November, American
Religious leader
Joseph Hayne Rainey21st June, American
Politician
Charles Russell, Baron Russell10th November, British
Jurist