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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Niels Henrik Abel
Mathematician
5-Aug-1802 6-Apr-1829 Studied elliptics and hyperelliptics
William Burke
Criminal
1792 28-Jan-1829 Cheap cadavers for science
Humphry Davy
Chemist
17-Dec-1778 29-May-1829 Leading early 19th century chemist
Melchiorre Gioja
Economist
20-Sep-1767 2-Jan-1829 Filosofia della Statistica
John Jay
Judge
12-Dec-1745 17-May-1829 First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Biologist
1-Aug-1744 18-Dec-1829 Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist
Pope Leo XII
Religion
22-Aug-1760 10-Feb-1829 Persecuted Jewry, Freemasonry
Timothy Pickering
Politician
17-Jul-1745 29-Jan-1829 US Secretary of State, 1795-1800
James Smithson
Chemist
1765 27-Jun-1829 Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution
John Tayler
Politician
4-Jul-1742 19-Apr-1829 Governor of New York, 1817
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
Chemist
16-May-1763 14-Nov-1829 Discovered beryllium and chromium
Friedrich von Schlegel
Philosopher
10-Mar-1772 12-Jan-1829 Founder of the German Romantic movement
Bushrod Washington
Judge
5-Jun-1762 26-Nov-1829 US Supreme Court Justice, 1799-1829
Thomas Young
Physicist
13-Jun-1773 10-May-1829 Wave Theory of Light


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