LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Quincy Adams	Head of State	11-Jul-1767	23-Feb-1848	6th President of the U.S.
John Jacob Astor	Business	17-Jul-1763	29-Mar-1848	Wealthiest man in America
Jöns Jacob Berzelius	Chemist	20-Aug-1779	7-Aug-1848	Inventor of modern chemical notation
Steen Steensen Blicher	Author	11-Oct-1782	26-Mar-1848	Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk
Emily Brontë	Novelist	30-Jul-1818	19-Dec-1848	Wrote Wuthering Heights
François-René de Chateaubriand	Author	4-Sep-1768	4-Jul-1848	Génie du christianisme
Thomas Cole	Painter	1-Feb-1801	11-Feb-1848	American landscape painter
Gaetano Donizetti	Composer	29-Nov-1797	8-Apr-1848	Lucia di Lammermoor
Samuel Guthrie	Doctor	1782	19-Oct-1848	Discovered chloroform
Caroline Herschel	Astronomer	16-Mar-1750	9-Jan-1848	Astronomer, sister of William
George Stephenson	Engineer	9-Jun-1781	12-Aug-1848	Early railroad builder
Rodolphe Töpffer	Cartoonist	31-Jan-1799	8-Jun-1848	The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
Horace Wells	Scientist	21-Jan-1815	24-Jan-1848	Nitrous oxide as a surgical anesthetic

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