LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Lyman Beecher	Religion	12-Oct-1775	10-Jan-1865	American Presbyterian preacher
Andrés Bello	Poet	29-Nov-1781	15-Oct-1865	South American intellectual, poet
George Phillips Bond	Astronomer	20-May-1825	17-Feb-1865	Father of astrophotography
John Wilkes Booth	Assassin	10-May-1838	26-Apr-1865	Abraham Lincoln's assassin
John Cassell	Publisher	23-Jan-1817	2-Apr-1865	Cassell's Magazine
Sir Samuel Cunard	Business	21-Nov-1787	28-Apr-1865	Founder, Cunard Lines
Henry Winter Davis	Politician	16-Aug-1817	30-Dec-1865	Congressman from Maryland, 1855-65
Johann Franz Encke	Astronomer	23-Sep-1791	26-Aug-1865	Investigated comets and asteroids
Edward Everett	Educator	11-Apr-1794	15-Jan-1865	Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	Author	29-Sep-1810	12-Nov-1865	Cranford
James M. Gilliss	Astronomer	6-Sep-1811	9-Feb-1865	Founder, US Naval Observatory
Sir William Rowan Hamilton	Mathematician	3-Aug-1805	2-Sep-1865	Inventor of Quaternions
A. P. Hill	Military	9-Nov-1825	2-Apr-1865	Confederate General
William Jackson Hooker	Botanist	6-Jul-1785	12-Aug-1865	British Jungermanniae
Preston King	Politician	14-Oct-1806	12-Nov-1865	US Senator, committed suicide
Leopold I	Royalty	16-Dec-1790	10-Dec-1865	First King of the Belgians
Abraham Lincoln	Head of State	12-Feb-1809	15-Apr-1865	16th US President, 1861-65
Otto Ludwig	Playwright	11-Feb-1813	25-Feb-1865	Der Erbförster
John Milton	Politician	20-Apr-1807	1-Apr-1865	Florida governor, committed suicide
Lord Palmerston	Head of State	20-Oct-1784	18-Oct-1865	Twice Prime Minister of UK
William Quantrill	Criminal	31-Jul-1837	6-Jun-1865	Quantrill's Raiders
Ignaz Semmelweis	Doctor	1-Jul-1818	13-Aug-1865	Pioneer of antiseptics

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