LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Spencer Fullerton Baird	Naturalist	3-Feb-1823	19-Aug-1887	History of North American Birds
Henry Ward Beecher	Religion	24-Jun-1813	8-Mar-1887	American Congregationalist preacher
Aleksandr Borodin	Composer	12-Nov-1833	27-Feb-1887	Prince Igor
Alvan Clark	Astronomer	8-Mar-1804	19-Aug-1887	Telescope maker
Agostino Depretis	Head of State	13-Jan-1813	29-Jul-1887	Three-time Prime Minister of Italy
Dorothea Dix	Activist	4-Apr-1802	17-Jul-1887	Activist for the insane
Doc Holliday	Doctor	14-Aug-1851	8-Nov-1887	Wyatt Earp's reliable friend
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	Physicist	12-Mar-1824	17-Oct-1887	Theory of spectrum analysis
Jules Laforgue	Poet	16-Aug-1860	20-Aug-1887	Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot
Emma Lazarus	Poet	22-Jul-1849	19-Nov-1887	The New Colossus
Jenny Lind	Singer	6-Oct-1820	2-Nov-1887	Soprano, The Swedish Nightingale
Daniel Manning	Government	16-May-1831	24-Dec-1887	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1885-87
Henry Mayhew	Journalist	1812	25-Jul-1887	Punch
Albert Parsons	Activist	20-Jun-1848	11-Nov-1887	Haymarket Martyr
Carlo Passaglia	Religion	2-May-1812	12-Mar-1887	Advocate of Italian unity
Samuel Lowell Price	Business	12-Jan-1821	19-May-1887	The Price of Price Waterhouse Coopers
Joseph Rainey	Politician	21-Jun-1832	1-Aug-1887	Congressman from South Carolina, 1870-79
Thomas Caute Reynolds	Politician	11-Oct-1821	30-Mar-1887	Missouri governor, committed suicide
Lysander Spooner	Activist	19-Jan-1808	14-May-1887	No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
Balfour Stewart	Physicist	1-Nov-1828	19-Dec-1887	Studied magnetism, radiant heat
Elihu Benjamin Washburne	Politician	23-Sep-1816	22-Oct-1887	Congressman and Ambassador to France
William A. Wheeler	Politician	30-Jun-1819	4-Jun-1887	Vice President under Hayes
William Burnham Woods	Judge	3-Aug-1824	14-May-1887	US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87

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