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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William Taylor Adams
Author
30-Jul-1822 27-Mar-1897 Oliver Optic's Magazine
Johannes Brahms
Composer
7-May-1833 3-Apr-1897 Ein deutsches Requiem
Edward Drinker Cope
Paleontologist
28-Jul-1840 12-Apr-1897 Potential holotype for Homo Sapiens
Alphonse Daudet
Novelist
13-May-1840 16-Dec-1897 Lettres de mon moulin
Galileo Ferraris
Physicist
31-Oct-1847 7-Feb-1897 Invented the induction motor
Carl Remigius Fresenius
Chemist
28-Dec-1818 11-Jun-1897 Anleitung zur qualitativen chemischen Analyse
Henry George
Economist
2-Sep-1839 29-Oct-1897 Progress and Poverty
Harriet Irwin
Architect
1828 1897 Designer of hexagonal houses
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Author
1813 7-Mar-1897 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
John Mercer Langston
Politician
14-Dec-1829 15-Nov-1897 First black Congressman elected from Virginia
Margaret Oliphant
Novelist
4-Apr-1828 25-Jun-1897 The Chronicles of Carlingford
Francis Turner Palgrave
Critic
28-Sep-1824 24-Oct-1897 Golden Treasury
Sir Isaac Pitman
Inventor
4-Jan-1813 12-Jan-1897 Stenographic Soundhand
George Pullman
Business
3-Mar-1831 19-Oct-1897 Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff
Educator
3-Nov-1814 20-Mar-1897 Women's education reformer
James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematician
3-Sep-1814 15-Mar-1897 Studied finite analysis
Francis A. Walker
Economist
2-Jul-1840 5-Jan-1897 The Wages Question
Justin Winsor
Curator
2-Jan-1831 22-Oct-1897 Librarian of Harvard University


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