LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mily Balakirev	Composer	21-Dec-1836	16-May-1910	Russian nationalist composer
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson	Playwright	8-Dec-1832	26-Apr-1910	Synnöve Solbakken
Elizabeth Blackwell	Doctor	3-Feb-1821	31-May-1910	America's first woman doctor
Stanislao Cannizzaro	Chemist	13-Jul-1826	10-May-1910	Atomic vs Molecular weights
Eugene Asa Carr	Military	20-Mar-1830	2-Dec-1910	Union Army General
Henry Dunant	Activist	8-May-1828	30-Oct-1910	Red Cross founder
Mary Baker Eddy	Religion	16-Jul-1821	3-Dec-1910	Founded Christian Science movement
King Edward VII	Royalty	9-Nov-1841	6-May-1910	King of England, 1901-1910
O. Henry	Author	11-Sep-1862	5-Jun-1910	The Gift of the Magi
Winslow Homer	Painter	24-Feb-1836	30-Sep-1910	Maritime painter, Eight Bells
Julia Ward Howe	Activist	27-May-1819	17-Oct-1910	Battle Hymn of the Republic
William Huggins	Astronomer	7-Feb-1824	12-May-1910	Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
William Holman Hunt	Painter	2-Apr-1827	7-Sep-1910	British Pre-Raphaelite painter
William James	Philosopher	11-Jan-1842	26-Aug-1910	The Principles of Psychology
Robert Koch	Doctor	11-Dec-1843	27-May-1910	Discovered bacteria that causes tuberculosis
William Vaughn Moody	Playwright	8-Jul-1869	17-Oct-1910	The Great Divide
Florence Nightingale	Activist	12-May-1820	13-Aug-1910	Established nursing as a profession
Thomas C. Platt	Politician	15-Jul-1833	6-Mar-1910	US Senator from New York, 1897-1909
Henri Rousseau	Painter	21-May-1844	2-Sep-1910	French painter of the exotic
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli	Astronomer	14-Mar-1835	4-Jul-1910	Discovered canals on Mars
William Graham Sumner	Educator	30-Oct-1840	12-Apr-1910	Laissez faire sociologist
Leo Tolstoy	Author	28-Aug-1828	20-Nov-1910	Russian novelist
Mark Twain	Author	30-Nov-1835	21-Apr-1910	Huckleberry Finn
Léon Walras	Economist	16-Dec-1834	5-Jan-1910	Founded the marginalist school of economics

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