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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
Activist
27-May-1818 30-Dec-1894 Bloomers
George Boole
Mathematician
2-Nov-1815 8-Dec-1864 Inventor of Boolean Algebra
Satyendra Nath Bose
Physicist
1-Jan-1894 4-Feb-1974 Bose-Einstein condensates
James Boswell
Author
29-Oct-1740 19-May-1795 The Life of Samuel Johnson
Charles Boyle
Military
1676 28-Aug-1731 4th Earl of Orrery
Anthony Comstock
Activist
7-Mar-1844 21-Sep-1915 New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
Louis Daguerre
Inventor
18-Nov-1787 10-Jul-1851 Invented Daguerreotype photography
Marquis de Sade
Author
2-Jun-1740 2-Dec-1814 120 Days of Sodom
Euclid
Mathematician
c. 365 BC c. 275 BC Father of geometry
R. Buckminster Fuller
Architect
12-Jul-1895 1-Jul-1983 Futurist, invented the geodesic dome
Luigi Galvani
Doctor
9-Sep-1737 4-Dec-1798 Explored bioelectical phenomena
Elbridge Gerry
Politician
17-Jul-1744 23-Nov-1814 Patron saint of Gerrymandering
Sylvester Graham
Activist
5-Jul-1794 11-Sep-1851 Graham crackers
John Maynard Keynes
Economist
5-Jun-1883 21-Apr-1946 Father of Keynesian economics
Charles Macintosh
Chemist
29-Dec-1766 25-Jul-1843 Invented the raincoat
John Loudon McAdam
Inventor
21-Sep-1756 26-Nov-1836 Macadam method of roads
Franz Anton Mesmer
Paranormal
23-May-1734 5-Mar-1815 Proponent of Animal Magnetism
Ernesto Miranda
Criminal
9-Mar-1941 31-Jan-1976 Miranda v. Arizona
Osman I
Royalty
1258 1326 Founder of the Ottoman Empire
Joseph P. Overton
Activist
4-Jan-1960 30-Jun-2003 The Overton Window
Charles Ponzi
Criminal
3-Mar-1882 18-Jun-1949 Get-rich-quick schemes
Vidkun Quisling
Politician
18-Jul-1887 24-Oct-1945 Norwegian president, Nazi collaborator
Thomas D. Rice
Comic
20-May-1808 19-Sep-1860 Played "Jim Crow"
Charles Richter
Scientist
26-Apr-1900 30-Sep-1985 Groundbreaking seismologist
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Novelist
27-Jan-1836 9-Mar-1895 Venus in Furs
Rick Santorum
Politician
10-May-1958   US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1995-2007
Henry Shrapnel
Inventor
3-Jun-1761 13-Mar-1842 Explosive artillery shell
William Archibald Spooner
Educator
22-Jul-1844 29-Aug-1930 Spoonerisms
Vespasian
Royalty
15-Dec-37 AD 24-Jun-79 AD Roman Emperor, 69-79 AD
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer
9-Mar-1454 22-Feb-1512 American eponym


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