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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John James Audubon
Naturalist
26-Apr-1785 27-Jan-1851 Illustrated Birds of America
William Beaumont
Doctor
21-Nov-1785 25-Apr-1853 Observed human digestion
Sir William Cubitt
Engineer
1785 13-Oct-1861 British civil engineer
Thomas De Quincey
Author
15-Aug-1785 8-Dec-1859 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
James Pollard Espy
Scientist
9-May-1785 24-Jan-1860 The Philosophy of Storms
Henry Hardinge
Military
30-Mar-1785 24-Sep-1856 Governor-General of India, 1844-48
William Jackson Hooker
Botanist
6-Jul-1785 12-Aug-1865 British Jungermanniae
Leonard Horner
Geologist
17-Jan-1785 5-Mar-1864 Scottish geologist, educator
Louis XVII
Royalty
27-Mar-1785 8-Jun-1795 Dauphin, Titular King of France
Alessandro Manzoni
Poet
7-Mar-1785 22-May-1873 I Promessi Sposi
John McLean
Judge
11-Mar-1785 4-Apr-1861 US Supreme Court Justice, 1829-61
Thomas Love Peacock
Novelist
18-Oct-1785 23-Jan-1866 Nightmare Abbey
Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier
Physicist
22-Feb-1785 27-Oct-1845 Peltier Effect
Oliver Hazard Perry
Military
23-Aug-1785 23-Aug-1819 Won the Battle of Lake Erie
Shaka Zulu
Military
c. 1785 23-Sep-1828 King of the Zulu, 1816-28


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