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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jim Bowie
Military
10-Apr-1796 6-Mar-1836 Knife fighter, Alamo combatant
Thomas Bulfinch
Author
15-Jul-1796 27-May-1867 Bullfinch's Mythology
Sadi Carnot
Physicist
1-Jun-1796 24-Aug-1832 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
George Catlin
Painter
26-Jul-1796 23-Dec-1872 Portraitist painted Native Americans
John Middleton Clayton
Politician
24-Jul-1796 9-Nov-1856 US Senator and Secretary of State
Camille Corot
Painter
16-Jul-1796 22-Feb-1875 French landscape painter
Henry de la Beche
Geologist
1796 13-Apr-1855 Created first Geologic Survey
Margaret O'Neill Eaton
Relative
1796 8-Nov-1879 War Secy.'s wife caused cabinet shakeup
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin
Religion
8-Feb-1796 1-Sep-1864 Saint-Simonist, cult leader
Reverdy Johnson
Politician
21-May-1796 10-Feb-1876 US Senator and Attorney General
James Lick
Business
25-Aug-1796 1-Oct-1876 Lick Observatory
Carl Loewe
Composer
30-Nov-1796 20-Apr-1869 German composer of ballads
Horace Mann
Educator
4-May-1796 2-Aug-1859 Massachusetts education reformer
Tsar Nicholas I
Royalty
25-Jun-1796 18-Feb-1855 Repressive Tsar of Russia, 1825-55
George Washington Owen
Politician
20-Oct-1796 18-Aug-1837 Congressman from Alabama, 1823-29
Johann Christian Poggendorff
Physicist
29-Dec-1796 24-Jan-1877 Annalen der Physik und Chemie
William H. Prescott
Historian
4-May-1796 28-Jan-1859 The Conquest of Mexico
John Torrey
Botanist
15-Aug-1796 10-Mar-1873 Flora of North America
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Government
20-Mar-1796 16-May-1862 Colonizer of Australia, New Zealand


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