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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Arunah Shepherdson Abell
Publisher
10-Aug-1806 19-Aug-1888 The Baltimore Sun
Alexander Dallas Bache
Physicist
19-Jul-1806 17-Feb-1867 First President, National Academy of Sciences
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet
6-Mar-1806 29-Jun-1861 Sonnets from the Portuguese
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineer
9-Apr-1806 15-Sep-1859 Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway
Augustus De Morgan
Mathematician
27-Jun-1806 18-Mar-1871 De Morgan's Laws
William P. Fessenden
Politician
16-Oct-1806 8-Sep-1869 Senator from Maine, Treasury Secretary
Edwin Forrest
Actor
9-Mar-1806 12-Dec-1872 19th. c. American actor
John Parker Hale
Politician
31-Mar-1806 19-Dec-1873 Anti-slavery US Senator from NH
André van Hasselt
Poet
5-Jan-1806 1-Dec-1874 Quatre Incarnations du Christ
Benito Juárez
Head of State
21-Mar-1806 18-Jul-1872 President of Mexico, 1861-72
Preston King
Politician
14-Oct-1806 12-Nov-1865 US Senator, committed suicide
Charles James Lever
Novelist
31-Aug-1806 1-Jun-1872 Charles O'Malley
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Military
14-Jan-1806 1-Feb-1873 Father of modern oceanography
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher
20-May-1806 8-May-1873 Liberal philosopher and essayist
Jane Pierce
First Lady
12-Mar-1806 2-Dec-1863 Wife of US President Franklin Pierce
Leonidas Polk
Military
10-Apr-1806 14-Jun-1864 Confederate general
John Roebling
Engineer
12-Jun-1806 22-Jul-1869 Began construction of Brooklyn Bridge
Max Stirner
Philosopher
25-Oct-1806 26-Jun-1856 Existential German nihilo-anarchist
Agnes Strickland
Historian
1806 8-Jul-1874 Lives of the Queens of England
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Journalist
20-Jan-1806 20-Jan-1867 Pencillings by the Way


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