| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Louis Braille |
Inventor |
4-Jan-1809 |
6-Jan-1852 |
Creator, Braille System of encoding |
| Kit Carson |
Explorer |
24-Dec-1809 |
23-May-1868 |
Frontiersman and Indian agent |
| Samuel Crowther |
Religion |
c. 1809 |
31-Dec-1891 |
African missionary bishop |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| David Einhorn |
Religion |
1809 |
1879 |
Jewish reform movement |
| William Ewart Gladstone |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1809 |
19-May-1898 |
Four times UK Prime Minister |
| Nikolai Gogol |
Author |
19-Mar-1809 |
21-Feb-1852 |
Dead Souls, The Overcoat |
| Hannibal Hamlin |
Politician |
27-Aug-1809 |
4-Jul-1891 |
Lincoln's first Vice President |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
| Cyrus McCormick |
Inventor |
15-Feb-1809 |
13-May-1884 |
Invented grain harvester |
| Felix Mendelssohn |
Composer |
3-Feb-1809 |
4-Nov-1847 |
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Richard Monckton Milnes |
Poet |
19-Jun-1809 |
11-Aug-1885 |
Poetry for the People |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Albert Pike |
Military |
29-Dec-1809 |
2-Apr-1891 |
Confederate general, Freemason |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Author |
19-Jan-1809 |
7-Oct-1849 |
Macabre short story writer and poet |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Robert Charles Winthrop |
Politician |
12-May-1809 |
16-Nov-1894 |
Speaker of the 30th Congress |
