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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ellen Arthur
First Lady
30-Aug-1837 12-Jan-1880 Wife of US President Chester A. Arthur
Fredrik Bajer
Politician
21-Apr-1837 22-Jan-1922 Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
George Bascom
Military
c. 1837 21-Feb-1862 Launched Cochise on the warpath
Georges Boulanger
Military
29-Apr-1837 30-Sep-1891 French general-turned-politician
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Novelist
4-Oct-1837 4-Feb-1915 Lady Audley's Secret
David Josiah Brewer
Judge
20-Jan-1837 28-Mar-1910 US Supreme Court Justice, 1890-1910
John Burroughs
Naturalist
3-Apr-1837 29-Mar-1921 Birds and Poets
Abiram Chamberlain
Politician
7-Dec-1837 15-May-1911 Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05
Grover Cleveland
Head of State
18-Mar-1837 24-Jun-1908 22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97
George Dewey
Military
26-Dec-1837 16-Jan-1917 Sank the Spanish fleet at Manila
Henry Draper
Astronomer
7-Mar-1837 20-Nov-1882 Early astrophotographer
Edward Eggleston
Novelist
10-Dec-1837 4-Sep-1902 The Hoosier School-Master
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Politician
24-Sep-1837 15-Feb-1904 Senator from Ohio, kingmaker
Wild Bill Hickok
Actor
27-May-1837 2-Aug-1876 Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
Alois Hitler
Relative
7-Jun-1837 3-Jan-1903 Father of Adolf Hitler
Friedrich von Holstein
Politician
24-Apr-1837 8-May-1909 Ran the German foreign office
William Dean Howells
Author
1-Mar-1837 11-May-1920 The Rise of Silas Lapham
Taisuke Itagaki
Politician
17-Apr-1837 11-Jul-1919 Founder of Japan's Liberal party
Mother Jones
Activist
1-Aug-1837 30-Nov-1930 The grandmother of all agitators
Lyman Knapp
Politician
5-Nov-1837 9-Oct-1904 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1889-93
Franklin MacVeagh
Government
22-Nov-1837 6-Jul-1934 US Treasury Secretary, 1909-13
Joaquin Miller
Poet
8-Sep-1837 17-Feb-1913 Songs of the Sierras
Dwight L. Moody
Religion
5-Feb-1837 22-Dec-1899 Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon
J. Pierpont Morgan
Business
17-Apr-1837 31-Mar-1913 Railroad financier, J. P. Morgan & Co.
John Alexander Reina Newlands
Chemist
26-Nov-1837 29-Jul-1898 Periodic Law of Elements
P. B. S. Pinchback
Government
10-May-1837 21-Dec-1921 First African-American US Governor
Leonidas LaFayette Polk
Agriculturalist
24-Apr-1837 11-Jun-1892 Agrarian reformer
Horace Porter
Diplomat
15-Apr-1837 25-May-1921 US Ambassador to France, 1897-1905
William Quantrill
Criminal
31-Jul-1837 6-Jun-1865 Quantrill's Raiders
James T. Rapier
Politician
13-Nov-1837 31-May-1883 Congressman from Alabama, 1873-75
Whitelaw Reid
Journalist
27-Oct-1837 15-Dec-1912 Editor of the New York Tribune, 1872-1905
Henry M. Robert
Administrator
2-May-1837 11-May-1923 Robert's Rules of Order
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poet
5-Apr-1837 10-Apr-1909 Masochist Victorian poet
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Physicist
23-Nov-1837 9-Mar-1923 Investigated states of matter


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