LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joshua W. Alexander	Politician	22-Jan-1852	27-Feb-1936	US Commerce Secretary, 1919-21
Herbert Henry Asquith	Head of State	12-Sep-1852	15-Feb-1928	UK Prime Minister 1908-16
Henri Becquerel	Physicist	15-Dec-1852	25-Aug-1908	Discoverer of radioactivity
Santiago Ramón y Cajal	Doctor	1-May-1852	17-Oct-1934	Structure of the nervous system
Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant	Diplomat	22-Nov-1852	15-May-1924	Nobel Prize recipient
Henry van Dyke	Author	10-Nov-1852	10-Apr-1933	The Unknown Quantity
Charles W. Fairbanks	Politician	11-May-1852	4-Jun-1918	Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt
Konstantin Fehrenbach	Head of State	11-Jan-1852	26-Mar-1926	German Chancellor 1920-21
Emil Fischer	Chemist	9-Oct-1852	15-Jul-1919	Investigated sugars and purines
Antoni Gaudi	Architect	25-Jun-1852	10-Jun-1926	La Sagrada Familia
Robert Grant	Novelist	24-Jan-1852	19-May-1940	Unleavened Bread
Augusta, Lady Gregory	Playwright	4-Mar-1852	22-May-1932	The Golden Apple
William Stewart Halsted	Doctor	23-Sep-1852	7-Sep-1922	Father of American surgery
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff	Chemist	30-Aug-1852	1-Mar-1911	Studied reaction rates, osmotic pressures
Calamity Jane	Performance Artist	1-May-1852	1-Aug-1903	Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
John Harvey Kellogg	Doctor	26-Feb-1852	14-Dec-1943	Battle Creek Sanitarium
Walter Leaf	Scholar	28-Nov-1852	8-Mar-1927	Classicist, translated Iliad
Edwin Markham	Poet	23-Apr-1852	7-Mar-1940	The Man With the Hoe
Brander Matthews	Critic	21-Feb-1852	31-Mar-1929	The Study of American Literature
John Bach McMaster	Historian	29-Jun-1852	24-May-1932	History of the People of the United States
Emperor Meiji	Royalty	3-Nov-1852	30-Jul-1912	Emperor of Japan, 1867-1912
Albert A. Michelson	Physicist	19-Dec-1852	9-May-1931	Calculated the speed of light
Henri Moissan	Chemist	28-Sep-1852	20-Feb-1907	Isolated fluorine
Sir William Ramsay	Chemist	2-Oct-1852	23-Jul-1916	Discovered noble gases
Opie Read	Author	22-Dec-1852	2-Nov-1939	Jucklins
Tewfik Pasha	Royalty	30-Apr-1852	7-Jan-1892	Khedive of Egypt, 1879-92
George Henry White	Politician	18-Dec-1852	28-Dec-1918	Congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901
F. W. Woolworth	Business	13-Apr-1852	8-Apr-1919	Five and dime magnate

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