| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Salvador Allende |
Head of State |
26-Jul-1908 |
11-Sep-1973 |
Chilean President, deposed by Pinochet |
| Benedict Arnold |
Military |
14-Jan-1741 |
14-Jun-1801 |
Betrayed colonists to British |
| Roy Bean |
Judge |
c. 1828 |
16-Mar-1903 |
Law West of the Pecos |
| Thomas Hart Benton |
Politician |
14-Mar-1782 |
10-Apr-1858 |
US Senator from Missouri, 1821-51 |
| Georges Boulanger |
Military |
29-Apr-1837 |
30-Sep-1891 |
French general-turned-politician |
| David C. Broderick |
Politician |
4-Feb-1820 |
16-Sep-1859 |
US Senator from California, 1857-59 |
| Preston S. Brooks |
Politician |
5-Aug-1819 |
27-Jan-1857 |
Beat Charles Sumner with a cane |
| B. Gratz Brown |
Politician |
28-May-1826 |
13-Dec-1885 |
Governor and Senator from Missouri |
| Aaron Burr |
Politician |
6-Feb-1756 |
14-Sep-1836 |
Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
| George Canning |
Politician |
11-Apr-1770 |
8-Aug-1827 |
Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| Giacomo Casanova |
Author |
2-Apr-1725 |
4-Jun-1798 |
World-renowned paramour |
| Jonathan Cilley |
Politician |
2-Jul-1802 |
24-Feb-1838 |
US Congressman from Maine, 1837-38 |
| Henry Clay |
Politician |
12-Apr-1777 |
29-Jun-1852 |
American statesman and orator |
| Georges Clemenceau |
Politician |
28-Sep-1841 |
24-Nov-1929 |
French Prime Minister, 1917-20 |
| Robert Clive |
Military |
29-Sep-1725 |
22-Nov-1774 |
Conquered India for Britain |
| Stephen Decatur |
Military |
5-Jan-1779 |
22-Mar-1820 |
US Naval commander, fought at Tripoli |
| William J. Goebel |
Politician |
4-Jan-1856 |
3-Feb-1900 |
Kentucky Governor, assassinated |
| William M. Gwin |
Politician |
9-Oct-1805 |
3-Sep-1885 |
US Senator from California |
| Button Gwinnett |
Politician |
1735 |
19-May-1777 |
Most valuable signature |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
| Heinrich Heine |
Poet |
13-Dec-1797 |
17-Feb-1856 |
Buch der Lieder |
| Wild Bill Hickok |
Actor |
27-May-1837 |
2-Aug-1876 |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show |
| Joseph Howe |
Government |
13-Dec-1804 |
1-Jun-1873 |
Premier of Nova Scotia, 1860-63 |
| Andrew Jackson |
Head of State |
15-Mar-1767 |
8-Jun-1845 |
7th US President, 1829-37 |
| Albert Sidney Johnston |
Military |
2-Feb-1803 |
6-Apr-1862 |
Confederate General felled at Shiloh |
| E. Z. C. Judson |
Novelist |
20-Mar-1823 |
16-Jul-1886 |
Pulp novelist, pseudonym Ned Buntline |
| John Laurens |
Military |
28-Oct-1754 |
27-Aug-1782 |
Military aide to George Washington |
| Mikhail Lermontov |
Poet |
15-Oct-1814 |
27-Jul-1841 |
A Hero of Our Time |
| Armistead Thomson Mason |
Politician |
4-Aug-1787 |
6-Feb-1819 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17 |
| Lachlan McIntosh |
Military |
17-Mar-1725 |
20-Feb-1806 |
Killed Button Gwinnett in a duel |
| Enver Pasha |
Government |
22-Nov-1881 |
4-Aug-1922 |
Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities |
| Albert Pike |
Military |
29-Dec-1809 |
2-Apr-1891 |
Confederate general, Freemason |
| William Pitt the Younger |
Head of State |
28-May-1759 |
23-Jan-1806 |
UK Prime Minister |
| Aleksandr Pushkin |
Poet |
26-May-1799 |
10-Feb-1837 |
Russia's greatest poet |
| John Randolph of Roanoke |
Politician |
2-Jun-1773 |
24-May-1833 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27 |
| John Selden Roane |
Politician |
8-Jan-1817 |
8-Apr-1867 |
Governor of Arkansas, 1849-52 |
| David S. Terry |
Judge |
8-Mar-1823 |
14-Aug-1889 |
California Chief Justice, 1857-59 |
| William Walker |
Military |
8-May-1824 |
12-Sep-1860 |
American "filibuster" |
| Arthur Wellesley |
Military |
1-May-1769 |
14-Sep-1852 |
1st Duke of Wellington |
| James Westcott |
Politician |
10-May-1802 |
19-Jan-1880 |
US Senator from Florida, 1845-49 |
| Louis T. Wigfall |
Politician |
21-Apr-1816 |
18-Feb-1874 |
US Senator from Texas, 1859-61 |
| John Wilkes |
Politician |
17-Oct-1725 |
26-Dec-1797 |
Colorful London radical |
