| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| James G. Birney |
Activist |
4-Feb-1792 |
25-Nov-1857 |
Abolitionist Liberty Party candidate |
| Preston S. Brooks |
Politician |
5-Aug-1819 |
27-Jan-1857 |
Beat Charles Sumner with a cane |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
Mathematician |
21-Aug-1789 |
23-May-1857 |
Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups |
| William Colgate |
Business |
25-Jan-1783 |
25-Jan-1857 |
Toothpaste empirebuilder |
| Auguste Comte |
Sociologist |
19-Jan-1798 |
5-Sep-1857 |
Positivist founder of Sociology |
| Carl Czerny |
Pianist |
20-Feb-1791 |
15-Jul-1857 |
Pianist, composer of piano exercises |
| Mikhail Glinka |
Composer |
21-May-1804 |
3-Feb-1857 |
Ruslan and Lyudmila |
| Marshall Hall |
Doctor |
18-Feb-1790 |
11-Aug-1857 |
Theory of reflex action |
| Sir Henry Havelock |
Military |
5-Apr-1795 |
24-Nov-1857 |
Hero of the Indian Mutiny |
| William L. Marcy |
Politician |
12-Dec-1786 |
4-Jul-1857 |
US Secretary of State, 1853-57 |
| Louis McLane |
Politician |
28-May-1786 |
7-Oct-1857 |
US Secretary of State, 1833-34 |
| Alfred de Musset |
Poet |
11-Dec-1810 |
2-May-1857 |
Les Caprices de Marianne |
| Thomas J. Rusk |
Politician |
5-Dec-1803 |
29-Jul-1857 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Eugène Sue |
Novelist |
26-Jan-1804 |
3-Aug-1857 |
Roman-feuilleton novelist |
| Louis-Jacques Thénard |
Chemist |
4-May-1777 |
21-Jun-1857 |
Traité de Chimie élémentaire |
| Eugène François Vidocq |
Government |
23-Jul-1775 |
11-May-1857 |
Criminal-turned-criminologist |
| Johnnie Walker |
Business |
25-Jul-1805 |
1857 |
Whiskey maker |
