Died in 1857

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Died in 1857

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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

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