LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Bascom	Military	c. 1837	21-Feb-1862	Launched Cochise on the warpath
Jean-Baptiste Biot	Physicist	21-Apr-1774	3-Feb-1862	Biot-Savart Law
Henry Thomas Buckle	Historian	24-Nov-1821	29-May-1862	History of Civilization in England
Charles John Canning	Government	14-Dec-1812	17-Jun-1862	Governor-General of India
Samuel Colt	Inventor	19-Jul-1814	10-Jan-1862	Invented the revolver
Cornelius Felton	Scholar	6-Nov-1807	26-Feb-1862	Classical scholar of Greek
Fromental Halévy	Composer	27-May-1799	17-Mar-1862	La Juive
Hans Daniel Hassenpflug	Politician	26-Feb-1794	10-Oct-1862	Hessian anti-constitutionalist
Albert Sidney Johnston	Military	3-Feb-1803	6-Apr-1862	Confederate General felled at Shiloh
Philip Kearny	Military	2-Jun-1815	1-Sep-1862	US Civil War general
Fitz-James O'Brien	Author	31-Dec-1828	6-Apr-1862	The Diamond Lens
Étienne-Denis Pasquier	Politician	21-Apr-1767	5-Jul-1862	Last Chancellor of France
Charles Ferguson Smith	Military	24-Apr-1807	25-Apr-1862	Union Army General, died after Shiloh
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Walden
John Tyler	Head of State	29-Mar-1790	18-Jan-1862	10th President of the U.S.
Martin Van Buren	Head of State	5-Dec-1782	24-Jul-1862	8th US President, 1837-41
Edward Gibbon Wakefield	Government	20-Mar-1796	16-May-1862	Colonizer of Australia, New Zealand

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