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Died in 1868
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| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| James Buchanan |
Head of State |
23-Apr-1791 |
1-Jun-1868 |
15th US President, 1857-61 |
| Kit Carson |
Explorer |
24-Dec-1809 |
23-May-1868 |
Frontiersman and Indian agent |
| Howell Cobb |
Politician |
7-Sep-1815 |
9-Oct-1868 |
Congressman, Governor, Treasury Secretary |
| Léon Foucault |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1819 |
11-Feb-1868 |
Measured the speed of light |
| Samuel Lover |
Novelist |
24-Feb-1797 |
6-Jul-1868 |
Handy Andy, an Irish Tale |
| Damien Marchessault |
Politician |
1-Apr-1818 |
20-Jan-1868 |
Los Angeles mayor, committed suicide |
| August Möbius |
Astronomer |
17-Nov-1790 |
26-Sep-1868 |
Möbius strip |
| Julius Plücker |
Mathematician |
16-Jul-1801 |
22-May-1868 |
Analytical geometry |
| Gioacchino Rossini |
Composer |
29-Feb-1792 |
13-Nov-1868 |
William Tell Overture |
| Thaddeus Stevens |
Politician |
4-Apr-1792 |
11-Aug-1868 |
Republican Reconstruction leader |
| Adalbert Stifter |
Author |
23-Oct-1805 |
28-Jan-1868 |
Studien |
| Linus Yale, Jr. |
Inventor |
14-Apr-1821 |
24-Dec-1868 |
Pin tumbler locks |
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