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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Tsar Alexander II
Royalty
17-Apr-1818 13-Mar-1881 Tsar of Russia, 1855-81
David Alter
Inventor
3-Dec-1807 18-Sep-1881 Almost discovered spectroscopy
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Critic
27-Sep-1821 11-May-1881 Journal Intime
Billy the Kid
Criminal
23-Nov-1859 14-Jul-1881 Frontier outlaw
Thomas François Burgers
Head of State
15-Apr-1834 9-Dec-1881 President of Transvaal Republic
Ambrose Burnside
Military
23-May-1824 13-Sep-1881 Inspiration for term sideburns
Thomas Carlyle
Historian
4-Dec-1795 5-Feb-1881 The French Revolution
Nathan Clifford
Politician
18-Aug-1803 25-Jul-1881 Congressman, Attorney General, Supreme Court
Henri-Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville
Chemist
11-Mar-1818 1-Jul-1881 Process for obtaining aluminum
Benjamin Disraeli
Head of State
21-Dec-1804 19-Apr-1881 UK Prime Minister, 1874-80
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist
30-Oct-1821 28-Jan-1881 Crime and Punishment
William Fargo
Business
20-May-1818 3-Aug-1881 Co-Founder, American Express & Wells Fargo
James Thomas Fields
Editor
31-Dec-1817 24-Apr-1881 Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
James Garfield
Head of State
19-Nov-1831 19-Sep-1881 20th US President, 1881
Sidney Lanier
Poet
3-Feb-1842 7-Sep-1881 Important Southern lyrical poet
Frank McLaury
Criminal
3-Mar-1848 26-Oct-1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tom McLaury
Criminal
30-Jun-1853 26-Oct-1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Lewis Henry Morgan
Anthropologist
21-Nov-1818 17-Dec-1881 Ancient Society
Modest Mussorgsky
Composer
9-Mar-1839 16-Mar-1881 Boris Godunov
Samuel Palmer
Painter
27-Jan-1805 24-May-1881 English landscape painter
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Botanist
5-Apr-1804 23-Jun-1881 Principles of Scientific Botany
George Edmund Street
Architect
20-Jun-1824 18-Dec-1881 English Gothic revival architect
Henri Vieuxtemps
Violinist
17-Feb-1820 6-Jun-1881 Belgian violinist and composer




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