LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Allingham	Poet	19-Mar-1824	18-Nov-1889	Day and Night Songs
John Ball	Naturalist	20-Aug-1818	21-Oct-1889	Irish Alpinist
Giovanni Bottesini	Musician	22-Dec-1821	7-Jul-1889	Cristoforo Colombo
Laura Dewey Bridgman	Oddity	21-Dec-1829	24-May-1889	Blind deaf mute
Robert Browning	Poet	7-May-1812	12-Dec-1889	Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
John Cadbury	Business	12-Aug-1801	11-May-1889	Chocolatier
Simon Cameron	Politician	8-Mar-1799	26-Jun-1889	The Czar of Pennsylvania
John Archibald Campbell	Judge	24-Jun-1811	12-Mar-1889	US Supreme Court Justice, 1853-61
Michel-Eugène Chevreul	Chemist	31-Aug-1786	9-Apr-1889	Chemistry of fats, dyes
Wilkie Collins	Novelist	8-Jan-1824	23-Dec-1889	The Moonstone
Father Damien	Religion	3-Jan-1840	15-Apr-1889	Attended to lepers at Molokai
Jefferson Davis	Head of State	3-Jun-1808	6-Dec-1889	President of the Confederacy
Jules Dupré	Painter	5-Apr-1811	6-Oct-1889	Barbizon school
Mihai Eminescu	Poet	15-Jan-1850	15-Jun-1889	The greatest Romanian poet
John Ericsson	Inventor	31-Jul-1803	8-Mar-1889	Built the ironclad USS Monitor
Robert Hamerling	Poet	24-Mar-1830	13-Jul-1889	Ahasver in Rom
Lucy Hayes	First Lady	28-Aug-1831	25-Jun-1889	Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes
Gerard Manley Hopkins	Poet	28-Jul-1844	8-Jun-1889	Defeated the tyranny of poetic meter
James Prescott Joule	Physicist	24-Dec-1818	11-Oct-1889	English physicist, Joule's Law
Stanley Matthews	Judge	21-Jul-1824	22-Mar-1889	US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-89
Maria Mitchell	Astronomer	1-Aug-1818	28-Jun-1889	First American female astronomer
Belle Starr	Criminal	5-Feb-1848	3-Feb-1889	Bandit Queen of the Old West
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada	Head of State	25-Apr-1827	21-Apr-1889	President of Mexico, 1872-76
David S. Terry	Judge	8-Mar-1823	14-Aug-1889	California Chief Justice, 1857-59
Julia Gardiner Tyler	First Lady	23-Jul-1820	10-Jul-1889	Second wife of US President John Tyler

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