LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George Bancroft	Historian	3-Oct-1800	17-Jan-1891	A History of the United States
P. T. Barnum	Hoaxer	5-Jul-1810	7-Apr-1891	Circus showman
H. P. Blavatsky	Author	12-Aug-1831	8-May-1891	Founded Theosophy; The Secret Doctrine
Georges Boulanger	Military	29-Apr-1837	30-Sep-1891	French general-turned-politician
Charles Bradlaugh	Activist	26-Sep-1833	30-Jan-1891	Atheistic Iconoclast
Samuel Crowther	Religion	c. 1809	31-Dec-1891	African missionary bishop
Léo Delibes	Composer	21-Feb-1836	16-Jan-1891	Lakmé
James Gamble	Business	3-Apr-1803	29-Apr-1891	Co-Founder of Procter & Gamble
Ivan Goncharov	Novelist	18-Jun-1812	27-Sep-1891	Oblomov
Jules Grévy	Head of State	15-Aug-1807	19-Sep-1891	President of the Third Republic
Hannibal Hamlin	Politician	27-Aug-1809	4-Jul-1891	Lincoln's first Vice President
George Hearst	Business	3-Sep-1820	28-Feb-1891	Patriarch of Hearst family fortune
Joseph Eggleston Johnston	Military	3-Feb-1807	21-Mar-1891	Confederate General, surrendered to Sherman
Joseph Leidy	Biologist	9-Sep-1823	30-Apr-1891	Trichinosis and dinosaurs
James Russell Lowell	Author	22-Feb-1819	12-Aug-1891	The Biglow Papers
John A. Macdonald	Head of State	11-Jan-1815	6-Jun-1891	Canadian Prime Minister, founding father
Herman Melville	Author	1-Aug-1819	28-Sep-1891	Moby Dick
Nikolaus Otto	Engineer	14-Jun-1832	26-Jan-1891	Four-stroke internal-combustion engine
Charles Stewart Parnell	Politician	27-Jun-1846	6-Oct-1891	Irish Nationalist leader
James Parton	Author	9-Feb-1822	17-Oct-1891	American biographer
Pedro II	Royalty	2-Dec-1825	5-Dec-1891	Emperor of Brazil, 1831-89
Albert Pike	Military	29-Dec-1809	2-Apr-1891	Confederate general, Freemason
Sarah Polk	First Lady	4-Sep-1803	14-Aug-1891	Wife of US President James K. Polk
Arthur Rimbaud	Poet	20-Oct-1854	10-Nov-1891	Une Saison en Enfer
Georges Seurat	Painter	2-Dec-1859	29-Mar-1891	A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
William T. Sherman	Military	8-Feb-1820	14-Feb-1891	Marched to the Sea
Alphonso Taft	Government	5-Nov-1810	21-May-1891	Attorney General under Grant
Helmuth von Moltke	Military	26-Oct-1800	24-Apr-1891	German military strategist
Wilhelm Weber	Physicist	24-Oct-1804	23-Jun-1891	Student of electromagnetism
William Windom	Politician	10-May-1827	29-Jan-1891	US Secretary of the Treasury 1881, 1889-91

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