LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leon Abbett	Politician	8-Oct-1836	4-Dec-1894	Twice Governor of New Jersey
Tsar Alexander III	Royalty	10-Mar-1845	1-Nov-1894	Tsar of Russia, 1881-94
Nathaniel P. Banks	Politician	30-Jan-1816	1-Sep-1894	House Speaker, Governor of Massachusetts
Thomas M. Bayne	Politician	14-Jun-1836	16-Jun-1894	Congressman, committed suicide
Theodor Billroth	Doctor	26-Apr-1829	6-Feb-1894	Viennese surgeon
Amelia Jenks Bloomer	Activist	27-May-1818	30-Dec-1894	Bloomers
Joseph E. Brown	Politician	15-Apr-1821	30-Nov-1894	Governor of Georgia, 1857-65
Hans von Bülow	Conductor	8-Jan-1830	12-Feb-1894	German conductor, proponent of Wagner
Frances Buss	Educator	16-Aug-1827	24-Dec-1894	Girls' school reformer
Bankim Chandra Chatterji	Novelist	26-Jun-1838	8-Apr-1894	Krishna Kanta's Will
George Ticknor Curtis	Historian	28-Nov-1812	28-Mar-1894	Constitutional History of the United States
Charles Diebold	Business	24-Oct-1824	5-Mar-1894	Founder of Diebold
Jubal Early	Military	3-Nov-1816	2-Mar-1894	Confederate General
David Dudley Field	Attorney	13-Feb-1805	13-Apr-1894	Spurred codification of US law
Edmond Frémy	Chemist	28-Feb-1814	3-Feb-1894	Discovered hydrogen fluoride
Domenico Ghirardelli	Business	21-Feb-1817	17-Jan-1894	Founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
Heinrich Hertz	Physicist	22-Feb-1857	1-Jan-1894	Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Author	29-Aug-1809	7-Oct-1894	The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
George Inness	Painter	1-May-1825	3-Aug-1894	American landscape painter
Joseph Kirkland	Novelist	7-Jan-1830	29-Apr-1894	Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County
Ferdinand de Lesseps	Architect	19-Nov-1805	7-Dec-1894	Built the Suez Canal
Steele MacKaye	Playwright	6-Jun-1842	25-Feb-1894	Founder of New York's Lyceum Theatre
William Moon	Inventor	18-Dec-1818	9-Oct-1894	Moon Code (similar to Braille)
Charles Thomas Newton	Archaeologist	16-Sep-1816	28-Nov-1894	Discovered Halicarnassus mausoleum
Walter Pater	Critic	4-Aug-1839	30-Jul-1894	Marius the Epicurean
Christina Rossetti	Poet	5-Dec-1830	29-Dec-1894	Goblin Market and Other Poems
Anton Rubinstein	Pianist	16-Nov-1829	8-Nov-1894	The Tower of Babel
Robert Louis Stevenson	Author	13-Nov-1850	3-Dec-1894	Treasure Island
George Stoneman	Military	8-Aug-1822	5-Sep-1894	Civil War general, California governor
John Thompson	Head of State	10-Nov-1845	12-Dec-1894	Prime Minister of Canada, 1892-94
Francis Henry Underwood	Author	12-Jan-1825	7-Aug-1894	Quabbin: The Story of a Small Town
Zebulon Vance	Politician	13-May-1830	14-Apr-1894	Governor and Senator from N. Carolina
Hermann von Helmholtz	Physicist	31-Aug-1821	8-Sep-1894	Law of Conservation of Energy
Robert Charles Winthrop	Politician	12-May-1809	16-Nov-1894	Speaker of the 30th Congress

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