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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Thomas F. Bayard
Government
29-Oct-1828 28-Sep-1898 US Secretary of State, 1885-89
Aubrey Beardsley
Artist
21-Aug-1872 16-Mar-1898 Leading late 19th c. English illustrator
Edward Bellamy
Author
26-Mar-1850 22-May-1898 Looking Backward
Henry Bessemer
Inventor
19-Jan-1813 15-Mar-1898 Bessemer process to manufacture steel
Otto von Bismarck
Head of State
1-Apr-1815 30-Jul-1898 Unifier of Germany
Frank A. Briggs
Politician
15-Sep-1858 9-Aug-1898 Governor of North Dakota, 1897-98
Blanche K. Bruce
Politician
1-Mar-1841 17-Mar-1898 US Senator, former slave
Don Carlos Buell
Military
23-Mar-1818 19-Nov-1898 Union Army General
Edward Burne-Jones
Painter
28-Aug-1833 16-Jun-1898 British Pre-Raphaelite painter
Lewis Carroll
Author
27-Jan-1832 14-Jan-1898 Alice in Wonderland
Felice Cavallotti
Politician
6-Oct-1842 6-Mar-1898 Italian radical politician
Theodor Fontane
Author
30-Dec-1819 20-Sep-1898 Before the Storm
Stephen Clark Foster
Politician
1820 28-Jan-1898 Thrice Mayor of Los Angeles
William Ewart Gladstone
Head of State
29-Dec-1809 19-May-1898 Four times UK Prime Minister
John Hopkinson
Engineer
27-Jul-1849 27-Aug-1898 English electrical engineer
Eli Lilly
Business
8-Jul-1838 6-Jun-1898 Founder of Eli Lilly & Co.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Poet
18-Mar-1842 9-Sep-1898 A Throw of the Dice
John Alexander Reina Newlands
Chemist
26-Nov-1837 29-Jul-1898 Periodic Law of Elements
Robert Purvis
Activist
4-Aug-1810 15-Apr-1898 President of the Underground Railroad
William S. Rosecrans
Military
6-Sep-1819 11-Mar-1898 Union Army General
Adolph Sutro
Politician
29-Apr-1830 8-Aug-1898 San Francisco mayor, 1895-97
Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Playwright
15-Sep-1829 20-Jun-1898 Lances de Honor
Edward Noyes Westcott
Novelist
27-Sep-1846 31-Mar-1898 David Harum




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