LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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