LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Washington Allston	Painter	5-Nov-1779	9-Jul-1843	The Dead Man Revived
Jöns Jacob Berzelius	Chemist	20-Aug-1779	7-Aug-1848	Inventor of modern chemical notation
Stephen Decatur	Military	5-Jan-1779	22-Mar-1820	US Naval commander, fought at Tripoli
Thomas Gaisford	Scholar	22-Dec-1779	2-Jun-1855	English classical scholar
John Galt	Novelist	2-May-1779	11-Apr-1839	The Ayrshire Legatees
Samuel D. Ingham	Politician	16-Sep-1779	5-Jun-1860	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1829-31
Francis Scott Key	Poet	1-Aug-1779	11-Jan-1843	The Star-Spangled Banner
Clement Clarke Moore	Poet	15-Jul-1779	10-Jul-1863	'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Zebulon Pike	Military	5-Jan-1779	27-Apr-1813	Lent his name to Pike's Peak
Peter Mark Roget	Author	18-Jan-1779	12-Sep-1869	Roget's Thesaurus
Joseph Story	Judge	18-Sep-1779	10-Sep-1845	US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45
Robert Surtees	Historian	1779	11-Feb-1834	History of Durham

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