LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John James Audubon	Naturalist	26-Apr-1785	27-Jan-1851	Illustrated Birds of America
William Beaumont	Doctor	21-Nov-1785	25-Apr-1853	Observed human digestion
Sir William Cubitt	Engineer	1785	13-Oct-1861	British civil engineer
Thomas De Quincey	Author	15-Aug-1785	8-Dec-1859	Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
James Pollard Espy	Scientist	9-May-1785	24-Jan-1860	The Philosophy of Storms
Henry Hardinge	Military	30-Mar-1785	24-Sep-1856	Governor-General of India, 1844-48
William Jackson Hooker	Botanist	6-Jul-1785	12-Aug-1865	British Jungermanniae
Leonard Horner	Geologist	17-Jan-1785	5-Mar-1864	Scottish geologist, educator
Louis XVII	Royalty	27-Mar-1785	8-Jun-1795	Dauphin, Titular King of France
Alessandro Manzoni	Poet	7-Mar-1785	22-May-1873	I Promessi Sposi
John McLean	Judge	11-Mar-1785	4-Apr-1861	US Supreme Court Justice, 1829-61
Thomas Love Peacock	Novelist	18-Oct-1785	23-Jan-1866	Nightmare Abbey
Jean-Charles-Athanase Peltier	Physicist	22-Feb-1785	27-Oct-1845	Peltier Effect
Oliver Hazard Perry	Military	23-Aug-1785	23-Aug-1819	Won the Battle of Lake Erie
Shaka Zulu	Military	c. 1785	23-Sep-1828	King of the Zulu, 1816-28

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