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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bronson Alcott
Educator
29-Nov-1799 4-Mar-1888 Founder of Boston's Temple School
Mary Anning
Paleontologist
21-May-1799 9-Mar-1847 Self-taught paleontologist
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
Astronomer
22-Mar-1799 17-Feb-1875 Durchmusterung
Honoré de Balzac
Novelist
20-May-1799 18-Aug-1850 Comédie Humaine
René Caillié
Explorer
19-Sep-1799 17-May-1838 First European to return from Timbuktu
Simon Cameron
Politician
8-Mar-1799 26-Jun-1889 The Czar of Pennsylvania
Rufus Choate
Attorney
1-Oct-1799 13-Jul-1859 Attorney and Senator from Massachusetts
João Batista de Almeida Garrett
Playwright
4-Feb-1799 9-Dec-1854 Frei Luís da Sousa
Fromental Halévy
Composer
27-May-1799 17-Mar-1862 La Juive
Thomas Hood
Poet
23-May-1799 3-May-1845 Odes and Addresses to Great People
George Payne Rainsford James
Novelist
9-Aug-1799 9-Jun-1860 Richelieu
William M. Meredith
Government
8-Jun-1799 17-Aug-1873 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1849-50
Oscar I
Royalty
4-Jul-1799 8-Jul-1859 King of Sweden and Norway
Aleksandr Pushkin
Poet
26-May-1799 10-Feb-1837 Russia's greatest poet
John A. Quitman
Politician
1-Sep-1799 17-Jul-1858 Twice Governor of Mississippi
Dred Scott
Victim
c. 1799 17-Sep-1858 Slave denied freedom by US Supreme Court
James Syme
Doctor
7-Nov-1799 26-Jun-1870 Leading Scottish surgeon
Rodolphe Töpffer
Cartoonist
31-Jan-1799 8-Jun-1848 The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
Jonathan Walker
Activist
22-Mar-1799 30-Apr-1878 The Man with the Branded Hand


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