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Born in 1831
LISTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| H. P. Blavatsky |
Author |
12-Aug-1831 |
8-May-1891 |
Founded Theosophy; The Secret Doctrine |
| Arsenio Martinez Campos |
Head of State |
14-Dec-1831 |
23-Sep-1900 |
Spanish Governor of Cuba |
| Leo von Caprivi |
Head of State |
24-Feb-1831 |
6-Feb-1899 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1890-94 |
| Heinrich Anton de Bary |
Botanist |
26-Jan-1831 |
19-Jan-1888 |
Founder of modern mycology |
| Richard Dedekind |
Mathematician |
6-Oct-1831 |
12-Feb-1916 |
Developed theory of irrational numbers |
| Mary Mapes Dodge |
Editor |
26-Jan-1831 |
21-Aug-1905 |
Editor of St. Nicholas, 1873-1905 |
| Ignatius Donnelly |
Author |
3-Nov-1831 |
1-Jan-1901 |
Atlantis, the Antediluvian World |
| James Garfield |
Head of State |
19-Nov-1831 |
19-Sep-1881 |
20th US President, 1881 |
| E. L. Godkin |
Journalist |
2-Oct-1831 |
21-May-1902 |
Co-Founder of The Nation |
| Lucy Hayes |
First Lady |
28-Aug-1831 |
25-Jun-1889 |
Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes |
| John Bell Hood |
Military |
29-Jun-1831 |
30-Aug-1879 |
Confederate General |
| David Hughes |
Inventor |
16-May-1831 |
22-Jan-1900 |
Inventor of the microphone |
| Joseph Joachim |
Violinist |
28-Jun-1831 |
15-Aug-1907 |
Virtuoso violinist, Joachim Quartet |
| Piet Joubert |
Military |
20-Jan-1831 |
27-Mar-1900 |
Afrikaaner general, Boer War |
| Daniel Manning |
Government |
16-May-1831 |
24-Dec-1887 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1885-87 |
| James Clerk Maxwell |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1831 |
5-Nov-1879 |
Maxwell's equations |
| John S. Pemberton |
Inventor |
8-Jul-1831 |
16-Aug-1888 |
Creator of Coca-Cola |
| George Pullman |
Business |
3-Mar-1831 |
19-Oct-1897 |
Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car |
| Victorien Sardou |
Playwright |
5-Sep-1831 |
8-Nov-1908 |
Les Pattes de Mouche |
| John McAllister Schofield |
Military |
29-Sep-1831 |
4-Mar-1906 |
Union General later Secretary of War |
| Richard Norman Shaw |
Architect |
7-May-1831 |
17-Nov-1912 |
Late 19th c. British architect |
| Philip Henry Sheridan |
Military |
6-Mar-1831 |
5-Aug-1888 |
Union Army General |
| Sitting Bull |
Military |
c. 1831 |
15-Dec-1890 |
Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
| Eduard Suess |
Geologist |
20-Aug-1831 |
26-Apr-1914 |
Das Antlitz der Erde |
| Peter Guthrie Tait |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1831 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Treatise on Quaternions |
| Justin Winsor |
Curator |
2-Jan-1831 |
22-Oct-1897 |
Librarian of Harvard University |
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