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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Lord Acton
Historian
10-Jan-1834 19-Jun-1902 British historian
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
Sculptor
2-Aug-1834 4-Oct-1904 Statue of Liberty
Thomas François Burgers
Head of State
15-Apr-1834 9-Dec-1881 President of Transvaal Republic
John G. Carlisle
Politician
5-Sep-1834 31-Jul-1910 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1893-97
Gottlieb Daimler
Engineer
17-Mar-1834 6-Mar-1900 Invented the motorcycle
Edgar Degas
Painter
19-Jul-1834 27-Sep-1917 Impressionist painter
Chauncey Depew
Politician
23-Apr-1834 5-Apr-1928 Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society
Charles William Eliot
Educator
20-Mar-1834 22-Aug-1926 President, Harvard University, 1869-1909
Marshall Field
Business
18-Aug-1834 16-Jan-1906 Founder of Marshall Field's
Jim Fisk
Business
1-Apr-1834 6-Jan-1872 Business partner of Jay Gould
Ernst Haeckel
Zoologist
16-Feb-1834 9-Aug-1919 Proponent of evolution
Ludovic Halévy
Author
1-Jan-1834 8-May-1908 French vaudevillain author
Samuel P. Langley
Astronomer
22-Aug-1834 2-Feb-1906 Heavier-than-air flying machine
George du Maurier
Artist
6-Mar-1834 6-Oct-1896 British caricaturist, Punch
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements
W. C. Minor
Scholar
Jun-1834 26-Mar-1920 Prolific OED contributor
William Morris
Artist
24-Mar-1834 3-Oct-1896 Arts and Crafts Movement
Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer
31-Aug-1834 16-Jan-1886 La Gioconda
John Wesley Powell
Geologist
24-Mar-1834 23-Sep-1902 Exploration of the Colorado River
Joseph Henry Shorthouse
Novelist
9-Sep-1834 4-Mar-1903 John Inglesant
John Venn
Mathematician
4-Aug-1834 4-Apr-1923 Venn diagrams
Léon Walras
Economist
16-Dec-1834 5-Jan-1910 Founded the marginalist school of economics
Artemus Ward
Columnist
23-Apr-1834 6-Mar-1867 Humorist
August Weismann
Biologist
17-Jan-1834 5-Nov-1914 Theory of Germ Plasm
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
Business
21-Nov-1834 4-Apr-1914 Founder of Weyerhaeuser Company
James Whistler
Painter
14-Jul-1834 17-Jul-1903 Whistler's Mother




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