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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Wallace Calvin Abbott
Doctor
12-Oct-1857 4-Jul-1921 Founder of Abbott Laboratories
Charles Alderton
Inventor
21-Jun-1857 29-May-1941 Invented Dr Pepper
Alfonso XII
Royalty
28-Nov-1857 25-Nov-1885 King of Spain, 1874-85
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
Author
30-Oct-1857 14-Jun-1948 Black Oxen
Joseph Babinski
Doctor
17-Nov-1857 29-Oct-1932 The Babinski sign
Robert Baden-Powell
Military
22-Feb-1857 8-Jan-1941 Founder of the Boy Scout movement
James A. Baker
Attorney
10-Jan-1857 2-Aug-1941 Baker Botts
Edward Barnard
Astronomer
16-Dec-1857 16-Feb-1923 Self-taught scientist
Alfred Binet
Psychologist
11-Jul-1857 8-Oct-1911 Binet-Simon intelligence test
Eugen Bleuler
Psychiatrist
30-Apr-1857 15-Jul-1939 Coined term schizophrenia
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward
Politician
19-Apr-1857 1-Oct-1910 Governor of Florida, 1905-09
John Hessin Clarke
Judge
18-Sep-1857 22-Mar-1945 US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-22
Joseph Conrad
Author
3-Dec-1857 3-Aug-1924 Heart of Darkness
Clarence Darrow
Attorney
18-Apr-1857 13-Mar-1938 Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side)
George Draper Dayton
Business
6-Mar-1857 18-Feb-1938 Founder of what is now Target Stores
Margaret Deland
Author
23-Feb-1857 13-Jan-1945 Old Chester Tales
Paul Dresser
Songwriter
21-Apr-1857 30-Jan-1906 My Gal Sal
Edward Elgar
Composer
2-Jun-1857 23-Feb-1934 Pomp and Circumstance
George Gissing
Novelist
22-Nov-1857 28-Jan-1903 New Grub Street
Karl Gjellerup
Author
2-Jun-1857 11-Oct-1919 The Pilgrim Kamanita
Milton Hershey
Business
13-Sep-1857 13-Oct-1945 Founder of Hershey's
Heinrich Hertz
Physicist
22-Feb-1857 1-Jan-1894 Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
James E. Keeler
Astronomer
10-Sep-1857 12-Aug-1900 Composition of Saturn's rings
John B. Kendrick
Politician
6-Sep-1857 3-Nov-1933 Governor and Senator from Wyoming
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Judge
15-Oct-1857 2-Jan-1916 US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-16
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer
8-Mar-1857 9-Aug-1919 Pagliacci
Frederick L. Maytag
Business
14-Jul-1857 26-Mar-1937 Founder of Maytag Corporation
George P. McLean
Politician
7-Oct-1857 6-Jun-1932 Governor and Senator from Connecticut
Georg Michaelis
Head of State
8-Sep-1857 24-Jul-1936 German Chancellor 1917
Emmeline Pankhurst
Activist
14-Jul-1857 14-Jun-1928 Militant suffragette
Le Pétomane
Oddity
1-Jun-1857 1945 Legendary fartiste
Pope Pius XI
Religion
31-May-1857 10-Feb-1939 Signed Lateran Treaties with Mussolini
Henrik Pontoppidan
Author
24-Jul-1857 21-Aug-1943 Lucky Peter
Ronald Ross
Scientist
13-May-1857 16-Sep-1932 Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes
Charles Sherrington
Doctor
27-Nov-1857 4-Mar-1952 Neurons and synapses
Frank J. Sprague
Inventor
25-Jul-1857 25-Oct-1934 Streetcars and express elevators
William Howard Taft
Head of State
15-Sep-1857 8-Mar-1930 27th US President, 1909-13
Ida M. Tarbell
Journalist
5-Nov-1857 6-Jan-1944 History of the Standard Oil Company
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Doctor
30-Oct-1857 26-May-1904 Tourette's syndrome
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Scientist
17-Sep-1857 19-Sep-1935 Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer
Thorstein Veblen
Economist
30-Jul-1857 3-Aug-1929 The Theory of the Leisure Class
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Psychiatrist
7-Mar-1857 27-Sep-1940 Cured syphilis with malaria, pioneered shock therapy
Arthur Edward Waite
Paranormal
2-Oct-1857 19-May-1942 Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck


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