Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist and philosopher
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Charles Baudelaire
French poet and critic
Gustave Flaubert
French novelist
John C. Breckinridge
Vice President of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar
Clara Barton
American Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate States Army general, planter, and slave trader
Mary Baker Eddy
American founder of Christian Science
Elizabeth Blackwell
British-American physician
James Longstreet
Confederate Army general
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor and polymath
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- 1821–1905George WilliamsEnglish philanthropist and businessmanOctober 11
- 1821–1900Collis Potter HuntingtonAmerican railroad magnateOctober 22
- 1821–1879Richard H. AndersonConfederate Army generalOctober 7
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- 1821–1870Arthur Saint-LéonFrench choreographerSeptember 17
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- 1821–1890Guillermo RawsonArgentine doctor and politicianJune 24
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- 1821–1896Joseph Hubert ReinkensGerman Old Catholic bishopMarch 1
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- 1821–1874Jonathan Clarkson GibbsAmerican minister and politicianSeptember 28
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- 1821–1900Sims ReevesBritish opera singerOctober 21
- 1821–1908Roberto BompianiItalian painter and sculptorFebruary 10
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