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Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms and the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)

Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898 (1837–1898)

J. P. Morgan
American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
Mary Harris Jones
Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)

Mily Balakirev
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (1837-1910)

Ilia Chavchavadze
Georgian public figure and writer; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church (1837-1907)

Paul Morphy
US chess player (1837–1884)

Fredrik Bajer
Danish politician (1837-1922)
Sadi Carnot
5th president of France (1837–1894)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)

Rosalía de Castro
Galician poet and writer (1837-1885)
Alois Hitler
Austrian civil servant; father of Adolf Hitler (1837-1903)

Ivan Kramskoi
Russian artist (1837-1887)

Vasil Levski
Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873)

Pedro V of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1853 to 1861

Henry Draper
American physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1837–1913)

Georges Ernest Boulanger
French general (1837-1891)

Abraham Kuyper
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1837-1920)

John Alexander Reina Newlands
British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements

Vladimir Markovnikov
Russian chemist

Adam Opel
founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG (1837–1895)

Cosima Wagner
daughter of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and wife of Hans von Bülow and Richard Wagner (1837-1930)

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1892

Édouard Stephan
French astronomer (1837–1923)

Vasily Radlov
German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer (1837-1918)

Wild Bill Hickok
American folk hero and lawman (1837–1876)
Nicolás Avellaneda
Argentinian lawyer, journalist and politician (1837-1885)

William Dean Howells
American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)
Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders
Belgian prince (1837–1905)

Yohannes IV
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871 to 1889

Ion Creangă
Moldavian - born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher
Henry Becque
French dramatist (1837-1899)
Theodore Gill
American biologist (1837–1914)
Francis, Duke of Teck
British Army general (1837–1900)

Queen Stephanie of Portugal
Queen Consort of Portugal (1858-1859) (b.1837–d.1859)

Émile Waldteufel
French composer (1837-1915)
Georg Ebers
German egyptologist and novelist (1837–1898)

Horace Parnell Tuttle
American astronomer (1837–1923)
Sanjō Sanetomi
Japanese politician (1837-1891)
Maria Mazzarello
Italian saint (1837-1881)

Carolus-Duran
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (4 July 1837 – 17 February 1917), was a French painter and art instructor.
He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.
Joseph Bell
Scottish physician (1837–1911)
Itagaki Taisuke
Japanese politician (1837–1919)
Dwight Lyman Moody
American evangelist (1837–1899)
Pierre Auguste Cot
French painter (1837-1883)
George Dewey
United States Navy admiral (1837–1917)
Georg Ossian Sars
Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist (1837–1927)
James Murray
British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1837–1915)
Anna Filosofova
Russian activist (1837–1912)
Jorge Isaacs
Colombian writer and politician (1837-1895) Turín turan
Zhang Zhidong
Viceroy of Liangguang (1837-1909)
Georg Bühler
German Indologist (1837–1898)
Paul Gordan
German mathematician (1837-1912)
Thomas Moran
American artist (1837-1926)
Arnold Janssen
German-Dutch Roman Catholic priest and saint
Alexandre Guilmant
French composer (1837–1911)
Ernest Guiraud
French composer and music teacher (1837-1892)
Robert Gould Shaw
Union United States Army officer (1837-1863)