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Pius IX
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher (1821–1878)
Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
King of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
Joseph Henry
American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1846–1852 and 1865–1866 (1792–1878)
Robert Mayer
German physicist (1814-1878)
Charles-François Daubigny
French painter (1817–1878)
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Iranian Azerbaijani playwright and literary critic
Anna Sewell
English novelist
Elias Magnus Fries
Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms (1794–1878)
Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
Queen consort of Spain (1805-1878)
Ōkubo Toshimichi
one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan (1830-1878)
Angelo Secchi
Italian astronomer
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German psychologist (1795–1878)
Władysław Tarnowski
Polish composer (1836–1878)
Antoine César Becquerel
French scientist and pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena (1788-1878)
Georg V of Hanover
King of Hanover (1819–1878)
Henri Victor Regnault
French physicist (1810–1878)
Carlo Blasis
Italian dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
Archduke Franz Karl of Austria
Austrian archduke (1802-1878)
Alfonso La Marmora
Italian general and statesman (1804-1878)
William Cullen Bryant
American romantic poet and journalist (1794-1878)
Karl Gutzkow
German writer (1811-1878)
Mercedes of Orléans
Queen consort of Spain
George Cruikshank
British caricaturist and book illustrator; (1792-1878)
Pyotr Vyazemsky
leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry (1792–1878)
Pieter Bleeker
Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist and herpetologist (1819–1878)
Đura Jakšić
Serbian poet, writer and painter (1832–1878)
Barthélémy Du Mortier
Belgian politician and botanist (1797-1878)
George Henry Lewes
British philosopher (1817-1878)
Robert Stirling
clergyman, engineer, inventor of the Stirling engine (1790–1878)
Crawford Williamson Long
American physician (1815–1878)
Carl von Rokitansky
Czech anatomist, dermatologist and patologist (1804-1878)
Mindon Min
King of Burma
George Gilbert Scott
English architect (1811–1878)
Charles Cousin-Montauban
French general and statesman (1796-1878)
William Magear Tweed
American politician (1823-1878)
Bayard Taylor
United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825-1878)
Mariam Baouardy
Melkite Carmelite nun and saint (1846-1878)
Palladiy
Russian sinologist (1817–1878)
Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1813-1878)
Manuel Pardo
Peruvian politician and the first civilian President of Peru (1834-1878)
Eugène Belgrand
French civil engineer (1810–1878)
Temistocle Solera
Italian opera librettist
Gideon Welles
American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 (1802–1878)
Josip Runjanin
Croatian composer (1821–1878)
Muhammad ibn Thani
1st emir of the whole Qatari Peninsula
Catharine Beecher
United States educator (1800–1878)
Cirilo Antonio Rivarola Acosta
politician from Paraguay, president in 1870
August Heinrich Petermann
German cartographer (1822-1878)
Aleardo Aleardi
Italian poet and politician (1812-1878)
Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur
Austrian botanist (1799-1878)
Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera
Colombian general and political figure (1798-1878)
Andrew Scott Waugh
British army officer and Surveyor General of India (1810-1878)
Maurice Joly
French satirist and lawyer (1829–1878)
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Scottish inventor of the bicycle (1812–1878)
Judah Alkalai
rabbi (1798–1878)
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad
Swedish composer (1801-1878)