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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
Bernadette Soubirous
French saint (1844–1879)
Honoré Daumier
French artist (1808–1879)
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
French architect (1814-1879)
Adolf Anderssen
German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist
Julia Margaret Cameron
British photographer (1815–1879)
William Kingdon Clifford
English mathematician and philosopher
William Lloyd Garrison
American journalist and abolitionist (1805–1879)
Charles De Coster
Belgian novelist (1827–1879)
Thomas Couture
French painter (1815-1870)
Napoléon, Prince Imperial
French prince (1856–1879)
Johann Friedrich von Brandt
German naturalist (1802–1879)
Albrecht von Roon
Prussian general (1803-1879)
Gottfried Semper
German architect (1803–1879)
Ludwig Reichenbach
German botanist and zoologist (1793–1879)
August Grisebach
German botanist and phytogeographer (1814-1879)
Sher Ali Khan
Emir of Afghanistan (1863-1879)
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
French printer (1817–1879)
Jón Sigurðsson
leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement (1811-1879)
Sergey Solovyov
Russian historian (1820–1879)
Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara
Spanish general and noble (1793-1879)
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Empress of Awadh
Joseph Hooker
American Union Army general (1814–1879)
Heinrich Geißler
physicist (1814–1879)
Paul Gervais
French paleontologist and entomologist (1816-1879)
Maria Teresa of Savoy
Sardinian and Parmese Royal
Rowland Hill
English educational, social and postal reformer (1795-1879)
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
German scientist (1803–1879)
Karl Friedrich Mohr
German chemist (1806-1879)
Lyuben Karavelov
Bulgarian writer (1834–1879)
August Bournonville
Danish ballet master and choreographer (1805–1879)
Sarah Josepha Hale
American writer and editor (1788–1889)
George Caleb Bingham
American artist (1811–1879)
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
French physician, entomologist (lepidopterist) and botanist (1799–1879)
Innocent of Alaska
Russian bishop and saint
Johann von Lamont
Scottish-German astronomer (1805–1879)
John Adams Dix
Union Army General (1798-1879)
Maurycy Gottlieb
Polish painter and student of Jan Matejko (1856-1879)
Epameinondas Deligiorgis
Greek politician, lawyer and journalist (1829-1879)
Anthony Panizzi
Italian librarian (1797-1879) and Principal Librarian of the British Museum
John Bell Hood
Confederate general (1831–1879)
Henry Charles Carey
American economist and publisher
Karl Koch
German botanist (1809-1879)
Angelina Grimké
American abolitionist and feminist
Caleb Cushing
American politician (1800-1879)
Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera
Spanish writer and politician (1828-1879)
Miguel Grau
Peruvian admiral (1834-1879)
Camille Doncieux
French artists' model (1847–1879)
Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands
son of King William II of the Netherlands (1820–1879)
Joseph Poelaert
architect (1817–1879)
Henry Sewell
19th-century New Zealand politician (1807-1879)
Michel Chevalier
French statesman (1806–1879)
Jakob Dubs
Swiss politician (1822-1879)
Jakob Stämpfli
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1820-1879)
László Paál
Hungarian artist (1846-1879)
Édouard Spach
French botanist (1801-1879)
Anton Schiefner
Baltic German linguist and tibetologist (1817–1879)
Jeanne Jugan
French saint
Emma Smith
American Mormon leader (1804-1879)
Jacob Abbott
American writer of children's books (1803-1879)