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Emma Smith
American Mormon leader (1804-1879)
Jakob Stämpfli
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1820-1879)
Edward Blore
British architect (1787–1879)
Karl Rosenkranz
German philosopher (1805–1879)
Catherine Dickens
née Hogarth, spouse of Charles Dickens (1815-1879)
William Froude
British engineer and naval architect (1810–1879)
Marguerite Bays
Canonized Catholic laywoman (1815-1879)
Aleksandr Baryatinsky
Russian Field Marshal and advisor to Tsar Alexander II (1815-1879)
Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz
Princess Consort of Monaco (1793-1879)
John Lawrence
British Viceroy of India (1811-1879)
Duke Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Prussian general
Nikolai Zaremba
Russian composer (1821-1879)
Juan Antonio Pezet
President of Peru (1809-1879)
Eduard Fenzl
Austrian botanist (1808-1879)
Zachariah Chandler
American politician (1813–1879)
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
wife of Jérôme Bonaparte
Thomas Maclear
South African astronomer (1794–1879)
Joachim Heer
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1825-1879)
Jacob Bigelow
American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879)
Arturo Prato
Chilean lawyer and navy officer (1848-1879)
Pieter Philip van Bosse
Dutch politician (1809-1879)
Prince Waldemar of Prussia
German prince
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British entomologist (1805–1879)
Peter Michal Bohúň
Slovak painter (1822-1879)
Ignacio Ramírez
Mexican writer of the 19th century (1818–1879)
William Morris Hunt
American artist (1824-1879)
Richard Taylor
Confederate general (1826-1879)
Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
Danish and German politician (1815-1879)
William Allen
American politician, 31st Governor of Ohio (1803-1879)
Juan de Zavala, 1st Marquis of Sierra Bullones
Prime Minister of Spain (1804-1879)
Samuel Rayner
English landscape artist (1806-1879)
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia
Russian grand duke (1862–1879)
James Shields
Irish-American politician and general (1806-1879)
Pascal Coste
French architect (1787-1879)
Peter Arnold Heise
Danish composer (1830-1879)
Fredrika Runeberg
Finland Swedish novelist, Finland's first female journalist (1807–1879)
August Krönig
German scientist (1822–1879)
Elisabetha Fiorini-Mazzanti
Italian botanist, mycologist, botanical collector and writer (1799-1879)
Lionel de Rothschild
UK art collector and politician (1808-1879); member of Parliament
Joseph Cinqué
leader of La Amistad slave revolt
Gabriel Aivazovsky
Armenian archbishop, historian, scientist (1812–1880)
George S. Houston
American politician, Alabama (1811-1879)
George Storrs
American minister (1796–1879)
Claire Clairmont
Mary Shelley's stepsister, mother of Byron's daughter (1798–1879)
Teodoro Cottrau
Italian composer, poet and writer (1827–1879)
John Miers
British botanist and engineer (1789-1879)
Karl Isidor Beck
Austrian-Hungarian poet
Claude-Étienne Minié
French Army officer (1804–1879)
Carlo Luigi Morichini
Catholic cardinal (1805–1879)
Adolf Jensen
German pianist, composer and music teacher (1837–1879)
George Walker
English chess player (1803–1879)
Camillo Rondani
Italian entomologist (1808–1879)
Richard H. Anderson
Confederate Army general (1821-1879)
Frances Ridley Havergal
British poet and hymn-writer (1836-1879)
Béla Wenckheim
Hungarian Prime Minister (1811-1879)
William Wilson Saunders
British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist (1809-1879)
Aristotelis Valaoritis
Greek poet (1824–1879)
Bernhard von Cotta
German geologist and botanist (1808-1879)
Pao-chen Shen
Chinese Qing Dynasty official (1820-1879)
Infanta María del Pilar of Spain
Infanta of Spain (1861–1879)