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Samuel Gobat
Anglican bishop (1799-1879)
Kawaji Toshiyoshi
Japanese politician
Carl Giskra
Austro-Hungarian politician (1820-1879)
Otto Funke
German physiologist (1828–1879)
Carl Göring
German chess player (1841-1879)
Anna Nordlander
Swedish artist from Skellefteå (1843-1879)
Émile Prisse d'Avennes
French egyptologist (1807-1879)
Friedrich August Kummer
German musician (1797–1879)
Domenico Carafa della Spina di Traetto
Catholic cardinal (1805–1879)
Tēvita ʻUnga
1824—1879, first premier of Tonga
Apollinaire de Kontski
violinist (1825-1879)
Benjamin Franklin Mudge
American geologist, paleontologist, teacher, lawyer, chemist (1817-1879)
Thilo Irmisch
German botanist (1816–1879)
Ivan Lazarev
Russian general (1820–1879)
Alfred Henry Garrod
English zoologist (1846-1879)
Joseph Sokolsky
Bulgarian clergyman
Jefferson C. Davis
Union general in the American Civil War (1828–1879)
Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Cheyenne woman warrior
Vartan Pasha
Ottoman writer
Maria W. Stewart
American activist, teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist
Karl Hübner
German artist (1814-1879)
Franz Ittenbach
German artist (1813-1879)
Jules Bastide
French politician (1800-1879)
Félix Douay
French general (1816–1879)
James Bulwer
British naturalist (1794-1879)
Knud Baade
Norwegian painter (1808–1879)
Johann Jakob Stehlin
Swiss politician (1803-1879)
Ferdinand Lindheimer
German-American botanist (1801-1879)
Lovrenc Košir
Austrian civil servant (1804–1879)
Francis Gillette
American politician (1807-1879)
Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval
Brazilian military officer (1808–1879)
Friedrich Leybold
German naturalist (1827-1879)
Alexandre Hesse
painter from France (1806-1879)
Mutius von Tommasini
Austrian botanist (1794-1879)
William Howitt
British writer (1792–1879)
Giovanni Cavalli
Italian general, inventor and politician (1808-1879)
W. R. van Hoëvell
Dutch churchman, politician, anti-colonial reformer, writer
William Hepworth Dixon
English historian and traveller (1821–1879)
Erik Bodom
Norwegian artist (1829-1879)
Thomas Stevenson Drew
3rd governor of Arkansas (1802-1879)
Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer
Spanish painter (1817-1879)
Pietro Fanfani
Italian philologist (1815-1879)
Asa Fitch
American entomologist (1809–1879)
Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless
German theologian (1806–1879)
Marie Roch Louis Reybaud
French writer, political economist and politician (1799-1879)
Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor
royal commissioner of the Théâtre-Français (1789-1879)
Lydia Folger Fowler
American-born British physician
Eduardo Avaroa
Bolivian hero
Heinrich Heppe
German theologian (1820–1879)
Eugenio Agneni
Italian painter (1816-1879)
Bartolomeo Gastaldi
Italian geologist and palaeontologist (1818-1879)
Charles Marville
French photographer (1813-1879)
Pierre Magne
French politician (1806–1879)
John C. Ten Eyck
United States Senator from New Jersey (1814-1879)
August von Fligely
Austrian army officer and geographer (1811–1879)
Eugenio Aguilar
ex-president of El Salvador (1804-1879)
Prince Alemayehu
Ethiopian prince (1861–1879)
Alexander Soloviev
Russian revolutionary (1846-1879)
Marija Obrenović
Romanian noble
Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada
Governor-General of Philippines