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Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
Bedřich Smetana
Czech composer (1824–1884)
Elias Lönnrot
Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
Paul Morphy
US chess player (1837–1884)
Marie Taglioni
Italian ballet dancer (1804-1884)
Fanny Elssler
Austrian ballerina (1810-1884)
Johann Gustav Droysen
German historian (1808–1884)
Marie Bashkirtseva
Ukrainian-French artist
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
French chemist (1800–1884)
Alfred Brehm
German naturalist (1829-1884)
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist (1817–1884)
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
German chemist (1818–1884)
Karl Richard Lepsius
German archaeologist, egyptologist and librarian (1810-1884)
Emanuel Geibel
German poet and playwright (1815–1884)
Eduard Rüppell
German naturalist and explorer (1794-1884)
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
Member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Hermann Schlegel
German ornithologist and herpetologist (1804-1884)
George Bentham
British botanist (1800-1884)
Leopold Fitzinger
Austrian zoologist (1802-1884)
Cyrus McCormick
American inventor and businessman (1809–1884)
Empress Maria Anna of Austria
Austrian, Hungarian and Bohemian Consort (1803-1884)
Jules Bastien-Lepage
French painter (1848–1884)
François Mignet
French historian and journalist (1796-1884)
Judah P. Benjamin
American politician and lawyer (1811-1884)
Cetshwayo kaMpande
Cetshwayo kaMpande (; ; 1826 – 8 February 1884) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been rendered as Cetywayo or Cetshwayo. Cetshwayo consistently opposed the war and sought fruitlessly to make peace with the British and was defeated and exiled following the Zulu defeat in the war. He was later allowed to return to Zululand, where he died in 1884.
Paul Abadie
French architect and building restorer (1812–1884)
Allan Pinkerton
Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
Hans Makart
Austrian painter (1840–1884)
Ludwig Richter
German painter and engraver (1803-1884)
Wendell Phillips
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
Juan Bautista Alberdi
Argentinian politician, lawyer and diplomat (1810–1884)
Jan Arnošt Smoler
Sorbian philologist and writer (1816–1884)
Infanta Maria Ana of Portugal
Portuguese and Saxon Royal
Aníbal Pinto
Chilean politician and President (1825-1884)
Kiến Phúc
Vietnamese emperor (1869–1884)
Pertevniyal Sultan
valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1861 to 1876
Charles Reade
British novelist and dramatist (1814–1884)
Eduard Totleben
Baltic German engineer and statesman (1818-1884)
Bernardo Guimarães
Brazilian writer (1825-1884)
Alfred Francis Russell
President of Liberia (1817-1884)
Prince Alexander, Prince of Orange
Dutch Royal Heir (1851-1884)
Keshub Chunder Sen
Indian academic (1838–1884)
Gotthilf Hagen
German physicist (1797–1884)
William, Duke of Brunswick
Duke of Brunswick (1806–1884)
Heinrich Laube
German writer (1806-1884)
Giuseppe De Nittis
Italian painter (1846-1884)
Arnaud Henri Guyot
Swiss-American geographer, paleontologist, meteorologist and naturalist (1807-1884)
Quintino Sella
Italian statesman and financier (1827-1884)
Pavlo Chubynskyi
Ukrainian writer (1839–1884)
Miroslav Tyrš
Czech art historian, sports organizer and founder of the Sokol movement (1832-1884)
George Engelmann
German-American physician and botanist (1809-1884)
Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel
Germanic prince (1820–1884)
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt
astronomer and geophysicist from Germany (1825-1884)
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
German geologist (1829–1884)
John Hutton Balfour
British botanist (1808-1884)
Johann Gottfried Piefke
prussian composer and conductor (1815-1884)
Antonio García Gutiérrez
Spanish writer (1813–1884)
Daniel Harrwitz
German chess player (1821–1884)
Victor Massé
French composer (1822–1884)
Auguste Franchomme
French musician (1808-1884)