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Otto von Bismarck
German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
Lewis Carroll
British author and scholar (1832–1898)
William Ewart Gladstone
British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
Stéphane Mallarmé
French Symbolist poet (1842–1898)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898 (1837–1898)
Theodor Fontane
German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
Ivan Shishkin
Russian landscape painter (1832-1898)
Syed Ahmed Khan
Indian Muslim reformer and social activist (1817–1898)
Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician (1825–1898)
Eugène Louis Boudin
French painter (1824-1898)
Gustave Moreau
19th century French Symbolist painter (1826-1898)
Edward Bellamy
American author and socialist (1850–1898)
Aubrey Beardsley
British illustrator and author (1872–1898)
Edward Burne-Jones
British Pre-Raphaelite painter (1833-1898)
Henry Bessemer
British engineer (1813-1898)
Ferdinand Cohn
German biologist (1828-1898)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Swiss historical novelist and poet (1825-1898)
Zachris Topelius
Finnish-Swedish author, poet, historian, professor and rector of Helsinki University (1818–1898)
Georges Rodenbach
Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist (1855-1898)
John Alexander Reina Newlands
British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
French artist best known for his mural painting (1824–1898)
Louise of Hesse-Kassel
queen consort of Denmark from 1863 to 1898
Charles Garnier
French architect (1825–1898)
Eleanor Marx
English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)
Charbel Makhluf
Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1828–1898)
Matilda Joslyn Gage
American abolitionist, writer
Pavel Tretyakov
Russian businessman (1832-1898)
Félicien Rops
Belgian artist (1833-1898)
Frances Willard
American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)
Heungseon Daewongun
Korean regent (1820–1898)
Tuone Udaina
Last known speaker of Dalmatian (1821–1898)
Nikolai Yaroshenko
Russian/Ukrainian painter (1846-1898)
Georg Ebers
German egyptologist and novelist (1837–1898)
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet
French anthropologist (1821-1898)
Siegfried Marcus
German-Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer
Princess Francisca of Brazil
Princess of Brazil
Thomas F. Bayard
American lawyer, politician and diplomat (1828–1898)
Tan Sitong
Chinese philosopher (1865-1898)
Prince Gong
Manchu prince (1833-1898)
Wilford Woodruff
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1807-1898)
Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies
Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Georg Bühler
German Indologist (1837–1898)
Carl Zeller
Austrian lawyer and composer (1842-1898)
George James Allman
Irish natural historian (1812-1898)
Louis Buffet
French politician (1818-1898)
Axel Gudbrand Blytt
Norwegian botanist and geologist (1843–1898)
Osbert Salvin
English naturalist (1835–1898)
Joaquín Crespo
President of Venezuela (1841-1898)
George Grey
British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer (1812–1898)
Antoine-François Marmontel
French pianist, teacher and musicographer (1816–1898)
George Müller
German-English clergyman (1805–1898)
Luiza Pesjak
Slovene writer
James Hall
American paleontologist (1811-1898)
Henry Liddell
British classical scholar and administrator (1811–1898)
William Rosecrans
American diplomat, politician and army officer (1819–1898)
Rudolf Leuckart
German zoologist (1822-1898)
Yakov Polonsky
Russian writer (1819–1898)
Princess Katharina of Württemberg
Württemberger Royal (1821–1898)
Adolfo Farsari
Italian-born photographer based in Yokohama, Japan (1841-1898)
Ángel Ganivet
Spanish writer (1865–1898)