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Elisabeth MONROE
Wife of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States
1768 - 1830 -
Gilbert DU MOTIER DE LA FAYETTE
French aristocrat and military officer
1757 - 1834 -
Louis PASTEUR
French biologist, microbiologist and chemist
1822 - 1895 -
Camille PISSARRO
Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter
1830 - 1903 -
Aleksis KIVI
Finnish writer
1834 - 1872 -
Charles GOUNOD
French composer
1818 - 1893 -
Fiodor Tiouttchev
Russian poet and diplomat
1803 - 1873 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
Pat Garrett
American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid
1850 - 1908 -
Benito María de los Dolores PÉREZ y GALDÓS
Spanish realist novelist
1843 - 1920 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Emile REYNAUD
French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and the first projected animated films
1844 - 1918 -
Félix POTIN
French businessman
1820 - 1871 -
Louis LÉPINE
French lawyer, politician and inventor
1846 - 1933 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
Charles Henri SANSON
French executioner
1739 - 1806 -
Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869 -
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
French painter and printmaker
1732 - 1806 -
Jules MASSENET
French composer
1842 - 1912