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Louis Jacques THéNARD
French chemist
1777 - 1857 -
Julian HUXLEY
English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist
1887 - 1975 -
Mary Augusta WARD
British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward
1851 - 1920 -
Matthew ARNOLD
British poet and cultural critic
1822 - 1888 -
Pendleton VANDIVER
Kentucky fiddler, born there shortly after the American Civil War
1869 - 1932 -
Pierre BENARD
French engineer
1822 - 1900 -
Robert D'HUMIERES
French writer
1868 - 1915 -
Stonewall JACKSON
Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee
1824 - 1863 -
Joseph MERRICK
English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man
1862 - 1890 -
Antoine Augustin RENOUARD
French industrialist
1765 - 1853 -
Augustin Charles RENOUARD
French politician
1794 - 1878 -
Gabrielle BOSSIS
French Catholic laywoman and mystic
1874 - 1950 -
Norbert PROVENCHER
Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba
1787 - 1853 -
Albert DE L'ESPEE
French writer
1852 - 1918 -
Joseph LE BRIX
French aviator
1899 - 1931 -
Régis-Marie-Joseph DE L'ESTOURBEILLON DE LA GARNACHE
French aristocrat and politician who was associated with Breton regionalist activism
1858 - 1946 -
Willis Benson MACHEN
United States Senator from Kentucky
1810 - 1893 -
Zelda FITZGERALD
American novelist
1900 - 1948 -
Etienne AZEMA
French poet, playwright, and writer of fables
1776 - 1851 -
Alexander VON HUMBOLDT
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
1769 - 1859