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22 famous people found
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Karen BLIXEN
Danish author
1885 - 1962 -
Adriaan STOOP
Dutch oil prospector and mining engineer
1856 - 1935 -
Sidney Lanier
American musician, poet and author
1842 - 1881 -
Eugène LEFEBVRE
French aviation pioneer
1878 - 1909 -
Pieter Sjoerds GERBRANDY
Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1885 - 1961 -
Raymond ISIDORE
French creator of the maison Picassiette
1900 - 1964 -
Hamilton FISH
American statesman and politician who served as the 26th United States Secretary of State
1808 - 1893 -
Sylvanus THAYER
Also known as "the Father of West Point", he was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point
1785 - 1872 -
Lucius M. WALKER
Confederate general during the American Civil War, he was mortally wounded in a duel with fellow general John S. Marmaduke
1829 - 1863 -
John Greenleaf WHITTIER
Influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States
1807 - 1892 -
Paul BOCQUET
French painter
1868 - 1947 -
Jean-Baptiste PENON
French bishop
1850 - 1929 -
Emile PLANTAMOUR
Swiss astronomer
1815 - 1882 -
Joseph-Hugues FABISCH
French sculptor
1812 - 1886 -
François Gédéon BAILLY de MONTHION
French general officer
1776 - 1850 -
Adrien DE GASPARIN
French statesman and agriculturist
1783 - 1862 -
Matthias W. BALDWIN
American inventor and machinery manufacturer
1795 - 1866 -
Georges THIERRY D'ARGENLIEU
Discalced Carmelite friar and priest
1889 - 1964 -
Simon-Napoléon PARENT
Canadian politician
1855 - 1920 -
Augustin Toussaint LEGAY
French politician
1812 - 1900