Arthur Helps	British Historian	July 10
Stephen Douglas	American Politician	April 23
Soren Kierkegaard	Danish Philosopher	May 5
Robert Fortune	Scottish Scientist	September 16
Richard Wagner	German Composer	May 22
Mark Hopkins	American Educator	September 1
Lyman Trumbull	American Politician	October 12
Jones Very	American Poet
John Charles Fremont	American Soldier	January 21
Isaac Pitman	English Inventor	January 4
Isaac Butt	Irish Politician	September 6
Henry Ward Beecher	American Clergyman	June 24
Henry Bessemer	English Scientist	January 19
Harriet Ann Jacobs	American Writer
Giuseppe Verdi	Italian Composer	October 10
Georg Buchner	German Dramatist	October 17
David Livingstone	Scottish Explorer	March 19
Claude Bernard	French Psychologist	July 12
Thomas Mellon	American Businesman