Allan Pinkerton	American Businessman	July 1
William H. Hunt	American Soldier	February 27
Wendell Phillips	American Activist	February 2
Thomas Gold Appleton	American Critic	April 17
Richard Henry Horne	English Poet	March 13
Matthew Simpson	American Clergyman	June 18
Judah Philip Benjamin	American Politician	May 6
Jane Swisshelm	American Journalist	July 22
Henry James Byron	English Dramatist	April 11
Gregor Mendel	Austrian Scientist	January 6
George Bentham	English Scientist	September 10
Charles Stuart Calverley	English Poet	February 17
Charles Reade	English Novelist	April 11
C. S. Calverley	English Poet	February 17
William Wells Brown	American Activist