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Thomas Bewick
John Breathitt
Bah\xe1'u'll\xe1h
Oliver Bosbyshell
Henry Ward Beecher
Charles Boycott
Dan Brouthers
Black Widows of Liverpool
Marion L. Brittain
Richard Buxton (botanist)
Fran\xe7ois Antoine Louis Bourcier
Powhatan Beaty
Wilhelm Busch
John Brooks (governor)
Thomas Brassey
Zenas Bliss
William Henry Barlow
Charles Blackader
Miguel de Azcu\xe9naga
Jacob L. Beilhart
Eilley Bowers
Reuben P. Boise
Mary McLeod Bethune
Friedrich Accum
Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Marcela Agoncillo
Rutland Barrington
Norman Biggs
James D. Black
George Bethune Adams
Yank Adams
Dan Bain
Oyster Burns
Joseph H. Allen
John Robert Boyle
Thomas E. Bramlette
John Baldwin (educator)
Edward Burne-Jones
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
Adolf Anderssen
Manuel Belgrano
Frederick Russell Burnham
Jessie Bond
Samuel Turell Armstrong
Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisi\xe8re
Edwin Alderson
Romaine Brooks
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
Nathan C. Brooks
George N. Briggs
Joseph Brittan
Jonathan Alder
Rom\xe1n Baldorioty de Castro
Joe Borden
Solomon Butcher
Ed Barrow
E. W. Bastard
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Sultan Ali of Johor
Alexandru Bogdan-Pite\u0219ti
Wellington R. Burt
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
Timothy Blackstone
Ambrose Burnside
Alexander Berkman
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet
Khachatur Abovian
Manuel Alberti
Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet
John Wilkes Booth
Jacob Pavlovich Adler
Prince Alfred of Great Britain
Abu Bakar of Johor
Jos\xe9 Mar\xeda Caro Mart\xednez
Hugh Daily
Allegra Byron
Thomas Cubitt (British Army officer)
Patrick Cleburne
Ninian Edwards
Arthur F. Devereux
Henry Pering Pellew Crease
Sir George Collier, 1st Baronet
Arthur Cumming (Royal Navy officer)
Duff Cooley
Vito Cascioferro
John Davis (Massachusetts governor)
Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr.
John C. Colt
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895\u20131903)
James Clark (Kentucky)
Basil W. Duke
Roberto Cofres\xed
Gilbert Thomas Carter
Joe Darling
Everard Calthrop
\xc9mile Durkheim
William S. Clark
Matthew Charlton
John Conroy
Thomas Holley Chivers
Jean-Marie Defrance
John H. Clifford
Marie Curie
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (seventh creation)
Jack Crossland
Ina Coolbrith
Eduard von Capelle
Frank Dekum
John Harrison Clark
Charles Wilson Cross
F\xe9lix Delahaye
George E. Crothers
Levi Coffin
William Henry Cushing
Leverett George DeVeber
Mary Carpenter
Gaston Cros
Johnston de Peyster
Richard Hutton Davies
Eugene V. Debs
Charles H. Constable
Marie-Rosalie Cadron-Jett\xe9
Hugh Downman
Juan Jos\xe9 Castelli
Thompson Capper
Matthew Deady
Louis H. Carpenter
Cyrus B. Comstock
William Egbert
Simon Byrne
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Elizabeth F. Ellet
Oliver Edwards
Archibald Dixon
Ygnacio del Valle
Joseph Dennie
Sierk Coolsma
Thomas R. Cornelius
George Rogers Clark
Hamilton Disston
Adam Eckfeldt
Pierre-Fran\xe7ois Chabaneau
Clara Clemens
Winston Churchill
Roger Curtis
Charles Cruft (showman)
Ion Creang\u0103
Samuel Colt
Nathaniel Dance
Clarence Ransom Edwards
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
William W. Chapman
Isaac B. Desha
Jack Chesbro
Rowland Egerton-Warburton
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Jeanne Calment
Paul Cornell (lawyer)
Antoine Hur\xe9
Octavia Hill
Benjamin Hardin Helm
Ewelina Ha\u0144ska
James Ferguson (Scottish politician)
William J. Fields
Louis Howe
Vincent van Gogh
Alberto Henschel
Thomas Hinde
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Bob Ferguson (infielder)
Cyrus K. Holliday
Thomas S. Hinde
John Clough Holmes
Thomas Hines
William P. Halliday
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
John Floyd (Virginia politician)
William Johnstone Hope
Thomas Harrison (architect)
Franz von Hipper
William S. Hamilton
James A. Garfield
Marty Hogan
Lyman Hall (academic)
Mortimer Grimshaw
Walter Gilbert (cricketer)
Albert Gould
Charles Fryatt
Johann Peter Hebel
Pattillo Higgins
Charles Frederick Horn
Otto Frederick Hunziker
Carl Eytel
Pierre Marie Barth\xe9lemy Ferino
Simon Favre
Eliab Harvey
James Gwyn
\xc9tienne Hastrel de Rivedoux
Thomas Ferens
James Graham (British Army soldier)
Elbridge Gerry
John Hines (Australian soldier)
Charles T. Hinde
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
Christopher Gore
Bill Haywood
Antoni Gaud\xed
W. R. van Ho\xebvell
Barney Gilligan
Mahatma Gandhi
Serranus Clinton Hastings
Frank Fetter
Hasan al-Kharrat
John Horsefield
Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood
Gan Eng Seng
Charles B. Gatewood
Robert Deniston Hume
Jean Augustin Ernouf
Andrew Fisher
Abraham Goldfaden
Charles Melville Hays
George Grossmith
Arthur Gould (rugbyion)
Bernt Michael Holmboe
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
George Eyre
Christopher Greenup
Albert Fish
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet
Percy Henn
Frederick Hinde Zimmerman
Hamilton Fish
William Eustis
Hugh Boyle Ewing
Daniel Dunglas Home
Jon Hol
Seymour H. Knox I
Chrystal Macmillan
Bill Lange
Nap Lajoie
Henry Martyn
Jacob Little
Joe Kelley
Emanuel Lasker
Kechewaishke
Leo\u0161 Jan\xe1\u010dek
Levi Lincoln, Sr.
Asa Lovejoy
John Lester
Augustus Jones
Halvdan Koht
Bobby Lowe
Kan\u014d Jigor\u014d
Tadeusz Ko\u015bciuszko
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Washington Irving
Beriah Magoffin
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Preston Leslie
Louis XVIII of France
Levi Lincoln, Jr.
Richard Mentor Johnson
Henri L'Estrange
Isidore van Kinsbergen
Le Van Duyet
Louis Lipsett
Malcolm Jardine
J. Proctor Knott
Jehangir H. Kothari
James Macnamara
Hugh Mason
Mark Kellogg (reporter)
Dan McGann
Broder Knudtzon
Abraham Lincoln
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Louis Klein
Vasil Levski
Mihail Kog\u0103lniceanu
Jonathan Jennings
Robert P. Letcher
Luo Yigu
George Madison
Herbert Armitage James
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell
Charles M. Loring
Peter Lumsden
Stephen Mallory
Dyer Lum
Arthur Irwin
Maryana Marrash
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Louise Lehzen
William Lax
John William Pitt K\u012bnau
James Longstreet
Juan Larrea (politician)
Evan O'Neill Kane
Seth Kinman
Delphine LaLaurie
Humphrey Marshall (politician)
George W. Johnson (governor)
Luis Mu\xf1oz Rivera
Marcus Morton
Oliver P. Morton
Daniel O'Connell (journalist)
Joseph Merrick
Joel Palmer
Maximilian, Count of Merveldt
Belgrave Ninnis
Edward Graham Paley
Adam Mickiewicz
James Naismith
Charles L. McNary
Charles A. May
Stephen Newton
Karl Marx
Tom Norman
John Neild
John Benjamin Murphy
Richard O'Connor (politician)
Billy Meredith
Albert A. Murphree
Charles Pearson
Joe McGinnity
James Turner Morehead (Kentucky)
Felix Mendelssohn
Lloyd Mathews
Richard Mohun
Vangjel Meksi
Lord Henry Paulet
Otto, King of Greece
Jacques Offenbach
Prince Octavius of Great Britain
Ramsay Weston Phipps
Edward Millen
James Morris III
Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil
Malcolm Mercer
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Alton B. Parker
Mariano Moreno
Klemens von Metternich
John O'Reily
Lionel Palairet
John McMahon (wrestler)
Jiggs Parrott
Charles S. Morehead
Agneta Matthes
Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
Dick Padden
Louis Nolan
Michel Ordener
George Murray (Royal Navy officer)
Honor\xe9 Th\xe9odore Maxime Gazan de la Peyri\xe8re
Early life of Pedro II of Brazil
Antonio Paoli
Sava Mutkurov
Robert Latham Owen
John Thomas North
Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky)
George Nicol (baseball)
Andr\xe9 Messager
Legacy of Pedro II of Brazil
William Owsley
\xc9tienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty
Boles\u0142aw Prus
William Morris
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
William Henry Sheppard
John Rowan (Kentucky)
Tiverton Preedy
Irving Kane Pond
Edward Pulsford
Napoleon
Cornelio Saavedra
Auguste Rodin
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Walter Potter
Edward Rotheram
Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Richard Henry Savage
Princess Sophia of theited Kingdom
William H. Prescott
Orator Shafer
Flem D. Sampson
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Emilia Plater
Percy Shaw Jeffrey
The Sleeping Girl of Turville
George Bernard Shaw
Jan Willem Spruyt
Philip Primrose
William Robinson (gardener)
Radama II
Cy Seymour
Jos\xe9 de San Mart\xedn
Alfred Pullin
George E. Smith (gambler)
Sitting Bull
Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster
Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet
Raja of Panagal
James Fisher Robinson
V. S. Srinivasa Sastri
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Gabriel Slaughter
George Ripley (transcendentalist)
James McCune Smith
Juliusz S\u0142owacki
Johannes Rebmann
Mary Young Pickersgill
William Stanley (inventor)
Lazarus W. Powell
Wyndham Robertson
Francis William Reitz
Hugo von Pohl
Herbert Hope Risley
Reinhard Scheer
Edward Sainsbury
William Henry Leonard Poe
Mary Seacole
William T. Porter
Manley Power
James Whitcomb Riley
Andrew Sledd
John Philip Sousa
James Planch\xe9
John D. Rockefeller
Joseph Smith
Barend Joseph Stokvis
Zachary Taylor
Jane Williams
William Lowndes Yancey
Wilhelm Steinitz
Harry Toulmin (Unitarian minister)
Weldy Walker
Yamashita Yoshiaki
Blair Swannell
John Tyler
James Strang
Johann Strauss II
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
William S. Taylor
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Frank Worsley
Eli Todd
Charles A. Wickliffe
Henry Martin Tupper
George Villiers (1759\u20131827)
Max Weber
Howard Staunton
Charles Thom
Herbert Charles Wilson
Arthur Sullivan
David Watts Morgan
Fr\xe9d\xe9ric Henri Walther
George Wilkes
Pong Tiku
Billy Sunday
Cy Young
John W. Stevenson
John Struthers (anatomist)
James Walker (Australian politician)
Thomas Trueblood
James "Honest Dick" Tate
Samuel Escue Tillman
Oscar Wilde
Walt Whitman
George M. Stratton
William Monroe Trotter
Caleb Strong
Augustus E. Willson
Reinhold von Werner
Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford
James Walker (Royal Navy officer)
Swaminarayan
Lucy Stone
Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden
William Sudell
Stanis\u0142aw Staszic
Jones Very
James W. Stephenson
Harry Yount
Fred Tenney
Frederick Stovin
Thomas H. Tongue
Jack Stivetts
Gilbert Stuart
George H. Steuart (brigadier general)
Toyohara Kunichika
Robert Surcouf
Ned Williamson
Nils Vogt (journalist)
Pietro Tacchi Venturi
Francis Amasa Walker
John Capper
Georges-Antoine Belcourt
Cabell Breckinridge
Alexander Godley
Joseph Widney
Yannis Makriyannis
William George Malone
Mah Laqa Bai
Reginald Pinney
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Emmeline Pankhurst
Mirza Husayn 'Ali
David Hilbert
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