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Cléophas Beausoleil was a Canadian journalist, publisher, office holder, lawyer, and politician.
Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1904)
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a…
Possible start of the Great Famine of Ireland.
Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the county seat of Anne Arundel County and its only incorporated city. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of …
In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th…
Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (died 1924)
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. He also served a term as Chie…
Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (died 1920)
Arthur Cowper Ranyard was an English astrophysicist.
Arthur Cowper Ranyard, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 1894)
Thomas C. Dula was a former Confederate soldier who was convicted of murdering Laura Foster. National publicity from newspapers such as The New York Times turned Dula's story into …
Tom Dula, American soldier (died 1868)
Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Ze…
Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1906)
Thomas John Barnardo was an Irish, Christian philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 18…
Thomas John Barnardo, Irish philanthropist and humanitarian (died 1905)
Tristan Corbière, born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the ag…
Tristan Corbière, French poet (died 1875)
André Bessette, C.S.C., commonly known as Brother André and since his canonization as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant…
André Bessette, Canadian saint (died 1937)
Abai Qūnanbaiūly was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enligh…
Abai Qunanbaiuli, Kazakh poet, composer, and philosopher (died 1904)
Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, a…
Walter Crane, English artist and book illustrator (died 1915)
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a French applied physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1908 for his invention of the Lippmann plate, a method of photographicall…
Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1921)
Dr. Henry Cadwalader Chapman was an American physician and naturalist.
Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist (died 1909)
Albert Chmielowski – born Adam Hilary Bernard Chmielowski – was a Polish Franciscan tertiary, painter, and disabled veteran of the Uprising of 1863. He was founder of both the Albe…
Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (died 1916)
William Lewis Douglas was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He served as the 42nd governor of Massachusetts from 1905 until 1906. He also founded and overs…
William Lewis Douglas, American businessman and politician, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1924)
James Calhoun was a soldier in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War. He was the brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer and was killed alo…
James Calhoun, American lieutenant (died 1876)
Ludwig II, also called the Swan King or the Fairy Tale King, was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886.
Ludwig II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (died 1886)
Ödön Lechner was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the Vi…
Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St Elisabeth (died 1914)
Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of interna…
Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (died 1909)
Nikolai Karl Adolf Anderson was a Baltic German philologist who lived in the Russian Empire. He specialized in comparative linguistics of Finno-Ugric languages.
Nikolai Anderson, Estonian philologist and author (died 1905)
Salomon Kalischer, or Solomon Kalischer, was a German Jewish composer, pianist, and physicist.
Salomon Kalischer, German pianist, composer, and physicist (died 1924)
Carl Gustav Thulin was a Swedish shipowner. He co-owned and later became the sole owner of the shipping company Nordström & Thulin.
Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (died 1918)