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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1859</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1859 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000117676/">Delia Bacon</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1859</tt></td> <td>Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000100894/">Gamaliel Bailey</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1807</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1859</tt></td> <td>Anti-slavery publisher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000209860/">George M. Bibb</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1776</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1859</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Treasury, 1844-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/053/000051897/">William C. Bouck</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1786</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1859</tt></td> <td>Governor of New York, 1843-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/902/000164410/">David C. Broderick</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1859</tt></td> <td>US Senator from California, 1857-59</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/724/000082478/">John Brown</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1800</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1859</tt></td> <td>Led the raid on Harpers Ferry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000162462/">Isambard Kingdom Brunel</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1859</tt></td> <td>Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000050348/">Rufus Choate</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1799</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1859</tt></td> <td>Attorney and Senator from Massachusetts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/006/000094721/">Thomas De Quincey</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1785</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1859</tt></td> <td>Confessions of an English Opium-Eater</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000101634/">Henry Hallam</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1777</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1859</tt></td> <td>View of the Middle Ages</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/773/000118419/">Edward A. Hannegan</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1807</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1859</tt></td> <td>US Senator, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/452/000107131/">Leigh Hunt</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1784</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1859</tt></td> <td>Story of Rimini</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/815/000031722/">Washington Irving</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1783</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1859</tt></td> <td>Legend of Sleepy Hollow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000096134/">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1800</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1859</tt></td> <td>History of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000050428/">Horace Mann</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1796</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1859</tt></td> <td>Massachusetts education reformer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000159366/">Thomas D. Mutter</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1859</tt></td> <td>Surgeon, Mütter Museum benefactor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000103972/">Oscar I</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1799</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1859</tt></td> <td>King of Sweden and Norway</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000117833/">William H. Prescott</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1796</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1859</tt></td> <td>The Conquest of Mexico</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000114259/">Richard Rush</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1780</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1859</tt></td> <td>Negotiated the Rush-Bagot Agreement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000097811/">Robert Stephenson</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1803</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1859</tt></td> <td>Builder of railroad bridges</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000097941/">Joseph Sturge</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1793</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1859</tt></td> <td>Anti-slavery activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/974/000084722/">Alexis de Tocqueville</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1805</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1859</tt></td> <td>Democracy in America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/428/000098134/">Tantia Topi</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1819</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1859</tt></td> <td>Indian Mutiny rebel leader</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000092386/">Klemens Wenzel von Metternich</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1773</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1859</tt></td> <td>Influential Austrian ambassador</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000206390/">John Walker</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1781</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1859</tt></td> <td>Invented the friction match</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106051" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/211/000001208/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/211/1208/s1208.jpg" width=128> Berkshire Hathaway</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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