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<html> <head> <title>Born in 1824</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> Born in 1824 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/228/000102919/">William Allingham</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1889</tt></td> <td>Day and Night Songs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000111226/">Mackenzie Bowell</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Canada, 1894-96</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/264/000092985/">Anton Bruckner</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1896</tt></td> <td>Mass in D Minor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/587/000028503/">Ambrose Burnside</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1881</tt></td> <td>Inspiration for term sideburns</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/996/000166498/">Henry Chadwick</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1908</tt></td> <td>Father of baseball</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/325/000052169/">Wilkie Collins</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1889</tt></td> <td>The Moonstone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000257519/">Charles Diebold</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1894</tt></td> <td>Founder of Diebold</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000025117/">Alexandre Dumas fils</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1895</tt></td> <td>La dame aux camélias</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/796/000160316/">Jessie Fremont</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1902</tt></td> <td>Wife of John C. Fremont</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000040340/">Jean-Leon Gerome</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1904</tt></td> <td>French Orientalist painter and sculptor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/424/000050274/">Benjamin Apthorp Gould</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1896</tt></td> <td>American astronomer and star-catalogist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000101704/">Winfield Scott Hancock</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1886</tt></td> <td>Union General, presidential candidate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000169887/">Johann Hittorf</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1914</tt></td> <td>Fluorescence in vacuum tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000103502/">Wilhelm Hofmeister</a></td> <td><center>Botanist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1877</tt></td> <td>Alternation of generations in plants</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/389/000103080/">William Huggins</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1910</tt></td> <td>Spectrographic astronomy pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/207/000104892/">Jozef Israëls</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1911</tt></td> <td>Dutch scene painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/596/000050446/">Stonewall Jackson</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1863</tt></td> <td>Robert E. Lee's "right arm"</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000100637/">Pierre Janssen</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Dec-1907</tt></td> <td>Solar observer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000050457/">Lord Kelvin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1907</tt></td> <td>Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000119957/">Thomas Starr King</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1864</tt></td> <td>Saved California to the Union</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/530/000097239/">Gustav Robert Kirchhoff</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td>Theory of spectrum analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/220/000048076/">Charles Godfrey Leland</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1903</tt></td> <td>Hans Breitmann's Ballads</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000109171/">George MacDonald</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1905</tt></td> <td>At the Back of the North Wind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/893/000180353/">Stanley Matthews</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1889</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-89</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/231/000093949/">Levi P. Morton</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1920</tt></td> <td>Vice President under Benjamin Harrison</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/529/000096241/">Francis Turner Palgrave</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1897</tt></td> <td>Golden Treasury</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/565/000165070/">Charles Pfizer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1906</tt></td> <td>Founder of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000209788/">Samuel F. Phillips</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1903</tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1872-85</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/600/000093321/">Bedrich Smetana</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1884</tt></td> <td>My Country</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000050319/">Edmund Kirby Smith</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1893</tt></td> <td>Last Confederate general to surrender</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/966/000055801/">Leland Stanford</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1893</tt></td> <td>Founder of Stanford University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/182/000097888/">George Edmund Street</a></td> <td><center>Architect</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1881</tt></td> <td>English Gothic revival architect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/125/000049975/">William Walker</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1860</tt></td> <td>American "filibuster"</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000180354/">William Burnham Woods</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1887</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=105508" 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/371/000003362/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/371/3362/s3362.jpg" width=128> gordon smith</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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