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<html> <head> <title>Born in 1857</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 1857 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/280/000164785/">Wallace Calvin Abbott</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td>Founder of Abbott Laboratories</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/635/000207014/">Charles Alderton</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1941</tt></td> <td>Invented Dr Pepper</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/329/000117975/">Alfonso XII</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1885</tt></td> <td>King of Spain, 1874-85</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000048466/">Gertrude Franklin Atherton</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1948</tt></td> <td>Black Oxen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000207204/">Joseph Babinski</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1932</tt></td> <td>The Babinski sign</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/049/000044914/">Robert Baden-Powell</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1941</tt></td> <td>Founder of the Boy Scout movement</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000126516/">James A. Baker</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td>Baker Botts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/357/000163865/">Edward Barnard</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1923</tt></td> <td>Self-taught scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000174762/">Alfred Binet</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1911</tt></td> <td>Binet-Simon intelligence test</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000098753/">Eugen Bleuler</a></td> <td><center>Psychiatrist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1939</tt></td> <td>Coined term schizophrenia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/115/000210482/">Napoleon Bonaparte Broward</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1910</tt></td> <td>Governor of Florida, 1905-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000180327/">John Hessin Clarke</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1945</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1916-22</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000024896/">Joseph Conrad</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1924</tt></td> <td>Heart of Darkness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000082567/">Clarence Darrow</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000167070/">George Draper Dayton</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1938</tt></td> <td>Founder of what is now Target Stores</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/428/000115083/">Margaret Deland</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td>Old Chester Tales</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000205889/">Paul Dresser</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1906</tt></td> <td>My Gal Sal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000024641/">Edward Elgar</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1934</tt></td> <td>Pomp and Circumstance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/267/000113925/">George Gissing</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1903</tt></td> <td>New Grub Street</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000137611/">Karl Gjellerup</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td>The Pilgrim Kamanita</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/969/000160489/">Milton Hershey</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-1945</tt></td> <td>Founder of Hershey's</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000072203/">Heinrich Hertz</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1894</tt></td> <td>Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/961/000167460/">James E. Keeler</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1900</tt></td> <td>Composition of Saturn's rings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000123250/">John B. Kendrick</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Nov-1933</tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from Wyoming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/877/000180337/">Joseph Rucker Lamar</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1916</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-16</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000093303/">Ruggero Leoncavallo</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1919</tt></td> <td>Pagliacci</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000165038/">Frederick L. Maytag</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1937</tt></td> <td>Founder of Maytag Corporation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000209958/">George P. McLean</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1932</tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from Connecticut</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000089598/">Georg Michaelis</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1936</tt></td> <td>German Chancellor 1917</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000092621/">Emmeline Pankhurst</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1928</tt></td> <td>Militant suffragette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000121059/">Le Pétomane</a></td> <td><center>Oddity</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1945</tt></td> <td>Legendary fartiste</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/327/000088063/">Pope Pius XI</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1939</tt></td> <td>Signed Lateran Treaties with Mussolini</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000137648/">Henrik Pontoppidan</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1943</tt></td> <td>Lucky Peter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000094057/">Ronald Ross</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1932</tt></td> <td>Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/860/000127479/">Charles Sherrington</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1952</tt></td> <td>Neurons and synapses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/904/000173385/">Frank J. Sprague</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1934</tt></td> <td>Streetcars and express elevators</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/288/000026210/">William Howard Taft</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td>27th US President, 1909-13</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/485/000114143/">Ida M. Tarbell</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>History of the Standard Oil Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000178048/">Georges Gilles de la Tourette</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1904</tt></td> <td>Tourette's syndrome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/330/000045195/">Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1935</tt></td> <td>Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/252/000024180/">Thorstein Veblen</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1929</tt></td> <td>The Theory of the Leisure Class</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/354/000126973/">Julius Wagner-Jauregg</a></td> <td><center>Psychiatrist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1940</tt></td> <td>Cured syphilis with malaria, pioneered shock therapy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/958/000050808/">Arthur Edward Waite</a></td> <td><center>Paranormal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1942</tt></td> <td>Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=105541" 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/003/000001000/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/3/1000/s1000.jpg" width=128> QC</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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