171 remarkable lives.

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• Galileo Galilei1564–1642
• Maria Sibylla Merian1647–1717
• Daniel Boone1734–1820
• Phillis Wheatleyc. 1753–1784
• William Wilberforce1759–1833
• Jane Austen1775–1817
• Elizabeth Fry1780–1845
• Washington Irving1783–1859
• Chief Seattlec. 1786–1866
• Louis Daguerre1787–1851
• Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet1787–1851
• Michael Faraday1791–1867
• Samuel Morse1791–1872
• Lucretia Mott1793–1880
• George Peabody1795–1869
• Mary Shelley1797–1851
• Sojourner Truthc. 1797–1883
• John Brown1800–1859
• Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
• Victor Hugo1802–1885
• Benito Juárez1806–1872
• Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882
• Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
• Charles Darwin1809–1882
• Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849
• Louis Braille1809–1852
• Asa Gray1810–1888
• Franz Liszt1811–1886
• Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896
• Giuseppe Verdi1813–1901
• Harriet Jacobsc. 1813–1897
• Crawford Long1815–1878
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton1815–1902
• Charlotte Brontë1816–1855
• Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
• Biddy Mason1818–1891
• Elizabeth Keckley1818–1907
• Frederick Douglass1818–1895
• Lucy Stone1818–1893
• Maria Mitchell1818–1889
• Herman Melville1819–1891
• Julia Ward Howe1819–1910
• Fanny Crosby1820–1915
• Florence Nightingale1820–1910
• Susan B. Anthony1820–1906
• Clara Barton1821–1912
• Mary Baker Eddy1821–1910
• Frederick Law Olmsted1822–1903
• Harriet Tubmanc. 1822–1913
• Louis Pasteur1822–1895
• Red Cloud1822–1909
• Rosa Bonheur1822–1899
• Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper1825–1911
• Stephen Foster1826–1864
• Henry Dunant1828–1910
• Jules Verne1828–1905
• Leo Tolstoy1828–1910
• Catherine Booth1829–1890
• Geronimo1829–1909
• Standing Bearc. 1829–1908
• Emily Dickinson1830–1886
• Isabella Bird1831–1904
• James Clerk Maxwell1831–1879
• Sitting Bullc. 1831–1890
• Lewis Carroll1832–1898
• Louisa May Alcott1832–1888
• Mary Edwards Walker1832–1919
• Caroline Earle White1833–1916
• Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
• Dmitri Mendeleev1834–1907
• John Wesley Powell1834–1902
• Andrew Carnegie1835–1919
• Mark Twain1835–1910
• Phillips Brooks1835–1893
• John Burroughs1837–1921
• Mother Jones1837–1930
• John Muir1838–1914
• Liliʻuokalani1838–1917
• Octavia Hill1838–1912
• Paul Cézanne1839–1906
• Auguste Rodin1840–1917
• Chief Joseph1840–1904
• Claude Monet1840–1926
• Lottie Moon1840–1912
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893
• Thomas Hardy1840–1928
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841–1919
• Ellen Swallow Richards1842–1911
• Sidney Lanier1842–1881
• Bertha von Suttner1843–1914
• Emily Warren Roebling1843–1903
• Edmonia Lewisc. 1844–1907
• Sarah Winnemuccac. 1844–1891
• Quanah Parkerc. 1845–1911
• Kate Sheppard1847–1934
• Thomas Edison1847–1931
• Lewis Howard Latimer1848–1928
• Mary Slessor1848–1915
• Jacob Riis1849–1914
• Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
• José Martí1853–1895
• George Eastman1854–1932
• Oscar Wilde1854–1900
• Booker T. Washington1856–1915
• Granville Woods1856–1910
• Sigmund Freud1856–1939
• Ida Tarbell1857–1944
• Anna Julia Cooper1858–1964
• Charles Eastman1858–1939
• Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928
• Selma Lagerlöf1858–1940
• Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
• Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930
• Pierre Curie1859–1906
• Annie Oakley1860–1926
• Anton Chekhov1860–1904
• Jane Addams1860–1935
• Juliette Gordon Low1860–1927
• Fridtjof Nansen1861–1930
• Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941
• Rudolf Steiner1861–1925
• Edith Wharton1862–1937
• Ida B. Wells1862–1931
• Mary Kingsley1862–1900
• O. Henry1862–1910
• Annie Jump Cannon1863–1941
• Swami Vivekananda1863–1902
• Charles M. Russell1864–1926
• George Washington Carverc. 1864–1943
• Nellie Bly1864–1922
• Edith Cavell1865–1915
• Gifford Pinchot1865–1946
• Jean Sibelius1865–1957
• Rudyard Kipling1865–1936
• Susan La Flesche Picotte1865–1915
• Beatrix Potter1866–1943
• H. G. Wells1866–1946
• Matthew Henson1866–1955
• Sun Yat-sen1866–1925
• Lillian Wald1867–1940
• Marie Curie1867–1934
• Gertrude Bell1868–1926
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868–1921
• Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
• Maria Montessori1870–1952
• Cordell Hull1871–1955
• James Weldon Johnson1871–1938
• Paul Laurence Dunbar1872–1906
• W. C. Handy1873–1958
• Willa Cather1873–1947
• Ernest Shackleton1874–1922
• Guglielmo Marconi1874–1937
• Harry Houdini1874–1926
• Lucy Maud Montgomery1874–1942
• Harriet Quimby1875–1912
• Mary McLeod Bethune1875–1955
• Zitkala-Ša1876–1938
• Lise Meitner1878–1968
• Nannie Helen Burroughs1879–1961
• Will Rogers1879–1935
• Kahlil Gibran1883–1931
• Alice Paul1885–1977
• Alvin York1887–1964
• Jim Thorpe1887–1953
• Marcus Garvey1887–1940
• Bessie Coleman1892–1926
• Pearl S. Buck1892–1973
• Bessie Smith1894–1937
• Amelia Earhart1897–1937
• Rachel Carson1907–1964

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