1858: Dred Scott
1859: George Bush, 19th century biblical scholar.
(He’s distantly related to the Texas Bushes)
1860: Admiral Thomas Cochrane
One of the heroes of the Napoleonic age of sail
1861: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet and writer (“How Do I Love thee”), dies at 55
1862: Uriah Levy, first Jewish Commodore of the US Navy.
1863: Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, a victim of friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville
1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne
1865: Abraham Lincoln
1866: George Everest, explorer
1867: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, executed by firing squad
1868: Italian opera composer Gioachino Rossini
1869: Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States
1870: Charles Dickens
1871: Tad Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln.
1872: Benito Juarez
1873: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, best-selling English novelist
Known for coining several memorable phrases: “The pen is mightier than the sword,” “In pursuit of the almighty dollar,” and “It was a dark and stormy night.”
1874: Chang & Eng Bunker, the “Siamese” of “Siamese Twins.”
1875: Kicking Bird, also known as Tene-angop’te, a prominent peace chief of the Kiowa
1876: U.S. General George Armstrong Custer died at the Battle of Little Bighorn, aged 36.
1877: Brigham Young