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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist; 1822 Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer; 1823 Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter; Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), painter; Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), painter; William Hart (1823–1894), painter; Thomas Waterman Wood (1823 ...
Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804 Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831 A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky. Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786; Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
Austrian-born American virologist [133] Rudolph A. Marcus: 1923– 101: Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry [134] Harris Mayer: 1921–2023: 102: American physicist (Manhattan Project) [135] Ernst Mayr: 1904–2005: 100: German-American biologist [136] John J. McKetta: 1915–2019: 103: American chemical ...
This list is part of the List of organisms named after famous people, and includes organisms named after famous individuals born before 1 January 1800. It also includes ensembles in which at least one member was born before that date; but excludes companies, institutions, ethnic groups or nationalities , and populated places.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Leif Erikson (c.970–c.1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
July 26 – Henry Clay Taylor, admiral (born 1845) [70] [71] August 16 – Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, author of dime fiction (born 1843) August 22 – Kate Chopin, fiction writer (born 1850) October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, classicist and poet (born 1874) December 21 – George L. Shoup, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1890 to 1901 (born 1836)
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), the original Siamese twins who performed for audiences in Asia, Europe, and North America before settling in the mountains of North Carolina and marrying two local sisters ; Orson Scott Card (born 1951), lecturer and author of the award-winning science fiction book Ender's Game (Greensboro)