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Thomas Francis Michael McCarthy was an American Major League Baseball player. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
Tommy McCarthy, American baseball player (died 1922)
Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with …
Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist (died 1922)
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American histo…
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (died 1930)
Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, a…
Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (died 1940)
Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.
Aleksey Krylov, Russian mathematician and engineer (died 1945)
Gene Stratton-Porter, born Geneva Grace Stratton, was an American writer, nature photographer, and naturalist from Wabash County, Indiana. In 1917 Stratton-Porter urged legislative…
Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (died 1924)
Dragutin Lerman was a Croatian explorer.
Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (died 1918)
Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet DL was an Irish baronet, landowner and Conservative politician.
Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (born 1782)
Jean Danjou was a decorated captain of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. He commanded the two lieutenants and 62 legionnaires who fought the Battle of Camarón during the Frenc…
Jean Danjou, French Army officer, killed in action at the Battle of Camarón (born 1828)
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in nearly all military engag…
Stonewall Jackson, American general (born 1824)
Antonio Vicente Miguel Valero de Bernabé Pacheco, a.k.a. The Liberator from Puerto Rico, was a Puerto Rican military leader. Trained in Spain, he fought with the Spanish Army to ex…
Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (born 1790)
John Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role…
John F. Reynolds, American general (born 1820)
George Hull Ward was a soldier and Union officer in the American Civil War.
George Hull Ward, American general (born 1826)
Little Crow III was a Wahpekute Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862.
Little Crow, American tribal leader (born 1810)
Lewis Addison Armistead was a career United States Army officer who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. On July 3, 1863, as par…
Lewis Armistead, Confederate general (born 1817)
William Mulready was an Irish genre painter living in London. He is best known for his romanticising depictions of rural scenes, and for creating Mulready stationery letter sheets,…
William Mulready, Irish genre painter (born 1786)
Clement Clarke Moore was an American writer, scholar and real estate developer. He is best known as author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which first named each…
Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (born 1779)
Robert Gould Shaw was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born into an abolitionist family from the Boston upper class, he accepted command of the …
Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (born 1837)
Samuel Houston was an American military general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. He served as the first and third president of the Republic of Tex…
Sam Houston, American general and politician, 7th Governor of Texas, and 6th Governor of Tennessee (born 1793)
William Lowndes Yancey was an American politician in the Antebellum South. As an influential "Fire-Eater", he defended slavery and urged Southerners to secede from the Union in res…
William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (born 1813)
Maharani Jind Kaur, also known as Rani Jindan Kaur, was regent and, shortly the regnant of the Sikh Empire from 1843 until 29 March 1847. After the Sikh Empire was dissolved on 29 …
Jind Kaur Majarani (Regent) of the Sikh Empire (born 1817)
Angus MacAskill was a Scottish man. In its 1981 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true…
Angus MacAskill, Scottish-Canadian giant (born 1825)
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (born 1798)
Grand Gulf is a ghost town in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. Before the American Civil War, "its wharves were crowded with cotton from Copiah, Hinds, and Claiborne c…
Confederate forts at Grand Gulf survived a bombardment by Union gunboats, preventing Ulysses S