Robert Adamson was a Scottish chemist and photographer who is best known for producing 2500 Calotype photographic prints with painter David Octavius Hill.
1821-1848
Clara Barton was an educator, nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
1821-1912
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet best known for his controversial volume of poems, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil).
1821-1867
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. She became a leading public health activist during her lifetime.
1821-1910
Sir Richard Burton was a British explorer and linguist. He translated The Arabian Nights, and wrote extensively about his travels in Asia, Africa and America.
1821-1890
1821-1881
1821-1910
French novelist Gustave Flaubert, born in 1821, is best known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary and is renowned as a classic French realist writer.
1821-1880
1821-1877
Alexander Gardner was a Scottish photographer who moved to the United States and took some of the most memorable photos of the American Civil War.
1821-1882
1821-1900
James Longstreet was the principle general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, serving under Robert E. Lee.
1821-1904
Charles Scribner co-founded the publishing house Baker & Scribner, which became Charles Scribner's Sons.
1821-1871
The son of Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Henry Vanderbilt was a railroad magnate who doubled his family's fortune.
1821-1885
Rudolf Virchow was a German pathologist and statesman, widely credited for his advancements in public health, particularly with his cell theory.
1821-1902
1821-1892