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•  Andrew Johnson

  Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States(1865–1869), and the last independent president. Following the assassination of President Lincoln, Johnson presided over the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. At the time of the secession of the Southern states, Johnson was a U.S. Senator from Greeneville in East Tennessee. As a Unionist, he was the only southern senator not to quit his post upon secession.

  

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  61.5%
  

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•  Jefferson Davis

  Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American military officer, statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the president of the Confederate States of America for its entire history, 1861 to 1865. A West Point graduate, Davis fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and was the United States secretary of war under Pres. Franklin Pierce.

  

  21.2%
  

  32.7%
  

  46.2%
  
•  Karl Andree

  Karl Andree (20 October 1808 – 10 August 1875) was a German geographer. Andree was born in Brunswick. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berlin. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper Bremer Handelsblatt. From 1855, however, he devoted himself entirely to geography and ethnography, working successively at Leipzig and at Dresden. In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical Globus.

  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Solomon Northup

  Solomon Northup (born July 1808, date of death unknown) was a free-born African-American mulatto. He was born in Minerva, Essex County, New York. He disappeared in 1863.

  

  16.0%
  

  12.0%
  

  72.0%
  
•  Napoleon III of France

  Napoleon III (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873), also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, né Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, was the President of the French Second Republic and the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was also the nephew of Napoleon I. Elected President by popular vote in 1848, he undertook a coup d'état in 1851, becoming dictator before ascending to the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation.

  

  54.5%
  

  27.3%
  

  18.2%
  
•  Lysander Spooner

  Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced out of business by the United States government.

  

  50.0%
  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  
•  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Samson Raphael Hirsch (June 20 1808 – December 31 1888) was a German rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.

  

  12.5%
  

  62.5%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Michael William Balfe

  Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl. After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works. He was also a noted conductor, directing Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre for seven years, among other conducting posts.

  

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  75.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly (2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889) was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicity concerned with anything supernatural. He had a decisive influence on writers such as Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Henry James and Marcel Proust.

  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Thomas D. Rice

  Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20 1808 – September 19 1860) "Daddy Rice, Father of American Minstrelsy" was a white performer and playwright who used African American vernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time.

  

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  28.6%
  

  71.4%
  

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• Alumni of Heriot-Watt University by likeorhate
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• People from Edinburgh by likeorhate
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•  Scapolite

  Scapolite (Gr. asairos, rod, stone), is a group of rock-forming silicate minerals composed of aluminium, calcium and sodium silicate with chlorine, carbonate and sulfate. The variations in composition of the different members of the group may be expressed by the isomorphous mixture of the following: Ca412O24 and Na4(Al, Si)l2O24Cl, which are referred to as the meionite (Me) and marialite (Ma) endmembers respectively.

  

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•  Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond

  

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•  Colin Youren

  Colin Youren (born 3 June 1939) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL. A wingman, Youren was a member of Hawthorn's inaugural premiership side in 1961 and represented Victoria at interstate football.

  

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•  Büchler

  

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  18.8%
  

  31.3%
  
•  National Register of Historic Places listings in Wahkiakum County, Washington

  

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