Born and died in 1846

American inventor and entrepreneur who revolutionized railway safety with the air brake and pioneered alternating current electricity

Polish writer, novelist, journalist, and philanthropist, Nobel Prize laureate known for historical novels like <em>Quo Vadis</em> and the Trilogy series

Uruguayan-born French poet whose sole works, <i>Les Chants de Maldoror</i> and <i>Poésies</i>, became a major influence on Surrealism

American frontiersman and showman who founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West, a spectacle that popularized the image of the American Old West

King of Holland (1806-1810), younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, and a prolific writer and historian

German astronomer and mathematician who pioneered stellar parallax measurements and introduced Bessel functions