John James Audubon17851851French-American ornithologist and painter who created The Birds of America, the definitive 19th-century documentation of North American bird species
Mary Shelley17971851English writer, poet, playwright, and science fiction pioneer, author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Louis Daguerre17871851French scientist, artist, and photographer, recognized for inventing the daguerreotype process and as one of the fathers of photography, also an accomplished painter and developer of the diorama theatre