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c1840-1882, photographer, United States, Irish; American

O'Sullivan, Timothy H

1840 - 1882
1886-1923, Met Office employee, RNVR Lieutenant, RAF Flight Lieutenant, British

Gendle, Albert Edgar

1809 - 1923
c. 1840, d. 1920, music composer; teacher; singer, British? active Italy, Spain, London

Slater, Edward

1840 - 1920
1841-1928, physician; anatomist, Polish

Laskowski, Sigismond L

1841 - 1928
1841-2002, satirical magazine, England

Punch

1841 - 2002
1840-1912, physician; toxicologist; forensic scientist; university professor, British

Mann, John Dixon

1840 - 1912
1840-1905, engineer, British

Dean, William

1840 - 1905
1840-1892, physician; naturalist; governor, German

Schnitzer, Eduard

1840 - 1892
1841-1925, aviation engineer, French

Ader, Clement

1841 - 1925
1840-1901, Consort of Frederick, Emperor of Germany

Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa

1840 - 1901
1841-1915, physician, British

Oliver, George

1841 - 1915
1841-1914, inventor of a semi-automatic bottle-making machine, British

Ashley, Howard Matravers

1841 - 1914
1841-1912, scientist; music theorist, British

Bosanquet, Robert Holford Macdowall

1841 - 1912
1840-1921, inventor, British

Dunlop, John Boyd

1840 - 1921
1840-1852, railway company, British

Stockton & Hartlepool Railway

1840 - 1852
1840-1913, astronomer, Irish

Ball, Sir Robert Stawell

1840 - 1913
1841-1904, explorer, journalist, British; Welsh

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

1841 - 1904
1841-1916, ophthalmologist; surgeon, German

Hippel, Arthur von

1841 - 1916

Forel, François Alphonse

1841 - 1912

Plummer, John James

1806 - 1907

Chambers, George Frederick

1841 - 1915

Carus-Wilson, Charles Ashley

1812 - 1942

Kingett, James Charles

1811 - 1916

Moseley, Charles

1840 - 1887

Ashton, Thomas

1841 - 1919
Collector of prints and drawings.

Goldschmidt, Rudolf Philip

1840 - 1914
1841-1913, physicist, German

Schumann, Victor

1841 - 1913
1841-1922, astronomer; artist, British

Wesley, William Henry

1841 - 1922
1841-1918, inventor of a type of horse drawn wagon, British

Hek, William Studley

1841 - 1918
1840-1921, professor of Chemistry, British

Mills, Edmund James

1840 - 1921
1840-1916, engineer; inventor, American-born, British

Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens

1840 - 1916
1841-1916, shipbuilder, England, British

Doxford, Sir William Theodore

1841 - 1916
1840-1917, merchant; politician; Chairman of the Great Northern Railway, British; English

Jackson, William Lawies

1840 - 1917
1841-1933, physician; hematologist, French

Hayem, Georges

1841 - 1933
1840-1843, publisher; bookseller, London

Tilt and Bogue

1840 - 1843
active 1863-1918, optician, optical designer, spectacle manufacturer & collector, English; British

Dunscombe, Matthew William

1841 - 1918

Weinhold, Adolf Ferdinand

1841 - 1917
1841-1880, active 1874, cycle manufacturer, inventor of ball bearing, British

Rudge, Daniel

1841 - 1880
1860-1903, railway company, Northern Ireland

Belfast & Northern Counties Railway

1805 - 1903
1878-1924, railway company, United Kingdom

Ballycastle Railway

1812 - 1924
1840-1905, physicist; optical researcher; optical designer, German

Abbe, Ernst Karl

1840 - 1905
1840-1874, railway company, Northumberland

Blyth & Tyne Railway

1840 - 1874
1841-1910, physician; surgeon, French

Farabeuf, Louis Hubert

1841 - 1910

Kay, Fred Lawton

1811 - 1969

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Biggs, Theodore James

1806 - 1906

Maxim, Hiram Stevens

1840 - 1916

Saunders, Emma

1841 - 1927

Downer, Frederick

1840 - 1919

Grimshaw, Harry

1810 - 1901