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1863-1944, chemist; inventor, Belgian; American

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik

1863 - 1944
1853-1917, inventor; camera manufacturer; manufacturer of optical devices; camera retailer, Belgian

van Neck, Louis

1853 - 1917
1850-1892, doctor; murderer, British; American

Cream, Thomas Neill

1850 - 1892
1850-1917, inventor, film maker, chronophotographer, physiologist, French

Demeny, Georges

1850 - 1917
1846-1926, ophthalmologist, Swiss

Landolt, Edmund

1846 - 1926
1857-about 1948, manufacturer of sewing machines, American

Willcox and Gibbs Sewing Machine Company

1857
1849-1907 artist; caricaturist for Vanity Fair, French

Chartran, Theobald

1849 - 1907
1847-1922, teacher of deaf people; inventor of telephone, Scottish; American

Bell, Alexander Graham

1847 - 1922
1865-1935, physicist, French

Féry, Charles

1865 - 1935
1854-1920, US army physician and surgeon, American

Gorgas, William Crawford

1854 - 1920
1862-1931, engineer, British

Darling, Alfred

1862 - 1931
1850-1971, optics manufacturer, Bromley

Wray Optical Works Ltd.

1850 - 1971
1855-1944, physicist; inventor, English; British

Boys, Sir Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944

Cudworth, William John

1848 - 1909
1860-1922, railway company, United Kingdom

East Coast Joint Stock Railway

1860 - 1922
1862-1982, manufacturer, Chicago

Pullman Car Company

1862 - 1982
1856-1999, manufacturer of phosphorous; manufacturer of chemicals, Oldbury, England

Albright and Wilson Limited

1856 - 1999
1846-1920, jeweller, Russian

Fabergé, Peter Carl

1846 - 1920
dedupe to Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1847 - 1923
1859-1890, manufacturer of photographic brass mats, Worcester, MA

Dean & Emerson

1859 - 1890
1864-1944, geologist; museum director, British; English

Lyons, Sir Henry George

1864 - 1944
1858-1939, journalist; politician, British; English

Norman, Sir Henry

1858 - 1939
1862-1912, mechanical engineer, German?

Zodel, Louis

1862 - 1912
1854-1932, inventor; businessman, American

Eastman, George

1854 - 1932
1858-1929, scientist; inventor, Austrian

Auer von Welsbach, Carl

1858 - 1929
1862-present, pen manufacturer, Birmingham

C. Brandauer & Co

1862
1854, vessel; screw sloop

HMS Curlew (1854)

1854 - 1865
1861-1935, wrote letter in 1917 on 'les moteurs a petrole pour sous-marins', French

Rey, Jean Alexandre

1861 - 1935
1851-1930, professor of botany; reporter; editor, British; Scottish

Watt, Sir George

1851 - 1930
1849-1925, mathematician, Prussian; German

Klein, Christian Felix

1849 - 1925
1846-1929, engine designer; industrialist, German

Maybach, Wilhelm

1846 - 1929

Shallcross Stone, Flora

1851 - 1875

Ayrton, Hertha

1854 - 1923

Chapman Jones, Henry

1854 - 1932

Hackworth, Esther Ann

1862 - 1917

Hopkinson, John (FRS)

1849 - 1898

Burden, Harold Nelson

1860 - 1930

Sherrington, Charles Scott

1857 - 1952

Norman, Henry (first baronet)

1858 - 1939

Plummer, John James

1806 - 1907

Crew, Henry

1859 - 1953

Tutton, Alfred Edwin Howard

1864 - 1938

Boys, Charles Vernon

1855 - 1944

Davis, George Edward

1850 - 1907

Carus-Wilson, Charles Ashley

1812 - 1942

Young, Robert

1860 - 1932

Kingsbury, John Edward

1855 - 1948

Trotter, Alexander Pelham

1857 - 1947

Ramsay, William

1852 - 1916

Jenkins, Rhys

1859 - 1953