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In the year 1854, Major streets are lit by goal gas for the first time in San Francisco (Feb 11), the Republican Party is founded in the U.S. (Feb 28), slavery is abolished in Venezuela (Mar 24), the Convention of Kanagawa opens Japanese ports to American trade (Mar 31), the first cotton mill in India is established (Jul 7), the findings of the cholera outbreak in London form the starting point for epidemiology (Aug 31), Florence Nightingale and her team of volunteer nurses arrives in Scutari, Ottoman Empire to care for wounded soldiers there (Nov), the French fashion label Louis Vuitton is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1854-xxxx Max Fazer* confectioner/wholesale dealer/brother of Karl Fazer - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1922/c.)
1854-xxxx Frank Lupton* sailor/administrator in the Egyptian Sudan - Ilford, Essex, England (1884/34)
1854-0118 Thomas A. Watson* inventor/assistant to Alexander Graham Bell - Salem, MA USA (1934/80)
1854-0121 Eusapia Palladino* spiritualist/alleged trickster - Bari, Italy (1918/64)
1854-0123 Aukusti Hiltula* (b Keränen) farmer/ merchant/politician - Pudasjärvi, GD of Finland (1928/74)
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1854-0209 Aletta Jacobs* physician/women’s suffrage activist - Sappemeer, Netherlands (1929/75)
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1854-0217 Friedrich Alfred Krupp* steel manufacturer/son of Alfred Krupp - Essen, Germany (1902/48)
1854-0219 Edward Austin Kent* architect/went down with the RMS Titanic - Bangor, ME USA (1912/58)
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1854-0311 Miquel Costa i Llobera* poet/wrote mainly in Catalan language - Pollensa, Mallorca, Spain (1922/68)
1854-0314 Paul Ehrlich* German physician/immunologist/N - Strehlen, Lower Silesia, Prussia (1915/61)
1854-0314 Toini Topelius* journalist/writer/ daughter of Zacharias Topelius - Helsinki, GD of Finland (1910/56)
1854-0327 Giovanni Battista Grassi* Italian physician/zoologist/ parasitologist - Rovellasca, Lombardy (1925/71)
1854-0422 Henri La Fontaine* lawyer/active in the peace movement in Europe/N - Brussels, Belgium (1943/89)
1854-0425 Charles Sumner Tainter* engineer/scientific instrument maker/inventor - Watertown, MA USA (1940/85)
1854-0428 Hertha Ayrton* engineer/ mathematician/inventor - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (1923/69)
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1854-0511 Ottmar Mergenthaler* German-American inventor (linotype machine)/to U.S. at age 18 - Hachtel, Kingdom of Württemberg (1899/45)
1854-0511 Albion Woodbury Small* sociologist/ promoter of sociology - Buckfield, ME USA (1926/71)
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1854-0524 John Riley Banister* cowboy/law officer/Texas Ranger - Banister Hollow, MO USA (1918/64)
1854-0525 Clara Louise Burnham* (b Root) novelist - Newton, MA USA (1927/73)
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1854-0613 Charles Algernon Parsons* Anglo-Irish engineer/inventor - London, England (1931/76)
1854-0621 Elizabeth Williams Berry* jockey/horse trainer/to U.S. at age 46 - Melbourne, Australia (1969/114)
1854-0712 George Eastman* entrepreneur/ founder of Eastman Kodak/ philanthropist - Waterville, NY USA (1932/77)
1854-0721 Albert Edelfelt* painter - Porvoo, GD of Finland (1905/51)
1854-0803 Johanna Ambrosius* writer - Lengwethen bei Ragnit, Prussia (1939/84)
1854-0804 Karl Gustaf Kyrklund* physician - Turku, GD of Finland (1916/61)
1854-0805 Volmari Porkka* linguist/folklorist - Vehkalahti, GD of Finland (1889/35)
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1854-0818 Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem* German noblewoman/writer - Ratibor, Upper Silesia (1941/86)
1854-0820 Henrik Melander* teacher/politician - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1905/51)
1854-0822 Milan I of Serbia* Prince of Serbia/King of Serbia - Mărășești, Moldavia (1901/46)
1854-0823 Louis Armand* cave explorer - near Saint-Affrique, Second French Empire (1921/66)
1854-0823 Moritz Moszkowski* pianist/composer/teacher - Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation (1925/70)
1854-0824 William O. Atkeson* lawyer/ politician - Buffalo, VA USA (1931/77)
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1854-0901 Engelbert Humperdinck* German composer - Siegburg, German Confederation (1921/67)
1854-0903 Anna Sandström* feminist/reform pedagogue/pioneer within the Swedish educational system - Stockholm, Sweden (1931/76)
1854-0910 Josua Zweifel* merchant/explorer in Africa - Glarus, Switzerland (1895/41)
1854-0917 Kyösti Teräs* (b Gustaf Andersson) journalist/writer - Kuopio, GD of Finland (1925/71)
1854-0918 Viktor Dankl von Krasnik* Austro-Hungarian officer - Weiden in Friaul, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire (1941/86)
1854-0919 Florentino Ameghino* Argentine paleontologist/ anthropologist/ zoologist/to Argentina as an infant - Moneglia, Kingdom of Sardinia (1911/56)
1854-0921 Axel Mauritz Stolpe* mayor of Loviisa - Sipoo, GD of Finland (1892/38)
1854-0924 Philipp Paulitschke* Austrian explorer in Africa - Cermakowitz (1899/45)
1854-0926 Waldemar Aspelin* architect - Perniö, GD of Finland (1923/69)
1854-0927 Alois von Aehrenthal* nobleman/diplomat in the Austro-Hungarian Empire - Groß Skal, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (1912/57)
1854-0927 Sixten Sparre* nobleman/cavalry officer/mostly known for the murder of circus performer Elvira Madigan in a murder-suicide act -Malmö, Sweden (1889/34)
1854-0928 Heinrich Kreutz* German astronomer - Siegen (1907/52)
1854-1007 Christiaan de Wet* Boer general/rebel leader/politician - Smithfield, Orange Free State (1922/67)
1854-1016 Karl Kautsky* philosopher/journalist/Marxist theoretician - Prague, Austrian Empire (1938/84)
1854-1016 Oscar Wilde* poet/playwright - Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1900/46)
1854-1020 Arthur Rimbaud* poet - Charleville, Ardennes, Second French Empire (1891/37)
1854-1026 C. W. Post* inventor/breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer/ pioneer in the prepared-food industry - Springfield, IL USA (1914/59)
1854-1031 Otto Sverdrup* sailor/Arctic explorer - Bindal, Helgeland, Norway (1930/76)
1854-1105 Paul Sabatier* chemist/N - Carcassonne, France (1941/86)
1854-1113 George Whitefield Chadwick* composer - Lowell, MA USA (1931/76)
1854-1119 Caroline “Danske” Dandridge* Danish-American poet/ historian/garden writer - Copenhagen, Denmark (1914/59)
1854-1127 Gerhard Louis de Geer* politician/PM - Kristianstad, Sweden (1935/80)
1854-1127 Johan Ludvig Heiberg* philologist/historian - Aalborg, Denmark (1928/73)
1854-1208 Ramon Turró i Darder* veterinarian/ biologist/philosopher - Malgrat de Mar, Catalonia, Spain (1926/71)
1854-1214 John Kemp Starley* bicycle inventor/industrialist - Walthamstow, London, England (1901/56) dob uncertain
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1854-1222 Takamine Jōkichi* Japanese chemist/ to U.S. at age 36 - Takaoka, Tokugawa Shogunate (1922/67)
1854-1224 Thomas Stevens* cyclist/the first person to circle the globe by bicycle - Berkhamsted, England (1935/80)
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