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1879 deaths
- James Clerk MaxwellOn the 13th of June 1831, a boy named James Clerk Maxwell was born at 14 India Street in Edinburgh. His mother Frances Cay died when he was eight years old…
- Joseph HookerJoseph Hooker was born on the 13th of November 1814 in Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837 with a rank of…
- John Bell HoodJohn Bell Hood graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853, ranking 44th out of a class that originally numbered 96 students.
- Richard Taylor (Confederate general)Richard Taylor was born on the 27th of January, 1826 at Springfield. This plantation sat near Louisville in Kentucky as his family home.