Famous people died in 1864

Juan Jose Flores was the first President of Ecuador

Stephens Collins Foster was an American composer and songwriter, known mainly for his parlor and minstrel music

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John Hanning Speke was an English explorer who became the first European to reach Lake Victoria in east Africa

George Boole is better known as the inventor of symbolic logic

Anna Harrison was the wife of the ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison

John Clare was an English poet, often referred to as a ‘Peasant poet’, considered to be one of the most important 19th century poets

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a famous nineteenth century American novelist