Famous people died in 1864
Stephen Foster
Stephens Collins Foster was an American composer and songwriter, known mainly for his parlor and minstrel music
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke was an English explorer who became the first European to reach Lake Victoria in east Africa
George Boole
George Boole is better known as the inventor of symbolic logic
Anna Harrison
Anna Harrison was the wife of the ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison
John Clare
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
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a famous nineteenth century American novelist