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  2. 1872 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    August 11 – Lowell Mason, organist and composer (born 1792) September 18 – Augustus Seymour Porter, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1840 to 1845 (born 1798) September 22 – Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born 1801) October 10 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 (born 1801)

  3. 1872 - Wikipedia

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    1872 was a leap year ... December 3 – William Haselden, Spanish-born English cartoonist (d. 1953) December 7 – Johan Huizinga, Dutch cultural historian (d. 1945)

  4. Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, a country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, [a] on 18 May 1872, into an influential and liberal family of the British aristocracy. [19] [20] His parents were Viscount and Viscountess Amberley.

  5. Zane Grey - Wikipedia

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    Pearl Zane Grey was born January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. His birth name may have originated from newspaper descriptions of Queen Victoria 's mourning clothes as "pearl grey". [ 2 ] He was the fourth of five children born to Alice "Allie" Josephine Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane came to the American colonies in ...

  6. Category:1872 births - Wikipedia

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    James Atherton (footballer, born 1872) Atiq Ullah (Kashmiri leader) Henry Ernest Atkins; Henry Converse Atwill; Wallace Walter Atwood; René Auberjonois (painter)

  7. Calvin Coolidge - Wikipedia

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    John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was born on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont—the only U.S. president to be born on Independence Day. He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (1845–1926) and Victoria Josephine Moor (1846–1885). Although named for his father, from early childhood Coolidge was addressed by his middle ...

  8. Samuel Morse - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

  9. James Fisk (financier) - Wikipedia

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    James Fisk Jr. (April 1, 1835 – January 7, 1872), known variously as "Big Jim", "Diamond Jim", and "Jubilee Jim" – was an American stockbroker and corporate executive who has been referred to as one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age.