Ordered by date of birth. Order by name
Henry Adams (1838 - 1918) -- American historian, famous for his autobiographical critique of Western civilization and culture.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) -- American philosopher and founder of pragmatism.
Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) -- British critic and essayist, who influenced Wilde and the Aesthetic movement generally.
Ouida (1839 - 1908) -- English author, pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee.
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) -- author of novels, short stories and poetry, portraying the rural poor as victims of fate..
Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897) -- French writer, remebered for his descriptions of Provence.
Ã?mile Zola (1840 - 1902) -- leading figure in the French school of naturalism.
Bierce Ambrose (1842 - 1914) -- prominent American journalist during the time of the Civil War, and writer of short stories strongly influenced by Poe.
William James (1842 - 1910) -- nineteenth century American philosopher and psychologist, the son of Henry James.
Henry James (1843 - 1916) -- American author of psychological novels.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) -- German philosopher and poet whose wide-ranging theories of morality and human behaviour have been some of the most influential of the past centuries.
Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) -- Scottish writer of histories, poetry, and, most famously, fairytales.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) -- pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault; novelist, Nobel laureate.
Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) -- mathematician who developed set theory and mathematics of the infinite.
Francis Herbert Bradley (1846 - 1924) -- eminent British philosopher, who straddles the traditions of British empiricism and German idealism.
Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) -- Irish author of well-known gothic horror fantasy novels.
Bernard Bosanquet (1848 - 1923) -- English philosopher; advocate of Hegelian idealism.
Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) -- the most important modern logician and philosopher of mathematics.
Francis Hodgson Burnett (1848 - 1924) -- American novelist, best known for her children's books.
Robert L. Stevenson (1850 - 1894) -- author of fiction works that have become legendary in children's literature..
Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) -- French writer, whose naturalistic short-stories have been highly influential.
Edward Bellamy (1850 - 1896) -- American political theorist and novelist.
Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904) -- American writer, whose most famous novel, The Awakening, is remembered for its feminist themes.
Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933) -- American clergyman and writer.
Mary Freeman (1852 - 1930) -- American writer.