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The lead of the article says that "As of February 2015 there are only 10 people (all female) still alive who were born in the 19th century.". It is important to remember that this is only the people who are verified to have been born then. So rather than "only 10 people" it is "at least 10 people". How about changing this to "Among the people whose ages are verified by the Gerontology Research Group, as of February 2015 there are only 10 people (all female) still alive who were born in the 19th century."? Andreaseksted ( talk) 23:20, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't see a problematic amount of English/Euro bias. Once I add a few more sections ( Meiji Restoration, Taiping Rebellion) I plan on removing the tag unless somebody objects. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 06:44, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
I've removed this section; I don't see any plausible page to merge this to (or any list to create with this info), I'm posting it here in case anybody wants to do something with it. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 22:24, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
- James Barry (born Margaret Ann Bulkley), impostor who successfully lived as a male military surgeon in the British Army
- William Bonney a.k.a. Henry McCarty a.k.a. Billy the Kid, Wild West, outlaw
- John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of president Abraham Lincoln
- James Bowie, Soldier, Texan who died at the Alamo, invented the Bowie knife
- Jim Bridger, Wild West, mountain man
- John Brown, a fanatical American abolitionist who led an armed insurrection at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
- Kit Carson, Wild West, frontiersman
- Cochise, Chiricahua Apache leader
- George Armstrong Custer, soldier, whose last stand was in the Wild West
- Wyatt Earp, Wild West, lawman
- Pat Garrett, Wild West, lawman
- Charles J. Guiteau, assassin
- Jack The Ripper, serial killer whose identity remains unknown.
- H.H. Holmes, first documented American serial killer.
- Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache leader
- Wild Bill Hickok, Legendary Wild West, lawman
- Doc Holliday, Legendary Wild West, gambler, gunfighter
- Crazy Horse, War leader of the Lakota
- Ignacy Hryniewiecki, assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia
- Frances Clayton, impostor who disguised herself as a man named Jack Williams in order to fight for Union forces during the American Civil War
- Frank James, Wild West, outlaw, older brother of Jesse
- Jesse James, Legendary Wild West, outlaw
- Harvey Logan, Wild West, outlaw
- Gregor MacGregor, soldier, adventurer, confidence trickster, pirate, fraudster
- Gaetano Bresci, assassin of Umberto I of Italy
- Emma Goldman, anarchist, helped Alexander Berkman plan the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick
- Calamity Jane, Frontierswoman
- Bat Masterson, Wild West, lawman, gambler, newspaperman
- Solomon Northrup, A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free woman of color. A farmer and professional violinist, a landowner, American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave.
- Annie Oakley American sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- Allan Pinkerton, spy, founded the Pinkerton Agency, first detective agency in the United States
- William Poole a.k.a. Bill the Butcher, member of the New York City gang, the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement.
- Lewis Powell, attempted assassin of secretary of state William H. Seward and accomplice of John Wilkes Booth
- Belle Starr Legendary Wild West, female outlaw
- Nat Turner, led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831.
- Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban-born impostor who claimed that she masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War
@ Modernist:. That's too much detail about one individual. Perhaps a short paragraph about the underground railroad in general could be added, but I's like to see it written before I could decide whether it might belong instead in 19th century in the United States. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:54, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Inclusion of material about abolitionism in the United States should summarize this. At the detail level of this century summary we are probably looking at adding "During this period abolitionism in the United States grew in Northern states." to the third paragraph in that section. Many many people in abolition, not just Tubman. Fountains of Bryn Mawr ( talk) 22:44, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
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@ VIGNERON: There were plenty of places where slavery existed in the 20th century. — Naddruf ( talk ~ contribs) 01:43, 10 December 2019 (UTC)