Famous People Born in 1811

• Bigfoot

  Big, elusive humanoid beast of North America

• Bunker, Chang and Eng (May 11)

  The world's most famous conjoined twins

• Bunsen, Robert (March 31)

  The spectrometer inventor with the gas burner name

• Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph

  The mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune

• Liszt, Franz (October 22)

  Romantic composer known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies

• Otis, Elisha Graves (August 3)

  Inventor of the elevator brake

• Singer, Isaac Merritt (October 27)

  The maker of the first popular household sewing machine

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher (June 14)

  Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Sumner, Charles (January 6)

  The anti-slavery activist who was caned in the U.S. Senate in 1856

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