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Still living people[edit]

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)[reply]

Since there has been no objections, I have gone ahead and made the proposed changesAndreaseksted (talk) 07:21, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from the lead to another subsection of "people". I can see why this might belong in the article (although there are strong arguments against), but it should not be in the lead. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 10:09, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed this completely. It's just trivia. power~enwiki (π, ν) 05:36, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

English/Euro bias?[edit]

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)[reply]

Famous and infamous personalities[edit]

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)[reply]

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

Harriet Tubman[edit]

@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)[reply]

@Gap9551: — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:57, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. It's not in History of the United States (1849–1865), a slightly different 2-sentence paragraph is in History of the United States (1789–1849). If we're going to include anything here, that paragraph seems a better choice. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 20:40, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As I mentioned Tubman's contributions and the Underground railroad are well understood to be important and critical additions in the development of the USA; during the mid to late 19th century. The paragraph should stay; although I agree that information should be added regarding the underground railroad...Modernist (talk) 21:26, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sources on that opinion? Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 22:44, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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Slavery[edit]

@VIGNERON: There were plenty of places where slavery existed in the 20th century. —Naddruf (talk ~ contribs) 01:43, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]