Born in Virginia in 1809, which inventor built a mechanical reaper in 1831 and profited from it until his death in 1884?

Composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga, born in Verona in 1743, wrote many opere buffe, known by what two-word English term? Born in Vienna in 1791, which archduchess became an empress by marrying a Frenchman in 1810? Born in Vienna in 1832, which Habsburg archduke was executed in Mexico in 1867? Born in Vienna in 1882, which legal scholar joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939? Born in Virginia in 1856 and elected in 1912, who was the last Virginia-born U.S. president? Eli Whitney, born in Westborough, Massachusetts, in 1765, graduated from which university in 1792? Born in Wise, Virginia, which actor refused his Best Actor Oscar for "Patton", calling the ceremony a "two-hour meat pa… Born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, in 1937, which playwright's original surname was Straussler?