Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

42

🕯️ 780

José Martí

José Julián Martí Pérez

Cuba

1853-01-28 – 1895-05-19 (42 years old)

National Hero of Cuba and foundational thinker of Latin American continental unity ('Nuestra América'); harmonized lyrical modernism with moral political liberation.

Dos Ríos, Cuba

42 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

1

🕯️ 0

Jorge Isaacs

Jorge Isaacs Ferrer

Colombia

1837-04-01 – 1895-04-17 (58 years old)

Master romantic novelist whose 1867 masterpiece 'María', set amidst the sugar haciendas of the Cauca Valley, became the undisputed first international literary bestseller of Latin America.

Medellín, Colombia

1 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

9

🕯️ 0

Camilla Collett

Jacobine Camilla Wergeland Collett

Norway

1813-01-23 – 1895-03-06 (82 years old)

Norway's first major feminist writer and novelist whose 1854 masterpiece Amtmannens Døttre pioneered Norwegian realism and launched the women's emancipation movement.

Oslo, Norway

9 Full Record →

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

24

🕯️ 0

Khedive Ismail

الخديوي إسماعيل

Egypt

December 31, 1830 – March 2, 1895 (64 years old)

Transformative Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (reigned 1863-1879) who modernized Egypt's infrastructure, constructed 'Paris on the Nile' (Downtown Cairo), laid thousands of miles of railways and telegraphs, and inaugurated the Suez Canal in 1869.

Cairo, Egypt

24 Full Record →

Arts & Music

4,048

🕯️ 93

Berthe Morisot

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot

France

1841 – 1895 (54 years old)

Founding French Impressionist painter celebrated for her delicate brushwork, luminous light, and sensitive domestic portraits.

Paris, France

4,048 Full Record →

Prophets & Divine Messengers

84

🕯️ 0

Smohalla (Wanapum Prophet of the Dreamer Religion)

Smowhala

United States

c. 1815 – 1895 (~80 years old)

The hunchbacked Wanapum mystic and prophet of the Columbia River Plateau, Smohalla founded the Dreamer Religion (Washat), fiercely resisting colonial industrialization with the immortal ecological defense of the living Mother Earth.

Priest Rapids, United States

84 Full Record →

Statesmanship & Statesmen

52

🕯️ 950

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey

United States

1818-02-01 – 1895-02-20 (77 years old)

Transcendent abolitionist leader and constitutional thinker who counseled Abraham Lincoln, fought for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and championed women's suffrage at Seneca Falls.

Washington, D.C., United States

52 Full Record →

Sciences & Discovery

29

🕯️ 0

Arthur Cayley

Arthur Cayley

Great Britain

1821 – 1895 (73 years old)

British mathematician who founded matrix algebra, developed n-dimensional geometry, and pioneered invariant theory, authoring nearly a thousand mathematical research papers.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

29 Full Record →

Arts & Music

8

🕯️ 0

Hadda El Ghiyathia (Kharboucha)

حادة الغياثية خربوشة

Morocco

c. 1870 – c. 1895 (~25 years old)

Legendary 19th-century folk poetess and Cheikha of Aita Hasbaouia from Abda who wielded satirical verse against the tyrannical feudal lord Caïd Aïssa Ben Omar, becoming an immortal icon of popular resistance.

Safi, Morocco

8 Full Record →

Humanities

4

🕯️ 0

Al-Arbi ibn Ali al-Mashrafi

العربي بن علي المشرفي

Morocco

c. 1830 – 1895 (~65 years old)

19th-century Moroccan historian and royal archivist who accompanied Sultan Moulay Hassan I on his famous unification Harkas (expeditions) across Morocco, documenting tribal geography.

Fez, Morocco

4 Full Record →

Resistance & Human Rights

7

🕯️ 0

Cheikh Mohand Amokrane Belhaddad

محمد أمقران بلحداد

Algeria

1840 – 1895 (55 years old)

Military commander of the 1871 Mokrani-Haddad insurrection, eldest son of spiritual leader Cheikh El Haddad, deported to the penal colony of New Caledonia.

Bourail (honored in Seddouk, Bejaïa), New Caledonia

7 Full Record →

Resistance & Human Rights

12

🕯️ 0

Si Aziz Belhaddad

سي عزيز بلحداد

Algeria

1840 – 1895 (55 years old)

Elder son of Cheikh Belhaddad and military commander of the Rahmaniyya forces during the 1871 uprising, deported to the penal colony of New Caledonia before escaping to Paris.

Seddouk, Algeria

12 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

30

🕯️ 0

Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Great Britain

1830 – 1894 (64 years old)

Supreme Victorian devotional and lyric poet closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, famed for Goblin Market, 'Remember', and the Christmas carol 'In the Bleak Midwinter'.

London, United Kingdom

30 Full Record →

Prophets & Divine Messengers

1

🕯️ 0

Bahta Hagos

Bahta Hagos

🌐 Eritrea

c. 1845 – 1894 (49 years old)

Fearless Dejazmach of Akkele Guzay who led the historic 1894 armed rebellion against Italian colonial expropriation of Eritrean farmland, famously warning: 'There is no medicine for the bite of the white snake.'

Segheneyti, Debub, Eritrea

1 Full Record →

Politics

3

🕯️ 0

John Thompson

Sir John Sparrow David Thompson

Canada

1845 – 1894 (49 years old)

Brilliant jurist and prime minister who authored the first Canadian Criminal Code in 1892, modernized maritime fisheries treaties, and died suddenly at Windsor Castle at the peak of his career.

Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada

3 Full Record →

Literature & Poetry

33

🕯️ 0

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

Scotland

1850 – 1894 (44 years old)

Beloved Scottish novelist, poet, and travel essayist who created Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the psychological allegory of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Apia, Samoa

33 Full Record →

Politics

3

🕯️ 0

Lord Monck

Lord Monck

Ireland

10 October 1819 – 29 November 1894 (75 years old)

Irish-born statesman who served as Governor General from 1861 to 1868, whose diplomatic tact guided the Quebec Conference and the birth of Canadian Confederation.

Enniskerry, Ireland

3 Full Record →

Politics

3

🕯️ 0

Honoré Mercier

Honoré Mercier

Canada

15 October 1840 – 30 October 1894 (54 years old)

Charismatic nineteenth-century Quebec premier whose fiery defense of provincial autonomy united French Canadians and convened the historic 1887 Interprovincial Conference.

Montreal, Canada

3 Full Record →