Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Literature & Poetry

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Jørgen Moe

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norway

1813-04-22 – 1882-03-27 (68 years old)

Renowned folklorist, romantic poet, and Lutheran Bishop of Kristiansand who co-created Norske Folkeeventyr with Peter Christen Asbjørnsen.

Kristiansand, Norway

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Politics

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Carl Robert Jakobson

Carl Robert Jakobson

Estonia

1841 – 1882 (40 years old)

Colossal leader of the Estonian National Awakening whose three Patriotic Speeches and radical newspaper 'Sakala' awakened the political and economic self-consciousness of the Estonian peasant majority.

Kurgja, Pärnu County, Estonia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann

Germany

1810 – 1882 (71 years old)

German physiologist who formulated the universal Cell Theory in 1839, establishing that all animal tissues are composed of cells, discovered the digestive enzyme pepsin, and discovered the myelinating Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system.

Cologne, Germany

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Sciences & Discovery

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Ignacy Lukasiewicz

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Austria

1822 – 1882 (59 years old)

Polish pharmacist and chemical engineer who invented the modern kerosene lamp in 1853 and constructed the world's first modern oil refinery and commercial oil well in Galician Poland.

Zrecin, Poland

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Si El Mokhtar Ben Cheikh

سي المختار بن الشيخ

Algeria

c. 1835 – 1882 (47 years old)

Heroic field commander of the Ouled Sidi Cheikh insurrection who fought alongside Cheikh Bouamama across the high steppes and desert passes of southwestern Algeria.

El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh (El Bayadh), Algeria

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Literature & Poetry

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August Šenoa

August Šenoa

Croatia

1838-11-14 – 1881-12-13 (43 years old)

Father of modern Croatian literature whose beloved historical novels 'Zlatarovo zlato' and 'Seljačka buna' created a unified reading public and gave literary voice to Zagreb's history.

Zagreb, Croatia

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Politics

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Jean-Baptiste Nothomb

Jean-Baptiste Nothomb

Belgium

1805 – 1881 (76 years old)

Leading revolutionary statesman and diplomat who co-authored the 1831 Belgian Constitution, served as Prime Minister (1841–1845), passed the historic 1842 Primary Education Act, and served 35 years as ambassador to Berlin.

Messancy (Luxembourg Province), Belgium

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Politics

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Johan Vilhelm Snellman

Johan Vilhelm Snellman

Kingdom of Sweden

1806 – 1881 (75 years old)

Visionary Hegelian philosopher and senator who led the Fennoman National Awakening, persuaded Tsar Alexander II to grant the Finnish language official legal parity with Swedish in 1863, and created the Finnish markka currency.

Helsinki, Finland

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Sciences & Discovery

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Matthias Schleiden

Matthias Jakob Schleiden

Germany

1804 – 1881 (77 years old)

German botanist who co-founded the universal Cell Theory in 1838 by proving that all plant structures are composed of cells, recognized the fundamental role of the cell nucleus, and pioneered inductive experimental botany.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Music

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Henri Vieuxtemps

Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps

Belgium

1820 – 1881 (61 years old)

Legendary violin virtuoso and composer from Verviers whose seven monumental violin concertos and dazzling international concert tours established the global supremacy of the Franco-Belgian Violin School.

Verviers (Province of Liège), Belgium

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Mary Jane Seacole

Mary Jane Grant

Jamaica

c. 23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881 (75 years old)

Mary Seacole was a Jamaican-born nurse, doctress, and businesswoman of mixed Scottish and Creole heritage who overcame racial prejudice to establish the 'British Hotel' behind front lines during the Crimean War. Applying West Indian herbal medicine and practical nursing to treat cholera, dysentery, and battlefield trauma, she was voted the greatest Black Briton in history.

Kensal Green, London, United Kingdom

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Great Britain

1804-12-21 – 1881-04-19 (76 years old)

Forged modern conservative social reformism, expanded the imperial role of Great Britain, and secured vital strategic waterways for global trade.

London, Great Britain

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Arts & Music

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Modest Mussorgsky

Модест Петрович Мусоргский

Russia

1839 – 1881 (42 years old)

Visionary Russian composer of 'The Mighty Handful' celebrated for Boris Godunov and Pictures at an Exhibition.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Literature & Poetry

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

Russia

11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 (59 years old)

Supreme psychological novelist whose terrifying encounter with a Tsarist firing squad and Siberian labor camp forged transcendent explorations of guilt, free will, nihilism, and redemption in Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Humanities

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Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Saffar

محمد بن عبد الله الصفار التطواني

Morocco

c. 1805 – 1881 (76 years old)

Tetouan-born scholar who served as secretary of the 1845 Moroccan embassy to France following the Battle of Isly, author of the celebrated travelogue Rihlat al-Saffar ila Baris.

Tetouan, Morocco

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Literature & Poetry

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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)

Great Britain

22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 (61 years old)

Intellectual titan of the Victorian era whose psychological realism and moral complexity in Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, and above all Middlemarch—hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'—rank her among world literature's greatest minds.

Chelsea (London), Great Britain

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Coffin

United States

3 January 1793 – 11 November 1880 (87 years old)

Quaker minister, abolitionist, and women's rights pioneer who co-founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and co-organized the historic 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Bettino Ricasoli, 2nd Baron Ricasoli

Bettino Ricasoli

Italy

1809 – 1880 (71 years old)

Italian Risorgimento statesman known as the 'Iron Baron' who united Tuscany with Italy, served twice as Prime Minister, and invented the modern formula for Chianti Classico wine.

Gaiole in Chianti (Siena), Italy

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