Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo

Cuba

1819-04-18 – 1874-02-27 (54 years old)

Founding father revered as 'Padre de la Patria' who initiated the Ten Years' War on October 10, 1868, at his plantation La Demajagua, ringing the bell to free his enslaved workers to fight for Cuba.

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

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Science

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Adolphe Quetelet

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet

Belgium

1796 – 1874 (77 years old)

Polymathic astronomer and statistician who founded the Royal Observatory of Belgium, invented the Body Mass Index (Quetelet Index), and established modern social statistics with his concept of 'l'homme moyen' (the average man).

Evere (Brussels), Belgium

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History

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Jules Michelet

France

1798 – 1874 (75 years old)

Towering French romantic historian who conceived history as a resurrection of the past ('résurrection intégrale'), authored the monumental 17-volume Histoire de France, and was the first to define 'The Renaissance' as an epoch.

Paris, France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Sarah Grimke

Sarah Moore Grimke

United States

1792 – 1873 (81 years old)

Southern-born abolitionist and women's rights pioneer who rejected her slaveholding family's wealth to campaign across the North, author of the groundbreaking 1838 feminist work 'Letters on the Equality of the Sexes'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

Johan Sebastian Welhaven

Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven

Norway

1807-12-22 – 1873-10-21 (65 years old)

Distinguished Norwegian Romantic poet, aesthetician, and literary critic whose polemic sonnet cycle Norges Dæmring sparked the historic culture clash with Henrik Wergeland.

Oslo, Norway

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Mohammed IV of Morocco

محمد الرابع بن عبد الرحمن

Morocco

1803 – 1873 (70 years old)

Alaouite Sultan of Morocco (1859–1873) who defended national sovereignty in the 1859–1860 Hispano-Moroccan War, created the first modern Moroccan standing army, and modernized royal estates.

Rissani, Morocco

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Michael Madhusudan Dutt

মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত

Bangladesh

1824 – 1873 (49 years old)

Pioneering 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist who introduced blank verse (amritrakshar chhanda) and the sonnet into Bengali literature with his tragic epic Meghnad Badh Kavya.

Kolkata, India

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Joseph Howe

Canada

1804 – 1873 (68 years old)

Legendary Nova Scotia orator and journalist who established freedom of the press in Canada with his 1835 libel acquittal and won the British Empire's first responsible government in 1848.

Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada

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Rifa'a al-Tahtawi

رفاعة رافع الطهطاوي

Egypt

October 15, 1801 – May 27, 1873 (71 years old)

Epoch-making Egyptian writer, educator, and intellectual who led the 19th-century Arab renaissance (Nahda), authored 'Takhlis al-Ibriz', founded the School of Languages (Al-Alsun), and pioneered women's education.

Cairo, Egypt

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Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni

Italy

1785 – 1873 (88 years old)

Patriarch of modern Italian literature and Risorgimento icon whose historical novel I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) forged standard modern Italian prose.

Milan, Italy

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George-Étienne Cartier

Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet

Canada

1814 – 1873 (58 years old)

Key Father of Confederation who allied with John A. Macdonald, brought French Canada into the 1867 union, secured the entry of British Columbia and Manitoba, and negotiated the purchase of Rupert's Land.

Montreal, Canada

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Military

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Resistance & Human Rights

Ignacio Agramonte

Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz

Cuba

1841-12-23 – 1873-05-11 (31 years old)

Chivalric cavalry genius and jurist revered as 'El Mayor' who drafted the first Cuban constitution at Guáimaro in 1869 and organized the invincible Camagüey rebel cavalry division.

Camagüey, Cuba

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Philosophy & Thought

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John Stuart Mill

Great Britain

20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873 (66 years old)

British philosopher and political economist who refined utilitarianism, formulated the harm principle in On Liberty, and made the historic parliamentary case for women's suffrage.

Avignon, France

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Resistance & Human Rights

Cheikh Belhaddad

الشيخ محمد أمزيان بلحداد

Algeria

1790 – 1873 (83 years old)

Revered 80-year-old spiritual master of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order who threw his walking stick into the air on April 8, 1871, mobilizing 250,000 fighters across Kabylie in the greatest anti-colonial uprising of the 19th century.

Seddouk (Béjaïa), Algeria

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Cheikh El Haddad

محمد أمزيان بن علي الحداد

Algeria

c. 1790 – 1873 (83 years old)

Spiritual master of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order whose proclamation of holy resistance in April 1871 mobilized hundreds of thousands of disciples alongside Cheikh El Mokrani in the great Algerian uprising.

Seddouk (Béjaïa), Algeria

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Sciences & Discovery

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Justus von Liebig

Justus Freiherr von Liebig

Germany

1803 – 1873 (69 years old)

German chemist celebrated as the 'father of the fertilizer industry' who formulated Liebig's law of the minimum and invented the Liebig condenser.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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