Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha

Mehmed Emin Âli Paşa

Turkey

1815 – 1871 (56 years old)

Grand Vizier and chief architect of the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms whose Reform Edict of 1856 (Islâhat Fermânı) established equal civic citizenship for all religious creeds.

Istanbul, Turkey

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Cheikh El Mokrani

محمد المقراني

Algeria

c. 1815 – 1871 (56 years old)

Algerian nobleman and leader of the massive 1871 Mokrani Revolt, uniting over 250 Berber and Arab tribes in the greatest armed insurrection against French colonial rule of the 19th century.

Algiers, Algeria

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Arts & Music

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Paul Kane

Paul Kane

Ireland

1810 – 1871 (60 years old)

Pioneering artist who traveled over 10,000 kilometers across the Canadian Northwest by canoe and horseback between 1845 and 1848, producing over five hundred sketches of Indigenous peoples and buffalo hunts.

Toronto, Canada

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Literature & Poetry

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Nasif al-Yaziji

ناصيف اليازجي

Lebanon

25 March 1800 – 8 February 1871 (70 years old)

Founding master of the modern Arabic language revival who authored 'Majma al-Bahrayn' and revitalized classical rhetoric.

Beirut, Lebanon

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Religion

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Hammouda ibn Ibrahim al-Riahi

حمودة بن إبراهيم الرياحي

Tunisia

1802 AD – 1871 AD (69 years old)

Son of Sidi Brahim Riahi who succeeded to the supreme Maliki Muftiship of Tunis, guiding Tunisian legal reform during the promulgation of the 1857 Fundamental Pact and 1861 Constitution.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Literature & Poetry

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Mahmoud Kabadou

محمود قبادو

Tunisia

c. 1815 – 1871 (56 years old)

Pioneering Tunisian scholar, poet, and professor at the Bardo Military Academy who argued that mastering modern sciences and technology was a religious duty for the renewal of Islamic civilization.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Literature & Poetry

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Alexandre Dumas (Dumas père)

Alexandre Dumas

France

24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870 (68 years old)

Supreme master of swashbuckling historical adventure fiction whose timeless serial epics—The Three Musketeers (All for one, one for all!) and The Count of Monte Cristo—rank among the most widely translated novels in human history.

Puys (Dieppe, Normandy), France

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Arts & Music

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Jean Frédéric Bazille

Frédéric Bazille

France

1841 – 1870 (28 years old)

Brilliant early Impressionist painter who shared his studio with Monet, Renoir, and Sisley, painted 'The Family Reunion', and died tragically in battle at age twenty-eight.

Montpellier, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée

France

1803 – 1870 (66 years old)

Master French novella writer, archaeologist, and Inspector General of Historical Monuments who wrote Carmen and preserved France's architectural heritage.

Cannes, France

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

David Glasgow Farragut

United States

1801 – 1870 (69 years old)

First Admiral, Vice Admiral, and Rear Admiral of the United States Navy who captured New Orleans and won the Battle of Mobile Bay ('Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!').

Bronx (New York City), United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje

Norway

1818-04-06 – 1870-07-30 (52 years old)

Brilliant Norwegian lyric poet, essayist, and pioneer of Landsmål journalism who founded the weekly Dølen and wrote Ferdaminni and beloved lyrics set to music by Edvard Grieg.

Gran, Norway

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Literature & Poetry

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (Boz)

Charles Dickens

Great Britain

7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870 (58 years old)

Undisputed giant of the Victorian novel and crusader against social cruelty whose unforgettable characters and serialized masterworks—A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations—championed the poor and reshaped global Christmas culture.

Gad's Hill Place (Higham, Kent), Great Britain

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Moshoeshoe I

Moshoeshoe I

Lesotho

c. 1786 – 1870 (84 years old)

Founding Father and King of Lesotho who gathered refugee clans scattered by the Lifaqane wars atop the impregnable mountain fortress of Thaba Bosiu, using military genius and diplomatic skill to defeat Boer and British armies and preserve his nation's independence.

Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho

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Politics

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Alexandre Gendebien

Alexandre Gendebien

Belgium

1789 – 1869 (80 years old)

Radical leader of the 1830 Belgian Revolution, member of the Provisional Government, and uncompromising patriot who famously voted 'No' against ceding parts of Limburg and Luxembourg in 1839.

Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes (Hainaut), Belgium

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Humanitarian & Peace

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George Peabody

George Peabody

United States

1795 – 1869 (74 years old)

Banquier et bienfaiteur anglo-américain universellement salué comme le père de la philanthropie moderne, créateur du Peabody Trust à Londres.

Peabody, Massachusetts, United States

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Science

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Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Kingdom of Bohemia

1787-12-17 – 1869-07-28 (81 years old)

Foundational genius of modern histology and physiology who discovered Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, Purkinje fibers in the heart, the optical Purkinje effect, and pioneered fingerprint classification.

Prague, Czech Republic

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Théodore David Eugène Maunoir

Théodore Maunoir

Switzerland

1806 – 1869 (62 years old)

Chirurgien suisse réputé, l'un des cinq membres fondateurs historiques du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge en 1863 aux côtés d'Henri Dunant.

Geneva, Switzerland

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History

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Aron of Kangeq

Aron of Kangeq

Greenland

1822 – 1869 (46 years old)

Inuit seal hunter, artist, and oral historian whose watercolors and woodcuts preserved Greenlandic folklore and traditional culture.

Kangeq, Greenland

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