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Alphonse de Lamartine
Literature & Poetry
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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine
🇫🇷 France
1790 – 1869 (78 years old)

Lyric poet of French Romanticism whose 1820 collection Méditations poétiques launched the Romantic movement with 'Le Lac', and who served as head of the Provisional Government proclaiming the Second French Republic in 1848.

Saint-Point (Saône-et-Loire), France
Mirza Ghalib
Literature & Poetry
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Mirza Ghalib

مرزا اسد اللہ خاں غالب
🇮🇳 India
1797 – 1869 (71 years old)

Preeminent classical Urdu and Persian poet (1797–1869) whose profound ghazals captured love, philosophical skepticism, and the tragic twilight of the Mughal Empire in Delhi.

New Delhi, India
George Copway
Literature & Poetry
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George Copway

Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (He Who Stands Firm)
🇨🇦 Canada
c. 1818 – c. 1869 (51 years old)

Renowned Mississauga Ojibwe writer and orator whose 1847 memoir made him the first Canadian Indigenous author to achieve international literary best-seller status, lecturing across Britain, Europe, and North America.

Ypsilanti (Michigan), United States
Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Humanitarian & Peace
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Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland

Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower
🇬🇧 Great Britain
21 May 1806 – 27 October 1868 (62 years old)

Harriet Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, was an influential British philanthropist, abolitionist campaigner, and Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria. In 1852, she authored the 'Stafford House Address', mobilizing over 560,000 British women to petition against American slavery, and hosted Harriet Beecher Stowe in London, funding transatlantic abolitionist and refugee relief.

Trentham, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson
Politics
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Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson

María Josepha Petrona de Todos los Santos Sánchez de Velasco
🇦🇷 Argentina
1786-11-01 – 1868-10-23 (81 years old)

Leading female patriot of the May Revolution in whose aristocratic salon the Argentine National Anthem was first sung in May 1813, president of the Sociedad de Beneficencia, and prolific diarist.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Laura Secord
Military
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Laura Secord

Laura Secord
🇺🇸 United States
13 September 1775 – 17 October 1868 (93 years old)

Heroine of the War of 1812 who walked thirty-two kilometers through swamps to warn British and Indigenous forces of an impending American attack.

Niagara Falls, Canada
King Mongkut (Rama IV)
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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King Mongkut (Rama IV)

พระบาทสมเด็จพระจอมเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว
🇹🇭 Rattanakosin Kingdom (Siam)
1804 – 1868 (63 years old)

Fourth monarch of the Chakri Dynasty of Siam who embraced modern Western science and diplomacy to preserve Siamese independence from European colonial powers, celebrated as the Father of Thai Science.

Bangkok, Thailand
King Mongkut
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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King Mongkut

Phra Bat Somdet Phra Poramentharamaha Mongkut (Rama IV)
🇹🇭 Thailand
1804 – 1868 (63 years old)

Fourth monarch of Siam (1851–1868), scholarly Buddhist reformer and astronomer who opened Siam to modern science and international diplomacy, accurately calculated the total solar eclipse of 1868, and laid the foundations for Siamese modernization.

Bangkok, Thailand
Thaddeus Stevens
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens
🇺🇸 United States
1792 – 1868 (76 years old)

Formidable Radical Republican leader in the House of Representatives during the Civil War and Reconstruction who drafted the 14th Amendment and led the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Tewodros II
Politics
2
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Tewodros II

Kassa Hailu
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
1818-01-01 – 1868-04-13 (50 years old)

Visionary Emperor of Ethiopia (1855–1868) who ended the chaotic Zemene Mesafint (Era of Princes), reunified the empire, and chose suicide at Magdala rather than surrender to British invaders.

Magdala, Ethiopia
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Politics
3
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee
🇮🇪 Ireland
1825 – 1868 (42 years old)

Passionate Irish-Canadian orator and Father of Confederation whose poetic vision of a new northern nationality inspired Confederation, and who became Canada's first assassinated politician.

Montreal, Canada
Franz Berwald
Music
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Franz Berwald

Franz Adolf Berwald
🇸🇪 Sweden
1796-07-23 – 1868-04-03 (71 years old)

Foremost Swedish symphonist of the 19th century whose visionary orchestral masterpieces, including 'Sinfonie singulière', went unappreciated in his lifetime while he ran an orthopedic clinic and glassworks.

Solna, Sweden
Adalbert Stifter
Literature & Poetry
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Adalbert Stifter

Adalbert Stifter
🇦🇹 Austria
1805-10-23 – 1868-01-28 (62 years old)

Foremost Austrian Biedermeier novelist and painter whose exquisite nature prose and monumental novel 'Der Nachsommer' ('Indian Summer') celebrated moral harmony and cosmic order in nature.

Linz, Austria
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