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Lin Zexu
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Lin Zexu

林則徐
🇨🇳 China
1785 – 1850 (65 years old)

Imperial Commissioner of the Qing dynasty whose destruction of 20,000 chests of British opium at Humen ignited the First Opium War and inaugurated modern Chinese resistance to imperialism.

Fuzhou (Fujian), China
Jose Gervasio Artigas
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Jose Gervasio Artigas

Jose Gervasio Artigas
🇺🇾 Uruguay
1764 – 1850 (86 years old)

National Hero and Founding Father of Uruguay, celebrated as the 'Protector of the Free Peoples' (Protector de los Pueblos Libres), who led the 1811 Oriental Exodus and formulated the revolutionary 1815 Agrarian Regulation favoring the dispossessed.

Montevideo, Uruguay
Hadj Ahmed Bey
Resistance & Human Rights
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Hadj Ahmed Bey

أحمد باي بن محمد الشريف
🇩🇿 Algeria
1786 – 1850 (64 years old)

Last Ottoman Bey of Constantine who led the historic resistance against French conquest, routing Marshal Clauzel in 1836 and holding the dramatic rock fortress in 1837 before continuing guerrilla resistance in the Aurès.

Algiers, Algeria
Honoré de Balzac
Literature & Poetry
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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac
🇫🇷 France
20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850 (51 years old)

Visionary founder of European literary realism who worked up to eighteen hours a night fueled by black coffee to construct La Comédie Humaine—an epic panorama of over ninety novels depicting every stratum of French society.

Paris, France
Jose de San Martin
Statesmanship & Statesmen
37
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Jose de San Martin

Jose Francisco de San Martin y Matorras
🇦🇷 Argentina
1778 – 1850 (72 years old)

Argentine general and prime liberator of southern South America who executed the legendary 1817 Crossing of the Andes, liberated Chile at Chacabuco and Maipu, and proclaimed the sovereign independence of Peru as its Protector.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
William Wordsworth
Literature & Poetry
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
🇬🇧 Great Britain
7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 (80 years old)

Founding father of English Romanticism and Poet Laureate whose 1798 Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge) and autobiographical epic The Prelude redefined poetry as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility'.

Rydal Mount (Westmorland), Great Britain
Edward Bickersteth
Humanitarian & Peace
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Edward Bickersteth

Edward Bickersteth
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1786 – 1850 (63 years old)

Pasteur et militant humanitaire britannique, secrétaire de la Church Mission Society, promoteur de l'émancipation des esclaves en Sierra Leone et de l'Alliance évangélique.

Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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