Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

Germany

1774 – 1840 (65 years old)

Foremost painter of the German Romantic movement whose contemplative figures before majestic nature embodied the Sublime.

Dresden, Germany

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Francisco de Paula Santander

Francisco Jose de Paula Santander y Omana

Colombia

1792 – 1840 (48 years old)

Founding Father and Vice President of Gran Colombia acclaimed as 'The Man of the Laws' (El Hombre de las Leyes), whose administrative and fiscal genius organized the armies of liberation and founded Colombia's modern constitutional, legal, and public education systems.

Bogota, Colombia

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Mathematics

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Siméon Denis Poisson

Siméon Denis Poisson

France

1781 – 1840 (58 years old)

Prolific French mathematician and physicist who formulated the fundamental Poisson probability distribution in statistics, Poisson's equation in electrostatics and gravitation, and Poisson's ratio in elasticity.

Paris, France

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Politics

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Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier

Erasme-Louis Surlet de Chokier

Belgium

1769 – 1839 (69 years old)

Belgian statesman who served as President of the 1830 National Congress and was elected Belgium's first Regent in February 1831, serving as head of state prior to the accession of King Leopold I.

Gingelom (Limburg), Belgium

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh

ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ (ਸ਼ੇਰ-ਏ-ਪੰਜਾਬ)

Sukerchakia Misl

1780 – 1839 (58 years old)

Founder of the Sikh Empire who unified the warring Sikh misls, conquered Lahore and Kashmir, modernized his army with Napoleonic officers, and gilded the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar.

Lahore, Pakistan

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Sher-e-Punjab)

ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ

Pakistan

1780 – 1839 (58 years old)

Founder of the Sikh Empire who united the misls of Punjab, modernized his military with European officers, and gilded the Harmandir Sahib.

Lahore, Pakistan

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Literature & Poetry

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José María Heredia

José María Heredia y Heredia

Cuba

1803-12-31 – 1839-05-07 (35 years old)

Cuba's first great romantic poet and patriot whose impassioned poems 'En el Teocalli de Cholula' and 'Oda al Niágara' expressed sublime lyricism and the heartbreak of political exile.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Philosophy & Thought

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Muhammad al-Shawkani

محمد بن علي الشوكاني

Yemen

28 October 1759 – 1839 (79 years old)

Transformative Yemeni Islamic jurist and Chief Justice whose legal commentary 'Nayl al-Awtar' championed independent rational deduction (ijtihad).

Sana'a, Yemen

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Black Hawk

Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak

United States

c. 1767 – 1838 (~71 years old)

Sauk war chief who led the British Band in the Black Hawk War of 1832 to reclaim ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River.

Rock Island, United States

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Military

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Richard Pierpoint

Black Dick / Richard Pierpoint

Senegal

c. 1744 – c. 1838 (94 years old)

Senegalese-born Black Loyalist soldier, griot, and War of 1812 veteran who helped form the all-Black Coloured Corps to defend Upper Canada at Queenston Heights and Fort George.

Fergus (Ontario), Canada

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yusuf Pasha Karamanli

يوسف باشا القره مانلي

Libya

1766 – 1838 (72 years old)

Formidable Pasha of Tripoli (1795–1832) who declared the First Barbary War against the United States in 1801, captured the USS Philadelphia frigate, and fortified Tripoli harbor against naval bombardments.

Tripoli, Libya

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yusuf Karamanli

يوسف باشا القره مانلي

Libya

c. 1766 – 1838 (72 years old)

Powerful Pasha of Tripoli (1795–1832) who ruled during the First Barbary War against the United States, captured the USS Philadelphia in 1803, and expanded Libyan hegemony across the Sahara to Chad.

Tripoli, Libya

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

France

1754-02-02 – 1838-05-17 (84 years old)

Regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats in world history, ensuring European equilibrium and France's place among great powers after Napoleon's fall.

Paris, France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Jose Bonifacio

Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva

Brazil

1763 – 1838 (74 years old)

Renowned mineralogist who discovered four new minerals (including petalite, which led to the discovery of lithium), and statesman revered as the 'Patriarch of Brazilian Independence' who guided Prince Pedro to declare independence from Portugal in 1822.

Santos (Sao Paulo), Brazil

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Politics

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José Simeón Cañas

José Simeón Cañas y Villacorta

Guatemala

1767 – 1838 (71 years old)

Visionary priest and humanitarian scholar who on December 31, 1823, stood before the National Assembly to successfully demand the immediate, unconditional abolition of slavery across Central America, decades ahead of most nations.

San Vicente, El Salvador

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Osceola

Asi-yahola

United States

c. 1804 – 1838 (~34 years old)

Influential Seminole war leader who led fierce resistance against United States forced removal during the Second Seminole War in Florida.

Sullivan's Island, United States

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Hussein Dey

حسين داي

Turkey

c. 1765 – 1838 (73 years old)

The 30th and final Dey of the Regency of Algiers whose defiant stance against French colonial debt ultimatums preceded the French invasion of 1830.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Politics

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Muhammad Bello

Muhammad Bello ibn Uthman

Nigeria

1781-11-03 – 1837-10-25 (55 years old)

Second Sultan of the Sokoto Caliphate (1817–1837), military strategist, and prolific historian whose encyclopedic work 'Infaq al-Maysur' remains the primary chronicle of the jihad.

Wurno, Nigeria

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