Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Religious Figures & Theologians

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Ahmad ibn Idris al-Fasi

أحمد بن إدريس الفاسي

Morocco

1760 – 1837 (77 years old)

Moroccan-born global Islamic reformer and mystic of Fez who founded the Idrisiyya revivalist movement, teaching Muhammad ibn Ali al-Senussi and shaping 19th-century Sufism.

Fez (spiritual home), Morocco

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Politics

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Mustafa ibn Mahmud Bey

مصطفى باي بن محمود

Tunisia

1786 AD – 1837 (51 years old)

Ninth Husainid sovereign who preserved Tunisian territorial integrity during the Ottoman reconquest of Tripoli and the French expansion in eastern Algeria, laying foundations for the Bardo military academy.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Literature & Poetry

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Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi

Italy

1798 – 1837 (38 years old)

Foremost modern Italian lyric poet and philosopher of cosmic pessimism whose Canti and Operette morali achieved peerless stylistic purity and intellectual depth.

Naples, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Diego Portales

Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos

Chile

1793 – 1837 (43 years old)

Dominant Chilean statesman and businessman who established the stable constitutional framework of the Chilean Republic under the 1833 Constitution.

Santiago, Chile

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Hari Singh Nalwa

ਹਰੀ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਲਵਾ

Sikh Empire

1791 – 1837 (46 years old)

Fabled Commander-in-Chief of the Sikh Khalsa Army whose military genius halted centuries of foreign invasions through the Khyber Pass, conquering Kasur, Multan, Kashmir, and Peshawar.

Jamrud (Khyber District), Pakistan

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Arts & Music

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John Constable

John Constable

Great Britain

1776 – 1837 (60 years old)

English Romantic landscape master celebrated for his loving, luminous paintings of Dedham Vale and The Hay Wain.

London, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Russia

6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837 (37 years old)

Revered as 'The Sun of Russian Poetry' and the foundational father of modern Russian literature, whose novel in verse Eugene Onegin, drama Boris Godunov, and The Bronze Horseman forged the modern Russian literary language.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Literature & Poetry

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Karel Hynek Mácha

Karel Hynek Mácha

Kingdom of Bohemia

1810-11-16 – 1836-11-06 (25 years old)

Greatest lyric poet of Czech Romanticism whose 1836 masterpiece 'Máj' (May) opened modern Czech poetry with dazzling sonic beauty, metaphysical rebellion, and the iconic verse: 'Late evening, on the first of May'.

Prague, Czech Republic

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Science

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Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu

Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu

France

1748 – 1836 (88 years old)

French botanist who published Genera Plantarum in 1789, revolutionizing botanical taxonomy by establishing the natural system of plant classification based on morphological hierarchies rather than artificial sexual counts.

Paris, France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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James Madison

James Madison

United States

1751-03-16 – 1836-06-28 (85 years old)

Designed the core institutional framework of American democracy, institutional checks and balances, and guaranteed constitutional civil liberties.

Montpelier, Virginia, United States

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Politics

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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

France

1748 – 1836 (88 years old)

Preeminent political theorist of the French Revolution whose 1789 pamphlet What Is the Third Estate? sparked the revolution, who survived the Terror ('J'ai vécu'), and who orchestrated the Coup of 18 Brumaire with Napoleon Bonaparte.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère

France

1775 – 1836 (61 years old)

French physicist and mathematician who founded electrodynamics and formulated Ampère's circuital law.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier

Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

France

1758 – 1836 (78 years old)

French chemist, scientific translator, and artist revered as the 'mother of modern chemistry' alongside Antoine Lavoisier.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini

Italy

1801 – 1835 (33 years old)

Quintessential Italian bel canto composer celebrated for his long, flowing, melancholy melodies in Norma and I puritani.

Catania, Sicily, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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John Marshall

John Marshall

United States

1755 – 1835 (79 years old)

Fourth Chief Justice of the United States who served for thirty-four years, established the principle of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, and made the Supreme Court a co-equal branch.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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History

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Andreas Miaoulis

Andreas Miaoulis

Greece

1769 – 1835 (66 years old)

Admiral of the Greek revolutionary fleet from Hydra whose naval victories secured Greek coastal independence.

Piraeus, Greece

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Politics

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Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud Bey

الحسين الثاني باي

Tunisia

1784 – 1835 (51 years old)

Husainid ruler who in 1827 created the modern national flag of Tunisia (red banner with white circle, crescent, and star) following the Battle of Navarino to distinguish Tunisian naval vessels.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Philosophy & Thought

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Hasan al-Attar

حسن العطار

Egypt

1766 – March 22, 1835 (69 years old)

Visionary Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and polymath who recognized the necessity of modern scientific education following Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, serving as the intellectual mentor of Rifa'a al-Tahtawi and father of the Egyptian Nahda.

Cairo, Egypt

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