Historical Archives & Public Figures

Guillaume Dupuytren

France

1777 – 1835 (57 years old)

Colossus of nineteenth-century French surgery and chief surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris for two decades, revered as 'first among surgeons' who discovered Dupuytren's contracture and trained a generation of surgeons.

Paris, France

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Husein Gradaščević

Husein-kapetan Gradaščević

Bosnia and Herzegovina

1802-01-01 – 1834-08-17 (32 years old)

Charismatic feudal captain known as 'Zmaj od Bosne' (The Dragon of Bosnia) who led the 1831 Great Bosnian Uprising demanding autonomous self-rule for Bosnia within the Ottoman Empire.

Istanbul, Turkey

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Literature & Poetry

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great Britain

21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834 (61 years old)

Visionary English Romantic poet, philosopher, and critic who co-founded the Romantic movement with Wordsworth, creating hallucinated supernatural masterworks—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel.

Highgate (London), Great Britain

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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William Carey

Great Britain

1761 – 1834 (72 years old)

English Baptist missionary, botanist, and translator who sailed to India in 1793, translated the Bible into forty-four Asian languages, and successfully campaigned to abolish Sati.

Serampore, India

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette

France

1757 – 1834 (76 years old)

French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army hailed as the 'Hero of Two Worlds', who trapped Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Paris, France

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Germany

1768 – 1834 (65 years old)

German Reformed theologian and philosopher whose 'On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers' and 'The Christian Faith' grounded religion in the intuitive feeling of absolute dependence.

Berlin, Germany

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Hassan Bey of Oran

حسن باي وهران

Algeria

1780 – 1834 (54 years old)

The last Bey of the Western Beylik of Oran (1812–1831), who governed Oran during the dramatic final years of the Regency before the French colonial invasion.

Alexandria (honored in Oran), Egypt

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Music

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Michal Kleofas Oginski

Міхал Клеафас Агінскі

Poland

1765-09-25 – 1833-10-15 (68 years old)

Diplomat, senator, and composer whose haunting Polonaise in A minor, 'Farewell to the Homeland' ('Pozegnanie Ojczyzny'), became one of the most recognizable and beloved melodies in Eastern Europe.

Florence, Italy

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Resistance & Human Rights

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William Wilberforce

Great Britain

24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833 (73 years old)

British politician and philanthropist who headed the twenty-year parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Cadogan Place, London, Great Britain

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Adamantios Korais

Greece

1748 – 1833 (84 years old)

Major intellectual figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment who standardized the Katharevousa language and promoted classical revival.

Athens, Greece

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Seraphim of Sarov

Серафим Саровский

Russia

1754 – 1833 (78 years old)

Beloved Russian elder and mystic whose joyful greeting 'My joy, Christ is risen!' and conversation with Motovilov defined the Christian life as the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.

Diveyevo, Russia

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Sciences & Discovery

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Adrien-Marie Legendre

France

1752 – 1833 (80 years old)

French mathematician who invented the method of least squares, formulated Legendre polynomials, and made foundational contributions to number theory and the law of quadratic reciprocity.

Paris, France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Abu al-Qasim al-Zayani

أبو القاسم الزياني

Morocco

1734 – 1833 (99 years old)

Eminent Moroccan statesman, grand vizier, diplomat, and historian who served four Alaouite sultans over six decades, authoring fifteen major works on Moroccan history and world geography.

Fez, Morocco

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Science

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Rasmus Rask

Rasmus Christian Rask

Denmark

1787-11-22 – 1832-11-14 (44 years old)

Brilliant Danish comparative linguist and polyglot who formulated the systematic sound correspondences between Germanic and classical languages that formed Grimm's Law.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Politics

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José Matías Delgado

José Matías Delgado y de León

Guatemala

1767 – 1832 (65 years old)

Supreme Founding Father of El Salvador who on November 5, 1811, rang the church bells of La Merced to launch the First Cry of Independence (Primer Grito de Independencia) in Central America.

San Salvador, El Salvador

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Literature & Poetry

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet

Sir Walter Scott

Great Britain

15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 (61 years old)

Scottish literary colossus known as 'The Wizard of the North' who single-handedly invented the modern historical novel with Waverley, Rob Roy, and Ivanhoe, capturing the romantic imagination of Europe and inspiring Balzac, Dumas, and Tolstoy.

Abbotsford House (Melrose), Great Britain

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Science

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Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

France

1796 – 1832 (36 years old)

Visionary French military engineer and physicist who founded the science of thermodynamics in 1824 with his treatise Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, discovering the Carnot cycle and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), France

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Demetrios Ypsilantis

Greece

1793 – 1832 (38 years old)

Greek military commander in the War of Independence who won the final victory of the war at the Battle of Petra in 1829.

Nafplio, Greece

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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries