Historical Archives & Public Figures

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

France

1768 – 1830 (62 years old)

French mathematician and physicist who created Fourier analysis for heat transfer and discovered the greenhouse effect.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Sir Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence

Great Britain

1769 – 1830 (60 years old)

Child prodigy and President of the Royal Academy who became the pre-eminent British portraitist of the Regency era, immortalized by his Waterloo Chamber royal portraits.

London, United Kingdom

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History

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Atanasio Tzul

Guatemala

1760 – 1830 (70 years old)

Indigenous K'iche' Maya leader who led the 1820 Totonicapán indigenous uprising against Spanish colonial tributes and was crowned King.

Totonicapán, Guatemala

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Sciences & Discovery

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck

France

1744 – 1829 (85 years old)

Pioneering French naturalist who proposed the first coherent theory of biological evolution and coined the term 'biology'.

Paris, France

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Military

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José María Córdova

José María Córdova Muñoz

Colombia

1799-09-08 – 1829-10-17 (30 years old)

Brilliant young Antioquian general who turned the tide at the Battle of Ayacucho (1824) with his legendary command 'Division, forward! Arms at discretion, pace of conquerors!', martyred at El Santuario in 1829.

Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia

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History

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Shanawdithit

Canada

c. 1801 – 1829 (28 years old)

The last recorded survivor of the Indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland whose pencil drawings and testimonies preserved the language, customs, and tragic history of her nation.

St. John's, Canada

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Sciences & Discovery

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet

Great Britain

1778 – 1829 (50 years old)

Brilliant British chemist and inventor who isolated sodium, potassium, and calcium via electrolysis, and invented the miner's safety lamp.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Science

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Niels Henrik Abel

Norway

1802-08-05 – 1829-04-06 (26 years old)

Brilliant Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals and made foundational breakthroughs in elliptic and Abelian functions.

Froland, Norway

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Politics

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Cornelio Saavedra

Cornelio Judas Tadeo de Saavedra y Rodríguez

Bolivia

1759-09-15 – 1829-03-29 (69 years old)

Military officer and statesman who commanded the Patricios Regiment during the British Invasions and was elected first President of the Primera Junta on May 25, 1810, launching Argentine independence.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Military

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Charles de Salaberry

Charles-Michel d'Irumberry

Canada

19 November 1778 – 27 February 1829 (50 years old)

French-Canadian commander who raised the Canadian Voltigeurs and defeated a four-thousand-strong American army at Châteauguay in 1813.

Chambly, Canada

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Kittur Chennamma

ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಚೆನ್ನಮ್ಮ

India

1778 – 1829 (50 years old)

Queen of Kittur who led one of the earliest armed rebellions against the British East India Company in 1824, defying the aggressive Doctrine of Lapse.

Kittur, India

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Arts & Music

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Franz Peter Schubert

Austria

31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828 (31 years old)

Austrian Early Romantic composer of heartbreaking melodic beauty who elevated the German Lied to an immortal fine art form with over 600 art songs (Erlkönig, Winterreise) and composed the Unfinished Symphony.

Vienna, Austria

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Shaka kaSenzangakhona (King Shaka Zulu)

uShaka kaSenzangakhona

South Africa

c. 1787 CE – 22 September 1828 (~41 years old)

Visionary military strategist and founding King of the Zulu Kingdom. Revolutionized African warfare by introducing the short stabbing spear (Iklwa), large cowhide shields, barefoot speed, and the famous "Bull Horns" encirclement formation.

KwaDukuza (Stanger), South Africa

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Radama I

Radama I (Radama the Great)

🌐 Madagascar

c. 1793 – 1828 (35 years old)

First monarch of the unified Kingdom of Madagascar (1810–1828) acclaimed as 'Radama the Great', who modernized the Malagasy army with European firearms, outlawed the transatlantic slave trade, and established the Latin alphabet for the Malagasy language.

Antananarivo, Madagascar

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Arts & Music

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Jean-Antoine Houdon

France

1741 – 1828 (87 years old)

Supreme French portrait sculptor of the Enlightenment whose vivid marble busts captured Voltaire, Diderot, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington with intense psychological realism.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco de Goya

Spain

30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 (82 years old)

Visionary Spanish master whose fearless art chronicled royal vanity (Charles IV), the brutal horrors of war (The Third of May 1808), and the terrifying dark phantoms of the human subconscious in his Black Paintings.

Bordeaux, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Kobayashi Issa

小林一茶 (Kobayashi Nobuyuki)

Japan

1763 – 1828 (64 years old)

Beloved Edo-period Japanese haiku master (1763–1828) whose compassionate, humorous, and deeply personal verses celebrated humble creatures, children, and spiritual resilience in the face of immense personal grief.

Shinano (Nagano), Japan

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Queen Nandi

Nandi kaBhebhe eLangeni

South Africa

Unknown – 1827

Revered Queen Mother (Ndlovukati) of the Zulu Kingdom and mother of Shaka Zulu, whose resilience against hardship and wise counsel guided the founding and consolidation of the Zulu Empire.

Eshowe (KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa

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