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Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
Literature & Poetry
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Rifa'a al-Tahtawi

رفاعة رافع الطهطاوي
🇪🇬 Egypt
October 15, 1801 – May 27, 1873 (71 years old)

Epoch-making Egyptian writer, educator, and intellectual who led the 19th-century Arab renaissance (Nahda), authored 'Takhlis al-Ibriz', founded the School of Languages (Al-Alsun), and pioneered women's education.

Cairo, Egypt
Aleksis Kivi
Literature & Poetry
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Aleksis Kivi

Alexis Stenvall
🇫🇮 Finland
1834-10-10 – 1872-12-31 (38 years old)

National author of Finland and creator of modern Finnish prose who wrote the first major novel in the Finnish language, Seitsemän veljestä (Seven Brothers), and the comedy Nummisuutarit.

Tuusula, Finland
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Literature & Poetry
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N.F.S. Grundtvig

Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
🇩🇰 Denmark
1783-09-08 – 1872-09-02 (88 years old)

Colossal Danish philosopher, bishop, and educational reformer who created the Folk High School movement, wrote over 1,500 hymns, and shaped modern democratic Danish identity.

Køge, Denmark
Mahmoud Kabadou
Literature & Poetry
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Mahmoud Kabadou

محمود قبادو
🇹🇳 Tunisia
c. 1815 – 1871 (56 years old)

Pioneering Tunisian scholar, poet, and professor at the Bardo Military Academy who argued that mastering modern sciences and technology was a religious duty for the renewal of Islamic civilization.

Tunis, Tunisia
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas père)
Literature & Poetry
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Alexandre Dumas (Dumas père)

Alexandre Dumas
🇫🇷 France
24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870 (68 years old)

Supreme master of swashbuckling historical adventure fiction whose timeless serial epics—The Three Musketeers (All for one, one for all!) and The Count of Monte Cristo—rank among the most widely translated novels in human history.

Puys (Dieppe, Normandy), France
Charles John Huffam Dickens (Boz)
Literature & Poetry
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Charles John Huffam Dickens (Boz)

Charles Dickens
🇬🇧 Great Britain
7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870 (58 years old)

Undisputed giant of the Victorian novel and crusader against social cruelty whose unforgettable characters and serialized masterworks—A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations—championed the poor and reshaped global Christmas culture.

Gad's Hill Place (Higham, Kent), Great Britain
Literature & Poetry
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Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine
🇫🇷 France
1790 – 1869 (78 years old)

Lyric poet of French Romanticism whose 1820 collection Méditations poétiques launched the Romantic movement with 'Le Lac', and who served as head of the Provisional Government proclaiming the Second French Republic in 1848.

Saint-Point (Saône-et-Loire), France
Mirza Ghalib
Literature & Poetry
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Mirza Ghalib

مرزا اسد اللہ خاں غالب
🇮🇳 India
1797 – 1869 (71 years old)

Preeminent classical Urdu and Persian poet (1797–1869) whose profound ghazals captured love, philosophical skepticism, and the tragic twilight of the Mughal Empire in Delhi.

New Delhi, India
Literature & Poetry
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George Copway

Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (He Who Stands Firm)
🇨🇦 Canada
c. 1818 – c. 1869 (51 years old)

Renowned Mississauga Ojibwe writer and orator whose 1847 memoir made him the first Canadian Indigenous author to achieve international literary best-seller status, lecturing across Britain, Europe, and North America.

Ypsilanti (Michigan), United States
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Literature & Poetry
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire
🇫🇷 France
9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867 (46 years old)

Revolutionary French poet whose 1857 masterpiece Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) extracted incandescent beauty from urban decay, melancholy (spleen), and vice, founding modern European Symbolism and decadent aesthetics.

Paris, France
Mostefa Ben Brahim
Literature & Poetry
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Mostefa Ben Brahim

مصطفى بن براهيم
🇩🇿 Algeria
1800 – 1867 (67 years old)

Celebrated as the 'Troubadour of the Beni Amer', the greatest 19th-century epic poet of western Algeria whose verse preserved national identity and popular resistance.

Mostefa Ben Brahim (Sidi Bel Abbès), Algeria
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Hathorne)
Literature & Poetry
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Hathorne)

Nathaniel Hawthorne
🇺🇸 United States
4 July 1804 – 19 May 1864 (59 years old)

Preeminent figure of American Dark Romanticism haunted by his Puritan ancestors' role in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, who explored guilt, sin, and moral hypocrisy in The Scarlet Letter (Hester Prynne) and The House of the Seven Gables.

Plymouth (New Hampshire), United States
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