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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Literature & Poetry
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
20 October 1854 โ€“ 10 November 1891 (37 years old)

Precocious prodigy of world poetry who invented surreal free verse and declared 'Je est un autre' (I is another) before the age of twenty in Le Bateau Ivre and Une Saison en Enfer, subsequently abandoning literature forever to wander as a trader in Africa.

Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhรดne), France
Herman Melville
Literature & Poetry
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 985

Herman Melville

Herman Melville
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1 August 1819 โ€“ 28 September 1891 (72 years old)

Visionary American novelist whose maritime epic Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)โ€”opening with 'Call me Ishmael' and Captain Ahab's monomaniacal pursuit of the cosmic white whaleโ€”stands as one of humanity's supreme literary monuments.

New York City, United States
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sciences & Discovery
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Sofia Kovalevskaya

ะกะพั„ัŒั ะ’ะฐัะธะปัŒะตะฒะฝะฐ ะšะพะฒะฐะปะตะฒัะบะฐั
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russian Empire
1850 โ€“ 1891 (41 years old)

Russian mathematician who made foundational contributions to partial differential equations and rigid body mechanics, becoming the first woman in modern Europe to hold a full university professorship.

Solna (Stockholm), Sweden
Charles Bradlaugh
Humanitarian & Peace
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Charles Bradlaugh

Charles Bradlaugh
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Great Britain
1833 โ€“ 1891 (57 years old)

Courageous British radical reformer and champion of free thought who waged a historic six-year constitutional battle to take his seat in Parliament without taking a religious oath, and championed Indian self-determination as 'Member for India'.

Brookwood (Surrey), United Kingdom
Sitting Bull
Resistance & Human Rights
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 950

Sitting Bull

TศŸatศŸรกล‹ka รyotake
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
c. 1831 โ€“ 15 December 1890 (~59 years old)

Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and political leader who united the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains in defense of the sacred Black Hills, leading resistance that resulted in the victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Grand River, South Dakota, United States
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Arts & Music
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 999

Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
30 March 1853 โ€“ 29 July 1890 (37 years old)

Tragic Post-Impressionist visionary whose swirling, passionate impasto brushstrokes, incandescent emotional colors, and incandescent canvases (The Starry Night, Sunflowers) fundamentally created modern Expressionism.

Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise), French Third Republic
Kheireddine Pacha
Statesmanship & Statesmen
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Kheireddine Pacha

ุฎูŠุฑ ุงู„ุฏูŠู† ุงู„ุชูˆู†ุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russian Empire
c. 1822 โ€“ 1890 (68 years old)

Visionary Tunisian reformist statesman, president of the International Financial Commission, Prime Minister of Tunisia (1873โ€“1877), and author of the celebrated treatise 'The Surest Path to Knowledge of the Conditions of Countries'.

Tunis, Tunisia
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