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Victor-Marie Hugo
Literature & Poetry
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 999

Victor-Marie Hugo

Victor Hugo
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
26 February 1802 โ€“ 22 May 1885 (83 years old)

Titan of French Romanticism and passionate defender of the oppressed whose monumental epicsโ€”Les Misรฉrables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and Les Chรขtimentsโ€”made his 1885 state funeral the largest in French history, drawing two million mourners.

Paris, France
Wendell Phillips
Humanitarian & Peace
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1811 โ€“ 1884 (72 years old)

Renowned American orator known as 'Abolition's Golden Trumpet', who abandoned his elite legal career to become the foremost orator of the American abolitionist movement, succeeding Garrison as president of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Milton (Massachusetts), United States
Gregor Mendel
Sciences & Discovery
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 940

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic
20 July 1822 โ€“ 6 January 1884 (61 years old)

Augustinian abbot whose meticulous eight-year breeding experiments with 29,000 pea plants (Pisum sativum) discovered the fundamental laws of genetic inheritance (dominant and recessive traits).

Brno (Moravia), Czech Republic
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Literature & Poetry
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 920

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝ ะกะตั€ะณะตะตะฒะธั‡ ะขัƒั€ะณะตะฝะตะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
9 November 1818 โ€“ 3 September 1883 (64 years old)

Distinguished Russian realist novelist whose A Sportsman's Sketches helped convince Tsar Alexander II to emancipate the serfs, and whose masterpiece Fathers and Sons introduced the generational concept of nihilism (Bazarov).

Bougival (near Paris), France
Emir Abdelkader
Resistance & Human Rights
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Emir Abdelkader

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู‚ุงุฏุฑ ุงุจู† ู…ุญูŠูŠ ุงู„ุฏูŠู†
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1808 โ€“ 1883 (74 years old)

Algerian religious and military leader who founded the modern Algerian state, led a legendary fifteen-year resistance against French colonial conquest, and earned global acclaim for defending thousands of Christians in Damascus.

Algiers, Algeria
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Arts & Music
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 985

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
22 May 1813 โ€“ 13 February 1883 (69 years old)

Revolutionary German composer and dramatist who revolutionized Western music with the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' (total work of art), the leitmotif system, chromatic breakdown of tonality in Tristan und Isolde, and the 16-hour Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Venice, Italy
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