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Angelina Grimke
Humanitarian & Peace
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Angelina Grimke

Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
🇺🇸 United States
1805 – 1879 (74 years old)

Fiery American abolitionist orator and writer who became the first woman to address an American legislative body, author of the celebrated 1836 'Appeal to the Christian Women of the South'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States
William Lloyd Garrison
Resistance & Human Rights
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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison
🇺🇸 United States
10 December 1805 – 24 May 1879 (73 years old)

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer who founded the radical anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator in 1831 and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.

New York City, New York, United States
Crazy Horse
Resistance & Human Rights
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Crazy Horse

Tȟašúŋke Witkó
🇺🇸 United States
c. 1840 – 5 September 1877 (~37 years old)

Legendary Oglala Lakota war leader who took up arms against the US federal government to fight against encroachment on Lakota territories and way of life, leading the charge that destroyed Custer's battalion at the Little Bighorn.

Fort Robinson, Nebraska, United States
Toru Dutt
Literature & Poetry
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Toru Dutt

তরু দত্ত
🇮🇳 British India
1856 – 1877 (21 years old)

Bengali poet and translator recognized as the first Indian woman to write poetry in English and French, whose Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan established Indian English lyricism.

Kolkata, India
Charles Sumner
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner
🇺🇸 United States
1811 – 1874 (63 years old)

Fierce Radical Republican Senator from Massachusetts who led the abolitionist cause in Congress, survived a brutal caning on the Senate floor, and championed Reconstruction civil rights.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Sarah Grimke
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sarah Grimke

Sarah Moore Grimke
🇺🇸 United States
1792 – 1873 (81 years old)

Southern-born abolitionist and women's rights pioneer who rejected her slaveholding family's wealth to campaign across the North, author of the groundbreaking 1838 feminist work 'Letters on the Equality of the Sexes'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Literature & Poetry
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt

মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত
🇧🇩 British India
1824 – 1873 (49 years old)

Pioneering 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist who introduced blank verse (amritrakshar chhanda) and the sonnet into Bengali literature with his tragic epic Meghnad Badh Kavya.

Kolkata, India
Alessandro Manzoni
Literature & Poetry
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Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni
🇮🇹 Duchy of Milan, Habsburg Monarchy
1785 – 1873 (88 years old)

Patriarch of modern Italian literature and Risorgimento icon whose historical novel I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) forged standard modern Italian prose.

Milan, Italy
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