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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Friedrich Schelling
Philosophy & Thought
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Friedrich Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
🇩🇪 Duchy of Wurttemberg
1775 – 1854 (79 years old)

German idealist philosopher who developed Naturphilosophie (Philosophy of Nature) and Identity Philosophy, reconciling spirit and matter as two poles of a single living Absolute.

Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
John Martin
Arts & Music
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John Martin

John Martin
🇬🇧 Kingdom of Great Britain
1789 – 1854 (64 years old)

English Romantic painter and engraver celebrated for his apocalyptic biblical visions of cosmic catastrophe and colossal architecture, including 'The Great Day of His Wrath'.

Braddan, Isle of Man
Daniel Webster
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster
🇺🇸 United States
1782 – 1852 (70 years old)

Foremost American constitutional orator and Whig statesman who served twice as Secretary of State and proclaimed 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!'.

Marshfield, Massachusetts, United States
Henry Clay Sr.
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Henry Clay Sr.

Henry Clay Sr.
🇺🇸 United States
1777 – 1852 (75 years old)

Revered as 'The Great Compromiser', Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and Kentucky Senator who preserved the Union through the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Literature & Poetry
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Николай Васильевич Гоголь
🇺🇦 Ukraine
31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852 (42 years old)

Genius of grotesque satire and surreal humor whose comedy The Government Inspector, story The Overcoat ('We all came out of Gogol's Overcoat'), and epic novel Dead Souls laid the cornerstone of modern Russian prose.

Moscow, Russia
Carl Jacobi
Sciences & Discovery
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Carl Jacobi

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
🇩🇪 Kingdom of Prussia
1804 – 1851 (46 years old)

German mathematician who co-founded the theory of elliptic functions, formulated Jacobian determinants, and co-developed the Hamilton-Jacobi theory of classical mechanics.

Berlin, Germany
Lin Zexu
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Lin Zexu

林則徐
🇨🇳 Qing Dynasty China
1785 – 1850 (65 years old)

Imperial Commissioner of the Qing dynasty whose destruction of 20,000 chests of British opium at Humen ignited the First Opium War and inaugurated modern Chinese resistance to imperialism.

Fuzhou (Fujian), China
Jose Gervasio Artigas
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Jose Gervasio Artigas

Jose Gervasio Artigas
🇺🇾 Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata
1764 – 1850 (86 years old)

National Hero and Founding Father of Uruguay, celebrated as the 'Protector of the Free Peoples' (Protector de los Pueblos Libres), who led the 1811 Oriental Exodus and formulated the revolutionary 1815 Agrarian Regulation favoring the dispossessed.

Montevideo, Uruguay
Honoré de Balzac
Literature & Poetry
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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac
🇫🇷 France
20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850 (51 years old)

Visionary founder of European literary realism who worked up to eighteen hours a night fueled by black coffee to construct La Comédie Humaine—an epic panorama of over ninety novels depicting every stratum of French society.

Paris, France
Jose de San Martin
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Jose de San Martin

Jose Francisco de San Martin y Matorras
🇦🇷 Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata
1778 – 1850 (72 years old)

Argentine general and prime liberator of southern South America who executed the legendary 1817 Crossing of the Andes, liberated Chile at Chacabuco and Maipu, and proclaimed the sovereign independence of Peru as its Protector.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
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