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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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William Wordsworth
Literature & Poetry
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
🇬🇧 Great Britain
7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 (80 years old)

Founding father of English Romanticism and Poet Laureate whose 1798 Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge) and autobiographical epic The Prelude redefined poetry as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility'.

Rydal Mount (Westmorland), Great Britain
Edward Bickersteth
Humanitarian & Peace
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Edward Bickersteth

Edward Bickersteth
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1786 – 1850 (63 years old)

Pasteur et militant humanitaire britannique, secrétaire de la Church Mission Society, promoteur de l'émancipation des esclaves en Sierra Leone et de l'Alliance évangélique.

Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Edgar Allan Poe
Literature & Poetry
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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
🇺🇸 United States
19 January 1809 – 7 October 1849 (40 years old)

American literary icon who invented the modern detective fiction genre with C. Auguste Dupin, revolutionized the psychological horror story in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, and enchanted world poetry with The Raven ('Nevermore').

Baltimore (Maryland), United States
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

محمد علي باشا
🇬🇷 Ottoman Empire (Greece)
1769 – 1849 (80 years old)

Visionary Ottoman commander acclaimed as the 'Founder of Modern Egypt', who eliminated Mamluk hegemony, introduced long-staple cotton, built state industries, and founded the dynasty that governed Egypt until 1952.

Cairo, Egypt
Katsushika Hokusai
Arts & Music
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Katsushika Hokusai

葛飾 北斎
🇯🇵 Japan
31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849 (~89 years old)

Supreme master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printing whose iconic series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji—above all The Great Wave off Kanagawa—captivated the world and inspired European Impressionism and Japonisme.

Edo (Tokyo), Japan
Emily Jane Brontë (Ellis Bell)
Literature & Poetry
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Emily Jane Brontë (Ellis Bell)

Emily Brontë
🇬🇧 Great Britain
30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 (30 years old)

Reclusive Victorian visionary and poet who authored Wuthering Heights (1847)—a ferocious, elemental masterpiece of stormy passion, vengeance, and spiritual transcendence set on the Yorkshire moors between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.

Haworth (West Yorkshire), Great Britain
Ibrahim Pasha
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Ibrahim Pasha

إبراهيم باشا
🇬🇷 Greece
1789 – 1848 (59 years old)

Egyptian military genius, eldest son of Muhammad Ali Pasha, who revolutionized the Egyptian army, crushed the Wahhabi rebellion in Arabia, and routed Ottoman imperial armies across Syria and Anatolia to the gates of Istanbul.

Cairo, Egypt
Caroline Herschel
Sciences & Discovery
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Caroline Herschel

Caroline Lucretia Herschel
🇩🇪 Germany
16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848 (97 years old)

First woman to receive a salary as a professional scientist, who discovered eight comets (including periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet) and compiled the definitive NGC nebula catalogs.

Hanover, Germany
Thomas Clarkson
Humanitarian & Peace
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Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1760 – 1846 (86 years old)

Key organizer and indefatigable investigator of the British abolitionist movement who rode 35,000 miles gathering evidence, slave shackles, and eyewitness testimony that enabled the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

Playford (Suffolk), United Kingdom
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