Historical Archives & Public Figures

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

France

1754-02-02 – 1838-05-17 (84 years old)

Regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats in world history, ensuring European equilibrium and France's place among great powers after Napoleon's fall.

Paris, France

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Jose Bonifacio

Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva

Colonial Brazil

1763 – 1838 (74 years old)

Renowned mineralogist who discovered four new minerals (including petalite, which led to the discovery of lithium), and statesman revered as the 'Patriarch of Brazilian Independence' who guided Prince Pedro to declare independence from Portugal in 1822.

Santos (Sao Paulo), Brazil

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Asi-yahola

United States

c. 1804 – 1838 (~34 years old)

Influential Seminole war leader who led fierce resistance against United States forced removal during the Second Seminole War in Florida.

Sullivan's Island, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi

Papal States

1798 – 1837 (38 years old)

Foremost modern Italian lyric poet and philosopher of cosmic pessimism whose Canti and Operette morali achieved peerless stylistic purity and intellectual depth.

Naples, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Diego Portales

Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos

Chile

1793 – 1837 (43 years old)

Dominant Chilean statesman and businessman who established the stable constitutional framework of the Chilean Republic under the 1833 Constitution.

Santiago, Chile

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Hari Singh Nalwa

ਹਰੀ ਸਿੰਘ ਨਲਵਾ

Sikh Empire

1791 – 1837 (46 years old)

Fabled Commander-in-Chief of the Sikh Khalsa Army whose military genius halted centuries of foreign invasions through the Khyber Pass, conquering Kasur, Multan, Kashmir, and Peshawar.

Jamrud (Khyber District), Pakistan

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Arts & Music

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John Constable

United Kingdom

1776 – 1837 (60 years old)

English Romantic landscape master celebrated for his loving, luminous paintings of Dedham Vale and The Hay Wain.

London, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

Russia

6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837 (37 years old)

Revered as 'The Sun of Russian Poetry' and the foundational father of modern Russian literature, whose novel in verse Eugene Onegin, drama Boris Godunov, and The Bronze Horseman forged the modern Russian literary language.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

11

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James Madison

United States

1751-03-16 – 1836-06-28 (85 years old)

Designed the core institutional framework of American democracy, institutional checks and balances, and guaranteed constitutional civil liberties.

Montpelier, Virginia, United States

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Sciences & Discovery

4,330

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André-Marie Ampère

Kingdom of France

1775 – 1836 (61 years old)

French physicist and mathematician who founded electrodynamics and formulated Ampère's circuital law.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

4,263

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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier

Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze

Kingdom of France

1758 – 1836 (78 years old)

French chemist, scientific translator, and artist revered as the 'mother of modern chemistry' alongside Antoine Lavoisier.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

3,245

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini

Kingdom of Sicily (Italy)

1801 – 1835 (33 years old)

Quintessential Italian bel canto composer celebrated for his long, flowing, melancholy melodies in Norma and I puritani.

Catania, Sicily, Italy

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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John Marshall

United States

1755 – 1835 (79 years old)

Fourth Chief Justice of the United States who served for thirty-four years, established the principle of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, and made the Supreme Court a co-equal branch.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Great Britain

21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834 (61 years old)

Visionary English Romantic poet, philosopher, and critic who co-founded the Romantic movement with Wordsworth, creating hallucinated supernatural masterworks—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel.

Highgate (London), Great Britain

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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William Carey

Kingdom of Great Britain

1761 – 1834 (72 years old)

English Baptist missionary, botanist, and translator who sailed to India in 1793, translated the Bible into forty-four Asian languages, and successfully campaigned to abolish Sati.

Serampore, India

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette

Kingdom of France

1757 – 1834 (76 years old)

French aristocrat and major general in the Continental Army hailed as the 'Hero of Two Worlds', who trapped Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

Paris, France

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Religious Figures & Theologians

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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Kingdom of Prussia

1768 – 1834 (65 years old)

German Reformed theologian and philosopher whose 'On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers' and 'The Christian Faith' grounded religion in the intuitive feeling of absolute dependence.

Berlin, Germany

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Resistance & Human Rights

8

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William Wilberforce

Great Britain

24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833 (73 years old)

British politician and philanthropist who headed the twenty-year parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

Cadogan Place, London, Great Britain

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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries