Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber

Holstein

1786 – 1826 (39 years old)

German composer, conductor, and critic acclaimed as the father of German Romantic opera, immortalized by 'Der Freischütz', 'Euryanthe', and his brilliant clarinet concertos.

London, United Kingdom

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Arts & Music

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Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David

Kingdom of France

1748 – 1825 (77 years old)

Preeminent painter of the Neoclassical era and official artist of the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Brussels, Belgium

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Alexander I of Russia

Александр I Павлович (Благословенный)

Russian Empire (Russia)

1777 – 1825 (47 years old)

Emperor of Russia who defeated Napoleon's 1812 invasion, marched victoriously into Paris, and redrew post-Napoleonic Europe at the Congress of Vienna.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Arts & Music

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Johann Heinrich Füssli

Johann Heinrich Füssli

Old Swiss Confederacy

1741 – 1825 (84 years old)

Swiss-born British Romantic painter and professor whose chilling masterpiece 'The Nightmare' (1781) introduced gothic terror, eroticism, and the irrational subconscious into Western art.

London, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron

George Gordon Byron

Great Britain

22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824 (36 years old)

Flamboyant English Romantic poet who created the brooding, rebellious 'Byronic hero' in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, dying a hero of the Greek War of Independence at Missolonghi.

Missolonghi, Greece

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Arts & Music

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Théodore Géricault

Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault

France

1791 – 1824 (32 years old)

Pioneering French Romantic painter whose dramatic tour de force The Raft of the Medusa launched the Romantic movement.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

Great Britain

17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823 (73 years old)

'Father of Immunology' who developed the world's first successful vaccine in 1796 using cowpox matter to confer immunity against lethal smallpox, saving hundreds of millions of lives.

Berkeley (Gloucestershire), United Kingdom

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Karl August von Hardenberg

Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg

Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire

1750 – 1822 (72 years old)

Prussian Chancellor who modernized the Prussian state through the Stein-Hardenberg Reforms, emancipated Jewish citizens, and represented Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.

Neuhardenberg (Brandenburg), Germany

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Arts & Music

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Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova

Republic of Venice

1757 – 1822 (64 years old)

Foremost Neoclassical sculptor in Europe whose breathtaking marble masterpieces—including 'Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss'—brought Greek marble elegance back to the modern world.

Possagno, Italy

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Sciences & Discovery

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William Herschel (Sir Frederick William Herschel)

Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel

Germany

15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 (83 years old)

Astronomer and telescope builder who discovered planet Uranus in 1781 (the first planet found with a telescope), discovered infrared radiation, and mapped the Milky Way galaxy.

Upton (Slough, Berkshire), United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Great Britain

4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822 (29 years old)

Radical English Romantic lyric poet and visionary whose impassioned defenses of nonviolent revolution and political justice in The Masque of Anarchy, Ode to the West Wind, and Ozymandias proclaimed poets as 'the unacknowledged legislators of the world'.

Gulf of Spezia (near Viareggio), Italy

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Denmark Vesey

Danish West Indies

c. 1767 – 1822 (~55 years old)

African American carpenter and civil rights organizer who purchased his freedom and organized a massive, sophisticated conspiracy for slave liberation in Charleston.

Charleston, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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E.T.A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Kingdom of Prussia

1776 – 1822 (46 years old)

German Romantic polymath, composer, and master of the uncanny whose gothic tales inspired The Nutcracker, Coppélia, and Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann.

Berlin, Germany

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Literature & Poetry

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John Keats

John Keats

Great Britain

31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 (25 years old)

One of the supreme lyric poets in the English language who, before succumbing to tuberculosis at age twenty-five in Rome, composed the miraculous 1819 Odes—Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn—proclaiming: 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'

Rome, Italy

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Henri Christophe

Henri Christophe

West Indies

1767 – 1820 (53 years old)

Haitian revolutionary general, key aide to Louverture and Dessalines, and King of Northern Haiti (1811–1820) who constructed the colossal mountain fortress of the Citadelle Laferriere to protect the newborn Black republic against European re-invasion.

Milot (Nord), Haiti

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (Marschall Vorwärts)

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst von Wahlstatt

Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)

1742 – 1819 (76 years old)

Prussian Field Marshal and Prince of Wahlstatt hailed as 'Marshal Forward' whose aggressive leadership won Leipzig and whose timely arrival won Waterloo.

Kąty Wrocławskie, Poland

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Sciences & Discovery

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James Watt

James Watt

Scotland

30 January 1736 – 25 August 1819 (83 years old)

Scottish mechanical engineer whose invention of the separate condenser transformed the steam engine from an inefficient pump into the universal rotary prime mover of the Industrial Revolution.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Kamehameha I

Kamehameha Paiʻea (Kamehameha the Great)

Kingdom of Hawaii

c. 1758 – 1819 (61 years old)

First monarch of the unified Kingdom of Hawaii (1810–1819) who combined supreme martial prowess with modern diplomacy to unite all the Hawaiian Islands, preserved Hawaiian independence against European empires, and established the humanitarian Law of the Splintered Paddle.

Kona Coast (Hawaii Island), United States

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