Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Netherlands

30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 (37 years old)

Tragic Post-Impressionist visionary whose swirling, passionate impasto brushstrokes, incandescent emotional colors, and incandescent canvases (The Starry Night, Sunflowers) fundamentally created modern Expressionism.

Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise), France

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Politics

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Crowfoot

Issapóómahksika

Canada

c. 1830 – 1890 (60 years old)

Visionary Siksika leader who navigated the extinction of the buffalo, fostered peace with the North-West Mounted Police, and negotiated Treaty 7 in 1877.

Cluny (Alberta), Canada

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Kheireddine Pacha

خير الدين التونسي

Russia

c. 1822 – 1890 (68 years old)

Visionary Tunisian reformist statesman, president of the International Financial Commission, Prime Minister of Tunisia (1873–1877), and author of the celebrated treatise 'The Surest Path to Knowledge of the Conditions of Countries'.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Si Slimane Ben Ali

سي سليمان بن علي

Algeria

c. 1830 – c. 1890 (60 years old)

Senior war chief of the Ouled Sidi Cheikh who in April 1864 launched the massive southwestern Algerian uprising that decimated colonial military detachments.

El Bayadh, Algeria

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Politics

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King Glele

Glele Kinikini Doko

Benin

1814-01-01 – 1889-12-28 (75 years old)

Tenth King of Dahomey whose 31-year reign fortified Dahomey's legendary military, including the Mino (Dahomey Amazons), and produced world-famous royal bas-reliefs and sculptures.

Abomey, Benin

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Literature & Poetry

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Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Great Britain

1812 – 1889 (77 years old)

Victorian poetic genius who mastered the dramatic monologue, plumbing psychological depths in 'My Last Duchess', Men and Women, and The Ring and the Book.

London, United Kingdom

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Philosophy & Thought

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Muhammad Bayram V

محمد بيرم الخامس

Tunisia

1840 – 1889 (49 years old)

Visionary intellectual and reformist scholar of the Nahda movement who edited Tunisia's first official newspaper, directed the Sadiki endowments, and wrote the monumental geopolitical treatise Safwat al-I'tibar.

Cairo (Memorial in Tunis), Egypt

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Sciences & Discovery

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James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule

Great Britain

1818 – 1889 (70 years old)

English physicist and brewer whose precise measurements established the mechanical equivalent of heat and conservation of energy.

Sale, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins

Great Britain

1824 – 1889 (65 years old)

Pioneering Victorian novelist and close collaborator of Charles Dickens who created the modern detective novel in The Moonstone and sensation fiction in The Woman in White.

London, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

France

1838 – 1889 (50 years old)

Impoverished Breton nobleman and pioneer of French Symbolism whose 1886 science-fiction novel L'Ève future coined the term 'Android' and whose occult verse drama Axël contains the famous line: 'As for living, our servants will do that for us'.

Paris, France

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Military

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Ras Gobana Dacche

Gobana Dacche

Ethiopia

1821-01-01 – 1889-07-02 (68 years old)

Formidable Oromo general and supreme cavalry commander whose military campaigns unified the southern and western territories into the modern Ethiopian state under Menelik II.

Debre Libanos, Ethiopia

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Politics

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Gaseitsiwe I

Gaseitsiwe a Tshosa

Botswana

c. 1815 – 1889-07-01 (74 years old)

Paramount Kgosi of the Bangwaketse for 44 years who established the royal capital at Kanye and allied with neighboring chiefs to defeat Boer commando incursions at the 1852 Battle of Dimawe.

Kanye, Botswana

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Lozen

Lozen

United States

c. 1838 – 1889 (~51 years old)

Renowned Chihenne Chiricahua warrior, medicine woman, and spiritual leader hailed by her brother Victorio as 'strong as a man, braver than most, and a cunning strategist'.

Mount Vernon, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Great Britain

1844 – 1889 (44 years old)

Visionary English Jesuit poet who revolutionized modern verse through sprung rhythm and concepts of inscape and instress in 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty'.

Dublin, Ireland

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman

Laura Bridgman

United States

1829 – 1889 (59 years old)

Première personne sourde et aveugle à recevoir une éducation linguistique complète en anglais, cinquante ans avant Helen Keller.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

France

1808 – 1889 (80 years old)

Flamboyant Norman monarchist dandy, critic, and novelist known as 'Le Connétable des Lettres', whose 1874 short-story masterpiece Les Diaboliques explored dark erotic passions, sin, and Catholic mysticism.

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Manche), France

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Father Damien (Saint Damien of Molokai)

Jozef De Veuster

Belgium

3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889 (49 years old)

Father Damien was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who volunteered to minister to the quarantined leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Living among the outcast lepers for sixteen years, he built homes, hospitals, and churches, contracted Hansen's disease himself, and died a martyr of charity, canonized in 2009.

Leuven / Kalaupapa, Belgium

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yohannes IV

ዮሐንስ (Kassa Mercha)

Ethiopia

1837 – 1889 (51 years old)

Emperor of Ethiopia (1872–1889) who staunchly defended Ethiopian sovereignty against Egyptian expansionism, Italian colonial incursions, and Sudanese Mahdist invasions, dying heroically on the battlefield of Gallabat.

Tigray Region, Ethiopia

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