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Jón Sigurðsson
Politics
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Jón Sigurðsson

Jón Sigurðsson
🇮🇸 Iceland
1811-06-17 – 1879-12-07 (68 years old)

National hero of Iceland affectionately called 'President Jón' (Jón forseti) who led the peaceful 19th-century campaign for Icelandic autonomy, whose birthday (June 17) is Iceland's National Day.

Reykjavík, Iceland
August Bournonville
Art
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August Bournonville

Antoine August Bournonville
🇩🇰 Denmark
1805-08-21 – 1879-11-30 (74 years old)

Master Danish ballet dancer and choreographer who directed the Royal Danish Ballet for nearly fifty years, creating the Bournonville method and romantic ballets like La Sylphide and Napoli.

Fredensborg, Denmark
James Clerk Maxwell
Sciences & Discovery
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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell
🇬🇧 Scotland
13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879 (48 years old)

Scottish physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light into Maxwell's Equations, proving that light is an electromagnetic wave, and formulated the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases.

Parton (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland), United Kingdom
Angelina Grimke
Humanitarian & Peace
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Angelina Grimke

Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
🇺🇸 United States
1805 – 1879 (74 years old)

Fiery American abolitionist orator and writer who became the first woman to address an American legislative body, author of the celebrated 1836 'Appeal to the Christian Women of the South'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States
William Lloyd Garrison
Resistance & Human Rights
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William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison
🇺🇸 United States
10 December 1805 – 24 May 1879 (73 years old)

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer who founded the radical anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator in 1831 and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.

New York City, New York, United States
Literature & Poetry
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Charles De Coster

Charles-Théodore-Henri De Coster
🇩🇪 Germany
1827 – 1879 (51 years old)

Belgian author whose 1867 masterpiece The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak became the foundational national epic of Belgium, transforming a medieval trickster into a heroic fighter for freedom against Spanish tyranny.

Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Military
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Eduardo Abaroa

Eduardo Abaroa Hidalgo
🇧🇴 Bolivia
1838-10-13 – 1879-03-23 (40 years old)

Bolivian national hero and civil engineer who made a legendary last stand with a handful of civilian riflemen against Chilean forces at Topáter Bridge during the War of the Pacific.

La Paz, Bolivia
Literature & Poetry
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Mirza Fatali Akhundov

Mirzə Fətəli Axundov
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
1812-07-12 – 1878-03-09 (65 years old)

Enlightenment philosopher and playwright recognized as the father of Azerbaijani theatre and modern literary prose, who authored six satirical comedies and pioneered alphabet reform.

Tbilisi, Georgia
Crazy Horse
Resistance & Human Rights
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Crazy Horse

Tȟašúŋke Witkó
🇺🇸 United States
c. 1840 – 5 September 1877 (~37 years old)

Legendary Oglala Lakota war leader who took up arms against the US federal government to fight against encroachment on Lakota territories and way of life, leading the charge that destroyed Custer's battalion at the Little Bighorn.

Fort Robinson, Nebraska, United States
Toru Dutt
Literature & Poetry
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Toru Dutt

তরু দত্ত
🇮🇳 India
1856 – 1877 (21 years old)

Bengali poet and translator recognized as the first Indian woman to write poetry in English and French, whose Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan established Indian English lyricism.

Kolkata, India
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