Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Literature & Poetry

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Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов

Russia

15 October 1814 – 27 July 1841 (26 years old)

Tragic genius of Russian Romanticism whose grief-stricken elegy on Pushkin's death and psychological masterpiece A Hero of Our Time (featuring Pechorin) redefined Russian prose before his death in a duel at age twenty-six.

Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Krai), Russia

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Science

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Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol

Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol

France

1772 – 1840 (68 years old)

Leading French alienist, favorite pupil of Philippe Pinel, who succeeded him at the Salpêtrière, distinguished hallucinations from illusions, defined monomania, and drafted France's landmark Lunacy Law of 1838.

Paris, France

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Politics

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Lord Durham

Radical Jack

Great Britain

12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840 (48 years old)

British statesman whose monumental 1839 Report on the Affairs of British North America recommended uniting Upper and Lower Canada and instituting responsible government.

Chester-le-Street, United Kingdom

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Lord Durham (John Lambton)

John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham

Great Britain

1792 – 1840 (48 years old)

British statesman sent to investigate the 1837 Rebellions whose historic Durham Report recommended responsible government and the legislative union of Upper and Lower Canada.

Chester-le-Street (County Durham), United Kingdom

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Business

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John Cockerill

John Cockerill

Great Britain

1790 – 1840 (49 years old)

Industrial titan whose vast ironworks and engineering complexes at Seraing (Liège) made Belgium the first industrialized nation on the European continent and manufactured Europe's first steam locomotives.

Seraing (Liège), Belgium

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Arts & Music

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Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini

Italy

1782 – 1840 (57 years old)

Legendary Italian violin virtuoso and composer whose superhuman technical wizardry sparked rumors of a pact with the Devil.

Parma, Italy

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Arts & Music

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Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

Germany

1774 – 1840 (65 years old)

Foremost painter of the German Romantic movement whose contemplative figures before majestic nature embodied the Sublime.

Dresden, Germany

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Francisco de Paula Santander

Francisco Jose de Paula Santander y Omana

🌐 Granada

1792 – 1840 (48 years old)

Founding Father and Vice President of Gran Colombia acclaimed as 'The Man of the Laws' (El Hombre de las Leyes), whose administrative and fiscal genius organized the armies of liberation and founded Colombia's modern constitutional, legal, and public education systems.

Bogota, Colombia

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Mathematics

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Siméon Denis Poisson

Siméon Denis Poisson

France

1781 – 1840 (58 years old)

Prolific French mathematician and physicist who formulated the fundamental Poisson probability distribution in statistics, Poisson's equation in electrostatics and gravitation, and Poisson's ratio in elasticity.

Paris, France

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Politics

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Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier

Erasme-Louis Surlet de Chokier

Belgium

1769 – 1839 (69 years old)

Belgian statesman who served as President of the 1830 National Congress and was elected Belgium's first Regent in February 1831, serving as head of state prior to the accession of King Leopold I.

Gingelom (Limburg), Belgium

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh

ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ (ਸ਼ੇਰ-ਏ-ਪੰਜਾਬ)

Sukerchakia Misl

1780 – 1839 (58 years old)

Founder of the Sikh Empire who unified the warring Sikh misls, conquered Lahore and Kashmir, modernized his army with Napoleonic officers, and gilded the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar.

Lahore, Pakistan

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Sher-e-Punjab)

ਮਹਾਰਾਜਾ ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ

Pakistan

1780 – 1839 (58 years old)

Founder of the Sikh Empire who united the misls of Punjab, modernized his military with European officers, and gilded the Harmandir Sahib.

Lahore, Pakistan

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Philosophy & Thought

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Muhammad al-Shawkani

محمد بن علي الشوكاني

Yemen

28 October 1759 – 1839 (79 years old)

Transformative Yemeni Islamic jurist and Chief Justice whose legal commentary 'Nayl al-Awtar' championed independent rational deduction (ijtihad).

Sana'a, Yemen

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Black Hawk

Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak

United States

c. 1767 – 1838 (~71 years old)

Sauk war chief who led the British Band in the Black Hawk War of 1832 to reclaim ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River.

Rock Island, United States

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Military

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Richard Pierpoint

Black Dick / Richard Pierpoint

Senegal

c. 1744 – c. 1838 (94 years old)

Senegalese-born Black Loyalist soldier, griot, and War of 1812 veteran who helped form the all-Black Coloured Corps to defend Upper Canada at Queenston Heights and Fort George.

Fergus (Ontario), Canada

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yusuf Pasha Karamanli

يوسف باشا القره مانلي

Libya

1766 – 1838 (72 years old)

Formidable Pasha of Tripoli (1795–1832) who declared the First Barbary War against the United States in 1801, captured the USS Philadelphia frigate, and fortified Tripoli harbor against naval bombardments.

Tripoli, Libya

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Yusuf Karamanli

يوسف باشا القره مانلي

Libya

c. 1766 – 1838 (72 years old)

Powerful Pasha of Tripoli (1795–1832) who ruled during the First Barbary War against the United States, captured the USS Philadelphia in 1803, and expanded Libyan hegemony across the Sahara to Chad.

Tripoli, Libya

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

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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