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Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1798 โ€“ 1874 (75 years old)

Towering French romantic historian who conceived history as a resurrection of the past ('rรฉsurrection intรฉgrale'), authored the monumental 17-volume Histoire de France, and was the first to define 'The Renaissance' as an epoch.

Paris, France
Sarah Grimke
Humanitarian & Peace
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Sarah Grimke

Sarah Moore Grimke
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1792 โ€“ 1873 (81 years old)

Southern-born abolitionist and women's rights pioneer who rejected her slaveholding family's wealth to campaign across the North, author of the groundbreaking 1838 feminist work 'Letters on the Equality of the Sexes'.

Boston (Massachusetts), United States
Mohammed IV of Morocco
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Mohammed IV of Morocco

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุฑุงุจุน ุจู† ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ุฑุญู…ู†
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1803 โ€“ 1873 (70 years old)

Alaouite Sultan of Morocco (1859โ€“1873) who defended national sovereignty in the 1859โ€“1860 Hispano-Moroccan War, created the first modern Moroccan standing army, and modernized royal estates.

Rissani, Morocco
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Literature & Poetry
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt

เฆฎเฆพเฆ‡เฆ•เง‡เฆฒ เฆฎเฆงเงเฆธเง‚เฆฆเฆจ เฆฆเฆคเงเฆค
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh
1824 โ€“ 1873 (49 years old)

Pioneering 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist who introduced blank verse (amritrakshar chhanda) and the sonnet into Bengali literature with his tragic epic Meghnad Badh Kavya.

Kolkata, India
Joseph Howe
Politics
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Joseph Howe

Joseph Howe
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1804 โ€“ 1873 (68 years old)

Legendary Nova Scotia orator and journalist who established freedom of the press in Canada with his 1835 libel acquittal and won the British Empire's first responsible government in 1848.

Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
Literature & Poetry
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Rifa'a al-Tahtawi

ุฑูุงุนุฉ ุฑุงูุน ุงู„ุทู‡ุทุงูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
October 15, 1801 โ€“ May 27, 1873 (71 years old)

Epoch-making Egyptian writer, educator, and intellectual who led the 19th-century Arab renaissance (Nahda), authored 'Takhlis al-Ibriz', founded the School of Languages (Al-Alsun), and pioneered women's education.

Cairo, Egypt
Cheikh Belhaddad
Resistance & Human Rights
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Cheikh Belhaddad

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุฃู…ุฒูŠุงู† ุจู„ุญุฏุงุฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1790 โ€“ 1873 (83 years old)

Revered 80-year-old spiritual master of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order who threw his walking stick into the air on April 8, 1871, mobilizing 250,000 fighters across Kabylie in the greatest anti-colonial uprising of the 19th century.

Seddouk (Bรฉjaรฏa), Algeria
Cheikh El Haddad
Resistance & Human Rights
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Cheikh El Haddad

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุฃู…ุฒูŠุงู† ุจู† ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุญุฏุงุฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1790 โ€“ 1873 (83 years old)

Spiritual master of the Rahmaniyya Sufi order whose proclamation of holy resistance in April 1871 mobilized hundreds of thousands of disciples alongside Cheikh El Mokrani in the great Algerian uprising.

Seddouk (Bรฉjaรฏa), Algeria
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