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Benito Juarez
Statesmanship & Statesmen
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Benito Juarez

Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1806 โ€“ 1872 (66 years old)

First indigenous President of Mexico (1858โ€“1872), full-blooded Zapotec lawyer who enacted 'La Reforma' separating church and state, defeated French imperial invasion under Emperor Maximilian, and defended Mexican democratic sovereignty, hailed as 'Benemรฉrito de las Amรฉricas'.

Mexico City, Mexico
Music
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Stanislaw Moniuszko

ะกั‚ะฐะฝั–ัะปะฐัž ะœะฐะฝัŽัˆะบะฐ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พ Belarus
1819-05-05 โ€“ 1872-06-04 (53 years old)

Composer, organist, and musical father of national opera who grew up in Ubiel and Minsk, composing operas ('Halka', 'The Haunted Manor') and cantatas infused with Belarusian and Polish folk songs.

Warsaw, Poland
Oba Kosoko
Politics
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Oba Kosoko

Kosoko
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria
1800-01-01 โ€“ 1872-04-15 (72 years old)

Oba of Lagos (1845โ€“1851) who fortified Lagos with coastal artillery and heroically defended the island during the British naval Bombardment of Lagos on Boxing Day 1851.

Lagos, Nigeria
Cornelius Krieghoff
Arts & Music
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Cornelius Krieghoff

Cornelius David Krieghoff
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
1815 โ€“ 1872 (56 years old)

Nineteenth-century European-born painter whose detailed, colorful depictions of French-Canadian habitants, Indigenous hunters, and winter sleigh scenes became defining images of early Canadian settler life.

Chicago, United States
Politics
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Samuel Jackman Prescod

Samuel Jackman Prescod
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ง Barbados
1806-01-01 โ€“ 1871-09-26 (65 years old)

Pioneering nineteenth-century Barbadian journalist and National Hero who became the first person of African descent elected to the Barbados Parliament, winning voting rights for non-white citizens.

Bridgetown, Barbados
Paul Kane
Arts & Music
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Paul Kane

Paul Kane
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช Ireland
1810 โ€“ 1871 (60 years old)

Pioneering artist who traveled over 10,000 kilometers across the Canadian Northwest by canoe and horseback between 1845 and 1848, producing over five hundred sketches of Indigenous peoples and buffalo hunts.

Toronto, Canada
Religion
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Hammouda ibn Ibrahim al-Riahi

ุญู…ูˆุฏุฉ ุจู† ุฅุจุฑุงู‡ูŠู… ุงู„ุฑูŠุงุญูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1802 AD โ€“ 1871 AD (69 years old)

Son of Sidi Brahim Riahi who succeeded to the supreme Maliki Muftiship of Tunis, guiding Tunisian legal reform during the promulgation of the 1857 Fundamental Pact and 1861 Constitution.

Tunis, Tunisia
Mahmoud Kabadou
Literature & Poetry
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Mahmoud Kabadou

ู…ุญู…ูˆุฏ ู‚ุจุงุฏูˆ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
c. 1815 โ€“ 1871 (56 years old)

Pioneering Tunisian scholar, poet, and professor at the Bardo Military Academy who argued that mastering modern sciences and technology was a religious duty for the renewal of Islamic civilization.

Tunis, Tunisia
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