Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Jean-François Champollion

France

1790 – 1832 (41 years old)

Brilliant French philologist and founder of scientific Egyptology who deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing in September 1822 through his analysis of the Rosetta Stone.

Paris, France

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Technology

William Cockerill

Great Britain

c. 1759 – 1832 (73 years old)

English inventor and mechanical pioneer who bypassed British export bans on textile machinery in 1799, bringing mechanized wool spinning to Verviers and inaugurating the Industrial Revolution on mainland Europe.

Verviers (Province of Liège), Belgium

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Philosophy & Thought

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Resistance & Human Rights

G. W. F. Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Germany

1770 – 1831 (61 years old)

Titan of German Idealism whose dialectical system traced the historical evolution of Absolute Spirit through thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Berlin, Germany

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Philosophy & Thought

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Germany

27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831 (61 years old)

Master of German Idealism whose dialectical philosophy conceptualized historical development as the progressive self-realization of Spirit (Geist) toward absolute freedom.

Berlin, Germany

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Nat Turner

United States

1800 – 1831 (31 years old)

Enslaved African American preacher who led the most significant and consequential slave rebellion in United States history in Southampton County, Virginia.

Courtland, United States

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Ioannis Kapodistrias

Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας

Italy

1776 – 1831 (55 years old)

First Governor of independent Greece (1828–1831) and former Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire who drafted the Swiss Federal Constitution, founded the modern Greek state, modern agriculture, and public education.

Corfu, Greece

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James Monroe

United States

1758 – 1831 (73 years old)

Fifth US President and last of the Virginia Dynasty whose 'Era of Good Feelings' saw the Missouri Compromise, the acquisition of Florida, and the historic Monroe Doctrine.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein

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Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein

Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein

Germany

1757 – 1831 (73 years old)

Visionary Prussian statesman who abolished serfdom, introduced municipal self-government, and coordinated the anti-Napoleonic Coalition in Russia and Germany.

Frücht (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Richard Allen

United States

1760 – 1831 (71 years old)

Founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first independent Black denomination in the United States, and foremost civil rights pioneer.

Philadelphia, United States

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Military

John Norton

Teyoninhokarawen

Great Britain

c. 1770 – c. 1831 (61 years old)

Scottish-Cherokee adopted Mohawk chief who led Six Nations warriors at the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812, saving Upper Canada.

Ohsweken, Canada

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Simon Bolivar

Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar

Venezuela

1783 – 1830 (47 years old)

Supreme Liberator 'El Libertador' of South America whose military and political campaigns liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from the Spanish Empire, serving as the first President of Gran Colombia.

Caracas, Venezuela

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Antonio Jose de Sucre

Antonio Jose de Sucre y Alcala

Venezuela

1795 – 1830 (35 years old)

Grand Marshal of Ayacucho, beloved lieutenant to Simon Bolivar, who won the decisive Battle of Ayacucho in 1824 that permanently ended Spanish colonial rule in South America, serving as the first constitutional President of Bolivia.

Quito, Ecuador

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Antonio José de Sucre (Grand Marshal of Ayacucho)

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Antonio José de Sucre (Grand Marshal of Ayacucho)

Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá

Venezuela

1795 – 1830 (35 years old)

Venezuelan independence leader and Grand Marshal of Ayacucho whose victory in 1824 permanently destroyed the Spanish Empire in South America.

Quito, Ecuador

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Sciences & Discovery

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Joseph Fourier

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

France

1768 – 1830 (62 years old)

French mathematician and physicist who created Fourier analysis for heat transfer and discovered the greenhouse effect.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Sir Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence

Great Britain

1769 – 1830 (60 years old)

Child prodigy and President of the Royal Academy who became the pre-eminent British portraitist of the Regency era, immortalized by his Waterloo Chamber royal portraits.

London, United Kingdom

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Sciences & Discovery

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck

France

1744 – 1829 (85 years old)

Pioneering French naturalist who proposed the first coherent theory of biological evolution and coined the term 'biology'.

Paris, France

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History