Historical Archives & Public Figures

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet

Great Britain

1778 – 1829 (50 years old)

Brilliant British chemist and inventor who isolated sodium, potassium, and calcium via electrolysis, and invented the miner's safety lamp.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Niels Henrik Abel

Norway

1802-08-05 – 1829-04-06 (26 years old)

Brilliant Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals and made foundational breakthroughs in elliptic and Abelian functions.

Froland, Norway

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Military

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Charles de Salaberry

Charles-Michel d'Irumberry

Canada

19 November 1778 – 27 February 1829 (50 years old)

French-Canadian commander who raised the Canadian Voltigeurs and defeated a four-thousand-strong American army at Châteauguay in 1813.

Chambly, Canada

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Kittur Chennamma

ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಚೆನ್ನಮ್ಮ

India

1778 – 1829 (50 years old)

Queen of Kittur who led one of the earliest armed rebellions against the British East India Company in 1824, defying the aggressive Doctrine of Lapse.

Kittur, India

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Arts & Music

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Franz Peter Schubert

Austria

31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828 (31 years old)

Austrian Early Romantic composer of heartbreaking melodic beauty who elevated the German Lied to an immortal fine art form with over 600 art songs (Erlkönig, Winterreise) and composed the Unfinished Symphony.

Vienna, Austria

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Shaka kaSenzangakhona (King Shaka Zulu)

uShaka kaSenzangakhona

South Africa

c. 1787 CE – 22 September 1828 (~41 years old)

Visionary military strategist and founding King of the Zulu Kingdom. Revolutionized African warfare by introducing the short stabbing spear (Iklwa), large cowhide shields, barefoot speed, and the famous "Bull Horns" encirclement formation.

KwaDukuza (Stanger), South Africa

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Radama I

Radama I (Radama the Great)

🌐 Madagascar

c. 1793 – 1828 (35 years old)

First monarch of the unified Kingdom of Madagascar (1810–1828) acclaimed as 'Radama the Great', who modernized the Malagasy army with European firearms, outlawed the transatlantic slave trade, and established the Latin alphabet for the Malagasy language.

Antananarivo, Madagascar

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Arts & Music

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Jean-Antoine Houdon

France

1741 – 1828 (87 years old)

Supreme French portrait sculptor of the Enlightenment whose vivid marble busts captured Voltaire, Diderot, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington with intense psychological realism.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Francisco de Goya

Spain

30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 (82 years old)

Visionary Spanish master whose fearless art chronicled royal vanity (Charles IV), the brutal horrors of war (The Third of May 1808), and the terrifying dark phantoms of the human subconscious in his Black Paintings.

Bordeaux, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Kobayashi Issa

小林一茶 (Kobayashi Nobuyuki)

Japan

1763 – 1828 (64 years old)

Beloved Edo-period Japanese haiku master (1763–1828) whose compassionate, humorous, and deeply personal verses celebrated humble creatures, children, and spiritual resilience in the face of immense personal grief.

Shinano (Nagano), Japan

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Queen Nandi

Nandi kaBhebhe eLangeni

South Africa

Unknown – 1827

Revered Queen Mother (Ndlovukati) of the Zulu Kingdom and mother of Shaka Zulu, whose resilience against hardship and wise counsel guided the founding and consolidation of the Zulu Empire.

Eshowe (KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa

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Military

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Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye

Joseph-Geneviève, comte de Puisaye

France

1755 – 1827 (72 years old)

Aristocratic French counter-revolutionary commander who led the royalist Chouan uprising in Brittany and later brought a settlement of French royalist emigrés to Upper Canada in 1798.

Hammersmith (London), United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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William Blake

Great Britain

28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827 (69 years old)

Visionary English Romantic poet, printmaker, and mystic who saw angels in London trees, creating illuminated books of singular poetic genius—Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and 'The Tyger'.

Charing Cross (London), Great Britain

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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George Canning

Great Britain

1770 – 1827 (57 years old)

Visionary British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister who recognized the independence of Latin American republics, famously declaring: 'I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old'.

London, United Kingdom

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Science

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel

France

1788 – 1827 (39 years old)

Pioneering French physicist and civil engineer whose mathematical and experimental wave theory proved that light consists of transverse waves, and whose stepped Fresnel lens revolutionized world maritime lighthouse illumination.

Paris, France

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Arts & Music

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Germany

17 December 1770 (Baptism) – 26 March 1827 (~57 years old)

Colossus of Western music who triumphed over total deafness to propel music into the Romantic era with volcanic emotional power, heroism, and cosmic brotherhood in his 9 Symphonies, 32 Piano Sonatas, and late String Quartets.

Vienna, Austria

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Sciences & Discovery

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Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta

Italy

18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 (82 years old)

Italian physicist who invented the voltaic pile (the first continuous electrochemical battery) in 1799, discovered methane gas, and had the electrical unit of potential—the 'Volt'—named in his honor.

Como (Lombardy), Italy

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Sciences & Discovery

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace

France

23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827 (77 years old)

'The French Newton' whose Traité de mécanique céleste proved the gravitational stability of the solar system, proposed the nebular hypothesis of planetary origin, and defined determinism (Laplace's Demon).

Saint-Julien-de-Mailloc (Calvados), France

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