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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1769 – 1852

Politician, Diplomat, Military officer, Head of government, Generalfeldmarschall

Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852), was a British Army officer and statesman. A leading figure i…

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852

Novelist, Playwright, Historian, Literary critic, Teacher, Poet

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukraini…

Louis Braille

1809 – 1852

Organist, Inventor, Educator of the blind

Louis Braille ( BRAYL; French: [lwi bʁɑj] ; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after…

J. M. W. Turner

1775 – 1851

Painter, Landscape painter, Draftsperson, Printmaker, Architectural drafter, Visual artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter regarded as one of the greatest Briti…

James Fenimore Cooper

1789 – 1851

Writer, Military officer, Novelist, Children's writer, Biographer, Western author

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depictin…

Louis Daguerre

1787 – 1851

Photographer, Painter, Chemist, Graphic artist, Daguerreotypist, Architect

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( də-GAIR; French: [lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de daɡɛʁ]; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer. He is…

Hans Christian Ørsted

1777 – 1851

Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, University teacher, Engineer, Pharmacist

Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish: [ˈɶɐ̯steð] ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a Danish chemist and physicist w…

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

1804 – 1851

Mathematician, University teacher, Physicist

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic f…

Mary Shelley

1797 – 1851

Writer, Travel writer, Novelist, Essayist, Playwright, Biographer

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prome…

John James Audubon

1785 – 1851

Botanist, Ornithologist, Painter, Zoologist, Scientific illustrator, Writer

John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American artist, entrepreneur, naturalist, explorer, and ornitholog…

Frédéric Bastiat

1801 – 1850

Philosopher, Economist, Essayist, Politician, Magistrate, Writer

Here is a revised and improved memorial biography of Claude‑Frédéric Bastiat, based strictly on verifiable sources: Claude‑Frédéric Bastiat (30 June 1801 – 24…

Louis Philippe I

1773 – 1850

Ruler, King

Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, the…

Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850

Novelist, Literary critic, Writer, Prose writer, Journalist, Art critic

Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, also US: BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright…

José de San Martín

1778 – 1850

Military personnel, Politician, Soldier

José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ðe sam maɾˈtin] ; 25 February 1778 – 17 August 1850), nicknamed "the Liberator of Argenti…

Báb

1819 – 1850

Religious leader, Preacher, Merchant, Orator, Poet, Writer

The Báb (born ʻAlí-Muḥammad Shírází; ; Persian: علی‌محمد شیرازی; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also…

Zachary Taylor

1784 – 1850

Army officer, Statesperson, Military officer, Politician

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850. Before his presidency,…

Robert Peel

1788 – 1850

Politician, Art collector, Minister

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835…

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

1778 – 1850

Physicist, Chemist, Politician, Engineer, University teacher, Board member

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts…

William Wordsworth

1770 – 1850

Poet, Lyricist, Writer

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English l…

John C. Calhoun

1782 – 1850

Politician, Lawyer, Diplomat, Writer, Jurist, Vice president

John Caldwell Calhoun (; March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the Unite…