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Queen Victoria
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era, a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)
George Eliot
English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)
Herman Melville
American writer and poet (1819–1891)
John Ruskin
English writer and art critic (1819–1900)
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Gustave Courbet
French painter (1819–1877)
Clara Schumann
German musician and composer (1819–1896)
Báb
The Báb (born ʻAlí-Muḥammad; ; ; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb gradually and progressively revealed his claim in his extensive writings to be a Manifestation of God, of a status as great as Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, receiving revelations as profound as the Torah, Gospel, and Quran. This new revelation, he claimed, would release the creative energies and capacities necessary for the establishment of global unity and peace.
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
Theodor Fontane
German novelist and poet (1819–1898)
John Couch Adams
English mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria and consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
Gottfried Keller
Swiss poet and writer of German literature (1819–1890)
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
Hippolyte Fizeau
French physicist (1819–1896)
William A. Wheeler
vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881
Thomas A. Hendricks
American politician (1819–1885)
Stanisław Moniuszko
Polish composer (1819–1872)
Maria II of Portugal
Queen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
Chlodwig, 3rd Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
German chancellor (1819–1901)
James Russell Lowell
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
Charles Kingsley
British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875)
Annibale de Gasparis
Italian astronomer (1819–1892)
Georg V of Hanover
King of Hanover (1819–1878)
William T. G. Morton
United States dental surgeon (1819–1868)
Franz von Suppè
Austrian composer and conductor (1819–1895)
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor and women's rights activist (1819–1888)
Elias Howe
American inventor (1819–1867)
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
Estonian journalist and cultural activist (1819–1890)
Julia Ward Howe
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1819–1905)
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo
Cuban revolutionary hero, plantation, poet, musician; 1st (wartime) President of Cuba (1816-1874)
Pieter Bleeker
Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist and herpetologist (1819–1878)
Panteleimon Kulish
Ukrainian writer, historian, ethnographer, and translator (1819–1897)
Christopher atoles BR BR patapin
American politician (1819–1890)
Gustave de Molinari
Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist (1819–1912)
Francis V, Duke of Modena
Italian politician (1819–1875)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
Daughter of Nicholas I of Russia (1819–1876)
Roger Fenton
British photographer (1819–1869)
Théodore Chassériau
French romantic painter (1819–1856)
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
British prince and military commander (1819–1904)
Milan Obrenović II
Prince of Serbia (1819–1839)
Allan Pinkerton
Scottish-American civil war detective and spy
Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol
Spanish submarine pioneer (1819-1885)
Johan Jongkind
Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism (1819-1891)
Estanislao Figueras
Spanish politician (1819–1882)
Princess Louise d'Artois
French princess (1819–1864), Duchess of Parma from 1849 to 1854
Cyrus West Field
American businessman (1819–1892)
George Salmon
Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian (1819–1904)
Friedrich von Bodenstedt
German writer (1819–1892)
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
South African politician (1819–1901)
Butrus al-Bustani
Lebanese writer and scholar (1819–1883)
Wilhelm Marr
German publicist (1819–1904)
Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb
Faroese folklorist and linguist, Lutheran clergyman
Alfred Escher
Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur (1819–1882)
Felice Orsini
Italian failed regicide (1819–1858)
Monier Monier-Williams
British professor of Sanskrit (1819–1899)
Franz Abt
German composer and choral conductor (1819–1885)
Charles Piazzi Smyth
British astronomer (1817-1900)