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Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), also called Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (; ; ), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhyay (his childhood nickname was Gadadhar), was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as Christianity and Sufi Islam. His parable-based teachings advocated the essential unity of religions and proclaimed that world religions are "so many paths to reach one and the same goal". He is regarded by his followers as an avatar (di
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer thumbnail
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Spanish poet
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Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Austrian author (1836–1895)
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman
British Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908 (1836–1908)
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Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Russian critic and philosopher
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Léo Delibes
French composer (1836–1891)
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)
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Bret Harte
American writer and poet (1836–1902)
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Joseph Chamberlain
British politician (1836-1914)
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James Tissot
French painter and illustrator (1836–1902)
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Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter and printmaker (1836-1904)
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Norman Lockyer
English scientist and astronomer (1836–1920)
Sakamoto Ryōma
Japanese samurai and politician (1836–1867)
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Winslow Homer
American landscape painter (1836–1910)
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Sophia of Nassau
Swedish queen (1836–1913)
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Kalākaua
Kalākaua (David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Māhinulani Nālaʻiaʻehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua; November 16, 1836 – January 20, 1891), was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891. Succeeding Lunalilo, he was elected to the vacant throne of Hawaiʻi against Queen Emma. Kalākaua was known as the Merrie Monarch for his convivial personality – he enjoyed entertaining guests with his singing and ukulele playing. At his coronation and his birthday jubilee, the hula, which had hitherto been banned in public in the kingdom, b
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W. S. Gilbert
English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836–1911)
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Francis II of the Two Sicilies
King of the Two Sicilies (1836-1894) and Servant of God
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Marie Henriette of Austria
queen consort of Belgium
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Thomas Hill Green
British philosopher (1836-1882)
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
English physician and feminist (1836-1917)
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Isabella Beeton
British journalist, editor, publisher, and writer
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Juliette Adam
French writer and salonnière (1836–1936)
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Yiddish-Hebrew writer (1836-1917)
Jules Lefebvre
French painter (1836-1911)
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Andrés Avelino Cáceres
Peruvian politician, military (1836-1923)
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Hassan I of Morocco
Moroccan Sultan (1836-1894)
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Ferdinand Cheval
French architect (1836–1924)
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Theodor Nöldeke
German orientalist and scholar (1836–1930)
Jarosław Dąbrowski
Polish left-wing independence activist and general, supporter of the Paris Commune (1836-1871)
Antônio Carlos Gomes
Brazilian composer (1836–1896)
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Jules Chéret
French painter and lithographer (1836-1932)
Enomoto Takeaki
Japanese admiral, cabinet minister (1836-1908)
Franz von Lenbach
German painter (1836–1904)
Nicholas of Japan
Russian Orthodox priest
John Watson Foster
American lawyer, politician and diplomat (1836-1917)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American poet, novelist, editor (1836–1907)
Jay Gould
American railroad magnate and financier (1836-1892)
Cato Maximilian Guldberg
mathematician and chemist from Norway
Edward Poynter
British artist (1836–1919)
John Atkinson Grimshaw
English painter (1836-1893)
Robert Swinhoe
British diplomat and naturalist (1836-1877)
Inoue Kaoru
Japanese politician (1836-1915)
Princess Anna of Prussia
Prussian princess
Georg August Schweinfurth
German explorer and scientist (1836-1925)
Jan Gotlib Bloch
Polish banker (1836–1902)
Ferdinand Monoyer
French ophthalmologist
Alfred Grandidier
French naturalist and explorer (1836–1921)
Casimir de Candolle
Swiss botanist (1836-1918)
Remigio Morales Bermúdez
President of Peru (1836-1894)
Nikolay Sklifosovsky
Russian physiologist (1836–1904)
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Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg
Princess of Saxe-Altenburg (1836-1914)
Archduchess Anna, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Cirilo Antonio Rivarola Acosta
politician from Paraguay, president in 1870
Camillo Boito
Italian architect (1836–1914)
Walter Besant
English novelist and historian (1836–1901)
Joseph Smit
Dutch natural history illustrator (1836-1929)
Máximo Gómez Báez
Cuban-dominican Major General (1836-1905)
Daniel Peter
Swiss businessman (1836-1919)