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John M. Berrien
American politician from Georgia, United States (1781-1856)
Helmina von Chézy
German journalist (1783-1856)
Narcisse-Achille de Salvandy
French politician (1795-1856)
Margherita Occhiena
Venerated Catholic (1788-1856)
Giuseppe Donizetti
Italian musician (1788–1856)
Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
French botanist (1784-1856)
Wenceslas Bojer
Czech botanist (1797–1856)
Luigi Canina
Italian architect (1795–1856)
Georgios Sinas
Greek-Austrian nobleman, entrepreneur, banker, national benefactor of Greece (1782-1856)
Auguste Chapdelaine
19th-century French Christian missionary, martyr, Catholic saint
Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd
Danish author (1773–1856)
Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná
politician, diplomat, judge, and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil (1801-1856)
Janko Drašković
Croatian politician and poet (1770-1856)
Emily de Vialar
French saint (1797–1856)
Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs
German chemist and mineralogist (1774-1856)
Christian Samuel Weiss
German mineralogist (1780-1856)
Juan María Santamaría Rodríguez
national hero of Costa Rica (1831-1856)
Richard Westmacott
British sculptor (1775–1856)
Yang Xiuqing
east King of the Heavenly Kingdom (1821-1856)
William Henry Sleeman
British colonial administrator (1788-1856)
Charles de Steuben
French painter (1788-1856)
Johann Peter Krafft
German-Austrian painter (1780-1856)
Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt
French writer
Conrad Heyer
(1749-1856) American soldier and centenarian
José María Estrada
President of Nicaragua in 1855 (1802-1856)
Albert Gottfried Dietrich
German botanist (1795-1856)
Christoph Friedrich Otto
German botanist (1783–1856)
Frederik Liebmann
Danish botanist (1813-1856)
Joshua L. Martin
American politician (1799-1856)
William Palmer
English doctor found guilty of murder (1824–1856)
José María Alfaro Zamora
Head of State, President and Vice President of Costa Rica (1799-1856)
Friedrich Alexander von Rüdiger
Baltic German military officer (1783-1856)
Hendrik Tollens
Dutch poet (1780–1856)
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
British actress, theatre manager and contralto (1797-1856)
Eduard Vogel
German explorer (1829-1856)
August Emil Braun
German archaeologist (1809–1856)
Pyotr Kireevsky
Russian philosopher (1808-1856)
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
German entomologist (1775–1856)
George Troup
American politician (1780-1856)
Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk
British politician (1791-1856)
Filipp Vigel
Russian diplomat and memoirist
Ceylanyar Hanım
Consort of Ottoman sultan Abdulmejid I
Robert C. Nicholas
American politician (1757-1856)
Carlo Steeb
German presbyter (1773-1856)
James Baillie Fraser
Scottish travel writer and artist (1783–1856)
Giovanni Soglia Ceroni
Italian cardinal
Gottlieb Bindesbøll
Danish architect (1800-1856)
Giacomo Filippo Fransoni
Italian Catholic cardinal (1775-1856)
Kim Jeong-hui
Korean scholar, calligrapher (1786-1856)
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
German philologist (1780-1856)
Alfred Victor du Pont
American chemist and industrialist (1798–1856)
Hugh Miller
Scottish geologist and folklorist (1802-1856)
Vincenzo Tineo
Italian botanist (1791-1856)
James Strang
American Mormon leader (1813–1856)
John Milton Niles
American politician (1787-1856)
Lorenzo Maria of Saint Francis Xavier
Italian saint
Peter Josef von Lindpaintner
German composer and conductor (1791–1856)
Georg Weerth
German writer (1822-1856)
Elisha Collier
American inventor of the flintlock revolver
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
United States educator and entomologist