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French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)

Alfred de Musset

French writer (1810–1857)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

French mathematician (1789–1857)

Russian composer

Pierre-Jean de Béranger

French poet and chansonnier (1780-1857)

Joseph von Eichendorff

German poet and novelist (1788-1857)

Austrian composer and pianist (1791-1857)

French writer (1804-1857)

Charles Lucien Bonaparte

French noble, biologist, politician and art collector (1803–1857)

Eugène François Vidocq

French criminal and criminalist

Francis Beaufort

Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)

Alcide d'Orbigny

French scientist (1802–1857)

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac

French general and politician (1802-1857)

Italian saint (1842-1857)

British aeronautics engineer (1773-1857)

Dionysios Solomos

Greek poet (1798–1857)

India's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)

Johan Christian Dahl

Norwegian painter (1788–1857)

Hinrich Lichtenstein

German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist (1780-1857)

Louis Jacques Thénard

French chemist (1777-1857)

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin

painter from Russia (1776-1857)

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor de Custine, Marquis de Custine

French aristocrat and writer (1790-1857)

Princess Mary of the United Kingdom

British princess, daughter of George III; (1776-1857)

William L. Marcy

American politician (1786-1857)

2nd President of Uruguay (1835-38)

Manuel José Quintana

Spanish poet (1772-1857)

Austrian inventor (1793–1857)

William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst

British diplomat (1773-1857)

Carl Ludwig Koch

German entomologist and arachnologist (1778–1857)

Achille Devéria

French painter (1800–1857)

American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland (1786-1857)

admiral in the Argentine Navy

Christian Daniel Rauch

German sculptor (1777–1857)

Johann Jakob Heckel

Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist (1790-1857)

Augustinos Kapodistrias

Greek soldier and politician (1778-1857)

First maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (1792-1857)

Rufus Wilmot Griswold

American editor, literary critic, anthologist, and writer (1815–1857)

Archduchess Sophie Friederike of Austria

Austrian Imperial and Royal (1855–1857)

Agustina de Aragón

Spanish heroine (1786-1857)

British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker (1770-1857)

Johann Friedrich Naumann

German ornithologist, engraver and editor (1780-1857)

Princess Victoria, Duchess of Nemours

Saxe-Coburg and Gothan and French Royal

Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg

Duchess of Württemberg (1780-1857)

Douglas William Jerrold

English dramatist and writer (1803-1857)

Italian politician (1804-1857)

Juan Lindo y Zelaya

President of Honduras and El Salvador (1790-1857)

William Daniel Conybeare

English geologist and palaeontologist (1787-1857)

Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria, Marchioness of Loulé

Portuguese Royal (1806–1857)

Frederick Scott Archer

English inventor of the photographic collodion process (1813–1857)

Karol Kurpiński

Polish composer and conductor (1785-1857)

Vasily Perovsky

Imperial Russian general and minister (1795–1857)

Duke Eugen of Württemberg

Russian general (1787–1857)

Abraham Jacob van der Aa

Dutch writer and academic (1792-1857)

Johann Schweigger

German chemist, physicist, and professor

South Carolina politician. (1819–1857)

Sophie Swetchine

Russian salon-holder

Princess Theodolinde de Beauharnais of Leuchtenberg

Wurttemberg princess (1814-1857)

Stefano Franscini

Swiss statistician and politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1796-1857)

Japanese politician (1819-1857)

Dorothea Lieven

Influential figure in 19th-century European diplomatic, political and social circles (1785-1857)