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Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville
French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Washington Irving
American writer, historian and diplomat (1783-1859)
Klemens von Metternich
Austrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor (1773–1859)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
British historian and politician (1800–1859)
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
German mathematician (1805–1859)
John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Oscar I of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway between 1844–1859 (1799–1859)
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785-1859)
Bettina von Arnim
German writer and novelist (1785-1859)
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
Carl Ritter
German geographer (1779-1859)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British mechanical and civil engineer (1806-1859)
Jean-Marie Vianney
French priest and saint (1786–1859)
Zygmunt Krasiński
Polish poet (1812–1859)
Sergey Aksakov
Russian writer
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
King of the Two sicilies
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich
British Prime Minister, politician (1782-1859)
Josip Jelačić
Austrian general (1801-1859)
Horace Mann
American politician (1796-1859)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
French poet and novelist
Robert Stephenson
British railway engineer and locomotive designer (1803-1859)
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
Leigh Hunt
British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)
Louis Poinsot
French mathematician and physicist (1777-1859)
Carl Adolph Agardh
Swedish cleric and botanist (1785–1859)
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
Russian Grand Duchess
John Austin
legal philosopher; (1790-1859)
Archduke John of Austria
member of the Austrian dynasty; imperial regent of the German Empire (1848 to 1849)
Yoshida Shōin
Japanese politician (1830-1859)
Queen Stephanie of Portugal
Queen Consort of Portugal (1858-1859) (b.1837–d.1859)
Nana Sahib
Indian rebel (1824–1859)
William Cranch Bond
American astronomer (1789–1859)
Thomas Horsfield
U.S. naturalist and physician (1773-1859)
William Hickling Prescott
American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
Alfred Vail
American inventor (1807–1859)
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Governor of Bombay, Scottish historian (1779-1859)
Eliza Acton
British food writer and poet (1799–1859)
Thomas Nuttall
English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859)
Abd al-Rahman of Morocco
Sultan of Morocco from 1822 to 1859
Sayyid Muhammad bin ʿAli al-Sanusi
Libyan scholar
Tatya Tope
leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857
Faddey Bulgarin
Russian writer and journalist (1789–1859)
José de Madrazo y Agudo
Spanish painter (1781-1859)
Mirabeau B. Lamar
American politician (1798-1859)
Joseph Ludwig Raabe
Swiss mathematician (1801–1859)
Sydney, Lady Morgan
Irish novelist (1781? – 1859)
Richard Rush
former United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury (1780-1859)
Joseph Diez Gergonne
French mathematician
Karl Baedeker
German publisher, bookseller and traveller (1801-1859)
Archduchess Anna, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Walter Hunt
American mechanic and inventor (1796–1859)
Heinrich Zollinger
Swiss botanist (1818–1859)
José Miguel de Velasco
President of Bolivia (1795-1859)
Henry Hallam
English historian (1777-1859)
Petrus Borel
French writer of the Romantic movement (1809-1859)
Charles Lenormant
French archaeologist (1802–1859)
John Walker
British inventor (1781-1859)
David Cox
English landscape painter, 1783-1859 (1783–1859)
Charles Hamilton Smith
British artist and naturalist (1776-1859)