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Bernhard Riemann

German mathematician (1826–1866)

Welsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)

Friedrich Rückert

German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages (1788–1866)

Miguel I of Portugal

King of Portugal from 1828 to 1834

William Whewell

English philosopher and historian of science (1794–1866)

Adolph Diesterweg

German educator and philosopher (1790–1866)

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

Queen consort of the French from 1830 to 1848

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Swedish romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller (1793-1866)

Karl Ludwig Hencke

German astronomer (1793–1866)

Massimo d'Azeglio

Italian statesman, novelist and painter (1798–1866)

United States Army general (1786–1866)

Philipp Franz von Siebold

German biologist and traveller (1796-1866)

Aleksandr Aleksandrov

Russian Army officer

Tokugawa Iemochi

Japanese shogun (1846–1866)

Hermann Goldschmidt

German-French astronomer and painter (1802-1866)

Luigi Carlo Farini

Italian historian and politician (1812-1866)

Thomas Love Peacock

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company (1785–1866)

Rikard Nordraak

Norwegian composer (1842–1866)

American politician (1782-1866)

Mikael Nalbandian

Armenian writer (1829-1866)

British pathologist and social reformer (1798-1866)

Chilean politician and President (1799-1866)

John McDouall Stuart

British explorer (1815-1866)

French caricaturist (1804-1866)

Alexander von Nordmann

Finnish zoologist, botanist and palaeontologist (1803-1866)

Peter Joseph Lenné

Prussian gardener and landscape architect (1789-1866)

American naturalist, ornithologist and writer

Christian Albrecht Bluhme

Danish politician (1794-1866)

Mikhail Petrashevsky

Russian thinker (1821-1866)

Theodor Kotschy

Austrian botanist and explorer (1813-1866)

William Hopkins

English mathematician and geologist (1793-1866)

Manuel Felipe de Tovar

Vice President of Venezuela (1803–1866)

José Ignacio Pavón

Mexican politician (1791-1866)

Rbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn

Rbi Third Chabad Rebbe (1789–1866)

French economist and civil engineer (1804-1866)

William H. Harvey

Irish botanist (1811-1866)

1st principal chief of the Cherokee Nation

Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal

German botanist (1794–1866)

British churchman and poet (1792–1866)

Irish Assyriologist (1792-1866)

French writer (1797–1866)

Maria De Mattias

Italian Catholic nun, foundress and saint (1805-1866)

Bohemian violinist and composer (1801–1866)

Ján Scitovský

Roman Catholic bishop

Thuwaini bin Said Al Busaidi

Sultan of Muscat and Oman

William Thomas Brande

British chemist; succeeded Humphry Davy as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, 1813.; (1788-1866)

Adolf Bernhard Marx

German composer and musicologist (1795–1866)

Henryk Rzewuski

Polish journalist and novelist (1791–1866)

British zoologist and collector (1810–1866)

Robert F. Stockton

United States Navy officer (1795-1866)

Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky

Russian imperial statesmen (1796-1866)

Madame Clicquot Ponsardin

French business person (1777-1866)

Adrien-François Servais

Belgian composer (1807-1866)

Alfred Malherbe

French magistrate and amateur naturalist (1804-1865)

Dutch painter (1809-1866)

Georg Heinrich Mettenius

German botanist (1823-1866)

John Mason Neale

Anglican priest and hymnwriter

Maria Susanna Cummins

American novelist (1827–1866)

Clement Comer Clay

American politician (1789-1866)