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Ludwig Feuerbach
German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
Théophile Gautier
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
Benito Juárez
President of Mexico from 1858 to 1872
Carl XV of Sweden
King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872)
William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
Franz Grillparzer
Austrian dramatist and poet (1791-1872)
William H. Seward
American lawyer and politician (1801-1872)
Aleksis Kivi
national author of Finland (1834–1872)
Vladimir Dal
Russian lexicographer (1801-1872)
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Stanisław Moniuszko
Polish composer (1819–1872)
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
Danish Lutheran pastor, theologian, hymn-writer and educator (1783-1872)
Horace Greeley
American politician and publisher (1811–1872)
George Meade
United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)
George Robert Gray
English ornithologist, author and museum curator (1808–1872)
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke
Dutch statesman (1798-1872)
Ljudevit Gaj
Croatian academic, writer and politician (1809–1872)
Princess Sophie of Bavaria
Bavarian princess (1805–1872)
George Catlin
American painter (1796-1872)
John Bowring
4th Governor of Hong Kong; hymnwriter; translator (1792-1872)
Zeng Guofan
Chinese politician and military commander (1811–1872)
Henry Halleck
Union Army general (1815–1872)
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer and mathematician (1816-1872)
Andrew Smith
Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (1797–1872)
Feodora of Leiningen
German princess (1807–1872); maternal half-sister of Queen Victoria
Petar Preradović
Croatian poet (1818–1872)
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
Academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician (1802-1872)
Alfred Clebsch
German mathematician (1833–1872)
Jacques Babinet
French physicist, mathematician and astronomer
William Webb Ellis
Anglican clergyman and allegedly the inventor of Rugby football (1806-1872)
Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
German philosopher, philologist, Prussian university professor (1802-1872)
Handrij Zejler
Sorbian writer and activist (1804-1872)
Immanuel Nobel
Swedish architect, engineer, inventor and industrialist (1801-1872)
Prince Albert of Prussia
Prussian colonel-general (1809-1872)
John Frederick Kensett
American artist (1816-1872)
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
painter from Germany (1794-1872)
Kamehameha V
King of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872
Petros Duryan
Armenian poet (1851-1872)
Richard S. Ewell
Confederate Army general (1817–1872)
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist (1805–1872)
Carl Jaenisch
Finnish and Russian chess player and theorist (1813-1872)
William Davies Evans
Welsh navy captain, inventor and chess player (1790–1872)
Mpande kaSenzangakhona
Zulu king (1798–1872)
Andrej Sládkovič
Slovak poet and translator (1820–1872)
Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant
French chess player (1800-1872)
Friedrich Welwitsch
Austrian botanist and explorer (1806-1872)
Edward James Roye
first member of Liberia's True Whig Party to serve as President (1815-1872)
Robert Seldon Duncanson
African American artist (1821-1872)
Edwin Atherstone
British writer (1788-1872)
Thomas Caverhill Jerdon
British zoologist, botanist, and physician (1811-1872)
Dimitrios Demeter
Croatian writer (1811–1872)
Jean-Marie Duhamel
French mathematician and physicist
Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
German princess (1839–1872)
Friedrich Gerstäcker
novelist and travel writer (1816–1872)
Frederick Denison Maurice
English theologian, religious author and Christian Socialist (1805-1872)
Lowell Mason
American composer; leading figure in American church music
Avram Iancu
Romanian politician (1824–1872)
Robert Wight
Scottish surgeon, botanist and botanical collector (1796-1872)