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Charles DARWIN
English naturalist
1809 - 1882 -
Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
Gustave COURBET
French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting
1819 - 1877 -
Napoléon BONAPARTE
Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I
1769 - 1821 -
Simón Bolívar
Venezuelan military and political leader
1783 - 1830 -
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Composer, pianist and conductor
1770 - 1827 -
André-Marie AMPERE
French physicist and mathematician
1775 - 1836 -
Abraham LINCOLN
16th President of the United States
1809 - 1865 -
Camille Pissarro
Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter
1830 - 1903 -
Aleksis KIVI
Finnish writer
1834 - 1872 -
Charles GOUNOD
French composer
1818 - 1893 -
Fiodor Tiouttchev
Russian poet and diplomat
1803 - 1873 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
Pat Garrett
American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid
1850 - 1908 -
Benito María de los Dolores PÉREZ y GALDÓS
Spanish realist novelist
1843 - 1920 -
Léon FOUCAULT
French physicist
1819 - 1868 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Emile REYNAUD
French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope and the first projected animated films
1844 - 1918 -
Félix POTIN
French businessman
1820 - 1871 -
Louis LÉPINE
French lawyer, politician and inventor
1846 - 1933