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Taras Shevchenko
Ukrainian poet and artist (1814–1861)
Camillo Benso di Cavour
first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet (1806–1861)
Abdülmecid I
31th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839–1861)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the husband of Queen Victoria and consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
Frederick William IV of Prussia
King of Prussia (1795–1861)
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Russian critic and philosopher
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
German jurist (1779-1861)
Xianfeng Emperor
The ninth emperor (and the seventh after defeating Ming) of the Qing Dynasty (1831-1861)
Pedro V of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
Lola Montez
Irish dancer and actress (1821–1861)
Eugène Scribe
French dramatist and librettist (1791-1861)
Pavel Jozef Šafárik
Slovak poet, linguist, literature historian, publicist, educator, publicist, translator, writer and science writer (1795–1861)
Henry Gray
British anatomist (1827–1861)
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
German princess (1786–1861)
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
French preacher and journalist (1802-1861)
Stephen A. Douglas
American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
Ranavalona I
queen of Imerina (1828-1861)
Henri Murger
novelist and poet from France
Elisha Otis
Founder of Otis Elevator Co.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Japanese artist (1798–1861)
Adam Czartoryski
Polish nobleman, statesman, diplomat and author (1770-1861)
Heinrich August Marschner
German composer (1795–1861)
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
Russian general (1777–1861)
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French zoologist (1805-1861)
Jonas Furrer
Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1805-1861)
Joachim Lelewel
Polish historian and politician (1786-1861)
Lars Levi Læstadius
Swedish Lutheran pastor, botanist and botanical collector (1800-1861)
Ippolito Nievo
Italian writer, journalist and patriot (1831-1861)
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist, priest and geologist (1796-1861)
Johann Andreas Wagner
German zoologist (1797–1861)
Carlos Luis de Borbón y Bragança
Spanish royalty (1818-1861)
Teréz Brunszvik
Hungarian noble (1775-1861)
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska
Polish composer
Henri Mouhot
French explorer (1826–1861)
Gabriel Antonio Pereira
president of Uruguay (1794-1861)
Heinrich Rudolf Schinz
Swiss zoologist (1777–1861)
Václav Hanka
Czech archivist, poet, librarian, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, translator, writer, university educator and science writer
Nathaniel Lyon
first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War
Pierre Berthier
French geologist
Karol Lipiński
Polish musician (1790–1861)
Ivan Nikitin
Russian writer (1824–1861)
Robert O'Hara Burke
Australian explorer (1821–1861)
Peter Georg Bang
Danish politician (1797-1861)
Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov
Russian general (1793–1861)
Pierre Bosquet
Marshal of France (1810-1861)
Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer
Austrian historian (1790-1861)
Antun Mihanović
Croatian poet (1796–1861)
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Brazilian novelist, physician, teacher and literary critic (1831–1861)
Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod
French Roman Catholic bishop and saint (1782-1861)
Princess Maria Carolina of the Two Sicilies
Two Sicilian Royal (1820–1861)
Frédéric de Lafresnaye
French ornithologist
Richard Maack
Baltic German explorer and botanist (1825-1886)
Eliphalet Remington
American firearm designer (1793–1861)
José María Obando
President of Colombia (1795-1861)
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea
British politician (1810-1861)
Louis Vicat
French engineer who invented artificial cement
Friedrich Julius Stahl
German lawyer and politician (1802-1861)
Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
Dominican Republic politician (1817-1861)
Edward Dickinson Baker
American politician, lawyer and military leader (1811–1861)