Amedeo Avogadro

•  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based.

  

  38.9%
  

  27.8%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Reuben James

  Reuben James (c. 1776 – 3 December 1838) was a Boatswain's Mate of the United States Navy, famous for his heroism in the Barbary Wars.

  

  33.3%
  

  22.2%
  

  44.4%
  
•  Sophie Germain

  Marie-Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 – June 27, 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a gender-biased society, she gained an education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss. One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject.

  

  50.0%
  

  10.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  John Constable

  John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821.

  

  20.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  60.0%
  
•  Jean Pierre Boyer

  Jean-Pierre Boyer (possibly February 15, 1776 – July 9, 1850), a native of Saint-Domingue, was a soldier, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843. He reunited the north and south of Haiti in 1820 and also invaded and took control of independent Santo Domingo, which brought all of Hispaniola under one government by 1822. Boyer managed to rule for the longest period of time of any of the revolutionary leaders of his generation.

  

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  55.6%
  

  44.4%
  
•  Peter Barlow

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Johann Friedrich Herbart

  Johann Friedrich Herbart (May 4, 1776 – August 11, 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel; this in particular in relation to aesthetics. That does not take into account his thought on education.

  

  14.3%
  

  14.3%
  

  71.4%
  
•  Johann Joseph von Görres

  Johann Joseph von Görres (25 January 1776 – 29 January 1848) was a German writer. He was born at Koblenz. His father was moderately well off, and sent his son to a Latin college under the direction of the Roman Catholic clergy. The young Görres' sympathies were initially with the French Revolution, and the conduct of the French exiles in the Rhineland confirmed those beliefs, which would evolve over time.

  

  60.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Richard Mant

  Richard Mant (February 12, 1776 - 1848) was an English churchman and writer. He was born at Southampton and educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected fellow of Oriel in 1798, and afterwards took orders, holding a curacy at Southampton in 1802. In 1808 he published The Simpliciad, this satirical poem was addressed in verse to William Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with notes relating to his parodies and allusions to the originals.

  

  40.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  60.0%
  
•  Barthold Georg Niebuhr

  Barthold Georg Niebuhr (August 27, 1776 – January 2, 1831) was a Danish statesman and historian.

  

  16.7%
  

  50.0%
  

  33.3%
  

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• 1856 deaths by likeorhate
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•  Smoke on the Water

  "Smoke on the Water" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple. It was first released on their 1972 album Machine Head.

  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  

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•  Roscoe Conkling

  Roscoe Conkling (October 30, 1829 Albany, New York - April 18, 1888) was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party and the last person to refuse a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had been already been confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

  

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•  Andrea Grendene

  Andrea Grendene (4 July 1986) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer for the UCI ProTeam Lampre-Fondital.

  

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•  Legally blind

  

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•  Musashi Kyōryū National Government Park

  

  37.5%
  

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