Louis Braille

•  Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.

  

  35.7%
  

  7.1%
  

  57.1%
  
•  Albert Pike

  Albert Pike (December 29, 1809–April 2, 1891) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C..

  

  36.6%
  

  36.6%
  

  26.8%
  
•  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

  

  35.4%
  

  32.9%
  

  31.7%
  
•  Hannibal Hamlin

  Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Abraham Lincoln from 1861–1865. He was the first Vice President from the Republican Party. Prior to his election in 1860, Hamlin served in the United States Senate, the House of Representatives, and, briefly, as the 26th Governor of Maine.

  

  54.5%
  

  27.3%
  

  18.2%
  
•  Heinrich Abeken

  Heinrich Abeken (August 19, 1809 – August 8, 1872), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken. After finishing the college in Osnabrück, he moved in 1827 to visit the University of Berlin to study theology.

  

  37.5%
  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Kit Carson

  Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at an early age and became a trapper in the West. He gained notoriety for his role as John C. Fremont's guide in the American West. Carson also played a minor role in California during the 1846-48 Mexican-American War. Later he became a rancher in New Mexico.

  

  37.5%
  

  31.3%
  

  31.3%
  
•  William Gladstone

  

  26.9%
  

  38.5%
  

  34.6%
  
•  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (15 January 1809 in Besançon – 19 January 1865 in Passy) was a French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. He was a member of the French Parliament, and he was the first person to call himself an "". He is considered among the most influential theorists and organisers of anarchism. After the events of 1848 he began to call himself a federalist. Proudhon was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language.

  

  42.9%
  

  42.9%
  

  14.3%
  
•  Baron Haussmann

  Georges-Eugène Haussmann (27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), who called himself Baron Haussmann, was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. He was born in Paris to a Protestant family from Alsace.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

  

  55.6%
  

  0.0%
  

  44.4%
  

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•  Purdue University

  Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. , is the flagship university of the six campuses within the Purdue University System. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and money from Lafayette businessman John Purdue to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name.

  

  62.5%
  

  25.0%
  

  12.5%
  
•  Carlos Tévez

  Carlos Alberto Tévez (born Carlos Alberto Martínez on 5 February 1984) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for English club Manchester City. He has previously played for Boca Juniors, Corinthians, West Ham United and Manchester United. He transferred to Manchester City in the 2009–10 summer transfer window, becoming the first player to move between the two Manchester clubs since 1999.

  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Camillo Serafini

  Camillo Serafini was an Italian Marquis and the only Governor of Vatican City from 11 February 1929 – 31 March 1952. He was a noted numismatist. The Marquis and Cardinal Domenico Serafini, the Prefect of Propagation of the Faith, belonged to the same family.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Explod-O-Pop

  CBS's Late Show with David Letterman regularly features different sketches that follow the monologue and precede interviews with guests. Often these are repeated absurdist segments, involving various cast members, Dave's friends, audience participation, edited or contrived news or promotional videos, or competitions or stunts staged outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. Currently, the show's regularly scheduled segments consist of "Small Town News" on Mondays and "Fun Facts" on Fridays.

  

  40.9%
  

  27.3%
  

  31.8%
  
•  Ismet Inönü

  

  41.7%
  

  25.0%
  

  33.3%