Notables of the 19th Century

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1. Hungarian pianist, composer, romancer, and was one of Europe's first great celebrities. Women swooned at his performances and fought over the white gloves he tossed into the audience at the end of his performances. Franz Liszt Bedrich Smetena Zoltan Kodaly Antonin Dvorak

2. This Prussian prince was a instrumental force in the movement for unification of Germany. He served as chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890 and oversaw the rise of Germany as a powerful nationalistic state. Kaiser Wilhelm II Hans von Buelow Friedrich Nietzsche Otto von Bismarck

3. This man was a British author and statesman who twice served as Prime Minister of England during the reign of Queen Victoria. He was instrumental in the expansion of the British Empire. William Pitt, the elder Benjamin Disraeli William Pitt, the younger Edward Bulwer-Lytton

4. This man was also a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister during Queen Victoria's reign. He became a Liberal and was responsible for many reforms in British government. Edward Bulwer-Lytton George Farquhar James Clerk-Maxwell William Gladstone

5. This 19th century American woman was an author, social reformer and abolitionist. She was instrumental in shaping public opinion about slavery as a moral issue paving the way to the Civil War. Amelia Moore Nation Julia Ward Howe Harriet Beecher Stowe Clara Barton

6. This American Civil War general commanded the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Ohio and, in another sense, is remembered for the close shaves he didn't have. George Meade George McClellan George Armstrong Custer Ambrose Burnside

7. French composer known primarily for his operas. One, 'Carmen' may be the most performed in history. Eric Satie Francois Couperin Claude Debussy Georges Bizet

8. Another French Composer, also known for his operas, but is well known for his lavishly orchestrated, romantic and powerful 'Symphonie Fantastique' Hector Berlioz Leo Delibes Maurice Ravel Camille Saint-Saens

9. This man of aristocratic origins became the Emperor of Mexico, perhaps the only emperor in the Western Hemisphere in modern days. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Maximilian Benito Juarez Montezuma II

10. This man was a soldier, explorer, and politician. He blazed trails to the The Oregon Territories and California, served as one of the first two Senators from California, ran for president before the Civil War; and served as a general in command of the Western US during the Civil War. Kit Carson John Charles Fremont Meriwether Lewis Buffalo Bill Cody

11. British explorer and missionary in Africa, discovered and named Victoria falls, opposed the Portuguese slave trade in East Africa, died in Africa but is buried in Westminster Abbey. John Hanning Speke Henry Stanley David Livingstone Sir Richard Burton

12. A Dutch painter, now known for his revolutionary approach to painting, spent most of his adult life near poverty depending on his brother for support, sold only one painting during his life, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Paul Gauguin Vincent van Gogh Georges Seurat Toulouse-Lautrec

13. An American writer brought up as a Unitarian later became a prime exponent of Transcendentalism. He wrote prolifically about an intuitive personal relation between Man and God, and about intellectual and moral attitudes. Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe

14. This Southern sympathizing actor, a member of a famous family of actors of the time, committed a murder that shook the world. Edwin Thomas Booth John Wilkes Booth Junius Brutus Booth Maurice Barrymore

15. This French author is perhaps best known for his work 'La Dame aux Camelias' known in English as 'Camille' which served as the plot for Verdi's opera 'La Traviata'. Jean Henri Dunant Alexander Dumas, pere Alexander Dumas, fils George Du Maurier

16. This German political philosopher and activist and seminal writer was arguably the prime thinker behind a social and political movement which has influenced the world for more than a hundred years. Friedrich Engels John Adler Georg Hegel Karl Marx

17. This African-American was a former slave who became a militant force for abolitionism before the Civil War; and a promoter of African-American regiments during the Civil War; and a voice for racial equality after the Civil War. Frederick Douglass William O. Douglas Stephen A. Douglas Gawin Douglas

18. U.S. writer and physician. He taught anatomy and worked to prevent contagious diseases. As a writer, he is known for his 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table' and poems such as 'The Chambered Nautilus'. William Vaughn Moody James Russell Lowell John Hunt Morgan Oliver Wendel Holmes

19. U.S. writer author of one of the best known American novels of the 19th century (or any other, for that matter). It is a 'whale' of a book. Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Herman Melville Washington Irving

20. An American icon for 'Outlaw', this man was a 'raider' during the American Civil War, then robbed banks and trains, and was finally shot by one of his own compatriots. Jesse James Billy Bonney Cole Younger Ike Clanton