Casimir Delavigne (1793–1843) was the most talented of the dramatists, filling the gap between neoclassical tragedy and romantic drama, Delavigne first achieved popularity in 1819 with his play with Les Vêpres Sicilians. Inspired by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he wrote two impassioned poems. His “La Parisienne”, set to music by Daniel Auber, was on the lips of every Frenchman, as popular the Marseillaise.
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488-1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World. In 1527 he survived Narváez expedition and spent eight years traveling across what is now the US Southwest. He became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes. Eventually he reconnected with the Spanish in Mexico and sailed back to Spain in 1537. Cabeza de Vaca’s “Shipwrecks and Commentaries” was valued for his detailed accounts of tribes of Native Americans.
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Vladimir Lenin, (1870-1924) born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was a Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union and became a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. Lenin served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
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Robert Southey (1774-1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813. Southey and Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge began as a radical gradually shifted to conservative gaining respect for Britain and its institutions.
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Ferdinand III (1608-1657) was Archduke of Austria from 1621 and King of Hungary from 1625. He was King of Croatia and Bohemia from 1627 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 until 1657.
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Kamehameha (1758-1819) was the first Hawaiian monarch. He was born on Kohala, Hawaii to Chief Keouakupuapaikalaninui and Chiefess Keku’iapoiwa though there were rumors about an adoption. Kamehameha’s birth coincided with Halley’s Comet, seen in 1758. In 1810 he become the first king of the Kingdom of Hawaii after the chiefdoms of all the islands united under one leader.
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John Gay (1685-1732) was a poet and dramatist. He is best known for writing The Beggar’s Opera, a good humored satire. Gay was a part of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family.
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Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. Marat published his views in pamphlets, placards and newspapers. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, Marat was a fierce defender of the sans-culottes, a radical voice.
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Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) was an American industrialist. He founded Standard Oil, the Florida East Coast Railway and the Florida cities of Miami and Palm Beach. Flagler was a major figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida.
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Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (1760 –1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. He composed operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest living composer of his era. His operas were heavily praised and interpreted by Rossini.
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