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Who was born in 1830

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Abdülaziz

Abdülaziz

18301876

The 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who also pursued passions as an author and composer

March

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Élisée Reclus

Élisée Reclus

18301905

French geographer, writer, and anarchist known for his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, and his unwavering political activism

April

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge

18301904

English-American photographer and inventor known for his pioneering studies of motion and early work in motion-picture projection

May

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Louise Michel

Louise Michel

18301905

French author, poet, politician, and anarchist, a major figure in the Paris Commune and a key personality of anarchism

July

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Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro

18301903

Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter who bridged multiple artistic movements and exhibited in all eight Impressionist exhibitions

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Lothar Meyer

Lothar Meyer

18301895

German chemist and physician who was a pioneer in developing early versions of the periodic table of chemical elements

September

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Porfirio Díaz

Porfirio Díaz

18301915

Mexican general and politician who served as President of Mexico for over thirty years, leading the nation through the era known as the Porfiriato

Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral

18301914

French Provençal poet and lexicographer who won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature and founded the Félibrige literary movement

October

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Isabella II of Spain

Isabella II of Spain

18301904

Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868 and the only queen regnant in the history of unified Spain

December

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

18301886

American poet known for her unique and profound exploration of life, death, and nature, whose work was largely discovered and celebrated posthumously