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Born December 21, 1799 • Faversham • England
Died January 26, 1875 (aged 75) • Athens • Greece
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire • Greece
Kapodístrias, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 19th century; in the Historical and Ethnological Museum of Greece, Athens
Ioánnis Antónios, Komis Kapodístrias
Greek statesman
Giuseppe La Farina
Italian revolutionary, writer, and historian
Aléxandros Mavrokordátos, painting by an unknown artist; in the Ethnological Museum, Athens.
Aléxandros Mavrokordátos
Greek statesman
Markos Botsaris
Greek politician
Sir Richard Church, detail of a print
Sir Richard Church
British soldier
Gino, Marquess Capponi
Italian historian and statesman
Theódoros Kolokotrónis
Greek revolutionary
Miaoulis, Andreas Vokos
Andreas Vokos Miaoulis
Greek patriot
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Grote, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Everett Millais, 1870; in the Senate House, University of London
George Grote
British historian
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian revolutionary
Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
Camillo Benso, count di Cavour
Piedmontese statesman
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian revolutionary
Lajos Kossuth
Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian political leader
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
prime minister of Israel
Sukarno
Sukarno
president of Indonesia
Józef Piłsudski
Józef Piłsudski
Polish revolutionary and statesman
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint Louverture
Haitian leader
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist

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