Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Prussian field marshal
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Túpac Amaru II
Leader of an uprising in Peru
Pope Pius VII
Head of the Catholic Church from 1800 to 1823
Nathanael Greene
American military officer and planter
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen
Duchess of Teschen from 1766 to 1798
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist
William Hooper
American Founding Father and politician
Richard Cosway
English painter
Johan Herman Wessel
Danish-Norwegian poet, satirist and playwright
Jean Senebier
Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist
Ozias Humphry
English painter