Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Revolutionaries, including B. R. Ambedkar, Leon Trotsky, Chiang Kai-shek, Jose Rizal and Pancho Villa.
B. R. Ambedkar14 April 1891, Indian
Indian Jurist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar28 May 1883, Indian
Independence Activist, Reformer
Leon Trotsky07 November 1879, Russian, Ukrainian, Russian
Founder and first leader of the Red Army
Chiang Kai-shek31 October 1887, Chinese
President of the Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito07 May 1892, Yugoslav
Bal Gangadhar Tilak23 July 1856, Indian
Indian teacher
Pancho Villa05 June 1878, Mexican
General
Emiliano Zapata08 August 1879, Mexican
Mexican Political figure
Rosa Luxemburg05 March 1871, German, Polish
Marxist Theorist
Sri Aurobindo15 August 1872, Indian
Political and Spiritual Leader
Birsa Munda15 November 1875, Indian
Tribal Leader Who Revolted Against the British
Éamon de Valera14 October 1882, American
Former President of Ireland
Lala Lajpat Rai28 January 1865, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Mangal Pandey19 July 1827, Indian
Revolutionary
Louis Riel22 October 1844, Canadian
Politician
Yakov Yurovsky19 June 1878, Russian
Soviet Era Executioner
Mikhail Bakunin30 May 1814, Swiss, Russian
Philosopher
Manuela Sáenz27 December 1797, Ecuadorian
Revolutionary
Chief Joseph03 March 1840, American
Nez Perce leader
Red Cloud1822 AD, American
Begum Hazrat Mahal1820 AD, Indian, Nepalese
Wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
Surya Sen22 March 1894, Indian
Revolutionary
Rani Lakshmibai19 November 1828, Indian
Queen of Jhansi State
Augusto César Sandino18 May 1895, Nicaraguan
Nicaraguan revolutionary Leader
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan06 February 1890, Pakistani
Political and Spiritual Leader
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad11 November 1888, Indian
Indian scholar
Nana Saheb19 May 1824, Indian
Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
Jose Rizal19 June 1861, Filipino
Hristo Botev06 January 1848, Bulgarian
Bulgarian Revolutionary
Georges Bidault05 October 1899, French
French Politician
Andres Bonifacio30 November 1863, Filipino
Filipino Revolutionary
Benito Juarez21 March 1806, Mexican
Mexican lawyer
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Yane Sandanski18 May 1872, Bulgarian
National Hero in Bulgaria
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk19 May 1881, Turkish
Founder of the Republic of Turkey,
Jose Marti28 January 1853, Cuban
Poet
Apolinario Mabini23 July 1864, Filipino
Revolutionary leader
Tantia Tope1814 AD, Indian
Notable leader
Hong Xiuquan01 January 1814, Chinese
Revolutionary
Usman dan Fodio15 December 1754, Nigerian
Teacher
Denmark Vesey1767 AD, American
Carpenters
Sakamoto Ryōma03 January 1836, Japanese
Japanese samurai
Osceola1804 AD, American
Seminole leader
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia18 September 1891, Russian
Grand Duke of Russia
James Wilkinson24 March 1757, American
Soldier
Maud Gonne21 December 1866, Irish, British
Actress
Robert Emmet04 March 1778, Irish
Revolutionary Leader
Aleksandr Ulyanov31 March 1866, Russian
revolutionary
Buenaventura Durruti14 July 1896, Spanish
Anarcho-syndicalist, Anarchist, Trade unionist
Juan Seguín27 October 1806, American
Political Leader
Georgi Plekhanov29 November 1856, Russian
philosopher, politician, journalist, writer,
Sybil Ludington05 April 1761, American
American Revolutionary
Vasil Levski18 July 1837, Bulgarian
Revolutionary
Ricardo Flores Magón16 September 1873, Mexican
Political figure
Bakht Khan1797 AD, Indian
Rebel
Har Dayal14 October 1884, Indian
Revolutionary
Boris Savinkov31 January 1879, Ukrainian, Russian
Revolutionary
Jean-Pierre Boyer15 February 1776, Haitian
Politician
Purushottam Das Tandon01 August 1882, Indian
Freedom Fighter
Nancy Hart1735 AD, American
Rebel Heroine
Song Jiaoren05 April 1882, Chinese
Politician
Maksim Litvinov17 July 1876, Polish, Russian
Revolutionary
Alexander Israel Helphand08 September 1867, Belarusian, German, Russian
Theoretician
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst22 September 1880, British
Militant
Ibrahim Datuk Tan Malaka02 June 1897, Indonesian
Minangkabau communist leader
L. Martov24 November 1873, Turkish
Politician