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John Adams age 62
President - United States
George III age 59
King - Great Britain
Paul I of Russia age 43
Emperor - Russian Empire
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor age 30
Emperor - Holy Roman Empire
Selim III age 36
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar age 25
Shah - Iran
Jiaqing Emperor age 37
Emperor - Imperial China
Tekle Giyorgis I age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Jeongjo of Joseon age 45
King - Joseon
Frederick William III of Prussia age 27
King - Kingdom of Prussia
Charles Emmanuel IV age 46
King - Kingdom of Sardinia
Emperor Kōkaku age 26
Emperor - Japan
William Pitt the Younger age 38
Prime Minister - Great Britain
Oliver Ellsworth age 53
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas Jefferson age 55
Vice President - United States
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Timothy Pickering age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Oliver Wolcott Jr. age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James McHenry age 44
Secretary of War - United States
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Samuel Chase age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
James Alexander Hamilton age 10
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William R. King age 12
House of Representatives - United States
Spencer Perceval age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Addington age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Everett age 4
House of Representatives - United States
Albert Gallatin age 37
House of Representatives - United States
Banastre Tarleton age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Dexter age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Daniel Morgan age 61
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Dearborn age 47
House of Representatives - United States
George W. Campbell age 29
House of Representatives - United States
Levi Lincoln Sr. age 48
House of Representatives - United States
John J. Crittenden age 10
House of Representatives - United States
John Canfield Spencer age 10
House of Representatives - United States
William Eustis age 44
House of Representatives - United States
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne age 17
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Lamont Clinch age 11
House of Representatives - United States
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Sidney Smith age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Stephen Van Rensselaer age 33
House of Representatives - United States
Samuel Smith age 45
House of Representatives - United States
Alexander Cochrane age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore age 40
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peleg Wadsworth age 49
House of Representatives - United States
John Chandler age 36
House of Representatives - United States
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley age 16
House of Representatives - United States
John Jay age 52
Governor of New York - United States
James Jackson age 40
Governor of Georgia - United States
Increase Sumner age 51
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John Henry age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
James Wood age 57
Governor of Virginia - United States
Richard Howell age 43
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Martin Van Buren age 15
New York State Senate - United States
Philip Schuyler age 64
New York State Senate - United States
Robert Treat Paine age 67
Massachusetts House of Representatives - United States
William Floyd age 63
New York State Senate - United States
Charles IV of Spain age 49
King - Spain
Gustav IV Adolf age 19
King - Sweden
Napoleon age 28
George Washington age 66
Ludwig van Beethoven age 27
Jane Austen age 22
Michael Faraday age 6
James Madison age 47
Simón Bolívar age 14
John Quincy Adams age 30
Andrew Jackson age 31
James Watt age 62
James Monroe age 39
James Buchanan age 6
Zachary Taylor age 13
James K. Polk age 2
John Tyler age 8
William Henry Harrison age 25
Charles Babbage age 6
Edward Jenner age 48
Alexander I of Russia age 20
Nicholas I of Russia age 1
Horatio Nelson age 39
Alexander Hamilton age 43
Shaka age 10
William IV age 32
Klemens von Metternich age 24
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord age 44
George IV age 35
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 133
Wilhelm I age 1
Louis XVIII age 42
José de San Martín age 20
Adolphe Thiers age 1
Charles X of France age 40
Louis Philippe I age 24
Leopold I of Belgium age 7
Mahmud II age 12
Charles XIV John age 35
Robert Peel age 10
Ferdinand VII age 13
Aaron Burr age 42
Joséphine de Beauharnais age 34
Joachim Murat age 31
John C. Calhoun age 16
Muhammad Ali of Egypt age 29
Mikhail Kutuzov age 52
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston age 13
Joseph Bonaparte age 30
George Canning age 28
Toussaint Louverture age 54
Ferdinand I of Austria age 4
Qianlong Emperor age 86
Mustafa IV age 18
Samuel Adams age 75
Antonio López de Santa Anna age 4
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell age 5
Antonio José de Sucre age 3
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla age 44
Jean-Jacques Dessalines age 39
Michel Ney age 29
Elbridge Gerry age 53
Sam Houston age 5
George Clinton age 58
Daniel D. Tompkins age 23
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen age 14
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher age 55
William Wilberforce age 38
Agustín de Iturbide age 14
Charles XIII age 49
Christian VIII age 11
Richard Mentor Johnson age 17
Davy Crockett age 11
George M. Dallas age 5
Frederick VI of Denmark age 30
John Marshall age 42
Pyotr Bagration age 32
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly age 36
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne age 19
Daniel Webster age 16
Tecumseh age 30
Louis-Nicolas Davout age 27
Guadalupe Victoria age 11
Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen age 26
Vicente Guerrero age 15
Daoguang Emperor age 15
Henry Clay age 21
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne age 60
Benedict Arnold age 57
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville age 38
Charles Felix age 33
Rama III age 10
Rama II age 30
F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich age 15
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia age 32
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke age 3 months
Bernardino Rivadavia age 17
Winfield Scott age 11
Francisco de Paula Santander age 6
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg age 27
Carlos Antonio López age 7
Edmund Randolph age 44
Francisco Morazán age 5
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe age 68
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh age 28
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve age 34
Alexandros Mavrokordatos age 7
Fructuoso Rivera age 13
John Rutledge age 58
Henry Knox age 47
Karl Mack von Leiberich age 45
Vicente López y Planes age 12
Manuel Blanco Encalada age 7
Konstantinos Kanaris age 8
Roger B. Taney age 21
Lewis Cass age 15
Alexandre Pétion age 28
Ioannis Kolettis age 25
William L. Marcy age 11
William H. Crawford age 26
Jean-Pierre Boyer age 22
Thomas Gage age 80
Edward Livingston age 33
Horatio Gates age 70
Levin August von Bennigsen age 53
Adam Wilhelm Moltke age 12
Manuel Oribe age 5
Henry Lee III age 42
Louis McLane age 11
Joaquín Prieto age 11
Ramón Freire age 10
Spyridon Trikoupis age 9
Robert Smith age 40
John Forsyth age 17
Bhimsen Thapa age 22
Ramón Castilla age 7 months
Abel P. Upshur age 7
John M. Clayton age 1