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Jón Sigurðsson

Leader of the 19th-century icelandic independence movement (1811-1879).

Born June 17th, 1811 in Hrafnseyri.

Died December 7th, 1879 at 68 years old in Copenhagen.

Occupations
historian, philologist, politician

When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid