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Day

BirthDeath

Victor Hugo

Date of Birth

26 Feb, 1802

Date of Death

22 May, 1885

Age at time of Death

83 years

Cause of Death

Pneumonia

Nationality

French

Gender

Male

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life”

He denounced Napoléon III as the new leader of France and was considered a traitor. He fled the country and lived in exile. During this time, he completed and published Les Misérables.
He fought against the death penalty.
He had many mistresses throughout his life.
Hugo was an illustrator who produced more than 4,000 drawings during his lifetime.
Les Misérables is one of the longest novels ever written.
Victor Hugo wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame in an attempt to point out the decrepit state of the cathedral in Paris.

Richard Jordan Gatling

Date of Birth

12 Sep, 1818

Date of Death

26 Feb, 1903

Age at time of Death

84 years

Cause of Death

Heart failure

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

“I maintained that I conceived, with humanitarian notions, as 'a labor-saving device for warfare,' the prototype Gatling gun during the first year of the Civil War, 1861.”
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun, as tapers waste the moment they take fire.”
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.”

Despite inventing one of the most deadly weapons of his time, Gatling believed his invention would reduce casualties and make war less attractive, hoping it would lead to peace
Gatling invented the Gatling gun, considered the first successful machine gun, in 1861 during the American Civil War
He also invented machines for sowing seeds, harvesting water, and more.
It had a rotating barrel and could fire up to 200 rounds per minute.