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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

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle