Father Joseph Damien
1840 – 1889
Belgian

Priest. He worked among lepers on Molokai, in Hawaii, caught the disease but persevered in his mission of mercy as long as he could and then died.

Contemporaries
1881–1973Ludwig von Mises
1863–1952George Santayana
1872–1970Bertrand Russell
1844–1900Friedrich Nietzsche
fl. c. 1806–c. 1873John Stuart Mill
1818–1883Karl Marx
1883–1946John Maynard Keynes
1889–1945Adolf Hitler
1856–1939Sigmund Freud
1812–1870Charles Dickens
1809–1882Charles Darwin
1798–1857Auguste Comte
1874–1965Sir Winston Churchill
1857–1941Robert Baden-Powell