Antonín Petrof
Antonín Petrof( August 15, 1839 – September 9, 1915) was a Bohemian piano maker.
Benjamin F. Rittenhouse
Benjamin Franklin Rittenhouse( December 15, 1839 – March 6, 1915) was a U.S. Army 1st lieutenant during the American Civil War.
Jacob D. Leighty
Jacob D. Leighty (November 15, 1839 – October 18, 1912) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
He had previously served with the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Thomas M. Waller
Thomas MacDonald Waller( February 15, 1839 – January 25, 1924) was an American attorney, politician and the 51st Governor of Connecticut.
Charles Hindelang
Charles Hindelang( March 29, 1810 – February 15, 1839) was a French- born military man who fought for the independence of Lower Canada( present- day Quebec).
For these actions, he was hanged by the British authorities.
Born in Paris, he also had a Swiss heritage and was a Calvinist.
Hindelang took part in the French Revolution of 1830( the July Revolution), in which he became an officer.
He declared that he came to the Americas to do commerce at the demand of his parents.
This was however contradicted by P. H. Touvrey, a compatriot of Hindelang present during the Rebellion, who said that Hindelang specifically came to join the Lower Canada Rebellion.
Recruited by Ludger Duvernay in the United States, he arrived in Lower Canada on November 4, 1838.
During the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838, he fought the Battle of Odelltown on Patriote ranks, the last battle of the conflict.
The Patriotes were defeated.
Hindelang was apprehended shortly after as he attempted to flee back to the United States, and was sentenced to death.
He was hanged on February 15, 1839 at the Pied- du- Courant Prison in Montreal with such people as François- Marie- Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier.
In front of the crowd, before the execution, he shouted:" The cause for which I am sacrificed is noble and great Canadiens, my last goodbye is the old cry of France: Long live freedom!
(" Vive la liberté!
His character plays a notable role in Pierre Falardeau's film" February 15, 1839" about the incarceration and execution of the Patriotes.
Pierre Falardeau
Pierre Falardeau (December 28, 1946 – September 25, 2009) was a Canadian film and documentary director, pamphleteer and noted activist for Quebec independence.
With regard to minorities, Falardeau stated he did not care whether someone was white, black, yellow or green with orange polka dots; those who supported independence he considered brothers and sisters, and those who did not were "the enemy".
Falardeau died on September 25, 2009, following a long battle with cancer.
Falardeau created some controversy during his career.
For example, in 2006, a photograph surfaced of him at an August 2006 Montreal pro-peace rally about the Israel-Lebanon conflict.
The picture shows Falardeau with some young men and his friend and filmmaking partner Julien Poulin holding a Hezbollah flag.
When asked to comment, Falardeau responded that he approached the men to understand why they supported Hezbollah, and that the flag belonged to the young men.
He also created controversy in October 2008 with a column denouncing biologist and environmentalist David Suzuki for having said he was disappointed in those Quebecers who supported the Conservative Party.
Falardeau referred to Dr. Suzuki as "a little goateed Jap-noodleun petit japonouille à barbiche").
February 15, 1839
February 15, 1839 (original title: 15 février 1839) is a 2001 Quebec historical drama film.
Directed by Pierre Falardeau, it is about the incarceration at the Pied-du-Courant Prison and the execution by hanging there of Patriote participants of the Lower Canada Rebellion.
Those rebels sought to make Lower Canada, now Quebec, a republic independent from the British Empire.
It features as characters the historical figures
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, his wife Henriette and Charles Hindelang.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Charles Reynolds (legislator)
Charles Reynolds (November 15, 1839 – February 2, 1914) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Question: Why did the director of film February 15, 1839 die?
Answer: cancer