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Also Known As David Kalakaua
Born November 16, 1836 • Honolulu • Hawaii
Died January 30, 1891 (aged 54) • San Francisco • California
Title / Office king (1874-1891), Hawaii
Notable Family Members sister Liliuokalani

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Liliuokalani
Liliuokalani
queen of Hawaii
Kamehameha I, detail of a coloured lithograph by D. Veelward, 1822, after an engraving by Louis Choris, 1816
Kamehameha I
king of Hawaii
Kamehameha IV, c. 1862–63.
Kamehameha IV
king of Hawaii
Kaahumanu
Kaahumanu
queen of Hawaii
Kamehameha III
king of Hawaii
Kamehameha V, 1865
Kamehameha V
king of Hawaii
Kamehameha II, watercolour mounted on paper artist unknown; in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Kamehameha II
king of Hawaii
Kaʿiulani
heir apparent to the Hawaiian throne
Father Damien
St. Damien of Molokai
Belgian priest
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills.
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
American missionary and educator
Lorrin A. Thurston
American politician
Patsy Mink
Patsy Mink
American politician
Dole, Sanford Ballard
Sanford Ballard Dole
president of the Republic of Hawaii
Gerrit P. Judd
American missionary
Francisco de Paula Marín
Spanish horticulturalist
William Richards
American missionary
Bernice Pauhai
Hawaiian princess
Akebono
Akebono
Japanese sumo wrestler
Nahienaena
Hawaiian princess
Kahanamoku, Duke
Duke Kahanamoku
American surfer and swimmer

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