Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt], Italian: Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 –4 February 1844), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century. He is often referred to, to distinguish against later Bonaparte males named Napoleon, as Napoleon the Great or Napoleon the Conqueror.