|
YearofBirth |
Birthplace |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
2450
b,
C,
|
Egypt |
NiankhkhnumandKhnumhotep |
Makeup
Artist |
Manicurists to
the
Pharaoh |
|
2284
b,
C,
|
Egypt |
Pepi II
Neferkare |
Politician |
Pharaoh |
|
638
b,
C,
|
Greece |
Solon |
Politician |
Democracy |
|
620
b,
C,
|
Greece |
Sappho |
Poet |
“Ode to
Aphrodite” |
|
570
b,
C,
|
Samos |
Polycrates |
Soldier |
Tyrant
of
Samos |
|
470
b,
C,
|
Greece |
Socrates |
Philosopher |
Socratic
Method |
|
427
b,
C,
|
Greece |
Plato |
Philosopher |
The
Republic |
|
418
b,
C,
|
Thebes |
Epaminondas |
Soldier |
General |
|
382
b,
C,
|
Macedonia |
Philip
II |
Soldier |
Defeated Athens
and
Thebes |
|
356
b,
C,
|
Macedonia |
Alexander the
Great |
Soldier |
Created an
empire |
|
100
b,
C,
|
Rome |
Caesar,
Julius |
Soldier |
Emperor |
|
27
b,
C,
|
China |
Ai
Ti |
Politician |
Emperor of
China |
|
76 |
Rome |
Hadrian |
Soldier |
Emperor |
|
111 |
Turkey |
Antinous |
Consort |
Became a
god |
|
280 |
Rome |
Serge and
Bacchus |
Cleric |
Saints |
|
747 |
Persia |
Nuwas,
Abu |
Poet |
Khamriyyat |
|
774 |
Japan |
Kūkai |
Cleric |
Shingon and
shudo |
|
811 |
Macedonia |
Basil
I |
Politician |
Emperor |
|
971 |
Afghanistan |
Mahmud |
Soldier |
Invaded India
17
times |
|
1012 |
Italy |
Benedict
IX |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
1033 |
Italy |
Anselm,
Saint |
Cleric |
Archbishop of
Canterbury |
|
1035 |
France |
Marbod |
Cleric |
Bishop of
Rennes |
|
1050 |
France |
Baldric of
Dol |
Cleric |
Archbishop of
Dol |
|
1050 |
France |
Ralph,
Archbishop |
Cleric |
Archbishop
of
Tours |
|
1056 |
UK |
William
II |
Politician |
King of
England |
|
1100 |
UK |
Hilarius |
Poet |
“To a
Boy of
Anjou” |
|
1110 |
UK |
Aethelred,
Saint |
Cleric |
Abbot of
Rievaulx |
|
1140 |
France |
Longchamp,
William |
Cleric |
Bishop of
Ely |
|
1157 |
UK |
RichardtheLion-Hearted |
Soldier |
King of
England |
|
1284 |
UK |
Edward
II |
Politician |
King of
England |
|
1320 |
Persia |
Hafez |
Poet |
Ghazals |
|
1363 |
Japan |
Zeami
Motokiyo |
Playwright |
Noh
theatre |
|
1386 |
Italy |
Donatello |
Artist |
David |
|
1405 |
Spain |
Juan
II |
Politician |
King of
Castile |
|
1414 |
Italy |
Sixtus IV |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
1417 |
Italy |
Paul
II |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
1433 |
Italy |
Ficino,
Marsilio |
Philosopher |
Theologia
Platonica |
|
1443 |
Italy |
Julius
II |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
1445 |
Italy |
Botticelli,
Sandro |
Artist |
Sistine
Chapel
(portions) |
|
1452 |
Italy |
Leonardo
da
Vinci |
Artist |
Mona
Lisa |
|
YearofBirth |
Birthplace |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1454 |
Italy |
Poliziano |
Poet |
Favola
d’Orfeo
(first
play
in
Italian) |
|
1466 |
Netherlands |
Erasmus,
Desiderius |
Cleric |
Greek
New
Testament |
|
1475 |
Italy |
Leo
X |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
1475 |
Italy |
Michelangelo |
Artist |
Sistine
Chapel |
|
1479 |
Russia |
Vasily
III |
Politician |
Grand prince
of
Moscow |
|
1487 |
Italy |
Julius
III |
Cleric |
Pope |
|
1497 |
Italy |
Berni,
Francesco |
Poet |
Bernesque
poetry |
|
1500 |
Italy |
Cellini,
Benvenuto |
Artist |
Autobiography |
|
1503 |
Italy |
Varchi, Benedetto |
Author |
Storia di
Firenze |
|
1504 |
UK |
Udall,
Nicholas |
Playwright |
Ralph Roister
Doister |
|
1514 |
Austria |
Rheticus,
Georg
Joachim |
Scientist |
“No Rheticus,
No
Copernicus” |
|
1519 |
France |
Bèze,
Theodore |
Cleric |
Early
Calvinist |
|
1521 |
Japan |
Takeda
Shingen |
Politician |
Daimyo |
|
1526 |
France |
Muret,
Marc-Antoine |
Teacher |
Lectures in
Paris |
|
1527 |
Japan |
Kōsaka
Masanobu |
Soldier |
Battle of
Kawanakajima |
|
1533 |
France |
Montaigne,MichelEyquemde |
Author |
Essais |
|
1534 |
Japan |
Oda
Nobunaga |
Soldier |
Conquered most
of
Japan |
|
1539 |
Spain |
Pérez ,
Antonio |
Politician |
Secretary of
State |
|
1543 |
Japan |
Tokugawa
Ieyasu |
Politician |
Shogun |
|
1551 |
France |
Henri III
de
Valois |
Politician |
King of
France |
|
1561 |
UK |
Bacon,
Francis |
Philosopher |
Novum
Organum |
|
1564 |
UK |
Marlowe,
Christopher |
Playwright |
Dr,
Faustus |
|
1564 |
UK |
Shakespeare, William |
Playwright |
Sonnets |
|
1566 |
UK |
James
I |
Politician |
King of
Great
Britain |
|
1571 |
Italy |
Caravaggio,Michelangelo |
Artist |
Card Players |
|
1590 |
France |
Viau,
Théophile
de |
Poet |
“Pyrame
et
Thisbé” |
|
1592 |
France |
Boisrobert,FrançoisLeMételde |
Politician |
Founder of
the French
Academy |
|
1601 |
France |
Louis
XIII |
Politician |
King of
France |
|
1604 |
Japan |
Tokugawa
Iemitsu |
Politician |
Shogun |
|
1622 |
France |
Molière,
Jean
Baptiste |
Playwright |
Greatest
playwright
of
France |
|
1626 |
Sweden |
Christina |
Politician |
Queen of
Sweden |
|
1631 |
UK |
Philips,
Katherine |
Poet |
The
matchless
Orinda |
|
1632 |
France |
Lully,
Jean-Baptiste |
Composer |
Alceste |
|
1640 |
France |
Philippe
I |
Soldier |
Duc
d’Orleans |
|
1642 |
Japan |
Ihara
Saikaku |
Author |
Koshoku
ichidai
otoko |
|
1643 |
UK |
Newton,
Isaac |
Scientist |
Newton’s
Laws |
|
1651 |
Mexico |
Cruz, Juana
Inez de
la |
Poet |
Reply to
Sister
Philotea |
|
1663 |
France |
Eugene of
Savoy |
Soldier |
Prince and
General |
|
1665 |
UK |
Anne |
Politician |
Queen of
England |
|
1671 |
Italy |
Gastone,
Gian |
Politician |
Last of
the Medicis |
|
1672 |
Russia |
Peter the
Great |
Politician |
Tsar of
Russia |
|
1682 |
Sweden |
Charles
XII |
Soldier |
King |
|
1685 |
Germany |
Handel,
George
Frideric |
Composer |
Messiah |
|
1696 |
UK |
Hervey,
John |
Politician |
Memoirs |
|
1698 |
Italy |
Metastasio |
Poet |
“Olimipiade” |
|
YearofBirth |
Birthplace |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1712 |
Italy |
Algarotti,
Francesco |
Philosopher |
Essays on
the Fine
Arts |
|
1712 |
Prussia |
Frederick
the
Great |
Soldier |
King |
|
1715 |
France |
Vauvenargues,LucdeClapiers
Marquis
de |
Soldier |
War of
the Polish
Secession |
|
1716 |
UK |
Gray,
Thomas |
Poet |
“ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard“ |
|
1717 |
Germany |
Winckelmann,
Johann
J,
|
Archaeologist |
History of
the Art
of
Antiquity |
|
1717 |
UK |
Walpole,
Horace |
Author |
The Castle
of
Otranto |
|
1720 |
UK |
Foote, Samuel |
Playwright |
The
Nabob |
|
1726 |
Prussia |
Henry of
Prussia |
Soldier |
King of
the US
(almost) |
|
1729 |
France |
SuffrendeSaintTropez,Pierre-
André
de |
Soldier |
Admiral |
|
1730 |
Prussia |
Steuben,FriedrichWilhelmvon |
Soldier |
Valley
Forge |
|
1739 |
UK |
Butler,
Eleanor |
Author |
Diaries |
|
1747 |
UK |
Seward,
Anna |
Poet |
“Llangollen
Vale” |
|
1753 |
France |
Cambacérès,JeanJacques-Régis |
Politician |
Napoleonic
Code |
|
1755 |
US |
Coxe,
Tench |
Business |
Delegate
to
Continental
Congress |
|
1756 |
France |
Raucourt |
Actress |
Comédie
francaise |
|
1757 |
West
Indies |
Hamilton,
Alexander |
Politician |
Secretary of
the
Treasury |
|
1759 |
UK |
Wollstonecraft,
Mary |
Author |
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Women |
|
1760 |
France |
DuPonceau,Pierre-Étienne |
Soldier |
Secretary to
von
Steuben |
|
1760 |
UK |
Beckford,
William |
Author |
Vathek |
|
1760 |
US |
Sampson,
Deborah |
Soldier |
Continental
Army |
|
1766 |
Switzerland |
Staël,
Madame
de |
Author |
Corinne |
|
1769 |
France |
Bonaparte,
Napoleon |
Soldier |
Emperor of
France |
|
1769 |
Germany |
Humboldt,Alexandervon |
Scientist |
Kosmos |
|
1769 |
Ireland |
Castlereagh,
Viscount |
Politician |
Leader of
the House
of
Commons |
|
1775 |
UK |
Lewis,
Matthew |
Playwright |
The
Monk |
|
1777 |
France |
Récamier,
Julie |
Socialite |
Récamier
daybed |
|
1777 |
Germany |
Kleist,
Heinrich
von |
Playwright |
Prinz
Friedrich
von
Homburg |
|
1779 |
US |
Decatur,
Stephen |
Soldier |
Defeated
the
Macedonian |
|
1780 |
China |
Wu
Tsao |
Poet |
“The Orchid
Boat” |
|
1780 |
India |
Singh, Maharaja
Ranjit |
Politician |
Lion of
Punjab |
|
1786 |
US |
King,
William
R,
|
Politician |
Vice
President
US |
|
1788 |
UK |
Byron,
Lord |
Poet |
Childe
Harold |
|
1790 |
France |
Custine,
Marquis
de |
Author |
Empire of
the Czar |
|
1791 |
Austria |
Grillparzer,
Franz |
Playwright |
Das
Goldene Vliess |
|
1791 |
US |
Buchanan,
James |
Politician |
President
US |
|
1793 |
France |
Changarnier,
Nicholas |
Soldier |
General |
|
1796 |
Germany |
Platen,
August
von |
Poet |
Sonnets on
Venice |
|
1798 |
France |
Dorval,
Marie |
Actress |
Trente
Ans |
|
1803 |
Germany |
Liebig,
Count
Justus
von |
Scientist |
Organic
Chemistry |
|
1804 |
France |
Sand,
George |
Author |
Elle et
Lui |
|
1804 |
US |
Bennett, John
C,
|
Cleric |
Chief advisor
to Joseph
Smith,
Jr,
|
|
1805 |
Denmark |
Andersen,HansChristian |
Author |
The Ugly
Duckling |
|
1806 |
France |
Lamorcière,
Christophe |
Soldier |
French general |
|
1807 |
US |
Hammond,
James
Henry |
Politician |
US Senator |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Birthplace |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1809 |
Russia |
Gogol,
Nikolai |
Author |
Dead
Souls |
|
1809 |
UK |
FitzGerald,
Edward |
Poet |
Rubaiyat of
Omar
Khayyam |
|
1809 |
UK |
Tennyson,
Alfred |
Poet |
“Charge of
the Light
Brigade” |
|
1809 |
US |
Lincoln,
Abraham |
Politician |
President
US |
|
1810 |
Poland |
Chopin,
Frederic |
Composer |
“Minute Waltz” |
|
1812 |
UK |
Lear,
Edward |
Poet |
“The Owl
and the
Pussy-cat” |
|
1813 |
US |
Beecher,
Henry
Ward |
Cleric |
Seven
Lectures
to
Young
Men |
|
1819 |
US |
Melville,
Herman |
Author |
Moby-Dick |
|
1819 |
US |
Whitman,
Walt |
Poet |
Leaves of
Grass |
|
1820 |
US |
Anthony,
Susan
B,
|
Politician |
Women’s
suffrage |
|
1821 |
UK |
Burton,
Richard |
Explorer |
Arabian
Nights |
|
1822 |
France |
Bonheur,
Rosa |
Artist |
The Horse
Fair |
|
1822 |
Ireland |
Nicholson,
John |
Soldier |
Hero of
Delhi |
|
1822 |
UK |
Lushington,
Franklin |
Judge |
Chief Magistrate
of
London |
|
1823 |
Germany |
Charles
I |
Politician |
King Karl
of
Württemberg |
|
1825 |
Germany |
Ulrichs,
Karl |
Author |
Early gay
rights
activist |
|
1825 |
US |
Taylor,
Bayard |
Author |
Joseph and
His
Friend |
|
1826 |
US |
Foster,
Stephen |
Composer |
“Oh!
Susanna” |
|
1828 |
Ireland |
Cleburne,
Patrick
R,
|
Soldier |
Confederate
Major
General |
|
1829 |
US |
Gottschalk,LouisMoreau |
Composer |
“Cakewalk” |
|
1830 |
UK |
Leighton,
Baron
Frederic |
Artist |
Cimabue
Finding
Giotto |
|
1830 |
US |
Dickinson,
Emily |
Poet |
“Wild
Nights, Wild
Nights!” |
|
1831 |
US |
Sitting
Bull |
Politician |
Sioux
Chief |
|
1832 |
US |
Alger,
Horatio |
Author |
Ragged
Dick |
|
1833 |
UK |
Gordon,Charles“Chinese” |
Soldier |
Defense of
Khartoum |
|
1835 |
France |
Saint-Saëns,
Camille |
Composer |
“Danse
Macabre” |
|
1835 |
UK |
Butler,
Samuel |
Author |
Erewhon |
|
1837 |
Germany |
Marées,
Hans
von |
Artist |
Frescos
in
Naples |
|
1837 |
UK |
Browning,
Oscar |
Author |
History of
England |
|
1837 |
UK |
Swinburne,AlgernonCharles |
Poet |
“The Flogging
Block” |
|
1839 |
Russia |
Mussorgsky,
Modest |
Composer |
Pictures at
an
Exhibition |
|
1839 |
Russia |
Przhevalsky,
Nikolai |
Explorer |
First maps
of
Siberia |
|
1839 |
UK |
Pater,
Walter |
Author |
History Of
The Renaissance |
|
1840 |
CzechRepublic |
Vacano,
Emil
Mario |
Entertainer |
Famous
circus
performer |
|
1840 |
Russia |
Tchaikovsky,
Peter |
Composer |
Swan
Lake |
|
1840 |
UK |
Solomon,
Simeon |
Artist |
Popular
English
painter |
|
1840 |
UK |
Symonds,JohnAddington |
Author |
Renaissance
in
Italy |
|
1841 |
UK |
Stanley,
Henry
Morton |
Explorer |
Found
Dr, Livingstone |
|
1843 |
US |
James,
Henry |
Author |
The Golden
Bowl |
|
1843 |
US |
Stoddard,CharlesWarren |
Author |
Cruising Under
Crescent |
|
1844 |
France |
Verlaine,
Paul |
Poet |
Invectives |
|
1844 |
UK |
Carpenter,
Edward |
Author |
The Healing
of
Nations |
|
1845 |
Germany |
Ludwig
II |
Politician |
King of
Bavaria |
|
1847 |
Germany |
Eulenburg,PrincePhilipp |
Politician |
Adviser
to
Kaiser
Wilhelm
II |
|
1847 |
UK |
Rosebery |
Politician |
Prime
Minister |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Birthplace |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1848 |
UK |
Shepard,
Jesse |
Musician |
Villa
Montezuma |
|
1849 |
US |
Riley,
James
Whitcomb |
Poet |
“The
Ol’
Swimmin’
Hole” |
|
1849 |
US |
We’wha |
Two-Spirit |
Zuni
Man-Woman |
|
1850 |
Ireland |
Kitchener,
Lord |
Soldier |
British Commander
in
Chief |
|
1850 |
Russia |
Kovalevsky,
Sophia |
Scientist |
Prix Bordin
for
Mathematics |
|
1851 |
US |
Chopin,
Kate |
Author |
Bayou
Folk |
|
1852 |
UK |
Esher,
Lord |
Soldier |
Reorganized
the
military |
|
1853 |
Scotland |
MacDonald,
Hector |
Soldier |
British
Major-General |
|
1853 |
UK |
Rhodes,
Cecil |
Business |
Diamond
mines |
|
1854 |
France |
Lyautey,
Hubert |
Soldier |
Marshal of
France |
|
1854 |
France |
Rimbaud,
Arthur |
Poet |
The
Drunken
Boat |
|
1854 |
Germany |
Krupp,
Friedrich
A,
|
Business |
Munitions
factories |
|
1854 |
Ireland |
Wilde,
Oscar |
Author |
The Importance
of Being
Earnest |
|
1855 |
UK |
Corelli,
Marie |
Author |
Memoirs |
|
1856 |
Germany |
Gloeden,BaronWilhelmvon |
Photographer |
Taormina
photos |
|
1856 |
UK |
Paget,
Violet |
Author |
Hauntings |
|
1857 |
Germany |
Allers,
Christian Wilhelm |
Artist |
Club
Eintracht |
|
1857 |
UK |
Baden-Powell,
Robert |
Soldier |
Founded
Boy
Scouts |
|
1857 |
US |
Fuller,
Henry
Blake |
Author |
The
Cliff-Dwellers |
|
1857 |
US |
Thomas, M,
Carey |
Teacher |
President of
Bryn Mawr
College |
|
1858 |
Sweden |
Lagerlöf,
Selma |
Author |
Nobel
Prize |
|
1858 |
UK |
Smyth, Dame
Ethel |
Composer |
The
Wreckers |
|
1859 |
UK |
Housman,
A, E,
|
Poet |
“A
Shropshire
Lad” |
|
1859 |
US |
Bates,
Katharine
Lee |
Poet |
“America
the
Beautiful” |
|
1860 |
Scotland |
Barrie, James
M,
|
Author |
Peter
Pan |
|
1860 |
UK |
Rolfe,
Frederick
William |
Author |
Hadrian the
Seventh |
|
1860 |
US |
Addams,
Jane |
Politician |
Nobel
Peace
Prize |
|
1860 |
US |
Warren, Edward Perry |
Business |
Boston Museum
of Fine
Arts |
|
1861 |
Austria |
Ferdinand
I |
Politician |
Tsar of
Bulgaria |
|
1862 |
UK |
Dickinson,
Goldsworthy |
Teacher |
Dictionary of
National
Biography |
|
1862 |
US |
Wharton,
Edith |
Author |
Keeping up
with the
Joneses |
|
1863 |
Egypt |
Cavafy,
Constantine |
Poet |
“That’s
the
Man” |
|
1863 |
Netherlands |
Couperus,
Louis |
Author |
De Berg
van
Licht |
|
1863 |
Spain |
Santayana,
George |
Philosopher |
Dominations
and
Powers |
|
1863 |
US |
Cram, Ralph
Adams |
Architect |
US Military
Academy |
|
1863 |
US |
Woolley,
Mary
Emma |
Teacher |
President
of
Mount
Holyoke
College |
|
1864 |
Ireland |
Casement,
Roger |
Politician |
Rebel
leader |
|
1864 |
Ukraine |
Redl,
Colonel
Alfred |
Soldier |
Chief
of
Counter-Intelligence |
|
1866 |
Spain |
Benavente,
Jacinto |
Playwright |
Nobel
Prize |
|
1867 |
Germany |
Hamilton,
Edith |
Author |
Mythology |
|
1867 |
Germany |
Ives,
George |
Author |
Order of
Chaeronea |
|
1867 |
Germany |
Rathenau, Walther |
Business |
Foreign
Minister |
|
1867 |
SouthAfrica |
Mathebula,
Nongoloza |
Soldier |
Regiment of
the
Hills |
|
1867 |
UK |
Johnson,
Lionel |
Poet |
Ireland and
Other
Poems |
|
1868 |
Austria |
Douglas,
Norman |
Author |
South
Wind |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
YearofBirth |
Birthplace |
Name |
Profession |
Accomplishment |
|
1868 |
Germany |
George,
Stefan |
Poet |
Blatter fur
die
Kunst |
|
1868 |
Germany |
Hirschfeld,
Magnus |
Author |
Sexual History
of the
World |
|
1868 |
Uganda |
Mwanga |
Politician |
King of
Buganda |
|
1869 |
France |
Gide,
André |
Author |
Nobel Prize
for
Literature |
|
1870 |
Myanmar |
Saki |
Author |
Reginald |
|
1870 |
UK |
Douglas,
Alfred |
Author |
Oscar
Wilde’s
lover |
|
1871 |
France |
Proust,
Marcel |
Author |
In Search
of Lost
Time |
|
1872 |
Russia |
Chicherin,GeorgiVasilevich |
Politician |
Commissar
for
Foreign
Affairs |
|
1872 |
Russia |
Diaghilev,
Sergey |
Producer |
Ballets
Russes |
|
1872 |
US |
Adams,
Maude |
Actress |