| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Mark Akenside |
Poet |
9-Nov-1721 |
23-Jun-1770 |
The Pleasures of the Imagination |
| Bahá'u'lláh |
Religion |
12-Nov-1817 |
29-May-1892 |
Founder of Baha'i |
| John Biddle |
Religion |
1615 |
22-Sep-1662 |
Father of English Unitarianism |
| George Boole |
Mathematician |
2-Nov-1815 |
8-Dec-1864 |
Inventor of Boolean Algebra |
| Henry Thomas Buckle |
Historian |
24-Nov-1821 |
29-May-1862 |
History of Civilization in England |
| John Bunyan |
Author |
Nov-1628 |
31-Aug-1688 |
Pilgrim's Progress |
| Lord Byron |
Poet |
22-Jan-1788 |
19-Apr-1824 |
English romantic poet |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
Mathematician |
21-Aug-1789 |
23-May-1857 |
Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups |
| Guido Cavalcanti |
Poet |
c. 1250 |
27-Aug-1300 |
Canzone d'Amore |
| Charles Churchill |
Poet |
1731 |
4-Nov-1764 |
Rosciad |
| Constantius II |
Royalty |
7-Aug-317 AD |
3-Nov-361 AD |
Roman Emperor, 337-361 AD |
| Dante |
Poet |
1265 |
14-Sep-1321 |
La Divina Commedia |
| Thomas Dempster |
Historian |
1579 |
6-Sep-1625 |
Scotia Illustrior |
| Dixon Denham |
Explorer |
1-Jan-1786 |
8-May-1828 |
English explorer of Central Africa |
| Don John of Austria |
Royalty |
24-Feb-1547 |
1-Oct-1578 |
Defeated Turks at Lepanto |
| Sir Francis Drake |
Explorer |
c. 1540 |
28-Jan-1596 |
Defeated Spanish Armada |
| Albrecht Dürer |
Engraver |
21-May-1471 |
6-Apr-1528 |
German Renaissance artist |
| Pope John XV |
Religion |
? |
996 AD |
Roman Catholic Pope, 985-96 |
| Pope Julius II |
Religion |
5-Dec-1443 |
21-Feb-1513 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1503-13 |
| Johannes Kepler |
Astronomer |
27-Dec-1571 |
15-Nov-1630 |
Laws of Planetary Motion |
| St. Ignatius of Loyola |
Religion |
1491 |
31-Jul-1556 |
Founder of the Jesuit order |
| Mary Lyon |
Activist |
28-Feb-1797 |
5-Mar-1849 |
Founder of Mount Holyoke College |
| Gaius Marius |
Military |
155 BC |
13-Jan-86 BC |
Roman General and consul |
| Michelangelo |
Sculptor |
6-Mar-1475 |
18-Feb-1564 |
Renaissance sculptor and painter |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Composer |
27-Jan-1756 |
5-Dec-1791 |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Nerva |
Royalty |
8-Nov-30 AD |
27-Jan-98 AD |
Roman Emperor, 96-98 AD |
| Parmigiano |
Painter |
11-Jan-1503 |
24-Aug-1540 |
Painter of the Lombard School |
| Antoninus Pius |
Royalty |
19-Sep-86 AD |
7-Mar-161 AD |
Roman Emperor, 138-161 AD |
| Guido Reni |
Painter |
4-Nov-1575 |
18-Aug-1642 |
Painter of the Bolognese school |
| Hernando de Soto |
Explorer |
1496 |
21-May-1542 |
Explored the Mississippi |
| Titus |
Royalty |
30-Dec-39 AD |
13-Sep-81 AD |
Roman Emperor, 79-81 AD |
| Diego Velázquez |
Painter |
6-Jun-1599 |
6-Aug-1660 |
Las Meninas |
| Martha Washington |
First Lady |
2-Jun-1731 |
22-May-1802 |
Wife of US President George Washington |
| Sir Thomas Wyat |
Poet |
1503 |
6-Oct-1542 |
Introduced sonnet to England |
