| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ansel Adams |
Photographer |
20-Feb-1902 |
22-Apr-1984 |
Yosemite photographer |
| Alexander the Great |
Royalty |
Jul-356 BC |
10-Jun-323 BC |
World conqueror |
| Georges d'Amboise |
Religion |
1460 |
25-May-1510 |
Prime Minister under Louis XII |
| Queen Anne |
Royalty |
6-Feb-1665 |
1-Aug-1714 |
Queen of England, 1702-14 |
| Benedict Arnold |
Military |
14-Jan-1741 |
14-Jun-1801 |
Betrayed colonists to British |
| William Waldorf Astor |
Publisher |
31-Mar-1848 |
18-Oct-1919 |
The Observer |
| Sir Joseph Banks |
Botanist |
13-Feb-1743 |
19-Jun-1820 |
Accompanied James Cook |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Composer |
17-Dec-1770 |
26-Mar-1827 |
Prominent composer |
| Georges Boulanger |
Military |
29-Apr-1837 |
30-Sep-1891 |
French general-turned-politician |
| William Boyce |
Composer |
7-Feb-1710 |
7-Feb-1779 |
Cathedral Music |
| Ford Madox Brown |
Painter |
16-Apr-1821 |
6-Oct-1893 |
English historical painter |
| Sir Richard Burton |
Explorer |
19-Mar-1821 |
20-Oct-1890 |
Translated The Arabian Nights |
| John Calvin |
Religion |
10-Jul-1509 |
27-May-1564 |
French Protestant Reformation |
| Girolamo Cardano |
Doctor |
24-Sep-1501 |
21-Sep-1576 |
De Subtilitate |
| Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione |
Painter |
23-Mar-1609 |
5-May-1664 |
Italian pastoral painter |
| Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh |
Politician |
18-Jun-1769 |
12-Aug-1822 |
Architected Napoleon's defeat |
| William Cecil |
Government |
13-Sep-1520 |
5-Aug-1598 |
Closest advisor to Elizabeth I |
| Neville Chamberlain |
Politician |
18-Mar-1869 |
9-Nov-1940 |
Architect of appeasement |
| Charlemagne |
Royalty |
c. 747 AD |
28-Jan-814 AD |
Holy Roman Emperor |
| Dick Cheney |
Politician |
30-Jan-1941 |
|
US Vice President, 2001-09 |
| Lord Clarendon |
Government |
18-Feb-1609 |
9-Dec-1674 |
The Clarendon Code |
| Pope Clement XII |
Religion |
7-Apr-1652 |
6-Feb-1740 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1730-40 |
| Grover Cleveland |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1837 |
24-Jun-1908 |
22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poet |
21-Oct-1772 |
25-Jul-1834 |
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Wilkie Collins |
Novelist |
8-Jan-1824 |
23-Dec-1889 |
The Moonstone |
| Christopher Columbus |
Explorer |
1451 |
20-May-1506 |
Rediscovered the New World |
| William Congreve |
Playwright |
24-Jan-1670 |
19-Jan-1729 |
The Way of the World |
| Leonardo Da Vinci |
Artist |
15-Apr-1452 |
2-May-1519 |
Mona Lisa, The Last Supper |
| Erasmus Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Dec-1731 |
18-Apr-1802 |
English naturalist, very bad poet |
| Charles-François Daubigny |
Painter |
15-Feb-1817 |
19-Feb-1878 |
French painter of landscapes, ducks |
| Daniel Defoe |
Author |
Sep-1660 |
24-Apr-1731 |
Robinson Crusoe |
| John Demjanjuk |
Criminal |
3-Apr-1920 |
17-Mar-2012 |
Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past |
| Charles Dickens |
Novelist |
7-Feb-1812 |
9-Jun-1870 |
Oliver Twist |
| Rudolf Diesel |
Inventor |
18-Mar-1858 |
30-Sep-1913 |
Inventor of the diesel engine |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
Head of State |
21-Dec-1804 |
19-Apr-1881 |
UK Prime Minister, 1874-80 |
| John Donne |
Poet |
1572 |
31-Mar-1631 |
Anniversaries |
| John Dryden |
Poet |
19-Aug-1631 |
1-May-1700 |
Absalom and Achitophel |
| Allen W. Dulles |
Spy |
7-Apr-1893 |
29-Jan-1969 |
CIA Director, 1953-61 |
| Quintus Ennius |
Poet |
c. 239 BC |
c. 170 BC |
Founder of Roman literature |
| Henry Fielding |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1707 |
8-Oct-1754 |
Tom Jones |
| Charles James Fox |
Politician |
24-Jan-1749 |
13-Sep-1806 |
U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Diplomat |
17-Jan-1706 |
17-Apr-1790 |
American founding father |
| Frederick the Great |
Royalty |
24-Jan-1712 |
17-Aug-1786 |
King of Prussia 1740-86 |
| Galileo Galilei |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1564 |
8-Jan-1642 |
Copernican observational astronomer |
| King George III |
Royalty |
4-Jun-1738 |
29-Jan-1820 |
King of England, 1760-1820 |
| King George IV |
Royalty |
12-Aug-1762 |
26-Jun-1830 |
King of England 1820-30 |
| Edward Gibbon |
Historian |
8-May-1737 |
16-Jan-1794 |
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Goethe |
Author |
28-Aug-1749 |
22-Mar-1832 |
Most influential German writer |
| Thomas Gray |
Poet |
26-Dec-1716 |
30-Jul-1771 |
An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard |
| William Grayson |
Politician |
1736 |
12-Mar-1790 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1789-90 |
| Alec Guinness |
Actor |
2-Apr-1914 |
5-Aug-2000 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton |
Mathematician |
3-Aug-1805 |
2-Sep-1865 |
Inventor of Quaternions |
| John Hancock |
Politician |
23-Jan-1737 |
8-Oct-1793 |
First signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| William Harvey |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1578 |
3-Jun-1657 |
Discovered circulation of blood |
| King Henry VIII |
Royalty |
28-Jun-1491 |
28-Jan-1547 |
King of England, 1509-47 |
| Hermann Hesse |
Author |
2-Jul-1877 |
9-Aug-1962 |
Siddhartha |
| Pope Honorius IV |
Religion |
c. 1210 |
3-Apr-1287 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1285-87 |
| John Hunter |
Doctor |
13-Feb-1728 |
16-Oct-1793 |
English pathologist |
| Thomas Jefferson |
Head of State |
13-Apr-1743 |
4-Jul-1826 |
3rd US President, 1801-09 |
| Samuel Johnson |
Lexicographer |
18-Sep-1709 |
13-Dec-1784 |
A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Pope Julius III |
Religion |
10-Sep-1487 |
23-Mar-1555 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1550-55 |
| Kublai Khan |
Royalty |
23-Sep-1215 |
18-Feb-1294 |
Mongol Emperor, 1260-71 |
| Nicolas Louis de Lacaille |
Astronomer |
15-May-1713 |
21-Mar-1762 |
Coelum Australe Stelliferum |
| Richard Henry Lee |
Politician |
20-Jan-1732 |
19-Jun-1794 |
Author of the 10th Amendment |
| Gottfried Leibniz |
Mathematician |
1-Jul-1646 |
14-Nov-1716 |
Co-Inventor of calculus |
| Jared Leto |
Actor |
26-Dec-1971 |
|
Harry in Requiem for a Dream |
| Carolus Linnaeus |
Botanist |
23-May-1707 |
10-Jan-1778 |
Created a taxonomy of the species |
| John Locke |
Philosopher |
29-Aug-1632 |
28-Oct-1704 |
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Louis XVIII |
Royalty |
17-Nov-1755 |
16-Sep-1824 |
King of France, 1814-15 & 1815-24 |
| Lucian |
Author |
120 AD |
c. 180 AD |
Dialogues of the Dead |
| Karl Marx |
Economist |
5-May-1818 |
14-Mar-1883 |
Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto |
| George Mason |
Politician |
11-Dec-1725 |
7-Oct-1792 |
Drafted Virginia's Bill of Rights |
| Matthias Corvinus |
Royalty |
24-Feb-1443 |
6-Apr-1490 |
King of Hungary, 1458-90 |
| Cosimo de Medici |
Government |
27-Sep-1389 |
1-Aug-1464 |
Uncrowned king of Florence |
| Michelangelo |
Sculptor |
6-Mar-1475 |
18-Feb-1564 |
Renaissance sculptor and painter |
| John Milton |
Poet |
9-Dec-1608 |
8-Nov-1674 |
Paradise Lost |
| Gouverneur Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1752 |
6-Nov-1816 |
American financier, Revolutionary politician |
| Pablo Neruda |
Poet |
12-Jul-1904 |
23-Sep-1973 |
Residencia en la Tierra |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Nostradamus |
Paranormal |
14-Dec-1503 |
1-Jul-1566 |
Notoriously ambiguous prophet |
| Laurence Olivier |
Actor |
22-May-1907 |
11-Jul-1989 |
Shakespearean actor |
| Lord Palmerston |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1784 |
18-Oct-1865 |
Twice Prime Minister of UK |
| Colonel Tom Parker |
Business |
26-Jun-1909 |
21-Jan-1997 |
Elvis Presley's manager |
| George Peabody |
Business |
18-Feb-1795 |
4-Nov-1869 |
American businessman, philanthropist |
| Philip II |
Royalty |
21-May-1527 |
13-Sep-1598 |
King of Spain, 1556-98 |
| Albert Pike |
Military |
29-Dec-1809 |
2-Apr-1891 |
Confederate general, Freemason |
| William Pitt the Elder |
Head of State |
15-Nov-1708 |
11-May-1778 |
Seven Years War |
| William Pitt the Younger |
Head of State |
28-May-1759 |
23-Jan-1806 |
UK Prime Minister |
| Pope Pius II |
Religion |
18-Oct-1405 |
14-Aug-1464 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1458-64 |
| Pope Pius III |
Religion |
9-May-1439 |
18-Oct-1503 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1503 |
| Auguste Renoir |
Painter |
25-Feb-1841 |
3-Dec-1919 |
Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette |
| François de la Rochefoucauld |
Author |
15-Sep-1613 |
16-Mar-1680 |
Maxims |
| Peter Paul Rubens |
Painter |
28-Jun-1577 |
30-May-1640 |
Flemish baroque painter |
| Philip Schuyler |
Military |
11-Nov-1733 |
18-Nov-1804 |
US Revolutionary War general |
| Winfield Scott |
Military |
13-Jun-1786 |
29-May-1866 |
US Army general, Mexican campaign 1847 |
| Pope Sergius II |
Religion |
? |
27-Jan-847 AD |
Roman Catholic Pope, 844-47 |
| Septimius Severus |
Royalty |
11-Apr-146 AD |
4-Feb-211 AD |
Roman Emperor, 193-211 AD |
| William Shenstone |
Poet |
18-Nov-1714 |
11-Feb-1763 |
The Schoolmistress |
| Josias Simmler |
Author |
1550 |
1576 |
De Alpibus Commentarius |
| Sitting Bull |
Military |
c. 1831 |
15-Dec-1890 |
Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
| Sydney Smith |
Religion |
3-Jun-1771 |
22-Feb-1845 |
Instigated the Edinburgh Review |
| Gilbert Stuart |
Painter |
3-Dec-1755 |
9-Jul-1828 |
American portrait painter |
| Thomas Sydenham |
Doctor |
13-Sep-1624 |
29-Dec-1689 |
The English Hippocrates |
| Richard L. M. Synge |
Chemist |
28-Oct-1914 |
18-Aug-1994 |
Partition chromatography |
| William Howard Taft |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1857 |
8-Mar-1930 |
27th US President, 1909-13 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Dylan Thomas |
Poet |
27-Oct-1914 |
9-Nov-1953 |
Most influential Welsh poet |
| Martin Van Buren |
Head of State |
5-Dec-1782 |
24-Jul-1862 |
8th US President, 1837-41 |
| Queen Victoria |
Royalty |
24-May-1819 |
22-Jan-1901 |
Longest-reigning British monarch |
| Horace Walpole |
Author |
24-Sep-1717 |
2-Mar-1797 |
Wrote the first Gothic novel |
| William Warburton |
Religion |
24-Dec-1698 |
7-Jun-1779 |
Divine Legation |
| Harry Warren |
Composer |
24-Dec-1893 |
22-Sep-1981 |
Forty-Second Street |
| Anthony Wayne |
Military |
1-Jan-1745 |
15-Dec-1796 |
Revolutionary War general |
| David Wells |
Baseball |
20-May-1963 |
|
MLB pitcher, wrote Perfect I'm Not |
| Early Wynn |
Baseball |
6-Jan-1920 |
4-Apr-1999 |
MLB Hall of Famer |
