| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Scipio Africanus |
Military |
236 BC |
183 BC |
Defeated Hannibal |
| Cornelius Agrippa |
Magician |
14-Sep-1486 |
18-Feb-1535 |
Three Books of Occult Philosophy |
| Emilio Aguinaldo |
Head of State |
22-Mar-1869 |
6-Feb-1964 |
1st President of the Philippines |
| Jorge Amado |
Novelist |
10-Aug-1912 |
6-Aug-2001 |
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands |
| Anaxagoras |
Philosopher |
c. 500 BC |
c. 428 BC |
Matter composed of infinite elements |
| Herod Antipas |
Royalty |
20 BC |
39 AD |
Put John the Baptist to death |
| Jacobo Arbenz |
Head of State |
14-Sep-1913 |
27-Jan-1971 |
President of Guatemala, 1951-54 |
| Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1953 |
|
Twice overthrown president of Haiti |
| Arius |
Religion |
256 AD |
336 AD |
Founder of the Christian doctrine of Arianism |
| Thomas Arundel |
Religion |
1353 |
19-Feb-1414 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1396-1414 |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias |
Author |
19-Oct-1899 |
9-Jun-1974 |
Guatemalan protest writer |
| St. Athanasius |
Religion |
298 AD |
2-May-373 AD |
Patriarch of Alexandria, 328-373 AD |
| Bahá'u'lláh |
Religion |
12-Nov-1817 |
29-May-1892 |
Founder of Baha'i |
| Mikhail Bakunin |
Anarchist |
30-May-1814 |
1-Jul-1876 |
Pioneer of the Anarchist movement |
| Abolhassan Bani-Sadr |
Head of State |
22-Mar-1933 |
|
First President of Iran, 1980-81 |
| Ahmed Ben Bella |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1918 |
11-Apr-2012 |
President of Algeria, 1963-65 |
| Pope Benedict IX |
Religion |
? |
1056 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1033-48 |
| Ingmar Bergman |
Film Director |
14-Jul-1918 |
30-Jul-2007 |
Scenes from a Marriage |
| John Biddle |
Religion |
1615 |
22-Sep-1662 |
Father of English Unitarianism |
| Ronnie Biggs |
Criminal |
8-Aug-1929 |
18-Dec-2013 |
UK Great Train Robber |
| Boethius |
Philosopher |
c. 470 AD |
524 AD |
Consolation of Philosophy |
| Simón Bolívar |
Military |
24-Jul-1783 |
17-Dec-1830 |
El Libertador |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
Head of State |
15-Aug-1769 |
5-May-1821 |
Emperor of France |
| Yelena Bonner |
Activist |
15-Feb-1923 |
18-Jun-2011 |
Activist-wife of Andrei Sakharov |
| Cesare Borgia |
Religion |
Sep-1476 |
12-Mar-1507 |
Cardinal of Valencia |
| François Bozizé |
Government |
14-Oct-1946 |
|
President, Central African Republic 2003-13 |
| Bertolt Brecht |
Playwright |
10-Feb-1898 |
14-Aug-1956 |
Mother Courage and Her Children |
| William Lee Brent |
Criminal |
10-Nov-1930 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Black Panther hijacker |
| Joseph Brodsky |
Poet |
24-May-1940 |
28-Jan-1996 |
"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate |
| Ferdinand Buisson |
Activist |
20-Dec-1841 |
16-Feb-1932 |
French pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Nikolai Bukharin |
Economist |
9-Oct-1888 |
15-Mar-1938 |
Soviet theoretical economist |
| Sebastian Cabot |
Explorer |
1476 |
1557 |
16th century Italian/English explorer |
| Robert Capa |
Photographer |
22-Oct-1913 |
25-May-1954 |
War photographer |
| Giacomo Casanova |
Author |
2-Apr-1725 |
4-Jun-1798 |
World-renowned paramour |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy |
Mathematician |
21-Aug-1789 |
23-May-1857 |
Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups |
| Cetshwayo |
Royalty |
c. 1826 |
8-Feb-1884 |
Zulu king |
| Chandragupta |
Royalty |
c. 321 BC |
c. 298 BC |
Indian emperor, established Mauryan dynasty |
| Charles X |
Royalty |
9-Oct-1757 |
6-Nov-1836 |
King of France, 1824-30 |
| François-René de Chateaubriand |
Author |
4-Sep-1768 |
4-Jul-1848 |
G�nie du christianisme |
| St. John Chrysostom |
Religion |
c. 345 AD |
14-Sep-407 AD |
Church Father, Archbishop of Constantinople |
| Cicero |
Author |
Jan-106 BC |
7-Dec-43 BC |
Roman orator and rhetorician |
| Lord Clarendon |
Government |
18-Feb-1609 |
9-Dec-1674 |
The Clarendon Code |
| Eldridge Cleaver |
Activist |
31-Aug-1935 |
1-May-1998 |
Black Panther turned Republican |
| Francesco Colonna |
Author |
1433 |
2-Oct-1527 |
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili |
| Constantine I |
Royalty |
2-Aug-1868 |
11-Jan-1923 |
King of Greece, 1913-17 and 1920-22 |
| Constantine II |
Royalty |
2-Jun-1940 |
|
King of Greece, 1964-73 |
| Gustave Courbet |
Painter |
10-Jun-1819 |
31-Dec-1877 |
French Realist painter |
| Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
| Dante |
Poet |
1265 |
14-Sep-1321 |
La Divina Commedia |
| Bei Dao |
Poet |
2-Aug-1949 |
|
Exiled Chinese poet of the Misty School |
| Jacques-Louis David |
Painter |
30-Aug-1748 |
29-Dec-1825 |
French Neoclassical painter |
| Marquis de Sade |
Author |
2-Jun-1740 |
2-Dec-1814 |
120 Days of Sodom |
| Porfirio Díaz |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1830 |
2-Jul-1915 |
Twice President of Mexico |
| Diogenes |
Philosopher |
412 BC |
323 BC |
Cynic |
| Dionysius the Younger |
Royalty |
397 BC |
343 BC |
Tyrant of Syracuse |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Novelist |
30-Oct-1821 |
28-Jan-1881 |
Crime and Punishment |
| José Napoleón Duarte |
Head of State |
23-Nov-1925 |
23-Feb-1990 |
President of El Salvador, 1984-89 |
| Henry Dunant |
Activist |
8-May-1828 |
30-Oct-1910 |
Red Cross founder |
| Jean-Claude Duvalier |
Head of State |
3-Jul-1951 |
4-Oct-2014 |
"Baby Doc" Haitian dictator |
| Felix Dzerzhinsky |
Government |
11-Sep-1877 |
20-Jul-1926 |
The Black Pope of Bolshevism |
| King Edward II |
Royalty |
25-Apr-1284 |
11-Oct-1327 |
King of England, 1307-27 |
| Edward the Confessor |
Royalty |
c. 1004 |
4-Jan-1066 |
King of England, 1042-66 |
| Epictetus |
Philosopher |
c. 55 AD |
c. 135 AD |
Stoic, wrote Encheiridion |
| Faisal I |
Royalty |
20-May-1883 |
8-Sep-1933 |
King of Iraq, 1921-33 |
| Pope Formosus |
Religion |
c. 816 AD |
4-Apr-896 AD |
Roman Catholic Pope, 891-896 |
| King Frederick I |
Royalty |
c. 1122 |
10-Jun-1190 |
King of Germany, Barbarossa |
| George II |
Royalty |
20-Jul-1890 |
1-Apr-1947 |
King of Greece, 1922-24 and 1935-47 |
| Vincenzo Gioberti |
Philosopher |
5-Apr-1801 |
26-Nov-1852 |
Rinnovamenlo civile d'Italia |
| Pope Gregory VII |
Religion |
c. 1020 |
25-May-1085 |
Lost power struggle with Henry IV |
| Hafez |
Poet |
1326 |
1389 |
Prominent Persian poet |
| Hannibal |
Military |
247 BC |
182 BC |
Attacked Rome with war elephants |
| Big Bill Haywood |
Labor Leader |
4-Feb-1869 |
18-May-1928 |
Industrial Workers of the World |
| King Henry IV |
Royalty |
3-Apr-1367 |
20-Mar-1413 |
King of England, 1399-1413 |
| King Henry VI |
Royalty |
6-Dec-1421 |
21-May-1471 |
King of England, 1422-61 |
| José María de Heredia |
Poet |
22-Nov-1842 |
2-Oct-1905 |
Les Troph�es |
| Herodotus |
Historian |
c. 484 BC |
c, 425 BC |
The Histories |
| Hippolytus |
Religion |
c. 170 AD |
235 AD |
Writer of the early church |
| Andreas Hofer |
Military |
22-Nov-1767 |
20-Feb-1810 |
Tirolese patriot, insurgent |
| Li Hongzhi |
Religion |
13-May-1951 |
|
Founder of Falun Gong |
| Ralph Hopton |
Military |
1596 |
Sep-1652 |
Royalist commander, English Civil War |
| José Ramos Horta |
Politician |
26-Dec-1949 |
|
President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
| Guillermo Cabrera Infante |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1929 |
21-Feb-2005 |
Tres Tristes Tigres |
| King James II |
Royalty |
14-Oct-1633 |
16-Sep-1701 |
King of England, 1685-88 |
| Juan Ramón Jiménez |
Poet |
24-Dec-1881 |
29-May-1958 |
Pastorales |
| King John Lackland |
Royalty |
24-Dec-1166 |
18-Oct-1216 |
Signed the Magna Carta, then reneged |
| Jack Johnson |
Boxing |
31-Mar-1878 |
10-Jun-1946 |
First black heavyweight champion |
| Jomo Kenyatta |
Head of State |
20-Oct-1892 |
22-Aug-1978 |
President of Kenya, 1964-78 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini |
Religion |
24-Sep-1902 |
3-Jun-1989 |
Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran |
| G. P. Koirala |
Head of State |
20-Feb-1925 |
20-Mar-2010 |
Four-Time Prime Minister of Nepal |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Ricardo Lagos |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1938 |
|
President of Chile, 2000-06 |
| Henry of Lausanne |
Religion |
fl. 12th c. |
fl. 12th c. |
12th century French heretic |
| Pope Leo X |
Religion |
11-Dec-1475 |
1-Dec-1521 |
Excommunicated Martin Luther |
| Leopold III |
Royalty |
3-Nov-1901 |
25-Sep-1983 |
Abdicated King of Belgium |
| Mikhail Lermontov |
Poet |
15-Oct-1814 |
27-Jul-1841 |
A Hero of Our Time |
| Louis XVIII |
Royalty |
17-Nov-1755 |
16-Sep-1824 |
King of France, 1814-15 & 1815-24 |
| Louis-Philippe |
Royalty |
6-Oct-1773 |
26-Aug-1850 |
King of France, 1830-48 |
| Jan Lukasiewicz |
Mathematician |
21-Dec-1878 |
13-Feb-1956 |
Invented Reverse Polish Notation |
| Martin Luther |
Religion |
10-Nov-1483 |
18-Feb-1546 |
Created Protestant movement |
| Niccolò Machiavelli |
Author |
3-May-1469 |
22-Jun-1527 |
The Prince |
| Ferdinand Marcos |
Head of State |
11-Sep-1917 |
28-Sep-1989 |
Disgraced Philippine dictator |
| Imelda Marcos |
First Lady |
2-Jul-1929 |
|
Former First Lady of the Philippines |
| Margaret of Parma |
Royalty |
28-Dec-1522 |
18-Jan-1586 |
Regent of the Netherlands, 1559-67 |
| Gaius Marius |
Military |
155 BC |
13-Jan-86 BC |
Roman General and consul |
| José Martí |
Activist |
28-Jan-1853 |
19-May-1895 |
Cuban hero |
| Typhoid Mary |
Chef |
22-Sep-1869 |
11-Nov-1938 |
Notorious typhoid carrier |
| Maurice, comte de Saxe |
Military |
28-Oct-1696 |
30-Nov-1750 |
Marshal Saxe |
| Giuseppe Mazzini |
Activist |
22-Jun-1805 |
10-Mar-1872 |
Italian patriot, agitator |
| Cosimo de Medici |
Government |
27-Sep-1389 |
1-Aug-1464 |
Uncrowned king of Florence |
| Marie de Medici |
Royalty |
26-Apr-1573 |
3-Jul-1642 |
Regent of France, 1610-17 |
| Andrew Melville |
Religion |
1-Aug-1545 |
1622 |
Scottish Reform Church |
| Rigoberta Menchú Tum |
Activist |
9-Jan-1959 |
|
Political activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Ana Mendieta |
Performance Artist |
18-Nov-1948 |
8-Sep-1985 |
Feminist performance artist |
| Carlos Menem |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1930 |
|
President of Argentina, 1989-99 |
| Robert Mugabe |
Head of State |
21-Feb-1924 |
|
President of Zimbabwe |
| Thomas Münzer |
Religion |
c. 1490 |
27-May-1525 |
German Protestant religious fanatic |
| Yoweri Museveni |
Head of State |
15-Aug-1944 |
|
President of Uganda |
| Nikon |
Religion |
7-May-1605 |
17-Aug-1681 |
Reformer Patriarch of Moscow |
| Kwame Nkrumah |
Head of State |
21-Sep-1909 |
27-Apr-1972 |
First President of Ghana |
| John Humphrey Noyes |
Religion |
3-Sep-1811 |
13-Apr-1886 |
Oneida Community founder |
| Bernardo O'Higgins |
Head of State |
20-Aug-1778 |
24-Oct-1842 |
Supreme Director of Chile, 1817-23 |
| Milton Obote |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1924 |
10-Oct-2005 |
Two-time President of Uganda |
| Abdullah Ocalan |
Politician |
4-Apr-1948 |
|
Leader of the PKK |
| Ovid |
Poet |
20-Mar-43 BC |
17 AD |
Metamorphoses |
| Sir Anthony Panizzi |
Curator |
16-Sep-1797 |
8-Apr-1879 |
Librarian of the British Museum |
| Andreas Papandreou |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1919 |
23-Jun-1996 |
Twice Prime Minister of Greece |
| Enver Pasha |
Government |
22-Nov-1881 |
4-Aug-1922 |
Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities |
| Paul |
Royalty |
14-Dec-1901 |
6-Mar-1964 |
King of Greece, 1947-64 |
| Pedro II |
Royalty |
2-Dec-1825 |
5-Dec-1891 |
Emperor of Brazil, 1831-89 |
| Isabel Peron |
Head of State |
4-Feb-1931 |
|
Dancer, President of Argentina, 1974-76 |
| Juan Peron |
Head of State |
8-Oct-1895 |
1-Jul-1974 |
Twice President of Argentina |
| St. John Philby |
Government |
3-Apr-1885 |
30-Sep-1960 |
Sheikh Abdullah, Arabist |
| Wilhelm Pieck |
Head of State |
3-Jan-1876 |
7-Sep-1960 |
President of East Germany, 1949-60 |
| Józef Pilsudski |
Military |
5-Dec-1867 |
12-May-1935 |
Military dictator of Poland, 1926-35 |
| Casimir Pulaski |
Military |
7-Mar-1745 |
11-Oct-1779 |
Polish General in the American Revolution |
| Aleksandr Pushkin |
Poet |
26-May-1799 |
10-Feb-1837 |
Russia's greatest poet |
| Ludwig Quidde |
Activist |
23-Mar-1858 |
4-Mar-1941 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Thomas Caute Reynolds |
Politician |
11-Oct-1821 |
30-Mar-1887 |
Missouri governor, committed suicide |
| Cardinal Richelieu |
Religion |
9-Sep-1585 |
4-Dec-1642 |
King of France's chief advisor, 1624-42 |
| François de la Rochefoucauld |
Author |
15-Sep-1613 |
16-Mar-1680 |
Maxims |
| Raul Romero |
Business |
1953 |
|
S&B Infrastructure |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Philosopher |
28-Jun-1712 |
2-Jul-1778 |
Conceptualized the Social Contract |
| Andrei Sakharov |
Physicist |
21-May-1921 |
14-Dec-1989 |
Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb |
| Antonio López de Santa Anna |
Military |
21-Feb-1794 |
21-Jun-1876 |
Hero of Tampico |
| Sappho |
Poet |
fl. c. 610 BC |
fl. c. 580 BC |
The Tenth Muse |
| Kaspar Schwenkfeld |
Religion |
1489 |
10-Dec-1561 |
Verg�tterung |
| Kurt Schwitters |
Artist |
20-Jun-1887 |
8-Jan-1948 |
Collagist, Merz |
| Mobutu Sese Seko |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1930 |
7-Sep-1997 |
Dictator, bled Zaire dry |
| Haile Selassie |
Royalty |
23-Jul-1892 |
27-Aug-1975 |
Last Emperor of Ethiopia |
| Seneca |
Author |
c. 4 BC |
65 AD |
Epistulae Morales |
| Shah of Iran |
Royalty |
26-Oct-1919 |
27-Jul-1980 |
Last Shah of Iran |
| Mohammed Zahir Shah |
Royalty |
16-Oct-1914 |
23-Jul-2007 |
King of Afghanistan, 1933-73 |
| Yitzhak Shamir |
Head of State |
15-Oct-1915 |
30-Jun-2012 |
Twice Israeli Prime Minister |
| Nawaz Sharif |
Head of State |
25-Dec-1949 |
|
Twice Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Norodom Sihanouk |
Royalty |
31-Oct-1922 |
15-Oct-2012 |
King of Cambodia |
| Josef Stalin |
Head of State |
18-Dec-1878 |
5-Mar-1953 |
Brutal dictator, Soviet Union |
| Alfredo Stroessner |
Head of State |
3-Nov-1912 |
16-Aug-2006 |
Dictator of Paraguay, 1954-89 |
| Eugène Sue |
Novelist |
26-Jan-1804 |
3-Aug-1857 |
Roman-feuilleton novelist |
| Sulla |
Military |
138 BC |
78 BC |
Roman General, dictator |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
Diplomat |
2-Feb-1754 |
17-May-1838 |
Preeminent French diplomat |
| Oliver Tambo |
Government |
27-Oct-1917 |
24-Apr-1993 |
ANC President, 1969-91 |
| Napper Tandy |
Politician |
1740 |
24-Aug-1803 |
Irish politician and revolutionary |
| Charles Taylor |
Head of State |
28-Jan-1948 |
|
Former Liberian president, war criminal |
| Themistocles |
Military |
c. 523 BC |
c. 458 BC |
Athenian general |
| Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
| William Tyndale |
Religion |
1492 |
6-Oct-1536 |
Bible translator, burnt at the stake |
| Miguel de Unamuno |
Philosopher |
29-Sep-1864 |
31-Dec-1936 |
El Cristo de Vel�zquez |
| Pope Urban II |
Religion |
c. 1035 |
29-Jul-1099 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1088-99 |
| Voltaire |
Author |
21-Nov-1694 |
30-May-1778 |
Candide |
| Werner von Blomberg |
Military |
2-Sep-1878 |
22-Mar-1946 |
Nazi general, married a whore |
| Klemens Wenzel von Metternich |
Diplomat |
15-May-1773 |
11-Jun-1859 |
Influential Austrian ambassador |
| Wilfrid Voynich |
Activist |
31-Oct-1865 |
19-Mar-1930 |
Voynich manuscript |
| William Walker |
Military |
8-May-1824 |
12-Sep-1860 |
American "filibuster" |
| Edmund Waller |
Poet |
3-Mar-1606 |
21-Oct-1687 |
Go, Lovely Rose |
| Adam Weishaupt |
Activist |
6-Feb-1748 |
18-Nov-1811 |
Founder of the Bavarian Illuminati |
| Louis T. Wigfall |
Politician |
21-Apr-1816 |
18-Feb-1874 |
US Senator from Texas, 1859-61 |
| Kaiser Wilhelm |
Head of State |
27-Jan-1859 |
4-Jun-1941 |
Last of the German emperors |
| John Wilmot |
Poet |
1-Apr-1647 |
26-Jul-1680 |
Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery |
| Xenophanes |
Poet |
c. 560 BC |
c. 478 BC |
Pre-Socratic, early monotheist |
| Sun Yat-sen |
Head of State |
12-Nov-1866 |
12-Mar-1925 |
President of China, 1911-12 |
| Manuel Zelaya |
Head of State |
20-Sep-1952 |
|
President of Honduras, 2006-09 |
| Grigory Zinoviev |
Government |
23-Sep-1883 |
25-Aug-1936 |
Old Bolshevik executed during the Great Purge |
| King Zog |
Royalty |
8-Oct-1895 |
9-Apr-1961 |
King of Albania |
