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Zoroaster, (628?BC-551BC) Persian religious leader
Aesop, (620?BC-560BC) Greek author
Pythagoras, (582BC-507BC) Greek mathemetician, pilosopher
Lao-Tzu, (c. 570BC-????) Chinese philosopher
Buddha, (563BC-483BC) Indian religious leader
Confucius, (c. 551BC-479BC) Chinese philosopher
Pindar, (c. 518BC-438 BC) Greek poet
Tzu [Wu], Sun (BC 535-228) Chinese military strategist
Heraclitus of Ephesus, (535?BC-475?BC) Greek philosopher
Aeschylus, (525?BC-456BC) Greek playwright
Sophocles, (BC 496-406) Greek poet
Pericles, (495BC-429BC) Greek statesman
Herodotus, (484?BC-425BC) Greek historian
Euripides, (480BC-406BC) Greek dramatist
Socrates, (470?BC-399?BC) Greek philosopher
Democritus, (460BC-370BC) Greek philosopher
Hippocrates, (460BC-370BC) Greek physician
Aristophanes, (448BC-385BC) Greek dramatist
Antisthenes, (444BC-371BC) Greek philosopher
Plato, (427BC-347BC) Greek philosopher, author
Diogenes, (412BC-323BC) Greek philosopher
Aristotle, (384BC-322BC) Greek writer, philosopher
Demosthenes, (382BC-322BC) Greek orator, statesman
Mencius, (371BC-289BC) Chinese philosopher
Alexander the Great, (356BC-323BC) Macedonian ruler
Epicurus, (BC 341-BC 270) Greek philosopher
Plautus, Titus Maccius (254BC-184BC) Roman comic poet
Cato, Marcus (234BC-149BC) Roman statesman, historian
Terence, (BC 195-159) Roman dramatist
Lucretius, (99BC-5BC) Roman poet, philosopher
Catullus, Caius Valerius (87BC-54BC) Roman poet
Sallust, (86BC-34BC) Roman historian
Homer, (750BC-????) Greek author
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106BC-3BC) Roman statesman, scholar, orator
Julius Caesar, (100BC-4BC) Roman statesman, army officer
Syrus, Publilius (1st Cent BC-????) Syrian-born Latin writer
Virgil, (70BC-19BC) Roman poet
Livy, Titus (59BC-17AD) Roman historian
Ovid, (43BC-17AD) Roman poet
Phaedrus, (15BC-50AD) Roman poet, short-story writer
Claudius, (10BC-4AD) Roman emperor
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4 BC-65AD) Roman philospher, statesman
Jesus Christ, (4BC-29AD) Judean religious leader
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, (121-180) Roman ruler, philosopher, author
Tertullian, (160-225) North African Christian writer
Khayyam, Omar (1048-1131) Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer
Maimonides, (1135-1204) Jewish philosopher, jurist, physician
St. Francis of Assisi, (1182-1226) Italian religious leader
Saadi, Moslih Eddin (1184-1291) Persian poet
Dogen, (1200-1253) Japanese religious leader
Thomas Aquinas, (1225-1274) Italian theologian, philosopher
Dante, (1265-1321) Italian poet
Petrarch, Francesco (1304-1374) Italian poet
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340-1400) English poet
Kempis, Thomas à (1379-1471) German mystic, ecclesiastic
Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) Italian architect, philospher, poet
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506) Italian explorer
Leonardo da Vinci, (1452-1519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer
Pope Paul III, (1468-1549) Italian religious leader
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) Italian philosopher, statesman, writer
Erasmus, Desiderius (1469?-1536) Dutch scholar, philosopher, author
Copernicus, Nicolas (1473-1543) Polish astronomer
Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533) Italian poet
Michelangelo, (1475-1564) Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet
More, Thomas (1478-1535) English humanist , statesman
Luther, Martin (1483-1546) German religious reformer
Aretino, Pietro (1492-1556) Italian poet, writer, dramatist
Paracelsus, Philipus Aureolus (1493-1541) German-Swiss physician
Rabelais, Francois (1494-1553) French author
Heywood, John (1497?-1580?) English proverb collector, dramatist
Charles V, (1500-1558) Roman emperorer, ruler
Calvin, John (1509-1564) French theologian, reformer, ecclesiastical statesman
Ascham, Roger (1515-1568)
St. Teresa of Avila, (1515-1582) Spanish mystic, poet
Elizabeth I, (1533-1603) English ruler
Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) Danish astronomer
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet
Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600) Italian philosopher, astronomer
Coke, Edward (1552-1634) English judge, politician
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) English navigator, historian, courtier
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599) English poet
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1553-1592) French essayist, courtier
Florio, John (1553?-1625) English translator, lexicographer
Greville, Fulke (1554-1628) English poet
Lyly, John (1554-1606) English dramatist, writer
Sidney, Philip (1554-1586) English courtier, statesman
Chapman, George (1560-1634) English dramatist, translator, poet
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, essayist
Galileo, (1564-1642) Italian physicist, astronomer
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593) English dramatist, poet
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
James I, (1566-1625) British ruler
Campion, Thomas (1567-1620) English poet, composer, physician
Wotton, Henry (1568-1639) English poet, diplomat
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) German astronomer
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) English poet, dramatist
Donne, John (1573-1631) English poet
Hall, Joseph (1574-1656) English bishop, moral philosopher, satirist
Burton, Robert (1577-1640) English scholar, writer, clergyman
Harvey, William (1578-1657) English physician
Fletcher, John (1579-1625) English dramatist, author
Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627) English dramatist
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640) English dramatist
Musashi, Miyamoto (1584-1645) Japanese warrior, strategist
Selden, John (1584-1654) English jurist, scholar
Beaumont, Francis (1586-1616) English playwright
Ford, John (1586-1640) English dramatist
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) English philosopher
Herrick, Robert (1591-1674) English poet
Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643) US religious leader
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644) English poet
Herbert, George (1593-1633) English author, poet
Walton, Izaak (1593-1683) English author
Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, scientist
Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) English soldier, statesman
Barca, Pedro Calderon de la (1600-1681) Spanish dramatist, poet
Gracian, Baltasar (1601-1658) Spanish philosopher, writer
Browne, Thomas (1605-1682) English physician, writer
Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) French dramatist, poet
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) English poet
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661) English scholar, preacher
Milton, John (1608-1674) English poet, essayist
Whichcote, Benjamin (1609-1683) English philosopher, theologian
Harrington, James (1611-1677) English political philosopher
Butler (a), Samuel (1612-1680) English poet, satirist, painter, philosopher
Bradstreet, Anne (1612?-1672) US poet
LaRochefoucauld, Francois (1613-1680) French author
Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667) English bishop, theologian
Denham, John (1615-1668) English poet, dramatist
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) English poet, essayist
Richard Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658) English poet
Lenclos, Ninon de (1620-1705) French society figure, courtesan
Fontaine, Jean de la (1621-1695) French poet
LaFontaine, Jean de (1621-1695) French poet
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678) English poet
Molière, (1622-1673) French dramatist, actor
Vaughan, Henry (1622-1695) Anglo-Welsh poet, mystic
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist, theologian
Aubrey, John (1626-1697) English antiquarian, writer
Christina of Sweden, (1626-1689) Swedish ruler
Sevigne, Marie de (1626-1696) French diarist
Ray, John (1627-1705) English naturalist
Bunyan, John (1628-1688) English clergyman, author
Temple, William (1628-1699) English statesman, author
Charles II, (1630-1685) British ruler
Dryden, John (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist, critic
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (1632-1723) Dutch biologist
Locke, John (1632-1704) English philosopher
Spinoza, Benedict (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) English diarist, naval administrator
South, Robert (1634-1716) English clergyman
de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne (1635-1719) French writer, consort
Boileau, Nicolas (1636-1711) French literary poet, critic
Traherne, Thomas (1637-1674) English poet, mystic
Louis XIV, (1638-1715) French ruler
Racine, Jean (1639-1699) French dramatist
Behn, Aphra (1640-1689) English playwright, poet
Wycherley, William (1640-1716) English dramatist, poet
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) English mathematician, philosopher
Shadwell, Thomas (1642-1692) English dramatist, poet
Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715) Scottish theologian, religious leader
Penn, William (1644-1718) English colonizer, religious leader
LaBruyere, Jean de (1645-1696) French philosopher, writer
Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726) English bishop
Fenelon, Francois de Salignac (1651-1715) French theologian, author
Otway, Thomas (1652-1685) English dramatist, poet
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731) English author
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721) English poet, diplomat
Vanbrugh, John (1664-1726) English dramatist, architect
Astell, Mary (1666-1731) English feminist, writer
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735) English physician
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, author, clergyman
Vico, Giambattista (1668-1744) Italian philosopher
Congreve, William (1670-1729) English dramatist
Mandeville, Bernard (1670?-1733) English philosopher
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) English playwright, poet, actor
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) English poet, essayist, playwright
Steele, Richard (1672-1729) English essayist, dramatist
Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718) English writer, poet
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) English minister
Walpole, Robert (1676-1745) British statesman
Stanislaus I, (1677-1766) Polish ruler
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John (1678-1751) English statesman, politician
Farquhar, George (1678-1707) Irish dramatist
Young, Edward (1683-1765) English poet, dramatist
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) German composer, organist
Gay, John (1685-1732) English poet, dramatist
Hill, Aaron (1685-1750) English poet, dramatist, essayist
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) English poet
Montagu, Mary Wortley (1689-1762) English author
Montesquieu, Charles (1689-1755) French lawyer, political philosopher
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer (1694-1773) English statesman, author
Voltaire, (1694-1778) French philosopher, poet, novelist, playwright
Deffand, Marie Anne du (1697-1780) French intellectual
Wesley, John (1703-1791) English preacher
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) US statesman, diplomat, inventor, printer
Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc de (1707-1788) French naturalist
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) English novelist
Linnaeus, Carl (1707-1778) Swedish botanist
Wesley, Charles (1707-1788) English clergyman, poet, hymn writer
Pitt the Elder, William (1708-1778) British statesman
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) English lexicographer, critic
Hume, David (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, historian
Frederick the Great, (1712-1784) king
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778) French philosopher, educational reformer, author
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) English novelist
Shenstone, William (1714-1763) English poet, gardener, collector
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers (1715-1747) French moralist, essayist
Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) English poet
Garrick, David (1717-1779) English actor, theater manager, dramatist
Walpole, Horace (1717-1797) English novelist, letter writer
Foote, Samuel (1720-????) English dramatist, comedian, author
Montagu, Elizabeth (1720-1800) English intellectual, conversationalist
Smollett, Tobias (1721-1771) Scottish poet
Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) US revolutionary, statesman
Blackstone, William (1723-1780) English jurist
Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) English artist
Smith, Adam (1723-1790) Scottish economist
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) German philosopher
Newton, John (1725-1807) English hymn writer, minister, sea captain
Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774) Irish-British poet, dramatist, author
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) English statesman, orator
Catherine the Great, (1729-1796) Russian empress
Lessing, Gotthold (1729-1781) German philosopher, dramatist, critic
Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806) US astronomer, inventor, poet
Churchill, Charles (1731-1764) English poet, political journalist, clergyman
Cowper, William (1731-1800) English poet
Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) English physician, poet
Beaumarchais, Pierre de (1732-1799) French dramatist
Washington, George (1732-1799) US president (1st), soldier, surveyor, farmer
Washington, Martha (1732-1802) US first lady
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) English chemist, political theorist, clergyman
Adams, John (1735-1826) US president (2nd)
Henry, Patrick (1736-1799) US statesman, orator
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794) English historian
Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) US philosopher, pamphleteer
George III, (1738-1820) British ruler
Necker, Suzanne Curchod (1739-1794) French writer
Boswell, James (1740-1795) Scottish lawyer, biographer
Junius, (1740-1818) English political author
Sade, Marquis de (1740-1814) French novelist
Chamfort, Nicolas (1741-1794) French journalist, playwright, aphorist
Lavater, Johann Casper (1741-1801) Swiss theologian, author
Lichtenberg, G. C. (1742-1799) German physicist, writer
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1743-1825) English poet, writer
Cowley, Hannah (1743-1809) English playwright
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) US president, educator, architect, inventor
Adams, Abigail (1744-1818) US first lady
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814) English dramatist, songwriter
Edwards, Jonathan (1745-1801) US theologian
More, Hannah (1745-1833) English writer
Rush, Benjamin (1746-1813) US physician, congressman
DeLuzy, Dorothée (1747-1830) French actress
Jones, John Paul (1747-1792) US naval officer
Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) English philosopher, economist, jurist
Fox, Charles James (1749-1806) English government official
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist
Jenner, Edward (1749-1823) English physician
Madison, James (1751-1836) US president (4th), political theorist
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) Irish dramatist, parliamentary orator
Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) English novelist, letter writer
De Maistre, Joseph Marie (1753-1821) French diplomat, writer
Haynes, Lemuel B. (1753-1833) US minister
Rivarol, Antoine (1753-1801) French journalist, epigrammatist
Crabbe, George (1754-1832) English poet, short-story writer
Joubert, Joseph (1754-1824) French essayist, moralist
Roland, Jeanne-Marie (1754-1793) French revolutionary
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de (1754-1838) French statesman
Antoinette, Marie (1755-1795) Austrian ruler
Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831) English actress, sculptor
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Austrian composer
Blake, William (1757-1827) English poet, artist, visionary
Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804) US statesman, author
Monroe, James (1758-1831) US president (5th)
Nelson, Horatio (1758-1805) English naval officer
Burns, Robert (1759-1796) Scottish poet
Danton, Georges Jacques (1759-1794) French revolutionary leader, orator
Schiller, Friedrich von (1759-1805) German dramatist, poet, historian
Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelly (1759-1797) English writer, women's rights activist
Allen, Richard (1760-1831) US religious leader, activist
Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851) Scottish poet, dramatist
Cobbett, William (1762-1835) English journalist, author
Paul, Jean (1763-1825) German novelist, humorist
Richter, Jean Paul (1763-1825) German novelist
Abernethy, John (1764-????) English surgeon
Forten, James (1766-1842) US businessman, abolitionist
Malthus, Thomas (1766-1834) English economist
Stael, Anne Louise Germaine de (1766-1817) French-Swiss woman of letters, political propagandist
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) US president (6th)
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) English children's author
Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835) German scholar, philosopher, diplomat, educator
Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845) US president (7th), soldier, lawyer, planter
Jackson, Rachel Donaldson (1767-1828) US first lady
Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1821) French soldier, emperor
Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859) German naturalist, explorer
Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) British military and political leader
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) German composer
Canning, George (1770-1827) English statesman
Hegel, Georg (1770-1831) German philosopher
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) English poet
Ballou, Hosea (1771-1852) US clergyman
Montgomery, James (1771-1854) Scottish poet, journalist
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Scottish novelist, poet, historian, biographer
Smith, Sydney (1771-1845) English clergyman, essayist
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) English poet, critic, essayist
Novalis, (1772-1801) German poet
Schlegel, Friedrich von (1772-1829) German critic, writer
Randolph, John (1773-1833) US political leader
Southey, Robert (1774-1843) English author
Austen, Jane (1775-1817) English novelist
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) English essayist, author
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) English poet, essayist
Sherwood, Mary Martha (1775-1851) English children's author
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844) Scotish poet
Clay, Henry (1777-1852) US politician, lawyer
Davy, Humphrey (1778-1829) English chemist
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) English writer, essayist
Melbourne, William Lamb (1779-1848) English prime minister
Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) Irish poet
Channing, William E. (1780-1842) US moralist, author, clergyman
Clausewitz, Karl von (1780-1831) Prussian military leader, author
Colton, Charles Caleb (1780-1832) English writer, cleric, merchant, eccentric
Fry, Elizabeth (1780-1845) English social reformer, philanthropist
Swetchine, Anne Sophie (1782-1857) Russian-French writer
Taylor, Ann (and Jane) (1782-1866) English children's author, poet
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) US orator, statesman
Irving, Washington (1783-1859) US short-story writer, essayist
Stendhal, (1783-1842) French novelist
Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) English poet, writer
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866) English novelist, poet
Quincey, Thomas De (1785-1859) English essayist, critic
Crockett, Davy (1786-1836) US frontiersman, soldier, politician
Haydon, Benjamin (1786-1846) US painter, writer
Whately, Richard (1787-1863) English prelate, social reformer, writer
Willard, Emma Hart (1787-1870) US educator
Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824) English poet
Hale, Sarah Josepha (1788-1879) US journalist, author, poet
Hamilton, William (1788-1856) Scottish philosopher
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860) German philosopher
Blessington, Lady Marguerite (1789-1849) English socialite, writer
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) US novelist
Latham, Peter Mere (1789-1875) English physician
Lamartine, Alphonse De (1790-1869) French poet, historian
Buchanan, James (1791-1868) US president (15th)
Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) English physicist, chemist
Hare, Augustus (and Julius) (1792-1834) English divine
Keble, John (1792-1866) English priest, theologian, poet
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868) Italian opera composer
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) English poet
Clare, John (1793-1864) English poet
Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880) US social reformer
Bryant, William C. (1794-1878) US poet, editor
Everett, Edward (1794-1865) US statesman, orator
Jameson, Anna (1794-1860) Irish art critic, feminist, author
Arnold, Thomas (1795-1842) English educator
Bennett, James Gordon (1795-1872) Scottish-US editor
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881) Scottish essayist, historian
Keats, John (1795-1821) English poet
Polk, James K. (1795-1849) US president (11th)
Haliburton, Thomas C. (1796-1865) Canadian jurist, homespun philospher, author
Mann, Horace (1796-1859) US educator, politician
Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839) English song/ballad writer, dramatist
Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856) German poet, critic
Lover, Samuel (1797-1868) Anglo-Irish novelist, songwriter, painter
Lyon, Mary (1797-1849) US educator
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) English author
Vigny, Alfred Victor (1797-1863) French man of letters
Truth, Sojourner (1797?-1883) US abolitionist, reformer
Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863) French painter
Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) US teacher, philosopher, reformer
Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) French author
Choate, Rufus (1799-1859) US lawyer, politican
Hood, Thomas (1799-1845) English poet, editor
Bancroft, George (1800-1891) US historian, author
Beecher, Catharine Esther (1800-1878) US educator, author
Macaulay, Thomas B. (1800-1859) English author, historian, statesman, poet
Carlyle, Jane Welsh (1801-1866) Scottish letter writer
Newman, John Henry (1801-1890) English religious leader, prelate, writer
Seward, William (1801-1872) US politician, abolitionist
Young, Brigham (1801-1877) US religious leader
Child, Lydia M. (1802-1880) US author
Cockburn, Alexander (1802-1880) English lawyer
Dumas, père, Alexandre (1802-1870) French novelist, dramatist
Hopkins, Mark (1802-1887) US educator
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) French author, dramatist
Landon, Letitia (1802-1838) English poet, novelist
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876) English social reformer, writer
Prentice, George D. (1802-1870) US newspaperman, editor, poet
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) French composer
Borrow, George (1803-1881) English traveler, linguist
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. (1803-1873) English statesman, poet
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) US philosopher, poet, essayist
Jerrold, Douglas (1803-1857) English humorist, playwright, journalist
Moodie, Susanna (1803-1885) English-Canadian pioneer
Quinet, Edgar (1803-1875) French poet, historian, political philosopher
Cobden, Richard (1804-1865) English politician
Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) English statesman, novelist
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) US novelist, short-story writer
Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869) US president (14th)
Sand, George (1804-1876) French author
de Girardin, Delphine (1804-1855) French novelist, poet
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805-1875) Danish short-story writer, poet
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879) US journalist, abolitionist
Grimke, Angelina (1805-1879) US abolitionist, women's rights advocate
Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805-1872) Genoese propagandist, revolutionary
Smith, Joseph (1805-1844) US prophet, religious leader
Surtees, R. S. (1805-1864) English author
Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1879) French scientist, historian, politician
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) English poet
Chapman, Maria Weston (1806-1885) US abolitionist, editor
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) English economist, philosopher
Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870) US novelist
Sterling, John (1806-1884) English novelist, poet
Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) Swiss-US naturalist, geologist, teacher
Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870) US army officer
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) US poet, educator
Trench, Richard C. (1807-1886) English archbishop, philogist, poet
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) US poet, essayist
Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) US political leader
Karr, Alphonse (1808-1890) French journalist, novelist
Nerval, Gerard De (1808-1855) French poet, translator, author
Norton, Caroline Sheridan (1808-1877) English poet, novelist
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) English naturalist, author
Edwards, Tryon (1809-1894) US theologian
Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883) English poet, critic, translator
Gladstone, William E. (1809-1898) English statesman, author
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) US poet, essayist, scholar
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) US president, lawyer
Pike, Albert (1809-1891) US lawyer, historian, general
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) US poet, short-story writer
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865) French libertarian socialist, journalist
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) English poet
Barnum, P. T. (1810-1891) US circus owner
Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888) US minister, theologian, author
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) US critic, social reformer, writer
Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865) English novelist, short-story writer
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860) US theologian, pastor, scholar
Purvis, Robert (1810-1898) US activist, Underground Railroad organizer
Remond, Charles Lenox (1810-1873) US abolitionist
Rose, Ernestine L. (1810-1892) US activist
Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856) German composer
Tupper, Martin (1810-1889) English poet
Bright, John (1811-1889) English politician, orator
Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) US newspaper editor, reformer
Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884) US abolitionist
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) US author
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) US statesman
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) English novelist
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) English poet
Delany, Martin (1812-1885) US physician, activist, novelist
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) English novelist, dramatist
Herzen, Alexander (1812-1870) Russian author
Lear, Edward (1812-1888) English poet, landscape painter
Smiles, Samuel (1812-1904) Scottish author
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887) US clergyman, abolitionist
Bernard, Claude (1813-1878) French physiologist
Helps, Arthur (1813-1875) English historian, novelist, essayist
Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) US diarist, writer
Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855) Danish philosopher, writer
Livingstone, David (1813-1873) Scottish missionary, explorer
Tuckerman, Henry (1813-1871) US critic, essayist, poet
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901) Italian composer
Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) German opera composer
Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876) Russian anarchist
Chapin, Edwin Hubbel (1814-1880) US clergyman, author
Reade, Charles (1814-1884) English novelist
Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898) German statesman
Brown, William Wells (1815-1884) US antislavery lecturer, novelist, playwright
Farnham, Eliza Wood Burhans (1815-1864) US social reformer, lecturer
Garnet, Henry Highland (1815-1882) US clergyman, abolitionist
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1815-1852) US novelist
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902) US social reformer, feminist
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882) English author
Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902) English poet
Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855) English novelist, poet
Nell, William C. (1816-1874) US historian, abolitionist
Robertson, Frederick (1816-1853) English divine
Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895) US lecturer, author
Jowett, Benjamin (1817-1893) English classical scholar
Lewes, George Henry (1817-1878) English philosopher, critic, dramatist, scientist
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) US essayist, poet, naturalist
Billings, Josh (1818-1885) US writer
Bronte, Emily (1818-1848) English novelist
Cook, Eliza (1818-1889) English poet
Froude, James A. (1818-1894) English historian
Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882) US first lady
Marx, Karl (1818-1883) German socialist leader, philosopher
Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889) US astronomer, educator
Neale, John Mason (1818-1866) English divine, hymn writer
Stone, Lucy (1818-1893) US suffragist, feminist
Turgenev, Ivan (1818-1883) Russian novelist, short-story writer
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861) English poet
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) French painter
Crummell, Alexander (1819-1898) US religious leader
Eliot, George (1819-1880) English novelist
Holland, J. G. (1819-1881) US author
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910) US social reformer
Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875) English clergyman, writer
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) US poet, critic, editor, diplomat
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) US novelist
Queen Victoria, (1819-1901) British royalty
Ruggles, David (1819-1849) US editor
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) English critic, author
Warner, Susan (1819-1885) US novelist
Whipple, Edwin Percy (1819-1886) US essayist
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) US poet
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906) US social reformer, suffragist
Bovee, Christian Nestell (1820-1904) US author, lawyer
Bronte, Anne (1820-1849) English novelist, poet
Crosby, Fanny (1820-1915) US hymn writer
Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895) German philosopher
Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897) English novelist
Livermore, Mary Ashton (1820-1905) US journalist, social reformer, lecturer
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) English nurse, reformer
Plato, Ann (1820-????) US educator
Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) English novelist
Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903) English naturalist, philosopher
Tyndall, John (1820-1893) English physicist
Amiel, Henri Frederic (1821-1881) Swiss writer
Barton, Clara (1821-1912) US humanitarian, nurse
Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867) French poet, critic, translator
Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910) US physician, author
Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890) English scholar, explorer
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881) Russian novelist
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910) US religious leader, writer
Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) French novelist
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) English poet, critic
Galton, Francis (1822-1911) English scientist, explorer
Goncourt, Edmond de (1822-1896) French diarist
Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) US president (18th)
Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909) US clergy, author
Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893) US president (19th)
Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist, bacteriologist
Alger, William R. (1823-1905) US minister, writer
Buxton, Charles (1823-1871) English author
Higginson, Thomas W. (1823-1911) US clergyman, abolitionist, author
Patmore, Coventry (1823-1896) English poet, critic
Renan, Ernest (1823-1892) French philosopher, historian, scholar
Allingham, William (1824-1889) Irish poet, editor
Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889) English novelist
Curtis, George William (1824-1892) US author, editor
Dumas, fils, Alexandre (1824-1895) French dramatist
Jackson, Stonewall (1824-1863) US confederate army general
MacDonald, George (1824-1905) Scottish novelist
Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825-1921) US abolitionist, feminist, clergy
Harper, Frances Watkins (1825-1911) US poet
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) English biologist
Proctor, Adelaide A. (1825-1864) English poet, activist
Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877) English economist, editor, critic, analyst
Blackwell, Emily (1826-1910) US physician, author
Craik, Dinah Mulock (1826-1887) English novelist
Spyri, Johanna (1827-1901) Swiss novelist
Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906) Norweigan poet, dramatist
Meredith, George (1828-1909) English novelist, poet
Oliphant, Margaret (1828-1897) Scottish writer
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) English painter, poet
Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) Russian novelist, philosopher
Booth, William (1829-1912) English religious leader
Warner, Charles Dudley (1829-1900) US newspaperman, author, editor, publisher
Arthur, Chester A. (1830-1886) US president (21st)
Cecil, Robert (1830-????) English political leader
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) US poet
Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885) US novelist, poet, essayist
Lockwood, Belva (1830-1917) US social reformer, lawyer
Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894) English poet
Smith, Alexander (1830-1867) Scottish poet
von Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie (1830-1916) Austrian novelist
Barr, Amelia (1831-1919) US author, journalist
Blavatsky, Helena Petrova (1831-1891) Russian author, translator, theosophist
Burton, Isabel (1831-1896) English traveler, author
Calverley, C. S. (1831-1884) English poet, porodist, classical scholar, lawyer
Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910) US author, journalist, critic
Garfield, James A. (1831-1881) US president, lay preacher
Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) US novelist
Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) English author
Smith, Hannah Whitall (1832-1911) US evangelist, reformer, suffragist, author
Hamilton, Gail (1833-1896) US writer
Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901) US 23rd president
Ingersoll, Robert G. (1833-1899) US lawyer, orator
Nobel, Alfred (1833-1896) Swedish chemist, inventor, philanthropist
Acton, John Dalberg (1834-1902) English historian
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) French artist
Depew, Chauncey (1834-1928) US industrialist, politician
Field, Marshall (1834-1906) US merchant
Lubbock, John (1834-1913) English naturalist, banker, statesman
Morris, William (1834-1896) English craftsman, poet
Spurgeon, Charles H. (1834-1892) English preacher
Thomson, James (1834-1882) Scottish poet, essayist
Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915) US legislator, minister
Ward, Artemus (1834-1867) US humorist
Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903) US artist, author
Abbott, Lyman (1835-1922) US religious leader
Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893) US clergyman
Brown, Olympia (1835-1900) US suffragist, ministero
Butler (b), Samuel (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919) US industrialist, philanthropist
Evans, Augusta Jane (1835-1909) US novelist; confederate activist
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) US novelist, journalist, river pilot
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) US poet, writer, editor
Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett (1836-1917) English physician
Chamberlain, Joseph (1836-1914) English politician, businessman, social reformer
Gilbert, William S. (1836-1911) English dramatist
Harte, Bret (1836-1902) US short-story writer, verse writer
Lombroso, Cesare (1836-1909) Italian criminologist, physician, educator
Burroughs, John (1837-1921) US author, naturalist
Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908) US president (22nd, 24th)
Grimke, Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) US educator, diarist
Howells, William Dean (1837-1920) US editor, man-of-letters, author
Morgan, J. P. (1837-1913) US financier
Pinchback, P. B. S. (1837-1921) US politican
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) English poet, critic
Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918) US historian, author
Bryce, James (1838-1922) English diplomat, author
Morley, John (1838-1923) English journalist, politician, historian
Muir, John (1838-1914) US naturalist, writer
Wanamaker, John (1838-1922) US businessman
Woodhull, Victoria Claffin (1838-1927) US reformer
Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906) French painter
George, Henry (1839-1897) US economist, journalist
Miller, Joaquin (1839-1913) US poet
Ouida, (1839-1908) English novelist, social critic
Pater, Walter (1839-1894) English essayist, critic
Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914) US philosopher, scientist, logician
Dobson, Austin (1840-1921) English poet, critic, biographer
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) English novelist, poet
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) French artist
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) French sculptor
Zola, Emile (1840-1902) French author, journalist
Bolton, Sarah Knowles (1841-1916) US poet, editor, social reformer
Clemenceau, Georges (1841-1929) French statesman
Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell (1841-1935) US jurist
Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) French artist
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914) US journalist, short-story writer
James, William (1842-1910) US philosopher, psychologist
Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898) French poet
Richards, Ellen Swallow (1842-1911) US chemist, ecologist
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre (1842-1924) US suffragist
James, Jr., Henry (1843-1916) English author
McKinley, William (1843-1901) US president (25th)
Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) French actress
Bridges, Robert (1844-1930) English poet
France, Anatole (1844-1924) French author
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889) English poet, religious leader
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900) German philosopher, poet
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) French artist
Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) French poet
Bradley, Francis H. (1846-1924) English philosopher
Nation, Carry (1846-1911) US social reformer
Smith, Barbara (1846-????) US editor, writer
Westcott, Edward (1846-1898) US novelist, banker
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) Scottish-US-Canadian inventor
Edison, Thomas (1847-1931) US inventor
Meynell, Alice (1847-1922) English poet, essayist
Terry, Ellen (1847-1928) British actress
Balfour, A. J. (1848-1930) English statesman
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) French painter
Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908) US editor, short-story writer
James, Alice (1848-1892) US diary and letter writer
Jewett, Sarah Orne (1848-1909) US author
Allen, James (1849-1925) US novelist
Burbank, Luther (1849-1926) US naturalist, plant breeder
Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903) English poet, critic, editor
Key, Ellen (1849-1926) Swedish writer, feminist
Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887) US poet
Osler, William (1849-1919) Canadian physician
Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936) Russian physiologist
Strindberg, J. August (1849-1912) Swedish playwright, novelist, short-story writer
Birrell, Augustine (1850-1933) English politician, man of letters
Field, Eugene (1850-1895) US poet, journalist
Grimke, Francis J. (1850-1937) US pastor
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Scottish author, poet, essayist, critic
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919) US writer, poet, journalist
Adler, Felix (1851-1933) US writer
Chopin, Kate (1851-1904) US author
Drummond, Henry (1851-1897) Scottish naturalist, clergyman
Foch, Ferdinand (1851-1929) French field marshal
Asquith, Herbert Henry (1852-1928) English statesman
Dyke, Henry Van (1852-1933) US poet, clergy, educator
Markham, Edwin (1852-1940) US poet, lecturer
Moore, George (1852-1933) Irish author, poet, dramatist
Toynbee, Arnold (1852-1883) English economist, reformer
Vandyke, Jr., Henry Jackson (1852-1933) US clergyman, educator, author
Howe, Edgar Watson (1853-1937) US editor, novelist, humorist, essayist
Marti, Jose (1853-1895) Cuban poet, patriot
Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902) English statesman, financier
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm (1853-1917) English actor, theater manager
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Dutch artist
Churchill, Jennie Jerome (1854-1921) US socialite
Fillmore, Charles (1854-1948) US religious leader, businessman
Poincare, Henri (1854-1912) French mathematician
Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891) French poet, adventurer
Debs, Eugene (1855-1926) US labor organizer
Mellon, Andrew (1855-1937) US financier, philanthropist
Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920) South African novelist, feminist
Antrim, Minna Thomas (1856-1950) US writer
Brandeis, Louis (1856-1941) US supreme court justice
Fortune, T. Thomas (1856-1928) US journalist, editor
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) Austrian psychoanalyst
Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915) US publisher, moralist, author
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) English dramatist, critic
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) US educator, social reformer
Wilde, Oscar (1856-1900) Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) US president, political scientist, educator
Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941) English soldier
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short-story writer
Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938) US lawyer
Taft, William Howard (1857-1930) US president (27th )
Thomas, Martha Carey (1857-1935) US educator, feminist
Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929) US economist, social scientist
Chesnutt, Charles W. (1858-1932) US novelist, lawyer
Durkheim, Emile (1858-1917) French sociologist
Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924) Italian actress
Gourmont, Remy de (1858-1915) French novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher
Nesbitt, Edith (1858-1924) Englsh poet, writer
O'Malley, Austin (1858-1932) US physician, humorist
Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928) English suffragist
Planck, Max (1858-1947) German physicist
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) Italian composer
Repplier, Agnes (1858-1950) US essayist
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) US president (26th)
Watson, William (1858-1935) English poet
Webb, Beatrice Potter (1858-1943) US social economist
Aleichem, Sholom (1859-1916) Russian author
Bergson, Henri (1859-1941) French philosopher
Cooper, Anna Julia (1859-1964) US educator, feminist, writer
Dewey, John (1859-1952) US philosopher, educator
Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930) Scottish author, physician
Ellis, Havelock (1859-1939) English psychologist
Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932) Scottish author
Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952) Norwegian novelist
Housman, A. E. (1859-1936) English scholar, poet
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927) English author
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) French artist, painter
Thompson, Francis (1859-1907) English poet
Barrie, James Matthew (1860-1937) Scottish dramatist, novelist
Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) US lawyer, orator, statesman
Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) Russian short-story writer, dramatist
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) US economist, lecturer, author, feminist
Inge, Dean William Ralph (1860-1954) English religious leader, author
Jones, Mary Harris "Mother" (1860-1930) US labor organizer
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) Austrian composer, conductor
Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936) US editor, poet
Moses, Grandma (1860-1961) US folk painter
Bier, August (1861-1949) German surgeon
Carman, Bliss (1861-1929) Canadian poet, author
Duncan, Sara Jeannette (1861-1922) US writer
Mayo, William James (1861-1939) US surgeon
Melba, Nellie (1861-1931) Australian opera singer
Tagore, Rabindranath (1861-1941) Bengali poet, novelist, composer
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947) English mathematician, philosopher
Benson, A. C. (1862-1925) English writer
Butler, Nicholas (1862-1947) US educator
Chapman, John Jay (1862-1933) US poet, dramatist, critic
Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) French composer
Henry, O. (1862-1910) US short-story writer, journalist
Hughes, Charles Evans (1862-1948) US Supreme Court Justice
Maeterlinck, Maurice (1862-1949) Belgian dramatist, author
Newbolt, Henry John (1862-1938) Englsh poet
Phillpotts, Eden (1862-1960) English novelist, playwright, dramatist
Schwab, Charles (1862-1939) US manufacturer
Sunday, Billy (1862-1935) US revivalist, baseball player
Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) US novelist, short-story writer
Coubertin, Pierre de (1863-1937) French educator, sportsfigure
Ford, Henry (1863-1947) US auto manufacturer
George, David Lloyd (1863-1945) English statesman
Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951) US newspaper publisher
Herford, Oliver (1863-1935) US author, illustrator
Hope, Anthony (1863-????)
Miller, Kelly (1863-1939) US educator, university dean
Robinson, James Harvey (1863-1936) US historian
Santayana, George (1863-1952) US philosopher, author, educator, poet
Stanislavsky, Konstantin (1863-1938) Russian actor, director
Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954) US social reformer
Asquith, Margot (1864-1945) English author
Brisbane, Arthur (1864-1936) US newspaper editor, writer
Carver, George Washington (1864-1943) US chemist, educator
Cooley, Charles Horton (1864-1929) US sociologist
Glyn, Elinor (1864-1943) English novelist, short-story writer
Renard, Jules (1864-1910) French dramatist, author
Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936) Spanish educator, philosopher, author
Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926) English novelist, playwright, religioius leader
Berenson, Bernard (1865-1959) US art historian
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick (1865-1940) English actress
Colby, Frank Moore (1865-1925) US encyclopedia editor, essayist
Fiske, Minnie Maddern (1865-1932) US actress
George V, (1865-1936) English ruler
Harding, Warren (1865-1923) US president (29th)
Henri, Robert (1865-1929) US painter
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) English poet, novelist, short-story writer
Orczy, Emmuska (1865-1947) Hungarian-British novelist
Phelps, William Lyon (1865-1943) US educator, journalist
Pinchot, Gifford (1865-1946) US politician, conservationist
Putnam, Emily James (1865-1944) US educator
Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865-1946) US-English essayist, editor, anthologist
Steinmetz, Charles (1865-1923) German-US electrical engineer
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) Irish poet, dramatist
Ade, George (1866-1944) US humorist, playwright
Bernard, Tristan (1866-1947) French playwright, novelist, journalist, lawyer
Burgess, Gelett (1866-1951) US writer, poet, humorist
Dimnet, Ernest (1866-1954) French cleric
Johnson, Georgia Douglas (1866-1967) US poet
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) English author
Rolland, Romain (1866-1944) French novelist, mystic, dramatist, essayist
Satie, Erik (1866-1925) French composer
Steffens, Lincoln (1866-1936) US journalist, social reformer
Sullivan, Anne (1866-1936) US educator
Wells, H. G. (1866-1946) English writer
Baldwin, Stanley (1867-1947) English statesman
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931) English novelist
Bramah, Ernest (1867-1942) English humorous writer
Curie, Marie (1867-1934) Polish-French chemist
Dunne, Finley Peter (1867-1936) US journalist, humorist
Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) English author, dramatist
Hamilton, Edith (1867-1963) US writer, educator
Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945) German artist
Lorimer, George (1867-1937) US editor, writer
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