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Philosophers
Explorers
Inventors
Scientists
Writers
Artists
Composers
Religious Leaders
Political Leaders
Military Leaders
Socrates 470 - 399 B.C.
Plato c. 427 - c. 347 B.C.
Aristotle 384 - 322 B.C.
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
René Descartes 1596 - 1650
John Locke 1632 - 1704
Voltaire 1694 - 1778
Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778
Adam Smith 1723 - 1790
Immanuel Kant 1724 - 1804
Karl Marx 1818 - 1883
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1844 - 1900
Marco Polo 1254 - 1324
Christopher Columbus 1451 - 1506
Vasco da Gama c. 1460 - 1524
Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 - 1521
James Cook 1728 - 1779
Roald Amundsen 1872 - 1928
Archimedes c. 287 - 212 B.C.
Johann Gutenberg c. 1400 - c.1468
Eli Whitney 1765 - 1825
Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931
Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1922
Henry Ford 1863 - 1947
The Wright Brothers: Orville Wright 1871 - 1948 and Wilbur Wright 1867 - 1912
uglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937
Galen A.D. c.130 - c. 200
Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 - 1543
Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642
Sir Isaac Newton 1642 - 1727
Charles Darwin 1809 - 1882
Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895
Gregor Mendel 1822 - 1884
Joseph Lister 1827 - 1912
Sigmund Freud 1856 - 1939
Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
Sir Alexander Fleming 1881 - 1955
Jonas Salk 1914 - 1995
Sophocles c.496 - 406 B.C.
Virgil 70 - 19 B.C.
Alighieri Dante 1265 - 1321
Geoffrey Chaucer c.1340 - 1400
William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
John Milton 1608 - 1674
Charles Dickens 1812 - 1870
George Eliot 1819 - 1880
Leo Tolstoy 1828 - 1910
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
Raphael 1483 - 1520
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 - 1564
Rembrandt 1606 - 1669
Claude Monet 1840 - 1926
Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - 1750
George Frederick Handel 1685 - 1759
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 1791
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827
Frédéric François Chopin 1810 - 1849
Richard Wagner 1813 - 1883
Johannes Brahms 1833 - 1897
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893
Claude Achille Debussy 1862 - 1918
Abraham
Moses
Lao-tzu also Lao-tse c. sixth century B.C.
Buddha c. 563 - c. 483 B.C.
Confucius c. 551- 479 B.C.
Jesus Christ
Paul the Apostle c. A.D. 5- c. 67
Augustine died c. A.D. 604
Mohammed also Muhammad c. A.D. 570 - 632
Thomas Aquinas 1225 - 1274
Martin Luther 1483 - 1546
John Calvin 1509 - 1564
Joseph Smith 1805 - 1844
Constantine the Great c. A.D. 285 - 337
Charlemagne c. 742- 814
Elizabeth I 1533 - 1603
Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
Catherine the Great 1729 - 1796
George Washington 1732-1799
Thomas Jefferson 1743 - 1826
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - 1968
Alexander the Great 356 - 323 B.C.
Gaius Julius Caesar 100 - 44 B.C.
William the Conqueror c. 1027 - 1087
Genghis Khan c. 1162 - 1227
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
Robert Edward Lee 1807 - 1870
Dwight David Eisenhower
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