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  • Lisa Gherardini

    Lisa Gherardini

    Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany

    Italian1479 - 1542
  • Dom PERIGNON

    Dom PERIGNON

    French Benedictine monk

    French1639 - 1715
  • Alexander PUSHKIN

    Alexander PUSHKIN

    Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era

    Russian1799 - 1837
  • Diego VELÁZQUEZ

    Diego VELÁZQUEZ

    Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age

    Spanish1599 - 1660
  • Genghis KHAN

    Genghis KHAN

    Founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire

    Mongol1162 - 1227
  • Théodore GERICAULT

    Théodore GERICAULT

    French painter and lithographer

    French1791 - 1824
  • Cesare BORGIA

    Cesare BORGIA

    Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal

    Italian1475 - 1507
  • Jacques-Louis DAVID

    Jacques-Louis DAVID

    French painter in the Neoclassical style

    French1748 - 1825
  • William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

    William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK

    British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain

    English1738 - 1809
  • Francis DRAKE

    Francis DRAKE

    English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era

    English1540 - 1596
  • BEAUMARCHAIS

    BEAUMARCHAIS

    French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)

    French1732 - 1799
  • MAHOMET

    MAHOMET

    Religious, political, and military leader

    Saudi Arabian570 - 632
  • Francisco PIZARRO

    Francisco PIZARRO

    Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire

    Spanish1478 - 1541
  • Leonardo DA VINCI

    Leonardo DA VINCI

    Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

    Italian1452 - 1519
  • Jean François CHAMPOLLION

    Jean François CHAMPOLLION

    French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs

    French1790 - 1832
  • René DESCARTES

    René DESCARTES

    French philosopher, mathematician, and writer

    French1596 - 1650
  • Peter Paul RUBENS

    Peter Paul RUBENS

    Flemish Baroque painter

    Dutch1577 - 1640
  • Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES

    Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES

    French Neoclassical painter

    French1780 - 1867
  • Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD

    Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD

    Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty

    German1743 - 1812
  • Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE

    Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE

    German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath

    German1749 - 1832
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