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Lisa Gherardini
Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany
1479 - 1542 -
Dom PERIGNON
French Benedictine monk
1639 - 1715 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
Diego VELÁZQUEZ
Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV and of the Spanish Golden Age
1599 - 1660 -
Genghis KHAN
Founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire
1162 - 1227 -
Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824 -
Cesare BORGIA
Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal
1475 - 1507 -
Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825 -
William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK
British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain
1738 - 1809 -
Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596 -
BEAUMARCHAIS
French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, horticulturalist, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American)
1732 - 1799 -
MAHOMET
Religious, political, and military leader
570 - 632 -
Francisco PIZARRO
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
1478 - 1541 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
René DESCARTES
French philosopher, mathematician, and writer
1596 - 1650 -
Peter Paul RUBENS
Flemish Baroque painter
1577 - 1640 -
Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES
French Neoclassical painter
1780 - 1867 -
Mayer Amschel ROTHSCHILD
Founder of the Rothschild family international banking dynasty
1743 - 1812 -
Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath
1749 - 1832