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3,275 famous people found
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Vlad III DRACULA
Voivode of Wallachia
1431 - 1476 -
Mary Shelley
English novelist
1797 - 1851 -
André CHÉNIER
French poet
1762 - 1794 -
Louis DAGUERRE
French artist and photographer
1787 - 1851 -
James Smithson
English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name
1765 - 1829 -
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU
French composer and music theorist
1683 - 1764 -
Wilhelm GRIMM
German author and anthropologist
1786 - 1859 -
Charles Henri SANSON
French executioner
1739 - 1806 -
John NAPIER
Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer
1550 - 1617 -
Leonhard EULER
Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer
1707 - 1783 -
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
French painter and printmaker
1732 - 1806 -
François COUPERIN
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist
1668 - 1733 -
Jacob GRIMM
German philologist, jurist, and mythologist
1785 - 1863 -
Betsy ROSS
Widely credited with making the first American flag
1752 - 1836 -
Martin LUTHER
German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
1483 - 1546 -
Carle VAN LOO
French subject painter
1705 - 1765 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664 -
François VIÈTE
French mathematician
1540 - 1603 -
Louis MANDRIN
French smuggler (highwayman) from Dauphiné
1725 - 1755