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Tulsidas
Rambola (; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623), popularly known as Goswami Tulsīdās (), was a Vaishnava (Ramanandi) Hindu saint, devotee (भक्त) and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit, Awadhi, and Braj Bhasha, but is best known as the author of the Hanuman Chalisa and of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana, based on Rama's life, in the vernacular Awadhi language.
Ramanuja
Ramanuja ('; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157, trad. date 1017-1137), also known as Ramanujacharya''', was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and social reformer. He is one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition in Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotional practice were influential in the Bhakti movement.
Hillel the Elder
Jewish religious leader of the 1st century
Paul of Thebes
Christian hermit
Ermanaric
right|250px|thumb|The orange area signifies the Chernyakhov Culture, identified with Ermanaric's kingdom, in the early fourth century. right|250px|thumb|Ermanaric's kingdom at the end of the fourth century (a map from 1899). Ermanaric (died 376) was a Greuthungian king who before the Hunnic invasion evidently ruled a sizable portion of Oium, the part of Scythia inhabited by the Goths at the time. He is mentioned in two Roman sources: the contemporary writings of Ammianus Marcellinus, and in Getica by the sixth-century historian Jordanes. He also appears in a fictionalized form in later Germani
Fauja Singh
British-Indian centenarian marathon runner
Saalumarada Thimmakka
environmentalist from India
Taejo
1st/2nd century Korean Goguryeo dynasty king
Shenute
Shenoute of Atripe, also known as Shenoute the Great or Saint Shenoute the Archimandrite (Coptic: ), was the abbot of the White Monastery in Egypt. He is considered a saint by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and is one of the most renowned saints of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Shigechiyo Izumi
Japanese supercentenarian
Charalambos
Saint Charalambos or Haralambos () was an early Christian priest in Magnesia on the Maeander, a city in Asia Minor, in the diocese of the same name. His name means glowing with joy in Greek. He lived during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211), when Lucian was Proconsul of Magnesia. According to one source, at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Charalambos was 113 years old.
Kevin of Glendalough
Irish saint
Narcissus of Jerusalem
Patriarch of Jerusalem, saint
St. Alypius the Stylite
Christian saint
Poemen
Poemen the Great (Greek: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ποιμήν; ποιμήν means "shepherd") (c. 340–450) was a Christian monk and early Desert Father who is the most quoted Abba (Father) in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers). Poemen was quoted most often for his gift as a spiritual guide, reflected in the name "Poemen" ("Shepherd"), rather than for his asceticism. He is considered a saint in Eastern Christianity. His feast day is August 27 in the Julian calendar (September 9 in the Gregorian calendar).
Józef Kowalski
Polish soldier (1900–2013)
Xuyun
Shi Xuyun or Hsu Yun (; 5 September 1840? – 13 October 1959) was a renowned Chinese Chan Buddhist master and an influential Buddhist teacher of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Arganthonios
Arganthonios () was a king of ancient Tartessos (in Andalusia, southern Spain) who according to Herodotus, was visited by Kolaios of Samos. Given the legendary status of Geryon, Gargoris and Habis, Arganthonios is the earliest documented monarch of the Iberian Peninsula.
Acacius of Beroea
Syrian bishop
Virginia McLaurin
American community volunteer (1909–2022)
Gilbert of Sempringham
11th-century founder of the Gilbertine Order
Cécile Fatiman
Haitian Vodou practitioner, leader of the Bois-Caïman ceremony and women marroon
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
French antiquarian, explorer, artist (1766-1875)
Patriarch Joachim of Alexandria
Greek Patriarch of Alexandria, 1486–1567
Hanna Barysevich
Belarusian agriculturer and supercentenarian
Luo Meizhen
Chinese supercentenarian
Buster Martin
British marathon runner (1906-2011)
I Gusti Nyoman Lempad
Indonesian artist (1862–1978)
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Petro Kalnyshevsky
Ukrainian cossack
Swami Shivananda Baba
Indian saint, Padma Bhushan recipient.
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras
Mexican supercentenarian claimant (1887? - 2015)
Anton Adner
Bavarian carpenter
Sudhakar Chaturvedi
Indian scholar (1897–2020)
Alimihan Seyiti
Chinese supercentenarian
Mikhail Krichevsky
Soviet scientist and inventor, last surviving Ukrainian World War I veteran
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo
Longevity claimant (1871–2000)
Nicolas Savin
French soldier
Annibal Camoux
French longevity claim
Jesús Castillo Rangel
Mexican revolutionary
Alice of Dunk's Ferry
oral historian and centenarian, born a slave in Philadelphia
Jean Jacob
French longevity claimant
Caesar
possibly the earliest-born person ever photographed, also the last slave to be manumitted in New York
Gregorio Celli
Italian priest