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Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)

Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)

English mathematician (1815–1852)

Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)

American dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

Pindar (; ; ; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced

American and British writer (1843–1916)

Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man (1831–1890)

Italian scientist

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

Argentine writer (1914–1984)

American novelist (1933–2018)

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)

German chemist (1803-1873)

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (, ; ), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC), circa 50s BC. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline on the eponymous conspiracy, The Jugurthine War on the eponymous war, and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th

British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator (1847-1933)

British textile artist, author, and socialist (1834-1896)

third President of the French Republic (1808–1893)

American author

Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)

French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)

French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)

Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817)

thumb|300px|Lawrence Alma-Tadema, ''Tibullus at Delia's''

Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

American painter (1834-1903)

French saint (1844–1879)

French author and anarchist (1830-1905)

American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)

Irish Catholic philosopher and theologian (c. 800 – c. 877)

American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966)

German poet and novelist

British author (1785-1859)

French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)

French painter (1732–1806)

Galician poet and writer (1837-1885)

French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal (1805–1894)

Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)

Italian noble, dramatist and poet (1749–1803)

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

American poet (1911–1979)

French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)

German poet and politician (1787–1862)

Croat physicist (1711–1787)

American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter (1888-1973)

American astronomer

Italian printer and humanist (1449-1515)

British naturalist and writer (1925–1995)

Swiss poet (1741-1801)

Spanish philosopher

Irish writer (1768-1849)

first African-American poet (1753–1784)

French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802)

French surgeon

Roman physician and writer

American Founding Father, orator and politician (1736 – 1799)

British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)