Year of birth unknown

Patriarch of Alexandria from 384 to 412

Agiad King of Sparta from c.524 BC to c.490 BC

Cædmon (; fl. c. 657–684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century Christian historian and saint Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, with a feast day on 11

thumb|This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from [[Plato's Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home. 1869.]]

thumb|Coin of Huneric Huneric, Hunneric or Honeric (died December 23, 484 AD) was King of the North African Vandal Kingdom (477–484 AD) and the oldest son of Gaiseric. He abandoned the imperial politics of his father and concentrated mainly on internal affairs. He was married to Eudocia, daughter of western Roman Emperor Valentinian III (419–455 AD) and Licinia Eudoxia. The couple had one child, a son named Hilderic.

Flavius Julius Crispus (; 300 – 326) was the eldest son of the Roman emperor Constantine I, as well as his junior colleague (caesar) from March 317 until his execution by his father in 326. The grandson of the augustus Constantius I, Crispus was the elder half-brother of the future augustus Constantine II and became co-caesar with him and with his cousin Licinius II at Serdica, part of the settlement ending the Cibalensean War between Constantine and his father's rival Licinius I. Crispus ruled from Augusta Treverorum (Trier) in Roman Gaul between 318 and 323 and defeated the navy of Licinius

Seleucid king

Attalid King of Pergamon

Christian martyr (died 306)

Viriathus (also spelled Viriatus; known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish; died 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of today known as Portugal, named Lusitania.

9th century Byzantine historian, philosopher and writer

Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius (died 293) was a military commander of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century. He was a Menapian from Belgic Gaul, who usurped power in 286, during the Carausian Revolt, declaring himself emperor in Britain and northern Gaul (Imperium Britanniarum). He did this only 13 years after the Gallic Empire was ended in 273. He held power for seven years, fashioning the name "Emperor of the North" for himself, before being assassinated by his finance minister Allectus.

Ancient Roman Eunuch and saint

Theudis (Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃, Þiudeis, Spanish: Teudis, Portuguese: Têudis), ( 480 – June 548) was king of the Visigoths in Hispania from 531 to 548.

8th-century Persian author and translator

Emperor of Japan

Sudanese-American basketball player

Onesimus (, meaning "useful") was a Christian mentioned in the New Testament. He was a slave to Philemon, a Christian, and is the subject of Paul's Epistle to Philemon.

thumb|18th century likeness of Moschus Moschus () was an ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was born at Syracuse, Magna Graecia, and flourished about 150 BC. Aside from his poetry, he was known for his grammatical work, nothing of which survives.

second son of Mattathias, the first prince (r. 141–135 BCE) of the Hasmonean dynasty of the Kingdom of Judea

thumb|Detail of a dish depicting Aspar and his elder son Ardabur (consul 447)|Ardabur ( 434).

Alyattes (Lydian language: ; ; reigned c. 618 – c. 561 BC), sometimes described as Alyattes I, was the fourth king of the Mermnad dynasty in Lydia, the son of Sadyattes, grandson of Ardys, and great-grandson of Gyges. He died after a reign of 57 years and was succeeded by his son Croesus.

Seleucid king from 150 to 142 BC

Spartan general and regent (died c. 477 BC)

5th-century BC Roman general

Mughal military commander and statesman (1501–1561)

Assyrian king

Ariovistus was a leader of the Suebi and other allied Germanic peoples in the second quarter of the 1st century BC, whose name appears prominently in Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. Before their conflict with the Romans, Ariovistus and his followers took part in a war in Gaul, assisting the Arverni and Sequani in defeating their rivals, the Aedui. They then settled in large numbers into conquered Gallic territory in the Alsace region. They were defeated however, in the Battle of Vosges and driven back over the Rhine in 58 BC by Julius Caesar.

Athanagild ( 517 – December 567) was the Visigothic king of Hispania and Septimania. He had rebelled against his predecessor, Agila I, in 551. The armies of Agila and Athanagild met at Seville, where Agila met a second defeat. Following the death of Agila in 554, he was sole ruler for the rest of his reign.

1st century BC Greek bucolic poet

Japanese emperor

Achaemenid military commander during Greco-Persian Wars (died 479 BC)

King of Parthia

Emperor of Japan

Emperor of Japan

King of Norway

Thiruvalluvar, commonly known as Valluvar, was an Indian poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economic matters, and love. The text is considered an exceptional and widely cherished work of Tamil literature.

Aragonese king

Roman politician and general (420-476)

Hasmonean ruler

Roman general and statesman (died 211 BC)

Egyptian pharaoh of the 20th dynasty

Manishtushu (Man-ištušu) (, Ma-an-ish-tu-su; died 2255 BC) was the third king of the Akkadian Empire, reigning 15 years c. 2270 BC until his death c. 2255 BC. His name means "Who is with him?". He was the son of Sargon the Great, the founder of the Akkadian Empire, and he was succeeded by his son, Naram-Sin who also deified him posthumously. A cylinder seal, of unknown provenance, clearly from the reign of Naram-Sin or later, refers to the deified Manishtushu i.e. "(For) the divine Man-istusu: Taribu, the wife of Lugal-ezen, had (this seal) fashioned". Texts from the later Ur III period show o

emperor of the Roman Gallic empire in 269

French theologian and poet

Chinese warlord and general

Eurypontid king of Sparta from 469/8 to 427/6 BC

Sasanian temporary emperor (628)

thumb|200px|Epimenides of Knossos Epimenides of Knossos (or Epimenides of Crete) (; ) was a semi-mythical 7th- or 6th-century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet, from Knossos or Phaistos.

king of Syria

illegitimate ruler of the Catholic Church from 903 to 904

antipope 1130 to 1138

1st century AD King of Osroene

6th-century BC wrestler from the Magna Graecian city of Croton

Last king of Sparta from 207 to 192 BC

2nd century BC Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek king

ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom

Emperor of Japan

Latin Emperor of Constantinople

king of Syria from 96 to 94 BC