Year of death unknown

ancient Greek novellist

queen consort of Wessex and countess of Flanders

antipope in 1012

German explorer of Australia (1813-1848)

Menua (; Meinua or Minua), was the fifth known king of Urartu from around 810 BC to 786 BC. In Armenian, Menua is rendered as Menua. The name Menua may be connected etymologically to the Ancient Greek names Minos and Minyas.

Korean gisaeng, poet, dancer and philosopher (1506-1544)

4th-century BCE Greek philosopher

eldest daughter of Octavia Minor and Mark Antony

6th century Syrian scholar and intellectual

5th/6th century Greek philologist and lexicographer

1st century CE member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea

Siemowit (Polish pronunciation: [ɕɛˈmɔvit], also Ziemowit [ʑɛˈmɔvit]) was, according to the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus, the son of Piast the Wheelwright and Rzepicha. He is considered to be the first ruler of the Piast dynasty.

2nd Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate

thumb|Statue base with an inscription in memory of Cynisca's 396 BC Olympic victory. Museum of the Olympic Games in Antiquity, Olympia, Greece|Olympia|235x235px Cynisca (; or Kyniska, ; born ) was a wealthy Spartan princess. She is famous for being the first woman to win at the Olympic Games. Cynisca first entered the Olympics in 396 BC, where she won first prize competing with a team of horses she had trained herself. In 392 BC, Cynisca entered her horses in the Olympics for a second time and was awarded another victory in the same event.

9th-century king of Cambodia

free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders

thumb|The first column of the Herodas papyrus, showing Mimiamb 1. 1–15.

Byzantine historian

Roman consul 216 BC

Caratacus was a 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who resisted the Roman conquest of Britain.

thumb|The fables of Babrius Babrius (, Bábrios; ), also known as Babrias () or Gabrias (), was the author of a collection of Greek fables, many of which are known today as Aesop's Fables.

ancient Greek poet; best known for his list of the Seven Wonders of the World

Seuserenre Khyan was a Hyksos king of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling over Lower Egypt in the second half of the 17th century BC.

10th-century Saxon chronicler

character in Plato's dialogues; purported ancient Greek philosopher

right|thumb|200px|Dicaearchus of Messana Dicaearchus of Messana (; Dikaiarkhos; ), also written Dikaiarchos (), was a Greek philosopher, geographer and author. Dicaearchus was a student of Aristotle in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He wrote on geography and the history of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece. Although modern scholars often consider him a pioneer in the field of cartography, this is based on a misinterpretation of a reference in Cicero to Dicaearchus's tabulae, which does not refer to any maps made by Dicaearchus but is a pun on

Hiawatha ( , ; ), also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks.

Roman empress as the consort of Roman Emperor Gallienus (died 268)

Artaphernes (Greek: Ἀρταφέρνης, Old Persian: Artafarna, from Median Rtafarnah) was a brother of the Achaemenid king Darius I and held power circa 513–492 BC. He was appointed satrap of Lydia, which he governed from its capital of Sardis. As satrap of Lydia he had to deal with the Greeks, and played an important role in both the Siege of Naxos and in suppressing the Ionian Revolt.

King of Sweden

Swiss Brethren minister from whom the Amish received their name

Italian cardinal, antipope 1124

Frankish king

ancient Greek writer

right|thumb|180px|Menippus, by Diego Velázquez|Velázquez thumb|180px|Menippus, Nuremberg Chronicle.

French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema

7th century Byzantine poet

King of Wessex

Phocylides (), Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, was born about 560 BC.

thumb|Ōtani Oniji III in the Role of the Servant Edobei, nishiki-e colour print, 1794

2nd century Greco-Roman philosopher

3rd century Chinese poet and musician

thumb|A citharede Terpander ( Terpandros), of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC. He was the father of Greek music and through it, of lyric poetry, although his own poetical compositions were few and in extremely simple rhythms. He simplified rules of the modes of singing of other neighboring countries and islands and formed, out of these syncopated variants, a conceptual system. Though endowed with an inventive mind, and the commencer of a new era of music, he attempted no more than to systematize the musical styles that exis

Psammuthes or Psammuthis, was a pharaoh of the Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt during 392/1 BC.

1st c. BCE Roman comic poet

presbyter and priest, antipope c. 687

thumb|Herm of Hermes, Roman copy of a late 5th century BC original, the forefront inscription states the herm was made by Alcamenes and dedicated by Pergamios, Istanbul Museums.

Phalaris () was the tyrant of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily in Magna Graecia, from approximately 570 to 554 BC.

Eubulides (; fl. 4th century BCE) of Miletus was a philosopher of the Megarian school who is famous for his paradoxes.

ancient Greek philosopher

brother of Roman triumvir Mark Antony

Assyrian king

Catholic cardinal and antipope in 1101

Chariton of Aphrodisias () was the author of an ancient Greek novel probably titled Callirhoe (based on the subscription in the sole surviving manuscript). However, it is regularly referred to as Chaereas and Callirhoe (which more closely aligns with the title given at the head of the manuscript). Evidence of fragments of the text on papyri suggests that the novel may have been written in the mid-1st century AD, making it the oldest surviving complete ancient prose romance and the only one to make use of apparent historiographical features for background verisimilitude and structure, in conjun

archdeacon, antipope in 687

Roman consul

Skeptic philosopher

thumb|"Ahmad Sanjar|Sultan Sanjar surprises his beloved entertaining Mahsati in his tent". Folio from the Majalis al-ushshaq, dated October/November 1552 Mahsati () was a medieval Persian female poet who was reportedly one of the first poets to compose ''ruba'iyat'' (quatrains) in her native language.

Tarsicius or Tarcisius was a martyr of the early Christian church who lived in the 3rd century. The little that is known about him comes from a metrical inscription by Pope Damasus I, who was pope in the second half of the 4th century.

third wife to Roman Emperor Nero