entity_id
int32 1
1.22M
| name
stringlengths 2
115
| short_description
stringlengths 0
269
| gender
stringclasses 21
values | country
stringlengths 0
246
| occupation
stringlengths 0
119
| birth_year
stringlengths 1
5
| manner_of_death
stringlengths 0
5
| age_of_death
stringlengths 0
47
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | George Washington | 1st president of the United States (1732–1799) | Male | United States of America; Kingdom of Great Britain | Politician | 1732 | 1799 | natural causes |
2 | Douglas Adams | English writer and humorist | Male | United Kingdom | Artist | 1952 | 2001 | natural causes |
3 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th president of the United States (1809-1865) | Male | United States of America | Politician | 1809 | 1865 | homicide |
4 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Austrian composer of the Classical period | Male | Archduchy of Austria; Archbishopric of Salzburg | Artist | 1756 | 1791 | |
5 | Ludwig van Beethoven | German classical and romantic composer | Male | Holy Roman Empire; Austrian Empire | Artist | 1770 | 1827 | |
6 | Jean-François Champollion | French classical scholar | Male | Kingdom of France; First French Empire | Egyptologist | 1790 | 1832 | natural causes |
7 | Paul Morand | French writer | Male | France | Artist | 1888 | 1976 | |
8 | Claude Monet | French impressionist painter (1840-1926) | Male | France | Artist | 1840 | 1926 | natural causes |
9 | Diego Velázquez | Spanish painter (1599-1660) | Male | Spain | Artist | 1599 | 1660 | |
10 | El Greco | Greek painter, sculptor and architect | Male | Spain; Republic of Venice | Artist | 1541 | 1614 | |
11 | Elvis Presley | American singer and actor (1935–1977) | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1935 | 1977 | natural causes |
12 | Galileo Galilei | Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer | Male | Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Duchy of Florence | Astronomer | 1564 | 1642 | |
13 | Patricio Aylwin | Chilean politician and former president (1918-2016) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1918 | 2016 | |
14 | Louis IX of France | king of France | Male | France | Ruler | 1214 | 1270 | natural causes |
15 | Adolf Hitler | Austrian-born German politician, chancellor and Führer of Germany, leader of the Nazi Party (1889-1945) | Male | Nazi Germany; Austria-Hungary; Weimar Republic; Republic of German-Austria; First Republic of Austria | Statesperson | 1889 | 1945 | suicide |
16 | Blanche of Castile | Spanish princess and saint, queen consort of France | Female | Kingdom of Castile | Regent | 1188 | 1252 | |
17 | Piet Kraak | Dutch footballer (1921-1984) | Male | Kingdom of the Netherlands | Athlete | 1921 | 1984 | |
18 | Augusto Pinochet | General, politician of Chile (1915-2006) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1915 | 2006 | natural causes |
19 | Yanka Kupala | Belarusian writer (1882-1942) | Male | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; Russian Empire; Belarusian People's Republic | Artist | 1882 | 1942 | |
20 | František Plánička | Czech association football player (1904-1996) | Male | Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia | Athlete | 1904 | 1996 | |
21 | Linda Lovelace | American pornographic actress, later anti-porn activist | Female | United States of America | Artist | 1949 | 2002 | accident |
22 | Bob Marley | Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician | Male | Jamaica | Artist | 1945 | 1981 | natural causes |
23 | Carl Sagan | American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator | Male | United States of America | Researcher | 1934 | 1996 | natural causes |
24 | Salvador Allende | 28th president of Chile (1908–1973) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1908 | 1973 | suicide |
25 | Denis Diderot | French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist | Male | France; Kingdom of France | Researcher | 1713 | 1784 | |
26 | Georges Brassens | French singer-songwriter and poet | Male | France | Artist | 1921 | 1981 | natural causes |
27 | Philipp Ludwig von Seidel | German mathematician | Male | German Empire; German Confederation | Researcher | 1821 | 1896 | |
28 | Eduardo Frei Montalva | President of Chile (1911-1982) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1911 | 1982 | homicide |
29 | Arthur Rimbaud | 19th century French poet who influenced modern literature and arts, and prefigured surrealism | Male | France; French Third Republic; Second French Empire | Artist | 1854 | 1891 | natural causes |
30 | Ulrich Frédéric Woldemar, Comte de Lowendal | German-born French soldier and statesmen (1700-1755) | Male | Denmark; Russian Empire; Kingdom of France; Electorate of Saxony | Politician | 1700 | 1755 | |
31 | Charles Baudelaire | French poet, essayist and art critic (1821-1867) | Male | France | Artist | 1821 | 1867 | natural causes |
32 | Stendhal | 19th century French writer | Male | France | Artist | 1783 | 1842 | natural causes |
33 | Émile Zola | French writer | Male | France | Artist | 1840 | 1902 | accident |
34 | Vladimir Vysotsky | Soviet singer, songwriter, poet and actor | Male | Soviet Union | Artist | 1938 | 1980 | natural causes |
35 | Napoleon | French general and emperor (1769-1821) | Male | France | Politician | 1769 | 1821 | natural causes |
36 | Louis Pasteur | French chemist and microbiologist | Male | France | Researcher | 1822 | 1895 | natural causes |
37 | Victor Hugo | French poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885) | Male | France | Artist | 1802 | 1885 | |
38 | Giuseppe Garibaldi | Italian general, patriot and republican (1807-1882) | Male | French Third Republic; First French Empire; Riograndense Republic; Kingdom of Sardinia; Kingdom of Italy | Artist | 1807 | 1882 | natural causes |
39 | Claude Bourgelat | French veterinary surgeon | Male | Kingdom of France | Artist | 1712 | 1779 | |
40 | Pierre Poivre | French horticulturalist (1719-1786) | Male | Kingdom of France | Researcher | 1719 | 1786 | |
41 | Jorge Alessandri | Chilean politician and President (1896-1986) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1896 | 1986 | |
42 | Carlos Ibáñez del Campo | Chilean army officer and political figure (1877-1960) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1877 | 1960 | |
43 | Luís de Camões | Portuguese poet | Male | Artist | 1524 | 1580 | ||
44 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Renaissance-era mathematician, astronomer, and clergyman who formulated the heliocentric model of the Universe | Male | Kingdom of Poland | Researcher | 1473 | 1543 | natural causes |
45 | Jean Moulin | French resistance fighter and civil servant | Male | France | Official; french resistance fighter | 1899 | 1943 | homicide |
46 | Cleopatra | last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt | Female | Ancient Egypt | Sovereign | -69 | -30 | suicide |
47 | Friedrich Theodor Vischer | German philosopher, writer and politician (1807-1887) | Male | Germany | Researcher | 1807 | 1887 | |
48 | André-Marie Ampère | French physicist and mathematician | Male | France | Researcher | 1775 | 1836 | |
49 | Alessandro Volta | Italian physicist, chemist, and pioneer of electricity and power | Male | Duchy of Milan; Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia; Cisalpine Republic; Kingdom of Italy | Researcher | 1745 | 1827 | |
50 | Molière | French playwright and actor | Male | Kingdom of France | Artist | 1622 | 1673 | natural causes |
51 | William Shakespeare | English playwright and poet | Male | Kingdom of England | Playwright | 1564 | 1616 | |
52 | Genghis Khan | founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire | Male | Mongol Empire | Military personnel | 1162 | 1227 | |
53 | Jean Racine | French dramatist | Male | Kingdom of France | Researcher | 1639 | 1699 | natural causes |
54 | Pierre Corneille | French tragedian | Male | Kingdom of France | Artist | 1606 | 1684 | |
55 | Paul Verlaine | French poet | Male | France | Artist | 1844 | 1896 | natural causes |
56 | Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance polymath (1452-1519) | Male | Republic of Florence | Researcher | 1452 | 1519 | natural causes |
57 | Dario Fo | Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016) | Male | Italy | Artist | 1926 | 2016 | |
58 | Stéphane Mallarmé | French Symbolist poet | Male | France | Artist | 1842 | 1898 | |
59 | Gabriel Gonzáles Videla | Chilean politician (1898-1980) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1898 | 1980 | |
60 | Juan Antonio Rios | Chilean politician and President (1888-1946) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1888 | 1946 | natural causes |
61 | Mikhail Bulgakov | Russian author | Male | Soviet Union; Russian Empire | Artist | 1891 | 1940 | natural causes |
62 | Andrei Rublev | medieval Russian artist | Male | Grand Duchy of Moscow | Artist | 1360 | 1428 | natural causes |
63 | Pedro Aguirre Cerda | Chilean politician and President (1879-1941) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1879 | 1941 | natural causes |
64 | Arturo Alessandri | Chilean politician and President | Male | Chile | Politician | 1868 | 1950 | natural causes |
65 | François Villon | French poet and criminal | Male | Kingdom of France | Artist | 1431 | 1463 | |
66 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, and theatre and opera director | Male | Soviet Union | Artist | 1932 | 1986 | natural causes |
67 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet politician, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and premier of the Soviet Union (1878-1953) | Male | Soviet Union; Russian Empire; Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | Politician | 1879 | 1953 | natural causes |
68 | Juan Luis Sanfuentes | Chilean politician and President (1858-1930) | Male | Chile | Politician | 1858 | 1930 | |
69 | Plato | ancient Greek philosopher | Male | Classical Athens | Artist | -427 | -347 | |
70 | Joseph Brodsky | Russian-American poet | Male | United States of America; Soviet Union | Artist | 1940 | 1996 | natural causes |
71 | Aristotle | ancient Greek philosopher | Male | Philosopher | -384 | -322 | natural causes |
|
72 | Charlie Chaplin | British comic actor and filmmaker (1889-1977) | Male | United Kingdom | Artist | 1889 | 1977 | natural causes |
73 | Józef Piłsudski | Polish politician, First Marshall and Prime Minister (1867-1935) | Male | Poland; Russian Empire; Second Polish Republic | Politician | 1867 | 1935 | natural causes |
74 | J. R. R. Tolkien | British philologist and author of classic high fantasy works | Male | United Kingdom | Researcher | 1892 | 1973 | |
75 | Franz Kafka | Bohemian novelist and short story writer | Male | Austria-Hungary; Czechoslovakia | Artist | 1883 | 1924 | natural causes |
76 | Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine short story writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899-1986) | Male | Argentina | Researcher | 1899 | 1986 | natural causes |
77 | Socrates | ancient Greek philosopher | Male | Classical Athens | Philosopher | -470 | -399 | capital punishment |
78 | J. Bernlef | Dutch writer and translator | Male | Kingdom of the Netherlands | Artist | 1937 | 2012 | |
79 | Roald Amundsen | Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole | Male | Norway | Researcher | 1872 | 1928 | accident |
80 | Harry Mulisch | Dutch writer | Male | Kingdom of the Netherlands | Artist | 1927 | 2010 | natural causes |
81 | Konstantin Melnikov | Russian architect and painter (1890-1974) | Male | Soviet Union; Russian Empire | Artist | 1890 | 1974 | |
82 | Isaac Newton | British physicist and mathematician | Male | Kingdom of Great Britain; Kingdom of England | Researcher | 1642 | 1727 | |
83 | Albert Einstein | German-born theoretical physicist; developer of the theory of relativity (1879–1955) | Male | United States of America; Switzerland; Austria-Hungary; Weimar Republic; German Empire | Researcher | 1879 | 1955 | natural causes |
84 | Pedro I of Brazil | first Emperor of Brazil (1798-1834) | Male | Kingdom of Portugal; Empire of Brazil | Artist | 1798 | 1834 | natural causes |
85 | John Bardeen | American physicist and engineer | Male | United States of America | Researcher | 1908 | 1991 | natural causes |
86 | Miles Franklin | Australian writer and feminist | Female | Austria; Australia | Artist | 1879 | 1954 | |
87 | John Paul II | 264th pope of the Catholic Church | Male | Poland | Researcher | 1920 | 2005 | natural causes |
88 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russian author | Male | Russian Empire | Artist | 1821 | 1881 | |
89 | Andrei Sakharov | Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist | Male | Soviet Union; Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | Researcher | 1921 | 1989 | natural causes |
90 | Mahatma Gandhi | pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during the British Raj (1869-1948) | Male | British Raj; Dominion of India | Artist | 1869 | 1948 | homicide |
91 | France Prešeren | Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent | Male | Austrian Empire; Illyrian Provinces | Artist | 1800 | 1849 | natural causes |
92 | Charles Darwin | British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection" (1809-1882) | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Researcher | 1809 | 1882 | |
93 | Carl Linnaeus | Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707-1778) | Male | Sweden | Researcher | 1707 | 1778 | |
94 | Ivan Regen | Slovenian biologist | Male | Austria-Hungary | Researcher | 1868 | 1947 | |
95 | Italo Balbo | Italian Marshal of the Air Force and minister (1896-1940) | Male | Kingdom of Italy | Politician | 1896 | 1940 | accident |
96 | Alessandro Manzoni | Italian poet and novelist (1785-1873) | Male | Kingdom of Sardinia; Kingdom of Italy | Artist | 1785 | 1873 | natural causes |
97 | Dante Alighieri | Italian poet (1265–1321) | Male | Republic of Florence | Artist | 1265 | 1321 | |
98 | Jean-Philippe Rameau | French Baroque composer and music theorist | Male | Kingdom of France | Artist | 1683 | 1764 | |
99 | Indira Gandhi | Indian Prime Minister and politician (1917-1984) | Female | India; British Raj | Politician | 1917 | 1984 | homicide |
100 | Hector Berlioz | French Romantic composer | Male | France | Artist | 1803 | 1869 |