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401 | Geoffrey of Villehardouin | knight and historian | Male | France | Researcher | 1150 | 1210 | |
402 | Maria de Ventadorn | patron of troubadour poetry | Female | France | Artist | 1180 | 1222 | |
403 | Anton Polenec | Slovene zoologist | Male | Slovenia; Austria-Hungary; Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Kingdom of Yugoslavia | Researcher | 1910 | 2000 | |
404 | Theobald of Étampes | schoolmaster and theologian | Male | France | Religious figure | 1080 | 1120 | |
405 | Robert the Monk | chronicler of the First Crusade | Male | Netherlands; France | Researcher | 1090 | 1122 | |
406 | Wace | Norman writer from Jersey | Male | France | Researcher | 1100 | 1174 | |
407 | David Bowie | British singer, musician, and actor (1947-2016) | Male | United Kingdom | Artist | 1947 | 2016 | natural causes |
408 | Louis Blériot | French aviator, inventor and engineer | Male | France | Businessperson | 1872 | 1936 | natural causes |
409 | Francisco Goya | 18th and 19th-century Spanish painter and printmaker (1746-1828) | Male | Spain | Artist | 1746 | 1828 | |
410 | Greta Garbo | Swedish-American actress (1905-1990) | Female | United States of America; Sweden | Artist | 1905 | 1990 | natural causes |
411 | Pietro Mennea | Italian sprinter and politician (1952-2013) | Male | Italy | Athlete | 1952 | 2013 | natural causes |
412 | Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi | Italian author | Female | Republic of Venice | Artist | 1760 | 1836 | |
413 | Rudolf Feustel | German archaeologist | Germany | Researcher | 1925 | 2018 | ||
414 | Antonio Canova | Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh | Male | Republic of Venice | Artist | 1757 | 1822 | |
415 | Luigi Bailo | Italian abbot | Male | Kingdom of Italy | Religious figure | 1835 | 1932 | |
416 | Bartolomeo Coghetto | Italian painter and musician | Male | Artist | 1707 | 1793 | ||
417 | Andrea del Sarto | Italian painter (1486-1530) | Male | Republic of Florence | Artist | 1486 | 1530 | natural causes |
418 | Salvador Dalí | Spanish artist (1904-1989) | Male | Spain | Artist | 1904 | 1989 | natural causes |
419 | Albrecht Dürer | German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist | Male | Duchy of Bavaria | Researcher | 1471 | 1528 | |
420 | Vittore Carpaccio | Italian painter (1465-1526) | Female | Republic of Venice | Artist | 1465 | 1526 | |
421 | Vincent van Gogh | Dutch post-impressionist painter (1853–1890) | Male | Netherlands | Artist | 1853 | 1890 | suicide |
422 | Giovanni Giocondo | Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar | Male | Researcher | 1433 | 1515 | ||
423 | Katsushika Hokusai | Japanese artist (1760-1849) | Male | Japan | Artist | 1760 | 1849 | |
424 | Frida Kahlo | Mexican painter | Female | Mexico | Artist | 1907 | 1954 | natural causes |
425 | Henri Matisse | French artist | Male | France | Artist | 1869 | 1954 | natural causes |
426 | Pinturicchio | Italian painter (1454-1513) | Male | Artist | 1454 | 1513 | ||
427 | Michelangelo | Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564) | Male | Republic of Florence | Artist | 1475 | 1564 | |
428 | Pablo Picasso | Spanish artist (1881-1973) | Male | Spain | Artist | 1881 | 1973 | natural causes |
429 | Antonello da Messina | Italian Renaissance painter (1430-1479) | Male | Kingdom of Sicily | Artist | 1430 | 1479 | |
430 | Raphael | Italian painter and architect (1483-1520) | Male | Artist | 1483 | 1520 | ||
431 | Rembrandt | Dutch painter and etcher (1606-1669) | Male | Dutch Republic | Artist | 1606 | 1669 | |
432 | Peter Paul Rubens | Flemish artist and diplomat (1577-1640) | Male | Spanish Netherlands | Artist | 1577 | 1640 | |
433 | Andy Warhol | American artist and film director and producer (1928-1987) | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1928 | 1987 | natural causes |
434 | Frank Lloyd Wright | American architect (1867-1959) | Male | United States of America | Architect | 1867 | 1959 | |
435 | Aimeric de Peguilhan | Occitan troubadour | Male | France | Artist | 1200 | 1228 | |
436 | Odo of Deuil | historian and participant of the Second Crusade | Male | France | Researcher | 1110 | 1162 | |
437 | Fulcher of Chartres | chronicler of the First Crusade | Male | France | Researcher | 1059 | 1127 | |
438 | Hugh of Fouilloy | French cleric | Male | France | Artist | 1100 | 1174 | |
439 | Gautier d'Arras | Flemish or French trouvère | Male | France | Artist | 1135 | 1189 | |
440 | Gui de Cambrai | medieval writer | Male | France | Artist | 1170 | 1248 | |
441 | John of Hauville | moralist and satirical poet | Male | France | Artist | 1150 | 1199 | |
442 | Héloïse d’Argenteuil | French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess | Female | France | Artist | 1101 | 1164 | |
443 | Hugues III d'Oisy | Lord of Oisy and Crevecoeur, lord of Cambrai , Viscount of Meaux | Male | France | Artist | 1145 | 1189 | |
444 | Conon de Béthune | crusader and "trouvère" poet, born in 1150 in north of France | Male | France | Artist | 1150 | 1219 | |
445 | Lambert of Ardres | French twelfth century chronicler | Male | France | Researcher | 1160 | 1227 | |
446 | Fra Angelico | Early Italian Renaissance painter (1400-1455) | Male | Italiana | Artist | 1400 | 1455 | |
447 | Sandro Botticelli | Italian painter (1445-1510) | Male | Artist | 1445 | 1510 | ||
448 | Abu Nuwas | Iraqi poet | Male | Abbasid Caliphate | Artist | 756 | 814 | |
449 | Hans Christian Andersen | Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet | Male | Denmark | Artist | 1805 | 1875 | |
450 | Matsuo Bashō | Japanese poet | Male | Japan | Artist | 1644 | 1694 | |
451 | Lord Byron | English poet and leading figure in the Romantic movement | Male | Kingdom of Great Britain; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Artist | 1788 | 1824 | |
452 | Andrea Mantegna | Italian Renaissance painter (1431-1506) | Male | Italy | Artist | 1431 | 1506 | |
453 | Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright | Male | Spain | Artist | 1547 | 1616 | natural causes |
454 | Geoffrey Chaucer | 14th century English poet and author | Male | Kingdom of England | Researcher | 1343 | 1400 | |
455 | Anton Chekhov | Russian dramatist, author and physician | Male | Russian Empire | Artist | 1860 | 1904 | natural causes |
456 | Charles Dickens | English writer and social critic | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Artist | 1812 | 1870 | natural causes |
457 | Philippe Pétain | French military and political leader (1856-1951) | Male | France | Politician | 1856 | 1951 | |
458 | Adolphe Thiers | President of the French Republic (1797-1877) | Male | France | Researcher | 1797 | 1877 | |
459 | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist (1809-1865) | Male | France | Artist | 1809 | 1865 | |
460 | Peter Kropotkin | Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer (1842-1921) | Male | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; Russian Empire | Researcher | 1842 | 1921 | natural causes |
461 | Che Guevara | Argentine Marxist revolutionary | Male | Cuba; Argentina | Athlete | 1928 | 1967 | extrajudicial killing |
462 | Masaccio | Italian painter (1401-1428) | Male | Artist | 1401 | 1428 | ||
463 | Mao Zedong | Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (1893-1966) | Male | People's Republic of China; Qing dynasty; Republic of China (1912–1949) | Artist | 1893 | 1976 | natural causes |
464 | Piero della Francesca | Italian painter (c. 1416-1492) | Male | Researcher | 1415 | 1492 | ||
465 | Pietro Perugino | Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523) | Male | Artist | 1448 | 1523 | natural causes |
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466 | Gabriel García Márquez | Colombian writer, journalist and Nobel laureate in literature | Male | Colombia | Artist | 1927 | 2014 | natural causes |
467 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832) | Male | Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Researcher | 1749 | 1832 | natural causes |
468 | Marcel Duchamp | French painter and sculptor | Male | United States of America; France | Athlete | 1887 | 1968 | |
469 | Chuck Berry | American singer, songwriter and guitarist | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1926 | 2017 | natural causes |
470 | Jimi Hendrix | American guitarist, singer and songwriter | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1942 | 1970 | accident |
471 | James Brown | American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist (1933-2006) | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1933 | 2006 | natural causes |
472 | Eddie Cochran | American rock and roll pioneer | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1938 | 1960 | accident |
473 | Buddy Holly | American singer-songwriter | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1936 | 1959 | |
474 | Anna de Noailles | Romanian-French writer (1876-1933) | Female | France | Artist | 1876 | 1933 | |
475 | Marco Polo | Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia | Male | Republic of Venice | Artist | 1254 | 1324 | |
476 | Hebe Camargo | Brazilian recording artist, television host, singer | Female | Brazil | Artist | 1929 | 2012 | natural causes |
477 | Tupac Shakur | American rapper (1971–1996) | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1971 | 1996 | homicide |
478 | Pepi II | Egyptian pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty for the Old Kingdom | Male | Ancient Egypt | Statesperson | -2284 | -2200 | |
479 | Ramesses VII | Ancient Egyptian sixth pharaoh of the 20th dynasty | Male | Ancient Egypt | Sovereign | -1150 | -1129 | |
480 | Hafez | Persian poet and mystic | Male | Muzaffarids of Iran | Artist | 1326 | 1389 | |
481 | Gerardus Mercator | Dutch cartographer, philosopher and mathematician | Male | Researcher | 1512 | 1594 | ||
482 | Klaus Störtebeker | leader of privateers | Male | Holy Roman Empire | Privateer; pirate | 1360 | 1401 | |
483 | Søren Kierkegaard | Danish philosopher and theologian, precursor of Existentialism | Male | Denmark | Artist | 1813 | 1855 | |
484 | Mervyn Peake | English writer, artist, poet and illustrator (1911-1968) | Male | United Kingdom | Artist | 1911 | 1968 | |
485 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778) | Male | Republic of Geneva | Researcher | 1712 | 1778 | natural causes |
486 | Stanisław Lem | Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist (1921-2006), studied medical doctor | Male | Poland | Artist | 1921 | 2006 | |
487 | Günter Grass | German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015) | Male | Germany; Free City of Danzig; German Reich | Artist | 1927 | 2015 | |
488 | Gustave Doré | French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor (1832-1883) | Male | France | Artist | 1832 | 1883 | |
489 | Alexander von Humboldt | Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859) | Male | Germany; Kingdom of Prussia | Researcher | 1769 | 1859 | |
490 | Jacob Grimm | German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863) | Male | Germany; Prussia | Researcher | 1785 | 1863 | natural causes |
491 | Allen Ginsberg | American poet | Male | United States of America | Artist | 1926 | 1997 | natural causes |
492 | Wilhelm Grimm | German author | Male | Germany; Kingdom of Prussia; Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel | Researcher | 1786 | 1859 | |
493 | Carl Friedrich Gauss | German mathematician and physicist | Male | German Confederation; Confederation of the Rhine; Kingdom of Hanover | Researcher | 1777 | 1855 | |
494 | Edward Teller | Hungarian-American nuclear physicist | Male | Hungary; United States of America; Austria-Hungary | Researcher | 1908 | 2003 | |
495 | James Joyce | Irish novelist and poet | Male | Ireland | Artist | 1882 | 1941 | |
496 | Luca Signorelli | Italian Renaissance painter (c.1450-1523) | Male | Artist | 1450 | 1523 | ||
497 | Julien Offray de La Mettrie | French physician and philosopher | Male | France | Artist | 1709 | 1751 | |
498 | Li Bai | Chinese poet | Male | Tang Empire | Artist | 701 | 762 | |
499 | Niels Bohr | Danish physicist (1885-1962) | Male | Denmark | Athlete | 1885 | 1962 | |
500 | Évariste Galois | French mathematician | Male | France | Researcher | 1811 | 1832 | homicide |