LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mark Akenside	Poet	9-Nov-1721	23-Jun-1770	The Pleasures of the Imagination
Bahá'u'lláh	Religion	12-Nov-1817	29-May-1892	Founder of Baha'i
John Biddle	Religion	1615	22-Sep-1662	Father of English Unitarianism
George Boole	Mathematician	2-Nov-1815	8-Dec-1864	Inventor of Boolean Algebra
Henry Thomas Buckle	Historian	24-Nov-1821	29-May-1862	History of Civilization in England
John Bunyan	Author	Nov-1628	31-Aug-1688	Pilgrim's Progress
Lord Byron	Poet	22-Jan-1788	19-Apr-1824	English romantic poet
Augustin-Louis Cauchy	Mathematician	21-Aug-1789	23-May-1857	Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups
Guido Cavalcanti	Poet	c. 1250	27-Aug-1300	Canzone d'Amore
Charles Churchill	Poet	1731	4-Nov-1764	Rosciad
Constantius II	Royalty	7-Aug-317 AD	3-Nov-361 AD	Roman Emperor, 337-361 AD
Dante	Poet	1265	14-Sep-1321	La Divina Commedia
Thomas Dempster	Historian	1579	6-Sep-1625	Scotia Illustrior
Dixon Denham	Explorer	1-Jan-1786	8-May-1828	English explorer of Central Africa
Don John of Austria	Royalty	24-Feb-1547	1-Oct-1578	Defeated Turks at Lepanto
Sir Francis Drake	Explorer	c. 1540	28-Jan-1596	Defeated Spanish Armada
Albrecht Dürer	Engraver	21-May-1471	6-Apr-1528	German Renaissance artist
Pope John XV	Religion	?	996 AD	Roman Catholic Pope, 985-96
Pope Julius II	Religion	5-Dec-1443	21-Feb-1513	Roman Catholic Pope, 1503-13
Johannes Kepler	Astronomer	27-Dec-1571	15-Nov-1630	Laws of Planetary Motion
St. Ignatius of Loyola	Religion	1491	31-Jul-1556	Founder of the Jesuit order
Mary Lyon	Activist	28-Feb-1797	5-Mar-1849	Founder of Mount Holyoke College
Gaius Marius	Military	155 BC	13-Jan-86 BC	Roman General and consul
Michelangelo	Sculptor	6-Mar-1475	18-Feb-1564	Renaissance sculptor and painter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Composer	27-Jan-1756	5-Dec-1791	Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Nerva	Royalty	8-Nov-30 AD	27-Jan-98 AD	Roman Emperor, 96-98 AD
Parmigiano	Painter	11-Jan-1503	24-Aug-1540	Painter of the Lombard School
Antoninus Pius	Royalty	19-Sep-86 AD	7-Mar-161 AD	Roman Emperor, 138-161 AD
Guido Reni	Painter	4-Nov-1575	18-Aug-1642	Painter of the Bolognese school
Hernando de Soto	Explorer	1496	21-May-1542	Explored the Mississippi
Titus	Royalty	30-Dec-39 AD	13-Sep-81 AD	Roman Emperor, 79-81 AD
Diego Velázquez	Painter	6-Jun-1599	6-Aug-1660	Las Meninas
Martha Washington	First Lady	2-Jun-1731	22-May-1802	Wife of US President George Washington
Sir Thomas Wyat	Poet	1503	6-Oct-1542	Introduced sonnet to England

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