Francis Bacon22 January 1561, British
Philosopher
Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Nicolaus Copernicus19 February 1473, Polish
Thomas Hobbes05 April 1588, British
Philosopher
Giordano Bruno1548 AD, Italian
Philosopher
Paracelsus17 December 1493, Swiss
Physician, Botanist, Astrologer
Bartolomé de las Casas11 November 1484, Spanish
Historian
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne28 February 1533, French
Philosopher
John Winthrop12 January 1588, British, American
Politician, Theologian
Gerardus Mercator05 March 1512, Belgian
Cartographer
Michael Servetus29 September 1509, Spanish
Theologian
Piri Reis1465 AD, Turkish
Ottoman Admiral, Geographer, Cartographer.
Giambattista della Porta01 November 1535, Italian
Scholar, Polymath
Saint Teresa of Avila28 March 1515, Spanish
Saint
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Teresa of Ávila28 March 1515, Spanish
Saint
Virginia Dare18 August 1587, American
Colonist
Hugo Grotius10 April 1583, Dutch
Jurist
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa14 September 1486, German
Physician
Leo Africanus1494 AD, Spanish
Diplomat
Gerolamo Cardano24 September 1501, Italian
Polymath
Isaac Luria1534 AD, Israeli
Rabbi
Cesare Beccaria15 March 1738, Italian
Jurist
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
Robert Bellarmine04 October 1542, Italian
Theologian, Writer, Librarian, University teacher,
Pope Adrian VI02 March 1459, German, Dutch
Pope
Thomas Müntzer1489 AD, German
Preacher
Vallabha27 April 1479, Indian
Philosopher
Jean Bodin1529 AD, French
jurist, philosopher, economist, historian,
Li Shizhen03 July 1518, Chinese
Chinese scholar
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Mulla Sadra1571 AD, Iranian
philosopher, writer
Lawrence of Brindisi22 July 1559, Italian
Saint
Francisco Suárez05 January 1548, Spanish
Priest
Richard Hooker25 March 1554, British
Theologian
John Foxe1516 AD, British
Historian
James Prinsep20 August 1799, British
Antiquarian
Étienne de La Boétie
Jacobus Arminius10 October 1560, Dutch
Theologian, University teacher
Francisco de Vitoria1483 AD, Spanish
philosopher, writer, religious, university
Wang Yangming26 October 1472, Chinese
Calligrapher
Theodore Beza24 June 1519, Swiss, French
Theologian
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Tommaso Campanella06 September 1568, Italian
philosopher, writer, poet, astrologer
Rupa Goswami1493 AD, Bangladeshi
Scholar and author
Conrad Gessner26 March 1516, Swiss
Physician
William Camden02 May 1551, British
Historian
Dadu Dayal1544 AD, Indian
Hindu saint
Firishta1560 AD, Indian, Iranian
Historian
Peter Canisius08 May 1521, Dutch
Priest
Joseph Justus Scaliger05 August 1540, French
Scholar
Alexandre de Rhodes15 March 1591, French
Lexicographer, Linguist, Writer, Missionary
Martin Behaim06 October 1459, German
Geographer and navigator
John Selden16 December 1584, British
Jurist
Charles Hodge27 December 1797, American
Theologian
Justus Lipsius18 October 1547, Belgian
Philosopher
Thomas Cajetan20 February 1469, Italian
Philosopher
Justus Jonas05 June 1493, German
Jurist
Moses Isserles22 February 1530, Polish
Rabbi
Raphael Holinshed1529 AD, British
Chronicler
Luis de Molina29 September 1535, Spanish
Theologian
John Tradescant the Elder1570 AD, British
Naturalist
Petrus Ramus1515 AD, French
Philosopher
Andreas Karlstadt1486 AD, German
Theologian
Sebastian Münster20 January 1488, German
Cartographer
John Florio1553 AD, British
Linguist
Peter Martyr Vermigli08 September 1499, Italian
Theologian
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala1535 AD, Peruvian
Chronicler
Isaac Casaubon18 February 1559, Swiss
Scholar
Polydore Vergil1470 AD, Italian, British
Historian
Ulrich von Hutten21 April 1488, German
Scholar
ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni21 August 1540, Indian
Historian
Gemma Frisius09 December 1508, Dutch
Physician
Ulisse Aldrovandi11 September 1522, Italian
Naturalist
John Stow1525 AD, British
Historian
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten1563 AD, Dutch
Merchant
Paolo Sarpi14 August 1552, Italian
Historian
Samuel Daniel1562 AD, British
Poet
Juan de Mariana25 September 1536, Spanish
Priest
Caesar Baronius30 August 1538, Italian
Historian
José de Acosta30 September 1540, Spanish
Missionary
Karel van Mander30 April 1548, Belgian, Dutch
Painter
João de Barros1496 AD, Portuguese
Historian
Philippe de Commines1447 AD, French
Writer
Cyril Lucaris13 November 1572, Greek
Theologian
John Bale21 November 1495, British
Bishop and author
Martin Chemnitz09 November 1522, German
Theologian, University teacher, Astrologer
John Cheke16 June 1514, British
Statesman
Hayashi Razan1583 AD, Japanese
Philosopher
Andrea Cesalpino06 June 1519, Italian
Physician
Balthasar Hubmaier1480 AD, German
Theologian
James Howell1594 AD, British
Historian
Andreas Osiander19 December 1498, German
Theologian