Niccolò Machiavelli03 May 1469, Italian
Political Philosopher
Francis Bacon22 January 1561, British
Philosopher
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Nicolaus Copernicus19 February 1473, Polish
Kabir1440 AD, Indian
Saint and Mystic Poet
Thomas Hobbes05 April 1588, British
Philosopher
John Calvin10 July 1509, French
Protestant Reformer, Theologian, Pastor
Giordano Bruno1548 AD, Italian
Philosopher
Saint Teresa of Avila28 March 1515, Spanish
Saint
John Knox1514 AD, Scottish
Protestant Leader
Paracelsus17 December 1493, Swiss
Physician, Botanist, Astrologer
Michel de Montaigne28 February 1533, French
Philosopher
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Bartolomé de las Casas11 November 1484, Spanish
Historian
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
Virginia Dare18 August 1587, American
Colonist
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī26 June 1564, Indian
Islamic scholar
Saint John Fisher30 November 1469, British
English Priest
Hugo Grotius10 April 1583, Dutch
Jurist
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa14 September 1486, German
Physician
Leo Africanus1494 AD, Spanish
Diplomat
William Brewster1568 AD, British
Preacher
Cesare Beccaria15 March 1738, Italian
Jurist
Thomas Müntzer1489 AD, German
Preacher
Robert Bellarmine04 October 1542, Italian
Theologian, Writer, Librarian, University teacher,
Isaac Luria1534 AD, Israeli
Rabbi
Al-Suyūṭī03 October 1445, Egyptian
Scholar
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Jean Bodin1529 AD, French
jurist, philosopher, economist, historian,
Pope Adrian VI02 March 1459, German, Dutch
Pope
Philip Melanchthon16 February 1497, German
Theologian
Sen Rikyū1522 AD, Japanese
Historical Figure
Mulla Sadra1571 AD, Iranian
philosopher, writer
Jacobus Arminius10 October 1560, Dutch
Theologian, University teacher
Francisco Suárez05 January 1548, Spanish
Priest
Étienne de La Boétie01 November 1530, French
Magistrate
James Prinsep20 August 1799, British
Antiquarian
John Foxe1516 AD, British
Historian
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega12 April 1539, Peruvian
Chronicler
Nicholas Ridley1500 AD, British
Martyr
Richard Hooker25 March 1554, British
Theologian
Wang Yangming26 October 1472, Chinese
Calligrapher
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Tommaso Campanella05 September 1568, Italian
Philosopher
Dadu Dayal1544 AD, Indian
Hindu saint
Firishta1560 AD, Indian, Iranian
Historian
Gurdās, Bhāī1551 AD, Indian
Sikh writer
Johannes Trithemius01 February 1462, German
Cryptographer
Robert Burton08 February 1577, British
Scholar
Francisco de Vitoria1483 AD, Spanish
philosopher, writer, religious, university
Rupa Goswami1493 AD, Bangladeshi
Scholar and author
Sir Robert Filmer1588 AD, British
Political scientist
Theodore Beza24 June 1519, Swiss, French
Theologian
Samuel Daniel1562 AD, British
Poet
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Alexandre de Rhodes15 March 1591, French
Lexicographer, Linguist, Writer, Missionary
Peter Canisius08 May 1521, Dutch
Priest
William Camden02 May 1551, British
Historian
John Florio1553 AD, British
Linguist
Justus Lipsius18 October 1547, Belgian
Philosopher
Conrad Gessner26 March 1516, Swiss
Physician
Li Shizhen03 July 1518, Chinese
Chinese scholar
ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni21 August 1540, Indian
Historian
Moses Isserles22 February 1530, Polish
Rabbi
Peter Binsfeld1545 AD, German
Theologian
Thomas Cajetan20 February 1469, Italian
Philosopher
Martin Behaim06 October 1459, German
Geographer and navigator
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala1535 AD, Peruvian
Chronicler
Charles Hodge27 December 1797, American
Theologian
John Tradescant the Elder1570 AD, British
Naturalist
Joseph Justus Scaliger05 August 1540, French
Scholar
Sebastian Münster20 January 1488, German
Cartographer
John Selden16 December 1584, British
Jurist
Raphael Holinshed1529 AD, British
Chronicler
Andreas Karlstadt1486 AD, German
Theologian
Petrus Ramus1515 AD, French
Philosopher
Luis de Molina29 September 1535, Spanish
Theologian
Ulrich von Hutten21 April 1488, German
Scholar
Johann Eck13 November 1486, German
Theologian
Baha' al-din al-'Amili18 February 1547, Iranian, Lebanese
islamic Scholar
Robert I Estienne1503 AD, French
Publisher
Isaac Casaubon18 February 1559, Swiss
Scholar
Polydore Vergil1470 AD, Italian, British
Historian
Caesar Baronius30 August 1538, Italian
Historian
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten1563 AD, Dutch
Merchant
Gemma Frisius09 December 1508, Dutch
Physician
Ulisse Aldrovandi11 September 1522, Italian
Naturalist
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert03 March 1582, British
Soldier
Uriel Acosta1585 AD, Portuguese
Philosopher
Diego Duran15 June 1537, Spanish
Historian, Writer, Dominican friar, Missionary
John Stow1525 AD, British
Historian