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
Thomas Hobbes05 April 1588, British
Philosopher
Giordano Bruno1548 AD, Italian
Philosopher
Saint Teresa of Avila28 March 1515, Spanish
Saint
Paracelsus17 December 1493, Swiss
Physician, Botanist, Astrologer
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne28 February 1533, French
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
Teresa of Ávila28 March 1515, Spanish
Saint
Virginia Dare18 August 1587, American
Colonist
Hugo Grotius10 April 1583, Dutch
Jurist
Cesare Beccaria15 March 1738, Italian
Jurist
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa14 September 1486, German
Physician
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī26 June 1564, Indian
Islamic scholar
Saint John Fisher30 November 1469, British
English Priest
William Brewster1568 AD, British
Preacher
Leo Africanus1494 AD, Spanish
Diplomat
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
Jean Bodin1529 AD, French
jurist, philosopher, economist, historian,
Thomas Müntzer1489 AD, German
Preacher
Robert Bellarmine04 October 1542, Italian
Theologian, Writer, Librarian, University teacher,
Al-Suyūṭī03 October 1445, Egyptian
Scholar
Vallabha27 April 1479, Indian
Philosopher
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Isaac Luria1534 AD, Israeli
Rabbi
Pope Adrian VI02 March 1459, German, Dutch
Pope
Sen Rikyū1522 AD, Japanese
Historical Figure
Robert Burton08 February 1577, British
Scholar
John Foxe1516 AD, British
Historian
Mulla Sadra1571 AD, Iranian
philosopher, writer
Francisco Suárez05 January 1548, Spanish
Priest
Jacobus Arminius10 October 1560, Dutch
Theologian, University teacher
Nicholas Ridley1500 AD, British
Martyr
James Prinsep20 August 1799, British
Antiquarian
Richard Hooker25 March 1554, British
Theologian
Étienne de La Boétie
Dadu Dayal1544 AD, Indian
Hindu saint
Francisco de Vitoria1483 AD, Spanish
philosopher, writer, religious, university
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Wang Yangming26 October 1472, Chinese
Calligrapher
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega12 April 1539, Peruvian
Chronicler
Tommaso Campanella06 September 1568, Italian
philosopher, writer, poet, astrologer
Sir Robert Filmer1588 AD, British
Political scientist
Rupa Goswami1493 AD, Bangladeshi
Scholar and author
Firishta1560 AD, Indian, Iranian
Historian
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
Justus Lipsius18 October 1547, Belgian
Philosopher
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala1535 AD, Peruvian
Chronicler
Gurdās, Bhāī1551 AD, Indian
Sikh writer
Theodore Beza24 June 1519, Swiss, French
Theologian
Conrad Gessner26 March 1516, Swiss
Physician
William Camden02 May 1551, British
Historian
Alexandre de Rhodes15 March 1591, French
Lexicographer, Linguist, Writer, Missionary
ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni21 August 1540, Indian
Historian
Li Shizhen03 July 1518, Chinese
Chinese scholar
Petrus Ramus1515 AD, French
Philosopher
Moses Isserles22 February 1530, Polish
Rabbi
Thomas Cajetan20 February 1469, Italian
Philosopher
Charles Hodge27 December 1797, American
Theologian
John Selden16 December 1584, British
Jurist
Samuel Daniel1562 AD, British
Poet
Joseph Justus Scaliger05 August 1540, French
Scholar
Martin Behaim06 October 1459, German
Geographer and navigator
Sebastian Münster20 January 1488, German
Cartographer
Peter Canisius08 May 1521, Dutch
Priest
John Florio1553 AD, British
Linguist
John Tradescant the Elder1570 AD, British
Naturalist
Raphael Holinshed1529 AD, British
Chronicler
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert03 March 1582, British
Soldier
Andreas Karlstadt1486 AD, German
Theologian
Luis de Molina29 September 1535, Spanish
Theologian
Robert I Estienne1503 AD, French
Publisher
Ulrich von Hutten21 April 1488, German
Scholar
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten1563 AD, Dutch
Merchant
Polydore Vergil1470 AD, Italian, British
Historian
Caesar Baronius30 August 1538, Italian
Historian
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera02 February 1457, Italian
Historian
Isaac Casaubon18 February 1559, Swiss
Scholar
Gemma Frisius09 December 1508, Dutch
Physician
Ulisse Aldrovandi11 September 1522, Italian
Naturalist
Peter Martyr Vermigli08 September 1499, Italian
Theologian
Uriel Acosta1585 AD, Portuguese
Philosopher
Baha' al-din al-'Amili18 February 1547, Iranian, Lebanese
islamic Scholar
John Stow1525 AD, British
Historian
Paolo Sarpi14 August 1552, Italian
Historian
José de Acosta30 September 1540, Spanish
Missionary
Thomas Erastus07 September 1524, Swiss
Physician