Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer
John Locke29 August 1632, British
Father of Classical Liberalism
René Déscartes31 March 1596, French
Mathematician, Philosopher and Writer
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
Francis Bacon22 January 1561, British
Philosopher
Baruch Spinoza24 November 1632, Dutch
Dutch philosopher
Thomas Hobbes05 April 1588, British
Philosopher
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
William Penn14 October 1644, British
Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Robert Boyle25 January 1627, Irish, British
Founder of Modern Chemistry, Boyle's Law
Roger Williams21 December 1603, British, American
Theologian
George Berkeley12 March 1685, Irish, British
philosopher
Giambattista della Porta01 November 1535, Italian
Scholar, Polymath
Montesquieu18 January 1689, French
Philosopher
Alphonsus Liguori27 September 1696, Italian
Philisopher, Spiritual Writer, Theologian
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher
Juana Inés de la Cruz12 November 1651, Mexican
Poet, Nun, Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher,
Emmanuel Swedenborg29 January 1688, Swedish
Scientist
Jean-Baptiste Colbert29 August 1619, French
Economist, Politician
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī26 June 1564, Indian
Islamic scholar
Isaac Watts17 July 1674, British
Theologian
John Amos Comenius28 March 1592, Czech
Writer, Linguist, Presbyter, Theologian,
John Law21 April 1671, Scottish
economist, banker, statistician
Giambattista Vico23 June 1668, Italian
Philosopher
Jakob Ammann12 February 1644, Swiss
Tailor
Thomas Browne19 October 1605, British
Author
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne1623 AD, British
philosopher, scientist, poet, science fiction
Mary Astell12 November 1666, British
Writer, Philosopher, Feminist
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Christian Wolff24 January 1679, German, Polish
jurist, mathematician, philosopher, university
Francesco Redi18 February 1626, Italian
Physician, Naturalist, Poet, Writer, Painter,
Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort31 January 1673, French
Priest
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke16 September 1678, British
Politician
Richard Hooker25 March 1554, British
Theologian
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet27 September 1627, French
Priest, Historian, Theologian, Writer, Cleric,
François Quesnay04 June 1694, French
Philosopher, Economist, Physician,
William Whiston09 December 1667, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Historian, University
Gerrard Winstanley19 October 1609, British
Religious Reformer
François Fénelon06 August 1651, French
Theologian
Baltasar Gracian08 January 1601, Spanish
Prose writer
Richard Baxter12 November 1615, British
Poet
William Petty26 May 1623, British
Economist
James Prinsep20 August 1799, British
Antiquarian
Nicolas Malebranche06 August 1638, French
Philosopher, Writer, Theologian
Bernard Mandeville15 November 1670, Dutch
Philosopher
Robert Burton08 February 1577, British
Scholar
Marin Mersenne08 September 1588, French
Philosopher, Theologian, Mathematician,
Francis Hutcheson08 August 1694, Irish, British
philosopher, economist
Gurdās, Bhāī1551 AD, Indian
Sikh writer
Pierre Bayle18 November 1647, French
Philosopher, Writer, University teacher,
Francisco Suárez05 January 1548, Spanish
Priest
Antoine Galland04 April 1646, French
Archaeologist
Yamamoto Tsunetomo11 June 1659, Japanese
Philosopher, Writer
Tommaso Campanella06 September 1568, Italian
philosopher, writer, poet, astrologer
John Graunt24 April 1620, British
Statistician
William Stukeley07 November 1687, British
Physician
Henry Vaughan17 April 1621, Welsh
Physician, Economist, Poet, Writer
Sir Robert Filmer1588 AD, British
Political scientist
Theodore Beza24 June 1519, Swiss, French
Theologian
Joseph Justus Scaliger05 August 1540, French
Scholar
Justus Lipsius18 October 1547, Belgian
Philosopher
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala1535 AD, Peruvian
Chronicler
John Aubrey12 March 1626, British
Antiquary
Firishta1560 AD, Indian, Iranian
Historian
Thomas Traherne10 October 1636, British
Poet
Algernon Sidney15 January 1623, British
Diplomat, Politician, Writer
Pierre Gassendi22 January 1592, French
Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Professor,
William Camden02 May 1551, British
Historian
Ludvig Holberg03 December 1684, Danish, Norwegian
Writer
Samuel von Pufendorf08 January 1632, German, Swedish
Jurist, Philosopher, Historian, University
Manasseh ben Israel1604 AD, Portuguese
Rabbi
Paolo Sarpi14 August 1552, Italian
Historian
Thomas Mun17 June 1571, British
Writer
John Selden16 December 1584, British
Jurist
Jeremy Taylor15 August 1613, British
Author
Charles Hodge27 December 1797, American
Theologian
James Harrington03 January 1611, British
British philosopher
António Vieira06 February 1608, Portuguese
Diplomat
Herman Boerhaave31 December 1668
Philosopher, Botanist, Physician, Anatomist,
Elena Cornaro Piscopia05 June 1646, Italian
Philosopher
John Tradescant the Elder1570 AD, British
Naturalist
Engelbert Kaempfer16 September 1651, German
Naturalist
John Florio1553 AD, British
Linguist
Isaac Casaubon18 February 1559, Swiss
Scholar
Joseph Glanvill1636 AD, British
Philosopher
Caesar Baronius30 August 1538, Italian
Historian
Kenelm Digby11 July 1603, British
Philosopher
Samuel Daniel1562 AD, British
Poet
Baha' al-din al-'Amili18 February 1547, Iranian, Lebanese
islamic Scholar
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert03 March 1582, British
Soldier
Richard Bentley27 January 1662, British
Theologian