The document lists notable figures from history along with their lifespan and cultural background. It includes prophets, philosophers, artists and leaders from a variety of cultures and time periods ranging from 2000 BC to 2000 AD. The list provides a high-level overview of influential individuals from ancient civilizations through modern times.
The document lists notable figures from history along with their lifespan and cultural background. It includes prophets, philosophers, artists and leaders from a variety of cultures and time periods ranging from 2000 BC to 2000 AD. The list provides a high-level overview of influential individuals from ancient civilizations through modern times.
The document lists notable figures from history along with their lifespan and cultural background. It includes prophets, philosophers, artists and leaders from a variety of cultures and time periods ranging from 2000 BC to 2000 AD. The list provides a high-level overview of influential individuals from ancient civilizations through modern times.
Name Born Died Age Culture Location Joseph 1782 BC 1672 BC 90 Canaanite Egypt Moses 1391 BC 1271 BC 120 Jewish Egypt Amenemope 1101 BC 992 BC 110 Egypt Solomon 1100 BC 981 BC 120 Israelite Homer 800 BC 700 BC 80 Greek Solon 638 BC 558 BC 80 Greek Ezekiel, Prophet 622 BC 570 BC 52 Israelite Lao-Tzu 571 BC 471 BC 120 Chinese Zhou Confucius 551 BC 479 BC 72 Chinese Zhou Hereclitus 535 BC 475 BC 60 Greek Ionia Pindar 518 BC 438 BC 80 Greek Sophocles 498 BC 406 BC 92 Greek Phidias 490 BC 430 BC 60 Greek Gautama Buddha 483 BC 400 BC 80 Nepalese Socrates 470 BC 399 BC 71 Greek Plato 428 BC 348 BC 80 Greek Lysippos 390 BC 300 BC 90 Greek Aristotle 384 BC 322 BC 62 Greek Cicero 106 BC 43 BC 63 Roman Virgil 70 BC 19 AD 50 Roman Horace 65 BC 8 BC 56 Roman Ovid 43 BC 18 AD 62 Roman Simon the Zealot 7 BC 4 BC 60 Israelite Jesus Christ 4 BC 30 AD 60 Israelite Galilee Peter the Apostle 1 AD 68 AD 66 Israelite Paul the Apostle 5 AD 67 AD 62 Roman Epictetus 55 AD 135 AD 80 Greek Marcus Aurelius 121 AD 180 AD 58 Roman St. Augustine 354 AD 430 AD 75 Roman Algeria (Hippo) Muhammad 570 AD 632 AD 62 Arabian Mecca Omar Khayyam 1048 AD 1131 AD 83 Persian Milarepa 1052 AD 1135 AD 83 Tibetan Al Ghazali 1058 AD 1111 AD 53 Persian Bernard of Clairvaux 1090 AD 1153 AD 63 French Maimonides 1135 AD 1204 AD 69 Jewish Bahauddin 1148 AD 1231 AD 83 Persian Ibn Arabi 1165 AD 1240 AD 75 Spanish Rumi 1207 AD 1273 AD 66 Persian Meister Eckhart 1260 AD 1326 AD 66 German Dante Alighieri 1265 AD 1321 AD 56 Italian Giotto di Bondone 1266 AD 1337 AD 70 Italian Simone Martini 1284 AD 1344 AD 60 Italian Sienna Francesco Petrarch 1304 AD 1374 AD 70 Italian Hafiz 1325 AD 1389 AD 64 Persian Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 AD 1400 AD 57 English Andrei Rublev 1360 AD 1427 AD 64 Russian Moscow Donatello 1386 AD 1466 AD 80 Italian Florence Jan van Eyck 1390 AD 1441 AD 51 Flemish Fra Angelico 1395 AD 1455 AD 60 Italian Kabir 1398 AD 1518 AD 120 Indian Petrus Christus 1410 AD 1475 AD 62 Flemish Bruges Giovanni Bellini 1430 AD 1516 AD 83 Italian Venice Leonardo da Vinci 1452 AD 1519 AD 67 Italian Titian 1490 AD 1576 AD 86 Italian Venice Dosso Dossi 1490 AD 1542 AD 52 Italian Jacopo Pontormo 1494 AD 1557 AD 62 Italian Florence Paolo Veronese 1528 AD 1588 AD 60 Italian Venice Queen Elizabeth I 1533 AD 1603 AD 69 English Michel de Montaigne 1533 AD 1592 AD 59 French Guyenne Miguel de Cervantes 1547 AD 1616 AD 68 Spanish William Shakespeare 1564 AD 1616 AD 52 English Peter Paul Rubens 1577 AD 1640 AD 62 Flemish Diego Velazquez 1599 AD 1660 AD 61 Spanish Rembrandt van Rijn 1606 AD 1669 AD 63 Dutch John Milton 1608 AD 1674 AD 65 English Molière 1622 AD 1673 AD 51 French Paris Antonio Vivaldi 1678 AD 1741 AD 63 Italian Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 AD 1750 AD 65 German Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin 1699 AD 1779 AD 80 French Benjamin Franklin 1706 AD 1790 AD 84 American Jean-Antoine Houdon 1741 AD 1828 AD 87 French Franciso Goya 1746 AD 1828 AD 82 Spanish Johann Goethe 1749 AD 1832 AD 82 German Weimar William Blake 1757 AD 1827 AD 69 English William Wordsworth 1770 AD 1850 AD 80 English Hans Christian Andersen 1805 AD 1875 AD 70 Danish Abraham Lincoln 1809 AD 1865 AD 56 American Walt Whitman 1819 AD 1892 AD 73 American Jean-Léon Gérôme 1824 AD 1904 AD 79 French Paris` Lewis Carroll 1832 AD 1898 AD 65 English Silouan the Athonite 1866 AD 1938 AD 72 Russian Mt Athos George Gurdjieff 1870 AD 1949 AD 83 Russian Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 AD 1926 AD 51 Bohemian - Austrian Peter D. Ouspensky 1878 AD 1947 AD 69 Russian Meher Baba 1894 AD 1969 AD 75 East Indian Rodney Collin 1909 AD 1956 AD 47 English Alexander Francis Horn 1929 AD 2007 AD 78 American Robert Earl Burton 1939 AD 80 American Archangel Gabriel Tanach Guru Nanak 1469 AD 1539 AD 70 Indian Awakened by Quick Reference Lookup BC Adjust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_(Genesis) 1782 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses 1391 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amenemope_(pharaoh) 1101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon 1100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer 800 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon 638 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel 622 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi 571 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius 551 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus 535 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar 518 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles 498 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phidias 490 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha 483 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates 470 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato 428 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysippos 390 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle 384 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero 106 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil 70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace 65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid 43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_the_Zealot 7 Moses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus 4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epictetus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius geria (Hippo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milarepa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_Clairvaux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahauddin_Zakariya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Arabi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giotto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Martini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatello https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Eyck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Christus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Bellini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosso_Dossi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosso_Dossi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontormo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Veronese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England Socrates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes Horace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Velázquez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molière -1622 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Siméon_Chardin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Antoine_Houdon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya Hafiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen Christ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln Homer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman Rembrandt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Léon_Gérôme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silouan_the_Athonite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Collin Milton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Horn Leonardo Da Vinci 0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Nanak
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