Early modern people
2,139 people from early modern, sorted by fame.
Gotthold Ephraim LessingJanuary 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781 · Culture
Jeremy BenthamFebruary 15, 1748 – June 6, 1832 · Culture
Marquis de SadeJune 2, 1740 – December 2, 1814 · Culture
Anne Boleyn1501 – May 19, 1536 · Music
Alexander HamiltonJanuary 11, 1757 – July 12, 1804 · Culture
Joseph-Louis LagrangeJanuary 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813 · Science
Abel Tasman1603 – October 10, 1659 · Exploration
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonMay 1, 1769 – September 14, 1852 · Politics
Georg Simon OhmMarch 16, 1789 – July 6, 1854 · Science
Niccolò PaganiniOctober 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840 · Music
Robert HookeJuly 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703 · Technology
Humphry DavyDecember 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829 · Technology
Johann Gottfried HerderAugust 25, 1744 – December 18, 1803 · Culture
Charles-Augustin de CoulombJune 14, 1736 – August 23, 1806 · Science
Nikolai Ivanovich LobachevskyNovember 20, 1792 – February 12, 1856 · Science
Anders CelsiusNovember 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744 · Technology
Edmond HalleyNovember 8, 1656 – January 25, 1742 · Science
Hans Christian ØrstedAugust 14, 1777 – March 9, 1851 · Technology
Amedeo AvogadroAugust 9, 1776 – July 9, 1856 · Science
David RicardoApril 18, 1772 – September 11, 1823 · Culture
Gregory XVISeptember 18, 1765 – June 1, 1846 · World History
John Amos ComeniusMarch 28, 1592 – November 15, 1670 · Culture
Samuel Finley Breese MorseApril 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872 · Technology
Wilhelm von HumboldtJune 22, 1767 – April 8, 1835 · Culture
Friedrich HölderlinMarch 20, 1770 – June 7, 1843 · Culture
Isabelle de CharrièreOctober 20, 1740 – December 27, 1805 · Culture
Pius VIIAugust 14, 1742 – August 20, 1823 · World History
Gregory XIIIJanuary 1, 1502 – April 10, 1585 · World History
Hugo GrotiusApril 10, 1583 – August 28, 1645 · Culture
Jacques-Louis DavidAugust 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825 · Art
Evangelista TorricelliOctober 15, 1608 – October 25, 1647 · Technology
Joseph PriestleyMarch 13, 1733 – February 6, 1804 · Technology
E. T. A. HoffmannJanuary 24, 1776 – 1822 · Art
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph SchellingJanuary 27, 1775 – August 20, 1854 · Culture
Pieter Brueghel the Eldercirca 1525 – September 9, 1569 · Art
Benedict XIVMarch 31, 1675 – May 3, 1758 · World History
Caspar David FriedrichSeptember 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840 · Art
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonSeptember 7, 1707 – April 1788 · Science
Germaine de StaëlApril 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817 · Culture
Nicolas PoussinJune 1594 – November 19, 1665 · Art
Pius VJanuary 17, 1504 – May 1, 1572 · World History
Thomas YoungJune 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829 · Science
Henry CavendishOctober 10, 1731 – February 24, 1810 · Science
Pius VIDecember 25, 1717 – August 29, 1799 · World History
Pius VIIINovember 20, 1761 – November 30, 1830 · World History
Robert WalpoleAugust 26, 1676 – March 18, 1745 · Politics
Urban VIIIApril 5, 1568 – July 29, 1644 · World History
Daniel BernoulliFebruary 8, 1700 – March 17, 1782 · Science
Francis XavierApril 7, 1506 – December 3, 1552 · Exploration
Giorgio VasariJuly 30, 1511 – June 27, 1574 · Culture