Early modern people
2,139 people from early modern, sorted by fame.
Giovanni Battista PergolesiJanuary 4, 1710 – March 16, 1736 · Music
Jacques Bénigne BossuetSeptember 27, 1627 – April 12, 1704 · Culture
Orlande de Lassus1532 – June 14, 1594 · Music
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosOctober 18, 1741 – September 5, 1803 · Technology
Pierre-Louis Moreau de MaupertuisSeptember 28, 1698 – July 27, 1759 · Science
Adam WeishauptFebruary 6, 1748 – November 18, 1830 · Culture
Cao XueqinJuly 12, 1724 – 1763 · Culture
Denis PapinAugust 22, 1647 – August 26, 1713 · Science
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of AberdeenJanuary 28, 1784 – December 14, 1860 · Politics
Johann Friedrich HerbartMay 4, 1776 – August 14, 1841 · Culture
Laura BassiOctober 29, 1711 – February 20, 1778 · Culture
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de VauvenarguesAugust 6, 1715 – May 28, 1747 · Culture
Madeleine de ScudéryNovember 15, 1607 – June 2, 1701 · Culture
Bonaventura Cavalieri1598 – November 30, 1647 · Science
Carl RitterAugust 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859 · Exploration
John FlamsteedAugust 19, 1646 – December 31, 1719 · Science
Karl Ernst von BaerFebruary 17, 1792 – November 16, 1876 · Exploration
Luigi BoccheriniFebruary 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805 · Music
Mary SomervilleDecember 26, 1780 – November 1872 · Science
Mungo ParkSeptember 11, 1771 – 1806 · Exploration
René LaenneFebruary 17, 1781 – August 13, 1826 · Technology
Richard TrevithickApril 13, 1771 – April 22, 1833 · Exploration
Ruđer Josip BoškovićMay 18, 1711 – February 13, 1787 · Culture
Thomas BrowneOctober 19, 1605 – October 19, 1682 · Culture
William Hyde WollastonAugust 6, 1766 – December 22, 1828 · Science
Alexander RadishchevAugust 20, 1749 – September 12, 1802 · Culture
Angelica KauffmannOctober 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807 · Art
Erasmus DarwinDecember 12, 1731 – April 18, 1802 · Culture
Étienne Bonnot de CondillacSeptember 30, 1714 – August 3, 1780 · Culture
François-André Danican PhilidorSeptember 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795 · Music
George EverestJuly 4, 1790 – December 1, 1866 · Exploration
Giuseppe TartiniApril 8, 1692 – February 26, 1770 · Music
Guido ReniNovember 4, 1575 – August 18, 1642 · Art
Guillaume de l'Hôpital1661 – February 2, 1704 · Science
Henry PelhamSeptember 25, 1694 – March 6, 1754 · Politics
Inigo JonesJuly 15, 1573 – June 21, 1652 · Culture
Isaac BarrowOctober 1630 – May 4, 1677 · Culture
James MillApril 6, 1773 – June 23, 1836 · Culture- Johann Bayer1572 – March 7, 1625 · Science
Sébastien Le Prestre de VaubanMay 1633 – March 30, 1707 · Culture
Spencer PercevalNovember 1, 1762 – May 11, 1812 · Politics
Thomas NewcomenFebruary 28, 1664 – August 5, 1729 · Technology
William HazlittApril 10, 1778 – September 18, 1830 · Culture- Alexander Gottlieb BaumgartenJuly 17, 1714 – May 27, 1762 · Culture
Brook TaylorAugust 18, 1685 – December 29, 1731 · Science
Claude Lorrain1600 – November 23, 1682 · Art
Davy CrockettAugust 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836 · Exploration
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of DerbyMarch 29, 1799 – October 23, 1869 · Politics
Ferdinand von WrangelDecember 29, 1796 – May 25, 1870 · Exploration
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von StruveApril 15, 1793 – November 23, 1864 · Science