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1,666 profilesHayreddin Barbarossa
c. 1478 – 4 July 1546
Hayreddin Barbarossa (c. 1478-1546) was an Ottoman corsair and later grand admiral (Kapudan Pasha) of the Ottoman navy....
Hedy Lamarr
9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000
Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who was a prominent film star during Hollywood's golden age. T...
Heinrich Hertz
22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively demonstrated the existence of the electr...
Heitor Villa-Lobos
5 March 1887 – 17 November 1959
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, conductor and educator, considered the most significant creative figure in...
Helen Frankenthaler
12 December 1928 – 27 December 2011
Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter and a major contributor to postwar American art. She...
Helen Keller
27 June 1880 – 1 June 1968
American author and activist who, despite losing her sight and hearing in infancy, became a world-famous advocate for pe...
Helen Suzman
7 November 1917 – 1 January 2009
Helen Suzman was a South African politician who sat in the House of Assembly from 1953 to 1989. For thirteen years, from...
Helmut Kohl
3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017
Helmut Kohl was a German statesman who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. He is widely regarded as the a...
Helmut Schmidt
23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015
Helmut Schmidt was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party, born in Hamburg in 1918. He served as Minister of...
Henri Cartier-Bresson
22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered a master of candid photography and a pioneer of street photog...
Henri Matisse
31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954
Henri Matisse was a French artist renowned for his use of color and his fluid, original draughtsmanship. A leading figur...
Henri Poincaré
29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher of science, often describe...
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
4 July 1868 – 12 December 1921
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory. Her discovery of the pe...
Henrik Ibsen
20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a Norwegian playwright often called the father of modern drama, whose realist plays such as...
Henry Bessemer
19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898
Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) was an English inventor and engineer best known for the Bessemer process, the first inexp...
Henry Cavendish
10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was a British natural philosopher and experimental chemist and physicist, famous for the dis...
Henry David Thoreau
12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, naturalist and philosopher, a leading figure of Transcendental...
Henry Ford
30 July 1863 – 7 April 1947
American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and revolutionized manufacturing with the moving assembly line...
Henry Hudson
c. 1565 – c. 1611
Henry Hudson was an English navigator who made four voyages in search of a northern passage to Asia. Sailing for the Dut...
Henry Kissinger
27 May 1923 – 29 November 2023
Henry Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat and political scientist who served as U.S. National Security Advisor...
Henry Moore
30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986
Henry Moore was an English sculptor and artist best known for his large-scale abstract bronze sculptures of reclining fi...
Henry Morton Stanley
28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer famed for locating David Livingstone i...
Henry Purcell
c. 1659 – 21 November 1695
Henry Purcell was an English Baroque composer widely regarded as one of the greatest English composers of any era. He se...
Henry the Navigator
4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460
Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) was a Portuguese prince, the fourth son of King John I, who became the central patron of...
Henry V of England
16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422
Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his early death in 1422. One of the great warrior kings of medieval England,...
Henry VIII
28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547
King of England from 1509 to 1547, famous for his six marriages and for breaking with the Roman Catholic Church to found...
Herbert Spencer
27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist who developed an all-embraci...
Herbert von Karajan
5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989
Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor who led the Berlin Philharmonic for over three decades and was one of the...
Herbie Hancock
12 April 1940 – present
Herbie Hancock (born 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist and composer. A member of the Miles Davis Quintet in...
Herman Boerhaave
31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch physician, botanist, and chemist regarded as the founder of modern clinical teaching, instr...
Hermann von Helmholtz
31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German physicist and physician who made landmark contributions to physiology, op...
Hernán Cortés
1485 – 2 December 1547
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that brought about the fall of the Aztec Emp...
Hibari Misora
29 May 1937 – 24 June 1989
Hibari Misora was a Japanese singer and actress who became one of the most widely recorded performers in Japanese popula...
Hicham El Guerrouj
14 September 1974 – present
Hicham El Guerrouj is a Moroccan former middle-distance runner. He holds the world records for the 1500 metres and the m...
Hidayet Türkoğlu
19 March 1979 – present
Hidayet Türkoğlu is a Turkish former professional basketball player and sports administrator. After beginning his career...
Hideki Yukawa
23 January 1907 – 8 September 1981
Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the meson as the carrier o...
Hieronymus Bosch
c. 1450 – August 1516
Hieronymus Bosch was a Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch in the Duchy of Brabant, famed for his fantastic, densely pop...
Higuchi Ichiyō
2 May 1872 – 23 November 1896
Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896) was a Japanese writer of the Meiji period, regarded as the first prominent woman writer of mo...
Hildegard of Bingen
c. 1098 – 17 September 1179
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a German Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer, and polymath, one of the most remarka...
Hillary Clinton
26 October 1947 – present
Hillary Clinton is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat who served as First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)...
Ho Chi Minh
19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969
Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the move...
Homai Vyarawalla
9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012
Homai Vyarawalla was India's first woman press photographer, active from the late 1930s. Working under the pseudonym 'Da...
Homi J. Bhabha
30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909-1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist widely regarded as the father of the Indian nuclear pro...
Hong Xiuquan
1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864
Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864) was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion, one of the deadliest conflicts in history, which convu...
Hongwu Emperor
21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398
The Hongwu Emperor (1328-1398), born Zhu Yuanzhang, rose from famine-stricken peasant orphan and mendicant monk to found...
Honoré de Balzac
20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright, a founder of literary realism. His vast interconnecte...
Hossein Rezazadeh
12 May 1978 – present
Hossein Rezazadeh is an Iranian former weightlifter who competed in the super-heavyweight class. He won Olympic gold med...
Howard Florey
24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968
Howard Florey was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that turned penicillin into a usa...