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1,666 profilesAssia Djebar
30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015
Assia Djebar was the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker who wrote in Fren...
Astor Piazzolla
11 March 1921 – 4 July 1992
Astor Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger who revolutionized the traditional tango...
Astrid Lindgren
14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002
Astrid Lindgren was a Swedish writer of children's books whose works have been translated into more than a hundred langu...
Atahualpa
c. 1502 – 26 July 1533
Atahualpa (c. 1502 - 1533) was the last sovereign emperor of the Inca Empire. He won the Inca civil war against his half...
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as Prime Minister of India: for 13 days...
Athol Fugard
11 June 1932 – 8 March 2025
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director whose work examined life under apa...
Audrey Hepburn
4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993
British actress and humanitarian, star of Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's, who devoted her later years to UNICE...
Auguste Comte
19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) was a French philosopher who founded positivism and is often called the father of sociology, a...
Auguste Rodin
12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. Departing from aca...
Augusto Pinochet
25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006
Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean army officer who led the military coup of 11 September 1973 that overthrew President Salv...
Aung San
13 February 1915 – 19 July 1947
Aung San was a Burmese revolutionary and statesman regarded as the father of modern Burma. He founded the Burmese army a...
Aung San Suu Kyi
19 June 1945 – present
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and daughter of independence hero Aung San who led the pro-democracy movement a...
Aurangzeb
3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707
Aurangzeb (1618-1707) was the sixth Mughal emperor, ruling from 1658 until his death in 1707, during which the empire re...
Averroes
14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) was an Andalusian polymath, philosopher, jurist, and physician from Cordoba who served the Almohad...
Aziz Sancar
8 September 1946 – present
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American molecular biologist whose research established mechanisms by which cells repair damage...
Azzedine Alaïa
1935 – 18 November 2017
Azzedine Alaïa was a Tunisian-born fashion designer who worked in Paris from the late 1950s. Trained in sculpture, he bu...
B. R. Ambedkar
14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer who chaired the drafting committee of the Co...
B.B. King
16 September 1925 – 14 May 2015
B.B. King was an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter known as 'The King of the Blues'. His expressive vibra...
Ba Jin
25 November 1904 – 17 October 2005
Ba Jin was the pen name of Li Yaotang, a Chinese novelist, essayist and translator born in Chengdu. He became one of the...
Baal Shem Tov
c. 1698 – 22 May 1760
Israel ben Eliezer (c. 1698-1760), known as the Baal Shem Tov ('Master of the Good Name'), was a Jewish mystic and heale...
Babur
14 February 1483 – 26 December 1530
Babur (1483-1530) was a Timurid prince from Central Asia who founded the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. A des...
Baibars
c. 1223 – 1 July 1277
Baibars (al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari) was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria and one of...
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and independence activist who was among the first leaders of the...
Barack Obama
4 August 1961 – present
The 44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office, serving two terms from 2009 t...
Barbara Hepworth
10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975
Dame Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor, one of the leading figures of twentieth-century abstract art....
Barbara McClintock
16 June 1902 – 2 September 1992
Barbara McClintock was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicin...
Bartolomé de las Casas
c. 1484 – 18 July 1566
Bartolomé de las Casas (c. 1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas...
Bartolomeu Dias
c. 1450 – 29 May 1500
Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) was a Portuguese navigator who in 1488 became the first European known to have sailed aro...
Baruch Spinoza
24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin and one of the foremost rationalist think...
Basava
c. 1131 – c. 1167
Basava (also Basavanna, c. 1131 - c. 1167) was a 12th-century Kannada poet, philosopher, and social reformer who served...
Bayard Rustin
17 March 1912 – 24 August 1987
Bayard Rustin was an American civil rights activist and strategist who was a leading advocate of nonviolent resistance....
Bayinnaung
16 January 1516 – 10 October 1581
Bayinnaung (1516-1581) was king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma and one of the most powerful rulers in Southeast Asian h...
Béla Bartók
25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist, considered one of the most important composers of t...
Ben Enwonwu
14 July 1917 – 5 February 1994
Ben Enwonwu was a Nigerian painter and sculptor considered a pioneer of African modernism. Blending European academic tr...
Ben Okri
15 March 1959 – present
Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist whose fiction blends realist narrative with myth and dream. He won...
Benazir Bhutto
21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served twice as Prime Minister of Pakistan and was the first woman to head...
Benigno Aquino Jr.
27 November 1932 – 21 August 1983
Benigno Aquino Jr. was a Filipino politician who served as mayor of Concepcion, governor of Tarlac and a senator, and be...
Benito Juárez
21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872
Benito Juárez was a Mexican liberal statesman of Zapotec origin who served as president of Mexico from 1858 until his de...
Benito Mussolini
29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945
Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded Italian Fascism and ruled Italy as prime minister...
Benjamin Britten
22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976
Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist, a central figure of 20th-century British classical musi...
Benjamin Disraeli
21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was a British statesman and novelist who twice served as Prime Minister of the United King...
Benjamin Franklin
17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790
American polymath, printer, scientist, and statesman who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and made pioneerin...
Benjamin Netanyahu
21 October 1949 – present
Benjamin Netanyahu is an Israeli politician who has served as Prime Minister of Israel across multiple terms since 1996,...
Benoit Mandelbrot
20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010
Benoit Mandelbrot was a Polish-born French-American mathematician best known for developing the field of fractal geometr...
Bernard Arnault
5 March 1949 – present
Bernard Arnault is a French businessman who has been chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, t...
Bernard of Clairvaux
1090 – 20 August 1153
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a French Cistercian abbot, mystic, and one of the most influential churchmen of the...
Bernhard Riemann
17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician whose work in analysis, number theory, and differential geometry...
Bertolt Brecht
10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956
Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, poet, and theatre director who became one of the most influential dramatists of...