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Where well-known writers, scientists, artists and leaders of the past were born, and when they lived. 757 facts.
Bede was born in Jarrow in 672 and died in 735.
Source: Wikipedia: Bede (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q154938 (CC0)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born in Folkärna in 1864 and died in 1931.
Source: Wikipedia: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q134641 (CC0)
Christina of Sweden was born in Stockholm in 1626 and died in 1689.
Source: Wikipedia: Christina, Queen of Sweden (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q52937 (CC0)
Jan van Eyck was born in Maaseik in 1390 and died in 1441.
Source: Wikipedia: Jan van Eyck (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q102272 (CC0)
Hermann von Helmholtz was born in Potsdam in 1821 and died in 1894.
Source: Wikipedia: Hermann von Helmholtz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q60024 (CC0)
Christopher Wren was born in East Knoyle in 1632 and died in 1723.
Source: Wikipedia: Christopher Wren (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q170373 (CC0)
Karl Weierstraß was born in Ostenfelde in 1815 and died in 1897.
Source: Wikipedia: Karl Weierstrass (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q57103 (CC0)
Karl Landsteiner was born in Baden in 1868 and died in 1943.
Source: Wikipedia: Karl Landsteiner (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q84405 (CC0)
Paul Ehrlich was born in Strzelin in 1854 and died in 1915.
Source: Wikipedia: Paul Ehrlich (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q57089 (CC0)
Fyodor Tyutchev was born in Ovstug in 1803 and died in 1873.
Source: Wikipedia: Fyodor Tyutchev (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q37217 (CC0)
Petronius was born in Massilia in 27 and died in 66.
Source: Wikipedia: Petronius (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47180 (CC0)
Ivan Franko was born in Nahuievychi in 1856 and died in 1916.
Source: Wikipedia: Ivan Franko (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q332462 (CC0)
Lorenzo de' Medici was born in Florence in 1449 and died in 1492.
Source: Wikipedia: Lorenzo de' Medici (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q177854 (CC0)
Jami was born in Khargerd in 1414 and died in 1492.
Source: Wikipedia: Jami (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q312458 (CC0)
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898 and died in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: George Gershwin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q123829 (CC0)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London in 1828 and died in 1882.
Source: Wikipedia: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q186748 (CC0)
Rudolf Steiner was born in Donji Kraljevec in 1861 and died in 1925.
Source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Steiner (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q78484 (CC0)
Jacopo Tintoretto was born in Venice in 1519 and died in 1594.
Source: Wikipedia: Tintoretto (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q9319 (CC0)
Kazimir Malevich was born in Kyiv in 1879 and died in 1935.
Source: Wikipedia: Kazimir Malevich (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q130777 (CC0)
Gustave Le Bon was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou in 1841 and died in 1931.
Source: Wikipedia: Gustave Le Bon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q294572 (CC0)
John Napier was born in Merchiston Tower in 1550 and died in 1617.
Source: Wikipedia: John Napier (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q159592 (CC0)
Justus von Liebig was born in Darmstadt in 1803 and died in 1873.
Source: Wikipedia: Justus von Liebig (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q16571 (CC0)
G.H. Hardy was born in Cranleigh in 1877 and died in 1947.
Source: Wikipedia: G. H. Hardy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q184337 (CC0)
Hipparchus was born in Nicaea in 189 BC and died in 119 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Hipparchus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q159905 (CC0)
Bayezid I was born in Edirne in 1354 and died in 1403.
Source: Wikipedia: Bayezid I (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q128358 (CC0)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was born in Paris in 1636 and died in 1711.
Source: Wikipedia: Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q188857 (CC0)
Nikolay Karamzin was born in Karamzinka in 1766 and died in 1826.
Source: Wikipedia: Nikolay Karamzin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q191598 (CC0)
Erik Satie was born in Honfleur in 1866 and died in 1925.
Source: Wikipedia: Erik Satie (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q187192 (CC0)
Anthony van Dyck was born in Antwerp in 1599 and died in 1641.
Source: Wikipedia: Anthony van Dyck (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q150679 (CC0)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy was born in Paris in 1789 and died in 1857.
Source: Wikipedia: Augustin-Louis Cauchy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q8814 (CC0)
Walther Hermann Nernst was born in Wąbrzeźno in 1864 and died in 1941.
Source: Wikipedia: Walther Nernst (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q57125 (CC0)
Vilfredo Pareto was born in Paris in 1848 and died in 1923.
Source: Wikipedia: Vilfredo Pareto (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11031 (CC0)
France Prešeren was born in Vrba in 1800 and died in 1849.
Source: Wikipedia: France Prešeren (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1031 (CC0)
Arthur Schnitzler was born in Vienna in 1862 and died in 1931.
Source: Wikipedia: Arthur Schnitzler (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q44331 (CC0)
Damasus I was born in Egitania in 305 and died in 384.
Source: Wikipedia: Pope Damasus I (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q130997 (CC0)
Lucan was born in Corduba in 39 and died in 65.
Source: Wikipedia: Lucan (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q188646 (CC0)
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny in 1874 and died in 1946.
Source: Wikipedia: Gertrude Stein (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q188385 (CC0)
Louis Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis in 1787 and died in 1851.
Source: Wikipedia: Louis Daguerre (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131405 (CC0)
Robert H. Goddard was born in Worcester in 1882 and died in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Robert H. Goddard (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q182546 (CC0)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was born in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in 1778 and died in 1850.
Source: Wikipedia: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q153185 (CC0)
William Rowan Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1805 and died in 1865.
Source: Wikipedia: William Rowan Hamilton (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11887 (CC0)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born in Gdańsk in 1686 and died in 1736.
Source: Wikipedia: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q57073 (CC0)
Nicholas of Cusa was born in Bernkastel-Kues in 1401 and died in 1464.
Source: Wikipedia: Nicholas of Cusa (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q154751 (CC0)
Ismail I was born in Ardabil in 1487 and died in 1524.
Source: Wikipedia: Ismail I (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q214559 (CC0)
Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī was born in Bukhara in 810 and died in 870.
Source: Wikipedia: Muhammad al-Bukhari (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q241026 (CC0)
Francisco Quevedo was born in Madrid in 1584 and died in 1645.
Source: Wikipedia: Francisco de Quevedo (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q201315 (CC0)
Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig in 1819 and died in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: Clara Schumann (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q132232 (CC0)
Carl Maria von Weber was born in Eutin in 1786 and died in 1826.
Source: Wikipedia: Carl Maria von Weber (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q154812 (CC0)
William Hogarth was born in London in 1697 and died in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: William Hogarth (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q171344 (CC0)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in Ober-Ramstadt in 1742 and died in 1799.
Source: Wikipedia: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q57554 (CC0)
Christian Dopplerr was born in Salzburg in 1803 and died in 1853.
Source: Wikipedia: Christian Doppler (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q84284 (CC0)
Baron d'Holbach was born in Edesheim in 1723 and died in 1789.
Source: Wikipedia: Baron d'Holbach (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q7104 (CC0)
Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal in 1797 and died in 1869.
Source: Wikipedia: Ghalib (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q107000 (CC0)
Anacreon was born in Teos in 569 BC and died in 484 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Anacreon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q213484 (CC0)
John of the Cross was born in Fontiveros in 1542 and died in 1591.
Source: Wikipedia: John of the Cross (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q190388 (CC0)
Oliver Goldsmith was born in Elphin in 1728 and died in 1774.
Source: Wikipedia: Oliver Goldsmith (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q236236 (CC0)
Christoph Willibald von Gluck was born in Erasbach in 1714 and died in 1787.
Source: Wikipedia: Christoph Willibald Gluck (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q130759 (CC0)
Francisco de Zurbarán was born in Fuente de Cantos in 1598 and died in 1664.
Source: Wikipedia: Francisco de Zurbarán (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q209615 (CC0)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was born in Seville in 1617 and died in 1682.
Source: Wikipedia: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q192062 (CC0)
Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges in 1841 and died in 1895.
Source: Wikipedia: Berthe Morisot (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q105320 (CC0)