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Where well-known writers, scientists, artists and leaders of the past were born, and when they lived. 757 facts.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig in 1646 and died in 1716.
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Ovid was born in Sulmona in 42 BC and died in 17.
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Jane Austen was born in Steventon in 1775 and died in 1817.
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Henry Ford was born in Springwells Township in 1863 and died in 1947.
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Matsuo Bashō was born in Bashō's birth house in 1644 and died in 1694.
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Cicero was born in Arpino in 106 BC and died in 42 BC.
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Frédéric Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola in 1810 and died in 1849.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Brunswick in 1777 and died in 1855.
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Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen in 1820 and died in 1895.
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Paul the Apostle was born in Tarsus in 5 and died in 66.
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Sarah Bernhardt was born in Paris in 1844 and died in 1923.
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Raphael was born in Urbino in 1483 and died in 1520.
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Blaise Pascal was born in birth house of Blaise Pascal in 1623 and died in 1662.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart in 1770 and died in 1831.
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Avicenna was born in Afshona in 980 and died in 1037.
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Alfred Nobel was born in Jakob and Johannes parish in 1833 and died in 1896.
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Theodore Roosevelt was born in Manhattan in 1858 and died in 1919.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk in 1840 and died in 1893.
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Leonhard Euler was born in Basel in 1707 and died in 1783.
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Marcel Proust was born in 16th arrondissement of Paris in 1871 and died in 1922.
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Roald Amundsen was born in Borge Municipality in 1872 and died in 1928.
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Jules Verne was born in Nantes in 1828 and died in 1905.
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Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton in 1856 and died in 1924.
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Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg in 1471 and died in 1528.
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Francisco Goya was born in Fuendetodos in 1746 and died in 1828.
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John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge in 1883 and died in 1946.
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John Adams was born in Braintree in 1735 and died in 1826.
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Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt in 1572 and died in 1630.
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Max Planck was born in Kiel in 1858 and died in 1947.
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Friedrich Schiller was born in Marbach am Neckar in 1759 and died in 1805.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930.
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Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1868 and died in 1936.
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Michael Faraday was born in Newington Butts in 1791 and died in 1867.
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Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk in 1834 and died in 1907.
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Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole in 1813 and died in 1901.
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Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in 1343 and died in 1400.
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Katsushika Hokusai was born in Honjo in 1760 and died in 1849.
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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 and died in 1941.
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Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 and died in 1850.
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James Madison was born in Port Conway in 1751 and died in 1836.
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Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 and died in 180.
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Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen in 1577 and died in 1640.
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Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Gdańsk in 1788 and died in 1860.
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Franz Schubert was born in Himmelpfortgrund in 1797 and died in 1828.
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Ernest Rutherford was born in Spring Grove in 1871 and died in 1937.
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Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts in 1802 and died in 1870.
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Hernán Cortés was born in Medellín in 1485 and died in 1547.
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Max Weber was born in Erfurt in 1864 and died in 1920.
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Søren Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen in 1813 and died in 1855.
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Henrik Ibsen was born in Stockmanngården in 1828 and died in 1906.
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Horace was born in Venosa in 64 BC and died in 7 BC.
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H. G. Wells was born in Bromley in 1866 and died in 1946.
Source: Wikipedia: H. G. Wells (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42511 (CC0)
Heinrich Heine was born in Düsseldorf in 1797 and died in 1856.
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Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678 and died in 1741.
Source: Wikipedia: Antonio Vivaldi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1340 (CC0)
Diego Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599 and died in 1660.
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Émile Zola was born in rue Saint-Joseph in 1840 and died in 1902.
Source: Wikipedia: Émile Zola (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q504 (CC0)
Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in 1406.
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Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304 and died in 1368.
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John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree in 1767 and died in 1848.
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David Hilbert was born in Kaliningrad in 1862 and died in 1943.
Source: Wikipedia: David Hilbert (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41585 (CC0)