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Where well-known writers, scientists, artists and leaders of the past were born, and when they lived. 757 facts.
Federico García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros in 1898 and died in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: Federico García Lorca (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41408 (CC0)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Horsham in 1792 and died in 1822.
Source: Wikipedia: Percy Bysshe Shelley (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q93343 (CC0)
Mikhail Bakunin was born in Priamukhino in 1814 and died in 1876.
Source: Wikipedia: Mikhail Bakunin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q27645 (CC0)
Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769 and died in 1859.
Source: Wikipedia: Alexander von Humboldt (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q6694 (CC0)
William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1770 and died in 1850.
Source: Wikipedia: William Wordsworth (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q45546 (CC0)
L. L. Zamenhof was born in Białystok in 1859 and died in 1917.
Source: Wikipedia: L. L. Zamenhof (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11758 (CC0)
Romain Rolland was born in Clamecy in 1866 and died in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Romain Rolland (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47162 (CC0)
Michel de Montaigne was born in Château de Montaigne in 1533 and died in 1592.
Source: Wikipedia: Michel de Montaigne (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41568 (CC0)
Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1839 and died in 1906.
Source: Wikipedia: Paul Cézanne (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q35548 (CC0)
Francis of Assisi was born in Assisi in 1182 and died in 1226.
Source: Wikipedia: Francis of Assisi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q676555 (CC0)
Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771 and died in 1832.
Source: Wikipedia: Walter Scott (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q79025 (CC0)
Henryk Sienkiewicz was born in Wola Okrzejska in 1846 and died in 1916.
Source: Wikipedia: Henryk Sienkiewicz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41502 (CC0)
Taras Shevchenko was born in Moryntsi in 1814 and died in 1861.
Source: Wikipedia: Taras Shevchenko (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q134958 (CC0)
Ptolemy was born in Ptolemais Hermiou in 100 and died in 170.
Source: Wikipedia: Ptolemy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q34943 (CC0)
Mimar Sinan was born in Ağırnas in 1490 and died in 1588.
Source: Wikipedia: Mimar Sinan (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5600 (CC0)
Du Fu was born in Gongyi in 712 and died in 770.
Source: Wikipedia: Du Fu (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q33772 (CC0)
George Eliot was born in Nuneaton in 1819 and died in 1880.
Source: Wikipedia: George Eliot (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131333 (CC0)
Henri Bergson was born in Paris in 1859 and died in 1941.
Source: Wikipedia: Henri Bergson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42156 (CC0)
George Sand was born in former 6th arrondissement of Paris in 1804 and died in 1876.
Source: Wikipedia: George Sand (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q3816 (CC0)
James Prescott Joule was born in Salford in 1818 and died in 1889.
Source: Wikipedia: James Prescott Joule (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q8962 (CC0)
Stendhal was born in Grenoble in 1783 and died in 1842.
Source: Wikipedia: Stendhal (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q502 (CC0)
Benjamin Harrison was born in North Bend in 1833 and died in 1901.
Source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Harrison (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q35678 (CC0)
Hector Berlioz was born in La Côte-Saint-André in 1803 and died in 1869.
Source: Wikipedia: Hector Berlioz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1151 (CC0)
Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton in 1816 and died in 1855.
Source: Wikipedia: Charlotte Brontë (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q127332 (CC0)
John Calvin was born in Noyon in 1509 and died in 1564.
Source: Wikipedia: John Calvin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q37577 (CC0)
Thomas Paine was born in Thetford in 1737 and died in 1809.
Source: Wikipedia: Thomas Paine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q126462 (CC0)
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 and died in 1903.
Source: Wikipedia: Paul Gauguin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q37693 (CC0)
Gregor Mendel was born in Hynčice in 1822 and died in 1884.
Source: Wikipedia: Gregor Mendel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q37970 (CC0)
Luigi Pirandello was born in Agrigento in 1867 and died in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: Luigi Pirandello (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1403 (CC0)
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and died in 1926.
Source: Wikipedia: Rainer Maria Rilke (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q76483 (CC0)
Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield in 1709 and died in 1784.
Source: Wikipedia: Samuel Johnson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q183266 (CC0)
François Rabelais was born in Seuilly in 1494 and died in 1553.
Source: Wikipedia: François Rabelais (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131018 (CC0)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born in Montauban in 1780 and died in 1867.
Source: Wikipedia: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q23380 (CC0)
Ada Lovelace was born in London in 1815 and died in 1852.
Source: Wikipedia: Ada Lovelace (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q7259 (CC0)
Joseph Fourier was born in Auxerre in 1768 and died in 1830.
Source: Wikipedia: Joseph Fourier (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q8772 (CC0)
Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier in 1798 and died in 1857.
Source: Wikipedia: Auguste Comte (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q12718 (CC0)
Mary Shelley was born in Somers Town in 1797 and died in 1851.
Source: Wikipedia: Mary Shelley (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47152 (CC0)
Thomas More was born in London in 1478 and died in 1535.
Source: Wikipedia: Thomas More (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42544 (CC0)
Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice in 1807 and died in 1882.
Source: Wikipedia: Giuseppe Garibaldi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q539 (CC0)
Thucydides was born in Halimous in 460 BC and died in 394 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Thucydides (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41683 (CC0)
Maurice Maeterlinck was born in Ghent in 1862 and died in 1949.
Source: Wikipedia: Maurice Maeterlinck (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q49747 (CC0)
Herman Melville was born in Manhattan in 1819 and died in 1891.
Source: Wikipedia: Herman Melville (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q4985 (CC0)
Robert Schumann was born in Zwickau in 1810 and died in 1856.
Source: Wikipedia: Robert Schumann (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q7351 (CC0)
Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1862 and died in 1918.
Source: Wikipedia: Claude Debussy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q4700 (CC0)
Auguste Rodin was born in Paris in 1840 and died in 1917.
Source: Wikipedia: Auguste Rodin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q30755 (CC0)
Henri Poincaré was born in Nancy in 1854 and died in 1912.
Source: Wikipedia: Henri Poincaré (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81082 (CC0)
Averroes was born in Córdoba in 1126 and died in 1198.
Source: Wikipedia: Averroes (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q39837 (CC0)
Antoni Gaudí was born in Reus in 1852 and died in 1926.
Source: Wikipedia: Antoni Gaudí (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q25328 (CC0)
Emily Brontë was born in The Brontë Birthplace in 1818 and died in 1848.
Source: Wikipedia: Emily Brontë (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q80137 (CC0)
Wilhelm II was born in Kronprinzenpalais in 1859 and died in 1941.
Source: Wikipedia: Wilhelm II (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q2677 (CC0)
Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna in 1874 and died in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: Guglielmo Marconi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q36488 (CC0)
Adam Mickiewicz was born in Zavosse in 1798 and died in 1855.
Source: Wikipedia: Adam Mickiewicz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q79822 (CC0)
Joseph Conrad was born in Terekhove in 1857 and died in 1924.
Source: Wikipedia: Joseph Conrad (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q82925 (CC0)
Zhu Xi was born in Youxi County in 1130 and died in 1200.
Source: Wikipedia: Zhu Xi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q9397 (CC0)
Antoine Lavoisier was born in Paris in 1743 and died in 1794.
Source: Wikipedia: Antoine Lavoisier (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q39607 (CC0)
Ferdowsi was born in Tus in 940 and died in 1020.
Source: Wikipedia: Ferdowsi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q43459 (CC0)
Abu Bakr was born in Mecca in 573 and died in 634.
Source: Wikipedia: Abu Bakr (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q334923 (CC0)
Titus Livius was born in Patavium in 58 BC and died in 17.
Source: Wikipedia: Livy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q2039 (CC0)
Mikhail Lermontov was born in Moscow in 1814 and died in 1841.
Source: Wikipedia: Mikhail Lermontov (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q46599 (CC0)
Lu Xun was born in Shaoxing in 1881 and died in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: Lu Xun (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q23114 (CC0)