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Where well-known writers, scientists, artists and leaders of the past were born, and when they lived. 757 facts.
Napoleon III was born in Paris in 1808 and died in 1873.
Source: Wikipedia: Napoleon III (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q7721 (CC0)
Franz Liszt was born in Raiding in 1811 and died in 1886.
Source: Wikipedia: Franz Liszt (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41309 (CC0)
Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge in 1749 and died in 1827.
Source: Wikipedia: Pierre-Simon Laplace (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q44481 (CC0)
Hesiod was born in Cyme in 775 BC and died in 700 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Hesiod (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q44233 (CC0)
Pliny the Elder was born in Novum Comum in 20 and died in 79.
Source: Wikipedia: Pliny the Elder (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q82778 (CC0)
Antonio Gramsci was born in Ales in 1891 and died in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: Antonio Gramsci (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q83003 (CC0)
Brahmagupta was born in Bhinmal in 598 and died in 670.
Source: Wikipedia: Brahmagupta (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q202943 (CC0)
Fibonacci was born in Pisa in 1170 and died in 1240.
Source: Wikipedia: Fibonacci (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q8763 (CC0)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was born in Kvikne in 1832 and died in 1910.
Source: Wikipedia: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q46405 (CC0)
Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881 and died in 1942.
Source: Wikipedia: Stefan Zweig (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q78491 (CC0)
Theodor Mommsen was born in Garding in 1817 and died in 1903.
Source: Wikipedia: Theodor Mommsen (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q25351 (CC0)
Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas in 1869 and died in 1940.
Source: Wikipedia: Emma Goldman (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q79969 (CC0)
Robert Koch was born in Clausthal in 1843 and died in 1910.
Source: Wikipedia: Robert Koch (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q37193 (CC0)
Lucretius was born in Pompeii in 93 BC and died in 54 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Lucretius (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47154 (CC0)
Lope de Vega was born in Madrid in 1562 and died in 1635.
Source: Wikipedia: Lope de Vega (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q165257 (CC0)
William James was born in Astor House in 1842 and died in 1910.
Source: Wikipedia: William James (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q125249 (CC0)
Frederick II of Prussia was born in Berlin in 1712 and died in 1786.
Source: Wikipedia: Frederick the Great (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q33550 (CC0)
Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809 and died in 1847.
Source: Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q46096 (CC0)
Ivan Pavlov was born in Ryazan in 1849 and died in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: Ivan Pavlov (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42985 (CC0)
Sully Prudhomme was born in 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris in 1839 and died in 1907.
Source: Wikipedia: Sully Prudhomme (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42247 (CC0)
Frédéric Mistral was born in Maillane in 1830 and died in 1914.
Source: Wikipedia: Frédéric Mistral (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q42596 (CC0)
Robert Burns was born in Alloway in 1759 and died in 1796.
Source: Wikipedia: Robert Burns (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81960 (CC0)
Edmund Burke was born in Dublin in 1729 and died in 1797.
Source: Wikipedia: Edmund Burke (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q165792 (CC0)
Tycho Brahe was born in Knutstorp Castle in 1546 and died in 1601.
Source: Wikipedia: Tycho Brahe (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q36620 (CC0)
Giosuè Carducci was born in Valdicastello Carducci in 1835 and died in 1907.
Source: Wikipedia: Giosuè Carducci (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q43440 (CC0)
Gerhart Hauptmann was born in Szczawno-Zdrój in 1862 and died in 1946.
Source: Wikipedia: Gerhart Hauptmann (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q43523 (CC0)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary in 1772 and died in 1834.
Source: Wikipedia: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q82409 (CC0)
Eugène Delacroix was born in Saint-Maurice in 1798 and died in 1863.
Source: Wikipedia: Eugène Delacroix (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q33477 (CC0)
Nostradamus was born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1503 and died in 1566.
Source: Wikipedia: Nostradamus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q39978 (CC0)
Mehmed II was born in Edirne in 1432 and died in 1481.
Source: Wikipedia: Mehmed II (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q34503 (CC0)
Alexander Pope was born in London in 1688 and died in 1744.
Source: Wikipedia: Alexander Pope (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q164047 (CC0)
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul in 1896 and died in 1940.
Source: Wikipedia: F. Scott Fitzgerald (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q93354 (CC0)
Christiaan Huygens was born in The Hague in 1629 and died in 1695.
Source: Wikipedia: Christiaan Huygens (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q39599 (CC0)
Catullus was born in Verona in 83 BC and died in 53 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Catullus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q163079 (CC0)
John Galsworthy was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1867 and died in 1933.
Source: Wikipedia: John Galsworthy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q82248 (CC0)
Nagarjuna was born in South India in 150 and died in 250.
Source: Wikipedia: Nagarjuna (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q171195 (CC0)
Henry VIII of England was born in Palace of Placentia in 1491 and died in 1547.
Source: Wikipedia: Henry VIII (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q38370 (CC0)
Edvard Munch was born in Ådalsbruk in 1863 and died in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Edvard Munch (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41406 (CC0)
André-Marie Ampère was born in Lyon in 1775 and died in 1836.
Source: Wikipedia: André-Marie Ampère (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q675 (CC0)
Joseph John Thomson was born in Cheetham Hill in 1856 and died in 1940.
Source: Wikipedia: J. J. Thomson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47285 (CC0)
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorchester in 1840 and died in 1928.
Source: Wikipedia: Thomas Hardy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q132805 (CC0)
Grazia Deledda was born in Nuoro in 1871 and died in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: Grazia Deledda (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q7728 (CC0)
Herbert Spencer was born in Derby in 1820 and died in 1903.
Source: Wikipedia: Herbert Spencer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q144535 (CC0)
Thomas Carlyle was born in Ecclefechan in 1795 and died in 1881.
Source: Wikipedia: Thomas Carlyle (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q151403 (CC0)
Jean Racine was born in La Ferté-Milon in 1639 and died in 1699.
Source: Wikipedia: Jean Racine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q742 (CC0)
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield in 1811 and died in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: Harriet Beecher Stowe (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q102513 (CC0)
Saadi was born in Shiraz in 1210 and died in 1292.
Source: Wikipedia: Saadi Shirazi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q170302 (CC0)
Peter Kropotkin was born in Moscow in 1842 and died in 1921.
Source: Wikipedia: Peter Kropotkin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5752 (CC0)
Edgar Degas was born in Paris in 1834 and died in 1917.
Source: Wikipedia: Edgar Degas (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q46373 (CC0)
Paul Verlaine was born in Metz in 1844 and died in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: Paul Verlaine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q755 (CC0)
Sigrid Undset was born in Kalundborg in 1882 and died in 1949.
Source: Wikipedia: Sigrid Undset (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q80889 (CC0)
Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby in 1809 and died in 1892.
Source: Wikipedia: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q173869 (CC0)
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kyiv in 1891 and died in 1940.
Source: Wikipedia: Mikhail Bulgakov (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q835 (CC0)
John Ruskin was born in London in 1819 and died in 1900.
Source: Wikipedia: John Ruskin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q179126 (CC0)
Alessandro Volta was born in Como in 1745 and died in 1827.
Source: Wikipedia: Alessandro Volta (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q680 (CC0)
Hendrik Lorentz was born in Arnhem in 1853 and died in 1928.
Source: Wikipedia: Hendrik Lorentz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41688 (CC0)
Solon was born in Classical Athens in 629 BC and died in 559 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Solon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q133337 (CC0)
G. K. Chesterton was born in Kensington in 1874 and died in 1936.
Source: Wikipedia: G. K. Chesterton (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q183167 (CC0)
H. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence in 1890 and died in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: H. P. Lovecraft (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q169566 (CC0)
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem in 1804 and died in 1864.
Source: Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q69339 (CC0)