Jesus Christ
[ranking: 1]
Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity, whom the teachings of most Christian denominations hold to be the Son of God.
Leonardo da Vinci
[ranking: 2]
Dec. at 67 (1452-1519) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.
Nikola Tesla
[ranking: 3]
Dec. at 87 (1856-1943) Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current...
William Shakespeare
[ranking: 4]
Dec. at 52 (1564-1616) William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
Albert Einstein
[ranking: 5]
Dec. at 76 (1879-1955) Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
[ranking: 6]
Dec. at 39 (1929-1968) Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr., January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
Aristotle
[ranking: 7]
Dec. at 62 (383 BC-321 BC) Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece.
Abraham Lincoln
[ranking: 8]
Dec. at 56 (1809-1865) Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his life was taken in April 1865.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[ranking: 9]
Dec. at 35 (1756-1791) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.
John F. Kennedy
[ranking: 10]
Dec. at 46 (1917-1963) John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States.
Benjamin Franklin
[ranking: 11]
Dec. at 84 (1706-1790) Benjamin Franklin FRS was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Marie Curie
[ranking: 12]
Dec. at 67 (1867-1934) Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Ludwig van Beethoven
[ranking: 13]
Dec. at 57 (1770-1827) Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist.
Mahatma Gandhi
[ranking: 14]
Dec. at 79 (1869-1948) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.
George Washington
[ranking: 15]
Dec. at 67 (1732-1799) George Washington was the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Johann Sebastian Bach
[ranking: 16]
Dec. at 65 (1685-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period.
Theodore Roosevelt
[ranking: 17]
Dec. at 61 (1858-1919) Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt Jr. was an American politician, author, naturalist, soldier, explorer, and historian who served as the 26th President of the United States.
Alan Turing
[ranking: 18]
Dec. at 42 (1912-1954) Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
Florence Nightingale
[ranking: 19]
Dec. at 90 (1820-1910) Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
Buddha
[ranking: 20]
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
Thomas Jefferson
[ranking: 21]
Dec. at 83 (1743-1826) Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States.
Winston Churchill
[ranking: 22]
Dec. at 91 (1874-1965) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
George Orwell
[ranking: 23]
Dec. at 47 (1903-1950) Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), better known by his psuedonymGeorge Orwell, was an English author.
Charlie Chaplin
[ranking: 24]
Dec. at 88 (1889-1977) Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent film era.
George Carlin
[ranking: 25]
Dec. at 71 (1937-2008) George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American comedian, social critic, actor, and author.
Marcus Aurelius
[ranking: 26]
Dec. at 59 (121-180) Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180.
Alexander the Great
[ranking: 27]
Dec. at 33 (355 BC-322 BC) Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
Joan of Arc
[ranking: 28]
Dec. at 19 (1412-1431) Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans", is considered a heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint.
Sitting Bull
[ranking: 29]
Dec. at 59 (1831-1890) Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies.
Jimi Hendrix
[ranking: 30]
Dec. at 28 (1942-1970) James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
[ranking: 31]
Dec. at 63 (1882-1945) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
[ranking: 32]
Dec. at 90 (1918-2008) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag.
Cleopatra
[ranking: 33]
Dec. at 39 (68 BC-29 BC) Cleopatra VII Philopator, known to history simply as "Cleopatra", was the last active pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, only shortly survived by her son, Caesarion as pharaoh.
Elizabeth I of England
[ranking: 34]
Dec. at 70 (1533-1603) Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her passing.
Michael Jackson
[ranking: 35]
Dec. at 51 (1958-2009) Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor.
William Wallace
[ranking: 36]
Dec. at 35 (1270-1305) Sir William Wallace was a Scottish landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
King Arthur
[ranking: 37]
King Arthur was a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.
Hypatia
[ranking: 38]
Dec. at 65 (350-415) Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Egypt, then a part of the Byzantine Empire.
Confucius
[ranking: 39]
Dec. at 72 (550 BC-478 BC) Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
Robert Kennedy
[ranking: 40]
age 46 Robert John Kennedy is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in four Tests and seven One Day Internationals for New Zealand in 1996.
Mother Teresa
[ranking: 41]
Dec. at 87 (1910-1997) Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, MC, commonly known as Mother Teresa, was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary who lived most of her life in India.
Moses
[ranking: 42]
Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a former Egyptian prince later turned prophet, religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.
Harry Houdini
[ranking: 43]
Dec. at 52 (1874-1926) Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts.
Boudica
[ranking: 44]
Boudica, also known as Boadicea, and known in Welsh as Buddug was queen of the British Iceni tribe, a Celtic tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Ronald Reagan
[ranking: 45]
Dec. at 93 (1911-2004) Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States.
Alfred Hitchcock
[ranking: 46]
Dec. at 81 (1899-1980) Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was an English film director and producer.
Prince
[ranking: 47]
Dec. at 57 (1958-2016) Prince Roger Nelson, known by his mononym Prince, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor.
George Harrison
[ranking: 48]
Dec. at 58 (1943-2001) George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles....
Vincent Price
[ranking: 49]
Dec. at 82 (1911-1993) Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice as well as his serio-comic performances in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Sophie Scholl
[ranking: 50]
Dec. at 22 (1921-1943) Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and revolutionary, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Crazy Horse
[ranking: 51]
Crazy Horse, literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy"; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877 was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota. He took up arms against the U.S.
Thomas Paine
[ranking: 52]
Dec. at 72 (1737-1809) Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary.
Julius Caesar
[ranking: 53]
Dec. at 56 (99 BC-43 BC) Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman, Consul, and notable author of Latin prose.
Carl Jung
[ranking: 54]
Dec. at 86 (1875-1961) Carl Gustav Jung, often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology.
Tom Petty
[ranking: 55]
age 68 Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer.
Samuel Adams
[ranking: 56]
Dec. at 81 (1722-1803) Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Red Cloud
[ranking: 57]
Dec. at 87 (1822-1909) Red Cloud was a war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota. He led as a chief from 1868 to 1909.
Anne Boleyn
[ranking: 58]
Dec. at 35 (1501-1536) Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right.
Saint Peter
[ranking: 59]
Saint Peter, also known as Simon Peter, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Church.
Simo Häyhä
[ranking: 60]
Dec. at 97 (1905-2002) Simo "Simuna" Häyhä, nicknamed "White Death" by the Red Army, was a Finnish marksman.
Apostle Paul
[ranking: 61]
Paul the Apostle, originally known as Saul of Tarsus, was an apostle who taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world.
Charles Martel
[ranking: 62]
Dec. at 55 (686-741) Charles Martel was a Frankish statesman and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death.
Harald Hardrada
[ranking: 63]
Dec. at 51 (1015-1066) Harald Sigurdsson, given the epithet Hardrada in the sagas, was King of Norway from 1046 to 1066.
George Michael.
[ranking: 64]
age 55 Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, widely known by his stage name George Michael, is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
Theo van Gogh
[ranking: 65]
Died at 47 (1957-2004) Theodoor "Theo" van Gogh was a Dutch film director, film producer, columnist, author and actor.
Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
[ranking: 66]
Dec. at 68 (1122-1190) Frederick I, also known as Frederick Barbarossa, was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death.
Peter
[ranking: 67]
Richard Pryor
[ranking: 68]
Dec. at 65 (1940-2005) Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, writer, and MC.
Karl Marx
[ranking: 69]
Dec. at 65 (1818-1883) Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
John of Austria
[ranking: 70]
Dec. at 31 (1547-1578)
Harry S. Truman
[ranking: 71]
Dec. at 88 (1884-1972) Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A WWI veteran.
Andrew Jackson
[ranking: 72]
Dec. at 78 (1767-1845) Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States.
Joseph McCarthy
[ranking: 73]
Dec. at 49 (1908-1957) Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
[ranking: 74]
Dec. at 44 (1525-1569) Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.
Roland
[ranking: 75]
Roland was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France.
Catullus
[ranking: 76]
Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry.
Hero of Alexandria
[ranking: 77]
Dec. at 60 (10-70) Hero of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt.
Apelles
[ranking: 78]
Apelles of Kos was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist, rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists.
Adam Smith
[ranking: 79]
Dec. at 67 (1723-1790) Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and key Scottish Enlightenment figure.
Tancred, Prince of Galilee
[ranking: 80]
Dec. at 40 (1072-1112) Tancred was a Norman leader of the First Crusade who later became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
[ranking: 81]
Dec. at 83 (1925-2008) William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator.
Edgar Degas
[ranking: 82]
Dec. at 83 (1834-1917) Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.
Richard Nixon
[ranking: 83]
Dec. at 81 (1913-1994) Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Warren Zevon
[ranking: 84]
Dec. at 56 (1947-2003) Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for the dark and somewhat outlandish sense of humor in his lyrics.
Helen Duncan
[ranking: 85]
Dec. at 59 (1897-1956) Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735.
Milton Friedman
[ranking: 86]
Dec. at 94 (1912-2006) Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician and writer who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades.
Maria Cosway
[ranking: 87]
Dec. at 78 (1760-1838) Maria Cosway was an Italian-English artist, who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
William of Gellone
[ranking: 88]
Dec. at 57 (755-812) Saint William of Gellone, also known as William of Aquitaine, was the second Count of Toulouse from 790 until his replacement in 811.
Millard Fillmore
[ranking: 89]
Dec. at 74 (1800-1874) Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
Friedrich Hayek
[ranking: 90]
Dec. at 93 (1899-1992) Friedrich Hayek CH, born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A.
Ludwig von Mises
[ranking: 91]
Dec. at 92 (1881-1973) Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was a philosopher, Austrian School economist, sociologist, and classical liberal.
Witold Pilecki
[ranking: 92]
Dec. at 47 (1901-1948) Witold Pilecki was a Polish soldier, a rittmeister of the Polish Cavalry during the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group in German-occupied Poland in...
Leopold II of Belgium
[ranking: 93]
Dec. at 74 (1835-1909) Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians, and is chiefly remembered for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture.
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