| Caamano, Jose Maria Placido (Ecuadorian politician) |
1838-1901 |
| Cabanel, Alexandre (French painter) |
1823-1889 |
| Cabanilles, Juan Bautista Jose (Spanish organist, composer) |
1644-1712 |
| Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges (French physician, philosopher) |
1757-1808 |
| Cabarrus, Francisco de (French-born Spanish financier) |
1752-1810 |
| Cabasilas, Nicolas (Greek lay theologian; nephew of Nilus) |
c.1320-c.1390 |
| Cabasilas, Nilus (Greek prelate, theologian) |
c.1298-c.1363 |
| Cabell, James Branch (American novelist, essayist) |
1879-1958 |
| Cabet, Etienne (French Socialist) |
1788-1856 |
| Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez (Spanish explorer) |
c.1490-c.1560 |
| Cabezon, Antonio de (Spanish composer) |
1510-1566 |
| Cable, George Washington (American writer, reformer) |
1844-1925 |
| Caboche, Simon (aka Simon le Coustellier) (French merchant) |
15th cent. |
| Cabot, John (American businessman, politician) |
1752-1823 |
| Cabot, John (Giovanni Caboto) (Venetian navigator, explorer) |
c.1450-c.1499 |
| Cabot, Sebastian (English navigator, explorer; son of John) |
1476?-1557 |
| Cabot, Richard Clarke (American physician) |
1868-1939 |
| Cabral de Melo Neto, Joao (Brazilian poet, diplomat) |
b.1920 |
| Cabral, Amilcar (Guinean politician) |
1921-1973 |
| Cabral, Pedro Alvars (Portuguese navigator) |
1467/8-1520 |
| Cabrera y Grino, Ramon (Spanish insurgent) |
1806-1877 |
| Cabrera Infante, Guillermo (Cuban writer, critic) |
b.1929 |
| Cabrera, Lydia (Cuban ethnologist, writer) |
1900-1991 |
| Cabrilho, Joao Rodrigues (Portuguese explorer in Span. service) |
d.1543 |
| Cabrini, Saint Frances Xavier (Italian-born American religious) |
1850-1917 |
| Cabrol, Fernand (French religious) |
1855-1937 |
| Caccini, Giulio (aka Giulio Romano) (Italian singer, composer) |
c.1545-1618 |
| Caceres, Andres Avelino (Peruvian general, politician) |
1833-1923 |
| Cadalso y Vazquez, Jose de (Spanish writer) |
1741-1782 |
| Ca'da Mosto (or Cadamosto), Alvise (Venetian navigator, expl.) |
1432-1488 |
| Cadbury, George (English industrialist, reformer) |
1839-1922 |
| Cadbury, Richard (English industrialist; brother of George) |
1836?-1899 |
| Cade, John "Jack" (Irish-born British rebel) |
d.1450 |
| Cadell, Francis (Scottish explorer) |
1822-1879 |
| Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe (French founder of Detroit) |
1658-1730 |
| Cadman, Charles Wakefield (American composer) |
1881-1946 |
| Cadogan, William (1st Earl Cadogan) (Irish-born Brit. soldier) |
1672-1726 |
| Cadorna, Luigi (Italian soldier; son of Raffaele) |
1850-1928 |
| Cadorna, Raffaele (Italian general) |
1815-1897 |
| Cadoudal, Georges (French conspirator) |
1771-1804 |
| Cadwaladr (Welsh prince; son of Gruffudd) |
d.1172 |
| Cadwallon (Welsh king of Gwynedd c.625-633) |
d.633 |
| Caecilius of Calacte (Greek rhetorician, critic) |
1st cent. |
| Caecilius Statius (or Statius Caecilius) (Roman comic poet) |
c.219-166 BC |
| Caecina (full name Aulus Caecina Alienus) (Roman general) |
d.79 |
| Caedmon (English poet, monk, shepherd) |
fl. 658-680 |
| Caelius (full name Marcus Caelius Rufus) (Roman politician) |
82-48 BC |
| Caelius Aurelianus (Roman physician of North Africa) |
5th cent. |
| Caesar, Gaius (Roman noble; son of M. Vipsanius Agrippa) |
20 BC-AD 4 |
| Caesar, Gaius Julius (Roman general, statesman) |
100-44 |
| Caesar, Lucius Julius (Roman politician) |
d.87 BC |
| Caesarius of Arles, Saint (Gallic prelate) |
c.470-542 |
| Caesarius of Heisterbach (German religious) |
c.1170-c.1240 |
| Caffaro di Caschifellone (Genoese soldier, chronicler) |
c.1080-1166 |
| Caffieri, Filippo (or Philippe) (French sculptor) |
1634-1716 |
| Caffieri, Jacques (French sculptor; son of Filippo) |
1678-1755 |
| Caffieri, Jean-Jacques (French sculptor; son of Jacques) |
1725-1792 |
| Caffieri, Philippe (French sculptor; son of Jacques) |
1714-1774 |
| Cage, John Milton (American composer) |
1912-1992 |
| Cagliostro, Alessandro di (Giuseppe Balsamo) (It. adventurer) |
1743-1795 |
| Cagney, James Francis Jr. (American actor) |
1899-1986 |
| Cagniard de la Tour, Charles (French engineer, physicist) |
1777-1859 |
| Cagnola, Luigi (Italian architect) |
1762-1833 |
| Cahan, Abraham (Lithuanian-born American journalist, author) |
1860-1951 |
| Cahill, Thaddeus (American inventor) |
1867-1934 |
| Cahplin, Ralph (???) |
1887-1961 |
| Caillaux, Joseph-Marie-Auguste (French politician) |
1863-1944 |
| Caillavet, Gaston Arman de (French journalist, playwright) |
1869-1915 |
| Cailletet, Louis-Paul (French physicist) |
1832-1913 |
| Caillie (or Caille), Rene-Auguste (French explorer) |
1799-1838 |
| Cain, James Mallahan (American journalist, novelist) |
1892-1977 |
| Cain, Richard Harvey (American clergyman, politician) |
1825-1887 |
| Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall (English novelist) |
1853-1931 |
| Caird, Edward (Scottish philosopher, theologian) |
1835-1908 |
| Cairnes, John Elliott (Irish economist) |
1823-1875 |
| Cairns, Hugh McCalmont (Irish-born British politician) |
1819-1885 |
| Cairoli, Benedetto (Italian politician) |
1825-1889 |
| Caitanya (aka Gauranga; Visvambhara Misra)(Indian Hindu mystic) |
1485-1533 |
| Caius (also Kees, Keys, Kay), John (Eng. physician, Humanist) |
1510-1573 |
| Cajetan of Thiene, Saint (Gaetano de Thiene) (It. religious) |
1480-1547 |
| Cajigal de la Vega, Francisco Antonio (Span. colonial governor) |
1695-1777 |
| Cajori, Florian (Swiss-born American mathematician) |
1859-1930 |
| Cakmak, Fevzi (Turkish soldier, politician) |
1876-1950 |
| Cakste, Janis (Latvian politician) |
1859-1927 |
| Calamis (Greek sculptor) |
5th cent. BC |
| Calamy, Edmund (English clergyman) |
1600-1666 |
| Calamy, Edmund (English clergyman; grandson of Edmund) |
1671-1732 |
| Calas, Jean (French merchant) |
1698-1762 |
| Calasanz (or Calasanza), Saint Jose (Spanish cleric, educator) |
1556-1648 |
| Calasso, Roberto (Italian editor, publisher, writer) |
b.1941 |
| Calcar, Jan Stephen van (Flemish painter, woodcut artist) |
c.1499-1545? |
| Caldara, Antonio (Italian composer) |
1670-1736 |
| Caldara, Polidoro (aka Polidoro da Caravaggio) (It. painter) |
c.1500-1543 |
| Caldecott, Randolph (English artist, illustrator) |
1846-1886 |
| Calder, Alexander (American sculptor; son of Alex. Stirling) |
1898-1976 |
| Calder, Alexandre Milne (Scottish-born American sculptor) |
1846-1923 |
| Calder, Alexander Stirling (American sculptor; son of A. Milne) |
1870-1945 |
| Calderon, Rodrigo (Conde de Oliva) (Spanish courtier) |
1576?-1621 |
| Calderon de la Barca, Pedro (Spanish dramatist, poet) |
1600-1681 |
| Calderon Fournier, Rafael Angel (Costa Rican president 1990-) |
b.1949 |
| Calderwood, David (Scottish clergyman) |
1575-1650 |
| Caldwell, Erskine Preston (American novelist) |
1903-1987 |
| Caldwell, Janet Taylor (English-born American author) |
1900-1985 |
| Caldwell, Lynton Keith (American scholar, environmentalist) |
1913-2006 |
| Calenus, Quintus Fufius (Roman general) |
d.41 BC |
| Calepino, Ambrogio (Italian lexicographer) |
c.1440-1510 |
| Calhoun, John Caldwell (Am. politician, vice-pres. 1825-32) |
1782-1850 |
| Caliari, Paolo "Paolo Veronese" (Italian painter) |
1528-1588 |
| Caligula (orig. Gaius Caesar) (Roman emperor 37-41) |
AD 12-41 |
| Calinescu, Armand (Romanian politician) |
1893-1939 |
| Calisher, Hortense (American writer) |
b.1911 |
| Calixtus I, Saint (Pope 217/8-222) |
d.222 |
| Calixtus II (orig. Guido di Borgogne) (Pope 1119-1124) |
d.1124 |
| Calixtus III (orig. Alfonso de Borgia or Borja)(Pope 1455-1458) |
1378-1458 |
| Calixtus III (orig. Giovanni di Strumi) (Antipope 1168-1178) |
12th cent. |
| Calixtus (or Calixt), Georg (German Lutheran theologian) |
1586-1656 |
| Calkins, Mary Whiton (American philosopher, psychologist) |
1863-1930 |
| Callaghan, Leonard James (British prime minister 1976-1979) |
b.1912 |
| Callaghan, Morley Edward (Canadian author) |
1903-1990 |
| Callas, Maria (Maria Anna Sofia Kalogeropoulos) (Am. singer) |
1923-1977 |
| Callcott, Sir Augustus Wall (English painter) |
1779-1844 |
| Callcott, John Wall (English musician, composer; bro. of A.W.) |
1766-1821 |
| Calleja del Rey, Felix Maria (Spanish general) |
1755?-1828 |
| Callendar, Hugh Longbourne (English physicist) |
1863-1930 |
| Calles, Plutarco Elias (Mexican soldier, president 1924-1928) |
1877-1945 |
| Callias (Athenian soldier, diplomat) |
5th cent. BC |
| Callicrates (or Kallikrates) (Greek architect) |
5th cent. BC |
| Callicratidas (Spartan admiral) |
d.406 BC |
| Callieres, Francois de (French diplomat) |
1645-1717 |
| Callieres, Louis-Hector (French soldier; brother of Francois) |
1648-1703 |
| Callimachus (Greek sculptor) |
5th cent. BC |
| Callimachus (Greek scholar, poet) |
c.305-c.240 BC |
| Callinicus of Heliopolis (Syrian Jewish architect) |
7th cent. |
| Callinus (Greek poet) |
7th cent. BC |
| Callippus (or Calippus) (Greek astronomer) |
4th cent. BC |
| Callisthenes of Olynthus (Greek philosopher, historian) |
c.360-328 BC |
| Callistratus (Athenian orator, general) |
d.355 BC |
| Callistus I (Greek prelate) |
d.1363 |
| Callot, Jacques (French painter, engraver) |
1592/3-1635 |
| Calloway, Cab (Cabell) (American bandleader, singer) |
1907-1994 |
| Calmette, Albert-Leon-Charles (French bacteriologist) |
1863-1933 |
| Calmette, Gaston (French editor; brother of Albert) |
1858-1914 |
| Calomarde, Francisco Tadeo (Spanish politician) |
1773-1842 |
| Calonne, Charles-Alexandre de (French politician) |
1734-1802 |
| Calov, Abraham (orig. surname Kalau) (German theologian) |
1612-1686 |
| Calpurnia (Roman noblewoman; wife of Julius Caesar) |
1st cent. BC |
| Calpurnius Siculus, Titus (Roman poet) |
1st cent. |
| Calvaert (or Calvart), Denis (or Denys) (Flemish painter) |
1540-1619 |
| Calve, Emma (Rosa-Noemie-Emma Calvet de Roquer) (French singer) |
1858-1942 |
| Calverley, Charles Stuart (English poet, parodist) |
1831-1884 |
| Calvert, Cecilius (English colonialist; son of George) |
1605-1675 |
| Calvert, Charles (American politician; son of Cecilius) |
1637-1715 |
| Calvert, George (English politician, colonialist in America) |
1580?-1632 |
| Calvert, Leonard (English colonialist; son of George) |
1606-1647 |
| Calvin, John (orig. Jean Cauvin) (French theologian, reformer) |
1509-1564 |
| Calvin, Melvin (American chemist) |
1911-1997 |
| Calvino, Italo (Cuban-born Italian journalist, writer) |
1923-1985 |
| Calvo, Carlos (Argentinean diplomat, jurist) |
1824-1906 |
| Calvo Sotelo y Bustelo, Leopoldo (Spanish prime min. 1981-82) |
b.1926 |
| Calvus, Gaius Licinius Macer (Roman orator, poet) |
82-c.47 BC |
| Calzabigi, Raniero Simone Francesco Maria de (Italian poet) |
1714-1795 |
| Camargo, Marie-Anne de Cupis de (Belgian ballerina) |
1710-1770 |
| Cambaceres, Jean-Jacques-Regis de (French jurist, statesman) |
1753-1824 |
| Cambert, Robert (French composer) |
c.1627-1677 |
| Cambiaso (or Cambiasi), Luca "Il Luchetto" (Genoese painter) |
1527-1585 |
| Cambini, Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino (It. violinist, composer) |
1746-1825 |
| Cambon, Jules-Martin (French diplomat; brother of Paul) |
1845-1935 |
| Cambon, Pierre-Joseph (French financier, politician) |
1756-1820 |
| Cambon, Pierre-Paul (French diplomat) |
1843-1924 |
| Cambridge, Alexander Augustus Frederick William (Brit. soldier) |
1874-1957 |
| Canbridge, Richard Owen (English poet) |
1717-1802 |
| Cambronne, Pierre-Jacques-Etienne (French general) |
1770-1842 |
| Cambyses I (Kambujia) (King of Anshan c.600-559 BC) |
6th cent. BC |
| Cambyses II (King of Persia 529-522 BC; son of Cyrus the Great) |
d.522 BC |
| Camden, William (English antiquary, historian) |
1551-1623 |
| Camel, Sir Gus (American Shriner, entertainer, camel) |
1977-2002 |
| Camerarius (orig. Kammermeister), Joachim (Ger. class. scholar) |
1500-1574 |
| Camerarius, Rudolf Jakob (German physician, botanist) |
1665-1721 |
| Cameron, Duncan (Scottish-born Canadian fur trader) |
1764-1848 |
| Cameron, James Donald (American politician; son of Simon) |
1833-1918 |
| Cameron, John (Scottish theologian) |
c.1579-1625 |
| Cameron, Julia Margaret (India-born British photographer) |
1815-1879 |
| Cameron, Richard (Scottish Covenanter) |
1648-1680 |
| Cameron, Simon (American financier, politician) |
1799-1889 |
| Cameron, Verney Lovett (English explorer) |
1844-1894 |
| Cameron of Lochiel, Sir Ewen (Scottish highland chieftain) |
1629-1719 |
| Cameron of Lochiel, Donald Cameron (Scottish chieftain) |
1695?-1748 |
| Camillo de Lellis, Saint (Italian religious) |
1550-1614 |
| Camillus, Marcus Furius (Roman soldier, statesman) |
d.365 BC |
| Cammaerts, Emile (Belgian poet, writer) |
1878-1953 |
| Cammarano, Salvatore (Italian librettist) |
1801-1852 |
| Camoes (also Camoens), Luiz Vaz de (Portuguese poet) |
1524/5-1580 |
| Camp, Walter Chauncey (American football coach) |
1859-1925 |
| Campagna, Gerolamo (Venetian sculptor) |
1552?-1623 |
| Campagnola, Domenico (Italian painter, printmaker) |
c.1484-c.1563 |
| Campagnola, Giulio (Italian engraver, painter) |
c.1482-1514? |
| Campan, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette née Genet (French educator) |
1752-1822 |
| Campana, Dino (Italian poet, traveler) |
1885-1932 |
| Campana, Giampietro (Italian antiquarian) |
1808-1880 |
| Campanella, Tommaso (orig. Giovanni Domenico) (It. philosopher) |
1568-1639 |
| Campani, Giuseppe (Italian optician) |
1635-1715 |
| Campanius, John (Swedish clergyman) |
1601-1683 |
| Campanus of Novara (Campanus Novariensis) (It. mathematician) |
d.1296 |
| Campbell, Alexander (Irish-born Am. fdr. Disciples of Christ) |
1788-1866 |
| Campbell, Sir Archibald (Scottish-born British soldier) |
1739-1791 |
| Campbell, Sir Archibald (Scottish-born British army officer) |
1769-1843 |
| Campbell (orig. Macliver), Colin (Scot.-born Bri. army officer) |
1792-1863 |
| Campbell, Donald Lewis (Am. chem. engineer; 1 of Four Horsemen) |
1904-2002 |
| Campbell, Donald Malcolm (English racer; son of Sir Malcolm) |
1921-1967 |
| Campbell, Douglas Houghton (American botanist) |
1859-1953 |
| Campbell, George (Scottish theologian) |
1719-1796 |
| Campbell, Ignatius Roy Dunnachie (South Africa-born Brit. poet) |
1901-1957 |
| Campbell, John (Scottish-born American colonial journalist) |
1653-1728 |
| Campbell, John (British general in America) |
1705-1782 |
| Campbell, John (1st Baron Campbell) (Scot.-born British jurist) |
1779-1861 |
| Campbell, John Archibald (Am. Supreme Court justice 1853-61) |
1811-1889 |
| Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland (Canadian gov.-gen. 1878-83) |
1845-1914 |
| Campbell, John Francis (Scot. folklorist, government official) |
1822-1885 |
| Campbell, John Wood Jr. (Don A. Stuart) (Am. editor, writer) |
1910-1971 |
| Campbell, Joseph (???) |
1881-1944 |
| Campbell, Joseph (American folklorist, mythologist) |
1904-1987 |
| Campbell, Kim (orig. Avril Phaedra Campbell) (Canadian pol.) |
b.1947 |
| Campbell, Lewis (Scottish scholar) |
1830-1908 |
| Campbell, Sir Malcolm (English automobile, boat racer) |
1885-1948 |
| Campbell, Michael George "Mikey Dread" (Jamaican singer, prod.) |
1954-2008 |
| Campbell, Mrs. Patrick née Beatrice S. Tanner (English actor) |
1865-1940 |
| Campbell, Reginald John (English clergyman) |
1867-1956 |
| Campbell, Robert (Scottish-born Canadian trader, explorer) |
1808-1894 |
| Campbell, Thomas (Irish-born American religious leader) |
1763-1854 |
| Campbell, Thomas (Scottish-born British poet) |
1777-1844 |
| Campbell, William Edward March (ps. William March) (Am. writer) |
1893-1954 |
| Campbell, William Ellsworth (Chung Ling Soo) (Am. conjurer) |
1861-1918 |
| Campbell, William Wallace (American astronomer) |
1862-1938 |
| Campbell, William Wilfred (Canadian poet, civil servant) |
1861-1918 |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry (Scottish-born Brit. politician) |
1836-1908 |
| Campe, Joachim Heinrich (German educator) |
1746-1818 |
| Campeggio, Lorenzo (Italian prelate) |
1474-1539 |
| Campen, Jacob van (Dutch architect) |
1595-1657 |
| Campenhout, Francois van (Belgian violinist, composer) |
1779-1848 |
| Camper, Pieter (Dutch anatomist) |
1722-1789 |
| Campero, Narciso (Bolivian soldier, politician; pres. 1880-84) |
1813-1896 |
| Camphuysen, Dirk Rafaelszoon (Dutch painter, poet, theologian) |
1586-1627 |
| Campi, Antonio (It. painter, architect; son of Galeazzo) |
1536-c.1591 |
| Campi, Bernardino (Italian painter; nephew of Galeazzo) |
1522-c.1591 |
| Campi, Galeazzo (Italian painter in Cremona) |
1477-1536 |
| Campi, Giulio (Italian painter in Cremona; son of Galeazzo) |
1502-1572 |
| Campi, Vincenzo (Italian painter in Cremona; son of Galeazzo) |
1536-1591 |
| Campin, Robert (Flemish painter) |
c.1378-1444 |
| Campion, Edmund (English Jesuit martyr) |
1540-1581 |
| Campion (or Campian), Thomas (Eng. poet, composer, physician) |
1567-1620 |
| Campistron, Jean Galbert de (French playwright) |
1656-1723 |
| Campo, Estanislao (Argentinean poet, journalist) |
1834-1880 |
| Campoamor y Campoosorio, Ramon de (Spanish poet) |
1817-1901 |
| Campos Salles, Manuel Ferraz de (Braz. polit.; pres 1898-1902) |
1841-1913 |
| Campos, Augusto de (Brazilian poet, literary critic) |
b.1931 |
| Campos, Haroldo de (Brazilian poet, literary critic) |
b.1929 |
| Campra, Andre (French composer) |
1660-1744 |
| Camus, Albert (Algeria-born Fr. novelist, essayist, playwright) |
1913-1960 |
| Canal, Giovanni Antonio "Canaletto" (Venetian painter) |
1697-1768 |
| Canalejas y Mendez, Jose (Spanish politician) |
1854-1912 |
| Canalizo, Valentin (Mexican general) |
1794-1850 |
| Canaris, Wilhelm Franz (German naval officer) |
1887-1945 |
| Canby, Henry Seidel (American author, editor) |
1878-1961 |
| Candamo, Manuel (Peruvian journalist, politician) |
1842-1904 |
| Candid, Pieter (orig. surname de Wit) (Flemish painter) |
c.1548-1628 |
| Candidas (or Chandidas) (Bengali poet) |
14th-15th cent. |
| Candler, Asa Griggs (American manufacturer: Coca Cola) |
1851-1929 |
| Candler, Warren Akin (Am. clergyman, educator; brother of Asa) |
1857-1941 |
| Candlish, Robert Smith (Scottish clergyman) |
1806-1873 |
| Candolle, Alphonse-Louis de (Swiss botanist; son of Augustin) |
1806-1893 |
| Candolle, Augustin-Pyrame de (Swiss bot.; coined "taxonomy") |
1778-1841 |
| Candragupta (or Chandragupta) (Indian emperor c.321-c.297 BC) |
d.c.297 BC |
| Candra Gupta I (Indian king of Gupta dynasty 320-c.330) |
4th cent. |
| Candra Gupta II (Indian emperor of Gupta dynasty c.380-c.415) |
4th-5th cent. |
| Candrakirti (Indian Buddhist philosopher) |
fl. 600-650 |
| Canetti, Elias (Bulgarian-born British writer, playwright) |
1905-1994 |
| Canga Arguelles, Jose (Spanish politician) |
1770-1843 |
| Caniff, Milton Arthur (American cartoonist) |
1907-1988 |
| Canisius, Saint Peter (Dutch religious, theologian) |
1521-1597 |
| Canitz, Friedrich Rudolf Ludwig von (Prussian diplomat, poet) |
1654-1699 |
| Cankar, Ivan (Slovene writer, patriot) |
1876-1918 |
| Canning, Charles John (British colonial administrator in India) |
1812-1862 |
| Canning, George (British politician 1827; father of Charles) |
1770-1827 |
| Canning, Sir Samuel (English engineer) |
1823-1908 |
| Canning, Sir Stratford (British diplomat) |
1786-1880 |
| Cannizzaro, Stanislao (Italian chemist) |
1826-1910 |
| Cannon, Annie Jump (American astronomer) |
1863-1941 |
| Cannon, Bradford (Am. surgeon: reconstructive surgery pioneer) |
1907-2005 |
| Cannon, Harriet Starr (American religious) |
1823-1896 |
| Cannon, James (American clergyman) |
1864-1944 |
| Cannon, Joseph Gurney "Uncle Joe" (American politician) |
1836-1926 |
| Cannon, Walter Bradford (American physiologist) |
1871-1945 |
| Cano, Alonso (Spanish painter, sculptor, architect) |
1601-1667 |
| Cano, Melchor (or Melchior) (Spanish theologian) |
c.1509-1560 |
| Canonicus (American Narragansett Indian leader) |
1565?-1647 |
| Canova, Antonio (Italian sculptor) |
1757-1822 |
| Canovas del Castillo, Antonio (Spanish politician, writer) |
1828-1897 |
| Canrobert, Francois-Certain (French army officer) |
1809-1895 |
| Cantelupe, Saint Thomas de (English prelate; nephew of Walter) |
c.1218-1282 |
| Cantelupe (or Cantilupe), Walter de (English prelate) |
d.1266 |
| Canth, Ulrika Vilhelmina "Minna" née Johnson (Finnish writer) |
1844-1897 |
| Canton, John (English physicist) |
1718-1772 |
| Cantor, Eddie (orig. Edward Israel) (American comedian) |
1892-1964 |
| Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (German mathematician) |
1845-1918 |
| Cantor, Moritz Benedikt (German mathematician) |
1829-1920 |
| Cantu, Cesare (Italian historian, author, poet) |
1804?-1895 |
| Canute of Denmark (Canute the Great) (King of England, Denmark) |
994-1035 |
| Cao (also Cam), Diogo (Portuguese navigator) |
fl. 1480-1486 |
| Cao Yu (or Ts'ao Yu) (pseud. of Wan Jiabao) (Chinese dramatist) |
b.1910 |
| Cao Zhan (or Ts'ao Chan, aka Cao Xueqin) (Chinese writer) |
c.1715-1763 |
| Capa, Robert (orig. Andrei Friedmann) (Hung.-born Am. photo.) |
1913-1954 |
| Capablanca, Jose Raul (Cuban chess master) |
1888-1942 |
| Cape, Herbert Jonathan (English publisher) |
1879-1960 |
| Capek, Karel (Czech journalist, writer; coined word "robot") |
1890-1938 |
| Capel, Arthur (Lord Capel of Hadham) (English Royalist leader) |
1610?-1649 |
| Capell, Edward (English scholar) |
1713-1781 |
| Capella, Martianus Minneus Felix (North African writer) |
4th-5th cent. |
| Capelle, Eduard von (German naval officer) |
1855-1931 |
| Capellen, Godert Alexander Gerard Philip van der (Dutch col.) |
1778-1848 |
| Capello (or Cappello), Bianca (Italian noblewoman, adventuress) |
1542?-1587 |
| Capgrave, John (English chronicler, hagiographer, theologian) |
1393-1464 |
| Capito (orig. Kopfel), Wolfgang Fabricius (German clergyman) |
1478-1541 |
| Capmany Suris y de Monpalau, Antonio (Span. philologist, pol.) |
1742-1813 |
| Capone, Alphonse "Scarface" (Italian-born American gangster) |
1899-1947 |
| Capote, Truman (Truman Streckfus Persons) (American writer) |
1924-1984 |
| Capp, Al (orig. Alfred Gerald Caplin) (American cartoonist) |
1909-1979 |
| Cappel, Louis (Ludovicus Cappellus) (Fr. Protestant clergyman) |
1585-1658 |
| Capponi, Gino Marchese (Florentine statesman, scholar) |
1792-1876 |
| Cappa, Edward (American classicist) |
1866-1950 |
| Capra, Frank (Italian-born American movie director) |
1897-1991 |
| Capra, Fritjof (Austrian physicist, writer) |
b.1939 |
| Caprara, Giovanni Battista (Italian ecclesiastical diplomat) |
1733-1810 |
| Capreolus, Jean (French religious, scholar) |
c.1380-1444 |
| Caprivi, Georg Leo von (German soldier, politician) |
1831-1899 |
| Caproli (or Caprioli), Carlo (Carlo del Violini) (It. composer) |
c.1615/20-1692/5 |
| Caproni, Giorgio (Italian poet) |
1912-1990 |
| Caproni, Giovanni Battista (Italian airplane builder) |
1886-1957 |
| Capuana, Luigi (Italian writer, critic) |
1839-1915 |
| Capus, Alfred (French journalist, playwright) |
1858-1922 |
| Caracalla, Marcus Aurelius (orig. Bassianus) (Roman emperor) |
188-217 |
| Caracciola, Rudolf (German race driver) |
1901-1959 |
| Caraccioli (or Caracciolo), Francesco (Neapolitan admiral) |
1752-1799 |
| Caraccioli (or Caracciolo), Marino (Neapolitan diplomat) |
1468-1538 |
| Carafa, Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio (It. comp.) |
1787-1872 |
| Caragiale, Ion Luca (Romanian playwright, writer) |
1852-1912 |
| Caratacus (aka Caractacus; Caradoc, Caradog) (Brit. chieftain) |
1st cent. |
| Caratheodory, Constantin (Greek mathematician) |
1873-1950 |
| Carausius, Marcus Aurelius (Roman general) |
d.293 |
| Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (Italian Baroque painter) |
1573-1610 |
| Caraway, Hattie Ophelia née Wyatt (American politician) |
1878-1950 |
| Carberry, John Joseph (American cardinal) |
b.1904 |
| Carbo, Gaius Papirius (Romanian politician) |
d.119 BC |
| Carbo, Gnaeus Papirius (Roman general) |
c.130-82 BC |
| Carcopino-Tusoli, Francois (ps. Francis Carco) (Fr. poet, nov.) |
1886-1958 |
| Cardano, Geronimo (It. mathematician, physician, astrologer) |
1501-1576 |
| Cardarelli, Vincenzo (b.Nazareno Cardarelli)(It. poet,essayist) |
1887-1959 |
| Cardenal Martinez, Ernesto (Nicaraguan priest, poet) |
b.1925 |
| Cardenas, Lazaro (Mexican soldier, politician; pres. 1934-40) |
1895-1970 |
| Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan (Am. Supreme Court justice 1932-38) |
1870-1938 |
| Carducci, Bartolommeo (Italian painter, sculptor, architect) |
1560-c.1610 |
| Carducci, Giosue (early pseud. Enotrio Romano) (Italian poet) |
1835-1907 |
| Carducci, Vincenzo (Italian painter; brother of Bartolommeo) |
1576-1638 |
| Cardwell, Edward (Viscount Cardwell) (English politician) |
1813-1885 |
| Carew, George (Baron of Clopton; Earl of Totnes) (Eng. soldier) |
1555-1629 |
| Carew, Jan Rynveld (Guyanese writer, critic, poet, educator) |
b.1925 |
| Carew, Richard (English poet, scholar, antiquary) |
1555-1620 |
| Carew, Thomas (English poet, Cavalier song writer) |
1595?-1640? |
| Carey, Ernestine née Gilbreth (American writer) |
1908-2006 |
| Carey, George Leonard (English archbishop of Canterbury 1991-) |
b.1935 |
| Carey, James William (American journalism scholar, teacher) |
1934-2006 |
| Carey, Henry (1st Baron Hunsdon) (English soldier, diplomat) |
1524?-1596 |
| Carey, Henry (English poet, playwright, composer) |
c.1687-1743 |
| Carey, Henry Charles (American publisher; son of Mathew) |
1793-1879 |
| Carey, James (Irish nationalist) |
1845-1883 |
| Carey, Josie (b. Josephine Vicari) (Am. TV writer, perf.) |
1931-2004 |
| Carey, Mathew (Irish-born American publisher) |
1760-1839 |
| Carey, Peter Philip (Australian writer) |
b.1943 |
| Carey, Robert (English soldier; son of Henry 1524?-1596) |
1560?-1639 |
| Carey, William (English Orientalist, missionary) |
1761-1834 |
| Cargill, Donald (Scottish Covenanter) |
1619?-1681 |
| Cargill, Oscar (American critic) |
1898-1972 |
| Carias Andino, Tiburcio (Honduran gen., polit.; pres. 1933-49) |
1876-1969 |
| Carinus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor 283-285) |
d.285 |
| Carissimi, Giacomo (Italian composer) |
1605-1674 |
| Caritat, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de (Fr. math., philosopher) |
1743-1794 |
| Carleton, Sir Guy (Irish-born British general, administrator) |
1724-1808 |
| Carleton, William (Irish novelist) |
1794-1869 |
| Carleton, William McKendree "Will" (American poet) |
1845-1912 |
| Carli, Gian Rinaldo (Italian economist, antiquary) |
1720-1795 |
| Carlile, Richard (English freethinker, reformer) |
1790-1843 |
| Carlile, Wilson (English clergyman) |
1847-1942 |
| Carlin, George Denis (American comedian, actor) |
b.1937 |
| Carlisle, John Griffin (American politician) |
1835-1910 |
| Carlos (or Carles, Careless), William (Eng. Royalist officer) |
d.1689 |
| Carlos de Austria, Don (Spanish prince of Asturias) |
1545-1568 |
| Carlota (Empress of Mexico 1864-1867) |
1840-1927 |
| Carlson, Anton Julius (Swedish-born American physiologist) |
1875-1956 |
| Carlson, Chester Floyd (American inventor; dev. xerography) |
1906-1968 |
| Carlson, Evans Fordyce (American soldier) |
1896-1947 |
| Carlton, Effie née Crockett (American actor, songwriter) |
1857-1940 |
| Carlyle, Jane Baillie née Walsh (Scottish poet) |
1801-1866 |
| Carlyle, Thomas (Scottish essayist, historian) |
1795-1881 |
| Carman, William Bliss (Canadian poet, essayist, lecturer) |
1861-1929 |
| Carmichael, Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" (American composer, singer) |
1899-1981 |
| Carmichael Leonard (American psychologist) |
1898-1973 |
| Carmona, Antonio Oscar de Fragoso (Port. gen.; pres. 1928-51) |
1869-1951 |
| Carnap, Rudolf (German-born American philosopher) |
1891-1970 |
| Carneades (Greek skeptic philosopher) |
214?-129? BC |
| Carnegie, Andrew (Scottish-born American industrialist) |
1835-1919 |
| Carnegie, Dale (orig. Carnagey) (American writer, speaker) |
1888-1955 |
| Carera, Primo (Italian-born American boxer) |
1906-1967 |
| Carmen, Jeanne Laverne (American model, pin-up girl, actor) |
1930-2007 |
| Carnesecchi, Pietro (Italian Humanist) |
1508-1567 |
| Carnicer y Batlle, Ramon (Spanish composer) |
1789-1855 |
| Carnot, Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite (Fr. soldier, administrator) |
1753-1823 |
| Carnot, Marie-Francois-Sadi (French politician; pres. 1887-94) |
1837-1894 |
| Carnot, Nicolas-Leonard-Sadi (French physicist, engineer) |
1796-1832 |
| Caro, Annibale (Italian poet, translator, satirist) |
1507-1566 |
| Caro, Heinrich (German industrial chemist) |
1834-1910 |
| Caro, Miguel Antonio (Colombian polit., author; pres. 1892-94) |
1843-1909 |
| Caron, Antoine (French painter) |
c.1515-1593 |
| Carondelet, Francisco Luis Hector de (Span. admin. in America) |
c.1748-1807 |
| Carossa, Hans (German poet, novelist, physician) |
1878-1956 |
| Carothers, Wallace Hume (American chemist) |
1896-1937 |
| Caroto, Gian Francesco (Veronese painter) |
c.1480-1555 |
| Carpaccio, Vittore (Venetian painter) |
c.1460-1525/6 |
| Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste (aka Jules Carpeaux) (French sculptor) |
1827-1875 |
| Carpenter, Edward (English writer, lecturer) |
1844-1929 |
| Carpenter, John Alden (American composer) |
1876-1951 |
| Carpenter, Karen (American singer) |
1950-1983 |
| Carpenter, Mary (English educator, reformer) |
1807-1877 |
| Carpenter, Richard (American singer) |
b.1945 |
| Carpenter, William Benjamin (English physiologist) |
1813-1885 |
| Carpentier y Valmont, Alejo (Cuban writer, musicologist) |
1904-1980 |
| Carpentier, Georges (French pugilist) |
1894-1975 |
| Carpi, Ugo da (Italian wood engraver; orig. term "chiaroscuro") |
c.1480-1520/32 |
| Carpini, Giovanni da Pian del (Italian religious, traveler) |
c.1180-1252 |
| Carpocrates (Greek religious) |
2nd cent. |
| Carpzov, Benedikt (Saxon jurist) |
1595-1666 |
| Carr, Emily (Canadian painter, writer, teacher) |
1871-1945 |
| Carr, John Dickson (pseud. Carr Dickson, etc.) (Am. writer) |
1906-1977 |
| Carr, Robert (Viscount Rochester) (Scottish courtier) |
c.1590-1645 |
| Carra, Carlo (Italian painter) |
1881-1966 |
| Carracci, Agostino (It. painter, engraver; brother of Annibale) |
1557-1602 |
| Carracci, Annibale (Italian painter; cousin of Lodovico) |
1560-1609 |
| Carracci, Lodovico (Italian painter, teacher) |
1555-1619 |
| Carranza, Bartolome de (Bartolome de Miranda) (Spanish theol.) |
1503-1576 |
| Carranza, Venustiano (Mexican revolutionist, politician) |
1859-1920 |
| Carrara, Francesco (Italian ruler of Padua 1355-1388) |
d.1393 |
| Carrara, Marsiglio (Italian political ruler) |
d.1338 |
| Carras, Roger (American writer, broadcast journalist) |
1928-2001 |
| Carrasquilla, Tomas (Colombian novelist) |
1858-1940 |
| Carrel, Alexis (French surgeon, biologist) |
1873-1944 |
| Carreno de Miranda, Juan (Spanish painter) |
1614-1685 |
| Carrera Andrade, Jorge (Ecuadorian poet, essayist) |
1903-1978 |
| Carrera, Jose Miguel (Chilean revolutionist) |
1785-1821 |
| Carrera, Rafael (Guatemalan revolutionist, politician) |
1814-1865 |
| Carrere, John Merven (Brazilian-born American architect) |
1858-1911 |
| Carrier, Jean-Baptiste (French revolutionist) |
1756-1794 |
| Carrier, Roch (Canadian writer, playwright) |
b.1937 |
| Carrier, Willis Haviland (American engineer, inventor) |
1876-1950 |
| Carriera, Rosalba (Italian painter) |
1675-1757 |
| Carrier-Belleuse, Albert-Ernest (French sculptor) |
1824-1887 |
| Carriere, Eugene (French painter, lithographer) |
1849-1906 |
| Carrillo, Braulio (Costa Rican politician, dictator) |
1800-1845 |
| Carrillo, Julian Antonio (Mexican violinist, composer) |
1875-1965 |
| Carrillo y Sotomayor, Luis (Spanish poet) |
1583?-1610 |
| Carrington, Henry Beebee (American soldier) |
1824-1912 |
| Carrington, Richard Christopher (English astronomer) |
1826-1875 |
| Carrio de la Vandera, Alonso (Spanish colonial administrator) |
1715-1778? |
| Carrogis, Louis (pseud. Louis Carmontelle)(Fr. writer, painter) |
1717-1806 |
| Carroll, Anna Ella (American political writer) |
1815-1893 |
| Carroll, Charles (Charles Carroll of Carrollton) (Am. patriot) |
1737-1832 |
| Carroll, Earl (American theatrical producer) |
1893-1948 |
| Carroll, James (English-born American physician) |
1854-1907 |
| Carroll, James Dennis "Jim" (American poet, lyricist) |
b.1950 |
| Carroll, John (American prelate) |
1735-1815 |
| Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (English writer) |
1832-1898 |
| Carroll, Paul Vincent (Irish playwright) |
1900-1968 |
| Carr-Saunders, Sir Alexander Morris (Brit. sociologist, educ.) |
1886-1966 |
| Carruth, Hayden (American poet, literary critic) |
b.1921 |
| Carson, Christopher "Kit" (Am. trapper, scout, Indian agent) |
1809-1868 |
| Carson, Edward Henry (Irish-born British jurist, politician) |
1854-1935 |
| Carson, Johnny (John William) (American entertainer) |
1925-2005 |
| Carson, Rachel Louise (American biologist, author) |
1907-1964 |
| Carstares (or Carstairs), William (Scottish clergyman) |
1649-1715 |
| Carstens, Asmus Jakob (German painter, designer) |
1754-1798 |
| Cartan, Elie Joseph (French mathematician) |
1869-1951 |
| Carte, Richard D'Oyly (English impresario) |
1844-1901 |
| Carte, Thomas (English historian) |
1686-1754 |
| Carter, Alvin Pleasant "A.P." (American musician) |
1891-1960 |
| Carter, Angela Olive née Stalker (British writer, journalist) |
1940-1992 |
| Carter, Bennett Lester "Benny" (American musician, arranger) |
1907-2003 |
| Carter, Caroline Louise née Dudley (American actor) |
1862-1937 |
| Carter, Eleanor Rosalynn née Smith (American first lady) |
b.1927 |
| Carter, Elizabeth (English poet, translator; Bluestocking) |
1717-1806 |
| Carter, Hodding (American journalist, author) |
1907-1972 |
| Carter, Howard (English archaeologist, Egyptologist) |
1873-1939 |
| Carter, James (American musician) |
b.1969 |
| Carter, James Earl Jr. (39th U.S. president, 1977-1981) |
b.1924 |
| Carter, Janette (American musician) |
1923-2006 |
| Carter, Maybelle née Addington (American musician) |
1909-1978 |
| Carter, Samuel Powhatan (American army & naval officer) |
1819-1891 |
| Carter, William Alton "Billy" (American businessman) |
1937-1988 |
| Carteret, Sir George (Brit. naval officer, colonial proprietor) |
c.1610-1680 |
| Carteret, John (Earl Granville) (English diplomat, politician) |
1690-1763 |
| Carteret, Philip (English colonialist) |
1639-1682 |
| Carteret, Philip (English navigator) |
d.1796 |
| Cartier, Sir George Etienne (Canadian politician) |
1814-1873 |
| Cartier, Jacques (French sailor, explorer in Canada) |
1491-1557 |
| Cartier, Raymond-Marcel-Ernest (French journalist) |
1904-1975 |
| Cartier-Bresson, Henri (French photographer) |
b.1908 |
| Cartimandua (British tribal ruler) |
1st cent. |
| Cartland, Barbara Hamilton (married: McCorquodale)(Eng. writer) |
b.1901 |
| Carton de Wiart, Henri Victor (Belgian politician) |
1869-1951 |
| Cartwright, Alexander Joy (American sportsman) |
1820-1892 |
| Cartwright, Edmund (English clergyman, inventor; bro. of John) |
1743-1823 |
| Cartwright, John "Major Cartwright" (Eng. politician, reformer) |
1740-1824 |
| Cartwright, Peter (American clergyman) |
1785-1872 |
| Cartwright, Sir Richard John (Canadian politician) |
1835-1912 |
| Cartwright, Thomas (English Puritan clergyman) |
1535-1603 |
| Cartwright, William (English poet, scholar, wit, dramatist) |
1611-1643 |
| Carty, John Joseph (American electrical engineer) |
1861-1932 |
| Carus, Carl Gustav (German physician, philosopher) |
1789-1869 |
| Carus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor 282-283) |
223?-283 |
| Carus, Paul (German-born American editor, philosopher) |
1852-1919 |
| Caruso, Enrico (orig. Errico Caruso) (Italian singer) |
1873-1921 |
| Carvajal, Francisco de (Spanish soldier) |
1464-1548 |
| Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de (Spanish missionary) |
1568-1614 |
| Carvalho e Mello, Sebastiao Jose de (Portuguese politician) |
1699-1782 |
| Carver, George Washington (American botanist, educator) |
c.1864-1943 |
| Carver, John (Eng. Mayflower pilgrim, 1st Plymouth colony gov.) |
1576-1621 |
| Carver, Jonathan (American explorer) |
1710-1780 |
| Carver, Raymond Clevie Jr. (American writer, poet) |
1938-1988 |
| Carver, Robert (Scottish composer) |
c.1490-1546? |
| Cary, Alice (American poet, writer; sister of Phoebe) |
1820-1871 |
| Cary, Arthur Joyce Lunel (N. Irish-born British novelist) |
1888-1957 |
| Cary, Edward (American journalist) |
1840-1917 |
| Cary, Henry Francis (English clergyman, translator) |
1772-1844 |
| Cary, Lucius (2nd Viscount Falkland) (English Royalist) |
c.1610-1643 |
| Cary, Phoebe (American poet; sister of Alice) |
1824-1871 |
| Casa, Giovanni Della (Italian prelate, poet, playwright) |
1503-1556 |
| Casal y de la Lastra, Julian del (Cuban poet) |
1863-1893 |
| Casals, Pablo (Spanish violincellist, conductor, composer) |
1876-1973 |
| Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Giacomo (Italian adventurer) |
1725-1798 |
| Casanova, Francesco (It. painter, etcher; bro. of Giovanni G.) |
1727-1802 |
| Casanova, Giovanni Battista (It. painter; bro. of Giovanni G.) |
1730-1795 |
| Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo (Italian adventurer) |
1725-1798 |
| Casaubon, Isaac (Swiss-born French theologian, scholar) |
1559-1614 |
| Casca, Publius Servilius (Roman politician) |
d.42? BC |
| Cascariolo, Vincenzo (Italian alchemist) |
1571-1624 |
| Case, Leonard (American lawyer, philanthropist) |
1820-1880 |
| Case, Shirley Jackson (Canadian-born Am. theologian, scholar) |
1872-1947 |
| Casella, Alfredo (Italian pianist, composer) |
1883-1947 |
| Casement, Sir Roger David (British consular agent, Irish rebel) |
1864-1916 |
| Casey, Richard Gardiner (Baron Casey) (Australian politician) |
1890-1976 |
| Cash, Johnny (American musician) |
1932-2003 |
| Cash, June Carter (Am. singer, songwriter, musician, actor) |
1929-2003 |
| Cashin, Sir Michael Patrick (Canadian politician) |
1864-1926 |
| Casimir I "Odnowiciel" (Polish king 1034-37, 1040-58) |
1016-1058 |
| Casimir II "Sprawiedliwy" (Polish grand prince 1177-1194) |
1138-1194 |
| Casimir III "Wielky" (Polish king 1333-1370) |
1310-1370 |
| Casimir IV (aka Casimir Jagiellonczyk) (Polish king 1447-1492) |
1427-1492 |
| Casimir, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard (Dutch physicist) |
b.1908 |
| Casimir-Perier, Jean-Paul-Pierre (French president 1894-1895) |
1847-1907 |
| Caslon, William (Englist typefounder) |
1692-1766 |
| Caslon, William (Englist typefounder; son of William) |
1720-1778 |
| Cass, Lewis (American politician) |
1782-1866 |
| Cassady, Neal Leon (American Beat) |
1926-1968 |
| Cassagnac, Paul Granier de (French journalist, politician) |
1843-1904 |
| Cassander (King of Macedonia 305-297 BC) |
c.358-297 BC |
| Cassatt, Mary Stevenson (American painter in France) |
1844-1926 |
| Cassegrain, N. (French inventor) |
17th cent. |
| Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph (German-born British financier) |
1852-1921 |
| Cassel, Karl Gustav (Swedish economist) |
1866-1945 |
| Cassell, John (English publisher) |
1817-1865 |
| Casserio, Giulio (Julius Casserius) (Italian anatomist) |
1552?-1616 |
| Cassian, Saint John (Sythian monk, theologian) |
360-435 |
| Cassin, Rene-Samuel (French jurist, statesman) |
1887-1976 |
| Cassini, Cesar-Francois de Thury (French astronomer; son of J.) |
1714-1784 |
| Cassini, Gian Domenico (Italian-born French astronomer) |
1625-1712 |
| Cassini, Jacques (French astronomer; son of Gian) |
1677-1756 |
| Cassini, Jacques-Dominique de (French astronomer; son of C.F.) |
1748-1845 |
| Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Roman statesman, writer) |
c.490-c.585 |
| Cassirer, Ernst (German philosopher) |
1874-1945 |
| Cassius Dionysius (North African writer) |
1st cent. |
| Cassius Longinus, Gaius (Roman general, conspirator) |
d.42 BC |
| Cassius Longinus, Gaius (Roman jurist) |
1st cent. |
| Cassius Longinus, Quintus (Roman politician) |
d.47 BC |
| Cassius Parmensis, Gaius (Roman politician) |
d.31? BC |
| Cassius Vecellinus, Spurius (Roman political & military leader) |
6th-5th cent. BC |
| Cassivelaunus (or Cassivellaunus) (British prince) |
fl. 54 BC |
| Cassola, Carlo (Italian writer, Resistance fighter) |
1917-1987 |
| Castaldi, Pamfilo (Italian physician, printer) |
1398-1490? |
| Castanos, Francisco Javier de (Duque de Bailen) (Span. soldier) |
1756-1852 |
| Castel, Charles-Irenee "Abbe de Saint-Pierre" (French reformer) |
1658-1743 |
| Castelar y Ripoll, Emilio (Spanish politician, writer) |
1832-1899 |
| Casteleyn, Matthijs de (Flemish poet, critic) |
c.1488-1550 |
| Castelli, Benedetto (Italian astronomer) |
1578-1643 |
| Castelli, Ignaz Franz (Austrian journalist, poet, dramatist) |
1781-1862 |
| Castello, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter, architect) |
1509?-1569 |
| Castelnau, Michel de (French soldier, diplomat) |
1520?-1592 |
| Castelnau, Noel-Marie-Joseph-Edouard de Curieres de (Fr. gen.) |
1851-1944 |
| Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (Italian-born American composer) |
1895-1968 |
| Castelo Branco, Camilo (Portuguese writer) |
1825-1890 |
| Castelo Branco, Humberto de Alencar (Brazilian soldier, polit.) |
1900-1967 |
| Castelvetro, Lodovico (Italian critic, philologist) |
c.1505-1571 |
| Casti, Giovanni Battista (Italian poet, adventurer) |
1724-1803 |
| Castiglione, Baldassare (Italian diplomat, writer) |
1478-1529 |
| Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (Italian painter, etcher) |
c.1616-1670 |
| Castiglioni, Virginia Verasis di née Oldoini (Italian courtier) |
1835-1899 |
| Castilho, Antonio Feliciano de (Portuguese poet) |
1800-1875 |
| Castilla, Ramon (Chilean-born Peruvian general, politician) |
1797-1867 |
| Castillejo, Cristobal de (Spanish poet) |
1490?-1550? |
| Castillo, Michel-Xavier Janicot del (Spanish writer) |
b.1933 |
| Castillo, Ramon S. (Argentinean politician; president 1942-43) |
1873-1944 |
| Castillo Armas, Carlos (Guatemalan soldier, politician) |
1914-1957 |
| Castillo Puche, Jose Luis (Spanish journalist, teacher, editor) |
b.1919 |
| Castillo Solorzano, Alonso de (Spanish writer) |
1584-1648? |
| Castle, Irene née Foote (British dancer; wife of Vernon) |
1893-1969 |
| Castle, Vernon Blythe (orig. Vernon Blythe) (Brit. dancer, av.) |
1887-1918 |
| Castle, William Ernest (American zoologist) |
1867-1962 |
| Castren, Matthias Alexander (Finnish ethnologist, philologist) |
1813-1852 |
| Castro, Cipriano (Venezuelan general, dictator) |
1858-1924 |
| Castro, Eugenio de (Portuguese poet) |
1869-1944 |
| Castro, Ines de (Spanish noblewoman) |
1320?-1355 |
| Castro, Joao de (Portuguese naval commander) |
1500-1548 |
| Castro, Jose Maria (Costa Rican politician; president 1847-49) |
1818-1893 |
| Castro, Rosalia de (Spanish poet, writer) |
1837-1885 |
| Castro Alves, Antonio de (Brazilian poet) |
1847-1871 |
| Castro Ruz, Fidel (Cuban dictator) |
b.1927 |
| Castro y Bellvis, Guillen de (Spanish dramatist) |
1569-1631 |
| Castro y Quesada, Americo (Spanish philologist, cultural hist.) |
1885-1972 |
| Castruccio Castracani (Italian soldier, Ghibelline leader) |
1281-1328 |
| Caswell, Richard (American Revolutionary officer) |
1729-1789 |
| Cat, Christopher (English tavern keeper: Kit-cat Club) |
fl. 1703-1733 |
| Catalani, Alfredo (Italian composer) |
1854-1893 |
| Catargiu, Lazar (Romanian politician) |
1823-1899 |
| Catena, Vincenzo di Biagio (Venetian painter) |
c.1470-1531 |
| Catesby, Mark (English naturalist, traveler) |
1679?-1749 |
| Catesby, Robert (English conspirator) |
1573-1605 |
| Cathcart, Charles Murray (English soldier; son of Sir William) |
1783-1859 |
| Cathcart, George (English soldier; son of Sir William) |
1794-1854 |
| Cathcart, Sir William Schaw (English soldier, diplomat) |
1755-1843 |
| Cathelineau, Jacques (French Royalist) |
1759-1793 |
| Cather, Willa Sibert (American novelist) |
1873-1947 |
| Catherine, Saint (orig. Caterina del Ricci) (Italian religious) |
1522-1590 |
| Catherine I (orig. Marta Skowronska) (Russian empress 1725-27) |
1684-1727 |
| Catherine II "the Great" (Russian empress 1762-96) |
1729-1796 |
| Catherine of Alexandria, Saint (Egyptian religious) |
4th cent. |
| Catherine of Aragon (1st Queen of Henry VIII of England) |
1485-1536 |
| Catherine of Bologna, Saint (Caterina Vigri) (It. religious) |
1413-1463 |
| Catherine of Braganza (Queen of Charles II of England) |
1638-1705 |
| Catherine of Genoa, Saint (orig. Caterina Fieschi) (It. mystic) |
1447-1510 |
| Catherine of Siena, Saint (Caterina Benincasa) (It. religious) |
1347-1380 |
| Catherine of Sweden, Saint (Katarina Ulfsdotter) (Swed. relig.) |
1331/2-1381 |
| Catherine of Valois (Queen of Henry V of England) |
1401-1437 |
| Catherine de Medicis (Queen of Henry II of France) |
1519-1589 |
| Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catalina) (Roman polit., conspirator) |
c.108-62 BC |
| Catinat, Nicolas (French soldier) |
1637-1712 |
| Catlin, George (American artist, author) |
1796-1872 |
| Cato, Dionysius (Roman writer) |
3rd-4th cent. |
| Cato, Marcus Porcius "the Elder" (Roman politician, orator) |
234-149 BC |
| Cato, Marcus Porcius "the Younger" (Roman politician) |
95-46 BC |
| Cato, Publius Valerius (Roman scholar, poet) |
1st cent. BC |
| Catron, John (American jurist; Supreme Court justice 1837-65) |
1786?-1865 |
| Catroux, Georges (French general) |
1877-1969 |
| Cats, Jakob (Dutch poet, official) |
1577-1660 |
| Catt, Carrie Clinton Chapman née Lane (American reformer) |
1859-1947 |
| Cattaneo, Carlo (Italian writer) |
1801-1869 |
| Cattell, James McKeen (American psychologist) |
1860-1944 |
| Catton, Charles Bruce (American journalist, historian, editor) |
1899-1978 |
| Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Roman lyric poet) |
c.84-c.54 BC |
| Catulus, Gaius Lutatius (Roman naval commander) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Cauchon, Pierre (French prelate; judge at trial of Joan of Arc) |
1371-1442 |
| Cauchy, Augustin-Louis (French mathematician) |
1789-1857 |
| Cauchy, Eugene-Francois (French jurist; brother of Augustin) |
1802-1877 |
| Caulaincourt, Armand-Augustin-Louis de (Fr. soldier, diplomat) |
1773-1827 |
| Caullery, Maurice-Jules-Gaston-Corneille (French biologist) |
1868-1958 |
| Caumont La Force, Antonin-Nompar de (French soldier) |
1633-1723 |
| Caunt, Benjamin (British pugilist) |
1815-1861 |
| Caupolican (also Quepolican) (Indian leader) |
d.1558 |
| Caus (or Cauls, Caulx, Caux), Salomon de (French engineer) |
1576-1626 |
| Cavafy, Constantine Peter (Greek poet, civil servant) |
1863-1933 |
| Cavaignac, (Eleonore-Louis-) Godefroy (Fr. journalist, polit.) |
1801-1845 |
| Cavaignac, Jean-Baptiste (French lawyer, revolutionist) |
1762-1829 |
| Cavaignac, Louis-Eugene (French army commander; son of Jean) |
1802-1857 |
| Cavaille-Coll, Aristide (French organ builder) |
1811-1899 |
| Cavalcanti, Guido (Florentine poet) |
c.1255-1300 |
| Cavalcaselle, Giovanni Battista (Italian art historian, critic) |
1820-1897 |
| Cavalier, Jean (French insurgent) |
1681-1740 |
| Cavalieri, Emilio de' (also Emilio del Cavaliere) (It. comp.) |
c.1550-1602 |
| Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura (Italian mathematician) |
1598-1647 |
| Cavallero, Ugo (Italian general) |
1880-1943 |
| Cavalli, Francesco (Italian composer) |
1602-1676 |
| Cavallini, Pietro (Italian painter, mosaicist) |
c.1250-c.1330 |
| Cavallotti, Felice Carlo Emmanuele (Italian politician, writer) |
1842-1898 |
| Cave, Edward (English printer) |
1691-1754 |
| Cave, George (1st Viscount Cave) (English jurist) |
1856-1928 |
| Cave, Nicholas Edward "Nick" (Australian musician) |
b.1957 |
| Cavell, Edith Louisa (English nurse, humanitarian) |
1865-1915 |
| Cavendish, George (English courtier, writer) |
1500-1561/2 |
| Cavendish, Henry (English physicist, chemist) |
1731-1810 |
| Cavendish, Margaret (English noblewoman; duchess of Newcastle) |
1624?-1674 |
| Cavendish, Spencer Compton (English statesman) |
1833-1908 |
| Cavendish (or Candish), Thomas (English navigator) |
c.1560-1592 |
| Cavendish, Sir William (English statesman) |
1505?-1557 |
| Cavendish, William (English statesman) |
1640-1707 |
| Caventou, Joseph-Bienaime (French chemist) |
1795-1877 |
| Cawdrey, Robert (English lexicographer) |
1580-1604 |
| Caxias, Duque de (Luiz Alves de Lima e Silva) (Braz. statesman) |
1803-1880 |
| Caxton, William (English printer; 1st printer in England) |
c.1422-1491 |
| Cayley, Arthur (English mathematician) |
1821-1895 |
| Cayley, Sir George (English scientist) |
1773-1857 |
| Cayrol, Jean-Raphael-Marie-Noel (French poet, writer, essayist) |
b.1911 |
| Cazalis, Henri (pseud. Jean Caselli) (French physician, poet) |
1840-1909 |
| Cazin, Jean-Charles (French painter, ceramic artist) |
1841-1901 |
| Cazotte, Jacques (French writer) |
1719-1792 |
| Ceadda (or Chad), Saint (British prelate; bishop of Mercia) |
d.672 |
| Ceausescu, Nicolae (Romanian president 1974-1989) |
1918-1989 |
| Ceawlin (King of West Saxons 560-592; son of King Cynric) |
d.593 |
| Cebes (Greek philosopher) |
5th cent. BC |
| Cecchetti, Enrico (Italian dancer, teacher) |
1850-1928 |
| Cecchi, Emilio (Italian essayist, critic) |
1884-1966 |
| Cech, Svatopluk (Czech poet, novelist) |
1846-1908 |
| Cech, Thomas Robert (American biochemist) |
b.1947 |
| Cecil, Edgar Algernon Robert (English statesman) |
1864-1958 |
| Cecil, Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne (Eng. biographer) |
1902-1986 |
| Cecil, Robert (English statesman) |
1563-1612 |
| Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- (English statesman) |
1830-1903 |
| Cecil, William (English statesman) |
1520-1598 |
| Cecilia, Saint (Roman Christian martyr; patron saint of music) |
2nd/3rd cent. |
| Cedd (or Cedda), Saint (English prelate; brother of St. Ceadda) |
d.664 |
| Cedrinus, George (Byzantine historian) |
11th cent. |
| Cela Trulock, Camilo Jose (Spanish writer, publisher) |
b.1916 |
| Cela, Camilo Jose (Spanish writer) |
b.1916 |
| Celakovsky, Frantisek Ladislav (Bohemian poet) |
1799-1852 |
| Celan, Paul (pseudonym of Paul Antschel) (Romanian poet) |
1920-1970 |
| Celestine I, Saint (Pope 422-432) |
d.432 |
| Celestine II (orig. Guido di Citta di Castello) (Pope 1143-44) |
d.1144 |
| Celestine III (orig. Giacinto Bobo-Orsini) (Pope 1191-98) |
c.1106-1198 |
| Celestine IV (orig. Goffredo Castiglioni) (Pope 1241) |
d.1241 |
| Celestine V, Saint (orig. Pietro da Morrone) (Pope 1294) |
c.1209-1296 |
| Celestius (Roman theologian) |
5th cent. |
| Celine, Louise-Ferdinand Destouches (French writer) |
1894-1961 |
| Cellini, Benvenuto (Italian goldsmith, sculptor) |
1500-1571 |
| Celoron de Blainville, Pierre-Joseph de (Can.-born Fr. expl.) |
1693-1759 |
| Celsius, Anders (Swedish astronomer) |
1701-1744 |
| Celsus (Roman or Alexandrian philosopher) |
2nd cent. |
| Celsus, Aulus Cornelius (Roman writer) |
1st cent. |
| Cem (also Jem) (Ottoman prince; son of Sultan Mehmed II) |
1459-1495 |
| Cemal Pasa, Ahmed (Turkish army officer) |
1872-1922 |
| Cen Shen (or Ts'en Shen; aka Cen Jiazhou) (Chinese poet) |
d.770 |
| Cenci, Beatrice (Roman woman executed for parricide) |
1577-1599 |
| Cennini, Cennino (orig. Cennino di Drea) (Florentine painter) |
c.1370-c.1440 |
| Censorinus (Roman scholar) |
3rd cent. |
| Centlivre, Susanna née Freeman or Rawkins (Eng. dram., actor) |
1667?-1723 |
| Cenwulf (also Coenwulf) (Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia 796-821) |
d.821 |
| Ceolnoth (Anglo-Saxon prelate; Archbishop of Canterbury) |
d.870 |
| Cephisodotus (Greek sculptor) |
fl. c.400 BC |
| Cephisodotus (Greek sculptor; grandson of Cephisodotus) |
4th cent. BC |
| Ceracchi, Giuseppe (Italian sculptor) |
1751-1802 |
| Cerchi, Vieri dei (Florentine noble) |
fl. 1300 |
| Cerdic (Saxon leader) |
d.534 |
| Cerealis, Petillus (Roman general) |
1st cent. |
| Cerezo, Mateo (Spanish painter) |
c.1626-1666 |
| Cerf, Bennett Alfred (American publisher, editor) |
1898-1971 |
| Cerinthus (Egyptian? heretic; founded Cerinthian sect) |
fl. c.100 |
| Cermak, Anton Joseph (Bohemian-born American businessman) |
1873-1933 |
| Cernuda y Bidon, Luis (Span. poet, critic; Generation of 1927) |
1902-1963 |
| Cerrito, Francesca "Fanny" (Italian dancer) |
1817-1909 |
| Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (Spanish novelist, playwright) |
1547-1616 |
| Cervera y Topete, Pascual (Spanish admiral) |
1839-1909 |
| Cesaire, Aime-Fernand (Martinican poet, playwright; Negritude) |
b.1913 |
| Cesalpino, Andrea (Italian physiologist, botanist) |
1519-1603 |
| Cesari, Giuseppe "Cavaliere d'Arpino" (Italian painter) |
c.1568-1640 |
| Cesarini, Giuliano "Cardinal Julian" (It. prelate, diplomat) |
1398-1444 |
| Cesarotti, Melchiorre (It. poet, essayist, translator, critic) |
1730-1808 |
| Cesnola, Luigi Palma di (It.-born Am. army officer, archaeol.) |
1832-1904 |
| Cespedes, Carlos Manuel de (Cuban revolutionist) |
1819-1874 |
| Cespedes, Pablo de (Spanish painter, writer) |
1538-1608 |
| Cespedes y Meneses, Gonzalo de (Spanish writer) |
1585?-1638 |
| Cespedes y Quesada, Carlos Manuel de (Cuban lawyer, diplomat) |
1871-1939 |
| Cesti, Antonio (orig. Pietro) (Italian composer) |
1623-1669 |
| Cestius, Gaius (Roman praetor, tribune of the people) |
1st cent. BC |
| Cetewayo (also Cetshwayo) (Zulu king 1873-1879) |
c.1826-1884 |
| Cethegus, Marcus Cornelius (Roman general, politician) |
d.196 BC |
| Cetina, Gutierre de (Spanish soldier, poet) |
1520?-1557? |
| Ceulen, Ludolph van (Dutch mathematician) |
1540-1610 |
| Ceva, Giovanni (Italian mathematician) |
1647?-1734 |
| Ceva, Tomasso (Italian mathematician; brother of Giovanni) |
1648-1737 |
| Cevdet Pasa, Ahmed (Turkish politician, historian) |
1822-1895 |
| Cezanne, Paul (French painter) |
1839-1906 |
| Chaadayev (or Chaadaev), Pyotr Yakovlevich (Russian writer) |
c.1794-1856 |
| Chabot, Philippe de (French soldier) |
1480-1543 |
| Chabrias (Greek mercenary general) |
d.c.357 BC |
| Chabrier, Alexis-Emmanuel (French composer) |
1841-1894 |
| Chacel, Rosa (Spanish writer, essayist, poet) |
1898-1994 |
| Chacon, Lazaro (Guatemalan soldier, politician; pres. 1926-30) |
1873-1931 |
| Chadbourne, Eugene (American musician) |
b.1954 |
| Chadwick, Sir Edwin (English reformer) |
1800-1890 |
| Chadwick, George Whitefield (American conductor, composer) |
1854-1931 |
| Chadwick, Hector Munro (English philologist, historian) |
1870-1947 |
| Chadwick, Henry (English-born American sportswriter) |
1824-1908 |
| Chadwick, Sir James (Eng. physicist; discovered neutron 1932) |
1891-1974 |
| Chaerea, Gaius Cassius (Roman soldier, conspirator) |
d.41 |
| Chaeremon (Athenian dramatist) |
4th cent. BC |
| Chaeremon (Alexandrian Stoic philosopher, scholar) |
1st cent. |
| Chafee, Zechariah (American lawyer, educator) |
1885-1957 |
| Chaffee, Adna Romanza (American army officer) |
1842-1914 |
| Chaffee, Adna Romanza (American army officer; son of Adna) |
1884-1941 |
| Chaffee, Roger Bruce (American astronaut; died in Apollo 1) |
1935-1967 |
| Chagall, Marc (Russian painter in France) |
1887-1985 |
| Chagas, Carlos Ribeiro Justiniano (Brazilian bacteriologist) |
1879-1934 |
| Chagatai (also Tsagadai) (Mongol prince; son of Genghis Khan) |
d.1241 |
| Chaille-Long, Charles (American army officer, explorer) |
1842-1917 |
| Chain, Sir Ernst Boris (German-born British biochemist) |
1906-1979 |
| Chajang Yulsa (Korean Buddhist monk) |
7th cent. |
| Chalcondyles (or Chalcocondylas), Demetrius (Byzantine scholar) |
1423-1511 |
| Chalgrin, Jean-Francois-Therese (French architect) |
1739-1811 |
| Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich (Russian basso singer) |
1873-1938 |
| Chalkhill, John (English poet) |
c.1595-1642 |
| Challe, Maurice-Prosper-Felix (French air force officer) |
1905-1979 |
| Challis, James (English astronomer) |
1803-1882 |
| Challoner, Richard (English prelate) |
1691-1781 |
| Chalmers, Alexander (Scottish journalist, biographer) |
1759-1834 |
| Chalmers, James (Scottish missionary; eaten by cannibals) |
1841-1901 |
| Chalmers, Thomas (Scottish theologian, preacher) |
1780-1847 |
| Chamberlain, Arthur Neville (British politician; son of Joseph) |
1869-1940 |
| Chamberlain, Charles Joseph (American botanist) |
1863-1943 |
| Chamberlain, George Agnew (Brazil-born American novelist) |
1879-1966 |
| Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (British publicist) |
1855-1927 |
| Chamberlain, Joseph (British politician, reformer) |
1836-1914 |
| Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen (British polit.; son of Joseph) |
1863-1937 |
| Chamberlain, Sir Neville Bowles (British army officer) |
1820-1902 |
| Chamberlain, Owen (American physicist, humanist, activist) |
1920-2006 |
| Chamberland, Charles-Edouard (French bacteriologist) |
1851-1908 |
| Chamberlayne, William (English physician, poet) |
1619-1689 |
| Chamberlen, Hugh the Elder (Eng. midwife; grandnephew of Peter) |
1630-1720 |
| Chamberlen, Peter the Elder (English midwife) |
1560-1631 |
| Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (American geologist) |
1843-1928 |
| Chambers, Sir Edmund Kerchever (English scholar) |
1866-1954 |
| Chambers, Ephraim (English encyclopedist, translator) |
c.1680-1740 |
| Chambers, Jay David Whittaker (American journalist) |
1901-1961 |
| Chambers, John Graham (English sportsman) |
1843-1883 |
| Chambers, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jr. (American musician) |
1935-1969 |
| Chambers, Raymond Wilson (English scholar) |
1874-1942 |
| Chambers, Robert (Scottish publisher, author) |
1802-1871 |
| Chambers, Robert William (American artist, author) |
1865-1933 |
| Chambers, Sir William (British architect) |
1726-1796 |
| Chambers, William (Scottish publisher; brother of Robert) |
1802-1871 |
| Chambonnieres, Jacques Champion de (French musician) |
c.1602-1672 |
| Chamfort, Sebastian-Roch Nicolas (French playwright, wit) |
1741-1794 |
| Chamillart, Michel (French politician) |
1652-1721 |
| Chamisso, Adelbert von (French-born German writer, naturalist) |
1781-1838 |
| Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de (Nicaraguan president 1990-) |
b.1929 |
| Chamorro Vargas, Emiliano (Nicaraguan general, politician) |
1871-1966 |
| Champagny, Jean-Baptiste Nompere de (Fr. politician, diplomat) |
1756-1834 |
| Champaigne (or Champagne), Philippe de (Belgian painter) |
1602-1674 |
| Championnet, Jean-Antoine-Etienne (French general) |
1762-1800 |
| Champlain, Samuel de (French explorer; founded Quebec) |
c.1567-1635 |
| Champmesle, Marie née Desmares (French actor) |
1642-1698 |
| Champollion, Jacques-Joseph (French archaeologist) |
1778-1867 |
| Champollion, Jean-Francois (Fr. Egyptologist; bro. of Jacques) |
1790-1832 |
| Chancellor, Richard (English navigator) |
d.1556 |
| Chandakumara (also Tiantha Koumane) (Laotian ruler) |
d.c.1869 |
| Chandler, Alfred DuPont Jr. (Am. economic historian, writer) |
1918-2007 |
| Chandler, Raymond Thornton (Am. writer; created Philip Marlowe) |
1888-1959 |
| Chandler, Richard (English antiquary) |
1738-1810 |
| Chandler, Seth Carlo (American astronomer) |
1846-1913 |
| Chandos, Sir John (English soldier) |
d.1370 |
| Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Indian-born American physicist) |
1910-1995 |
| Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco" (French dress designer) |
1883-1971 |
| Chaney, Alonso Chaney "Lon" (American actor) |
1883-1930 |
| Chaney, Lon Jr. (orig Creighton Chaney) (American actor) |
1907-1973 |
| Chaney, Norman (American actor; Our Gang: "Chubby") |
1918-1936 |
| Chang & Eng (Siam-born American Siamese twins) |
1811-1874 |
| Changarnier, Nicolas-Anne-Theodule (French soldier) |
1793-1877 |
| Chang Ch'ien (Chinese explorer) |
d.114 BC |
| Chang Chien (Chinese industrialist, reformer) |
1853-1926 |
| Chang Chih-tung (Chinese scholar, reformer) |
1837-1909 |
| Chang Chu-cheng (Chinese official) |
d.1582 |
| Ch'ang -ch'un (Chinese monk, alchemist, traveler) |
1148-1227 |
| Chang Heng (Chinese scholar, poet) |
78-139 |
| Chang Hsien-chung "the Yellow Tiger" (Chinese rebel) |
c.1605-1647 |
| Chang Hsueh-liang (Chinese general; son of Chang Tso-lin) |
b.1898 |
| Chang Hsueh-liang (aka Zhang Xianliang) (Chinese writer) |
b.1936 |
| Chang Ling (Chang Tao-ling) (Chinese religious leader) |
34?-156? |
| Chang Ping-lin (Chinese scholar, politician) |
1868-1936 |
| Chang Sung-ob (aka Owon) (Korean painter) |
1843-1897 |
| Chang Tsai (aka Chang Heng-ch'u) (Chinese philosopher) |
1020-1077 |
| Chang Tso-lin (Chinese warlord) |
1873-1928 |
| Chang Tzu-p'ing (Chinese writer; co-fd. Creation Society) |
1893-1947? |
| Channing, Edward Perkins (Am. historian; grandson of Walter) |
1856-1931 |
| Channing, Walter (American obstetrician; brother of William) |
1786-1876 |
| Channing, William Ellery (American clergyman) |
1780-1842 |
| Chantal, Saint Jeanne-Francoise de née Fremyot (Fr. religious) |
1572-1641 |
| Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (English sculptor) |
1781-1841 |
| Chanute, Octave (Fr.-born Am. civil engineer, aviation pioneer) |
1832-1910 |
| Chanzy, Antoine-Eugene-Alfred (French soldier) |
1823-1883 |
| Chao Anou (also Chao Anu, Chao Anouvong) (Laotian ruler) |
1767-1835 |
| Chao Chen (Chinese emperor 1022-1063; son of Heng) |
1010-1063 |
| Chao Chi (Chinese emperor 100-1125; son of the elder Hsu) |
1082-1135 |
| Chao Ch'i (Chinese emperor 1265-1274; nephew of Yun) |
1240-1274 |
| Chao Heng (Chinese emperor 997-1022; son of Kuei) |
968-1022 |
| Chao Hsien (Chinese emperor 1275-1276; son of Ch'i) |
1270-1276? |
| Chao Hsu (Chinese emperor 1068-1085; son of Shu) |
1048-1085 |
| Chao Hsu (Chinese emperor 1086-1100; son of Hsu) |
1077-1100 |
| Chao Huan (Chinese emperor 1125-1126; son of Chi) |
1100-1160 |
| Chao-hui (Chinese general) |
1708-1764 |
| Chao Jukua (Chinese official) |
12th cent. |
| Chao Kao (Chinese official, conspirator) |
d.207 BC |
| Chao Kou (Chinese emperor 1127-1162; son of Chi) |
1107-1187 |
| Chao K'uang-yin (Chinese emperor 960-976; founded Sung dynasty) |
927-976 |
| Chao Kuei (Chinese emperor 976-997; brother of K'uang-yin) |
939-997 |
| Chao K'uo (Chinese emperor 1195-1224; son of Tun) |
1168-1224 |
| Chao Meng-fu (literary name Tzu-ang) (Chinese painter, callig.) |
1254-1322 |
| Chao Nan (aka Chao Nanthasen) (Laotian ruler; son of Ong Boun) |
d.1795 |
| Chao Ping (Chinese emperor 1279; brother of Hsien, Shih) |
1271-1279 |
| Chao Shen (Chinese emperor 1163-1189; adopted son of Kou) |
1127-1194 |
| Chao Shih (Chinese emperor 1276-1278; brother of Hsien) |
1268-1278 |
| Chao Shu (Chinese emperor 1064-1067; great-grandson of Kuei) |
1032-1067 |
| Chao Tun (Chinese emperor 1190-1194; son of Shen) |
1147-1200 |
| Chao Yun (Chinese emperor 1225-1264; adopted son of K'uo) |
1205-1264 |
| Chapais, Sir (Joseph Amable) Thomas (Can. lawyer, politician) |
1858-1946 |
| Chapelain, Jean (French poet, literary critic) |
1595-1674 |
| Chapelan, Maurice (French journalist, writer) |
1906-1992 |
| Chapin, Roy Dikeman (American industrialist) |
1880-1936 |
| Chapi y Lorente, Ruperto (Spanish composer) |
1851-1909 |
| Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" (Eng. comedian, actor) |
1889-1977 |
| Chaplin, Ralph (American commercial artist, poet, activist) |
1887-1961 |
| Chaplin, Sidney "Sid" (British writer) |
1916-1986 |
| Chapman, Frank Michler (American ornithologist) |
1864-1945 |
| Chapman, George (English poet, dramatist, translator) |
1559?-1634 |
| Chapman, Graham (English actor, comedian) |
1941-1989 |
| Chapman, John "Johnny Appleseed" (American pioneer) |
1774-1845 |
| Chapman, John Gadsby (American painter, etcher) |
1808-1889 |
| Chapman, John Jay (American poet, dramatist, critic) |
1862-1933 |
| Chapman, Nathaniel (American physician) |
1780-1853 |
| Chapman, Robert (English educator, editor) |
b.1920 |
| Chapman, Stephen James (American columnist) |
b.1954 |
| Chapone, Hester née Mulso (English essayist) |
1727-1801 |
| Chappe, Claude (French engineer) |
1763-1805 |
| Chappe, Ignace-Urbain-Jean (French engineer; brother of Claude) |
1760-1829 |
| Chappell, William (English antiquary) |
1809-1888 |
| Chaptal, Jean-Antoine (French chemist) |
1756-1832 |
| Chapu, Henri-Michel-Antoine (French sculptor) |
1833-1891 |
| Char, Rene (French poet) |
1907-1988 |
| Charbonneau, Jean (French-Canadian poet) |
1875-1960 |
| Charbonneau, Robert (French-Canadian writer, literary critic) |
1911-1967 |
| Charcot, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste (French explorer) |
1867-1936 |
| Charcot, Jean-Martin (Fr. neurologist; father of Jean-Baptiste) |
1825-1893 |
| Chardin, Jean (later Sir John) (French traveler) |
1643-1713 |
| Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon (French painter) |
1699-1779 |
| Chardonnet, Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud de (French chemist) |
1839-1924 |
| Chares (Athenian general) |
4th cent. BC |
| Chares (Greek sculptor) |
4th cent. BC |
| Charette de la Contrie, Francois-Athanase (French Royalist) |
1763-1796 |
| Chargaff, Erwin (Austrian-born American biochemist) |
1905-2002 |
| Charibert (or Caribert) (Frankish king; son of Chlotar I) |
d.567 |
| Charidemus (Greek mercenary) |
d.333 BC |
| Chariton (Greek writer) |
1st/2nd cent. |
| Charlemagne (Frankish king 768-814; 1st Holy Roman emperor) |
742-814 |
| Charles, Ezzard Mack (American boxer) |
1921-1975 |
| Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-Cesar (Fr. physicist, chemist, inv.) |
1746-1823 |
| Charles, Ray (b. Ray Charles Robinson) (American musician) |
1930-2004 |
| Charles, Robert Henry (Irish-born British clergyman, scholar) |
1855-1931 |
| Charles, Thomas (Welsh preacher) |
1755-1814 |
| Charles Martel (Martellus) (Frankish ruler) |
c.688-741 |
| Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint (French artist) |
1792-1845 |
| Charlevoix, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de (French traveler) |
1682-1761 |
| Charlier, Jean "Jean de Gerson" (French theologian) |
1363-1429 |
| Charlot, Andre Eugene Maurice (Fr.-born Brit. theatrical mgr.) |
1882-1956 |
| Charmides (Greek philosopher, politician) |
450?-404 BC |
| Charnay, Claude-Joseph-Desire (French archaeologist) |
1828-1915 |
| Charnock, Job (English merchant) |
d.1693 |
| Charonton (also Charrenton), Enguerrand (French painter) |
fl. 1444-1466 |
| Charpak, Georges (Polish-born French physicist) |
b.1924 |
| Charpentier, Gustave (French composer) |
1860-1956 |
| Charpentier, Johann von (German geologist) |
1786-1855 |
| Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (French organist, composer) |
1634?-1704 |
| Charriere, Isabelle Agnes Elizabeth de (Du.-born Swiss writer) |
1740-1805 |
| Charron, Pierre (French theologian, philosopher) |
1541-1603 |
| Charteris, Leslie (b. Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin) (Eng. writer) |
1907-1993 |
| Chartier, Alain (French writer, diplomat) |
c.1385-1433? |
| Chartier, Emile-Auguste (pseud. Alain) (French philosopher) |
1868-1951 |
| Chase, Cornelius Crane Chase "Chevy" (American comedian) |
b.1943 |
| Chase, Mary née Coyle (American playwright) |
1907-1981 |
| Chase, Mary Ellen (American educator, writer) |
1887-1973 |
| Chase, Philander (American clergyman) |
1775-1852 |
| Chase, Salmon Portland (American Supreme Court chief justice) |
1808-1873 |
| Chase, Samuel (American Supreme Court justice 1796-1811) |
1741-1811 |
| Chase, Stuart (American consumer rights advocate, writer) |
1888-1985 |
| Chase, William Merritt (American painter) |
1849-1916 |
| Chasles, Michel (French mathematician) |
1793-1880 |
| Chasles, (Victor-Euphemien-) Philarete (French scholar, writer) |
1798-1873 |
| Chasse, David Hendrik (Dutch general) |
1765-1849 |
| Chasseboeuf, Constantin-Francois (French scholar, politician) |
1757-1820 |
| Chasseloup-Laubat, Francois de (Fr. soldier, military engineer) |
1754-1833 |
| Chasseloup-Laubat, Justin-Prosper (Fr. polit.; son of Francois) |
1805-1873 |
| Chassepot, Antoine-Alphonse (French inventor) |
1833-1905 |
| Chasseriau, Theodore (Dominican Republic-born French painter) |
1819-1856 |
| Chastelard, Pierre (or Piraud) de Boscozel de (French poet) |
1540-1564 |
| Chastellain, Georges (Flemish-born Burgundian chronicler, poet) |
c.1405/15-1475 |
| Chateaubriand, Francois-Auguste-Rene de (Fr. writer, statesman) |
1768-1848 |
| Chateaubriant, Alphonse de (French novelist) |
1877-1951 |
| Chateaurenault, Francois-Louis Rousselet de (Fr. naval officer) |
1637-1716 |
| Chateillon, Sebastien (Sebastianus Castellio) (Fr. theologian) |
1515-1563 |
| Chatel, Jean (French fanatic) |
1575?-1594 |
| Chatelet, Gabrielle-Emile du (French mathematician, physicist) |
1706-1749 |
| Chatrian, Alexandre (French author; wrote with Emile Erckmann) |
1826-1890 |
| Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra (Indian novelist) |
1838-1894 |
| Chatterji, Sarat Chandra (Bengali writer) |
1876-1938 |
| Chatterton, Thomas (English poet) |
1752-1770 |
| Chatwin, Charles Bruce (British travel writer, photographer) |
1940-1989 |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey (English poet, public servant) |
c.1342-1400 |
| Chaucer, Thomas (English politician; putative son of Geoffrey) |
1367?-1434 |
| Chaudet, Denis-Antoine (French sculptor, painter) |
1763-1810 |
| Chaudhuri, Nirad (Indian writer) |
b.1897 |
| Chaumeix, Jean-Henri-Andre (French journalist) |
1874-1955 |
| Chaumette, Pierre-Gaspard (French revolutionary) |
1763-1794 |
| Chauncey, Isaac (American naval officer) |
1772-1840 |
| Chauncy, Charles (English-born American clergyman, educator) |
1592-1672 |
| Chauncy, Charles (Am. clergyman; great-grandson of Charles) |
1705-1787 |
| Chausson, Amedee-Ernest (French composer) |
1855-1899 |
| Chautemps, Camille (French politician) |
1885-1963 |
| Chauveau, Pierre Joseph Olivier (Canadian politician, novelist) |
1820-1890 |
| Chauveau-Lagarde, Claude-Francois (French lawyer) |
1756-1841 |
| Chauvel, Jean (French diplomat) |
1897-1979 |
| Chauvin, Nicolas (Fr. soldier - legendary?; eponym: chauvinism) |
fl. 1815 |
| Chavez, Carlos Antonio de Padua (Mexican conductor, composer) |
1899-1978 |
| Chavez, Jorge "Geo" (French-born Peruvian aviator) |
1887-1910 |
| Chavis, Wilson Anthony "Boozoo" (American musician, bandleader) |
1930-2001 |
| Chayefsky, Sidney "Paddy" (American playwright, screenwriter) |
1923-1981 |
| Chaykovsky, Nikolay Vasilyevich (Russian Socialist) |
1850-1926 |
| Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich (Russian mathematician) |
1821-1894 |
| Checker, Chubby (Ernest Evans) (American musician) |
b.1941 |
| Chedid, Andree (Egyptian-born French writer) |
b.1920 |
| Cheever, John (American writer) |
1912-1982 |
| Chehab, Fuad (Lebanese soldier, politician) |
1902-1973 |
| Cheke, Sir John (English classical scholar) |
1514-1557 |
| Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (Russian playwright, writer) |
1860-1904 |
| Chelard, Hippolyte-Andre-Jean-Baptiste (French composer) |
1789-1861 |
| Chelcicky, Peter (Czech theologian, political writer) |
c.1390-c.1460 |
| Chemnitz (or Kemnitz), Martin (German theologian) |
1522-1586 |
| Chemnitz, Bogislaw Philipp von (Ger. hist.; grandson of Martin) |
1605-1678 |
| Ch'en Ch'eng (Chinese soldier, politician) |
1897-1965 |
| Ch'en Chiung-ming (Chinese military leader) |
1878-1933 |
| Chenedolle, Charles-Julien Lioult de (French poet) |
1769-1833 |
| Cheney, Charles Edward (American clergyman) |
1836-1916 |
| Cheney, Richard Bruce "Dick" (American businessman, politician) |
b.1941 |
| Cheney, Sheldon Warren (American critic) |
1886-1980 |
| Cheng (Shih Huang Ti) (Chinese emperor 221-210 BC) |
c.259-210 BC |
| Cheng Chento (or Zheng Zhenduo) (Chinese literary historian) |
1898-1958 |
| Ch'eng I (Chinese philosopher; brother of Ch'eng Hao) |
1033-1107 |
| Cheng Ch'eng-kung (aka Koxinga) (Chinese pirate leader) |
1624-1662 |
| Cheng Chento (Chinese literary historian) |
1898-1958 |
| Cheng Ch'iao (Chinese historian) |
1108-1166 |
| Cheng Chih-lung (Chinese pirate; father of Cheng Ch'eng-kung) |
1604-1661 |
| Ch'eng Hao (Chinese philosopher; brother of Ch'eng I) |
1032-1085 |
| Cheng Ho (orig. Ma San-pao) (Chinese admiral) |
c.1371-c.1433 |
| Ch'en Hung-shou (Chinese artist) |
1598-1652 |
| Ch'en I (Chinese soldier, politician) |
1901-1972 |
| Chenier, Andre-Marie de (French poet, political journalist) |
1762-1794 |
| Chenier, Marie-Joseph-Blaise (French politician, poet) |
1764-1811 |
| Chennault, Claire Lee (American aviator) |
1890-1958 |
| Ch'en Tu-hsiu (Chinese scholar, Communist leader) |
1879-1942 |
| Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPier) (American musician) |
b.1946 |
| Cherbuliez, Charles Victor (pseud. G. Valbert) (Swiss novelist) |
1829-1899 |
| Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich (Russian physicist) |
1904-1990 |
| Cheret, Jules (French painter, lithographer) |
1836-1932 |
| Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich (Russian Soviet politician) |
1911-1985 |
| Chernov, Viktor Mikhaylovich (Rus. journalist, polit. leader) |
1876-1952 |
| Chernyayev, Mikhail Grigoryevich (Russian general) |
1828-1898 |
| Chernyshevsky, Nikolay Gavrilovich (Russian writer, politician) |
1829-1889 |
| Cherry, Donald Eugene "Don" (American musician, composer) |
1936-1995 |
| Chersiphron (Cretan architect) |
6th cent. BC |
| Cherubini, Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvadore Maria (It. composer) |
1760-1842 |
| Cheruel, (Pierre-) Adolphe (French historian) |
1809-1891 |
| Cheselden, William (English surgeon) |
1688-1752 |
| Chesney, Charles Cornwallis (Brit. soldier; nephew of Francis) |
1826-1876 |
| Chesney, Francis Rawdon (Irish-born British soldier, explorer) |
1789-1872 |
| Chesney, Sir George Tomkyns (British soldier; bro. of Charles) |
1830-1895 |
| Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller (American writer) |
1823-1886 |
| Chesnutt, Charles Waddell (American writer) |
1858-1932 |
| Chessman, Caryl Whittier (American criminal) |
1921-1960 |
| Chester, George Randolph (American writer) |
1869-1924 |
| Chesterfield, Lord (Philip Dormer Stanhope)(English politician) |
1694-1773 |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (English journalist, writer) |
1874-1936 |
| Chettle, Henry (English dramatist, writer) |
c.1560-c.1607 |
| Chevalier, Albert (English entertainer) |
1861-1923 |
| Chevalier, Guillaume-Sulpice (French lithographer, painter) |
1804-1866 |
| Chevalier, Jules (French clergyman, writer) |
1824-1907 |
| Chevalier, Maurice-Auguste (French entertainer) |
1888-1972 |
| Chevalier, Michel (French economist) |
1806-1879 |
| Chevalier, Ulysse (French clergyman, scholar) |
1841-1923 |
| Cheverus, Jean-Louis Lefebvre de (French prelate) |
1768-1836 |
| Cheves, Langdon (American banker) |
1776-1857 |
| Chevreul, Michel-Eugene (French chemist) |
1786-1889 |
| Chevrolet, Louis (Swiss-born American automobile manufacturer) |
1879-1941 |
| Cheyne, Thomas Kelly (English scholar) |
1841-1915 |
| Cheyney, Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse- (English writer) |
1896-1951 |
| Chezy, Antoine de (French engineer, mathematician) |
1718-1798 |
| Chiabrera, Gabriello (Italian poet) |
1552-1638 |
| Chiang Kai-shek (Chiang Chung-cheng) (Chinese gen., politician) |
1887-1975 |
| Chiarini, Giuseppe (Italian critic, poet, translator) |
1833-1908 |
| Chia Ssu-tao (Chinese politician) |
d.1279 |
| Chicago, Judy (orig. Judy Cohen) (American artist) |
b.1939 |
| Chichele (or Chicheley), Henry (English prelate, diplomat) |
c.1362-1443 |
| Chicherin, Georgi Vasilievich (Russian diplomat) |
1872-1936 |
| Chichester, Arthur (English administrator in Ireland) |
1563-1625 |
| Chichester, Sir Francis Charles (English adventurer) |
1901-1972 |
| Chifley, Joseph Benedict (Australian politician) |
1885-1951 |
| Chigi, Agostino (Italian banker, patron of the arts) |
1465?-1520 |
| Chih-i (Chinese Buddhist monk) |
538-597 |
| Ch'i Ju-shan (or Qi Rushan) (Chinese playwright, scholar) |
1876-1962 |
| Chikamatsu Monzaemon (orig. Sugimori Nobumori) (Japanese dram.) |
1653-1725 |
| Child, Charles Manning (American zoologist) |
1869-1954 |
| Child, Francis James (American philologist, ballad authority) |
1825-1896 |
| Child, Sir John (English colonialist in India) |
d.1690 |
| Child, Sir Josiah (English merchant, economist; bro. of John) |
1630-1699 |
| Child, Julia née McWilliams (American cook, cookbook author) |
b.1912 |
| Child, Lydia Maria née Francis (American reformer, author) |
1802-1880 |
| Childe, Vere Gordon (Australian archaeologist, historian) |
1892-1957 |
| Childers, Erskine Hamilton (English politician; son of Robert) |
1905-1974 |
| Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley (British politician) |
1827-1896 |
| Childers, Robert Erskine (British writer, politician) |
1870-1922 |
| Childress, Alice (American writer, playwright, actor) |
1916-1994 |
| Chilembwe, John (Nyasaland nationalist) |
d.1915 |
| Chillingworth, William (English theologian, controversialist) |
1602-1644 |
| Chilon (or Cheilon or Chilo) (Sparton ephor c.550 BC) |
6th cent. BC |
| Ch'in Chiu-shao (literary name Tao-ku) (Chinese mathematician) |
c.1202-c.1261 |
| Ching Hao (aka Hung-ku-tzu) (Chinese painter, essayist) |
fl. 910-950 |
| Ch'in Kuei (Chinese politician) |
1090-1155 |
| Ch'i Pai-shih (aka Ch'i Huang) (Chinese painter) |
1863-1957 |
| Chippendale, Thomas (English cabinetmaker, furniture designer) |
1718-1779 |
| Chippendale, Thomas (English cabinetmaker; son of Thomas) |
c.1749-1822 |
| Chirac, Jacques-Rene (French politician) |
b.1932 |
| Chirico, Giorgio De (Greek-born Italian painter) |
1888-1978 |
| Chirikov, Aleksey (Russian explorer) |
1703-1748 |
| Chisholm, Hugh (English journalist, editor) |
1866-1924 |
| Chisholm, Jesse (American frontiersman) |
1806?-1868? |
| Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill (American politician) |
1924-2005 |
| Chisum, John Simpson (American frontiersman) |
1824-1884 |
| Chitrasena (aka Mahendravarman) (Cambodian soldier, ruler) |
6th-7th cent. |
| Chitrik, Yehuda (Russia-born Lubavitcher scholar) |
1899-2006 |
| Chi-tsang (Chinese Buddhist monk) |
549-623 |
| Ch'iu Ying (Chinese painter) |
16th cent. |
| Ch'i-ying (Chinese official) |
d.1858 |
| Chkheidze, Nikolay Semyonovich (Georgian revolutionist) |
1864-1926 |
| Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich (German physicist) |
1756-1827 |
| Chlodomer (Frankish prince; son of Clovis) |
d.524 |
| Chlopicki, (Grzegorz) Jozef (Polish general) |
1771-1854 |
| Cho Sok-chin (aka Sarino) (Korean painter) |
1853-1920 |
| Choate, Joseph Hodges (American lawyer, diplomat) |
1832-1917 |
| Choate, Rufus (American lawyer) |
1799-1859 |
| Chocano, Jose Santos (Peruvian poet, revolutionary) |
1875-1934 |
| Chodkiewicz, Jan Karol (Ruthenian soldier) |
1560-1621 |
| Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (German painter, etcher, illus.) |
1726-1801 |
| Ch'oe Che-u (Korean religious leader) |
1824-1864 |
| Ch'oe Kyong (aka Kunjae) (Korean painter) |
15th cent. |
| Ch'oe Si-hyong (Korean religious leader) |
1826-1899 |
| Choerilus (Athenian playwright) |
6th-5th cent. BC |
| Choerilus of Samos (Greek epic poet) |
6th-5th cent. BC |
| Choiseul, Cesar de (Duc de Choiseul) (French soldier) |
1598-1675 |
| Choiseul, Etienne-Francois de (French politician) |
1719-1785 |
| Cholmondeley, Hugh (3rd Baron Delamere) (British colonialist) |
1870-1931 |
| Chomsky, Noam Avram (American linguist, activist) |
b.1928 |
| Chong Son (aka Kyomja) (Korean painter) |
1676-1759 |
| Chong, Tommy (Canadian comedian) |
b.1938 |
| Chong Yak-jong (aka Augustine Chong) (Korean religious leader) |
1760-1801 |
| Choniates, Michael (Byzantine Humanist, prelate) |
c.1140-c.1222 |
| Choniates, Nicetas (Byzantine official, historian, theologian) |
c.1140-1213 |
| Chopin, Frederic-Francois (Polish composer, pianist) |
1810-1849 |
| Chopin, Katherine "Kate" née O'Flaherty (American writer) |
1851-1904 |
| Chopinel (or Clopinel), Jean (aka Jean de Meun) (French poet) |
c.1240-1305? |
| Choquette, Robert (American-born French-Canadian poet, writer) |
b.1905 |
| Choricius of Gaza (Greek Sophist, rhetorician) |
6th cent. |
| Choromanski, Michal (Russian-born Polish writer, playwright) |
1904-1972 |
| Chouart des Groseilliers, Medard (French explorer) |
1625-1698 |
| Chou En-lai (Chinese revolutionary, politician) |
1898-1976 |
| Chou Fang (Chinese painter) |
8th cent. |
| Chou Hsin (Chinese emperor) |
c.1154-c.1122 BC |
| Chou Kung (the Duke of Chou) (Chinese author, statesman) |
12th cent. BC |
| Choulos, Vasilios Basil (American trial lawyer) |
1927-2003 |
| Chou Shu-jen (pseud. Lu Hsun) (Chinese writer) |
1881-1936 |
| Chouteau, Auguste Pierre (American fur trader; son of Jean) |
1786-1838 |
| Chouteau, Jean Pierre (American pioneer; brother of Rene) |
1758-1849 |
| Chouteau, Pierre (American fur trader; son of Jean) |
1789-1865 |
| Chouteau, Rene Auguste (American fur trader, pioneer) |
1749-1829 |
| Chou Tun-i (aka Chou Lien-hsi) (Chinese philosopher) |
1017-1073 |
| Chraibi, Driss (Moroccan writer, dramatist, radio producer) |
b.1926 |
| Chrestien, Florent (French satirist, poet, translator) |
1541-1596 |
| Chretien de Troyes (French poet) |
fl.1165-1180 |
| Christian "der tolle Christian" (German soldier) |
1599-1626 |
| Christian, Barbara (Caribbean-born American educator, critic) |
b.1943 |
| Christian, Charles (American musician) |
1919-1942 |
| Christian, Fletcher (English naval mutineer) |
fl. 1789 |
| Christian, William (British soldier) |
1608-1663 |
| Christiansen, Wilbur Norman (Australia astronomer) |
b.1913 |
| Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa née Miller (English writer) |
1890-1976 |
| Christie, James (English auctioneer) |
1730-1803 |
| Christie, James (English auctioneer; antiquary; son of James) |
1773-1831 |
| Christie, Samuel Hunter (English mathematician; son of James) |
1784-1865 |
| Christie, Sir William Henry Mahoney (English astronomer) |
1845-1922 |
| Christine de Pisan (or de Pizan) (French poet, writer) |
1364-c.1430 |
| Christmas Moller, Guido Leo John (Danish politician) |
1894-1948 |
| Christo (Christo Javacheff) (Bulgarian-born American artist) |
b.1935 |
| Christoffel, Elwin Bruno (Swiss mathematician) |
1829-1900 |
| Christophe, Henri (Haitian revolutionist, ruler) |
1767-1820 |
| Christopher of Oldenburg (Danish noble, soldier) |
c.1504-1566 |
| Christopher, Warren Minor (American lawyer, diplomat) |
b.1925 |
| Christus (or Cristus), Petrus (Flemish painter) |
c.1420-1472/3 |
| Christy, Edwin Pearce (American actor, singer) |
1815-1862 |
| Christy, Howard Chandler (American illustrator, painter) |
1873-1952 |
| Chrodegang (or Rotgang), Saint (Frankish prelate) |
d.766 |
| Chrysander, (Karl Franz) Friedrich (German music scholar) |
1826-1901 |
| Chrysippus (Greek Stoic philosopher) |
c.280-c.206 BC |
| Chrysler, Walter Percy (American automobile manufacturer) |
1875-1940 |
| Chrysoloras, Manuel (Greek scholar, translator) |
c.1353-1415 |
| Chrysostom, Saint John (Syrian prelate) |
c.347-407 |
| Chuang-tzu (Chinese philosopher, teacher) |
c.369-c.286 BC |
| Chubak, Sadeq-i (or Sadiq) (Iranian writer, dramatist) |
b.1916 |
| Chubb, Thomas (English deist) |
1679-1747 |
| Chubbuck, Christine "Chris" (American journalist) |
1944-1974 |
| Chu Chan-chi (Chinese emperor 1425-1435; son of Chu Kao-chih) |
1398-1435 |
| Chu Ch'ang-lo (Chinese emperor 1620; son of Chu I-chun) |
1582-1620 |
| Chu Ch'i-chen (Chin. emp. 1435-49,1457-64; son of Chu Chan-chi) |
1427-1464 |
| Chu Chien-shen (Chinese emperor 1464-87; son of Chu Ch'i-chen) |
1447-1487 |
| Ch'u Ch'iu-pai (aka Sung Yang) (Chinese politician, writer) |
1899-1935 |
| Chu Ch'i-yu (Chinese emperor 1449-1457; son of Chu Chan-chi) |
1428-1457 |
| Chu Hou-chao (Chinese emperor 1505-1521; son of Chu Yu-t'ang) |
1491-1521 |
| Chu Hou-tsung (Chinese emperor 1521-66; cousin of Chu Hou-chao) |
1507-1566 |
| Chu Hsi (literary name Yuan Hui) (Chinese philosopher) |
1130-1200 |
| Chu I-chun (Chinese emperor 1572-1620; son of Chu Tsai-kou) |
1563-1620 |
| Chuikov, Vasily Ivanovich (Russian soldier) |
1900-1982 |
| Chu-jan (Chinese painter) |
10th cent. |
| Chu Kao-chih (Chinese emperor 1424-1425; son of Chu Ti) |
1378-1425 |
| Chu Ki-chol (Korean clergyman) |
1897-1944 |
| Chu-ko Liang (Chinese soldier) |
181-234 |
| Chukovskaya, Lidia Korneyevna (Finish-born Russian writer) |
b.1907 |
| Chukovsky, Korney Ivanovich (Russian literary critic, writer) |
1882-1969 |
| Chumnus, Nicephorus (Byzantine politician, scholar) |
1250-1327 |
| Chun, Ellery Joe Quain (American merchant; des. Aloha shirt) |
1909-2000 |
| Chun Doo-Hwan (South Korean general, president 1980-1988) |
b.1931 |
| Chuquet, Nicolas (French mathematician) |
c.1445-c.1500 |
| Church, Benjamin (American physician, spy) |
1734-1778 |
| Church, Frederick Edwin (American painter) |
1826-1900 |
| Church, Sir Richard (Irish-born British soldier) |
1784-1873 |
| Church, Richard Thomas (English writer) |
1893-1972 |
| Church, Richard William (British clergyman) |
1815-1890 |
| Church, William (American inventor) |
1778?-1863 |
| Churchill, Caryl (British playwright) |
b.1938 |
| Churchill, Charles (English poet, satirist) |
1731-1764 |
| Churchill, John (English military commander) |
1650-1722 |
| Churchill, Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer (British author) |
1911-1968 |
| Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer (British politician) |
1849-1895 |
| Churchill, Winston (American novelist) |
1871-1947 |
| Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (British statesman) |
1874-1965 |
| Churchyard, Thomas (English soldier of fortune, writer) |
c.1520-1604 |
| Churriguera, Alberto (Spanish architect; brother of Jose) |
1676-1750 |
| Churriguera, Joaquin (Spanish architect; brother of Jose) |
1674-1720 |
| Churriguera, Jose Benito (Spanish architect) |
1665-1725 |
| Chu Shih-chieh (literary name Han-ch'ing) (Chinese math.) |
c.1280-1303 |
| Chu Shun-Shui (Chinese official, historian) |
1600-1682 |
| Chu Ta (orig. Pa-ta Shan-jen) (Chinese painter) |
c.1625-c.1705 |
| Chu Teh (Chinese soldier) |
1886-1976 |
| Chu Ti (Chinese emperor 1402-1424; son of Chu Yuan-chang) |
1360-1424 |
| Chu Tsai-kou (Chinese emperor 1566-1572; son of Chu Hou-tsung) |
1537-1572 |
| Chu Wen (Chinese emperor 907-914; founded Later Liang dynasty) |
854-914 |
| Ch'u Yuan (Chinese poet) |
c.343-c.289 BC |
| Chu Yuan-chang (Chinese emperor 1368-1398; fd. Ming dynasty) |
1328-1398 |
| Chu Yu-chiao (Chinese emperor 1620-1627; son of Chu Ch'ang-lo) |
1605-1627 |
| Chu Yu-chien (Chinese emperor 1627-44; brother of Chu Yu-chiao) |
1611-1644 |
| Chu Yu-chien (Chinese ruler) |
1602-1646 |
| Chu Yun-wen (Chin. emp. 1398-1402; grandson of Chu Yuan-chang) |
1377-1440? |
| Chu Yu-t'ang (Chinese emperor 1487-1505; son of Chu Chien-shen) |
1470-1505 |
| Cialdini, Enrico (Duca di Gaeta) (Italian soldier, diplomat) |
1811-1892 |
| Ciamician, Giacomo Luigi (Italian chemist) |
1857-1922 |
| Ciampi, Vincenzo Legrenzio (Italian composer) |
1719?-1762 |
| Ciano, Galeazzo (Conte di Cortellazzo) (Italian politician) |
1903-1944 |
| Ciaran, Saint "Ciaran the Younger" (Irish religious) |
c.516-c.549 |
| Ciardi, John Anthony (American poet, critic, translator) |
1916-1986 |
| Cibber (or Cibert), Caius Gabriel (Danish sculptor) |
1630-1700 |
| Cibber, Colley (English actor, dramatist; poet laureate 1730) |
1671-1757 |
| Cibber, Theophilus (English actor, playwright; son of Colley) |
1703-1758 |
| Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Roman orator, statesman, philosopher) |
106-43 BC |
| Cicero, Quintus Tullius (Roman general; brother of Marcus) |
c.102-43 BC |
| Cicognara, Leopoldo (Italian art historian, diplomat) |
1767-1834 |
| Cid, El (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar) (Spanish soldier, hero) |
c.1043-1099 |
| Cierva Codorniu, Juan de la (Spanish aeronautical engineer) |
1896-1936 |
| Cieza de Leon, Pedro de (Spanish soldier, historian) |
1518-1560 |
| Cignani, Carlo (Italian painter) |
1628-1719 |
| Cigoli, Lodovico Cardi da (Italian painter, architect) |
1559-1613 |
| Cilea, Francesco (Italian composer) |
1866-1950 |
| Ciller, Tansu (Turkish prime minister 1993-) |
b.1946 |
| Cilli, Ulrich II von (Austrian noble) |
c.1406-1456 |
| Cima, Giovanni Battista "Cima da Conegliano" (Venetian painter) |
c.1459-1517/8 |
| Cimabue, Giovanni (orig.Bencivieni di Pepo)(Florentine painter) |
c.1251-1302 |
| Cimarosa, Domenico (Neapolitan composer) |
1749-1801 |
| Cimon (Athenian general, statesman) |
c.510-c.451 BC |
| Cimon of Cleonae (Greek painter) |
fl. c.525-500 BC |
| Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius (Roman general, statesman) |
b.c.519 BC |
| Cineas (Greek politician) |
3rd cent. BC |
| Cinna, Gaius Helvius (Roman poet) |
d.44 BC |
| Cinna, Lucius Cornelius (Roman general, politician) |
d.84 BC |
| Cinnamus, Joannes (Byzantine historian) |
12th cent. |
| Cione, Andrea di "Orcagna" (Florentine painter, sculptor) |
c.1308-c.1368 |
| Cione, Jacopo di (Florentine painter; brother of Andrea) |
d.1398? |
| Cione, Nardo (Florentine painter; brother of Andrea) |
d.1365/6 |
| Cioran, Emile Michel (Rumanian-born French philosopher) |
b.1911 |
| Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter, engraver) |
1727-1785 |
| Cisneros, Antonio (Peruvian poet, translator, essayist, techer) |
b.1942 |
| Cisneros, Henry Gabriel (American politician) |
b.1947 |
| Cisneros, Sandra (American writer, poet) |
b.1954 |
| Cissey, Ernest-Louis-Octave Courtot de (French soldier, polit.) |
1810-1882 |
| Citroen, Andre-Gustave (French automobile manufacturer) |
1878-1935 |
| Civiale, Jean (French surgeon) |
1792-1867 |
| Civilis, Gaius Julius (Germanic chieftain) |
1st cent. |
| Civitali, Matteo (Italian sculptor, architect) |
1436-1501 |
| Cixous, Helene (French writer, playwright, essayist) |
b.1937 |
| Cladel, Leon-Alpinien (French novelist) |
1835-1892 |
| Claes, Ernest Andre Jozef (Flemish writer) |
1885-1968 |
| Claesz van Haarlem, Pieter (Dutch painter) |
1597/8-1661 |
| Claiborne, Anne Elisabeth Jane "Liz" (Belgian-born Am.designer) |
1929-2007 |
| Claiborne, William Charles Coles (American politician) |
1775-1817 |
| Clair, Rene (orig. Rene Chomette) (Fr. film writer, director) |
1898-1981 |
| Clairaut, Alexis-Claude (French mathematician) |
1713-1765 |
| Clairon, Mlle. (orig. Claire Leris de la Tude) (Fr. actor) |
1723-1803 |
| Clampitt, Amy (American poet, librarian, editor) |
1920-1994 |
| Clanny, William Reid (Irish-born British physician, inventor) |
1776-1850 |
| Clanvowe, Sir Thomas (English courtier, poet) |
fl. 1400 |
| Claparede, Edouard (Swiss psychologist) |
1873-1940 |
| Clapeyron, Emile (French engineer) |
1799-1864 |
| Clapp, Cornelia (American zoologist) |
1849-1934 |
| Clapperton, Hugh (Scottish explorer in Africa) |
1788-1827 |
| Clare of Assisi, Saint (Italian religious) |
1194-1253 |
| Clare, John (English poet) |
1793-1864 |
| Claretie, Jules (orig. Arsene-Arnaud) (French writer) |
1840-1913 |
| Claret, Saint Antonio Maria (Spanish prelate) |
1807-1870 |
| Clari, Giovanni Carlo Maria (Italian composer) |
1677-1754 |
| Clark, Abraham (American politician) |
1726-1794 |
| Clark, Alvan (American lens maker, astronomer) |
1804-1887 |
| Clark, Alvan Graham (Am. lens maker, astronomer; son of Alvan) |
1832-1897 |
| Clark, Bennett Champ (Am. lawyer, politician; son of Champ) |
1890-1954 |
| Clark, Carl Cyrus ( |