| Dablon, Claude (French Jesuit missionary) |
1618-1697 |
| Dabrowska (or Dombrowska), Maria (Polish writer, critic) |
1889-1965 |
| Dabrowski, Jan Henryk (Polish general) |
1755-1818 |
| Dach, Simon (Prussian poet; member of Konigsberg group) |
1605-1659 |
| Dachlan, Kijai Hadji Ahmad (Indonesian reformer) |
1868-1923 |
| Dacier, Andre (French classical scholar; husband of Anne) |
1651-1722 |
| Dacier, Anne née Lefebvre (French scholar, translator, editor) |
1654-1720 |
| Dacres, James Richard (British naval officer) |
1788-1853 |
| Dadie, Bernard Binlin (Ivorian poet, dramatist, administrator) |
b.1916 |
| Dadu (Hindu religious reformer, poet) |
1544-1603 |
| Daendels, Herman Willem (Dutch soldier) |
1762-1818 |
| Dafoe, Allan Roy (Canadian physician) |
1883-1943 |
| Dafoe, John Wesley (Canadian journalist) |
1866-1944 |
| Daft, Leo (English-born American electrical engineer) |
1843-1922 |
| Dafydd ab Edmwnd (Welsh poet) |
fl. c.1450-1480 |
| Dafydd ap Gruffydd (Welsh prince) |
d.1283 |
| Dafydd ap Gwilym (Welsh poet) |
c.1320-c.1380 |
| Dafydd ap Llywelyn (Welsh prince) |
c.1208-1246 |
| Dafydd Nanmor (Welsh poet) |
fl. c.1450-1480 |
| Dagerman, Stig (Swedish writer, playwright, editor) |
1923-1954 |
| Dagly, Gerhard (Flemish artist) |
c.1653-1714? |
| Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mande (French painter, inventor) |
1789-1851 |
| Dahl, Anders (Swedish botanist; eponym of genus Dahlia) |
1751-1787 |
| Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen (Norwegian painter) |
1788-1857 |
| Dahl, Michael (Swedish painter) |
1656-1743 |
| Dahl, Roald (Welsh-born American writer) |
1916-1990 |
| Dahlberg, Edward (American critic, writer, poet) |
1900-1977 |
| Dahlberg (or Dahlbergh), Eric (Swedish military engineer) |
1625-1703 |
| Dahldren, Fredrik August (Swedish poet) |
1816-1895 |
| Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard (American naval officer) |
1809-1870 |
| Dahlgren, Karl Fredrik (Swedish clergyman, poet) |
1791-1844 |
| Dahlmann, Friedrich Christoph (German politician, historian) |
1785-1860 |
| Dahlstierna, Gunno (orig. surname Eurelius) (Swedish poet) |
1661-1709 |
| Dahn, Julius Sophus Felix (German hist., legal scholar, poet) |
1834-1912 |
| Daiches, David (Scottish literary critic) |
b.1912 |
| Daigak Gukso (secular name Uich'on) (Korean Buddhist priest) |
1055-1101 |
| Daigo (Japanese emperor 897-930) |
885-930 |
| Daigo II (Japanese emperor 1318-1339) |
1287-1339 |
| Daimbert (or Dagobert) (Frankish prelate) |
d.1107 |
| Daimler, Gottlieb Wilhelm (German automotive manufacturer) |
1834-1900 |
| Daing Parani (Malay leader) |
d.c.1726 |
| Dakin, Henry Drysdale (English chemist) |
1880-1952 |
| Dal (or Dahl), Vladimir Ivanovich (Russian physician, writer) |
1801-1872 |
| Daladier, Edouard (French politician) |
1884-1970 |
| Dalai Lama (14th) (Tenzin Gyatso) (Tibetan Buddhist leader) |
b.1935 |
| D'Albert, Eugen Francis Charles (Scottish pianist, composer) |
1864-1932 |
| Dale, David (Scottish industrialist, philanthropist) |
1739-1806 |
| Dale, Sir Henry Hallett (British biochemist, physiologist) |
1875-1968 |
| Dale, Richard (American naval officer) |
1756-1826 |
| Dale, Sir Thomas (English naval commander, col. administrator) |
d.1619 |
| Dalen, Nils Gustaf (Swedish inventor) |
1869-1937 |
| Daley, Richard Joseph (American politician; Chicago mayor) |
1902-1976 |
| Dalgarno, George (Scottish educator) |
1626?-1687 |
| Dali, Salvador Felipe Jacinto (Spanish Catalan painter) |
1904-1989 |
| Dalin, Olof von (Swedish poet, historian) |
1708-1763 |
| Dallan Forgaill (Irish poet) |
6th cent. |
| Dallapiccola, Luigi (Italian composer) |
1904-1975 |
| Dallas, Alexander James (American lawyer, public official) |
1759-1817 |
| Dallas, George Mifflin (American diplomat; vice-pres. 1845-49) |
1792-1864 |
| Dallin, Cyrus Edwin (American sculptor) |
1861-1944 |
| Dallmeyer, John Henry (German-born British optician) |
1830-1883 |
| Dall'Ongaro, Francesco (Italian writer) |
1808-1873 |
| Dalou, Aime-Jules (French sculptor) |
1838-1902 |
| Dalrymple, Sir David (Scottish jurist, antiquary) |
1726-1792 |
| Dalrymple, Sir James (Scottish lawyer, jurist) |
1619-1695 |
| Dalrymple, Sir John (British general, diplomat) |
1673-1747 |
| Dalton, Edward Hugh (John Neale) (Welsh-born British polit.) |
1887-1962 |
| Dalton, John (English meteorologist, chemist, physicist) |
1766-1844 |
| Dalton, Robert (American outlaw) |
1867-1892 |
| Dalton, Roque (Salvadoran writer, revolutionary) |
1935-1975 |
| Daly, Herman Edward (American economist) |
b.1938 |
| Daly, John Augustin (American playwright, theatrical manager) |
1838-1899 |
| Daly, Marcus (Irish-born American mine owner) |
1841-1900 |
| Daly, Peter Christopher Arnold (American actor, producer) |
1875-1927 |
| Daly, Reginald Aldworth (Canadian-born American geologist) |
1871-1957 |
| Dalyell (or Dalzell), Thomas (Scottish Royalist soldier) |
1599?-1685 |
| Dalziel, James Henry (British newspaper proprietor) |
1868-1935 |
| Dam, Carl Peter Henrik (Danish biochemist, physiologist) |
1895-1976 |
| Damas, Leon Gontran (Guyanese poet, anthropologist) |
1912-1978 |
| Damascius (Greek Neoplatonist philosopher) |
c.480-c.550 |
| Damaskinos (orig. Dimitrios Papandreou) (Greek prelate, polit.) |
1891-1949 |
| Damian, Saint (Christian martyr; brother of Saint Cosmas) |
3rd cent. |
| Damiani, Saint Pier (aka Peter Damian) (Italian ecclesiastic) |
1007-1072 |
| D'Amico, Oskar (Italian painter, sculptor) |
1923-2003 |
| Damien, Father Joseph de Veuster (Belgian missionary in Hawaii) |
1840-1889 |
| Damiens, Robert-Francois (French servant, criminal) |
1715-1757 |
| Damiri, Muhammad ibn Musa Kamal ad-Din ad- (Arab jurist,theol.) |
1341-1405 |
| Damjanich, Janos (Hungarian general, patriot of Serbian origin) |
1804-1849 |
| Damon of Athens (Greek musician, philosopher) |
5th cent. BC |
| Dampier, William (English buccaneer, navigator) |
1652-1715 |
| Damrosch, Frank Heino (German musical director; son of Leopold) |
1859-1937 |
| Damrosch, Leopold (German-born American musical conductor) |
1832-1885 |
| Damrosch, Walter Johannes (Ger. conductor, composer; son of L.) |
1862-1950 |
| Dan Takuma (Japanese businessman) |
1858-1932 |
| Dana, Charles Anderson (American newspaper editor) |
1819-1897 |
| Dana, Francis (American diplomat, jurist) |
1743-1811 |
| Dana, James Dwight (American geologist) |
1813-1895 |
| Dana, John Cotton (American librarian) |
1856-1929 |
| Dana, Richard Henry (American sailor, author, lawyer) |
1815-1882 |
| Danby, Francis (Irish historical & landscape painter) |
1793-1861 |
| Dance, George (English architect) |
1700-1768 |
| Dance, George (the Younger) (English architect, artist) |
1741-1825 |
| Dance-Holland, Sir Nathaniel (English painter; son of George) |
1735-1811 |
| D'Ancona, Alessandro (Italian critic, historian) |
1835-1914 |
| Dancourt, Florent (orig. surname Carton)(Fr. actor, playwright) |
1661-1725 |
| Dandin (Sanskrit author, poet) |
6th-7th cent. |
| Dandolo, Vincenzo (Italian chemist, politician) |
1758-1819 |
| Dandurand, Raoul (Canadian politician) |
1861-1942 |
| Dane, Clemence (pseud. of Winifred Ashton) (English novelist) |
1888-1965 |
| Dane, Nathan (American jurist) |
1752-1835 |
| Danenhower, John Wilson (American explorer of Arctic) |
1849-1887 |
| Daneshvar, Simin (Iranian writer) |
b.1921 |
| Danev, Stoyan Petrov (Bulgarian politician) |
1858-1949 |
| Dangarembga, Tsitsi (Zimbabwean writer, playwright) |
b.1959 |
| Dangerfield, Rodney (b. Jacob Cohen; Jack Roy) (Am. comedian) |
1921-2004 |
| Dangerfield, Thomas (English informer) |
1650-1685 |
| Danican, Michel "Philidor" (French composer) |
d.c.1659 |
| Daniel (Danilo Romanovich; aka Daniel of Galicia) (Rus. prince) |
1202-1264 |
| Daniel (or Danil; aka Daniel of Liev) (Russian ecclesiastic) |
d.1122 |
| Daniel, Antoine (French Jesuit missionary in America) |
1601-1648 |
| Daniel, Gabriel (French Jesuit historian) |
1649-1728 |
| Daniel, Peter Vivian (American Supreme Court justice 1841-1860) |
1784-1860 |
| Daniel, Samuel (English poet; unofficial Brit. poet laureate) |
1562?-1619 |
| Daniel, Yuly Markovich (pseud. Nikolay Arzhak) (Soviet writer) |
1925-1988 |
| Daniell, John Frederic (English chemist, physicist) |
1790-1845 |
| Daniels, Frank Albert (American comedian) |
1856-1935 |
| Daniels, Josephus (American journalist, statesman) |
1862-1948 |
| Daniels, Richard (American actor; Our Gang: "Mickey") |
1914-1970 |
| Danielson, Anders (Swedish peasant leader) |
1784-1839 |
| Danielsson, Olof August (Swedish scholar) |
1852-1933 |
| Danilevsky, Nikolay Yakovlevich (Rus. naturalist, philosopher) |
1822-1865 |
| Danilova, Aleksandra (Russian-born Am. choreographer, dancer) |
b.1904 |
| Danjon, Andre-Louis (French astronomer) |
1890-1967 |
| Dankl, Viktor (Graf von Krasnik) (Austrian general) |
1854-1941 |
| Danks, Hart Pease (American hymn, song composer) |
1834-1903 |
| Dannay, Frederic (pseud. Ellery Queen w/M.B. Lee)(Am. novelist) |
1905-1982 |
| Dannecker, Johann Heinrich von (German sculptor) |
1758-1841 |
| D'Annunzio, Gabriele (It. author, soldier, political leader) |
1863-1938 |
| Danquah, Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye (Ghanaian politician) |
1895-1965 |
| Dantan, Antoine-Laurent (French sculptor) |
1798-1878 |
| Dantan, Jean-Pierre (Dantan the Younger) (French sculptor) |
1800-1869 |
| Dante Alighieri (Italian poet) |
1265-1321 |
| Dantiscus, Johannes (Polish courtier, Humanist) |
1485-1548 |
| Danto, Arthur Coleman (American art critic) |
b.1924 |
| Danton, Georges-Jacques (French revolutionary leader) |
1759-1794 |
| Da Ponte, Lorenzo (b.Emanuele Conegliano)(It. poet, librettist) |
1749-1838 |
| Daqiqi, Abu Mansur Muhammad ibn Ahmad ad- (Persian poet) |
d.c.976/81 |
| Daquin, Louis-Claude (French organist, composer) |
1694-1772 |
| Daranyi, Kalman von (Hungarian politician) |
1886-1939 |
| Dara Shikoh (Persian prince, scholar; son of Shah Jahan) |
1615-1659 |
| Darazi, Muhammad ibn Isma'il ad- (Islamic religious leader) |
d.1019/20 |
| Darboux, Jean-Gaston (French mathematician, geometer) |
1842-1917 |
| Darboy, Georges (French prelate) |
1813-1871 |
| Darby, Abraham (English ironmaster) |
1678?-1717 |
| Darby, John Nelson (English theological writer) |
1800-1882 |
| Darcet, Jean (French chemist, physician) |
1725-1801 |
| Darcy, Henri-Philibert-Gaspard (French hydraulic engineer) |
1803-1858 |
| D'Arcy, William Knox (English businessman) |
1849-1917 |
| Dare, Virginia (1st English child born in America) |
1587-1591? |
| Dareste de la Chavanne, Antoine-Elisabeth-Cleophas (Fr. hist.) |
1820-1882 |
| Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (Russian composer) |
1813-1869 |
| Darlan, Jean-Louis-Xavier-Francois (French admiral, politician) |
1881-1942 |
| Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (American illustrator) |
1822-1888 |
| Darley, George (Irish poet, dramatist, critic) |
1795-1846 |
| Darling, Grace Horsley (English heroine) |
1815-1842 |
| Darling, Jay Norwood "Ding" (American cartoonist) |
1876-1962 |
| Darmesteter, Arsene (French philologist) |
1846-1888 |
| Darmesteter, James (French Orientalist; brother of Arsene) |
1849-1894 |
| Darracq, Pierre-Alexandre (French automobile manufacturer) |
1855-1931 |
| Darrow, Clarence Seward (American lawyer, author) |
1857-1938 |
| Daru, Pierre-Antoine-Noel-Bruno (French military admin., hist.) |
1767-1829 |
| Darwin, Charles Robert (English naturalist) |
1809-1882 |
| Darwin, Erasmus (Eng. physician, poet; grandfather of Charles) |
1731-1802 |
| Darwin, Sir Francis (English botanist; son of Charles) |
1848-1925 |
| Darwin, George Howard (Eng. math., astronomer; son of Charles) |
1845-1912 |
| Darwin, Sir Horace (English civil engineer; son of Charles) |
1851-1928 |
| Darwin, Leonard (Eng. eng., econ., eugenist; son of Charles) |
1850-1943 |
| Das, Chitta Ranjan (Indian politician; mayor of Calcutta) |
1870-1925 |
| Das, Kamala (Indian writer; daughter of Balamani Nalapat Amma) |
b.1934 |
| Dasent, Sir George Webbe (English Scandinavian scholar) |
1817-1896 |
| Dasgupta, Surendranath (Indian philosopher) |
1855-1952 |
| Dashkova, Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova (Russian scholar) |
1744-1810 |
| Dashwood, Elizabeth Monica née de la Pasture (English novelist) |
1890-1943 |
| Dashwood, Francis (15th Baron le Despencer)(English profligate) |
1708-1781 |
| Dass, Petter (Norwegian clergyman, poet) |
1647-1707 |
| Dasvant (Mughal artist) |
16th cent. |
| Daszynski, Ignacy (Polish politician) |
1866-1936 |
| Dati, Carlo Roberto (Italian scholar, writer) |
1619-1676 |
| Datini, Francesco di Marco da Prato (Italian merchant, banker) |
c.1335-1410 |
| Dato Iradier, Eduardo (Spanish politician) |
1856-1921 |
| Datta (or Dutt), Michael Madhusudan (Bengali poet, dramatist) |
1824-1873 |
| Daubenton (or d'Aubenton), Louis-Jean-Marie (French naturalist) |
1716-1800 |
| Dauberval (or D'Auberval), Jean (French dancer, choreographer) |
1742-1806 |
| Daubigny, Charles-Francois (French landscape painter) |
1817-1878 |
| Daubler, Theodor (German poet, novelist, essayist) |
1876-1934 |
| Daubree, Gabriel-Auguste (French geologist, mineralogist) |
1814-1896 |
| Daudet, Alphonse (French writer, poet) |
1840-1897 |
| Daudet, Alphonse-Marie-Leon (French journalist, writer) |
1867-1942 |
| Daudet, Leon (French journalist, writer; son of Alphonse) |
1867-1942 |
| Daud Khan, Sardar Mohammad (Afghan politician) |
1909-1978 |
| Daugherty, Harry Micajah (American politician) |
1860-1941 |
| Daukantas, Simanas (Lithuanian historian) |
1793-1864 |
| Daulat (Mughal painter) |
16th-17th cent. |
| Daumer, Georg Friedrich (German writer) |
1800-1875 |
| Daumier, Honore (French caricaturist, painter) |
1808-1879 |
| Daun (or Dhaun), Leopold Joseph von (Austrian soldier) |
1705-1766 |
| Daunou, Pierre-Claude-Francois (French politician, historian) |
1761-1840 |
| Dausset, Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim (French physician) |
b.1916 |
| Dauthendey, Max (German poet) |
1867-1918 |
| Dauzat, Albert (French linguist) |
1877-1955 |
| Davaine, Casimir-Joseph (French physician) |
1812-1882 |
| Davel, Jean Abraham Daniel (Swiss patriot) |
1670-1723 |
| Davenant (or D'Avenant), Sir William (English poet, dramatist) |
1606-1668 |
| Davenport, Charles Benedict (American zoologist, eugenicist) |
1866-1944 |
| Davenport, Christopher (English cleric, theologian) |
1598-1680 |
| Davenport, Edward Loomis (American actor) |
1815-1877 |
| Davenport, George (English-born American fur trader) |
1783-1845 |
| Davenport, Guy Mattison Jr. (Am. writer, scholar, illustrator) |
b.1927 |
| Davenport, Ira Erastus (American spiritualistic medium) |
1839-1911 |
| Davenport, John (English-born American clergyman) |
1597-1670 |
| Davenport, Robert (English dramatist) |
fl. 1623-1639 |
| Davenport, Thomas (American inventor) |
1802-1851 |
| Davenport, William Henry Harrison (Am. spiritualistic medium) |
1841-1877 |
| Davey, John (English-born American tree surgeon) |
1846-1923 |
| David of Dinant (Belgian Scholastic philosopher) |
fl. 1200 |
| David, Sir (Tannatt William) Edgeworth (Australian geologist) |
1858-1934 |
| David, Eduard Heinrich Rudolph (German politician) |
1863-1930 |
| David, Felicien-Cesar (French composer) |
1810-1876 |
| David, Ferenc (Franciscus Davidis) (Hung. cleric, theologian) |
1510-1579 |
| David, Gerard (Dutch painter) |
c.1460-1523 |
| David, Jacques-Louis (French painter) |
1748-1825 |
| David d'Angers, Pierre-Jean (French sculptor) |
1788-1856 |
| David de Mayrena, Marie-Charles (French adventurer) |
1842-1890 |
| Davidescu, Nicolae (Romanian poet, writer) |
1888-1954 |
| Davidovic, Ljubomir (Yugoslav politician) |
1863-1940 |
| Davids, Thomas William Rhys (English Orientalist) |
1843-1922 |
| Davidson, Donald Grady (American poet, essayist, teacher) |
1893-1968 |
| Davidson, Israel (Russian-born American Hebrew scholar) |
1870-1939 |
| Davidson, Jo (American sculptor) |
1883-1952 |
| Davidson, John (Scottish poet, playwright) |
1857-1909 |
| Davidson, Randall Thomas (Scottish-born British prelate) |
1848-1930 |
| Davidson, Thomas (British paleontologist) |
1817-1885 |
| Davie, Donald Alfred (British poet, critic, teacher) |
b.1922 |
| Davie, William Richardson (English-born Am. soldier, lawyer) |
1756-1820 |
| Daviel, Jacques (French oculist) |
1696-1762 |
| Davies, Arthur Bowen (American painter; member of The Eight) |
1862-1928 |
| Davies, Clara Novello (Welsh-born British singing instructor) |
1861-1943 |
| Davies, David (Welsh industrialist) |
1818-1890 |
| Davies, David (Welsh soldier, politician) |
1880-1944 |
| Davies, Sir Henry Walford (Eng. organist, director, composer) |
1869-1941 |
| Davies, Hubert Henry (English playwright) |
1876-1917 |
| Davies of Hereford, John (English poet, writer) |
1565?-1618 |
| Davies, Sir John (English jurist, poet) |
1569-1626 |
| Davies, Joseph Edward (American lawyer, diplomat) |
1876-1958 |
| Davies, Sir Louis Henry (Canadian jurist) |
1845-1924 |
| Davies, Rhys (Welsh writer) |
1903-1978 |
| Davies, Richard (Welsh scholar) |
1501?-1581 |
| Davies, Samuel (American educator) |
1723-1761 |
| Davies, Sarah Emily (English educator) |
1830-1921 |
| Davies, Thomas (Scottish actor, bookseller) |
1721?-1785 |
| Davies, William Henry (Welsh poet, adventurer, peddler) |
1871-1940 |
| Davies, William Robertson (Canadian playwright, writer, critic) |
1913-1995 |
| Davila, Carlos Guillermo (Chilean journalist, politician) |
1887-1955 |
| Davila, Enrico Caterino (Italian soldier, historian) |
1576-1631 |
| Davila, Miguel R. (Honduran politician) |
d.1927 |
| Davila Andrade, Cesar (Ecuadorian poet, writer, essayist) |
1918-1967 |
| Davila Padilla, Agustin (Mexican monk, historian) |
1562-1604 |
| Davioud, Gabriel-Jean-Antoine (French architect) |
1823-1881 |
| Davis, Alexander Jackson (American architect) |
1803-1892 |
| Davis, Andrew Jackson (American Spiritualist) |
1826-1910 |
| Davis, Arthur Hoey (pen name Steele Rudd) (Australian writer) |
1868-1935 |
| Davis, Benjamin Oliver (American army officer) |
1877-1970 |
| Davis, Benny (American songwriter) |
1895?-1979 |
| Davis, Bette (orig. Ruth Elizabeth Davis) (American actor) |
1908-1989 |
| Davis, Charles Henry (American naval officer) |
1807-1877 |
| Davis, David (American jurist; Supreme Court justice 1862-1877) |
1815-1886 |
| Davis, Dwight Filley (American statesman; eponym of Davis Cup) |
1879-1945 |
| Davis, Edwin Hamilton (American archaeologist) |
1811-1888 |
| Davis, Elmer Holmes (American writer, radio news commentator) |
1890-1958 |
| Davis, Erik (American writer) |
b.1967 |
| Davis, Harold Lenoir (American writer, poet, cowboy) |
1896-1960 |
| Davis, Henry Gassett (American physician) |
1807-1896 |
| Davis, Henry William Carless (English historian) |
1874-1928 |
| Davis, Henry Winter (American politician) |
1817-1865 |
| Davis, Herbert John (English educator) |
1893-1967 |
| Davis, Jefferson (American Confederate president 1861-65) |
1808-1889 |
| Davis (or Davys), John (English navigator) |
c.1550-1605 |
| Davis, John William (American lawyer, politician) |
1873-1955 |
| Davis, Joe (English billiards player) |
1901-1978 |
| Davis, Miles Dewey III (American jazz musician) |
1926-1991 |
| Davis, Nathan Smith (American physician) |
1817-1904 |
| Davis, Norman Hezekiah (American financier, diplomat) |
1878-1944 |
| Davis, Owen Gould (American playwright) |
1874-1956 |
| Davis, Raiford Chatman "Ossie" (Am. actor, writer, activist) |
1917-2005 |
| Davis, Raymond (American chemist) |
1914-2006 |
| Davis, Rebecca Blaine née Harding (American novelist) |
1831-1910 |
| Davis, Richard Harding (American newspaperman, novelist) |
1864-1916 |
| Davis, Stuart (American artist) |
1894-1964 |
| Davis, Thomas Osborne (Irish poet, writer, politician) |
1814-1845 |
| Davis, Varina Anne Jefferson (Am. novelist; daughter of Jeff.) |
1864-1898 |
| Davis, William Augustine (American postal authority) |
1809-1875 |
| Davis, William Morris (American geographer, geologist) |
1850-1934 |
| Davison, Peter Hubert (American poet, editor) |
1928-2004 |
| Davisson, Clinton Joseph (American physicist) |
1881-1958 |
| Davitt, Michael (Irish nationalist leader) |
1846-1906 |
| Davout, Louis-Nicolas (French marshal) |
1770-1823 |
| Davy, Edward (English physician, chemist) |
1806-1885 |
| Davy, Sir Humphry (English chemist, gas huffer) |
1778-1829 |
| Dawani, Muhammad ibn Jalal ad-Din (Iranian jurist, philosopher) |
1427-1502/3 |
| Dawes, Charles Gates (American financier; vice-pres. 1925-29) |
1865-1951 |
| Dawes, Henry Laurens (American politician) |
1816-1903 |
| Dawes, Rufus Cutler (American public utility executive) |
1867-1940 |
| Dawes, William (American patriot; rode with Paul Revere) |
1745-1799 |
| Dawes, William Rutter (English astronomer, physician) |
1799-1868 |
| Dawkins, Sir William Boyd (Welsh-born British geologist) |
1837-1929 |
| Dawson, Bertrand Edward (English physician) |
1864-1945 |
| Dawson, Christopher (Henry) (British Catholic theologian) |
1889-1970 |
| Dawson, George Geoffrey (English journalist) |
1874-1944 |
| Dawson, George Mercer (Canadian geologist) |
1849-1901 |
| Dawson, Henry (English landscape painter) |
1811-1878 |
| Dawson, James (English Jacobite) |
1717?-1746 |
| Dawson, Sir John William (Canadian geologist) |
1820-1899 |
| Dawson, Velma Wayne (Am. puppeteer: Howdy Doody Show) |
1912-2007 |
| Day, Arthur Louis (American geophysicist) |
1869-1960 |
| Day, Benjamin (American printer; son of Benjamin Henry) |
1838-1916 |
| Day, Benjamin Henry (American newspaperman) |
1810-1889 |
| Day, Clarence Shepard Jr. (American writer, humorist) |
1874-1935 |
| Day, Dorothy (American journalist, reformer) |
1897-1980 |
| Day, Edmund Ezra (American economist, educator) |
1883-1951 |
| Day, Holman Francis (American writer) |
1865-1935 |
| Day, John (English playwright) |
1574-1640? |
| Day, Mary (Am. ballet teacher; fd. Washington School of Ballet) |
1910-2006 |
| Day (or Daye), Stephen (English-born American printer) |
c.1594-1668 |
| Day, Thomas (English philanthropist, author) |
1748-1789 |
| Day, William Rufus (American Supreme Court justice 1903-22) |
1849-1923 |
| Dayan, Moshe (Israeli soldier, politician) |
1915-1981 |
| Dayananda Sarasvati (orig. Mula Sankara)(Indian Hindu reformer) |
1824-1883 |
| Day-Lewis, Cecil (Irish-born Brit. poet, poet laureate 1968) |
1904-1972 |
| Dayton, Elias (American Revolutionary officer) |
1737-1807 |
| Daza, Hilarion (orig. surname Grosole) (Bolivian general) |
1840-1894 |
| Dazai Osamu (pseudonym of Tsushima Shuji) (Japanese writer) |
1909-1948 |
| Dazey, Charles Turner (American playwright) |
1855-1938 |
| Deak, Ferenc (Hungarian politician) |
1803-1876 |
| Deakin, Alfred (Australian politician) |
1856-1919 |
| Deakin, Arthur (English trade unionist) |
1890-1955 |
| De Amicis, Edmondo (Italian traveler, writer) |
1846-1908 |
| Dean, Elton (English musician, composer) |
1945-2006 |
| Dean, James Byron (American actor) |
1931-1955 |
| Dean, Jay Hanna "Dizzy" (American baseball player) |
1911-1974 |
| Dean, Paul Dee "Daffy" (American baseball player) |
1913-1981 |
| Dean, Man Mountain (orig. Frank Simmons Leavitt) (Am. wrestler) |
1891-1953 |
| Dean, Sir Patrick (British diplomat) |
b.1909 |
| Deane, Richard (English military & naval commander, regicide) |
1610-1653 |
| Deane, Silas (American lawyer, diplomat) |
1737-1789 |
| Dearborn, Henry (American soldier) |
1751-1829 |
| Deat, Marcel (French politician) |
1894-1955 |
| De Bardeleben, Henry Fairchild (American industrialist) |
1840-1910 |
| de Bary, Heinrich Anton (German botanist) |
1831-1888 |
| de Basil, Colonel W. (orig. V.G. Voskresensky)(Rus. impresario) |
1888-1951 |
| Debeney, Marie-Eugene (French general) |
1864-1943 |
| Debidour, Elie-Louis-Marc-Marie-Antoine (French historian) |
1847-1917 |
| Debierne, Andre-Louis (French chemist; discovered actinium) |
1874-1949 |
| De Bono, Emilio (Italian general, politician) |
1866-1944 |
| DeBorba, Dorothy (American actor; Our Gang: "Echo") |
b.1925 |
| Debord, Guy (French Situationist philosopher) |
b.1931 |
| De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson (American editor) |
1820-1867 |
| Debrett, John (English publisher) |
d.1822 |
| Debreu, Gerard (French-born American economist) |
b.1921 |
| Debs, Eugene Victor (American Socialist) |
1855-1926 |
| Debucourt, Philibert-Louis (French painter, engraver) |
1755-1832 |
| Deburau, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (orig. Jan K. Dvorak) (Fr. mime) |
1796-1846 |
| Debussy, Achille-Claude (French composer) |
1862-1918 |
| Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm (Dutch-born American physicist) |
1884-1966 |
| Decaen, Charles-Mathieu-Isidore (French general) |
1769-1832 |
| Decaen, Claude-Theodore (French general; son of Charles) |
1811-1870 |
| Decaisne, Henri (Belgian painter; brother of Joseph) |
1799-1852 |
| Decaisne, Joseph (Belgian botanist; brother of Henri) |
1807-1882 |
| Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel (French painter) |
1803-1860 |
| Decatur, Stephen (American naval officer, war hero) |
1779-1820 |
| Decauville, Paul (French industrialist, inventor) |
1846-1922 |
| Decazes et de Glucksberg, Elie (French politician) |
1780-1860 |
| Decebalus (King of the Dacians) |
d.106 |
| De Celles, Alfred Duclos (Can. journalist, librarian, hist.) |
1843-1925 |
| Decembrio, Pier Candido (Italian Humanist) |
1392-1477 |
| De Chair, Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford (British naval officer) |
1864-1958 |
| Dechelette, Joseph (French archaeologist) |
1862-1914 |
| Dechet, Louis-Alexandre (aka Jenneval) (French actor, poet) |
1801-1830 |
| Decius, Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus (Roman emperor 249-251) |
c.201-251 |
| Deck, Joseph-Theodore (French ceramist) |
1823-1891 |
| Decken, Karl Klaus von der (German explorer in Africa) |
1833-1865 |
| Decker, Sir Matthew (English merchant, economist) |
1679-1749 |
| de Coppet, Edward J. (American banker, music patron) |
1855-1916 |
| Decourcelle, Pierre (Fr. playwright, novelist; son of Pierre) |
1856-1926 |
| Decourcelle, Pierre-Henri-Adrien (French author) |
1821-1892 |
| Dedekind, Friedrich (German poet, playwright) |
1525?-1598 |
| Dedekind, Julius Wihelm Richard (German mathematician) |
1831-1916 |
| DeDomenico, Vincent (Am. entrepreneur: co-inv. Rice-A-Roni) |
1915-2007 |
| Dee, John (English mathematician, astrologer) |
1527-1608 |
| Deems, Charles Force (American clergyman) |
1820-1893 |
| Deeping, George Warwick (English novelist) |
1877-1950 |
| Deere, John (American inventor, farm equipment manufacturer) |
1804-1886 |
| Deering, William (American industrialist) |
1826-1913 |
| Defauw, Deire (Belgian violinist, orchestra conductor) |
1855-1960 |
| Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Chamrond (French woman of letters) |
1697-1780 |
| Defoe, Daniel (b. Daniel Foe) (English journalist, writer) |
1660-1731 |
| DeForest, Calvert (aka Larry "Bud" Melman) (American actor) |
1921-2007 |
| De Forest, John William (American writer) |
1826-1906 |
| De Forest, Lee (American inventor, "father of radio") |
1873-1961 |
| De Forest, Robert Weeks (American lawyer) |
1848-1931 |
| Defreger, Franz von (Austrian painter) |
1835-1921 |
| Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar (French painter) |
1834-1917 |
| De Gasperi, Alcide (Italian politician) |
1881-1954 |
| De Gennes, Pierre-Gilles (French physicist) |
b.1932 |
| De Golyer, Everette Lee (American geophysicist) |
1886-1956 |
| Degoutte, Jean-Marie-Joseph (French general) |
1866-1938 |
| De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey (British aeronautical engineer) |
1882-1965 |
| Dehel, Andrew Grant (American) |
b.1967 |
| Dehmel, Richard (German poet, playwright) |
1863-1920 |
| Dehmelt, Hans Georg (German-born American physicist) |
b.1922 |
| Dehn, Adolf Arthur (American artist) |
1895-1968 |
| Dehodencq, Edme-Alfred-Alexis (French painter) |
1822-1882 |
| Dehon, Leon Gustave (John of the Heart of Jesus)(French cleric) |
1843-1925 |
| Deighton, Leonard Cyril "Len" (English writer) |
b.1929 |
| Deinhardstein, Johann Ludwig (Austrian playwright) |
1794-1859 |
| Deisenhofer, Johann (German biochemist) |
b.1943 |
| Dejazet, Eugene (French composer, theater director; son of P.) |
1820-1880 |
| Dejazet, Pauline-Virginie (French actor) |
1798-1875 |
| Dejean, Jean-Francois-Aime (French general) |
1749-1824 |
| Dejerine, Joseph-Jules (French neurologist) |
1849-1917 |
| DeJohnette, John (American drummer, composer, arranger) |
b.1942 |
| Deken, Agatha "Aagje" (Dutch poet, writer) |
1741-1804 |
| Dekker, Desmond (b.Desmond Adolphus Dacres) (Jamaican musician) |
1941-2006 |
| Dekker, Thomas (English dramatist, writer) |
1572?-1632? |
| de Klerk, Frederik Willem (South African president 1989-1994) |
b.1936 |
| de Kooning, Willem (Dutch-born American painter) |
b.1904 |
| De Koven, Henry Louis Reginald (American composer) |
1859-1920 |
| de Kruif, Paul Henry (American bacteriologist, writer) |
1890-1971 |
| De la Beche, Sir Henry Thomas (English geologist) |
1796-1855 |
| Delaborde, Benigne-Marie-Henri-Francois (French historian) |
1854-1927 |
| Delaborde, Henri (French painter, art critic) |
1811-1899 |
| Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor Eugene (French painter) |
1798-1863 |
| Delafield, Edward (American physician) |
1794-1875 |
| Delafield, Francis (American physician; son of Edward) |
1841-1915 |
| De la Gardie, Jacob Pontusson (Swedish soldier, statesman) |
1583-1652 |
| De la Gardie, Magnus Gabriel (Swedish diplomat; son of Jacob) |
1622-1686 |
| Delage, Yves (French zoologist) |
1854-1920 |
| De la Mare, Walter John (English poet, novelist) |
1873-1956 |
| Delamater, Cornelius Henry (American mechanical engineer) |
1821-1889 |
| Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (French astronomer) |
1749-1822 |
| De Lancey, James (American colonial administrator) |
1703-1760 |
| De Lancey, Oliver (American general; brother of James) |
1718-1785 |
| Deland, Margaretta Wade née Campbell "Margaret" (Am. novelist) |
1857-1945 |
| Delane, John Thadeus (English journalist) |
1817-1879 |
| Delaney, Bessie (American dentist) |
1889-1995 |
| Delaney, Sadie (American home economics teacher) |
1891-1999 |
| Delaney, Shelagh (British playwright, writer) |
b.1939 |
| Delano, Jane Arminda (American nurse) |
1862-1919 |
| Delany, Martin Robinson (American physician, social reformer) |
1812-1885 |
| Delany, Mary née Granville (English literary correspondent) |
1700-1788 |
| Delany, Patrick Bernard (Irish-born American electrical eng.) |
1845-1924 |
| Delany, Samuel Ray (American writer, critic) |
b.1942 |
| Delaplanche, Eugene (French sculptor) |
1836-1891 |
| De La Rey, Jacobus Hercules (Boer general, statesman) |
1847-1914 |
| de la Roche, Mazo (Canadian writer, dramatist) |
1879-1961 |
| Delaroche, Hippolyte-Paul (French painter) |
1797-1856 |
| De la Rue, Warren (English astronomer, inventor) |
1815-1889 |
| Delaunay, Charles-Eugene (French astronomer, mathematician) |
1816-1872 |
| Delaunay, Jules-Elie (French painter) |
1828-1891 |
| Delaunay, Robert (French painter) |
1885-1941 |
| Delaunay, Sonia née Stern (Russian-born French artist) |
1885-1979 |
| Delaune (or Delaulne), Etienne (French goldsmith, engraver) |
c.1519-1583 |
| Delavigne, Jean-Francois-Casimir (French poet, playwright) |
1793-1843 |
| De La Warr, Thomas West, Lord (English colonial administrator) |
1577-1618 |
| Delblanc, Sven Axel Herman (Canadian-born Swedish writer) |
1931-1992 |
| Delboeuf, Joseph-Remy-Leopold (Belgian philosopher, psychol.) |
1831-1896 |
| Delbos, Yvon (French politician) |
1885-1956 |
| Delbruck, Berthold (German linguist) |
1842-1922 |
| Delbruck, Clemons von (German government official) |
1856-1921 |
| Delbruck, Hans (German historian) |
1848-1929 |
| Delbruck, Martin Friedrich Rudolph von (Prussian politician) |
1817-1903 |
| Delbruck, Max Ludwig Henning (German-born American biologist) |
1906-1981 |
| Delcasse, Theophile (French politician) |
1852-1923 |
| Deleboe, Franz (German physician, anatomist, chemist) |
1614-1672 |
| Delecluze, Etienne-Jean (French painter, art critic) |
1781-1863 |
| Deledda, Grazia (pseud. Grazia Madesani) (Italian writer) |
1871-1936 |
| De Lee, Joseph Bolivar (American obstetrician) |
1869-1942 |
| Delehaye, Hippolyte (Belgian Jesuit scholar) |
1859-1941 |
| De Leon, Daniel (Curacao-born American political radical) |
1852-1914 |
| Delescluze, Louis-Charles (French politician) |
1809-1871 |
| Delessert, Etienne (French banker; father of Benjamin) |
1735-1816 |
| Delessert, Jules-Paul-Benjamin (French industrialist) |
1773-1847 |
| Deleuze, Gilles (French philosopher, essayist) |
1925-1995 |
| Delgado, Jose Matias (Salvadorean cleric, political leader) |
1768-1832 |
| Delgado Chalbaud, Carlos (Venezuelan soldier) |
1909-1950 |
| Delibes, Clement-Philibert-Leo (French composer) |
1836-1891 |
| Delibes Setien, Miguel (Spanish writer, essayist) |
b.1920 |
| Delille, Jacques "Abbe" (French classicist, poet) |
1738-1813 |
| DeLillo, Don (American writer) |
b.1936 |
| Delisle, Guillaume (French geographer) |
1675-1726 |
| Delisle, Joseph-Nicolas (French astronomer) |
1688-1768 |
| Delisle, Leopold-Victor (French scholar) |
1826-1910 |
| De Lisser, Herbert George (Jamaican writer, editor) |
1878-1944 |
| Delius, Frederick Theodore Albert (English composer) |
1862-1934 |
| Delius, Nikolaus (German Shakespearean scholar) |
1813-1888 |
| Dell, Ethel Mary (English writer) |
1881-1939 |
| Dell, Floyd (American editor, writer, journalist) |
1887-1969 |
| Della Robbia, Andrea di Marco di Simone (Italian sculptor) |
1435-1525 |
| Della Robbia, Luca di Simone di Marco (Italian sculptor) |
1399-1482 |
| Della Valle, Federico (Italian dramatist, poet) |
c.1560-1628 |
| Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel (American painter, writer) |
1853-1935 |
| Dellinger, David (American activist, pacifist) |
1915-2004 |
| Delmedigo, Elijah (Cretan philosopher) |
1460?-1497? |
| Delmonico, Loenzo (Swiss-born American restaurateur) |
1813-1881 |
| Delolme, Jean Louis (Swiss jurist) |
1740-1806 |
| Deloney, Thomas (English writer, silk weaver) |
1543?-1600 |
| De Long, George Washington (American naval officer, explorer) |
1844-1881 |
| Delorme, Marion (French courtesan) |
1613-1650 |
| Delorme (or de l'Orme), Philibert (French architect) |
1515?-1570 |
| Delsarte, Francois-Alexandre-Nicolas (French singing teacher) |
1811-1871 |
| Deluc, Jean Andre (Swiss geologist, meteorologist) |
1727-1817 |
| Delvaux, Laurent (Flemish sculptor) |
1695-1778 |
| Delvigne, Henri-Gustave (French soldier, inventor) |
1799-1876 |
| Demades (Athenian orator, politician) |
c.380-319 BC |
| De Man, Paul (Belgian-born American literary critic) |
1919-1983 |
| Demangeon, Albert (French geographer) |
1872-1940 |
| Demantius, Johann Christoph (German composer) |
1567-1643 |
| Demaratus (King of Sparta c.510-491 BC) |
6th-5th cent. BC |
| Demarcay, Eugene-Anatole (French chemist) |
1852-1903 |
| Dembinski, Henryk (Polish soldier) |
1791-1864 |
| Dement, William Charles (American psychiatrist) |
b.1928 |
| Demetrius (Greek sculptor) |
4th cent. BC |
| Demetrius (Greek Cynic philosopher) |
1st cent. |
| Demetrius Chalcondyles (Greek teacher) |
1424-1511 |
| Demetrius Cydones (or Kydones) (Byzantine scholar, statesman) |
c.1324-c.1398 |
| Demetrius Plalereus (Athenian orator, statesman) |
350?-283 BC |
| Demetz, Frederic-Auguste (French jurist) |
1796-1873 |
| de Mille, Agnes George (American dancer, choreographer) |
b.1909? |
| DeMille, Cecil Blount (American film director, producer) |
1881-1959 |
| DeMille, Henry Churchill (American playwright) |
1853-1893 |
| De Mille, James (Canadian writer, teacher) |
1836-1880 |
| deMille, William Churchill (American playwright; son of Henry) |
1878-1955 |
| Demme, Jonathan (pseud. Pablo Ferro) (American film director) |
b.1944 |
| Democedes (Greek physician) |
6th cent. BC |
| Demochares (Athenian orator, politician) |
c.355-275 BC |
| Democritus of Abdera (Greek philosopher, geometer) |
c.460-c.370 BC |
| De Moivre, Abraham (French mathematician in England) |
1667-1754 |
| Demolder, Eugene (Belgian writer) |
1862-1919 |
| Demonax (Greek Cynic philosopher) |
d.c.176 BC |
| De Morgan, Augustus (Indian-born English mathematician) |
1806-1871 |
| De Morgan, William Frend (English artist, novelist) |
1839-1917 |
| Demosthenes (Athenian general) |
d.413 BC |
| Demosthenes (Athenian orator, statesman) |
384-322 BC |
| Dempsey, William Harrison "Jack" (American heavyweight boxer) |
1895-1983 |
| Dempster, Arthur Jeffrey (Canadian-born American physicist) |
1886-1950 |
| Demuth, Charles (American painter) |
1883-1935 |
| Denby, Edwin (American politician) |
1870-1929 |
| Denck (or Denk), Hans (German theologian) |
c.1495-1527 |
| Denfert-Rochereau, Pierre-Marie-Philippe-Aristide (Fr. soldier) |
1823-1878 |
| Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-Ping) (Chinese Communist leader) |
b.1904 |
| Denham, Dixon (English explorer in Africa) |
1786-1828 |
| Denham, Sir John (Irish-born English poet, translator) |
1615-1669 |
| Denhardt, Gustav (German explorer; brother of Clemens) |
1856-1917 |
| Denhardt, Gustav Clemens Andreas (German explorer) |
1852-1928 |
| Deniau, Jean-Francois (French diplomat, writer) |
1928-2007 |
| Denifle, Heinrich Seuse (Austrian theologian, historian) |
1844-1905 |
| Deniker, Joseph (French anthropologist) |
1852-1918 |
| Denikin, Anton Ivanovich (Russian soldier) |
1872-1947 |
| Denio, Amy (American musician, composer) |
b.1961 |
| Denis, Jean-Baptiste (French physician) |
1643-1704 |
| Denis, Maurice (French painter) |
1870-1943 |
| Denison, George Taylor (Canadian soldier, historical writer) |
1839-1925 |
| Denman, Thomas (1st Baron Denman) (English judge) |
1779-1854 |
| Denner, Johann Christoph (German manufacturer of wood-winds) |
1655-1707 |
| Dennery (later d'Ennery), Adolphe-Philippe (French playwright) |
1811-1899 |
| Dennett, Richard Edward (English writer) |
1857-1921 |
| Dennett, Tyler Wilbur (American historian) |
1883-1949 |
| Dennie, Joseph (American essayist, editor; Colon and Spondee) |
1768-1812 |
| Dennis, Clarence (American cardiologist, inventor) |
1909-2005 |
| Dennis, Geoffrey Pomeroy (English writer) |
1892-1964 |
| Dennis, John (English critic, dramatist) |
1657-1734 |
| Dennis, Nigel Forbes (English writer, critic) |
1912-1989 |
| Dennison, Aaron, Lufkin (American watch manufacturer) |
1812-1895 |
| Denny, Alexandra Elene McLean "Sandy" (Eng. singer, musician) |
1947-1978 |
| Denny, Martin (American musician, composer) |
1911-2005 |
| Denon, Dominique-Vivant (Fr. illustrator, government official) |
1747-1825 |
| Densmore, Frances (American ethnologist) |
1867-1957 |
| Densusianu, Ovidiu (Romanian folklorist, philologist) |
1873-1938 |
| Dent, Joseph Malaby (English publisher) |
1849-1926 |
| Dentatus, Manius Curius (Roman general) |
d.270 BC |
| Denver, James William (American politician) |
1817-1892 |
| Denza, Luigi (Italian musician) |
1846-1922 |
| Deo van Tri (aka Cam Oum or Kan Oum) (Tai tribal chief) |
c.1849-1908 |
| Deparcieux, Antoine (French mathematician, statistician) |
1703-1768 |
| De Pauw, Washington Charles (American banker, industrialist) |
1822-1887 |
| Depestre, Rene (Haitian poet, writer, essayist) |
b.1926 |
| Depew, Chauncey Mitchell (American lawyer, politician) |
1834-1928 |
| De Peyster, Abraham (American merchant, ship owner) |
1657-1728 |
| Depretis, Agostino (Italian politician) |
1813-1887 |
| Deprez, Marcel (French engineer, pioneer electrician) |
1843-1918 |
| De Quincey, Thomas (English author, critic, essayist) |
1785-1859 |
| Derain, Andre (French painter) |
1880-1954 |
| Derby, George Horatio (pseud. John Phoenix) (American humorist) |
1823-1861 |
| Dercyllidas (Spartan general, diplomat) |
5th-4th cent. BC |
| Derennes, Charles (French novelist, poet) |
1882-1930 |
| Derfflinger, Georg von (Brandenburg soldier) |
1606-1695 |
| Dering (or Deering), Richard (English organist, composer) |
c.1580-1630 |
| Deringer, Henry (American gun maker) |
1786-1869 |
| Dermot MacMurrough (Diarmaid Macmurchada) (Irish ruler) |
d.1171 |
| Dermout-Ingermann, Helena Antonia Maria Elisabeth (Du. writer) |
1888-1962 |
| Dern, George Henry (American mining executive, politician) |
1872-1936 |
| De Roberto, Federico (Italian writer, critic) |
1866-1927 |
| Derome, Jean (Canadian musician, composer, arranger, singer) |
b.1955 |
| Derosne, Louis-Charles (French chemist) |
1780-1846 |
| Deroulede, Paul (French writer, politician) |
1846-1914 |
| Derrida, Jacques (Algerian-born French philosopher, critic) |
1930-2004 |
| Derwinski, Edward Joseph (American politician) |
b.1926 |
| Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich (Russian lyric poet) |
1743-1816 |
| Desaguliers, John Theophilus (English inventor) |
1683-1744 |
| Desai, Anita née Mazumdar (Indian writer) |
b.1937 |
| Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji (Indian prime minister 1977-1979) |
b.1896 |
| Desaix de Veygoux, Louis-Charles-Antoine (French general) |
1768-1800 |
| De Sanctis, Francesco (Italian literary critic, scholar) |
1817-1883 |
| Desargues, Gerard (or Girard) (French mathematician) |
1591-1661 |
| Desaugiers, Marc-Antoine (French composer; father of M.A.M.) |
1742-1793 |
| Desaugiers, Marc-Antoine-Madeleine (French singer, vaud. actor) |
1772-1827 |
| Desault, Pierre-Joseph (French surgeon) |
1738-1795 |
| Desbarres, Joseph Frederick Walsh (English military engineer) |
1722-1824 |
| Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline-Felicite-Josephe (French poet) |
1786-1859 |
| Desborough (or Desborow; Disbrowe), John (English soldier) |
1608-1680 |
| Descartes, Rene (French mathematician, philosopher) |
1596-1650 |
| Descaves, Lucien (French writer) |
1861-1949 |
| Deschamps de Saint Amand, Emile (French poet) |
1791-1871 |
| Deschamps, Eustache "Morel" (French poet, writer) |
c.1346-c.1406 |
| Deschanel, Emile-Auguste-Etienne-Martin (French critic, author) |
1819-1904 |
| Deschanel, Paul-Eugene-Louis (French politician; pres. 1920) |
1855-1922 |
| Desclot, Bernat (Catalan historian) |
fl. 1285 |
| De Seversky, Alexander Procofieff (Rus.-b. Am. aerospace eng.) |
1894-1974 |
| Desfontaines, Rene-Louiche (French botanist) |
1750-1833 |
| Desgabets, Robert (French religious) |
1620-1678 |
| Desgarcins, Magdeleine-Marie (orig. Louise) (French actor) |
1769-1797 |
| Deshayes, Gerard-Paul (French naturalist) |
1795-1875 |
| Deshoulieres, Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde (French poet) |
1638-1694 |
| De Sica, Vittorio (Italian film director) |
1901-1974 |
| Desiderio da Settignano (Florentine sculptor) |
c.1430-1464 |
| Desio, Alfred (Am. dancer, choreographer; invented Tap-Tronics) |
1932-2007 |
| Desjardins, Marie-Catherine (pseud. Mme. de Villedieu)(Fr. wtr) |
1640?-1683 |
| Desjardins, Martin (orig. van den Bogaert) (Dutch sculptor) |
1640-1694 |
| Deslandres, Henri-Alexandre (French astrophysicist) |
1853-1948 |
| Desmarest, Nicolas (French geologist) |
1725-1815 |
| Desmarets (or Des Marets), Nicolas (French financier) |
1648-1721 |
| Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean (French writer) |
1595-1676 |
| De Smet, Pierre-Jean (Belgian-born American Jesuit missionary) |
1801-1873 |
| Desmoulins, Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoit (Fr. revolutionary) |
1760-1794 |
| Desnos, Robert (French poet, scriptwriter) |
1900-1945 |
| Desnoyers, Louis-Claude-Joseph-Florence (French writer) |
1802-1868 |
| Despard, Edward Marcus (Irish conspirator) |
1751-1803 |
| Des Periers, Bonaventure (French Humanist) |
c.1500-c.1544 |
| Despiau, Charles (French sculptor) |
1874-1946 |
| Desportes, Alexandre-Francois (French painter) |
1661-1743 |
| Desportes, Philippe (French poet, translator) |
1546-1606 |
| Desrosiers, Leo-Paul (French-Canadian writer, journalist) |
1896-1967 |
| Dessaix, Joseph-Marie (French general) |
1764-1834 |
| Dessalines, Jean-Jacques (Haitian president, emperor) |
1758?-1806 |
| Dessoir, Ludwig (German actor) |
1810-1874 |
| De Stefani, Alberto (Italian economist) |
1879-1969 |
| Destinn, Emmy (orig. Ema Kittl) (Bohemian operatic soprano) |
1878-1930 |
| Destouches, Andre-Cardinal (French composer) |
1669-1749 |
| Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand (French physician, novelist) |
1894-1961 |
| Destouches, Philippe (orig. surname Nericault) (Fr. playwright) |
1680-1754 |
| Destutt de Tracy, Antoine-Louis-Claude (French philosopher) |
1754-1836 |
| Desvallieres, Georges-Olivier (French painter) |
1861-1950 |
| Detaille, (Jean-Baptiste-) Edouard (French painter) |
1848-1912 |
| Deterding, Sir Henri Wilhelm August (Dutch oil magnate) |
1866-1939 |
| De Tham (aka Hoang Hoa Tham) (Vietnamese nationalist) |
c.1860-1913 |
| Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Canadian-born Am. conductor, composer) |
1882-1943 |
| Deucher, Adolf (Swiss politician; pres. 1886, 1897, 1903, 1909) |
1831-1912 |
| Deus Nogueira Ramos, Joao de (Portuguese poet) |
1830-1896 |
| Deus Ramos, Joao de (Portuguese poet) |
1830-1896 |
| Deussen, Paul (German philosopher, Sanskrit scholar) |
1845-1919 |
| Deutsch, Babette (American poet, critic, translator, writer) |
1895-1982 |
| Deutsch, Martin (Austria-Hungarian-born American physicist) |
1917-2002 |
| Deutscher, Isaac (Polish-born British historian) |
1907-1967 |
| Devadatta (Indian religious leader; cousin of the Buddha) |
6th cent. BC |
| De Valera, Eamon (American-born Irish politician) |
1882-1975 |
| Devant, David (orig. surname Wighton) (English magician) |
1868-1941 |
| Devaux, Paul (Belgian politician) |
1801-1880 |
| Devay (or Devai), Matyas Biro (Hungarian church reformer) |
1500?-1545? |
| Deventer, Conrad Theodor van (Dutch jurist, politician) |
1857-1915 |
| Deventer, Sir Jacob Louis van (South African soldier) |
1874-1922 |
| De Vere, Aubrey Thomas (Irish poet, critic) |
1814-1902 |
| Devereux, Robert (Earl of Essex) (English soldier, courtier) |
1566-1601 |
| Devers, Jacob Loucks (American army officer) |
1887-1979 |
| De Veuster, Joseph (Father Damien) (Belgian priest) |
1840-1889 |
| Devey, George (English architect) |
1820-1886 |
| Deville, Edouard-Gaston (French-born Canadian surveyor) |
1849-1924 |
| Deville, Jean (Belgian artist) |
1867-1953 |
| De Villiers, John Henry (South African judge) |
1842-1914 |
| Devine, Edward Thomas (American social worker) |
1867-1948 |
| De Vinne, Theodore Low (American printer) |
1828-1914 |
| De Voto, Bernard Augustine (American author, historian) |
1897-1955 |
| Devrient, Gustav Emil (German actor; nephew of Ludwig) |
1803-1872 |
| Devrient, Karl August (German actor; nephew of Ludwig) |
1797-1872 |
| Devrient, Ludwig (German actor) |
1784-1832 |
| Devrient, Max (German actor; son of Karl) |
1857-1929 |
| Devrient, Otto (German actor; son of Eduard) |
1838-1894 |
| Devrient, Philipp Eduard (German actor; nephew of Ludwig) |
1801-1877 |
| De Vries, David Pietersen (Fr.-born Dutch colonizer in America) |
1592?-1655? |
| De Vries, Peter (American editor, novelist) |
1910-1993 |
| Dewantoro, Ki Hadjar (Indonesian educator) |
1889-1959 |
| Dewar, Sir James (Scottish chemist, physicist) |
1842-1923 |
| Dewar, Thomas Robert (Scottish-born Brit. distiller, sportsman) |
1864-1930 |
| D'Ewes, Sir Simonds (English antiquarian) |
1602-1650 |
| De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht (Ger. Protestant theologian) |
1780-1849 |
| Dewey, George (American naval officer) |
1837-1917 |
| Dewey, John (American philosopher, educator, psychologist) |
1859-1952 |
| Dewey, Melvil (American librarian; inv. Dewey Decimal system) |
1851-1931 |
| Dewey, Thomas Edmund (American lawyer, politician) |
1902-1971 |
| Dewing, Thomas Wilmer (American painter) |
1851-1938 |
| De Wint, Peter (English landscape painter) |
1784-1849 |
| De Wolfe, Ella Anderson "Elsie" (American decorator) |
1865-1950 |
| Dexippus, Publius Herennius (Greek general, historian) |
c.210-270? |
| Dexter, Timothy (American merchant, eccentric) |
1747-1806 |
| de Young, Michel Harry (American journalist, newspaperman) |
1849-1925 |
| Deyssel, Lodewijk van (K.J.L.A. Thijm) (Dutch writer, critic) |
1864-1952 |
| Dezhnyov, Demyon Ivanov (Russian explorer) |
1605-1672/3 |
| Dga'ldan (Mongol leader) |
1644?-1697 |
| D'Haenens, Irnee J. (American physicist) |
1934-2007 |
| Dharmakirti (Indian Buddhist philosopher) |
7th cent. |
| Dharmavamsa (Javanese ruler) |
d.1007 |
| Dhiliyiannis (or Diliyiannis), Theodoros (Greek politician) |
1826-1905 |
| Dhlomo, Rolfus Reginald Raymond (South African writer, editor) |
1901-1971 |
| Diabelli, Anton (Austrian composer, music publisher) |
1781-1858 |
| Diadochus of Photice (Greek religious) |
5th cent. |
| Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich (Russian art critic, impresario) |
1872-1929 |
| Diagoras the Atheist (Greek Sophist, poet) |
5th cent. BC |
| Diallo, Nafissatou (Senegalese autobiographer, writer,activist) |
1941-1982 |
| Diamante, Juan Bautista (Spanish dramatist) |
1625-1687 |
| Diamond, David Leo (American composer) |
1915-2005 |
| Dias, Bartholomeu (Portuguese navigator) |
c.1450-1500 |
| Dias, Dinis (Portuguese navigator) |
15th cent. |
| Dias, Henrique (Brazilian soldier) |
1600?-1662 |
| Dias de Novais, Paulo (Portuguese official) |
d.1589 |
| Diaz, Adolfo (Nicaraguan politician) |
1874-1964 |
| Diaz, Armando (Italian general, marshal) |
1861-1928 |
| Diaz, Jorge (Argentine-born Chilean playwright) |
b.1930 |
| Diaz, Porfirio (Mexican general, president 1877-80, 1884-1911) |
1830-1915 |
| Diaz de La Pena, Eugene (French composer; son of Narcisse) |
1837-1901 |
| Diaz de La Pena, Narcisse-Virgile (French landscape painter) |
1808-1876 |
| Diaz del Castillo, Bernal (Spanish soldier, historian) |
1492-1581? |
| Diaz de Solis, Juan (Spanish navigator) |
1470?-1516 |
| Diaz de Vivar, Rodrigo "El Cid" (Spanish military leader) |
c.1043-1099 |
| Diaz Ordaz, Gustavo (Mexican politician; president 1964-1970) |
1911-1979 |
| Dib, Mohammed (Algerian writer, poet, playwright) |
b.1920 |
| Dibdin, Charles (English dramatist, actor, composer) |
1745-1814 |
| Dibdin, Charles (English theatrical manager, dramatist) |
1768-1833 |
| Dibdin, Thomas John (English dramatist, songwriter) |
1771-1841 |
| Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (English bibliographer) |
1776-1847 |
| Dibelius, Martin (German theologian) |
1883-1947 |
| Dicaearchus (Greek Peripatetic philosopher, hist., geographer) |
fl. c.320 BC |
| Dicey, Albert Venn (English jurist) |
1835-1922 |
| Dick, George Frederick (American physician) |
1881-1967 |
| Dick, Philip Kindred (American novelist, short-story writer) |
1928-1982 |
| Dicke, Robert Henry (American physicist) |
1916-1997 |
| Dickens, Charles John Huffam (English novelist) |
1812-1870 |
| Dickerson, Mahlon (American politician) |
1770-1853 |
| Dickey, James Lafayette (American poet, writer, critic) |
b.1923 |
| Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth (American lecturer) |
1842-1932 |
| Dickinson, Clarence (American organist, composer) |
1873-1969 |
| Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth (American poet) |
1830-1886 |
| Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes (English historian, essayist) |
1862-1932 |
| Dickinson, John (American politician, patriot) |
1732-1808 |
| Dickinson, Philemon (American Revolutionary general) |
1739-1809 |
| Dickinson, Jonathan (American clergyman, educator) |
1688-1747 |
| Dickman, Joseph Theodore (American army officer) |
1857-1927 |
| Dick-Read, Grantly (British obstetrician) |
1890-1959 |
| Dicksee, Sir Francis Bernard "Frank" (English painter) |
1853-1928 |
| Dickson, Leonard Eugene (American mathematician) |
1874-1954 |
| Dickson, Samuel Henry (American physician) |
1798-1872 |
| Dicuil (Irish monk, scholar) |
fl. 825 |
| Didelot, Charles-Louis (French dancer, choreographer) |
1767-1837 |
| Diderot, Denis "Pantophile" (French philosopher, encyclopedist) |
1713-1784 |
| Didion, Joan (American novelist, essayist) |
b.1934 |
| Didius Julianus, Marcus (Roman emperor 193) |
c.135-193 |
| Didot, Firmin (Fr. printer, engraver, typefounder; son of F.A.) |
1764-1836 |
| Didot, Francois (French printer, publisher) |
1689-1757 |
| Didot, Francois-Ambroise (French printer, publisher; son of F.) |
1730-1804 |
| Didot, Pierre (French printer, publisher; son of F.A.) |
1761-1853 |
| Didot, Pierre-Francois (French printer, publisher; son of F.) |
1731-1793 |
| Didymus (surnamed Chalcenterus) (Greek scholar) |
fl. c.80-10 BC |
| Didymus of Alexandria "the Blind" (Greek theologian) |
c.313-c.398 |
| Diebitsch, Hans Karl Friedrich Anton von (German-born soldier) |
1785-1831 |
| Diefenbaker, John George (Canadian prime minister 1957-1963) |
1895-1979 |
| Dieffenbach, Johann Friedrich (German surgeon) |
1792-1847 |
| Diego, Eliseo (Cuban poet, writer) |
1920-1994 |
| Diego Cendoya, Gerardo (Span. anthologist, musicologist, poet) |
1896-1987 |
| Dielman, Frederick (German-born American painter, illustrator) |
1847-1935 |
| Diels, Otto Paul Hermann (German chemist) |
1876-1954 |
| Dieman, Anthony van (Dutch colonial) |
1593-1645 |
| Dientzenhofer, Christoph (German architect) |
1655-1722 |
| Dientzenhofer, George (German architect; brother of Christoph) |
1643-1689 |
| Dientzenhofer, Johann (German architect; brother of Christoph) |
1663-1726 |
| Dientzenhofer, Johann-Leonard (German architect; bro. of C.) |
1660-1707 |
| Dientzenhofer, Kilian Ignaz (Ger. architect; son of Christoph) |
1689-1751 |
| Dierx, Leon (French poet) |
1838-1912 |
| Dies, Martin (American politician) |
1900-1972 |
| Diesbach, Niklaus von (Swiss political leader) |
1435-1475 |
| Diesel, Rudolf (German mechanical engineer) |
1858-1913 |
| Dieskau, Ludwig August (German general in French service) |
1701-1767 |
| Diesterweg, Friedrich Adolf Wilhelm (German educator) |
1790-1866 |
| Dietrich, Albert Hermann (German composer) |
1829-1908 |
| Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst (German painter, engraver) |
1712-1774 |
| Dietrich, Marlene (German-born American actor, singer) |
1901?-1992 |
| Dietrichson, Lorentz Henrik Segelcke (Norwegian historian) |
1834-1917 |
| Dietrich von Nieheim (German historian, church official) |
1340-1418 |
| Dietz, Johann Christian (German engineer) |
1773-1849 |
| Dietzenschmidt, Anton Franz (Ger. playwright, novelist, critic) |
1893-1955 |
| Dietzgen, Joseph (German Socialist) |
1828-1888 |
| Dieulafoy, Jeanne-Paule-Henriette-Rachel née Magre (Fr. writer) |
1851-1916 |
| Dieulafoy, Marcel-Auguste (French archaeologist, engineer) |
1844-1920 |
| Diez, Friedrich Christian (German philologist) |
1794-1876 |
| Digby, John (1st Earl of Bristol) (English diplomat) |
1580-1653 |
| Digby, Sir Kenelm (English author, naval commander, diplomat) |
1603-1665 |
| Digby, Kenelm Henry (English writer) |
1800-1880 |
| Digges, Sir Dudley (English diplomat; judge; son of Thomas) |
1583-1639 |
| Digges, Leonard (English mathematician) |
d.1571? |
| Digges, Thomas (English mathematician; son of Leonard) |
d.1595 |
| Di Giacomo, Salvatore (Italian writer) |
1860-1934 |
| Di Giuseppe, Enrico (American tenor) |
1932-2005 |
| Dignaga (or Dinnaga) (Buddhist philosopher) |
5th cent. |
| Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe (Dutch computer scientist) |
1930-2002 |
| Dilke, Charles Wentworth (English critic, antiquary) |
1789-1864 |
| Dill, Sir John Greer (British general) |
1881-1944 |
| Dillard, Annie née Doak (American essayist, poet, novelist) |
b.1945 |
| Dillenius, Johann Jakob (German botanist in England) |
1687-1747 |
| Dillinger, John (American outlaw) |
1902-1934 |
| Dillingham, Charles Bancroft (American theatrical manager) |
1868-1934 |
| Dillingham, William Paul (American politician) |
1843-1923 |
| Dillman, Christian Friedrich August (Ger. theologian, scholar) |
1823-1894 |
| Dillon, Emile Joseph (Irish-born British journalist) |
1854-1933 |
| Dillon, George Hill (American poet) |
1906-1968 |
| Dillon, John (Irish Nationalist politician) |
1851-1927 |
| Dillon, John Blake (Irish politician; father of John) |
1816-1866 |
| Dillon, Wentworth (Irish-born British poet) |
1633?-1685 |
| Dilly, Charles (English bookseller) |
1739-1807 |
| Dilthey, Wilhelm (German philosopher) |
1833-1911 |
| DiMaggio, Joseph "Joe" Paul (American baseball player) |
b.1914 |
| DiMeola, Al (American musician) |
b.1954 |
| Dimitriev, Radko (Bulgarian soldier) |
1859-1918 |
| Dimitrijevic, Dragutin "Apis" (Serbian soldier, intriguer) |
1876-1917 |
| Dimitrov, Georgi Mikhailovich (Bulgarian Communist leader) |
1882-1949 |
| Dinarchus (or Deinarchus) (Greek speech writer) |
360?-292? BC |
| Dinawari, ad- (Persian astronomer, botanist, historian) |
c.815-c.895/902 |
| Dines, William Henry (English meteorologist) |
1855-1927 |
| Dinesen, Karen Christence (pseud. Isak Dinesen) (Danish writer) |
1885-1962 |
| Dingane (or Dingaan) (Zulu chieftain) |
d.1840 |
| Dingelstedt, Franz Ferdinand (German poet, theater director) |
1814-1881 |
| Dingiswayo (Bantu chieftain) |
d.1817 |
| Dingle, Herbert (English astrophysicist) |
1890-1978 |
| Dingley, Nelson (American politician) |
1832-1899 |
| Dinglinger, Johann Melchior (German goldsmith) |
1664-1731 |
| Dinh Bo Linh (aka Dinh Tien Hoang) (Vietnamese emperor) |
d.979 |
| Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Antonio (Portuguese poet) |
1731-1799 |
| Dinnyes, Lajos (Hungarian politician) |
1901-1961 |
| Dinocrates (or Deinocrates) (Greek architect) |
4th cent. BC |
| Dinter, Gustav Friedrich (German theologian, educator) |
1760-1831 |
| Dinwiddie, Robert (Scottish-born British administrator in Am.) |
1693-1770 |
| Dio Cassius (surnamed Cocceianus) (Roman politician, historian) |
c.150-235 |
| Dio Chrysostom (Dion Chrysostomus) (Greek rhetorician in Rome) |
c.40-c.112 |
| Diocles (Syracusan democratic statesman) |
5th cent. BC |
| Diocles (Greek mathematician) |
1st cent. BC? |
| Diocles of Carystus (Greek physician) |
4th cent. BC |
| Diocletian (Gaius Aurelius Diocletianus)(Roman emperor 284-305) |
245/8-313/6 |
| Diodati, Charles (Eng. physician, scholar; nephew of Giovanni) |
1608?-1638 |
| Diodati, Giovanni (Swiss Protestant theologian) |
1576-1649 |
| Diodore of Tarsus (Greek theologian) |
c.330-c.390 |
| Diodorus of Tyre (Greek philosopher) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Diodorus Cronus (Greek philosopher of Magarian school) |
4th cent. BC |
| Diodorus Siculus (Greek historian) |
1st cent. BC |
| Diogenes (Greek philosopher) |
d.c.320 BC |
| Diogenes of Apollonia (Greek philosopher) |
5th cent. BC |
| Diogenes of Babylon (Greek Stoic philosopher) |
2nd cent. BC |
| Diogenes Laertius (Greek writer) |
3rd cent. |
| Diogenes of Sinope (Greek philosopher) |
c.410-c.320 BC |
| Diogenianus (Greek grammarian) |
2nd cent. |
| Diomedes (Latin scholar) |
4th cent. |
| Dion (Syracusan philosopher, politician) |
408?-353 BC |
| Dionne, Annette (Canadian quintuplet) |
b.1934 |
| Dionne, Cecile (Canadian quintuplet) |
b.1934 |
| Dionne, Emilie (Canadian quintuplet) |
1934-1954 |
| Dionne, Marie (Canadian quintuplet) |
1934-1970 |
| Dionne, Yvonne (Canadian quintuplet) |
b.1934 |
| Dionysius the Elder (Greek tyrant of Syracuse 405-367 BC) |
c.430-367 BC |
| Dionysius of Alexandria, Saint "the Great" (Greek theologian) |
c.200-c.265 |
| Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Greek scholar) |
fl. c.20 BC |
| Dionysius the Areopagite (Syrian? mystical, theological author) |
c.500 |
| Dionysius the Carthusian (Flemish theologian, mystic) |
1402/3-1471 |
| Dionysius Exiguus (Scythian Christian monk, scholar) |
c.500-c.560 |
| Dionysius Periegetes (Greek geographer) |
2nd/3rd cent. |
| Dionysius Telmaharensis (Syrian church patriarch) |
d.845 |
| Dionysius Thrax (Greek grammarian) |
fl. 100 BC |
| Diop, Birago Ismael (Senegalese poet, recorder of folktales) |
1906-1989 |
| Diop, David (French-born Senegalese poet, teacher) |
1927-1960 |
| Diophantus of Alexandria (Greek mathematician) |
c.210-c.290 |
| Dior, Christian (French fashion designer) |
1905-1957 |
| Dioscorides, Pedanius (Greek physician) |
c.40-c.90 |
| Dioscorus (Greek prelate) |
d.454 |
| Dioscorus (Alexandrian prelate) |
d.530 |
| Diphilus (Athenian poet) |
4th cent. BC |
| Dipo Negoro, Pangeran (Raden Mas Ontowirjo) (Javanese leader) |
c.1785-1855 |
| Dipoenus (Greek sculptor; collaborated with Scyllis) |
6th cent. BC |
| Dippel, Johann Konrad (German Pietist theologian, alchemist) |
1673-1734 |
| Di Prima, Diane (American poet, writer, playwright) |
b.1934 |
| Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (English physicist) |
1902-1984 |
| Dirac, Wolfgang (Austrian-born American physicist) |
1900-1958 |
| Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune (German mathematician) |
1805-1859 |
| Dirks, Rudolph (German-born Am. cartoonist: Katzenjammer Kids) |
1877-1968 |
| Dirksen, Everett McKinley (American politician, orator) |
1896-1969 |
| Disch, Thomas Michael (American writer) |
b.1940 |
| Disney, Walter Elias (American film producer) |
1901-1966 |
| Disraeli, Benjamin "Dizzy" (English politician, author) |
1804-1881 |
| D'Israeli, Isaac (English man of letters) |
1766-1848 |
| Ditlevsen, Tove (Danish writer, poet, journalist) |
1918-1976 |
| Ditmars, Raymond Lee (American naturalist) |
1876-1942 |
| Ditters von Dittersdorf, Karl (Austrian violin virtuoso, comp.) |
1739-1799 |
| Ditzen, Wilhelm Friedrich Rudolf (Hans Fallada) (Ger. novelist) |
1893-1947 |
| Divakarapandita (orig. Divakara) (Cambodian Brahmin) |
1040-c.1120 |
| Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead) (American actor) |
1945-1988 |
| Divini, Eustachio (Italian instrument maker) |
1610-1685 |
| Dix, Dorothea Lynde (American philanthropist, reformer) |
1802-1887 |
| Dix, John Adams (American army officer, politician) |
1798-1879 |
| Dix, Otto (German painter) |
1891-1969 |
| Dixon, George (English navigator) |
1755?-1800? |
| Dixon, Henry Hall (pen name The Druid)(English sporting writer) |
1822-1870 |
| Dixon, Henry Horatio (Irish botanist) |
1869-1953 |
| Dixon, Jeremiah (English surveyor in America w/ Charles Mason) |
d.1777 |
| Dixon, Joseph (American manufacturer, inventor) |
1799-1869 |
| Dixon, Richard Watson (English poet) |
1833-1900 |
| Dixon, Roland Burrage (American anthropologist) |
1875-1934 |
| Dixon, Thomas (Am. clergyman, writer, dramatist, legislator) |
1864-1946 |
| Dixon, William Hepworth (English journalist, historian) |
1821-1879 |
| Dixon, William Robert "Bill" (Am. musician, composer, lecturer) |
b.1925 |
| Djebar, Assia (Algerian filmmaker, critical theorist, writer) |
b.1936 |
| Djedefre (aka Redjedef) (Egyptian king) |
26th cent. BC |
| Djoser (or Zoser) (Egyptian king) |
27th cent. BC |
| Dlugosz, Jan (Johannes Longinus) (Polish historian) |
1415-1480 |
| Dmowski, Roman (Polish statesman) |
1864-1939 |
| Dobbin, James Cochran (American politician) |
1814-1857 |
| Dobell, Bertram (English bookseller) |
1842-1914 |
| Dobell, Sydney Thompson (pseud. Sydney Yendys) (English poet) |
1824-1874 |
| Dobeneck, Johannes (Johannes Cochlaeus) (Ger. Humanist, theol.) |
1479-1552 |
| Dober, Conrad K. (pen name Con Conrad) (American songwriter) |
1893-1938 |
| Dobereiner, Johann Wolfgang (German chemist) |
1780-1849 |
| Dobie, James Frank (American folklorist) |
1888-1964 |
| Doblin, Alfred (German physician, writer, essayist) |
1878-1957 |
| Dobree, Bonamy (English scholar) |
1891-1974 |
| Dobrizhoffer, Martin (Austrian Jesuit missionary) |
1717-1791 |
| Dobrolyubov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich (Rus. journalist, critic) |
1836-1861 |
| Dobrovolsky, Georgy Timofeyevich (Russian astronaut) |
1928-1971 |
| Dobrovsky, Josef (Slavic Jesuit, philologist) |
1753-1829 |
| Dobson, Henry Austin (English poet, man of letters) |
1840-1921 |
| Dobson, Frank (English sculptor) |
1888-1963 |
| Dobson, William (English portrait painter) |
1610-1646 |
| Dobyns, Stephen (American poet, writer, essayist) |
b.1941 |
| Dobzhansky, Theodosius (Ukrainian-born American geneticist) |
1900-1975 |
| Dockwra (or Dockwray), William (English merchant) |
d.1716 |
| Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence (American writer, teacher) |
b.1931 |
| Dodd, Frank Howard (American publisher) |
1844-1916 |
| Dodd, Lee Wilson (American writer) |
1879-1933 |
| Dodd, William (English cleric, forger) |
1729-1777 |
| Dodd, William Edward (American historian) |
1869-1940 |
| Doddridge, Philip (English nonconformist clergyman) |
1702-1751 |
| Dodds, Alfred-Amedee (French soldier, colonialist) |
1842-1922 |
| Dodds, Johnny (American musician) |
1892-1940 |
| Dodds, Warren "Baby Dodds" (American musician; brother of J.) |
1898-1959 |
| Doderer, Heimito von (Austrian writer, lumberjack) |
1896-1966 |
| Dodge, Augustus Caesar (American politician; son of Henry) |
1812-1883 |
| Dodge, David Low (American merchant, pacifist; father of W.E.) |
1774-1852 |
| Dodge, Grace Hoadley (American social worker) |
1856-1914 |
| Dodge, Grenville Mellen (American army officer, civil engineer) |
1831-1916 |
| Dodge, Henry (American army officer, politician) |
1782-1867 |
| Dodge, Mary Abigail (pseud. Gail Hamilton) (American writer) |
1833-1896 |
| Dodge, Mary Elizabeth née Mapes (American writer) |
1831-1905 |
| Dodge, Raymond (American psychologist) |
1871-1942 |
| Dodge, William Earl (Am. merchant, philanthropist; org. YMCA) |
1805-1883 |
| Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (Lewis Carrol) (Eng. math., writer) |
1832-1898 |
| Dodoens, Junius Rembert (Dutch botanist) |
1517-1585 |
| Dodsley, Robert (English poet, playwright, bookseller) |
1703-1764 |
| Dodson, Owen Vincent (Am. poet, teacher, director, playwright) |
1914-1983 |
| Dodwell, Henry (Irish theologian, historian) |
1641-1711 |
| Does, Johan van der (aka Janus Dousa) (Dutch political leader) |
1545-1604 |
| Dogen (aka Joyo Daishi, Kigen Dogen) (Japanese Buddhist) |
1200-1253 |
| Doggett, Thomas (Irish actor) |
c.1670-1721 |
| Doheny, Edward Laurence (American businessman) |
1856-1935 |
| Doherty, Charles Joseph (Canadian jurist, diplomat) |
1855-1931 |
| Doherty, Henry Latham (American businessman) |
1870-1939 |
| Dohm, Ernst (German writer) |
1819-1883 |
| Dohna, Alexander (German field marshal in Prussia) |
1661-1728 |
| Dohna, Burggraf Fabian von (German soldier) |
1550-1621 |
| Dohna, Christoph (German general; brother of Alexander) |
1665-1733 |
| Dohnanyi, Erno (Hungarian musician, composer) |
1877-1960 |
| Dohrn, Anton (German zoologist) |
1840-1909 |
| Doihara Kenji (Japanese soldier) |
1883-1948 |
| Doisy, Edward Adelbert (American biochemist) |
1893-1986 |
| Dokuchayev, Vasily Vasilyevich (Russian geologist) |
1846-1903 |
| Dokyo (Japanese Buddhist priest) |
d.772 |
| Dolabella, Publius Cornelius (Roman general) |
70?-43 BC |
| Dolce, Lodovico (Italian writer, scholar) |
1508-1568 |
| Dolci, Carlo (or Carlino) (Florentine painter) |
1616-1686 |
| Dole, Sanford Ballard (American lawyer, politician) |
1844-1926 |
| Dole, Vincent Paul (American physician, methadone researcher) |
1913-2006 |
| Dolenz, Mickey (American actor, Monkee) |
b.1945 |
| Dolet, Etienne (French printer, Humanist) |
1509-1546 |
| D'Olier, Franklin (American businessman) |
1877-1953 |
| Doll, William Richard Shaboe (British epidemiologist) |
1912-2005 |
| Dollar, Robert (Scottish-born American shipping executive) |
1844-1932 |
| Dollfuss, Engelbert (Austrian politician) |
1892-1934 |
| Dolling, Robert William Radclyffe (British social reformer) |
1851-1902 |
| Dollinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von (German theologian) |
1799-1890 |
| Dollmann, Georg Carl Heinrich von (German architect) |
1830-1895 |
| Dollond, George (English optician; nephew of Peter) |
1774-1852 |
| Dollond, John (English optician) |
1706-1761 |
| Dollond, Peter (English optician; son of John) |
1730-1820 |
| Dolmetsch, Eugene Arnold (French-born British musician) |
1858-1940 |
| Dolomieu, Dieudonne (French geologist, mineralogist) |
1750-1801 |
| Dolphy, Eric (American jazz musician) |
1928-1964 |
| Domagk, Gerhard (German bacteriologist, pathologist) |
1895-1964 |
| Dombrovsky, Yuri Osipovich (Russian writer) |
1909-1978 |
| Domenichino (orig. Domenico Zampieri) (Italian painter) |
1581-1641 |
| Domat, Jean (French jurist) |
1625-1696 |
| Dombasle, (Christophe-Joseph-Alexandre-) Mathieu de (Fr. agri.) |
1777-1843 |
| Domenech y Montaner, Luis (Catalan architect) |
1850-1923 |
| Domenichino (aka Domenico Zampieri) (Bolognese painter) |
1581-1641 |
| Domenico di Giovanni "Il Burchiello" (Florentine barber) |
1404-1449 |
| Domenico Veneziano (Italian painter) |
d.1461 |
| Domett, Alfred (English poet, colonialist) |
1811-1887 |
| Domeyko, Ignacio (Ignacy) (Polish mineralogist in Chile) |
1801-1889 |
| Dominic, Saint (Spanish-born founder of Dominican order) |
c.1170-1221 |
| Dominis, Marco Antonio de (Italian primate) |
1566-1624 |
| Domitian (Titus Flavius Domitianus) (Roman emperor 81-96) |
AD 51-96 |
| Donald, William Henry (Australian journalist, economist) |
1875-1946 |
| Donaldson, John William (English philologist) |
1811-1861 |
| Donatello (Donato de Betto di Bardi) (Florentine sculptor) |
1386?-1466 |
| Donati, Corso (Florentine political leader) |
d.1308 |
| Donati, Giovanni Battista (Italian astronomer) |
1826-1873 |
| Donatus, Aelius (Roman grammarian, teacher of rhetoric) |
4th cent. |
| Donders, Frans Cornelis (Dutch opthalmologist, physiologist) |
1818-1889 |
| Doneda, Michel (French musician) |
b.1954 |
| Donegan, Anthony James "Lonnie" (Scot. musician; inv. skiffle) |
1931-2002 |
| Donelaitis (or Duonelaitis), Kristijonas (Lithuanian poet) |
1714-1780 |
| Donelson, Andrew Jackson (American army officer, diplomat) |
1799-1871 |
| Donfeld (b. Donald Lee Feld) (American costume designer) |
1934-2007 |
| Dongan, Thomas (Irish colonial administrator in America) |
1634-1715 |
| Dongen, Cornelis Theodorus (aka Kees van Dongen)(Dutch painter) |
1877-1968 |
| Doni, Anton Francesco (Italian writer) |
1513?-1574 |
| Doni, Giovanni Battista (Italian scholar) |
1594-1647 |
| Donitz, Karl (German admiral) |
1891-1980 |
| Donizetti, (Domenico) Gaetano (Maria) (Italian composer) |
1797-1848 |
| Donkin, Bryan (English engineer, inventor) |
1768-1855 |
| Donleavy, James Patrick (English novelist, dramatist) |
b.1926 |
| Donnadieu, Marguerite (pseud. Marguerite Duras) (French writer) |
1914-1996 |
| Donnan, Frederick George (Ceylon-born British chemist) |
1870-1956 |
| Donnay, Maurice-Charles (French playwright) |
1859-1945 |
| Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald (aka Donn Byrne) (American writer) |
1889-1928 |
| Donne, John (English clergyman, poet) |
1572-1631 |
| Donnelly, Ignatius (American politician, author) |
1831-1901 |
| Donner, Georg Raphael (Austrian sculptor) |
1693-1741 |
| Donoso Cortes, Juan Francisco Maria de la Salud (Span. writer) |
1809-1853 |
| Donoso, Jose (Chilean writer, journalist) |
b.1924 |
| Donovan, William Joseph "Wild Bill" (American lawyer, general) |
1883-1959 |
| Doodson, Arthur Thomas (English oceanographer) |
1890-1968 |
| Dooley, Thomas Anthony (American physician) |
1927-1961 |
| Doolittle, Hilda (pen name H.D.) (American poet, playwright) |
1886-1961 |
| Doolittle, James Harold (American aviator, general) |
1896-1993 |
| Doorman, Karel Willem Frederik Marie (Dutch admiral) |
1889-1942 |
| Doppler, Christian Johann (Austrian physicist) |
1803-1853 |
| Doran, George Henry (Canadian-born American publisher) |
1869-1956 |
| Doran, John (British journalist, writer) |
1807-1878 |
| Dorat (or Daurat), Jean (pseud. Auratus)(French poet, Humanist) |
1508-1588 |
| Dorati, Antal (Hungarian-born American conductor) |
1906-1988 |
| Dore, Paul-Gustave (French illustrator, painter) |
1832-1883 |
| Doremus, Sarah Platt née Haines (American philanthropist) |
1802-1877 |
| Dorfman, Ariel (Argentinean-born Chilean writer) |
b.1942 |
| Dorfman, Steven Edward (American game-show writer: Jeopardy!) |
1955-2004 |
| Dorgan, Thomas Aloysius (pseud. Tad) (American cartoonist) |
1877-1929 |
| Dorgeles, Roland (French novelist) |
1886-1973 |
| Dorgon (Manchu prince; son of Nurhachi) |
1612-1650 |
| Doria, Andrea (Genoese admiral, statesman) |
1466-1560 |
| Doria, Giacomo (Italian naturalist, explorer) |
1840-1913 |
| Dorion, Sir Antoine Aime (Canadian jurist, politician) |
1818-1891 |
| Doriot, Jacques (French politician) |
1898-1945? |
| Dorn, Edward Merton "Ed" (American poet, writer) |
b.1929 |
| Dorn, Heinrich Ludwig Egmont (German composer) |
1804-1892 |
| Dornberger, Walter Robert (German engineer) |
1895-1980 |
| Dorner, Isaak August (German Protestant theologian) |
1809-1884 |
| Dornier, Claudius (German airplane builder) |
1884-1969 |
| Dorotheus (Roman jurist in Syria) |
6th cent. |
| Dorpfeld, Wilhelm (Germam archaeologist) |
1853-1940 |
| Dorr, John Van Nostrand (American metallurgical engineer) |
1872-1962 |
| Dorr, Julia Caroline née Ripley (American writer) |
1825-1913 |
| Dorr, Thomas Wilson (American lawyer, politician) |
1805-1854 |
| Dorregaray, Antonio (Spanish general) |
1823-1882 |
| Dorrego, Manuel (Argentinean politician) |
1787-1828 |
| Dorset, Marion (American chemist) |
1872-1935 |
| Dorsey, James (American bandleader) |
1904-1957 |
| Dorsey, James Owen (American ethnologist) |
1848-1895 |
| Dorsey, Thomas (American bandleader; brother of James) |
1905-1956 |
| Dorst, Tankred (German writer, playwright, translator) |
b.1925 |
| Dosho (Japanese Buddhist priest) |
629-700 |
| Dositheos (or Dositheus) (Patriarch of Jerusalem 1669-1707) |
1641-1707 |
| Dositheus Magister (Greek grammarian) |
4th cent. |
| Dos Passos, John Roderigo (American writer, social historian) |
1896-1970 |
| Dost Mohammad Khan (Ruler of Afghanistan) |
1793-1863 |
| Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhaylovich (Russian novelist) |
1821-1881 |
| Dou (or Douw), Gerrit (or Gerard) (Dutch painter) |
1613-1675 |
| Douay, Charles-Abel (French general) |
1809-1870 |
| Douay, Felix-Charles (French general; brother of Charles-Abel) |
1816-1879 |
| Doubleday, Abner (American soldier; reputed inv. of baseball) |
1819-1893 |
| Doubleday, Frank Nelson (American publisher) |
1862-1934 |
| Doucet, Charles-Camille (French playwright) |
1812-1895 |
| Doudart de Lagree, Ernest de Gonzague (Fr. diplomat, explorer) |
1823-1868 |
| Douffet, Gerard (Dutch painter) |
1594-1660 |
| Doughty, Charles Montagu (English poet, traveler) |
1843-1926 |
| Doughty, Susan Dorothy (English ceramist) |
1892-1962 |
| Doughty, Thomas (Am. painter; member of Hudson River school) |
1793-1856 |
| Doughty-Wylie, Charles Hotham Montagu (English soldier, consul) |
1868-1915 |
| Douglas, Lord Alfred (English poet) |
1870-1945 |
| Douglas, Amanda Minnie (American writer) |
1831-1916 |
| Douglas, Sir Archibald Lucius (Canadian-born British admiral) |
1842-1913 |
| Douglas, Clifford Hugh (English engineer, social economist) |
1879-1952 |
| Douglas, Dave (American musician, composer) |
b.1963 |
| Douglas, David (Scottish botanist) |
1798-1834 |
| Douglas, Donald Wills (American engineer, industrialist) |
1892-1981 |
| Douglas, Gawin (or Gavin) (Scottish poet, ecclesiastic) |
1474-1522 |
| Douglas, George Norman (English essayist, writer) |
1868-1952 |
| Douglas, Sir Howard (British soldier, artillery expert) |
1776-1861 |
| Douglas, James "Black Douglas" (Scottish chieftain) |
1286-1330 |
| Douglas, Sir James (Brit. Guiana-born Can. businessman, polit.) |
1803-1877 |
| Douglas, James (Can.-born Am. metallurgist, mining engineer) |
1837-1918 |
| Douglas, John (Scottish-born British prelate) |
1721-1807 |
| Douglas, John Sholto (Scottish boxing patron) |
1844-1900 |
| Douglas, Keith Castellain (English poet) |
1920-1944 |
| Douglas, Kirk (Issur Danielovitch) (American actor) |
b.1918 |
| Douglas, Lewis Williams (American politician) |
1894-1974 |
| Douglas, Lloyd Cassel (Am. Congregational clergyman, novelist) |
1877-1951 |
| Douglas, Mike (American talk show host) |
b.1925 |
| Douglas, Stephen Arnold "Little Giant" (American politician) |
1813-1861 |
| Douglas, William Orville (American jurist) |
1898-1980 |
| Douglas, William Sholto (British air officer) |
1893-1969 |
| Douglas of Kirtleside, Baron William Sholto (Brit. air marshal) |
1893-1969 |
| Douglass, Andrew Ellicott (American astronomer) |
1867-1962 |
| Douglass, Charles Rolland (Am. sound engineer; inv. Laff Box) |
1910-2003 |
| Douglass, Frederick (American abolitionist, writer) |
1817-1895 |
| Douhet, Giulio (Italian general) |
1869-1930 |
| Doulton, Sir Henry (English potter) |
1820-1897 |
| Doumer, Paul (French politician; president 1931-1932) |
1857-1932 |
| Doumergue, Gaston (French politician; president 1924-1931) |
1863-1937 |
| Doumic, Rene (French writer, critic) |
1860-1937 |
| Douris (or Duris) (Greek potter, vase painter) |
5th cent. BC |
| Douris (or Duris) of Samos (Greek historian) |
c.340-c.260 BC |
| Douwes Dekker, Eduard (pseud. Multatuli) (Dutch writer) |
1820-1887 |
| Dove, Alfred (German historian, essayist, journalist) |
1844-1916 |
| Dove, Arthur Garfield (American painter) |
1880-1946 |
| Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm (German physicist, meteorologist) |
1803-1879 |
| Dove, Richard Wilhelm (German jurist, politician) |
1833-1907 |
| Dove, Rita Frances (American writer, teacher; poet laureate) |
b.1952 |
| Dover, Thomas (English physician) |
1660-1742 |
| Dovlatov, Sergei Donatovich (Russian writer, journalist) |
1941-1990 |
| Dovzhenko, Aleksandr (Ukrainian film director) |
1894-1956 |
| Dow, Charles Henry (American financial journalist: Dow-Jones) |
1851-1902 |
| Dow, Herbert Henry (Canadian-born Am. chemist, manufacturer) |
1866-1930 |
| Dow, Neal (American temperance advocate) |
1804-1897 |
| Dowden, Edward (Irish literary critic, biographer, poet) |
1843-1913 |
| Dowding, Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere (British soldier) |
1882-1970 |
| Dowell, Coleman (American novelist, dramatist, lyricist) |
1925-1985 |
| Dowie, John Alexander (Scottish-born American religious leader) |
1847-1907 |
| Dowland, John (English composer, lutenist) |
1563-1626 |
| Dowland, Robert (English lutenist; son of John) |
c.1591-1641 |
| Downes, Andrew (English classical scholar) |
1549?-1628 |
| Downes, Edwin Olin (American music critic) |
1886-1955 |
| Downing, Andrew Jackson (American horticulturist, nurseryman) |
1815-1852 |
| Downing, Charles (American horticulturist, pomologist) |
1802-1885 |
| Downing, Sir George (Irish-born English diplomat) |
1623-1684 |
| Dowson, Ernest Christopher (English lyric poet; a Decadent) |
1867-1900 |
| Doxiadis, Konstantinos Apostolos (Greek architect,city planner) |
1913-1975 |
| Doyen, Gabriel-Francois (French painter) |
1726-1806 |
| Doyle, Alexander (American sculptor) |
1857-1922 |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (British physician, author) |
1859-1930 |
| Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles (English poet) |
1810-1888 |
| Doyle, John (English painter, caricaturist) |
1797-1868 |
| Doyle, Richard (English caricaturist, painter; son of John) |
1824-1883 |
| Dozsa, Gyorgy (Hungarian soldier of fortune, rebel) |
1470-1514 |
| Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (Dutch Arabist, historian) |
1820-1883 |
| Drabble, Margaret (English writer) |
b.1939 |
| Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herholdt (Danish writer, poet) |
1846-1908 |
| Draco (or Dracon) (Athenian lawgiver) |
7th cent. BC |
| Dracontius, Blossis Aemilius (Christian Latin poet) |
5th cent. |
| Draeseke, Felix August Bernhard (German composer) |
1835-1913 |
| Draga née Lunjevica (Queen of Serbia, adventuress) |
1867-1903 |
| Drago, Luis Maria (Argentinean jurist) |
1859-1921 |
| Dragomirov, Mikhail Ivanovich (Russian soldier) |
1830-1905 |
| Drake, Alexander Wilson (American artist, critic) |
1843-1916 |
| Drake, Edwin Laurentine (American oil industry pioneer) |
1819-1880 |
| Drake, Sir Francis (English admiral) |
1540/3-1596 |
| Drake, Hamid (American musician) |
b.1955 |
| Drake, Joseph Rodmam (American poet, pharmacist) |
1795-1820 |
| Drake, Nicholas Rodney "Nick" (Burma-born English musician) |
1948-1974 |
| Draper, Henry (American astronomer; son of John) |
1837-1882 |
| Draper, John William (English-born American scientist, author) |
1811-1882 |
| Draper, Lyman Copeland (American historical scholar) |
1815-1891 |
| Draper, Ruth (American monologuist) |
1884-1956 |
| Drayton, Michael (English poet) |
1563-1631 |
| Drebbel, Cornelis Jacobszoon (Dutch inventor) |
1572-1633 |
| Dreikurs, Rudolf (Austrian-born American psychiatrist) |
1897-1972 |
| Dreiser, Paul Dresser (American songwriter; bro. of Theodore) |
1857-1911 |
| Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (American writer) |
1871-1945 |
| Drennan, William (Irish poet; coined "the Emerald Isle") |
1754-1820 |
| Drell, Sidney D. (American particle physicist) |
b.1926 |
| Dresher, Paul (American composer) |
b.1951 |
| Dresser, Christopher (English designer) |
1834-1904 |
| Dresser, Mark (American musician, composer) |
b.1952 |
| Dresslar, Elmer Jr. "Len" (American singer; Jolly Green Giant) |
1925-2005 |
| Dressler, Marie (orig. Leila M. Koerber)(Can.-born Am. actor) |
1869-1934 |
| Drevet, Pierre (French copper engraver) |
1663-1738 |
| Drevet, Pierre Imbert (French copper engraver; son of Pierre) |
1697-1739 |
| Drew, Charles Richard (American physician) |
1904-1950 |
| Drew, Daniel (American financier) |
1797-1879 |
| Drew, John (Irish-born American actor) |
1827-1862 |
| Drew, John (American actor; son of John) |
1853-1927 |
| Drew, Louisa née Lane (English-born Am. actor; wife of John) |
1820-1897 |
| Drew Ali, Prophet (orig. Timothy Drew) (Am. religious leader) |
1886-1929 |
| Drews, Arthur (German philosopher) |
1865-1935 |
| Drexel, Anthony Joseph (American banker; son of Francis) |
1826-1893 |
| Drexel, Francis Martin (Austrian-born American banker) |
1792-1863 |
| Drexel, Katharine Mary (Am. religious; granddau. of Francis) |
1858-1955 |
| Drexler, Kim Eric (American nanotechnology scientist) |
b.1955 |
| Dreyer, Carl Theodor (Danish film director) |
1889-1968 |
| Dreyer, Johan Ludwig Emil (Danish astronomer) |
1852-1926 |
| Dreyer, John Louis Emil (Danish astronomer) |
1852-1926 |
| Dreyer, Max (German journalist, playwright, novelist) |
1862-1946 |
| Dreyfus, Alfred (French army officer) |
1859-1935 |
| Dreyse, Johann Nikolaus von (German inventor) |
1787-1867 |
| Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard (German biologist, philosopher) |
1867-1941 |
| Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre (French writer) |
1893-1945 |
| Drinkwater, John (English poet, playwright, critic) |
1882-1937 |
| Drioton, Etienne-Marie (French ecclesiastic, Egyptologist) |
1889-1961 |
| Driver, Sir Godfrey Rolles (Eng. biblical scholar; son of S.R.) |
1892-1975 |
| Driver, Samuel Rolles (English biblical scholar) |
1846-1914 |
| Drobisch, Moritz Wilhelm (German mathematician, philosopher) |
1802-1896 |
| Drogo de Hauteville (Norman nobleman) |
d.1051 |
| Dropsie, Moses Aaron (American lawyer) |
1821-1905 |
| Drost, Aernout (Dutch writer) |
1810-1834 |
| Droste-Hulshoff, Annette Elisabeth von (German poet) |
1797-1848 |
| Droste zu Vischering, Klemens August von (German prelate) |
1773-1845 |
| Drouais, Francois-Hubert (French painter; son of Hubert) |
1727-1775 |
| Drouais, Hubert (French portrait, miniature painter) |
1699-1767 |
| Drouais, Jean-Germain (French historical painter; son of F.H.) |
1763-1788 |
| Drouet, Jean-Baptiste (French revolutionist) |
1763-1824 |
| Drouet, Jean-Baptiste (Comte d'Erlon) (French soldier) |
1765-1844 |
| Drouot, Antoine (French general) |
1774-1847 |
| Drouyn de Lhuys, Edouard (French politician) |
1805-1881 |
| Droysen, Johann Gustav (German historian, politician) |
1808-1884 |
| Droz, Antoine-Gustave (French painter, author; son of Jules) |
1832-1895 |
| Droz, Francois-Xavier-Joseph (Fr. moral philosopher, historian) |
1773-1850 |
| Droz, Jean-Pierre (French engraver) |
1746-1823 |
| Droz, Jules-Antoine (French sculptor; son of Jean-Pierre) |
1807-1872 |
| Droz, Numa (Swiss journalist, politician) |
1844-1899 |
| Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (Austrian-born Am. polit. economist) |
1909-2005 |
| Drude, Paul Karl Ludwig (German physicist) |
1863-1906 |
| Drummond de Andrade, Carlos (Brazilian poet, journalist) |
1902-1987 |
| Drummond of Hawthornden, William (Scottish poet) |
1585-1649 |
| Drummond, Henry (English banker, religious leader) |
1786-1860 |
| Drummond, Henry (Scottish evangelical writer, lecturer) |
1851-1897 |
| Drummond, Thomas (Scottish-born Brit. engineer, administrator) |
1797-1840 |
| Drummond, William (1st Viscount of Strathallan) (Scot. soldier) |
1617?-1688 |
| Drummond, Sir William (British diplomat, scholar, writer) |
c.1770-1828 |
| Drummond, William Henry (Irish-born Canadian poet) |
1854-1907 |
| Drury, Allen Stuart (American writer, journalist) |
b.1918 |
| Drusus (also Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus) (Roman general) |
38-9 BC |
| Dryden, Hugh Latimer (American physicist) |
1898-1965 |
| Dryden, John (English poet, dramatist; poet laureate 1668-1689) |
1631-1700 |
| Dryden, John Fairfield (American businessman: Prudential Ins.) |
1839-1911 |
| Drygalski, Erich Dagobert von (German geophysicist, geographer) |
1865-1949 |
| Drzic, Marin (Croatian writer) |
1508-1567 |
| Duane, William (American journalist) |
1760-1835 |
| Duane, William (American physicist) |
1872-1935 |
| Duarte, Fausto Castilho (Cape Verdean writer, administrator) |
1903-1953 |
| Duarte, Juan Pablo (Dominican political leader) |
1813-1876 |
| Dubail, Auguste-Yvon-Edmond (French general) |
1851-1934 |
| Duban, Felix-Louis-Jacques (French architect) |
1797-1870 |
| Dube, John Langalibalele (South African journalist, educator) |
1871-1946 |
| Dubnow, Simon (Russian Jewish historian) |
1860-1941 |
| Dubois, Eugene (Dutch anatomist, paleontologist) |
1858-1940 |
| Dubois, Francois-Clement-Theodore (French composer, organist) |
1837-1924 |
| Dubois, Guillaume (French prelate, politician) |
1656-1723 |
| duBois, Guy Pene (American painter) |
1884-1958 |
| Dubois, Jean-Antoine (Fr. Roman Catholic missionary in India) |
1765-1848 |
| Dubois, Paul (French sculptor) |
1829-1905 |
| Dubois, Pierre (Petrus a Bosco) (French lawyer, publicist) |
c.1250-c.1320 |
| Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (Am.-born Ghanan sociologist) |
1868-1963 |
| du Bois, William Pene Sherman (American writer, illustrator) |
1916-1993 |
| Dubois-Crance, Edmond-Louis-Alexis (Fr. revolutionary polit.) |
1747-1814 |
| Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich (German philologist) |
1818-1896 |
| Du Bos, Charles (French critic) |
1882-1939 |
| Dubos, Rene Jules (French-born American bacteriologist) |
1901-1982 |
| Dubs, Jakob (Swiss politician) |
1822-1879 |
| Du Buat, Pierre-Louis-Georges (French hydraulic engineer) |
1734-1809 |
| Dubufe, Claude-Marie (French painter) |
1789-1864 |
| Dubufe, Edouard-Marie-Guillaume (French painter; son of Louis) |
1853-1909 |
| Dubufe, Louis-Edouard (French painter; son of Claude-Marie) |
1820-1883 |
| Dubuffet, Jean (French painter, printmaker, sculptor) |
1901-1985 |
| Dubuque, Julien (Canadian-born American pioneer) |
1762-1810 |
| Debus, Andre (American writer, teacher) |
b.1936 |
| Du Camp, Maxime (French journalist, photographer, traveler) |
1822-1894 |
| Du Cange, Charles Du Fresne (French scholar, glossarist) |
1610-1688 |
| Du Cange, Victor-Henri-Joseph Brahain (French nov., playwright) |
1783-1833 |
| Ducasse, Isidore-Lucien (Uraguay-born French poet) |
1847-1870 |
| Du Casse, Pierre-Emmanuel-Albert (French army officer, hist.) |
1813-1893 |
| Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian painter) |
1255?-1318 |
| Du Cerceau, Baptiste Androuet (Fr. architect; son of Jacques) |
1545-1590 |
| Du Cerceau, Jacques II (French architect; son of Jacques) |
c.1550-1614 |
| Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet du (French architect, decorator) |
c.1520-c.1585 |
| Du Cerceau, Jean I (French architect; son of Baptiste) |
1585-1649 |
| Ducetius (Sicilian leader) |
d.c.440 BC |
| Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni (French-born Am. explorer of Africa) |
1831-1903 |
| Duchamp, Gaston (pseud. Jacques Villon) (French artist) |
1875-1963 |
| Duchamp, Marcel (French artist) |
1887-1968 |
| Duchamp-Villon, Raymond (French sculptor; brother of Marcel D.) |
1876-1918 |
| Ducharme, Rejean (Canadian writer, playwright, screenwriter) |
b.1942 |
| Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand (French physician) |
1806-1875 |
| Duchesne, Andre (Andreas Chesneus) (French hist., geographer) |
1584-1640 |
| Duchesne, Louis-Marie-Olivier (French prelate, scholar) |
1843-1922 |
| Duchesne, Rose-Philippine (French religious) |
1769-1852 |
| Ducis, Jean-Francois (French playwright) |
1733-1816 |
| Duckworth, Sir John Thomas (English naval commander) |
1748-1817 |
| Duclaux, Pierre-Emile (French biochemist) |
1840-1904 |
| Duclos, Charles-Pinot (French writer) |
1704-1772 |
| Ducommun, Elie (Swiss, journalist) |
1833-1906 |
| Ducos, Pierre-Roger (French politician) |
1747-1816 |
| Ducos du Hauron, (Arthur-) Louis (French physicist) |
1837-1920 |
| Ducrot, Auguste-Alexandre (French general) |
1817-1882 |
| Ducrow, Andrew (English equestrian) |
1793-1842 |
| Duddell, William du Bois (English electrical engineer) |
1872-1917 |
| Dudek, Louis (Canadian poet, critic, editor, publisher) |
b.1918 |
| Dudevant, Amandine-Aurore-Lucile (pseud.George Sand) (Fr. nov.) |
1804-1876 |
| Dudintsev, Vladimir Dmitrievich (Soviet writer) |
b.1918 |
| Dudley, Charles Benjamin (American chemist) |
1842-1909 |
| Dudley, Dud (English ironmaster) |
1599-1684 |
| Dudley, Edmond (English politician) |
c.1462-1510 |
| Dudley, John (English soldier, politician) |
1502-1553 |
| Dudley, Joseph (English colonial administrator; son of Thomas) |
1647-1720 |
| Dudley, Robert (English courtier) |
1532/3-1588 |
| Dudley, Sir Robert (English engineer; son of Robert) |
1574-1649 |
| Dudley, Thomas (English colonial admin. in Massachusetts) |
1576-1653 |
| Dudo (or Dudon) of Saint-Quentin (Norman historian) |
c.960-1043? |
| Dudok, Willem Marinus (Dutch architect) |
1884-1974 |
| Duer, William (English-born American Revolutionary leader) |
1747-1799 |
| Duesenberg, Frederick Samuel (German-born Am. manufacturer) |
1877-1932 |
| Du Fail, Noel (French poet) |
c.1520-1591 |
| Dufaure, Jules-Armand (-Stanislas) (French politician) |
1798-1881 |
| Du Fay, Charles-Francois de Cisternay (French scientist) |
1698-1739 |
| Dufay, Guillaume (French composer) |
1400?-1474 |
| Duff, Alexander (Scottish missionary in Calcutta) |
1806-1878 |
| Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant (Scottish admin. in India) |
1829-1906 |
| Dufferin and Ava, 1st Marquis of (Italian-born Brit. diplomat) |
1826-1902 |
| Duff-Gordon, Lady Lucie |