| Gabelentz, Hans Conon von der (German philologist, politician) |
1807-1874 |
| Gabin, Jean (orig. Jean-Alexis Moncorge) (French actor) |
1904-1976 |
| Gabinius, Aulus (Roman politician) |
d.47 BC |
| Gable, William Clark (American actor) |
1901-1960 |
| Gabo, Naum (orig. Naum Neemia Pevsner)(Russ.-born Am. sculptor) |
1890-1977 |
| Gabor, Dennis (Hungarian-born British physicist) |
1900-1979 |
| Gaboriau, Etienne-Emile (French novelist) |
1832-1873 |
| Gabriel, Jacques (French architect) |
1630-1686 |
| Gabriel, Jacques-Ange (French architect; son of Jacques) |
1698-1782 |
| Gabriel, Jacques-Jules (French architect; son of Jacques) |
1667-1742 |
| Gabriel (aka Gabriel Prosser) (American slave insurrectionist) |
c.1776-1800 |
| Gabrieli, Andrea (Italian organist, composer) |
c.1510-1586 |
| Gabrieli, Giovanni (It. composer, teacher; nephew of Andrea) |
c.1556-1612 |
| Gabrielli, Cante dei (Tuscan nobleman, soldier) |
14th cent. |
| Gabriel Severus (Greek prelate) |
1541-1616 |
| Gabrilowitsch, Ossip Solomonovich (Russian pianist, conductor) |
1878-1936 |
| Gace Brule (French lyric poet, knight) |
fl.1180-1213 |
| Gadda, Carlo Emilio (Italian essayist, writer) |
1893-1973 |
| Gaddi, Agnolo (Florentine painter; son of Taddeo) |
c.1350-1396 |
| Gaddi, Taddeo (Florentine painter) |
c.1300-1366? |
| Gaddis, William Thomas (American writer) |
b.1922 |
| Gade, Niels Wilhelm (Danish composer) |
1817-1890 |
| Gadifer de La Salle (Seigneur de Ligron) (French soldier) |
c.1340-c.1422 |
| Gadsden, Christopher (American Revolutionary leader) |
1724-1805 |
| Gadsden, James (American army officer, diplomat) |
1788-1858 |
| Gafencu, Grigore (Romanian journalist, politician) |
1892-1957 |
| Gafori (or Gaforio), Franchino (Italian composer, theorist) |
1451-1522 |
| Gagarin, Yury Alekseyevich (Rus. astronaut; 1st man in space) |
1934-1968 |
| Gage, Thomas (British general, colonial governor in America) |
1721-1787 |
| Gagern, Friedrich Ludwig Balduin Karl Moritz (German soldier) |
1794-1848 |
| Gagern, Hans Christoph Ernst von (German politician) |
1766-1852 |
| Gagern, Maximilian Joseph Ludwig (German nationalist) |
1810-1889 |
| Gagern, Wilhelm Heinrich August (German soldier; son of Hans) |
1799-1880 |
| Gagliano, Marco da (Italian priest, composer) |
1582-1642 |
| Gaguin, Robert (French priest, scholar) |
c.1433-1501 |
| Gahn, Johan Gottlieb (Swedish mineralogist, chemist) |
1745-1818 |
| Gaillard, David Du Bose (American army officer, engineer) |
1859-1913 |
| Gaiman, Neil (American comic artist) |
b.1960 |
| Gaimar V (aka Gaimar IV; Guaimar) (Prince of Salerno) |
c.1011-1052 |
| Gainas (Visigoth general in Roman army) |
d.400 |
| Gaines, Edmund Pendleton (American army officer) |
1777-1849 |
| Gaines, Ernest James (American writer, teacher) |
b.1933 |
| Gainsborough, Thomas (English painter) |
1727-1788 |
| Gaitan, Jorge Eliecer (Colombian politician) |
1902-1948 |
| Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (English politician) |
1906-1963 |
| Gaius (or Caius), Saint (Dalmatian? pope 283-296) |
d.296 |
| Gaius (Roman jurist) |
fl. 130-180 |
| Gaj, Ljudevit (Croatian writer) |
1809-1872 |
| Gajah Mada (politician of Majapahit empire in Java) |
d.1364 |
| Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton (American virologist) |
b.1923 |
| Galas, Diamanda (American singer) |
b.1955 |
| Galaup, Jean-Francois de (Comte de La Perouse) (Fr. navigator) |
1741-c.1788 |
| Galba, Servius Sulpicius (Roman emperor 68-69) |
3 BC-AD 69 |
| Galbaio, Giovanni (Doge of Venice 787-803) |
fl. 800 |
| Galbraith, John Kenneth (Canadian-born American economist) |
1908-2006 |
| Gale, Zona (American writer, playwright, journalist) |
1874-1938 |
| Galeano, Eduardo (Uruguayan writer) |
b.1940 |
| Galen (Greek physician, writer) |
129-c.199 |
| Galen, Clemens August von (German prelate) |
1878-1946 |
| Galerius (Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus) (Roman emperor) |
d.311 |
| Gales, Joseph (English-born American journalist) |
1786-1860 |
| Galgacus (or Calgacus) (Caledonian chieftain) |
fl. 84 |
| Galiani, Ferdinando (Italian economist) |
1728-1787 |
| Galich, Aleksandr Arkadevich (Russian poet, playwright) |
1918-1977 |
| Galilei, Galileo (Italian mathematician, astronomer, physicist) |
1564-1642 |
| Galilei, Vincenzo (Italian composer, theorist) |
c.1520-1591 |
| Gall, Saint (orig. Cellach or Caillech) (Irish missionary) |
c.550-c.645 |
| Gall (orig. Pizi) (American Sioux Indian chieftain) |
1840?-1894 |
| Gall, Franz Joseph (German physician; founder of phrenology) |
1758-1828 |
| Galla-Rini, Anthony (American musician, composer, arranger) |
1904-2006 |
| Gallagher, Tess née Bond (American poet, writer) |
b.1943 |
| Galland, Antoine (French Orientalist, translator) |
1646-1715 |
| Gallant, Mavis (b.Mavis de Trafford Young) (Canadian writer) |
b.1922 |
| Gallas, Matthias (Austrian soldier) |
1584-1647 |
| Gallatin, Abraham Alfonse Albert (Swiss-born Am. politician) |
1761-1849 |
| Gallaudet, Edward Miner (Am. teacher of deaf-mutes; son of T.) |
1837-1917 |
| Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (American teacher of deaf-mutes) |
1787-1851 |
| Galle, Emile (French glass and furniture maker) |
1846-1904 |
| Galle, Johann Gottfried (German astronomer) |
1812-1910 |
| Gallego, Juan Nicasio (Spanish poet) |
1777-1853 |
| Gallegos Freire, Romulo (Venezuelan novelist, president 1948) |
1884-1969 |
| Gallen-Kallela, Akseli Valdemar (Finnish painter) |
1865-1931 |
| Gallico, Paul William (American journalist, writer) |
1897-1976 |
| Galli-Curci, Amelita née Galli (Italian-born American soprano) |
1889-1963 |
| Gallieni, Joseph-Simon (French general, colonial administrator) |
1849-1916 |
| Gallienus, Publius Licinius Valerianus Egnatius (Roman emperor) |
d.268 |
| Galliffet, Gaston-Alexandre-Auguste de (French soldier) |
1830-1909 |
| Gallimard, Gaston (French publisher) |
1881-1975 |
| Gallio, Junius Annaeus (Roman politician) |
c.5 BC-AD 65 |
| Gallitzin, Demetrius Augustine (Dutch-born American clergyman) |
1770-1840 |
| Gallo, Vincent Vito (American musician, filmmaker, writer) |
b.1962 |
| Galloway, Joseph (American lawyer, politician) |
c.1731-1803 |
| Gallup, George Horace (American statistician, pollster) |
b.1901 |
| Gallus, Gaius Cornelius (Roman soldier, poet) |
c.70-c.26 BC |
| Gallus, Gaius Vibius Trebonianus (Roman emperor 251-253) |
d.253 |
| Gallus Caesar (orig. Flavius Claudius Constantius)(Roman ruler) |
326/26-354 |
| Galois, Evariste (French mathematician) |
1811-1832 |
| Galswintha (Frankish queen; daughter of Athanagild) |
c.540-568 |
| Galsworthy, John (English novelist, playwright) |
1867-1933 |
| Galt, Sir Alexander Tilloch (English-born Canadian politician) |
1817-1893 |
| Galt, John (Scottish novelist, colonizer of Canada) |
1779-1839 |
| Galton, Sir Francis (English scientist; nephew of E. Darwin) |
1822-1911 |
| Galuppi, Baldassare "Il Buranello" (Italian composer) |
1706-1785 |
| Galvani, Luigi (Italian physician, physicist) |
1737-1798 |
| Galvez, Bernardo de (Spanish colonial administrator) |
1746-1786 |
| Galvez, Jose (Spanish colonial administrator) |
1729-1787 |
| Galvez, Manuel (Argentinean writer, biographer) |
1882-1962 |
| Galvez de Montalvo, Luis (Spanish writer) |
1549?-1591? |
| Gama, Jose Basilio da (Brazilian poet) |
1740-1795 |
| Gama, Vasco da (Portuguese navigator, explorer) |
c.1460-1524 |
| Gamaliel I (Palestinian Jewish rabbi) |
fl. c.20-c.50 |
| Gamaliel II of Jabneh (Palestinian Jewish rabbi) |
1st-2nd cent. |
| Gamaliel III (Palestinian Jewish rabbi) |
3rd cent. |
| Gamarra, Agustin (Peruvian general, president 1829-33, 1839-41) |
1785-1841 |
| Gambaro, Griselda (Argentinean playwright) |
b.1928 |
| Gambetta, Leon-Michel (French politician) |
1838-1882 |
| Gambier, James (Bahaman-born British naval commander) |
1756-1833 |
| Gamboa, Federico (Mexican novelist) |
1864-1939 |
| Gamelin, Gustave-Maurice (French soldier) |
1872-1958 |
| Gamme, Zenobe Theophile (Belgian engineer) |
1826-1901 |
| Gamow, George (Russian-born American physicist) |
1904-1968 |
| Gance, Abel (French film director) |
1889-1981 |
| Gandhi, Indira Priyadarshini née Nehru (Indian prime minister) |
1917-1984 |
| Gandhi, Mahondas Karamchand "Mahatma" (Indian nationalist) |
1869-1948 |
| Gandhi, Rajiv Ratna (Indian prime min. 1984-89; son of Indira) |
1944-1991 |
| Gangesa (Gangesa Upadhyaya) (Indian philosopher) |
12th cent. |
| Ganioda'yo (Handsome Lake) (American Seneca Indian religious) |
c.1735-1815 |
| Ganivet y Garcia, Angel (Spanish essayist, writer) |
1865-1898 |
| Ganku (orig. Saeki Kishi) (Japanese painter) |
1749-1838 |
| Gannett, Henry (Am. geographer; fd. National Geographic Soc.) |
1846-1914 |
| Gannon, John C. (American intelligence administrator) |
b.1944 |
| Gans, Eduard (German jurist) |
1798-1839 |
| Gans, Joe (orig. Joseph Gaines) (American boxer) |
1874-1910 |
| Gansbacher, Johann Baptist (Austrian composer) |
1778-1844 |
| Gansevoort, Peter (American Revolutionary officer) |
1749-1812 |
| Ganz, Rudolph (Swiss-born American composer, conductor) |
1877-1972 |
| Gao Ming (or Kao Ming) (Chinese poet, playwright) |
c.1305-c.1370 |
| Garamond (or Garamont), Claude (French type designer, founder) |
c.1480-1561 |
| Garand, John Cantius (Canadian-born American gun inventor) |
1888-1974 |
| Garasanin, Ilija (orig. Ilija Savic) (Serbian politician) |
1812-1874 |
| Garay, Janos (Hungarian poet, playwright) |
1812-1853 |
| Garay, Juan de (Spanish soldier; founded Buenos Aires) |
c.1527-c.1583 |
| Garbett, Cyril Forster (English clergyman) |
1875-1955 |
| Garbo, Greta Lovisa (orig.Gustafsson)(Swedish-born Am. actor) |
1905-1990 |
| Garborg, Arne (or Adne) Evenson (Norwegian writer, poet) |
1851-1924 |
| Garcao, Pedro Antonio Correia (Portuguese poet) |
1724-1772 |
| Garcia, Carlos Polestico (Philippine politician; pres. 1957-61) |
1896-1971 |
| Garcia, Jerome John "Jerry" (American musician) |
1942-1995 |
| Garcia, Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez (Spanish tenor) |
1775-1832 |
| Garcia, Manuel Pateicio Rodriguez (Spanish singing teacher) |
1805-1906 |
| Garcia Calderon, Francisco (Peruvian politician) |
1834-1905 |
| Garcia Calderon, Francisco (Peruvian politician; son of Fran.) |
1883-1953 |
| Garcia Calderon, Ventura (Peruvian writer; son of Francisco) |
1886-1959 |
| Garcia de la Huerta y Munoz, Vicente Antonio (Span. dramatist) |
1734-1787 |
| Garcia de Paredes, Diego (Spanish soldier) |
1466-1530 |
| Garcia de Resende (Portuguese poet, chronicler) |
c.1470-1536 |
| Garcia Gutierrez, Antonio (Spanish dramatist, poet) |
1813-1884 |
| Garcia Iniguez, Calixto (Cuban lawyer, soldier, revolutionary) |
1839-1898 |
| Garcia Lorca, Federico (Spanish poet, dramatist) |
1898-1936 |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Jose (Colombian author) |
b.1928 |
| Garcia Marruz, Fina (Cuban poet, literary critic) |
b.1923 |
| Garcia Menocal, Mario (Cuban soldier, politician) |
1866-1941 |
| Garcia Moreno, Gabriel (Ecuadorian politician) |
1821-1875 |
| Garcia Sarmiento, Felix Ruben (p. Ruben Dario)(Nicaraguan poet) |
1867-1916 |
| Garcilaso de la Vega (Spanish poet, soldier) |
1503-1536 |
| Garcilaso de la Vega "El Inca" (Peruvian-born Span. chronicler) |
1539-1616 |
| Garden, Alexander (Scottish-born Am. naturalist; "gardenia") |
c.1730-1791 |
| Garden, Mary (Scottish-born American soprano) |
1874-1967 |
| Gardener, Helen Hamilton (American woman suffragist, reformer) |
1853-1925 |
| Gardiner, James Garfield (Canadian politician) |
1883-1962 |
| Gardiner, John Reynolds (American aerospace engineer, writer) |
1944-2006 |
| Gardiner, Marguerite née Power (Irish writer) |
1789-1849 |
| Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (English historian) |
1829-1902 |
| Gardiner, Stephen (English Catholic prelate, statesman) |
c.1482-1555 |
| Gardner, Alexander (Scottish-born American photographer) |
1821-1882 |
| Gardner, Erle Stanley (pseud. A.A. Fair) (Am. lawyer, writer) |
1889-1970 |
| Gardner, Isabella née Stewart (Am. socialite, art collector) |
1840-1924 |
| Gardner, John Champlin Jr. (American writer, medievalist) |
1933-1982 |
| Gardner, John William (American public official) |
1912-2002 |
| Gardner, Percy (English archaeologist) |
1846-1937 |
| Garfield, James Abram (20th U.S. president, 1881) |
1831-1881 |
| Gargallo y Catalan, Pablo (Spanish sculptor) |
1881-1934 |
| Garibaldi, Giuseppe (French-born Italian military leader) |
1807-1882 |
| Garis, Howard Roger (American writer) |
1873-1962 |
| Garland, Hannibal Hamlin (American writer) |
1860-1940 |
| Garland, John (Johannes de Garlandia) (Eng. grammarian, poet) |
c.1180-c.1272 |
| Garland, Judy (orig. Frances Gumm) (American singer, actor) |
1922-1969 |
| Garland, Walter Louis "Hank" (American musician) |
1930-2004 |
| Garmendia, Salvador (Venezuelan writer) |
b.1924 |
| Garneau, Francois-Xavier (Canadian historian) |
1809-1866 |
| Garneau, Hector de Saint-Denys (Canadian poet) |
1912-1943 |
| Garner, Alan (British writer) |
b.1934 |
| Garner, Helen (Australian writer, journalist, screenwriter) |
b.1942 |
| Garner, John Nance (American politician; vice-pres. 1933-1941) |
1868-1967 |
| Garnerin, Andre-Jacques (French aeronaut, parachutist) |
1769-1823 |
| Garnerin, Jean-Baptiste-Olivier (Fr. aeronaut; bro. of Andre) |
1766-1849 |
| Garnet, Henry Highland (American clergyman) |
1815-1882 |
| Garnett, Constance Clara née Black (English translator) |
1861-1946 |
| Garnett, David (English novelist; son of Constance & Edward) |
1892-1981 |
| Garnett, Edward William (English writer; son of Richard) |
1868-1937 |
| Garnett, Henry (English Jesuit) |
1555-1606 |
| Garnett, Richard (English librarian, writer) |
1835-1906 |
| Garnier, Antoine "Tony" (French architect) |
1869-1948 |
| Garnier, Jean-Louis-Charles (French architect) |
1825-1898 |
| Garnier, Marie-Joseph-Francois "Francis" (French naval officer) |
1839-1873 |
| Garnier, Robert (French playwright, poet) |
c.1545-1590 |
| Garnier-Pages, Louis-Antoine (French politician) |
1803-1878 |
| Garnsey, Elmer Ellsworth (American painter) |
1862-1946 |
| Garrett, George Palmer Jr. (American poet, writer, critic) |
b.1929 |
| Garrett, Joao Baptista de Silva Leitao de Almeida (Port. pol.) |
1799-1854 |
| Garrick, David (English actor, producer, dramatist) |
1717-1779 |
| Garrigue, Jean (American poet, writer) |
1914-1972 |
| Garrison, William Lloyd (American journalist, reformer) |
1805-1879 |
| Garrod, Sir Archibald Edward (English physician) |
1857-1936 |
| Garrod, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth (English archaeologist) |
1892-1968 |
| Garros, Pey de (French poet) |
c.1530-1585 |
| Garros, Roland (French aviator) |
1888-1918 |
| Garroway, David Cunningham (American broadcaster) |
1913-1982 |
| Garshin, Vsevolod Mikhaylovich (Russian author) |
1855-1888 |
| Garstang, John (English archaeologist) |
1876-1956 |
| Garth, Sir Samuel (English physician) |
1661-1719 |
| Garvey, Marcus Moziah (Jamaican black-nationalist leader) |
1887-1940 |
| Garvin, James Louis (English journalist, editor) |
1868-1947 |
| Gary, Elbert Henry (American lawyer, businessman: U.S. Steel) |
1846-1927 |
| Gary, Romain (orig. Romain Kacew) (Russian-born Fr. novelist) |
1914-1980 |
| Gascoigne, George (English poet, translator) |
c.1525-1577 |
| Gascoigne, William (English astronomer; inv. micrometer c.1640) |
1612?-1644 |
| Gascoyne, David Emery (English poet, writer) |
b.1916 |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn née Stevenson (English novelist) |
1810-1865 |
| Gaskin, Stephen F. (American activist; founder of The Farm) |
b.1935 |
| Gasparri, Pietro (Italian prelate) |
1852-1934 |
| Gaspe, Philippe-Joseph-Aubert de (Canadian lawyer, writer) |
1786-1871 |
| Gasprinski, Ismail (aka Ismail Gaspirali) (Russian journalist) |
1851-1914 |
| Gasquet, Francis Neil Aidan (English prelate) |
1846-1929 |
| Gass, William Howard (American writer, philosopher) |
b.1924 |
| Gassendi, Pierre (French scientist, mathematician, philosopher) |
1592-1655 |
| Gasser, Herbert Spencer (American physiologist) |
1888-1963 |
| Gaster, Moses (Romanian-born British scholar) |
1856-1939 |
| Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo (Italian composer) |
d.c.1622 |
| Gates, Daryl Francis (American police administrator) |
b.1926 |
| Gates, Frederick Taylor (American clergyman, philanthropist) |
1853-1929 |
| Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (American critic, scholar) |
b.1950 |
| Gates, Horatio (English-born American Revolutionary officer) |
c.1728-1806 |
| Gates, John Warne "Bet-a-million Gates" (American financier) |
1855-1911 |
| Gates, William Henry (American computer software industrialist) |
b.1955 |
| Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne (1st Earl of Cranbrook) (Eng. polit.) |
1814-1906 |
| Gatling, Richard Jordan (American inventor) |
1818-1903 |
| Gatti-Casazza, Giulio (Italian operatic manager) |
1869-1940 |
| Gatto, John Taylor (American teacher, writer) |
b.1935 |
| Gatty, Harold Charles (Australian aviator) |
1903-1957 |
| Gauden, John (English prelate) |
1605-1662 |
| Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri (orig. surname Gaudier) (Fr. sculptor) |
1891-1915 |
| Gaudin, Martin-Michel-Charles (Duc de Gaete) (Fr. politician) |
1756-1841 |
| Gaudi y Cornet, Antonio (Spanish architect) |
1852-1926 |
| Gauguin, Eugene-Henri-Paul (Peruvian-born French painter) |
1848-1903 |
| Gaulle, Charles-Andre-Marie-Joseph de (Fr. soldier, statesman) |
1890-1970 |
| Gaulli, Giovanni Battista "Baciccia" (Italian painter) |
1639-1709 |
| Gaultier, Denys (aka Gaultier Le Jeune)(Fr. composer, lutenist) |
1603-1672 |
| Gaultier, Jules de (French critic) |
1858-1942 |
| Gaung, U. (official name Kinwun Mingyi) (Burmese politician) |
1822-1908? |
| Gaunilo (French Benedictine monk) |
11th cent. |
| Gauss, Carl Friedrich (German mathematician, astronomer) |
1777-1855 |
| Gauthey, Emiland-Marie (French civil engineer) |
1732-1806 |
| Gautier, Henri (French engineer, scientist) |
1660-1737 |
| Gautier, Emile-Theodore-Leon (French literary historian) |
1832-1897 |
| Gautier, Theophile "Le Bon Theo" (French man of letters) |
1811-1872 |
| Gautier d'Arras (French poet) |
d.1185 |
| Gautier de Metz (Gauthier de Mes en Loherains) (French priest) |
13th cent. |
| Gautier Sans Avoir (Walter the Penniless) (French knight) |
d.1097 |
| Gautsch von Frankenthurn, Paul von (Austrian politician) |
1851-1918 |
| Gauvreau, Emile Henry (Am. journalist, writer) |
1891-1956 |
| Gavazzi, Alessandro (Italian religious, social reformer) |
1809-1889 |
| Gaveston, Piers (Earl of Cornwall) (English courtier) |
c.1284-1312 |
| Gavinies, Pierre (French violinist, composer) |
1726-1800 |
| Gaviria Trujillo, Cesar (Colombian president 1990-1994) |
b.1947 |
| Gavrilo (Serbian prelate) |
1881-1950 |
| Gay, Jean-Baptiste-Sylvere (French politician) |
1778-1832 |
| Gay, John (English poet, playwright, librettist) |
1685-1732 |
| Gay, Marie-Francoise-Sophie Nichault de Lavalette (Fr. writer) |
1776-1852 |
| Gayley, James (American metallurgist) |
1855-1920 |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis (French chemist, physicist) |
1778-1850 |
| Geary, John White (American soldier, politician) |
1819-1873 |
| Gebbia, Gianni (Italian musician, writer, painter) |
b.1961 |
| Geber (Spanish alchemist) |
14th cent. |
| Ged, William (Scottish goldsmith) |
1690-1749 |
| Geddes, Alexander (Scottish clergyman) |
1737-1802 |
| Geddes, James (American civil engineer, lawyer, politician) |
1763-1838 |
| Geddes, Norman Bel (American stage designer, architect) |
1893-1958 |
| Geddes, Sir Patrick (Scottish biologist, sociologist) |
1854-1932 |
| Gediminas (Gedymin) (Grand duke of Lithuania) |
c.1275-1341 |
| Gee, Mauruce (New Zealand writer) |
b.1931 |
| Geer, Charles de (Swedish entomologist) |
1720-1778 |
| Geer, Dirk Jan de (Dutch polit.; prime min. 1926-29, 1939-40) |
1870-1960 |
| Geer, Gerhard Jakob de (Swedish geologist; son of Louis) |
1858-1943 |
| Geer, Louis Gerhard de (Swedish politician; prime min. 1876-80) |
1818-1896 |
| Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Dutch painter) |
c.1465-c.1495 |
| Geertz, Clifford James (American anthropologist) |
1926-2006 |
| Geffrard, Nicholas-Fabre (Haitian general; president 1859-1867) |
1806-1879 |
| Gegenbaur, Karl (German anatomist) |
1826-1903 |
| Gehrig, Henry Louis "Lou" (American baseball player) |
1903-1941 |
| Geibel, Franz Emanuel August von (German poet, dramatist) |
1815-1884 |
| Geiger, Abraham (German theologian) |
1810-1874 |
| Geiger, Johannes Wilhelm (Ger. physicist; inv. Geiger counter) |
1882-1945 |
| Geiger, Theodor Julius (German sociologist) |
1891-1952 |
| Geijer, Erik Gustaf (Swedish hist., poet, philosopher, comp.) |
1783-1847 |
| Geijerstam, Gustaf af (Swedish writer) |
1858-1909 |
| Geikie, Sir Archibald (Scottish geologist) |
1835-1924 |
| Geiami (orig. Nakao Shingei) (Japanese painter; son of Noami) |
d.1485 |
| Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann (German Roman Catholic priest) |
1445-1510 |
| Geishusler, Oswald (pseud. Oswald Myconius) (Swiss reformer) |
1488-1552 |
| Geissler, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (German glassblower) |
1815-1879 |
| Geitel, Hans Friedrich (German physicist; worked with J.Elster) |
1855-1923 |
| Gelber, Jack (American playwright, teacher) |
b.1932 |
| Gelder, Aert (or Arent) de (Dutch painter) |
1645-1727 |
| Gelfond, Aleksandr Osipovich (Russian mathematician) |
1906-1968 |
| Gelimer (Vandal king in Africa 530-534) |
6th cent. |
| Gelinas, Gratien (Can. actor, director, producer, playwright) |
b.1909 |
| Gellee, Claude (aka Claude Lorrain) (French painter) |
1600-1682 |
| Gellert, Christian Furchtegott (German poet, writer) |
1715-1769 |
| Gellibrand, Henry (English mathematician, astronomer) |
1597-1636 |
| Gellius, Aulus (Roman writer) |
c.123-c.165 |
| Gell-Mann, Murray (American physicist) |
b.1929 |
| Gelman, Juan (Argentinean poet) |
b.1930 |
| Gelmirez, Diego (Spanish prelate) |
c.1068-c.1139 |
| Gelon (Syracusan soldier, politician) |
c.540-478 BC |
| Gelpke, Rudolf (Swiss Islamic scholar, acid-head) |
1928-1972 |
| Geltzer, Yekaterina Vasilyevna (Russian dancer) |
1876-1962 |
| Gemier, Firmin (orig. Firmin Tonnerre)(Fr. actor, theater dir.) |
1869-1933 |
| Geminiani, Francesco Xaviero (Italian violinist, composer) |
1687-1762 |
| Gemistus Plethon, George (Byzantine philosopher, Humanist) |
c.1355-1450/55 |
| Gemmei (Japanese empress 708-714; daughter of Tenchi) |
661-721 |
| Genee, Dame Adeline (orig. Anita Jensen) (Danish dancer) |
1878-1970 |
| Genesis P-Orridge (Neil Megson) (English musician) |
b.1950 |
| Genesius, Joseph (Byzantine historian) |
10th cent. |
| Genet, Edmond-Charles-Edouard (French diplomat in America) |
1763-1834 |
| Genet, Jean (French dramatist, novelist) |
1910-1986 |
| Genevieve, Saint (Patron saint of Paris) |
c.422-c.500 |
| Genghis Khan (orig. Temujin) (Mongol conqueror) |
c.1162-1227 |
| Gennadius I of Constantinople, Saint (Patriarch 458-471) |
d.471 |
| Gennadius II Scholarios (Patriarch of Constantinople 1454-64) |
c.1405-c.1473 |
| Gennadius of Marseilles (French priest, theologian) |
d.492/505 |
| Gennadius of Novgorod (Russian prelate) |
d.1504? |
| Genovesi, Antonio (Italian economist, philosopher) |
1712-1769 |
| Genseric (or Gaiseric) (Vandal king 428-477) |
d.477 |
| Genth, Frederick Augustus (German-born American chemist) |
1820-1893 |
| Gentil, Emile (French colonial administrator) |
1866-1914 |
| Gentile, Giovanni (Italian philosopher) |
1875-1944 |
| Gentile da Fabriano (Italian painter) |
1370-1427 |
| Gentileschi, Artemisia (Italian painter; daughter of Orazio) |
c.1597-1651? |
| Gentileschi, Orazio Lomi (Italian painter) |
c.1562-c.1647 |
| Gentili, Alberico (Albericus Gentilis) (Italian jurist) |
1552-1608 |
| Gentili, Luigi (Italian Roman Catholic missionary) |
1801-1848 |
| Gentz, Friedrich von (German political philosopher) |
1764-1832 |
| Gentzen, Gerhard (German mathematician) |
1909-1945 |
| Geny, Francois (French jurist) |
1861-1959 |
| Geoffrey (English prelate) |
1152/53-1212 |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth (British ecclesiastic, chronicler) |
c.1100-1154 |
| Geoffrin, Marie-Therese née Rodet (French patron of literature) |
1699-1777 |
| Geoffroy, Etienne-Francois (Geoffroy L'Aine) (French chemist) |
1672-1731 |
| Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne (French naturalist) |
1772-1844 |
| Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore (Fr. zoologist; son of Etienne) |
1805-1861 |
| Geometres, John (aka John Kyriotes) (Byzantine poet, eccles.) |
10th cent. |
| George, Saint (Christian martyr) |
3rd? cent. |
| George of Podebrady (King of Bohemia 1458-1471) |
1420-1471 |
| George (surnamed Syncellus, i.e. Cellmate) (Byzantine hist.) |
d.810? |
| George (surnamed Monachus, i.e. the Monk) (Byzantine historian) |
9th cent. |
| George of Cappadocia (Greek Orthodox prelate) |
d.361 |
| George of Laodicea (Greek Orthodox prelate) |
d.c.361 |
| George of Trebizond (Byzantine scholar) |
1396-1486 |
| George, Mlle (orig. Marguerite Josephine Weimer) (Fr. actor) |
1787-1867 |
| George, Henry (American economist) |
1839-1897 |
| George, Stefan (German poet) |
1868-1933 |
| George Pachymeres (Byzantine scholar) |
1242-c.1310 |
| George Pisides (Byzantine poet, cleric) |
7th cent. |
| George Sphrantes (also spelled Phrantzes) (Byzantine historian) |
15th cent. |
| George William (Elector of Brandenburg 1619-1640) |
1595-1640 |
| George William Frederick Charles (British soldier) |
1819-1904 |
| Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas (Hungarian-born Am. economist,math.) |
1906-1994 |
| Georgiou, Steven Demetri "Cat Stevens" (Brit. musician, admin.) |
b.1947 |
| Gerald de Barri (Giraldus Cambrensis) (Welsh ecclesiastic) |
c.1146-c.1223 |
| Gerard (or Girard) (English prelate) |
d.1108 |
| Gerard of Cremona (Italian scholar, translator) |
c.1114-1187 |
| Gerard, Charles (English soldier) |
1618?-1694 |
| Gerard, Etienne-Maurice (French Napoleonic general, marshal) |
1773-1852 |
| Gerard, Francois-Pascal-Simon (French painter) |
1770-1837 |
| Gerard, Jean-Ignace-Isidore (pseud. Grandville) (Fr. caricat.) |
1803-1847 |
| Gerard, John (English botanist, barber-surgeon) |
1545-1612 |
| Gerards, Balthasar (French assassin of William I the Silent) |
1558-1584 |
| Gerber, Daniel Frank (American baby food manufacturer) |
1898-1974 |
| Gerbert de Montreuil (French poet) |
13th cent. |
| Gerbert von Hornau, Martin (German R.C. priest, music hist.) |
1720-1793 |
| Gerbner, George (Hungarian-born American mass-media theorist) |
1919-2005 |
| Gerbrandy, Pieter Sjoerds (Dutch politician) |
1885-1961 |
| Gergonne, Joseph-Diaz (French mathematician) |
1771-1859 |
| Gerhard, Johann (German theologian) |
1582-1637 |
| Gerhardsen, Einar Henry (Norwegian politician; prime minister) |
1897-1987 |
| Gerhardt, Charles-Frederic (French chemist) |
1816-1856 |
| Gerhardt, Elena (German singer) |
1883-1961 |
| Gerhardt, Paul (German Lutheran clergyman, hymn writer) |
1607-1676 |
| Gericault, Jean-Louis-Andre-Theodore (French painter) |
1791-1824 |
| Gering, Ulrich (Swiss printer) |
d.1510 |
| Gerin-Lajoie, Antoine (Canadian editor, writer, librarian) |
1824-1882 |
| Gerlach, Hellmut von (German journalist, politician) |
1866-1935 |
| Gerlach, Ernst Ludwig (Prussian jurist, politician) |
1795-1877 |
| Gerlach, Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von (Prussian soldier) |
1790-1861 |
| Gerlache, Etienne-Constantin de (Belgian politician) |
1785-1871 |
| Gerlache de Gomery, Adrien Victor Joseph de (Belg. naval off.) |
1866-1934 |
| Germain of Auxerre, Saint (French ecclesiastic) |
c.378-448 |
| Germain of Paris, Saint (French ecclesiastic) |
c.496-576 |
| Germain, Francois-Thomas (French silversmith; son of Thomas) |
1726-1791 |
| Germain, Marie-Sophia (French mathematician) |
1776-1831 |
| Germain, Pierre (French silversmith) |
1645-1684 |
| Germain, Thomas (French silversmith, goldsmith; son of Pierre) |
1673-1748 |
| German, Daniil Aleksandrovich(pseud.Daniil Granin)(Rus. writer) |
b.1918 |
| German, Sir Edward (orig. Edward German Jones) (Eng. composer) |
1862-1936 |
| Germanicus Caesar (Roman general; son of Nero Claudius Drusus) |
15 BC-AD 19 |
| Germanos (orig. Loukas Strenopoulos) (Greek prelate) |
1872-1951 |
| Germanus I, Saint (Patriarch of Constantinople 715-730) |
c.634-c.732 |
| Germanus II (Patriarch of Constantinople 1222-1240) |
c.1175-1240 |
| Germanus of Granfel, Saint (German clergyman) |
c.610-675 |
| Germer, Lester Halbert (American physicist) |
1896-1971 |
| Gernhardt, Ralph Paul (American publisher) |
1934-2006 |
| Gernsback, Hugo (Luxembourg-born American inventor, publisher) |
1884-1967 |
| Gerome, Jean-Leon (French painter) |
1824-1904 |
| Geronimo (Goyathlay) (American Apache chieftain) |
1829-1909 |
| Gerry, Elbridge (American vice-pres. 1813-14; "gerrymander") |
1744-1814 |
| Gershom ben Judah (French rabbi) |
c.960-1028/40 |
| Gershwin, George (orig. Jacob Gershvin) (American composer) |
1898-1937 |
| Gerstacker, Friedrich (German writer) |
1816-1872 |
| Gerstenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm von (German poet, critic) |
1737-1823 |
| Gertrude the Great, Saint (German mystic) |
1256-1302/11 |
| Gervais, Francois-Louis-Paul (French paleontologist, zoologist) |
1816-1879 |
| Gervase of Canterbury (English monk, chronicler) |
c.1141-c.1210 |
| Gervase of Tilbury (English scholar, courtier) |
c.1152-1220 |
| Gesell, Arnold Lucius (American psychologist, pediatrician) |
1880-1961 |
| Gesenius, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (German biblical scholar) |
1786-1842 |
| Gesner, Abraham (Canadian geologist) |
1797-1864 |
| Gesner, Conrad (Swiss physician, naturalist) |
1516-1565 |
| Gesner, John Matthias (German classical philologist) |
1691-1761 |
| Gessi, Romolo (aka Gessi Pasha) (Italian soldier, explorer) |
1831-1881 |
| Gessler, Otto Karl (German politician) |
1875-1955 |
| Gessner, Salomon (Swiss poet, painter, etcher, translator) |
1730-1788 |
| Gesualdo, Carlo (Prince of Venosa) (Italian composer) |
c.1560-1613 |
| Geta, Publius Septimius (Roman emperor 209-212) |
189-212 |
| Getty, Jean Paul (American oil industrialist) |
1892-1976 |
| Geulincx, Arnold (pseud. Philaretus) (Dutch philosopher) |
1624-1669 |
| Gevers, Marie (b. Maria Theresia Gevers) (Belgian writer, poet) |
1883-1975 |
| Geyl, Pieter (Dutch historian) |
1887-1966 |
| Gezelle, Guido (Flemish poet, priest, teacher) |
1830-1899 |
| Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan (Indian poet) |
1797-1869 |
| Ghassaniy, al-, Muyaka bin Haji (Kenyan poet) |
1776-1840 |
| Ghazali, al- (Islamic jurist, theologian, philosopher, mystic) |
1058-1111 |
| Ghazan, Mahmud (Mongol ruler of Persia 1295-1304) |
1271-1304 |
| Ghazi I (King of Iraq 1933-1939; son of King Faisal) |
1912-1939 |
| Ghelderode, Michel de (Belgian playwright) |
1898-1962 |
| Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe (Romanian politician) |
1901-1965 |
| Gheyn, Matthias van den (Belgian composer, musician) |
1721-1785 |
| Ghezzi, Pier Leone (Italian artist, caricaturist) |
1674-1755 |
| Ghiberti, Lorenzo (Florentine sculptor, goldsmith, painter) |
c.1378-1455 |
| Ghil, Rene (French poet; based poetry on science) |
1862-1925 |
| Ghirlandajo, Domenico (Florentine painter) |
1449-1494 |
| Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq (Tughluq Shah)(Sultan of Delhi 1320-25) |
d.1325 |
| Ghose, Zulfikar (Indian-born American writer, poet, critic) |
b.1935 |
| Ghulam Ahmad, Mirza (Indian religious) |
c.1839-1908 |
| Giacometti, Alberto (Swiss painter, sculptor) |
1901-1966 |
| Giacosa, Giuseppe (Italian dramatist, librettist) |
1847-1906 |
| Giaever, Ivar (Norwegian-born American physicist) |
b.1929 |
| Gia Long (orig. Nguyen Phuc Anh) (Emperor of Vietnam 1802-1820) |
1762-1820 |
| Giambologna (aka Giovanni da Bologna (Flemish sculptor) |
1529-1608 |
| Giambono, Michele (orig. Michele di Taddeo Bono) (It. painter) |
fl. 1420-1462 |
| Giannini, Amadeo Peter (American banker) |
1870-1949 |
| Giannone, Pietro (Italian historian) |
1676-1748 |
| Giardini, Felice (Italian violinist, composer) |
1716-1796 |
| Giauque, William Francis (Canadian-born American chemist) |
1895-1982 |
| Gibbon, Edward (English historian, scholar) |
1737-1794 |
| Gibbon, Perceval (Welsh-born British writer) |
1879-1926 |
| Gibbons, Christopher (Eng. organist, composer; son of Orlando) |
1615-1676 |
| Gibbons, Edward (English organist, composer; bro. of Orlando) |
1568-c.1650 |
| Gibbons, Ellis (English organist, composer; bro. of Orlando) |
1573-1603 |
| Gibbons, Grinling (Dutch-born English woodcarver, sculptor) |
1648-1721 |
| Gibbons, James (American prelate) |
1834-1921 |
| Gibbons, Orlando (English organist, composer) |
1583-1625 |
| Gibbons, Stella Dorothea (English writer, poet) |
1902-1989 |
| Gibbs, James (Scottish-born British architect) |
1682-1754 |
| Gibbs, Josiah Willard (American physicist, mathematician) |
1839-1903 |
| Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott (American chemist) |
1822-1908 |
| Gibbs, William Francis (Am. naval architect, marine engineer) |
1886-1967 |
| Gibran (or Jibran), Khalil (Syrian poet, novelist, essayist) |
1883-1931 |
| Gibson, Charles Dana (American illustrator; eponym of drink) |
1867-1944 |
| Gibson, Edward (1st Baron Ashbourne) (Irish jurist, politician) |
1837-1913 |
| Gibson, John (English sculptor) |
1790-1866 |
| Gibson, Josh (American baseball player) |
1911-1947 |
| Gibson, Thomas Milner (English politician) |
1806-1884 |
| Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (English poet) |
1878-1962 |
| Gibson, William (American dramatist) |
b.1914 |
| Gibson, William Ford (American novelist, short-story writer) |
b.1948 |
| Gibson, William Hamilton (American illustrator) |
1850-1896 |
| Gichtel, Johann Georg (German theosophist) |
1638-1710 |
| Giddings, Franklin Henry (American sociologist) |
1855-1931 |
| Giddings, Joshua Reed (American politician) |
1795-1864 |
| Gide, Andre-Paul-Guillaume (French writer, humanist, moralist) |
1869-1951 |
| Giedion, Sigfried (Swiss art historian) |
1888-1968 |
| Gielgud, Sir Arthur John (English actor) |
1904-2000 |
| Gierek, Edward (Polish Communist politician) |
b.1913 |
| Gierke, Julius Karl Otto von (Ger. legal scholar; son of Otto) |
1875-1960 |
| Gierke, Otto Friedrich von (German legal scholar) |
1841-1921 |
| Giers, Nikolay Karlovich (Russian politician) |
1820-1895 |
| Giesebrecht, Friedrich Wilhelm Benjamin von (German historian) |
1814-1889 |
| Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm (French-born German pianist) |
1895-1956 |
| Gieseler, Johann Karl Ludwig (Ger. Protestant church historian) |
1792-1854 |
| Giffard, Hardinge Stanley (English politician) |
1823-1921 |
| Gifford, Edward Winslow (American anthropologist) |
1887-1959 |
| Gifford, William (English critic, poet, scholar, editor) |
1756-1826 |
| Gigli, Beniamino (Italian operatic tenor) |
1890-1957 |
| Gignoux, Maurice-Irenee-Marie (French geologist) |
1881-1955 |
| Giguere, Roland (Canadian poet, painter, typographer) |
b.1929 |
| Gikatilla, Joseph (Spanish Kabbalist) |
1248-c.1305 |
| Gilbert (or Guilbert) of Sempringham, Saint (English religious) |
c.1083-1189 |
| Gilbert, Sir Alfred (English sculptor, goldsmith) |
1854-1934 |
| Gilbert, Alfred Charles (Am. businessman; inv. Erector Set) |
1884-1961 |
| Gilbert, Cass (American architect; designed Supreme Court) |
1859-1934 |
| Gilbert, Grove Karl (American geologist) |
1843-1918 |
| Gilbert, Gustave Mark (American intelligence officer) |
b.1911 |
| Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap (American composer) |
1868-1928 |
| Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (English navigator, soldier) |
c.1539-1583 |
| Gilbert, Sir John (English painter, book illustrator) |
1817-1897 |
| Gilbert, Sir Joseph Henry (English chemist) |
1817-1901 |
| Gilbert, Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent (French poet) |
1751-1780 |
| Gilbert, Rufus Henry (American physician, inventor) |
1832-1885 |
| Gilbert, Walter (American biochemist) |
b.1932 |
| Gilbert, William (English physician, physicist) |
1544-1603 |
| Gilbert, William Schwenck (English playwright) |
1836-1911 |
| Gilbert Crispin (Anglo-Norman cleric) |
d.c.1117 |
| Gilbert de La Porree (French scholastic theologian) |
1076-1154 |
| Gilbert Foliot (Anglo-Norman cleric) |
c.1110-1187 |
| Gilbreth, Frank Bunker (American engineer, efficiency expert) |
1868-1924 |
| Gilbreth, Frank Bunker (Am. writer: Cheaper By The Dozen) |
1911-2001 |
| Gilbreth, Lilian Evelyn née Moller (Am. efficiency expert) |
1878-1972 |
| Gilchrist, Alexander (English biographer) |
1828-1861 |
| Gildas the Wise (British monk, historian) |
d.570 |
| Gil de Hontanon, Juan (Spanish architect) |
c.1480-1526 |
| Gil de Hontanon, Rodrigo (Spanish architect; son of Juan) |
c.1500-1577 |
| Gilder, Richard Watson (American poet, editor) |
1844-1909 |
| Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau (American philologist) |
1831-1924 |
| Gildo (Moorish ruler in northern Africa) |
d.398 |
| Giles of Assisi (Aegidius) (Italian religious) |
c.1190-1262 |
| Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus) (Italian theologian, prelate) |
c.1245-1316 |
| Giles, Herbert Allen (English Oriental scholar) |
1845-1935 |
| Gilkey, Langdon Brown (American theologian) |
1919-2004 |
| Gilkin, Iwan (Belgian writer) |
1858-1923 |
| Gill, Arthur Eric Rowton (English sculptor, engraver) |
1882-1940 |
| Gill, Brendan (American critic, writer) |
b.1914 |
| Gill, Sir David (Scottish astronomer) |
1843-1914 |
| Gill, Irving John (American architect) |
1870-1936 |
| Gill, Theodore Nicholas (American zoologist) |
1837-1914 |
| Gillam, Bernhard (English-born American political cartoonist) |
1856-1896 |
| Gille, Philippe-Emile-Francois (French playwright, lit. critic) |
1831-1901 |
| Gillen, Francis James (Australian anthropologist) |
1856-1912 |
| Gilles li Muisis (aka Le Muiset) (French chronicler) |
1272-1352 |
| Gillespie, Eliza Maria "Mother Angela" (American religious) |
1824-1887 |
| Gillespie, George (Scottish clergyman) |
1613-1648 |
| Gillespie, John Birks "Dizzy" (American trumpeter) |
1917-1993 |
| Gillespie, Thomas (Scottish clergyman) |
1708-1774 |
| Gillett, Frederick Huntington (American politician) |
1851-1935 |
| Gillette, King Camp (American safety razor inventor, manu.) |
1855-1932 |
| Gillette, William Hooker (American actor) |
1855-1937 |
| Gilliam, Terry Vance (American actor, comedian, movie director) |
b.1940 |
| Gilliatt, Penelope Ann Douglass (English essayist, writer) |
1932-1993 |
| Gilliss, James Melville (American naval officer, astronomer) |
1811-1865 |
| Gillot, Claude (French painter, engraver, theatrical designer) |
1673-1722 |
| Gillray, James (English caricaturist) |
1756-1815 |
| Gilly, Friedrich (German architect) |
1772-1800 |
| Gilman, Charlotte Anna née Perkins (American feminist, writer) |
1860-1935 |
| Gilman, Daniel Coit (American educator) |
1831-1908 |
| Gilmer, Elizabeth née Meriwether (pseud.Dorothy Dix)(Am. jour.) |
1870-1951 |
| Gilmore, John (American entrepreneur, Civil Libertarian) |
b.1955 |
| Gil Moreira, Gilberto Passos (Brazilian musician) |
b.1942 |
| Gilmour, Patrick Sarsfield (Irish-born American bandmaster) |
1829-1892 |
| Gilpin, Bernard (English clergyman) |
1517-1583 |
| Gilpin, Charles Sidney (American actor) |
1878-1930 |
| Gilpin, William (English writer) |
1724-1804 |
| Gil Polo, Gaspar (Spanish poet) |
c.1530-1591 |
| Gil Robles y Quinones, Jose Maria (Spanish politician) |
1898-1980 |
| Gilson, Etienne-Henry (French philosopher) |
1884-1978 |
| Gil y Zarate, Antonio (Spanish dramatist) |
1793-1861 |
| Gimbel, Bernard Feustmann (American merchant; son of Isaac) |
1885-1966 |
| Gimbel, Charles (American department store merchant) |
1861-1932 |
| Gimbel, Ellis A. (American department store merchant) |
1865-1950 |
| Gimbel, Isaac (American department store merchant) |
1856-1931 |
| Gimbel, Jacob (American department store merchant) |
1850-1922 |
| Gimson, Ernest (English furniture designer) |
1864-1920 |
| Ginastera, Alberto Evaristo (Argentinean composer) |
1916-1983 |
| Giner de los Rios, Francisco (Spanish educator) |
1839-1915 |
| Ginkel, Godard van Reede (Dutch general in British service) |
1644-1703 |
| Ginn, Edwin (American publisher) |
1838-1914 |
| Ginsberg, Irwin Allen (American poet) |
1926-1997 |
| Ginsburg, Christian David (Polish-born Brit. biblical scholar) |
1831-1914 |
| Ginsburg, Ruth Bader (American jurist) |
b.1933 |
| Ginzberg, Asher (pseud. Ahad Ha'am) (Russian Zionist leader) |
1856-1927 |
| Ginzberg, Louis (Lithuanian-born American Judaic scholar) |
1873-1953 |
| Ginzburg, Natalia née Levi (It. writer, essayist, playwright) |
1916-1991 |
| Ginzburg, Ralph (American magazine publisher, photographer) |
1929-2006 |
| Gioberti, Vincenzo (Italian philosopher, politician) |
1801-1852 |
| Giocondo, Lisa di Anton Maria del (Florentine noblewoman) |
fl. 1500 |
| Giolitti, Giovanni (Italian politician) |
1842-1928 |
| Giono, Jean (French novelist) |
1895-1970 |
| Giordani, Pietro (Italian patriot, writer) |
1774-1848 |
| Giordano, Luca "Luca fa presto" (Neapolitan painter) |
1632-1705 |
| Giordano, Umberto (Italian composer) |
1867-1948 |
| Giorgione (aka Giorgione da Castelfranco (Italian painter) |
c.1477-1511 |
| Giottino (aka Giotto di Maestro di Stefano)(Florentine painter) |
14th cent. |
| Giotto di Bondone (Florentine painter, architect, sculptor) |
1266/67/76-1337 |
| Giovanni (surnamed Santi) (Italian painter, poet) |
d.1494 |
| Giovanni da Montecorvino (Italian prelate) |
1247-1328 |
| Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (Italian painter) |
c.1403-1482 |
| Giovanni, Yolande Cornelia Jr. "Nikki" (American poet) |
b.1943 |
| Giovio, Paolo (Paulus Jovius) (Italian biographer, historian) |
1483-1552 |
| Gipps, Sir George (English colonial administrator) |
1791-1847 |
| Giraldi, Giambattista (aka Cinthio or Cinzio) (Italian writer) |
1504-1573 |
| Girard, Jean-Baptiste (Swiss Franciscan, educator) |
1765-1850 |
| Girard, Marc-Antoine (Sieur de Saint-Amant) (French poet) |
1594-1661 |
| Girard, Stephen (French-born Am. financier, philanthropist) |
1750-1831 |
| Girardin, Delphine née Gay (French writer; wife of Emile) |
1804-1855 |
| Girardin, Emile de (French journalist) |
1806-1881 |
| Girardon, Francois (French sculptor) |
1628-1715 |
| Giraud, Henri-Honore (French general) |
1879-1949 |
| Giraudoux, Hyppolyte-Jean (French writer, essayist, playwright) |
1882-1944 |
| Girodet de Roucy, Anne-Louis (aka Girodet-Trioson)(Fr. painter) |
1767-1824 |
| Girodias, Maurice née Kahane (French publisher) |
1919-1990 |
| Gironella, Jose Maria (Spanish writer, journalist, poet) |
1917-1976 |
| Girtin, Thomas (English painter) |
1775-1802 |
| Giry, Jean-Marie-Joseph-Arthur (French historian) |
1848-1899 |
| Giscard d'Estaing, Valery (French president 1974-1981) |
b.1926 |
| Gisela (Holy Roman empress) |
c.990-1043 |
| Gish, Dorothy (American actor) |
1898-1968 |
| Gislebertus (French sculptor) |
12th cent. |
| Gissing, George Robert (English novelist) |
1857-1903 |
| Gist, Christopher (American frontiersman) |
1706?-1759 |
| Gisulph II (Prince of Salerno) |
c.1040-1089? |
| Giuffre, James Peter "Jimmy" (American musician) |
b.1921 |
| Giulio Romano (Italian painter, architect) |
c.1499-1546 |
| Giunta Pisano (Italian painter) |
d.c.1260 |
| Giusti, Giuseppe (Italian poet) |
1809-1850 |
| Giustiniani, Agostino (Italian prelate, scholar) |
1479-1536 |
| Giustiniani, Giovanni (Italian politician) |
d.1453 |
| Giustiniani, Leonardo (Italian poet, politician) |
1388-1446 |
| Giustiniani, Pompeo (Italian soldier) |
1569-1616 |
| Gjellerup, Karl Adolph (pseud. Epigonos) (Danish writer, poet) |
1857-1919 |
| Glaber, Radulfus (French chronicler) |
c.985-c.1047 |
| Glackens, William James (American painter; member of The Eight) |
1870-1938 |
| Gladden, Washington (orig. Solomon Washington) (Am. clergyman) |
1836-1918 |
| Gladkov, Fyodor Vasilyevich (Russian novelist) |
1883-1958 |
| Gladstone, Herbert John (Viscount Gladstone) (Eng. politician) |
1854-1930 |
| Gladstone, John Hall (English chemist) |
1827-1902 |
| Gladstone, William Ewart (British politician) |
1809-1898 |
| Glanvill, Joseph (English clergyman, philosopher) |
1636-1680 |
| Glanville (or Glanvill or Glanvil), Ranulf de (English jurist) |
d.1190 |
| Glapthorne, Henry (English playwright) |
1610-c.1643 |
| Glaser, Christopher (Swiss chemist) |
1615-1672 |
| Glaser, Donald Arthur (American physicist; inv. bubble chamber) |
b.1926 |
| Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson (American novelist) |
1873-1945 |
| Glashow, Sheldon Lee (American theoretical physicist) |
b.1932 |
| Glaspell, Susan Keating (American novelist, dramatist) |
1882-1948 |
| Glass, Carter (American politician) |
1858-1946 |
| Glass, Hiram Bentley (China-born American biologist) |
1906-2005 |
| Glass, Hugh (American frontiersman) |
d.1833 |
| Glass (or Glas), John (Scot. clergyman; fd. Sandemanian sect) |
1695-1773 |
| Glass, Phillip (American composer) |
b.1937 |
| Glassbrenner, Adolf (pseud. Adolf Brennglas) (German writer) |
1810-1876 |
| Glassco, John (pseud. Sylvia Bayer; George Colman)(Can. writer) |
1909-1981 |
| Glatigny, Joseph-Albert-Alexander (French poet) |
1839-1873 |
| Glatstein, Jacob (Yiddish poet,writer, literary critic) |
1896-1971 |
| Glauber, Johann Rudolf (German chemist) |
1604-1668 |
| Glazenap, Sergej Pavlovich von (Russian astronomer) |
1848-1937 |
| Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (Russian composer) |
1865-1936 |
| Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig (German poet) |
1719-1803 |
| Glendower, Owen (Welsh chieftain, rebel against Henry IV) |
c.1359-c.1416 |
| Glenn, John Herschel Jr. (American astronaut, politician) |
b.1921 |
| Glidden, Charles Jasper (American telephone industry pioneer) |
1857-1927 |
| Glidden, Joseph Farwell (American inventor; inv. barbed wire) |
1813-1906 |
| Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (Russian composer) |
1804-1857 |
| Glissant, Edouard (Martinican writer, poet, teacher, editor) |
b.1928 |
| Gloux, Olivier (pseud. Gustave Aimard) (Fr. adventurer, writer) |
1818-1883 |
| Glover, Denis James Matthews (New Zealand poet, typographer) |
1912-1980 |
| Glover, John (American Revolutionary officer) |
1732-1797 |
| Glover, Julia née Betterton (Irish actor) |
1779-1850 |
| Glover, Sarah Ann (English music teacher) |
1786-1867 |
| Glowacki, Aleksander (pseud. Boleslaw Prus) (Polish writer) |
1847-1912 |
| Gluck, Alma (orig. Reba Fiersohn) (Romanian-born Am. soprano) |
1884-1938 |
| Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von (German composer) |
1714-1787 |
| Gluck, Louise Elisabeth (American poet, teacher) |
b.1943 |
| Gluckman, Herman Max (South African anthropologist) |
1911-1975 |
| Glueck, Eleanor née Touroff (Am. criminol.; wife of Sheldon) |
1898-1972 |
| Glueck, Sol Sheldon (Polish-born American criminologist) |
1896-1980 |
| Glueckel of Hameln (German-Jewish diarist) |
1646-1724 |
| Glycas, Michael (Byzantine historian, theologian, poet) |
12th cent. |
| Glycerius (Western Roman emperor 473-474) |
5th cent. |
| Glyn, Elinor née Sutherland (British novelist) |
1864-1943 |
| Gmelin, Johann Georg (German botanist) |
1709-1755 |
| Gmelin, Leopold (German chemist; nephew of Johann) |
1788-1853 |
| Gneisenau, August Wilhelm Anton Neithardt von (Pr. field mar.) |
1760-1831 |
| Gneist, Rudolf von (German jurist, politician) |
1816-1895 |
| Gnoli, Domenico (pseud. Giulio Orsini) (Italian scholar, poet) |
1838-1915 |
| Gobat, Charles Albert (Swiss politician, philanthropist) |
1834-1914 |
| Gobat, Samuel (Swiss prelate, missionary) |
1799-1879 |
| Gobel, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (French prelate) |
1727-1794 |
| Gobelin, Gilles (French dyer, tapestry maker) |
fl. 1450 |
| Gobelin, Jehan (French dyer, tapestry maker) |
fl. 1450 |
| Gobind Singh (orig. Gobind Rai) (tenth & last Sikh Guru) |
1666-1708 |
| Gobineau, Joseph-Arthur de (Fr. diplomat, Orientalist, writer) |
1816-1882 |
| Goblet, Rene (French politician; premier 1886-1887) |
1828-1905 |
| Gobrecht, Christian (American engraver) |
1785-1844 |
| Godard, Benjamin-Louis-Paul (French composer) |
1849-1895 |
| Godard, Jean-Luc (French movie director) |
b.1930 |
| Goddard, Henry Herbert (American psychologist) |
1866-1957 |
| Goddard, John (American cabinetmaker) |
1724-1785 |
| Goddard, John II (American cabinetmaker; son of Stephen) |
1789-1843 |
| Goddard, Rayner (Baron Goddard) (English jurist) |
1877-1971 |
| Goddard, Robert Hutchings (American physicist) |
1882-1945 |
| Goddard, Stephen (American cabinetmaker; son of John) |
d.1804 |
| Goddard, Thomas (American cabinetmaker; son of John) |
1765-1858 |
| Godden Haynes-Dixon, Margaret Rumer (English writer) |
b.1907 |
| Godefroid de Claire (Flemish goldsmith, enamellist) |
fl. 1130-1150 |
| Godefroy, Denis the elder (French jurist, historian) |
1549-1621 |
| Godefroy, Denis the younger (French historian; son of Theodore) |
1615-1681 |
| Godefroy, Jacques (French historian; son of Denis) |
1587-1652 |
| Godefroy, Theodore (French historian; son of Denis) |
1580-1649 |
| Godel, Kurt (Austrian-born American mathematician) |
1906-1978 |
| Godey, Louis Antoine (American publisher) |
1804-1878 |
| Godfred (aka Gudfred) (Danish king) |
d.810 |
| Godfrey of Bouillon (French crusader) |
c.1060-1100 |
| Godfrey of Fontaines (French philosopher) |
1250?-1305? |
| Godfrey of Saint-Victor (French religious, theologian, poet) |
c.1125-1194 |
| Godfrey of Viterbo (Italian or German chronicler) |
1125-c.1200 |
| Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry (English jurist) |
1621-1678 |
| Godfrey, Thomas (American mathematician, inventor) |
1704-1749 |
| Godfrey, Thomas (American poet, playwright; son of Thomas) |
1736-1763 |
| Godin, Jean-Baptiste-Andre (French industrialist, reformer) |
1817-1888 |
| Godiva (or Godgifu) (Wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia) |
fl. c.1140-1180 |
| Godkin, Edwin Lawrence (Irish-born American editor, author) |
1831-1902 |
| Godlee, Sir Rickman John (English surgeon) |
1849-1925 |
| Godolphin, Sidney (English poet, royalist) |
1610-1643 |
| Godolphin, Sidney (1st Earl of Godolphin) (English politician) |
1645-1712 |
| Godowsky, Leopold (Lith.-born Am. piano virtuoso, composer) |
1870-1938 |
| Godoy, Manuel de (Spanish politician) |
1767-1851 |
| Godoy Alcayaga, Lucila (pseud. Gabriela Mistral) (Chilean poet) |
1889-1957 |
| Godunov, Boris Fyodorovich (Russian czar 1598-1605) |
c.1551-1605 |
| Godwin, Edward William (English architect, designer) |
1833-1886 |
| Godwin, Francis (English prelate, historian) |
1562-1633 |
| Godwin, Gail Kathleen (American writer) |
b.1937 |
| Godwin, Mary née Wollstonecraft (English author) |
1759-1797 |
| Godwin, William (English philosopher, writer) |
1756-1836 |
| Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham (English explorer, geologist) |
1834-1923 |
| Goebbels, Paul Joseph (German Nazi politician) |
1897-1945 |
| Goebel, Karl Immanuel Eberhard von (German botanist) |
1855-1932 |
| Goeben, August Karl von (Prussian soldier) |
1816-1880 |
| Goedeke, Karl (German scholar) |
1814-1887 |
| Goeje, Michael Jan de (Dutch scholar) |
1836-1909 |
| Goerdeler, Carl-Friedrich (German politician) |
1884-1945 |
| Goes (or Goes), Damiao de (Port. Humanist, historian, diplomat) |
1502-1574 |
| Goes, Hugo van der (Flemish painter) |
c.1440-1482 |
| Goetel, Ferdynand (Polish writer, essayist) |
1890-1960 |
| Goethals, George Washington (American army officer, engineer) |
1858-1928 |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German poet, novelist, playwright) |
1749-1832 |
| Goeze, Johann Melchior (German theologian) |
1717-1786 |
| Goffe (or Gough), William (English regicide) |
c.1605-1679 |
| Goffman, Ken (aka R.U. Sirius) (American? editor, writer) |
b.1952 |
| Goga, Octavian (Rumanian writer, politician) |
1881-1938 |
| Gogarty, Oliver Joseph St. John (Irish physician, writer) |
1878-1957 |
| Gogh, Vincent Willem van (Dutch painter) |
1853-1890 |
| Gogol, Nikolay Vasilyevich (Russian humorist, dramatist) |
1809-1852 |
| Gois, Damiao de (Portuguese humanist) |
1502-1574 |
| Gokhale, Gopal Krishna (Indian educator, politician) |
1866-1915 |
| Gold, Bart (American screenwriter) |
b.1970 |
| Gold, Herbert (American writer) |
b.1924 |
| Gold, Thomas (Austrian-born British-American astronomer) |
b.1920 |
| Goldbach, Christian (Prussian mathematician) |
1690-1764 |
| Goldbarth, Albert (American poet, teacher) |
b.1948 |
| Goldberg, Arthur Joseph (American lawyer, jurist, diplomat) |
1908-1990 |
| Goldberg, Leah (Lithuanian-born Hebrew poet, playwright) |
1911-1974 |
| Goldberg, Michael (American painter, teacher) |
1924-2007 |
| Goldberg, Rubens Lucius "Rube" (American cartoonist) |
1883-1970 |
| Goldberg, Yitzhak Gutkind "Itche" (Polish-born Am. writer) |
1904-2006 |
| Goldberger, Joseph (Austrian-born American physician) |
1874-1929 |
| Golden, Harry Lewis (orig. Goldhirsch) (Am. editor, writer) |
1903-1981 |
| Goldenshteyn, German (Romanian musician) |
1934-2006 |
| Goldenweiser, Alexander Alexandrovich (Rus.-born Am. anthrop.) |
1880-1940 |
| Goldfaden, Abraham (Russian-born American poet, playwright) |
1840-1908 |
| Goldhaber, Maurice (Austrian-born American physicist) |
b.1911 |
| Goldie, Sir George Dashwood Taubman (English colonial admin.) |
1846-1925 |
| Golding, Louis (English writer, essayist) |
1895-1958 |
| Golding, William Gerald (English author) |
1911-1993 |
| Goldman, Edwin Franko (American composer, bandmaster) |
1878-1956 |
| Goldman, Emma (Lithuanian-born American anarchist) |
1869-1940 |
| Goldman, Richard Franko (American bandmaster; son of Edwin) |
1910-1980 |
| Goldmann, Nahum (Lithuanian-born German Zionist) |
1895-1982 |
| Goldmark, Karl (Hungarian composer) |
1830-1915 |
| Goldmark, Peter Carl (Hung.-born Am. engineer; dev. LP record) |
1906-1977 |
| Goldmark, Ruben (American music teacher; nephew of Karl) |
1872-1936 |
| Goldoni, Carlo (Italian comic playwright) |
1707-1793 |
| Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes (American naval officer) |
1805-1877 |
| Goldschmidt, Johann Hans Wilhelm (German chemist) |
1861-1923 |
| Goldschmidt, Meir Aron (Danish journalist, writer, politician) |
1819-1887 |
| Goldschmidt, Richard Benedikt (German zoologist) |
1878-1958 |
| Goldschmidt, Victor Mordechai (German mineralogist) |
1853-1933 |
| Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz (German mineralogist, petrologist) |
1888-1947 |
| Goldschmied, Johannes (Johann Aurifaber) (German theologian) |
1519-1575 |
| Goldsmid, Abraham (Dutch-born Eng. financier; bro. of Benjamin) |
1756-1810 |
| Goldsmid, Benjamin (Dutch-born English financier) |
1755-1808 |
| Goldsmid, Sir Francis Henry (English barrister; son of Isaac) |
1808-1878 |
| Goldsmid, Sir Frederick John (English soldier; grandson of Ben) |
1818-1908 |
| Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon (English financier, philanthropist) |
1778-1859 |
| Goldsmith, Oliver (Irish-born British poet, playwright, nov.) |
1730-1774 |
| Goldstein, Eugen (German physicist) |
1850-1930 |
| Goldstein, Herman Heine (Am. math., computer scientist: ENIAC) |
1913-2004 |
| Goldstein, Joseph Leonard (American medical geneticist) |
b.1940 |
| Goldwater, Barry Morris (American politician) |
1909-1998 |
| Goldwyn, Samuel (Polish-born American motion-picture producer) |
1882-1974 |
| Golgi, Camillo (Italian physician) |
1843/44-1926 |
| Golitsyn, Boris Alekseyevich (Rus. min. under Peter the Great) |
1654-1713 |
| Golitsyn, Boris Borisovich (Russian physicist) |
1862-1916 |
| Golitsyn, Dmitry Mikhaylovich (Rus. diplomat; bro. of Mikhail) |
1655-1737 |
| Golitsyn, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (Rus. general; cousin of Vasily) |
1674-1730 |
| Golitsyn, Vasily Vasilyevich (Russian general, politician) |
1643-1714 |
| Gollancz, Sir Hermann (Ger.-born Brit. rabbi, Semitic scholar) |
1852-1930 |
| Gollancz, Sir Israel (British scholar; brother of Hermann) |
1864-1930 |
| Gollancz, Sir Victor (British publisher, writer) |
1893-1967 |
| Golovin, Fyodor Alekseyevich (Russian diplomat, politician) |
1650-1706 |
| Golovkin, Gavriil Ivanovich (Russian diplomat, politician) |
1660-1734 |
| Golovnin, Vasily Mikhaylovich (Russian navigator) |
1776-1831 |
| Goltz, Wilhelm Leopold Colmar von der (German general) |
1843-1916 |
| Goltz, Friedrich Leopold (German physiologist) |
1834-1902 |
| Goltz, Gustav Adolf Joachim Rudiger von der (German general) |
1865-1946 |
| Goltzius, Hendrik (Dutch engraver, etcher, painter) |
1558-1617 |
| Golub, Leon (American painter) |
1922-2004 |
| Goluchowski, Agenor (Polish nobleman) |
1812-1875 |
| Goluchowski, Agenor (Austro-Hungarian polit.; son of Agenor) |
1849-1921 |
| Gomarus, Franciscus (orig. surname Gommer) (Dutch theologian) |
1563-1641 |
| Gomberg, Moses (Ukrainian-born American chemist) |
1866-1947 |
| Gombert, Nicolas (Flemish composer) |
c.1490-c.1556 |
| Gomberville, Marin Le Roy de (French writer) |
1600-1674 |
| Gombos, Gyula (Hungarian general, politician) |
1886-1936 |
| Gombrich, Sir Ernst Hans (Austrian-born British art historian) |
b.1909 |
| Gombrowicz, Witold (Polish writer, playwright) |
1904-1969 |
| Gomes, Antonio Carlos (Brazilian composer) |
1836-1896 |
| Gomes, Diogo (Portuguese navigator) |
fl. 1440-1484 |
| Gomes Coelho, Joaquim Guilherme (Julio Dinis) (Port. writer) |
1839-1871 |
| Gomez, Jose (aka Joselito el Gallo or Gallito) (Span. matador) |
1895-1920 |
| Gomez, Jose Miguel (Cuban general, politician; pres. 1909-13) |
1858-1921 |
| Gomez, Juan Vincente (Venezuelan general, politician, dictator) |
1864-1935 |
| Gomez Castro, Laureano Eleuterio (Colombian politician) |
1889-1965 |
| Gomez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis (La Peregrina) (Cuban writer) |
1814-1873 |
| Gomez de la Serna, Ramon (Spanish writer) |
1888-1963 |
| Gomez Farias, Valentin (Mexican politician) |
1781-1858 |
| Gomez Pedraza, Manuel (Mexican general, politician) |
1789-1851 |
| Gomez y Baez, Maximo (Dominican-born Cuban patriot, general) |
1836-1905 |
| Gompers, Samuel (English-born American labor leader) |
1850-1924 |
| Gomperz, Theodor (German philologist, philosopher) |
1832-1912 |
| Gomulka, Wladyslaw (Polish Communist politician) |
1905-1982 |
| Goncalves, Antonio Aurelio (Cape Verdean writer, critic) |
1901-1984 |
| Goncalves, Nuno (Portuguese painter) |
fl. 1450-1472 |
| Goncalves de Magalhaes, Domingos Jose (Brazilian poet) |
1811-1882 |
| Goncalves Dias, Antonio (Brazilian poet, ethnologist) |
1823-1864 |
| Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich (Russian novelist) |
1812-1891 |
| Goncharova, Nathalie (also Natalia Goncharov) (Russian artist) |
1883-1962 |
| Goncourt, Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de (French novelist) |
1822-1896 |
| Goncourt, Jules-Alfred Huot de (Fr. novelist; bro. of Edmond) |
1830-1870 |
| Gondi, Jean-Francois-Paul de (French prelate, politician) |
1613-1679 |
| Gondomar, Conde de (Diego Sarmiento de Acuna)(Spanish diplomat) |
1567-1626 |
| Gondophernes (or Gondophares) (Indo-Parthian king) |
1st cent. |
| Gongora y Argote, Luis de (Spanish poet) |
1561-1627 |
| Gong Zizhen (or Kung Tzu-chen) (Chinese writer, poet) |
1792-1841 |
| Gonne, Maud (Irish actor, patriot; a founder of Sinn Fein) |
1866-1953 |
| Gontaut, Armand de (Baron de Biron) (French soldier) |
1524-1592 |
| Gontaut, Armand-Louis (French soldier; nephew of Louis-Antoine) |
1747-1793 |
| Gontaut, Charles (French soldier, marshal 1594; son of Armand) |
1562-1602 |
| Gontaut, Charles-Armand (Fr. marshal; grandnephew of Charles) |
1663-1756 |
| Gontaut, Louis-Antoine (French marshal; son of Charles-Armand) |
1700-1788 |
| Gonville (or Gonvile), Edmund (English cleric) |
d.1351 |
| Gonzaga, Saint Aloysius (Italian Jesuit religious) |
1568-1591 |
| Gonzaga, Federico (Italian diplomat, patron of the arts) |
1440-1484 |
| Gonzaga, Federigo (Italian patron of the arts) |
1500-1540 |
| Gonzaga, Francesco (Italian soldier, patron of the arts) |
1466-1519 |
| Gonzaga, Lodovico (Italian patron of the arts) |
1414-1478 |
| Gonzaga, Tomas Antonio (pseud. Dirceu) (Portuguese poet) |
1744-1810 |
| Gonzalez, Angel (Spanish poet) |
b.1925 |
| Gonzalez, Jose Victoriano (pseud. Juan Gris) (Spanish artist) |
1887-1927 |
| Gonzalez, Julio (Spanish sculptor, painter) |
1876-1942 |
| Gonzalez, Manuel (Mexican general, president 1880-1884) |
1833-1893 |
| Gonzalez Bravo, Luis (Spanish politician) |
1811-1871 |
| Gonzalez Davila, Gil (Spanish historian) |
c.1570-1658 |
| Gonzalez Martinez, Enrique (Mexican physician, poet, diplomat) |
1871-1952 |
| Gonzalez Navero, Emiliano (Paraguayan politician) |
1861-1938 |
| Gonzalez Prada, Manuel (Peruvian essayist, poet) |
1848-1918 |
| Gonzalo de Berceo (Spanish poet) |
c.1195-c.1264 |
| Gooch, Sir Daniel (1st Baronet) (English engineer) |
1816-1889 |
| Gooch, George Peabody (English historian) |
1873-1968 |
| Goodall, Jane (English ethologist, zoologist) |
b.1934 |
| Goode, George Brown (American ichthyologist) |
1851-1896 |
| Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor (American architect) |
1869-1924 |
| Goodison, Lorna Gaye (Jamaican poet, writer) |
b.1947 |
| Goodman, Benjamin David "Benny" (American big band leader) |
1909-1986 |
| Goodman, Ellen (American syndicated columnist) |
b.1941 |
| Goodman, Paul (American writer, poet, playwright, philosopher) |
1911-1972 |
| Goodnight, Charles (American cattleman) |
1836-1929 |
| Goodnow, Frank Johnson (American educator) |
1859-1939 |
| Goodpasture, Ernest William (American pathologist) |
1886-1960 |
| Goodrich, Benjamin Franklin (American rubber industrialist) |
1841-1888 |
| Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (pseud. Peter Parley) (Am. writer) |
1793-1860 |
| Goodrich (or Goodricke), Thomas (English prelate) |
1480?-1554 |
| Goodricke, John (English astronomer) |
1764-1786 |
| Goodsir, John (Scottish anatomist) |
1814-1867 |
| Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson (American scholar) |
1871-1962 |
| Goodwin, Hannibal Williston (American clergyman, inventor) |
1822-1900 |
| Goodwin, Thomas (English clergyman) |
1600-1680 |
| Goodwin, William Watson (American scholar) |
1831-1912 |
| Goodyear, Charles (American inventor, rubber industrialist) |
1800-1860 |
| Googe, Barnabe (English poet) |
1540-1594 |
| Gookin, Daniel (English colonist in America) |
1612-1687 |
| Goonan, Kathleen Ann (American writer) |
b.1952 |
| Goossens, Aynsley Eugene (British conductor, composer) |
1893-1962 |
| Gorakhnath (also Goraksanatha) (Indian religious) |
10th-11th cent. |
| Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich (Russian Soviet politician) |
b.1931 |
| Gorchakov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich (Russian statesman, diplomat) |
1798-1883 |
| Gorchakov, Mikhail Dmitriyevich (Russian soldier, politician) |
1793-1861 |
| Gordianus I (Marcus Antonius Gordianus) (Roman emperor 238) |
c.157-238 |
| Gordianus II (Roman emp. 238; son of & co-ruler w/Gordianus I) |
d.238 |
| Gordianus III (Roman emperor 238-244; grandson of Gordianus I) |
225-244 |
| Gordimer, Nadine (South African writer) |
b.1923 |
| Gordin, Jacob (Russian-born American Yiddish playwright) |
1853-1909 |
| Gordon, Aaron David (Ukrainian-born Palestinian leader) |
1856-1922 |
| Gordon, Adam Lindsay (Azores-born Australian poet) |
1833-1870 |
| Gordon, Charles George (British soldier in China) |
1833-1885 |
| Gordon, Charles William (pseud. Ralph Connor) (Can. clergyman) |
1860-1937 |
| Gordon, Dexter Keith (American musician) |
1923-1990 |
| Gordon, Lord George (English political agitator) |
1751-1793 |
| Gordon, John Brown (American soldier, politician) |
1832-1904 |
| Gordon, Sir John Watson (Scottish painter) |
1788-1864 |
| Gordon, Judah Leib (aka Leon Gordon) (Lithuanian writer) |
1830-1892 |
| Gordon, Mary Catherine (American writer) |
b.1949 |
| Gordon, Patrick (Scottish soldier of fortune) |
1635-1699 |
| Gore, Albert Arnold Jr. (American vice-president 1993-2000) |
b.1948 |
| Gore, Charles (English prelate) |
1853-1932 |
| Gore, Genevieve née Walton "Vieve" (American businesswoman) |
1913-2005 |
| Gore, Mary Elizabeth née Aitcheson "Tipper" (Am. photographer) |
b.1948 |
| Goremykin, Ivan Logginovich (Russian politician; prime min.) |
1839-1917 |
| Gorenko, Anna Andreyevna (pseud. Anna Akhmatova) (Russian poet) |
1889-1966 |
| Gorenshtein, Fridrikh Naumovich (Russian writer, playwright) |
b.1932 |
| Gorey, Edward St. John (American writer, illustrator, designer) |
1925-2000 |
| Gorgas, Josiah (American army officer) |
1818-1883 |
| Gorgas, William Crawford (American army officer, surgeon) |
1854-1920 |
| Gorges, Sir Ferdinando (English soldier, mariner, proprietor) |
c.1566-1647 |
| Gorgey (or Gorgei), Artur (Hungarian general) |
1818-1916 |
| Gorgias of Leontini (Greek Sophist, rhetorician) |
c.483-c.376 BC |
| Gorham, Jabez (American silversmith) |
1792-1869 |
| Gorham, Nathaniel (American politician) |
1738-1796 |
| Goring, George (Earl of Norwich) (English Royalist) |
1585-1663 |
| Goring, George (Baron Goring) (English soldier; son of George) |
1608-1657 |
| Goring, Hermann Wilhelm (German Nazi politician) |
1893-1946 |
| Gorky, Arshile (Armenian-born American painter) |
1905-1948 |
| Gorky, Maksim (Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov) (Russian writer) |
1868-1936 |
| Gorm the Old (Danish ruler; father of Harold Bluetooth) |
d.c.935 |
| Gorman, Arthur Pue (American politician) |
1839-1906 |
| Gorres, Johann Joseph von (German writer, journalist) |
1776-1848 |
| Gorrie, John (American physician, inventor) |
1803-1855 |
| Gorst, Sir John Eldon (English politician) |
1835-1916 |
| Gorter, Herman (Dutch poet) |
1864-1927 |
| Gorton, Samuel (English religious leader) |
1592-1677 |
| Gortz, Georg Heinrich von (German politician) |
1668-1719 |
| Gorz, Andre (b.Gerhard Hirsch) (Austrian-born Fr. philosopher) |
1923-2007 |
| Goschen, George Joachim (1st Viscount) (British politician) |
1831-1907 |
| Goscinny, Rene (Fr. cartoon author; created Asterix the Gaul) |
1926-1977 |
| Goslicki, Wawrzyniec (Polish prelate, diplomat) |
c.1530-1607 |
| Gosnold, Bartholomew (English navigator) |
d.1607 |
| Gossaert, Jan (also Jenni Gossart; Malbodius) (Flemish painter) |
c.1478-c.1532 |
| Gosse, Sir Edmund William (English poet, man of letters) |
1849-1928 |
| Gosse, Philip Henry (English naturalist) |
1810-1888 |
| Gossec, Francois-Joseph (French composer) |
1734-1829 |
| Gosset de Guines, Louis-Andre (p.Andre Gill) (Fr. caricaturist) |
1840-1885 |
| Gotch, Frank (American wrestler) |
1878-1917 |
| Gothardt, Matthias (Matthias Grunewald) (German painter) |
d.1528 |
| Goto Shimpei (Japanese politician, administrator) |
1857-1929 |
| Goto Shojiro (Japanese politician) |
1838-1897 |
| Gotter, Friedrich Wilhelm (German poet) |
1746-1797 |
| Gottfried von Strassburg (German poet) |
fl. 1210 |
| Gotthard (or Godehard), Saint (German religious, prelate) |
c.960-1038 |
| Gottlieb, Sidney (b. Joseph Scheider) (Am. chemist; bureaucrat) |
1918-1999 |
| Gottlieb, William Paul (American photographer, writer) |
1917-2006 |
| Gottschalk of Orbais (German religious, theologian) |
c.803-c.868 |
| Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (American pianist, composer) |
1829-1869 |
| Gottschall, Rudolf von (German writer) |
1823-1909 |
| Gottsched, Johann Christoph (German critic, writer, dramatist) |
1700-1766 |
| Gottwald, Klement (Czech politician; president 1948-1953) |
1896-1953 |
| Gotz, Hermann (German composer) |
1840-1876 |
| Goucher, John Franklin (American clergyman, educator) |
1845-1922 |
| Goudge, Elizabeth (English writer) |
1900-1984 |
| Goudimel, Claude (French composer) |
c.1510-1572 |
| Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham (Dutch-born American physicist) |
1902-1978 |
| Goudy, Frederic William (American printer, type designer) |
1865-1947 |
| Gough, Sir Hubert de la Poer (English soldier) |
1870-1963 |
| Gough, Hugh (1st Viscount Gough) (Irish-born British soldier) |
1779-1869 |
| Gouin, Sir Lomer (Canadian politician) |
1861-1929 |
| Goujon, Jean (French sculptor) |
1510?-1568 |
| Gould, Augustus Addison (American naturalist) |
1805-1866 |
| Gould, Benjamin Apthorp (American astronomer) |
1824-1896 |
| Gould, Chester (American cartoonist; created Dick Tracey) |
1900-1985 |
| Gould, Edwin (American businessman; son of Jay) |
1866-1933 |
| Gould, George Jay (American businessman; son of Jay) |
1864-1923 |
| Gould, Jay (orig. Jason) (American financier) |
1836-1892 |
| Gould, John (English ornithologist) |
1804-1881 |
| Gould, Richard Gordon (American physicist; coined LASER) |
1920-2005 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay (American naturalist, paleontologist) |
1941-2002 |
| Gounod, Charles-Francois (French operatic composer) |
1818-1893 |
| Gouraud, Henri-Joseph-Eugene (French army officer) |
1867-1946 |
| Gourgaud, Gaspard (French army officer) |
1783-1852 |
| Gourmont, Remy de (French novelist, poet, playwright) |
1858-1915 |
| Gournay, Jean-Claude-Marie-Vincent de (French economist) |
1712-1759 |
| Goursat, Edouard-Jean-Baptiste (French mathematician) |
1858-1936 |
| Gouthiere, Pierre (French metalworker) |
1732-1813/14 |
| Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, Laurent de (French soldier) |
1764-1830 |
| Govardhan (Mughal painter) |
17th cent. |
| Gove, Philip Babcock (American lexicographer) |
1902-1972 |
| Gow, Nathaniel (Scot. music collector, publisher; son of Niel) |
1766-1831 |
| Gow, Niel (Scottish fiddler, composer) |
1727-1807 |
| Gower, John (English poet) |
1330?-1408 |
| Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (Spanish painter, etcher) |
1746-1828 |
| Goyen (or Goijen), Jan Josephszoon van (Dutch painter) |
1596-1656 |
| Goytisolo Gay, Juan (Spanish writer, essayist) |
b.1931 |
| Gozzano, Guido (Italian poet; leader of Crepuscolarismo school) |
1883-1916 |
| Gozzi, Carlo (Italian poet, writer, dramatist) |
1720-1806 |
| Gozzi, Gasparo (Italian poet, writer, journalist, critic) |
1713-1786 |
| Gqoba, William Wellington (Bantu poet, philologist, journalist) |
1840-1888 |
| Graaf, Reinier de (Dutch physician, anatomist) |
1641-1673 |
| Graaff, Simon de (Dutch politician) |
1861-1948 |
| Grabau, Amadeus William (American paleontologist) |
1870-1946 |
| Grabbe, Christian Dietrich (German dramatist) |
1801-1836 |
| Graboi, Nina (Austrian-born American entheogenic activist) |
1918-1999 |
| Grabski, Wladyslaw (Polish economist, politician) |
1874-1938 |
| Graca Aranha, Jose Pereira da (Brazilian diplomat, novelist) |
1868-1931 |
| Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius (Roman statesman; bro. of Tiberius) |
153-121 BC |
| Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius (Roman statesman) |
163-133 BC |
| Grace, William Gilbert (English cricketer, physician) |
1848-1915 |
| Grace, William Russell (Irish-born Am. merchant, ship owner) |
1832-1904 |
| Gracian y Morales, Baltasar (Spanish philosopher, writer) |
1601-1658 |
| Grade, Chaim (Yiddish poet, writer) |
1910-1982 |
| Grady, Henry Woodfin (American journalist, orator) |
1850-1889 |
| Graebe, Carl (German chemist) |
1841-1927 |
| Graebner, Robert Fritz (German ethnologist) |
1877-1934 |
| Graefe, Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst (German oculist) |
1828-1870 |
| Graefe, Karl Ferdinand von (German surgeon; father of Albrecht) |
1787-1840 |
| Graetz, Heinrich (German historian) |
1817-1891 |
| Graf, Oskar Maria (German writer, poet) |
1894-1967 |
| Graf, Urs (Swiss artist, engraver, goldsmith) |
c.1485-1527 |
| Grafton, Richard (English printer, chronicler) |
c.1513-1573 |
| Graham, Ernest Robert (American architect) |
1868-1936 |
| Graham, George (English mechanician; partner of Thomas Tompion) |
1673-1751 |
| Graham, George Rex (Am. journalist; est. Graham's Magazine) |
1813-1894 |
| Graham, Hugh (Baron Atholstan) (Canadian publisher) |
1848-1938 |
| Graham, James (5th Earl, 1st Marquis of Montrose) (Scot. gen.) |
1612-1650 |
| Graham, Sir James Robert George (2nd baronet) (English polit.) |
1792-1861 |
| Graham, John (Scottish Royalist, Jacobite) |
1648-1689 |
| Graham, Jorie (American poet) |
b.1951 |
| Graham, Katherine Meyer (American newspaper publisher) |
1917-2001 |
| Graham, Martha (American choreographer, dancer) |
1893-1991 |
| Graham, Maurice W. "Steam Train Maury" (American hobo, mason) |
1917-2006 |
| Graham, Sylvester (American reformer) |
1794-1851 |
| Graham, Thomas (Scottish-born British soldier) |
1748-1843 |
| Graham, Thomas (Scottish physical chemist) |
1805-1869 |
| Graham, William Franklin "Billy" (American evangelist) |
b.1918 |
| Graham, William Sydney (Scottish poet) |
1918-1986 |
| Graham, Winston Mawdsley (English writer) |
b.1910 |
| Grahame, James (Scottish poet) |
1765-1811 |
| Grahame, Kenneth (Scottish writer) |
1859-1932 |
| Grahame-White, Claude (English aviator, engineer) |
1879-1959 |
| Grahn, Lucile (Danish dancer, choreographer) |
1819-1907 |
| Grailly, Jean III de (Captal de Buch) (French knight) |
1321-1376 |
| Grainger, Percy Aldridge (Australian-born Am. pianist, comp.) |
1882-1961 |
| Gram, Hans Christian Joachim (Danish physician) |
1853-1938 |
| Gramme, Zenobe Theophile (Belgian electrical engineer) |
1826-1901 |
| Gramont, Antoine-Agenor-Alfred de (French diplomat, statesman) |
1819-1880 |
| Gramsci, Antonio (Italian politician) |
1891-1937 |
| Granada, Luis de (Spanish prelate) |
c.1504-1588 |
| Granados y Campina, Enrique (Spanish pianist, composer) |
1867-1916 |
| Grandbois, Alain (French-Canadian poet) |
1900-1975 |
| Grandgent, Charles Hall (American linguist) |
1862-1939 |
| Grandi, Alessandro (Italian composer) |
d.1630 |
| Grandi, Dino (Conte di Mordano) (Italian Fascist politician) |
1895-1988 |
| Grandi, Guido (orig. Francesco Lodovico) (It. mathematician) |
1671-1742 |
| Grandjean, Philippe (French type engraver) |
1666-1714 |
| Granet, Francois-Marie (French painter) |
1775-1849 |
| Granger, James (English biographer; eponym of "grangerize") |
1723-1776 |
| Granit, Ragnar Arthur (Finnish-born Swedish physiologist) |
b.1900 |
| Granjon, Robert (French type founder, engraver) |
1513-1589 |
| Grant, Cary (Archibald Alexander Leach) (American actor) |
1904-1986 |
| Grant, Duncan James Corrowr (Scottish painter) |
1885-1978 |
| Grant, George Monro (Canadian clergyman, travel writer) |
1835-1902 |
| Grant, Heber Jedediah (American religious leader) |
1856-1945 |
| Grant, James Augustus (Scottish-born British soldier, explorer) |
1827-1892 |
| Grant, Sir James Hope (Scottish-born British soldier) |
1808-1875 |
| Grant, Peter (English businessman) |
1935-1995 |
| Grant, Ulysses Simpson (18th U.S. president, 1869-1877) |
1822-1885 |
| Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de (Fr. prelate, polit. in Spain) |
1517-1586 |
| Granville, Evelyn Boyd (American mathematician) |
b.1924 |
| Granville-Barker, Harley Granville (English actor, manager) |
1877-1946 |
| Gras, Felix (French writer) |
1844-1901 |
| Grass, Gunter Wilhelm (Polish-born German author) |
b.1927 |
| Grasse, Francois-Joseph-Paul de (French naval officer) |
1722-1788 |
| Grassi, Giovanni Battista (Italian zoologist) |
1854-1925 |
| Grassmann, Hermann Gunter (German mathematician, Sanskritist) |
1809-1877 |
| Grasso, Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva née Tambussi (Am. politician) |
1919-1981 |
| Gratian (Flavius Gratianus) (Roman emperor 367-383) |
359-383 |
| Gratian (Franciscus Gratianus) (Italian ecclesiastic, jurist) |
d.1159? |
| Gratkowski, Frank (German musician) |
b.1963 |
| Grattan, Henry (Irish politician, orator) |
1746-1820 |
| Grau Delgado, Jacinto (Spanish playwright) |
1877-1958 |
| Grau, Maurice (Austrian-born American impresario) |
1849-1907 |
| Grau, Shirley Ann (American writer) |
b.1929 |
| Grauman, Sidney Patrick (American theater owner) |
1879-1950 |
| Graun, Karl Heinrich (German composer) |
1704-1759 |
| Graunt, John (English statistician) |
1620-1674 |
| Graupner, Johann Christian Gottlieb (Prus.-born Am. musician) |
1767-1836 |
| Graupner, Johann Christoph (German composer) |
1683-1760 |
| Grau San Martin, Ramon (Cuban physician, president 1944-1948) |
1887-1969 |
| Graves, Milford (American musician) |
b.1941 |
| Graves, Richard (English poet, novelist) |
1715-1804 |
| Graves, Robert Ranke (British writer, classical scholar) |
1895-1985 |
| Graves, Thomas (1st Baron Graves) (British admiral) |
1725?-1802 |
| Graves, William Sidney (American army officer) |
1865-1940 |
| Gravesande, Willem Jakob (Dutch mathematician, philosopher) |
1688-1742 |
| Gravina, Federico Carlos de (Spanish admiral) |
1756-1806 |
| Gravina, Gian Vincenzo (Italian jurist, writer) |
1664-1718 |
| Gray, Asa (American botanist; chief supporter of Darwinism) |
1810-1888 |
| Gray, David (Scottish poet) |
1838-1861 |
| Gray, Elisha (American telegraphy inventor) |
1835-1901 |
| Gray, Harold Lincoln (Am. cartoonist; "Little Orphan Annie") |
1894-1968 |
| Gray, Henry (English anatomist) |
1825/27-1861 |
| Gray, Horace (American jurist; Supreme Court Justice 1882-1902) |
1828-1902 |
| Gray, Sir James (English zoologist) |
1891-1975 |
| Gray, Robert (American shipmaster, explorer) |
1755-1806 |
| Gray, Robert (English prelate) |
1809-1872 |
| Gray, Simon James Holliday (English playwright, writer) |
b.1936 |
| Gray, Stephen (English scientist) |
1666-1736 |
| Gray, Thomas (English poet, letter writer) |
1716-1771 |
| Graziani, Rodolfo (Italian marshal, administrator) |
1882-1955 |
| Grazzini, Anton Francesco "Il Lasca" (Italian writer) |
1503-1584 |
| Greathead, Henry (English boat builder) |
1757-1816 |
| Greathead, James Henry (South African-born British engineer) |
1844-1896 |
| Greb, Edward Harry (American boxer) |
1894-1926 |
| Greban, Arnoul (French poet) |
1420-1471 |
| Grebel, Konrad (Swiss religious leader) |
c.1498-1526 |
| Grechaninov, Aleksandr Tikhonovich (Russian composer) |
1864-1956 |
| Greco, El (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)(Cretan-born Span. painter) |
1541-1614 |
| Grecourt, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Willart de (French poet) |
1683-1743 |
| Greeley, Horace (American journalist, political leader) |
1811-1872 |
| Greely, Adolphus Washington (American general, arctic explorer) |
1844-1935 |
| Green, Alice Sophia Amelia née Stopford (Irish historian) |
1847-1929 |
| Green, Anna Katharine (American writer) |
1846-1935 |
| Green, Austin C. "Slim" (American saddle maker) |
1916-2007 |
| Green, Cecil Howard (English-born Am. geophysicist; co-fd. TI) |
1900-2003 |
| Green, Charles (English aeronaut) |
1785-1870 |
| Green, Duff (American journalist, politician) |
1791-1875 |
| Green, George (English mathematician, physicist) |
1793-1841 |
| Green, Henrietta Howland née Robinson "Hetta" (Am. financier) |
1834-1916 |
| Green, John Richard (English historian; husband of Alice) |
1837-1883 |
| Green, Julien Hartridge (French-born American writer) |
b.1900 |
| Green, Matthew (English poet) |
1696-1737 |
| Green, Paul Eliot (American writer, playwright, teacher) |
1894-1981 |
| Green, Thomas (American printer) |
1735-1812 |
| Green, Thomas Hill (English philosopher) |
1836-1882 |
| Green, William (American labor leader) |
1873-1952 |
| Greenaway, Catherine "Kate" (English painter, illustrator) |
1846-1901 |
| Greenberg, Uri Zvi "Tur Malka" (Galician-born Hebrew poet) |
1894-1981 |
| Greenberger, David (American critic, writer: Duplex Planet) |
b.1954 |
| Greene, Charles Sumner (American architect) |
1868-1957 |
| Greene, Henry Graham (British writer, journalist, playwright) |
1904-1991 |
| Greene, Henry Mather (American architect; brother of Charles) |
1870-1954 |
| Greene, Maurice (English organist, composer) |
1696-1755 |
| Greene, Nathanael (American Revolutionary officer) |
1742-1786 |
| Greene, Robert (English poet, playwright) |
1558?-1592 |
| Greener, William (English gunmaker, inventor) |
1806-1869 |
| Greenhow, Rose née O'Neal (American Confederate spy) |
1815?-1864 |
| Greenleaf, Ralph (American billiard player) |
c.1899-1950 |
| Greenleaf, Simon (American jurist) |
1783-1853 |
| Greenough, George Bellas (English geographer, geologist) |
1778-1855 |
| Greenough, Horatio (American sculptor) |
1805-1852 |
| Greenough, Richard Saltonstall (Am. sculptor; bro. of Horatio) |
1819-1904 |
| Greenstein, Jesse Leonard (American astrophysicist) |
b.1909 |
| Greenwood, Arthur (British politician) |
1880-1954 |
| Greenwood, Frederick (English journalist) |
1830-1909 |
| Greenwood, John (English Puritan clergyman) |
d.1593 |
| Greenwood, John (American dentist; made G. Washington's teeth) |
1760-1819 |
| Greenwood, Walter (English novelist, playwright) |
1903-1974 |
| Greer, Germaine (Austalian-born critic, essayist) |
b.1939 |
| Greet, Sir Phillip Barling Ben (English actor, manager) |
1857-1936 |
| Greg, Sir Walter Wilson (English bibliographer) |
1875-1959 |
| Gregg, John Robert (Irish-born American inventor, publisher) |
1867-1948 |
| Gregg, Josiah (American frontiersman) |
1806-1850 |
| Gregg, William (American industrialist) |
1800-1867 |
| Gregh, Fernand (French poet) |
1873-1960 |
| Gregoire, Henri (French prelate, revolutionary) |
1750-1831 |
| Gregor, William (English clergyman, chemist, mineralogist) |
1761-1817 |
| Gregoras, Nicephorus (Byzantine scholar, historian) |
1295-1360 |
| Gregorovius, Ferdinand (German historian) |
1821-1891 |
| Gregory, Saint (Armenian apostle of Christianity) |
240-332 |
| Gregory I the Great, Saint (Pope 590-604) |
c.540-604 |
| Gregory VII, Saint (orig. Hildebrand) (Pope 1073-1085) |
c.1020-1085 |
| Gregory XVI (orig. Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari)(Pope 1831-46) |
1765-1846 |
| Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint (Greek prelate of Asia Minor) |
c.330-c.389 |
| Gregory of Nyssa, Saint (Greek prelate of Asia Minor) |
c.335-c.394 |
| Gregory of Rimini (Italian philosopher, theologian) |
d.1358 |
| Gregory of Sinai (aka Gregory Sinaites) (Greek religious) |
d.1346 |
| Gregory of Tours (orig. Georgius Florentius) (Frankish prelate) |
538-594 |
| Gregory, David (Scottish mathematician, astronomer) |
1659-1708 |
| Gregory, Horace Victor (American poet, critic, translator) |
1898-1982 |
| Gregory, Lady Isabella Augusta née Persse (Irish playwright) |
1852-1932 |
| Gregory (or Gregorie), James (Scottish mathematician, inventor) |
1638-1675 |
| Gregory II Cyprius (orig. George) (Greek prelate) |
1241-1290 |
| Gregory Narekatzi, Saint (Armenian poet, theologian) |
951-1001 |
| Gregory Thaumaturgus, Saint (Greek prelate) |
213?-270? |
| Greif, Andreas (Gryphius) (German poet, traveler) |
1616-1664 |
| Greiff, Leon de (Colombian poet) |
1895-1976 |
| Greig, Sir Samuel (Scottish naval officer in Russian navy) |
1735-1788 |
| Grein, Jacob Thomas "Jack" (Dutch-born English dramatic critic) |
1862-1935 |
| Grenfell, Bernard Pyne (English papyrologist) |
1869-1926 |
| Grenfell, George (English missionary, explorer) |
1849-1906 |
| Grenfell, Julian Henry Francis (British soldier, poet) |
1888-1915 |
| Grenfell, Sir Wilfred Thomason (English physician, missionary) |
1865-1940 |
| Grenville, Sir Basil (British Royalist soldier) |
1596-1643 |
| Grenville, George (English statesman; prime minister 1763-65) |
1712-1770 |
| Grenville (or Greynville), Sir Richard (Brit. naval commander) |
1542-1591 |
| Grenville, Richard Temple (1st Earl Temple) (Eng. politician) |
1711-1779 |
| Gresham, Sir Thomas (English financier, economist) |
1519-1579 |
| Gresham, Walter Quintin (American politician, jurist) |
1832-1895 |
| Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis (French poet, playwright) |
1709-1777 |
| Gressly, Amanz (Swiss geologist) |
1814-1865 |
| Gressmann, Hugo (German theologian) |
1877-1927 |
| Gretry, Andre-Ernest-Modeste (French composer) |
1741-1813 |
| Greuze, Jean-Baptiste (French painter) |
1725-1805 |
| Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke (English diarist) |
1794-1865 |
| Greville, Fulke (1st Baron Brooke) (English poet, courtier) |
1554-1628 |
| Grevin, Jacques (French physician, poet, playwright) |
1538-1570 |
| Grevy, Francois-Paul-Jules (French politician; pres. 1879-1887) |
1807-1891 |
| Grew, Joseph Clark (American diplomat) |
1880-1965 |
| Grew, Nehemiah (English botanist) |
1641-1712 |
| Grey, Albert Thornton "Al" (American jazz trombonist) |
1925-2000 |
| Grey, Alex (American artist) |
b.1953 |
| Grey, Charles (English statesman; prime minister 1830-1834) |
1764-1845 |
| Grey, Edward (Viscount Grey of Fallodon) (English politician) |
1862-1933 |
| Grey, Jane, Lady (English titular queen for 9 days 1553) |
1537-1554 |
| Grey (or Gray), Walter de (English prelate, politician) |
d.1255 |
| Grey, Zane (b. Pearl Grey) (American novelist, dentist) |
1872-1939 |
| Gribeauval, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de (French general) |
1715-1789 |
| Griboyedov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (Russian poet, diplomat) |
1795-1829 |
| Gridley, Charles Vernon (American naval officer) |
1844-1898 |
| Gridley, Richard (American military engineer) |
1711-1796 |
| Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (Norwegian composer) |
1843-1907 |
| Grieg, Johan Nordahl Brun (Norwegian poet, nov., playwright) |
1902-1943 |
| Grier, Robert Cooper (American Supreme Court Justice 1846-70) |
1794-1870 |
| Grierson, Benjamin Henry (American army officer) |
1826-1911 |
| Grierson, Sir George Abraham (Irish philologist) |
1851-1941 |
| Grierson, John (British filmmaker) |
1898-1972 |
| Griesbach, Johann Jakob (German theologian) |
1745-1812 |
| Grieve, Christopher Murray (pseud. Hugh MacDiarmid)(Scot. poet) |
1892-1978 |
| Griffes, Charles Tomlinson (American pianist, composer) |
1884-1920 |
| Griffin, Cyrus (American jurist) |
1748-1810 |
| Griffin, Gerald (Irish playwright, novelist, poet) |
1803-1840 |
| Griffin, Mervyn Edward Jr. (American TV production executive) |
b.1925 |
| Griffin, Susan (Am. poet, playwright, feminist philosopher) |
b.1943 |
| Griffin, Walter Burley (American architect) |
1876-1937 |
| Griffith, Arthur (Irish political leader; founded Sinn Fein) |
1872-1922 |
| Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark (Am. motion-picture dir., prod.) |
1875-1948 |
| Griffith, Sir Samuel Walker (Australian politician, jurist) |
1845-1920 |
| Griffiths, Ann née Thomas (Welsh hymnist) |
1776-1805 |
| Griffiths, John Willis (American naval architect) |
1809-1882 |
| Griggs, John William (American politician, jurist) |
1849-1927 |
| Grignard, Francois-Auguste-Victor (French chemist) |
1871-1935 |
| Grigorovich, Dmitry Vasilyevich (Russian novelist) |
1822-1900 |
| Grigoryev, Apollon Aleksandrovich (Russian poet, critic) |
1822-1864 |
| Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey (English editor, poet, critic) |
1905-1985 |
| Grijalba (or Grijalva), Juan de (Spanish explorer) |
1489?-1527 |
| Grillparzer, Franz (Austrian playwright, poet) |
1791-1872 |
| Grimald (or Grimalde, Grimoald), Nicholas (English poet) |
1519-1562 |
| Grimaldi, Francesco Maria (Italian physicist) |
1618-1663 |
| Grimaldi, Joseph (English comic actor, pantomimist) |
1779-1837 |
| Grimes, Henry (American musician) |
b.1935 |
| Grimes, James Wilson (American politician) |
1816-1872 |
| Grimke, Angelina Weld (American poet, playwright) |
1880-1958 |
| Grimke, Angelina Emily (American reformer; sister of Sarah) |
1805-1879 |
| Grimke, Sarah Moore (American reformer) |
1792-1873 |
| Grimm, Friedrich Melchior von (German critic) |
1723-1807 |
| Grimm, Hans Emil Wilhelm (German writer, merchant) |
1875-1959 |
| Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (German philologist, folklorist) |
1785-1863 |
| Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (German philologist, folklorist) |
1786-1859 |
| Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von (German writer) |
1622?-1676 |
| Grimoald I (Duke of Benevento 647-671) |
d.671 |
| Grimoald III (Prince of Benevento 788-806) |
d.c.806 |
| Grimod de La Reyniere, Alexandre-Balthasar (French gastronome) |
1758-1838 |
| Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel (Irish-born British traveler, writer) |
1871-1953 |
| Grimwood, Kenneth Milton (American writer) |
1944-2003 |
| Grin, Aleksandr Stepanovich (Aleksandr Grinevsky) (Rus. writer) |
1880-1932 |
| Grindal, Edmund (Eng. prelate; archbishop of Canterbury 1576) |
1519?-1583 |
| Grindel, Eugene (pseud. Paul Eluard) (French poet) |
1895-1952 |
| Grinevsky, Aleksandr Stepanovich (Russian writer) |
1880-1932 |
| Gringore (or Gringoire), Pierre (French actor-manager, poet) |
1475?-1538? |
| Grinius, Kazys (Lithuanian politician) |
1886-1950 |
| Grinnell, George Bird (American naturalist, writer) |
1849-1938 |
| Grinnell, Henry (American merchant) |
1799-1874 |
| Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell (American clergyman, pioneer) |
1821-1891 |
| Gripenberg, Bertel Johan Sebastian (Finnish poet) |
1878-1947 |
| Gripenstedt, Johan August (Swedish politician) |
1813-1874 |
| Grisi, Carlotta (Caronne Adele Josephine Marie) (It. dancer) |
1819-1899 |
| Grisi, Giuditta (Italian singer; sister of Giulia) |
1805-1840 |
| Grisi, Giulia (Italian singer) |
1811-1869 |
| Grissom, Virgil Ivan "Gus" (Am. astronaut; died in Apollo 1) |
1926-1967 |
| Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (American critic, anthologist) |
1815-1857 |
| Gritz, Sidney (American soldier) |
1918-2005 |
| Grivas, Georgios Theodoros (Cypriot political leader) |
1898-1974 |
| Grocyn, William (English scholar) |
c.1446-1519 |
| Groener, Karl Eduard Wilhelm (German soldier, politician) |
1867-1939 |
| Groening, Matthew Akbar (American cartoonist) |
b.1954 |
| Groen van Prinsterer, Guillaume (Dutch journal., polit., hist.) |
1801-1876 |
| Grof, Stanislav (Czechoslovakia psychiatrist) |
b.1931 |
| Grofe, Ferde (orig. Ferdinand Rudolf von Grofe) (Am. composer) |
1892-1972 |
| Grolier de Servieres, Jean (French bibliophile) |
1479-1565 |
| Grolman, Karl von (Prussian soldier) |
1777-1843 |
| Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich (Russian U.S.S.R. pres. 1985-1988) |
1909-1989 |
| Gronlund, Laurence (Danish-born American political writer) |
1846-1899 |
| Groombridge, Stephen (English merchant, astronomer) |
1755-1832 |
| Groot, Huigh (or Hugeianus) de (Dutch scholar, Humanist, pol.) |
1583-1645 |
| Groote, Gerhard (Gerardus Magnus) (Dutch religious reformer) |
1340-1384 |
| Gropius, Walter Adolph (German-born American architect) |
1883-1969 |
| Gropper, William (American painter, illustrator) |
1897-1977 |
| Gros, Antoine-Jean (French painter) |
1771-1835 |
| Grose, Francis (English antiquary) |
c.1731-1791 |
| Gross, Heinrich (Austrian psychiatrist, neurologist) |
1914-2005 |
| Gross, Samuel David (American surgeon) |
1805-1884 |
| Grosseteste, Robert (English theologian, prelate) |
c.1175-1253 |
| Grossi, Tommaso (Italian poet, novelist) |
1790-1853 |
| Grossman, David (Israeli writer) |
b.1954 |
| Grossman, Vasily Semyonovich (Russian writer, journalist) |
1905-1964 |
| Grossmith, George (English comedian, singer) |
1847-1912 |
| Grossmith, George (English comedian, singer; son of George) |
1874-1935 |
| Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey (American geographer, editor) |
1875-1966 |
| Grosz, George (German-born American artist) |
1893-1959 |
| Grote, George (English historian, banker, politician) |
1794-1871 |
| Grotefend, Georg Friedrich (German scholar) |
1775-1853 |
| Groth, Klaus (German poet, writer, schoolteacher) |
1819-1899 |
| Grothe, Mardy (American psychologist) |
b.1942 |
| Grotius, Hugo (also Huigh de Groot) (Dutch jurist, statesman) |