Food For Thought

A Collection of Heretical Notions and Wretched Adages
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Labadie, Jean de (French religious reformer) 1610-1674
Laban, Rudolf (Hung. choreographer, dance theorist, teacher) 1879-1958
Labarnas I (aka Labernash; Hittite king c.1680-c.1650) d.c.1650 BC
La Barre, Raoul Weston (American anthropologist, ethnologist) 1911-1996
Labat, Jean-Baptiste (French Dominican missionary) 1663-1738
Labe, Louise née Charly (la Belle Cordiere; French poet) c.1524-1566
Labeo, Marcus Antistis (Roman jurist) d. AD 10/11
Laberius, Decimus (Roman knight, writer) c.115-43 BC
Labiche, Eugene-Marin (French playwright) 1815-1888
Lanienus, Quintus (Roman army commander; son of Titus) d.39 BC
Labienus, Titus (Roman politician) d.45 BC
Lablache, Luigi (Italian singer) 1794-1858
La Boetie, Etienne de (French writer) 1530-1563
Labori, Fernand-Gustave-Gaston (French lawyer) 1860-1917
Labouchere, Henry Du Pre "Labby" (Eng. journalist, politician) 1831-1912
Laboulaye, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de (French journalist, polit.) 1811-1883
La Bourdonnais, Bertrand-Francois Mahe de (Fr. naval officer) 1699-1753
La Bourdonnais, Louis-Charles Mahe de (French chess master) 1797-1840
Labriola, Antonio (Italian philosopher) 1843-1904
Labrouste, Pierre-Francois-Henri (French architect) 1801-1875
LaBruce, Bruce (born Justin Stewart; Can. writer, filmmaker) b.1964
Labrunie, Gerard (pseudonym Gerard de Nerval; French writer) 1808-1855
La Bruyere, Jean de (French moralist) 1645-1696
Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis de (French astronomer) 1713-1762
La Calprenede, Gautier de Costes de (French writer, playwright) c.1610-1663
Lacan, Jacques Marie Emile (French psychoanalyst) 1901-1981
Lacepede, Bernard-Germain-Etienne Delaville de (Fr. politician) 1756-1825
Lachaise, Gaston (French-born American sculptor) 1882-1935
La Chaise, Pere Francois d'Aix de (Fr. confessor to Louis XIV) 1624-1709
La Chalotais, Louis-Rene de Caradeuc de (French magistrate) 1701-1785
La Chaussee, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de (French playwright) 1692-1754
Laches (Athenian general) c.475-418 BC
Lachmann, Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm (German philologist) 1793-1851
Lachner, Franz Paul (German musician, composer) 1803-1890
Lachner, Ignaz (German composer; brother of Franz) 1807-1895
Lachner, Vincenz (German composer; brother of Franz) 1811-1893
Lacks, Henrietta née Pleasant (Am. homemaker: HeLa cell line) 1920-1951
Laclede, Pierre (French fur trader, pioneer in America) 1724-1778
Laclos, Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de (French soldier) 1741-1803
Lacombe,Louis Trouillon (French pianist, composer) 1818-1884
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de (Fr. naturalist, mathematician) 1701-1774
La Conte, Ellen (American teacher, homesteader, writer) b.1946
Lacordaire, Jean-Baptiste-Henri (French prelate) 1802-1861
Lacretelle, Jacques de (French writer, journalist) 1888-1985
Lacretelle, Jean-Charles-Dominique "le Jeune" (Fr. journalist) 1766-1855
Lacretelle, Pierre-Louis de (French journalist, magistrate) 1751-1824
Lacroix, Francois-Antoine-Alfred (French mineralogist) 1863-1948
Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Christian writer) c.240-320
Lacy, Francis Maurice (Irish soldier in Austrian service) 1725-1801
Lacy, Henry de (3rd Earl of Lincoln; English soldier) 1249?-1311
Lacy, Hugh de (5th Baron Lacy; 1st Lord of Meath; Eng. soldier) d.1186
Lacy, Peter (Count Lacy; Irish soldier) 1678-1751
Lacy, Steve (b. Steven Morman Lackritz; Am. musician, teacher) 1934-2004
Lacydes of Cyrene (Greek philosopher) d.206/205 BC
Ladd, George Trumbull (American psychologist, philosopher) 1842-1921
Ladd, William (Am. pacifist; fd. American Peace Society 1828) 1778-1841
Ladd-Franklin, Christine (American psychologist, logician) 1847-1930
Ladipo, Duro (Nigerian dramatist) 1931-1978
Ladislas (King of Naples 1386-1414 and of Hungary 1390-1414) 1377-1414
Laelius, Gaius (Roman general, politician) d.160? BC
Laemmle, Carl (German-born American motion-picture producer) 1867-1939
Laennec, Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe (French physician) 1781-1826
Laer, Pieter van "Il Bamboccio" (Dutch painter) 1595-1642
La Farge, John (American artist; grandfather of Oliver) 1835-1910
La Farge, Oliver Hazard Perry (American writer, anthropologist) 1901-1963
Lafargue, Paul (French Socialist politician, writer) 1842-1911
La Farina, Giuseppe (Italian revolutionary, historian) 1815-1863
Lafayette, Marie-Joseph du Motier de (Fr. statesman, officer) 1757-1834
La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine de (French writer) 1634-1693
La Fayette, Gilbert Motier de (French soldier) c.1380-1462
Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius (American writer) 1914-2002
Laffite (or Lafitte), Jean (French pirate in America) c.1780-c.1826
Laffitte, Jacques (French financier, politician) 1767-1844
Laffitte, Pierre (French philosopher) 1823-1903
Lafforgue, Laurent (French mathematician, educator) b.1966
Lafitau, Joseph-Francois (French missionary) 1670-1740
La Flesche, Francis (American ethnologist) 1857-1932
La Flesche, Susette (Indian name Inshta Theumba; Am. reformer) 1854-1903
La Follette, Robert Marion (American politician) 1855-1925
La Fontaine, Henri-Marie (Belgian lawyer, politician) 1854-1943
La Fontaine, Jean de (French poet) 1621-1695
Lafontaine, Sir Louis Hippolyte (Canadian politician) 1807-1864
LaFontaine (or La Fontaine), Mlle. (French dancer) 1655-1738
Laforet Diaz, Carmen (Spanish writer) b.1921
La Forge, Louis de (French philosopher) d.1666?
Laforgue, Jules (French poet) 1860-1887
Lafosse, Charles de (French painter) 1636-1716
La Fresnaye, Roger de (French painter) 1885-1925
Lagerkvist, Claes-Ingvar (Swedish astronomer; asteroid) b.1944
Lagerkvist, Par Fabian (Swedish writer, playwright, poet) 1891-1974
Lagerlof, Selma Ottiliana Lovisa (Swedish writer, poet) 1858-1940
La Grange, Charles Varlet de (French actor) 1639?-1692
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (Italian-born French mathematician) 1736-1813
Lagrange, Marie-Joseph (French biblical scholar) 1855-1938
Lagrula, Joanny-Philippe (French astronomer; asteroid) 1870-1950
La Guardia, Fiorello Henry "The Little Flower" (Am. politician) 1882-1947
Laguerre, Edmond Nicolas (French mathematician, geometer) 1834-1886
La Guma, Justin Alexander "Alex" (South African writer) 1925-1985
La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar de (Swiss politician) 1754-1838
La Harpe (or Laharpe), Jean-Francois de (French playwright) 1739-1803
LaHaye, Beverly Jean née Ratcliffe (American writer, activist) b.1926
Lahaye, Louis-Marie de (French lawyer, political writer) 1788-1868
Lahbabi, Mohammed Aziz (Moroccan writer, poet, philosopher) 1922-1993
La Hire (or La Hyre), Laurent de (French painter) 1606-1656
La Hire, Phillipe (French geometer) 1640-1719
La Hontan, Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de (French officer) 1666-1715
Lahr, Bert (born Irving Lahrheim; American comedian) 1895-1967
Laidlaw, Sir Patrick Playfair (English pathologist) 1881-1940
Laidoner, Johan (Estonian soldier) 1884-1952?
Laine, Cleo (Clementina Dinah Campbell; English singer, actor) b.1927
Laing, Alexander Gordon (Scottish explorer in Africa) 1793-1826
Laing, Malcolm (Scottish historian) 1762-1818
Laing, Ronald David (British psychiatrist) 1927-1989
Laird, Macgregor (Scottish merchant, explorer) 1808-1861
Lajoie, Napoleon "Larry" (American baseball player) 1875-1959
Lajpat Rai, Lala (Indian writer, politician) 1865-1928
Lakanal, Joseph (born Lacanal; French educator, politician) 1762-1845
Lake, Gerard (1st Viscount Lake; English general) 1744-1808
Lake, John (English prelate) 1624-1689
Lake, Kirsopp (English biblical scholar) 1872-1946
Lake, Oliver (American musician, composer, poet) b.1944
Lake, Simon (American naval architect) 1866-1945
Lakhdar-Hamina, Mohammed (Algerian film director) b. 1934
Lakshmi Bai (Indian queen) d.1858
Lalande, Joseph-Jerome Le Francais de (French astronomer) 1732-1807
Lalande, Michel-Richard de (French composer, organist) 1657-1726
Lalique, Rene (French jeweler, glassmaker) 1860-1945
Lally, Thomas-Arthur de (Comte de Lally; French soldier) 1702-1766
Lalo, Edouard-Victor-Antoine (French composer) 1823-1892
Lalor, Peter (Irish-born Australian engineer, politician) 1827-1889
Laloubere, Antoine de (French mathematician) 1600-1664
Laloux, Rene (French animator, director, screenwriter) 1929-2004
Lamachus (Athenian general) d.414 BC
Lamantia, Philip (American poet, lecturer) 1927-2005
Lamar, Hedy (Austrian-born American actor, inventor) 1913-2000
Lamar, Joseph Rucker (American jurist, Supreme Court justice) 1857-1916
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (Am. politician, jurist) 1825-1893
Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte (American politician) 1798-1859
La Marche, Olivier de (French chronicler, poet) c.1425-1502
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre de Monet de (French naturalist) 1744-1829
La Marmora, Alfonso Ferrero (Italian soldier, politician) 1804-1878
Lamarque, Maximilien (French general) 1770-1832
Lamartine, Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de (French poet) 1790-1869
Lamb, Lady Caroline née Ponsonby (English writer) 1785-1828
Lamb, Charles (French essayist, critic, letter writer) 1775-1834
Lamb, Sir Horace (British mathematician, physicist) 1849-1934
Lamb, Mary Ann (English writer; sister of Charles) 1764-1847
Lamb, William (2nd Viscount Melbourne; English politician) 1779-1848
Lamb, Willis Eugene Jr. (American physicist, educator) 1913-2008
Lamballe, Marie-Therese-Louise de (French noblewoman) 1749-1792
Lambart, Frederic Rudolph (10th Earl of Cavan; Brit. soldier) 1865-1946
Lambeau, Earl Louis "Curly" (American football coach) 1898-1965
Lambermont, August (Belgian politician) 1819-1905
Lambert of Spoleto (Holy Roman emperor 892-898) d.898
Lambert, Daniel (English fat man) 1770-1809
Lambert, Francois (Lambert of Avignon; French theologian) 1486-1530
Lambert, Johann Heinrich (German physicist, math., astronomer) 1728-1777
Lambert, John (English general) 1619-1683
Lambert, Leonard Constant (English composer, conductor) 1905-1951
Lambert von Hersfeld (German historian) 1025-1088
Lambrecht, Karl T. (German-born American optical engineer) 1903-2001
Lambroso, Cesare (Italian physician, criminologist) 1836-1909
Lambton, John George (1st Earl of Durham; English politician) 1792-1840
Lame, Gabriel (French mathematician, engineer) 1795-1870
Lamennais, Hughes-Felicite-Robert de (Fr. priest, philosopher) 1782-1854
Lamennais, Jean-Marie-Robert (Fr. reformer; brother of Hughes) 1780-1860
Lamerie, Paul de (Dutch-born English silversmith) 1688-1751
Lameth, Alexandre-Theodore-Victor (French soldier, politician) 1760-1829
La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de (French physician, philosopher) 1709-1751
Lammasch, Heinrich (Austrian jurist, politician) 1853-1920
Lamming, George William (Barbadian writer, social commentator) b.1927
Lamoignon, Guillaume de (French lawyer, politician) 1617-1677
Lamoignon, Guillaume de (Fr. politician; nephew of Guillaume) 1683-1772
Lamoignon, Nicolas de (French lawyer; son of Guillaume) 1648-1724
Lamont, Johann von (Scottish-born German astronomer) 1805-1879
Lamontagne-Beauregard, Blanche (French-Canadian poet) 1889-1958
Lamoriciere, Christophe-Louis-Leon Juchault de (French general) 1806-1865
La Mothe, Antoine Laumet de (French soldier, colonialist) 1658-1730
La Mothe Le Vayer, Francois de (French philosopher) 1588-1672
La Motte, Marc-Antoine-Nicolas de (French adventurer) 1754-1831
L'Amour, Louis (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore; American writer) 1908-1988
Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of (Sicilian aristocrat) 1896-1957
Lampman, Archibald (Canadian poet, civil servant) 1861-1899
Lamprecht, Karl Gottfried (German historian) 1856-1915
Lamprecht der Pfaffe (Frankish poet) fl. 1120-1130
Lampson, Butler Wright (American computer scientist) b.1943
Lamy, Bernard (French ecclesiastic, scholar) 1640-1715
Lamy, John Baptist (born Jean-Baptiste; Fr.-born Am. prelate) 1814-1888
Lam y Castilla, Wifredo Oscar de la Concepcion (Cuban artist) 1902-1982
Lancaster, Sir John (Eng. navig., pioneer of East Indian trade) c.1554-1618
Lancaster, Joseph (English educationist) 1778-1838
Lancelot, Claude (French priest, educator) 1615?-1695
Lanchester, Frederick William (English engineer) 1868-1946
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amadeo (Italian archaeologist) 1847-1929
Lancisi, Giovanni Maria (It. physician, clinician, botanist) 1654-1720
Lancret, Nicolas (French painter) 1690-1743
Land, Edwin Herbert (American photo. industrialist, inventor) 1909-1991
Landau, Ezekiel (Polish rabbi) 1713-1793
Landau, Lev Davidovich (Soviet physicist) 1908-1968
Landau, Mark Aleksandrovich (pseud. M.A. Aldanov; Rus. writer) 1886-1957
Landells, Ebenezer (English wood engraver) 1808-1860
Landen, John (English mathematician) 1719-1790
Lander, Eric Steven (American geneticist, mathematician) b.1957
Lander, Harald (Danish dancer, choreographer) 1905-1971
Lander, John (English explorer with brother Richard) 1807-1839
Lander, Richard Lemon (English explorer in Africa) 1804-1834
Landers, Ann (b. Esther Pauline Friedman; Am. advice columnist) 1918-2002
Landi, Stefano (Italian teacher, composer: Roman School) 1586/87-1639
Landini (or Landino), Francesco (Florentine musician, composer) c.1325-1397
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (Am. jurist, baseball commissioner) 1866-1944
Lando (aka Landis; Pope 913-914) d.914
Landolfi, Tommaso (Italian essayist, translator, playwright) 1908-1979
Landon, Alfred Mossman "Alf" (American politician) 1887-1987
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (pseud. L.E.L.; English poet, writer) 1802-1838
Landor, Walter Savage (English poet, literary critic, writer) 1775-1864
Landow, George (aka Owen Land; Am. painter, writer, photo.) b.1944
Landowska, Wanda Louise (Polish-born French harpsichordist) 1879-1959
Landsbergis, Vytautas (Lithuanian politician, Fluxus artist) b.1932
Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (English painter) 1802-1873
Landstad, Magnus Brostrup (Norwegian pastor, poet) 1802-1880
Landsteiner, Karl (Austrian-born Am. immunologist, pathologist) 1868-1943
Landulph of Carcano (Italian prelate) d.998
Lane, Alfred Church (American geologist) 1863-1948
Lane, Sir Allen (English publisher; founded Penguin Books 1935) 1902-1970
Lane, Edward William (English Orientalist) 1801-1876
Lane, Sir Hugh Percy (Irish art dealer) 1875-1915
Lane, James Heney (American soldier, politician) 1814-1866
Lane, John (American blacksmith; invented first steel plow) 19th cent.
Lane, John (American plow manufacturer; son of John) 1824-1897
Lane, John (English publisher) 1854-1925
Lane, Jonathan Home (American physicist) 1819-1880
Lane, Joseph Lane (American soldier, politician) 1801-1881
Lane, Sir Ralph (English colonist in Virginia) 1530?-1603
Lane, Saunders Mac (American mathematician) 1909-2005
Lanfranc (Italian Benedictine prelate in England) 1005?-1089
Lanfranco, Giovanni (Italian painter) 1582-1647
Lang, Alexander Matheson (Canadian-born British actor) 1879-1948
Lang, Andrew (Scottish scholar, man of letters) 1844-1912
Lang, Fritz (Austrian-born American film director) 1890-1976
Lang, John Dunmore (Scottish-born Australian ecclesiastic) 1799-1878
Lang, John Thomas "Jack" (Australian politician) 1876-1975
Lang, Matthaus (German ecclesiastic, politician) 1468-1540
Lang, Serge (French-born Am. math.; Bourbaki Group member) 1927-2005
Lang, William Cosmo Gordon (Scottish-born British prelate) 1864-1945
Langdell, Christopher Columbus (American lawyer, educator) 1826-1906
Langdon, Harry Philmore (American actor) 1884-1944
Langdon, John (American Revolutionary leader) 1741-1819
Langdon, Samuel (American clergyman) 1723-1797
Lange, Antoni (Polish poet, literary critic, translator) 1861-1929
Lange, Carl Georg (Danish physician, psychologist) 1834-1900
Lange, Christian Louis (Norwegian pacifist, historian) 1869-1938
Lange, David Russell (New Zealand prime minister 1984-1989) b.1942
Lange, Dorothea (American photographer) 1895-1965
Lange, Friedrich Albert (German philosopher) 1828-1875
Langen, Eugen (German engineer) 1833-1895
Langenhoven, Cornelius Jacob (South African poet, politician) 1878-1932
Langer, Frantisek (Czech physician, dramatist) 1888-1965
Langer, Johann Peter von (German painter) 1756-1824
Langer, Susanne Katherina Knauth (Am. philosopher, educator) 1895-1985
Langer, William Leonard (American historian) 1896-1977
Langerhans, Paul (German pathologist, microscopist) 1847-1888
Langeron, Andrault de (French general in Russian service) 1763-1831
Langevin, Paul (French physicist) 1872-1946
Langford, Nathaniel Pitt (American explorer, conservationist) 1832-1911
Langham, Simon (English prelate) 1310-1376
Langhans, Carl Gotthard (German architect) 1732-1808
Langhorne, John (English poet, translator) 1735-1779
Langhorne, William (English translator; brother of John) 1721-1772
Langiewicz, Marian Melchior (Polish patriot) 1827-1887
Langland, William (aka Langley; English poet) c.1330-c.1400
Langlands, Robert Phelan (Canadian mathematician, educator) b.1936
Langles, Louis-Mathieu (French Orientalist) 1763-1824
Langley, Samuel Pierpont (Am. astronomer, airplane pioneer) 1834-1906
Langlois, Charles-Victor (French scholar) 1863-1929
Langlois, Hippolyte (French general) 1839-1912
Langlois, Jean-Charles (French soldier, painter) 1789-1870
Langmuir, Irving (American chemist, inventor) 1881-1957
Langston, John Mercer (American educator, diplomat) 1829-1897
Langstroth, Lorenzo Lorraine (American apiarist) 1810-1895
Langtoft, Peter (English religious, chronicler) d.c.1307
Langton, Stephen (English archbishop of Canterbury 1207-1228) c.1150-1228
Langton, Walter (English prelate, politician) d.1321
Langtry, Lillie née Emilie Charlotte Le Breton (Brit. actor) 1853-1929
Languet, Hubert (French diplomat, writer) 1518-1581
Lanier, Jaron (American computer scientist, composer, writer) b.1960
Lanier, Nicholas (English composer, singer, painter) 1588-1666
Lanier, Sidney (American poet, musician) 1842-1881
Lanjuinais, Jean-Denis (French politician) 1753-1827
Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (English zoologist) 1847-1929
Lanman, Charles Rockwell (American Orientalist) 1850-1941
Lanner, Joseph Franz Karl (Austrian dance composer) 1801-1843
Lannes, Jean (Duc de Montebello; French general) 1769-1809
La Noue, Francois de "Bras-de-Fer" (French soldier) 1531-1591
Lanrezac, Charles-Louis-Marie (French general) 1852-1925
Lansbury, George (English politician) 1859-1940
Lansel, Peider (Italian-born Romansh poet) 1863-1943
Lansing, Robert (American lawyer, public official) 1864-1928
Lanston, Tolbert (American inventor) 1844-1913
Lantz, Walter Benjamin (American cartoonist, animator) 1899-1994
Lanza, Giovanni (Italian politician; prime minister 1869-1873) 1810-1882
Lanzi, Luigi (Italian archaeologist, antiquary) 1732-1810
Lanzo (or Lanzone) of Milan (Lombard noble) fl. 1042
Laodice (Syrian queen) 3rd cent. BC
Lao She (pseud. of Shu Sheyou; b. Shu Qingchun; Chinese writer) 1899-1966
Lao-tzu (Chinese philosopher; trad. author of Tao-te Ching) c.604-c.531 BC
Lapchick, Joseph Bohomiel "Joe" (Am. basketball player, coach) 1900-1970
Lapidus, Morris (Russian-born American architect) 1902-2001
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de (French astronomer, math,; asteroid) 1749-1827
Lapointe, Paul-Marie (Canadian poet) b.1929
Lapp, Ralph Eugene (American physicist; built H-Bomb w/Teller) 1917-2004
Lapparent, Albert-Auguste Cochon de (French geol., mining eng.) 1839-1908
Lappe, Marc Alan (American toxicologist) 1943-2005
Lapworth, Charles (English geologist) 1842-1920
La Ramee, Pierre de (Petrus Ramus; Fr. philosopher, logician) 1515-1572
Laramie, Jacques (Canadian-born? American fur trapper) d.1821
Larbaud, Valery-Nicolas (French writer, critic) 1881-1957
Larcom, Lucy (American poet) 1826-1893
Lardner, Nathaniel (English biblical & patristic scholar) 1684-1768
Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" (American short-story writer) 1885-1933
Laredo Bru, Federico (Cuban soldier; president 1936-1940) 1875-1946
La Revelliere-Lepeaux, Louis-Marie de (French politician) 1753-1824
Largilliere (or Largilierre), Nicolas de (French painter) 1656-1746
Largo Caballero, Francisco (Spanish labor leader, politician) 1869-1946
Larionov, Mikhail Fyodorovich (Russian painter, stage designer) 1881-1964
La Rive, Auguste-Arthur de (Swiss physicist) 1801-1873
Larivey, Pierre de (orig. surname Giunta; French playwright) c.1540-1619
La Riviere, Bureau de (French politician) d.1400
Larkin, Jim (Irish trade union leader, socialist activist) 1874-1947
Larkin, John Paul "Scatman John" (American singer, musician) 1942-1999
Larkin, Philip Arthur (English poet, writer) 1922-1985
Larminie, William (Irish poet) 1849-1900
Larmor, Sir Joseph (Irish-born British mathematician) 1857-1942
LaRocca, Dominic James "Nick" (American musician, bandleader) 1889-1961
La Roche, Sophie von née Gutermann (German writer) 1731-1807
La Rochefoucauld, Francois de (French moralist, writer) 1613-1680
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Francois de (Fr. social reformer) 1747-1827
Laromiguiere, Pierre (French philosopher) 1756-1837
Larousse, Pierre-Athanase (French grammarian, lexicographer) 1817-1875
Larra y Sanchez de Castro, Mariano Jose de (Spanish journalist) 1809-1837
Larreta, Enrique Rodriguez (Argentinian writer) 1875-1961
Larrey, Dominique-Jean (French military surgeon) 1766-1842
Larsen, Esper Signius Jr. (American petrologist) 1879-1961
Larsen, Nella (married surname Imes; American writer, nurse) 1891-1964
Lars Porsena (King of Clusium) 6th cent. BC
Larson, Carl (Swedish painter, etcher) 1853-1919
Larson, Eric (American animator, trainer: Disney Nine Old Men) 1905-1988
Larson, Gary (American cartoonist) b.1950
Larsson, Lars-Erik Vilner (Swedish composer, teacher) 1908-1986
Lartet, Edouard-Armand-Isidore-Hippolyte (French archaeologist) 1801-1871
La Rue, Pierre de (aka Petrus Platensis; Flemish composer) c.1460-1518
La Sale (or La Salle), Antoine de (French courtier, writer) c.1386-c.1460
La Salle, Saint Jean-Baptiste de (French religious, educator) 1651-1719
La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier de (French explorer in America) 1643-1687
Lascaris, Constantine (Greek grammarian) 1434-1501
Lascaris, John (or Janus; Greek scholar, teacher) c.1445-c.1535
Las Casas, Bartolome de (Spanish missionary, historian) 1474-1566
Las Cases, Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonne-Joseph de (French hist.) 1766-1842
Lasch, Christopher (American social critic, cultural historian) 1932-1994
Lasdun, Sir Denys (English architect) 1914-2001
La Serna y Hinojosa, Jose de (Spanish general) 1770-1832
Lashley, Karl Spencer (American psychologist) 1890-1958
Lasker, Albert Davis (Ger.-born American advertising executive) 1880-1952
Lasker, Eduard (German politician) 1829-1884
Lasker, Emanuel (German chess master) 1868-1941
Lasker-Schuler, Else née Schuler (German writer, poet) 1869-1945
Laski, Harold Joseph (English political scientist) 1893-1950
Laski, Jan the Elder (Polish ecclesiastic, politician) 1455-1531
Laski, Jan the Younger (Polish religious reformer) 1499-1560
Lasky, Jesse Louis (American motion-picture producer) 1880-1958
Lassalle, Ferdinand (orig. surname Lassal; German Socialist) 1825-1864
Lassell, William (English astronomer) 1799-1880
Lassen, Eduard (Danish-born Belgian composer) 1830-1904
Lasseran Massencome, Blaise de (French soldier) c.1500-1577
Lasseter, John Alan (American animator: Pixar; Disney) b.1957
Lassiter, Rob (born Robert Glodowski; American radio talk host) 1945-2006
Lasso, Orlando di (born Orlande de Lassus; Flemish composer) 1532-1594
Lasswell, Harold Dwight (American political scientist) 1902-1978
Lastman, Pieter (Dutch painter) 1583-1633
Lasus of Hermione (Greek poet) 6th cent. BC
Laswell, Bill (American musician, producer, businessman) b.1955
Laszlo I, Saint (King of Hungary 1077-1095) 1040-1095
Laszlo II (King of Hungary 1161-1162) 1131-1162
Laszlo III (King of Hungary 1204-1205) 1199-1205
Laszlo IV (the Cuman; King of Hungary 1272-1290) 1262-1290
Laszlo V (Posthumus; King of Hungary 1444-1457) 1440-1457
Laszlo de Lombos, Philip Alexius de (Hung.-born Brit. painter) 1869-1937
La Taille, Jean de (French poet, dramatist) c.1540-c.1607
Latecoere, Pierre (French aircraft manufacturer) 1883-1943
Lateur, Frank (pseudonym Stijn Streuvels; Flemish writer) 1871-1969
Latham, John (English ornithologist) 1740-1837
Lathrop, Julia Clifford (American social-service worker) 1858-1932
Lathrop, Mary Alphonsa "Mother Alphonsa" (American religious) 1851-1926
Latimer, Hugh (English religious reformer) c.1485-1555
Latini, Brunetto (Florentine writer, politician) 1212?-1294?
La Tour, Charles Turgis de Sainte-Etienne de (Fr. col. admin.) 1596-1666
La Tour, Georges de (French painter) 1593-1652
La Tour, Maurice Quentin de (French painter) 1704-1788
La Tour d'Auvergne, Henri de (French noble, soldier) 1611-1675
Latreille, Pierre-Andre (French entomologist) 1762-1833
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (English-born Am. architect, engineer) 1764-1820
Latshaw, George Tarrant (Am. puppeteer: O'Neill Puppetry Conf.) 1923-2006
Lattimer, John Kingsley (American urologist) 1914-2007
Lattimore, Owen (American Orientalist) 1900-1989
Lattimore, Richmond (American poet, translator) 1906-1984
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean-Marie-Gabriel de (French soldier) 1889-1952
Lattuada, Alberto (Italian film director) 1914-2005
Laubach, Frank Charles (American educator, missionary) 1884-1970
Laube, Heinrich Rudolf Constanz (Ger. writer, theater director) 1806-1884
Laud, William (English archbishop of Canterbury 1633-1645) 1573-1645
Lauder, Sir Harry MacLennan (Scottish music-hall comedian) 1870-1950
Lauder, William (Scottish Latin scholar, literary impostor) d.1771
Laudon (or Loudon), Gideon Ernst von (Austrian field marshal) 1717-1790
Laudonniere, Rene Goulaine de (French colonist in America) fl. 1562-1582
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von (German physicist) 1879-1960
Laughlin, James (American publisher, editor, poet) 1914-1997
Laughlin, Robert Betts (American physicist, academic) b.1950
Laughton, Charles (English-born American actor) 1899-1962
Laumont, Francois-Pierre-Nicolas Gillet (French mineralogist) 1747-1834
Laurana, Francesco da (Italian sculptor, medalist) c.1425-c.1502
Laurana, Luciano da (Italian architect) d.1479
Laurel, Jose Paciano (Filipino politician; president 1943-1945) 1891-1959
Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson "Stan" (Am. film comedian) 1890-1965
Laurence, George Craig (Canadian physicist) 1905-1987
Laurence, Jean Margaret née Wemyss (Canadian writer) 1926-1987
Laurence, William Leonard (Lithuanian-born American journalist) 1888-1977
Laurencin, Marie (French painter) 1885-1956
Laurens, Henry (American Revolutionary statesman) 1724-1792
Laurens, John (American Revolutionary officer; son of Henry) 1754-1782
Laurent, Auguste (born Augustin; French chemist) 1807-1853
Laurent, Francois (Belgian historian, legal scholar) 1810-1887
Laurent, Paul Matthieu Hermann (French mathematician) 1841-1908
Lauria (or Luria, Loria), Ruggiero di (Italian naval commander) 1250?-1305
Laurier, Sir Wilfrid (Canadian prime minister 1896-1911) 1841-1919
Lauritsen, Charles Christian (Danish-born, American physicist) 1892-1968
Lauritzen, Lau Jr. (Danish actor, screenwriter, film director) 1910-1977
Laussedat, Aime (French army officer, geodesist) 1819-1907
Lautaro (Chilean Araucanian Indian chieftain) d.1557
Lauterbur, Paul Christian (American chemist) 1929-2007
Lauterbach, Ann (American poet, academic, literary critic) b.1942
Lautrec, Odet de Foix de (French soldier) 1485-1528
Lauzun, Antonin-Nompar de Caumont de (French soldier) 1633-1723
Laval, Andre de Montfort de (French soldier) 1411-1485/86
Laval, Carl Gustaf Patrik de (Swedish engineer) 1845-1913
Laval, Francois-Xavier de Montmorency (French prelate) 1623-1708
Laval, Pierre (French politician) 1883-1945
La Valette, Jean Parisot de (French soldier) 1494-1568
La Valliere, Duchesse de (French mistress of Louis XIV) 1644-1710
Lavater, Johann Kaspar (Swiss poet, mystic, writer) 1741-1801
Laveran, Charles-Louis-Alphonse (French parasitologist) 1845-1922
La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de (Can. explorer) 1685-1749
Lavery, Sir John (Irish-born British painter) 1856-1941
Lavigerie, Charles-Martial Allemand (French prelate) 1825-1892
Lavin, Mary Josephine (American-born Irish writer) 1912-1996
Lavisse, Ernest (French historian) 1842-1922
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (French chemist) 1743-1794
Lavon, Pinhas (orig. surname Lubianiker; Israeli politician) 1904-1976
Lavrov, Pyotr Lavrovich (Russian revolutionist, scholar) 1823-1900
Law of Lauriston, John (Scottish financier) 1671-1729
Law, Andrew Bonar (Canadian-born British politician) 1858-1923
Law, Edward (1st Baron Ellenborough; English judge) 1750-1818
Law, Edward (Earl of Ellenborough; Eng. polit.; son of Edward) 1790-1871
Law, Jacques-Alexandre-Bernard (French soldier) 1768-1828
Law, Sallie Chapman née Gordon (American nurse) 1805-1894
Law, Sylvia Ann (American human rights lawyer, scholar) b.1942
Law, William (English writer) 1686-1761
Lawes, Henry (English musician, composer) 1596-1662
Lawes, Sir John Bennet (English agriculturist) 1814-1900
Lawes, Lewis Edward (American penologist) 1883-1947
Lawes, William (English composer, musician; brother of Henry) 1602-1645
Lawler, Raymond Evenor "Ray" (Australian actor, playwright) b.1922
Lawless, Emily (Irish writer) 1845-1913
Lawrance, Charles Lanier (American aeronautical engineer) 1882-1950
Lawrence (or Laurence), Saint (Christian martyr) d.258
Lawrence of Brindisi, Saint (Italian religious) 1559-1619
Lawrence of Canterbury, Saint (Anglo-Saxon prelate) d.619
Lawrence, Abbott (Am. merchant; partner with brother William) 1792-1855
Lawrence, Sir Alfred Tristram (English jurist) 1843-1936
Lawrence, Amos (American merchant; brother of William) 1786-1852
Lawrence, Amos Adams (Am. merchant, manufacturer; son of Amos) 1814-1886
Lawrence, Arnie (American-born Israeli musician, teacher) 1938-2005
Lawrence, David (American journalist) 1888-1973
Lawrence, David Herbert "D.H." (English writer, poet, essayist) 1885-1930
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando (American physicist; inv. cyclotron) 1901-1958
Lawrence, Frieda von Richthofen (German wife of D.H. Lawrence) 1879-1956
Lawrence, Sir George St. Patrick (India-born British soldier) 1804-1884
Lawrence, Gertrude (English actor) 1898-1952
Lawrence, Sir Henry Montgomery (Indian admin.; bro. of George) 1806-1857
Lawrence, Jacob (American painter, teacher) 1917-2000
Lawrence, James (American naval officer) 1781-1813
Lawrence, John Laird Mair (Indian admin.; bro. of Sir George) 1811-1879
Lawrence, Stringer (English soldier) 1697-1775
Lawrence, Sir Thomas (English painter) 1769-1830
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (Brit. archaeologist, soldier, writer) 1888-1935
Lawrence, William (American merchant) 1783-1848
Lawrence Justinian, Saint (Italian religious, Augustinian monk) 1381-1456
Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara Morgan née Lawrence (Am. sociologist) b.1944
Laws, Samuel Spahr (American educator) 1824-1921
Lawson, Andrew Cowper (Scottish-born American geologist) 1861-1952
Lawson, Henry Archibald née Larsen (Australian writer) 1867-1922
Lawson, John (English colonist in North Carolina) d.1711
Lawson, John Howard (American playwright, screenwriter) 1894-1977
Lawson, Thomas William (American stock market speculator) 1857-1925
Lawson, Victor Fremont (or Freemont; American journalist) 1850-1925
Lawton, Henry Ware (American soldier) 1843-1899
Lax, Peter David (Hungarian-born American? mathematician) b.1926
Laxness, Halldor (Halldor Kiljan Gudjonsson; Icelandic writer) 1902-1998
Lay, Horatio Nelson (English diplomat) 1832-1898
Layamon (aka Lawamon; English poet) fl.1200
Layard, Sir Austen Henry (English archaeologist, diplomat) 1817-1894
Laye, Camara (Guinean writer) 1928-1980
Layne, Richie (born Richard Israel Cohen; Am. ventriloquist) 1924-2006
Layton, Irving (b.Israel Pincu Lazarovitch; Rom.-born Can.poet) 1912-2006
Lazarev, Pyotr Petrovich (Soviet physicist, biophysicist) 1878-1942
Lazar Hrebeljanovic (Prince of the Serbs 1371-1389) 1329-1389
Lazarus, Emma (American poet, essayist, translator) 1849-1887
Lazarus, Moritz (German philosopher) 1824-1903
Lazear, Jesse William (American physician) 1866-1900
Lazhechnikov, Ivan Ivanovich (Russian writer, playwright) 1792-1869
Lea, Homer (American soldier) 1876-1912
Leach, Bernard Howell (Hong Kong-born British potter) 1887-1979
Leacock, Stephen Butler (English-born Can. economist, humorist) 1869-1944
Leadbeater, Charles Webster (English theosophist) 1854-1934
Leahy, Frank (American football coach at Notre Dame) 1908-1973
Leahy, William Daniel (American naval officer) 1875-1959
Leake, William Martin (Eng. antiquarian, classical topographer) 1777-1860
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (Kenyan-born Brit. paleontologist) 1903-1972
Leakey, Mary Douglas née Nichol (English anthropologist) 1913-1996
Leakey, Richard Erskine Frere (Kenyan paleoanthropologist) b.1944
Leal, Antonio Duarte Gomes (Portuguese poet) 1848-1921
Lean, Sir David (English film director, producer) 1908-1991
Leander, Saint (Spanish prelate) d.c.1600
Lear, Edward (English painter, nonsense poet, humorist) 1812-1888
Lear, Tobias (American diplomat) 1762-1816
Lear, William Powell (Am. electronic engineer, manufacturer) 1902-1978
Leary, Denis (American comedian, actor) b.1958
Leary, Timothy Francis (American psychologist) 1920-1996
Lease, Mary Elizabeth née Clyens (American reformer) 1853-1933
Least Heat Moon, William (William Trogdon; American writer) b.1939
Leaud, Jean-Pierre (French actor) b.1944
Leavenworth, Henry (Am. soldier; eponym of Ft. Leavenworth) 1783-1834
Leavis, Frank Raymond (English literary critic) 1895-1978
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (American astronomer) 1868-1921
Lebaudy, Paul (French industrialist) 1858-1937
Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolayevich (Russian physicist) 1866-1912
Lebedev, Sergey Vasilyevich (Russian chemist) 1874-1934
Le Bel, Joseph-Achille (French chemist) 1847-1930
Lebel, Robert (French art writer, historian) 1901-1986
Lebesgue, Henri-Leon (French mathematician) 1875-1941
Leblanc, Maurice-Marie-Emile (French writer, journalist) 1864-1941
Leblanc, Nicolas (French chemist) 1742-1806
Le Blon, Jakob Christoph (German painter, engraver) 1670-1741
Leblond, Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste (French landscape designer) 1679-1719
Leboeuf, Edmond (French soldier) 1809-1888
Le Bon, Gustave (French sociologist) 1841-1931
Lebon, Philippe (French chemist, civil engineer) 1767-1804
Le Boulenge, Paul-Emile (Belgian artillery officer) 1832-1901
Lebowitz, Fran (American journalist, humorist) b.1951
Le Braz, Anatole (French writer, folklorist, poet) 1859-1926
Le Breton, Andre-Francois (French publisher) 1708-1779
Lebrun, Albert (French politician; president 1932-1940) 1871-1950
Le Brun (or Lebrun), Charles (French painter) 1619-1690
Lebrun, Charles-Francois (Duc de Plaisance; French politician) 1739-1824
Lebrun, Francesca (b. Franziska Dorothea Danzi; German singer) 1756-1791
Lebrun, Ponce-Denis-Ecouchard (aka Lebrun-Pindare; French poet) 1729-1807
Lebsock, Suzanne Dee (American? social historian) b.1949
Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy (Polish writer) 1909-1966
Le Carre, John (pseud. of David Moore Cornwell; English writer) b.1931
Lecavele, Roland (pseudonym Roland Dorgeles; French writer) 1886-1973
Le Chapelier, Isaac-Rene-Guy (French politician) 1754-1794
Le Chatelier, Henry-Louis (French chemist) 1850-1936
Leck, Barth Anthony van der (Dutch artist) 1876-1958
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (Irish historian, philosopher) 1838-1903
Leclair, Jean-Marie the Elder (French violinist, composer) 1697-1764
Leclair, Jean-Marie the Younger (French violinist, composer) 1703-1777
Leclair, Pierre (French violinist, composer; bro. of Jean I,II) 1709-1784
Leclanche, Georges (French engineer; invented first dry cell) 1839-1882
Leclerc, Charles-Victor-Emmanuel (French soldier) 1772-1802
Le Clerc (or Leclerc), Jean (Swiss theologian, scholar) 1657-1736
Le Clezio, Jean-Marie-Gustave (French writer) b.1940
L'Ecluse, Charles de (Carolus Clusius; French botanist) 1526-1609
Lecocq, Alexandre-Charles (French composer) 1832-1918
Le Conte, Joseph (American geologist) 1823-1901
Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie-Rene (French poet) 1818-1894
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Paul-Emile "Francois" (French chemist) 1838-1912
Lecouvreur, Adrienne (French actor) 1692-1730
Ledbetter, Huddie "Leadbelly" (American singer, guitarist) 1888-1949
Ledebour, Georg (German Socialist) 1850-1947
Lederberg, Joshua (American geneticist; AI researcher) 1925-2008
Lederer, Emil (German economist, sociologist) 1882-1939
Lederer, Esther Pauline née Friedman "Ann Landers (Am. writer) 1918-2002
Lederman, Leon Max (American physicist; co-disc. muon neutrino) b.1922
Ledesma Buitrago, Alonso de (Spanish poet) 1562-1633
Ledochowski, Mieczyslaw Halka (Polish prelate) 1822-1902
Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas (French architect) 1736-1806
Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre-Auguste (French lawyer, politician) 1807-1874
Leduc, Violette (French writer) 1907-1972
Le Duc Tho (born Phan Dinh Khai; Vietnamese diplomat) 1911-1990
Ledwidge, Francis (Irish poet) 1891-1917
Ledyard, John (American explorer, adventurer) 1751-1789
Lee, Ann (English-born American religious; fd. Shaker Society) 1736-1784
Lee, Arthur (American diplomat; brothers: Francis, Richard) 1740-1792
Lee, Arthur (born Arthur Porter Taylor; Am. singer, songwriter) 1945-2006
Lee, Arthur Hamilton (English politician) 1868-1947
Lee, Charles (English-born American general) 1731-1782
Lee, Charles (American jurist; brother of Henry) 1758-1815
Lee, David Morris (American? physicist) b.1931
Lee, Fitzhugh (American army officer; nephew of Robert E. Lee) 1835-1905
Lee, Francis Lightfoot (American politician) 1734-1797
Lee, Gordon (born Eugene Lee; Am. actor; Little Rascal "Porky") 1933-2005
Lee, Gypsy Rose (born Rose Louise Hovick; Am. stripteaser) 1911-1970
Lee, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" (Am. gen.; father of R.E. Lee) 1756-1818
Lee, Ivy Kedbetter (American public relations consultant) 1877-1934
Lee, Jason (Canadian-born American pioneer, missionary) 1803-1845
Lee, Jeanne (America singer) 1939-2000
Lee, Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" (English poet, writer) 1914-1997
Lee, Manfred Bennington (pseudonym Ellery Queen; Am. writer) 1905-1971
Lee, Mary Ann (American dancer) 1823?-1899
Lee, Nathaniel (English dramatist) 1653?-1692
Lee, Nelle Harper (American writer) b.1926
Lee, Pinky (born Pincus Leff; Am. burlesque comedian, TV host) 1907-1993
Lee, Richard Borshay (Canadian anthropologist, educator) b.1937
Lee, Richard Henry (American Revolutionary statesman) 1732-1794
Lee, Robert Edward (American soldier) 1807-1870
Lee, Samuel Phillips (Am. naval officer; grandson of R.H. Lee) 1812-1897
Lee, Shelton Jackson "Spike" (American film director) b.1957
Lee, Sir Sidney (English editor, scholar) 1859-1926
Lee, Tsung-Dao (Chinese-born American? physicist) b.1926
Lee, William (English inventor) 1550?-1610
Lee, Yuan Tseh (Taiwanese-born American chemist) b.1936
Leech, John (English caricaturist) 1817-1864
Leedy, Douglas (American composer, performer, music scholar) b.1938
Lees, Benjamin (China-born American composer) b.1924
Leeser, Isaac (Prussian-born American rabbi) 1806-1868
Leete, William (English-born American pioneer) 1613?-1683
Leeuw, Gerardus van der (Dutch Reformed theologian) 1890-1950
Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van (Dutch naturalist, microbiologist) 1632-1723
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan (Irish writer) 1814-1873
Lefebvre, Charles-Edouard (French composer) 1843-1917
Lefebvre, Pierre-Francois-Joseph (French soldier) 1755-1820
Lefebvre-Desnouettes, Charles (French soldier) 1773-1822
Lefevre d'Etaples, Jacques (French theologian, reformer) c.1455-1536
Leff, Sydney (Am. commercial artist, sheet music illustrator) 1901-2005
Le Fort, Gertrud von (German poet, writer) 1876-1971
Lefranc, Jean-Jacques (Marquis de Pompignan; French poet) 1709-1784
Lefschetz, Solomon (Russia-born Am. mathematician, educator) 1884-1972
Lefuel, Hector-Martin (French architect) 1810-1881
Le Gallienne, Eva (English-born American actor, director) 1899-1991
Le Gallienne, Richard (English writer) 1866-1947
Legare, Hugh Swinton (American lawyer) 1797-1843
Legate, Bartholomew (English religious) c.1575-1612
Legazpi, Miguel Lopez de (Spanish explorer) c.1510-1572
Legendre, Adrien-Marie (French mathematician) 1752-1833
Leger, Alexis Saint-Leger (French diplomat, poet) 1887-1975
Leger, Fernan (French painter) 1881-1955
Leger, Marie-Rene-Auguste-Alexis Saint-Leger (Fr. poet, dipl.) 1887-1975
Legge, James (Scottish missionary, Sinologist) 1815-1897
Leggett, Anthony James (English-born English/Am. physicist) b.1938
Legnani, Pierina (Italian ballerina) 1863-1923
Legouve, Gabriel-Jean-Baptiste-Ernest-Wilfrid (French writer) 1807-1903
Legouve, Gabriel-Marie-Jean-Baptiste (French playwright) 1764-1812
Legrain, Georges (French Egyptologist) 1865-1917
Legrant, Guillaume (aka Guillaume Lemarcherier; Fr. composer) fl.1405-1449
Legrenzi, Giovanni (Italian composer) 1626-1690
Legros, Alphonse (French-born English painter, etcher) 1837-1911
Leguia y Salcedo, Augusto Bernardino (Peruvian politician) 1863-1932
Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber (American writer) b.1929
Lehar, Franz (aka Lehár Ferenc; Hungarian composer) 1870-1948
Lehman, Herbert Henry (American banker, politician) 1878-1963
Lehman, Richard (American CIA official; created PICL) 1923-2007
Lehmann, Ernst August (German aeronautical engineer) 1886-1937
Lehmann, John Frederick (Eng. editor, poet; sister: Rosamond) 1907-1987
Lehmann, Lilli (German soprano) 1848-1929
Lehmann, Lotte (German-born American soprano) 1888-1976
Lehmann, Peter Martin Orla (Danish politician) 1810-1870
Lehmann, Rosamond Nina (Eng. writer; brother: John Frederick) 1901-1990
Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut Alexander "Sandy" (Am. Merry Prankster) 1942-2001
Lehmbruck, Wilhelm (German sculptor, etcher) 1881-1919
Lehmer, Emma Markovna née Trotskaia (Russian-born Am. math.) 1906-2007
Lehn, Jean-Marie Pierre (French chemist, musician) b.1939
Le Hoan (Vietnamese king 980-1005) d.1005
Lehrer, Thomas Andrew "Tom" (American satirist, singer) b.1928
Lehtonen, Joel (Finnish poet, writer) 1881-1934
Leiber, Fritz Reuter (American writer) 1910-1992
Leiber, Jerome "Jerry" (American songwriter, producer) 1933-2011
Leibl, Wilhelm (German painter) 1844-1900
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (German philosopher, mathematician) 1646-1716
Leibovitz, Annie (American photographer) b.1949
Leibowitz, Rene (Polish-born French composer, conductor) 1913-1972
Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (German explorer) 1813-1848
Leichtentritt, Hugo (German composer, writer on music) 1874-1951
Leidy, Joseph (American zoologist) 1823-1891
Leif Eriksson (aka Ericsson; Icelandic-born Norwegian explorer) fl. 1000
Leigh, Mike (English film & theatre director, screenwriter) b.1943
Leighton, Frederick (Baron Leighton of Stretton; Eng. painter) 1830-1896
Leighton, Kenneth (English composer, teacher, pianist) 1929-1988
Leighton, Robert (Scottish prelate) 1611-1684
Leinberger, Hans (German sculptor) c.1480-1535
Leinsdorf, Erich (Austrian-born American conductor) 1912-1993
Leipoldt, Christiaan Frederick Louis (South African writer) 1880-1947
Leiris, Michel Julien (French writer, ethnologist, art critic) 1901-1990
Leisewitz, Johann Anton (German dramatist) 1752-1806
Leisler, Jacob (German-born American insurrectionary leader) 1640-1691
Leith, Charles Kenneth (American geologist) 1875-1956
Leithauser, Brad (American poet, writer, teacher) b.1953
Leitzel, Lillian (German-born American circus aerialist) 1892/93-1931
Leivick, Halper (Russian-born American poet, playwright) 1888-1962
Le Jeune, Claude (French composer) c.1528-1600
Lejeune, John Archer (American marine corps officer) 1867-1942
Lejeune, Louis-Francois (French general, painter) 1775-1848
Le Jumel de Barneville, Marie-Catherine (French writer) 1650/51-1705
Lekain (born Henri-Louis Cain; French tragedian) 1729-1778
Lekeu, Guillaume-Jean-Joseph-Nicolas (Belgian composer) 1870-1894
Leland, Charles Godfrey (American poet, writer) 1824-1903
Leland, Henry Martyn (American automobile manufacturer) 1843-1932
Leland, John (English antiquary) 1506?-1552
Lelewel, Joachim (Polish historian, geographer, politician) 1786-1861
Le Loi (reign title Le Thai To; Vietnamese emperor 1428-1443) d.1443
Leloir, Luis Federico (French-born Argentinean biochemist) 1906-1987
Lelouch, Claude (French film director, writer, cinematographer) b.1937
Lely, Sir Peter (born Pieter Van der Faes; British painter) 1618-1680
Lem, Stanislaw (Polish writer) 1921-2006
Le Macon (or Le Masson), Robert (French politician) 1365?-1443
Le Maire, Jacques (French instrument maker) fl. 1720-1740
Le Maire, Jakob (Dutch navigator with Willem Schouten) 1585-1616
Lemaire de Belges, Jean (Flemish poet, chronicler) 1473-1525
Le Maistre, Antoine (French religious) 1608-1658
Lemaitre, Francois-Elie-Jules (Fr. writer, critic, dramatist) 1853-1914
Lemaitre, Georges Henri Joseph Eduard (Belgian astrophysicist) 1894-1966
Lemay, Leon-Pamphile (French-Canadian poet, writer) 1837-1918
Lemercier, Jacques (French architect) 1585?-1654
Lemercier, Louis-Jean-Nepomucene (French playwright, poet) 1771-1840
Lemery, Nicolas (French chemist) 1645-1715
Lemieux, Raymond Urgel (Canadian biochemist, educator) 1920-2000
Lemon, Mark (English journalist, writer; a founder of Punch) 1809-1870
Lemonnier, Antoine-Louis-Camille (Belgian writer, art critic) 1844-1913
Lemonnier, Pierre-Charles (French astronomer) 1715-1799
Lemot, Francois-Frederic (French sculptor) 1773-1827
Le Moyne, Antoine (Canadian colonist; son of Charles) 1681-1747
Le Moyne, Charles (French colonist in Canada) 1626-1685
Le Moyne, Charles (Canadian colonial leader; son of Charles) 1656-1729
Le Moyne, Francois (French painter) 1688-1737
Le Moyne, Jean-Baptiste (Canadian colonist; son of Charles) 1680-1747
Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste (French sculptor) 1704-1778
Le Moyne, Pierre (Canadian soldier, colonist; son of Charles) 1661-1706
Le Nain, Antoine (French painter) c.1588-1648
Le Nain, Louis (French painter; brother of Antoine) 1593-1648
Le Nain, Mathieu (French painter; brother of Antoine) 1607-1677
Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton (Hungarian-born German physicist) 1862-1947
Lenartowicz, Aleksander Teofil (Polish poet) 1822-1893
Lenau, Nikolaus (born Nicolaus Franz Niembsch; Austrian poet) 1802-1850
Lenbach, Franz von (German painter) 1836-1904
Lenclos (or Lanclos), Anne de "Ninon" (French courtesan) 1620-1705
L'Enfant, Pierre Charles (French-born Am. architect, soldier) 1754-1825
L'Engle, Madeleine née Camp (married name Franklin; Am. writer) 1918-2007
Lenglen, Suzanne (French tennis player) 1899-1938
Lenin (born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov; Russian Communist leader) 1870-1924
Lennep, Jacob van (Dutch writer, poet, man of letters) 1802-1868
Lenngren, Anna Maria née Malmstedt (Swedish poet) 1754-1817
Lennon, John Winston Ono (English singer, songwriter; Beatle) 1940-1980
Lennox, Annie (Scottish-born British singer) b.1954
Lennox, Charlotte née Ramsay (Am.-born British writer, poet) 1720-1804
Leno, Dan (born George Galvin; English entertainer) 1860-1904
Leno, James Douglas Muir "Jay" (American comedian, TV host) b.1950
Lenoir, Marie-Alexandre (French antiquary) 1761-1839
Lenoir, Jean-Joseph-Etienne (French inventor) 1822-1900
Lenormand, Henri-Rene (French playwright) 1882-1951
Lenormand, Louis-Sebastien (French chemist, aeronaut) 1757-1839
Lenormand, Marie-Anne-Adelaide (French fortune teller) 1772-1843
Lenormant, Francois (French Assyriologist, numismatist) 1837-1883
Lenotre, Andre (French landscape architect) 1613-1700
Lenox, James (American bibliophile, philanthropist) 1800-1880
Lenski, Richard E. (American biologist) b.1956
Lenthall, William (English parliamentarian) 1591-1662
Lentulus, Lucius Cornelius (surnamed Crus; Roman politician) d.48 BC
Lentulus, Publius Cornelius (surnamed Sura; Roman politician) d.63 BC
Lentulus, Publius Cornelius (surnamed Spinther; Roman polit.) d.c.48 BC
Lenya, Lotte (Austrian singer, actor; wife of Kurt Weill) 1898-1981
Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil (German physicist) 1804-1865
Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold (Rus.-born German poet, dramatist) 1751-1792
Lenz, Peter (German painter, architect, sculptor) 1832-1928
Lenz, Siegfried (German writer, dramatist, essayist) b.1926
Leo I the Great, Saint (Pope 440-461) c.400-461
Leo IX, Saint (born Bruno of Egisheim; Pope 1048-1054) 1002-1054
Leo X (born Giovanni de' Medici; Pope 1513-1521) 1475-1521
Leo XI (born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici; Pope April 1605) 1535-1605
Leo XII (born Annibale Francesco della Genga; Pope 1823-1829) 1760-1829
Leo XIII (born Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci; Pope 1878-1903) 1810-1903
Leo, Leonardo (or Lionardo) Ortensio Salvatore de (It. comp.) 1694-1744
Leo Africanus (Granada-born Arab traveler, geographer) c.1485-c.1554
Leochares (Greek sculptor) 4th cent. BC
Leo Diaconus (Byzantine historian) 10th cent.
Leofric (Earl of Mercia) d.1057
Leon, Luis de (Spanish poet, religious writer) 1527-1591
Leonard, Benny (born Benjamin Leiner; American boxer) 1896-1947
Leonard, Cy (Canadian ventriloquist) 1926-2008
Leonard, Elmore John (American writer) 1925-2013
Leonard, John (American writer, critic) 1939-2008
Leonard, William Ellery (American educator, poet) 1876-1944
Leonarda, Isabella (Italian composer, teacher) 1620-1704
Leonardi, Saint John (Italian religious) 1541?-1609
Leonardo da Vinci (It. painter, sculptor, architect, engineer) 1452-1519
Leoncavallo, Ruggero (Italian composer, librettist) 1858-1919
Leone Modena (Leon of Modena; Judah Aryeh; It. rabbi, writer) 1571-1648
Leonhard, Karl Casar von (German mineralogist; geologist) 1779-1862
Leoni, Franco (Italian composer) 1864-1949
Leoni, Leone (Italian medalist, goldsmith, sculptor) 1509-1590
Leoni, Pompeo (Italian sculptor; son of Leone) c.1533-1608
Leonidas (Greek hero; king of Sparta 490?-480 BC) d.480 BC
Leonidas of Tarentum (Greek epigrammatist poet) 3rd cent. BC
Leonin (or Leoninus, Leonius; French composer) 12th cent.
Leonnatus (Macedonian soldier) d.322 BC
Leonor Teles de Meneses (Portuguese queen) d.1405
Leonov, Leonid Maksimovich (Russian writer, playwright) 1899-1994
Leonowens, Anna Hariette née Crawford (Welsh educator, writer) 1834-1914
Leontief, Wassily Wassilyevich (German-born American economist) 1905-1999
Leontius (Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 695-698) d.705
Leontius of Byzantium (Byzantine monk, theologian) d.543
Leontyev (or Leontiev), Konstantin Nikolayevich (Rus. essayist) 1831-1891
Leopardi, Alessandro (Venetian sculptor) d.1522?
Leopardi, Giacomo (Italian poet, scholar, philosopher) 1798-1837
Leopold I (Prince of Anhalt-Dessau; Prussian field marshal) 1676-1747
Leopold, Rand Aldo (American forester, conservationist) 1886-1948
Leopold, Carl Gustaf af (Swedish poet) 1756-1829
Leopold, Jan Hendrik (Dutch poet) 1865-1925
Leotychides (or Leotychidas; King of Sparta 491-469 BC) c.545-c.469 BC
Leovigild (King of the Visigoths in Spain c.569-586) d.589
Lepaute, Nichole-Reine (French astronomer) 1723-1788
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, Louis-Michel (French politician) 1760-1793
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman general, politician) d.152 BC
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman politician) d.c.77 BC
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (Roman politician) d.13/12 BC
L'Epine, Ernest (French dramatist) 1826-1893
Le Play, Pierre-Guillaume-Frederic (Fr. mining eng., sociol.) 1806-1882
Lepsius, Karl Richard (German Egyptologist) 1810-1884
Leray, Jean (French mathematician, educator) 1906-1998
Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastian (Mexican politician; pres. 1872-76) 1827-1889
Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (Russian poet, writer) 1814-1841
Lerner, Alan Jay (American dramatist, librettist) 1918-1986
Lerner, Richard Alan (American chemist, entrepreneur) b.1938
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander (Austrian dramatist, poet, writer) 1897-1976
Leroux, Francois-Pierre (French physicist) 1832-1907
Leroux, Gaston (French writer, journalist) 1868-1927
Leroux, Pierre (French philosopher, journalist, politician) 1797-1871
Leroux, Xavier-Henri-Napoleon (French composer) 1863-1919
Leroy, Catherine (French photojournalist) 1945-2006
Le Roy, Edouard (French philosopher, mathematician) 1870-1954
Lerroux Garcia, Alejandro (Spanish politician) 1864-1949
Lesage, Alain-Rene (French writer, playwright) 1668-1747
Lescaze, William (Swiss-born American architect) 1896-1969
Leschetizky, Theodor (Polish pianist, teacher, composer) 1830-1915
Lescot, Elie (Haitian politician; president 1941-1946) 1883-1974
Lescot, Pierre (French architect) c.1515-1578
Lese, Benozzo di (aka Benozzo Gozzoli; Florentine painter) 1420-1497
Leskien, August (German philologist) 1840-1916
Leskov, Nikolay Semyonovich (pseud. Stebnitski; Russian writer) 1831-1895
Leslie, Alexander (1st Earl of Leven; Scottish soldier) c.1580-1661
Leslie, David (1st Baron Newark; Scottish soldier) 1601-1682
Leslie, Frank (born Henry Carter; English-born Am. publisher) 1821-1880
Leslie (or Lesley), John (Scottish prelate, historian) 1527-1596
Leslie, Sir John (Scottish mathematician, physicist) 1766-1832
Leslie, Miriam Florence née Folline (Am. editor; wife of Frank) 1836-1914
Lesmian, Boleslaw née Lesman (Polish poet, lawyer) 1878-1937
Lesniewski, Stanislaw (Polish mathematician, logician) 1886-1939
Lespinasse, Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de (French hostess) 1732-1776
Lesseps, Ferdinand-Marie de (Fr. diplomat; promoted Suez Canal) 1805-1894
Lessig, Lawrence (American academic; fd. Creative Commons) b.1961
Lessing, Doris May née Tayler (Persia-born British writer) 1919-2013
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (German dramatist, critic, writer) 1729-1781
Lester, Harry (born Maryan Czajkowski; Polish ventriloquist) 1878-1956
Lester, Richard (American-born British? film director) b.1932
L'Estrange, Sir Roger (English journalist, pamphleteer) 1616-1704
Lesueur, Charles-Alexandre (French naturalist) 1778-1846
Le Sueur, Eustache (French painter) 1616-1655
Le Sueur (or Lesueur), Jean-Francois (French composer) 1760-1837
Le Sueur, Meridel (American writer, journalist, poet) 1900-1996
Le Tellier, Francois-Michel (French politician; son of Michel) 1639-1691
Le Tellier, Michel (French politician) 1603-1685
Le Thanh Tong (aka Le Thanh Ton; Emperor of Vietnam 1460-1497) d.1497
Lethem, Jonathan Allen (American writer) b.1964
Letterman, David Michael (American comedian) b.1947
Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von (German soldier) 1870-1964
Leuba, James Henry (Swiss-born American psychologist) 1868-1946
Leucippus of Miletus (Greek philosopher) c.480-c.420 BC
Leuckart, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf (German zoologist) 1822-1898
Leuenberger, Nikolaus (Swiss rebel) c.1611-1653
Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb (German-born American painter) 1816-1868
Levaillant, Francois (French traveler, ornithologist) 1753-1824
Levant, Oscar (American pianist, composer) 1906-1972
Levassor, Emile (French automotive engineer) 1844?-1897
Le Vau, Louis (French architect) 1612-1670
Levene, Phoebus Aaron Theodor (Russian-born Am. biochemist) 1869-1940
Levenson, Samuel (American educator, humorist, writer) 1911-1980
Leventhal, Harold (American folk music promoter) 1919-2005
Leventhal, Paul Lincoln (Am. admin.; fd. Nuclear Control Inst.) 1938-2007
Lever, Charles James (Irish editor, writer) 1806-1872
Lever, William Hesketh (English soap manufacturer) 1851-1925
Leverett, Frank (American geologist) 1859-1943
Leverett, John (English-born American colonial governor) 1616-1679
Leveridge, Richard (English singer, composer, coffee seller) 1670-1758
Levermore, Charles Herbert (American educator, peace advocate) 1856-1927
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (French mathematician; asteroid) 1811-1877
Levertin, Oscar Ivar (Swedish poet, writer, critic) 1862-1906
Levertov, Denise (English-born Am. poet, essayist, teacher) 1923-1997
Leveson-Gower, Granville George (English politician) 1815-1891
Leveson-Gower, George Granville (Eng. polit., philanthropist) 1758-1833
Levi, Carlo (Italian physician, painter, writer) 1902-1975
Levi, Paul Alan (American composer, teacher, conductor) b.1941
Levi, Primo (Italian chemist, memoirist, writer, poet) 1919-1987
Levi, Sylvain (French Orientalist) 1863-1935
Levi ben Gershom (French Jewish mathematician, philosopher) 1288-1344
Levi-Civita, Tullio (Italian mathematician) 1873-1941
Levi-Montalcini, Rita (Italian neurologist) b.1909
Levin, Meyer (American writer, newspaperman) 1905-1981
Levine, Milton Martin (Am. entrepreneur; invented Ant Farm) 1913-2011
Levine, Philip (American poet, teacher) 1928-2015
Levine, Raphael David (Egyptian-born Israeli chemist, educator) b.1938
Levinson, Leonard Louis (American writer) 1904-1974
Levinson, Norman (American mathematician) 1912-1975
Levinson, Salmon Oliver (American lawyer, peace advocate) 1865-1941
Levis, Francois-Gaston de (French soldier) 1720-1787
Levi-Strauss, Claude (Belgian-born Fr. social anthropologist) 1908-2009
Levita, Elijah (aka Bahur; Bavarian-born Jewish scholar) 1469-1549
Levitt, Alfred (Belarussian-born American painter) 1894-2000
Levitzki, Alexander (Israeli biochemist, educator) b.1940
Levni, Ressam (Turkish painter) d.1732
Levy, David Howard (Canadian astronomer, writer; asteroid) b.1948
Levy, Joseph Moses (English newspaper proprietor) 1812-1888
Levy, Newman (American lawyer, verse writer) 1888-1966
Levy, Uriah Phillips (American naval officer) 1792-1862
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien (French philosopher, sociologist) 1857-1939
Levy-Lawson, Edward (Eng. newspaper proprietor; son of Joseph) 1833-1916
Lewald, Fanny (German writer) 1811-1889
Lewandowski, Louis (Polish cantor, chorus conductor, composer) 1821-1894
Lewanika (born Robosi or Lubosi; Lozi king of Barotseland) c.1842-1916
Lewes, George Henry (English philosopher, critic) 1817-1878
Lewin, Kurt (Prussian-born American social psychologist) 1890-1947
Lewin, Louis (German toxicologist, psychopharmacologist) 1850-1929
Lewis, Al (born Alexander Meister; American actor) 1910-2006
Lewis, Alun (Welsh poet, short-story writer) 1915-1944
Lewis, Andrew (Irish-born American soldier) 1720-1781
Lewis, Clarence Irving (American philosopher) 1883-1964
Lewis, Clive Staples (English scholar, writer) 1898-1963
Lewis, David Levering (American biographer, historian) b.1936
Lewis, Edward B. (no middle name; American geneticist) 1918-2004
Lewis, Elma Idna (American arts educator) 1921-2004
Lewis, Francis (Welsh-born American merchant, patriot) 1713-1803
Lewis, George (American musician) 1900-1968
Lewis, George E. (American musician, composer, scholar) b.1952
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (English liberal statesman, writer) 1806-1863
Lewis, George E. (American musician, composer, scholar) b.1952
Lewis, Gilbert Newton (American physical chemist) 1875-1946
Lewis, Harry Sinclair (American writer, social critic) 1885-1951
Lewis, Isaac Newton (American army officer, inventor) 1858-1931
Lewis, John Llewellyn (American labor leader) 1880-1969
Lewis, Joseph (American writer, teacher, atheist, freethinker) 1889-1968
Lewis, Matthew Gregory "Monk" (English writer, dramatist) 1775-1818
Lewis, Meade Anderson "Lux" (American jazz pianist) 1905-1964
Lewis, Meriwether (American explorer with William Clark) 1774-1809
Lewis, Morgan (American jurist, politician; son of Francis) 1754-1844
Lewis, Norman W. (American painter, scholar, teacher) 1909-1979
Lewis, Oscar (American anthropologist) 1914-1970
Lewis, Percy Wyndham (English painter, writer) 1884-1957
Lewis, Richard (aka Dic Penderyn; Welsh folk hero) c.1807-1831
Lewis, Richard (American actor, comedian) b.1947
Lewis, Shari (born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz; Am. ventriloquist) 1933-1998
Lewis, Sir William Arthur (St. Lucian-born British economist) 1915-1991
Lewy, Hans (German-born American mathematician, educator) 1904-1988
Lewys Glyn Cothi (aka Llywelyn y Glyn; Welsh bard) fl. c.1447-1486
Ley, James (1st Earl of Marlborough; English judge) 1550-1629
Ley, Robert (German Nazi leader) 1890-1945
Ley, Willy (German-born American engineer, writer) 1906-1969
Leybourn, William (English mathematician) 1626-1700?
Leyden, John (Scottish poet, Orientalist) 1775-1811
Leydig, Franz (German zoologist) 1821-1908
Leyendecker, Ulrich (German composer, educator) b.1946
Leygues, Jean-Claude-Georges (French politician) 1857-1933
Leypoldt, Frederick (German-born Am. publisher, bibliographer) 1835-1884
Lezama Lima, Jose (Cuban poet, writer, essayist) 1910-1976
Lhasa de Sela "Lhasa" (American singer-songwriter) 1972-2010
L'Herbier, Marcel (French film director, producer, writer) 1888-1979
L'Hermite, Francois "Tristan" (French poet, playwright, writer) 1601-1655
Lhevinne, Josef (Russian pianist; husband of Rosina) 1874-1944
Lhevinne, Rosina née Bessie (Russian pianist, teacher) 1880-1976
L'Hopital, Guillaume Francois Antoine Marquis de (French math.) 1661-1704
L'Hospital, Michel de (French jurist, politician) 1507-1573
Lhote, Andre (French painter, writer) 1885-1962
Li Ang (born Li Han; Chinese emperor 826-840) 809-840
Liang Ch'en-yu (Chinese dramatist) 1510-1580
Liang Ch'i-ch'ao (Chinese scholar, revolutionary leader) 1873-1929
Liang K'ai (Chinese painter) c.1140-c.1210
Liang Shiqiu (or Liang Shih-ch'iu; Chinese writer, translator) 1902-1987
Li Ao (Chinese philosopher) d.c.844
Liapchev, Andrei (Bulgarian politician) 1866-1933
Liaquat Ali Khan (Pakistani statesman; prime minister 1947-51) 1895-1951
Libanius (Syrian-born Greek Sophist, rhetorician) 314-393
Libau, Andreas (Libavius; German physician, alchemist, chemist) c.1540-1616
Libby, Willard Frank (American chemist; dev. carbon-14 dating) 1908-1980
Libchaber, Albert Joseph (French physicist, educator) b.1934
Libedinsky, Yury Nikolayevich (Russian writer, playwright) 1898-1959
Liberace, Wladziu Valentino (American pianist) 1919-1987
Liberale da Verona (Veronese painter) c.1445-1526/29
Liberi, Pietro "il Libertino" (Venetian painter) 1614-1687
Liberius (Pope 352-366) d.366
Libert, Reginaldus (French composer; Burgundian School) fl.c.1425-1435
Li Bo (or Li Po; aka Li Taipo; Chinese poet) 701-762
Li Che (reign title Chung Tsung; Chinese emperor 683, 705-710) d.731
Li Chih (reign title Kao Tsung; Chinese emperor 649-683) 628-683
Li Ch'ing-chao (Chinese poet) 1081-1141?
Licht, Alan (American musician, composer) b.1968
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (German physicist, writer) 1742-1799
Lichtenstein, Roy Fox (American painter, sculptor) 1923-1997
Licinius (Valerius Licinianus Licinius; Roman emperor 308-324) d.325
Lick, James (American financier, philanthropist) 1796-1876
Liddell, Henry George (English classical scholar) 1811-1898
Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry (English military scientist) 1895-1970
Liddon, Henry Parry (English theologian) 1829-1890
Liddy, George Gordon Battle "G. Gordon" (American writer) b.1930
Lidman, Sara (Swedish writer) b.1923
Lidner, Bengt (Swedish poet) 1757-1793
Lidow, Eric (Lithuanian-born American engineer) b.1913
Lie, Jonas Lauritz Idemil (Norwegian writer, dramatist) 1833-1908
Lie, Marius Sophus (Norwegian mathematician) 1842-1899
Lie, Trygve Halvdan (Norwegian lawyer; UN secy.-gen. 1946-52) 1896-1968
Lieber, Francis (German-born American political scientist) 1800-1872
Lieberkuhn, Johann Nathaniel (German anatomist) 1711-1756
Liebermann, Carl Theodore (German chemist) 1842-1914
Liebermann, Max (German painter, etcher) 1847-1935
Liebermann, Rolf (Swiss composer, opera company director) 1910-1999
Lieberson, Lorraine née Hunt (American singer) 1954-2006
Liebig, Justus von (German analytical chemist) 1803-1873
Liebknecht, Karl (German Socialist leader; son of Wilhelm) 1871-1919
Liebknecht, Wilhelm (German journalist, politician) 1826-1900
Liebling, Abbott Joseph "A.J." (American newsman, columnist) 1904-1963
Liebmann, Otto (German philosopher) 1840-1912
Liebniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von (German philosopher, math.) 1646-1716
Liebovitz, Annie (American photographer) b.1949
Lieh-tzu (born Lieh Yuk'ou; Chinese philosopher) 4th cent. BC
Lietzmann, Hans (German church historian) 1875-1942
Lievens (or Lievensz, Livens), Jan (Dutch painter) 1607-1674
Lifar, Serge (Russian-born French choreographer, dancer) 1905-1986
Ligdan Khan (Last Mongol great khan 1604-1634) 1591-1634
Ligeti, Gyorgy Sandor (Transylvanian-born Austrian composer) 1923-2006
Light, Francis (English colonial administrator) c.1740-1794
Lightfoot, Sir John (English Biblical scholar) 1602-1675
Lightfoot, Joseph Barber (English theologian) 1828-1889
Ligne, Charles-Joseph de (Belgian soldier, man of letters) 1735-1814
Ligorio, Pirro (Italian architect) c.1500-1583
Liguori, Saint Alfonso Maria de' (Italian prelate) 1696-1787
Li He (or Li Ho; Chinese poet) 791-817
Lihn, Enrique (Chilean poet, writer) 1929-1988
Li Hsiu-ch'eng (Chinese rebel) d.1864
Li Hung-chang (Chinese statesman) 1823-1901
Lij Iyasu (Emperor of Ethiopia 1913-1917) 1896-1935
Li K'o-yung (Chinese general) d.908
Li Kua (reign title Te Tsung; Chinese emperor 780-805) 742-805
Lilburn, Douglas Gordon (New Zealand composer, teacher) 1915-2001
Lilburne, John (English leader of the Levelers) 1614?-1657
Liliencron, Friedrich Adolf Axel Detlev von (German writer) 1844-1909
Lilienthal, Otto (German aeronautical engineer) 1848-1896
Liliuokalani (Lydia Paki Liliuokalani; Hawaiian queen 1891-93) 1838-1917
Lillebakken, Johan Petter "J.P. Falkberget" (Norw. writer) 1879-1967
Lillie, Frank Rattray (Canadian-born American zoologist) 1870-1947
Lillo, George (English dramatist) 1693-1739
Lilly, John Cunningham (American biologist) 1915-2001
Lilly, William (English astronomer) 1602-1681
Li Lung-chi (reign title Hsuan Tsung; Chinese emperor 712-756) 685-762
Li Lung-mien (or Li Kung-lin; Chinese painter) 1049-1106
Lily, William (English grammarian) 1468?-1522
Lima, Jorge de (Brazilian poet, writer) 1895-1953
Lima, Manuel dos Santos (Angolan writer, military leader) b.1935
Lima Barreto, Afonso Henriques de (Braz. writer, social critic) 1881-1922
Liman von Sanders, Otto (German general) 1855-1929
Limbaugh, Rush Hudson III (American commentator) b.1951
Limburg (or Limbourg), Pol (Belgian illuminator) 1385?-1416?
Limburg, Hermann (Belgian illuminator; brother of Pol) 1385?-1416?
Limburg, Jehanequin (Belgian illuminator; brother of Pol) 1385?-1416?
Limerick, Patricia Nelson (American historian) b.1951
Limon, Jose Arcadio (Mexican-born Am. dancer, choreographer) 1908-1972
Limonov, Eduard (b.Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko; Russian poet) b.1943
Limosin (or Limousin), Leonard (French enameler) c.1505-c.1577
Linacre, Thomas (English Humanist, physician) c.1460-1524
Linares, Jose Maria (Bolivian politician) 1810-1861
Lincoln, Abraham (16th U.S. president, 1861-1865) 1809-1865
Lincoln, Benjamin (American Revolutionary officer) 1733-1810
Lincoln, Mary Todd (American; wife of Abraham Lincoln) 1818-1882
Lincoln, Robert Todd (American lawyer; son of Abraham) 1843-1926
Lind, James (Scottish physician) 1716-1794
Lind, Jenny (born Johanna Maria; Swedish soprano singer) 1820-1887
Lindberg, John (America musician, bandleader) b.1959
Lindbergh, Anne Spencer née Morrow (Am. writer; wife of C.A.) 1906-2001
Lindbergh, Charles August (b.Carl; Swedish-born Am. politician) 1859-1924
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Sr. (American aviator) 1902-1974
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Jr. (American son of Anne, Charles) 1930-1932
Lindblad, Bertil (Swedish astronomer) 1895-1965
Lindblad, Rune (Swedish composer) 1923-1991
Linde, Anders Bo Leif (Swedish composer, pianist, teacher) 1933-1970
Linde, Carl Paul Gottfried von (German engineer) 1842-1934
Lindegren, Erik Johan (Swedish poet, translator) 1910-1968
Lindemann, Carl Louis Ferdinand von (German mathematician) 1852-1939
Lindenthal, Gustav (Austrian-born American civil engineer) 1850-1935
Lindet, Jean-Baptiste-Robert (French politician) 1746-1825
Lindgren, Astrid (Swedish writer; created Pippi Longstocking) 1907-2002
Lindgren, Torgny (Swedish writer, poet) b.1938
Lindgren, Waldemar (Swedish-born American geologist) 1860-1939
Lindley, John (English botanist, horticulturist) 1799-1865
Lindlet, William (English civil engineer) 1808-1900
Lindman, Salomon Arvid Achates (Swedish admiral, politician) 1862-1936
Lindner, Richard (German-born American painter, teacher) 1901-1978
Lindner, Robert Mitchell (American psychoanalyst) 1914-1956
Lindo, Mark Prager (pseudonym De Oude Heer Smits; Dutch writer) 1819-1879
Lindsay, Arto (Brazilian musician) b.1953
Lindsay (or Lyndsay), Sir David (Scottish poet) c.1490-c.1555
Lindsay, David (Australian explorer) 1856-1922
Lindsay, Howard (American playwright, producer, actor) 1889-1968
Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel (American poet) 1879-1931
Lindsay, Norman Alfred William (Australian cartoonist, illus.) 1879-1969
Lindsey, Benjamin Burr (American jurist) 1869-1943
Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony ("Cordwainer Smith"; Am. writer) 1913-1966
Lingard, John (English historian) 1771-1851
Lingelbach, Jan (Dutch painter) 1622-1674
Linguet, Simon-Nicolas-Henri (French lawyer, journalist) 1736-1794
Liniers, Santiago Antonio Maria de (Fr.-b. Span. naval officer) 1753-1810
Link, Edwin Albert (American inventor, businessman) 1904-1981
Linklater, Eric Robert Russell (Scottish writer, dramatist) 1899-1974
Linklater, Richard (American filmmaker) b.1965
Linkletter, Art (American television and radio host, writer) 1912-2010
Linley, Thomas (English composer) 1732-1795
Linley, Thomas (English violinist, composer; son of Thomas) 1756-1778
Linne, Carl von (Carolus Linnaeus; Swedish botanist) 1707-1778
Linnell, John (English painter) 1792-1882
Lin Fang-Hua (Chinese mathematician in America) b.1959
Lin Piao (Chinese soldier, politician) 1908-1971
Lins, Osman (Brazilian writer, playwright) 1924-1978
Linschoten, Jan Huyghen van (Dutch traveler) 1563-1611
Lins do Rego Cavalcanti, Jose (Brazilian writer) 1901-1957
Lin Shu (Chinese translator) 1852-1924
Linstroth, Margaret née Williams "Peg" (Am. Creamettes model) 1915-2004
Linton, Eliza née Lynn (American writer; wife of William) 1822-1898
Linton, Ralph (American anthropologist) 1893-1953
Linton, William James (Eng.-born Am. wood engraver, reformer) 1812-1897
Lin Tse-hsu (Chinese government official) 1785-1850
Linus, Saint (Pope 67-76/79) d.76/79
Lin Yu-t'ang (Lin Yutang; Chinese writer, philologist) 1895-1976
Lionel of Antwerp (Duke of Clarence; English prince) 1338-1368
Lionne, Hugues de (French diplomat) 1611-1671
Lions, Pierre-Louis (French mathematician, educator) b.1956
Liotard, Jean-Etienne (Swiss painter) 1702-1789
Liouville, Joseph (French mathematician) 1809-1882
Lipchitz, Jacques (Latvian-born French sculptor) 1891-1973
Lipkin, Israel ben Ze'ev Wolf "Israel Salanter" (Lith. rabbi) 1810-1883
Li Peng (Chinese Premier 1987-1998) b.1928
Lipmann, Fritz Albert (German-born American biochemist) 1899-1986
Li Po (literary name Li T'ai-po; Chinese poet) 701-762
Lippershey, Hans (aka Jan Lippersheim; Dutch spectacle maker) c.1570-c.1619
Lippert, Felice Marks (Am. businesswoman;co-fd.Weight Watchers) 1930-2003
Lippi, Filippo (aka Fra Filippo Lippi; Florentine painter) c.1406-1469
Lippi, Filippo "Filippino" (Florentine painter; son of Filippo) c.1457-1504
Lippi, Lorenzo "Perlone Zipoli" (Florentine poet, painter) 1606-1664
Lippincott, Joshua Ballinger (American publisher) 1813-1886
Lippincott, Joshua Bertram (American publisher; son of Joshua) 1857-1940
Lippisch, Alexander Martin (German-born Am. aeronautical eng.) 1894-1976
Lippmann, Gabriel-Jonas (French physicist; inv. color photo.) 1845-1921
Lippmann, Walter (American journalist, writer) 1889-1974
Lipps, Theodor (German philosopher) 1851-1914
Lips, Joest (Justus Lipsius; Flemish Humanist, philosopher) 1547-1606
Lips, Johann Heinrich (Swiss painter, engraver) 1758-1817
Lipscomb, William Nunn Jr. (American inorganic chemist) 1919-2011
Lipsius, Richard Adelbert (German theologian) 1830-1892
Lipsky, Louis (American editor, Zionist leader) 1876-1963
Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone (British tea merchant, yachtsman) 1850-1931
Lisa, Manuel (American fur trader) 1772-1820
Lisboa, Antonio Francisco (Brazilian sculptor, architect) 1738?-1814
Liscano, Juan (Venezuelan writer, editor) 1915-2001
Li Shang-yin (Chinese poet) 813-858
Li Shao-chun (Chinese philosopher) 2nd cent. BC
Li Shih-chen (Chinese pharmacologist) 1518-1593
Li Shih-min (reign title T'ai Tsung; Chinese emperor 626-649) 600-649
Lispector, Clarice (Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer, lawyer) 1925-1977
Lissajous, Jules-Antoine (French physicist) 1822-1880
Lissitzky, Eliezer "El" (Rus. painter, typographer, designer) 1890-1941
Li Ssu (Chinese minister of state) 280?-208 BC
Li Ssu-hsun (Chinese painter) 651-716
List, Georg Friedrich (German-born American economist) 1789-1846
List, Siegmund Wilhelm Walther (German soldier) 1880-1971
Lista y Aragon, Alberto (Span. math., poet, critic, educator) 1775-1848
Lister, Joseph (English surgeon; founder of antiseptic surgery) 1827-1912
Lister, Joseph Jackson (English optician, wine merchant) 1786-1869
Lister, Samuel Cunliffe (1st Baron Masham; English inventor) 1815-1906
Liston, Charles "Sonny" (American boxer) 1917?-1970/71
Liston, Robert (Scottish surgeon) 1794-1847
Liszt, Franz (Hungarian pianist, composer) 1811-1886
Li Ta-chao (Chinese Communist leader) 1888-1927
Li Tan (reign title Jui Tsung; Chinese emperor 684-690,710-712) 662-716
Li T'ang (Chinese painter) c.1080-1130
Lithgow, John Arthur (American actor, singer) b.1945
Litke, Fyodor Petrovich (Russian explorer, geographer) 1797-1882
Li Tsung-jen (Chinese general) 1890-1969
Little, Arthur Dehon (American chemical engineer) 1863-1935
Little, Charles Coffin (American publisher) 1799-1869
Little, Frank (American labor leader) 1879-1917
Little, Glen "Frosty" (American circus clown, clown teacher) b.1925
Littleton, Sir Thomas (English jurist, legal writer) 1422-1481
Little Turtle (American Indian leader of Miami tribe) c.1752-1812
Littlewood, John Edensor (English mathematician) 1885-1977
Littre, Alexis (French physician, anatomist) 1654-1725
Littre, Maximilien-Paul-Emile (Fr. lexicographer, philosopher) 1801-1881
Litvinov, Maksim Maksimovich (Rus. Communist leader, diplomat) 1876-1951
Li Tzu-ch'eng (Chinese rebel leader) 1605?-1645
Liu An (literary name Huai-nan-tzu; Chinese ruler, scholar) d.122 BC
Liu Ch'e (reign title Wi Ti; Chinese emperor 140-87 BC) 156-87 BC
Liu Ch'i (reign title Ching Ti; Chinese emperor 156-140 BC) d.140 BC
Liu Chi (Chinese painter) 1311-1375
Liu Chin (Chinese politician) d.1510
Liu Chuang (reign title Ming Ti; Chinese emperor 58-76) AD 29-76
Liudger (or Ludger), Saint (Frisian prelate) 744-809
Liu E (aka Liu O; Chinese writer, mathematician) 1857-1909
Liu Heng (reign title Wen Ti; Chinese emperor 179-157 BC) d.157 BC
Liu Hsiu (reign title Kuang Wi Ti; Chinese emperor 25-57) 4 BC-AD 57
Liu K'un-i (Chinese politician) 1830-1902
Liu Pang (post. title Kao Tsu; Chinese emperor 206-195 BC) 256-195 BC
Liu Pei (Chinese emperor 221-223) 162-223
Liu Ping-i (reign title Hsuan Ti; Chinese emperor 73-49 BC) d.49 BC
Liu Shao-chi (Chinese Communist politician) 1898-1974
Liu Shih (reign title Yuan Ti; Chinese emperor 48-33 BC) 75-33 BC
Liu Ta (reign title Chang Ti; Chinese emperor 76-88) 57-88
Liutprand (or Luitprand; King of the Lombards 712-744) d.744
Liutprand (or Liudprand) of Cremona (Lombard prelate, hist.) c.922-c.972
Liu Tsung-yuan (Chinese essayist, poet) 773-819
Liu Yuan (Chinese invader) d.310
Liu Zongyuan (or Liu Tsung-yuan; Chinese essayist, poet) 773-819
Lively, Penelope Margaret née Low (Egypt-born British writer) b.1933
Livermore, Mary Ashton née Rice (American reformer) 1820-1905
Livesay, Dorothy Kathleen May (Canadian poet, teacher) 1909-1996
Livia Drusilla (aka Julia Augusta; Roman empress) 58 BC-AD 29
Livings, Henry (British playwright) b.1929
Livingston, Edward (American politician; brother of Robert R.) 1764-1836
Livingston, Gordon S. (American psychiatrist, writer) b.1938
Livingston, Henry Brockholst (American jurist; son of William) 1757-1823
Livingston, Phillip (American merchant; grandson of Robert) 1716-1778
Livingston, Robert (Scottish-born American politician) 1654-1728
Livingston, Robert R. (American lawyer, politician) 1746-1813
Livingston, William (American lawyer; brother of Phillip) 1723-1790
Livingstone, David (Scottish missionary, explorer in Africa) 1813-1873
Livius Andronicus, Lucius (Roman poet, playwright) c.284-c.204 BC
Livy (Titus Livius; Roman historian) 59 BC-AD 17
Liyong, Taban Io (Ugandan poet, writer, critic) b.1938
Li Yu (aka Li Hou-chou; Chinese emperor 961-975) 937-978
Li Yu (aka Li Liweng; Chinese writer, essayist) 1611-1680
Li Yuan (reign title Kao Tsu; Chinese emperor 618-626) 565-635
Li Yuan-hao (Tibetan ruler) 11th cent.
Li Yuan-hung (Chinese politician) 1864-1928
Llorente, Juan Antonio (Spanish priest, historian) 1756-1823
Lloyd, Edward (English coffeehouse owner) fl. 1688-1713
Lloyd, George Walter Selwyn (English composer, market gardener) 1913-1998
Lloyd, Harold Clayton (American film actor, producer) 1893-1971
Lloyd, Henry Demarest (American journalist) 1847-1903
Lloyd, Marie (born Matilda Wood; English music-hall comedian) 1870-1922
Lloyd, Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn (Welsh writer) 1906-1983
Lloyd, William (English prelate) 1627-1717
Lloyd George, David (British politician; prime min. 1916-22) 1863-1945
Llull, Ramon (Catalan mystic, philosopher, poet, missionary) c.1235-1316
Llwyd, Morgan (Welsh writer, Puritan preacher) 1619-1659
Loach, Kenneth "Ken" (English television & film director) b.1936
Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich (Russian math.; asteroid) 1792-1856
Lobanov-Rostovsky, Aleksey Borisovich (Russian diplomat) 1824-1896
Lobel, Leon (American butcher, businessman) 1928-2006
Lobengula (Zulu king of the Matabele) c.1836-1894
Lobkowitz, Wenzel Eusebius von (Bohemia politician) 1609-1677
Lobo, Duarte (aka Eduardus Lupus; Portuguese composer, teacher) c.1565-1646
Lobo, Jeronimo (Portuguese missionary) 1595-1678
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio (Italian violinist, composer) 1695-1764
Loch, Henry Brougham (British colonial administrator) 1827-1900
Lochner, Stefan (German painter) c.1400-1451
Locke, Alain LeRoy (American educator, writer, critic) 1886-1954
Locke, David Ross (pseud. Petroleum V. Nasby; Am. journalist) 1833-1888
Locke, John (English philosopher) 1632-1704
Locke, Matthew (English composer, music theorist) 1621/22-1677
Locke, Richard Adams (English-born American journalist) 1800-1871
Lockhart, John Gibson (Scottish editor, writer, biographer) 1794-1854
Lockwood, Annea (New Zealand-born American? composer, teacher) b.1939
Lockwood, Belva Ann née Bennett (American lawyer) 1830-1917
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman (English astronomer) 1836-1920
Loczy, Lajos (Hungarian geologist) 1849-1920
Loder, Bernard Cornelius Johannes (Dutch jurist) 1849-1935
Lodge, David John (English writer, literary critic, editor) b.1935
Lodge, Henry Cabot (American politician, writer) 1850-1924
Lodge, Henry Cabot (American politician, diplomat) 1902-1985
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (English physicist) 1851-1940
Lodge, Thomas (English poet, dramatist) 1558-1625
Loeb, Jacques (German-born American biophysiologist) 1859-1924
Loeb, James Morris (Am. banker, classicist, philanthropist) 1867-1933
Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov (French-born American composer) 1861-1935
Loeillet, Jean-Baptiste "John" (Belgian musician in London) 1680-1730
Loeillet, Jean-Baptiste "Loeillet de Ghent" (Belgian composer) 1688-1720
Loening, Grover Cleveland (American aircraft manufacturer) 1888-1976
Loerke, Oskar (German poet) 1884-1941
Loesser, Frank Henry (American composer, lyricist) 1910-1969
Loevendie, Theo (Dutch composer, clarinet player, teacher) b.1930
Loew, Marcu (American theater owner, motion-picture producer) 1870-1927
Loewe, Frederick (Austrian-born American composer) 1901-1988
Loewe, Johann Carl Gottfried (Ger. composer, singer, conductor) 1796-1869
Loewi, Otto (German-born American pharmacologist) 1873-1961
Loffler, Friedrich August Johannes (German bacteriologist) 1852-1915
Lofthuus, Christian Jensen (Norwegian peasant leader) 1750-1797
Lofting, Hugh John (English writer; created Dr. Doolittle) 1886-1947
Logan, George (American physician, politician) 1753-1821
Logan, James (Irish-born American public official, jurist) 1674-1751
Logan, James (Tah-gah-jute; American Indian leader) c.1725-1780
Logan, James Harvey (American lawyer, horticulturist) 1841-1928
Logan, James Richardson (British naturalist) d.1869
Logan, John (Scottish clergyman, poet) 1748-1788
Logan, John Alexander (American soldier, politician) 1826-1886
Logan, Sir William Edmond (Canadian geologist) 1798-1875
Logau, Friedrich von (Salomon von Golaw; German epigrammatist) 1604-1655
Logsdon, Gene (American writer, critic, farmer) b.1932
Logue, Christopher (English poet) b.1926
Lohenstein, Daniel Caspar von (German writer) 1635-1683
Loisy, Alfred-Firmin (French linguist, biblical scholar) 1857-1940
Lo-Johansson, Karl Ivar (Swedish writer, social critic) 1901-1990
Lo Kuan-chung (Chinese writer) c.1330-1400
Lomanitz, Giovanni Rossi (American physicist) 1921-2003
Lomax, Alan (American musicologist; son of John) 1915-2002
Lomax, John Avery (American folklorist) 1875-1948
Lomb, Henry (German-born American optician) 1828-1908
Lombard, Peter (Italian scholastic theologian) c.1100-c.1164
Lombardi, Vincent Thomas "Vince" (American football coach) 1913-1970
Lombardo, Antonio (Italian sculptor; son of Pietro) c.1458-1516?
Lombardo, Guy Albert (Canadian-born American bandleader) 1902-1977
Lombardo, Pietro (Italian sculptor, architect) c.1435-1515
Lombardo, Tullio (Italian sculptor; son of Pietro) c.1455-1532
Lombroso, Cesare (Italian physician, criminologist) 1836-1909
Lomenie de Brienne, Etienne-Charles de (Fr. ecclesiastic, pol.) 1727-1794
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (Rus. scientist, man of letters) 1711-1765
London, Fritz Wolfgang (German physicist) 1900-1954
London, John Griffith "Jack" (American writer) 1876-1916
London, Meyer (Polish-born American Socialist, labor leader) 1871-1926
Long, Crawford Williamson (American surgeon) 1815-1878
Long, Earl Kemp (American politician; brother of Huey) 1895-1960
Long, Gabrielle Margaret Vere née Campbell (English writer) 1888-1952
Long, Huey Pierce "the Kingfish" (American politician) 1893-1935
Long, James (American adventurer) c.1793-1822
Long, John Luther (American writer) 1861-1927
Long, Stephen Harriman (American army officer, explorer) 1784-1864
Longacre, James Barton (American engraver) 1794-1869
Longchamp, William (English prelate) d.1197
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (American poet) 1807-1882
Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham (English theater patron) 1902-1961
Longhena, Baldassare (Venetian architect) 1598-1682
Longhi, Alessandro (Venetian painter, engraver; son of Pietro) 1733-1813
Longhi, Pietro (orig. surname Falca; Venetian painter) 1702-1785
Longinus (Dionysius Longinus; Pseudo-Longinus; Greek critic) 1st cent.
Longinus, Cassius (Greek rhetorician, philosopher) c.220-273
Longley, Michael (Irish poet) b.1939
Longman, Thomas (English publisher) 1699-1755
Longman, Thomas (English publisher; nephew of Thomas) 1730-1797
Longman, Thomas (English publisher; son of Thomas Norton) 1804-1879
Longman, Thomas Norton (English pub.; son of Thomas 1699-1755) 1771-1842
Longman, Thomas Norton (English pub.; son of Thomas 1804-1879) 1849-1930
Longman, William (English publisher; son of Thomas Norton) 1813-1877
Longo, Robert (American painter, sculptor, musician) b.1953
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin (Am. clergyman, writer, educator) 1790-1870
Longstreet, James (American Confederate general) 1821-1904
Longueville, Anne-Genevieve de (French noblewoman) 1619-1679
Longus (Greek writer) 2nd/3rd cent.
Longwell, Chester Ray (American geologist) 1887-1975
Longworth, Nicholas (American politician) 1869-1931
Lonitzer, Adam (Lonicerus; German botanist) 1528-1586
Lonnbohm, Armas Eino Leopold (pseud. Eino Leino; Finnish poet) 1878-1926
Lonnrot, Elias (Finnish folklorist, philologist) 1802-1884
Lonsdale, Frederick (born Lionel F. Leonard; Brit. playwright) 1881-1954
Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen née Yardley (Irish crystallographer) 1903-1971
Lonsdale, William (English geologist) 1794-1871
Loomis, Bernard (American toy marketer) 1923-2006
Loos, Adolph (Moravian-born Austrian architect) 1870-1933
Loos, Anita (American writer, scriptwriter) 1893-1981
Looy, Jacobus van (Dutch painter, writer) 1855-1930
Lopes, Fernao (Portuguese historian) c.1380-c.1460
Lopes, Manuel (Cape Verdean poet, writer, essayist) 1907-2005
Lopes da Silva, Baltasar (Osvaldo Alcantara; Cape Verdean poet) 1907-1989
Lopez, Barry Holstun (American writer) b.1945
Lopez, Carlos Antonio (Paraguayan dictator 1844-1862) 1790-1862
Lopez, Francisco Solano (Paraguayan pres. 1862-70; son of C.A.) 1827-1870
Lopez, Jose Hilario (Colombian general, politician) c.1800-1869
Lopez, Luis Carlos (Colombian poet) 1883-1950
Lopez Contreras, Eleazar (Venezuelan soldier, politician) 1883-1973
Lopez de Ayala, Pedro (Spanish polit., soldier, hist., writer) 1332-1407
Lopez de Ayala y Herrera, Adelardo (Spanish dramatist, polit.) 1828-1879
Lopez de Cardenas, Garcia (Spanish explorer with Coronado) fl. 1540
Lopez de Segura, Ruy (Spanish bishop, writer on chess) 16th cent.
Lopez Dominguez, Jose (Spanish general, politician) 1829-1911
Lopez Mateos, Adolfo (Mexican president 1958-1964) 1910-1969
Lopez Portillo y Pacheco, Jose (Mexican president 1976-1982) b.1920
Lopez Pumarejo, Alfonso (Colombian president 1934-38, 1942-45) 1886-1959
Lopez Velarde, Ramon (Mexican poet, essayist) 1888-1921
Lopez y Fuentes, Gregorio (Mexican writer) 1895-1966
Lopresti, Lucia Longhi (pseudonym Anna Banti; It. biographer) 1895-1985
Lorain, John (English-born American horticulturist) 1753-1823
Lorde, Audre Geraldine (aka Gamba Adisa; Am. poet, essayist) 1934-1992
Loredan, Pietro (Venetian admiral) d.1439
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (Dutch physicist) 1853-1928
Lorenz, Edward Norton (American meteorologist: chaos theory) 1917-2008
Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (Austrian-born German ethologist) 1903-1989
Lorenz, Ludwig (Danish physicist) 1829-1891
Lorenzana y Butron, Francisco Antonio (Spanish prelate) 1722-1804
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (Italian painter) c.1290-1348
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio (It. painter, teacher; bro. of Ambrogio) c.1280-c.1348
Lorenzini, Carlo (pseudonym Carlo Collodi; Italian writer) 1826-1890
Lorenzo, Fiorenzo di (Umbrian painter) c.1445-c.1525
Lorenzo Monaco (born Piero di Giovanni; Italian painter) c.1370-c.1425
Lorimer, George Horace (American editor) 1867-1937
Lorimer, James (Scottish legal philosopher) 1818-1890
Loris, Heinrich (aka Henricus Glareanus; Swiss Humanist) 1488-1563
Loris-Melikov, Mikhail Tariyelovich (Rus. general, politician) 1825-1888
Lorraine, Henri de "Cadet de Perle" (French soldier) 1601-1666
Lorre, Peter (born Laszlo Loewenstein; Hung.-born Am. actor) 1904-1964
Lortzing, Gustav Albert (German composer) 1801-1851
Loschmidt, Josef (Austrian chemist) 1821-1895
Losey, Joseph (American theater & film director) 1909-1984
Lot, Ferdinand (French historian) 1886-1952
Lotf 'Ali Khan Zand (Persian ruler) 1769-1794
Lothair (King of France 954-986) 941-986
Lothair I (Holy Roman emperor 840-855) 795-855
Lothair II (or III; German king; Holy Roman emperor 1125-1137) 1075-1137
Lothair II (King of Italy) d.950
Lothair (aka Lothair II; King of Lotharingia 855-869) 835-869
Lothrop, Harriett Mulford née Stone (American writer) 1844-1924
Lotichius Secundus, Petrus (born Petrus Lotz; German Humanist) 1528-1560
Lotka, Alfred (American biophysicist) 1880-1949
Lotti, Antonio (Italian composer, teacher) 1667-1740
Lotto, Lorenzo (Venetian painter) c.1480-1556
Lotze, Rudolf Hermann (German philosopher) 1817-1881
Lou, Liza (American sculptor) b.1969
Loubet, Emile-Francois (French politician; president 1899-1906) 1838-1929
Loudon, John Claudius (Scottish horticultural writer) 1783-1843
Louis of Nassau (Count of Nassau-Dietz; Dutch soldier) 1538-1574
Louis, Joe (born Joseph Louis Barrow; American boxer) 1914-1981
Louis, Morris (born Morris Bernstein; American painter) 1912-1962
Louis, Pierre (pseudonym Pierre Louys; French poet, writer) 1870-1925
Loukaris, Kyrillos (Cyril Lucaris; Greek Orthodox prelate) 1572-1638
Lounsbery, John (Am. animator, director: Disney Nine Old Men) 1911-1976
Loutherbourg, Philip James de (German-born British painter) 1740-1812
Louvet de Couvray, Jean-Baptiste (French politician, writer) 1760-1797
Louw, Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk (South African poet, dramatist) 1906-1970
Lovasz, Laszlo (Hungarian-born Hungarian/Am. mathematician) b.1948
Love, Hough (English geophysicist) 1863-1940
Love, Kermit Ernest Hollingshead (Am. puppeteer, costume des.) 1916-2008
Love, Michael Edward "Mike" (American musician; Beach Boy) b.1941
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (American writer) 1890-1937
Lovell, Whitfield (American painter, installation artist) b.1959
Lovens, Paul (German musician) b.1949
Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken (German-born American philosopher) 1873-1963
Lovejoy, Elijah Parish (American abolitionist) 1802-1837
Lovelace, Lady Augusta Ada Byron (English computer programmer) 1815-1851
Lovelace, Earl (Trinidadian writer, playwright) b.1935
Lovelace, Richard (English poet, soldier, Royalist) 1618-1657
Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard (British radio astronomer) 1913-2012
Lovell, Francis (English rebel) 1454-1487?
Lovelock, John Edward "Jack" (New Zealand athlete) 1910-1949
Lovens, Paul (German musician) b.1949
Lover, Samuel (Irish writer, songwriter) 1797-1868
Lovett, Robert Morss (American educator, reformer) 1870-1956
Lovett, William (English Chartist leader) 1800-1877
Lovins, Amory Bloch (American physicist, energy analyst) b.1947
Low, Sir David Alexander Cecil (Brit. cartoonist, caricaturist) 1891-1963
Low, Sir Hugh (English colonial administrator) 1824-1905
Low, Jackson Mac (Am. poet, perf. artist, composer, playwright) 1922-2004
Low, Juliette Magill Kinzie née Gordon (Am. fdr. Girl Scouts) 1860-1927
Low, Seth (American merchant, politician, educator) 1850-1916
Lowden, Frank Orren (American politician) 1861-1943
Lowe, Sir Hudson (Irish-born British soldier) 1769-1844
Lowe, Robert (Viscount Sherbrooke; English politician) 1811-1892
Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski (American aeronaut, inventor) 1832-1913
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence (Am. political scientist, educator) 1856-1943
Lowell, Amy Lawrence (American poet, critic, biographer) 1874-1925
Lowell, Francis Cabot (American industrialist) 1775-1817
Lowell, James Russell (American poet, essayist, diplomat) 1819-1891
Lowell, Percival (American astronomer; brother of Abbott, Amy) 1855-1916
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence (American poet) 1917-1977
Lowenheim, Leopold (German mathematician, educator) 1878-1957
Lower, Richard (English physician, physiologist) 1631-1691
Lowes, John Livingston (American educator, literary scholar) 1867-1945
Lowie, Robert Harry (Austrian-born American anthropologist) 1883-1957
Lowin, John (English actor) 1576-1653
Lowndes, William Thomas (English bookseller, bibliographer) 1798-1843
Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Boden (English writer, poet) 1909-1957
Lowth (or Louth), Robert (English prelate, scholar) 1710-1787
Loy, Mina (born Mina Gertrude Lowy; English poet, painter) 1882-1966
Loyd, Samuel (American puzzle-maker; invented Parcheesi) 1841-1911
Loyd, Samuel (American puzzle-maker; son of Samuel) d.1934
Loynaz, Dulce Maria (Cuban poet, writer) 1902-1997
Loyson, Charles (aka Pere Hyacinthe; French religious) 1827-1912
Lu (Empress of China; wife of Liu Pang) d.180 BC
Lubbock, Sir John (English financier, writer; son of Sir J.W.) 1834-1913
Lubbock, Sir John William (English astronomer, mathematician) 1803-1865
Lubchenco, Jane (American marine biologist) b.1947
Lubeck, Vincent (German composer, organist) c.1654-1740
Lubecki, Ksawery Drucki (Russian official) 1779-1846
Luber (or Lieber), Thomas (Swiss theologian, physician) 1524-1583
Lubic, Ruth née Watson (American nurse, midwife) b.1927
Lubich, Chiara (It. Catholic activist; fd. Focolare Movement) 1920-2008
Lubin, David (Polish-born American agriculturist) 1849-1919
Lubitsch, Ernst (German-born American motion-picture director) 1892-1947
Lubke, Heinrich (German politician) 1894-1972
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus; Spanish-born Roman poet) AD 39-65
Lucas, Francois Edouard Anatole (French mathematician) 1842-1891
Lucas, Frank Laurence (English man of letters) 1894-1967
Lucas, Gary (American musician, songwriter, composer) b.1952
Lucas, Phil (American film producer, director) 1942-2007
Lucas, Robert Emerson Jr. "Bob" (American economist, academic) b.1937
Lucas van Leyden (aka Lucas Hugensz; Dutch painter, engraver) 1494-1533
Luce, Ann Clare née Boothe (American diplomat, journalist) 1903-1987
Luce, Henry Robinson (Chinese-born American editor, publisher) 1898-1967
Luce, Stephen Bleecker (American naval officer) 1827-1917
Luchaire, Denis-Jean-Achille (French historian) 1846-1908
Luchesi, Andrea Luca (Italian composer) 1741-1801
Lu Chi (Chinese poet, literary critic) 261-303
Lu Chiu-yuan (aka Lu Hsiang-shan; Chinese philosopher) 1139-1193
Lucian (Syrian-born Greek satirist, rhetorician) c.120-180?
Lucian of Antioch, Saint (Syrian Christian theologian, martyr) c.240?-312
Luciani, Sebastiano (aka Sebastiano del Piombo; It. painter) c.1485-1547
Lucier, Alvin (American composer; Sonic Arts Union member) b.1931
Lucifer Calaritanus (Sardinian prelate) d.c.371
Lucilius, Gaius (Roman poet) c.180-c.102 BC
Lucretia (aka Lucrece; Roman matron) d.c.509 BC
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus; Roman Epicurean poet) c.96-c.55/53 BC
Lucullus, Lucius Licinius (Roman general, epicure) c.117-58/56 BC
Lucy, Saint (Christian martyr) d.304
Lucy, Richard de (English jurist) d.1179
Lucy, Sir Thomas (English squire) 1532-1600
Lud (or Ludd), Ned (English laborer) fl. 1779
Ludendorff, Erich Friedrich Wilhelm (Ger. general, politician) 1865-1937
Ludford, Nicholas (English composer, verger) c.1485-c.1557
Ludlow, Edmund (English Parliamentary leader) c.1617-1692
Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes (English social reformer) 1821-1911
Ludlow, Roger (English colonist in America) 1590-1664?
Ludmilla (or Ludmila), Saint (Patron saint of Bohemia) c.860-921
Ludwick, Christopher (German-born Am. Revolutionary leader) 1720-1801
Ludwig, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (German physiologist) 1816-1895
Ludwig, Emil (orig. surname Cohn; German writer) 1881-1948
Ludwig, Jack Barry (Canadian writer, teacher) b.1922
Ludwig, Otto (German writer, playwright, critic) 1813-1865
Lueger, Karl (Austrian politician) 1844-1910
Luening, Otto (American composer) 1900-1996
Lufft, Hans "the Bible Printer" (German painter) 1495-1584
Lugalzaggisi (Lugal-Zaggisi; Mesopotamian king c.2375-2350 BC) 24th cent. BC
Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry (India-born Brit. col. admin.) 1858-1945
Lugeon, Maurice (French-born Swiss geologist) 1870-1953
Lugne-Poe, Aurelian-Marie (French actor, theatrical manager) 1869-1940
Lugones, Leopoldo (Argentinian poet, literary & social critic) 1874-1938
Lugosi, Bela (born Bela Ferenc Blasko; Hung.-born Am. actor) 1884-1956
Luhan, Mabel née Ganson (aka Mabel Dodge Luhan; Am. writer) 1879-1962
Luigi Amedeo (Duca D'Abruzzi; Italian explorer, naval officer) 1873-1933
Luini, Bernardino (Italian painter) d.1532
Luis Pereira de Sousa, Washington (Brazilian politician) 1869-1957
Luitpold (Prince regent of Bavaria 1886-1912) 1821-1912
Lujan, Manuel Jr. (American polit.; Secy. of Interior 1989-93) b.1928
Lu Ji (or Lu Chi; Chinese poet, literary critic) 261-303
Lukacs, Gyorgy (Hungarian philosopher, literary critic) 1885-1971
Lukas, Paul (orig. surname Lukacs; Hungarian-born Am. actor) 1895-1971
Lukasiewicz, Jan (Polish logician) 1878-1956
Lukin, Lionel (English coach-builder, inventor) 1742-1834
Luks, George Benjamin (American painter; member of The Eight) 1867-1933
Luli (Elulaios; Phoenician king of cities Tyre & Sidon) fl. 705 BC
Lully, Jean-Baptiste de (Italian-born French composer) 1632-1687
Lumholtz, Carl (Norwegian explorer; peyote report c.1892) 1851-1922
Lumiere, Auguste-Marie-Louis-Nicolas (French chemist, inventor) 1862-1954
Lumiere, Louis-Jean (French co-inv. cinematograph with Auguste) 1864-1948
Lummer, Otto Richard (German physicist) 1860-1925
Lummis, Charles Fletcher (American writer, editor) 1859-1928
Lumumba, Patrice Hemery (Zaire politician) 1925-1961
Luna, Alvaro de (Spanish politician) c.1390-1453
Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilyevich (Russian Communist leader) 1875-1933
Lunalilo, William C. (King of Hawaiian islands 1873-1874) 1832-1874
Luna y Arellano, Tristan de (Spanish explorer with Coronado) 1510-1573
Lunch, Lydia née Koch (American singer, poet, writer, actor) b.1959
Lundeberg, Christian (Swedish industrialist, politician) 1842-1911
Lundkvist, Artur Nils (Swedish poet, writer, essayist) 1906-1991
Lundy, Benjamin (American abolitionist) 1789-1839
Lunghi (or Longhi, Longo), Martino the Elder (It. architect) d.1591
Lunghi, Martino the Younger (Italian architect; son of Martino) 1602-1657
Lunghi, Onorio (Italian architect; son of Martino) 1569-1619
Lunn, Sir Arnold Henry Moore (India-born British skier) 1888-1974
Lunt, Alfred (American actor; husband of Lynn Fontanne) 1893-1977
Lupescu, Magda (orig. surname Wolff; Romanian adventurer) 1896?-1977
Lupino, Barry (English pantomime, musical comic; son of George) 1884-1962
Lupino, George (English clown) 1853-1932
Lupino, Stanley (English actor, producer; son of George) 1894-1942
Lupino, Thomas Frederick (English scenic artist, dancer) 1749-1845
Lupo, Thomas (English composer, musician) 1571-1627?
Luppino, George William (Eng. singer, reciter, puppet master) 1632-1693
Lupton, Thomas Goff (English mezzotint engraver) 1791-1873
Lu Pu-wei (Chinese politician) d.235 BC
Lurcat, Jean (French painter, tapestry designer) 1892-1966
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon "ha-Ari" (Palestinian Hebrew mystic) 1534-1572
Luria, Salvador Edward (Italian-born American geneticist) 1912-1991
Lurie, Alison (American writer, teacher) b.1926
Lurie, John (American actor, musician, painter, producer) b.1952
Lurton, Horace Harmon (Am. Supreme Court Justice 1910-1914) 1844-1914
Lussier, Rene (Canadian musician) b.1957
Lussy, Melchior (Swiss soldier, religious promoter) 1529-1606
Lutero, Battista "Battista Dossi" (Italian painter) d.1548
Lutero (or Luteri), Giovanni "Dosso Dossi" (Italian painter) 1479?-1542
Lutfi as-Sayyid, Ahmad (Egyptian lawyer, journalist) 1872-1954
Luther, Hans (German politician) 1879-1962
Luther, Karl Theodor Robert (Ger. astronomer; asteroid, crater) 1822-1900
Luther, Martin (German religious reformer) 1483-1546
Luther, Seth (American reformer) 1790?-1850?
Luthin, Reinhard Henry (American? historian, writer) 1905-1962
Luthuli, Albert John Mvumbi (Rhodesian-b. S. African reformer) 1898-1967
Lutoslawski, Witold Roman (Polish composer, musician) 1913-1994
Luttrell, Henry (English society wit, poet) c.1765-1851
Lutuli, Albert John "Mvumbi" (S. African teacher, politician) c.1898-1967
Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (English architect) 1869-1944
Lutzow, Adolf von (German general) 1782-1834
Luxemburg, Rosa (Polish-born German Socialist agitator) 1870-1919
Lu Xun (or Lu Hsun; pseudonym of Zhou Shuren; Chinese writer) 1881-1936
Luyken (or Luiken), Jan (or Johannes; Dutch poet, lithographer) 1649-1712
Lu You (or Lu Yu; pseudonym Fangweng; Chinese poet, writer) 1125-1210
Luzan Claramunt de Suelves y Gurrea, Ignacio (Spanish writer) 1702-1754
Luzi, Mario (Italian poet, literary critic, senator-for-life) 1914-2005
Luzzatto, Moshe Hayyim (Italian Kabbalist, poet) 1707-1747
Luzzatto, Samuel David (aka Shedal; Italian scholar) 1800-1865
Lvov, Aleksey Fyodorovich (Russian composer) 1798-1870
Lvov, Georgy Yevgenyevich (Russian politician) 1861-1925
Lwoff, Andre-Michael (French microbiologist) 1902-1994
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich (Russian composer) 1855-1914
Lyapunov, Aleksander Mikhailovich (Russian math., physicist) 1857-1918
Lyautey, Louis-Hubert-Gonzalve (French soldier, col. admin.) 1854-1934
Ly Bon (reign name Li Nam-Viet De Bon; Vietnamese ruler) d.549
Lycon (Greek philosopher; head of Peripatetic school 270-226) 3rd cent. BC
Lycophron of Chalcis (Greek poet, scholar) 3rd cent. BC
Lycurgus (Spartan lawgiver) 9th cent. BC
Lycurgus (Athenian orator, financier) c.390-324 BC
Lydekker, Richard (English naturalist, geologist) 1849-1915
Lydgate, John (English poet, Benedictine monk) c.1370-c.1450
Lydon, John Joseph (Johnny Rotten; British musician) b.1956
Lydon, Susan née Gordon (American writer, editor) 1943-2005
Lye, Leonard Charles Huia "Len" (New Zealand-born Am. artist) 1901-1980
Lyell, Sir Charles (Scottish-born British geologist) 1797-1875
Lykken, David Thoreson (Am. psychologist; polygraph test exp.) 1928-2006
Lyly, John (English writer, poet, dramatist) 1554?-1606
Lyman, Arthur (American musician) 1932-2002
Lyman, Theodore (American physicist) 1874-1954
Lynch, Benito (Argentinian writer) 1885-1951
Lynch, Charles (American magistrate; source of word "lynch") 1736-1796
Lynch, David Keith (Am. filmmaker, painter, Eagle Scout) b.1946
Lynch, John Roy (American lawyer, politician, army officer) 1847-1939
Lynch, Thomas (American planter, patriot) 1749-1779
Lynd, Helen née Merrell (American sociologist; wife of Robert) 1896-1982
Lynd, Robert Staughton (American sociologist; husband of Helen) 1892-1970
Lynd, Robert Wilson (Irish writer) 1879-1949
Lynd, Sarah née Dryhurst (English poet) 1888-1952
Lynen, Feodor Felix Konrad (German biochemist) 1911-1979
Lyon, Corneille de (Dutch-born French painter) c.1500-1574?
Lyon, Mary Frances (English geneticist) b.1925
Lyon, Mary Mason (American educator) 1797-1849
Lyon, Nathaniel (American army officer) 1818-1861
Lyonet, Pierre (Dutch entomologist) 1706-1789
Lyons, James Leroy "Jimmy" (American musician) 1933-1986
Lyons, Joseph Aloysius (Australian prime minister 1931-1939) 1879-1939
Lyot, Bernard-Ferdinand (French astronomer) 1897-1952
Lyotard, Jean-Francois (French philosopher) b.1924
Lysander (Spartan naval & military commander) d.395 BC
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (Soviet biologist, agronomist) 1898-1976
Lysias (Athenian orator) c.445-380? BC
Lysias (Syrian general) d.162 BC
Lysimachus (Macedonian general under Alexander the Great) c.355-281 BC
Lysippus (Greek sculptor) 4th cent. BC
Lysis of Tarentum (Greek philosopher) 4th cent. BC
Lyttelton, George (English politician, man of letters) 1709-1773
Lyttle, Thomas (American publisher, editor, bibliophile) 1955-2008
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (Eng. writer, polit.) 1803-1873
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton (English politician, poet) 1831-1891

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