| Raab, Esther (Tikvan-born Hebrew poet, writer) |
1894-1981 |
| Raab, Julius (Austrian politician) |
1891-1964 |
| Raabe, Wilhelm (pseud. Jakob Corvinus) (German poet, novelist) |
1831-1910 |
| Rabanus Maurus (Frankish theologian, scholar, teacher) |
c.780-856 |
| Rabassa, Gregory (American translator) |
b.1922 |
| Rabaud, Henri-Benjamin (French conductor, composer) |
1873-1949 |
| Rabaut, Paul (French Huguenot leader) |
1718-1794 |
| Rabbula (Syrian bishop) |
c.350-c.435 |
| Rabe, David William (American playwright) |
b.1940 |
| Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph (Malagasy poet, proofreader) |
1901-1937 |
| Rabelais, Francois (pseud. Alcofribas Nasier) (French writer) |
c.1483-1553 |
| Rabemananjara, Jacques (Malagasy politician, playwright, poet) |
b.1913 |
| Rabener, Gottlieb Wilhelm (German satirist) |
1714-1771 |
| Rabi'ah al'Adawiyah (Rabi'ah of Basra) (Arab mystic, poet) |
713?-801 |
| Rabih az-Zubayr (Muslim military leader in central Africa) |
d.1900 |
| Rabi, Isidor Isaac (Australian-born American physicist) |
1898-1988 |
| Rabikovitch, Dalia (Israeli poet, writer) |
b.1936 |
| Rabinowitz, Sholem Yakov (Shalom Aleichem) (Russian humorist) |
1859-1916 |
| Rabin, Yitzhak (Israeli general, prime min. 1974-77, 1992-95) |
1922-1995 |
| Rabutin, Roger de (French soldier, libertine, writer) |
1618-1693 |
| Racan, Honorat de Bueil, Seigneur de (French poet) |
1589-1670 |
| Rachel, Mlle (orig. Elisa Felix) (French actor) |
1820-1858 |
| Rachmaninoff, Sergey Vasilyevich (Russian composer, pianist) |
1873-1943 |
| Racine, Jean Baptiste (French dramatist, poet) |
1639-1699 |
| Racine, Louis (French religious poet; son of Jean) |
1692-1763 |
| Rackham, Arthur (English illustrator) |
1867-1939 |
| Racusin, Norman (American businessman; RCA, dev. 8-track tape) |
1920-2002 |
| Raczkiewicz, Wladyslaw (Polish politician) |
1885-1947 |
| Radagaisus (or Radagais) (Germanic chieftain) |
d.406 |
| Radcliffe, Ann née Ward (English novelist) |
1764-1823 |
| Radcliffe (or Radclyffe), Sir James (English Jacobite nobleman) |
1689-1716 |
| Radcliffe, John (English physician) |
1650-1714 |
| Radcliffe (or Radclyffe), Sir Thomas (English governor) |
1526?-1583 |
| Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred Reginald (Brit. social anthropologist) |
1881-1955 |
| Raddall, Thomas Head (English-born Canadian writer) |
b.1903 |
| Radegunda, Saint (Frankish queen, nun) |
d.587 |
| Radek, Karl Bernhardovich (Russian Communist politician) |
1885-1939? |
| Radescu, Nicolae (Romanian army officer, politician) |
1874-1953 |
| Radetzky, Joseph (Austrian field marshal) |
1766-1858 |
| Radewyns, Florentius (Dutch religious leader) |
c.1350-1400 |
| Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (Indian educator, politician) |
1888-1975 |
| Radic, Stjepan (Croatian politician) |
1871-1928 |
| Radich, Stephen John (American art dealer) |
1922-2007 |
| Radiguet, Raymond (French poet, novelist) |
1903-1923 |
| Radin, Paul (Polish-born American anthropologist) |
1883-1959 |
| Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Rus. writer. civil servant) |
1749-1802 |
| Radisson, Pierre Esprit (French fur trader, explorer) |
c.1636-c.1710 |
| Radlov, Vasily Vasilyevich (German-born Russian philologist) |
1837-1918 |
| Radner, Gilda (American actor, comedian) |
1946-1989 |
| Radoslavov, Vasil (Bulgarian politician; premier 1913-1918) |
1854-1929 |
| Radowitz, Joseph Maria von (Prussian general, statesman) |
1797-1853 |
| Radulescu, Ioan Heliade (Romanian writer) |
1802-1872 |
| Rae, John (Scottish arctic explorer) |
1813-1893 |
| Raeburn, Sir Henry (Scottish painter) |
1756-1823 |
| Raeder, Erich (German admiral) |
1876-1960 |
| Raedwald (or Redwald) (King of East Anglia) |
d.624/25 |
| Raegnald (King of York 919-920) |
10th cent. |
| Raemaekers, Louis (Dutch political cartoonist, artist) |
1869-1956 |
| Raff, Joseph Joachim (Swiss-born German composer) |
1822-1882 |
| Raffaelli, Jean-Francois (French painter) |
1850-1924 |
| Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford (English colonial administrator) |
1781-1826 |
| Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (American naturalist) |
1783-1840 |
| Rafn, Carl Christian (Danish philologist, antiquary) |
1795-1864 |
| Rafsanjani, Ali Akbar Hashemi (Iranian president 1989-) |
b.1934 |
| Raghunatha Siromani (Indian philosopher) |
c.1475-c.1550 |
| Raghunath Rao (Maratha leader) |
d.1783 |
| Rahbek, Knud Lyne (Danish poet, writer, literary critic) |
1760-1830 |
| Rahel (b. Rahel Bluwstein) (Russian-born Hebrew poet) |
1890-1931 |
| Rahman, Mujibur (Sheikh Mujib) (Bengali politician) |
1920-1975 |
| Rahman, Shamsur (Bangladeshi poet) |
1929-2006 |
| Rahv, Philip (Ukrainian-born American literary critic) |
1908-1973 |
| Raibolini, Francesco di Marco di Giacomo (Italian painter) |
1450-1517/18 |
| Raiffeisen, Friedrich Wilhelm (German economist) |
1818-1888 |
| Raikes, Robert (English publisher, founder of Sunday schools) |
1736-1811 |
| Raimondi, Marcantonio (Italian engraver) |
c.1480-c.1534 |
| Raimondi, Pietro (Italian composer) |
1786-1853 |
| Raimund (orig. Raimann), Ferdinand (Austrian actor, playwright) |
1790-1836 |
| Raimundo (or Raymond; Don Raimundo) (French prelate in Spain) |
d.1152 |
| Rainald of Dassel (German prelate, politician) |
c.1118-1167 |
| Rainaldi, Carlo (Italian Baroque architect; son of Girolamo) |
1611-1691 |
| Rainaldi, Girolamo (or Hieronimo) (Italian architect) |
1570-1655 |
| Rainborrow (or Rainsborough), Thomas (English soldier) |
d.1648 |
| Raine, Kathleen Jessie (English poet, scholar) |
b.1908 |
| Rainey, Gertrude née Pridgett "Ma Rainey" (American singer) |
1886-1939 |
| Rainey, Henry Thomas (American politician) |
1860-1934 |
| Rainey, Joseph Hayne (American politician) |
1832-1887 |
| Rainier III (prince of Monaco 1949-) |
b.1923 |
| Rainulf of Aversa (aka Ranulph Drengo) (Norman leader) |
d.1045 |
| Rainwater, Leo James (American physicist) |
1917-1986 |
| Rainy, Robert (Scottish religious leader) |
1826-1906 |
| Rais (or Rays, Retz), Gilles de (French soldier) |
1404-1440 |
| Rai Srivastana, Dhanpat (pseud. Prem Chand) (Indian writer) |
1880-1936 |
| Raisuli, Ahmad ibn Muhammad (Moroccan brigand) |
1875?-1925 |
| Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti (Indian nationalist leader) |
1879-1972 |
| Raja Haji (Buginese soldier, politician) |
d.1784 |
| Rajaraja I (Indian king 985-1014) |
d.1014 |
| Raja Rao (born without surname) (Indian writer) |
1908-2006 |
| Rajendra (Indian king 1014-1044; son of Rajaraja I) |
d.1044 |
| Rakosi, Carl (American poet, social worker, psychotherapist) |
b.1903 |
| Rakosi, Matyas (Hungarian politician) |
1892-1971 |
| Rakovski, Georgi Sava (Bulgarian revolutionary leader, writer) |
1821-1867 |
| Rakovsky, Khristian Georgiyevich (Bulg.-born Rus. polit., dip.) |
1873-1938? |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter (English courtier, navigator, hist., poet) |
1554-1618 |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter Alexander (English critic, essayist) |
1861-1922 |
| Rallis, George (Greek prime minister 1980-1981) |
b.1918 |
| Ralph of Coggeshall (English chronicler) |
d.c.1227 |
| Ralph, James (American writer) |
1695?-1762 |
| Rama I (King of Siam 1782-1809) |
1737-1809 |
| Rama VI (orig. Chao Fa MahaVajiravudh) (King of Siam 1910-1925) |
1881-1925 |
| Rama VII (orig. Prajadhipok) (King of Siam 1925-1935) |
1893-1941 |
| Ramadan, Tariq Said (Swiss-born Muslim scholar) |
b.1962 |
| Ramakrishna (aka Gadadhar Chatterji) (Hindu religious) |
1836-1886 |
| Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (Indian physicist) |
1888-1970 |
| Ramana Maharishi "Sri" (Indian Hindu philosopher, yogi) |
1879-1950 |
| Ramanand (or Ramananda, Ramadatta) (North Indian Brahmin) |
c.1400-c.1470 |
| Ramanatha (Ruler of Hoysala kingdom in southern India) |
d.1295 |
| Ramanuja (also Ramanujacarya) (Indian religious teacher) |
c.1017-1137 |
| Ramanujan, Attipat Krishnaswami (Indian-born American writer) |
1929-1993 |
| Ramanujan, Srinivasa Aaiyangar (Indian mathematician) |
1887-1920 |
| Ramathibodi I (Thai warrior chief, ruler) |
1312-1369 |
| Ramatirtha (orig. Tirath Rama) (Indian Hindu religious) |
1873-1906 |
| Ramazzini, Bernardino (Italian physician) |
1633-1714 |
| Rambert, Dame Marie (Polish-born British ballet producer, dir.) |
1888-1982 |
| Rambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne (Italian-born French hostess) |
1588-1665 |
| Ram Das (aka Bhai Jetha) (Sikh leader) |
1534-1581 |
| Ram Dass (orig. Richard Alpert) (American psychologist) |
b.1931 |
| Rameau, Jean-Philippe (French composer) |
1683-1764 |
| Ramee, Marie Louise de la (pseud. Ouida) (English novelist) |
1839-1908 |
| Ramenghi, Bartolommeo "Il Bagnacavallo" (Italian painter) |
1484-1542 |
| Ramirez, Pedro Pablo (Argentinean cavalry officer, politician) |
1884-1962 |
| Ramiro I (King of Aragon 1035-1063) |
d.1063 |
| Ramiro II (el Monje, "the Monk") (King of Aragon 1134-1137) |
d.1154 |
| Ramis, Harold Allen (American film actor, director, producer) |
b.1944 |
| Ramkhamhaeng (Rama the Strong) (King of Sukhothai) |
fl.c.1279-c.1317 |
| Ramler, Karl Wilhelm (German poet) |
1725-1798 |
| Ramon, Gaston-Leon (French bacteriologist) |
1886-1963 |
| Ramon y Cajal, Santiago (Spanish histologist) |
1852-1934 |
| Ramone, Dee Dee (Douglas Glenn Colvin) (American musician) |
1952-2002 |
| Ramos, Fidel Valdez (Philippines general; president 1992-) |
b.1928 |
| Ramos, Graciliano (Brazilian novelist) |
1892-1953 |
| Rampal, Jean-Pierre (French flutist, conductor, teacher) |
1922-2000 |
| Rampolla, Marciano (Marchese del Tindaro) (Italian prelate) |
1843-1913 |
| Ramsay, Allan (Scottish poet, literary antiquary, wigmaker) |
1686-1758 |
| Ramsay, Allan (Scottish painter; son of Allan) |
1713-1784 |
| Ramsay, James Andrew Broun (British colonial administrator) |
1812-1860 |
| Ramsay, Sir John (Scottish conspirator, court favorite) |
1580?-1626 |
| Ramsay, Sir William (British chemist) |
1852-1916 |
| Ramsden, Jesse (English astronomical instrument maker) |
1735-1800 |
| Ramses I (Egyptian king 1320-1318 BC) |
14th cent. BC |
| Ramses II (Egyptian king 1304-1237 BC) |
14-13th cent. BC |
| Ramses III (Egyptian king 1198-1166 BC) |
12th cent. BC |
| Ramsey, Arthur Michael (Brit. archbishop of Canterbury 1961-74) |
1904-1988 |
| Ramsey, Frank Plumpton (British mathematical logician) |
1903-1930 |
| Ramsey, Norman Foster Jr. (American physicist) |
b.1915 |
| Ram Singh (Indian Sikh leader) |
1816-1885 |
| Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (Italian geographer) |
1485-1557 |
| Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand (Swiss novelist) |
1878-1947 |
| Ranade, Mahadev Govind (Indian Brahman lawyer, reformer) |
1842-1901 |
| Ranaivo, Flavien (Malagasy poet) |
b.1914 |
| Rana Sanga (King of Mewar) |
16th cent. |
| Ranaldo, Lee (American musician) |
b.1956 |
| Rance, Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de (French Trappist monk) |
1626-1700 |
| Rand, Ayn (Alissa Franzevna Rosenbaum)(Russian-born Am. writer) |
1905-1982 |
| Rand, Sally (orig. Helen Gould Beck) (American entertainer) |
1904-1979 |
| Randall, James Ryder (American journalist, song writer) |
1839-1908 |
| Randall, Samuel Jackson (American politician) |
1828-1890 |
| Randall-MacIver, David (British archaeologist, anthropologist) |
1873-1945 |
| Randolph, Asa Phillip (American labor leader) |
1889-1979 |
| Randolph, Edmund Jennings (American lawyer, politician) |
1753-1813 |
| Randolph, Edward (British agent in America) |
1632-1703 |
| Randolph, Homer Louis III "Boots" (American musician) |
1927-2007 |
| Randolph, John (John Randolph of Roanoke) (American politician) |
1773-1833 |
| Randolph, Peyton (American lawyer, politician) |
1721?-1775 |
| Randolph, Sir Thomas (1st Earl of Moray) (Scottish statesman) |
d.1332 |
| Randolph, Thomas (English poet, dramatist) |
1605-1635 |
| Randolph, William (English-born Am. planter, administrator) |
1651?-1711 |
| Rangstrom, Anders Johan Ture (Swedish composer) |
1884-1947 |
| Ranjit Singh (Lion of the Punjab) (Indian fdr. of Sikh kingdom) |
1780-1839 |
| Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji (Rajput nobleman) |
1872-1933 |
| Rank, Joseph Arthur (British industrialist, film magnate) |
1888-1972 |
| Rank, Otto (Austrian psychoanalyst) |
1884-1939 |
| Ranke, Leopold von (German historian) |
1795-1886 |
| Rankin, Jeannette (American reformer) |
1880-1973 |
| Rankine, William John Macquorn (Scottish civil eng., physicist) |
1820-1872 |
| Ransom, John Crowe (American critic, poet, teacher) |
1888-1974 |
| Ransome, Arthur Mitchell (English author) |
1884-1967 |
| Rantzau, Johan (German soldier) |
1492-1565 |
| Ranulf (or Randulph) de Blundeville (English feudal leader) |
c.1172-1232 |
| Ranulf de Gernons (Anglo-Norman military leader) |
c.1100-1153 |
| Ranvier, Louis-Antoine (French histologist) |
1835-1922 |
| Rao, Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha (Indian prime min. 1991-) |
b.1921 |
| Rao, Raja (Indian writer, educator) |
b.1909 |
| Raoul de Houdenc (or Houdan) (French trouvere poet-musician) |
fl. c.1200-1230 |
| Raoult, Francois-Marie (French physicist, chemist) |
1830-1901 |
| Rapacki, Adam (Polish economist, politician) |
1909-1970 |
| Raphael (surnamed Sanzio) (Italian painter) |
1483-1520 |
| Rapisardi, Mario (Italian poet) |
1844-1912 |
| Rapp, George (orig. Johann George)(German-born Am. rel. leader) |
1757-1847 |
| Rapp, Jean (French general) |
1772-1821 |
| Rasch, Albertina (Austrian-born American dancer, choreographer) |
1896-1967 |
| Rashid ad-Din (Persian physician, politician, historian) |
1247-1318 |
| Rashid Rida, Muhammad (Syrian Muslim theologian) |
1865-1935 |
| Rasin, Alois (Czech politician) |
1867-1923 |
| Rask, Rasmus Kristian (Danish philologist, Orientalist) |
1787-1832 |
| Rasmussen, Halfdan (Danish poet) |
b.1915 |
| Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor (Danish explorer, ethnologist) |
1879-1933 |
| Rasmussen, Steen Eiler (Danish architect, educator, author) |
1898-1990 |
| Raspe, Rudolph Erich (German scholar, adventurer) |
1737-1794 |
| Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich (Russian mystic, court favorite) |
1872-1916 |
| Rassam, Hormuzd (Turkish Assyriologist) |
1826-1910 |
| Rastell, John (English printer, dramatist) |
c.1475-1536 |
| Rastell, William (English printer; son of John) |
1508-1565 |
| Ratana, Tahupotiki Wiremu (Maori political & religious leader) |
1870-1939 |
| Rather, Dan (American journalist) |
b.1931 |
| Ratdolt, Erhard (German printer, type cutter) |
1447-1528 |
| Rateau, Camille-Edmond-Auguste (French engineer) |
1863-1930 |
| Rathenau, Emil (German industrialist) |
1838-1915 |
| Rathenau, Walther (German industrialist; son of Emil) |
1867-1922 |
| Rathke, Martin Heinrich (German anatomist) |
1793-1860 |
| Ratia, Armi (Finnish textile designer) |
1912-1979 |
| Ratke (or Ratich), Wolfgang (German educational reformer) |
1571-1635 |
| Ratramnus (French theologian) |
d.c.868 |
| Ratsch, Christian (German-born anthropologist, scholar) |
b.1957 |
| Rattazzi, Urbano (Italian Piedmontese politician) |
1808-1873 |
| Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn (English dramatist) |
1911-1977 |
| Ratushinskaya, Irina Georgiyevna (Rus. poet, polit. dissident) |
b.1954 |
| Ratzel, Friedrich (German geographer, ethnographer) |
1844-1904 |
| Ratzenhofer, Gustav (Austrian general, philosopher, sociol.) |
1842-1904 |
| Rau, Sir Benegal Narsing (Indian jurist) |
1887-1953 |
| Raunkaier, Christen (Danish botanist) |
1860-1938 |
| Raupach, Ernst Benjamin Salomon (German dramatist) |
1784-1852 |
| Rauschenberg, Robert (American artist) |
b.1925 |
| Rauschenbusch, Walter (American clergyman) |
1861-1918 |
| Rauscher, Joseph Othmar von (Austrian prelate) |
1797-1875 |
| Ravaillac, Francois (French schoolmaster, assassin) |
1578-1610 |
| Ravaisson-Mollien, Jean-Gaspard-Felix Lacher (Fr. philosopher) |
1813-1900 |
| Ravel, Joseph-Maurice (French composer) |
1875-1937 |
| Raven, Simon Arthur Noel (Eng. writer, playwright, journalist) |
b.1927 |
| Ravenscroft, George (English glassmaker) |
1618-1681 |
| Ravenscroft, Thomas (English composer) |
c.1583-c.1633 |
| Ravenscroft, Thurl Arthur (American voice actor) |
1914-2005 |
| Rawdon-Hastings, Francis (British soldier, colonial admin.) |
1754-1826 |
| Rawlings, Marjorie née Kinnan (American novelist) |
1896-1953 |
| Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke (Eng. army officer, Orientalist) |
1810-1895 |
| Rawson, Arturo (Argentinean cavalry officer) |
1884-1952 |
| Ray, John (also John Wray) (English naturalist, zoologist) |
1627-1705 |
| Ray, Man (orig. Emmanuel Rudnitsky) (Am. painter, photographer) |
1890-1976 |
| Ray, Rammohan (Indian religious, social reformer) |
1772-1833 |
| Ray, Satyajit (Indian film director, writer, producer) |
1921-1992 |
| Rayburn, Samuel Taliaferro (American politician) |
1882-1961 |
| Rayet, Georges-Antoine-Pons (French astronomer) |
1839-1906 |
| Raymond of Penafort, Saint (Spanish Dominican monk, theologian) |
c.1185-1275 |
| Raymond of Poitiers (French prince of Antioch) |
1099-1149 |
| Raymond of Sabunde (Spanish theologian) |
d.1436 |
| Raymond, Alexander Gillespie (American cartoonist) |
1909-1956 |
| Raymond, Antonin (Bohemian-born American architect) |
1888-1976 |
| Raymond, Henry Jarvis (American journalist, politician) |
1820-1869 |
| Raymond, Percy Edward (American paleontologist, stratigrapher) |
1879-1952 |
| Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-Francois de (Fr. hist., philosopher) |
1713-1796 |
| Raynal, Paul (French playwright) |
1885-1971 |
| Raynouard, Francois-Juste-Marie (French scholar, playwright) |
1761-1836 |
| Raymov (or Rainov), Nikolay Ivanov (Bulg. poet, painter, hist.) |
1889-1954 |
| Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar- (Persian physician) |
c.865-923/35 |
| Razin, Stepan Timofeyevich (Stenka Razin) (Rus. Cossack rebel) |
d.1671 |
| Raziya (or Raziyyat-ud-din) (Queen of Delhi 1236-1240) |
d.1240 |
| Read, Albert Cushing (American naval officer) |
1887-1967 |
| Read, George (American lawyer, Revolutionary leader) |
1733-1798 |
| Read, Sir Herbert (English poet, art critic, literary critic) |
1893-1968 |
| Read, Herbert Harold (British geologist) |
1889-1970 |
| Read, Opie Percival (American journalist, humorist, writer) |
1852-1939 |
| Reade, Charles (English novelist, dramatist) |
1814-1884 |
| Reading, 1st Marquis of (Rufus Daniel Isaacs) (Brit. polit.) |
1860-1935 |
| Reading, John (English composer; composed "Adeste Fideles") |
1677-1764 |
| Reagan, Maureen Elizabeth (American activist) |
b.1941 |
| Reagan, Anne Frances Robbins "Nancy" née Davis (Am. first lady) |
b.1923 |
| Reagan, Ronald Wilson (Am. actor, 40th U.S. president, 1981-89) |
1911-2004 |
| Reaney, James Crerar (Canadian poet, playwright) |
b.1926 |
| Reaumur, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de (Fr. naturalist, physicist) |
1683-1757 |
| Rebelo, Jorge (Mozambican poet, lawyer, journalist) |
b.1940 |
| Reber, Grote (American radio engineer) |
b.1911 |
| Reber, Napoleon-Henri (French composer) |
1807-1880 |
| Rebikov, Vladimir Ivanovich (Russian composer) |
1866-1920 |
| Rebmann, Johannes (German missionary, traveler, explorer) |
1820-1876 |
| Rebreanu, Liviu (Romanian novelist) |
1885-1944 |
| Recamier, Jeanne-Francoise-Julie-Adelaide née Bernard (Fr. wit) |
1777-1849 |
| Rechberg und Rothenlowen, Johann Bernhard von (Austrian polit.) |
1806-1899 |
| Rechtin, Eberhardt (American engineer) |
1926-2006 |
| Rechy, John Francisco (American writer, teacher) |
b.1934 |
| Recklinghausen, Friedrich Daniel von (German pathologist) |
1833-1910 |
| Reclus, Jean-Jacques-Elisee (French geographer) |
1830-1905 |
| Recorde, Robert (English mathematician; introduced equals sign) |
c.1510-1558 |
| Recto, Claro Mayo (Philippine politician) |
1890-1960 |
| Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta) (American Indian chief) |
1822-1909 |
| Redding, Noel (b. David Redding) (English musician) |
1945-2003 |
| Red Eagle (William Weatherford) (American Indian leader) |
1780?-1825 |
| Redfield, Robert (American cultural anthropologist) |
1897-1958 |
| Redi, Francesco (Italian physician, naturalist, poet) |
1626-1697 |
| Reding, Aloys (Swiss politician) |
1765-1818 |
| Reding, Ital (Swiss politician) |
d.1447 |
| Red Jacket (orig. Otetiani; Sagoyewatha) (Am. Seneca chief) |
1756?-1830 |
| Redlich, Joseph (Austrian jurist, politician) |
1869-1936 |
| Redman, Joshua (American saxophonist) |
b.1962 |
| Redman, Walter "Dewey" (American musician) |
1931-2006 |
| Redmond, John Edward (Irish politician) |
1856-1918 |
| Redon, Odilon (French painter, lithographer, engraver) |
1840-1916 |
| Redpath, James (Scottish-born American journalist) |
1833-1891 |
| Reed, Sir Carol (English film director) |
1906-1976 |
| Reed, Ishmael Scott (American novelist, poet, essayist) |
b.1938 |
| Reed, Isaac (English editor) |
1742-1807 |
| Reed, John (American journalist, poet, radical leader) |
1887-1920 |
| Reed, Joseph (American Revolutionary commander, politician) |
1741-1785 |
| Reed, Lou (Louis Firbank) (American musician) |
b.1943 |
| Reed, Stanley Forman (American Supreme Court justice 1938-1957) |
1884-1980 |
| Reed, Thomas Brackett (American politician) |
1839-1902 |
| Reed, Walter (American army surgeon, bacteriologist) |
1851-1902 |
| Reese, Charley (American journalist, essayist) |
b.1937 |
| Reese, Lizette Woodworth (American poet) |
1856-1935 |
| Reeve, Clara (English novelist) |
1729-1807 |
| Reeve, Tapping (American lawyer, educator) |
1744-1823 |
| Reeves, William Pember (New Zealand journalist, polit., econ.) |
1857-1932 |
| Regener, Erich Rudolph Alexander (German physicist) |
1881-1955 |
| Reger, Johann Joseph Maximillian "Max" (German composer) |
1873-1916 |
| Reginald (or Raynald) of Chatillon (French crusader) |
d.1187 |
| Regino von Prum (also Reginon) (German monk, chronicler) |
d.c.915 |
| Regiomontanus (Johann Muller) (German math., astronomer) |
1436-1476 |
| Regnard, Jean-Francois (French playwright) |
1655-1709 |
| Regnault, Henri-Victor (French chemist, physicist) |
1810-1878 |
| Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angely, Michel-Louis-Etienne (Fr. pol) |
1761-1819 |
| Regnier, Claude-Ambroise (Duc de Massa) (French politician) |
1746-1814 |
| Regnier, Henri-Francois-Joseph de (Fr. poet, critic, novelist) |
1864-1936 |
| Regnier, Mathurin (French poet; nephew of Philippe Desportes) |
1573-1613 |
| Regulus, Marcus Atilius (Roman hero) |
d.c.250 |
| Rehan, Ada (orig. surname Crehan) (Irish-born American actor) |
1857-1916 |
| Rehnquist, William Hubbs (Am. Sup. Ct. Chief Justice 1986-2005) |
1924-2005 |
| Rehoboam (King of Judah c.934-917 BC) |
10th cent. BC |
| Reich, Robert Bernard (American Secy. of Labor 1993-) |
b.1946 |
| Reich, Wilhelm (Austrian psychoanalyst) |
1897-1957 |
| Reicha, Anton (Czech composer, music theorist) |
1770-1836 |
| Reichardt, Johann Friedrich (Ger. composer, conductor, writer) |
1752-1814 |
| Reichel, Hans (German composer, inventor, luthier, designer) |
b.1949 |
| Reichenau, Walther von (German field marshal) |
1884-1942 |
| Reichenbach, Georg von (German scientific instrument maker) |
1772-1826 |
| Reichenbach, Hans (German philosopher, educator) |
1891-1953 |
| Reichenbach, Karl Ludwig (German natural philosopher, indust.) |
1788-1869 |
| Reichstein, Tadeus (Polish-born Swiss biochemist) |
b.1897 |
| Reid, Forrest (Irish novelist, critic) |
1875-1947 |
| Reid, Sir George Houston (Scottish-born Australian politician) |
1845-1918 |
| Reid, Harry Fielding (American geologist) |
1859-1944 |
| Reid, Samuel Chester (American naval officer) |
1783-1861 |
| Reid, Thomas (Scottish philosopher) |
1710-1796 |
| Reid, Thomas Mayne (Irish writer) |
1818-1883 |
| Reid, Sir Thomas Wemyss (English journalist, biographer) |
1842-1905 |
| Reid, Whitelaw (American journalist, diplomat) |
1837-1912 |
| Reid, Sir William (British meteorologist, soldier, col. admin.) |
1791-1858 |
| Reidy, Affonso Eduardo (Brazilian architect) |
1909-1964 |
| Reik, Dr. Theodor (American psychoanalyst) |
1888-1969 |
| Reil, Johann Christian (German physician) |
1759-1813 |
| Reille, Honore-Charles-Michel-Joseph (French soldier) |
1775-1860 |
| Reimarus, Hermann Samuel (German theologian, nat. philosopher) |
1694-1768 |
| Reina Barrios, Jose Maria (Guatemalan politician) |
1853-1898 |
| Reinecke, Carl Heinrich Carsten (German pianist, comp., cond.) |
1824-1910 |
| Reiner, Fritz (Hungarian-born American conductor) |
1888-1963 |
| Reines, Frederick (American physicist) |
b.1918 |
| Reinhard, Hans (Swiss politician) |
1755-1835 |
| Reinhardt, Adolf Frederick "Ad" (American painter) |
1913-1967 |
| Reinhardt, Django (orig. Jean-Baptiste)(Belg.-b. Fr. guitarist) |
1910-1953 |
| Reinhardt, Max (orig. Max Goldmann) (Austrian theatrical dir.) |
1873-1943 |
| Reinhold, Erasmus (German astronomer) |
1511-1553 |
| Reinken, Johann Adam (German organist, composer) |
1623-1722 |
| Reinkens, Joseph Hubert (German theologian, bishop) |
1821-1896 |
| Reinmar von Hagenau (German minnesinger, knight of Alsace) |
d.c.1205 |
| Reis, Johann Philipp (German physicist) |
1834-1874 |
| Reiske, Johann Jakob (German philologist) |
1716-1774 |
| Reisner, George Andrew (American archaeologist) |
1867-1942 |
| Reis Pereira, Jose Maris dos (aka Jose Regio) (Port. writer) |
1901-1969 |
| Reissiger, Karl Gottlieb (German composer) |
1798-1859 |
| Reith, Sir John Charles Walsham (British government official) |
1889-1971 |
| Rej, Mikolaj (Polish writer) |
1505-1569 |
| Rejlander, Oscar Gustav (Swedish photographer) |
19th cent. |
| Relander, Lauri Kristian (Finnish politician; pres. 1925-1931) |
1883-1942 |
| Relly, James (British religious leader) |
1722?-1778 |
| Remak, Robert (German physician, physiologist) |
1815-1865 |
| Remarque, Erich Maria (German-born Am. novelist, journalist) |
1898-1970 |
| Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn) (Dutch painter, etcher) |
1606-1669 |
| Remi (or Remy), Saint (Remigius) (Frankish prelate) |
437?-533? |
| Remington, Eliphalet (American firearms manufacturer) |
1793-1861 |
| Remington, Frederic Cackrider (American painter, sculptor) |
1861-1909 |
| Remington, Frederic (American painter, illustrator. sculptor) |
1861-1909 |
| Remington, Philo (American manufacturer; son of Eliphalet) |
1816-1889 |
| Remizov, Aleksey Mikhaylovich (Rus. nov., short-story writer) |
1877-1957 |
| Remsen, Ira (American chemist, educator) |
1846-1927 |
| Renan, Joseph-Ernest (French philosopher, philologist, hist.) |
1823-1892 |
| Renard, Alphonse Francoise (Belgian geologist) |
1842-1903 |
| Renard, Charles (French military engineer) |
1847-1905 |
| Renard, Jules (French writer) |
1864-1910 |
| Renart, Jean (French poet, writer) |
fl. 1200-1222 |
| Renaudot, Theophraste (French physician, journalist) |
1586?-1653 |
| Renault, Louis (French jurist, pacifist) |
1843-1918 |
| Renault, Louis (French industrialist; fd. Renault Freres 1899) |
1877-1944 |
| Renault, Mary (pen name of Mary Challans) (English writer) |
1905-1983 |
| Rendell, Ruth Barbara née Grasemann (British writer) |
b.1930 |
| Renger-Patzsch, Albert (German photographer) |
1897-1966 |
| Reni, Guido (Italian painter) |
1575-1642 |
| Renn, Ludwig (Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golssenau) (Ger. wtr.) |
1889-1979 |
| Rennell, James (English geographer) |
1742-1830 |
| Rennenkampf, Pavel Karlovich (Russian general of cavalry) |
1854-1918 |
| Renner, Karl (Austrian politician; president 1945-1950) |
1870-1950 |
| Rennie, George (Scottish civil engineer; son of John) |
1791-1866 |
| Rennie, John (Scottish civil engineer) |
1761-1821 |
| Rennie, Sir John (Scottish civil engineer; son of John) |
1794-1874 |
| Rennyo (Japanese Buddhist leader) |
1415-1499 |
| Reno, Janet (American lawyer; U.S. Attorney General 1993-) |
b.1938 |
| Reno, Jesse Lee (American army officer) |
1823-1862 |
| Renoir, Jean (French film director, writer; son of Pierre) |
1894-1979 |
| Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (French painter) |
1841-1919 |
| Renouvier, Charles-Bernard (French idealistic philosopher) |
1815-1903 |
| Renshaw, Ernest (English tennis player; twin of William) |
1861-1899 |
| Renshaw, William (English tennis player) |
1861-1904 |
| Rensselaer, Kiliaen (or Killian) van (Dutch merchant) |
1595-1644 |
| Renwick, James (Scottish Covenanter) |
1662-1688 |
| Renwick, James (American architect) |
1818-1895 |
| Repin, Ilya Yefimovich (Russian painter) |
1844-1930 |
| Repnin, Anikita Ivanovich (Russian general, prince) |
1668-1726 |
| Repnin, Nikolay Vasilyevich (Rus. general; grandson of Anikita) |
1734-1801 |
| Repplier, Agnes (American writer) |
1855-1950 |
| Repton, Humphrey (English landscape designer) |
1752-1818 |
| Requesens y Zuniga, Luis de (Spanish soldier) |
1528-1576 |
| Resende, Garcia de (Portuguese poet, chronicler, editor) |
c.1470-1536 |
| Reshetovskaya, Natalya Alekseyevna (Russian chemist) |
1919-2003 |
| Resid Pasa (or Reshid Pasha), Mustafa (Turkish statesman) |
1800-1858 |
| Resnais, Alain (French film director) |
b.1922 |
| Respighi, Ottorino (Italian composer) |
1879-1936 |
| Ressel, Josef Ludwig Franz (Austrian inventor) |
1793-1857 |
| Restif, Nicolas-Edme (Restif de La Bretonne) (French novelist) |
1734-1806 |
| Reston, James Barrett (American journalist) |
b.1909 |
| Restrepo, Carlos E. (Colombian politician; pres. 1910-1914) |
1867-1937 |
| Restrepo, Jose Manuel (Colombian historian) |
1781-1863 |
| Rethel, Alfred (German historical painter) |
1816-1859 |
| Reti, Richard (Hungarian chess master) |
1889-1929 |
| Reti, Rudolph (Serbian music critic, composer) |
1885-1957 |
| Retief, Pieter "Piet" (South African Boer leader) |
1780-1838 |
| Retz, Cardinal de (Jean de Gondi) (French prelate, politician) |
1613-1679 |
| Retzius, Anders Adolf (Swedish anatomist, anthropologist) |
1796-1860 |
| Retzius, Gustaf Magnus (Swedish anthropologist, anatomist) |
1842-1919 |
| Reubeni, David (Arabian Jewish adventurer) |
d.1532? |
| Reuchlin, Johannes (Grecized form: Capnio) (German Humanist) |
1455-1522 |
| Reuter, Christian (German dramatist, novelist) |
1665-1712? |
| Reuter, Ernst (German politician) |
1889-1953 |
| Reuter, Fritz (German writer) |
1810-1874 |
| Reuter, Paul Julius von (German-born British journalist) |
1816-1899 |
| Reuther, Walter Philip (American labor leader) |
1907-1970 |
| Reve, Gerard Kornelis van het (Dutch writer, journalist) |
b.1923 |
| Revel (b. Ricard), Jean-Francois (French philosopher, writer) |
1924-2006 |
| Revell, Viljo (Finnish architect) |
1910-1964 |
| Revels, Hiram Rhoades (American clergyman, educator, polit.) |
1822-1901 |
| Reventlow, Christian Ditlev Frederick (Danish state official) |
1748-1827 |
| Reverdy, Pierre (French poet, essayist) |
1889-1960 |
| Revere, Paul (American patriot, silversmith, engraver) |
1735-1818 |
| Revius, Jacobus (Jacob van Reefsen) (Dutch poet, theologian) |
1586-1658 |
| Revueltas, Jose (Mexican poet, writer, essayist, journalist) |
1914-1975 |
| Rexroth, Kenneth (American essayist, poet, translator) |
1905-1982 |
| Rey, H.A. (Hans Augusto) (German-born artist, writer) |
1898-1977 |
| Rey, Margaret Elisabeth (German-born artist, news reporter) |
1906-1996 |
| Reyes, Alfonso (Mexican poet, critic, diplomat) |
1889-1959 |
| Reyes Prieto, Rafael (Colombian explorer, soldier, author) |
1850-1921 |
| Reyles, Carlos (Uruguayan novelist) |
1868-1938 |
| Reymont, Wladyslaw Stanislaw née Rejment (Polish writer) |
1867-1925 |
| Reynaud, Paul (French politician; prime minister 1940) |
1878-1966 |
| Reynolds, Sir Joshua (English portrait painter) |
1723-1792 |
| Reynolds, Osborne (British engineer, physicist) |
1842-1912 |
| Reynolds, Walter (English prelate; archbishop of Canterbury) |
d.1327 |
| Reza 'Abbasi (Persian painter) |
1575?-1635? |
| Rezanov, Nikolay Petrovich (Russian entrepreneur in Alaska) |
1764-1807 |
| Reza Shah Pahlavi (Shah of Iran 1925-41; father of M. Pahlavi) |
1878-1944 |
| Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von (Austrian composer) |
1860-1945 |
| Reznikoff, Charles (American poet, writer) |
1894-1976 |
| Rhaticus (orig. Georg Joachim Iserin)(German astronomer, math.) |
1514-1576 |
| Rhee, Syngman (Korean politician; president 1948-1960) |
1875-1965 |
| Rheinberger, Joseph Gabriel (German composer, organist, cond.) |
1839-1901 |
| Rhett, Robert Barnwell (orig. surname Smith) (American polit.) |
1800-1876 |
| Rhianus (Greek scholar, poet of Crete) |
b.c.275 BC |
| Rhine, Joseph Banks (American psychologist) |
1895-1980 |
| Rhinthon (Greek playwright) |
fl. c.300 BC |
| Rhodes, Alexandre de (French Jesuit missionary) |
1591-1660 |
| Rhodes, Cecil John (British colonial administrator, financier) |
1853-1902 |
| Rhodes, James Ford (American historian) |
1848-1927 |
| Rhondda, 1st Viscount (Welsh colliery owner, gov. official) |
1856-1918 |
| Rhys, Ernest Percival (English editor, writer) |
1859-1946 |
| Rhys, Jean (West Indian-born British writer) |
1894-1979 |
| Rhys, Sir John (Welsh scholar) |
1840-1915 |
| Rhys, Sion Dafydd (or John David) (Welsh physician, grammarian) |
1534-c.1609 |
| Ribadeneyra, Pedro de (Spanish hagiologist) |
1527-1611 |
| Ribalta, Francisco (Spanish painter) |
1565-1628 |
| Ribas, Oscar Bento (Angolan folklorist, writer) |
b.1909 |
| Ribault, Jean (French naval officer, colonizer in America) |
1520?-1565 |
| Ribbentrop, Joachim von (German diplomat) |
1893-1946 |
| Ribeiro, Aquilino Gomes (Portuguese writer, activist) |
1885-1963 |
| Ribeiro, Bernardim (Portuguese writer) |
1482-1552 |
| Ribeiro Couto, Rui (Brazilian poet, writer) |
1898-1963 |
| Ribera, Jose de (Lo Spagnoletto) (Spanish painter, etcher) |
1588-1652 |
| Ribeyro, Julio Ramon(Peruvian writer, playwright) |
1929-1994 |
| Ribot, Marc (American musician, composer) |
b.1954 |
| Ribot, Theodule-Armand (French psychologist) |
1839-1916 |
| Ricardo, David (English economist) |
1772-1823 |
| Ricardo Leite, Cassiano (Brazilian poet, essayist, lit. critic) |
1895-1974 |
| Ricasoli, Bettino (Baron of Brolio) (Italian politician) |
1809-1880 |
| Ricaurte, George Augusto (Ecuador-born American neurologist) |
b.1953? |
| Riccati, Jacopo Francesco (Italian nobleman, mathematician) |
1676-1754 |
| Ricci, Matteo (Li Matou) (Italian missionary in India, China) |
1552-1610 |
| Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio (Italian mathematician) |
1853-1925 |
| Riccio, Andrea (orig. surname Briosco)(It. sculptor, goldsmith) |
1470?-1532 |
| Riccio, Domenico "Il Brusasorci" (Italian painter) |
c.1516-1567 |
| Riccioli, Giambattista (Italian Jesuit astronomer) |
1598-1671 |
| Rice, Alice Caldwell née Hegan (American novelist) |
1870-1942 |
| Rice, Dan (orig. Daniel McLaren) (American circus clown) |
1823-1900 |
| Rice, Edmund Ignatius (Irish philanthropist) |
1762-1844 |
| Rice, Elmer Leopold (orig. Reizenstein) (American playwright) |
1892-1967 |
| Rice, Henry Grantland (American sportswriter) |
1880-1954 |
| Rice, James (English novelist; lit. partner of Walter Besant) |
1843-1882 |
| Rice, Thomas Dartmouth (American minstrel; introd. "Jim Crow") |
1808-1860 |
| Rice, William Marsh (American merchant, philanthropist) |
1816-1900 |
| Rich, Adrienne Cecile (American poet, critic, scholar) |
b.1929 |
| Rich, Barnabe (English soldier, writer) |
1542-1617 |
| Rich, Claudius James (English administrator, archaeologist) |
1787-1820 |
| Rich, Sir Henry (English courtier; son of Robert) |
1590-1649 |
| Rich, John (stage name Lun) (English theater manager, actor) |
1692-1761 |
| Rich, Lady Penelope née Devereux (English noblewoman; "Stella") |
1562?-1607 |
| Rich, Sir Richard (1st Baron Rich) (English chancery officer) |
c.1496-1567 |
| Rich, Richard (English soldier, adventurer) |
fl. 1610 |
| Rich, Robert (English admiral, colonial administrator) |
1587-1658 |
| Richard of Aversa (Norman leader) |
d.1078 |
| Richard of Chichester, Saint (English prelate) |
c.1198-1253 |
| Richard of Devizes (English chronicler) |
fl. 1189-1192 |
| Richard of Saint-Victor (Scottish theologian) |
d.1173 |
| Richard le Grant (aka Richard Grant) (English prelate) |
d.1231 |
| Richards, Ann (orig. Dorothy Ann Willis) (American politician) |
b.1933 |
| Richards, Dickinson Woodruff (American physician, surgeon) |
1895-1973 |
| Richards, Ellen Henrietta née Swallow (American chemist) |
1842-1911 |
| Richards, Henry Brinley (Welsh pianist, composer) |
1817-1885 |
| Richards, Ivor Armstrong (English literary critic, poet) |
1893-1979 |
| Richards, Laura Elizabeth née Howe (American writer) |
1850-1943 |
| Richards, Renee (b. Richard Raskind) (American opthomologist) |
b.1934 |
| Richards, Theodore William (American chemist) |
1868-1928 |
| Richards, Thomas Addison (Eng.-born Am. painter, illustrator) |
1820-1900 |
| Richards, William (American clergyman) |
1793-1847 |
| Richards, Sir William Buell (Canadian jurist) |
1815-1889 |
| Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward (English physician) |
1828-1896 |
| Richardson, Charles (English lexicographer) |
1775-1865 |
| Richardson, Dorothy Miller (married name Odle) (English writer) |
1873-1957 |
| Richardson, Ethel Florence Lindesay (Australian novelist) |
1870-1946 |
| Richardson, Henry Handel (Ethel Robertson) (Austalian writer) |
1870-1946 |
| Richardson, Henry Hobson (American architect) |
1838-1886 |
| Richardson, James (English explorer in Africa) |
1806-1851 |
| Richardson, Sir John (Scottish naturalist, explorer) |
1787-1865 |
| Richardson, John (Canadian writer) |
1796-1852 |
| Richardson, Lewis Fry (English physicist, psychologist) |
1881-1953 |
| Richardson, Sir Owen Willans (English physicist) |
1879-1959 |
| Richardson, Sir Ralph David (British actor) |
1902-1983 |
| Richardson, Samuel (English novelist, printer) |
1689-1761 |
| Riche, Gaspard-Clair-Francois-Marie (French math., engineer) |
1755-1839 |
| Richelieu, Duc Armand-Jean du Plessis de (French cardinal) |
1585-1642 |
| Richepin, Jean (Algerian-born French poet, dramatist, writer) |
1849-1926 |
| Richer of Saint-Remy (French chronicler, monk) |
10th cent. |
| Richer, Edmond (French theologian) |
1559-1631 |
| Richer, Jean (French astronomer) |
1630-1696 |
| Richet, Charles-Robert (French physiologist) |
1850-1935 |
| Richie, David Arthur (Am. National Park admin.; A-Trail dev.) |
1932-2002 |
| Richier, Ligier (French sculptor) |
1500?-1567 |
| Richler, Mordecai (Canadian writer, essayist) |
b.1931 |
| Richmond, John B. Jr. "Fritz" (American musician) |
1939-2005 |
| Richmond, Mary Ellen (American social worker) |
1861-1928 |
| Richter, Burton (American physicist) |
b.1931 |
| Richter, Charles Francis (American seismologist) |
1900-1985 |
| Richter, Conrad Michael (American writer) |
1890-1968 |
| Richter, Ernst Friedrich Eduard (Ger. music theorist, composer) |
1808-1879 |
| Richter, Franz Xavier (German composer) |
1709-1789 |
| Richter, Hans (also Janos) (Hungarian-born German conductor) |
1843-1916 |
| Richter, Hans (German-born American painter, filmmaker) |
1888-1976 |
| Richter, Hieronymous Theodore (German chemist) |
1824-1898 |
| Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich (pseud. Jean Paul) (German writer) |
1763-1825 |
| Richter, Jeremias Benjamin (German chemist) |
1762-1807 |
| Richthofen, Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm von (Ger. geographer, geol.) |
1833-1905 |
| Richthofen, Manfred von (the Red Baron) (German aviator) |
1892-1918 |
| Richtmyer, Floyd Karker (American physicist) |
1881-1939 |
| Ricimer, Flavius (Roman general, of Suevian birth) |
d.472 |
| Rickard, George Lewis "Tex" (American boxing promoter) |
1871-1929 |
| Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon (American aviator, industrialist) |
1890-1973 |
| Rickert, Martha Edith (American educator) |
1871-1938 |
| Rickert, Heinrich (German philosopher) |
1863-1936 |
| Ricketts, Howard Taylor (American pathologist; "Rickettsia") |
1871-1910 |
| Ricketts, John Bill (English circus owner) |
d.1799 |
| Rickey, Branch Wesley "the Mahatma" (American baseball exec.) |
1881-1965 |
| Rickman, Thomas (English architect) |
1776-1841 |
| Rickover, Hyman George (Polish-born American admiral) |
1900-1986 |
| Ricoeur, Jean Paul Gustave "Paul" (French philosopher) |
1913-2005 |
| Ricordi, Giovanni (Italian music publisher) |
1785-1853 |
| Ricordi, Giulio (pseud. J. Burgmein)(It. composer; son of Tito) |
1840-1912 |
| Ricordi, Tito (Italian music publisher; son of Giovanni) |
1811-1888 |
| Ricordi, Tito (Italian pianist, music publisher; son of Giulio) |
1865-1933 |
| Riddell, Walter Alexander (Canadian clergyman, diplomat) |
1881-1963 |
| Ridder, Alfons De (pseud. Willem Elsschot) (Dutch novelist) |
1882-1960 |
| Rider, Arthur Fremont (American editor, publisher) |
1885-1962 |
| Ridge, Thomas Joseph (American politician, bureaucrat) |
b.1945 |
| Ridgway, Robert (American ornithologist) |
1850-1929 |
| Riding Jackson, Laura née Reichenthal (American poet, critic) |
1901-1991 |
| Ridler, Anne Barbara (English poet, dramatist) |
b.1912 |
| Ridley, Henry Nicholas (English botanist) |
1855-1956 |
| Ridley, Nicholas (English reformer, Protestant martyr) |
c.1503-1555 |
| Ridolfi, Roberto di (Florentine conspirator in England) |
1531-1612 |
| Riebeeck, Jan van (Dutch surgeon, pioneer) |
1619-1677 |
| Riecke, Carl Viktor Eduard (German physicist) |
1845-1915 |
| Riefenstahl, Bertha Helene Leni Amalie (German filmmaker) |
b.1902 |
| Rieff, Philip (American sociologist, teacher) |
1922-2006 |
| Rieger, Frantisek Ladislav (Czech politician) |
1818-1903 |
| Riegger, Wallinford (American composer) |
1885-1961 |
| Riego y Nunez, Rafael del (Spanish soldier) |
1785-1823 |
| Riehl, Alois (German philosopher) |
1844-1924 |
| Riehl, Wilhelm Heinrich von (German historian) |
1823-1897 |
| Riel, Louis (Canadian insurgent leader) |
1844-1885 |
| Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (German mathematician) |
1826-1866 |
| Riemann, Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo (German music hist., critic) |
1849-1919 |
| Riemenschneider, Tilman (German sculptor, woodcarver) |
c.1460-1531 |
| Rienzo, Cola di (full prename Niccolo) (Italian leader) |
1313-1354 |
| Ries, Ferdinand (German pianist, composer; pupil of Beethoven) |
1784-1838 |
| Ries, Franz (Ger. violinist, comp., music pub.; son of Hubert) |
1846-1932 |
| Ries, Pieter Hubert (Ger. violinist, comp.; bro. of Ferdinand) |
1802-1886 |
| Riese (or Ries), Adam (German arithmetician) |
1492-1559 |
| Riesener, Jean-Henri (Prussian-born French cabinetmaker) |
1734-1806 |
| Riesman, David (American social scientist) |
b.1909 |
| Riesz, Frigyes (Hungarian mathematician) |
1880-1956 |
| Rietveld, Gerrit Thomas (Dutch architect, furniture designer) |
1888-1964 |
| Rietz, (August Wilhelm) Julius (German composer, conductor) |
1812-1877 |
| Rifbjerg, Klaus Thorvald (Danish writer, editor, poet) |
b.1931 |
| Riffaterre, Michael (French-born American literary critic) |
b.1924 |
| Rigaud, Andre (Haitian general) |
1761-1811 |
| Rigaud, Hyacinthe (French painter) |
1659-1743 |
| Rigault de Genouilly, Charles (French admiral) |
1807-1873 |
| Rigby, Paul C. (Australian cartoonist) |
1924-2006 |
| Rigdon, Sidney (American Mormon leader, heretic) |
1793-1876 |
| Righi, Augusto (Italian physicist) |
1850-1920 |
| Rigord (French chronicler) |
c.1150-1207 |
| Riis, Jacob August (Danish-born American journalist, reformer) |
1849-1914 |
| Riley, James Whitcomb (American poet, lecturer, newspaperman) |
1849-1916 |
| Riley, Richard Wilson (American U.S. Secy. of Education 1993-) |
b.1933 |
| Riley, Terry (American minimalist composer) |
b.1935 |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria (Czechoslovakian-born German poet) |
1875-1926 |
| Rimbaud, Jean-Nicolas-Arthur (French poet, adventurer) |
1854-1891 |
| Rimitti, Cheikha (b.Saadia Bediaf) (Algerian-born Fr. musician) |
1923-2006 |
| Rimmer, William (English-born American painter, sculptor) |
1816-1879 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreievich (Russian composer) |
1844-1908 |
| Rincon, Emanuele Gioacchino Cesare (Italian composer) |
1680-1757? |
| Rinehart, Mary née Roberts (American novelist, playwright) |
1876-1958 |
| Rinehart, Stanley Marshall Jr. (Am. publisher; son of Mary) |
1897-1969 |
| Ringer, Sydney (English physician) |
1835-1910 |
| Ringling (orig. Rungeling), Albert C. (American circus owner) |
1852-1916 |
| Ringling, Alfred T. (American circus owner; brother of Albert) |
1861-1919 |
| Ringling, Charles (American circus owner; brother of Albert) |
1863-1926 |
| Ringling, Otto (American circus owner; brother of Albert) |
1858-1911 |
| Ringling, John (American circus owner; brother of Albert) |
1866-1936 |
| Rintelen, Anton (Austrian jurist, politician) |
1876-1946 |
| Rinuccini, Giovambattista (Italian prelate) |
1592-1653 |
| Rinuccini, Ottavio (Italian poet) |
1562-1621 |
| Rioja, Francisco de (Spanish poet) |
1583-1659 |
| Rios, Juan Antonio (Chilean politician; president 1942-1946) |
1888-1946 |
| Rios, Julian (Spanish essayist, writer) |
b.1941 |
| Ripley, George (American literary critic, reformer) |
1802-1880 |
| Ripley, Robert LeRoy (American cartoonist, Believe It or Not!) |
1893-1949 |
| Ripley, William Zebina (American anthropologist, economist) |
1867-1941 |
| Ripperda, Jan Willem (Osman Pasha) (Dutch adventurer) |
1680-1737 |
| Rippl-Ronai, Jozsef (Hungarian painter, graphic artist) |
1861-1927 |
| Riquet de Bonrepos, Pierre-Paul de (French engineer) |
1604-1680 |
| Riqueti, Honore-Gabriel (French politician, orator) |
1749-1791 |
| Riqueti, Victor (French soldier, political economist) |
1715-1789 |
| Riqueti de Mirabeau, Sibylle-Gabrielle-Marie de (French writer) |
1850-1932 |
| Ri Sampei (Korean ceramist) |
d.1653 |
| Risenburgh, Bernard van (French furniture maker) |
c.1700-c.1765 |
| Rising, Johan Classon (Swedish colonial governor in America) |
1617-1672 |
| Risley, Sir Herbert Hope (Eng. civil servant, anthropologist) |
1851-1911 |
| Risso, Giovanni Antonio (Italian naturalist) |
1777-1845 |
| Rist, Johann (German poet) |
1607-1667 |
| Ristic, Jovan (Serbian politician) |
1831-1899 |
| Ristori, Adelaide (Italian actor) |
1822-1906 |
| Ritchey, George Willis (American astronomer) |
1864-1945 |
| Ritchie, Thomas (American journalist) |
1778-1854 |
| Ritchie, Sir William Johnstone (Canadian jurist) |
1813-1892 |
| Ritschl, Albrecht (German theologian) |
1822-1889 |
| Ritschl, Friedrich Wilhelm (German classical philologist) |
1806-1876 |
| Ritson, Joseph (English antiquary) |
1752-1803 |
| Ritsos, Yannis (Greek poet, translator) |
1909-1990 |
| Rittenhouse, David (Am. astronomer; great-grandson of William) |
1732-1796 |
| Rittenhouse, William (Prussian-born Am. clergyman, indust.) |
1644-1708 |
| Ritter, Alexander (German composer) |
1833-1896 |
| Ritter, Carl (German geographer; co-fnd. modern geog. science) |
1779-1859 |
| Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (German physicist) |
1776-1810 |
| Rittner, Tadeusz (pseud. Tomasz Czaszka)(Pol. playwright, nov.) |
1873-1921 |
| Ritz, Cesar (Swiss hotelkeeper) |
1850-1918 |
| Ritze, Heinrich (Euricius Cordus) (German physician, Humanist) |
1484-1535 |
| Riva Aguero, Jose Mariano de la (Peruvian soldier, politician) |
1783-1858 |
| Rivadavia, Bernardino (Argentinean politician) |
1780-1845 |
| Rivarola, Cirilo Antonio (Paraguayan politician) |
d.1871 |
| Rivaroli, Antoine (Comte de Rivarol) (French journalist) |
1753-1801 |
| Rivas, Angel Saavedra y Ramirez de Baguedano (Spanish poet) |
1791-1865 |
| Rive, Richard Moore (South African writer, literary critic) |
1931-1989 |
| Rivera, Diego Maria (Mexican painter) |
1886-1957 |
| Rivera, Geraldo Miguel (American TV talk show host) |
b.1943 |
| Rivera, Jose Eustacio (Colombian writer, poet) |
1889-1928 |
| Rivera, Jose Fructuoso (Uruguayan general, politician) |
c.1788-1854 |
| Rivera, Miguel Primo de (Spanish general) |
1870-1930 |
| Rivers, Joan (Joan Alexandria Molinsky) (American comedian) |
b.1933 |
| Rivers, Larry (b. Larry Grossberg)(Am. painter, sculptor, poet) |
b.1923 |
| Rivers, Samuel Carthorne (American musician, composer) |
b.1923 |
| Rivers, Thomas Milton (American virologist) |
1888-1962 |
| Rivers, William Halse Rivers (English physiologist, anthropol.) |
1864-1922 |
| Rivest, Ronald Linn (Am. cryptographer; co-inv. RSA algorithm) |
b.1947 |
| Rivet, Paul (French ethnologist) |
1876-1958 |
| Riviere, Jacques (French writer, critic, editor) |
1886-1925 |
| Rivington, James (English-born American publisher) |
1724-1803 |
| Rivinus, Augustus Quirinus (orig. sur. Bachmann)(Ger. botanist) |
1652-1723 |
| Rizal, Jose Protasio (Philippine patriot, writer) |
1861-1896 |
| Rizzio (or Riccio), David (Italian musician) |
c.1533-1566 |
| Rizzio, Antonio (Italian sculptor) |
1430?-1499? |
| Roa Bastos, Augusto (Paraguayan writer, journalist, poet) |
b.1917 |
| Roach, John (Irish-born (American ironmaster, shipbuilder) |
1813-1887 |
| Roach, Maxwell Lemuel "Max" (American musician, composer) |
1924-2007 |
| Roazen, Paul (American political scientist, historian) |
1936-2005 |
| Robbe-Grillet, Alain (French writer, critic, screenwriter) |
b.1922 |
| Robbins, Frederick Chapman (American physician, microbiologist) |
b.1916 |
| Robbins, Jerome (American dancer, choreographer) |
b.1918 |
| Robbins, Tom (Thomas Eugene) (American novelist) |
b.1936 |
| Robecchi-Bricchetti, Luigi (Italian explorer) |
1855-1926 |
| Robert, Anne-Jean (French inventor; brother of Nicholas-Louis) |
1758-1820 |
| Robert, Henry Martyn (Am. soldier; "Robert's Rules of Order") |
1837-1923 |
| Robert, Hubert (French painter) |
1733-1808 |
| Robert, Nicholas-Louis (French inventor) |
1761-1828 |
| Robert, Shaaban (Swahili writer, poet, essayist) |
1909-1962 |
| Robert de Boron (or Borron) (French poet) |
fl. c.1200 |
| Robert de Torigni (French chronicler) |
c.1110-1186 |
| Robert of Belesme (or Belleme) (Norman soldier) |
c.1052-1130? |
| Robert of Courtenay (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 1221-1228) |
d.1228 |
| Robert of Gloucester (English chronicler) |
fl. 1260-1300 |
| Robert of Jumieges (Norman prelate) |
d.c.1055 |
| Robert of Molesmes, Saint (French Benedictine ecclesiastic) |
c.1027-1110 |
| Robert the Strong (French warrior) |
d.866 |
| Robert Guiscard (Robert de Hauteville) (Norman military leader) |
c.1015-1085 |
| Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugene (French magician) |
1805-1871 |
| Roberts, Barbie Millicent (American fashion model; 36-18-33) |
b.1959 |
| Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas (Canadian writer, poet) |
1860-1943 |
| Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (American poet, novelist) |
1886-1941 |
| Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (Indian-born British soldier) |
1832-1914 |
| Roberts, Sir Gilbert (English civil engineer) |
1889-1978 |
| Roberts, Glenn "Fireball" (American stock-car racer) |
1927-1964 |
| Roberts, Granville Oral (American clergyman) |
b.1918 |
| Roberts, Isaac (Welsh-born British astronomer) |
1829-1904 |
| Roberts, Kate (Welsh writer, playwright, teacher) |
1891-1985 |
| Roberts, Kenneth Lewis (American journalist, writer) |
1885-1957 |
| Roberts, Owen Josephus (American Supreme Court Justice 1930-45) |
1875-1955 |
| Roberts, Thomas William "Tom" (English-born Australian painter) |
1856-1931 |
| Roberts-Austen, Sir William Chandler (English metallurgist) |
1843-1902 |
| Robertson, Frederick William (English Anglican clergyman) |
1816-1853 |
| Robertson, James (American pioneer; founded Nashville) |
1742-1814 |
| Robertson, Marion Gordon "Pat" (American clergyman) |
b.1930 |
| Robertson, Thomas William (English dramatist) |
1829-1871 |
| Robertson, William (Scottish historian) |
1721-1793 |
| Robertson, Sir William Robert (British soldier) |
1860-1933 |
| Roberval, Gilles Personne de (French mathematician) |
1602-1675 |
| Roberval, Jean-Francois de La Rocque (French soldier) |
1500-1561 |
| Robeson, Paul Bustill (American actor, singer, activist) |
1898-1976 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien-Francois-Marie-Isidore de (French rev.) |
1758-1794 |
| Robey, Sir George (orig. George Edward Wade) (English comedian) |
1869-1954 |
| Robins, Benjamin (English mathematician, military engineer) |
1707-1751 |
| Robinson, Bill (orig. Luther) "Bojangles" (American tap dancer) |
1878-1949 |
| Robinson, Boardman (Canadian-born Am. painter, illustrator) |
1876-1952 |
| Robinson, Charles (American pioneer, politician) |
1818-1894 |
| Robinson, Edward (Am. scholar; father of biblical geography) |
1794-1863 |
| Robinson, Edward G. (Emanual Goldenburg) (American actor) |
1893-1973 |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington (American poet) |
1869-1935 |
| Robinson, Esme Stuart Lennox (Irish playwright, theater mgr.) |
1886-1958 |
| Robinson, Frederick John (Eng. politician; prime min, 1827-28) |
1782-1859 |
| Robinson, George Frederick Samuel (English politician) |
1827-1909 |
| Robinson, Henry Crabb (English journalist, diarist) |
1775-1867 |
| Robinson, Henry Peach (English photographer) |
1830-1901 |
| Robinson, Henry Wheeler (English Baptist theologian, scholar) |
1872-1945 |
| Robinson, Sir Hercules George Robert (British colonial admin.) |
1824-1897 |
| Robinson, Joan Violet née Maurice (English economist) |
1903-1983 |
| Robinson, John Roosevelt "Jackie" (American baseball player) |
1919-1972 |
| Robinson, James Harvey (American historian, educator) |
1863-1936 |
| Robinson, John (English clergyman) |
c.1575-1625 |
| Robinson, Joseph Taylor (American politician) |
1872-1937 |
| Robinson, Patricia Ann née Goedicke nee McKenna (American poet) |
1931-2006 |
| Robinson, Perry Morris (American musician) |
b.1938 |
| Robinson, Sir Robert (English chemist) |
1886-1975 |
| Robinson, William (British landscape designer) |
1838-1935 |
| Robinson, William Heath (English cartoonist, illustrator) |
1872-1944 |
| Robiquet, Pierre-Jean (French chemist) |
1780-1840 |
| Robles, Emmanuel (Algerian-born French writer, dramatist) |
b.1914 |
| Robson, May (Mary Jeanette Robison) (Austral.-born Am. actor) |
1858-1942 |
| Robusti, Domenico (Tintoretto the Younger) (Italian painter) |
1565-1637 |
| Robusti, Jacopo "Tintoretto" (Italian painter) |
c.1518-1594 |
| Robusti, Marietta "La Tintoretta" (It. painter; dau. of Jacopo) |
1560-1590 |
| Roca, Julio Argentino (Argentinean general, politician) |
1843-1914 |
| Rocafuerte, Vicente (Ecuadorian politician; president 1835-39) |
1783-1847 |
| Rocard, Yves-Andre (French mathematician, physicist) |
1903-1992 |
| Roch, Saint (Rochus) (French healer) |
c.1350-c.1379 |
| Rochambeau, Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur de (Fr. general) |
1725-1807 |
| Rochberg, George (American composer) |
1918-2005 |
| Roche, James Jeffrey (Irish-born American journalist, author) |
1847-1908 |
| Rochechouart de Mortemart, Francoise-Athenais (French courtier) |
1641-1707 |
| Rochefort Victor-Henri (French journalist) |
1830-1913 |
| Rochester, Nathaniel (American pioneer; founded Rochester NY) |
1752-1831 |
| Rockefeller, John Davison (Am. oil magnate, philanthropist) |
1839-1937 |
| Rockefeller, John Davison II (Am. oil magnate, philanthropist) |
1874-1960 |
| Rockefeller, John Davison III (American philanthropist) |
1906-1978 |
| Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich (Am. polit.; vice-pres. 1974-77) |
1908-1979 |
| Rockhill, William Woodville (American diplomat) |
1854-1914 |
| Rockingham, 2nd Marquis of (English politician) |
1730-1782 |
| Rockne, Knute Kenneth (Norwegian-born American football coach) |
1888-1931 |
| Rockwell, Norman (American painter, illustrator) |
1894-1978 |
| Rod, Edouard (Swiss writer, critic) |
1857-1910 |
| Rodbertus, Johann Karl (German economist, politician) |
1805-1875 |
| Roddick, Anita Lucia née Perelli (English entrepreneur) |
1942-2007 |
| Rode, Helge (Danish poet, dramatist, novelist, literary critic) |
1870-1937 |
| Rode, Jacques-Pierre-Joseph (French violinist) |
1774-1830 |
| Rodenbach, Albrecht (Flemish writer; leader of Blauwvoeterie) |
1856-1880 |
| Rodenbach, Georges-Raymond-Constantin (Belgian poet, writer) |
1855-1898 |
| Roderick (Rodrigo) (King of Visigoths in Spain 710-711) |
d.711 |
| Rodgers, Christopher Raymond Perry (Am. naval off.; son of G.) |
1819-1892 |
| Rodgers, George Washington (Am. naval officer; brother of John) |
1787-1832 |
| Rodgers, George Washington (Am. naval officer; son of George) |
1822-1863 |
| Rodgers, James Charles "Jimmie" (American singer, composer) |
1897-1933 |
| Rodgers, James W. (American criminal) |
c.1911-1960 |
| Rodgers, John (American naval officer) |
1773-1838 |
| Rodgers, John (American naval officer; son of John) |
1812-1882 |
| Rodgers, John (American naval officer; son of John) |
1881-1926 |
| Rodgers, Richard (Am. composer; collab. with Hammerstein, Hart) |
1902-1979 |
| Rodgers, William Ledyard (American naval officer; son of John) |
1860-1944 |
| Rodin, Francois-Auguste-Rene (French sculptor) |
1840-1917 |
| Rodman, Thomas Jackson (American army officer) |
1815-1871 |
| Rodney, Caesar (American Revolutionary patriot) |
1728-1784 |
| Rodney, Caesar Augustus (American politician; son of Caesar) |
1772-1824 |
| Rodney, George Brydges (1st Baron Rodney) (English admiral) |
1718-1792 |
| Rodney, Thomas (American soldier, jurist; son of Caesar) |
1744-1811 |
| Rodo, Jose Enrique (Uruguayan philosopher, essayist) |
1872-1917 |
| Rodrigues Alves, Francisco de Paula (Brazilian politician) |
1848-1919 |
| Rodrigues Lobo, Francisco "Portuguese Theocritus" (Port. poet) |
1580-1621 |
| Rodriguez, Abelardo Luis (Mexican general, politician) |
1889-1967 |
| Rodriguez, Lorenzo (Spanish architect) |
c.1704-1774 |
| Rodriguez, Ventura (Spanish architect) |
1717-1785 |
| Rodriguez Campomanes y Perez, Pedro (Spanish polit., economist) |
1723-1802 |
| Rodriguez de Fonseca, Juan (Spanish prelate) |
1451-1524 |
| Rodriguez de Montalvo, Garci (Spanish novelist) |
16th cent. |
| Rodriguez Galvan, Ignacio (Mexican poet) |
1816-1842 |
| Rodriguez Julia, Edgardo (Puerto Rican writer, essayist) |
b.1946 |
| Rodriguez Marin, Francisco (Spanish scholar) |
1855-1943 |
| Rodriguez Pedotti, Andres (Paraguayan president 1989-1993) |
b.1923 |
| Rodriguez Sanchez, Manuel Laureano (Spanish bullfighter) |
1917-1947 |
| Roe, Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon (English aircraft manufacturer) |
1877-1958 |
| Roe, Humphrey Verdon (English aircraft manu.; brother of Edwin) |
1878-1949 |
| Roe, Sir Thomas (English diplomat) |
1581?-1644 |
| Roebling, John Augustus (German-born Am. engineer, indust.) |
1806-1869 |
| Roebling, Washington Augustus (Am. civil engineer; son of John) |
1837-1926 |
| Roebuck, John (English physician, inventor) |
1718-1794 |
| Roemer, Ferdinand (German geologist; brother of Friedrich) |
1818-1891 |
| Roemer, Friedrich Adolf (German geologist) |
1809-1869 |
| Roemer, Ole Christensen (Danish mathematician, astronomer) |
1644-1710 |
| Roentgen, Abraham (German cabinetmaker) |
1711-1793 |
| Roentgen, David (German cabinetmaker; son of Abraham) |
1743-1807 |
| Roerich, Nikolay Konstantinovich (Russian painter) |
1874-1947 |
| Roethke, Theodore Huebner (American poet, teacher) |
1908-1963 |
| Roger of Hoveden (or Howden) (English chronicler) |
d.c.1201 |
| Roger of Pont l'Eveque (Norman-born prelate in England) |
d.1181 |
| Roger of Salisbury (English prelate, politician) |
d.1139 |
| Roger of Wendover (English chronicler, monk) |
d.1236 |
| Roger de Bully, Edouard (pseud. Roger de Beauvoir) (Fr. writer) |
1809-1866 |
| Roger-Ducasse, Jean-Jules-Aimable (French composer) |
1873-1954 |
| Rogers, Bruce (American printer, book designer) |
1870-1957 |
| Rogers, Carl Ransom (American psychologist) |
1902-1987 |
| Rogers, Edith née Nourse (American politician) |
1881-1960 |
| Rogers, Fred McFeely (American educator, children's TV host) |
1928-2003 |
| Rogers, Henry Darwin (American geologist) |
1808-1866 |
| Rogers, Henry Huttleston (American financier) |
1840-1909 |
| Rogers, James Blythe (American chemist, educator; bro. of H.D.) |
1802-1852 |
| Rogers, John (English Protestant reformer) |
c.1500-1555 |
| Rogers, John (American religious leader) |
1648-1721 |
| Rogers, John (American sculptor) |
1829-1904 |
| Rogers, Mary Joseph (orig. Mary Josephine) (American religious) |
1882-1955 |
| Rogers, Moses (American mariner) |
1779-1821 |
| Rogers, Robert (American frontier soldier, dramatist) |
1731-1795 |
| Rogers, Robert Empie (American chemist, educator; bro. of H.D.) |
1813-1884 |
| Rogers, Roy (orig. Leonard Slye) (American actor, singer) |
b.1912 |
| Rogers, Samuel (English poet, patron) |
1763-1855 |
| Rogers, William (Hang-Theology Rogers) (English edu. reformer) |
1819-1896 |
| Rogers, William Penn Adair "Will" (American actor, humorist) |
1879-1935 |
| Rogers, William Barton (American geologist; brother of H.D.) |
1804-1882 |
| Rogers, Woodes (English seaman, colonial governor) |
1679?-1732 |
| Roget, Peter Mark (Eng. physician, scholar; Thesaurus author) |
1779-1869 |
| Rogier, Charles Latour (Belgian politician) |
1800-1885 |
| Rohde, Ruth née Bryan (American diplomat; dau. of W.J. Bryan) |
1885-1954 |
| Roheim, Geza (Hungarian psychoanalyst) |
1891-1953 |
| Rohlfs, Charles (American designer) |
1853-1936 |
| Rohlfs, Christian (German painter, printmaker) |
1849-1938 |
| Rohlfs, Friedrich Gerhard (German explorer) |
1831-1896 |
| Rohm, Ernst (German soldier) |
1887-1934 |
| Rohmer, Eric (b.Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer) (French filmmaker) |
b.1920 |
| Rohmer, Sax (pseud. of Arthur Sarsfield Ward) (English writer) |
1886-1959 |
| Rohrer, Heinrich (Swiss physicist) |
b.1933 |
| Roh Tae Woo (South Korean politician; president 1988-1993) |
b.1932 |
| Rojas, Carlos (Spanish writer) |
b.1928 |
| Rojas, Fernando de (Spanish writer) |
c.1465-1541 |
| Rojas, Gonzalo (Chilean poet, diplomat, teacher) |
b.1917 |
| Rojas Pinilla, Gustavo (Colombian soldier, politician) |
1900-1975 |
| Rojas Sepulveda, Manuel (Chilean writer, poet) |
1896-1973 |
| Rojas Villandrando, Augustin de (Spanish dramatist, actor) |
1572-1618 |
| Rojas Zorrilla, Francisco de (Spanish dramatist) |
1607-1648 |
| Rokitansky, Karl von (Austrian pathologist) |
1804-1878 |
| Rokkaku Shisui (orig. Chutaro) (Japanese artist, art critic) |
1867-1950 |
| Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich (Russian army officer) |
1896-1968 |
| Roland de La Platiere, Jean-Marie (French revolutionary) |
1734-1793 |
| Roland de La Platiere, Jeanne-Marie (Mme Roland) (French rev.) |
1754-1793 |
| Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Henriette (Dutch Socialist, poet) |
1869-1952 |
| Roldan, Luisa "La Roldana" (Spanish sculptor; dau. of Pedro) |
1656-1704 |
| Roldan, Pedro (Spanish sculptor, painter, architect) |
c.1624-c.1700 |
| Rolfe, Frederick William (pseud. Baron Corvo) (English writer) |
1860-1913 |
| Rolfe, John (English colonist in Am.; husband of Pocahontas) |
1585-1622 |
| Rolland, Romain (French author, biographer, novelist) |
1866-1944 |
| Rolle, Michel (French mathematician) |
1652-1719 |
| Rolle de Hampole, Richard (English hermit, mystic, writer) |
c.1300-1349 |
| Rolleston, Thomas William (Irish journalist, writer) |
1857-1920 |
| Rolli, Paolo Antonio (Italian poet, librettist, translator) |
1687-1765 |
| Rollins, Hyder Edward (American educator) |
1889-1958 |
| Rollins, Theodore Walter "Sonny" (American saxophonist) |
b.1930 |
| Rolls, Charles Stewart (English auto. manufacturer, aviator) |
1877-1910 |
| Rolvaag, Ole Edvart (Norwegian-born Am. educator, novelist) |
1876-1931 |
| Romains, Jules (Louis-Henri-Jean Farigoule) (French writer) |
1885-1972 |
| Roman, Johan Helmich (Swedish violinist, composer) |
1694-1758 |
| Romanes, George John (Canadian-born British biologist) |
1848-1894 |
| Romano, Giulio (Italian painter, architect) |
c.1499-1546 |
| Romano, Luis (Luis Romano Madeira de Melo (Cape Verdean poet) |
b.1922 |
| Romanoff, Michael (Lithuanian-born Am. impostor, restaurateur) |
1892?-1971 |
| Romanov, Michael (1st czar of Russian Romanov dynasty) |
1596-1645 |
| Romanov, Panteleymon Sergeyevich (Russian novelist) |
1884-1936 |
| Romansky, Monroe J. (Am. physician; dev.penicillin formulation) |
1911-2006 |
| Romanus I Lecapenus (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 920-944) |
c.870-948 |
| Romanus II (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 959-963) |
939-963 |
| Romanus III (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 1028-1034) |
968?-1034 |
| Romanus IV Diogenes (Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire 1068-1071) |
d.1071 |
| Romberg, Andreas Jakob (German violinist, conductor, composer) |
1767-1821 |
| Romberg, Bernhard Heinrich (German cellist, composer) |
1767-1841 |
| Romberg, Sigmund (Hungarian-born American composer) |
1887-1951 |
| Romer, Alfred Sherwood (American paleontologist) |
1894-1973 |
| Romer, Ole (or Olaus) (Danish astronomer) |
1644-1710 |
| Romero, Francisco (Span. matador; introduced estoque, muleta) |
1698-1763 |
| Romero, Jose Ruben (Mexican diplomat, writer) |
1890-1952 |
| Romero, Matias (Mexican economist, diplomat) |
1837-1899 |
| Romilly, Sir Samuel (English lawyer, law reformer) |
1757-1818 |
| Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen "The Desert Fox" (German general) |
1891-1944 |
| Romney, George (English portrait painter) |
1734-1802 |
| Romuald, Saint (Italian religious) |
c.950-1027 |
| Romulus Augustulus (Roman emperor of the West 475-476) |
5th cent. |
| Rondelet, Guillaume (French naturalist, physician) |
1507-1566 |
| Ronk, Harold Wilson (American circus ringleader) |
1921-2006 |
| Ronne, Finn (Norwegian-born American explorer) |
1899-1980 |
| Ronsard, Pierre de (French poet; leader of Les Pleiades) |
1524-1585 |
| Rontgen (or Roentgen), Wilhelm Conrad (German physicist) |
1845-1923 |
| Rood, Ogden Nicholas (American physicist) |
1831-1902 |
| Rooke, Sir George (English admiral) |
1650-1709 |
| Roon, Albrecht Theodor Emil von (Prussian soldier, politician) |
1803-1879 |
| Roos, Sjoerd Hendrik de (Dutch book & type designer) |
1877-1926 |
| Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (Am. author, diplomat, humanitarian) |
1884-1962 |
| Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (32nd U.S. president, 1933-1945) |
1882-1945 |
| Roosevelt, Theodore (26th U.S. president, 1901-1909) |
1858-1919 |
| Roosevelt, Theodore Jr. (Am. writer, soldier, explorer, polit.) |
1887-1944 |
| Root, Elihu (American lawyer, diplomat) |
1845-1937 |
| Root, George Frederick (American composer, teacher) |
1820-1895 |
| Root, John Wellborn (American architect) |
1850-1891 |
| Roozeboom, Hendrik Willem Bakhuis (Dutch physical chemist) |
1854-1907 |
| Ropartz, Joseph-Guy-Marie (French composer) |
1864-1955 |
| Roper, William (English biographer) |
1496-1578 |
| Rops, Felicien (Belgian painter, engraver, lithographer) |
1833-1898 |
| Rordam, Valdemar (Danish poet) |
1872-1946 |
| Rore, Cipriano de (Flemish composer in Italy) |
1516-1565 |
| Rorem, Ned (American composer) |
b.1923 |
| Rorschach, Hermann (Swiss psychiatrist) |
1884-1922 |
| Rosa, Salvator (Italian painter, poet) |
1615-1673 |
| Rosales Canacho, Luis (Spanish poet, literary critic) |
b.1910 |
| Rosalia, Saint (Italian religious; patron saint of Palermo) |
d.1160 |
| Rosas, Juan Manuel de (Argentinean dictator) |
1793-1877 |
| Roscelin de Compiegne (French Scholastic philosopher) |
c.1050-c.1125 |
| Roscius (Quintus Roscius Gallus) (Roman actor) |
126?-62? BC |
| Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield (Eng. chemist; grandson of William) |
1833-1915 |
| Roscoe, William (English historian, attorney, banker) |
1753-1831 |
| Rose of Lima, Saint (Isabel de Flores) (Peruvian religious) |
1586-1617 |
| Rose, Billy (American theatrical impresario, composer) |
1899-1966 |
| Rose, Hugh Henry (Baron Strathnairn) (British soldier) |
1801-1885 |
| Rose, Gustav (German mineralogist, explorer; bro. of Heinrich) |
1798-1873 |
| Rose, Heinrich (German apothecary, chemist; son of Valentin II) |
1795-1864 |
| Rose, Valentin (German apothecary) |
1736-1771 |
| Rose, Valentin (German apothecary; son of Valentin) |
1762-1807 |
| Rosecrans, William Starke (American general) |
1819-1898 |
| Rosegger, Peter (Petri Kettenfeier) (Austrian poet, novelist) |
1843-1918 |
| Rosen, Winifred (American writer) |
b.1943 |
| Rosenbach, Abraham Simon Wolf (American bibliophile) |
1876-1952 |
| Rosenberg, Alfred (German Nazi leader, writer) |
1893-1946 |
| Rosenberg, Ethel née Greenglass (American spy) |
1915-1953 |
| Rosenberg, Harold (American art critic, author) |
1906-1978 |
| Rosenberg, Isaac (English poet, painter) |
1890-1918 |
| Rosenberg, Julius (American engineer, spy) |
1918-1953 |
| Rosenbusch, Karl Heinrich Ferdinand "Harry" (German geologist) |
1836-1914 |
| Rosenius, Karl Olaf (Swedish religious leader) |
1816-1868 |
| Rosenmuller, Jahann (German composer) |
c.1619-1684 |
| Rosensten, Erna (Polish artist) |
1913-2004 |
| Rosenthal, Abraham Michael (Can.-born Am. journalist, editor) |
1922-2006 |
| Rosenwald, Julius (American merchant, philanthropist) |
1862-1932 |
| Rosenzweig, Franz (German theologian) |
1886-1929 |
| Rosenzweig, Roy Alan (American social and cultural historian) |
1950-2007 |
| Roset, Michel (Genevese politician) |
1534-1613 |
| Roslin, Alexander (Swedish painter) |
1718-1793 |
| Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio (Italian priest, philosopher) |
1797-1855 |
| Ross, Edward Alsworth (American sociologist) |
1866-1951 |
| Ross, Elizabeth née Griscom "Betsy" (American patriot) |
1752-1836 |
| Ross, George (Am. jurist; member Continental Congress 1774-77) |
1730-1779 |
| Ross, Harold Wallace (American editor: New Yorker 1925-1951) |
1892-1951 |
| Ross, Sir James Clark (Scottish explorer; nephew of Sir John) |
1800-1862 |
| Ross, James Sinclair (Canadian banker, writer) |
b.1908 |
| Ross, Sir John (Scottish explorer; uncle of Sir James Ross) |
1777-1856 |
| Ross, John Coowescoowe (American Cherokee Indian chief) |
1790-1866 |
| Ross, Nellie née Tayloe (American politician) |
1876-1977 |
| Ross, Robert (English soldier) |
1766-1814 |
| Ross, Sir Ronald (Indian-born British physician) |
1857-1932 |
| Ross, Sir William David (Scottish philosopher) |
1877-1971 |
| Rossby, Carl-Gustaf Arvid (Swedish-born American meteorologist) |
1898-1957 |
| Rossellini, Roberto (Italian film director, producer) |
1906-1977 |
| Rossellino, Antonio (Florentine sculptor; brother of Bernardo) |
1427-1479 |
| Rossellino, Bernardo (Florentine sculptor, architect) |
1409-1464 |
| Rossetti, Christina Georgina (English poet; sister of Dante) |
1830-1894 |
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (English painter, poet) |
1828-1882 |
| Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe (It. poet; father of D.G.) |
1783-1854 |
| Rossetti, William Michael (English art critic; bro. of Dante) |
1829-1919 |
| Rossi, Bruno (Italian-born American physicist) |
b.1905 |
| Rossi, Giovanni Battista de' (Italian archaeologist) |
1822-1894 |
| Rossi, Salomone (Italian composer, instrumentalist) |
1570?-1630? |
| Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (Italian composer) |
1792-1868 |
| Rossney, Robert (American engineer, writer) |
b.1960 |
| Rosso, Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (Florentine painter) |
1494-1540 |
| Rosso, Medardo (It. sculptor; orig. Impressionist sculpture) |
1858-1928 |
| Rostand, Edmond-Eugene-Alexis (French playwright, poet) |
1868-1918 |
| Rostand, Jean (French biologist, writer) |
1894-1977 |
| Rosten, Leo Calvin (Polish-born Am. writer, political sci.) |
b.1908 |
| Rostopchin, Fyodor Vasilyevich (Russian soldier, politician) |
1763-1826 |
| Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch (Rus.-born Am. archaeologist) |
1870-1852 |
| Rostropovich, Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" (Russian composer) |
1927-2007 |
| Roswitha (German poet, dramatist, historian) |
c.935-c.1002 |
| Roszak, Theodore (Polish-born American sculptor) |
1907-1981 |
| Roszak, Theodore (American historian, writer) |
b.1933 |
| Rota, Nino (Italian composer) |
1911-1979 |
| Rotblat, Joseph (Polish-born British physicist, activist) |
1908-2005 |
| Roth, Henry (Austro-Hungarian-born American writer) |
1906-1995 |
| Roth, Jerome (American musician, transcriber) |
1918-2005 |
| Roth, Joseph (Ukrainian journalist, writer) |
1894-1939 |
| Roth, Philip Milton (American novelist) |
b.1933 |
| Rothari (Lombard king of Italy 636-652) |
d.652 |
| Rothe, Richard (German theologian) |
1799-1867 |
| Rothenberg, Ned (American? musician) |
b.1956 |
| Rothenstein, Sir William (English painter) |
1872-1945 |
| Rothko, Mark (orig. Marcus Rothkovich) (Rus.-born Am. painter) |
1903-1970 |
| Rothschild, Amschel Mayer (German financier; son of Mayer) |
1773-1855 |
| Rothschild, James or Jakob (German financier; son of Mayer) |
1792-1868 |
| Rothschild, Karl Mayer (German financier; son of Mayer) |
1788-1855 |
| Rothschild, Lionel Nathan (British financier; son of Nathan) |
1808-1879 |
| Rothschild, Lionel Walter (British politician; son of N.M.) |
1868-1937 |
| Rothschild, Mayer Amschel (German financier; father of N.M.) |
1744-1812 |
| Rothschild, Nathan Mayer (German financier; son of Mayer) |
1777-1836 |
| Rothschild, Sir Nathan Mayer (British financier; son of L.N.) |
1840-1915 |
| Rothschild, Salomon Mayer (German financier; son of Mayer) |
1774-1855 |
| Rotimi, Emmanuel Gladstone Olawale "Ola" (Nigerian scholar) |
b.1938 |
| Rotrou, Jean de (French playwright) |
1609-1650 |
| Rouault, Georges-Henri (French painter, printmaker, ceramist) |
1871-1958 |
| Roubillac (or Roubiliac), Louis-Francois (French sculptor) |
c.1695/1705-1762 |
| Rouget de Lisle, Claude-Joseph (French army officer, composer) |
1760-1836 |
| Rouher, Eugene (French politician) |
1814-1884 |
| Roumain, Jacques (Haitian writer, anthropolgist, politician) |
1907-1944 |
| Roumanille, Joseph (French Provencal poet, writer, teacher) |
1818-1891 |
| Rourke, Constance Mayfield (American historian) |
1885-1941 |
| Rous, Francis (English Puritan, hymnologist) |
1579-1659 |
| Rous, Francis Peyton (American pathologist) |
1879-1970 |
| Rouse, Norine (American diving instructor) |
1925-2005 |
| Rousseau, Henri-Julien-Felix (aka Le Douanier) (French painter) |
1844-1910 |
| Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste (French poet, dramatist) |
1671-1741 |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (Swiss-born French philosopher, author) |
1712-1778 |
| Rousseau, (Pierre-Etienne-) Theodore (French painter) |
1812-1867 |
| Roussel, Albert-Charles-Paul-Marie (French composer) |
1869-1937 |
| Rousselot, Jean-Pierre (French phonetician) |
1846-1924 |
| Roussin, Andre (French dramatist) |
1911-1987 |
| Routh, Edward John (Canadian-born British mathematician) |
1831-1907 |
| Rouvier, Pierre-Maurice (French politician) |
1842-1911 |
| Rouvroy, Claude-Henri de (Comte de Saint-Simon) (Fr. reformer) |
1760-1825 |
| Rouvroy, Louis de (Duc de Saint-Simon) (French soldier, writer) |
1675-1755 |
| Roux, Jacques (French priest, revolutionary) |
d.1794 |
| Roux, Pierre-Paul-Emile (French physician, bacteriologist) |
1853-1933 |
| Roux, Wilhelm (German zoologist, experimental embryologist) |
1850-1924 |
| Rovetta, Gerolamo (Italian writer, dramatist) |
1851-1910 |
| Rowe, Nicholas (English poet, dramatist, poet laureate 1715) |
1674-1718 |
| Rowell, Newton Wesley (Canadian lawyer, politician) |
1867-1941 |
| Rowland, Henry Augustus (American physicist) |
1848-1901 |
| Rowlandson, Mary (American pioneer, writer) |
1635?-1678 |
| Rowlandson, Thomas (English caricaturist) |
1756-1827 |
| Rowley, Samuel (English dramatist, actor) |
fl. 1597-c.1633 |
| Rowley, William (English actor, dramatist) |
1585?-1642? |
| Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm (Eng. sociologist, philanthropist) |
1871-1954 |
| Rowse, Alfred Leslie (English literary historian, critic, poet) |
b.1903 |
| Rowson, Susanna née Haswell (English-born Am. author, actor) |
1762-1824 |
| Roxas y Acuna, Manuel (Philippine politician; pres. 1946-48) |
1892-1948 |
| Roy, Gabrielle (French-Canadian writer, teacher) |
1909-1983 |
| Roy, Joseph Camille (Canadian literary critic) |
1870-1943 |
| Roy, Manabendra Nath (Indian Communist leader) |
1887-1954 |
| Royall, Anne née Newport (American author, journalist) |
1769-1854 |
| Royall, Kenneth Claiborne (American general, statesman) |
1894-1971 |
| Royce, Sir Frederick Henry (English engineer, auto. manu.) |
1863-1933 |
| Royce, Josiah (American philosopher, teacher, essayist) |
1855-1916 |
| Royer-Collard, Pierre-Paul (French philosopher, politician) |
1763-1845 |
| Royko, Mike (American columnist, journalist, author) |
1932-1997 |
| Rozanov, Vasily Vasilyevich (Russian essayist, critic) |
1856-1919 |
| Rozewicz, Tadeusz (Polish poet, playwright) |
b.1921 |
| Rubbia, Carlo (Italian physicist) |
b.1934 |
| Rubens, Paul (Pee Wee Herman) (American comedian, actor) |
b.1952 |
| Rubens, Peter Paul (German-born Flemish painter) |
1577-1640 |
| Rubey, William Walden (American geologist) |
1898-1974 |
| Rubik, Erno (Hungarian professor of Design, puzzle-maker) |
b.1944 |
| Rubin, Jerry (American Yippie, Yuppie) |
1938-1994 |
| Rubinstein, Anton Grigoryevich (Russian pianist, composer) |
1829-1894 |
| Rubinstein, Arthur (Polish-born American pianist) |
1887-1982 |
| Rublyov, Andrey (Russian painter) |
1360/70-c.1430 |
| Rubner, Max (German physiologist) |
1854-1932 |
| Ruby, Jack Leon (Jacob Leon Rubinstein) (American businessman) |
1911-1967 |
| Rucellai, Giovanni (Italian poet, dramatist) |
1475-1525 |
| Ruck, Carl Anton Paul (American Classical scholar) |
b.1935 |
| Ruckers, Hans the Elder (Flemish harpsichord & virginal maker) |
c.1540/50-1598 |
| Ruckers, Hans the Younger (Flemish harpsichord, virginal maker) |
1578-1643 |
| Ruckert, Friedrich (pseudonym Freimund Raimar) (German poet) |
1788-1866 |
| Rudaki (orig. Abu 'Abdollah Ja'far ebn Mohammad) (Persian poet) |
c.859-940/41 |
| Rudbeck, Olof (Swedish anatomist, botanist) |
1630-1702 |
| Rudd, Roswell Hopkins (American musician, composer, educator) |
b.1935 |
| Ruddiman, Thomas (Scottish classical scholar) |
1674-1757 |
| Rude, Francois (French sculptor) |
1784-1855 |
| Rudkin, David (English playwright) |
b.1936 |
| Rudnicki, Adolf (Polish writer, essayist) |
1912-1990 |
| Rudolf (Austrian archduke, crown prince) |
1858-1889 |
| Rudolf I (Holy Roman emperor 1273-1291) |
1218-1291 |
| Rudolf II (Holy Roman emperor 1576-1612) |
1552-1612 |
| Rudolf von Ems (Middle High German epic poet) |
c.1200-c.1254 |
| Rudsten, Daniel (Am. professor, politician, playwright) |
1914?-2004 |
| Rueda, Lope de (Spanish dramatist) |
1510?-1565 |
| Ruffin, Edmund (American agriculturist) |
1794-1865 |
| Ruffini, Giovanni (Italian writer) |
1807-1881 |
| Ruffini, Paolo (Italian mathematician, physician) |
1765-1822 |
| Ruffo, Fabrizio (Italian prelate, soldier) |
1744-1827 |
| Rufinus, Flavius (Roman politician) |
d.395 |
| Rufinus (aka Tyrannius Rufinus) (Italian theologian, presbyter) |
345-410 |
| Rufus 0f Ephesus (Greek anatomist, physician) |
fl. 1st cent. |
| Ruge, Arnold (German writer) |
1803-1880 |
| Rugg, Harold Ordway (American educator) |
1886-1960 |
| Ruggles, Carl (American composer) |
1876-1971 |
| Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn John (English penologist) |
1857-1935 |
| Ruisdael (or Ruysdael), Jacob van (Dutch painter, etcher) |
1628/29-1682 |
| Ruiz, Juan "Archpriest of Hita" (Spanish poet, cleric) |
1283?-1351? |
| Ruiz Aguilera, Ventura (Spanish poet) |
1820-1881 |
| Ruiz Camino, Carlos (aka Carlos Arruza) (Mexican bullfighter) |
1920-1966 |
| Ruiz de Alarcon y Mendoza, Juan (Mexican-born Span. dramatist) |
c.1581-1639 |
| Rukeyser, Muriel (American poet, biographer, writer, activist) |
1913-1980 |
| Rule, Jane (American writer, essayist) |
b.1931 |
| Rulfo, Juan (Mexican writer) |
1918-1986 |
| Rulhiere, Claude-Carloman de (French historian, poet) |
1734-1791 |
| Rumaker, Michael (American writer) |
b.1932 |
| Rumpf (or Rumph), Georg Eberhard (German naturalist) |
1627-1702 |
| Rumsey, James (American inventor; developed steamboat) |
1743-1792 |
| Rumsfeld, Donald Henry (American politician, bureaucrat) |
b.1932 |
| Rumyantsev, Nikolay Petrovich (Russian politician) |
1754-1826 |
| Rumyantsev, Pyotr Aleksandrovich (Russian general) |
1725-1796 |
| Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy (English prelate) |
b.1921 |
| Rundgren, Todd (American musician, producer) |
b.1948 |
| Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd von (German field marshal) |
1875-1953 |
| Runeberg, Johan Ludvig (Finnish poet writing in Swedish) |
1804-1877 |
| Runge, Carle David Tolme (German mathematician, physicist) |
1856-1927 |
| Runge, Friedlieb Ferdinand (German chemist) |
1795-1867 |
| Runyon, Alfred Damon (American journalist, writer) |
1884-1946 |
| Rupert, Saint (Frankish missionary; patron saint of Bavaria) |
d.718? |
| Rupert, Prince (German-born English Royalist general, admiral) |
1619-1682 |
| Rupp, Adolph Frederick "the Baron" (American basketball coach) |
1901-1977 |
| Ruppell, Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon (Ger. naturalist, explorer) |
1794-1884 |
| Ruppert, Jacob (American brewer) |
1867-1939 |
| Rush, Benjamin (American physician, educator, patriot) |
1745-1813 |
| Rush, Richard (Am. public official, diplomat; son of Benjamin) |
1780-1859 |
| Rush, William (American sculptor, woodcarver) |
1756-1833 |
| Rushdie, Ahmed Salman (Indian-born British novelist) |
b.1947 |
| Rushworth, John (English historian) |
1612?-1690 |
| Rusinol, Santiago (Spanish painter, writer; wrote in Catalan) |
1861-1931 |
| Rusk, David Dean (American Secretary of State 1961-1969) |
b.1909 |
| Rusk, Thomas Jefferson (American jurist, legislator) |
1803-1857 |
| Ruska, Ernst August Friedrich (German physicist) |
1906-1988 |
| Ruskin, John (English art critic, writer, reformer) |
1819-1900 |
| Russ, Joanna (American writer) |
b.1937 |
| Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (English math., philosopher) |
1872-1970 |
| Russell, Charles (Irish-born British judge) |
1832-1900 |
| Russell, Charles Marion (American artist) |
1865-1926 |
| Russell, Charles Taze (Am. religious leader; Jehovah's Witness) |
1852-1916 |
| Russell, George William (pseud. AE) (Irish man of letters) |
1867-1935 |
| Russell, Henry Norris (American astronomer) |
1877-1957 |
| Russell, John (English painter, amateur astronomer) |
1745-1806 |
| Russell, John (British prime minister 1846-52, 1865-66) |
1792-1878 |
| Russell, Lillian (Helen Louise Leonard) (Am. singer, actor) |
1861-1922 |
| Russell, Morgan (American painter) |
1886-1953 |
| Russell, Richard Joel (American geologist) |
1895-1971 |
| Russell, Thomas (English poet) |
1762-1788 |
| Russell, Thomas (Irish revolutionist) |
1767-1803 |
| Russell, William Hepburn (American freighter) |
1812-1872 |
| Russell, Sir William Howard (British war correspondent) |
1820-1907 |
| Russo, Ethan B. (American neurologist) |
b.1952 |
| Russwurm, John Brown (Jamaican-born American journalist) |
1799-1851 |
| Rustaveli, Shota (Georgian poet) |
c.1172-c.1216 |
| Rustin, Bayard (American civil rights leader) |
1910-1987 |
| Rutebeuf (also Rutebuef, Rustebeuf) (French trouvere) |
fl. 1245-1285 |
| Rutgers, Henry (American philanthropist) |
1745-1830 |
| Ruth, George Herman "Babe" (American baseball player) |
1895-1948 |
| Rutherford, Ernest (New Zealand-born British physicist) |
1871-1937 |
| Rutherford, Joseph Franklin (Am. leader of Jehovah's Witnesses) |
1869-1942 |
| Rutherford, Dame Margaret (English actor) |
1892-1972 |
| Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris (American astrophysicist) |
1816-1892 |
| Ruthven, Patrick (Scottish soldier in English Royalist army) |
1573?-1651 |
| Rutilius Namatianus, Claudius (Roman poet) |
fl. c.417 |
| Rutilius Rufus, Publius (Roman jurist, general) |
b.c.150 BC |
| Rutledge, Edward (American lawyer; brother of John) |
1749-1800 |
| Rutledge, John (American lawyer, politician) |
1739-1800 |
| Rutledge, Wiley Blount Jr. (American jurist, educator) |
1894-1949 |
| Ruysbroeck (or Ruusbroec), Jan van (Flem. mystical theologian) |
1293-1381 |
| Ruysch, Rachel (Dutch painter) |
1664-1750 |
| Ruysdael (or Ruisdael), Salomon van (Dutch painter) |
c.1602-1670 |
| Ruyter, Michiel Adriaanszoon de (Dutch admiral) |
1607-1676 |
| Ruzicka, Leopold Stephen (Croatian-born Swiss biochemist) |
1887-1976 |
| Ryan, Abram Joseph (American clergyman, poet) |
1838-1886 |
| Ryan, Elizabeth (American tennis player) |
1892-1979 |
| Ryan, Thomas Fortune (American financier) |
1851-1928 |
| Rybakov, Anatoly Naumovich (Russian writer) |
b.1911 |
| Rydberg, Abraham Viktor (Swedish writer, translator, poet) |
1828-1895 |
| Rydberg, Johannes Robert (Swedish physicist) |
1854-1919 |
| Ryden, Mark (American artist) |
b.1963 |
| Ryder, Albert Pinkham (American painter) |
1847-1917 |
| Rydz-Smigly, Edward (Polish general) |
1886-1941 |
| Ryga, George (Canadian playwright, writer) |
1932-1987 |
| Rykov, Aleksey Ivanovich (Russian politician) |
1881-1938 |
| Ryle, Gilbert (English philosopher) |
1900-1976 |
| Ryle, Sir Martin (English radio astronomer) |
1918-1984 |
| Ryleyev, Kondraty Fyodorovich (Russian poet, revolutionary) |
1795-1826 |
| Rymer, Thomas (English literary critic, historiographer) |
1643?-1713 |
| Ryokan (b. Yamamoto Eizo) (Japanese zen Buddhist priest, poet) |
1758-1831 |
| Ryonin (Japanese Buddhist priest) |
1072-1132 |
| Rysbrack, John Michael (Belgian sculptor in England) |
c.1693/94-1770 |
| Ryti, Risto Heikki (Finnish politician; president 1940-1944) |
1889-1956 |
| Rzewuski, Henryk (Polish novelist) |
1791-1866 |