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 |