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1500 CE – 1800 CE

Figures of the early modern world

42 figures whose span overlaps this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

No region recorded · 42

Christopher Columbus 1451 CE – 1506 CE Leonardo da Vinci 1452 CE – 1519 CE Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 CE – 1527 CE Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 CE – 1543 CE Michelangelo 1475 CE – 1564 CE Martin Luther 1483 CE – 1546 CE Henry VIII 1491 CE – 1547 CE John Calvin 1509 CE – 1564 CE Catherine de' Medici 1519 CE – 1589 CE Elizabeth I 1533 CE – 1603 CE Francis Bacon 1561 CE – 1626 CE Galileo Galilei 1564 CE – 1642 CE William Shakespeare 1564 CE – 1616 CE Queen Nzinga 1583 CE – 1663 CE René Descartes 1596 CE – 1650 CE Oliver Cromwell 1599 CE – 1658 CE John Locke 1632 CE – 1704 CE Louis XIV 1638 CE – 1715 CE Isaac Newton 1643 CE – 1727 CE Peter the Great 1672 CE – 1725 CE Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 CE – 1750 CE Voltaire 1694 CE – 1778 CE Baal Shem Tov 1698 CE – 1760 CE Benjamin Franklin 1706 CE – 1790 CE Vilna Gaon 1720 CE – 1797 CE Adam Smith 1723 CE – 1790 CE Immanuel Kant 1724 CE – 1804 CE James Cook 1728 CE – 1779 CE Catherine the Great 1729 CE – 1796 CE Moses Mendelssohn 1729 CE – 1786 CE George Washington 1732 CE – 1799 CE John Adams 1735 CE – 1826 CE Thomas Jefferson 1743 CE – 1826 CE James Madison 1751 CE – 1836 CE Louis XVI 1754 CE – 1793 CE Alexander Hamilton 1755 CE – 1804 CE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 CE – 1791 CE Andrew Jackson 1767 CE – 1845 CE Tecumseh 1768 CE – 1813 CE Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 CE – 1821 CE Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 CE – 1827 CE Jane Austen 1775 CE – 1817 CE