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Artists
Francis Bacon, (Ireland, United Kingdom, 1909 - Spain, 1992)
Alonso Berruguete, (Spain, 1490 - Spain, 1561)
Jheronimus Bosch, (Burgundian Netherlands, 1450 - Burgundian Netherlands, Spanish Empire, 1516)
Lucas Cranach the Elder, (Holly Roman Empire, 1472 - Holly Roman Empire, 1553)
Albrecht Dürer, (Holly Roman Empire, 1471 - Holly Roman Empire, 1528)
Gustave Doré, (France, 1832 - France, 1883)
Lucian Freud, (Germany, 1922)
Alberto Giacometti, (Switzerland, 1901 - Switzerland, 1966)
Francisco Goya, (Spain, 1746 - France, 1828)
Domênikos Theotokópoulos (
El Greco), (Crete, Republic of Venice, 1541 - Spain, 1614)
Amedeo Modigliani, (Italy, 1884 - France, 1920)
José de Ribera, (Spain, 1591 - Naples, Spanish Empire, 1652)
J._M._W._Turner,(England, 1775 – England, 1851)
Diego Velázquez, (Spain, 1599 - Spain, 1660)
Filmmakers
Fritz Lang, (Austria-Hungary, 1890 - USA, 1976)
John Ford, (US, 1894 - USA, 1973)
Alfred Hitchcock, (UK, 1899 - USA, 1980)
John Huston, (USA, 1906 - USA, 1987)
Akira Kurosawa, (Japan, 1910 - Japan, 1998)
Billy Wilder, (Austria-Hungary, 1906 - USA, 2002)
Philosophers & Thinkers
Photographers
Soldiers
Statemen
Alexander the Great, (Macedon, 356 BC - Babylon, 323 BC)
Otto von Bismarck, (Prussia, 1815 - German Empire, 1898)
Ferdinand II of Aragon, (Aragon, 1452 - Spain, 1516)
Isabella I of Castile, (Castilla, 1451 - Spain, 1504)
Napoleon I, (Corsica, 1769 - British Empire, 1821)
Teachers & Examples of life
Jesus, (Judaea, Roman Empire, 1 AD - Judaea, Roman Empire, 33 AD)
Gautama Buddha, (Lumbini, today in Nepal, c. 563 BCE - c. 483 BCE Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh)
Saint Francis of Assisi, (Papal States, 1181 - Assisi, Papal States, 1226)
Thomas More, (England, 1535 - England, 1535)
Anthony de Mello, (1931, British India - 1987, United States)
Gandhi, (1869, British India - 1948, Union of India)
Writers
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, (France, 1897 - France, 1961)
Miguel de Cervantes, (Spain, 1547 - Spain, 1616)
Julio Cortázar, (Belgium, 1914 - France, 1984)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (Russian Empire, 1821 - Russian Empire, 1881)
Rudyard Kipling, (British Empire, 1865 - United Kingdom, 1936)
Yukio Mishima, (Japan, 1925 - Japan, 1970)
William Shakespeare, (England, 1564 - England, 1616)
Leo Tolstoy, (Russian Empire, 1828- Rusian Empire, 1910)
Oscar Wilde, (Ireland, United Kingdom, 1854 - France, 1900)