Best known
Best known
AD 500
Calendar year
Lionel Welles, 6th Baron Welles
English peer
Tobias Matthew
Archbishop of York from 1606 to 1628
Jacob de Gheyn II
Dutch painter & engraver (c.1565–1629)
Nicolaus Bruhns
Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer
George Frederick II
Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1692 to 1703
AD 500 — Calendar year, who died on March 29 500.
Lionel Welles, 6th Baron Welles — English peer, who died on March 29 1461.
Tobias Matthew — Archbishop of York from 1606 to 1628, who died on March 29 1628.
Jacob de Gheyn II — Dutch painter & engraver (c.1565–1629), who died on March 29 1629.
Nicolaus Bruhns — Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer, who died on March 29 1697.
George Frederick II — Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1692 to 1703, who died on March 29 1703.
All entries
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- 1461
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Thomas CoramEnglish sea captain and philanthropist (c. 1668–1751) - 1772
Emanuel SwedenborgSwedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian
- 1777JJohann Heinrich PottPrussian physician and chemist
- 1788
Charles WesleyEnglish Methodist and hymn writer - 1792
Gustav IIIKing of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 - 1796
François de CharetteFrench military officer and politician - 1800
Marc René, marquis de MontalembertFrench Royal Army officer and writer - 1803
Gottfried van SwietenDutch-Austrian diplomat and patron of composers - 1822
Johann Wilhelm HässlerGerman composer, organist and pianist - 1824
Hans Nielsen HaugeNorwegian Lutheran minister, spiritual leader, entrepreneur, social reformer and author - 1826
Johann Heinrich VossGerman classicist, poet, translator - 1830
James RennellEnglish geographer, historian and oceanographer - 1848
John Jacob AstorGerman-born American businessman - 1866
John KebleEnglish Anglican priest and poet - 1888
Charles-Valentin AlkanFrench composer and pianist - 1891
Georges SeuratFrench painter - 1903
Gustavus Franklin SwiftAmerican entrepreneur in the meat industry - 1906
Slava RaškajCroatian artist - 1911
Alexandre GuilmantFrench organist and composer - 1912
Henry Robertson BowersBritish Royal Navy officer and explorer - 1912
Robert Falcon ScottBritish Antarctic explorer - 1912
Edward Wilson (explorer)English polar explorer - 1915
W. W. DenslowAmerican illustrator and caricaturist - 1921
John BurroughsAmerican naturalist and essayist - 1924
Charles Villiers StanfordIrish composer, music teacher, and conductor - 1934
Otto Hermann KahnAmerican banker - 1937
Karol SzymanowskiPolish composer - 1940
Alexander ObolenskyEngland international rugby union player - 1948
Harry PriceEnglish psychic researcher - 1953
Väinö KivisaloFinnish politician - 1953
Arthur FieldsAmerican singer and songwriter - 1957
Joyce CaryAnglo-Irish writer - 1959
Barthélemy BogandaPremier of the Central African Republic from 1958 to 1959 - 1963
Gaspard FauteuxCanadian politician - 1963FFrances Jenkins OlcottAmerican writer
- 1966
Stylianos GonatasGreek military officer and politician - 1970
Anna Louise StrongAmerican journalist - 1971
Dhirendranath DattaPakistani politician - 1972
J. Arthur RankEnglish industrialist - 1979
Nikos PentzaropoulosGreek footballer and manager - 1981
Eric WilliamsLeader of Trinidad and Tobago from 1956 to 1981 - 1982
Walter HallsteinGerman diplomat and statesman - 1982FFrederick George MannBritish organic chemist
- 1982
Carl OrffGerman composer - 1982
Nathan F. TwiningUS Air Force general - 1985
Luther TerrySurgeon General of the United States - 1985
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- 1988
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- 1992
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- 1995
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- 1999
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Carlo UrbaniItalian physician and microbiologist - 2004
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- 2006
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- 2009
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- 2011
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- 2012
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- 2013
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- 2016
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- 2017
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- 2019
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- 2022
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