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Abraham Lincoln
12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865
Sixteenth president of the United States, who preserved the Union through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proc...
Ada Lovelace
10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852
English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose co...
Adam Smith
June 1723 – 17 July 1790
Scottish economist and moral philosopher whose treatise The Wealth of Nations laid the foundations of classical economic...
Agatha Christie
15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976
English crime writer, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, and the best-selling novelist of all time.
Akbar the Great
15 October 1542 – 27 October 1605
Third Mughal emperor, who expanded the empire across most of the Indian subcontinent and pursued a policy of religious t...
Alan Turing
23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954
English mathematician, computer scientist, logician and cryptanalyst. He was highly influential in the development of th...
Albert Einstein
14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
German-born theoretical physicist, widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Be...
Alexander Fleming
6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955
Scottish physician and microbiologist best known for discovering penicillin in 1928, which launched the antibiotic era o...
Alexander Graham Bell
3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922
Scottish-born inventor and scientist credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also worked extensively a...
Amelia Earhart
24 July 1897 – 2 July 1937
American aviation pioneer and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared over the Pacific in...
Amerigo Vespucci
9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512
Florentine explorer and navigator who argued that the newly found lands across the Atlantic were a separate continent, l...
Anne Frank
12 June 1929 – c. 1945
German-born Jewish diarist who documented her family's two years in hiding in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Her...