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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Al-Maqrizi
Sciences & Discovery
3
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Al-Maqrizi

تقي الدين المقريزي
🌐 Mamluk Sultanate
1364 – 1442 (78 years old)

Preeminent Egyptian Mamluk historian, topographer, and economic theorist whose 'Al-Khitat' provided the definitive architectural and urban history of Cairo and whose 'Ighathat al-Umma' analyzed economic inflation.

Cairo, Egypt
Jan van Eyck
Arts & Music
9
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Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck
🇧🇪 Belgium
c. 1390 – 9 July 1441 (~51 years old)

Greatest master of Early Netherlandish painting who perfected the oil painting technique, celebrated worldwide for the Ghent Altarpiece and the Arnolfini Portrait with its astonishing microscopic realism.

Bruges, Belgium
Le Loi
Military Leaders & Strategists
2
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Le Loi

Lê Lợi (Lê Thái Tổ)
🇻🇳 Dai Viet
1385 – 1433 (48 years old)

Vietnamese national hero and founder of the Later Le Dynasty who led the ten-year Lam Son Uprising against Ming Chinese occupation, immortalized by the Legend of the Returned Sword at Hoan Kiem Lake.

Tho Xuan (Thanh Hoa), Vietnam
Zheng He
Military Leaders & Strategists
3
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Zheng He

郑和 (三宝太监)
🌐 Ming Dynasty
1371 – c. 1433 CE (62 years old)

Ming Dynasty grand admiral and diplomat who commanded seven epic treasure fleet voyages across the Indian Ocean from Southeast Asia to Arabia and East Africa, decades before Columbus.

Nanjing (Jiangsu), China
Masaccio
Arts & Music
3,318
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Masaccio

Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone
🇮🇹 Italy
1401 – 1 (26 years old)

Foundational Early Renaissance master whose revolutionary use of linear perspective and human gravity ignited the Florentine Renaissance.

Florence, Italy
Madhava of Sangamagrama
Sciences & Discovery
10
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Madhava of Sangamagrama

മാധവൻ (സംഗമഗ്രാമ മാധവൻ)
🇮🇳 India
c. 1340 CE – c. 1425 CE (85 years old)

Founder of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics who discovered infinite power series expansions for sine, cosine, and arctangent (the Madhava-Leibniz series) 250 years before Newton.

Irinjalakuda (Thrissur, Kerala), India
Yongle Emperor
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
3
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Yongle Emperor

明成祖 (朱棣)
🇨🇳 Yuan / Early Ming
1360 – 1424 (64 years old)

Third emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1402–1424) Zhu Di, who constructed the colossal Forbidden City in Beijing, rebuilt the Grand Canal, commissioned the 11,000-volume Yongle Encyclopedia, and launched Admiral Zheng He's legendary treasure fleet voyages across the Indian Ocean.

Changping (Beijing), China
Je Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa
Religious Figures & Theologians
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Je Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa

རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ། (Rje Tsong-kha-pa)
🇨🇳 China
21 October 1357 CE – 13 November 1419 CE (62 years old)

Tibetan religious reformer, philosopher, and founder of the Gelug school—the tradition of the Dalai Lamas. Authored the Lamrim Chenmo (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment), unifying monastic discipline and Madhyamaka logic.

Ganden Monastery, China
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