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Li Bai (Li Po)
Arts & Music
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 980

Li Bai (Li Po)

ๆŽ็™ฝ
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
701 CE โ€“ 762 CE (~61 years old)

Supreme lyric poet of China's Golden Tang Dynasty, revered as the 'Poet Immortal' (Shixian), whose luminous verses on wine, the moon, friendship, and untamed nature defined Chinese poetic consciousness.

Dangtu (Anhui), China
Publius Vergilius Maro
Arts & Music
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 950

Publius Vergilius Maro

Publius Vergilius Maro
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
15 October 70 BCE โ€“ 21 September 19 BCE (~51 years old)

Foremost Roman poet of classical antiquity whose national epic, the Aeneid, celebrated Rome's mythical Trojan origin and moral destiny with unmatched melancholic elegance and linguistic perfection.

Brundisium (Brindisi), Italy
Praxiteles
Arts & Music
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 840

Praxiteles

ฮ ฯฮฑฮพฮนฯ„ฮญฮปฮทฯ‚
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece
c. 395 BCE โ€“ c. 330 BCE (~65 years old)

Celebrated 4th-century BCE Athenian sculptor who introduced sensual grace, naturalism, and the revolutionary Praxitelean S-curve into Greek marble sculpture, creating the renowned Aphrodite of Knidos.

Athens, Greece
Phidias
Arts & Music
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 920

Phidias

ฮฆฮตฮนฮดฮฏฮฑฯ‚
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece
c. 480 BCE โ€“ c. 430 BCE (~50 years old)

Supreme Greek sculptor of the Golden Age of Athens, artistic overseer of the Parthenon, creator of the colossal Athena Parthenos and the Statue of Zeus at Olympia (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World).

Elis or Olympia, Greece
Polykleitos of Argos
Arts & Music
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 760

Polykleitos of Argos

ฮ ฮฟฮปฯฮบฮปฮตฮนฯ„ฮฟฯ‚
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece
c. 480 BCE โ€“ c. 420 BCE (~60 years old)

Classical Greek sculptor and bronze master who formulated the Canonโ€”the mathematical system of ideal human anatomical proportionsโ€”and created the iconic Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer).

Argos, Greece
Homer
Arts & Music
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 990

Homer

แฝฮผฮทฯฮฟฯ‚
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey
c. 8th Century BCE โ€“ c. 750 BCE

Legendary archaic Greek epic poet whose Iliad and Odyssey stand as the foundational masterworks of Western literary and narrative art, celebrating heroism, human pathos, and divine destiny.

Ios (Cyclades), Greece
Brahmagupta
Sciences & Discovery
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 890

Brahmagupta

เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเค—เฅเคชเฅเคค
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
598 CE โ€“ c. 668 CE (~70 years old)

Genius astronomer and mathematician who formulated the mathematical rules of zero (shunya) as a number, operations with negative numbers, and the Brahmagupta formula for cyclic quadrilaterals.

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), India
Sushruta
Sciences & Discovery
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 780

Sushruta

เคธเฅเคถเฅเคฐเฅเคค
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 6th century BCE โ€“ c. 5th century BCE

Ancient Indian surgeon hailed as the 'Father of Plastic Surgery', whose Sanskrit compendium Sushruta Samhita detailed rhinoplasty forehead flaps, cataract couching, and 121 surgical instruments.

Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), India
Hippocrates of Kos
Sciences & Discovery
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 940

Hippocrates of Kos

แผนฯ€ฯ€ฮฟฮบฯฮฌฯ„ฮทฯ‚ แฝ ฮšแฟทฮฟฯ‚
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greece
c. 460 BCE โ€“ c. 370 BCE (~90 years old)

'Father of Medicine' who liberated healing from superstition, established clinical observation of symptoms, and created the foundational medical code of ethics: the Hippocratic Oath.

Kos, Greece
Claudius Ptolemy
Sciences & Discovery
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 850

Claudius Ptolemy

ฮšฮปฮฑฯฮดฮนฮฟฯ‚ ฮ ฯ„ฮฟฮปฮตฮผฮฑแฟ–ฮฟฯ‚
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
c. 100 CE โ€“ c. 170 CE (~70 years old)

Greco-Egyptian polymath whose monumental astronomical treatise, the Almagest, and Geographia defined celestial mechanics and global cartography for fourteen centuries.

Alexandria, Egypt
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