Legacies Preserved
Discover the Enduring Legacies of History’s Most Influential Figures
All
Visionaries
Science
Arts
Historical
Icons
Jul 21, 1911
Marshall McLuhan
Feb 23, 1868
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jul 8, 1867
Käthe Kollwitz
Feb 20, 1902
Ansel Adams
Jul 20, 1932
Nam June Paik
Sep 4, 1896
Antonin Artaud
May 12, 1921
Joseph Beuys
Oct 12, 1935
Luciano Pavarotti
May 11, 1894
Martha Graham
Jan 16, 1933
Susan Sontag
Mar 6, 1927
Gabriel García Márquez
Dec 9, 1905
Dalton Trumbo
May 6, 1915
Orson Welles
Apr 18, 1918
André Bazin
Feb 16, 1884
Robert J. Flaherty
Nov 22, 1889
Dorothy Draper
Aug 15, 1914
Paul Rand
Mar 16, 1902
Lucie Rie
Nov 30, 1874
Winston Churchill
Apr 7, 1770
William Wordsworth
Dec 4, 1866
Wassily Kandinsky
Jan 25, 1882
Virginia Woolf
Mar 30, 1853
Vincent van Gogh
Jul 10, 460
Thucydides
Apr 13, 1743
Thomas Jefferson
Feb 11, 1847
Thomas Edison
Oct 17, 554
Sun Tzu
Jul 26, 1928
Stanley Kubrick
Dec 28, 1922
Stan Lee
Oct 22, 470
Socrates
Jan 9, 1908
Simone de Beauvoir
Oct 15, 630
Sappho
Feb 4, 1913
Rosa Parks
Jul 21, 1951
Robin Williams
Jul 8, 1635
Robert Hooke
Mar 26, 1874
Robert Frost
May 11, 1918
Richard Phillips Feynman
Apr 6, 1931
Ram Dass
May 25, 1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar 7, 1861
Rabindranath Tagore
Mar 2, 1876
Pope Pius XII
Oct 17, 1912
Pope John Paul I
Jul 3, 1872
Piet Mondrian
May 15, 1859
Pierre Curie
Feb 14, 1258
Osman Gazi
Oct 16, 1854
Oscar Wilde
Oct 7, 1885
Niels Bohr
Oct 2, 1869
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Oct 15, 1926
Michel Foucault
Apr 4, 1928
Maya Angelou
Apr 23, 1858
Max Planck
Dec 27, 1901
Marlene Dietrich
Nov 30, 1835
Mark Twain
Nov 7, 1867
Marie Curie
Aug 31, 1870
Maria Montessori
Sep 27, 1601
Louis XIII of France
Dec 27, 1822
Louis Pasteur
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Nov 25, 1844
Karl Benz
Sep 9, 1940
John Lennon
Dec 16, 1775
Jane Austen
Feb 2, 1882
James Joyce
Sep 30, 1207
Jalaluddin Rumi
Apr 22, 1724
Immanuel Kant
May 27, 1332
Ibn Khaldun
Feb 24, 1304
Ibn Battuta
Dec 24, 1905
Howard Hughes
Jan 1, 460
Hippocrates
Jul 30, 1863
Henry Ford
Mar 20, 1828
Henrik Ibsen
Jun 27, 1880
Helen Keller
May 4, 1956
Hal Finney
Apr 25, 1874
Guglielmo Marconi
Jul 20, 1822
Gregor Mendel
Jun 25, 1903
George Orwell
Jan 22, 1788
George Gordon Byron
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Nov 11, 1821
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jul 6, 1907
Frida Kahlo
May 12, 1820
Florence Nightingale
Oct 22, 480
Euripides
Jul 27, 1612
Murad IV
Dec 10, 1830
Emily Dickinson
Jan 19, 1809
Edgar Allan Poe
Jan 30, 460
Democritus
Feb 7, 1660
Daniel Defoe
Jan 1, 551
Confucius
Aug 19, 1883
Coco Chanel
Nov 14, 1840
Claude Monet
Feb 7, 1812
Charles Dickens
Jul 26, 1875
Carl Gustav Jung
May 18, 1872
Bertrand Russell
Jan 17, 1706
Benjamin Franklin
Apr 14, 1126
Averroes
Jan 20, 1798
Auguste Comte
May 4, 1929
Audrey Hepburn
May 16, 268
Ashoka
Jun 12, 1929
Anne Frank
Nov 19, 1501
Anne Boleyn
Aug 13, 1899
Alfred Hitchcock
Mar 3, 1847
Alexander Graham Bell
Aug 6, 1881
Alexander Fleming
Jul 26, 1894
Aldous Huxley
Jun 23, 1912
Alan Turing
Oct 15, 1542
Muhammad Akbar
Apr 18, 1590
Ahmed I
Dec 10, 1815
Ada Lovelace
Mar 14, 1879
Albert Einstein
Feb 22, 1732
George Washington
Jan 4, 1643
Isaac Newton
Jul 10, 1856
Nikola Tesla
Aug 26, 1910
Mother Teresa
Feb 12, 1809
Abraham Lincoln
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
May 24, 1819
Queen Victoria
Feb 12, 1809
Charles Darwin
Jan 20, 100
Julius Caesar
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Nov 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Dec 7, 384
Aristotle
Feb 24, 1955
Steve Jobs
Oct 25, 1881
Pablo Picasso
Jul 20, 346
Alexander the Great
Aug 17, 1769
Napoleon Bonaparte
May 6, 4
Jesus Christ
All
Visionaries
Science
Arts
Historical
Icons
Jul 21, 1911
Marshall McLuhan
Feb 23, 1868
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jul 8, 1867
Käthe Kollwitz
Feb 20, 1902
Ansel Adams
Jul 20, 1932
Nam June Paik
Sep 4, 1896
Antonin Artaud
May 12, 1921
Joseph Beuys
Oct 12, 1935
Luciano Pavarotti
May 11, 1894
Martha Graham
Jan 16, 1933
Susan Sontag
Mar 6, 1927
Gabriel García Márquez
Dec 9, 1905
Dalton Trumbo
May 6, 1915
Orson Welles
Apr 18, 1918
André Bazin
Feb 16, 1884
Robert J. Flaherty
Nov 22, 1889
Dorothy Draper
Aug 15, 1914
Paul Rand
Mar 16, 1902
Lucie Rie
Nov 30, 1874
Winston Churchill
Apr 7, 1770
William Wordsworth
Dec 4, 1866
Wassily Kandinsky
Jan 25, 1882
Virginia Woolf
Mar 30, 1853
Vincent van Gogh
Jul 10, 460
Thucydides
Apr 13, 1743
Thomas Jefferson
Feb 11, 1847
Thomas Edison
Oct 17, 554
Sun Tzu
Jul 26, 1928
Stanley Kubrick
Dec 28, 1922
Stan Lee
Oct 22, 470
Socrates
Jan 9, 1908
Simone de Beauvoir
Oct 15, 630
Sappho
Feb 4, 1913
Rosa Parks
Jul 21, 1951
Robin Williams
Jul 8, 1635
Robert Hooke
Mar 26, 1874
Robert Frost
May 11, 1918
Richard Phillips Feynman
Apr 6, 1931
Ram Dass
May 25, 1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar 7, 1861
Rabindranath Tagore
Mar 2, 1876
Pope Pius XII
Oct 17, 1912
Pope John Paul I
Jul 3, 1872
Piet Mondrian
May 15, 1859
Pierre Curie
Feb 14, 1258
Osman Gazi
Oct 16, 1854
Oscar Wilde
Oct 7, 1885
Niels Bohr
Oct 2, 1869
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Oct 15, 1926
Michel Foucault
Apr 4, 1928
Maya Angelou
Apr 23, 1858
Max Planck
Dec 27, 1901
Marlene Dietrich
Nov 30, 1835
Mark Twain
Nov 7, 1867
Marie Curie
Aug 31, 1870
Maria Montessori
Sep 27, 1601
Louis XIII of France
Dec 27, 1822
Louis Pasteur
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Nov 25, 1844
Karl Benz
Sep 9, 1940
John Lennon
Dec 16, 1775
Jane Austen
Feb 2, 1882
James Joyce
Sep 30, 1207
Jalaluddin Rumi
Apr 22, 1724
Immanuel Kant
May 27, 1332
Ibn Khaldun
Feb 24, 1304
Ibn Battuta
Dec 24, 1905
Howard Hughes
Jan 1, 460
Hippocrates
Jul 30, 1863
Henry Ford
Mar 20, 1828
Henrik Ibsen
Jun 27, 1880
Helen Keller
May 4, 1956
Hal Finney
Apr 25, 1874
Guglielmo Marconi
Jul 20, 1822
Gregor Mendel
Jun 25, 1903
George Orwell
Jan 22, 1788
George Gordon Byron
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Nov 11, 1821
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jul 6, 1907
Frida Kahlo
May 12, 1820
Florence Nightingale
Oct 22, 480
Euripides
Jul 27, 1612
Murad IV
Dec 10, 1830
Emily Dickinson
Jan 19, 1809
Edgar Allan Poe
Jan 30, 460
Democritus
Feb 7, 1660
Daniel Defoe
Jan 1, 551
Confucius
Aug 19, 1883
Coco Chanel
Nov 14, 1840
Claude Monet
Feb 7, 1812
Charles Dickens
Jul 26, 1875
Carl Gustav Jung
May 18, 1872
Bertrand Russell
Jan 17, 1706
Benjamin Franklin
Apr 14, 1126
Averroes
Jan 20, 1798
Auguste Comte
May 4, 1929
Audrey Hepburn
May 16, 268
Ashoka
Jun 12, 1929
Anne Frank
Nov 19, 1501
Anne Boleyn
Aug 13, 1899
Alfred Hitchcock
Mar 3, 1847
Alexander Graham Bell
Aug 6, 1881
Alexander Fleming
Jul 26, 1894
Aldous Huxley
Jun 23, 1912
Alan Turing
Oct 15, 1542
Muhammad Akbar
Apr 18, 1590
Ahmed I
Dec 10, 1815
Ada Lovelace
Mar 14, 1879
Albert Einstein
Feb 22, 1732
George Washington
Jan 4, 1643
Isaac Newton
Jul 10, 1856
Nikola Tesla
Aug 26, 1910
Mother Teresa
Feb 12, 1809
Abraham Lincoln
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
May 24, 1819
Queen Victoria
Feb 12, 1809
Charles Darwin
Jan 20, 100
Julius Caesar
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Nov 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Dec 7, 384
Aristotle
Feb 24, 1955
Steve Jobs
Oct 25, 1881
Pablo Picasso
Jul 20, 346
Alexander the Great
Aug 17, 1769
Napoleon Bonaparte
May 6, 4
Jesus Christ
Legacies Preserved
Discover the Enduring Legacies of History’s Most Influential Figures
All
Visionaries
Science
Historical
Arts
Icons
Jul 21, 1911
Marshall McLuhan
Feb 23, 1868
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jul 8, 1867
Käthe Kollwitz
Feb 20, 1902
Ansel Adams
Jul 20, 1932
Nam June Paik
Sep 4, 1896
Antonin Artaud
May 12, 1921
Joseph Beuys
Oct 12, 1935
Luciano Pavarotti
May 11, 1894
Martha Graham
Jan 16, 1933
Susan Sontag
Mar 6, 1927
Gabriel García Márquez
Dec 9, 1905
Dalton Trumbo
May 6, 1915
Orson Welles
Apr 18, 1918
André Bazin
Feb 16, 1884
Robert J. Flaherty
Nov 22, 1889
Dorothy Draper
Aug 15, 1914
Paul Rand
Mar 16, 1902
Lucie Rie
Nov 30, 1874
Winston Churchill
Apr 7, 1770
William Wordsworth
Dec 4, 1866
Wassily Kandinsky
Jan 25, 1882
Virginia Woolf
Mar 30, 1853
Vincent van Gogh
Jul 10, 460
Thucydides
Apr 13, 1743
Thomas Jefferson
Feb 11, 1847
Thomas Edison
Oct 17, 554
Sun Tzu
Jul 26, 1928
Stanley Kubrick
Dec 28, 1922
Stan Lee
Oct 22, 470
Socrates
Jan 9, 1908
Simone de Beauvoir
Oct 15, 630
Sappho
Feb 4, 1913
Rosa Parks
Jul 21, 1951
Robin Williams
Jul 8, 1635
Robert Hooke
Mar 26, 1874
Robert Frost
May 11, 1918
Richard Phillips Feynman
Apr 6, 1931
Ram Dass
May 25, 1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar 7, 1861
Rabindranath Tagore
Mar 2, 1876
Pope Pius XII
Oct 17, 1912
Pope John Paul I
Jul 3, 1872
Piet Mondrian
May 15, 1859
Pierre Curie
Feb 14, 1258
Osman Gazi
Oct 16, 1854
Oscar Wilde
Oct 7, 1885
Niels Bohr
Oct 2, 1869
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Oct 15, 1926
Michel Foucault
Apr 4, 1928
Maya Angelou
Apr 23, 1858
Max Planck
Dec 27, 1901
Marlene Dietrich
Nov 30, 1835
Mark Twain
Nov 7, 1867
Marie Curie
Aug 31, 1870
Maria Montessori
Sep 27, 1601
Louis XIII of France
Dec 27, 1822
Louis Pasteur
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Nov 25, 1844
Karl Benz
Sep 9, 1940
John Lennon
Dec 16, 1775
Jane Austen
Feb 2, 1882
James Joyce
Sep 30, 1207
Jalaluddin Rumi
Apr 22, 1724
Immanuel Kant
May 27, 1332
Ibn Khaldun
Feb 24, 1304
Ibn Battuta
Dec 24, 1905
Howard Hughes
Jan 1, 460
Hippocrates
Jul 30, 1863
Henry Ford
Mar 20, 1828
Henrik Ibsen
Jun 27, 1880
Helen Keller
May 4, 1956
Hal Finney
Apr 25, 1874
Guglielmo Marconi
Jul 20, 1822
Gregor Mendel
Jun 25, 1903
George Orwell
Jan 22, 1788
George Gordon Byron
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Nov 11, 1821
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jul 6, 1907
Frida Kahlo
May 12, 1820
Florence Nightingale
Oct 22, 480
Euripides
Jul 27, 1612
Murad IV
Dec 10, 1830
Emily Dickinson
Jan 19, 1809
Edgar Allan Poe
Jan 30, 460
Democritus
Feb 7, 1660
Daniel Defoe
Jan 1, 551
Confucius
Aug 19, 1883
Coco Chanel
Nov 14, 1840
Claude Monet
Feb 7, 1812
Charles Dickens
Jul 26, 1875
Carl Gustav Jung
May 18, 1872
Bertrand Russell
Jan 17, 1706
Benjamin Franklin
Apr 14, 1126
Averroes
Jan 20, 1798
Auguste Comte
May 4, 1929
Audrey Hepburn
May 16, 268
Ashoka
Jun 12, 1929
Anne Frank
Nov 19, 1501
Anne Boleyn
Aug 13, 1899
Alfred Hitchcock
Mar 3, 1847
Alexander Graham Bell
Aug 6, 1881
Alexander Fleming
Jul 26, 1894
Aldous Huxley
Jun 23, 1912
Alan Turing
Oct 15, 1542
Muhammad Akbar
Apr 18, 1590
Ahmed I
Dec 10, 1815
Ada Lovelace
Mar 14, 1879
Albert Einstein
Feb 22, 1732
George Washington
Jan 4, 1643
Isaac Newton
Jul 10, 1856
Nikola Tesla
Aug 26, 1910
Mother Teresa
Feb 12, 1809
Abraham Lincoln
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
May 24, 1819
Queen Victoria
Feb 12, 1809
Charles Darwin
Jan 20, 100
Julius Caesar
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Nov 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Dec 7, 384
Aristotle
Feb 24, 1955
Steve Jobs
Oct 25, 1881
Pablo Picasso
Jul 20, 346
Alexander the Great
Aug 17, 1769
Napoleon Bonaparte
May 6, 4
Jesus Christ
All
Visionaries
Science
Historical
Arts
Icons
Jul 21, 1911
Marshall McLuhan
Feb 23, 1868
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jul 8, 1867
Käthe Kollwitz
Feb 20, 1902
Ansel Adams
Jul 20, 1932
Nam June Paik
Sep 4, 1896
Antonin Artaud
May 12, 1921
Joseph Beuys
Oct 12, 1935
Luciano Pavarotti
May 11, 1894
Martha Graham
Jan 16, 1933
Susan Sontag
Mar 6, 1927
Gabriel García Márquez
Dec 9, 1905
Dalton Trumbo
May 6, 1915
Orson Welles
Apr 18, 1918
André Bazin
Feb 16, 1884
Robert J. Flaherty
Nov 22, 1889
Dorothy Draper
Aug 15, 1914
Paul Rand
Mar 16, 1902
Lucie Rie
Nov 30, 1874
Winston Churchill
Apr 7, 1770
William Wordsworth
Dec 4, 1866
Wassily Kandinsky
Jan 25, 1882
Virginia Woolf
Mar 30, 1853
Vincent van Gogh
Jul 10, 460
Thucydides
Apr 13, 1743
Thomas Jefferson
Feb 11, 1847
Thomas Edison
Oct 17, 554
Sun Tzu
Jul 26, 1928
Stanley Kubrick
Dec 28, 1922
Stan Lee
Oct 22, 470
Socrates
Jan 9, 1908
Simone de Beauvoir
Oct 15, 630
Sappho
Feb 4, 1913
Rosa Parks
Jul 21, 1951
Robin Williams
Jul 8, 1635
Robert Hooke
Mar 26, 1874
Robert Frost
May 11, 1918
Richard Phillips Feynman
Apr 6, 1931
Ram Dass
May 25, 1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar 7, 1861
Rabindranath Tagore
Mar 2, 1876
Pope Pius XII
Oct 17, 1912
Pope John Paul I
Jul 3, 1872
Piet Mondrian
May 15, 1859
Pierre Curie
Feb 14, 1258
Osman Gazi
Oct 16, 1854
Oscar Wilde
Oct 7, 1885
Niels Bohr
Oct 2, 1869
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Oct 15, 1926
Michel Foucault
Apr 4, 1928
Maya Angelou
Apr 23, 1858
Max Planck
Dec 27, 1901
Marlene Dietrich
Nov 30, 1835
Mark Twain
Nov 7, 1867
Marie Curie
Aug 31, 1870
Maria Montessori
Sep 27, 1601
Louis XIII of France
Dec 27, 1822
Louis Pasteur
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Nov 25, 1844
Karl Benz
Sep 9, 1940
John Lennon
Dec 16, 1775
Jane Austen
Feb 2, 1882
James Joyce
Sep 30, 1207
Jalaluddin Rumi
Apr 22, 1724
Immanuel Kant
May 27, 1332
Ibn Khaldun
Feb 24, 1304
Ibn Battuta
Dec 24, 1905
Howard Hughes
Jan 1, 460
Hippocrates
Jul 30, 1863
Henry Ford
Mar 20, 1828
Henrik Ibsen
Jun 27, 1880
Helen Keller
May 4, 1956
Hal Finney
Apr 25, 1874
Guglielmo Marconi
Jul 20, 1822
Gregor Mendel
Jun 25, 1903
George Orwell
Jan 22, 1788
George Gordon Byron
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Nov 11, 1821
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jul 6, 1907
Frida Kahlo
May 12, 1820
Florence Nightingale
Oct 22, 480
Euripides
Jul 27, 1612
Murad IV
Dec 10, 1830
Emily Dickinson
Jan 19, 1809
Edgar Allan Poe
Jan 30, 460
Democritus
Feb 7, 1660
Daniel Defoe
Jan 1, 551
Confucius
Aug 19, 1883
Coco Chanel
Nov 14, 1840
Claude Monet
Feb 7, 1812
Charles Dickens
Jul 26, 1875
Carl Gustav Jung
May 18, 1872
Bertrand Russell
Jan 17, 1706
Benjamin Franklin
Apr 14, 1126
Averroes
Jan 20, 1798
Auguste Comte
May 4, 1929
Audrey Hepburn
May 16, 268
Ashoka
Jun 12, 1929
Anne Frank
Nov 19, 1501
Anne Boleyn
Aug 13, 1899
Alfred Hitchcock
Mar 3, 1847
Alexander Graham Bell
Aug 6, 1881
Alexander Fleming
Jul 26, 1894
Aldous Huxley
Jun 23, 1912
Alan Turing
Oct 15, 1542
Muhammad Akbar
Apr 18, 1590
Ahmed I
Dec 10, 1815
Ada Lovelace
Mar 14, 1879
Albert Einstein
Feb 22, 1732
George Washington
Jan 4, 1643
Isaac Newton
Jul 10, 1856
Nikola Tesla
Aug 26, 1910
Mother Teresa
Feb 12, 1809
Abraham Lincoln
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
May 24, 1819
Queen Victoria
Feb 12, 1809
Charles Darwin
Jan 20, 100
Julius Caesar
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Nov 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Dec 7, 384
Aristotle
Feb 24, 1955
Steve Jobs
Oct 25, 1881
Pablo Picasso
Jul 20, 346
Alexander the Great
Aug 17, 1769
Napoleon Bonaparte
May 6, 4