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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Zheng He
Military Leaders & Strategists
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Zheng He

郑和 (三宝太监)
🇨🇳 China
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
Christine de Pizan
Literature & Poetry
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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan
🇮🇹 Italy
1364 – c. 1430 (65 years old)

Italian-born French author celebrated as Europe's first professional female writer, whose 1405 masterwork The Book of the City of Ladies defended women's intellect and moral equality in the Querelle des Femmes.

Poissy (Yvelines), France
Masaccio
Arts & Music
3,352
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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
43
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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
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Yongle Emperor

明成祖 (朱棣)
🇨🇳 China
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
Monarchy
1
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Lukeni lua Nimi

Lukeni lua Nimi
🇨🇩 Historical Kongo
c. 1380 – c. 1420 (40 years old)

Legendary military conqueror and statebuilder who founded the Kingdom of Kongo circa 1390, establishing the imperial mountain capital of M'banza-Kongo and creating the supreme royal title of Manikongo.

M'banza-Kongo, Angola
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
Al-Qalqashandi
Literature & Poetry
23
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Al-Qalqashandi

أحمد بن علي القلقشندي
🇪🇬 Egypt
1355 – 1418 (63 years old)

Eminent Mamluk chancery official whose monumental 14-volume administrative encyclopedia, Subh al-A'sha, preserves the bureaucratic, diplomatic, and geographical apparatus of the medieval Islamic world.

Cairo, Egypt
Imadaddin Nasimi
Literature & Poetry
4
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Imadaddin Nasimi

Seyid İmadəddin Nəsimi
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
c. 1369 – 1417-01-01 (48 years old)

Great fourteenth-century Azerbaijani Hurufi mystic poet and philosopher whose defiant poetry celebrated humanity as the divine reflection of the cosmos, for which he was martyred in Aleppo.

Aleppo, Syria
Monarchy
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Margrete I of Denmark

Margrete Valdemarsdatter
🇩🇰 Kingdom of Denmark
c. March 1353 – 1412-10-28 (59 years old)

Formidable medieval sovereign and diplomatic genius who united the three Nordic kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under a single crown in the 1397 Kalmar Union, ruling Scandinavia with majestic peace.

Roskilde, Denmark
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