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Heinrich Seuse

Heinrich Seuse

Germany

1295 – 1366 (70 years old)

Rhineland Dominican mystic and poet of Eternal Wisdom whose 'Little Book of Eternal Wisdom' was the most widely read devotional manual in Europe before the Imitation of Christ.

Ulm, Germany

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Religion

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Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Fasi

محمد بن قاسم الفاسي

Morocco

c. 1300 – 1365 (~65 years old)

Venerated 14th-century Maliki jurist and theological grandmaster of Fez, trusted advisor to Marinid sultans Abu al-Hasan and Abu Inan Faris.

Fez, Morocco

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Gajah Mada

Gajah Mada

Indonesia

c. 1290 CE – c. 1364 CE (74 years old)

Legendary prime minister (Mahapatih) of the Majapahit Empire who took the famous Sumpah Palapa (Palapa Oath) in 1336, vowing to taste no earthly pleasures until unifying the Nusantara archipelago.

Probolinggo (East Java), Indonesia

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Orhan

أورخان غازي (Orhan Gazi)

Turkey

c. 1281 CE – 1362 (81 years old)

Second ruler of the Ottoman dynasty who captured Bursa, Nicaea, and Nicomedia, established the first Ottoman standing army (Janissaries), and crossed into Europe at Gallipoli in 1354.

Tophane Park (Bursa), Turkey

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Politics

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Abu Salim Ali II ibn al-Hasan

أبو سالم علي بن أبي الحسن المريني

Morocco

1335 – September 1361 (26 years old)

Marinid Sultan (1359–1361), refined poet and patron who appointed Ibn Khaldun as Chancellor of the Royal Signet (Katib al-Alama) in Fez.

Fez, Morocco

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Johannes Tauler

Johannes Tauler

France

c. 1300 – 1361 (61 years old)

Rhineland mystic, Dominican friar, and supreme preacher of the 'Friends of God' whose vernacular sermons inspired Martin Luther and guided souls during the Black Death.

Strasbourg, France

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Gregory Palamas

Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς

Turkey

0296 – 1359 (1063 years old)

Archbishop of Thessaloniki and foremost theologian of Hesychasm who articulated the distinction between God's unknowable divine essence and uncreated divine energies.

Thessaloniki, Greece

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Abu Inan Faris

أبو عنان فارس المتوكل

Morocco

1329 – 1358 (29 years old)

Great Marinid Sultan of Morocco who unified the Maghreb under Moroccan rule, built the architectural marvels of the Bou Inania Madrasas in Fez and Meknes, and commissioned Ibn Battuta's travelogue.

Rabat, Morocco

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Politics

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Faris ibn Abi Amr al-Wansharisi

فارس بن أبي عمرو الونشريسي

Morocco

c. 1315 – 1358 (~43 years old)

Formidable Grand Vizier under Sultan Abu Inan Faris who oversaw the construction of the Bou Inania Madrasas of Fez and Meknes and supervised imperial taxation.

Fez, Morocco

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Politics

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Abu Zayan Muhammad ibn Ya'qub

أبو زيان محمد بن يعقوب المريني

Morocco

c. 1335 – 1358 (~23 years old)

Marinid sultan who held the throne briefly in 1358 following the death of Abu Inan Faris, navigating extreme political intrigue between powerful court viziers.

Fez, Morocco

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Military Leaders & Strategists

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Geoffroi de Charny (Bearer of the Oriflamme)

Geoffroi de Charny

France

1 – 1356 (52 years old)

French knight, military theorist, and bearer of the sacred royal Oriflamme banner who authored the Book of Chivalry and died shielding King John II at Poitiers.

Poitiers, France

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Philosophy & Thought

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Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

ابن قيم الجوزية

Syria

29 January 1292 – 15 September 1350 (58 years old)

Eminent 14th-century Damascene jurist and spiritual psychologist, author of 'Madarij al-Salikin' and 'Zad al-Ma'ad'.

Damascus, Syria

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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

ابن قيم الجوزية

Syria

1292 – 1350 (58 years old)

Prominent Hanbali theologian, jurist, and spiritual psychologist whose masterworks 'Madarij al-Salikin' and 'Zad al-Ma'ad' beautifully united legal rigor with profound heart-centered devotion.

Damascus, Syria

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Philosophy & Thought

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Sant Namdev

संत नामदेव

India

1270 – 1350 (79 years old)

14th-century tailor-saint who pioneered the Varkari tradition of Maharashtra and traveled across Northern India to Punjab, whose sixty-one devotional hymns were enshrined in the Sikh sacred scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib.

Pandharpur (Maharashtra), India

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Namdev

नामदेव

India

1270 – 1350 (79 years old)

Pioneering Varkari Bhakti poet who journeyed across India with Dnyaneshwar, composed verses included in the Sikh Guru Granth Sahib, and preached universal brotherhood.

Pandharpur, India

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman

أبو الحسن علي بن عثمان المريني

Morocco

1297 – 1348 (51 years old)

Most formidable Marinid Sultan of Morocco, known as the 'Black Sultan', who unified Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia under his scepter, constructed the royal necropolis of Chellah, and transcribed the Quran in his own calligraphy.

Rabat, Morocco

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Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dhahabi

شمس الدين الذهبي

Syria

1274 – 1348 (73 years old)

Syrian master Hadith critic and supreme biographer whose 25-volume 'Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' and 'Tarikh al-Islam' comprise the most comprehensive biographical archive of Islamic civilization.

Damascus, Syria

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William of Ockham

Guillelmus de Ockham

Great Britain

c. 1287 – 1347 (60 years old)

English Franciscan philosopher and pioneer of nominalism whose methodological principle ('Ockham's Razor') and political treatises on the separation of church and state founded modern thought.

Munich, Germany

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