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Sep 24, 1398
Johannes Gutenberg
Germany
blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.
Created the printing press, mad ethe use of oil based ink -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Italy
painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific.
Painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper -
May 3, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli
Italy
politics and patriotism
author of The Prince, author of many "Discourses" on political life in the Roman Republic -
May 21, 1471
Albrecht Durer
Germany
painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg
engraved into wood knight death and the devil, made saint jerome study -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italy
sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer
The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The Statue of David. -
Feb 7, 1478
Sir Thomas More
England
lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
he wrote 'The History of Richard III' also utopia -
Dec 6, 1478
Baldassare Castiglione
Italy
courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author
wrote a book called courtrtiern and wrote the de oficiif -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare
England
English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer
Wrote Romeo and Juliet, also Hamlet. -
Raphael
Italy
Italian painter and architec
painted The Death of Socrates , modern scientific spirit in his work An Experiment with an Air Pump
