| Date of Birth. | Date of Death. | Vol. | Page. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addison | 1672 | 1719 | vi. | 147 |
| Aguesseau | 1668 | 1751 | iv. | 1 |
| Alembert | 1717 | 1783 | iii. | 101 |
| Antonio (see Raimondi). | ||||
| Ariosto* | 1474 | 1533 | iv. | 93 |
| Arkwright | 1732 | 1792 | v. | 181 |
| Bacon | 1560 | 1626 | vii. | 177 |
| Banks | 1743 | 1820 | i. | 193 |
| Barrow | 1630 | 1679 | iii. | 94 |
| Bentham | 1748 | 1832 | vii. | 97 |
| Bentley | 1662 | 1742 | iii. | 49 |
| Black | 1728 | 1799 | vii. | 169 |
| Blake | 1598 | 1657 | v. | 77 |
| Boccacio | 1313 | 1375 | ii. | 126 |
| Bolivar | 1783 | 1830 | v. | 173 |
| Bossuet | 1627 | 1704 | i. | 113 |
| Boyle | 1627 | 1691 | i. | 72 |
| Bradley | 1693 | 1762 | vi. | 68 |
| Bramante | 1444 | 1514 | vi. | 156 |
| Brindley | 1716 | 1772 | vii. | 81 |
| Buchanan | 1506 | 1580 | i. | 129 |
| Buffon | 1707 | 1788 | ii. | 19 |
| Buonarotti (see Michael Angelo). | ||||
| Burke | 1730 | 1797 | iii. | 33 |
| Calvin | 1509 | 1564 | vi. | 55 |
| Canova | 1757 | 1822 | iii. | 165 |
| Cartwright | 1743 | 1823 | vi. | 102 |
| Catherine II. | 1729 | 1796 | vii. | 103 |
| Cervantes | 1547 | 1616 | iv. | 147 |
| Charles V. | 1500 | 1558 | iv. | 179 |
| Chatham, Earl of | 1708 | 1778 | vii. | 55 |
| Chaucer | doubtful | 1400 | iii. | 176 |
| Clarendon | 1609 | 1673 | v. | 25 |
| Claude Lorraine | 1600 | 1682 | ii. | 136 |
| Coke | 1551 | 1632 | vii. | 15 |
| Colbert | 1619 | 1683 | iv. | 122 |
| Cook | 1728 | 1779 | ii. | 165 |
| Copernicus | 1473 | 1543 | i. | 34 |
| Corneille | 1606 | 1684 | i. | 153 |
| Corregio | 1493 | 1534 | i. | 57 |
| Cortez | 1485 | 1547 | vi. | 122 |
| Cowper | 1731 | 1800 | v. | 189 |
| Cranmer | 1489 | 1536 | iii. | 141 |
| Cromwell | 1599 | 1658 | iv. | 11 |
| Cuvier | 1769 | 1832 | ii. | 150 |
| Dante | 1265 | 1321 | i. | 1 |
| Davy | 1778 | 1829 | i. | 11 |
| Defoe | 1663 | 1731 | vii. | 112 |
| Delambre | 1749 | 1822 | iv. | 165 |
| Descartes | 1596 | 1650 | iv. | 189 |
| Dollond | 1706 | 1761 | ii. | 12 |
| Drake | 1545 | 1591 | iv. | 170 |
| Dryden | 1631 | 1701 | iii. | 127 |
| Elizabeth | 1533 | 1603 | vi. | 177 |
| Epée, De l’ | 1712 | 1789 | iv. | 113 |
| Erasmus | 1467 | 1536 | ii. | 56 |
| Erskine | 1748 | 1823 | iii. | 1 |
| Euler | 1707 | 1783 | v. | 129 |
| Fénélon | 1651 | 1715 | i. | 137 |
| Flaxman | 1755 | 1826 | i. | 27 |
| Franklin | 1706 | 1790 | iii. | 72 |
| Frederick II. | 1712 | 1786 | iv. | 155 |
| Fox | 1749 | 1806 | i. | 101 |
| Galileo | 1564 | 1642 | iii. | 113 |
| Gibbon | 1737 | 1794 | vii. | 25 |
| Goethe | 1749 | 1832 | iv. | 46 |
| Grotius | 1583 | 1645 | iv. | 201 |
| Gustavus | 1594 | 1632 | vii. | 1 |
| Hale | 1609 | 1676 | iii. | 66 |
| Halley | 1656 | 1742 | i. | 161 |
| Hampden | 1594 | 1643 | vii. | 137 |
| Handel | 1684 | 1759 | ii. | 10 |
| Harrison | 1693 | 1776 | v. | 153 |
| Harvey | 1578 | 1657 | i. | 185 |
| Henry IV. | 1553 | 1610 | iii. | 41 |
| Herschel | 1738 | 1822 | v. | 105 |
| Hobbes | 1588 | 1679 | vi. | 25 |
| Hogarth | 1697 | 1764 | iii. | 106 |
| Hume | 1711 | 1776 | vii. | 121 |
| Hunter | 1728 | 1793 | iii. | 19 |
| Jefferson | 1743 | 1826 | vii. | 153 |
| Jenner | 1749 | 1823 | vi. | 11 |
| Johnson | 1709 | 1785 | vii. | 145 |
| Jones, Sir W. | 1746 | 1794 | v. | 134 |
| Jonson | 1574 | 1637 | iii. | 156 |
| Kepler | 1571 | 1630 | iii. | 59 |
| Knox | 1505 | 1572 | vi. | 40 |
| Kosciusko | 1755 | 1817 | i. | 21 |
| La Grange | 1736 | 1813 | ii. | 88 |
| La Place | 1749 | 1827 | ii. | 34 |
| Lavoisier | 1743 | 1794 | v. | 9 |
| Leibnitz | 1646 | 1716 | vi. | 132 |
| L’Hôpital | 1505 | 1573 | v. | 85 |
| Lionardo da Vinci | 1452 | 1519 | iv. | 21 |
| Linnæus | 1707 | 1778 | iv. | 77 |
| Locke | 1632 | 1704 | v. | 53 |
| Lorenzo de’Medici | 1448 | 1492 | i. | 122 |
| Loyola | 1491 | 1566 | vii. | 73 |
| Luther | 1483 | 1546 | ii. | 73 |
| Mansfield | 1704 | 1794 | vi. | 62 |
| Marlborough* | 1650 | 1722 | iv. | 104 |
| Maskelyne | 1732 | 1811 | vi. | 20 |
| Medici (see Lorenzo). | ||||
| Melancthon | 1497 | 1560 | vi. | 75 |
| Michael Angelo | 1475 | 1564 | i. | 89 |
| Milton | 1608 | 1674 | i. | 43 |
| Molière | 1622 | 1673 | i. | 95 |
| Montaigne | 1533 | 1592 | v. | 157 |
| More | 1480 | 1535 | ii. | 25 |
| Mozart | 1756 | 1792 | vii. | 66 |
| Murillo | 1618 | 1682 | iv. | 137 |
| Napoleon | 1769 | 1821 | iv. | 67 |
| Nelson | 1758 | 1805 | ii. | 141 |
| Newton | 1642 | 1727 | i. | 79 |
| Palladio | 1518 | 1580 | vi. | 172 |
| Paré | 1509 | 1590 | v. | 69 |
| Pascal | 1623 | 1662 | ii. | 49 |
| Penn | 1644 | 1718 | vii. | 39 |
| Perouse, La | 1741 | 1788 | iii. | 135 |
| Peter I. | 1672 | 1725 | ii. | 183 |
| Petrarch | 1304 | 1374 | iii. | 25 |
| Pitt | 1759 | 1805 | vi. | 83 |
| Pope | 1688 | 1744 | v. | 164 |
| Porson | 1759 | 1808 | vi. | 108 |
| Poussin | 1594 | 1665 | i. | 177 |
| Priestley* | 1733 | 1804 | iv. | 85 |
| Raimondi | 1488 | doubtful | vii. | 9 |
| Raleigh | 1552 | 1618 | vi. | 1 |
| Raphael | 1483 | 1520 | vi. | 30 |
| Ray | 1628 | 1705 | ii. | 160 |
| Rembrandt | 1606 | 1674 | iii. | 121 |
| Reynolds | 1723 | 1792 | v. | 35 |
| Richelieu | 1586 | 1642 | ii. | 107 |
| Rodney | 1718 | 1792 | ii. | 82 |
| Romilly | 1757 | 1818 | v. | 111 |
| Rousseau | 1712 | 1778 | v. | 143 |
| Rubens | 1577 | 1640 | ii. | 99 |
| Scaliger, Joseph | 1540 | 1609 | vii. | 32 |
| Schiller | 1759 | 1805 | vii. | 87 |
| Schwartz | 1726 | 1798 | iii. | 86 |
| Scott | 1771 | 1832 | vii. | 185 |
| Selden | 1584 | 1654 | v. | 61 |
| Shakespear | 1564 | 1616 | v. | 122 |
| Siddons | 1755 | 1831 | v. | 94 |
| Smeaton | 1724 | 1792 | ii. | 13 |
| Smith, Adam | 1723 | 1790 | vi. | 49 |
| Sobieski | 1629 | 1696 | iii. | 184 |
| Somers | 1650 | 1716 | ii. | 1 |
| Spenser | doubtful | 1599 | iv. | 194 |
| Staël, De | 1766 | 1817 | vi. | 161 |
| Sully | 1559 | 1641 | i. | 169 |
| Swift | 1667 | 1745 | v. | 45 |
| Sydenham | 1034 | 1689 | v. | 18 |
| Tasso | 1544 | 1595 | iii. | 149 |
| Taylor, Jeremy | 1613 | 1667 | v. | 1 |
| Thou, De | 1553 | 1617 | vii. | 49 |
| Titian | 1480 | 1576 | ii. | 63 |
| Turenne | 1611 | 1675 | i. | 63 |
| Turgot | 1727 | 1781 | ii. | 175 |
| Vauban | 1633 | 1707 | iv. | 29 |
| Vinci (see Lionardo). | ||||
| Voltaire | 1694 | 1778 | ii. | 93 |
| Washington | 1732 | 1799 | iv. | 128 |
| Watt | 1736 | 1819 | i. | 55 |
| Wesley | 1703 | 1791 | vi. | 93 |
| Wiclif | 1324 | 1385 | vi. | 113 |
| Wilberforce | 1759 | 1833 | vii. | 162 |
| Witt, De | 1625 | 1672 | vii. | 129 |
| William III. | 1650 | 1702 | iv. | 37 |
| Wollaston | 1766 | 1828 | ii. | 121 |
| Wren | 1632 | 1723 | i. | 144 |
| Ximenes | 1437 | 1517 | vi. | 139 |