The 100 greatest people in history of the world..

Greatest people in history : The list below is from the book 100 Greatest Men (Grolier Educational: Danbury, Connecticut; 1997), written by Michael Pollard. The names in this list are listed in categories (humanitarians; thinkers and philosophers; kings, emperors and politicians; religious leaders; musicians and composers; writers; painters, sculptors and architects; stage, screen and photography; scientists; inventors; explorers and pioneers). More.. 10 evil birds that can easily kill you – Make sure you see this! (With Pictures) 10 BIG TV stars with dark past – #1 will leave you in a big shock! (With Pictures) Top 10 aerospace mega projects (+Photos) 6 wow facts about the penis – EVERY man needs to see this! The book's introduction (pages 6-7) notes: This book tells the stories of many of the greatest men in history. Some, like Kublai Khan, the great ruler of the Mongols, and Peter the Great in Russia, were born princes and so, in time, became rulers of empirers. Others, like the writer Mark Twain and the aviators Wilbur and Orville Wright, faced a long, hard struggle to make their names. A third group, which includes Martin Luther King and Mikhail Gorbachev, found themselves caught up in political events which put them in positions of challenge and leadership.One thing that all these men, and the others in this book, had in common was determination... "Greatness" does not always mean "goodness." Among the great men in this book are some who left a blank mark on world history. Shi Huangdi, Emperor of China in the third century BC, ruled his empire ruthlessly. Death was the only punishment for disobeying his laws. Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, had his son tortured to death for treason... These, and others whose stories have a dark side, have been included because, for good or evil, they left their mark on the age they lived in. Humanitarians Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 Lutheran Chiune Sugihara 1900-1986 Raoul Wallenberg 1912-c.1947 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 Baptist Desmond Tutu 1931- Anglican The Dalai Lama 1935- Tibetan Buddhism Han Dongfang 1963- Thinkers and Philosophers Lao Zi [Lao Tzu] c. 600 B.C. Taoism Confucius 551-479 B.C. Confucianism Socrates 469-399 B.C. Greek philosophy Plato c. 427-347 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy Aristotle 384-322 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527 Catholic John Locke 1632-1704 raised Puritan (Anglican); Liberal Christian Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778 born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic; later Deist Karl Marx 1818-1883 Jewish; Lutheran; Atheist; Marxism/Communism Also See: 25 greatest self made men in history (With Pictures) Kings, Emperors and Politicians Hammurabi c. 1792-1750 B.C. Alexander the Great 356-323 Greek state paganism Asoka c. 300-232 B.C. Buddhism Shi Huangdi 259-210 B.C. Julius Caesar c. 100-44 B.C. Roman state paganism Charlemagne 742-814 A.D. Catholic Kublai Khan 1214-1294 Peter the Great 1672-1725 Russian Orthodox George Washington 1732-1799 Episcopalian Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 Catholic (nominal) Simon Bolivar 1783-1830 Catholic (nominal); Atheist Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Regular Baptist (childhood); later ambiguous - Deist, general theist or a very personalized Christianity Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 Hindu (mother was a Jain) Kemal Ataturk 1881-1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945 Episcopalian Nelson Mandela 1918- Mikhail Gorbachev 1931- Russian Orthodox Also See: Top 10 most famous & deadliest swords in the world + their history (With Pictures) Religious Leaders Jesus Christ c. 6 B.C.-c. 30 A.D. Judaism; Christianity Zoroaster c. 628-c. 551 B.C. Zoroastrianism Muhammad c. 570-632 A.D. Islam Buddha c. 563-c. 483 B.C. Hinduism; Buddhism Moses c. 13th century B.C. Judaism Martin Luther 1483-1546 Catholic; Lutheran Musicians and Composers Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Lutheran Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Catholic Ludwig van Beethoven 17770-1827 Catholic Richard Wagner 1813-1883 Arturo Toscanini 1867-1957 Catholic George Gershwin 1898-1937 Jewish Louis Armstrong 1898-1971 Baptist The Beatles formed 1960 Writers Homer c. 700-c. 800 B.C. Greek paganism Virgil 70-19 B.C. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 Catholic William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Catholic; Anglican Moliere 1622-1673 Catholic Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Anglican Mark Twain 1835-1910 Presbyterian Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956 Painters, Sculptors and Architects Michelangelo 1475-1564 Catholic Rembrandt 1606-1669 Dutch Reformed Christopher Wren 1632-1723 Anglican Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 Dutch Reformed Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959 Unitarian Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Catholic Le Corbusier 1887-1965. Also See: 10 BIG TV stars with dark past – #1 will leave you in a big shock! (With Pictures) Stage, Screen and Photography Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977 Anglican; agnostic Jean Renoir 1894-1979 Catholic Sergei Eisenstein 1898-1948 Russian Orthodox; Marxist; Freudian Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908- Orson Welles 1915-1985 Protestant Christian Steven Spielberg 1947- Judaism Also See: 10 evil birds that can easily kill you – Make sure you see this! (With Pictures) Scientists Euclid c. 330-c. 260 B.C. Platonism / Greek philosophy Archimedes c. 287-212 B.C. Greek philosophy Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Catholic Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Catholic Isaac Newton 1642-1727 Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) James Watt 1736-1819 Presbyterian (lapsed) Michael Faraday 1791-1867 Sandemanian Charles Darwin 1809-1882 Anglican (nominal); Unitarian Louis Pasteur 1822-1895 Catholic Joseph Lister 1827-1912 Quaker Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 Jewish; atheist; Freudian psychology/psychoanalysis Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Jewish Alexander Fleming 1881-1955 Catholic Linus Pauling 1901-1994 Lutheran James Watson and Francis Crick 1928-; 1916- Inventors Zai Lun c. 50-118 A.D. Johannes Gutenberg 1400-1468 Catholic Samuel Morse 1791-1872 Christianity Nikolaus Otto 1832-1891 Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 Unitarian Thomas Alva Edison 1847-1931 Congregationalist; agnostic Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright 1871-1948; 1867-1912 United Brethren Guglielmo Marconi 1847-1937 Catholic and Anglican Explorers and Pioneers Marco Polo c. 1254-1324 Catholic Christopher Columbus 1451-1506 Catholic Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521 Catholic Roald Amundsen 1872-1928 Yuri Gagarin 1934-1968 Neil Armstrong 1930- -http://www.adherents.com/ CLICK HERE to join our BBM Channel for faster updates TOP POSTS YESTERDAY 10 popular stars you didn’t know are gay – #1 will shock many! (With Pictures) Top Nollywood stars who have passed away in recent years (+Photos) Top 10 most happy countries in the world – See which country is #1 now! (+Photos) What women really want from their men in the bedroom – Guys, get in here! 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