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No. 041 · Sep 15, 2026

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

1794 – 1871

Science · Marine Biology

No. 040 · Sep 14, 2026

Rakhaldas Banerji

1885 – 1930

Science · Archaeology · India

No. 039 · Sep 13, 2026

Shen Kuo

1031 – 1095

Science · Polymathy

No. 038 · Sep 12, 2026

Eunice Newton Foote

1819 – 1888

Science · Climate

No. 037 · Sep 11, 2026

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

1805 – 1847

Music · Composition

No. 036 · Sep 10, 2026

Émilie du Châtelet

1706 – 1749

Science · Physics

No. 035 · Sep 9, 2026

Sake Dean Mahomed

1759 – 1851

Letters · Enterprise · India

No. 034 · Sep 8, 2026

Ludwig Guttmann

1899 – 1980

Medicine · Rehabilitation

No. 033 · Sep 7, 2026

Sequoyah

c. 1770 – 1843

Invention · Letters

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No. 032 · Sep 6, 2026

Percy Lavon Julian

1899 – 1975

Science · Chemistry

No. 031 · Sep 5, 2026

Nicolas Steno

1638 – 1686

Science · Geology

No. 030 · Sep 4, 2026

Rukhmabai Raut

1864 – 1955

Medicine · Reform · India

No. 029 · Sep 3, 2026

Wang Zhenyi

1768 – 1797

Science · Astronomy

No. 028 · Sep 2, 2026

Anna Atkins

1799 – 1871

Science · Photography

No. 027 · Sep 1, 2026

Ulugh Beg

1394 – 1449

Science · Astronomy

No. 026 · Aug 31, 2026

Hertha Ayrton

1854 – 1923

Science · Physics & Engineering

No. 025 · Aug 30, 2026

Ahilyabai Holkar

1725 – 1795

Statecraft · India

No. 024 · Aug 29, 2026

Jan Ingenhousz

1730 – 1799

Science · Plant Physiology

No. 023 · Aug 28, 2026

Alice Guy-Blaché

1873 – 1968

Art · Cinema

No. 022 · Aug 27, 2026

Robert Smalls

1839 – 1915

Resistance · Statecraft

No. 021 · Aug 26, 2026

Witold Pilecki

1901 – 1948

Resistance · Intelligence

No. 020 · Aug 25, 2026

E. K. Janaki Ammal

1897 – 1984

Science · Botany · India

No. 019 · Aug 24, 2026

Matthew Henson

1866 – 1955

Exploration · Arctic

No. 018 · Aug 23, 2026

Jang Yeong-sil

c. 1390 – after 1442

Invention · Instruments

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No. 017 · Aug 22, 2026

Njinga a Mbande

c. 1583 – 1663

Statecraft · Resistance

No. 016 · Aug 21, 2026

Alice Augusta Ball

1892 – 1916

Science · Chemistry

No. 015 · Aug 20, 2026

Nain Singh Rawat

1830 – 1895

Exploration · Survey · India

No. 014 · Aug 19, 2026

Judith Leyster

1609 – 1660

Art · Painting

No. 013 · Aug 18, 2026

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

1648 – 1695

Letters · Poetry & Philosophy

No. 012 · Aug 17, 2026

Mimar Sinan

c. 1489 – 1588

Art · Architecture

No. 011 · Aug 16, 2026

William Tyndale

c. 1494 – 1536

Letters · Translation

No. 010 · Aug 15, 2026

Pingali Venkayya

1876 – 1963

Resistance · Design · India

No. 009 · Aug 14, 2026

Al-Jazari

c. 1136 – 1206

Invention · Engineering

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No. 008 · Aug 13, 2026

Ignác Semmelweis

1818 – 1865

Medicine · Obstetrics

No. 007 · Aug 12, 2026

Zheng Yi Sao

c. 1775 – 1844

Resistance · Statecraft

No. 006 · Aug 11, 2026

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

1868 – 1921

Science · Astronomy

No. 005 · Aug 10, 2026

Srinivasa Ramanujan

1887 – 1920

Mathematics · India

No. 004 · Aug 9, 2026

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

1745 – 1799

Music · Composition & the Sword

No. 003 · Aug 8, 2026

Nikolai Vavilov

1887 – 1943

Science · Botany

No. 002 · Aug 7, 2026

Jeanne Baret

1740 – 1807

Exploration · Botany

No. 001 · Aug 6, 2026

Mary Anning

1799 – 1847

Science · Palaeontology