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List of authors to look up (encountered in the inquiry of a dude with time on his hands) - a starting point for study
B.C. ~ Epic of Gilgamesh
 ?	 ~ Homer/Hesiod
525  - Aeschylus
522  - Pindar
497  - Sophocles
484  - Herodotus
480  - Euripides
460  - Thucydides
446  - Aristophanes
430  - Xenophon
428  - Plato
384  - Aristotle
310  - Callimachus
300  - Theocritus
296  - Apollonius of Rhodes
254  - Plautus
200  - Polybius
195  - Terence
115  - Publilius Syrus
110  - Philodemus
106  - Cicero
100  - Julius Caesar
99   - Lucretius
86   - Sallust
84   - Catullus
80   - Vitruvius
77   - Liu Xiang
70   - Virgil
65   - Horace
60   - Dionysius of Halicarnassus
59   - Livy
55   - Tibullus
54   - Seneca the Elder
50   - Propertius
43   - Ovid
25   - Philo of Alexandria
20   - Valerius Maximus
04   - Seneca the Younger

Works: Mediterranean Aesop's Fables
                     The Attic Orators
                     Hippocratic Corpus
                     Homerica, Hesiodica
                     The Lyric Poets
                     The Orphic Hymns
                     The Pre-Socratics

A.D. - 1st Century -
20   - Musonius Rufus
23   - Pliny the Elder
27   - Wang Chong
28   - Silius Italicus
30   - Frontinus
34   - Persius
35   - Quintilian
37   - Josephus
38   - Martial
39   - Lucan
40   - Dio Chrysostom
45   - Statius
46   - Plutarch
56   - Tacitus
60   - Juvenal
61   - Pliny the Younger
69   - Suetonius
78   - Zhang Heng
86   - Arrian
95   - Appian
Works: New Testament
       On the Sublime

     - 2nd Century -

100  - Fronto
110  - Pausanias
117  - Aelius Aristides
120  - Lucian of Samosata
121  - Marcus Aurelius
125  - Aulus Gellius
155  - Cao Cao
       (Cassius Dio)
160  - Sextus Empiricus
165  - (Alexander of Aphrodisias)
170  - (Herodian)
172  - (Philostratus)
175  - Claudius Aelianus
187  - Cao Pi
192  - Cao Zhi
Works: Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus
       Deipnosophistae | Banquet of the Learned
       Epitome of the Philippic Histories
       Historiae Alexandri Magni
       Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

     - 3rd Century -

210  - Ruan Ji
223  - Ji Kang
225  - (Censorinus)
232  - Zhang Hua
234  - Poryphory
245  - Iamblichus
250  - Zuo Si
260  + (Eusebius of Caesarea)
261  - Lu Ji/Shiheng
270  - (Solinus)
275  - (Nonius Marcellus)
276  - Guo Pu
283  - Ge Hong
Works: The Hermetica

     - 4th Century -

310  - Decimus Ausonius
314  - Libanius
317  - Themistius
331  - Julian the Apostate
345  - (Flavius Eutropius)
       Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
346  - Eunapius
347  + (Jerome)
354  + Augustine of Hippo
355  - Quintus Smyrnaeus
363  + (Sulpicius Severus)
365  - Tao Yuanming
370  - Claudian
372  - Pei Songzhi
373  - Synesius
375  + (Orosius)
376  + (Cyril of Alexandria)
380  - Martianus Capella
     + (Socrates  of Constantinople)
385  - Nonnus of Panopolis
393  + (Theodoret of Cyrus)
395  - Stobaeus
Works: Augustan History
       Chūnqiū fánlù
       Distichs of Cato

     - 5th Century -

400  - Macrobius
     + (Sozomen)
412  - Proclus
415  + (Gennadius of Massilia)
425  - Kalidasa
430  - Sidonius Apollinaris
440  - Ammonius Hermiae
     + (Ruricius)
450  - Zosimus
458  - Damascius
470  + (Avitus of Vienne)
473  + (Magnus Felix Ennodius)
480  + Boethius
485  + Cassiodorus
490  - Simplicius of Cilicia
491  + (John Malalas)
495  - Olympiodorus the Younger
Works: Apophthegmata Patrum
       Asceticon
       Ethiopic Collectio Monastica
       Shishuo Xinyu

     - 6th Century -

500  + (Gildas)
       Procopius
510  - Jordanes
525  - Antarah ibn Shaddad
530  - Agathias
536  + (Evagrius Scholasticus)
538  + (Gregory of Tours)
540  + (Gregory the Dialogist)
550  - Hesychius of Alexandria
     + (John Moschus)
560  + Isidore of Seville
580  - Banabhatta
595  + George Pisida
Works: Natya Shastra
       Wenxuan
       Yùtái xīnyǒng

     - 7th Century -

624  + Adomnán
650  + Dandin
672  + Bede
675  + John Damascene
699  - Wang Wei
Works: Gaha Sattasai
       The Quran
       Records on the Western Regions
       Tirukkuṛaḷ
       Vasavadatta

     - 8th Century

701  - Li Bai
712  - Du Fu
725  + Paul the Deacon
735  + Alcuin
747  - Al-Waqidi
751  - Meng Jiao
759  + Theodore the Studite
768  - Han Yu
772  - Bai Juyi
773  - Liu Zongyuan
775  - Einhard
776  - Al-Jahiz
       Bai Xingjian
779  - Agobard
       Yuan Zhen
780  - Ahmad ibn Hanbal
784  - Ibn Sa'd
790  - Amulo
791  - Li He
Works: Chronicle of Fredegar
       Kaifuso
       Kojiki
       Man'yoshu
       Mu'allaqat
       Mufaddaaliyyat
       Nihongi
       Shitong
       Tongdian
       Wangchuan ji

     - 9th Century -

800  - Asaga
801  - Al-Kindi
803  - Du Mu
805  - Freculf
     - Sedulius Scotus
810  - Anastasius Bibliothecarius
     - Photios
813  - Li Shangyin
815  - John Scotus Eriugena
820  - Ibn Khordadbeh
825  - Al-Baladhuri
     - Ariwara no Narihira
830  - Ya'qubi
835  - Asser
839  - Al-Tabari
850  - John Asser
858  - Rudaki
872  - Al-Farabi
880  - Ahmad ibn Fadlan
893  - Flodoard
896  - Al-Masudi
Works: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
       Asma'iyyat
       Historia Brittonum
       Kitab al-Hamasah
       Liber glossarum
       Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
       Nihon Ryoiki

    - 10th Century -

905  - Sri Ponna
       Constantine VII
915  - Ayyuqi
920  - Liutprand of Cremona
925  - John Geometres
927  - Ibn Hawqal
932  - Miskawayh
935  - Hrotsvitha
940  - Ferdowsi
941  - Adikavi Pampa
950 -  Abhinavagupta
966  - Fujiwara no Kinto
       Sei Shonagon
967  - Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
969  - Al-Hamadhani
973  - Al-Biruni
       Al-Ma'arri
978  - Murasaki Shikibu
980  - Avicenna
       Farrukhi Sistani
990  - Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani
994  - Ibn Hazm
995  - Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi
Works: Annales Cambriae
       Bibliotheca historica
       Maqamat Badi' az-Zaman al-Hamadhani
       Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Sincerity
       The Greek Anthology
       Hrafnkels saga
       Kagero Nikki
       Kitab al-Aghani
       Kitab al-Fihrist
       Mokshopaya
       Poetic Edda
       The Suda
       The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
       Tang Huiyao
       Tochmarc Emire

     - 11th Century -

1000 - John Mauropous
1003 - Christopher of Mytilene
1004 - Nasir Khusraw
1005 - Papias the Lombard
1007 - Ouyang Xiu
1010 - George Kedrenos
1015 - Adam of Bremen
1017 - Michael Psellos
1018 - Nizam al-Mulk
1019 - Zeng Gong
       Sima Guang
1020 - Asadi Tusi
1021 - Solomon ibn Gabirol
1022 - Michael Attaleiates
1031 - Shen Kuo
1033 - Anselm of Canterbury
1037 - Su Shi
1039 - Su Zhe
1040 - Rashi
1043 - John Skylitzes
1048 - Omar Khayyam
1054 - Al-Hariri of Basra
1058 - Al-Ghazali
1062 - Nikephoros Bryennios
1165 - Yehuda Alharizi
1173 - Shinran
1075 - Judah Halevi
       Al-Zamakhshari
1079 - Peter Abelard
1180 - Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
       Nizami Aruzi
       Sanai
1081 - Zhao Mingcheng
1083 - Anna Komnene
1084 - Li Qingzhao
1085 - John of Worcester
1088 - Henry of Huntington
1090 - Bernard of Clairvaux
1095 - William of Malmesbury
       Geoffrey of Monmouth
       Usama ibn Munqidh
1096 - Geoffrey Gaimar
       Peter Lombard
1098 - Hildegard of Bingen
Works: Beowulf
       Cambridge Songs
       Encomium Emmae Reginae
       Four Great Books of Song
       Kutub al-Sittah
       Lebor Gabála Érenn
       Vis and Ramin
       Wonders of the East
       Y Gododdin
       Zizhi Tongjian

     - 12th Century -

1105 - Ibn Tufail
1110 - Joannes Tzetzes
       Wace
1114 - Otto of Freising
1115 - Eustathius of Thessalonica
1118 - Saigyo Hoshi
1120 - John of Salisbury
       Godfrey of Viterbo
1125 - Marie de France
       Lu You
1128 - Alain de Lille
1130 -'The Archpoet'
       Peter of Blois
       Constantine Manasses
       Chrétien de Troyes
       Zhu Xi
1135 + Maimonides
       Zhu Shuzhen
1140 - Marie de France
1141 - Nizami Ganjavi
1143 - John Kinnamos
1145 - Attar of Nishapur
1149 - Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
1150 - Arnaut Daniel
       Saxo Grammaticus
       Gottfried von Strassburg
1153 - Kamo no Chomei
1154 - Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
1155 - Niketas Choniates
1158 - Joseph of Exeter
1160 - Hartmann von Aue
       Wolfram von Eschenbach
1162 - Fujiwara no Teika
1165 + Ibn Arabi
       Jean Bodel
1170 - Wolfram von Eschenbach
1171 - Muhammad Aufi
1172 - Al-Qifti
1175 - Robert Grosseteste
1179 - Snorri Sturluson
1180 - Geoffrey of Vinsauf
1181 + Francis of Assisi
1185 - Layamon
1190 - Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube
Works: Apocalypse of Golias
       Carmina Burana
       De nugis curialium
       Estoria de España
       Kitab al-I'tibar
       Konjaku Monogatarishu
       La Chanson de Roland
       L'Estoire des Engleis
       Roman d'Alexandre
       Roman de Troie
       Táin Bó Cúailnge
       The Tale of Past Years
       Topographia Hibernica

     - 13th Century -

1200 - Dogen
     + Matthew of Paris
1201 - Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
1205 - Rutebeuf
1207 - Rumi
1210 - Saadi
1211 - Ibn Khallikan
1213 - Ibn al-Nafis
1219 - Roger Bacon
1225 + Thomas Aquinas
1230 - Jacobus de Varagine
1232 - Ramon Llull
1242 - George Pachymeres
1250 - Guido Cavalcanti
1260 - Maximus Planudes
1265 - Dante Alighieri
       {Manuel Moschopoulos}
1266 + John Duns Scotus
1270 - Gottfried von Strassburg
1284 - Yoshida Kenko
1285 - William of Ockham
1288 + Gersonides
1292 - John Kantakouzenos
1295 - Jean Buridan
       Nicephorus Gregoras
       Ludolph of Saxony
Works: Athelston
       Customs of Cambodia
       El Cantar de mio Cid
       Eyrbyggja saga
       Gesta Romanorum
       Karlamagnús saga
       Lancelot-Grail
       Laxdæla saga
       Nozhat al-Majales
       Poema de Fernán González
       Roman d'Alexandre en prose
       Roman de la Rose
       The Saga of Burnt Njál
       The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek
       The Secret History of the Mongols
       The Travels of Marco Polo
       Uji Shui Monogatari
       Völsunga saga

     - 14th Century -

1300 - John Mandeville
1304 - Francesco Petrarca | Petrarch
1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio
       Bartolo de Sassoferrato
1320 - Albert of Saxony
       John Barbour
       John of Fordun
1325 - Hafez
     - John Wycliffe
1330 - John Gower
1332 - Ibn Khaldun
     - William Langland
     + Hasdai Crescas
1342 + Julian of Norwich
1343 - Geoffrey Chaucer
1350 - (Gao Bing)
      'The Pearl' Poet
1355 - Manuel Chrysoloras
       Gemistus Pletho
1364 - Christine de Pisan
1368 - Thomas Hoccleve
1369 - Paul of Venice
1370 - Leonardo Bruni
       John Lydgate
       Heinrich Wittenwiler
1373 - Margery Kempe
1380 - Poggio Bracciolini
1381 - Shotetsu
1385 - Antoine de la Sale
1395 - George of Trebizond
1398 - Francesco Filelfo
Works: Amadís de Gaula
       Book of Taliesin
       King Alisaunder
       The Mabinogion
       Richard Coer de Lyon
       Roman de Fauvel
       Romance of the Three Kingdoms
       Taiheiki
       The Tale of the Heike
       Water Margin

     - 15th Century -

1400 - Gennadius Scholarius
1401 - George Sphrantzes
1403 - Basilios Bessarion
1407 - Lorenzo Valla
1409 - Gregorio Correr
1410 - Bartolomeo Facio
1413 - Joanot Martorell
1414 - Jami
1415 - John Argyropoulos
       Lewys Glyn Cothi
       Thomas Malory
1418 - Raoul Lefèvre
1420 - Jean Miélot
1421 - Bartolomeo Platina
       Sogi
1422 - William Caxton
1423 - Demetrios Chalkokondyles
1424 - Cristoforo Landino
1425 - Robert Henryson
       Martin Segon
1430 - Laonikos Chalkokondyles
       Martino da Como
       Maurus Servius
1431 - François Villon
1432 - Luigi Pulci
1433 - Francesco Colonna
       Marsilio Ficino
1437 - Diego de San Pedro
1440 - Matteo Maria Boiardo
       Anthony Woodville
1441 - Antonio de Nebrija
1445 - Konstantin Mihailovic
1447 - Baptista Mantuanus
1450 - Pierre Desrey
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci
1454 - Ermolao Barbaro
       Angelo Poliziano
1455 - Theodore Spandounes
1457 - Sebastian Brant
       Šiško Menčetić
1458 - Jacopo Sannazaro
1460 - Thomas Linacre
1461 - Džore Držić
1462 - Pietro Pomponazzi
1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1465 - Fernando de Rojas
1466 - Erasmus
1467 - Guillaume Budé
       John Colet
1468 - William Lily
1469 - Niccolò Machiavelli
1470 - Pietro Bembo
       Bernardo Dovizi
       Polydore Vergil
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus
1474 - Ludovico Ariosto
1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione
       Thomas More
       Gian Giorgio Trissino
1480 - Matteo Bandello
1481 - Antonio de Guevara
1482 - {Mavro Vetranović}
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini
       François Rabelais
       Francisco de Vitoria
     + Huldrych Zwingli
1485 - Johannes Dantiscus
1486 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1488 - Ulrich von Hutten
       Sebastian Münster
1490 - Thomas Elyot
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola
1492 - Pietro Aretino
1493 - Juan Luis Vives
1494 - Fuzûlî
1497 - John Heywood
Works: One Thousand and One Nights

     - 16th Century -

1500 - Joachim Camerarius
       Benvenuto Cellini
       Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
1501 - Gerolamo Cardano
1503 - John Leland
       Thomas Wyatt
1508 - Jean Daurat
       Marin Držić
1511 - Giorgio Vasari
1512 - Adrianus Turnebus
1514 - Andreas Vesalius
1515 - Roger Ascham
       Petrus Ramus
1516 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
1517 - Pierre Boaistuau
1519 - Theodore Beza
1520 - Jorge de Montemor
1521 - Lodovico Guicciardini
1523 - Gaspara Stampa
1524 - François Hotman
       Pierre de Ronsard
1525 - Luís Vaz de Camões
1526 - Bâkî
1528 - Rémy Belleau
       Henri Estienne
1530 - François de Belleforest
       Isotta Brembati
       (Claude Fauchet)
       Pey de Garros
       Stefano Guazzo
       Thomas Hoby
1532 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf
1533 - Michel de Montaigne
1535 - George Gascoigne
       Thomas North
       Giambattista della Porta
1538 - Giovanni Battista Guarini
1539 - Jacques Grévin
1540 - Joseph Justus Scaliger
1541 - Pierre Charron
1542 - John of the Cross
1544 - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
       Giacomo Bosio
       Torquato Tasso
1546 - Philippe Desportes
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes
       Justus Lipsius
1548 - Giordano Bruno
       Francisco Suárez
1550 - William Bellenden
1551 - William Camden
1552 - Alberico Gentili
       Edmund Spenser
1553 - Richard Hakluyt
       John Lyly
1554 - Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke
       Walter Raleigh
       Philip Sidney
1556 - George Peele
1558 - Robert Greene
       Thomas Lodge
1559 - Isaac Casaubon
1561 - Francis Bacon
       Luis de Góngora
1562 - Lope de Vega
1563 - Michael Drayton
1564 - Galileo Galilei
       Kit Marlowe
       William Shakespeare
1566 - James Stuart
1568 - Tommaso Campanella
       Honoré d'Urfé
       (Michael Maier)
1569 - Geoffrey Keating
       Giambattista Marino
1571 - Johannes Kepler
1572 - Thomas Dekker
       Ben Jonson
       Nef'i
1573 - John Donne
       Mathurin Régnier
1576 - John Marston
1577 - Robert Burton
       Gerardus Vossius
1579 - John Fletcher
       Tirso de Molina
1580 - Thomas Middleton
       Francisco de Quevedo
       John Webster
1581 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
1583 - Hugo Grotius
       Edward Herbert, Baron Cherbury
       Philip Massinger
1584 - Francis Beaumont
       Miyamoto Musashi
1585 - Cardinal Richelieu
1586 - Leo Allatius
1587 - Joost van den Vondel
1588 - Thomas Hobbes
       (Claudius Salmasius)
       François de La Mothe Le Vayer
1590 - Samuel Twardowski
1591 - Robert Herrick
1593 - George Herbert
1594 - Izaak Walton
1596 - René Descartes
       James Shirley
1597 - Wang Wei
Works: Investiture of the Gods
       Journey to the West
       Lazarillo de Tormes
       Otogizoshi
       Shakespeare Apocrypha
       Tottel's Miscellany

     - 17th Century -

1600 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
       Marin le Roy de Gomberville
       Gabriel Naudé
1604 - Jean Mairet
1605 - Thomas Browne
1606 - Pierre Corneille
       William Davenant
       Edmund Waller
1607 - Anna Maria van Schurman
1608 - Thomas Fuller
       John Milton
1609 - John Suckling
1610 - Paul Scarron
1611 - Evliya Çelebi
1612 - Asai Ryoi
       Thomas Killigrew
1613 - Samuel Butler
       Jean François Paul de Gondi
       François de La Rochefoucauld
1615 - John Denham
1617 - Edmund Ludlow
1618 - Abraham Cowley
1620 - John Evelyn
1621 - Jean de La Fontaine
       Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
       Andrew Marvell
       Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
       Henry Vaughan
1622 - Molière
       Jakob Thomasius
1623 - Blaise Pascal
1624 - Thomas Sydenham
1625 - Thomas Stanley
1626 - John Aubrey
       Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
1627 - Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
1628 - Charles Perrault
       William Temple
1630 - Pierre Daniel Huet
1631 - Richard Cumberland
       John Dryden
1632 - John Locke
       Katherine Philips
       Samuel von Pufendorf
       Baruch Spinoza
1633 - Samuel Pepys
1634 - Madame de La Fayette
1636 - {Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux}
       Thomas Hyde
1637 - Richard Head
1638 - Nicolas Malebranche
       Jean Racine
1639 - César Vichard de Saint-Réal
       Charles Sedley
1640 - Aphra Behn
       Pu Songling
1642 - Ihara Saikaku
       Isaac Newton
       Thomas Shadwell
1644 - Matsuo Basho
       Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras
1645 - Jean de La Bruyère
1646 - Antoine Galland
       Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1647 - Pierre Bayle
       John Wilmot, Earl Rochester
1648 - Elkanah Settle
1651 - François Fénelon
1652 - Nahum Tate
1653 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon
1657 - Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
1659 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
1660 - Daniel Defoe
       Gabriel Wagner
1661 - Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilseas
1662 - Richard Bentley
1664 - Matthew Prior
       Miguel de Unamuno
1667 - Johnathan Swift
1668 - Alain-René Lesage
       Giambattista Vico
1670 - William Congreve
       John Toland
1671 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
1672 - Joseph Addison
1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, Duc Saint-Simon
1679 - Christian Wolff
1684 - Ludvig Holberg
1685 - George Berkeley
       John Gay
1686 - Allan Ramsay
1688 - Pierre de Marivaux
       Alexander Pope
       Emanuel Swedenborg
1689 - Montesquieu
       Samuel Richardson
1693 - Eliza Haywood
1694 - Francis Hutcheson
       Hermann Samuel Reimarus
       Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
       Voltaire
1697 - Antoine François Prévost
1699 - Robert Blair
Works: Annals of the Four Masters
       Rosicrutian Manifestos
       Vitae Patrum
big &c.

     - 18th Century -

1706 - Émilie du Châtelet
       Benjamin Franklin
1707 - Henry Fielding
1709 - John Cleland
       Samuel Johnson
1710 - Thomas Reid
1711 - Jupiter Hammon
       David Hume
1712 - Richard Glover
       Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1713 - Denis Diderot
       Laurence Sterne
1714 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
       James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
1715 - Claude Adrien Helvétius
1716 - Thomas Gray
       Yosa Buson
1717 - David Garrick
       Horace Walpole
       Johann Joachim Winckelmann
1721 - William Collins
       François Hemsterhuis
       Tobias Smollett
       William Wilkie
1722 - John Home
1723 - Adam Ferguson
       Baron d'Holbach
       Adam Smith
1724 - Frances Brooke
       Immanuel Kant
       Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
1725 - Giacomo Casanova
1727 - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
1728 - James Cook
       Oliver Goldsmith
       Thomas Warton
1729 - Edmund Burke
       Anders Chydenius
       Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1730 - Johann Georg Hamann
       Charlotte Lennox
1731 - William Cowper
1732 - Charles Churchill
1733 - Mikhail Kheraskov
       Joseph Priestley
       Christoph Martin Wieland
1734 - Ueda Akinari
1735 - J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
1736 - James Macpherson
1737 - Edward Gibbon
       Thomas Paine
1738 - Cesare Beccaria
       Jacques-André Naigeon
1739 - Twm o'r Nant (Thomas Edwards)
1740 - James Boswell
       Johann Georg Jacobi
       Thomas Percival
1741 - Nicolas Chamfort
       Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
1743 - Nicolas de Condorcet
       Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
1744 - Johann Gottfried Herder
1745 - Thomas Holcroft
       Henry Mackenzie
       Hannah More
1747 - Gottfried August Bürger
1749 - Vittorio Alfieri
1748 - Jeremy Bentham
       Adamantios Korais
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
       Charlotte Turner Smith
1751 + James Archer
       Richard Brinsley Sheridan
       Johann Heinrich Voss
1752 - Frances Burney
1753 - Elizabeth Inchbald
       Joseph de Maistre
       Évariste de Parny
       Phillis Wheatley
1754 - Joel Barlow
       George Crabbe
       Antoine Destutt de Tracy
1755 - Marianne Ehrmann
1756 - William Godwin
1757 - William Blake
       Seyh Galib
       Karl Leonhard Reinhold
1758 - Hannah Webster Foster
       Ryokan
1759 - Robert Burns
       Friedrich Schiller
       Richard Sharp
       Mary Wollstonecraft
1760 - William Thomas Beckford
       Henri de Saint-Simon
1762 - William Lisle Bowles
       André Chénier
       Johann Gottlieb Fichte
       Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
1763 - Kobayashi Issa
       Samuel Rogers
1764 - Ann Radcliffe
1766 - Thomas Malthus
1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt
       Kyokutei Bakin
1768 - François-René de Chateaubriand
       Maria Edgeworth
1769 - Charles-Julien Lioult de Chênedollé
1770 - G. W. F. Hegel
       James Hogg
       Friedrich Hölderlin
       William Wordsworth
1771 - Charles Brockden Brown
       Walter Scott
       Sydney Smith
1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
       Charles Fourier
       Joseph Marie Degérando
       Novalis
       David Ricardo
       Friedrich Schlegel
1773 - Francis Jeffrey
       James Mill
1774 - Robert Southey
1775 - Jane Austen
       Charles Lamb
       Walter Savage Landor
       Matthew Lewis
       Charles Lloyd
       Friedrich Schelling
1776 - Johann Friedrich Herbart
       E. T. A. Hoffmann
       Barthold Georg Niebuhr
       Jane Porter
1777 - Thomas Campbell
       Heinrich von Kleist
1778 - Clemens von Brentano
       William Hazlitt
1779 - Thomas Moore
       Adam Müller
       Peter Mark Roget
1780 - Pierre-Jean de Béranger
       Carl von Clausewitz
       Charles Nodier
1781 - Achim von Arnim
       Bernard Bolzano
1782 - Esaias Tegnér
1783 - Washington Irving
       Stendhal
       Vasily Zhukovsky
1784 - Leigh Hunt
1785 - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
       Alessandro Manzoni
       Thomas De Quincey
1787 - Mary Russell Mitford
1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron
       {Louis-François L'Héritier}
       Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
       William Hamilton
       Arthur Schopenhauer
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper
1790 - Alphonse de Lamartine
       Astolphe, Maruis de Custine
1791 - Eugène Scribe
1792 - Victor Cousin
       Johann Peter Eckmann
       Percy Bysshe Shelley
1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
       John Clare
1794 - William Cullen Bryant
       William Whewell
1795 - John Keats
       Leopold von Ranke
1796 - Henry George Bohn
       Thomas Bulfinch
1797 - Mirza Ghalib
       Heinrich Heine
       Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
       Alfred de Vigny
1798 - Friedrich Eduard Beneke
       Auguste Comte
       Jules Michelet
       Adam Mickiewicz
1799 - Amos Bronson Alcott
       Honoré de Balzac
       Alexander Pushkin
Works: Dream of the Red Chamber
       Federalist Papers
       One Thousand and One Nights
       Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
       Three Hundred Tang Poems (Quan Tangshi)
 and too many others

     - 19th Century -

1800 - Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat
       Thomas Babington Macaulay
1802 - Alexandre Dumas
       Victor Hugo
       Letitia Elizabeth Landon
       Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
1803 - George Borrow
       Ralph Waldo Emerson
1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach
       George Sand
1805 - Hans Christian Andersen
       Alexis de Tocqueville
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
       John Stuart Mill
       Max Stirner
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
       John Greenleaf Whittier
1808 - James Frederick Ferrier
       Gérard de Nerval
1809 - Khachatur Abovian
       Bruno Bauer
       Charles Darwin
       Edward FitzGerald
       Nikolai Gogol
       William Rathbone Greg
       Edgar Allan Poe
       Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
       Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1810 - E. Cobham Brewer
       John Brown
       Margaret Fuller
       Elizabeth Gaskell
       Alfred de Musset
1811 - Vissarion Belinsky
       Fanny Fern
       Théophile Gautier
       Henry Liddell
       Harriet Beecher Stowe
       William Makepeace Thackeray
1812 - Robert Browning
       Charles Dickens
       Ivan Goncharov
       Alexander Herzen
1813 - Friedrich Hebbel
       Søren Kierkegaard
       Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
       William Smith
       Henry Theodore Tuckerman
       Richard Wagner
1814 - William Wells Brown
       Sheridan Le Fanu
       Mikhail Lermontov
1815 - Richard Henry Dana Jr.
       Charles Bernard Renouvier
       Anthony Trollope
       William Wilde
1816 - Charlotte Brontë
1817 - Nikolay Kostomarov
       George Henry Lewes
       Hermann Lotze
       Theodor Mommsen
       Francesco de Sanctis
       Henry David Thoreau
1818 - Emily Brontël
       Jacob Burckhardt
       George Eliot
       Leconte de Lisle
       Karl Marx
       Ivan Turgenev
1819 - Butrus al-Bustani
       Alexander Herzen
       Gottfried Keller
       James Russell Lowell
       Herman Melville
       John Ruskin
       Philip Schaff
       Edwin Percy Whipple
       Walt Whitman
1820 - Anne Brontë
       Friedrich Engels
       George Grove
       Hayreddin Pasha
       Herbert Spencer
1821 - Charles Baudelaire
       Richard Francis Burton
       William Hepworth Dixon
       Fyodor Dostoyevsky
       Gustave Flaubert
       Nikolay Nekrasov
       Cyprian Norwid
1822 - Matthew Anthropologyd
       Francis Galton
       Edward Everett Hale
       Thomas Hughes
1823 - Tom Arnold
       Théodore de Banville
       Max Müller
       Alfred Russel Wallace
1824 - Wilkie Collins
       Alexandre Dumas, fils
       Kuno Fischer
1825 - T. H. Huxley
       Watts Phillips
1827 - Charles De Coster
1828 - Nikolay Chernyshevsky
       Henrick Ibsen
       Dante Gabriel Rossetti
       Hippolyte Taine
       Leo Tolstoy
       Jules Verne
1829 - José de Alencar
       William Michael Rossetti
1830 - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
       Christine Rossetti
       Emily Dickinson
1831 - Isabella Bird
1832 - Louisa May Alcott
       Edward Dicey
       Wilhelm Wundt
1833 - Soledad Acosta
       Wilhelm Dilthey
       Jonas Lie
1834 - Lord Acton
       Volodymyr Antonovych
       William Morris
       Léon Walras
1835 - Samuel Butler
       William Stanley Jevons
       Mark Twain
1836 - Thomas Hill Green
       Fitz Hugh Ludlow
1837 - William Dean Howells
       Algernon Charles Swinburne
1838 - Henry Adams
       Franz Brentano
       Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
       John Morley
       Henry Sidgewick
1839 - Henry George
	   {Gaston Paris}
       Walter Pater
       Charles Sanders Peirce
       Sully Prudhomme
1840 - Thomas Hardy
       Carl Menger
       William Graham Sumner
       Émile Zola
1841 - Richard C. Jebb
       Lester Frank Ward
1842 - Ambrose Bierce
       Georg Brandes
       François Coppée
       William James
       George Trumbull Ladd
       Stéphane Mallarmé
1843 - Henry James
       Gabriel Tarde
1844 - Robert Bridges
       Edward Carpenter
       Anatole France
       Gerard Manley Hopkins
       Andrew Lang
       Friedrich Nietzsche
       Paul Verlaine
1845 - Tristan Corbière
       José Maria de Eça de Queirós
       George Saintsbury
1846 - Léon Bloy
       F. H. Bradley
       Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont
       Henryk Sienkiewicz
1847 - George Grossmith
       Anton Marty
       Archibald Primrose
       Georges Sorel
       Bram Stoker
1848 - Bernard Bosanquet
       Gottlob Frege
         -Beginning of Analytic Philosophy
       Paul Groussac
       Alice James
       Joris–Karl Huysmans
       Vilfredo Pareto
       Carl Stumpf
       Wilhelm Windelband
1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett
       J. Comyns Carr
       Sarah Orne Jewett
       Ellen Key
       Alexander L. Kielland
       Emma Lazarus
       Anne Charlotte Leffler
       Ivan Pavlov
       August Strindberg
1850 - Edward Bellamy
       Pierre Loti
       Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
       Guy de Maupassant
       Robert Louis Stevenson
1851 - Eugen Böhm von Bawerk
       Arne Garborg
       Knut Wicksell
       Friedrich von Wieser
1852 - Augusta, Lady Gregory
       Ernest Fenollosa
       Arnold Toynbee
1853 - Alexius Meinong
1854 - James George Frazer
       Hans Jæger
       W. C. Morrow
       Oscar Wilde
1855 - Frank Harris
       Robert de Montesquiou
       Josiah Royce
       Ferdinand Tönnies
       George Edward Woodberry
1856 - William Archer
       Sigmund Freud
       Karl Krumbacher
       Jean Moréas
       George Bernard Shaw
       Booker T. Washington
1857 - Joseph Conrad
       Maffeo Pantaleoni
       Henrik Pontoppidan
       Ferdinand de Saussure
       Marcel Schwob
       Thorstein Veblen
1858 - Franz Boas
       Émile Durkheim
       Selma Lagerlöf
       Georg Simmel
       Graham Wallas
1859 - Henri Bergson
       John Dewey
       Arthur Conan Doyle
       Georgios Drossinis
       Kenneth Grahame
       Knut Hamsun
       Edmund Husserl
       Kostis Palamas
1860 - J. M. Barrie
       Anton Chekhov
       Ivan Goncharov
       Harriet Monroe
1861 - J. B. Bury
       Han Ryner
       Rudolf Steiner
       Rabindranath Tagore
       Alfred North Whitehead
1862 - Anna Bugge
       Gerhart Hauptmann
       O. Henry
       M. R. James
       Maurice Maeterlinck
       Henry Newbolt
       Okakura Kakuzo
       Emilio Salgari
       Arthur Schnitzler
       Edith Wharton
1863 - Constantine P. Cavafy
       Antoni Lange
       Arthur Machen
       George Herbert Mead
       James Harvey Robinson
       George Santayana
       W. I. Thomas
1864 - Herman Gorter
       Frank Wedekind
1865 - Olavo Bilac
       Rudyard Kipling
       Arthur Symons
       W. B. Yeats
1866 - Benedetto Croce
       Henri Hauser
       J. M. E. McTaggart
       Romain Rolland
       Lev Shestov
       Kazimierz Twardowski
       Ramón del Valle-Inclán
       H. G. Wells
1867 - Arnold Bennett
       Edith Hamilton
       George Horace Lorimer
       Luigi Pirandello
       Masaoka Shiki
       Natsume Soseki
1868 - W. E. B. Du Bois
       Paul Claudel
       Stefan George
       Maxim Gorky
       E. V. Lucas
       Edgar Lee Masters
       Gustav Meyrink
       {Friedrich Münzer}
       Edmond Rostand
1869 - E. A. Robinson
       Léon Brunschvicg
       André Gide
       Martin Andersen Nexø
       George Sterling
       Booth Tarkington
1870 - Alfred Adler
       Hilaire Belloc
       Vladimir Lenin
1871 - W. H. Davies
       Grazia Deledda
       Theodore Dreiser
       Marcel Proust
       Paul Valéry
1872 - Learned Hand
       Johan Huizinga
       John Cowper Powys
       Toson Shimazaki
1873 - Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
       Ford Madox Ford
       William Ernest Hocking
       Johannes V. Jensen
       Walter de la Mare
       José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín)
       G.E. Moore
1874 - Ernst Cassirer
       G.K. Chesterton
       Robert Frost
       Holbrook Jackson
       W. Somerset Maugham
       Max Scheler
       Gertrude Stein
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
       Carl Jung
       Thomas Mann
       Yone Noguchi
       T. F. Powys
       Rainer Maria Rilke
1876 - Sherwood Anderson
       Jack London
       Herman George Scheffauer
       G.M. Trevelyan
       Jean Webster
1877 - Hermann Hesse
       Muhammad Iqbal
       Jean Schlumberger
1878 - Martin Buber
       Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
       Paul Klee
       Carl Sandburg
       Upton Sinclair
1879 - James Branch Cabell
       E. M. Forster
       Vachel Lindsay
       Nagai Kafu
       Wallace Stevens
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire
       Vilhelm Ekelund
       Joseph Hergesheimer
       H. L. Mencken
       Max Michelson
       Robert Musil
       Ernest Poole
       Oswald Spengler
       Carl Van Vechten
       Volodymyr Vynnychenko
1881 - Sati' al-Husri
       Witter Bynner
       Roger Martin du Gard
       Eugen Lovinescu
       Ludwig von Mises
       Elizabeth Madox Roberts
       Lu Xun
       Stefan Zweig
1882 - Eric Rücker Eddison
       Jean Giraudoux
       Nicolai Hartmann
       James Joyce
       Wyndham Lewis
       Jacques Maritain
       A. A. Milne
       Virginia Woolf
       Florian Znaniecki
1883 - Karl Jaspers
       Franz Kafka
       Nikos Kazantzakis
       José Ortega y Gasset
       H. J. Rose
       Joseph Schumpeter
       William Carlos Williams
1884 - Gaston Bachelard
       Étienne Gilson
       Bronislaw Malinowski
       Jean Paulhan
       Otto Rank
       Arthur Ransome
       Angelos Sikelianos
       Sara Teasdale
       Hugh Walpole
       Yevgeny Zamyatin
1885 - Ernst Bloch
       William Durant
       Dezso Kosztolányi
       D. H. Lawrence
       Sinclair Lewis
       György Lukács
       François Mauriac
       Ezra Pound
       Elinor Wylie
1886 - Manuel Bandeira
       Marc Bloch
       Hermann Broch
       Ernst Robert Curtius
       H. D.
       Boris Eikhenbaum
       Alain-Fournier
       Jacques Rivière
       Siegfried Sassoon
       Olaf Stapledon
       Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
       Charles Williams
1887 - George Abbott
       Gunnar Björling
       Blaise Cendrars
       Frigyes Karinthy
       Robinson Jeffers
       Hope Mirrlees
       Marianne Moore
       Saint-John Perse
       George Vernadsky
       Yūzō Yamamoto
1888 - Osip Brik
       Martin Cyril D'Arcy
       Ramón Gómez de la Serna
       Fred Hando
       Werner Jaeger
       Kan Kikuchi
       T. E. Lawrence
       Katherine Mansfield
       Eugene O'Neill
       Fernando Pessoa
       John Crowe Ransom
       Jean Wahl
1889 - Conrad Aiken
       Anna Akhmatova
       Jean Cocteau
       Waldo Frank
       Martin Heidegger
       Taha Hussein
       Siegfried Kracauer
       Anita Loos
       Gabriel Marcel
       John Middleton Murray
       Arnold J. Toynbee
       Arthur Waley
1890 - Agatha Christie
       Kurt Lewin
       Katherine Anne Porter
       Victoria Ocampo
       Heinrich Zimmer
1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov
       Antonio Gramsci
       Kume Masao
       Nella Larsen
       John Metcalfe
1892 - Akutagawa Ryunosuke
       Richard Aldington
       Erich Auerbach
       Djuna Barnes
       Walter Benjamin
       E. H. Carr
       Archibald MacLeish
       Edith Södergran
       J. R. R. Tolkien
       Marina Tsvetaeva
       Rebecca West
       Vita Sackville-West
       Bruno Schultz
       Yoshikawa Eiji
1893 - E. R. Dodds
       George Grosz
       Vladimir Mayakovsky
       Wilfred Owen
       Herbert Read
       I. A. Richards
       Dorothy L. Sayers
       Evelyn Scott
       Viktor Shklovsky
       Clark Ashton Smith
       Freya Stark
       Ernst Toller
1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
       Ben Hecht
       Jean Hugo
       Aldous Huxley
       Nishiwaki Junzaburo
       J. B. Priestley
       Yury Tynyanov
       Jack Woodford
1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin
       Paul Éluard
       Robert Graves
       Leslie Poles Hartley
       Max Horkheimer
       F. R. Leavis
       Sinclair Lewis
       Saeed Nafisi
       Vivian de Sola Pinto
       Vladimir Propp
       Edmund Wilson
1896 - Antonin Artaud
       Edmund Blunden
       André Breton
       Nancy Cunard
       F. Scott Fitzgerald
       (John Alexander Gunn)
       John Dos Passos
       Tristan Tzara
       Lev Vygotsky
1897 - Louis Aragon
       Georges Bataille
       Kenneth Burke
       Nirad C. Chaudhuri
       William Faulkner
       James Hanley
       Karl Löwith
       Gershom Scholem
       Philippe Soupault
       Thornton Wilder
1898 - Bertolt Brecht
       Malcolm Cowley
       Federico García Lorca
       C.S. Lewis
       Herbert Marcuse
       Erich Maria Remarque
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges
       Bruce Catton
       Noël Coward
       Hart Crane
       C. S. Forester
       Erich Fromm
       Friedrich Hayek
       Yasunari Kawabata
       Henri Michaux
       Vladimir Nabokov
       Kazi Nazrul Islam
       Benjamin Péret
       Francis Ponge
       Leo Strauss
       Allen Tate
       E. B. White
       Frances Yates
Works: Innumerable at this point.