Roger Bacon         1214-1292 promoted experimental science
Filippo Brunelleschi 1377-1446 perspective drawing 1425

Martin Luther       1483-1546 nailed theses 1517
Henry VIII          1491-1547 sought divorce 1527
Elizabeth I         1533-1603 reigned from 1558
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Oliver Cromwell     1599-1658
John Milton         1608-1674
Karl Marx           1818-1883

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 book 1543
Tycho Brahe         1546-1601
Johannes Kepler     1571-1630 Astronomia Nova 1609
Galileo Galilei     1564-1642 Starry Messenger 1610, Dialogue 1632
Isaac Newton        1642-1727 Principia Mathematica 1687

Francis Bacon       1561-1626 promoted the scientific method
Rene Descartes      1596-1650
Gottfried Leibniz   1646-1716
Carl Gauss          1777-1855

Christiaan Huygens  1629-1695
Anton van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723

Alessandro Volta    1745-1827

Carl Linnaeus       1707-1778
le Comte de Buffon  1707-1788
Charles Darwin      1809-1882
Gregor Mendel       1822-1884
Alfred Wallace      1823-1913

Antoine Lavoisier   1743-1794
John Dalton         1766-1844 atomic theory
Joseph Fourier      1768-1830 heat equation (pde)
Hans Oersted        1777-1851 E & M relationship
Humphry Davy        1778-1829 electric charge has place in chem
Augustin-Jean Fresnel 1788-1827 evidence for optical waves
Michael Faraday     1791-1867 E & M fields
Nicola Carnot       1796-1832 engine cylinder theory, thermodyamics
James Prescott Joule 1818-1889 
James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879
Dmitri Mendeleev    1834-1907
J.J. Thompson       1856-1940 discovered electron
Ernest Rutherford   1871-1937
Albert Einstein     1879-1955 relativity paper 1905
Niels Bohr          1885-1962
Werner Heisenberg   1901-1976 uncertainty principle 1927

Abraham Darby       1678-1717
John Harrison       1693-1776 chronometer/longitude ~1760
Benjamin Huntsman   1704-1776 steel
Josiah Wedgwood     1730-1795
John Wilkinson      1728-1808
Gottlieb Daimler    1834-1900
Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
Thomas Edison       1847-1931
Nikola Tesla        1856-1943
Guglielmo Marconi   1874-1937