Hasanudin

male
Hasanudin (also spelled Hasanuddin) was the second ruler of the Banten Sultanate, following the mysterious Sunan Gunungjati when he left to found...
Anthony Reid

Anthony Reid

male
Anthony Reid is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. His doctoral work at Cambridge University examined the contest for power in...
Odoardo Beccari

Odoardo Beccari

male, deceased (1920)
Odoardo Beccari (16 November 1843 - 25 October 1920) was an Italian naturalist perhaps best known for discovering the titan arum, the plant with...
William Marsden

William Marsden

male, deceased (1836)
William Marsden (16 November 1754-6 October 1836) was an English orientalist. Born to a Dublin merchant in Verval, County Wicklow, he was educated...
Muhammad Yamin

Muhammad Yamin

male, deceased (1962)
Muhammad Yamin (1903-1962) was born in Talawi, Sawahlunto, in the heartland of the Minangkabau on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. He was the son...
Ma Huan

Ma Huan

male
Ma Huan, courtesy name Chung-dao 宗道, pen name Mountain-woodcutter, born in Hui Ji county of Zhejiang province. He was a Muslim voyager and tran...

James Lancaster

male, deceased (1618)
Sir James Lancaster (1554(?)-May 1618) was an English navigator, statesman, and pioneer of the British Indian trade and empire. In his early life,...
Hamzah Fansuri

Hamzah Fansuri

male, deceased (1590)
Hamzah Fansuri (also spelled Hamzah Pansuri, d. c. 1590) was a famous Sumatran Sufi writer, the first to pen mystical panentheistic ideas into the...

Matilda Briggs

female, 139 years old
Sophia Matilda Briggs (born 1870, fate unknown) was the daughter of Benjamin S. Briggs and a passenger on the last voyage of the "Mary Celeste"....
Richard Freeman

Richard Freeman

male, 39 years old
Richard Freeman (born Nuneaton, England, in 1970) is the zoological director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ). An early obsession with the...