LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.comune.firenze.it/

Population:
356,000 (2004)

Founding Date:
59 BC

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Florence	1321

MUSEUM

Museum	Founded
Uffizi Gallery	1765

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Gucci	1921
Salvatore Ferragamo Italia	1914

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alesso Baldovinetti	Painter	14-Oct-1427	29-Aug-1499	15th c. Florentine painter
Lorenzo Bellini	Doctor	3-Sep-1643	8-Jan-1704	Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts
Sandro Botticelli	Painter	1-Mar-1445	17-May-1510	Florentine early Renaissance painter
Filippo Brunelleschi	Architect	1377	15-Apr-1446	Florentine Renaissance architect
Guido Cavalcanti	Poet	c. 1250	27-Aug-1300	Canzone d'Amore
Roberto Cavalli	Fashion Designer	15-Nov-1940		Invented a technique for printing on leather
Benvenuto Cellini	Sculptor	1-Nov-1500	13-Feb-1571	Florentine Mannerist goldsmith and sculptor
Luigi Cherubini	Composer	14-Sep-1760	15-Mar-1842	The Water Carrier
Pope Clement VII	Religion	26-May-1478	25-Sep-1534	Roman Catholic Pope, 1523-34
Pope Clement XII	Religion	7-Apr-1652	6-Feb-1740	Roman Catholic Pope, 1730-40
George P. Cosmatos	Film Director	4-Jan-1941	19-Apr-2005	Tombstone
Lorenzo di Credi	Painter	1459	1537	Florentine Renaissance painter
Dante	Poet	1265	14-Sep-1321	La Divina Commedia
Catherine de Medici	Royalty	13-Apr-1519	5-Jan-1589	De facto ruler of France, 1547-59
Stefano Della Bella	Engraver	17-May-1610	12-Jul-1664	Florentine engraver
Donatello	Sculptor	1386	13-Dec-1466	Italian Renaissance sculptor
Oriana Fallaci	Journalist	29-Jun-1929	15-Sep-2006	The Rage and the Pride
Domenico Ghirlandaio	Painter	1449	11-Jan-1494	Florentine painter
Benozzo Gozzoli	Painter	1420	4-Oct-1497	Murals of the Campo Santo at Pisa
Pope Leo X	Religion	11-Dec-1475	1-Dec-1521	Excommunicated Martin Luther
Pope Leo XI	Religion	2-Jun-1535	27-Apr-1605	Roman Catholic Pope, 1605
Fra Filippo Lippi	Painter	c. 1406	10-Oct-1469	Coronation of the Virgin
Jean-Baptiste Lully	Composer	28-Nov-1632	22-Mar-1687	Founder of French opera
Niccolò Machiavelli	Author	3-May-1469	22-Jun-1527	The Prince
Rose McGowan	Actor	5-Sep-1973		Paige Matthews on Charmed
Marie de Medici	Royalty	26-Apr-1573	3-Jul-1642	Regent of France, 1610-17
Philip Neri	Religion	21-Jul-1515	26-May-1595	Congregation of the Oratory
Niccolò Niccoli	Scholar	1363	3-Feb-1437	Italian humanist
Florence Nightingale	Activist	12-May-1820	13-Aug-1910	Established nursing as a profession
Richard Rogers	Architect	23-Jul-1933		Designed Centre Pompidou
John Singer Sargent	Painter	12-Jan-1856	15-Apr-1925	American portraitist
Andrea del Sarto	Painter	16-Jul-1486	28-Sep-1530	Florentine school
Piero Umiliani	Composer	17-Jul-1926	14-Feb-2001	Mah Na Mah Na
Pope Urban VIII	Religion	5-Apr-1568	29-Jul-1644	Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1623-44
Perino del Vaga	Painter	28-Jun-1500	19-Oct-1547	Painter of the Roman School
Gabriele Veneziano	Physicist	20-Feb-1942		Father of string theory
Andrea del Verrocchio	Painter	1435	1488	Florentine Renaissance painter and sculptor
Amerigo Vespucci	Explorer	9-Mar-1454	22-Feb-1512	American eponym
Franco Zeffirelli	Film Director	12-Feb-1923		Romeo and Juliet

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Giovanni Battista Amici	Astronomer	25-Mar-1786	10-Apr-1863	Italian astronomer, microscopist
Bartolommeo Ammannati	Architect	18-Jun-1511	22-Apr-1592	Designed the Pitti Palace
Alesso Baldovinetti	Painter	14-Oct-1427	29-Aug-1499	15th c. Florentine painter
Lorenzo Bellini	Doctor	3-Sep-1643	8-Jan-1704	Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts
Giotto di Bondone	Painter	1267	8-Jan-1337	Preeminent 14th c. Italian Painter
Pauline Borghese	Relative	20-Oct-1780	9-Jun-1825	Sister of Napoleon Bonaparte
Sandro Botticelli	Painter	1-Mar-1445	17-May-1510	Florentine early Renaissance painter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	Poet	6-Mar-1806	29-Jun-1861	Sonnets from the Portuguese
Filippo Brunelleschi	Architect	1377	15-Apr-1446	Florentine Renaissance architect
Andrea del Castagno	Painter	c. 1400	19-Aug-1457	Florentine painter
Guido Cavalcanti	Poet	c. 1250	27-Aug-1300	Canzone d'Amore
Benvenuto Cellini	Sculptor	1-Nov-1500	13-Feb-1571	Florentine Mannerist goldsmith and sculptor
Lorenzo di Credi	Painter	1459	1537	Florentine Renaissance painter
Luigi Dallapiccola	Composer	3-Feb-1904	19-Feb-1975	Canti di Prigionia
Stefano Della Bella	Engraver	17-May-1610	12-Jul-1664	Florentine engraver
Donatello	Sculptor	1386	13-Dec-1466	Italian Renaissance sculptor
Oriana Fallaci	Journalist	29-Jun-1929	15-Sep-2006	The Rage and the Pride
Francesco Filelfo	Scholar	1398	1481	Italian humanist
Lorenzo Ghiberti	Sculptor	c. 1378	1-Dec-1455	Cast the Florence Baptistery doors
Domenico Ghirlandaio	Painter	1449	11-Jan-1494	Florentine painter
Giambologna	Sculptor	1529	13-Aug-1608	The Rape of the Sabine Women
Charles Godfrey Leland	Poet	15-Aug-1824	20-Mar-1903	Hans Breitmann's Ballads
Niccolò Machiavelli	Author	3-May-1469	22-Jun-1527	The Prince
Lorenzo de Medici	Government	1-Jan-1449	8-Apr-1492	Ruler of Florence, art patron
Niccolò Niccoli	Scholar	1363	3-Feb-1437	Italian humanist
Jacopo Peri	Composer	20-Aug-1561	12-Aug-1633	Dafne, the first opera
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola	Philosopher	24-Feb-1463	17-Nov-1494	Italian philosopher and mystic
Politian	Scholar	14-Jul-1454	28-Sep-1494	Humanist under Lorenzo de Medici
Pontormo	Painter	24-May-1494	Dec-1556	Florentine Mannerist painter
Hiram Powers	Sculptor	29-Jun-1805	27-Jun-1873	American neoclassical sculptor
Howard Pyle	Artist	5-Mar-1853	9-Nov-1911	Art Nouveau children's book illustrator
Andrea del Sarto	Painter	16-Jul-1486	28-Sep-1530	Florentine school
Girolamo Savonarola	Religion	21-Sep-1452	23-May-1498	Italian monk and martyr
Desiderio da Settignano	Sculptor	c. 1430	1464	Florentine sculptor
Muriel Spark	Novelist	1-Feb-1918	13-Apr-2006	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Pope Stephen IX	Religion	c. 1000	29-Mar-1058	Roman Catholic Pope, 1057-58
Gladys Swarthout	Singer	25-Dec-1900	8-Jul-1969	Operatic mezzo-soprano
Evangelista Torricelli	Mathematician	15-Oct-1608	25-Oct-1647	Inventor of the barometer
Paolo Uccello	Painter	1397	10-Dec-1475	The Battle of San Romano
Giorgio Vasari	Art Historian	30-Jul-1511	27-Jun-1574	Lives of the Artists

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