Baha'u'llah
Also known as: Bahá'ulláh, Mirza Huseyn Ali
1817 – 1892
Iranian

Religious leader. He began as a follower of Bab-ed-Din (Mizra Ali Mohammed), the founder of the Babi Sect in Iran, who prophesied the coming of a new Shiite Imam but was executed as a heretic in 1850. Baha-Allah then assumed the mantle of the prophet and founded Bahaism, a new religion which states that God is unknowable, that all religions are one because they are all successive emanations of the incomprehensible truth of God, and that Jesus, Mohammed, and Bab-ed-Din were examples of such emanations.

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1881–1973Ludwig von Mises
1862–1902Vivekananda
1828–1910Count Leo Tolstoy
1817–1862Henry David Thoreau
1879–1953Joseph Stalin
1863–1952George Santayana
1872–1970Bertrand Russell
1836–1886Ramakrishna
1820–1910Florence Nightingale
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1769–1821Napoleon I
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fl. c. 1806–c. 1873John Stuart Mill
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1870–1924Vladimir Lenin
1883–1946John Maynard Keynes
1743–1826Thomas Jefferson
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1889–1945Adolf Hitler
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1856–1939Sigmund Freud
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1812–1870Charles Dickens
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1798–1857Auguste Comte
1874–1965Sir Winston Churchill
1863–1933Constantine Cavafy
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1857–1941Robert Baden-Powell
1820–1906Susan B. Anthony
1860–1935Jane Addams