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Sun Tzu

544 BCE – 496 BCE

The Art of War is still on military and business curricula worldwide.

China·Philosophy · History

Al-Biruni

973 – 1048

Measured Earth's radius to within 1% and wrote the first comparative anthropology of India.

Uzbekistan·Astronomy · Mathematics · History

Avicenna's student Al-Juzjani

980 – 1070

Preserved and completed Ibn Sina's corpus.

Afghanistan·Medicine · History

Shen Kuo

1031 – 1095

Described the magnetic compass and deduced geological deep time.

China·Astronomy · Engineering · History

Ho Chi Minh

1890 – 1969

Wrote Vietnam's declaration of independence quoting Jefferson.

Vietnam·Philosophy · History

B. R. Ambedkar

1891 – 1956

Principal architect of India's constitution and Dalit emancipation.

India·Economics · Philosophy · History