Famous people died in December - page 30

Omar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet

Jay Gould was a famous American railroad developer

Marquis de Sade was a French nobleman and an erotic novel writer

Maimonides was a recognized, inspiring and important Jewish philosopher of the middle ages

Luigi Pirandello was a Nobel Prize winning Italian writer and dramatist

Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was a Russian noblewoman, sadist, and serial killer

Thomas Hobbes was popular and controversial English philosopher

Karl Barth was an important Swiss theologian

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Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic, has worldwide recognition

Jose Rizal was a writer and revolutionary regarded as the greatest national hero of the Philippines