Famous astronomers
scientist who studies celestial bodies
818 people
Aristotle
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
– 1519
· Age 67
Deceased
Isaac Newton
1642
– 1727
· Age 84
Deceased
Galileo Galilei
1564
– 1642
· Age 77
Deceased
René Descartes
1596
– 1650
· Age 53
Deceased
Archimedes
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473
– 1543
· Age 70
Deceased
Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777
– 1855
· Age 77
Deceased
Stephen Hawking
1942
– 2018
· Age 76
Deceased
Avicenna
0980
– 1037
· Age 57
Deceased
Leonhard Euler
1707
– 1783
· Age 76
Deceased
Johannes Kepler
1571
– 1630
· Age 58
Deceased
Omar Khayyám
1048
– 1131
· Age 83
Deceased
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
0750
– 0846
Deceased
Thales
Giordano Bruno
1548
– 1600
· Age 52
Deceased
Carl Sagan
1934
– 1996
· Age 62
Deceased
Sima Qian
Ptolemy
0100
– 0170
· Age 70
Deceased
Alexander von Humboldt
1769
– 1859
· Age 89
Deceased
Henri Poincaré
1854
– 1912
· Age 58
Deceased
Averroes
1126
– 1198
· Age 72
Deceased
Antoine Lavoisier
1743
– 1794
· Age 50
Deceased
Pierre-Simon Laplace
1749
– 1827
· Age 77
Deceased
B
Brahmagupta
0598
– 0670
· Age 72
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11063