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Sicilians have contributed to the development of our planet from the beginning of times Empedocles (born in Agrigentum, c. 490 BC – 430 BC), scientist and philosopher_Gorgias (born in Leontini, c. 483 BC – 375 BC), philosopher_Timaeus (born in Taormina, c. 345 BC – 250 BC), historian_Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC – 212 BC), scientist_Diodorus Siculus (born in Agira, c. 90 BC – 30 BC), historian_Pope Leo II, Pope from 682 to 683_Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily 1130 – 1154_William I of Sicily, King of Sicily 1154 – 1166_William II of Sicily, King of Sicily 1166 – 1189_Frederick II (1194 – 1250), Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily (Frederick I of Sicily)_Cielo d'Alcamo (c. 1200 – 1250), poet_Giacomo da Lentini (1210 – 1260), poet_Guido Delle Colonne (born in Messina,1215 – 1290), poet_Antonello da Messina (Messina,1430 – 1479), painter_Antonello Gagini (1478 – 1536), sculptor_Francesco Maurolico (born in Messina,1494 – 1575), mathematician_Sigismondo D'India (born in Palermo,1582 – 1629), composer_Pietro Novelli (born in Monreale,1603 – 1647), painter_Giacomo Serpotta (born in Palermo,1656 – 1732), sculptor_Alessandro Scarlatti (born in either Trapani or Palermo,1660 – 1725), composer_Filippo Juvarra (born in Messina,1678 – 1736), architect_Giovanni Meli (born in Palermo,1740 – 1815), poet, intellectual_Vincenzo Bellini (born in Catania,1801 – 1835), opera composer_Francesco Crispi (born in Ribera,1819 – 1901), politician_Giovanni Verga (Catania,1840 – 1922), novelist_Giuseppe Sergi (born in Messina,1841 – 1936), anthropologist_Luigi Pirandello (born in Agrigento,1867 – died in Rome, 1936), dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature_Nino Martoglio (born in Belpasso,1870 – 1921), poet, director, screenwriter_Luigi Sturzo (born in Caltagirone,1871 – 1959), politician_Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (born in Palermo,1896 – 1957), writer, poet_Julius Evola (born in Rome to a noble Sicilian family,1898 – 1974), political philosopher_Frank Capra (born in Bisacquino as Francesco Rosario Capra, 1897 – 1991)_Ignazio Buttitta (born in Bagheria,1899 – 1997), poet_Salvatore Quasimodo (born in Modica,1901 – dies in Naples,1968), poet, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature_Renato Guttuso (born in Bagheria, 1911 – 1987)_Leonardo Sciascia (born in Racalmuto, 1921 – dies in Palermo, 1989), writer_Andrea Camilleri (born in Porto Empedocle, 1925), novelist_Nino Vaccarella (born in Palermo, 1933), race driver_Giovanni Falcone (born in Palermo,1939 – died in Capace,1992), judge_Paolo Borsellino (Palermo,1940 – 1992), judge_Giuseppe Tornatore (born in Bagheria, 1956), filmmaker_Domenico Dolce (born in Palermo, 1958)_Anna Kanakis (born in Messina, 1962), model, actress_Salvatore Schillaci (born in Palermo, 1964), football player_Franco Battiato (born in Jonia di Riposto, 1945), singer_Fiorello (born in Catania, 1960), actor, showman, singer_Maria Grazia Cucinotta (born in Messina, 1969), actress_Vincenzo Amato, actor, sculptor_Carmen Consoli (born in Catania, 1974), singer, songwriter