Historical Figures Saju Analysis - 50 Public-Domain Lives

Korean Saju (Four Pillars of Destiny) is a 1,400-year-old structural system that turns a birth moment into eight characters. Below are academic cultural analyses of 50 historical figures whose lives are fully documented and in the public domain, each built from publicly available birth dates. Cultural and academic commentary on historical figures who died 70+ years before publication date, or are ancient public-domain figures. Educational use only.

King Sejong the Great
Korean Monarch · Joseon Dynasty (1397-1450)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Admiral Yi Sun-sin
Korean Military Hero · Joseon Dynasty (1545-1598)
Day Master: Yang Metal
General Kim Yu-sin
Korean Military Hero · Silla Kingdom (595-673)
Day Master: Yang Wood
King Gwanggaeto the Great
Korean Monarch · Goguryeo Kingdom (374-413)
Day Master: Yang Fire
King Jeongjo of Joseon
Korean Monarch · Joseon Dynasty (1752-1800)
Day Master: Yin Water
Ahn Jung-geun
Korean Independence Figure · Korean Independence Movement (1879-1910)
Day Master: Yang Wood
Yun Dong-ju
Korean Poet · Korean Independence Era (1917-1945)
Day Master: Yin Fire
Kim Gu
Korean Independence Leader · Korean Independence Movement (1876-1949)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Ahn Chang-ho (Dosan)
Korean Independence Leader · Korean Independence Movement (1878-1938)
Day Master: Yin Wood
Yu Gwan-sun
Korean Independence Activist · March 1st Movement (1902-1920)
Day Master: Yang Metal
Confucius (Kongzi)
Chinese Philosopher · Spring and Autumn Period (551 BCE - 479 BCE)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Laozi
Chinese Philosopher · Spring and Autumn Period (c. 6th century BCE)
Day Master: Yin Water
Sun Tzu
Chinese Military Strategist · Eastern Zhou Dynasty (544 BCE - 496 BCE)
Day Master: Yang Metal
Qin Shi Huang
Chinese Emperor · Qin Dynasty (259 BCE - 210 BCE)
Day Master: Yang Fire
Du Fu
Chinese Poet · Tang Dynasty (712-770)
Day Master: Yin Wood
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese Swordsman / Philosopher · Edo Period (1584-1645)
Day Master: Yang Metal
Abraham Lincoln
American President · United States (1809-1865)
Day Master: Yang Wood
George Washington
American President · United States (1732-1799)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Napoleon Bonaparte
French Emperor · First French Empire (1769-1821)
Day Master: Yang Fire
Julius Caesar
Roman Statesman · Roman Republic (100 BCE - 44 BCE)
Day Master: Yang Wood
Alexander the Great
Macedonian King · Argead Dynasty (356 BCE - 323 BCE)
Day Master: Yang Fire
Albert Einstein
Physicist · Modern Physics (1879-1955)
Day Master: Yin Earth
Isaac Newton
Physicist / Mathematician · Scientific Revolution (1643-1727)
Day Master: Yang Water
Charles Darwin
Biologist · Victorian Science (1809-1882)
Day Master: Yang Wood
William Shakespeare
Playwright · Elizabethan / Jacobean England (1564-1616)
Day Master: Yin Fire
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer · Classical / Early Romantic Music (1770-1827)
Day Master: Yang Wood
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer · Classical Music (1756-1791)
Day Master: Yin Wood
Vincent van Gogh
Painter · Post-Impressionism (1853-1890)
Day Master: Yang Fire
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer / Physicist · Scientific Revolution (1564-1642)
Day Master: Yang Earth
René Descartes
Philosopher / Mathematician · Early Modern Philosophy (1596-1650)
Day Master: Yin Water
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher · Enlightenment Philosophy (1724-1804)
Day Master: Yin Earth
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher · German Idealism (1770-1831)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Karl Marx
Philosopher / Economist · 19th-Century Political Economy (1818-1883)
Day Master: Yang Wood
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist / Neurologist · Psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
Day Master: Yang Wood
Carl Gustav Jung
Psychologist · Analytical Psychology (1875-1961)
Day Master: Yang Water
Nikola Tesla
Inventor / Engineer · Second Industrial Revolution (1856-1943)
Day Master: Yang Fire
Marie Curie
Physicist / Chemist · Modern Physics / Chemistry (1867-1934)
Day Master: Yin Metal
Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)
Religious Founder · Indian Subcontinent (c. 563 BCE - 483 BCE)
Day Master: Yin Wood
Leonardo da Vinci
Polymath / Artist · Italian High Renaissance (1452-1519)
Day Master: Yin Earth
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Sculptor / Painter · Italian High Renaissance (1475-1564)
Day Master: Yang Metal
Raphael Sanzio
Painter · Italian High Renaissance (1483-1520)
Day Master: Yin Earth
Rembrandt van Rijn
Painter · Dutch Golden Age (1606-1669)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer · Baroque Music (1685-1750)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Frédéric Chopin
Composer / Pianist · Romantic Music (1810-1849)
Day Master: Yin Fire
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Author · American Literature (1835-1910)
Day Master: Yang Water
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist · 19th-Century Russian Literature (1821-1881)
Day Master: Yin Wood
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist · 19th-Century Russian Literature (1828-1910)
Day Master: Yang Earth
Thomas Jefferson
American Statesman · United States (1743-1826)
Day Master: Yin Earth
Benjamin Franklin
American Polymath · United States (1706-1790)
Day Master: Yang Metal
Florence Nightingale
Healthcare Pioneer · Victorian Era (1820-1910)
Day Master: Yin Metal