I plugged the Pantheon dataset into this dataviz template by Curran. There are 62875 people in this dataset. Entries that did not have a birth date were filtered from the original dataset.

The dataset inherits many of the biases and limitations from the user-generated content it originates from. In this case, culturally memorable people are ascertained to be those with biographies in more than 15 languages in Wikipedia.

The interactive date histogram filters cultural, and civilisational output through the ages.

This is a work in progress! Apologies if it kills your browser.

Update: I've filtered the dataset to Mathematicians to reduce load while I get it working.