Willard Straight

Willard Straight

male, deceased (1918)
Willard Dickerman Straight was an American investment banker and diplomat. An orphan, Straight was born in Oswego, New York. He attended Bordentown...
Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

male, 72 years old
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of...
Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson

male, 85 years old
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum...
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
Alan Keyes

Alan Keyes

male, 59 years old (Darnestown, Maryland, United States)
Dr. Alan Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is a former Reagan administration diplomat, a Harvard-educated constitutional scholar, and a conservative...
Sanford I. Weill

Sanford I. Weill

male, 76 years old (New York, New York, United States)
Sanford I. Weill, commonly known as Sandy Weill (born March 16 1933) is a banker, financier and philanthropist. He was formerly the chief executive...
E. B. White

E. B. White

male, deceased (1985)
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11 1899, Mount Vernon, New York - October 1 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author,...
Lee Teng-Hui

Lee Teng-Hui

male, 86 years old
Lee Teng-hui born January 15, 1923) is a politician of Taiwan. He was the President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)...