William Webb Ellis

William Webb Ellis

male, deceased (1872)
William Webb Ellis (November 24, 1806 - January 24, 1872) is often credited with the invention of Rugby football. The story of how he founded the...
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes

male, deceased (1896)
Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 - March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel "Tom Brown's School Days"...
Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

male, deceased (1898)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician,...
Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke

male, deceased (1915)
Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 - April 23, 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic "War Sonnets" written during the First World...
Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

male, 62 years old
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),...
Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

male, deceased (1888)
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of...
Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

male, deceased (1940)
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime...
Tom Wills

Tom Wills

male, deceased (1880)
Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited along with his cousin Henry Colden Harrison as one of the inventors of...
John Gillespie Magee Jr.

John Gillespie Magee Jr.

male, deceased (1941)
Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Junior (June 9, 1922 - December 11, 1941) was a British-American aviator and poet who died fighting in World...
William Henry Waddington

William Henry Waddington

male, deceased (1894)
William Henry Waddington (December 11, 1826 - January 13, 1894) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister in 1879.