John Keats

John Keats

male, deceased (1821)
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from...
D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

male, deceased (1930)
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September, 1885 - 2 March, 1930) was a very important and controversial English writer of the 20th century,...
John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun

male, deceased (1850)
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South...
Dred Scott

Dred Scott

male, deceased (1858)
Dred Scott was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous "Dred Scott v. Sandford" case of 1856. His case was based on the fact...
Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

male, deceased (1898)
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 - March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, best known for his erotic...
Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy

male, deceased (1898)
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850-May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel set in the year 2000, "Looking...
Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday

male, deceased (1887)
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 - November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West frontier,...
John Rainolds

John Rainolds

male, deceased (1607)
John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549 - May 21, 1607), English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter. He was educated at Merton...
Higuchi Ichiyo

Higuchi Ichiyo

female, deceased (1896)
Higuchi Ichiyō is the pen name of Japanese author Higuchi Natsu (樋口奈津 "Higuchi Natsu"), also known as Higuchi Natsuko (樋口夏子 "Higuchi Natsuko"...
Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

female, deceased (1923)
Katherine Mansfield was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction.