- John Keats
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. - D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September, 1885 - 2 March, 1930) was a very important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. - John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century, at the center of the foreign policy and financial disputes of his age and best known as a spokesman for slavery, nullification and the rights of electoral minorities, such as the Southern states. After a short stint in the South Carolina legislature, … - Dred Scott
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 that he and his wife Harriet were slaves, but had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal, including Illinois and parts of the Louisiana Purchase. The court ruled 7 to 2 against Scott, finding that he held no property and therefore was not entitled to file suit in a federal court. - Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 - March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, best known for his erotic illustrations. - Edward Bellamy
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 Backward", published in 1888. - Doc Holliday
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 - November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West frontier, who is usually remembered for his associations with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. - John Rainolds
John Rainolds (or Reynolds) (1549 - May 21, 1607), English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter. He was educated at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, becoming a fellow of the latter in 1568. In 1572-73 he was appointed reader in Greek, and his lectures on Aristotle's "Rhetoric" laid the sure basis of his fame. He resigned the office in 1578 and his fellowship in 1586, … - Higuchi Ichiyo
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"). Higuchi was born in Meiji era Tokyo of samurai lineage. In the space of her short life, she moved a total of 12 times. Upon reaching the age of 14, she entered the Haginoya, a poetry school; at the age of 15, she suffered the loss of her brother, … - Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. - John Morton Eshleman
John Morton Eshleman (June 14, 1876 - February 28, 1916) was an American lawyer and California politician who was that state's twenty-sixth lieutenant governor from 1915 to 1916. A native of the Midwest, Eshleman was born in Villa Ridge, Illinois, but went west in 1896 to work on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Eshleman received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1902 and the next year he received his M.A. there. - John Young
John Young (June 12, 1802 - April 23, 1852) was an American politician. He was born in Chelsea, Vermont. As a child, he moved to Freeport (now Conesus), Livingston County, New York. He had only basic schooling but, by self-study accumulated a knowledge of classics and became a law clerk, becoming admitted to the bar in 1829. He entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, and shortly afterward moved to the Anti-Masonic Party, … - Franz Kafka
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my life has dwindled dreadfully, nor will it cease to dwindle. Nothing else will ever sat - Comandante Ramona
"Comandante" (Spanish: "Commander") Ramona (died January 6, 2006) was the nom de guerre of an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), an insurrectionist indigenous rights organization based in the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She was perhaps the most famous female Zapatista figure for her role early in the uprising, although in later years there have been other female "comandantes", notably Comandante Esther, … - Bernhard Riemann
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced "REE mahn" or in ; September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to analysis and differential geometry, some of them paving the way for the later development of general relativity. - Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (November 5 1913 - July 8 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939) and Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951), a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. - Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela – died December 17, 1830, in Santa Marta, Colombia) was a leader of several independence movements throughout South America, collectively known as Bolívar's War. Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia, … - Mahmud II
Mahmud II (July 20, 1785 - July 1, 1839) was the 30th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death. He was the son of Sultan Abdülhamid I. - Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Clayton Wolfe was an important American novelist of the 20th century. He wrote four lengthy novels, plus many short stories, dramatic works, and novel fragments. He is known for mixing highly original, poetic, rhapsodical, and impressionistic prose with autobiographical writing. His books, written during the Great Depression, depict the variety and diversity of American culture. - Jay Gould
Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 - December 2, 1892) was an American financier, who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. - Mehmet Niyazi
Mehmet Niyazi Cemali (January or February 1878-November 20, 1931) was an Ottoman-born Romanian and Crimean Tatar poet, journalist, schoolteacher, academic, and activist for ethnic Tatar causes. Present for part of his life in the Russian Empire and Crimea-proper, he wrote most of his works in Crimean Tatar language and Ottoman Turkish. - Marin Drinov
Professor Marin Stoyanov Drinov (1838-13 March 1906) was a Bulgarian historian and philologist from the National Revival period who lived and worked in Russia through most of his life. He was one of the originators of Bulgarian historiography and a founding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (then the Bulgarian Literary Society), as well as its first chairman. Drinov was born in Panagyurishte in 1838. He left for Russia in 1858 to continue his education. - James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin (August 7, 1726 - November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both the colonial council (senate) and house and was President of the state's constitutional convention. After independence he was governor of Massachusetts. His grandfather "(Pierre Boudouin)" was a Huguenot refugee from France. Pierre took his family first to Ireland, then to Portland, Maine, … - Prince Chichibu
also known as Prince Yasuhito, was the second son of Emperor Taishō and a younger brother of the Emperor Shōwa. As a member of the Japanese imperial family, he was the patron of several sporting, medical, and international exchange organizations. Before and after World War II, the English-speaking prince and his wife attempted to foster good relations between Japan and the United Kingdom and enjoyed a good rapport with the British Royal Family. - Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (December 11, 1856 - May 30, 1918; "Old Style:" November 29 1856 - May 17 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia. Plekhanov contributed many ideas to Marxism in the area of philosophy and the roles of art and religion in society. In his political activities he adopted the nom de guerre of Volgin, after the Volga River. - John Eliot
Sir John Eliot (April 11 1592 - November 27 1632), English statesman, son of Richard Eliot (1546 - June 22 1609) and Bridget Carswell (c. 1542 - March 1617), was born at Cuddenbeak, a farm on his father's Port Eliot estate at St Germans in Cornwall. He was baptised on April 20 at St Germans Church, immediately next to Port Eliot. The Eliot family were an old Devon family that had settled in Cornwall. John Eliot was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, … - Frédéric Bastiat
Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He is buried at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome - Baldwin III of Jerusalem III of Jerusalem
Baldwin III (1130 - February 10, 1162) was king of Jerusalem from 1143-1162. He was the eldest son of Melisende and Fulk of Jerusalem, and the grandson of Baldwin II of Jerusalem. - Jean Vigo
Jean Vigo (April 26, 1905 - October 5, 1934) was a short-lived French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to be a posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Vigo was born on April 26, 1905, to Emily Clero and the prominent militant anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, (who adopted the name Miguel Almereyda - an anagram of "y'a la merde", … - Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962) was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. - Albert Samain
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 - August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, Samain's father died when he was quite young; it was necessary for him to leave school and seek a trade. He moved to Paris in around 1880, where his poetry won him a following and he began mixing with avant-garde literary society, and began publicly reciting his poems at "Le Chat Noir". His poems were strongly influenced by those of Baudelaire, … - Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 - May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is mostly known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 13, No. 5, and the Cello Concerto in B flat major (G 482). - Harold Nixon
Harold Samuel Nixon was a brother of United States President Richard Nixon. He was the oldest of five children: *Harold Nixon *Richard Nixon (January 9 1913 – April 22 1994) *Donald Nixon (November 23 1914 – June 27 1987) *Arthur Nixon (May 26 1918 – August 10 1925) *Edward Nixon (May 3 1930) Harold Nixon became ill with tuberculosis in 1927. Richard Nixon attributed this to his father's insistence on serving raw milk. - Henry Francis Lyte
Henry Francis Lyte (June 1, 1793 - November 20, 1847) was an Anglican divine and hymn-writer. He was born in West Mains (a farm) near Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland, which was then known as "the Cottage", in the year 1793. His father was a naval officer, which is curious partly because the farm was not so near the sea. His family came from Somerset in South West England. In 1804, the family went to Ireland and he was educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, … - Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes "Szopen"; French: Frédéric François Chopin; English surname pronunciation: or ; March 1, 1810, Żelazowa Wola - October 17, 1849, Paris) was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, and prolific composers for piano of all time. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, … - Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933. In 1935, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. - Julius Reubke
Julius Reubke (March 23 1834 - June 3 1858) was a German composer, pianist and organist. In his short life - he died at the age of 24 - he composed the "Sonata on the 94th Psalm", one of the greatest organ works in the repertoire. - Benjamin Hanby
Benjamin Russell Hanby (July 22, 1833 - March 16, 1867) was an American composer who wrote approximately 80 songs, the most famous of which are "Darling Nelly Gray" and the Christmas song "Up On the House Top". Hanby was born near Rushville, Ohio. He later moved with his family to Westerville, Ohio in 1853 where he attended Otterbein College. Hanby composed "Darling Nelly Gray" in 1856 in what is now a state historical site, the Hanby House, … - Michael J. McGivney
Father Michael J. McGivney (August 12, 1852 - August 14, 1890) was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus. He was the son of Irish immigrants. Father McGivney entered St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland in 1873, but had to leave the seminary and return home to help finish raising his siblings, due to the death of his father. He later returned to the seminary and was ordained a priest on December 22, 1877, … - Shacknasty Jim
Shacknasty Jim (c1851 - 1881) was a Modoc warrior and the leader of the Hot Creek band. His nickname is a corruption of a Modoc name meaning Left-handed Man. His brothers, Jake and Shacknasty Frank, fought under him during the Modoc War. After the plot to assassinate the peace commissioners was carried out, Shacknasty surrendered, and his band went onto the Quapaw Agency Lands.
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