Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys

male, deceased
Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his di...
Anne Frank

Anne Frank

female, deceased
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family and four fr...
John Evelyn

John Evelyn

male, deceased
John Evelyn was an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the...
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
James Boswell

James Boswell

male, deceased
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh,...
John Wesley

John Wesley

male, deceased
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had...
Alan Clark

Alan Clark

male, deceased
The Rt. Hon. Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April, 1928 - 5 September, 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. He was...
Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

female, deceased
Anaïs Nin (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published j...
Tony Benn

Tony Benn

male
Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. He was instrumental in...
Alice James

Alice James

female, deceased
Alice James, U.S. diarist, only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, is known primarily...