Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

male, 68 years old
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles...
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

male, deceased (1970)
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,...
Karl Heinrich Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx

male, deceased (1883) (london)
There are few economists who have become both so reviled, and admired as Marx. Indeed some would even question whether Marx deserves to be called...
Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

male, deceased (1996)
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural...
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

male, deceased (1910)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted...
Daniel Dennett

Daniel Dennett

male, 67 years old
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a prominent American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of...
Thomas More

Thomas More

male, deceased (1535)
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his...
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),...
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut

male, deceased (2007)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 - April 11 2007) (pronounced) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and...