- 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...
- male, 81 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
- Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
- female, deceased (1968)
- Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer.
- male, 63 years old
- Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp...
- male, 60 years old
- Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American historian and counter-terrori sm analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He has written or...
- male, 70 years old
- Seamus Justin Heaney 's attempts to develop poetic language in which meaning and sound are intimately related result in concentrated, sensually...
- female, 75 years old (New York, New York, United States)
- Steinem's lifelong career as a writer and journalist began after college. A co-founder of New York magazine in 1968, Steinem was always active in a...
- male, deceased (1998)
- Leo Buscaglia , known as "Dr. Hug," was the author of a series of best-selling books on loving and human relationships. Born in 1924, he was the...
- male
- Michael White is a British writer based in Perth, Australia. He has been a science editor of British "GQ", a columnist for the "Sunday Express" in...
- male (Kenya)
- Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected...
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