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...
Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

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...
Helen Keller

Helen Keller

female, deceased (1968)
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer.
Peter Singer

Peter Singer

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...
Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes

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...
Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

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...
Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

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...
Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia

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...

Michael White

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...
Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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...