Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

male, deceased (1882)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
John Adams

John Adams

male, deceased (1826)
John Adams was a politician and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He served both as that nation's first Vice President...
Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

male, deceased (1862)
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, de...
Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker

male, deceased (1860)
Theodore Parker (August 24 1810, Lexington, Massachusetts - May 10 1860, Florence, Italy) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister...
Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley

male, deceased (1804)
Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 (old style)–February 8, 1804) was a British natural philosopher, Dissenting clergyman, political theorist, th...
William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

male, deceased (1842)
Dr. William Ellery Channing was the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and, along with Andrews...
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

male, deceased (1870)
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as...
Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony

female, deceased (1906)
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who played...
Mike Gravel

Mike Gravel

male
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (born May 13, 1930), is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska for two terms, from 1969 to 1981. He is...