Michael Barone

Michael Barone

male
Michael Barone is a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Mich. He graduated from Harvard College...
Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas

male
Paul Douglas (real name Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer) is a meteorologist for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis-St.Paul. He has also written a daily weather column...
Benjamin West

Benjamin West

male, deceased (1813)
Benjamin West was an American astronomer and almanac publisher. Born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, he was largely an autodidact. After a school he...
Bennie Maupin

Bennie Maupin

male, 63 years old
Bennie Maupin (born 29 August 1940) is a Detroit jazz multireedist. He performs on saxophones, flute and bass clarinet. He is probably best-known...
Arzachel

Arzachel

male, deceased (1087)
Al-Zarqali, was a leading Arab mathematician and the foremost astronomer of his time. He flourished in Toledo in Castile, now Spain. Arzachel...

Titan Leeds

male
Titan Leeds was an 18th century almanac publisher. He is best known for his treatment by Benjamin Franklin's rival "Poor Richard's Almanac". In an...

John Gadbury

male, deceased (1704)
John Gadbury (1627-1704) was an English astrologer, and a prolific writer of almanacs and on other related topics. Initially a follower or...
Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Sinyavsky

male, deceased (1997)
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (Russian language: was a Russian writer, dissident, gulag survivor, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University,...
Mary Katherine Goddard

Mary Katherine Goddard

female, deceased (1816)
Mary Katherine Goddard (June 16, 1738 - August 12, 1816) was an early American publisher and the first American postmistress. She was the first to...
Alexander Ginzburg

Alexander Ginzburg

male, deceased (2002)
Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg, was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident. During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited...