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...
Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

female, deceased (1982)
Ayn Rand (March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for creating a...
Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

male, deceased (2006)
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire...
Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping

male, deceased (1997)
Deng Xiaoping (August 22, 1904 - February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformist, and the late leader of the Communist Party of...
Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

male, deceased (2007)
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (February 1 1931 - April 23 2007) was the first president of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. Yeltsin...
Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci

male, deceased (1937)
Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 - April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician and political theorist. A founding member and onetime leader...

Judith Miller

female, 68 years old
Judith Miller (born 1941) is a French philosopher, and the daughter of Jacques Lacan - radical psychoanalyst, and wife to prominent Lacanian...
Jason Calacanis

Jason Calacanis

male
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist,...
Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas

male, 80 years old
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is best known for his work o...
Michael Milken

Michael Milken

male, 63 years old
Michael Robert Milken, born July 4, 1946, in Encino, California, is an American financier best known as the "Junk Bond King" of 1980s era Wall...