Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

male, 84 years old (West Point, New York, United States)
conspiracy theorist, gay, American historical novelist, military brat, writer, The City and the Pillar…historian
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced, occasionally, , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and...
David McCullough

David McCullough

male, 76 years old
David Gaub McCullough, public broadcasting service, National Book Award, Bonesman, Brave Companions, Skull and Bones…historian
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the...
Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

male, 45 years old
Peterhouse, Stern Business School, Christ's College, The Glasgow Academy, Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business School…historian
Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his views on imperialism and the origins of conflict...
David Hume

David Hume

male, deceased (1776)
philosopher, historian, Skepticism, Scottish, The History of England, Essayist
David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. He is considered one of the most important...
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

male, deceased (1901)
nigerian historian, freetown, historian, nigerian, yoruba, priest
Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Johnson claimed descent from Alaafin...
Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis

male, 93 years old
Jewish, ottoman empire, University of Paris alumni, From London, English, Critic of Islam…historian
Bernard Lewis (born May 31, 1916, London) is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He...
Tacitus

Tacitus

male, deceased (117)
senator, Silver Age Latin author, Latin writer, annalist, historiographical, Historiography…historian, Roman era historian
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major...

Paul Johnson

male, 81 years old
Roman Catholic, Magdalen College, Oxford, Stonyhurst College, University of Oxford, new statesman, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient…historian
Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on 2 November 1928 in Manchester, England) is a British Roman Catholic journalist, historian, speechwriter and...
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
AIDS-related death, Sociologist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric theorist, structuralist…historian, historian of ideas
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

male, deceased (1794)
English, historian, member of parliament, Old Westminsters, Classical scholar, Freemason
Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the...