Jack Black

male
Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo and professional burglar, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote "You Can't...
Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl

female, 32 years old
Sophie Dahl (born September 15, 1977 in London) is an English fashion model and author. Her mother is writer Tessa Dahl (daughter of the children's...
Lin Zexu

Lin Zexu

male, deceased (1851)
Lin Zexu (August 30, 1785 - November 22, 1850), also known as Lin Tse-hsu, was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing dynasty. He is most...
Alfred W. McCoy

Alfred W. McCoy

male
Alfred McCoy is author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror" (Metropolitan Books, The American...
John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor

male, deceased (1848)
John Jacob (originally either Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and...
Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

male, deceased (1907)
Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became...
Charles Elliot

Charles Elliot

male, deceased (1875)
Charles Elliot, also Charles Elliott was a British naval officer, diplomat, colonial administrator and drug-trafficker - a combination considered...
Samuel Russell

Samuel Russell

male, deceased (1862)
Samuel Wadsworth Russell, born in Middletown, Connecticut (August 25,1789 - 1862) was an American entrepreneur and trader, and founder of Russell &...

William Jardine

male, deceased (1843)
Dr. William Jardine (1784-1843) was a ship surgeon who went into the opium trading business in China, where he became a powerful merchant and was...
Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman

male, 40 years old
Ben Greenman (born 1969) is an American writer and magazine editor. Greenman was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Miami, Florida. He...