Gilbert Keith Chesterton

He was better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox.”

Gautama Buddha

A spiritual teacher from ancient India who founded Buddhism.  In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha, “Buddha” meaning “awakened one” or “the enlightened one.” The time of his birth and death are uncertain: Some say, 563 BCE to 483 BCE, others say, 486 and 483 BCE according to some, 411 and 400 BCE.

Albert Schweitzer

 

(14 January 1875 - 4 September 1965) (aged 90)
A Franco-German (Alsatian) theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by historical-critical methodology current at his time in certain academic circles, as well as the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus Christ who expected and predicted the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”

Amanda Tapping

Amanda Tapping, who plays Helen Magnus on this great show, as well as  Samantha Carter in the Stargate series.

Albert Camus

(7 November 1913 - 4 January 1960 (age 46) A French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Rudyard Kipling, and the first African-born writer to receive the award…S

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

 (January 8th, 1601 - December 6, 1658) A Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer. The son of a doctor, in his childhood Gracián lived with his uncle, who was a priest. He studied at a Jesuit school in 1621 and 1623 and theology in Zaragoza. He was ordained in 1627 and took his final vows in 1635.

Eleanor Hibbert

 (1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English author who wrote under various pen names. Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr; she also wrote under the namesEleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate. By the time of her death, she had sold more than 100 million books.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

 

(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) (aged 74) Well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called “the Great American Novel”, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

Nelson Mandela,

He died December 5, 2013 at age 95, was imprisoned for 27 years for opposing apartheid. He served from 1994 to 1999 as the first Black President of South Africa.

Henry David Thoreau

 (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) (aged 44) An American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state…Source | More

 

Aldous Leonard Huxley

 (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, humanist, pacifist, and satirist. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays. Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts…source

Benjamin Franklin

(January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is the title character of a series of children’s books written by P. L. Travers. The books center on a magical English nanny. Mary Poppins is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks’ household to care for their children. The books were adapted in 1964 into a musical film titled Mary Poppins from Walt Disney studios starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

Nikoli Tesla

He was a Serbian-American inventor,  electrical engineer,  mechanical engineer and physicist.  Being born on July 10, 1856 to a priest he worked with Thomas Edison a short while.

Tesla then got his own laboratories. He developed a range of electrical devices. George Westinghouse helped him patent his inventions and hired him as a consultant. He is also known for his high voltage, high frequency power experiments.

He died penniless. However in 2005 he was listed amongst the hundred top on the Discovery Channel.  In 1960s the General Conference of Weight and Measures honered him in the use of "tesla," as a term of measures.

Muhammad Ali

(born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali has both been idolized and vilified…source

 

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

 (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language…more

 

Carl Edward Sagan

(November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

William Sanford “Bill” Nye

Born:  November 27, 1955

popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, and writer, who began his career as a mechanical engineer at Boeing.

George Orson Welles

 (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941)…w

Abraham Lincoln

(February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) (aged 56) was the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery…S

Gaylord Anton Nelson

 
(June 4, 1916 – July 3, 2005) was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism.

Cary Grant

(born Archibald Alexander Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English stage and Hollywood film actor who became an American citizen in 1942. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and “dashing good looks”, Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood’s definitive leading men.

Gabrielle “Coco” Bonheur Chanel

 (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971) was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand. She was the only fashion designer to appear on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel’s influence extended beyond couture clothing. Her design aesthetic was realized in jewelry, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product.

Dale Breckenridge Carnegie,

(Nov. 24, 1888 – Nov. 1, 1955) An American writer, lecturer and developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. He was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936.

Gautama Buddha

 A spiritual teacher from ancient India who founded Buddhism. In most Buddhist traditions, he is regarded as the Supreme Buddha, “Buddha” meaning “awakened one” or “the enlightened one.” The time of his birth and death are uncertain: Some say, 563 BCE to 483 BCE, others say, 486 and 483 BCE according to some, 411 and 400 BCE…So

Desmond Mpilo Tutu

 
(born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa)

John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy

 (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)  was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas

Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx

(October 2, 1890  - August 19, 1977An American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. His rapid-fire delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

(born 21 October 1929) is a US-based author, known mostly for writing science fiction and fantasy.

Carl Gustav Jung

Born: 26 July 1875
Died: 6 June 1961

A Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as “by nature religious” and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and symbolization. While he was a fully involved and practicing clinician, much of his life’s work was spent exploring tangential areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts.

Muhammad Ali

(born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali has both been idolized and vilified.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Born: December 28, 1856 Staunton, Virginia
Died: February 3, 1924 (aged 67) Washington, D.C.

The 28th President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

Dale Carnegie

An American writer, lecturer and developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. He was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people’s behavior by changing one’s reaction to them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

 
(born November 2, 1949) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein’s record.

Albert Einstein

(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) (aged 74)
Well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called “the Great American Novel”, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Source | More | Papers | Works

John Robert Wooden

 (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the “Wizard of Westwood”, he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period—seven in a row as head coach at UCLA

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born May 25, 1803 Boston, Massachusetts
Died April 27, 1882 (aged 78) Concord, Massachusetts

An American philosopher, lecturer, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thought through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

Chris Rock

Christopher Julius “Chris” Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director. After working as a stand-up comic and appearing in small film roles, Rock came to wider prominence as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990′s. He went on to more prominent film roles, and a series of acclaimed comedy specials for HBO.

Stephen Richards Covey

(October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Kathleen Winsor

 (October 16, 1919 – May 26, 2003) was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality.

Philip Franchini or Philip Franchina

(born December 1, 1985), better known by his stage name Philip DeFranco or by his YouTube username “sxephil” is an American video blogger and YouTube celebrity. He is most notable for The Philip DeFranco Show, usually abbreviated PDS, a news show where DeFranco presents a news article, and then gives his opinion about it.

Clive Staples Lewis

Born: 29 November 1898 Belfast, IrelandDied: 22 November 1963 Oxford, EnglandAn Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.

Mother Teresa

 (26 August 1910 - 5 September 1997) (Age 87) Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity’s expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta…

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol

(May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media

Joseph John Campbell

 (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: “Follow your bliss.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

(Born: 18 July 1918) President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life in prison, he served 27 years. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to multi-racial democracy in 1994. As president, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation, while introducing policies aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

(born 15 October 1931) usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

(29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox.”…

Chanakya

(c. 370–283 BCE) was an Indian teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor. Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor

Woody Allen

Born: Allen Stewart Konigsberg, December 1, 1935. An American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen’s distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

(November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), called “Maud” by family and friends and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Montgomery’s work, diaries and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide.

Aldous Leonard Huxley

(26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, humanist, pacifist, and satirist. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays. Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

Henry Drummond

(17 August 1851 – 11 March 1897) was a Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer. In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church College, His studies resulted in his writing Natural Law in the Spiritual World, the argument of which is that the scientific principle of continuity extends from the physical world to the spiritual.

John Winston Lennon

 (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980) (age 40) An English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century

George Bernard Shaw

(26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950 (aged 94) was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care and class privilege?

Carl Sandburg

 (January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967) An American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder

 (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House series of children’s novels based on her childhood in a pioneer family

Lemuel Kelley Washburn

He was an American free-thinker writer. He was the compiler of a Cosmian hymn book – a collection of original and selected hymns (1888) announced as “perfectly free from all sectarianism

John Griffith “Jack” London

 (born John Griffith Chaney, (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as his short stories

Rumi

Born 1207 A.D Died  1273 A.D
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumiand popularly known as Mevlana in Turkey and Mawlana in Iran and Afghanistan but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi  was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Rumi is a descriptive name meaning “Roman” since he lived most of his life in an area called “Rum” (then under the control of Seljuq dynasty) because it was once ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire. He was one of the figures who flourished in the Sultanate of Rum.

Amelia Mary Earhart

 (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.Earhart was the first aviatrix (female pilot) to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis

She is a licensed psychologist, poet, dancer, and minister. Dr. Bryant-Davis, an Associate Professor at Pepperdine University, is Past-President of the Society for the Psychology of Women. The North Carolina Arts Council named her Emerging Artist of the Year.

William Arthur Ward

 (1921–March 30, 1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

Plato

428/427 BC -  348/347 BC A Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science…

Patricia Neal

(born September 21, 1944), known professionally asFannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game, and for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes.

Louis Adamic

(23 March 1898 – 4 September 1951) was a Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of America

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th-century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought.

Karl Heinrich Marx

(5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx’s work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labor and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought.

Howard Thurman

(November 18, 1899 – April 10, 1981) was an influential African American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades

Nene Janet Paterson Clutha

(28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) better known by her Pen name of Janet Frame was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime.

Wayne Dyer

Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940-) Is an American self-help author, teacher, motivational speaker, lecturer and business man. Born in Detroit, Michigan he spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage…

Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) (aged 83) A prominent American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Sun Tzu or Sunzi

He was a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher during the Zhou dynasty’s Spring and Autumn Period. Sun Tzu was born as Sun Wu and known outside his family by the style name Changqing. He is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an extremely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy.

Antonio Porchia

(November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentinian poet. He was born in Conflenti, Italy, but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces (“Voices”), a book of aphorisms

George Harrison

(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Harrison died on 29 November 2001, aged 58, from metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Jane Addams

(September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace. Adams was one of the most prominent reformers of the Progressive Era. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the “father” of the social work profession in the United States

Henry David Thoreau

 (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) (aged 44) An American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust.

Robert Anson Heinlein

 (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century You are subscribed to email updates from Thought for the Day 

Will Shortz

(August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor, and currently the crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times.

Yogi Berra

Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–1965) for the New York Yankees. Berra is one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times and is one of seven managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. As a player, coach, or manager, Berra appeared in 21 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

(Osho) ( 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) was an Indian mystic, guru and spiritual teacher who had an international following. A professor of philosophy, he traveled throughout India during the 1960′s as a public speaker. He's outspoken criticism of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi and institutionalized religion made him controversial.

Samuel Barclay Beckett

 
(April 13, 1906 -  December 22, 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.

Napoleon Hill

 

(October 26, 1883 - November 8, 1970) An American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (Baptized 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) - 23 April 1616) (aged 52) An English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His surviving works consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

Helen Keller

Born Helen Adams Keller
June 27, 1880
Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S.
DiedJune 1, 1968 (aged 87)
Arcan Ridge
Easton, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationAuthor, political activist, lecturer
EducationRadcliffe College
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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by President Jimmy Carter in 1980, her 100th birthday.

A prolific author, Keller was well-travelled and outspoken in her convictions. A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971.

Tesla: man, myth, truth

Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856 in Croatia. He studied German religion and asthmatic in elemenry school. One myth states that he was born at midnight on a stormy night.

In 1870, he move to his aunts to attend a university, where his affinity for math and physics emerged. He graduated a year early because of this. His like of math, physics and engineering him create technologies and make discoveries.

In1873, he had cholara which kept him in bed for 9 months. He almost died a few times. He developed his obessive compulsive tendencies from this. Odd thing was he loved pigeons.

Gene Roddenberry

Gene Rodenberry was born August 19, 1921 in El Paso, Texas, and died October 24, 1991 of heart failure in Santa Cruz, California. He lived in Bel Air California most of his life. He was married twice, his first wife was Eileen Anita Roxrout and his second wife was Majel Barrett.

Majel Berret

Majel Berret, Gene Roddenberry's wife appeared as Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: The Orginal Series, provided the voice for Nurse Chapel and a few other characters in Star Trek: The Animated Series, and made memorable guest appearances as Lwakana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Barret also provided the voice for the onboard computer system for the various Startrek television series and most of the movies  including Star Trek (2009), for which she completed her voice work only a few weeks before her death on December 18, 2009.