Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

(October 15, 1844 to August 25, 1900) (aged 55) A 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

(February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592 One of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern skepticism. Source | More

 

Paul Joseph Goebbels

A German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest associates and most devout followers.

Pierre-Jules Renard

 
(February 22, 1864 – May 22, 1910) was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte (Carrot Top) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles

George Bernard Shaw

 
(July 26 1856 – November 2 1950)
was an Irish playwright. 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.

Charles Duhigg

 
(born 1974) is a Pulitzer prize winning reporter at The New York Times. His Book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, was published by Random House on February 28, 2012.

Charles Monroe Schulz

 
(November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000)
(aged 77) 
An American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi

(1207 A.D - 1273 A.D) also known as Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi and 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.

Leonardo da Vinci

 (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) (aged 67)An Italian polymath: painter, writer, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist.

Victor Hugo

(February 26, 1802- 22 May 1885) (aged 83) A French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France… Source | More | Works

 

George Washington

(February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799)
(aged 67)
was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He also presided over the convention that drafted the Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution established the position of President of the republic, which Washington was the first to hold.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

 (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself

Thomas Alva Edison

 
(February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Emanuel James “Jim” Rohn

(September 17, 1930 – December 5, 2009)
An American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. His rags to riches story played a large part in his work, which influenced others in the personal development industry.

James Allen

(November 28, 1864 – 1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement…source

 

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás,

(December 16, 1863 –September 26, 1952), was a Spanish/American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

Nesta Robert Marley

 

(6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) a Jamaican singer-songwriter. With the group the Wailers he achieved international fame through a series of crossover reggae albums, a committed Rastafarian who infused his music with a profound sense of spirituality.

 

Phillip Kindred Dick

Can you exist in two realities?  Well if realities are just layers, like clothing you can.  Phillip K. Dick was a futuristic writer, and actually made some of the blueprints for making androids in his books. He outlined and made "Frubber," which is face rubber which is used to make androids faces appear more human.

He also raises a unique question if all memories are real.

His twin died at birth. This probably is one of the attributes that caused him to go into science fiction.

What makes a person that person?

"Could virtual reality ever become to real? It could become an unhealthy escape from everyday life. When technology invades the mind, even are own thoughts are no escape."

A detailed record of your life is monitored

He had a vision when a girl knocked on his door with some religious literture

He believes his visions give him precognition of the future.

Minority report is happening all ready.

He's the first to write about Parrelell universes?

Anne Frank

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank (12 June 1929 – ? March 1945) (aged 15) One of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary (which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II) has become one of the world’s most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.