Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde 
(16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) An Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.Today he is remembered for his epigramsand plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. 

Ann Landers

This was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist. Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America.

Leymah Roberta Gbowee

(born February 1, 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s peace movement that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.

Alan Alexander Milne

(18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children’s poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

Carl Gustav (Jung )

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. 

Mary Jean “Lily” Tomlin

(born September 1, 1939)
is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960s when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television’s Laugh-in.

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…Source | More

 

Bruce Lee

 (born Lee Jun-fan) (November 1940 – 20 July 1973) was a Hong Kong American martial artist, Hong Kong action film actor, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, and founder of Jeet Kune Do, he is widely considered by commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century

William Shatner

He is a Canadian actor, musician, singer, author, film director, spokesman and comedian.  He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James Tiberius Kirk, commander of the Federation starship USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series Star Trek.

Stephen Edwin King

 
(September 21, 1947 – ) is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction & fantasy. He has published fifty novels, five non-fiction books & nearly two hundred short stories.

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski)

(August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

 
(1837– 30 November 1930) was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.

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…Source | More

Rabindranath Tagore

(7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) (aged 80) An Indian Bengali polymath, a popular poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Maria Tecla Artemesia Montessori

 

(August 31, 1870 – May 6, 1952) was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world.

Fred Allen

(born John Florence Sullivan; May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956) was an American comedian whose absurdest, topically pointed radio show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

(30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) A British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Maya Angelou

 (born Marguerite Ann Johnson April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than fifty years.

Nikola Tesla

Telsa improved on Edisons work on electricity. Together they found ways to distribute electricity farther then two block which was the radius as of yet.

Tesla worked alongside Edison. They separated on a bet. Edison bet Tesla 50,000 dollars if he could improve upon his direct current generator. 

Within a few months he managed to. He went to Edison for his reward. Edison said he was just joking, but would give him a raise of ten dollars.  Tesla cut relations and stopped working with Edison right then and there.

Tesla was now jobless and ironically took a job ditch digging for Edisons company. This work only paid two dollars an hour. He still went forth on his designs of an alternating current system generator, but with very little money he couldn't apply for patents or build prototypes. Until he was discovered and got backers.

The group was willing to finance Tesla Electric Company. He got kicked out though, for proposing the current motor that is now used in any electric deviced. Alfred Brown, director of Western Union, and Charles Peck, a New York attorney, learned about his design, they invested in his company. In 1887, Tesla filed for seven patents for his designs. He discovered X-Rays and how to use them to help people. He was happy that his work provided the basis for other peoples work. Edison was trying to maipulate Tesla's invention by saying Tesla's currents would electricute if you used it and death was imminent within three years of use.

Tesla understood that his discovery would make people happier; lights would glow brighter, X -rays, could pass harmlessly through the body. He proved that electricity could pass through the air with wireless lamps, street lights, using "Teslas Coils." These coils made it possible to provide energy throughout the world. Tesla and Edison were in a competition called the "The War of the Currents."

The 1893 World's fair was to be the first to be fully electric. Edison was furious because he lost the bid to light the it. He  forbade them to use his bulb's instead. He had the ability to bend the bulbs and spell the names of famous scientists, thus the first neon signs. On May 1, 1893 Grover Clealand pushed a button and over 100,000 lamps were turned on.

During the fair he amazed people by having electric current flow harmlessly through him to power bulbs. He demonstrated the first wireless technology by lighting lamps that had no visable wires (street lamps.)

He built the first powerplant just as he envisioned. This was a five year project. The first power reach Buffalo at midnight November 16, 1896, nearly 22 miles away.

He died on January 5, 1943, at 86 and alone of a blood clot to his heart. He was deemed as the father of radio.

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.

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr

(February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) An American writer; The Grapes of Wrath (1939), East of Eden (1952), Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books,16 novels, 6 non-fiction books & 5 short story collections. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hilary Hinton Ziglar

 
( November 6, 1926 ) An American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker born in Coffee County, Alabama the tenth of 12 children. He has published over 48 works. Since 1970, his career has moved from master seller to master motivator. Ten of his 25 books have been best sellers. He is in constant demand as speaker and instructor to audiences of all kinds and sizes.

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.

(October 8, 1941) is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. In 1965, he participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches organized by James Bevel, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders in Alabama.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell

(18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970) A British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life, he imagined himself in turn a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things, in any profound sense. Though he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales, and died there at the age of 97.