Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 (1 BC-65 AD) Often known simply as Seneca. A Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor & later adviser to emperor Nero. He was later forced to commit suicide for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent. 

Wynonna Judd (1964)

Did you know...... that today is the Birthday of Wynonna Judd (1964)? Wynonna Judd, a country music superstar famous for her hits -- both solo and alongside her mother, Naomi Judd -- was born on this day in Ashland, Kentucky. Together, The Judds sold over 20 million albums and won five Grammys. After her mother fell ill, Wynonna pursued a solo career, with equally huge success. Happy birthday, Wynonna!

Daniel Jay Millman

(born February 22, 1946) is an American author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and lecturer in the personal development field.

Maurice Rose (Nobember 26,1899-March 30,1945)

Major General Maurice Rose was a U.S. Army general during WWII and a WWII veteran. The son and grandson of rabbis from Poland, General Rose was, during his time the highest ranking Jew in the U.S. Army.

Daniel Jay Millman

(born February 22, 1946) is an American author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and lecturer in the personal development field.

Stephen (or Stephan) Gary Wozniak

 (born August 11, 1950), nicknamed “Woz”, is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. He is known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs

Gloria Steinman (1934)

Steinman is an American feminist, journalist, and sociol and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960's and the early '70s. She was a columnist for the New York magazine and a founder of Ms. magazine. In 1969 she published an article, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation," that brought her to national fame as a feminist leader.

Aristotle

(384 BC – 322 BC) A Greek philosopher, student of Plato, teacher to Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy…

Bob Dylan (1941)

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, Bob Dylan is one of the most influential American singer-songwriters. A key player in the 1960s folk revival, he wrote political and poetic songs that challenged the establishment and became anthems to the anti-war movement. Among his biggest hits were "Blown' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'." He was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Thomas Jefferson

(April 13 1743 – July 4, 1826 (aged 83) The third President of the United States (1801–1809), and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers. To date, Jefferson is the only president to serve two full terms in office without vetoing a single bill of Congress. Jefferson has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest of U.S. presidents. 

William Arthur Ward

 (1921–March 30, 1994), author of Fountains of Faith, is one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims. More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been published in such magazines as Reader’s Digest, This Week, The Upper Room.

Richard Duane “Rick” Warren

(born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California, that is the eighth-largest church in the United States.

Mae Carol Jemison

(born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

Riley Ben King

(September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists

Mark A. Copper

(March 25, 1963) is the author of the highly successful teen spy series Jason Steed. He has also written other popular middle grade novels such as Edelweiss Pirates.

John Calvin Maxwell

(born 1947) is an American author, speaker,
and pastor who has written more than 60 books…

Romain Rolland

(29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 “as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings”…Source

John Quincy Adams

(July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and was the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.

Benjamin Berell Ferencz

(born March 11, 1920) is a Hungarian-born American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the Chief Prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the twelve military trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg, Germany.

John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker.An Academy Award-winner for True Grit (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.

Sigmund Freud

(May 6, 1856-September 23, 1939)

Sigmund Freud was an Australian neurologist best known for developing the theories and techniques of psychoanalysis, a method through which an analyst "unpacks" unconscious conflicts based on the free assionations, dreams and fantasies of the patient.

Louise Nevelson

(September 23, 1899-April 17, 1988)

Born in Czarist Russia, the sculpture Louise Nevelson emigrated with her family to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, settling in Maine. In 1920, she moved to New York City and in the early '30 attended art classes at the Art Students League of New York. Her sculptures began to attract attention in the early 1940s, and gained wide fame in the 1950s when museums began buying them. Usually created out of wood, her sculptures and reliefs appear puzzle-like, with multiple elements placed into either wall or free-standing pieces. Her work is also recognizable because it is painted in all black or white.

Coach Lamonte Odums

He is a Certified Master Life Strategist,
Company Coach and Empowerment Speaker.

James Barrie

Did you know...
... that today is the Birthday of James Barrie (1860)? Best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, James Barrie was born in Scotland on this day in 1860. While living in London, he met the Llewelyn Davies boys -- Nico, Jack, Peter, George, and Michael -- who inspired him to write Peter Pan. Trivia fans: Before his death, Barrie gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.

Barbara Streisand

(born April 24, 1942)

Barbara Streisand is the highest selling female recording artist of all time and has won awards and acclaim in every medium that she worked in including theater, telivision, film and music. She has won numerous awards and honors in recognition of her charity and humanitarian work including the Israel Freedom Medal, the Anti-Defamation League's Woman of Acheivement in the Arts Award, the National Medal Freedom of the Arts, the American Film Institute Life Acheivement Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Paul Rudd

Born April 6, 1969
Paul Rudd is a comedian, actor, and screenwriter best known his comedic roles. His family's original name was Rudnitzsky but was changed by his grandfather while the family still lived in England. Rudd's breakout roll was in Clueless in 1995 and he has gone on to star in several Judd Apatow films on Broadway, and he had a recurring roll on the sitcom Friends.

Thomas Paine

(February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in Thetford, in the English county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 in time to participate in the American Revolution. His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense.

Henry Ward Beecher

(June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) A prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.

Johannes Brahms

Did you know...

... that today is the Birthday of Johannes Brahms (1833)? Brahms was a German composer and pianist. He is widely known for his Brahms' Lullaby; the melody is one of the most famous and recognizable in the world, used by countless parents to sing their babies to sleep. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music.

Abraham Kacobi

May 6, 1830-July 10, 1919
Abraham Jacobi was a pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first childrens clinic in the U. S. To date, he is the only foreign born president of the American Medical Association. He helped fpund the American Journal of Obstetrics.

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy

(born October 4, 1980) is an American lawyer and politician, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district since 2013.

Karl Marx

May 5, 1818-March 14, 1839

A German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary sociolist, Karl Marx was born in Prussia although he later became stateless and spent much of his life in London. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for much of the current understanding of labor and its relation to capital, and subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.

Ethel Barrymore

(born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors. Regarded as the “First Lady of the American Theater”, Barrymore was a preeminent stage actress in her era. Barrymore’s career spanned six decades.