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.