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.