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.