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Historian
An historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time. If the individual is...
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic. Although he spent the majority of his life in England,...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1872
Date of death:
- Feb 2, 1970 (age 97 years)
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1866
Date of death:
- Aug 13, 1946 (age 79 years)
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (born Isaac Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1920
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1992 (age 72 years)
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine.
He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's...
Date of birth:
- Sep 19, 1805
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1877 (age 71 years)
Lester B. Pearson
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1897
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1972 (age 75 years)
Livy
Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, "Chapters from the Foundation of the City," covering the period from the earliest...
Date of birth:
- 59 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 5pm (age 59 years)
Marc Bloch
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 in Lyon – June 16, 1944 in Saint-Didier-de-Formans) was a medieval historian, University Professor and French Army officer. Bloch was a founder of the Annales School, best known for his pioneering studies...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1886
Date of death:
- Jun 16, 1944 (age 57 years)
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American intellectual, individualist anarchist, author, and economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1926
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 1995 (age 68 years)
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University.
He was born in Cornhill, London, the son of an exchange broker and a milliner. He was the fifth of 12 children and the only...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1716
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 1771 (age 54 years)
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1858
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1919 (age 60 years)
Jack Ryan
Jack Ryan (full name John Patrick Ryan, Sr., Ph.D., CPA, KCVO) (born May 17, 1950) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels. The novels and film adaptations in which the character appears are collectively...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1950 (age 59 years)
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (surname pronounced /ˈkuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the sociology and philosophy of science.
Kuhn has...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1922
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1996 (age 73 years)
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1874
Date of death:
- Jan 24, 1965 (age 90 years)
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius (ca. 69/75 – after 130), was an equestrian and a historian during the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius...
Date of birth:
- 75 C.E.
Date of death:
- 130 C.E. (age 55 years)
Melvin Kranzberg
Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, 1917 – December 6, 1995) was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988.
Born in St. Louis...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1917
Date of death:
- Dec 6, 1995 (age 78 years)
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg ...
Date of birth:
- Jan 6, 1878
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1967 (age 89 years)
Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (of West Germany between 1982 and 1990 and of a reunited Germany between 1990 and 1998) and the chairman...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1930 (age 79 years)
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953 in Fowler, California) is a military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, notable as a scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary...
Date of birth:
- 1953 (age 57 years)
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926, born Erik Weisz later spelled Ehrich Weiss) was a Hungarian American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer. He also was a famous skeptic who set out to expose frauds...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1874
Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1926 (age 52 years)
George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to Richard Nixon. As a decorated World War II combat...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1922 (age 87 years)
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British Conservative politician and journalist. Currently the Mayor of London, he previously served as the Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames and as editor of The Spectator magazine....
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1964 (age 45 years)
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans.
Ambrose was...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1936
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 2002 (age 66 years)
Charles Hapgood
Charles Hutchins Hapgood (May 17, 1904 – December 21, 1982) was an American academician, and one of the best known advocates of a rapid and recent pole shift with catastrophic results.
Hapgood received a master's degree from Harvard University in...
Date of birth:
- 1904
Date of death:
- Dec 1982 (age 78 years)
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1817
Date of death:
- Nov 1, 1903 (age 85 years)
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian and professor emeritus in the Political Science Department at Boston University. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States (1980).
Zinn has...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1922 (age 87 years)
Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson (February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts . During the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican who devoted his enormous energies to the destruction...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1812
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1875 (age 63 years)
W.E.B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS) (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1868
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1963 (age 95 years)
Eric Hobsbawm
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, FBA, (born 9 June 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author, one of the most influential British historians of the late twentieth century.
Hobsbawm was born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Leopold Percy Obstbaum...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1917 (age 92 years)
Diodorus Siculus
Diodorus Siculus (Greek: Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης), was a Greek historian who flourished in the 1st century BC. According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agyrium in Sicily (now called Agira). With one exception, antiquity affords no further...
Date of birth:
- 90 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 30 B.C.E. (age 60 years)
Harry L. Watson
Harry L. Watson is an American historian of the antebellum American South, Jacksonian America, and the history of North Carolina. He is Director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina.
Watson is an...
Joseph J. Ellis
Joseph John Ellis (born 1943) is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College who has written influential and award-winning histories on the founding generation of American presidents. His book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation ...
Date of birth:
- 1943 (age 67 years)
Tacitus
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 – ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero...
Date of birth:
- 56 C.E.
Date of death:
- 117 C.E. (age 61 years)
William H. Prescott
William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 29, 1859) was an American historian, known for his books The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic and The History of the Conquest of Mexico.
William H. Prescott was born in...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1796
Date of death:
- Jan 29, 1859 (age 62 years)
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American self-trained historian and author. She became best known for her top-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude and first month of World War I which won...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1912
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1989 (age 77 years)
Alan I. Marcus
Alan I Marcus (born August 15, 1949) is the author of the history textbook Building Western Civilization: From the Advent of Writing to the Age of Steam (1998) and many other books. He is a former professor of history at Iowa State University. He is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1949 (age 60 years)
George Bancroft
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1800
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1891 (age 90 years)
Henry Martyn Baird
Henry Martyn Baird (1832-1906), American historian and educationalist, was a son of Robert Baird (1798-1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, was born in Philadelphia...
Date of birth:
- 1832
Date of death:
- 1906 (age 74 years)
Lewis V. Baldwin
Dr. Lewis V. Baldwin is an historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of the black churches in the United States. He is the acknowledged expert on the Spencer Churches, the oldest black denominations in the country. He currently...
Date of birth:
- 1949 (age 61 years)
Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832(1832-05-05) – March 2, 1918), an American historian and ethnologist, was born in Granville, Ohio. He attended the Granville Academy until he was sixteen, and he then became a clerk in a bookstore in Buffalo, New...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1832
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1918 (age 85 years)
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American statesman, a Republican politician, and a noted historian.
Lodge, who was always known as "Cabot", was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John Ellerton Lodge and Anna Cabot....
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1850
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 1924 (age 74 years)
Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American libertarian socialist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist/conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. For much of his life he called himself an anarchist, although...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1921
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 2006 (age 85 years)
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading...
Date of birth:
- Mar 13, 1907
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1986 (age 79 years)
Dee Brown
Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (February 28, 1908 – December 12, 2002) was an American novelist and historian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) details the violent relationship between Native Americans and American...
Date of birth:
- Feb 28, 1908
Date of death:
- Dec 12, 2002 (age 94 years)
David B. Danbom
David B. Danbom is a historian, author, columnist, and professor of agricultural history at North Dakota State University. Danbom spent nine years on the Fargo Historic Preservation Commission. He is a frequent contributor to the Fargo Forum...
Date of birth:
- 1947 (age 63 years)
João de Barros
João de Barros (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w̃ dɨ ˈbaʁuʃ]; 1496–October 20, 1570), called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia ("Decades of Asia"), a history of the Portuguese...
Date of birth:
- 1496
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 1570 (age 74 years)
Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.
Prosper Mérimée was...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1803
Date of death:
- Sep 23, 1870 (age 67 years)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805, Paris – 16 April 1859, Cannes) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1805
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1859 (age 53 years)
Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University.
Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara (née Dickson)...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1832
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 1918 (age 86 years)
William Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the Chief Justice of the United States....
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1924
Date of death:
- Sep 3, 2005 (age 80 years)
Stephen E. Robinson
Stephen Edward Robinson (born 1947) is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon scholar and apologist.
Robinson was appointed chairman of the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1991,...
Date of birth:
- 1947 (age 63 years)
Christopher Hill
John Edward Christopher Hill, usually known simply as Christopher Hill, 6 February 1912–23 February 2003 was an English Marxist historian and author of textbooks.
Hill was born into a prosperous middle class family — his father was a solicitor — of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 6, 1912
Date of death:
- Feb 23, 2003 (age 91 years)
Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949) is an American academic, author, writer, and political commentator who focuses on the Middle East and criticising Islam.
Pipes has taught history at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Pepperdine University,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1949 (age 60 years)
John Fiske
John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher and historian.
John Fiske was born at Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1842. On the second marriage of his mother (1855) he assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather,...
Date of birth:
- 1842
Date of death:
- 1901 (age 59 years)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941, in Butte, Montana) is an American feminist, democratic socialist, pop sociologist and political activist, a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read columnist and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 26, 1941 (age 68 years)
F. Van Wyck Mason
Francis Van Wyck Mason (November 11, 1901 – August 28, 1978, Bermuda) was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 65 published novels.
Van Wyck (pronounced Wike) Mason was...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1901
Date of death:
- Aug 28, 1978 (age 76 years)
David Halberstam
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1934
Date of death:
- Apr 23, 2007 (age 73 years)
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before...
Date of birth:
- Sep 27, 1840
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 1914 (age 74 years)
Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smith (August 13, 1823 – June 7, 1910) was a British-Canadian historian and journalist.
He was born at Reading, Berkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and after a brilliant undergraduate career he was...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1823
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1910 (age 86 years)
Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt (born 31 May 1974) is a British historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He also lectures on Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London.
Tristram Hunt read history at Trinity College, Cambridge and the University...
Date of birth:
- May 31, 1974 (age 35 years)
