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Lecturer
Lecturer is a term of academic rank. In the United Kingdom lecturer is the name given to those who teach in their first permanent university position. That is, lecturers are academics early in their careers, who lead research groups and supervise postgraduate students as well as lecture courses....
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Robert Muetzelfeldt
Robert Muetzelfeldt is an independent academic interested in ecological and environmental modelling. He used to work in the University of Edinburgh,Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, as a lecturer in ecological modelling. He...
Chuck D
Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960 in Roosevelt, New York), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 1, 1960 (age 49 years)
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1951 (age 58 years)
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1880
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1968 (age 87 years)
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 - 27 April 1972), was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966.
In 1909, Kwame Nkrumah was born to Madam Nyaniba in...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1909
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1972 (age 62 years)
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician; one of the most prominent British politicians of the latter half of the 20th century, he served two terms as Prime...
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1916
Date of death:
- May 24, 1995 (age 79 years)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1860
Date of death:
- Aug 17, 1935 (age 75 years)
Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950), a New Zealand politician and administrator, is the head of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position. Clark was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand for three consecutive...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1950 (age 59 years)
Susan Blackmore
Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine.
In 1973, Susan Blackmore graduated from St. Hilda's College,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1951 (age 58 years)
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1835
Date of death:
- Apr 21, 1910 (age 74 years)
James Dickey
James Lafayette Dickey (2 February 1923 – 19 January 1997) was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.
Dickey was born to lawyer, Eugene Dickey, and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 2, 1923
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1997 (age 74 years)
Charles Lenox Remond
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Charles Lenox Remond (1 February 1810 – 22 December 1873) was an American orator, abolitionist and military organizer during the American Civil War. He was the brother of Sarah Parker Remond, also heavily engaged in the cause.
Remond was born...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1810
Date of death:
- Dec 22, 1873 (age 63 years)
Nicky Gavron
Felicia Nicolette C. "Nicky" Gavron, née Coates (born 1941, Worcester) is a British politician, former Deputy Mayor of London, a member of the London Assembly and the former Labour candidate for the 2004 Mayor of London elections.
Gavron is the...
Date of birth:
- 1945 (age 65 years)
Mohammad Reza Shajarian
Mohammad Reza Shajarian (Persian: محمد رضا شجريان) (born September 23, 1940 in Mashhad, Iran) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Persian traditional singer, composer and ostad (master) of Persian music. He has been called "Iran's...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1940 (age 69 years)
Beverley Hughes
Beverley June Hughes (born 30 March 1950) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stretford and Urmston since 1997; in 2004, she was appointed to the Privy Council. From 2005 to 2009, she served in the Government as...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1950 (age 59 years)
Edwin Morgan
Edwin George Morgan OBE (born 27 April 1920) is a Scottish poet and translator who is associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1920 (age 89 years)
Barry Sheerman
Barry John Sheerman (born 17 August 1940) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Huddersfield since 1979.
He went to Hampton Grammar School (became the independent Hampton School in 1975) on Hanworth...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1940 (age 69 years)
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all...
Date of birth:
- Oct 26, 1883
Date of death:
- Nov 8, 1970 (age 87 years)
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈnibaɫ kɐˈvaku ˈsiɫvɐ]; born in Boliqueime, Loulé, Algarve on 15 July 1939), is the President of the Portuguese Republic, having won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1939 (age 70 years)
George Melly
Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer and lectured on art history, with an emphasis on...
Date of birth:
- Aug 17, 1926
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 2007 (age 80 years)
Manuel de Arriaga
Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue (Portuguese pronunciation: [mɐnuˈɛɫ dɨ ɐˈʁiaɡɐ]) (Horta, July 8, 1840 - Lisbon, Santos o Velho, March 5, 1917) was the first Attorney-General and the first elected President of the Republic of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1840
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1917 (age 76 years)
Theresa Villiers
Theresa Anne Villiers (born 5 March 1968) is a British politician. She is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.
Villiers was born in London in 1968, growing up particularly in North...
Date of birth:
- Mar 5, 1968 (age 41 years)
Sidónio Pais
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais (Portuguese pronunciation: [siˈdɔniu ˈpaiʃ]; Caminha, Caminha, May 1, 1872–Lisbon, December 14, 1918) was a Portuguese politician and diplomat, 4th President in 1918. He was known as the President-King.
He...
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1872
Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1918 (age 46 years)
Andrew Brons
Andrew Henry William Brons (born 3 June 1947, London) is a British politician. Long active in far right politics in Britain, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the British National Party at the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1947 (age 62 years)
Molly Holzschlag
Molly E. Holzschlag (born 1963) is a lecturer and author of over 35 books related to web design and markup. She has been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web. She currently is an Opera Software employee, and serves as a member...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1963 (age 46 years)
Wishart Spence
Wishart Flett Spence, CC, OBE (March 9, 1904 – April 16, 1998) was a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of James Houston Spence and Margaret Hackland, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1904
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1998 (age 94 years)
Gary Lucas
Gary Lucas is an American guitarist, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and an international recording artist with over a dozen solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television. He has been described as "one of the best and most...
Date of birth:
- 1952 (age 58 years)
Francis Gillette
Francis Gillette (December 14, 1807 – September 30, 1879) was a politician from Connecticut, USA. He was the father of playwright William Gillette and politician and editor Edward H. Gillette.
Born in Old Windsor, Connecticut (today part of the town...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1807
Date of death:
- Sep 30, 1879 (age 71 years)
Peter Weller
Peter Frederick Weller (Stevens Point, Wisconsin, June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, director and lecturer.
He is best known to moviegoers as the eponymous character of RoboCop in the first two RoboCop movies as well as Buckaroo...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1947 (age 62 years)
Wayne Cao
Wayne Cao (Born Nguyễn Cao Cảo December 7, 1946) is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, where he represents the district of Calgary-Fort as a Progressive Conservative. He was first elected in the 1997...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1946 (age 63 years)
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 1955) is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist and critic.
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy Co. Wexford in the southeast of Ireland in 1955. He was the second youngest of five...
Date of birth:
- 1955 (age 55 years)
John Sopinka
John Sopinka, QC (March 19, 1933 - November 24, 1997) was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court.
Sopinka was born in Broderick, Saskatchewan and lived there...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1933
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 1997 (age 64 years)
Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull (born 19 August 1944) is a writer, lecturer, professional philatelist and past member of the European Parliament who, in 1980, founded the Right Livelihood Awards (a.k.a. the Alternative Nobel Prize). He holds both Swedish and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1944 (age 65 years)
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer (April 8, 1842 - April 6, 1933) was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer. After his death, she became an outspoken advocate for her husband's legacy through her popular books and lectures. That Custer's iconic portrayal...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1842
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1933 (age 91 years)
Grant Mitchell
Grant Mitchell (born July 19, 1951) is a Canadian politician and businessman.
He received a B.A. degree from the University of Alberta and an M.A. degree from Queen's University. From 1976 to 1979 he worked as a public servant with the Government of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 19, 1951 (age 58 years)
Marina Warner
Marina Sarah Warner, CBE, FBA (born 9 November 1946 in London, England) is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth.
She was born in London to an...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1946 (age 63 years)
Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn (b. October 15, 1957) is an American author and lecturer who has explored a number of topics in education, parenting, and human behavior. He is considered a leading figure in progressive education and has also offered critiques of many...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1957 (age 52 years)
David Clendon
David Clendon is a New Zealand politician and member of the Green Party. Following the resignation of Sue Bradford, Clendon became a Member of the New Zealand Parliament on 2 November 2009.
In both the 1999 elections and the 2005 elections Clendon...
Date of birth:
- 1955 (age 55 years)
Sue Blackwell
Sue Blackwell is an English academic, Lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham. She has an MPhil in English from the University of Cambridge and in 2007 obtained a doctorate in the use of personal pronouns from Birmingham. She...
David Prior
David Prior is an award-winning British sound artist and composer.
David Prior was born in the UK and studied Music and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Bangor where he studied composition with Andrew Lewis. He was awarded the prize for...
Date of birth:
- 1972 (age 38 years)
Hermann Moisl
Dr. Hermann Moisl is a senior lecturer in linguistics at Newcastle University and was educated at various institutes, including Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford.
Research interests include, amongst others, computational...
Ahmed Faraz
Ahmed Faraz (Urdu: احمد فراز) was considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Faraz is his pseudonym 'takhallus', whereas his real name is Syed Ahmad Shah (سید احمد شاہ). Ahmed Faraz died in Islamabad on August 25, 2008....
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1931
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 2008 (age 77 years)
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (born March 24, 1937) is a Barbadian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Barbados from 1987 to 1994.
Sandiford was born in Barbados and educated at the Coleridge and Parry School, Harrison College and the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 24, 1937 (age 72 years)
Maria Hyland
M. J. Hyland (born 6 June 1968) is a novelist. She made her debut in Australia in 2003 with How the Light Gets In. Her second novel Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and won both the Encore Award and the Hawthornden Prize...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1968 (age 41 years)
Teófilo Braga
Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga (Portuguese pronunciation: [tiˈɔfilu ˈbɾaɡɐ]; 24 February 1843 – 28 January 1924) was a Portuguese politician, writer, and playwright. His debut in literature was called Folhas Verdes (Green Leaves). He graduated with...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1843
Webster G. Tarpley
Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, journalist, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. Tarpley maintains that the September 11 attacks were engineered by a rogue network of the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies...
Afonso Costa
Afonso Augusto da Costa, GCTE, GCL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈfõsu ˈkɔʃtɐ]; born at Seia, 6 March 1871; died at Paris, 11 May 1937) was a Portuguese lawyer, professor, and republican politician.
He was the leader of the Portuguese Republican...
Date of birth:
- 1871
Date of death:
- 1937 (age 66 years)
Valangiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri
Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (Tamil: வலங்கைமான் சங்கரநாராயண ஸ்ரீனிவாஸ சாஸ்திரி) CH PC (b. September 22, 1869 – d. April 17, 1946) was an Indian politician, administrator, educator, orator and Indian independence activist. He was...
Date of birth:
- 1869
Date of death:
- 1946 (age 77 years)
William Fulke
William Fulke (1538-1589) was an English Puritan divine.
He was born in London and educated at St John's College, Cambridge graduating in 1557/58.
After studying law for six years, he became a fellow at St John's College, Cambridge in 1564. He took...
Date of birth:
- 1538
Date of death:
- 1589 (age 51 years)
Gail Sheehy
Gail Sheehy (born November 27, 1937 in Mamaroneck, New York) is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to the magazine Vanity Fair.
Her fifth book, Passages, has been called ...
Date of birth:
- Nov 27, 1937 (age 72 years)
Klaas de Vries
Klaas de Vries (born Terneuzen, 15 July 1944) is a Dutch composer. He is one of the founders of a music style that became known as the Rotterdam School.
Among the teachers of De Vries were Otto Ketting in the Netherlands and Milko Kelemen in Germany...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1944 (age 65 years)
William Adam
William Adam (also Bill Adam) (born 21 October 1917) is an American trumpeter, respected pedagogue, and Professor Emeritus at Indiana University. He was highly analytical as a teacher, but always avoided discussing the mechanical aspects of trumpet...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1917 (age 92 years)
Ann Richards
Ann Richards (13 December 1917 – 25 August 2006) was an Australian actress, who achieved notability in Australian films as Shirley Ann Richards before moving to the United States where she continued her career as a film actress, mainly as an MGM...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1917
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 2006 (age 88 years)
Hunter Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins (née Sheldon), author and promoter of sustainable development for over 30 years, is the founder and President of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and Natural Capitalism Solutions, a 501(c)3 non-profit in Eldorado Springs, Colorado. A...
Chandre Dharma-wardana
Chandre Dharma-wardana is a Sri Lankan-born academic and scientist. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Vidyodaya University (now the University of Sri Jayewardenepura) from 1974 to 1975 and a senior lecturer and Professor of chemistry in that University...
Frank Harte
Frank Harte (14 May 1933, Chapelizod, County Dublin, Ireland – 27 June 2005) was a traditional Irish singer, song collector, architect and lecturer. He was born and raised in Dublin. His father Peter Harte who had moved from a farming background in...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1933
Date of death:
- Jun 27, 2005 (age 72 years)
Ged Peck
Ged Peck (19 October 1947 - ) is a musician who played in several bands - mainly backing work with Billy Fury, Vince Eager, Tommy Quickly when he was managed by Brian Epstein, Americans Bob & Earl who had a hit single with Harlem Shuffle, The Flower...
Date of birth:
- Oct 19, 1947 (age 62 years)
Kjell B. Sandved
Kjell Bloch Sandved (born 1922) is a Norwegian born author, lecturer and nature photographer, most known for his Butterfly Alphabet which contains pictures of Butterfly Wings resembling all the 26 letters in the latin alphabet and the arabic...
Date of birth:
- 1922 (age 88 years)
Mark O'Shea
Mark O'Shea (born May 1956) is a herpetologist, photographer, author, lecturer, and television personality.
Mark O'Shea is best known as the host of O'Shea's Big Adventure (in the UK, O'Shea's Dangerous Reptiles) which chronicles his many field...
Date of birth:
- May 1956 (age 53 years)
Wolfgang Wüster
Wolfgang Wüster is a herpetologist and lecturer in zoology at the University of Wales.
Wüster attained his bachelor's degree at the University of Cambridge in 1985 and his doctorate at University of Aberdeen in 1990. His primary area of research is...
