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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) was an inventor, publisher. scientist, and statesman, who is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He was a major figure in the Enlightenment, known as a printer, satirist,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1706
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1790 (age 84 years)
David Hume
David Hume (7 May 1711 [26 April O.S.] – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1711
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1776 (age 65 years)
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (German pronunciation: [ˈgɔtfrit ˈvɪlhɛlm fən ˈlaɪpnɪts]; 1 July 1646 [OS: 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher, polymath and mathematician who wrote primarily in Latin and French.
He occupies a grand...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1646
Date of death:
- Nov 14, 1716 (age 70 years)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1729
Date of death:
- Feb 15, 1781 (age 52 years)
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges (pronounced /ˈhɔr.heɪ luˈiːs ˈbɔr.hɛz/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes]), was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1899
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1986 (age 86 years)
John Dee
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a noted mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I of England. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 13, 1527
Date of death:
- 1600 (age 72 years)
Laura Bush
Laura Bush is the wife of the forty third President of the United States George W. Bush and the incumbent First Lady of the United States. Born in 1946 in Midland, Texas, Mrs. Bush always had an active interest in books and education. She obtained a...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1946 (age 63 years)
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; pinyin: Máo Zédōng; Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung) pronunciation (help·info) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He...
Date of birth:
- Dec 26, 1893
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1976 (age 82 years)
Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time;...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1871
Date of death:
- Nov 18, 1922 (age 51 years)
Sima Qian
Sima Qian (ca. 145 or 135 BC–86 BC) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史令) of the chinese Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian (史記 or 史记), a "Jizhuanti"...
Date of birth:
- 139 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 86 B.C.E. (age 53 years)
Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman CBE (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials (a trilogy of fantasy novels), and a number of other books.
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK, to Royal Air...
Date of birth:
- Oct 19, 1946 (age 63 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)
Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria (pronounced /haɪˈpeɪʃə/ in English) (Greek: Ὑπατία; born between 350 and 370 – 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She...
Date of birth:
- 370 C.E.
Date of death:
- 415 C.E. (age 45 years)
Herbert Putnam
Herbert Putnam (20 September 1861 – 14 August 1955) an American lawyer, publisher and librarian. He was the eighth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1899 to 1939.
He was born in New York City, where his father George Palmer Putnam was a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1861
Date of death:
- Aug 14, 1955 (age 93 years)
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968; French pronunciation: [maʀsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃]) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1887
Date of death:
- Oct 2, 1968 (age 81 years)
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) is widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1922
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1985 (age 63 years)
Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Greek Ἐρατοσθένης; c. 276 BC – c. 195 BC) was a Greek mathematician, elegiac poet, athlete, geographer, and astronomer. He made several discoveries and inventions including a system of latitude and longitude. He was the first...
Date of birth:
- 276 B.C.E.
Date of death:
- 195 B.C.E. (age 81 years)
Laozi
Laozi (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade-Giles: Laosi; also Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tzu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Lao Zi, Laocius, and other variations) was a philosopher of ancient China and is a central figure in Taoism (also spelled "Daoism"). Laozi...
Date of birth:
- 400 B.C.E.
Ada Adler
Ada Sara Adler (1878 – 1946) was a Danish classical scholar and librarian.
She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes (Leipzig, 1928-1938). She also contributed several articles to Pauly...
Date of birth:
- 1878
Date of death:
- 1946 (age 68 years)
Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, and the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system of library classification.
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1851
Date of death:
- Dec 26, 1931 (age 80 years)
Callimachus
Callimachus (Greek: Καλλίμαχος, Kallimachos; 310 BC/305 BC-240 BC) was a native of the Greek colony of Cyrene, Libya. He was a noted poet, critic and scholar of the Library of Alexandria and enjoyed the patronage of ancient Egyptian Greek Pharaohs...
Date of death:
- 240 B.C.E.
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (née Coles; 3 July 1912 in Reading, Berkshire - 19 November 1975 in Penn, Buckinghamshire) was a popular English novelist and short story writer.
Elizabeth Coles was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1912. She was educated at The Abbey...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1912
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1975 (age 63 years)
Edmund Gosse
Sir Edmund William Gosse CB (21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.
Gosse worked as assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1867 alongside the songwriter Theo...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1849
Date of death:
- May 16, 1928 (age 78 years)
Antoine Alexandre Barbier
Antoine Alexandre Barbier (11 January 1765 – 5 December 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer.
He was born in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). He took priest's orders, from which, however, he was finally released by the pope in 1801. In 1794...
Date of birth:
- Jan 11, 1765
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1825 (age 60 years)
Johann Albert Fabricius
Johann Albert Fabricius (November 11, 1668 - April 30, 1736), was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.
He was born at Leipzig. His father, Werner Fabricius, director of music in the church of St. Paul at Leipzig, was the author of several...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1668
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1736 (age 67 years)
Johann Matthias Gesner
Johann Matthias Gesner (9 April 1691 – 3 August 1761) was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.
He was born at Roth an der Rednitz near Ansbach. His father, Johann Samuel Gesner, a pastor in Auhausen, died in 1704, leaving the family in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1691
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1761 (age 70 years)
Friedrich Sylburg
Friedrich Sylburg (1536 - February 17, 1596), was a German classical scholar.
The son of a farmer, he was born at Wetter near Marburg. He studied at Marburg, Jena, Geneva, and, lastly, Paris, where his teacher was Henry Estienne (Stephanus), to...
Date of birth:
- 1536
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1596 (age 60 years)
Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE (11 August 1913 – 31 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1913
Date of death:
- May 31, 1991 (age 77 years)
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary (born Beverly Atlee Bunn; April 12, 1916) is an American author from Oregon. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before starting to write children's books. Cleary has written over 30 books for...
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1916 (age 93 years)
Hal Draper
Hal Draper (1914-1990) was a Third Camp American socialist activist, Marxist and author, perhaps best known for his role in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. His "Third Camp" focus differed from that of Max Shachtman in its emphasis on...
Date of birth:
- 1914
Date of death:
- 1990 (age 76 years)
Mohammad Khatami
Seyed Mohammad Khātamī (Persian: سید محمد خاتمی, pronounced [sejjed mohæmmæde xɒːtæmiː]) (born October 14, 1943, in Ardakan, Yazd Province) is an Iranian scholar and politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1943 (age 66 years)
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj]) (September 10, 1897 – July 8, 1962) was a French writer. Although subsequent philosophers have been significantly influenced by his thought, Bataille tended not to refer to himself as a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1897
Date of death:
- Jul 8, 1962 (age 64 years)
Seymour Lubetzky
Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898-April 5, 2003) was a major cataloging theorist and a prominent librarian. Born in Belarus as Shmaryahu Lubetzky, he worked for years at the Library of Congress. He worked as a teacher before he immigrated to the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1898
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 2003 (age 105 years)
Audre Lorde
Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 - November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.
Lorde was born in New York City to Caribbean immigrants Frederick Byron Lorde (called Byron) and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde, who...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1934
Date of death:
- Nov 17, 1992 (age 58 years)
Isaac Casaubon
Isaac Casaubon (18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned in Europe.
He was born in Geneva to two French Huguenot refugees....
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1559
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1614 (age 55 years)
Auguste Molinier
August Molinier (September 30, 1851 - May 19, 1904) was a French historian.
He was born at Toulouse. He was a pupil at the École des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École des Hautes Études; and he obtained appointments in the public...
Date of birth:
- Sep 30, 1851
Date of death:
- May 19, 1904 (age 52 years)
Cassiodorus
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 - c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus, was a Roman statesman and writer, serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname not his...
Date of birth:
- 485 C.E.
Date of death:
- 585 C.E. (age 100 years)
Ed Greenwood
Ed Greenwood (born 1959) is a Canadian writer and editor who created the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting.
In 1987, Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb wrote the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set for TSR—though Greenwood had used the...
Date of birth:
- 1959 (age 51 years)
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798) was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 2, 1725
Date of death:
- Jun 4, 1798 (age 73 years)
Jan Gruter
Jan Gruter (or Gruytere; Latinized Janus Gruterus) (December 3, 1560 - September 20, 1627), was a critic and scholar of the Netherlands.
Jan Gruter was Dutch on his father's side and English on his mother's, and was born at Antwerp. To avoid...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1560
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 1627 (age 66 years)
John Braine
John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist. Braine is usually associated with the Angry Young Men movement.
Born in Bingley, near Bradford, Yorkshire, Braine left St. Bede's Grammar School at 16 and worked in a shop...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1922
Date of death:
- Oct 28, 1986 (age 64 years)
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (23 July 1823 - 26 November 1896) was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.
The eldest son of author Peter George Patmore, Coventry was...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1823
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1896 (age 73 years)
Will Durant
William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for the 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written in collaboration with his wife Ariel and published between...
Date of birth:
- Nov 5, 1885
Date of death:
- Nov 7, 1981 (age 96 years)
Thomas Bodley
Sir Thomas Bodley (2 March 1545 – 28 January 1613), was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Thomas Bodley was born at Exeter in the second to last year of the reign of Henry VIII. His father, John Bodley, was a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1545
Date of death:
- Jan 28, 1613 (age 67 years)
Thomas James
Thomas James (c. 1573 - August, 1629) was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
James was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1593. In 1602,...
Date of birth:
- 1573
Date of death:
- Aug 1629 (age 56 years)
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.
Arenas was born in the countryside...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1943
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 1990 (age 47 years)
Andre Norton
Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton (b. February 17, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio – d. March 17, 2005) was an American science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction) under the noms de plume Andre...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1912
Date of death:
- Mar 17, 2005 (age 93 years)
S. R. Ranganathan
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan Listen (help·info) (Tamil: சீகாழி/சீர்காழி ராமாமிருத ரங்கநாதன், ciyali rāmāmiruta raṅkanātaṉ ) (August 9, 1892, Sirkali, Tamil Nadu – September 27, 1972, Bangalore) was a mathematician and librarian from India. His...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1892
Date of death:
- Sep 27, 1972 (age 80 years)
Ina Coolbrith
Ina Donna Coolbrith (March 10, 1841 - February 29, 1928) was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent and beloved figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. She was the first California Poet Laureate and thus the first poet...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1841
Date of death:
- Feb 29, 1928 (age 87 years)
Zenodotus
Zenodotus (Ancient Greek: Ζηνόδοτος), was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, and Homeric scholar. A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he was the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria. He lived during the reigns of the first...
Joanna Cole
Joanna Cole (born August 11, 1944 in Newark, New Jersey), is a United States author of children’s books . She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole has written over 250 books ranging from her...
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1944 (age 65 years)
Benjamin Peirce
Benjamin Peirce (pronounced /ˈpɜrs/ purse, (April 4, 1809 – October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for about fifty years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, number theory, algebra, and the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1809
Date of death:
- Oct 6, 1880 (age 71 years)
Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Ludovico Antonio Muratori (October 21, 1672- January 23, 1750) was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books.
Born to a poor family...
Date of birth:
- Oct 21, 1672
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1750 (age 77 years)
Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy ONZ (born in Whakatane, New Zealand on 21 March 1936) is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1936 (age 73 years)
Eleanor Kinnaird
Eleanor G. 'Ellie' Kinnaird is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's 23rd Senate district since 1997. Her district includes constituents in Orange and Person counties. Kinnaird serves as Chair of the...
Date of birth:
- 1931 (age 79 years)
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya
Nadezhda Konstantinovna "Nadya" Krupskaya (Russian: Наде́жда Константи́новна Кру́пская, scientific transliteration Nadežda Konstantinovna Krupskaja) (26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1869 - February 27, 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. She...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1869
Date of death:
- 1939 (age 69 years)
Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao (October 29, 1888 - April 28, 1927) was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921.
Li was born in Laoting (a county of Tangshan), Hebei province to a peasant family. He started to receive...
Date of birth:
- Oct 29, 1888
Date of death:
- Apr 28, 1927 (age 38 years)
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (7 May 1892 – 20 April 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois....
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1892
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1982 (age 90 years)
Luther H. Evans
Luther Harris Evans (13 October 1902 – 23 December 1981) was an American political scientist who served as the tenth Librarian of the United States Congress.
Born in Bastrop County, Texas in 1902, Evans received his bachelor's (1923) and master's ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1902
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 1981 (age 79 years)
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (pronounced /ˈkjuːnɪts/) (29 July 1905 – 14 May 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.
Kunitz was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1905
Date of death:
- May 14, 2006 (age 100 years)
