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The meaning of the word professor (Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science, teacher of highest rank) varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the department, or a personal...
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Warsaw-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European...
Date of birth:
- Jan 11, 1907
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 1972 (age 65 years)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1944 (age 65 years)
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as Governor of New York (1907-1910), United States Secretary of State (1921-1925), Associate Justice of the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1862
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1948 (age 86 years)
Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1938 (age 72 years)
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett (born March 28, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1942 (age 67 years)
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945 in New York, New York) is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first...
Date of birth:
- Feb 15, 1945 (age 64 years)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhəlm ˈniːtʃə]) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1844
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1900 (age 55 years)
Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born 27 October 1952) is an American philosopher, political economist, and author.
Francis Fukuyama was born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His father, Yoshio Fukuyama, a second-generation Japanese-American,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1952 (age 57 years)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).
Gadamer was born in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1900
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 2002 (age 102 years)
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/; in General American also /ˈtoʊlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1892
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1973 (age 81 years)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
Described by Bertrand Russell...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1889
Date of death:
- Apr 29, 1951 (age 62 years)
Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1911
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1980 (age 69 years)
Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 - November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.
Luhmann was born in Lüneburg, Germany, where his father's family had been running a brewery for several...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1927
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 1998 (age 70 years)
Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of...
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1946 (age 63 years)
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MSRC (18 October 1919 – 28 September 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1919
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 2000 (age 81 years)
Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, O.Ont, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best...
Date of birth:
- Aug 28, 1913
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1995 (age 82 years)
Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for...
Date of birth:
- Jun 6, 1943
Date of death:
- Oct 28, 2005 (age 62 years)
Ron Carter
Ron Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double-bassist. His unique sound has made him a long sought after studio man. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton,...
Date of birth:
- May 4, 1937 (age 72 years)
Theodore Kaczynski
Theodore John Kaczynski (pronounced /kəˈzɪnski/; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber), is an American mathematician, social critic, and murderer who carried out a campaign of mail bombings.
He was born in...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1942 (age 67 years)
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays.Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont. His father,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1932 (age 78 years)
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков, pronounced [vlɐdʲiˈmʲɪr nɐboˈkəf]; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977) was a multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine...
Date of birth:
- 1899
Date of death:
- Jul 2, 1977 (age 78 years)
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian lawyer, economist, university professor, consultant, civil servant, journalist, teacher, and politician. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1874
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1950 (age 75 years)
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New...
Date of birth:
- Dec 28, 1856
Date of death:
- Feb 3, 1924 (age 67 years)
Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams, (born 1936 in Philadelphia) is the John M Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is also a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.
Wlliams holds a bachelor's degree in...
Date of birth:
- 1936 (age 74 years)
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) (German pronunciation: [ˈmaɐ̯tiːn ˈhaɪ̯dɛɡɐ]) was an influential German philosopher. His best known book, Being and Time, is considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1889
Date of death:
- May 26, 1976 (age 86 years)
Jan Węglarz
Jan Węglarz (born 1947 in Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist. His current research focuses on operations research.
He studied at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań, where he graduated mathematics in 1969, and later on Poznań University...
Date of birth:
- 1947 (age 63 years)
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931) is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed black characters....
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1931 (age 78 years)
Pim Fortuyn
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus "Pim" Fortuyn (Dutch pronunciation: [pɪm fɔʁtœʏn], (19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002) was a Dutch politician, author, columnist, public servant, sociologist and professor who formed his own party, Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1948
Date of death:
- May 6, 2002 (age 54 years)
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist and retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was director of the university's Feminist Studies...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1944 (age 65 years)
Randal L. Schwartz
Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961), also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. Schwartz is the co-author of several widely used books about Perl, a programming language, and has written...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1961 (age 48 years)
Emil Adolf von Behring
Emil Adolf von Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917) was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Behring was born Adolf Emil Behring in Hansdorf (now Ławice, Iława County), Kreis Rosenberg, Province of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1854
Date of death:
- Mar 31, 1917 (age 63 years)
Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications....
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1961 (age 48 years)
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (pronounced piːˈjɛər hɛnˈri mʌˈri ˈʃeɪfɜr (help·info); August 14, 1910 – August 19, 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 14, 1910
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1995 (age 85 years)
Stanley Fish
Stanley Eugene Fish (born 1938) is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is considered by his admirers to be among the most important critics of the English poet John Milton in the...
Date of birth:
- 1938 (age 72 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)
Jan Peter Balkenende
Jan Peter Balkenende (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑn ˈpetər ˈbɑɫkənɛndə] ( listen)) (born May 7, 1956) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal party and since July 22, 2002 the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. He is currently leading...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1956 (age 53 years)
Joe Clark
Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, PC, CC, AOE (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian journalist, politician, statesman, businessman, and university professor. He served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980.
Despite his...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1939 (age 70 years)
Barry Hannah
Barry Hannah (born April 23, 1942) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi and raised in Clinton Mississippi. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in 1964. He spent the next...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1942 (age 67 years)
Marie Bashir
Professor Marie Bashir AC, CVO (born 1930) is the current Governor of New South Wales and Chancellor of the University of Sydney. She is the first female governor of New South Wales.
Marie Rosyln Bashir was born in Narrandera, New South Wales, to...
Date of birth:
- 1930 (age 80 years)
Louis Althusser
Louis Pierre Althusser (pronunciation: altyˡseʁ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.
Althusser...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1918
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1990 (age 72 years)
Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Along with James Madison, he was the second-longest serving Secretary of State,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1909
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1994 (age 85 years)
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (German pronunciation: [kleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1879
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1940 (age 60 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)
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)
Jelle Zijlstra
Jelle Zijlstra (August 27, 1918 - December 23, 2001) was a Dutch politician of the dissolved Anti Revolutionary Party now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from November 22, 1966 until April...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1918
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 2001 (age 83 years)
John Abbott
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) was the third Prime Minister of Canada. He served in the office for seventeen months, from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892.
Born in St. Andrews, Lower Canada (now...
Date of birth:
- Mar 12, 1821
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1893 (age 72 years)
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)
Samuel P. Huntington
Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927–December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.
Huntington was born on April 18,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 18, 1927
Date of death:
- Dec 24, 2008 (age 81 years)
Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills as an electric bass player.
His playing style was noteworthy for containing intricate...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1951
Date of death:
- Sep 21, 1987 (age 35 years)
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is a professor, diplomat, author, and national security expert. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush....
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1954 (age 55 years)
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1834
Date of death:
- Aug 22, 1926 (age 92 years)
António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GCTE, GCSE (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐ̃ˈtɔniu dɨ oliˈvɐiɾɐ sɐlɐˈzaɾ], April 28, 1889 – July 27, 1970) served as the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He also served as acting President...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1889
Date of death:
- Jul 27, 1970 (age 81 years)
Dana Scott
Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His research career...
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1932 (age 77 years)
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson ( ˈouːlavʏr ˈraknar ˈkrimsɔn (help·info)) (born 14 May 1943) is the fifth and current President of Iceland. He has served as President since 1996: he was re-elected unopposed in 2000, he was re-elected for a third term in 2004...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1943 (age 66 years)
Lionel Curtis
Lionel George Curtis (1872–1955) was a British official and author. He advocated British Empire Federalism and, late in life, a world state. His ideas concerning dyarchy were important in the development of the Government of India Act 1919 and more...
Date of birth:
- 1872
Date of death:
- 1955 (age 83 years)
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1930 (age 79 years)
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby
Shirley Williams, The Baroness Williams of Crosby PC (born 27 July 1930) is a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister, she was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1930 (age 79 years)
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930), is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. He often writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
Date of birth:
- Jun 30, 1930 (age 79 years)
William H. Calvin
William H. Calvin, Ph.D., (born 30 April 1939) is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a well-known popularizer of neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of these two fields, neural Darwinism. He relates...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1939 (age 70 years)
Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Nastaliq: زلمی خلیلزاد - Zalmay Khalīlzād) (born: 22 March 1951) is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and president of Khalilzad Associates. He was the United States Ambassador to the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 22, 1951
Date of death:
- Mar 22, 1951
