Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, philosopher, historian, & political prisoner who brought awareness to the Soviet Gulag system.
Hideyo Noguchi
Japanese bacteriologist born in 1876. Known for his work on syphilis & unethical human experimentation.
Boris Karloff
English actor known for roles in horror films incl. Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein & its sequels.
Heinrich Böll
German writer born in 1917. Recipient of the Georg Buchner Prize & the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Empress Dowager Cixi
Chinese noblewoman, concubine, & later regent who controlled the Qing dynasty from 1861-1908.
Bô Yin Râ
German spiritual teacher, poet, & painter born in 1876.
Georges Seurat
French post-Impressionist artist born in 1859 & best known for devising chromoluminarism & pointillism.
Margaret Tudor
Queen of Scotland from 1503 to 1513 by marriage to King James IV.
Carry Nation
American radical temperance activist known for attacking taverns with a hatchet before Prohibition.
William F. Buckley Jr.
American public intellectual, conservative author, & political commentator born in 1925.