Allen Ginsberg
American poet & writer best known as a Beat Poet & for his poem, Howl.
Giovanni Gentile
Italian philosopher, educator, & politician born in 1875. Ghostwrote part of The Doctrine of Fascism with Mussolini.
George Mandel
French journalist, politician, & French Resistance leader born in 1885.
Heinrich Otto Wieland
German chemist born in 1877. Won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.
Regiomontanus
German Renaissance mathematician, astrologer, & astronomer born in 1436.
Pauline Kael
American film critic, born in 1919, who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991.
Francoise Sagan
French playwright, novelist, & screenwriter born in 1935 & known for her novel, Bonjour Tristesse.
Wild Bill Hickok
American folk hero of the American Old West born in 1837.
Gayatri Devi
Indian royal, politician, & fashion icon born in 1919. Maharani consort of Jaipur & leader in the Swatantra Party.
John Bardeen
American engineer, physicist, & Nobel Prize winner born in 1908. Inventor of the transistor & the BCS theory.