| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| J. M. Barrie |
Author |
9-May-1860 |
19-Jun-1937 |
Peter Pan |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
Author |
24-Aug-1899 |
14-Jun-1986 |
The Garden of Forking Paths |
| Emily Brontë |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1818 |
19-Dec-1848 |
Wuthering Heights |
| Paul Erdos |
Mathematician |
26-Mar-1913 |
20-Sep-1996 |
Loved only numbers |
| Edward Gorey |
Author |
22-Feb-1925 |
15-Apr-2000 |
Amphigorey |
| Oliver Heaviside |
Engineer |
18-May-1850 |
3-Feb-1925 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Immanuel Kant |
Philosopher |
22-Apr-1724 |
12-Feb-1804 |
Transcendental idealist |
| Ralph Nader |
Activist |
27-Feb-1934 |
|
Unsafe at Any Speed |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Florence Nightingale |
Activist |
12-May-1820 |
13-Aug-1910 |
Established nursing as a profession |
| Paula Poundstone |
Comic |
29-Dec-1959 |
|
Asexual comic |
| Sun Ra |
Jazz Musician |
22-May-1914 |
30-May-1993 |
Jazz musician from Saturn |
| Cliff Richard |
Singer |
14-Oct-1940 |
|
England's most famous Christian |
| John Ruskin |
Critic |
8-Feb-1819 |
20-Jan-1900 |
Greatest Victorian art critic |
| Erik Satie |
Composer |
17-May-1866 |
1-Jul-1925 |
Messe des Pauvres |
| Nikola Tesla |
Inventor |
10-Jul-1856 |
7-Jan-1943 |
Invented alternating current |
| Samuel J. Tilden |
Politician |
9-Feb-1814 |
4-Aug-1886 |
Lost the stolen 1876 US election |
| Otto Warburg |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1883 |
1-Aug-1970 |
Effect of oxygen on cancer |
| Simone Weil |
Philosopher |
3-Feb-1909 |
24-Aug-1943 |
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force |
| Jemima Wilkinson |
Religion |
29-Nov-1752 |
1-Jul-1819 |
The Universal Friend |
