Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland – died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, political theorist, and composer....
Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (born April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Germany – died June 14, 1920, Munich, Germany) was a German sociologist and political economist,...
Marilyn Monroe, original name Norma Jeane Mortenson, (born June 1, 1926, Los Angeles, California, U.S. – died August 5, 1962, Los Angeles, California, U.S.)...
Ludwig Wittgenstein, in full Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, (born April 26, 1889, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – died April 29, 1951, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) was an...
Samuel Beckett, in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, (born April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland – died December 22, 1989, Paris, France) was an Irish...
Thomas Lanier Williams, known as Tennessee Williams, (born March 26, 1911, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. – died February 25, 1983, New York, New York, U.S.)...
Dr. Seuss, pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel, (born March 2, 1904, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. – died September 24, 1991, La Jolla, California, U.S.) was...
Anton Chekhov, in full Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, (born January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia – died July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany) was a Russian playwright...
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his pseudonym Molière, (baptized January 15, 1622, Paris, France – died February 17, 1673, Paris, France) was a French playwright...