Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer,...

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described...

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was...

William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the...

Erica Jong (born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel “Fear of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include “Paul...

Ellice Hopkins (October 30, 1836 – August 21, 1904) was a Victorian social campaigner and author, who vigorously advocated moral...

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President...

Sir Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642 – March 20, 1726) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (described in his own...

Barack Hussein Obama II (August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970) was a French general and statesman. He...