Phaedrus 444 BCE - 393 BCE Phaedrus was an ancient Athenian aristocrat associated with the inner-circle of the philosopher Socrates. He was indicted in the profanation of the El... Phaedrus
Adin Ballou 1803 - 1890 Adin Ballou was an American proponent of Christian nonresistance, Christian anarchism and socialism, abolitionism, and the founder of the Hopedale Com... Adin Ballou
Abbie Farwell Brown 1871 - 1927 Abbie Farwell Brown was an American author. Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the first of two daughters of Benjamin F. Brown, a descendant of... Abbie Farwell Brown
Amelia Opie 1769 - 1769 Amelia Opie was an English author who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich, En... Amelia Opie
Mary Jane Seacole 1805 - 1881 Mary Jane Seacole was a British-Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War. She described... Mary Jane Seacole
Cicely Hamilton 1872 - 1952 Cicely Mary Hamilton was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United King... Cicely Hamilton
James Cook 1728 - 1779 James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779... James Cook
Spencer Johnson 1938 - 2017 Spencer Johnson was born in Watertown, South Dakota, graduated from Notre Dame High School of Sherman Oaks, California, in 1957, received a Bachelor o... Spencer Johnson
Jane Andrews 1833 - 1887 Jane Andrews was an American author and educator. Andrews was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, as the third child and daughter of John and Margaret... Jane Andrews
Francis Brett Young 1884 - 1954 Francis Brett Young was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier. Francis Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcest... Francis Brett Young
Louis Hughes 1832 - 1913 Louis Hughes was an African-American slave born in Virginia. He is the author of the memoir Thirty Years a Slave. Hughes was born in 1832 to a... Louis Hughes
David F. Swenson 1954 - 2021 David Frederick Swensen was an American investor, endowment fund manager, and philanthropist. He was the chief investment officer at Yale University f... David F. Swenson
Cole Younger 1844 - 1916 Thomas Coleman Younger was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later an outlaw leader with the James–Younger Gan... Cole Younger
James Otis 1848 - 1912 James Otis Kaler was an American journalist and author of children’s literature. He wrote under the name James Otis. Kaler was born on March 19,... James Otis