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Noah Putnam Gates (1832–1909) was an important educator in Arkansas in the last few decades of the nineteenth century. He played a particularly influential role in the development of what became the Un...

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Dr. Edmund Cody Burnett Parents: Jesse Montreville Lafayette and Henrietta Sarah (Cody) Burnett. Husband of Susan Elizabeth (Susong) Burnett. Married: October 06, 1914 in Seclusion Bend in Bridg...

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Carol Leigh Humphries Humphries was born at the family home in Bethel Hill, Person County, North Carolina on 6 December 1923. Her mother had five children from a previous marriage, and five...

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Leon Kirchner (January 24, 1919 – September 17, 2009) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of...

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Dr. Edward Carrol Day When Edward Carrol Day was born on 2 November 1884, in American Fork, Utah County, Utah, United States, his father, Rev. Thomas Franklin Day, was 32 and his mother, Adalaide ...

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Dr. George Martin Day George was the eldest of four children b. to Rev. Thomas Franklin Day, b. August 31, 1852 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania and d. February 15, 1943 in Co Ca, Lang Son, ...

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Lynda Weinman is an American business owner, computer instructor, and author, who founded an online software training website, lynda.com, with her husband, Bruce Heavin. Lynda.com was acquired by onlin...

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Actor Robby Benson is best known for his roles in films such as Ice Castles, Ode to Billy Joe, The Chosen, Tribute, Running Brave and Harry and Son . Benson is also an author, having penned the 2007 no...

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Thomas Johnson Matthews Thomas Johnson Matthews was born in Leesburg, Virginia, on January 26, 1788, the son of Quaker parents Thomas and Sarah Matthews. He came to Cincinnati from Philadelphia i...

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Wilfrido Maria Guerrero was a Filipino playwright, director, teacher, and theater artist. In 1997, Guerrero was posthumously distinguished as a National Artist for Philippine Theatre. Resources ...

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George F. Jewsbury (born November 26, 1941) is an American historian who has collaborated on several textbooks in the Civilization: Past & Present series. He joined authors T. Walter Wallbank, Alasta...

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Professor Werner Edward Heimendahl Werner Edward Heimendahl was a distinguished musician and professor of voice culture at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a friend of Wagne...

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David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian-American author whose debut 1972 novel First Blood, later adapted as the 1982 film of the same name, went on to spawn the successful Rambo franchise ...

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Adam M. Grant (born August 13, 1981) is an American popular science author, and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology.

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Maribel Carmen Díaz Cabello is a Peruvian educator, teacher, and academic administrator. Díaz Cabello, the wife of President Martín Vizcarra, served as the First Lady of Peru from 23 March 2018 until h...

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Carmelita Hinton, was an educator and the founder of The Putney School, an independent progressive school in Vermont. Started Putney in 1935.Carmelita Hinton (née Chase, April 20, 1890 - January 16, 19...

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James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic compositi...

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Note: his mother was Margarete Silberbach, not Selma Nathan Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (14 January 1928 – 16 Dec 2019) was a British-American biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemist...

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Susan Nicole Houde-Walter (born 20 August 1954) is an academic and technical executive in the field of optics. She was professor of optics at the University of Rochester from 1987-2005. She used to r...

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GANDIONGCO ESCARIO was born on December 6, 1898 in the town of Bantayan, Cebu to devout Catholic parents Gregorio Escario and Victoria Gandiongco. He was fondly called by his friends Coling, which typi...

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