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Anaxagoras, Greek philosopher (500?-428? BCE).
Diagoras "the Atheist" of Melos, Greek poet, (5th cent. BCE).
Protagoras, Greek philosopher (481?-411 BCE).
Democritus, Greek philosopher (460?-357 BCE).
Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341-270 BCE).
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher (106-43 BCE). Lucretius, Roman philosopher and poet (96?-55 BCE).
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger," Roman stoic philosopher, writer, and politician (4-65).
Gallus Petronius, Roman courtier and wit (1st cent.).
John of Lackland, English King (1199-1216) (1167?-1216).
Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (1548?-1600).
Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet (1564-1593).
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (1588-1679).
Aphra Behn, playwright (1640-1689).
Francois La Rouchefoucauld, French writer (1650?-?).
Thomas Otway, English classical poet (1652-1685).
Thomas Woolston, English writer (1669-1731) or? (1670-1733).
Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire", French author and playwright (1694-1778).
Jean Meslier, French erstwhile priest (1678-1733).
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, scientist, writer, printer (1706-1790).
David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (1711-1776).
Frederick the Great, Prussian king (1712-1786).
Denis Diderot, French philosopher, author, and encyclopedist (1713-1784).
Thomas Paine, English born American author and revolutionary leader (1737-1809).
Marquis de Sade, French libertine (1740-1814).
Jeremy Bentham, English reformer, author, and philosopher (1748-1832).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author (1749-1832).
Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (1749-1827).
James Madison, American president and political theorist (1751-1836).
Mary Wollstonecraft, author (1759-1797).
Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor (1769-1821).
Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan soldier and South American liberator (1783-1830).
Lord George Gordon Byron, British poet (1788-1824).
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860).
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (1792-1822).
Auguste Comte, French philosopher and mathematician (1798-1857).
Ernestine Rose, Polish-born American feminist (?-?).
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach, German philosopher (1804-1872).
Elizur Wright, American (1804-1885).
John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist (1806-1873).
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and nationalist leader (1807-1882).
Charles Robert Darwin, English naturalist (1809-1882).
Abraham Lincoln, American president (1809-1865).
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (1809-1849).
Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist leader and writer (1814-1876).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragist (1815-1902).
Karl Marx, German political philosopher and economist (1818-1883).
Marion Evans "George Eliot", English novelist (1819-1880).
Walt Whitman, American poet (1819-1892).
Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (1820-1906).
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (1825-1895).
Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist (1826-1898).
Marilla Ricker, American feminist and activist (?-?).
Henry Stephens Salt, American Humanitarian and ? (1851-1939).
Sir Leslie Stephen, English writer and thinker (1832-1904).
Robert Green Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer (1833-1899).
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist (1835-1919).
Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist (1835-1910).
Thomas Hardy, English author (1840-1928).
Ambrose Bierce, American writer (1842-1914?).
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher (1844-1900).
Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847-1931).
Octave Mirbeau, French author (1848-1917).
Luther Burbank, American horticulturist and pioneer plant breeder (1849-1926).
Olive Shreiner, peace and anti-apartheid campaigner (1855-1920).
Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and pioneer psychoanalyst (1856-1939).
George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright (1856-1950).
Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English author (1857-1924).
Clarence Seward Darrow, American lawyer (1857-1938).
William Howard Taft, American President and Chief Justice (1857-1930).
Pierre Curie, French chemist and physicist (1859-1906).
Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, Spanish educator (1859-1909).
Jose P. Rizal, Philippine national leader (1861-1896).
Voltairine de Cleyre, American feminist and activist (1866-1912).
Herbert George "H.G." Wells, English author (1866-1946).
Marie Curie, Polish-born French chemist and physicist (1867-1934).
Joseph McCabe, English anti-religion campaigner (1867-1955).
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (1869-1959).
Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian revolutionary leader (1870-1924).
Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist (1870-1937).
Marcel Proust, French author (1871-1922).
Ralph Vaughn Williams, English composer (1872-1958).
Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, educator, mathematician, and social critic (1872-1970).
Robert Frost, American poet (1874-1963).
Culbert Olson, American politician (1876-1962).
Edward Morgan "E.M." Forster, English author (1879-1970).
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (1879-1940).
Albert Einstein, German born American threoretical physicist (1879-1955).
Periyar, Indian social campaigner (1879-1973).
Lord John Boyd-Orr, Scottish nutritionist (1880-1971).
W. C. Fields, American entertainer (1880-1946).
Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken, American editor and critic (1880-1956).
Irving Langmuir, American chemist, nobel prize winner 1932 (1881-1957).
Kemal Ataturk, Turkish soldier and statesman (1881-1938).
James Joyce, Irish author (1882-1941).
Virginia Woolf, English author (1882-1941).
Margaret Sanger, American birth control activist, founder of Planned Parenthood (1883-1966).
DH Lawrence, British writer (1885-1930).
Diego Rivera, Mexican muralist painter (1886-1982).
Arthur Rubenstein, Polish-American pianist (1886-1982).
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, English biologist and author (1887-1975).
M.N. Roy, Indian political thinker (1887-1954).
Irving Berlin, Russian-born American lyricist and composer (1888-1989).
Fenner Brockway, peace campaigner (1888-1988).
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman (1889-1964).
Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (1899-1980).
Phillip Randolph, American civil rights veteran and union leader, (1889-1979).
E. Haldeman-Julius, American publisher (1889-1951).
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, British born actor, director, and producer (1889-1977).
H. P. Lovecraft, American author (1890-1937).
Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher (1891-1970).
Josip Broz, "Tito", Yugoslavian statesman (1892-1980).
Pearl S. Buck, American author (1892-1973).
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, Scottish biochemist (1892-1964).
Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader and theorist (1893-1976).
John Boynton "J.B." Priestley, English author (1894-?).
Aldous Huxley, British writer (1894-1963).
Dora Russell, British author (1894-1986).
Brock Chisholm, humanist campaigner (1896-1971).
Naomi Mitchison, author (1897-?).
Baroness Wootton, politician (1897-1988).
William James Sidis, American prodigy (1898-1944).
Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian-born English economist (1899-1993).
Ernest Hemingway, American author (1899-1961).
Charles Laughton, English-born American actor (1899-1962).
Noel Coward, English playwright, author, and performer (1899-1973).
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (1899-1977).
Luis Bunuel, Spanish film director (1900-1983).
Walter "Walt" Disney, American cartoonist, showman, and film producer (1901-1966).
Linus Carl Pauling, American chemist (1901-1994).
Nazim Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet (1902-1963).
Guenther Anders, Austrian philosopher (1902-dead?).
Langston Hughes, American writer (1902-1967).
Elsa Lanchester, English-born American actor (1902-1986).
Karl Popper, Austrian/British philosopher (1902-1994).
Sidney Hook, American philsopher (1902-1989).
Harold Blackham, humanist campaigner (1903-?).
Margaret Knight (1903-1983).
George Orwell (1903-1950).
Burrhus Frederick "B. F." Skinner, American Psychologist (1904-1990).
Joseph Campbell, American mythologist (1904-1987).
Howard Hughes, American manufacturer, film producer, and recluse (1905-1976).
Joseph Fletcher American ethicist (1905-1991).
Charles P. Helin, American inventor and businessman (1905-1979).
Ayn Rand, Russian born American author (1905-1982).
Jean Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (1905-80).
Lord Ritchie Calder, philanthropist (1906-1982).
Robert A. Heinlein, American science-fiction author (1907-1988).
Katherine Hepburn, American actress (1907-2003).
Richard Wright, American author (1908-1960).
Quentin Crisp, English writer, actor and homosexual rights campaigner (1908-1999).
Simone de Beauvoir, French author, feminist, and philosopher (1908-1986).
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (1908-1961).
Jacob Bronowski, scientist and author (1908-1974).
Oskar Schindler, Czech born industrialist? (1908-1974).
Alfred Jules "A.J." Ayer, British philosopher (1910-1989).
L. Ron Hubbard, American Author (1911-1986).
Emile Mihai "E. M." Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and pessimist (1911-1995).
James Cameron, journalist (1911-?).
Albert Camus, French author (1913-60).
Gene Kelly, American dancer, singer, actor, and director (1912-1996).
Angus Wilson, author (1913-1991).
Burt Lancaster, American actor (1913-1994).
James Miller, "Ewan MacColl," Scottish folk singer (1915-1989).
Aziz Nesin, Turkish writer and activist (1915-1995).
Sir Peter Brian Medawar, Brazilian-born British immunologist and science writer, Nobel prize, 1960 (1915-1987).
Francois Mitterrand, French Politician (1916-1996).
Jack Smith, American? journalist and pundit, (1916-1996).
Richard Feynman, American physicist (1918-1988).
Primo Levi, author (1919-1987).
Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author (1920-1992).
Gene Roddenberry, Creator of Star Trek (1921-1991).
William M. Gaines, American publisher (1922-1992).
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (1922-1975).
Charles Schultz, American cartoonist (1922-2000).
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (1923-1995).
Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (1924-1996).
Paul Van Buren, American theologian (1924-1998).
Richard Burton, Welsh actor (1925-1984).
John Chancellor, American reporter, news anchor, and commentator for NBC (1927-1996).
Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister (1927-1986).
George C. Scott, American Actor (1927-1999).
Brigid Brophy, author (1929-?).
Anton Szandor LaVey, American (1930-1997?).
Carl Sagan, American astronomer and author (1934-1996).
Turan Dursun, Turkish writer (1934-1990).
John Lennon, British musician (1940-1980).
Phil Ochs, American folk singer (1941-1976).
Michael Zaslow, American Actor (1944-1998).
Barry White, American singer (1944-2003).
Douglas Adams, British author (1951-2001).
William Hamilton, (1924-?). not dead?