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Swami Sivananda — Indian Philosopher born on September 08, 1887, died on July 14, 1963

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Aristotle Onassis — Greek Businessman born on January 15, 1906, died on March 15, 1975

 

Aristotle Socrates Onassis , was a Greek shipping magnate and businessman. Onassis amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He Married Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968, the widow of the American president John F. Kennedy

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Norman Vincent Peale — American Clergyman born on May 31, 1898, died on December 24, 1993

 

Norman Vincent Peale was a minister and author and a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts.

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Edith Wharton — American Author born on January 24, 1862, died on August 11, 1937

 

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight.

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Joseph Campbell — American Author born on March 26, 1904, died on October 31, 1987

 

Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience.

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Robin Williams — American Comedian born on July 21, 1952, died on August 11, 2014

 

Robin McLaurin Williams was an American actor and comedian. Starting as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance. After rising to fame as Mork in the sitcom Mork & Mindy, he went on to establish a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting. He was known for his improvisational skills.

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Rabindranath Tagore — Indian Poet born on May 06, 1861, died on August 07, 1941

 

Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabndrantha Thkura, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse". He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa.

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Walter "Walt" Whitman - Born in America, on May 31, 1819, died on March 26, 1892 

 

Walter Whitman Was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman was among the most influential poets in American, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

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Anne Frank — German Writer born on June 12, 1929,

 

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary - The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 and thus became stateless. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

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Robert Louis Stevenson — Scottish Writer born on November 13, 1850, died on December 03, 1894

 

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

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Carl Sagan — American Scientist born on November 09, 1934, died on December 20, 1996

 

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. His contributions were central to the discovery of the high surface temperatures of Venus. However, he is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages that were sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

- Aristotle

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Robert Frost — American Poet born on March 26, 1874, died on January 29, 1963

 

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

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Napoleon Hill — American Writer born on October 26, 1883, died on November 08, 1970

 

Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time.

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Arthur Ashe — American Athlete born on July 10, 1943, died on February 06, 1993

 

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. was an American World No. 1 professional tennis player.

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Loretta Young — American Actress born on January 06, 1913, died on August 12, 2000

 

Gretchen Michaela Young, known professionally as Loretta Young, was an American film and television actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter.

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Vince Lombardi — American Coach born on June 11, 1913, died on September 03, 1970

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Warren Buffett — American Businessman born on August 30, 1930,

 

Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the most successful investor in the world. Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, and is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people.

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Rosa Parks — American Activist born on February 04, 1913, died on October 24, 2005

 

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

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Og Mandino — American Author born on December 12, 1923, died on September 03, 1996

 

Augustine "Og" Mandino II was an American author. He wrote the bestselling book The Greatest Salesman in the World. His books have sold over 50 million copies and have been translated into over twenty-five different languages.