Roland Barthes was a French literary philosopher whose work influenced structuralism, semiotics and anthropology.
1915-1980
1911-1988
Charles Boyer was an Oscar-nominated French actor of stage, film and television with a career that spanned almost six decades.
1899-1978
Marie Curie was a Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
1867-1934
French physicist Pierre Curie was of founding fathers of modern physics and is best known for being a pioneer in radioactive studies.
1859-1906
French writer Simone de Beauvoir laid the foundation for the modern feminist movement. Also an existentialist philosopher, she had a romance with Sartre.
1908-1986
U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made major contributions to U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War.
1888-1959
T.S. Eliot was an American-born English poet, playwright, and literary critic, arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century.
1888-1965
1903-1975
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Psychologist Jean Piaget identified stages of mental development, called Schema, and established the fields of cognitive theory and developmental psychology.
1896-1980
1906-2001
Sam Waterston is an acclaimed actor known for his film, TV and stage work, including roles in Law & Order and Gore Vidal's Lincoln.
1940-
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is one of the world's most recognized authorities on sex. She has delivered her advice on TV, radio and the web for decades and has written numerous books.
1928-
Elie Wiesel is a Nobel-Prize winning writer, teacher and activist known for the memoir Night, in which he recounts his experiences surviving the Holocaust.
1928-