Ferdinand Marie

Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, GCSI (19 November 1805 – 7 December 1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas for the first time in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician and one of the two Members of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history.
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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, CH, CBE, Nobel Laureate (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008), was a world-renowned English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, political activist, and president of the Central School of Speech and Drama, a constituent college of the University of London. After publishing poetry as a teenager and acting in school plays, Pinter began his theatrical career in the mid-1950s as a rep actor using the stage name David Baron. During a writing career spanning over half a century, beginning with his first play, The Room (1957), Pinter wrote 29 stage plays; 26 screenplays; many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays; poetry; some short fiction; a novel; and essays, speeches, and letters.
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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader who was chairman of the Communist party of China and the principal founder of the People’s Republic of China.
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Miller Henry

Miller, Henry (1891-1980), American writer, whose antipuritanical books did much to free the discussion of sexual subjects in American writing from both legal and social restrictions. Born in New York City, Miller tried a variety of jobs and attended the City College of New York briefly before going to Paris in 1930. He lived there for almost ten years, leading a bohemian existence that he wrote about in three loosely autobiographical erotic novels, Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). These books, prohibited in the United States on grounds of obscenity, were frequently smuggled into his native country, building Miller an underground reputation. In 1940 he returned to the United States settling at Big Sur, California. There he continued to produce his vividly written, semiphilosophical, and often ribald works, which attacked contemporary American cultural values and moral attitudes. His books include The Colossus of Maroussi (1941); The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945-1947); a trilogy, The Rosy Crucifixion, comprising Sexus (1949), Plexus (1953), and Nexus (1960); Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957); and the critical work The World of Lawrence (1980).
The publication of Miller’s two “Tropics” novels in the United States led to a series of obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography and ended, in 1964, in a victory for him when the Supreme Court overruled state court findings of obscenity. Miller also earned recognition as a watercolorist.

Lyndall Dale McDaniel

Lyndall Dale McDaniel (born December 13, 1935 in Hollis, Oklahoma) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a 21-year career from 1955 to 1975. During Lindy McDaniel’s career he witnessed approximately 3,500 major league games (not including spring training), has had more than 300 teammates and has played under eight different managers. An alumnus of the University of Oklahoma, he played with the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, and San Francisco Giants, all of the National League, and the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals, both of the American League.
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Robert Prosky

Robert Prosky (December 13, 1930 - December 8, 2008) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
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Nero

Nero (AD 37-68), fifth emperor of Rome and the last of the Julio-Claudian line.

Born Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus on December 15, 37, at Antium and originally named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero was the son of the consul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died about 40) and Agrippina the Younger, great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. In 49 Agrippina married her uncle, Emperor Claudius I, and the following year she persuaded him to adopt her son, whose name was then changed. Later, Claudius married Nero to his daughter Octavia and marked him out for succession, bypassing his own son, Britannicus. On Claudius’s death (54), the Praetorian Guards, under their prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, Agrippina’s agent, declared Nero emperor at the age of 17.
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Musset Alfred Louis Charles de

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d’un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836.
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Nostradamus

Nostradamus, (1503-1566), French physician and astrologer who wrote Centuries, a famous collection of prophecies published in 1555. The prophecies in Centuries appear in four-line rhyming verses called quatrains. In vague language, they describe events from the mid-1500s through the end of the world, which is predicted to come in AD 3797. Many people have interpreted the prophecies in Centuries, connecting certain ones with events that have taken place since Nostradamus’s time. The name “Nostradamus” is a Latin name he used in place of his original name, Michel de Nostredame.
Nostradamus was born in Saint Remi, in southern France, and was raised as a Roman Catholic. He studied medicine in Montpellier, and started a practice about 1525. Soon after, he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of southern France. Nostradamus used innovative methods of treatment, and his success in curing extremely ill patients earned him a reputation as a specially gifted healer.
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