Curated category
American atheists
- Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was born the 6th of May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father Richard Head Welles made a fortune inventing a bicycle lamp before…
- Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
- Katharine HepburnKatharine Houghton Hepburn was born on the 12th of May 1907 in Hartford Connecticut. Her mother Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn led the Connecticut Woman…
- Marilyn MonroeNorma Jeane Mortenson was born on the 1st of June 1926, at Los Angeles General Hospital in the Boyle Heights neighborhood.
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- Jack NicholsonJohn Joseph Nicholson entered the world on the 22nd of April 1937 in Neptune City, New Jersey. His mother June Frances Nicholson was a showgirl who performed…
- Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
- Leon FestingerLeon Festinger was born on the 8th of May 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants named Alex and Sara Solomon Festinger.
- Jack LondonJohn Griffith London arrived in San Francisco on the 12th of January 1876. His mother Flora Wellman worked as a music teacher and spiritualist while living…
- H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. His father Winfield Scott Lovecraft suffered a psychotic episode…
- Rudolf CarnapRudolf Carnap was born on the 18th of May 1891 in Wuppertal, Germany. His father rose from being a poor ribbon-weaver to own a ribbon-making factory.
- Steve DitkoStephen John Ditko was born on the 2nd of November 1927 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were second-generation Americans descended from Rusyn…
- ND StevensonNate Diana Stevenson was born Noelle Diana Stevenson on the 31st of December 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up as the third of five siblings in a…
- Marvin MinskyMarvin Lee Minsky was born on the 9th of August 1927 in New York City. His father Henry worked as an eye surgeon while his mother Fannie served as a Zionist…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked at the Edgewood Arsenal chemical warfare facility of the…
- Eugene WignerEugene Paul Wigner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on the 17th of November 1902. He grew up as the son of Elisabeth Elsa Einhorn and Antal Anton…
- Maxwell AndersonJames Maxwell Anderson entered the world on the 15th of December 1888, in Atlantic, Pennsylvania. He was the second of eight children born to William Lincoln…
- Claude ShannonClaude Elwood Shannon was born on the 30th of April 1916 in a hospital near Petoskey, Michigan. His family lived in the small town of Gaylord where he spent…
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov arrived in the United States on the 3rd of February 1923, aboard the RMS Baltic at age three. His family traveled from Petrovichi, Russian SFSR…
- Herbert A. SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the 15th of June 1916. His father Arthur Simon arrived from Germany in 1903 after earning an…
- Yann LeCunYann André Le Cun was born on the 8th of July 1960 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a suburb of Paris. His family name traces back to the old Breton form Le Cunff…
- George SorosOn the 12th of August 1930, György Schwartz was born in Budapest to a prosperous non-observant Jewish family. His father Tivadar worked as a lawyer and…
- Ambrose BierceAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in a log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio on the 24th of June 1842. He entered the world as the tenth child…
- George GamowGeorgiy Antonovich Gamow was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Odesa, Ukraine. His father taught Russian language and literature while his mother taught…
- Joss WhedonJoseph Hill Whedon was born on the 23rd of June 1964 in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side as part of a family deeply embedded in television…
- B. F. SkinnerBurrhus Frederic Skinner was born on the 20th of March 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. His father William Skinner worked as a lawyer while his mother…
- Amos TverskyAmos Tversky was born in Haifa, British Palestine on the 16th of March 1937. His father Yosef worked as a veterinarian while his mother Jenia served as a…
- Erich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was born on the 23rd of March 1900 in Frankfurt am Main. He grew up as the only child of Rosa and Naphtali Fromm.
- John RomeroAlfonso John Romero was born on the 28th of October 1967, six weeks premature in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His mother Ginny met his father Alfonso Antonio…
- John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 4th of September 1927. His father came from Cromane, a small fishing village in County Kerry, Ireland.
- Robert EttingerRobert Ettinger lay in a Michigan hospital bed during the late 1940s, recovering from severe wounds sustained while serving as an infantry second lieutenant…
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.
- Richard B. SpencerRichard Bertrand Spencer was born on the 11th of May 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Preston Hollow, Dallas, Texas, as the son of…
- Richard LesterRichard Lester Liebman was born on the 19th of January 1932 to a Jewish family in Philadelphia. He graduated from William Penn Charter School at age fifteen…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901, in Portland, Oregon. His father Herman Henry William Pauling worked as a traveling salesman for the…