Curated category
American humanists
- Albert EinsteinOn the 14th of March 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm within the Kingdom of Württemberg. His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch.
- Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla was born on the 10th of July 1856 in the village of Smiljan. This location sat within the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire, now part of…
- John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck was born on the 27th of February 1902 in Salinas, California. He grew up in a small rural valley set about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast.
- 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…
- Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
- Salman RushdieSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie entered the world on the 19th of June 1947 in Bombay. This city was then part of British India and is now known as Mumbai within…
- Carl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was born on the 9th of November 1934 in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father Samuel worked as a garment worker who had…
- Lewis GordonLewis Ricardo Gordon was born on the 12th of May 1962. He began his higher education journey at Lehman College, CUNY, graduating in 1984 with a Bachelor of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…