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James Buchanan: 15th President of the United States (1857-1861). [In 1819, Buchanan became engaged to Ann Caroline Coleman, daughter of a wealthy ironmaster. Her family disapproved and gossip spread the rumor of fortune-hunting on Buchanan's part. A series of unhappy incidents led Ann to break the engagement, and a week later she died, a possible suicide. The town held Buchanan responsible...]
Jesus Christ: The Bible: "What they do in heaven we know not; but what they do not do we are expressly told: They do not marry, nor are they given in marriage."
Douglas Coupland: writer, artist, designer, and collector of meteorites. Coined the term Generation X in the highly acclaimed 1991 novel of that name. b. 1961
Roger Ebert: Noted movie critic.
Kevin Eubanks: Jay Leno's sidekick and butt the of many of his jokes; leader of the Tonight Show's band.
Kinky Friedman: Infamous singer/songwriter/musician, author, and independent candidate for governor of Texas.
Immanuel Kant: 1724-1804, greatest German Idealist philosopher. Virgin at 80. Enough said.
Paul Klemperer: Eccentric jazz musician and writer based in Austin, Texas. b1957.
Meriwether Lewis: -of Lewis and Clark fame.
Ralph Nader: Environmentalist, consumer advocate, corporate watchdog, presidential candidate, and general muckraker. b2-27-34.
Sir Isaac Newton: Discovered natural laws of motion, optics, universal gravitation... invented calculus; possibly the greatest scientist of all time.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophical father of modernism. After rejection by Lou Salome wrote Also Sprach Zarathustra and never tried courtship again.
Blaise Pascal: 17th century French mathematician, physicist & religious philosopher.
Benjamin Franklin ("Hawkeye") Pierce: The irreverent chief surgeon of the M.A.S.H. TV show fame.
Maurice Ravel: French composer and pianist.
Jim Rockford: Legendary smart-talking TV private investigator from the late 1970's.
Arthur Schopenhauer: Influential German philosopher and proto-psychologist; 1788-1860.
Tavis Smiley: Talk show host on both Nat'l Public Radio and PBS-TV; Tavis is tops.
Nikola Tesla: Serbian-American physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer, inventor (of AC electricity), friend of Mark Twain...
Henry David Thoreau: American naturalist and writer of two literary classics: Walden and Civil Disobedience
Alan Turing: Mathematician, philosopher, and the creator of the field of computer science; believed possibly to be gay, Turing died at age 41 of a suspected suicide.
Atal Behari Vajpayee:former Prime Minister of India.
Leonardo da Vinci: Self taught genius in a great assortment of Sciences and the Arts. Credited with creating the Renaissance in Europe.
Orville Wright: American pioneer of aviation; 1871-1948.