T. S. Eliot
1888 CE–1965 CE · Poet · St. Louis, Missouri
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, and literary critic born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a New England family. He studied philosophy at Harvard, the Sorbonne, and Merton College, Oxford, then settled in England in 1915, working first as a schoolmaster and bank clerk before becoming an editor and director at the publishing house Faber & Faber. His poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," and "Four Quartets," and his verse drama and criticism shaped twentieth-century modernism. He became a British subject in 1927 and joined the Anglican Church that year. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 and died in London.
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- Robert Frost· 1874 CE–1963 CE
- Hermann Hesse· 1877 CE–1962 CE
- Pablo Picasso· 1881 CE–1973 CE
- Igor Stravinsky· 1882 CE–1971 CE
- Ezra Pound· 1885 CE–1972 CE
- Diego Rivera· 1886 CE–1957 CE
- Le Corbusier· 1887 CE–1965 CE
- Marc Chagall· 1887 CE–1985 CE
- Georgia O'Keeffe· 1887 CE–1986 CE
- Martin Heidegger· 1889 CE–1976 CE
- Ludwig Wittgenstein· 1889 CE–1951 CE
- Sergei Prokofiev· 1891 CE–1953 CE
- J. R. R. Tolkien· 1892 CE–1973 CE
- William Faulkner· 1897 CE–1962 CE
- Bertolt Brecht· 1898 CE–1956 CE
- René Magritte· 1898 CE–1967 CE
- George Gershwin· 1898 CE–1937 CE
- Federico García Lorca· 1898 CE–1936 CE
- Ernest Hemingway· 1899 CE–1961 CE
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry· 1900 CE–1944 CE
- John Steinbeck· 1902 CE–1968 CE
- George Orwell· 1903 CE–1950 CE
- Frida Kahlo· 1907 CE–1954 CE
- Simone Weil· 1909 CE–1943 CE
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- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- George VI· 1895 CE–1952 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- Konrad Adenauer· 1876 CE–1967 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Herbert Hoover· 1874 CE–1964 CE
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