Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-1678)
Franz Krommer (1759 - 1831)
Sir Julian Benedict (1804-1885)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)
Leon Barzin (1900-1999)
Walter Klien (1928-1991)
Helmut Lachenmann (1935)
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
David Felder (1953)
Victoria Mullova (1959)
Hilary Hahn (1979)
and
Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
Charles Beard (1874–1948)
James Agee (1909-1955)
Marilyn Hacker (1942)
Bill Nye (1955)
and from The Writer's Almanac:
In the article that became Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Agee
wrote: “A human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has
accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers
that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only,
having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer,
and the scavengers of the deep sea.”
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