Freethought of the Day
Freethought events in history. Birthdays and quotes of famous freethinkers.
Unless otherwise indicated, these are birthdates.
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- Abbot, Francis Ellingwood
- Ackermann, Louise Victorine
- Adams, John Q.
- Adams, John
- Adams, Phillip
- Adams, Douglas
- Addams, Jane
- Addis, Don
- Adler, Felix
- Aikenhead, Thomas (Died)
- Akhtar, Javed
- Alain (Quote)
- Albee, Edward
- Albini, Steve
- Alda, Alan
- Ali, Tariq
- Alinsky, Saul
- Allen, Ethan
- Allen, Grant
- Allen, Steve
- Allen, Woody
- Allsop, Thomas
- Altman, Robert
- Anders, William
- Andrews, Stephen Pearl
- Angier, Natalie
- Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler
- Annet, Peter (Died)
- Anniversary of McCollum v. Board of Education Decision
- Anniversary, Women's Equality Day
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Appleman, Philip
- Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abarca
- Arnold, Madison
- Arnold, Matthew
- Arnoldson, Klas Pontus
- Arrhenius, Svante August
- Asimov, Isaac
- Astruc, Jean
- Attenborough, David
- Atwood, Margaret
- Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules
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- Bachelet, Michelle
- Bacon, Kevin
- Bakunin, Mikhail
- Baldwin, James
- Ballance, John
- Balmaceda, Jose Manuel (Died)
- Balzac, Honore de
- Bancel, Francois
- Bardem, Javier
- Barker, Dan
- Barlow, Joel
- Barman, MC Paul
- Barnes, Julian
- Barton, Clara
- Baryshnikov, Mikhail
- Bashkirtseff, Marie
- Baskerville, John
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Bauer, Bruno
- Bayle, Pierre
- Bebel, August
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Behar, Joy
- Bennett, D.M.
- Benson, Steve
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Berlin, Irving
- Berlioz, Hector
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Berthelot, Pierre Eugene Marcelin
- Besant, Annie
- Bible Reading in Public Schools Halted
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Bizet, Georges
- Bjork
- Bjornson, Bjornstjerne
- Blake, Lillie Devereux
- Blake, William
- Blass, Bill
- Blatchford, Robert
- Blumner, Robyn
- Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith
- Bolivar, Simon
- Bondi, Sir Hermann
- Bonheur, Rosa
- Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh
- Booth, Charles
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Bova, Ben
- Bowie, David
- Bowman, Meg
- Boyer, Paul D.
- Bradbury, Malcolm
- Bradlaugh, Charles
- Brahms, Johannes
- Brandes, Carl
- Brando, Marlon
- Brazaitis, Tom
- Brennan, William J. (Quote)
- Breton, Andre
- Broca, Paul
- Brooke, Rupert
- Broun, Heywood C.
- Browning, Robert
- Bruce, Lenny (Quote)
- Bruno, Giordano (Executed)
- Buchner, Alexander
- Buchner, Georg
- Buchner, Ludwig
- Buck, Pearl
- Buckley, Christopher
- Buffett, Warren
- Bullough, Vern
- Bunuel, Luis
- Burbank, Luther
- Burgess, Anthony
- Burnham, Bo
- Burns, Robert
- Burroughs, John
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Burton, Sir Richard F.
- Butler, Samuel (Main Entry)
- Butler, Samuel (Quote)
- Byron, George Gordon, Lord
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- C.K., Louis
- Cameron, James
- Camus, Albert
- Cape, Emily
- Cardiff, Ira
- Carlile, Richard
- Carlin, George
- Carlyle, Thomas
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Caroline, Queen Consort of Great Britain
- Carolla, Adam
- Carroll, Sean B.
- Carroll, Sean M.
- Carson, Johnny
- Catherine the Great
- Cavendish, Henry
- Chalmers, David
- Chamberlain, Daniel Henry
- Chambers, Ernie
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
- Chaplin, Charlie
- Chatelet, Marquise du
- Chatterton, Thomas
- Child, Julia
- Child, Lydia Maria
- Chomsky, Noam
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Quote)
- Civil Rights Act Passed
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Clegg, Nick
- Clemenceau, Georges
- Clift, Eleanor
- Clodd, Edward
- Clooney, George
- Cohen, Chapman
- Colby, Clara Bewick
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Collins, Anthony
- Colman, Lucy
- Comte, Auguste
- Condell, Pat
- Connolly, Billy
- Conrad, Joseph
- Conway, Moncure Daniel
- Cook, Robin
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Copland, Aaron
- Cox, Brian
- Coyne, Jerry
- Crick, Francis
- Crisp, Quentin
- Cronenberg, David
- Cross, David
- Crow, James F.
- Culhane, Claire Eglin
- Cummings, E. E.
- Curie, Marie
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- d'Arriaga, Manoel Jose
- Daly, Mary
- Dangerfield, Rodney
- Danielsen, Sean
- Darrow, Clarence (Main Entry)
- Darrow, Clarence (Quote)
- Darwin, Charles
- Davies, Russell T
- Dawkins, Richard
- Day, Alex
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- de Beranger, Pierre Jean
- de Cleyre, Voltairine
- de Duve, Christian
- de La Bruyere, Jean (Quote)
- de la Platiere, Marie Jeanne Roland
- de Maupassant, Guy
- de Montaigne, Michel
- de Montaigne, Michel (Quote)
- de Montaigne, Michel (Quote)
- de Viau, Theophile (Died)
- Debs, Eugene V.
- Debussy, Claude
- Declaration of Independence
- Delacroix, Eugene
- Delambre, Jean Baptiste
- Delius, Frederick
- Dennett, Daniel C.
- Deraismes, Maria
- Dershowitz, Alan
- Dewey, John
- DeWitt, Jerry
- Diaz, Porfirio
- Dickens, Charles
- Diderot, Denis
- Dietrich, Marlene
- DiFranco, Ani
- Diller, Phyllis
- Dillon, Matt
- Dinesen, Isak
- Dirac, Paul
- Donohoe, Amanda
- Dormer, Natalie
- Douglass, Frederick
- Druyan, Ann
- Du Bois, W.E.B.
- Duffy, Patrick
- Duncan, Isadora
- Durant, Ariel
- Durant, Will
- Durkheim, Emile
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- Ebert, Roger
- Eccleston, Christopher
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Edwards, Jonathan
- Edwords, Fred
- Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Einstein, Albert
- Elgar, Edward
- Eliot, George
- Ellis, Havelock
- Ellis, Albert
- Ellison, Harlan
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Main Entry)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Quote)
- Emmet, Robert
- Engel v. Vitale
- Engels, Friedrich
- Eno, Brian
- Ephron, Nora
- Epicurus (Quote)
- Everett III, Hugh
- Everett, Daniel
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- Fahringer, Catherine
- Farmer, Frances
- Feiffer, Jules
- Fergus, James
- Ferrara, Giuliano
- Feynman, Richard
- Fields, W.C.
- Fierstein, Harvey
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Fletcher, Joseph
- Fonda, Henry
- Foote, E.B.
- Foote, G.W.
- Ford, Harrison
- Foster, Jodie
- Foster, Stephen
- Foster, Stephen Symonds
- Fowles, John
- France, Anatole (Main Entry)
- France, Anatole (Quote)
- France, Anatole (Quote)
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Frederick the Great
- Freedberg, A. Stone
- Freeman, Morgan
- Freethought Rally
- Freethought Today
- Freud, Sigmund (Main Entry)
- Freud, Sigmund (Quote)
- Fromm, Erich
- Frost, Robert
- Fry, Stephen
- Fulks, Robbie
- Fuller, Margaret
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- Gage, Matilda Joslyn
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Gale, Zona
- Galilei, Galileo
- Gallatin, Albert
- Galsworthy, John
- Galton, Sir Francis
- Gambetta, Léon
- Gandhi, Indira
- Garcia Bernal, Gael
- Gardener, Helen H.
- Gardner, Gerald
- Gardner, Martin
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe
- Garofalo, Janeane
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Gaylor, Anne Nicol
- Gaylor, Annie Laurie
- Geldof, Bob
- Germond, Jack
- Gershwin, George
- Gershwin, Ira
- Gervais, Ricky
- Gibbon, Edward
- Gibson, Ella E.
- Gil de Biedma, Jaime
- Gillard, Julia
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gilmour, David
- Gingold, Hermione
- Ginzburg, Vitaly
- Girard, Stephen
- Glass, Ira
- Glover, Donald
- Godwin, William
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Goldberg, Myla
- Goldman, Emma
- Goldwater, Barry
- Gora
- Gore, Thomas
- Gorky, Maxim
- Gorney, Jay
- Gould, Stephen J.
- Graffin, Greg
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Green, Ruth Hurmence
- Greenaway, Kate
- Greene, Graham
- Griffin, Kathy
- Groening, Matt
- Guevara, Che
- Gup, Ted
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- Hailey, Arthur
- Haldane, John B.S. (Quote)
- Haldeman-Julius, E.
- Hale, Alan
- Hall, Sharlot
- Halley, Edmund
- Hamerstrom, Frances
- Handler, Daniel
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Harburg, E.Y. (Yip)
- Hardy, G.H.
- Harrelson, Woody
- Harris, Sam
- Harrison, Harry
- Harrison, Hubert
- Hawking, Stephen
- Hax, Carolyn
- Haywood, Bill
- Hecht, Jennifer
- Heilbroner, Robert Louis
- Heinlein, Robert A.
- Heller, Joseph
- Henry, Josephine K.
- Hepburn, Katharine
- Herbert, Edward
- Hersh, Seymour (Quote)
- Hertzberg, Hendrik
- Hicks, Bill
- Higgs, Peter
- Hill, Joe
- Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
- Hitchens, Christopher
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hoffer, Eric
- Holbach, Baron d'
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
- Holyoake, George Jacob
- Honnold, Alex
- Hook, Sidney
- Houdini, Harry
- Housman, A.E.
- Hozier-Byrne, Andrew
- Hubbard, Alice
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Hughes, Langston
- Hughes, Rupert
- Hugo, Victor Marie
- Hume, David
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hutcheon, Pat Duffy
- Hutchinson, Anne (Banished)
- Hutton, James
- Huxley, Aldous
- Huxley, Julian
- Huxley, Thomas (Main Entry)
- Huxley, Thomas (Quote)
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- Jacobs, Aletta
- Jaffree, Ishmael
- Jagger, Mick
- Jefferson, Thomas (Main Entry)
- Jefferson, Thomas (Wall of Separation)
- Jeni, Richard
- Jeselnik, Anthony
- Jillette, Penn
- Joel, Billy
- John, Elton
- Johnson, Harriet
- Johnson, Sonia (Excommunicated)
- Johnson, Sonia (Main Entry)
- Jolie, Angelina
- Jones, Terry
- Joplin, Scott
- Joyce, James
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- Kagin, Edwin
- Kahlo, Frida
- Kaminer, Wendy
- Keats, John
- Kennedy, Flo
- Kennedy, Ludovic
- Kern, Jerome
- Kevorkian, Jack
- Key, Ellen
- Kilstein, Jamie
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Kinnock, Neil
- Kinsley, Michael
- Kline, Kevin
- Kneeland, Abner
- Knight, Margaret
- Knightley, Keira
- Knowlton, Charles
- Krassner, Paul
- Krauss, Lawrence
- Krekel, Arnold
- Krekel, Mattie Parry
- Kroto, Sir Harold
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kundera, Milan
- Kurtz, Paul
- Kushner, Tony
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- La Follette, Robert M. Sr.
- Lader, Lawrence
- Lagerkvist, Par
- LaMarck, Jean Baptiste
- Lamont, Corliss
- Lancaster, Burt
- Lanchester, Elsa
- Lane, Burton
- Lapham, Lewis
- Laurie, Hugh
- Law, Harriet
- Lawson, Nigella
- Leachman, Cloris
- Leakey, Richard
- Lee, Bruce
- LeGuin, Ursula K.
- Lehrer, Tom
- Leland, Lilian
- Lemon, Alton
- Lems, Kristin
- Lennon, John
- Leopold, Aldo
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
- Lessing, Doris
- Lewis, Joseph
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Linton, Eliza Lynn
- Lippmann, Walter
- Lipton, Peter
- Lisi, Garrett
- Loesser, Frank
- London, Jack
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lowell, Amy
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowell, Robert
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Lynch, Jane
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- MacCready, Paul
- Macdonald, George E.
- MacDonald, Eugene M.
- Macfarlane, Seth
- Maclure, William
- Madison, James (Main Entry)
- Madison, James (Quote)
- Maher, Bill
- Mahler, Gustav
- Malkovich, John
- Malraux, Andre
- Manz, Felix (Died)
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Martin, George R.R.
- Martin, Michael
- Martineau, Harriet
- Marx, Karl
- Maslow, Abraham H.
- Matisse, Henri
- Matthews, Dave
- Matulis, Sherry
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- Mazzini, Giuseppe
- McCabe, Joseph
- McCollum, Vashti Cromwell
- McDonnell, Charlie
- McEwan, Ian
- McKellen, Ian
- McQueen, Butterfly
- McQueen, Alexander
- Mehta, Hemant
- Melville, Herman
- Mencken, H. L. (Main Entry)
- Mencken, H. L. (Quote)
- Mendum, Josiah P.
- Mercer, James
- Meredith, George
- Merimee, Prosper
- Mertz, Barbara
- Meslier, Jean
- Michener, James A.
- Miliband, David
- Miliband, Ed
- Miliband, Ralph
- Milk, Harvey
- Mill, John Stuart
- Mills, C. Wright
- Milne, A.A.
- Minchin, Tim
- Mirbeau, Octave
- Mitford, Jessica
- Moliere
- Momus
- Monk, Thelonious
- Monod, Jacques
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Montagu, Ashley
- Montesquieu
- Moore, George Augustus
- Moore, Julianne
- Morain, Mary
- Morain, Lloyd
- Morgan, Robin
- Morgentaler, Henry
- Morley, John
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Munsch, Robert
- Murat, Achille
- Murdoch, Iris
- Myers, Paul "PZ"
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- Nadal, Rafael
- Nansen, Fridtjof
- Naquet, Alfred
- Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do
- Nasrin, Taslima
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Neruda, Pablo
- Newberger Goldstein, Rebecca
- Newdow, Michael
- Newman, Randy
- Newman, Paul
- Newton, Thandie
- Nicholson, Jack
- Nielsen, Leslie
- Niemeyer, Oscar
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (Main Entry)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich (Quote)
- Nightingale, Florence
- Noyes, Rufus King
- Nyad, Diana
- Nye, Bill
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- Packer, Kerry
- Paganini, Niccolo
- Paine, Thomas
- Palmer, Courtlandt
- Palmer, Elihu
- Paretsky, Sara
- Parker, Trey
- Parton, James
- Patterson, Robert
- Paul, Alice
- Pauling, Linus
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Pegg, Simon
- Pfeffer, Leo
- Philips, Emo
- Phillpotts, Eden
- Phoenix, Joaquin
- Pillsbury, Parker
- Pinker, Steven
- Pinter, Harold
- Pirsig, Robert M.
- Pissarro, Camille
- Pitt, Brad
- Pitt, William
- Plait, Phil
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pollitt, Katha
- Pope, Alexander
- Porter, Cole
- Portman, Natalie
- Poundstone, Paula
- Pozner, Vladimir
- Pratchett, Terry
- Priestley, Joseph
- Proctor, Richard
- Prokofiev, Sergei
- Proust, Marcel
- Pullman, Philip
- Pushkin, Aleksandr
- Putnam, Samuel Porter
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- Radcliffe, Daniel
- Rand, Ayn
- Randall, Tony
- Randi, James
- Randolph, A. Philip
- Randolph, David
- Ratification of the Constitution
- Reagan, Ron
- Reeve, Christopher
- Reiner, Carl
- Remarque, Erich Maria
- Remsburg, John E.
- Ricker, Marilla M.
- Rivera, Diego
- Robbins, Tom
- Roberts, Chalmers
- Robertson, J.M.
- Robeson, Paul
- Rock, Chris
- Roddenberry, Gene
- Rodgers, Richard
- Rodin, Auguste
- Roe v. Wade Issued
- Rogers, Carl
- Rollins, Henry
- Rooney, Andy
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Rose, Ernestine L.
- Ross, William Stewart
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques
- Royer, Clémence
- Rule, Jane
- Rushdie, Salman
- Ruskin, John
- Russell, Bertrand (Main Entry)
- Russell, Bertrand (Quote)
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- Sackett, Susan
- Sacks, Oliver
- Sagan, Carl
- Sahgal, Lakshmi
- Sand, George
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sanger, Margaret
- Santayana, George (Main Entry)
- Santayana, George (Quote)
- Saramago, José
- Sargent, Pamela
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Savage, Dan
- Savage, Adam
- Schempp, Ed
- Schempp, Ellery
- Schlesinger Jr., Arthur
- Schmidt, Maarten
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (Main Entry)
- Schopenhauer, Arthur (Quote)
- Schreiner, Olive
- Schroeder, Theodore
- Schulz, Charles
- Schumann, Robert
- Scopes, John (Arrested)
- Scott, Thomas
- Searle, John
- Seaver, Horace
- Seeger, Pete
- Seeger, Pete
- Seeger, Pete
- Seldes, George
- Semple, Etta
- Sendak, Maurice
- Seneca Falls Convention Anniversary
- Serling, Rod
- Servetus, Michael
- Shakespeare, William
- Shanks, Niall
- Shannon, Claude
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Shelley, Mary Godwin
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (Main Entry)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe (Quote)
- Shostakovich, Dmitriy
- Silver, Queen
- Silverman, Sarah
- Simplot, John Richard
- Sinclair, Upton
- Singer, Peter
- Singh, Bhagat
- Singh, Simon
- Skinner, B.F.
- Slenker, Elmina D.
- Smith, Adam
- Smith, Matt
- Smith, Kay Nolte
- Smith, Warren Allen
- Smith, William
- Smoker, Barbara
- Snowden, Edward
- Soderbergh, Steven
- Sondheim, Stephen
- Sorel, Edward
- Southwell, Charles
- Spencer, Herbert
- Spinoza, Benedict
- Square, Greydon
- St. John, Henry
- Stael, Mme. de
- Stallman, Richard
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (Quote)
- Stark, Pete
- Statute for Religious Freedom (Passed)
- Steiger, Rod
- Steinbeck, John
- Steinem, Gloria
- Stenger, Victor
- Stephen, Sir Leslie
- Stephenson, Irene
- Sterling, Bruce
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Sting
- Stirner, Max
- Stone, Matt
- Stossel, John
- Stout, Robert
- Strauss, David Friedrich
- Strauss, Richard
- Streep, Meryl
- Strindberg, Johan August
- Strouse, Charles
- Stuart, Granville
- Stuart, Lyle
- Sultan, Wafa
- Supreme Court Affirms No Religious Test for Public Office
- Suzuki, David
- Sweeney, Julia
- Sweet, Matthew
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles
- Szasz, Thomas
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- Talleyrand
- Taylor, Helen
- Taylor, James
- Taylor, Robert
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
- Teller
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Terkel, Louis Studs
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Thomas, Helen
- Thompson, Emma
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Thurber, James
- Thurman, Uma
- Tillman, Pat
- Tindal, Matthew
- Toland, John
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Torcaso, Roy
- Torvalds, Linus
- Tridon, Edme Marie Gustave
- Truelove, Edward
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Turing, Alan
- Turner, Joseph
- Twain, Mark (Main Entry)
- Twain, Mark (Quote)
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse
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- Walker, Alice
- Walker, Barbara G.
- Wallace v. Jaffree
- Wallas, Graham
- Walpole, Robert
- Ward, Lalla
- Washington, George
- Waters, Roger
- Watson, James D.
- Watson, James
- Watson, Peter
- Watts, Charles
- Webb, Beatrice
- Webb, Sidney
- Weinberg, Steven
- Weiss v. the District Board
- Wells, G.A.
- Wells, H.G.
- West, Rebecca
- Wheaton, Wil
- Whedon, Joss
- Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini
- White, Andrew Dickson
- Whitehead, Fred
- Whitman, Walt
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wilkes, John
- Will, George
- Williams, Robin
- Williams, Ted
- Williams, Ralph Vaughan
- Williams, Roger (Banished)
- Willis, Bruce
- Wilson, E. O.
- Winchell, Paul
- Wine, Sherwin
- Winter, Ben
- Witches Bull" Issued"
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Wolpert, Lewis
- Woman Rebel Founded
- Woodhull, Victoria
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wozniak, Steve
- Wright, Frances
- Wright, Frank Lloyd
- Wright, Richard
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