Alexis de Tocqueville was a French philosopher, historian, diplomat, and scientist. He is known for his two volumes of Democracy in America

The Raven, a narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845, has made its author famous, and a pop-culture phoneme to this day.

William Ernest Henley (23 August, 1849 – 11 July, 1903) was an English editor, critic and poet. Mr. Henley is best remembered for his poem Invictus from 1875.