• Vannevar Bush
  
  March 1890 - June 1974 An electrical engineer, Vannevar Bush is best remembered for his 1945 landmark essay, "As We May Think", in the Atlantic Monthly, in which he envisioned hypertext as used by the internet. Bush was appointed chairm ...
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• Voltaire
  
  November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778 Born François Marie Arouet in Paris, Voltaire was the embodiment of eighteenth century Enlightenment. Author of Lettres philosophiques 1734, Candide 1759 and the Dictionnaire philosophique 1764, his ideas were a ...
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• Wilfrid Reid “Wop” May
  
  May 20, 1896 - June 21, 1952 World War I fighter pilot, and one of Canada's early bush pilots, "Wop" May survived being chased by Baron Manfred Von Richthofen, the "Red Baron, with the timely intervention of Roy Brown. He later received the Distingui ...
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• Will Rogers
  
  November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935 William Penn Adair Rogers was educated early in his life mostly at Indian territory schools. He began his show career in 1902, when he was "The Cherokee Kid" with Texas Jack's Wild West Show in South Africa. A syn ...
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• William Byron,
  Lord Byron of Rochdale
  
  Detail of oil portrait of non-mason George Gordon Byron in Albanian costume by Thomas Phillips (1814). November 5, 1722 - May 19, 1798 William Byron, 5th Baron, succeeded to the title upon the death of his father on August 8, 1736. A Lieutenant in ...
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• William Hogarth
  
  Self portrait detail, 1745 November 10, 1697 - October 26, 1764 An English artist best known for his set of eight engravings entitled "A Rake's Progress", published in 1735, Hogarth also designed the Grand Steward's Jewel for the Grand Lodge of En ...
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• William James Hughan
  
  Frontispiece, Mackeys Encyclopaedia Vol. II, 1924. February 13, 1841 - April 20, 1911 Masonic author and scholar, Bro. Hughan is perhaps best known for his revised edition of Mackey's Encyclopedia and his many papers published in Ars Quatuor Coro ...
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• William Jennings Bryan
  
  March 19, 1860-July 26, 1925 Three-time unsuccessful candidate for the United States presidency—the first two time defeated by Bro. William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and the third time by Bro. William H. Taft in 1908—William Jennings Bryan ...
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• William Morgan De Beck
  
  April 15, 1890 - November 11, 1942 Noted cartoonist and writer, "Billy" De Beck, created the comic strip characters Barney Google, Bunky, Snuffy Smith, and his racehorse, Spark Plug. He was with the Hearst publications from 1918. Freemason: North S ...
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• William Ogilvie
  
  April 7, 1846 - November 13, 1912 Land Surveyor and Commissioner to the Yukon Territory between July 5, 1898 and March 1901, he later wrote Early Days on the Yukon (London: John Lane, 1913). Initiated: February 8, 1887 Passed: March 8, 1887 Raised: ...
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• William Saint Clair of Roslin
  
  Illustration from Gould's History of Freemasonry. Also see a lithograph by Brothr. Schenk. Edinburgh. d. 1778 The 21st Baron of Rosslyn was a skilled golfer and archer. A full length portrait hangs in the chapel of Canongate-Kilwinning Lodge. "Fir ...
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• William Stukeley
  
  November 7, 1687 - March 3, 1765 The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley was a medical doctor, Anglican priest, field archeologist and antiquarian. Author of Stonehenge a temple restor'd to the British druids and Itinerarium curiosum: or, an account of the a ...
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• Winston Churchill
  
  November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, author and Conservative Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55), rallied the British people during World War II. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ...
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Detail of painting from life by Jean Guerrin, Nathan Dolf's Famous Composers. January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791 The youngest child and only surviving son of freemason, Leopold Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus was born in Salzb ...
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• Zenas Winsor McCay
  
  c.1906. Ray Winsor Moniz collection Sept. 26, 1869 (or 1871 or 67) - July 26, 1934 Writer and Illustrator of "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and, under the name "Silas," "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend," McCay also produced the first feature length film ...
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