Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

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• George Orwell

  Novelist

  Thursday, Jun 25, 1903
  Saturday, Jan 21, 1950

• Peter Drucker

  Author

  Friday, Nov 19, 1909
  Friday, Nov 11, 2005

• Michael Jordan

  Basketball Player

  Sunday, Feb 17, 1963
  

• Dolly Parton

  Singer-Songwriter

  Saturday, Jan 19, 1946
  

• Steven Wright

  Comedian

  Tuesday, Dec 06, 1955
  

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poet

  Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
  Friday, Jul 25, 1834

• Thomas Aquinas

  Priest

  Tuesday, Jan 28, 1225
  Wednesday, Mar 07, 1274

• Oscar Wilde

  Writer

  Monday, Oct 16, 1854
  Friday, Nov 30, 1900

• Walt Whitman

  Poet

  Monday, May 31, 1819
  Saturday, Mar 26, 1892

• Stephen Hawking

  Physicist

  Thursday, Jan 08, 1942
  

• Thomas Sowell

  Economist

  Monday, Jun 30, 1930
  

• Dalai Lama

  Saturday, Jul 06, 1935
  

• Voltaire

  Writer

  Sunday, Nov 21, 1694
  Saturday, May 30, 1778

• Heraclitus

  Philosopher

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Leonardo Da Vinci

  Painter

  Thursday, Apr 15, 1452
  Friday, May 02, 1519