American writer and biochemist (1920–1992).

Born January 2nd, 1920 in Petrovichi.

Died April 6th, 1992 at 72 years old in Manhattan (heart failure, AIDS related disease, kidney failure).

Carl Sagan

Born November 9th, 1934 in Brooklyn.

Died December 20th, 1996 at 62 years old

Robert A. Heinlein

Born July 7th, 1907 in Butler.

Died May 8th, 1988 at 80 years old

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born December 11th, 1918 in Kislovodsk.

Died August 3rd, 2008 at 89 years old

Vladimir Nabokov

Born April 22nd, 1899 in Saint Petersburg.

Died July 2nd, 1977 at 78 years old

Arthur C. Clarke

Born December 16th, 1917 in Minehead.

Died March 19th, 2008 at 90 years old