Famous Taurus Celebrities

Carpenter, Scott (May 1)

The astronaut who also lived on Sealab
Carter, Howard (May 9)

The discoverer of King Tut's tomb
Curie, Pierre (May 15)

The scientist husband of Marie Curie
Feynman, Richard (May 11)

The Nobel-winning author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Gödel, Kurt (April 28)

The Austrian mathematician known for his Incompleteness Theorem
Hume, David (April 26)

Scottish skeptic who wrote A Treatise of Human Nature
Kant, Immanuel (April 22)

German philosopher who wrote Critique of Pure Reason
Khayyam, Omar (May 18)

The author of The Rubaiyat
Kierkegaard, Søren (May 5)

The mordant Danish philosopher called 'the father of existentialism'
Machiavelli, Niccolo (May 3)

Author of The Prince
Marx, Karl (May 5)

Founder of modern communism
Mawson, Douglas (May 5)

Australian explorer of the Antarctic
Mill, John Stuart (May 20)

The author of 1859's On Liberty
Oppenheimer, J. Robert (April 22)

The physicist who directed the Manhattan Project
Piketty, Thomas (May 7)

The author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Planck, Max (April 23)

The German physicist who originated quantum theory
Richter, Charles F. (April 26)

The seismologist who created the earthquake scale
Russell, Bertrand (May 18)

The deep-thinking co-author of Principia Mathematica
Strauss-Kahn, Dominique (April 25)

The IMF director accused of sexual assault in 2011
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (April 26)

The Austrian-English philosopher who wrote Tractatus and Investigations