Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Does Being a Perpetual Bachelor Really = Being Homosexual?

There are a lot of committed bachelors in recent history. Here's a list of celebrities I found on line:


Samuel J. Tilden, 
Told a friend he never slept with a woman in his life.



André the Giant, wrestler


Arthur Balfour, 
British Prime Minister


Benjamin Banneker, 
Scientist



Ludwig van Beethoven, 
Composer


Richard Bedford Bennett, 
11th Prime Minister of Canada


Pierre Boulle, 
French author


Johannes Brahms, 
Composer


James Buchanan, 
15th U.S. President, only President who was never married 


Archibald Butt, 
Military Aide to and close friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. 


George Washington Carver,
Scientist

Wilt Chamberlain, 
Basketball player, athlete


George Eastman,
founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film


Paul Erdos, 
legendary Mathematician; died as a celibate


Lindsey Graham, 
U.S. Senator from South Carolina


Morton Smith, 
Biblical Scholar


George Frideric Handel, 
Composer


Edward Heath, 
British Prime Minister Conservative Party 1970 - 1974



Billy Idol, 
Musician
Ron Jeremy, porn star
Richard Mentor Johnson, U.S. Vice President
Jarosław Kaczyński, Current Prime Minister of Poland
APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India
Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Herb Kohl, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
Mark Kzeski, College Instructor
Meriwether Lewis, explorer
Patrick Moore, astronomer
Shemar Moore, actor
Isaac Newton, Scientist
Friedrich Nietzsche
Al Pacino, Actor (had three children from two separate mothers)
Władysław Raczkiewicz, President of Poland during World War II
Maurice Ravel, composer
Cliff Richard, English pop singer
Rick Rubin, music producer
Gianni Russo, entertainer
Nipsey Russell, comedian
Chris Bartlett, conflicted bachelor
Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher
Jimmy Savile, Radio personality
Franz Schubert, Composer
Robert Schuman, French Prime Minister, regarded as a founder of the European Union
Adam Smith, Economist
Baruch de Spinoza, Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin
David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and political theorist
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation
Jason Statham, Actor
Quentin Tarantino, film director, screenwriter and actor
Nicola Tesla, Inventor
George Tobias, Actor
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India
Vincent van Gogh, painter
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Voltaire, Author
Vin Diesel, Actor
Armstrong Williams, conservative activist
The Wright Brothers, Aviation pioneers

Longtime bachelors
Max Baucus, current Senior U.S. Senator from Montana - until 42
Warren Beatty, Actor — bachelor until marriage to Annette Bening as a 55 year-old
Gordon Brown, Current British Prime Minister - until 49
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th U.S. President — married in the White House during his first term of office
Hugh Hefner, legendary Playboy, "bachelor" between first and second wives from 1959 to 1989
Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator — bachelor until marriage as a 44 year old
Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany, married Eva Braun at 56, committed suicide the next day.
Bao Xishun Tallest living man, married at 56
Brian Lamb, founder and current CEO of the C-SPAN television network, married at 64
Jason S. Steward, Famous Actor, 1983 to present.

And then this guy too:



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