Thomas Godfrey (writer)
Thomas Godfrey (4 December 1736 - 3 August 1763) was an American poet who died at age 26.
He is known for writing "The Prince of Parthia", the first play written by an American to be performed by a professional cast, as well for his tribute to Chaucer and Alexander Pope known as "The Court of Fancy".
His father, also called Thomas Godfrey, was the co-inventor of the first octant, known popularly as Hadley's quadrant.
René Guillot
René Paul Guillot( 24 January 1900 – 26 March 1969) was a French writer of children's books who lived, worked and travelled in French West Africa.
For his lasting contribution as a children's writer Guillot received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1964.
The award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books.
Herbert Girton Deignan
Herbert Girton Deignan( December 5, 1906 – March 15, 1968) was an American ornithologist who worked extensively on the birds of Thailand.
Deignan was born in New Jersey, the son of Harry Francis and Anna Galena.
He grew up in Pennsylvania and schooled in Mercersburg Academy before going to Princeton where he graduated with an Arts Baccalaureate in 1928.
He became interested in birds early on and got in contact with Charles H Rogers, curator of the Princeton collections.
He became interested in Thailand( Siam) and after graduating he took up a position in the Chiangmai college in northern Siam as a teacher of English.
He stayed there from 1928 to 1932, collecting birds in the region that he sent back to Charles Rogers at Princeton.
Deignan returned to the United States in 1932.
He held a temporary assignment at the US National Museum thanks to Alexander Wetmore.
He then took a position at the Library of Congress from 1934 to 1935, and his familiarity with Asian languages helped index the catalogues of the library holdings in Sanskrit and Siamese.
He returned to Chiangmai to take back his position and stayed from 1935 to 1937 during which time he amassed a large collection of birds for the United States National Museum( USNM).
In 1938, he was appointed Scientific Aid in the Division of Birds at the USNM.
He was promoted to Assistant Curator in 1940, Associate Curator in 1942, and Curator in 1959.
Deignan retired in 1962.
Deignan married Stella Leche, a physical anthropologist.
Deignan became a member of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1923 and became a Life fellow in 1946 going on to serve as Secretary from 1959 to 1961.
He published taxonomic revisions, collection catalogues and descriptions of birds from various parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia.
Deignan is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Sri Lankan lizard," Lankascincus deignani".
Thomas Godfrey (inventor)
Thomas Godfrey( December 1704 – December 1749) was an optician and inventor in the American colonies, who around 1730 invented the octant.
At approximately the same time an Englishman, John Hadley, also invented the octant independently.
Godfrey was born on his family's farm in Bristol Township, near Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Benjamin Franklin describes Godfrey at length in his" Autobiography", referring to him as a" Great Mathematician" who nevertheless was" not a pleasing Companion", demanding in conversations a" universal Precision in every thing said."
Godfrey was a founding member, with Franklin, of the American Philosophical Society.
Godfrey's son, also Thomas Godfrey, died at only 26, but had already published several popular works, including" The Prince of Parthia", a play that remains well known to this day.
Edward Chodorov
Edward Chodorov( April 17, 1904 – October 9, 1988), was a Broadway playwright, and the writer or producer of over 50 motion pictures.
Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan
Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan,( 19 December 1895 – 30 November 1977) had a distinguished military career, and was Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire and Governor of Tasmania.
Maximus of Tyre
Maximus of Tyre( fl. late 2nd century AD), also known as Cassius Maximus Tyrius, was a Greek rhetorician and philosopher who lived in the time of the Antonines and Commodus, and who belongs to the trend of the Second Sophistic.
His writings contain many allusions to the history of Greece, while there is little reference to Rome; hence it is inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a professor at Athens.
Although nominally a Platonist, he is really an Eclectic and one of the precursors of Neoplatonism.
John Hadley
John Hadley( 16 April 1682 – 14 February 1744) was an English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same.
Thomas Godfrey Faussett
Thomas Godfrey Faussett, afterwards T. G. Godfrey- Faussett( 1829–1877), was an English antiquary.
Thomas Godfrey (footballer)
Thomas Godfrey( 15 January 1904 – 1983) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke City, Swindon Town and Walsall.

Question: Who lived longer, Thomas Godfrey (Writer) or Herbert Girton Deignan?
Answer: Herbert Girton Deignan