Man Without Children in History

Check out this post by Laura LaVoie - 2015 Childfree Woman of the Year:
https://internationalchildfreeday.com/2016/07/01/men-without-children-in-history-part-1/

Interesting article...didn't realize these men were childfree.

Very cool. Especially Charles Addams, since I love his work.

Question from the article:

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What NotDads of history have inspired you?

Ratan Tata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata
http://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/ratan-tata-top-10-achievements-under-his-leadership-14333#photo-186265
http://www.philanthropyage.org/2014/02/06/indias-icon/

He is still alive but he already made history.

I can think of 2 former US Supreme Court justices who were CF. One was David Souter, never married, who retired in 2009 after serving on the high Court since 1990. Another was Felix Frankfurter, who served from 1939 through 1962. I can't say I liked Frankfurter's judicial philosophy, based on the biography of his I read and the bios of other SCOTUS justices who served with him whom I liked more. He was good man nonetheless.

Serious Answer

Scott Adams - creator of Dilbert
Samuel Appleton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Appleton_(merchant)
Louis Armstrong - the greatest Trumpet player ever
Francis Bacon - monk, scientist, philosopher
St Francis of Assisi -

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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men.

Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181 - 1226)

Troll answer

Ron Jeremy

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Isaac Newton
Edgar Allan Poe
Tom Tyler (actor)

Franz Kafka

Gene Autry
Samuel Beckett
Copernicus

Nikola Tesla

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Great additions! I will definitely pass to Laura

One for the fundies.... Jesus Christ

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One for the fundies.... Jesus Christ

St John the Baptist.

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Alfred Nobel

He never married, either

Benny Hill

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Benny Hill

Thanks. Now I've got Yakkety Sax stuck in my head.
I've read that he was quite shy IRL and spent much of his spare time in anonymity in France.

My addition would be Patrick Swayze but only because I just watched Dirty Dancing for the millionth time. Please correct me if he was childed.

Prince, but that was more due to the fact that his kid died at a week old, so I don't know if that counts.

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"Why children take so long to grow? They eat and drink like pig and give nothing back. Must find way to accelerate process..."
- Dr. Yi Suchong, Bioshock

"Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born."
- Garrett Hardin

"I feel like there's a message involved here somehow, but then I couldn't stop laughing at all the plotholes, like the part when North Korea has food."
- Youtube commentor referring to a North Korean cartoon.

"Reality is a bitch when it slowly crawls out of your vagina and shits in your lap."
- Reddit comment

"Bitch wants a baby, so we're gonna fuck now. #bareback"
- Cambion

Oh whatever. Abortion doctors are crimestoppers."
- Miss Hannigan