Aldous Huxley passed in 1963
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Born into a prominent family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature.
He edited the literary magazine Oxford Poetry and published short stories and poems and before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays.
He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. He became renoun as one of the most notable intellectuals of his day. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
Aldous Huxley was a pacifist. This would make him about 180 out from my philosophical inclinations. He became somewhat of a mystic as well as immersed in universalism which is by all accounts somewhat synecdochial culminating in a work whereby he presented his visions of dystopia and utopia, respectively near the end of his life.
So, this intellect and philsophical wussy came to the earth, made quite an impressive mark, then departed some 69 years later as did my beloved father and my best friend Escoe from Kentucky.