William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author. Wikipedia
Born: April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York, NY
Died: July 17, 1944 (age 46 years), Boston, MA
Education: Harvard University (1914), Rice University, Harvard College, and more
Parents: Boris Sidis and Sarah Sidis
Notable work: The Animate and the Inanimate (1925); The Tribes and the States (c. 1935)
Other names: John W. Shattuck; Frank Folupa; Parker Greene; Jacob Marmor