Skinner was born in Pennsylvania, and his homelife was considered to be very hard working. Got his Bachelors degree in english because he wanted to be a writer, but he felt like an outcast at the school. He got his Masters and Doctrate degree from Harvard a few years after he graduated. Became the chairman of the psychology department at Indiana University but then decided to teach at Harvard a few years later instead. http://allpsych.com/biographies/skinner.html
Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist, who was popular because of his belief in the good side of the average individual. Rogers recieved his masters degree in psychology from Columbia University in 1928, and his Doctorate in 1931. Rogers was also president of the American Psychological Society in 1942 http://allpsych.com/biographies/rogers.html
Frued was a jewish boy but he considered himself an athiast. He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856, and moved to Vienna Italy ( where he lived the majorit of his life.) when he was four years old. He was the favorite child out of 7. He became a professor at the University of Vienna in 1902. http://allpsych.com/biographies/freud.html
He was the first psychologist, Wundt thought that all people saw everything the same way. His research program was a huge success, his technique (introspection) was the building block for most psychologists for several decades. http://intropsych.com/ch01_psychology_and_science/wundts_new_psychology.html