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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Walter Abish
Author
24-Dec-1931   Alphabetical Africa
Robert Adler
Physicist
4-Dec-1913 15-Feb-2007 Invented wireless remote control
Leon Askin
Actor
18-Sep-1907 3-Jun-2005 General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes
Hans Asperger
Doctor
18-Feb-1906 21-Oct-1980 Asperger's Syndrome
Fred Astaire
Dancer
10-May-1899 22-Jun-1987 Broadway ballroom dancer
Barbara Bach
Actor
27-Aug-1947   Atook zug zug Lana
Peter Bart
Journalist
24-Jul-1932   Former editor of Variety
Ben Bernanke
Economist
13-Dec-1953   Federal Reserve Chairman
Edward Bernays
Business
22-Nov-1891 9-Mar-1995 Propaganda
Bruno Bettelheim
Psychologist
28-Aug-1903 13-Mar-1990 Fraudulent child psychologist
Leonard Bloomfield
Linguist
1-Apr-1887 18-Apr-1949 Structural linguistics of Tagalog
David Bohm
Physicist
20-Dec-1917 29-Oct-1992 Particle physicist
Ludwig Boltzmann
Physicist
20-Feb-1844 5-Sep-1906 Atoms and molecules
Erwin Chargaff
Biologist
11-Aug-1905 20-Jun-2002 Biochemist at Columbia University
Carl Cori
Scientist
5-Dec-1896 20-Oct-1984 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Gerty Cori
Scientist
15-Aug-1896 26-Oct-1967 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
Richard Dalitz
Physicist
28-Feb-1925 13-Jan-2006 Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots
Dennis DeConcini
Politician
8-May-1937   US Senator from Arizona, 1977-95
Martin Deutsch
Physicist
29-Jun-1917 16-Aug-2002 Discovered positronium
Engelbert Dollfuss
Head of State
4-Oct-1892 25-Jul-1934 Austrian Chancellor murdered by Nazis
Seymour Durst
Business
c. 1913 19-May-1995 New York real estate mogul
Bruno de Finetti
Mathematician
13-Jun-1906 20-Jul-1985 Subjective probability
Edmond H. Fischer
Scientist
6-Apr-1920   Protein phosphorylation
William Fox
Film/TV Producer
1-Jan-1879 8-May-1952 Founder of 20th Century Fox
Felix Frankfurter
Judge
15-Nov-1882 22-Feb-1965 US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62
John H. Gaddum
Scientist
31-Mar-1900 30-Jun-1965 Drug antagonism
Herbert S. Gasser
Scientist
5-Jul-1888 11-May-1963 Nerve conduction
Uri Geller
Paranormal
20-Dec-1946   Thinks he has us snowed
Benjamin A. Gilman
Politician
6-Dec-1922   Congressman from New York, 1973-2003
Gaston Glock
Business
1929   Gunmaker
Susan Greenfield
Scientist
1-Oct-1950   Brain Story
Victor Gruen
Architect
18-Jul-1903 14-Feb-1980 Popularized the shopping mall
Mandy Grunwald
Activist
c. 1958   Hillary Clinton media adviser
Jörg Haider
Politician
26-Jan-1950 11-Oct-2008 Austrian extreme rightist
Irene Handl
Actor
27-Dec-1901 29-Nov-1987 Matronly British character actor
Adolf Hitler
Head of State
20-Apr-1889 30-Apr-1945 Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45
H. Robert Horvitz
Scientist
8-May-1947   Genetic regulation of organ development
Franz Humer
Business
1-Jul-1946   Chairman of Roche
Leon Jaworski
Government
19-Sep-1905 9-Dec-1982 Watergate special prosecutor
Elizabeth Jolley
Novelist
4-Jun-1923 13-Feb-2007 Mr. Scobie's Riddle
Eric R. Kandel
Scientist
7-Nov-1929   Signal transduction in the nervous system
John F. Keane
Diplomat
?   US Ambassador to Paraguay, 2003-05
John Key
Government
9-Aug-1961   Prime Minister of New Zealand
Arthur Kornberg
Scientist
3-Mar-1918 26-Oct-2007 Synthesized DNA
Roger D. Kornberg
Scientist
24-Apr-1947   Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Stanley Kubrick
Film Director
26-Jul-1928 7-Mar-1999 2001: A Space Odyssey
Hedy Lamarr
Actor
9-Nov-1913 19-Jan-2000 Actress, invented frequency hopping
Joseph Lieberman
Politician
24-Feb-1942   US Senator from Connecticut
Eric Mabius
Actor
22-Apr-1971   Tim Haspell on The L Word
Marie Antoinette
Royalty
2-Nov-1755 16-Oct-1793 Cake proponent
Maximilian
Royalty
6-Jul-1832 19-Jun-1867 Emperor of Mexico, 1864-67
Marie de Medici
Royalty
26-Apr-1573 3-Jul-1642 Regent of France, 1610-17
Lise Meitner
Physicist
7-Nov-1878 27-Oct-1968 Discovered Nuclear Fission
Gregor Mendel
Scientist
22-Jul-1822 6-Jan-1884 Discovered the laws of inheritance
Michael E. Murphy
Government
1962   Founding partner, D.C. Navigators
Mae Murray
Actor
10-May-1889 23-Mar-1965 The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips
Gerry Neugebauer
Astronomer
1932   Infrared astronomy
S. I. Newhouse, Sr.
Publisher
24-May-1895 29-Aug-1979 Founder of Advance Publications
Otto J. Reich
Diplomat
16-Oct-1945   US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1986-89
Max Reinhardt
Theater Director
9-Sep-1873 30-Oct-1943 Filmed A Midsummer Night's Dream
Abe Reles
Criminal
1906 12-Nov-1941 Hitman for Murder, Inc.
Felix Rohatyn
Business
29-May-1928   Financier, Lazard Frères
Moishe Rosen
Religion
12-Apr-1932   Jews for Jesus founder
Ethel Rosenberg
Relative
28-Sep-1915 19-Jun-1953 Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg
Philip Roth
Novelist
19-Mar-1933   Portnoy's Complaint
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
9-Nov-1934 20-Dec-1996 Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Edwin E. Salpeter
Astronomer
3-Dec-1924   Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography
Andrew V. Schally
Scientist
30-Nov-1926   Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
Maximilian Schell
Actor
8-Dec-1930   Lead defense in Judgment at Nuremberg
Egon Schiele
Painter
12-Jun-1890 31-Oct-1918 Painted many nudes
Allyson Schwartz
Politician
3-Oct-1948   Congresswoman, Pennsylvania 13th
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor
30-Jul-1947   Governor of California
Harry Shearer
Comic
23-Dec-1943   Almost half the voices on The Simpsons
Bugsy Siegel
Criminal
28-Feb-1906 20-Jun-1947 Brought the mob to Las Vegas
Philip Sporn
Engineer
25-Nov-1896 23-Jan-1978 American Electric Power Company
William Steig
Cartoonist
14-Nov-1907 3-Oct-2003 Shrek, The New Yorker
Howard Stern
Radio Personality
12-Jan-1954   The King of All Media
Shoshannah Stern
Actor
3-Jul-1980   Deaf actress
Audrey Totter
Actor
20-Dec-1918   The Unsuspected
William Tunner
Military
14-Jul-1906 6-Apr-1983 Organized the Berlin Airlift
Peter Ueberroth
Baseball
2-Sep-1937   Commissioner of Baseball, 1984-89
Alida Valli
Actor
31-May-1921 22-Apr-2006 The Third Man
Harold E. Varmus
Scientist
18-Dec-1939   Genetic causes of cancer
Marilyn vos Savant
Columnist
11-Aug-1946   IQ 228, writes for Parade
Andrei Vyshinsky
Government
10-Dec-1883 22-Nov-1954 Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge
George Wald
Biologist
18-Nov-1906 12-Apr-1997 Physiology of the retina
Ben Wattenberg
Pundit
26-Aug-1933   Think Tank moderator
Xuxa
TV Personality
27-Mar-1963   Model children's TV host
Howard Zinn
Historian
24-Aug-1922   A People's History of the United States


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