ANCESTRY

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Alter	Inventor	3-Dec-1807	18-Sep-1881	Almost discovered spectroscopy
Jacobo Arbenz	Head of State	14-Sep-1913	27-Jan-1971	President of Guatemala, 1951-54
Werner Arber	Scientist	3-Jun-1929		Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)
Adolph Bandelier	Anthropologist	6-Aug-1840	18-Mar-1914	Native cultures of the American southwest
Daniel Bovet	Scientist	23-Mar-1907	8-Apr-1992	Anti-histamines, muscle relaxants, sulfanilamide
Anthony G. Brown	Politician	21-Nov-1961		Lt. Governor of Maryland
Warren Burger	Judge	17-Sep-1907	25-Jun-1995	US Chief Justice, 1969-86
Louis Chevrolet	Auto Racing	25-Dec-1878	6-Jun-1941	Designed the first Chevrolet
William W. Coblentz	Astronomer	20-Nov-1873	15-Sep-1962	Infrared spectroscopy
Billie Dove	Actor	14-May-1903	31-Dec-1997	The Black Pirate
Augustus Egg	Painter	2-May-1816	26-Mar-1863	Life and Death of Buckingham
Minnesota Fats	Sports Figure	19-Jan-1913	15-Jan-1996	Billiards opponent of Willie Mosconi
Bobby Fischer	Chess Player	9-Mar-1943	18-Jan-2008	Loony chess grandmaster
Henry Clay Frick	Business	19-Dec-1849	2-Dec-1919	Robber baron, Johnstown flood
Jean-Luc Godard	Film Director	3-Dec-1930		Vivre sa Vie
Daniel Guggenheim	Business	9-Jul-1856	28-Sep-1930	Mining magnate
Meyer Guggenheim	Business	1-Feb-1828	15-Mar-1905	Patriarch of Guggenheim fortune
Peggy Guggenheim	Socialite	26-Aug-1898	23-Dec-1979	Renowned art collector
Gary Gygax	Inventor	27-Jul-1938	4-Mar-2008	Responsible for Dungeons & Dragons
Brion Gysin	Artist	19-Jan-1916	13-Jul-1986	Inventor of the Dreamachine
Milton Hershey	Business	13-Sep-1857	13-Oct-1945	Founder of Hershey's
Arthur Honegger	Composer	10-Mar-1892	27-Nov-1955	Pacific 231
J. Edgar Hoover	Government	1-Jan-1895	2-May-1972	Corrupt FBI Director for 50 years
Franz Humer	Business	1-Jul-1946		Chairman of Roche
Néstor Kirchner	Head of State	25-Feb-1950		President of Argentina, 2003-07
Theodor Kocher	Doctor	25-Aug-1841	27-Jul-1917	Thyroid surgeon
S. S. Kresge	Business	31-Jul-1867	18-Oct-1966	Founder of K-Mart
Cyndi Lauper	Singer/Songwriter	22-Jun-1953		Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Karina Lombard	Actor	21-Jan-1964		The L Word
Jean-Paul Marat	Activist	24-May-1743	13-Jul-1793	French revolutionary
Robert B. Meyner	Politician	3-Jul-1908	27-May-1990	Governor of New Jersey, 1954-62
Max Miedinger	Typographer	24-Dec-1910	8-Mar-1980	Designed the Helvetica typeface
Grover Norquist	Activist	19-Oct-1956		Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader
Jean Piccard	Aviator	28-Jan-1884	28-Jan-1963	Extreme balloonist
Elizabeth Clare Prophet	Religion	8-Apr-1939		Church Universal and Triumphant
Maurice Ravel	Composer	7-Mar-1875	28-Dec-1937	Bolero
Eddie Rickenbacker	Aviator	8-Oct-1890	23-Jul-1973	Flying ace shot down 22 planes in WWI
Martin Ritt	Film Director	2-Mar-1914	8-Dec-1990	The Long Hot Summer
Peter Mark Roget	Author	18-Jan-1779	12-Sep-1869	Roget's Thesaurus
Maximilian Schell	Actor	8-Dec-1930		Lead defense in Judgment at Nuremberg
Walter Schottky	Physicist	23-Jul-1886	4-Mar-1976	Solid-state physics and electronics
Barbet Schroeder	Film Director	26-Apr-1941		Murder by Numbers
Jerome Smucker	Business	5-Dec-1858	19-Mar-1948	Founder of J. M. Smucker Company
Chesley Sullenberger	Aviator	23-Jan-1951		Landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River
Louis Sullivan	Architect	3-Sep-1856	14-Apr-1924	Early skyscraper architect
Max Theiler	Scientist	30-Jan-1899	11-Aug-1972	Yellow fever vaccination
Steven T. Walther	Government	c. 1943		US FEC Commissioner
William Wirt	Attorney	8-Nov-1772	18-Feb-1834	US Attorney General, 1817-29
Renée Zellweger	Actor	25-Apr-1969		Bridget Jones' Diary

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