| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Floyd Abrams |
Attorney |
9-Jul-1936 |
|
First Amendment lawyer |
| Diane Ackerman |
Author |
7-Oct-1948 |
|
A Natural History of the Senses |
| Eric Alterman |
Columnist |
14-Jan-1960 |
|
The Nation columnist |
| Joseph A. Alutto |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Provost of Ohio State University |
| Gillian Anderson |
Actor |
9-Aug-1968 |
|
Scully on The X-Files |
| Stephen B. Ashley |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of The Ashley Group |
| Robert Atkins |
Doctor |
17-Oct-1930 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Atkins Diet doctor |
| Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
| Mario L. Baeza |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Baeza & Co. |
| William Bagley |
Educator |
15-Mar-1874 |
1-Jul-1946 |
Opponent of Dewey's progressive education |
| George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
| Jean-Luc Bélingard |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Ipsen SA |
| Nick Berg |
Victim |
2-Apr-1978 |
May-2004 |
US contractor beheaded on Iraq videotape |
| Sandy Berger |
Government |
28-Oct-1945 |
|
National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton |
| Edward Bernays |
Business |
22-Nov-1891 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Propaganda |
| Henry S. Bienen |
Educator |
1939 |
|
President, Northwestern University |
| Kenneth Blanchard |
Educator |
1939 |
|
The One Minute Manager |
| Jeffrey L. Bleustein |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Harley-Davidson, 1997-2005 |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| James L. Broadhead |
Business |
1935 |
|
CEO of FPL Group, 1989-2001 |
| Joyce Brothers |
Psychologist |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
Pop psychologist |
| Ginny Brown-Waite |
Politician |
5-Oct-1943 |
|
Congresswoman, Florida 5th |
| William R. Brownfield |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Venezuela |
| Susan Brownmiller |
Activist |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Feminist, Against Our Will |
| Pearl S. Buck |
Author |
26-Jun-1892 |
6-Mar-1973 |
The Good Earth |
| Richard R. Burt |
Diplomat |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany, 1985-89 |
| Henry A. Byroade |
Diplomat |
24-Jul-1913 |
31-Dec-1993 |
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1973-77 |
| Timothy Michael Carney |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Haiti, 1998-99 |
| Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. |
Business |
8-Jan-1888 |
1976 |
President of DuPont, 1940-48 |
| Willis Carrier |
Inventor |
26-Nov-1876 |
7-Oct-1950 |
Created the first air conditioning |
| Zachary W. Carter |
Attorney |
19-Mar-1950 |
|
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney |
| Steve Carver |
Film Director |
5-Apr-1945 |
|
Lone Wolf McQuade |
| Harry Chapin |
Musician |
7-Dec-1942 |
16-Jul-1981 |
Cat's in the Cradle |
| Dane Clark |
Actor |
26-Feb-1912 |
11-Sep-1998 |
Moonrise |
| William W. Coblentz |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1873 |
15-Sep-1962 |
Infrared spectroscopy |
| Barber Conable |
Politician |
2-Nov-1922 |
30-Nov-2003 |
World Bank President, Congressman |
| Joseph Coors, Sr. |
Business |
12-Nov-1917 |
15-Mar-2003 |
Ultraconservative beer baron |
| Pete Coors |
Relative |
20-Sep-1946 |
|
Coors scion |
| Harry Coover |
Chemist |
6-Mar-1919 |
|
Invented Super Glue |
| Ann Coulter |
Pundit |
8-Dec-1961 |
|
Walking rightwing rant |
| Kenneth T. Derr |
Business |
4-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Chevron, 1989-99 |
| C. Diddy |
Performance Artist |
23-Dec-1971 |
|
World Air Guitar Champion, 2003 |
| Michael J. Dolan |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2001-03 |
| Thomas J. Downey |
Politician |
28-Jan-1949 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1975-93 |
| E. Linn Draper, Jr. |
Business |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
CEO, American Electric Power, 1993-2003 |
| Ken Dryden |
Hockey |
8-Aug-1947 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer, Canadian MP |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
Author |
19-Jul-1875 |
18-Sep-1935 |
Harlem Renaissance influence |
| Dan Duryea |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
7-Jun-1968 |
The Little Foxes |
| Dr. Dean Edell |
Radio Personality |
c. 1944 |
|
Syndicated call-in radio doctor |
| Eric S. Edelman |
Diplomat |
1951 |
|
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
| Herb Edelman |
Actor |
5-Nov-1933 |
21-Jul-1996 |
Stan Zbornak on The Golden Girls |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| Lewis M. Eisenberg |
Activist |
c. 1942 |
|
Granite Capital International Group |
| Susan E. Engel |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Lenox Group, 1996-2007 |
| Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
| Dana Fabe |
Judge |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Alaska Chief Justice |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset |
Novelist |
27-Apr-1882 |
30-Apr-1961 |
Comedy: American Style |
| Chuck Feeney |
Business |
23-Apr-1931 |
|
Duty Free Shoppers |
| Glenn W. Ferguson |
Educator |
28-Jan-1929 |
20-Dec-2007 |
University president, Ambassador to Kenya |
| Anthony G. Fernandes |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Phillip Services, 1999-2002 |
| Bob Filner |
Politician |
4-Sep-1942 |
|
Congressman, California 51st |
| Hal Fishman |
Journalist |
25-Aug-1931 |
7-Aug-2007 |
Los Angeles TV news anchor |
| Art Fleming |
Game Show Host |
1-May-1924 |
25-Apr-1995 |
Original Jeopardy! host |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Leo Frank |
Victim |
17-Apr-1884 |
17-Aug-1915 |
Innocent man, lynched by mob |
| Daniel Fried |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Asst. Secy. of State for European Affairs |
| Stephen Friedman |
Business |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| William Friedman |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1891 |
12-Nov-1969 |
Cryptography pioneer |
| Francis Fukuyama |
Author |
27-Oct-1952 |
|
The End of History and the Last Man |
| H. Laurance Fuller |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Amoco, 1991-98 |
| Robert G. Funari |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Crescent Healthcare |
| Allen Funt |
Film/TV Producer |
16-Sep-1914 |
5-Sep-1999 |
Producer and host of Candid Camera |
| Robert F. Furchgott |
Scientist |
4-Jun-1916 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
| Walter J. Galvin |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CFO of Emerson Electric |
| Frank Gannett |
Business |
15-Sep-1876 |
3-Dec-1957 |
Founder, Gannett publishing empire |
| William H. Gass |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1924 |
|
The Tunnel |
| Michael Gershon |
Scientist |
c. 1936 |
|
Neurogastroenterologist |
| Gabrielle Giffords |
Politician |
8-Jun-1970 |
|
Congresswoman, Arizona 8th |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Joscelyn Godwin |
Historian |
16-Jan-1945 |
|
Historian of the esoteric |
| Kenneth A. Goldman |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CFO of Siebel Systems, 2000-06 |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| Harvey Golub |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of American Express, 1993-2001 |
| Harold Gould |
Actor |
10-Dec-1923 |
|
Martin Morganstern on Rhoda |
| Everardo Goyanes |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Liberty Energy Holdings |
| Greg Graffin |
Musician |
6-Nov-1964 |
|
Bad Religion frontman |
| Wilson Greatbatch |
Inventor |
6-Sep-1919 |
|
Implantable pacemaker |
| Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
| Patrick W. Gross |
Business |
15-May-1944 |
|
Co-Founder, American Management Systems |
| Byron Grote |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CFO of BP |
| Leroy Grumman |
Business |
4-Jan-1895 |
4-Oct-1982 |
Co-Founder, Grumman Aircraft |
| Gilbert Gude |
Politician |
9-Mar-1923 |
7-Jun-2007 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1967-77 |
| Raj L. Gupta |
Business |
23-Dec-1945 |
|
CEO of Rohm and Haas |
| Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory |
| Stephen Hadley |
Government |
13-Feb-1947 |
|
National Security Advisor |
| Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
| Laurens Hammond |
Inventor |
11-Jan-1895 |
3-Jul-1973 |
Hammond Organ |
| Stephen Hardis |
Business |
1935 |
|
CEO of Eaton, 1995-2000 |
| Myra M. Hart |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Co-Founder of Staples |
| Morton Heilig |
Inventor |
1926 |
1997 |
Early virtual reality pioneer |
| Henry Heimlich |
Doctor |
3-Feb-1920 |
|
Heimlich maneuver |
| Evert Henkes |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Shell Chemical, 1998-2003 |
| Dan Hesse |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Sprint Nextel |
| Catherine Hicks |
Actor |
6-Aug-1951 |
|
Annie Camden on 7th Heaven |
| Laura Z. Hobson |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1900 |
28-Feb-1986 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| John H. Holdridge |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1924 |
12-Jul-2001 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86 |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Edward M. House |
Diplomat |
26-Jul-1858 |
28-Mar-1938 |
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson |
| William J. Hudson, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of AMP Inc, 1993-98 |
| Clifford Irving |
Hoaxer |
5-Nov-1930 |
|
Howard Hughes autobiography hoax |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Mae C. Jemison |
Astronaut |
17-Oct-1956 |
|
First African-American woman in space |
| S. Curtis Johnson |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Chairman of JohnsonDiversey |
| Helen Johnson-Leipold |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Johnson Outdoors |
| Edith Jones |
Judge |
1949 |
|
Justice, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Thomas W. Jones |
Business |
1949 |
|
President of TIAA-CREF, 1993-97 |
| David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
| Nancy J. Karch |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Former Partner, McKinsey & Co. |
| Barbara Milano Keenan |
Judge |
c. 1949 |
|
Justice, Virginia Supreme Court |
| Robert D. Kennedy |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
CEO of Union Carbide, 1986-95 |
| Donald M. Kerr |
Government |
c. 1941 |
|
Deputy Director, US National Intelligence |
| Mark D. Ketchum |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Newell Rubbermaid |
| Alan Keyes |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1950 |
|
Illinois carpetbagger |
| William Kilberg |
Government |
12-Jun-1946 |
|
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher |
| Lawrence A. Kimpton |
Educator |
7-Oct-1910 |
1-Nov-1977 |
Chancellor, University of Chicago, 1951-60 |
| Mark Kirk |
Politician |
15-Sep-1959 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 10th |
| Steven Knapp |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, George Washington University |
| Charles F. Knight |
Business |
1936 |
|
CEO of Emerson Electric, 1973-2000 |
| Goodwin Knight |
Politician |
9-Dec-1896 |
22-May-1970 |
Governor of California, 1953-59 |
| Lester B. Knight |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of Allegiance Corporation, 1996-99 |
| C. Everett Koop |
Government |
14-Oct-1916 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1982-89 |
| Kenneth B. Kopelman |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
| Arthur Laurents |
Playwright |
14-Jul-1918 |
|
West Side Story |
| Charles R. Lee |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Verizon, 2000-02 |
| Carl Leubsdorf |
Journalist |
17-Mar-1938 |
|
Dallas Morning News |
| Sara Levinson |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
President of NFL Properties, 1994-2000 |
| Huey Lewis |
Musician |
5-Jul-1950 |
|
Frontman, Huey Lewis and The News |
| Eric Lichtblau |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
NY Times reporter |
| Robert Jay Lifton |
Psychiatrist |
16-May-1926 |
|
The Nazi Doctors |
| Fritz Lipmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1899 |
24-Jul-1986 |
Carbohydrate oxidation |
| Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
| Katharine C. Lyall |
Business |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
President of the UW System, 1992-2004 |
| Jane Lynch |
Actor |
14-Jul-1960 |
|
A Mighty Wind |
| Bill Maher |
Talk Show Host |
20-Jan-1956 |
|
Politically Incorrect |
| Rachel Maines |
Scholar |
8-Jul-1950 |
|
The Technology of Orgasm |
| Ed Marinaro |
Actor |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
Hill Street Blues |
| Abraham Maslow |
Psychologist |
1-Apr-1908 |
8-Jun-1970 |
Hierarchy of Needs |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered telomeres |
| Michael C. McFarland |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, College of the Holy Cross |
| Alan G. McNally |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Harris Bank, 1993-2002 |
| William H. McNeill |
Historian |
31-Oct-1917 |
|
The Rise of the West |
| John A. Mellowes |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Charter Manufacturing |
| Richard H. Melton |
Diplomat |
8-Aug-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1989-93 |
| George R. Merrell |
Diplomat |
13-Jul-1898 |
1962 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1951-52 |
| Philip Merrill |
Publisher |
28-Apr-1934 |
10-Jun-2006 |
Capital Gazette Communications |
| Howard P. Milstein |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Chairman of Emigrant Bank |
| Stephan Minikes |
Diplomat |
1938 |
|
US Ambassador to the OSCE, 2001-05 |
| Jeffrey H. Miro |
Attorney |
1942 |
|
Partner, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn |
| John Moody |
Journalist |
c. 1953 |
|
Fox News senior VP |
| Robert Moog |
Inventor |
23-May-1934 |
21-Aug-2005 |
Invented the synthesizer |
| James C. Morgan |
Business |
27-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Applied Materials, 1977-2003 |
| Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
Government |
11-May-1891 |
6-Feb-1967 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45 |
| Toni Morrison |
Author |
18-Feb-1931 |
|
Beloved |
| John R. Mott |
Activist |
25-May-1865 |
31-Jan-1955 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Robert J. Mrazek |
Politician |
6-Nov-1945 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1983-93 |
| Cameron Munter |
Diplomat |
1954 |
|
US Ambassador to Serbia |
| Thomas S. Murphy |
Business |
31-May-1925 |
|
CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, 1966-90 |
| Ed Muskie |
Politician |
28-Mar-1914 |
26-Mar-1996 |
US Senator from Maine, 1959-80 |
| Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
| George Jean Nathan |
Author |
14-Feb-1882 |
8-Apr-1958 |
American Mercury |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| Ronald E. Nehring |
Judge |
c. 1947 |
|
Justice, Utah Supreme Court |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Lucio A. Noto |
Business |
1938 |
|
CEO of Mobil, 1994-99 |
| John A. Notte, Jr. |
Politician |
3-May-1909 |
7-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1961-63 |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Bill Nye |
TV Personality |
27-Nov-1955 |
|
Bill Nye the Science Guy |
| Lubna Olayan |
Business |
1955 |
|
Prominent Saudi businesswoman |
| Keith Olbermann |
Journalist |
27-Jan-1959 |
|
MSNBC Countdown |
| James R. Olin |
Politician |
28-Feb-1920 |
29-Jul-2006 |
Congressman from Virginia, 1983-93 |
| Douglas D. Osheroff |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1945 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Margaret Osmer-McQuade |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Qualitas International |
| Gerald M. Ostrov |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Bausch & Lomb |
| Peter Ostrum |
Actor |
1-Nov-1957 |
|
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| David J. Paterson |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Bowater |
| William D. Perez |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Wrigley |
| Charles A. Peters |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Senior EVP at Emerson Electric |
| Tom Peters |
Author |
7-Nov-1942 |
|
In Search of Excellence |
| Ethan Phillips |
Actor |
8-Feb-1955 |
|
Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager |
| Samuel R. Pierce |
Politician |
8-Sep-1922 |
31-Oct-2000 |
US Secretary of HUD, 1981-89 |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| Michael Pinto-Duschinsky |
Scholar |
c. 1940 |
|
Political scientist |
| Lew Platt |
Business |
11-Apr-1941 |
8-Sep-2005 |
CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 1992-99 |
| Jerry I. Porras |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford |
| Alvin F. Poussaint |
Doctor |
15-May-1934 |
|
Child-rearing expert |
| Robert A. Profusek |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Partner, Jones Day |
| Thomas Pynchon |
Novelist |
8-May-1937 |
|
Reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow, etc. |
| Jennifer J. Raab |
Educator |
c. 1956 |
|
President, Hunter College |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| Daniel R. Raichel |
Scientist |
? |
22-Dec-2006 |
Acoustics expert |
| Christopher Reeve |
Actor |
25-Sep-1952 |
10-Oct-2004 |
Felled by the Superman Curse |
| Steve Reich |
Composer |
3-Oct-1936 |
|
Minimalist composer, Different Trains |
| G. Frederick Reinhardt |
Diplomat |
21-Oct-1911 |
23-Feb-1971 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1961-68 |
| Janet Reno |
Government |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Clinton's US Attorney General |
| Christopher Rich |
Actor |
16-Sep-1953 |
|
Miller Redfield on Murphy Brown |
| Laura Riding |
Poet |
16-Jan-1901 |
2-Sep-1991 |
A Survey of Modernist Poetry |
| Timothy M. Ring |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of C. R. Bard |
| Chuck Robb |
Politician |
26-Jun-1939 |
|
US Senator from Virginia, 1989-2001 |
| Kenneth Roberts |
Novelist |
8-Dec-1885 |
21-Jul-1957 |
Northwest Passage |
| Paul Robeson, Jr. |
Activist |
2-Nov-1927 |
|
Son of Paul Robeson |
| Irene B. Rosenfeld |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Kraft Foods |
| Vera Rubin |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1928 |
|
Structure of galaxies |
| Joanna Russ |
Author |
22-Feb-1937 |
|
The Female Man |
| Robert L. Ryan |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CFO of Medtronic, 1993-2005 |
| Peter M. Sacerdote |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
| Gene Saks |
Theater Director |
8-Nov-1921 |
|
The Odd Couple |
| Dick Schaap |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1934 |
21-Dec-2001 |
Flashing Before My Eyes |
| Nancy M. Schlichting |
Administrator |
1954 |
|
Henry Ford Health System |
| Leah Ward Sears |
Judge |
13-Jun-1955 |
|
Georgia Chief Justice |
| Robert W. Selander |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Mastercard |
| Melville Shavelson |
Film Director |
1-Apr-1917 |
8-Aug-2007 |
Yours, Mine and Ours |
| Arthur M. Siskind |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Former News Corporation executive |
| Robert Smigel |
Cartoonist |
7-Feb-1960 |
|
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Jimmy Smits |
Actor |
9-Jul-1955 |
|
L.A. Law, Switch |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin |
Journalist |
19-Feb-1977 |
|
The New York Times |
| Elmer Sperry |
Inventor |
12-Oct-1860 |
10-Jun-1930 |
Gyroscopic compass |
| Gayatri Spivak |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak? |
| Warren R. Staley |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of Cargill |
| William Strunk |
Author |
1-Jul-1869 |
26-Sep-1946 |
Elements of Style |
| Kathleen Sullivan |
Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
| Ratan N. Tata |
Business |
28-Dec-1937 |
|
Chairman of Tata Group |
| Allan R. Tessler |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
Epoch Investment Partners |
| Samuel O. Thier |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
| James S. Tisch |
Business |
2-Jan-1953 |
|
CEO of Loews |
| Franchot Tone |
Actor |
27-Feb-1905 |
18-Sep-1968 |
Advise and Consent |
| Charles H. Twining |
Diplomat |
1-Nov-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1991-95 |
| Richard Tyson |
Actor |
13-Feb-1961 |
|
Kindergarten Cop |
| William vanden Heuvel |
Diplomat |
14-Apr-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN Europe, 1977-79 |
| Les C. Vinney |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Steris, 2000-07 |
| William T. Vollmann |
Author |
28-Jul-1959 |
|
An Afghanistan Picture Show |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| Charles V. Wait |
Business |
28-May-1951 |
|
CEO of Adirondack Trust |
| Padmasree Warrior |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
CTO of Motorola |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| Sandy Weill |
Business |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
Chairman of Citigroup, 1998-2006 |
| Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Randi Weingarten |
Labor Leader |
1957 |
|
President, United Federation of Teachers |
| E. B. White |
Author |
11-Jul-1899 |
01-Oct-1985 |
Charlotte's Web |
| Ralph D. Winter |
Religion |
? |
|
US Center for World Mission |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
World Bank president, 2005-07 |
| Jerry M. Woodall |
Inventor |
c. 1938 |
|
Inventor of the red LED |
| Mary Woronov |
Actor |
8-Dec-1943 |
|
Eating Raoul |
| Peter Yarrow |
Musician |
31-May-1938 |
|
The Peter in Peter, Paul, and Mary |
| Douglas C. Yearley |
Business |
c. 1936 |
8-Oct-2007 |
CEO of Phelps Dodge, 1989-99 |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Henry Carter Adams |
Economist |
31-Dec-1851 |
11-Aug-1921 |
Public Debts |
| Felix Adler |
Educator |
13-Aug-1851 |
24-Apr-1933 |
Ethical Culture |
| A. R. Ammons |
Poet |
18-Feb-1926 |
25-Feb-2001 |
Sphere |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah |
Philosopher |
8-May-1954 |
|
The Ethics of Identity |
| Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
| George Beadle |
Scientist |
22-Oct-1903 |
9-Jun-1989 |
One gene, one enzyme theory |
| Carl Becker |
Historian |
7-Sep-1873 |
10-Apr-1945 |
Everyman His Own Historian |
| Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
| Allan Bloom |
Philosopher |
14-Sep-1930 |
7-Oct-1992 |
The Closing of the American Mind |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| John Cleese |
Comic |
27-Oct-1939 |
|
Monty Python |
| Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
| Peter Debye |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1884 |
2-Nov-1966 |
Studied molecular structure, dipoles |
| Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
| William F. Durand |
Engineer |
5-Mar-1859 |
9-Aug-1958 |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
| Freeman Dyson |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1923 |
|
Theoretical physicist at Princeton |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
| Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
| Dian Fossey |
Anthropologist |
16-Jan-1932 |
26-Dec-1985 |
Gorillas in the Mist |
| Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
| Richard H. Gallagher |
Engineer |
17-Nov-1927 |
30-Sep-1997 |
Finite element method |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| Thomas Gold |
Scientist |
22-May-1920 |
22-Jun-2004 |
Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel |
| Harold Gould |
Actor |
10-Dec-1923 |
|
Martin Morganstern on Rhoda |
| Donald P. Greenberg |
Educator |
c. 1933 |
|
Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
| Martin Harwit |
Astronomer |
9-Mar-1931 |
|
Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Charles Evans Hughes |
Politician |
11-Apr-1862 |
27-Aug-1948 |
US Chief Justice, Presidential Candidate |
| David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
| Donald Kagan |
Historian |
1932 |
|
The Great Dialogue |
| Graham Kerr |
Chef |
22-Jan-1934 |
|
The Galloping Gourmet |
| David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Bernard Lewis |
Scholar |
31-May-1916 |
|
Middle East scholar |
| Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
| Alison Lurie |
Novelist |
3-Sep-1926 |
|
Foreign Affairs |
| Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered telomeres |
| John McWhorter |
Linguist |
c. 1963 |
|
Linguist, social critic |
| Adolf Meyer |
Psychiatrist |
13-Sep-1866 |
17-Mar-1950 |
Commonsense Psychiatry |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
02-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
| Bill Nye |
TV Personality |
27-Nov-1955 |
|
Bill Nye the Science Guy |
| James R. Patton, Jr. |
Attorney |
1928 |
|
Founder, Patton Boggs |
| Don Michael Randel |
Educator |
9-Dec-1940 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 2000-06 |
| John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
| Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Joanna Russ |
Author |
22-Feb-1937 |
|
The Female Man |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| W. D. Snodgrass |
Poet |
5-Jan-1926 |
|
Heart's Needle |
| Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
| Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
| William Strunk |
Author |
1-Jul-1869 |
26-Sep-1946 |
Elements of Style |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
First to crystallize an enzyme |
| Robert J. Swieringa |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Dean of Johnson School at Cornell |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Oxygen-reduction processes |
| Shibley Telhami |
Scholar |
c. 1952 |
|
Middle East scholar |
| George Paget Thomson |
Physicist |
3-May-1892 |
10-Sep-1975 |
Diffraction of electrons |
| Edward Titchener |
Psychologist |
11-Jan-1867 |
3-Aug-1927 |
Structural psychology |
| Alvin Toffler |
Author |
4-Oct-1928 |
|
Future Shock |
| Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
| Gregory Vlastos |
Philosopher |
27-Jul-1907 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Influential scholar of ancient philosophy |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
|
Second-order phase transitions |
