| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Cleveland Abbe |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1838 |
28-Oct-1916 |
America's first weatherman |
| Joey Adams |
Comic |
6-Jan-1911 |
2-Dec-1999 |
Borscht Belt comedian |
| Joseph P. Addabbo |
Politician |
17-Mar-1925 |
10-Apr-1986 |
Congressman from New York, 1961-86 |
| Irwin Allen |
Film/TV Producer |
12-Jun-1916 |
2-Nov-1991 |
The Master of Disaster |
| Woody Allen |
Film Director |
1-Dec-1935 |
|
Annie Hall |
| Néstor Almendros |
Cinematographer |
30-Oct-1930 |
4-Mar-1992 |
Mauvaise Conduite |
| David Antin |
Artist |
1-Feb-1932 |
|
Improv artist, talk poet |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Howard I. Atkins |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CFO of Wells Fargo |
| Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Dr. Michael Baden |
Doctor |
1934 |
|
Forensic pathologist on HBO's Autopsy |
| Herman Badillo |
Politician |
21-Aug-1929 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1971-77 |
| Bernard M. Baruch |
Business |
19-Aug-1870 |
20-Jun-1965 |
Coined the term Cold War |
| Eleanor Baum |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union |
| Abraham D. Beame |
Politician |
20-Mar-1906 |
10-Feb-2001 |
Mayor of New York City, 1974-77 |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
|
The End of Ideology |
| Gerald A. Benjamin |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CAO of Henry Schein |
| Alexander Bickel |
Scholar |
17-Dec-1924 |
7-Nov-1974 |
The Least Dangerous Branch |
| Leslie S. Biller |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
COO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2002 |
| Henry E. Bliss |
Curator |
29-Jan-1870 |
9-Aug-1955 |
Bliss Classification System |
| Kurtis Blow |
Rapper |
9-Aug-1959 |
|
The Breaks |
| Peter J. Brennan |
Government |
24-May-1918 |
2-Oct-1996 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1973-75 |
| Abelardo E. Bru |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Frito-Lay, 1999-2004 |
| Rosalind Cash |
Actor |
31-Dec-1938 |
31-Oct-1995 |
The Omega Man |
| Robert B. Catell |
Business |
1-Feb-1937 |
|
CEO of KeySpan, 1998-2007 |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
| William L. Chenevich |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Vice Chairman of Technology, US Bancorp |
| Herman Cohen |
Diplomat |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia 1977-80 |
| Joel J. Cohen |
Attorney |
c. 1937 |
|
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
| Larry Cohen |
Film Director |
15-Jul-1938 |
|
The Stuff |
| Luis Cortes |
Religion |
c. 1958 |
|
Esperanza USA |
| Herbert Croly |
Author |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
The Promise of American Life |
| Julie Dash |
Film Director |
22-Oct-1952 |
|
Daughters of the Dust |
| John M. Dionisio |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of AECOM Technology |
| Hector Elizondo |
Actor |
22-Dec-1936 |
|
How High |
| George Fellows |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Callaway Golf Company |
| Felix Frankfurter |
Judge |
15-Nov-1882 |
22-Feb-1965 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
| Robert Garcia |
Politician |
9-Jan-1933 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1978-90 |
| Joel F. Gemunder |
Business |
1939 |
|
President of Omnicare |
| Ira Gershwin |
Composer |
6-Dec-1896 |
17-Aug-1983 |
American composer |
| Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
| George Goethals |
Architect |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
| Paul Goodman |
Anarchist |
9-Sep-1911 |
2-Aug-1972 |
Growing Up Absurd |
| Eydie Gorme |
Musician |
16-Aug-1931 |
|
Blame it on the Bossa Nova |
| Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
|
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
| Luis Guzmán |
Actor |
28-Aug-1956 |
|
Ramon on John From Cincinnati |
| Henry Harland |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1861 |
20-Dec-1905 |
The Cardinal's Snuff-box |
| Herbert A. Hauptman |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1917 |
|
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Johnny Hines |
Actor |
25-Jul-1895 |
24-Oct-1970 |
Silent film comedian |
| Judd Hirsch |
Actor |
15-Mar-1935 |
|
Taxi |
| Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
| Red Holzman |
Basketball |
10-Aug-1920 |
13-Nov-1998 |
NY Knicks Head Coach, 1957-82 |
| Sidney Hook |
Philosopher |
20-Dec-1902 |
12-Jul-1989 |
Pragmatist |
| Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
| Roy Innis |
Activist |
6-Jun-1934 |
|
Congress of Racial Equality |
| Sam Jaffe |
Actor |
10-Mar-1891 |
24-Mar-1984 |
Gunga Din |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1922 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Marvin Kalb |
Journalist |
9-Jun-1930 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
|
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
| Michael Kidd |
Choreographer |
12-Aug-1915 |
23-Dec-2007 |
Award-winning choreographer |
| Ed Koch |
Politician |
12-Dec-1924 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 1978-89 |
| Richard J. Kogan |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
CEO of Schering-Plough, 1996-2003 |
| Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
| Paul Krassner |
Author |
9-Apr-1932 |
|
Editor, The Realist |
| Irving Kristol |
Columnist |
1920 |
|
Influential neocon |
| Stanley Kubrick |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1928 |
7-Mar-1999 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Melvin J. Lasky |
Journalist |
15-Jan-1920 |
19-May-2004 |
Editor of journal Encounter |
| Ralph Lauren |
Fashion Designer |
14-Oct-1939 |
|
Founder, Polo Ralph Lauren |
| Marc Lawrence |
Actor |
17-Feb-1910 |
28-Nov-2005 |
Prolific character actor |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Kenneth Levy |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Founder of KLA Instruments |
| Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
| Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
| Bernard Malamud |
Author |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
The Fixer |
| John Marley |
Actor |
17-Oct-1907 |
22-May-1984 |
Godfather horsehead recipient |
| Abraham Maslow |
Psychologist |
1-Apr-1908 |
8-Jun-1970 |
Hierarchy of Needs |
| Jackie Mason |
Comic |
9-Jun-1934 |
|
The World According to Me! |
| Arno J. Mayer |
Historian |
19-Jun-1926 |
|
Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist |
| Butterfly McQueen |
Actor |
7-Jan-1911 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Gone with the Wind |
| Dick Miller |
Actor |
25-Dec-1928 |
|
A Bucket of Blood |
| Henry Miller |
Author |
26-Dec-1891 |
7-Jun-1980 |
Tropic of Cancer |
| Mark E. Mlotek |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
EVP at Henry Schein |
| Zero Mostel |
Actor |
28-Feb-1915 |
8-Sep-1977 |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Politician |
16-Mar-1927 |
26-Mar-2003 |
US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 |
| Lewis Mumford |
Historian |
19-Oct-1895 |
26-Jan-1990 |
Technics and Civilization |
| Barnett Newman |
Painter |
29-Jan-1905 |
3-Jul-1970 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Jean Nidetch |
Business |
12-Oct-1923 |
|
Weight Watchers founder |
| Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
| Brock Peters |
Actor |
2-Jul-1927 |
23-Aug-2005 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Leo Pfeffer |
Scholar |
25-Dec-1910 |
4-Jun-1993 |
Religious liberty scholar, attorney |
| Adam Clayton Powell |
Politician |
29-Nov-1908 |
4-Apr-1972 |
Congressman from New York, 1945-71 |
| Colin Powell |
Government |
5-Apr-1937 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2001-05 |
| A. Philip Randolph |
Activist |
15-Apr-1889 |
16-May-1979 |
20th century civil rights leader |
| Edward G. Robinson |
Actor |
12-Dec-1893 |
26-Jan-1973 |
Key Largo |
| Julius Rosenberg |
Spy |
12-May-1918 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR |
| Abe Rosenthal |
Journalist |
2-May-1922 |
10-May-2006 |
NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86 |
| Judith Rossner |
Novelist |
31-Mar-1935 |
9-Aug-2005 |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Henry Roth |
Author |
8-Feb-1906 |
13-Oct-1995 |
Call It Sleep |
| Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
| Robert Scheer |
Columnist |
4-Apr-1936 |
|
Former L.A. Times columnist |
| Richard Schiff |
Actor |
27-May-1955 |
|
The West Wing |
| Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
| Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
| Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
|
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
| Bernard L. Schwartz |
Business |
12-Dec-1926 |
|
CEO of Loral Corporation, 1972-2006 |
| Julius Schwartz |
Cartoonist |
19-Jun-1915 |
8-Feb-2004 |
Silver Age comics pioneer |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| Terry Semel |
Business |
24-Feb-1943 |
|
CEO of Yahoo, 2001-07 |
| Ben Shahn |
Painter |
12-Sep-1898 |
14-Mar-1969 |
American Social Realist painter |
| Russell Simmons |
Business |
4-Oct-1957 |
|
Def Jam Records |
| Upton Sinclair |
Novelist |
20-Sep-1878 |
25-Nov-1968 |
The Jungle |
| Morton Sobell |
Criminal |
11-Apr-1917 |
|
Rosenbergs Co-Defendant |
| William Steig |
Cartoonist |
14-Nov-1907 |
3-Oct-2003 |
Shrek, The New Yorker |
| Sy Sternberg |
Business |
24-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of New York Life |
| Keith Sweat |
Musician |
22-Jul-1961 |
|
Make It Last Forever |
| Jean Toomer |
Author |
26-Dec-1894 |
30-Mar-1967 |
Cane |
| Martin Turchin |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Vice Chairman of CB Richard Ellis |
| Robert F. Wagner, Sr. |
Politician |
8-Jun-1877 |
4-May-1953 |
US Senator from New York, 1927-49 |
| Eli Wallach |
Actor |
7-Dec-1915 |
|
The Magnificent Seven |
| Eric Walrond |
Author |
18-Dec-1898 |
8-Aug-1966 |
Tropic Death |
| Wendy Wasserstein |
Playwright |
18-Oct-1950 |
30-Jan-2006 |
The Heidi Chronicles |
| Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
1927 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
| Allen Weinstein |
Historian |
1-Sep-1937 |
|
US National Archivist |
| Walter White |
Activist |
1-Jul-1893 |
21-Mar-1955 |
Worked against lynchings |
| Grant Williams |
Actor |
18-Aug-1930 |
28-Jul-1985 |
The Incredible Shrinking Man |
| Albert Wohlstetter |
Author |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |
| Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
| Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |
