| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Abbott |
Head of State |
12-Mar-1821 |
30-Oct-1893 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1891-93 |
| Burt Bacharach |
Pianist |
12-May-1929 |
|
Incomparable composer of lounge music |
| Georges Berthoin |
Politician |
17-May-1925 |
|
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair 1973-92 |
| Conrad Black |
Business |
25-Aug-1944 |
|
Rapacious newspaper mogul |
| Charles Bronfman |
Business |
27-Jun-1931 |
|
Fifth richest person in Canada |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. |
Business |
20-Jun-1929 |
|
CEO of Seagram's until 1994 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| Bay Buchanan |
Government |
23-Dec-1948 |
|
US Treasurer, 1981-83 |
| John Burns |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1944 |
|
New York Times correspondent |
| John E. Cleghorn |
Business |
7-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Royal Bank of Canada, 1995-2001 |
| Leonard Cohen |
Singer/Songwriter |
21-Sep-1934 |
|
Everybody Knows |
| François J. Coutu |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
President, Jean Coutu Canada |
| Paul G. Desmarais, Jr. |
Business |
3-Jul-1954 |
|
Co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada |
| Paul G. Desmarais |
Business |
4-Jan-1927 |
|
CEO, Power Corporation of Canada, 1968-96 |
| James Donald |
Actor |
18-May-1917 |
3-Aug-1993 |
Third Man on the Mountain |
| Charles Drew |
Doctor |
3-Jun-1904 |
1-Apr-1950 |
First to separate blood plasma |
| Ken Dryden |
Hockey |
8-Aug-1947 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer, Canadian MP |
| Victor J. Dzau |
Doctor |
1946 |
|
CEO of Duke University Health System |
| Leon Edel |
Author |
9-Sep-1907 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Biographer of Henry James |
| Maria S. Eitel |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
President of the Nike Foundation |
| Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
| H. John Greeniaus |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Nabisco, 1993-97 |
| Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
| S. I. Hayakawa |
Politician |
19-Jul-1906 |
27-Feb-1992 |
Semanticist and US Senator |
| Jayne Heitmeyer |
Actor |
30-Oct-1960 |
|
Earth: Final Conflict |
| Laurie Holden |
Actor |
17-Dec-1972 |
|
Silent Hill |
| David H. Hubel |
Scientist |
27-Feb-1926 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Jennifer Irwin |
Actor |
17-Jun-1975 |
|
Linda Michaels on Still Standing |
| Donna Soble Kaufman |
Business |
1943 |
|
Canadian corporate director |
| Charles Krauthammer |
Columnist |
13-Mar-1950 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Wilfrid Laurier |
Head of State |
20-Nov-1841 |
17-Feb-1919 |
Canadian Prime Minister |
| Jack Layton |
Politician |
18-Jul-1950 |
|
Leader of Canada's NDP |
| David Lewis |
Politician |
23-Jun-1909 |
23-May-1981 |
Leader of Canada's NDP, 1971-75 |
| Rilwanu Lukman |
Government |
26-Aug-1938 |
|
Secretary General of OPEC, 1995-2000 |
| Gerald Luterman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CFO of KeySpan, 1999-2007 |
| Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
| Cameron Mathison |
Actor |
25-Aug-1969 |
|
All My Children |
| John McCallum |
Politician |
9-Apr-1950 |
|
Canadian MP, Markham--Unionville |
| Paul Moller |
Inventor |
1937 |
|
The Skycar |
| Eric H. Molson |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Chairman of Molson Coors Brewing |
| Claude Mongeau |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
CFO of Canadian National Railway |
| Allan Moyle |
Film Director |
1947 |
|
Pump Up the Volume |
| James Naismith |
Basketball |
6-Nov-1861 |
28-Nov-1939 |
Inventor of Basketball |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
|
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| David P. O'Brien |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Chairman, Royal Bank of Canada |
| Kevin O'Neill |
Basketball |
24-Jan-1957 |
|
Interim Head Coach, U. of Arizona |
| William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
| Lester Patrick |
Hockey |
30-Dec-1883 |
1-Jun-1960 |
NY Rangers Head Coach, 1926-39 |
| Steven Pinker |
Linguist |
18-Sep-1954 |
|
The Language Instinct |
| Dick Pound |
Attorney |
22-Mar-1942 |
|
Canadian Olympic official |
| Andrew V. Schally |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1926 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Harold T. Shapiro |
Educator |
8-Jun-1935 |
|
President of Princeton, 1988-2000 |
| William Shatner |
Actor |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Captain Kirk on Star Trek |
| Louis St. Laurent |
Head of State |
1-Feb-1882 |
25-Jul-1973 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1948-57 |
| Charles Taylor |
Philosopher |
5-Nov-1931 |
|
Sources of the Self |
| Gordon Thomson |
Actor |
3-Mar-1945 |
|
Adam Carrington on Dynasty |
| Lionel Tiger |
Educator |
1937 |
|
The Decline of Males |
| Peter S. Watson |
Government |
1953 |
|
CEO of OPIC, 2001-05 |
| Michael B. Wood |
Doctor |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of the Mayo Foundation, 1999-2003 |
| Mort Zuckerman |
Business |
4-Jun-1937 |
|
Owner, New York Daily News |
