Founded as New Towne in 1630.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Bhumibol Adulyadej |
Royalty |
5-Dec-1927 |
13-Oct-2016 |
King of Thailand, 1946-2016 |
| Fred Allen |
Comic |
31-May-1894 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Town Hall Tonight |
| Leroy Anderson |
Composer |
29-Jun-1908 |
18-May-1975 |
The Syncopated Clock |
| Hugh Bancroft |
Publisher |
13-Sep-1879 |
17-Oct-1933 |
President of Dow Jones, 1928-31 |
| Walworth Barbour |
Diplomat |
4-Jun-1908 |
21-Jul-1982 |
US Ambassador to Israel, 1961-73 |
| Peter Beinart |
Columnist |
1971 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Charles Bickford |
Actor |
1-Jan-1891 |
9-Nov-1967 |
The Song of Bernadette |
| Traci Bingham |
Actor |
13-Jan-1968 |
|
Baywatch, Surreal Life |
| David F. Bradford |
Economist |
8-Jan-1939 |
22-Feb-2005 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
High-pressure physics |
| Phil Brown |
Actor |
30-Apr-1916 |
9-Feb-2006 |
Uncle Owen in Star Wars |
| Jere Burns |
Actor |
15-Oct-1954 |
|
Breughel on Max Headroom |
| Thomas Dudley Cabot |
Business |
1-May-1897 |
8-Jun-1995 |
CEO of Cabot, 1922-60 |
| e. e. cummings |
Poet |
14-Oct-1894 |
3-Sep-1962 |
Majuscule-challenged American poet |
| Jane Curtin |
Actor |
6-Sep-1947 |
|
SNL, Third Rock from the Sun |
| Matt Damon |
Actor |
8-Oct-1970 |
|
Good Will Hunting |
| Richard Henry Dana |
Author |
1-Aug-1815 |
6-Jan-1882 |
Two Years Before the Mast |
| Susan Davis |
Politician |
13-Apr-1944 |
|
Congresswoman, California 53rd |
| Eddy Duchin |
Pianist |
1-Apr-1909 |
9-Feb-1951 |
The Magic Fingers of Radio |
| Kitty Dukakis |
First Lady |
26-Dec-1936 |
|
Wife of Michael Dukakis |
| Charles F. Dunbar |
Diplomat |
1-Apr-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91 |
| Thomas Byrne Edsall |
Journalist |
22-Aug-1941 |
|
Columnist, The New York Times |
| Luigi R. Einaudi |
Diplomat |
1-Mar-1936 |
|
Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05 |
| Bruce Fein |
Government |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Reagan lawyer |
| Frank Fontaine |
Actor |
19-Apr-1920 |
4-Aug-1978 |
Crazy Guggenheim |
| Maya Forbes |
Film Director |
23-Jul-1968 |
|
Infinitely Polar Bear |
| Margaret Fuller |
Author |
23-May-1810 |
19-Jul-1850 |
Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
| Paul Michael Glaser |
Actor |
25-Mar-1943 |
|
Starsky and Hutch |
| William Dodd Hathaway |
Politician |
21-Feb-1924 |
24-Jun-2013 |
US Senator from Maine, 1973-79 |
| Chuck Hoberman |
Inventor |
1956 |
|
Creator of unfolding structures |
| Johnny Hodges |
Jazz Musician |
25-Jul-1907 |
11-May-1970 |
Jazz alto saxophonist |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Alanson B. Houghton |
Diplomat |
10-Oct-1863 |
15-Sep-1941 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29 |
| David Ignatius |
Columnist |
1950 |
|
Washington Post op-ed columnist |
| Ann Jillian |
Actor |
29-Jan-1951 |
|
Ellis Island |
| Mindy Kaling |
Actor |
24-Jun-1979 |
|
Kelly Kapoor on The Office |
| Lawrence S. Kaplan |
Historian |
28-Oct-1924 |
|
NATO and the United States |
| Chris Langton |
Biologist |
1948 |
|
Father of Artificial Life |
| Richard Libertini |
Actor |
21-May-1933 |
7-Jan-2016 |
The In-Laws |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Ray Magliozzi |
Radio Personality |
30-Mar-1949 |
|
"Don't drive like my brother" |
| Anne McCaffrey |
Author |
1-Apr-1926 |
21-Nov-2011 |
Pern series |
| Douglass C. North |
Economist |
5-Nov-1920 |
23-Nov-2015 |
Cliometrics |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
| Joan O'Brien |
Actor |
14-Feb-1936 |
|
Operation Petticoat |
| Tip O'Neill |
Politician |
9-Dec-1912 |
5-Jan-1994 |
Speaker of the House, 1977-87 |
| Charles Sanders Peirce |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1839 |
19-Apr-1914 |
Founder of Pragmatism |
| Rebecca Pidgeon |
Actor |
10-Oct-1965 |
|
The Spanish Prisoner |
| Jim Pinkerton |
Pundit |
11-Mar-1958 |
|
Fox News Watch |
| Richard Preston |
Author |
5-Aug-1954 |
|
The Hot Zone |
| Roxanne Quimby |
Business |
1950 |
|
Co-Founder, Burt's Bees |
| Alan Rachins |
Actor |
3-Oct-1942 |
|
Larry Finkelstein on Dharma & Greg |
| Ted Rall |
Cartoonist |
26-Aug-1963 |
|
Godless heathen cartoonist |
| Donald Regan |
Government |
21-Dec-1918 |
10-Jun-2003 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85 |
| Lloyd S. Shapley |
Mathematician |
2-Jun-1923 |
12-Mar-2016 |
Theory of stable allocations |
| Elaine Showalter |
Critic |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Lead alpha Gynocritic |
| Richard D. Simmons |
Business |
30-Dec-1934 |
|
President of Washington Post Co., 1981-91 |
| Otis Skinner |
Actor |
28-Jun-1858 |
4-Jan-1942 |
American stage actor |
| Monteagle Stearns |
Diplomat |
5-Dec-1924 |
14-May-2016 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85 |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Russi Taylor |
Actor |
4-May-1944 |
|
Voice of Minnie Mouse |
| Eddie Waitkus |
Baseball |
4-Sep-1919 |
16-Sep-1972 |
Prototype of The Natural |
| Sam Waterston |
Actor |
15-Nov-1940 |
|
Asst DA Jack McCoy on Law & Order |
| Steven Wright |
Comic |
6-Dec-1955 |
|
King of Wry |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Louis Agassiz |
Paleontologist |
28-May-1807 |
14-Dec-1873 |
Ichthyologist at Harvard |
| Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
| Washington Allston |
Painter |
5-Nov-1779 |
9-Jul-1843 |
The Dead Man Revived |
| Irving Babbitt |
Philosopher |
2-Aug-1865 |
15-Jul-1933 |
Early leader of Neohumanism |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| John Bartlett |
Author |
14-Jun-1820 |
3-Dec-1905 |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
| Edward Bernays |
Business |
22-Nov-1891 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Propaganda |
| E. Power Biggs |
Organist |
29-Mar-1906 |
10-Mar-1977 |
Anglo-American organist |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| George Phillips Bond |
Astronomer |
20-May-1825 |
17-Feb-1865 |
Father of astrophotography |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| Annie Jump Cannon |
Astronomer |
11-Dec-1863 |
13-Apr-1941 |
Census-taker of the sky |
| Al Capp |
Cartoonist |
28-Sep-1909 |
5-Nov-1979 |
Creator of Li'l Abner |
| Alfred Chandler |
Historian |
15-Sep-1918 |
9-May-2007 |
Business historian |
| Edward Channing |
Historian |
15-Jun-1856 |
7-Jan-1931 |
A History of the United States |
| Alvan Clark |
Astronomer |
8-Mar-1804 |
19-Aug-1887 |
Telescope maker |
| Carl Cori |
Scientist |
5-Dec-1896 |
20-Oct-1984 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Martin Deutsch |
Physicist |
29-Jun-1917 |
16-Aug-2002 |
Discovered positronium |
| Foster Furcolo |
Politician |
29-Jul-1911 |
5-Jul-1995 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1957-61 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
Economist |
15-Oct-1908 |
29-Apr-2006 |
Modern economics renegade |
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1824 |
26-Nov-1896 |
American astronomer and star-catalogist |
| Asa Gray |
Botanist |
18-Nov-1810 |
30-Jan-1888 |
Botany of the Northern United States |
| Zvi Griliches |
Economist |
12-Sep-1930 |
4-Nov-1999 |
Technology, Education, and Productivity |
| Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
| Oscar Handlin |
Historian |
29-Sep-1915 |
20-Sep-2011 |
The Uprooted |
| Stanley Hoffmann |
Historian |
27-Nov-1928 |
13-Sep-2015 |
Gulliver's Troubles |
| Justin Kaplan |
Author |
5-Sep-1925 |
2-Mar-2014 |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| Charles P. Kindleberger |
Economist |
12-Oct-1910 |
7-Jul-2003 |
The World in Depression |
| Basil King |
Novelist |
26-Feb-1859 |
22-Jun-1928 |
The Inner Shrine |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Astronomer |
4-Jul-1868 |
12-Dec-1921 |
Cepheid variable |
| Anthony Lewis |
Journalist |
27-Mar-1927 |
25-Mar-2013 |
Gideon's Trumpet |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
14-Apr-2011 |
Chemical bonding |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Poet |
27-Feb-1807 |
24-Mar-1882 |
Evangeline |
| Edward Lorenz |
Scientist |
23-May-1917 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Chaos theory |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Frederick Merk |
Historian |
15-Aug-1887 |
24-Sep-1977 |
Slavery and the Annexation of Texas |
| Perry Miller |
Historian |
25-Feb-1905 |
9-Dec-1963 |
The New England Mind |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
| Robert Nozick |
Philosopher |
16-Nov-1938 |
23-Jan-2002 |
Libertarian philosopher |
| Charles Sumner Olcott |
Author |
20-Feb-1864 |
3-May-1935 |
The Life of William McKinley |
| Robert B. Parker |
Novelist |
17-Sep-1932 |
18-Jan-2010 |
Spenser |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Edward Charles Pickering |
Astronomer |
19-Jul-1846 |
3-Feb-1919 |
Photometer inventor and surveyor |
| Eleanor H. Porter |
Novelist |
19-Dec-1868 |
21-May-1920 |
Pollyanna |
| Roscoe Pound |
Judge |
27-Oct-1870 |
1-Jul-1964 |
Sociological jurisprudence |
| E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Philip Rahv |
Critic |
10-Mar-1908 |
22-Dec-1973 |
Co-Founder, Partisan Review |
| John Rawls |
Philosopher |
21-Feb-1921 |
24-Nov-2002 |
A Theory of Justice |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Atomic weights |
| William Barton Rogers |
Educator |
7-Dec-1804 |
30-May-1882 |
Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Bruno Rossi |
Astronomer |
13-Apr-1905 |
21-Nov-1993 |
Rossi curve and magnetopause |
| Josiah Royce |
Philosopher |
20-Nov-1855 |
14-Sep-1916 |
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy |
| George Sarton |
Historian |
31-Aug-1884 |
22-Mar-1956 |
Introduction to the History of Science |
| William Shurcliff |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1909 |
20-Jun-2006 |
Manhattan Project physicist |
| B. F. Skinner |
Psychologist |
20-Mar-1904 |
18-Aug-1990 |
Radical Behaviorism |
| Jared Sparks |
Author |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
| Monteagle Stearns |
Diplomat |
5-Dec-1924 |
14-May-2016 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85 |
| Joseph Story |
Judge |
18-Sep-1779 |
10-Sep-1845 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45 |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Fred Whipple |
Astronomer |
5-Nov-1906 |
30-Aug-2004 |
Comet Guy |
| Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
| Justin Winsor |
Curator |
2-Jan-1831 |
22-Oct-1897 |
Librarian of Harvard University |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
