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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Sheldon Adelson
Business
1-Aug-1933   Las Vegas billionaire
Shmuel Agnon
Author
17-Jul-1888 17-Feb-1970 'Tmol Shilshom
Izzy Asper
Business
11-Aug-1932 7-Oct-2003 Founder, CanWest Global
Isaac Babel
Author
1-Jul-1894 27-Jan-1940 Soviet master of short stories
Hector Babenco
Film Director
7-Feb-1946   Kiss of the Spider Woman
Oksana Baiul
Figure Skating
16-Nov-1977   Olympic figure skater
Albert Bandura
Psychologist
4-Dec-1925   Bobo doll experiments
Charlene Barshefsky
Diplomat
11-Aug-1950   US Trade Representative, 1997-2001
Bruce A. Beutler
Biologist
29-Dec-1957   Lipopolysaccharide receptors
Herbert C. Brown
Chemist
22-May-1912 19-Dec-2004 Discovered organoboranes
Neko Case
Singer/Songwriter
8-Sep-1970   New Pornographers
Erwin Chargaff
Biologist
11-Aug-1905 20-Jun-2002 Biochemist at Columbia University
Kiran Chetry
Journalist
26-Aug-1974   CNN anchor
Cid Corman
Poet
29-Jun-1924 12-Mar-2004 Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Rick Danko
Singer
9-Dec-1943 10-Dec-1999 The Band
Mike Ditka
Football
18-Oct-1939   Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1982-92
Edward Dmytryk
Film Director
4-Sep-1908 1-Jul-1999 The Caine Mutiny
T. G. Dobzhansky
Scientist
25-Jan-1900 18-Dec-1975 Genetics and the Origin of Species
Erika Eleniak
Actor
29-Sep-1969   Shauni on Baywatch
Vera Farmiga
Actor
6-Aug-1973   Down to the Bone
Russ Feingold
Politician
2-Mar-1953   US Senator from Wisconsin, 1993-2011
Dianne Foster
Actor
31-Oct-1928   The Last Hurrah
Sam Fox
Business
9-May-1929   US Ambassador to Belgium
George Gamow
Physicist
4-Mar-1904 19-Aug-1968 Proponent of Big Bang Theory
David Geffen
Business
21-Feb-1943   Music and movie industry mogul
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
15-Sep-1929   Quarks and strangeness
Erving Goffman
Sociologist
11-Jun-1922 19-Nov-1982 The Presentation of Self
Maurice Goldhaber
Physicist
18-Apr-1911 11-May-2011 Neutrons
Duff Goldman
Chef
17-Dec-1974   Ace of Cakes
Raisa Gorbachev
First Lady
5-Jan-1932 20-Sep-1999 First Lady of the Soviet Union
David J. Gross
Physicist
19-Feb-1941   Deep structure of matter
Alexander Grothendieck
Mathematician
28-May-1928   Grothendieck topologies
Armand Hammer
Business
21-May-1898 10-Dec-1990 Soviet agent of influence
Dale Hawerchuk
Hockey
4-Apr-1963   NHL Hall of Famer
Jill Hennessy
Actor
25-Nov-1968   Crossing Jordan
Roald Hoffmann
Chemist
18-Jul-1937   Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
H. Robert Horvitz
Scientist
8-May-1947   Genetic regulation of organ development
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Film Director
7-Feb-1929   El Topo
Philip M. Kaiser
Diplomat
12-Jul-1913 24-May-2007 US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81
Eric R. Kandel
Scientist
7-Nov-1929   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Erin Karpluk
Actor
17-Oct-1978   Erica Strange on Being Erica
Larry Klayman
Activist
20-Jul-1951   Founder, Judicial Watch
Lee Krasner
Painter
27-Oct-1908 19-Jun-1984 Abstract expressionist
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Anton LaVey
Religion
11-Apr-1930 29-Oct-1997 Founder, Church of Satan
Traci Lords
Pornstar
7-May-1968   We Love You, Traci
Ranan Lurie
Cartoonist
26-May-1932   Hugely popular political cartoonist
Trofim Lysenko
Scientist
29-Sep-1898 20-Nov-1976 Dazzled Stalin with false genetic theory
Mike Mazurki
Actor
25-Dec-1907 9-Dec-1990 Murder, My Sweet
Edward Mezvinsky
Politician
17-Jan-1937   Congressman from Iowa, 1973-77
George Montgomery
Actor
29-Aug-1916 12-Dec-2000 Coney Island
Bronko Nagurski
Football
3-Nov-1908 7-Jan-1990 NFL Hall of Famer
Leonard Nimoy
Actor
26-Mar-1931   Commander Spock on Star Trek
Larisa Oleynik
Actor
7-Jun-1981   The Secret World of Alex Mack
Mollie Orshansky
Economist
9-Jan-1915 18-Dec-2006 Orshansky Index
Jack Palance
Actor
18-Feb-1919 10-Nov-2006 Performed one-handed push-ups
Grace Paley
Author
11-Dec-1922 22-Aug-2007 The Little Disturbances of Man
Nikolai Podgorny
Head of State
18-Feb-1903 11-Jan-1983 President of the USSR, 1965-77
Sidney Reilly
Spy
24-Mar-1874 5-Nov-1925 Ace of Spies
Randi Rhodes
Radio Personality
28-Jan-1959   Liberal talk show host
Henry Roth
Author
8-Feb-1906 13-Oct-1995 Call It Sleep
Mike Royko
Columnist
19-Sep-1932 29-Apr-1997 Syndicated Chicago columnist
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Novelist
27-Jan-1836 9-Mar-1895 Venus in Furs
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
9-Nov-1934 20-Dec-1996 Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Flip Saunders
Basketball
23-Feb-1955   Head Coach, Detroit Pistons
Terry Sawchuk
Hockey
28-Dec-1929 31-May-1970 Goalie, NHL Hall of Famer
Bob Schaffer
Politician
24-Jul-1962   Congressman from Colorado, 1997-2003
David Schizer
Educator
c. 1968   Dean of Columbia Law School
Selim II
Royalty
28-May-1524 15-Dec-1574 Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74
Iosif S. Shklovskii
Astronomer
1-Jul-1916 3-Mar-1985 Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula
Mikhail Sholokhov
Author
24-May-1905 21-Feb-1984 The Silent Don
Elaine Showalter
Critic
21-Jan-1941   Lead alpha Gynocritic
Michael Showalter
Comic
17-Jun-1970   The State
Joe Shuster
Cartoonist
10-Jul-1914 30-Jul-1992 Co-Creator of Superman
Igor Sikorsky
Business
25-May-1889 26-Oct-1972 Helicopter magnate
Beverly Sills
Singer
25-May-1929 2-Jul-2007 Soprano at the New York City Opera
Yakov Smirnoff
Comic
24-Jan-1951   What a country
Arlen Specter
Politician
12-Feb-1930   US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011
Otto Struve
Astronomer
12-Aug-1897 6-Apr-1963 Hydrogen in the interstellar medium
Igor Y. Tamm
Physicist
8-Jul-1895 12-Apr-1971 Cherenkov radiation
Henry Taube
Chemist
30-Nov-1915 16-Nov-2005 Mechanisms of electron transfer
Stephen Timoshenko
Engineer
23-Dec-1878 29-May-1972 Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Jonathan Togo
Actor
25-Aug-1977   Ryan Wolfe on CSI: Miami
Eugene Volokh
Blogger
29-Feb-1968   Volokh Conspiracy
Georgy Voronoy
Mathematician
28-Apr-1868 20-Nov-1908 Voronoi diagram
Selman A. Waksman
Scientist
22-Jul-1888 16-Aug-1973 Streptomycin and other antibiotics
Mike Wallace
Journalist
9-May-1918 7-Apr-2012 Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent
Jude Wanniski
Columnist
17-Jun-1936 29-Aug-2005 Supply-side theorist
Simon Wiesenthal
Activist
31-Dec-1908 20-Sep-2005 Nazi hunter
Adele Wiseman
Author
21-May-1928 1-Jun-1992 The Sacrifice
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poet
18-Jul-1933   Babi Yar


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