| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Jacob Astor |
Business |
17-Jul-1763 |
29-Mar-1848 |
Wealthiest man in America |
| John Jacob Astor |
Philanthropist |
13-Jul-1864 |
15-Apr-1912 |
Died aboard the Titanic |
| John James Audubon |
Naturalist |
26-Apr-1785 |
27-Jan-1851 |
Illustrated Birds of America |
| William Bradford |
Publisher |
20-May-1663 |
23-May-1752 |
Colonial American printer |
| John Adams Dix |
Politician |
24-Jul-1798 |
21-Apr-1879 |
Governor of New York, 1873-75 |
| Ralph Ellison |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1914 |
16-Apr-1994 |
Invisible Man |
| Robert Fulton |
Inventor |
14-Nov-1765 |
24-Feb-1815 |
Inventor of the submarine and steamboat |
| Albert Gallatin |
Politician |
29-Jan-1761 |
12-Aug-1849 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1801-14 |
| Horatio Gates |
Military |
1728 |
10-Apr-1806 |
Defeated General Burgoyne at Saratoga |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
| Francis Lewis |
Politician |
21-Mar-1713 |
30-Dec-1802 |
Signatory to Declaration of Independence |
| Clement Clarke Moore |
Poet |
15-Jul-1779 |
10-Jul-1863 |
'Twas the Night Before Christmas |
| Jerry Orbach |
Actor |
20-Oct-1935 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order |
| John Peter Zenger |
Journalist |
c. 1697 |
28-Jul-1746 |
Sedition against the Crown |
