Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
Walter S. Adams |
Astronomer |
20-Dec-1876 |
11-May-1956 |
Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory |
Jonathan S. Adelstein |
Government |
1962 |
|
FCC Commissioner |
Jonathan Alter |
Columnist |
6-Oct-1957 |
|
Newsweek Senior Editor |
Charles Arnt |
Actor |
20-Aug-1906 |
6-Aug-1990 |
Remember the Night |
Edward Bass |
Philanthropist |
10-Sep-1945 |
|
Billionaire, Biosphere proponent |
Randall Batinkoff |
Actor |
16-Oct-1968 |
|
For Keeps |
Anthony Beilenson |
Politician |
26-Oct-1932 |
|
Congressman from California, 1977-97 |
Bill Belichick |
Football |
16-Apr-1952 |
|
Head Coach, New England Patriots |
Michael Beschloss |
Historian |
30-Nov-1955 |
|
The Conquerors |
Hiram Bingham |
Politician |
19-Nov-1875 |
6-Jun-1956 |
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu |
Humphrey Bogart |
Actor |
25-Dec-1899 |
14-Jan-1957 |
Casablanca |
L. Paul Bremer |
Government |
30-Sep-1941 |
|
Director of the Iraq Provisional Authority |
Richard H. Brodhead |
Educator |
17-Apr-1947 |
|
President, Duke University |
Bruce C. Bruckmann |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Novelist |
1-Sep-1875 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Tarzan |
George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
George W. Bush |
Head of State |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
43rd US President, 2001-09 |
Jeb Bush |
Politician |
11-Feb-1953 |
|
Governor of Florida, 1999-2007 |
Prescott S. Bush, Jr. |
Relative |
10-Aug-1922 |
23-Jun-2010 |
Brother of George H.W. Bush |
Lincoln Chafee |
Politician |
26-Mar-1953 |
|
Governor of Rhode Island, 2011-15 |
Otis Chandler |
Publisher |
23-Nov-1927 |
27-Feb-2006 |
Publisher of the L.A. Times, 1960-80 |
Christian Clemenson |
Actor |
17-Mar-1958 |
|
Dr. Tom Loman on CSI: Miami |
Harlan Cleveland |
Government |
19-Jan-1918 |
30-May-2008 |
Futurist, diplomat |
William Sloane Coffin |
Activist |
1-Jun-1924 |
12-Apr-2006 |
Civilly disobedient chaplain |
Frank Converse |
Actor |
22-May-1938 |
|
Will Chandler on Movin' On |
Joseph Cornell |
Sculptor |
24-Dec-1903 |
29-Dec-1972 |
Exponent of Assemblage |
Walter J. P. Curley |
Business |
17-Sep-1922 |
2-Jun-2016 |
US Ambassador to France, 1989-93 |
Peter L. S. Currie |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CFO of Netscape, 1995-99 |
Justin Dart, Jr. |
Activist |
29-Aug-1930 |
22-Jun-2002 |
Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act |
Dana Delany |
Actor |
13-Mar-1956 |
|
China Beach |
Janine DiTullio |
Comic |
? |
|
Brendon's mom on Home Movies |
Douglas A. Donahue, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Managing Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman |
Edward E. Elson |
Diplomat |
c. 1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Denmark, 1994-98 |
Walker Evans |
Photographer |
3-Nov-1903 |
10-Apr-1975 |
Depression-era Photographer |
Moses Farmer |
Inventor |
9-Feb-1820 |
25-May-1893 |
Invented the fire alarm, electric trolley |
Thomas C. Foley |
Business |
9-Jan-1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Ireland, 2006-09 |
Howard Freeman |
Actor |
9-Dec-1899 |
11-Dec-1967 |
Theatre and character actor |
Richard Gelb |
Business |
1924 |
4-Apr-2004 |
CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1972-93 |
David Graeber |
Anthropologist |
12-Feb-1961 |
|
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology |
William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
William Torrey Harris |
Educator |
10-Sep-1835 |
5-Nov-1909 |
US Commissioner of Education |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
Robert S. Ingersoll |
Diplomat |
28-Jan-1914 |
22-Aug-2010 |
CEO of Borg-Warner, 1958-72 |
Andy Ireland |
Politician |
23-Aug-1930 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1977-93 |
Clay Johnson |
Government |
c. 1946 |
|
OMB Deputy Director |
John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
Relative |
25-Nov-1960 |
16-Jul-1999 |
Son of John F. Kennedy |
Patrick Joseph Kennedy |
Politician |
14-Jul-1967 |
|
Congressman from Rhode Island, 1995-2011 |
Richard Kerry |
Diplomat |
28-Jul-1915 |
29-Jul-2000 |
Father of John Kerry |
William S. Knowles |
Chemist |
1-Jun-1917 |
13-Jun-2012 |
Chiral catalysts |
Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
Robert H. Krieble |
Philanthropist |
1916 |
8-May-1997 |
Loctite Corporation |
Edward G. Lanpher |
Diplomat |
8-Dec-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 1991-95 |
Ring Lardner, Jr. |
Playwright |
19-Aug-1915 |
31-Oct-2000 |
Screenwriter, M*A*S*H |
Jack Lemmon |
Actor |
8-Feb-1925 |
27-Jun-2001 |
The Odd Couple |
William M. Lewis, Jr. |
Business |
30-Apr-1956 |
|
Co-Chair Investment Banking at Lazard |
Perry J. Lewis III |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Heartland Industrial Partners |
Lewis Libby |
Government |
22-Aug-1950 |
|
Cheney's former Chief of Staff |
James B. Longley, Jr. |
Politician |
7-Jul-1951 |
|
Congressman from Maine, 1995-97 |
Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
Torbert H. Macdonald |
Politician |
6-Jun-1917 |
21-May-1976 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1955-76 |
Jeff MacNelly |
Cartoonist |
17-Sep-1948 |
8-Jun-2000 |
Editorial cartoonist, Shoe |
John Macomber |
Business |
13-Jan-1928 |
|
JDM Investment Group |
George Perkins Marsh |
Author |
15-Mar-1801 |
23-Jul-1882 |
Ecologist and camel enthusiast |
Barry McCaffrey |
Government |
17-Nov-1942 |
|
White House Drug Czar, 1996-2001 |
Tom Mesereau |
Attorney |
1950 |
|
Defended Michael Jackson |
Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
24-Jan-2016 |
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
William H. Moody |
Judge |
23-Feb-1853 |
2-Jul-1917 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1906-10 |
Samuel F. B. Morse |
Inventor |
27-Apr-1791 |
2-Apr-1872 |
Telegraph inventor and publicist |
Lachlan Murdoch |
Business |
8-Sep-1971 |
|
Son of Rupert Murdoch |
N. J. Nicholas, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Time Inc., 1986-90 |
Anthony Quainton |
Diplomat |
4-Apr-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1989-92 |
Josiah Quincy |
Educator |
4-Feb-1772 |
1-Jul-1864 |
President of Harvard, 1829-45 |
Archie Roosevelt |
Relative |
9-Apr-1894 |
13-Oct-1979 |
Conservative leader against New Deal |
Evans Rose |
Attorney |
10-Mar-1932 |
20-Jul-2012 |
Cohen & Grigsby |
Matt Salinger |
Actor |
13-Feb-1960 |
|
Son of J.D. Salinger |
Stacy Schiff |
Journalist |
26-Oct-1961 |
|
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
Robert W. Selander |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Mastercard |
James M. Shannon |
Politician |
4-Apr-1952 |
|
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1979-85 |
Duncan Sheik |
Musician |
18-Nov-1969 |
|
Barely Breathing |
Stanley S. Shuman |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
Allen & Company |
Peter Smith |
Educator |
31-Oct-1945 |
|
President, CSU Monterey Bay, 1995-2005 |
James Spader |
Actor |
7-Feb-1960 |
|
Sex, Lies, and Videotape |
Huntley N. Spaulding |
Politician |
29-Oct-1869 |
14-Nov-1955 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1927-29 |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
James B. Steinberg |
Government |
7-May-1953 |
|
Deputy Secretary of State |
Joshua Steiner |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Quadrangle Group |
Frank Stella |
Painter |
12-May-1936 |
|
Minimalist painter, later mixed media artist |
William E. Stevenson |
Diplomat |
25-Oct-1900 |
2-Apr-1985 |
US Ambassador to the Philippines, 1962-64 |
Henry L. Stimson |
Government |
21-Sep-1867 |
20-Oct-1950 |
US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45 |
Jeffrey Swartz |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
President and CEO of Timberland |
Oscar Tang |
Philanthropist |
1938 |
|
Chinese-American philanthropist |
Thomas D. Thacher |
Attorney |
10-Sep-1881 |
12-Nov-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1930-33 |
Evan Thomas |
Journalist |
25-Apr-1951 |
|
Newsweek |
Ward J. Timken, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1967 |
|
Chairman of Timken |
William R. Timken, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany |
John H. Tory |
Business |
28-May-1954 |
|
CEO of Rogers Cable, 1999-2003 |
Alexander Trowbridge |
Politician |
12-Dec-1929 |
27-Apr-2006 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1967-68 |
Bill Veeck |
Baseball |
9-Feb-1914 |
2-Jan-1986 |
Chicago White Sox owner |
William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
George H. Whipple |
Scientist |
28-Aug-1878 |
2-Feb-1976 |
Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
|
Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
Olivia Wilde |
Actor |
10-Mar-1984 |
|
Skin |
Nathaniel Parker Willis |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1806 |
20-Jan-1867 |
Pencillings by the Way |
Dick Wolf |
Film/TV Producer |
20-Dec-1946 |
|
Producer of Law and Order |
Michael M. Wood |
Business |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Sweden |