Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Cleveland Abbe |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1838 |
28-Oct-1916 |
America's first weatherman |
Joey Adams |
Comic |
6-Jan-1911 |
2-Dec-1999 |
Borscht Belt comedian |
Joseph P. Addabbo |
Politician |
17-Mar-1925 |
10-Apr-1986 |
Congressman from New York, 1961-86 |
Fred E. Ahlert |
Composer |
19-Sep-1892 |
20-Oct-1953 |
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter |
Irwin Allen |
Film/TV Producer |
12-Jun-1916 |
2-Nov-1991 |
The Master of Disaster |
Woody Allen |
Film Director |
1-Dec-1935 |
|
Annie Hall |
Néstor Almendros |
Cinematographer |
30-Oct-1930 |
4-Mar-1992 |
Mauvaise Conduite |
David Antin |
Artist |
1-Feb-1932 |
|
Improv artist, talk poet |
Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
Howard I. Atkins |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CFO of Wells Fargo, 2001-11 |
Robert J. Aumann |
Economist |
8-Jun-1930 |
|
Game theorist |
Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
Dr. Michael Baden |
Doctor |
1934 |
|
Forensic pathologist on HBO's Autopsy |
Herman Badillo |
Politician |
21-Aug-1929 |
3-Dec-2014 |
Congressman from New York, 1971-77 |
William Barrett |
Philosopher |
30-Dec-1913 |
8-Sep-1992 |
Irrational Man |
Bernard M. Baruch |
Business |
19-Aug-1870 |
20-Jun-1965 |
Coined the term Cold War |
Eleanor Baum |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union |
Abraham D. Beame |
Politician |
20-Mar-1906 |
10-Feb-2001 |
Mayor of New York City, 1974-77 |
Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
Gerald A. Benjamin |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CAO of Henry Schein |
Matthew A. Berdon |
Business |
31-Jul-1919 |
27-Mar-2010 |
Senior Partner, F. B. & Co. |
Arthur Berger |
Composer |
15-May-1912 |
7-Oct-2003 |
Ideas of Order |
Alexander Bickel |
Scholar |
17-Dec-1924 |
7-Nov-1974 |
The Least Dangerous Branch |
Leslie S. Biller |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
COO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2002 |
Henry E. Bliss |
Curator |
29-Jan-1870 |
9-Aug-1955 |
Bliss Classification System |
Kurtis Blow |
Rapper |
9-Aug-1959 |
|
The Breaks |
Julie Bovasso |
Actor |
1-Aug-1930 |
14-Sep-1991 |
Saturday Night Fever |
E. R. Braithwaite |
Novelist |
27-Jun-1912 |
|
To Sir, with Love |
Peter J. Brennan |
Government |
24-May-1918 |
2-Oct-1996 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1973-75 |
Abelardo E. Bru |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Frito-Lay, 1999-2004 |
Abe Burrows |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1910 |
17-May-1985 |
Co-Author, Guys and Dolls |
Irving Caesar |
Songwriter |
4-Jul-1895 |
17-Dec-1996 |
Tea for Two |
Rosalind Cash |
Actor |
31-Dec-1938 |
31-Oct-1995 |
The Omega Man |
Robert B. Catell |
Business |
1-Feb-1937 |
|
CEO of KeySpan, 1998-2007 |
Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
William L. Chenevich |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Vice Chairman of Technology, US Bancorp |
Herman Cohen |
Diplomat |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia 1977-80 |
Joel J. Cohen |
Attorney |
c. 1937 |
|
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
Larry Cohen |
Film Director |
15-Jul-1938 |
|
The Stuff |
Morris Raphael Cohen |
Philosopher |
25-Jul-1880 |
28-Jan-1947 |
Reason and Nature |
Luis Cortes |
Religion |
c. 1958 |
|
Esperanza USA |
Herbert Croly |
Author |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
The Promise of American Life |
Julie Dash |
Film Director |
22-Oct-1952 |
|
Daughters of the Dust |
Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
John M. Dionisio |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of AECOM Technology |
Ervin Drake |
Songwriter |
3-Apr-1919 |
15-Jan-2015 |
It Was a Very Good Year |
Theodore Draper |
Historian |
11-Sep-1912 |
21-Feb-2006 |
The Roots of American Communism |
Hector Elizondo |
Actor |
22-Dec-1936 |
|
Dr. Neven Bell on Monk |
George Fellows |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
CEO of Callaway Golf Company |
Philip S. Foner |
Historian |
14-Dec-1910 |
13-Dec-1994 |
History of the Labor Movement in the United States |
Felix Frankfurter |
Judge |
15-Nov-1882 |
22-Feb-1965 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
Robert Garcia |
Politician |
9-Jan-1933 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1978-90 |
Joel F. Gemunder |
Business |
1939 |
|
President of Omnicare |
Ira Gershwin |
Songwriter |
6-Dec-1896 |
17-Aug-1983 |
They Can't Take That Away from Me |
Robert Ginty |
Actor |
14-Nov-1948 |
21-Sep-2009 |
The Exterminator |
Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
George Goethals |
Architect |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
Paul Goodman |
Anarchist |
9-Sep-1911 |
2-Aug-1972 |
Growing Up Absurd |
Eydie Gorme |
Singer |
16-Aug-1928 |
10-Aug-2013 |
Blame it on the Bossa Nova |
Martin L. Gross |
Author |
15-Aug-1925 |
21-Aug-2013 |
The Government Racket |
Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
21-Mar-2016 |
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
Luis Guzmán |
Actor |
28-Aug-1956 |
|
Ramon on John From Cincinnati |
E. Y. Harburg |
Songwriter |
8-Apr-1896 |
5-Mar-1981 |
The Wizard of Oz |
Henry Harland |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1861 |
20-Dec-1905 |
The Cardinal's Snuff-box |
Herbert A. Hauptman |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1917 |
23-Oct-2011 |
X-ray diffraction studies |
Roger Hertog |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Reinvented The New York Sun |
Johnny Hines |
Actor |
25-Jul-1895 |
24-Oct-1970 |
Silent film comedian |
Judd Hirsch |
Actor |
15-Mar-1935 |
|
Taxi |
Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
Red Holzman |
Basketball |
10-Aug-1920 |
13-Nov-1998 |
NY Knicks Head Coach, 1957-82 |
Sidney Hook |
Philosopher |
20-Dec-1902 |
12-Jul-1989 |
Pragmatist |
Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
Roy Innis |
Activist |
6-Jun-1934 |
|
Congress of Racial Equality |
Sam Jaffe |
Actor |
10-Mar-1891 |
24-Mar-1984 |
Gunga Din |
Manfred Jonas |
Historian |
9-Apr-1927 |
25-Aug-2013 |
Isolationism in America, 1935-1941 |
Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1922 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
Marvin Kalb |
Journalist |
9-Jun-1930 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
Stanley H. Kaplan |
Business |
24-May-1919 |
23-Aug-2009 |
Developed SAT study aids |
Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
6-Jun-2013 |
X-Ray diffraction studies |
Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
Michael Kidd |
Choreographer |
12-Aug-1915 |
23-Dec-2007 |
Award-winning choreographer |
Ed Koch |
Politician |
12-Dec-1924 |
1-Feb-2013 |
Mayor of New York City, 1978-89 |
Richard J. Kogan |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
CEO of Schering-Plough, 1996-2003 |
Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
Paul Krassner |
Author |
9-Apr-1932 |
|
Editor, The Realist |
Irving Kristol |
Columnist |
22-Jan-1920 |
18-Sep-2009 |
Influential neocon |
Stanley Kubrick |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1928 |
7-Mar-1999 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Melvin J. Lasky |
Journalist |
15-Jan-1920 |
19-May-2004 |
Editor of journal Encounter |
Ralph Lauren |
Fashion Designer |
14-Oct-1939 |
|
Founder, Polo Ralph Lauren |
Marc Lawrence |
Actor |
17-Feb-1910 |
28-Nov-2005 |
Prolific character actor |
Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
Len Lesser |
Actor |
3-Dec-1922 |
16-Feb-2011 |
Uncle Leo on Seinfeld |
Kenneth Levy |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
Founder of KLA Instruments |
Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
Frank Loesser |
Composer |
29-Jun-1910 |
28-Jul-1969 |
Guys and Dolls |
Bernard Malamud |
Author |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
The Fixer |
David Margulies |
Actor |
19-Feb-1937 |
11-Jan-2016 |
Ghostbusters |
Edward B. Marks |
Songwriter |
28-Nov-1865 |
17-Dec-1945 |
My Mother Was a Lady |
John Marley |
Actor |
17-Oct-1907 |
22-May-1984 |
Godfather horsehead recipient |
Ralph G. Martin |
Author |
4-Mar-1920 |
9-Jan-2013 |
Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill |
Ross Martin |
Actor |
22-Mar-1920 |
3-Jul-1981 |
Artemus Gordon on Wild Wild West |
Abraham Maslow |
Psychologist |
1-Apr-1908 |
8-Jun-1970 |
Hierarchy of Needs |
Jackie Mason |
Comic |
9-Jun-1934 |
|
The World According to Me! |
Arno J. Mayer |
Historian |
19-Jun-1926 |
|
Marxist Jew, quasi-revisionist |
John Bach McMaster |
Historian |
29-Jun-1852 |
24-May-1932 |
History of the People of the United States |
Butterfly McQueen |
Actor |
7-Jan-1911 |
22-Dec-1995 |
Gone with the Wind |
Dick Miller |
Actor |
25-Dec-1928 |
|
A Bucket of Blood |
Henry Miller |
Novelist |
26-Dec-1891 |
7-Jun-1980 |
Tropic of Cancer |
Mark E. Mlotek |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
EVP at Henry Schein |
Richard B. Morris |
Historian |
24-Jul-1904 |
3-Mar-1989 |
The Peacemakers |
Arnold Moss |
Actor |
28-Jan-1910 |
15-Dec-1989 |
My Favorite Spy |
Zero Mostel |
Actor |
28-Feb-1915 |
8-Sep-1977 |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Politician |
16-Mar-1927 |
26-Mar-2003 |
US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 |
Lewis Mumford |
Historian |
19-Oct-1895 |
26-Jan-1990 |
Technics and Civilization |
Barnett Newman |
Painter |
29-Jan-1905 |
4-Jul-1970 |
Abstract expressionist |
Jean Nidetch |
Business |
12-Oct-1923 |
29-Apr-2015 |
Weight Watchers founder |
Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
Brock Peters |
Actor |
2-Jul-1927 |
23-Aug-2005 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Leo Pfeffer |
Scholar |
25-Dec-1910 |
4-Jun-1993 |
Religious liberty scholar, attorney |
Adam Clayton Powell |
Politician |
29-Nov-1908 |
4-Apr-1972 |
Congressman from New York, 1945-71 |
Colin Powell |
Government |
5-Apr-1937 |
|
US Secretary of State, 2001-05 |
A. Philip Randolph |
Activist |
15-Apr-1889 |
16-May-1979 |
20th century civil rights leader |
Emmett J. Rice |
Economist |
21-Dec-1919 |
10-Mar-2011 |
Federal Reserve Governor, 1979-86 |
Edward G. Robinson |
Actor |
12-Dec-1893 |
26-Jan-1973 |
Key Largo |
Julius Rosenberg |
Spy |
12-May-1918 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR |
Abe Rosenthal |
Journalist |
2-May-1922 |
10-May-2006 |
NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86 |
Judith Rossner |
Novelist |
31-Mar-1935 |
9-Aug-2005 |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
Henry Roth |
Author |
8-Feb-1906 |
13-Oct-1995 |
Call It Sleep |
David B. Ruderman |
Historian |
29-May-1944 |
|
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key |
Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the first polio vaccine |
Sidney Salkow |
Film Director |
16-Jun-1909 |
18-Oct-2000 |
Twice-Told Tales |
Herbert Sandler |
Philanthropist |
16-Nov-1931 |
|
Golden West Financial |
Sapphire |
Novelist |
4-Aug-1950 |
|
Push |
Robert Scheer |
Columnist |
4-Apr-1936 |
|
Former L.A. Times columnist |
Richard Schiff |
Actor |
27-May-1955 |
|
The West Wing |
Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
23-Jul-2010 |
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
Bernard L. Schwartz |
Business |
12-Dec-1926 |
|
CEO of Loral Corporation, 1972-2006 |
Julius Schwartz |
Cartoonist |
19-Jun-1915 |
8-Feb-2004 |
Silver Age comics pioneer |
Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
Terry Semel |
Business |
24-Feb-1943 |
|
CEO of Yahoo, 2001-07 |
Ben Shahn |
Painter |
12-Sep-1898 |
14-Mar-1969 |
American Social Realist painter |
Gabourey Sidibe |
Actor |
6-May-1983 |
|
Precious |
Russell Simmons |
Business |
4-Oct-1957 |
|
Def Jam Records |
Upton Sinclair |
Novelist |
20-Sep-1878 |
25-Nov-1968 |
The Jungle |
Alexander Smallens |
Conductor |
1-Jan-1889 |
24-Nov-1972 |
Russian-born American conductor |
Morton Sobell |
Spy |
11-Apr-1917 |
|
Rosenbergs' co-conspirator |
Norman Spinrad |
Author |
15-Sep-1940 |
|
SF author, Little Heroes |
William Steig |
Cartoonist |
14-Nov-1907 |
3-Oct-2003 |
Shrek, The New Yorker |
Joseph Stein |
Playwright |
30-May-1912 |
24-Oct-2010 |
Fiddler on the Roof librettist |
Sy Sternberg |
Business |
24-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of New York Life |
Keith Sweat |
Musician |
22-Jul-1961 |
|
Make It Last Forever |
Jean Toomer |
Author |
26-Dec-1894 |
30-Mar-1967 |
Cane |
Hans L. Trefousse |
Historian |
18-Dec-1921 |
8-Jan-2010 |
The Radical Republicans |
Martin Turchin |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Vice Chairman of CB Richard Ellis |
Robert F. Wagner, Sr. |
Politician |
8-Jun-1877 |
4-May-1953 |
US Senator from New York, 1927-49 |
Robert Walden |
Actor |
25-Sep-1943 |
|
Joe Rossi on Lou Grant |
Eli Wallach |
Actor |
7-Dec-1915 |
24-Jun-2014 |
The Magnificent Seven |
Eric Walrond |
Author |
18-Dec-1898 |
8-Aug-1966 |
Tropic Death |
Wendy Wasserstein |
Playwright |
18-Oct-1950 |
30-Jan-2006 |
The Heidi Chronicles |
Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
10-Feb-1927 |
20-Mar-2014 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
Allen Weinstein |
Historian |
1-Sep-1937 |
18-Jun-2015 |
US National Archivist, 2005-08 |
Walter White |
Activist |
1-Jul-1893 |
21-Mar-1955 |
Worked against lynchings |
Cornel Wilde |
Actor |
13-Oct-1915 |
16-Oct-1989 |
A Song to Remember |
Grant Williams |
Actor |
18-Aug-1930 |
28-Jul-1985 |
The Incredible Shrinking Man |
Albert Wohlstetter |
Scholar |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |
Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
Boaz Yakin |
Screenwriter |
20-Jun-1966 |
|
Remember the Titans |
Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |