| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Don Adams |
Actor |
13-Apr-1926 |
25-Sep-2005 |
Maxwell Smart on Get Smart |
| Allan Arbus |
Actor |
15-Feb-1918 |
19-Apr-2013 |
Dr. Sidney on M*A*S*H |
| Nate Archibald |
Basketball |
2-Sep-1948 |
|
NBA Hall of Famer |
| Richard Avedon |
Photographer |
13-May-1923 |
1-Oct-2004 |
Photographer of the human predicament |
| James Baldwin |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1924 |
30-Nov-1987 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Martin Balsam |
Actor |
4-Nov-1919 |
13-Feb-1996 |
A Thousand Clowns |
| Matthew A. Berdon |
Business |
31-Jul-1919 |
27-Mar-2010 |
Senior Partner, F. B. & Co. |
| Lew Brown |
Songwriter |
10-Dec-1893 |
5-Feb-1958 |
Beer Barrel Polka |
| Richard H. Carmona |
Doctor |
22-Nov-1949 |
|
US Surgeon General, 2002-06 |
| Gilbert Cates |
Film Director |
6-Jun-1934 |
1-Nov-2011 |
I Never Sang for My Father |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
| Countee Cullen |
Poet |
30-May-1903 |
9-Jan-1946 |
Harlem Renaissance poet |
| Will Eisner |
Cartoonist |
6-Mar-1917 |
3-Jan-2005 |
Turned comic book authors into Sequential Artists |
| Ace Frehley |
Guitarist |
27-Apr-1951 |
|
Lead guitarist, KISS |
| Judd Hirsch |
Actor |
15-Mar-1935 |
|
Taxi |
| Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
| Bob Kane |
Cartoonist |
24-Oct-1915 |
3-Nov-1998 |
Co-creator of the original Batman comic |
| Stanley Kauffmann |
Critic |
24-Apr-1916 |
9-Oct-2013 |
Film critic for The New Republic |
| Kool Keith |
Rapper |
c. 1965 |
|
Ultramagnetic MCs, Dr. Octagon |
| Robert Klein |
Comic |
8-Feb-1942 |
|
Unable to stop his leg |
| Burt Lancaster |
Actor |
2-Nov-1913 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Elmer Gantry |
| Ralph Lauren |
Fashion Designer |
14-Oct-1939 |
|
Founder, Polo Ralph Lauren |
| Stan Lee |
Cartoonist |
28-Dec-1922 |
|
Created Spider-Man and The Hulk |
| Edward Lewis |
Publisher |
15-May-1940 |
|
Founder of Essence magazine |
| Frank Loesser |
Composer |
29-Jun-1910 |
28-Jul-1969 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Paul Milstein |
Business |
12-May-1922 |
9-Aug-2010 |
Manhattan real estate developer |
| Tracy Morgan |
Actor |
10-Nov-1968 |
|
Saturday Night Live |
| Jan Peerce |
Singer |
3-Jun-1904 |
15-Dec-1984 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Martin Ritt |
Film Director |
2-Mar-1914 |
8-Dec-1990 |
The Long Hot Summer |
| Richard Rodgers |
Composer |
28-Jun-1902 |
30-Dec-1979 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Abe Rosenthal |
Journalist |
2-May-1922 |
10-May-2006 |
NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86 |
| Henry Roth |
Author |
8-Feb-1906 |
13-Oct-1995 |
Call It Sleep |
| Steven Roth |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Vornado Realty Trust |
| Dolph Schayes |
Basketball |
19-May-1928 |
10-Dec-2015 |
NBA Hall of Famer, coach |
| Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
| Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
23-Jul-2010 |
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
| Sherwood Schwartz |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Nov-1916 |
12-Jul-2011 |
Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch |
| Gil Scott-Heron |
Poet |
1-Apr-1949 |
27-May-2011 |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
| Stanley K. Sheinbaum |
Activist |
12-Jun-1920 |
12-Sep-2016 |
Publisher, New Perspectives Quarterly |
| Neil Simon |
Playwright |
4-Jul-1927 |
|
The Odd Couple |
| Charles Strouse |
Composer |
7-Jun-1928 |
|
Bye Bye Birdie |
| Bob Tisch |
Business |
29-Apr-1926 |
15-Nov-2005 |
CEO of Loews, Owner NY Giants |
| Fats Waller |
Jazz Musician |
21-May-1904 |
15-Dec-1943 |
Influential jazz pianist |
| Allen Weinstein |
Historian |
1-Sep-1937 |
18-Jun-2015 |
US National Archivist, 2005-08 |
