| | | | |
Joey Adams |
Comic |
6-Jan-1911 |
2-Dec-1999 |
Borscht Belt comedian |
Mason Adams |
Actor |
26-Feb-1919 |
26-Apr-2005 |
Charlie Hume on Lou Grant |
Herbert A. Allen, Sr. |
Business |
13-Feb-1908 |
18-Jan-1997 |
Allen & Company, Inc. |
Cleveland Amory |
Author |
2-Sep-1917 |
14-Oct-1998 |
The Cat Who Came for Christmas |
Albert Anastasia |
Criminal |
26-Feb-1902 |
25-Oct-1957 |
Gambino crime boss |
Robert W. Anderson |
Playwright |
28-Apr-1917 |
9-Feb-2009 |
Tea and Sympathy |
Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
Victor Argo |
Actor |
5-Nov-1934 |
6-Apr-2004 |
Taxi Driver and Mean Streets |
Harold Arlen |
Songwriter |
15-Feb-1905 |
23-Apr-1986 |
Wrote score to Wizard of Oz |
Richie Ashburn |
Baseball |
19-Mar-1927 |
9-Sep-1997 |
MLB Hall of Fame Whiz Kid |
Mohammed Atta |
Terrorist |
1-Sep-1968 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks |
Louis Auchincloss |
Author |
27-Sep-1917 |
26-Jan-2010 |
Portrait in Brownstone |
Aram Avakian |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1926 |
17-Jan-1987 |
End of the Road |
Val Avery |
Actor |
14-Jul-1924 |
12-Dec-2009 |
The Anderson Tapes |
Herman Badillo |
Politician |
21-Aug-1929 |
3-Dec-2014 |
Congressman from New York, 1971-77 |
Ralph M. Bahna |
Business |
23-Aug-1942 |
24-Feb-2014 |
CEO of Cunard Line, 1980-89 |
LaVern Baker |
Singer |
11-Nov-1929 |
10-Mar-1997 |
Jim Dandy |
Robert L. Bartley |
Editor |
12-Oct-1937 |
10-Dec-2003 |
Editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1979-2003 |
Ol' Dirty Bastard |
Rapper |
15-Nov-1968 |
13-Nov-2004 |
Profoundly deranged rapper, Wu-Tang Clan |
Robert H. Benmosche |
Business |
29-May-1944 |
27-Feb-2015 |
CEO of AIG, 2009-14 |
Marshall Berman |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1940 |
11-Sep-2013 |
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
Elisabeth Bing |
Activist |
8-Jul-1914 |
15-May-2015 |
Natural childbirth movement |
Earl Blackwell |
Business |
3-May-1913 |
1-Mar-1995 |
Celebrity publicist |
Leo Bogart |
Sociologist |
23-Sep-1921 |
15-Oct-2005 |
Preserving the Press |
Stephen F. Bollenbach |
Business |
14-Jul-1942 |
8-Oct-2016 |
CEO of Hilton Hotels, 1996-2007 |
Louise Bourgeois |
Sculptor |
25-Dec-1911 |
31-May-2010 |
Crouching Spider |
Julie Bovasso |
Actor |
1-Aug-1930 |
14-Sep-1991 |
Saturday Night Fever |
David Bowie |
Singer/Songwriter |
8-Jan-1947 |
10-Jan-2016 |
Ziggy Stardust |
John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
11-Jul-2016 |
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
Edmund Breese |
Actor |
18-Jun-1871 |
6-Apr-1936 |
Duck Soup |
Helen Gurley Brown |
Author |
18-Feb-1922 |
13-Aug-2012 |
Editor of Cosmopolitan, 1965-97 |
Lew Brown |
Songwriter |
10-Dec-1893 |
5-Feb-1958 |
Beer Barrel Polka |
Charles F. Brush III |
Archaeologist |
3-Apr-1923 |
1-Jun-2006 |
Explorers Club president 1978-81 |
Arnold I. Burns |
Attorney |
14-Apr-1930 |
1-Oct-2013 |
Deputy US Attorney General, 1986-88 |
Nicholas Murray Butler |
Educator |
2-Apr-1862 |
7-Dec-1947 |
President of Columbia University, 1901-45 |
Hortense Calisher |
Novelist |
20-Dec-1911 |
15-Jan-2009 |
In the Absence of Angels |
Vincent Canby |
Critic |
27-Jul-1924 |
15-Sep-2000 |
Film/Theater Critic, The New York Times |
Milton Caniff |
Cartoonist |
28-Feb-1907 |
3-Apr-1988 |
Terry and the Pirates |
Kitty Carlisle |
Singer |
3-Sep-1910 |
18-Apr-2007 |
A Night at the Opera |
Jim Carroll |
Author |
1-Aug-1950 |
11-Sep-2009 |
The Basketball Diaries |
Peggy Cass |
Actor |
21-May-1924 |
8-Mar-1999 |
Auntie Mame |
Lionel Casson |
Scholar |
22-Jul-1914 |
18-Jul-2009 |
The Ancient Mariners |
Paul Castellano |
Criminal |
20-Jun-1915 |
16-Dec-1985 |
Gambino crime boss |
George M. Cohan |
Composer |
3-Jul-1878 |
5-Nov-1942 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
Ornette Coleman |
Jazz Musician |
19-Mar-1930 |
11-Jun-2015 |
Free Jazz innovator |
Alan Colmes |
Pundit |
24-Sep-1950 |
23-Feb-2017 |
Left-leaning political pundit |
Betty Comden |
Songwriter |
3-May-1915 |
23-Nov-2006 |
Singin' in the Rain |
Barry Commoner |
Biologist |
28-May-1917 |
30-Sep-2012 |
Science and Survival |
Bob Considine |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1906 |
25-Sep-1975 |
Ghostwriter, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
Terence Cardinal Cooke |
Religion |
1-Mar-1921 |
6-Oct-1983 |
Archbishop of New York, 1968-83 |
Irwin Corey |
Comic |
29-Jul-1914 |
6-Feb-2017 |
World's Foremost Authority |
Joseph Force Crater |
Victim |
5-Jan-1889 |
6-Aug-1930 |
NY State Judge vanished |
Judith Crist |
Critic |
22-May-1922 |
7-Aug-2012 |
Ascerbic film critic |
Joseph F. Cullman III |
Business |
9-Apr-1912 |
30-Apr-2004 |
CEO of Philip Morris, 1957-78 |
Bill Cunningham |
Photographer |
13-Mar-1929 |
25-Jun-2016 |
Fashion photographer, The New York Times |
Nick De Noia |
Dancer |
c. 1941 |
7-Apr-1987 |
First choreographer for Chippendales |
Dave DeBusschere |
Basketball |
16-Oct-1940 |
14-May-2003 |
NBA Hall of Famer |
Alice Denham |
Author |
21-Jan-1927 |
27-Jan-2016 |
Sleeping with the Bad Boys |
Adrian W. DeWind |
Attorney |
1-Dec-1913 |
7-Aug-2009 |
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison |
Howard Dietz |
Songwriter |
8-Sep-1896 |
30-Jul-1983 |
MGM songwriter, publicity chief |
DJ AM |
Disc Jockey |
30-Mar-1973 |
28-Aug-2009 |
New York Club DJ |
Ernst von Dohnányi |
Composer |
27-Jul-1877 |
9-Feb-1960 |
Opus 25 |
Truman B. Douglass |
Religion |
15-Jul-1901 |
27-May-1969 |
United Church of Christ |
Alfred Drake |
Actor |
7-Oct-1914 |
25-Jul-1992 |
Broadway actor, Kismet |
Edward R. Dudley |
Diplomat |
11-Mar-1911 |
8-Feb-2005 |
First Black US Ambassador |
Dominick Dunne |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1925 |
26-Aug-2009 |
High society novelist, true crime writer |
John Gregory Dunne |
Novelist |
25-May-1932 |
30-Dec-2003 |
True Confessions |
Edward Cardinal Egan |
Religion |
2-Apr-1932 |
5-Mar-2015 |
Catholic Archbishop of New York, 2000-09 |
Mischa Elman |
Violinist |
20-Jan-1891 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Ukrainian-American violin prodigy |
Charles H. Erhart, Jr. |
Business |
31-Jul-1925 |
16-Jan-2009 |
President of W.R. Grace & Co., 1989-90 |
Kenneth Fearing |
Novelist |
28-Jul-1902 |
26-Jun-1961 |
The Big Clock |
Fyvush Finkel |
Actor |
9-Oct-1923 |
14-Aug-2016 |
Picket Fences |
Fred Fisher |
Songwriter |
30-Sep-1875 |
14-Jan-1942 |
Dardanella |
Thomas King Forcade |
Journalist |
11-Sep-1945 |
17-Nov-1978 |
Founder of High Times |
Ruth Ford |
Actor |
7-Jul-1915 |
12-Aug-2009 |
American stage actress |
Lukas Foss |
Conductor |
15-Aug-1922 |
1-Feb-2009 |
Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71 |
Joe Franklin |
Talk Show Host |
9-Mar-1926 |
24-Jan-2015 |
Pioneer talk show host |
Daniel J. Freed |
Legal Scholar |
12-May-1927 |
17-Jan-2010 |
Yale Law professor |
Marilyn French |
Author |
21-Nov-1929 |
2-May-2009 |
The Women's Room |
Betty Furness |
Actor |
3-Jan-1916 |
2-Apr-1994 |
You can be sure if it's a Westinghouse |
Evan Griffith Galbraith |
Business |
2-Jul-1928 |
21-Jan-2008 |
US Ambassador to France, 1981-85 |
Leonard Garment |
Attorney |
11-May-1924 |
13-Jul-2013 |
Former Special Counsel to Nixon |
Peter Gay |
Historian |
20-Jun-1923 |
12-May-2015 |
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation |
Ben Gazzara |
Actor |
28-Aug-1930 |
3-Feb-2012 |
The Thomas Crown Affair |
Arthur Gelb |
Editor |
3-Feb-1924 |
20-May-2014 |
Editor, The New York Times, 1986-89 |
Harvey J. Goldschmid |
Government |
6-May-1940 |
12-Feb-2015 |
SEC Commissioner, 2002-05 |
Olivia Goldsmith |
Novelist |
c. 1949 |
15-Jan-2004 |
The First Wives Club |
Mack Gordon |
Composer |
21-Jun-1904 |
28-Feb-1959 |
Chattanooga Choo Choo |
Lesley Gore |
Singer |
2-May-1946 |
16-Feb-2015 |
It's My Party |
Jay Gorney |
Composer |
12-Dec-1896 |
14-Jun-1990 |
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? |
Gordon Gould |
Physicist |
17-Jul-1920 |
16-Sep-2005 |
Invented the laser, arguably |
Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
Farley Granger |
Actor |
1-Jul-1925 |
27-Mar-2011 |
Strangers on a Train |
Alan C. Greenberg |
Business |
3-Sep-1927 |
25-Jul-2014 |
CEO of Bear Stearns, 1978-93 |
Ellie Greenwich |
Songwriter |
23-Oct-1940 |
26-Aug-2009 |
Leader of the Pack |
George Grizzard |
Actor |
1-Apr-1928 |
2-Oct-2007 |
Advise and Consent |
Ulu Grosbard |
Film Director |
9-Jan-1929 |
19-Mar-2012 |
The Subject Was Roses |
Thomas Guinzburg |
Publisher |
30-Mar-1926 |
8-Sep-2010 |
Former owner, Viking Press |
John Gutfreund |
Business |
14-Sep-1929 |
9-Mar-2016 |
CEO of Salomon Brothers, 1984-91 |
Charles Gwathmey |
Architect |
19-Jun-1938 |
3-Aug-2009 |
Designed extension to the Guggenheim |
Uta Hagen |
Actor |
12-Jun-1919 |
14-Jan-2004 |
Renowned thespian and acting teacher |
Grayson Hall |
Actor |
18-Sep-1922 |
7-Aug-1985 |
The Night of the Iguana |
Gus Hall |
Activist |
8-Oct-1910 |
13-Oct-2000 |
Leader, Communist Party USA |
Lionel Hampton |
Jazz Musician |
20-Apr-1908 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Jazz vibrophonist and bandleader |
Elizabeth Hardwick |
Critic |
27-Jul-1916 |
2-Dec-2007 |
Seduction and Betrayal |
Ned Harrigan |
Actor |
26-Oct-1844 |
6-Jun-1911 |
Harrigan & Hart |
Jill Haworth |
Actor |
15-Aug-1946 |
3-Jan-2011 |
In Harm's Way |
Shirley Hazzard |
Novelist |
30-Jan-1931 |
12-Dec-2016 |
The Transit of Venus |
Robert L. Heilbroner |
Economist |
24-Mar-1919 |
4-Jan-2005 |
The Worldly Philosophers |
Levon Helm |
Drummer |
26-May-1940 |
19-Apr-2012 |
Drummer for The Band |
Nat Hentoff |
Critic |
10-Jun-1925 |
7-Jan-2017 |
The Jazz Life |
Oscar Hijuelos |
Novelist |
24-Aug-1951 |
12-Oct-2013 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
Steven Hill |
Actor |
24-Feb-1922 |
23-Aug-2016 |
Adam Schiff on Law & Order |
Jerome Hines |
Singer |
8-Nov-1921 |
4-Feb-2003 |
Operatic bass, NY Metropolitan Opera |
Al Hirschfeld |
Artist |
21-Jun-1903 |
20-Jan-2003 |
Pen and ink caricaturist |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Actor |
23-Jul-1967 |
2-Feb-2014 |
Capote |
Sidney Homer |
Economist |
20-Oct-1902 |
9-Aug-1983 |
A History of Interest Rates |
Lena Horne |
Singer |
30-Jun-1917 |
9-May-2010 |
Stormy Weather |
Kevork S. Hovnanian |
Business |
16-May-1923 |
24-Sep-2009 |
Founder of Hovnanian Enterprises |
Barnard Hughes |
Actor |
16-Jul-1915 |
11-Jul-2006 |
High priest in TRON |
Harold L. Humes |
Author |
11-Apr-1926 |
10-Sep-1992 |
Co-Founder, The Paris Review |
Josephine Hutchinson |
Actor |
12-Oct-1903 |
4-Jun-1998 |
North by Northwest |
Oscar Hammerstein I |
Theatre Producer |
8-May-1847 |
1-Aug-1919 |
Olympia Theatre |
Roy Innis |
Activist |
6-Jun-1934 |
8-Jan-2017 |
Congress of Racial Equality |
Anne Jackson |
Actor |
3-Sep-1926 |
12-Apr-2016 |
Folks! |
Milt Jackson |
Jazz Musician |
1-Jan-1923 |
9-Oct-1999 |
Vibrophonist, The Modern Jazz Quartet |
Lou Jacobi |
Actor |
28-Dec-1913 |
23-Oct-2009 |
Avalon |
Peter Jennings |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1938 |
7-Aug-2005 |
Former anchor, ABC World News Tonight |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Novelist |
7-May-1927 |
3-Apr-2013 |
Heat and Dust |
Howard Johnson |
Songwriter |
2-Jun-1887 |
1-May-1941 |
We All Scream for Ice Cream |
Donald Judd |
Sculptor |
3-Jun-1928 |
12-Feb-1994 |
Post-war minimalist |
Tony Judt |
Historian |
2-Jan-1948 |
6-Aug-2010 |
Postwar |
Louis Kahn |
Architect |
20-Feb-1901 |
17-Mar-1974 |
Prominent architect |
Madeline Kahn |
Actor |
29-Sep-1942 |
3-Dec-1999 |
Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles |
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek |
First Lady |
5-Mar-1898 |
23-Oct-2003 |
The Dragon Lady |
Dick Kallman |
Actor |
7-Jul-1933 |
22-Feb-1980 |
Hank |
Peter Kaplan |
Editor |
10-Feb-1954 |
29-Nov-2013 |
Editor-in-Chief, New York Observer |
Stanley H. Kaplan |
Business |
24-May-1919 |
23-Aug-2009 |
Developed SAT study aids |
Stanley Kauffmann |
Critic |
24-Apr-1916 |
9-Oct-2013 |
Film critic for The New Republic |
Judith S. Kaye |
Judge |
4-Aug-1938 |
7-Jan-2016 |
Chief Judge, State of New York, 1993-2008 |
Elia Kazan |
Film Director |
7-Sep-1909 |
28-Sep-2003 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
Nan Kempner |
Socialite |
24-Jul-1930 |
3-Jul-2005 |
New York City socialite |
Martin S. Kimmel |
Business |
9-Apr-1916 |
15-Apr-2008 |
Founder of Kimco Realty |
Alan King |
Comic |
26-Dec-1927 |
9-May-2004 |
Jewish comic and Friars Club fixture |
Leon Kirchner |
Composer |
24-Jan-1919 |
17-Sep-2009 |
Quartet No. 3 |
Ed Koch |
Politician |
12-Dec-1924 |
1-Feb-2013 |
Mayor of New York City, 1978-89 |
Charles Korvin |
Actor |
21-Nov-1907 |
18-Jun-1998 |
Interpol Calling |
Tuli Kupferberg |
Singer/Songwriter |
28-Sep-1923 |
12-Jul-2010 |
The Fugs |
Lawrence Lader |
Activist |
6-Aug-1919 |
7-May-2006 |
Father of abortion rights activism |
Ring Lardner, Jr. |
Playwright |
19-Aug-1915 |
31-Oct-2000 |
Screenwriter, M*A*S*H |
Estée Lauder |
Business |
1-Jul-1908 |
24-Apr-2004 |
Cosmetics magnate |
Arthur Laurents |
Playwright |
14-Jul-1918 |
5-May-2011 |
West Side Story |
David Laventhol |
Publisher |
15-Jul-1933 |
8-Apr-2015 |
President of Times Mirror, 1987-93 |
Hector Lavoe |
Singer |
30-Sep-1946 |
29-Jun-1993 |
Puerto Rican salsa singer |
Patricia Kennedy Lawford |
Socialite |
6-May-1924 |
17-Sep-2006 |
Kennedy sister, wife of Peter Lawford |
Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
Carolyn Leigh |
Songwriter |
21-Aug-1926 |
19-Nov-1983 |
Young at Heart |
John Lennon |
Musician |
9-Oct-1940 |
8-Dec-1980 |
Beatle |
Larry Levenson |
Business |
1935 |
23-Jan-1999 |
Founder of Plato's Retreat |
Ira Levin |
Novelist |
27-Aug-1929 |
12-Nov-2007 |
Rosemary's Baby |
David Levine |
Cartoonist |
20-Dec-1926 |
29-Dec-2009 |
Caricaturist, New York Review of Books |
Cory Lidle |
Baseball |
22-Mar-1972 |
11-Oct-2006 |
Yankees pitcher flew his plane into a high rise |
Daniel K. Ludwig |
Business |
24-Jun-1897 |
27-Aug-1992 |
The Invisible Billionaire |
Sidney Lumet |
Film Director |
25-Jun-1924 |
9-Apr-2011 |
Dog Day Afternoon |
Peter Maas |
Author |
27-Jun-1929 |
23-Aug-2001 |
Serpico |
Norman Mailer |
Author |
31-Jan-1923 |
10-Nov-2007 |
Armies of the Night |
Manning Marable |
Educator |
13-May-1950 |
1-Apr-2011 |
Beyond Black and White |
David Margulies |
Actor |
19-Feb-1937 |
11-Jan-2016 |
Ghostbusters |
Albert Maysles |
Film Director |
26-Nov-1926 |
5-Mar-2015 |
Documentary filmmaker |
David Maysles |
Film Director |
10-Jan-1932 |
3-Jan-1987 |
Documentary filmmaker |
George Barr McCutcheon |
Novelist |
26-Jul-1866 |
23-Oct-1928 |
Brewster's Millions |
Anne Meara |
Comic |
20-Sep-1929 |
23-May-2015 |
Stiller and Meara |
Ana Mendieta |
Performance Artist |
18-Nov-1948 |
8-Sep-1985 |
Feminist performance artist |
Ethel Merman |
Singer |
16-Jan-1908 |
15-Feb-1984 |
There's No Business Like Show Business |
Charles Merz |
Journalist |
23-Feb-1893 |
31-Aug-1977 |
Editor of the New York Times, 1938-61 |
Thomas M. Messer |
Curator |
9-Feb-1920 |
15-May-2013 |
Director of the Guggenheim, 1961-88 |
James W. Michaels |
Journalist |
17-Jun-1921 |
2-Oct-2007 |
Longtime Forbes editor |
Marvin Miller |
Labor Leader |
14-Apr-1917 |
27-Nov-2012 |
MLB Player Association, 1966-82 |
Mitch Miller |
Musician |
4-Jul-1911 |
31-Jul-2010 |
Sing Along with Mitch |
William Lee Miller |
Historian |
21-Apr-1926 |
27-May-2012 |
Arguing About Slavery |
Paul Milstein |
Business |
12-May-1922 |
9-Aug-2010 |
Manhattan real estate developer |
Ilhan Mimaroglu |
Electronic Musician |
11-Mar-1926 |
17-Jul-2012 |
Sing Me A Song of Songmy |
Joseph Mitchell |
Author |
27-Jul-1908 |
24-May-1996 |
The New Yorker |
Richard B. Morris |
Historian |
24-Jul-1904 |
3-Mar-1989 |
The Peacemakers |
Arnold Moss |
Actor |
28-Jan-1910 |
15-Dec-1989 |
My Favorite Spy |
Bharati Mukherjee |
Novelist |
27-Jul-1940 |
28-Jan-2017 |
The Tiger's Daughter |
Jules Munshin |
Actor |
22-Feb-1915 |
19-Feb-1970 |
On the Town |
Grayson Murphy |
Business |
1878 |
Nov-1937 |
Banker, Co-Founder of American Legion |
Rosemary Murphy |
Actor |
13-Jan-1927 |
5-Jul-2014 |
Eleanor and Franklin |
Tony Musante |
Actor |
30-Jun-1936 |
26-Nov-2013 |
Toma |
Nat Nakasa |
Journalist |
12-May-1937 |
14-Jul-1965 |
Anti-Apartheid journalist, exiled |
LeRoy Neiman |
Painter |
8-Jun-1921 |
20-Jun-2012 |
Painter of sports scenes |
Arnold Newman |
Photographer |
3-Mar-1918 |
6-Jun-2006 |
Environmental portraitist |
Mike Nichols |
Film Director |
6-Nov-1931 |
19-Nov-2014 |
Primary Colors |
Marni Nixon |
Singer |
22-Feb-1930 |
24-Jul-2016 |
The Voice of Hollywood |
Carrie Nye |
Actor |
14-Oct-1936 |
14-Jul-2006 |
Theater actress |
Lawrence F. O'Brien |
Politician |
7-Jul-1917 |
28-Sep-1990 |
Target of Watergate break-in |
John P. O'Neill |
Law Enforcement |
6-Feb-1952 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Anti-Terrorism expert, died in 9/11 |
Milo O'Shea |
Actor |
2-Jun-1926 |
2-Apr-2013 |
Ulysses |
Jerry Orbach |
Actor |
20-Oct-1935 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order |
Mollie Orshansky |
Economist |
9-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Orshansky Index |
Ignace Paderewski |
Pianist |
18-Nov-1860 |
29-Jun-1941 |
Polish pianist and composer |
William S. Paley |
Business |
28-Sep-1901 |
26-Oct-1990 |
Chairman of CBS, 1946-83 |
Mitchell Parish |
Songwriter |
10-Jul-1900 |
31-Mar-1993 |
Volare |
Alton B. Parker |
Judge |
14-May-1852 |
10-May-1926 |
Chief Judge, NY Court of Appeals, 1898-1904 |
Arthur Penn |
Film Director |
27-Sep-1922 |
28-Sep-2010 |
Bonnie and Clyde |
McCandlish Phillips |
Journalist |
4-Dec-1927 |
9-Apr-2013 |
The New York Times |
Lionel Pincus |
Business |
2-Mar-1931 |
10-Oct-2009 |
Co-Founder, Warburg Pincus |
George Plimpton |
Author |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Paper Lion |
Richard Poirier |
Critic |
9-Sep-1925 |
15-Aug-2009 |
Raritan, A Quarterly Review |
Josephine Premice |
Actor |
21-Jul-1926 |
13-Apr-2001 |
Calypso singer, Broadway actress |
Henry Hope Reed |
Critic |
25-Sep-1915 |
1-May-2013 |
American Skyline |
Dana Reeve |
Activist |
17-Mar-1961 |
6-Mar-2006 |
Christopher Reeve Foundation |
Ad Reinhardt |
Painter |
24-Dec-1913 |
30-Aug-1967 |
Abstract expressionist |
Morris Renek |
Novelist |
12-Mar-1925 |
10-May-2013 |
Heck |
Rick Rescorla |
Victim |
27-May-1939 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Anticipated both WTC attacks, died in 9/11 |
Harry Revel |
Composer |
21-Dec-1905 |
3-Nov-1958 |
Poor Little Rich Girl |
Natasha Richardson |
Actor |
11-May-1963 |
18-Mar-2009 |
Widows' Peak |
John Ringling |
Business |
31-May-1866 |
2-Dec-1936 |
Ringling Brothers Circus |
Max Roach |
Jazz Musician |
10-Jan-1924 |
16-Aug-2007 |
Enduring jazz drummer |
Richard Rodgers |
Composer |
28-Jun-1902 |
30-Dec-1979 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
Robert Rosenblum |
Art Historian |
24-Jul-1927 |
6-Dec-2006 |
Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art |
Abe Rosenthal |
Journalist |
2-May-1922 |
10-May-2006 |
NY Times Executive Editor, 1977-86 |
Janice Rule |
Actor |
15-Aug-1931 |
17-Oct-2003 |
3 Women |
Jimmy Rushing |
Singer |
26-Aug-1901 |
8-Jun-1972 |
Mr. Five By Five |
Charles Ryskamp |
Administrator |
21-Oct-1928 |
26-Mar-2010 |
Frick Collection Director, 1987-97 |
Morley Safer |
Journalist |
8-Nov-1931 |
19-May-2016 |
60 Minutes |
Carmine De Sapio |
Government |
10-Dec-1908 |
27-Jul-2004 |
The Last Boss of Tammany Hall |
Herbert Sargent |
Screenwriter |
15-Jul-1923 |
6-May-2005 |
SNL writer |
Andrew Sarris |
Critic |
31-Oct-1928 |
20-Jun-2012 |
The American Cinema |
James Schuyler |
Poet |
9-Nov-1923 |
12-Apr-1991 |
Freely Espousing |
Anna J. Schwartz |
Economist |
11-Nov-1915 |
21-Jun-2012 |
A Monetary History of the United States |
Pete Seeger |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-May-1919 |
27-Jan-2014 |
We Shall Overcome |
Adrienne Shelly |
Actor |
24-Jun-1966 |
1-Nov-2006 |
Waitress |
Lee Shubert |
Theatre Producer |
25-Mar-1871 |
25-Dec-1953 |
Broke the Erlanger theater syndicate |
Harry Simeone |
Musician |
9-May-1911 |
22-Feb-2005 |
The Harry Simeone Chorale |
Bob Simon |
Journalist |
29-May-1941 |
11-Feb-2015 |
60 Minutes |
Jacques Singer |
Conductor |
9-May-1910 |
11-Aug-1980 |
Music Director, Oregon Symphony, 1962-72 |
Ted Sorensen |
Attorney |
8-May-1928 |
31-Oct-2010 |
Aide to JFK |
Terry Southern |
Novelist |
1-May-1924 |
29-Oct-1995 |
Dr. Strangelove |
Albert Spalding |
Violinist |
15-Aug-1888 |
26-May-1953 |
American violin virtuoso |
Raymond Spillenger |
Painter |
24-Oct-1924 |
20-Nov-2013 |
Abstract Expressionist, New York School |
Henry Spira |
Activist |
19-Jun-1927 |
12-Sep-1998 |
Animal rights activist |
Elan Steinberg |
Activist |
2-Jun-1952 |
6-Apr-2012 |
World Jewish Congress |
Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
18-May-2016 |
German historian |
Risë Stevens |
Singer |
11-Jun-1913 |
20-Mar-2013 |
Mezzo-Soprano at the Metropolitan Opera |
Margot Stevenson |
Actor |
8-Feb-1912 |
2-Jan-2011 |
Margo Lane on The Shadow |
Henry Taub |
Business |
20-Sep-1927 |
31-Mar-2011 |
Founder of ADP |
Nikola Tesla |
Inventor |
10-Jul-1856 |
7-Jan-1943 |
Invented alternating current |
Bob Tisch |
Business |
29-Apr-1926 |
15-Nov-2005 |
CEO of Loews, Owner NY Giants |
Ernst Toller |
Playwright |
1-Dec-1893 |
22-May-1939 |
Transformation |
Marvin S. Traub |
Business |
14-Apr-1925 |
11-Jul-2012 |
CEO of Bloomingdale's, 1978-92 |
Tatiana Troyanos |
Singer |
12-Sep-1938 |
21-Aug-1993 |
Operatic Mezzo-Soprano |
Harold R. Tyler, Jr. |
Attorney |
14-May-1922 |
25-May-2005 |
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler |
Garrick Utley |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1939 |
20-Feb-2014 |
NBC correspondent for 30 years |
Michael Vale |
TV Personality |
28-Jun-1922 |
24-Dec-2005 |
Time to make the donuts |
Evelyn Varden |
Actor |
12-Jun-1893 |
11-Jul-1958 |
The Bad Seed |
Kirk Varnedoe |
Curator |
19-Jan-1946 |
15-Aug-2003 |
Curator at MOMA, 1988-2001 |
Harold Vermilyea |
Actor |
10-Oct-1889 |
8-Jan-1958 |
Sorry, Wrong Number |
Lillian Vernon |
Business |
18-Mar-1927 |
14-Dec-2015 |
Mail-order maven of America |
Sunny von Bulow |
Victim |
1-Sep-1932 |
6-Dec-2008 |
Heiress in a coma for 28 years |
Harry Von Tilzer |
Songwriter |
8-Jul-1872 |
10-Jan-1946 |
Just Like The Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
Eli Wallach |
Actor |
7-Dec-1915 |
24-Jun-2014 |
The Magnificent Seven |
Kenneth N. Waltz |
Scholar |
8-Jun-1924 |
12-May-2013 |
Man, the State, and War |
Fritz Weaver |
Actor |
19-Jan-1926 |
26-Nov-2016 |
Fail Safe |
Elie Wiesel |
Activist |
30-Sep-1928 |
2-Jul-2016 |
Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist |
Joseph Wiseman |
Actor |
15-May-1918 |
19-Oct-2009 |
Dr. No |
Jack Wrangler |
Pornstar |
11-Jul-1946 |
7-Apr-2009 |
Eyes of a Gay Stranger |
Fay Wray |
Actor |
15-Sep-1907 |
8-Aug-2004 |
King Kong |
Walter B. Wriston |
Business |
3-Aug-1919 |
19-Jan-2005 |
CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |