BOROUGH

Population:
14203 (2000 census)

County:
Mercer County

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Princeton Theological Seminary	1812
Princeton University	1746

LIBRARY

Library	Founded
Princeton Public Library	1909

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

Company	Founded
Rockwood Holdings	2000
Care Capital	2000
Covance	1997
NRG Energy	1989
The Gallup Organization	1958
Church & Dwight	1896

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
William Bainbridge	Military	7-May-1774	27-Jul-1833	Commodore, War of 1812
Jacob D. Beam	Diplomat	24-Mar-1908	16-Aug-1993	US Ambassador to the USSR, 1969-73
Mary Chapin Carpenter	Country Musician	21-Feb-1958		Never Had It So Good
Iris Chang	Author	28-Mar-1968	9-Nov-2004	The Rape of Nanking
Ford M. Fraker	Business	c. 1949		US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Jessica Hecht	Actor	28-Jun-1965		Betsy Morgan on What About Joan
Peter R. Kann	Business	c. 1942		CEO of Dow Jones, 1991-2006
John McPhee	Author	8-Mar-1931		Annals of the Former World
Bunny Mellon	Philanthropist	9-Aug-1910	17-Mar-2014	Widow of Paul Mellon
Lyle Menendez	Criminal	10-Jan-1968		Killed parents with brother Erik
Paul V. Niemeyer	Judge	5-Apr-1941		4th Circuit Court of Appeals
Daniel Pearl	Journalist	10-Oct-1963	21-Feb-2002	Murdered Wall Street Journal reporter
Paul Robeson	Singer	9-Apr-1898	23-Jan-1976	20th Century renaissance man
Michael Showalter	Comic	17-Jun-1970		The State
Jon Tenney	Actor	16-Dec-1961		Brooklyn South

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Milton Babbitt	Composer	10-May-1916	29-Jan-2011	Music for Synthesizer
Peter Benchley	Novelist	8-May-1940	11-Feb-2006	Jaws
William G. Bowen	Educator	6-Oct-1933	20-Oct-2016	President, Princeton University, 1972-88
Julian P. Boyd	Historian	3-Nov-1903	21-May-1980	Princeton University Librarian, 1940-52
W. Walton Butterworth	Diplomat	7-Sep-1903	31-Mar-1975	US Ambassador to Canada, 1962-68
John Chancellor	Journalist	14-Jul-1927	12-Jul-1996	NBC Nightly News anchor
Grover Cleveland	Head of State	18-Mar-1837	24-Jun-1908	22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97
Robert H. Dicke	Physicist	6-May-1916	4-Mar-1997	Dicke radiometer
Theodore Draper	Historian	11-Sep-1912	21-Feb-2006	The Roots of American Communism
Henry van Dyke	Author	10-Nov-1852	10-Apr-1933	The Unknown Quantity
Jonathan Edwards	Religion	5-Oct-1703	22-Mar-1758	American Puritan theologian
Albert Einstein	Physicist	14-Mar-1879	18-Apr-1955	Theory of relativity
Robert Fagles	Translator	11-Sep-1933	26-Mar-2008	Translator of Greek literature
Val Fitch	Physicist	10-Mar-1923	5-Feb-2015	Time not necessarily reversible
Felix Gilbert	Historian	21-May-1905	14-Feb-1991	To the Farewell Address
Kurt Gödel	Mathematician	28-Apr-1906	14-Jan-1978	Gφdel's Incompleteness Theorems
Robert F. Goheen	Educator	15-Aug-1919	31-Mar-2008	President of Princeton University, 1957-72
Stephen M. Goldfeld	Economist	9-Aug-1940	25-Aug-1995	Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81
Eric F. Goldman	Historian	17-Jun-1916	19-Feb-1989	The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson
Michael Graves	Architect	9-Jul-1934	12-Mar-2015	Postmodern architect, New York Five
Sebastian de Grazia	Author	11-Aug-1917	31-Dec-2000	Machiavelli in Hell
James Hillier	Physicist	22-Aug-1915	15-Jan-2007	Electron microscope
Philip K. Hitti	Scholar	24-Jun-1886	24-Dec-1978	History of the Arabs
Edward C. Kendall	Scientist	8-Sep-1886	4-May-1972	Adrenocortical hormones
George F. Kennan	Diplomat	16-Feb-1904	17-Mar-2005	Architect of US policy of Soviet containment
Ashley Montagu	Anthropologist	28-Jun-1905	26-Nov-1999	The Natural Superiority of Women
Paul Elmer More	Scholar	12-Dec-1864	9-Mar-1937	Shelburne Essays
Oskar Morgenstern	Economist	24-Jan-1902	26-Jul-1977	Game theorist
John O'Hara	Author	31-Jan-1905	11-Apr-1970	Appointment in Samarra
Robert Oppenheimer	Physicist	22-Apr-1904	18-Feb-1967	Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project
Bohdan Paczynski	Astronomer	8-Feb-1940	19-Apr-2007	Gravitational microlensing
Erwin Panofsky	Art Historian	30-Mar-1892	14-Mar-1968	Studies in Iconology
Peter Putnam	Historian	11-Jun-1920	23-Sep-1998	Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam!
Vera Rubin	Astronomer	23-Jul-1928	25-Dec-2016	Structure of galaxies
Henry Norris Russell	Astronomer	25-Oct-1877	18-Feb-1957	Giant stars and dwarfs
William Schreyer	Business	13-Jan-1928	22-Jan-2011	CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92
Roger Sessions	Composer	28-Dec-1896	16-Mar-1985	Concerto for Orchestra
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.	Astronomer	26-Jun-1914	31-Mar-1997	Father of space telescopes
Lawrence Stone	Historian	4-Dec-1919	16-Jun-1999	The Crisis of the Aristocracy
Immanuel Velikovsky	Author	10-Jun-1895	17-Nov-1979	Worlds in Collision
Eugene Wigner	Physicist	17-Nov-1902	1-Jan-1995	Law of conservation of parity
Vladimir Zworykin	Inventor	30-Jul-1889	29-Jul-1982	Patented color televison

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