LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Terence Alexander	Actor	11-Mar-1923	28-May-2009	Charlie Hungerford in Bergerac
Ludwig van Beethoven	Composer	17-Dec-1770	26-Mar-1827	Prominent composer
Henry E. Bliss	Curator	29-Jan-1870	9-Aug-1955	Bliss Classification System
Laura Dewey Bridgman	Oddity	21-Dec-1829	24-May-1889	Blind deaf mute
Foxy Brown	Rapper	6-Sep-1978		Ill Na Na
Annie Jump Cannon	Astronomer	11-Dec-1863	13-Apr-1941	Census-taker of the sky
George Catlin	Painter	26-Jul-1796	23-Dec-1872	Portraitist painted Native Americans
Vint Cerf	Scientist	23-Jun-1943		Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Stephen Colbert	Comic	13-May-1964		The Colbert Report
John Cornforth	Chemist	7-Sep-1917		Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Kim Dae-Jung	Head of State	3-Dec-1925	18-Aug-2009	South Korean President, 1998-2003
Gabriel Duvall	Judge	6-Dec-1752	6-Mar-1844	US Supreme Court Justice, 1811-34
Thomas Edison	Inventor	11-Feb-1847	18-Oct-1931	Invented the light bulb
Lou Ferrigno	Actor	9-Nov-1951		The Incredible Hulk
Jack Fletcher	Photographer	1917	31-Dec-2003	National Geographic photographer
Maria Goeppert-Mayer	Physicist	28-Jun-1906	20-Feb-1972	Shell nuclear model
Billy Graham	Religion	7-Nov-1918		Televangelist
Oliver Heaviside	Engineer	18-May-1850	3-Feb-1925	Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Karen Ignagni	Business	c. 1953		America's Health Insurance Plans PAC
Helen Keller	Activist	27-Jun-1880	1-Jun-1968	Deaf and blind activist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt	Astronomer	4-Jul-1868	12-Dec-1921	Cepheid variable
Juliette Gordon Low	Activist	31-Oct-1860	18-Jan-1927	Founder of Girl Scouts of the USA
Albert Lutuli	Activist	c. 1898	21-Jul-1967	ANC president, Nobel Prize recipient
Harriet Martineau	Author	12-Jun-1802	27-Jun-1876	Maid of All Work
Marlee Matlin	Actor	24-Aug-1965		Deaf actress on The West Wing
Peter Mitchell	Chemist	29-Sep-1920	10-Apr-1992	ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia
Alan Moore	Author	18-Nov-1953		Created The Watchmen
Alexander Muirhead	Physicist	26-May-1848	13-Dec-1920	Submarine cable telegraphy
John H. Northrop	Chemist	5-Jul-1891	27-May-1987	Bacteriophages
Ted Nugent	Musician	13-Dec-1948		Rock star, bowhunting enthusiast
Charles H. Percy	Politician	27-Sep-1919	17-Sep-2011	US Senator from Illinois, 1967-85
Frank Serpico	Activist	14-Apr-1936		The most dangerous man alive - An honest cop
Bobby Sherman	Singer	22-Jul-1943		"Julie, Julie, Julie, Do You Love Me?"
David Shoenberg	Physicist	4-Jan-1911	10-Mar-2004	Physicist at Cambridge
Shoshannah Stern	Actor	3-Jul-1980		Deaf actress
James Stockdale	Military	23-Dec-1923	5-Jul-2005	H. Ross Perot's would-be Vice President
Helen B. Taussig	Doctor	24-May-1898	20-May-1986	Mother of pediatric cardiology
George Washington	Head of State	22-Feb-1732	14-Dec-1799	1st US President, 1789-97

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