| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| John Bartram |
Naturalist |
23-Mar-1699 |
22-Sep-1777 |
Colonial botanist to King George III |
| Charles A. Beard |
Historian |
27-Nov-1874 |
1-Sep-1948 |
The Rise of American Civilization |
| Elizabeth Blackwell |
Doctor |
3-Feb-1821 |
31-May-1910 |
America's first woman doctor |
| George Bradshaw |
Publisher |
29-Jul-1801 |
1853 |
Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide |
| Charles F. Brannan |
Politician |
23-Aug-1903 |
2-Jul-1992 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-53 |
| Charles Brockden Brown |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1771 |
22-Feb-1810 |
First American novelist, Wieland |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
| Smedley Butler |
Military |
30-Jul-1881 |
21-Jun-1940 |
Exposed the 1933 coup plot |
| John Cadbury |
Business |
12-Aug-1801 |
11-May-1889 |
Chocolatier |
| Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
| Mario Capecchi |
Scientist |
6-Oct-1937 |
|
Knock-out mice |
| Whittaker Chambers |
Author |
1-Apr-1901 |
9-Jul-1961 |
Accuser of Alger Hiss |
| Levi Coffin |
Activist |
28-Oct-1798 |
16-Sep-1877 |
Helped thousands of slaves to freedom |
| Cassius Marcellus Coolidge |
Painter |
18-Sep-1844 |
13-Jan-1934 |
Painted dogs playing poker |
| Ezra Cornell |
Business |
11-Jan-1807 |
9-Dec-1874 |
Founder of Cornell University |
| John Dalton |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1766 |
27-Jul-1844 |
Early proponent of Atomic Theory |
| Judi Dench |
Actor |
9-Dec-1934 |
|
Mrs. Brown |
| Jeremiah Dixon |
Astronomer |
7-Aug-1733 |
22-Jan-1777 |
Mason-Dixon Line |
| Paul H. Douglas |
Politician |
26-Mar-1892 |
24-Sep-1976 |
US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67 |
| Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
| Elihu Embree |
Activist |
11-Nov-1782 |
4-Dec-1820 |
Abolitionist and lifelong slaveholder |
| Robert F. Engle III |
Economist |
10-Nov-1942 |
|
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity |
| Albert Fall |
Government |
26-Nov-1861 |
30-Nov-1944 |
US Interior Secy., Teapot Dome Scandal |
| William Edward Forster |
Politician |
11-Jul-1818 |
5-Apr-1886 |
Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1880-82 |
| Elizebeth Friedman |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1892 |
31-Oct-1980 |
America's first female cryptanalyst |
| Christopher Fry |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1907 |
30-Jun-2005 |
The Lady's Not for Burning |
| Thomas Garrett |
Activist |
21-Aug-1789 |
25-Jan-1871 |
Underground Railroad |
| Nathanael Greene |
Military |
7-Aug-1742 |
19-Jun-1786 |
Highly capable Revolutionary War general |
| Marcus Alonzo Hanna |
Politician |
24-Sep-1837 |
15-Feb-1904 |
Senator from Ohio, kingmaker |
| Clifford M. Hardin |
Government |
9-Oct-1915 |
4-Apr-2010 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1969-71 |
| Jan de Hartog |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1914 |
22-Sep-2002 |
Hollands glorie |
| Clare M. Hasler |
Educator |
c. 1957 |
|
Director, Robert Mondavi Institute |
| John Hickenlooper |
Politician |
7-Feb-1952 |
|
Governor of Colorado |
| Edward Hicks |
Painter |
4-Apr-1780 |
23-Aug-1849 |
The Peaceable Kingdom |
| Elias Hicks |
Religion |
19-Mar-1748 |
27-Feb-1830 |
Quaker abolitionist |
| Charles Hires |
Business |
19-Aug-1851 |
31-Jul-1937 |
Root beer |
| Rush Holt |
Politician |
15-Oct-1948 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 12th |
| Herbert Hoover |
Head of State |
10-Aug-1874 |
20-Oct-1964 |
31st US President, 1929-33 |
| Lou Hoover |
First Lady |
29-Mar-1874 |
7-Jan-1944 |
Wife of US President Herbert Hoover |
| Johns Hopkins |
Philanthropist |
19-May-1795 |
24-Dec-1873 |
Johns Hopkins University and Hospital |
| William Howitt |
Author |
18-Dec-1792 |
3-Mar-1879 |
The Book of the Seasons |
| Samuel D. Ingham |
Politician |
16-Sep-1779 |
5-Jun-1860 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1829-31 |
| Anna T. Jeanes |
Philanthropist |
7-Apr-1822 |
24-Sep-1907 |
Negro Rural School Fund |
| Joette Katz |
Judge |
3-Feb-1953 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
| Florence Kelley |
Activist |
12-Sep-1859 |
17-Feb-1932 |
Founder of National Consumers League |
| William D. Kelley |
Government |
12-Apr-1814 |
9-Jan-1890 |
Powerful 19th century Congressman |
| Clark Kerr |
Educator |
17-May-1911 |
1-Dec-2003 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1952-58 |
| Albert Kingsbury |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1863 |
28-Jul-1943 |
Kingsbury thrust bearing |
| Ben Kingsley |
Actor |
31-Dec-1943 |
|
Gandhi |
| Morris E. Leeds |
Business |
6-Mar-1869 |
8-Feb-1952 |
Leeds & Northrup Co. |
| Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
| Benjamin Lundy |
Activist |
4-Jan-1789 |
22-Aug-1839 |
The Genius of Universal Emancipation |
| Rowland H. Macy |
Business |
30-Aug-1822 |
29-Mar-1877 |
Founder of Macy's department stores |
| Jeannette Marks |
Poet |
16-Aug-1875 |
1964 |
The Merry Merry Cuckoo |
| Charlotte E. Moore |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1898 |
3-Mar-1990 |
Technetium in the Sun |
| Lucretia Mott |
Activist |
3-Jan-1793 |
11-Nov-1880 |
Women's rights and anti-slavery advocate |
| Charles Murray |
Author |
1943 |
|
The Bell Curve |
| James Nayler |
Religion |
1618 |
1660 |
The Quaker Jesus |
| Richard M. Nixon |
Head of State |
9-Jan-1913 |
22-Apr-1994 |
37th US President, 1969-74 |
| Philip Noel-Baker |
Politician |
1-Nov-1889 |
8-Oct-1982 |
Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN |
| Annie Oakley |
Performance Artist |
13-Aug-1860 |
3-Nov-1926 |
Little Sure Shot |
| A. Mitchell Palmer |
Government |
4-May-1872 |
11-May-1936 |
US Attorney General, Palmer Raids |
| Alice Paul |
Activist |
11-Jan-1885 |
9-Jul-1977 |
Suffragette |
| William Penn |
Government |
14-Oct-1644 |
30-Jul-1718 |
Founder of Pennsylvania |
| Philip Syng Physick |
Doctor |
7-Jul-1768 |
15-Dec-1837 |
Father of American surgery |
| Lydia Pinkham |
Business |
9-Feb-1819 |
17-May-1883 |
Herbal supplements for "ladies' problems" |
| Don Porter |
Actor |
24-Sep-1912 |
11-Feb-1997 |
Prof. Lawrence on Gidget |
| Ann Preston |
Doctor |
1-Dec-1813 |
18-Apr-1872 |
Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital |
| Sarah Pugh |
Activist |
1800 |
1884 |
Abolitionist and suffragette |
| Harriet Forten Purvis |
Activist |
1810 |
11-Jun-1875 |
African-American abolitionist |
| Robert Purvis |
Activist |
4-Aug-1810 |
15-Apr-1898 |
President of the Underground Railroad |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Atomic weights |
| Friend Richardson |
Politician |
1-Dec-1865 |
6-Sep-1943 |
Governor of California, 1923-27 |
| Betsy Ross |
Business |
1-Jan-1752 |
30-Jan-1836 |
Legendary American flagmaker |
| Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
| Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
|
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
| Andrea Seabrook |
Journalist |
? |
|
NPR Washington correspondent |
| John W. Seybold |
Business |
8-Mar-1916 |
14-Mar-2004 |
Computerized typesetting pioneer |
| Edward Steichen |
Photographer |
27-Mar-1879 |
25-Mar-1973 |
Photo-Secessionist |
| Joseph Sturge |
Activist |
2-Aug-1793 |
14-May-1859 |
Anti-slavery activist |
| Noah H. Swayne |
Judge |
7-Dec-1804 |
8-Jun-1884 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1862-81 |
| Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. |
Astronomer |
24-Mar-1941 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
| William Thornton |
Architect |
20-May-1759 |
28-Mar-1828 |
First architect of the US Capitol |
| Jean Toomer |
Author |
26-Dec-1894 |
30-Mar-1967 |
Cane |
| Edward Tylor |
Anthropologist |
2-Oct-1832 |
2-Jan-1917 |
Founder of cultural anthropology |
| William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
| Benjamin West |
Painter |
10-Oct-1738 |
10-Mar-1820 |
British-American portrait, scene painter |
| Jessamyn West |
Author |
18-Jul-1902 |
23-Feb-1984 |
The Friendly Persuasion |
| Walt Whitman |
Poet |
31-May-1819 |
26-Mar-1892 |
Leaves of Grass |
| John Greenleaf Whittier |
Poet |
17-Dec-1807 |
7-Sep-1892 |
American abolitionist poet |
| Robert Willan |
Doctor |
12-Nov-1757 |
17-Apr-1812 |
Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases |
| James Wilson |
Publisher |
3-Jun-1805 |
11-Aug-1860 |
Founder of The Economist |
| Kenneth G. Wilson |
Physicist |
8-Jun-1936 |
|
Second-order phase transitions |
| William Windom |
Politician |
10-May-1827 |
29-Jan-1891 |
US Secretary of the Treasury 1881, 1889-91 |
| John Woolman |
Religion |
19-Oct-1720 |
7-Oct-1772 |
American Quaker preacher |
| Thomas Young |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1773 |
10-May-1829 |
Wave Theory of Light |
