| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Cleveland Abbe |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1838 |
28-Oct-1916 |
America's first weatherman |
| Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
| Arunah Shepherdson Abell |
Publisher |
10-Aug-1806 |
19-Aug-1888 |
The Baltimore Sun |
| Lord Acton |
Historian |
10-Jan-1834 |
19-Jun-1902 |
British historian |
| Charles Francis Adams III |
Government |
2-Aug-1866 |
11-Jun-1954 |
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33 |
| Jane Addams |
Activist |
6-Sep-1860 |
21-May-1935 |
Founder of Hull House |
| Frances Alda |
Singer |
31-May-1879 |
18-Sep-1952 |
Operatic soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Charles Alderton |
Inventor |
21-Jun-1857 |
29-May-1941 |
Invented Dr Pepper |
| Moniza Alvi |
Poet |
2-Feb-1954 |
|
The Country at My Shoulder |
| Christiane Amanpour |
Journalist |
12-Jan-1958 |
|
Host of ABC's This Week |
| Eva Angelina |
Pornstar |
14-Mar-1985 |
|
Bespectacled porn actress |
| Gabrielle Anwar |
Actor |
4-Feb-1970 |
|
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken |
| Devon Aoki |
Model |
10-Aug-1982 |
|
Sin City |
| Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
| Philip Danforth Armour |
Business |
16-May-1832 |
6-Jan-1901 |
Founder of Armour & Co. |
| Francis W. Aston |
Chemist |
1-Sep-1877 |
20-Nov-1945 |
Invented the mass spectograph |
| Lee Atwater |
Politician |
27-Feb-1951 |
29-Mar-1991 |
RNC Chairman, 1988-90 |
| Oswald Avery |
Biologist |
21-Oct-1877 |
20-Feb-1955 |
Antibodies and DNA |
| Harold D. Babcock |
Astronomer |
24-Jan-1882 |
8-Apr-1968 |
Solar radiation |
| Joan Baez |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Jan-1941 |
|
Diamonds and Rust |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Christian Bale |
Actor |
30-Jan-1974 |
|
The Dark Knight |
| Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-ray scattering |
| Charles Montgomery Barnes |
Business |
8-Sep-1833 |
19-May-1907 |
Founder of Barnes & Noble |
| Black Bart |
Criminal |
c. 1829 |
? |
Old West bandit and poet |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Mischa Barton |
Actor |
24-Jan-1986 |
|
Marissa Cooper on The O.C. |
| John Bartram |
Naturalist |
23-Mar-1699 |
22-Sep-1777 |
Colonial botanist to King George III |
| William Bartram |
Naturalist |
9-Feb-1739 |
22-Jul-1823 |
18th Century American travelling naturalist |
| James Beard |
Chef |
5-May-1903 |
23-Jan-1985 |
First prominent TV chef |
| William Beaumont |
Doctor |
21-Nov-1785 |
25-Apr-1853 |
Observed human digestion |
| Henri Bergson |
Philosopher |
18-Oct-1859 |
4-Jan-1941 |
L'Évolution Créatrice |
| Halle Berry |
Actor |
14-Aug-1966 |
|
Monster's Ball |
| Tony Blair |
Head of State |
6-May-1953 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 |
| Tony Blankley |
Pundit |
21-Jan-1948 |
7-Jan-2012 |
McLaughlin Group pundit |
| Brebis Bleaney |
Physicist |
6-Jun-1915 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Electron paramagnetic resonance |
| William Bligh |
Military |
9-Sep-1754 |
6-Dec-1817 |
Captain of the Bounty |
| Heinrich Böll |
Novelist |
21-Dec-1917 |
16-Jul-1985 |
The Train Was On Time |
| John Wilkes Booth |
Assassin |
10-May-1838 |
26-Apr-1865 |
Abraham Lincoln's assassin |
| Ira S. Bowen |
Astronomer |
21-Dec-1898 |
6-Feb-1973 |
Debunked nebulium |
| Bill Bowerman |
Fitness Guru |
19-Feb-1911 |
24-Dec-1999 |
Track coach, Co-Founder of Nike |
| George Box |
Mathematician |
18-Oct-1919 |
|
Statistician at University of Wisconsin |
| Lawrence Bragg |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1890 |
1-Jul-1971 |
Bragg's Law of diffraction |
| George Brayton |
Inventor |
3-Oct-1830 |
17-Dec-1892 |
Brayton cycle engine |
| Percy Williams Bridgman |
Physicist |
21-Apr-1882 |
20-Aug-1961 |
High-pressure physics |
| Harry Brittain |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1873 |
9-Jul-1974 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| Bertram N. Brockhouse |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1918 |
13-Oct-2003 |
Triple-axis crystal spectrometry |
| Anne Brontë |
Novelist |
17-Jan-1820 |
28-May-1849 |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| Branwell Brontë |
Poet |
26-Jun-1817 |
24-Sep-1848 |
The Brontë sisters' brother |
| Charlotte Brontë |
Novelist |
21-Apr-1816 |
31-Mar-1855 |
Jane Eyre |
| Emily Brontë |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1818 |
19-Dec-1848 |
Wuthering Heights |
| Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
| Tina Brown |
Editor |
21-Nov-1953 |
|
The Daily Beast and Newsweek |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
Engineer |
9-Apr-1806 |
15-Sep-1859 |
Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway |
| John Bunny |
Actor |
21-Sep-1863 |
26-Apr-1915 |
Comic starred in over 200 short films |
| E. Margaret Burbidge |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1919 |
|
Synthesis of the elements in stars |
| Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
26-Jan-2010 |
Quasi-steady state cosmology |
| Joseph R. Burton |
Politician |
16-Nov-1852 |
27-Feb-1923 |
US Senator from Kansas, 1901-06 |
| Bill The Butcher |
Boxing |
Jul-1821 |
8-Mar-1855 |
Inspired Gangs of New York |
| Richard G. Butler |
Activist |
23-Feb-1918 |
8-Sep-2004 |
Founder of the Aryan Nations |
| George Canning |
Politician |
11-Apr-1770 |
8-Aug-1827 |
Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| Frederick Carder |
Artist |
18-Sep-1863 |
10-Dec-1963 |
"Aurene" glass artist |
| Helena Bonham Carter |
Actor |
26-May-1966 |
|
Marla in Fight Club |
| Kevin Carter |
Photographer |
13-Sep-1960 |
27-Jul-1994 |
Wanting A Meal |
| Nick Carter |
Singer |
28-Jan-1980 |
|
The Backstreet Boys |
| Rosalynn Carter |
First Lady |
18-Aug-1927 |
|
Wife of US President Jimmy Carter |
| Carolyn Cassady |
Author |
28-Apr-1923 |
|
Wife of Neal Cassady |
| Butch Cassidy |
Criminal |
13-Apr-1866 |
c. 1908 |
Train and bank robber |
| Camilo José Cela |
Author |
11-May-1916 |
17-Jan-2002 |
Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate |
| Henry Chadwick |
Journalist |
5-Oct-1824 |
20-Apr-1908 |
Father of baseball |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| Lon Chaney |
Actor |
1-Apr-1883 |
26-Aug-1930 |
The Phantom of the Opera |
| Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
| King Charles II |
Royalty |
29-May-1630 |
6-Feb-1685 |
King of England 1660-85 |
| John Charnley |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1912 |
5-Aug-1982 |
Hip replacement surgery |
| Joseph Choate |
Attorney |
24-Jan-1832 |
14-May-1917 |
Attorney, ambassador |
| Fletcher Christian |
Military |
25-Sep-1764 |
c. 1793 |
Led the mutiny on the Bounty |
| Ward Churchill |
Activist |
2-Oct-1947 |
|
Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann |
| Lord Clarendon |
Government |
18-Feb-1609 |
9-Dec-1674 |
The Clarendon Code |
| A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
| Alvan Clark |
Astronomer |
8-Mar-1804 |
19-Aug-1887 |
Telescope maker |
| Frances Cleveland |
First Lady |
21-Jul-1864 |
29-Oct-1947 |
Wife of US President Grover Cleveland |
| Grover Cleveland |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1837 |
24-Jun-1908 |
22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| J. M. G. Le Clézio |
Novelist |
13-Apr-1940 |
|
Nomadic novelist |
| John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
| Christopher Cockerell |
Inventor |
4-Jun-1910 |
1-Jun-1999 |
Hovercraft |
| John Maxwell Coetzee |
Novelist |
9-Feb-1940 |
|
Reclusive South African novelist, essayist |
| Levi Coffin |
Activist |
28-Oct-1798 |
16-Sep-1877 |
Helped thousands of slaves to freedom |
| William Colgate |
Business |
25-Jan-1783 |
25-Jan-1857 |
Toothpaste empirebuilder |
| Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
| Grace Coolidge |
First Lady |
3-Jan-1879 |
8-Jul-1957 |
Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| George Henry Corliss |
Inventor |
2-Jun-1817 |
21-Feb-1888 |
Corliss valve and steam engines |
| Ezra Cornell |
Business |
11-Jan-1807 |
9-Dec-1874 |
Founder of Cornell University |
| E. J. H. Corner |
Botanist |
12-Jan-1906 |
14-Sep-1996 |
Durian theory |
| John Cornforth |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1917 |
|
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Bud Cort |
Actor |
29-Mar-1948 |
|
Harold in Harold and Maude |
| Frederick G. Cottrell |
Inventor |
10-Jan-1877 |
16-Nov-1948 |
Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| Odile Crick |
Artist |
11-Aug-1920 |
5-Jul-2007 |
Sketched the double helix |
| Samuel Crompton |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1753 |
26-Jun-1827 |
Invented the spinning mule |
| Bing Crosby |
Singer |
3-May-1903 |
14-Oct-1977 |
White Christmas |
| Bob Crosby |
Musician |
25-Aug-1913 |
9-Mar-1993 |
The Bob Crosby Orchestra |
| Charles Cullen |
Criminal |
1960 |
|
Claimed to have killed 30-40 patients |
| Harlow Curtice |
Business |
15-Aug-1893 |
3-Nov-1962 |
President of General Motors, 1952-58 |
| Vasco da Gama |
Explorer |
c. 1469 |
24-Dec-1524 |
Portuguese explorer, conqueror, privateer |
| Jack Daniel |
Business |
5-Sep-1846 |
10-Oct-1911 |
Moonshine magnate |
| Virginia Dare |
Oddity |
18-Aug-1587 |
? |
Firstborn white child of the New World |
| Jaye Davidson |
Actor |
21-Mar-1968 |
|
The Crying Game |
| Marvin Davis |
Business |
31-Aug-1925 |
25-Sep-2004 |
Oil magnate, former owner of 20th Century Fox |
| Richard Harding Davis |
Author |
18-Apr-1864 |
11-Apr-1916 |
Yellow-era journalist |
| Daniel Day-Lewis |
Actor |
29-Apr-1957 |
|
My Left Foot |
| John Deere |
Business |
7-Feb-1804 |
17-May-1886 |
Invented the self-scouring plow |
| Cecil B. DeMille |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1881 |
21-Jan-1959 |
Pioneering film director |
| Nick Denton |
Publisher |
24-Aug-1966 |
|
Gawker Media |
| Jewel De'Nyle |
Pornstar |
5-Aug-1977 |
|
Bend Over and Say Ahh 3 |
| Thomas E. Dewey |
Politician |
24-Mar-1902 |
16-Mar-1971 |
Did not defeat Truman |
| Mike DeWine |
Politician |
5-Jan-1947 |
|
US Senator from Ohio, 1995-2007 |
| Cameron Diaz |
Actor |
30-Aug-1972 |
|
There's Something About Mary |
| William K. L. Dickson |
Inventor |
3-Aug-1860 |
28-Sep-1935 |
Motion picture camera |
| Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
| Thomas Dixon |
Author |
11-Jan-1864 |
3-Apr-1946 |
The Clansman |
| William E. Dodd |
Diplomat |
27-Oct-1869 |
9-Feb-1940 |
US Ambassador to Nazi Germany |
| E. C. Dodds |
Scientist |
13-Oct-1899 |
16-Dec-1973 |
Diethylstilbestrol |
| Cleveland H. Dodge |
Business |
1860 |
1926 |
Woodrow Wilson's financier and advisor |
| Peter C. Doherty |
Scientist |
15-Oct-1940 |
|
T-cells and antigens |
| Thomas Dolby |
Musician |
14-Oct-1958 |
|
She Blinded Me With Science |
| John Langdon Down |
Doctor |
18-Nov-1828 |
7-Oct-1896 |
Down's syndrome |
| Henry Draper |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1837 |
20-Nov-1882 |
Early astrophotographer |
| John William Draper |
Chemist |
5-May-1811 |
4-Jan-1882 |
Radiant energy and portrait photography |
| James Clement Dunn |
Diplomat |
27-Dec-1890 |
1979 |
Career US Ambassador |
| William F. Durand |
Engineer |
5-Mar-1859 |
9-Aug-1958 |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
| William C. Durant |
Business |
8-Dec-1861 |
18-Mar-1947 |
Founder of General Motors |
| Clint Eastwood |
Actor |
31-May-1930 |
|
The Man With No Name |
| Mary Baker Eddy |
Religion |
16-Jul-1821 |
3-Dec-1910 |
Founded Christian Science movement |
| Thomas Edison |
Inventor |
11-Feb-1847 |
18-Oct-1931 |
Invented the light bulb |
| King Edward III |
Royalty |
13-Nov-1312 |
21-Jun-1377 |
King of England, 1327-77 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Author |
26-Aug-1941 |
|
Nickel and Dimed |
| Mamie Eisenhower |
First Lady |
14-Nov-1896 |
1-Nov-1979 |
Ike's First Lady |
| T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
Author of "The Waste Land" |
| Shannon Elizabeth |
Actor |
7-Sep-1973 |
|
Nadia in American Pie 1 and 2 |
| Caterina Fake |
Designer |
c. 1969 |
|
Co-Founder of Flickr |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti |
Business |
9-Apr-1864 |
13-Jan-1930 |
England's electrical grid |
| W. C. Fields |
Comic |
29-Jan-1880 |
25-Dec-1946 |
The Bank Dick |
| Ronald Fisher |
Mathematician |
17-Feb-1890 |
29-Jul-1962 |
Analysis of variance and covariance |
| Ezra Fitch |
Business |
21-Sep-1865 |
16-Jun-1930 |
Abercrombie & Fitch |
| Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
| Henry Stuart Foote |
Politician |
20-Sep-1800 |
20-May-1880 |
Governor of Mississippi 1852-54 |
| Abe Fortas |
Judge |
19-Jun-1910 |
5-Apr-1982 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69 |
| Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
| Stephen Fry |
Actor |
24-Aug-1957 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster |
| Alfred C. Fuller |
Business |
13-Jan-1885 |
4-Dec-1973 |
Founder of Fuller Brush Company |
| John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
| Lucretia Garfield |
First Lady |
19-Apr-1832 |
14-Mar-1918 |
Wife of US President James Garfield |
| Thomas Garrett |
Activist |
21-Aug-1789 |
25-Jan-1871 |
Underground Railroad |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
Physicist |
24-Oct-1932 |
18-May-2007 |
Molecular structure of polymers |
| Wally George |
TV Personality |
4-Dec-1931 |
5-Oct-2003 |
Abusive conservative spectacle |
| Elbridge Gerry |
Politician |
17-Jul-1744 |
23-Nov-1814 |
Patron saint of Gerrymandering |
| Ricky Gervais |
Actor |
25-Jun-1961 |
|
The Office |
| Malcolm Gets |
Actor |
28-Dec-1964 |
|
Caroline in the City |
| John H. Gibbon, Jr. |
Doctor |
29-Sep-1903 |
5-Feb-1973 |
Open-heart surgery |
| J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
| Orville Gibson |
Business |
1856 |
21-Aug-1918 |
Made mandolins and guitars |
| King Gillette |
Inventor |
5-Jan-1855 |
9-Jul-1932 |
Safety razor |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
Columnist |
3-Sep-1963 |
|
The Tipping Point |
| Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Wilson Greatbatch |
Inventor |
6-Sep-1919 |
27-Sep-2011 |
Implantable pacemaker |
| Arthur Guinness |
Business |
1725 |
23-Jan-1803 |
Invented stout, founded Guinness Brewery |
| Brion Gysin |
Artist |
19-Jan-1916 |
13-Jul-1986 |
Inventor of the Dreamachine |
| Asaph Hall |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1829 |
22-Nov-1907 |
Discovered the moons of Mars |
| Andrew Smith Hallidie |
Inventor |
16-Mar-1836 |
24-Apr-1900 |
Designed the first cable car system |
| Geri Halliwell |
Singer |
6-Aug-1972 |
|
Ginger Spice |
| Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
| William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| Arthur Harden |
Chemist |
12-Oct-1865 |
17-Jun-1940 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Frank Hardy |
Novelist |
21-Mar-1917 |
28-Mar-1994 |
Power Without Glory |
| Robert Hare |
Chemist |
17-Jan-1781 |
15-May-1858 |
Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Anna Harrison |
First Lady |
25-Jul-1775 |
25-Feb-1864 |
Wife of US President William Henry Harrison |
| Caroline Harrison |
First Lady |
1-Oct-1832 |
25-Oct-1892 |
Wife of US President Benjamin Harrison |
| Francis Burton Harrison |
Politician |
18-Dec-1873 |
21-Nov-1957 |
Drug prohibition |
| Bret Harte |
Author |
25-Aug-1836 |
5-May-1902 |
Master of the western short story |
| Rondo Hatton |
Actor |
22-Apr-1894 |
2-Feb-1946 |
Horror actor afflicted with acromegaly |
| Norman Haworth |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1883 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Carbohydrates and vitamin C |
| Lucy Hayes |
First Lady |
28-Aug-1831 |
25-Jun-1889 |
Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Nan Hayworth |
Politician |
14-Dec-1959 |
|
Congresswoman, New York 19th |
| Rita Hayworth |
Actor |
17-Oct-1918 |
14-May-1987 |
Gilda |
| Oliver Heaviside |
Engineer |
18-May-1850 |
3-Feb-1925 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Gordon Hessler |
Film Director |
12-Dec-1930 |
|
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
| George H. Hitchings |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1905 |
27-Feb-1998 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Arthur Holmes |
Geologist |
14-Jan-1890 |
20-Sep-1965 |
Father of the geological timescale |
| Gustav Holst |
Composer |
21-Sep-1874 |
25-May-1934 |
The Planets |
| Lou Hoover |
First Lady |
29-Mar-1874 |
7-Jan-1944 |
Wife of US President Herbert Hoover |
| Bob Hope |
Comic |
29-May-1903 |
27-Jul-2003 |
Centenarian comic |
| Johns Hopkins |
Philanthropist |
19-May-1795 |
24-Dec-1873 |
Johns Hopkins University and Hospital |
| William Howe |
Military |
10-Aug-1729 |
12-Jul-1814 |
Commander-in-Chief in America |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
| Mike Huckabee |
Politician |
24-Aug-1955 |
|
Governor of Arkansas, 1996-2007 |
| Howard Hughes |
Business |
24-Sep-1905 |
5-Apr-1976 |
Insane billionaire |
| E. Howard Hunt |
Criminal |
9-Oct-1918 |
23-Jan-2007 |
Coordinated Watergate break-in |
| Henry Hyde |
Politician |
18-Apr-1924 |
29-Nov-2007 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1975-2007 |
| Laura Ingalls |
Aviator |
14-Dec-1893 |
10-Jan-1967 |
Aviatrix and Nazi sympathizer |
| Jared Ingersoll |
Politician |
24-Oct-1749 |
31-Oct-1822 |
Signed the US Constitution |
| Alec Issigonis |
Engineer |
18-Nov-1906 |
2-Oct-1988 |
Designer of the Mini Cooper |
| J. Hughlings Jackson |
Doctor |
4-Apr-1835 |
7-Oct-1911 |
Father of British neurology |
| Rachel Jackson |
First Lady |
Jun-1767 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Wife of US President Andrew Jackson |
| Jade Jagger |
Relative |
21-Oct-1971 |
|
Daughter of Mick and Bianca |
| Karl Jansky |
Astronomer |
22-Oct-1905 |
14-Feb-1950 |
Radio waves from outer space |
| Anna T. Jeanes |
Philanthropist |
7-Apr-1822 |
24-Sep-1907 |
Negro Rural School Fund |
| James H. Jeans |
Astronomer |
11-Sep-1877 |
16-Sep-1946 |
Continuous creation theory |
| Billy Joel |
Pianist |
9-May-1949 |
|
Didn't start the fire |
| Samuel Johnson |
Lexicographer |
18-Sep-1709 |
13-Dec-1784 |
A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Theodore D. Judah |
Engineer |
4-Mar-1826 |
2-Nov-1863 |
American Transcontinental Railroad |
| Alex Kapranos |
Musician |
20-Mar-1972 |
|
Franz Ferdinand frontman |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| George Kelly |
Psychologist |
28-Apr-1905 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Personal Construct Theory of personality |
| John Key |
Government |
9-Aug-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| Albert Kingsbury |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1863 |
28-Jul-1943 |
Kingsbury thrust bearing |
| Charles Knowlton |
Doctor |
10-May-1800 |
20-Feb-1850 |
Early advocate of birth control |
| Jon Lajoie |
Actor |
21-Aug-1980 |
|
Taco on The League |
| Burt Lancaster |
Actor |
2-Nov-1913 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Elmer Gantry |
| Samuel P. Langley |
Astronomer |
22-Aug-1834 |
2-Feb-1906 |
Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
| T. E. Lawrence |
Author |
16-Aug-1888 |
19-May-1935 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Morris E. Leeds |
Business |
6-Mar-1869 |
8-Feb-1952 |
Leeds & Northrup Co. |
| Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
| Charles James Lever |
Novelist |
31-Aug-1806 |
1-Jun-1872 |
Charles O'Malley |
| Eli Lilly |
Business |
8-Jul-1838 |
6-Jun-1898 |
Founder of Eli Lilly & Co. |
| Mary Todd Lincoln |
First Lady |
13-Dec-1818 |
16-Jul-1882 |
Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd |
Journalist |
1-May-1847 |
28-Sep-1903 |
Radical reporter |
| Rebecca Loos |
TV Personality |
19-Jun-1977 |
|
Snogged David Beckham |
| Louis IV |
Royalty |
10-Sep-920 AD |
10-Sep-954 AD |
King of France, 936-54 |
| Dolley Madison |
First Lady |
20-May-1768 |
12-Jul-1849 |
Wife of US President James Madison |
| James Madison |
Head of State |
16-Mar-1751 |
28-Jun-1836 |
4th US President, 1809-17 |
| Jane March |
Actor |
20-Mar-1973 |
|
Color of Night |
| Bob Marley |
Singer/Songwriter |
6-Feb-1945 |
11-May-1981 |
No Woman No Cry |
| George Perkins Marsh |
Author |
15-Mar-1801 |
23-Jul-1882 |
Ecologist and camel enthusiast |
| Archer J. P. Martin |
Chemist |
1-Mar-1910 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Partition chromatography |
| Steve Martin |
Comic |
14-Aug-1945 |
|
The Jerk |
| Armistead Thomson Mason |
Politician |
4-Aug-1787 |
6-Feb-1819 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17 |
| Rik Mayall |
Actor |
7-Mar-1958 |
|
Rick on The Young Ones |
| Joseph McCarthy |
Politician |
14-Nov-1908 |
2-May-1957 |
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57 |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Joseph McKenna |
Judge |
10-Aug-1843 |
21-Nov-1926 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1898-1925 |
| Ida McKinley |
First Lady |
8-Jun-1847 |
26-May-1907 |
Wife of US President William McKinley |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Patricia Medina |
Actor |
19-Jul-1920 |
28-Apr-2012 |
Botany Bay |
| Edward Mellanby |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1884 |
30-Jan-1955 |
Rickets |
| Thomas Midgley |
Chemist |
18-May-1889 |
2-Nov-1944 |
Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Nelson A. Miles |
Military |
8-Aug-1839 |
15-May-1925 |
Army volunteer promoted to Commanding General |
| Alfred Milner |
Government |
23-Mar-1854 |
13-May-1925 |
Architect of the Balfour Declaration |
| Rhona Mitra |
Actor |
9-Aug-1976 |
|
Tara on The Practice |
| Molly Pitcher |
Military |
13-Oct-1754 |
22-Jan-1832 |
Fought at the Battle of Monmouth |
| Christopher Monckton |
Politician |
14-Feb-1952 |
|
Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party |
| Samuel S. Montague |
Engineer |
6-Jul-1830 |
24-Sep-1883 |
American Transcontinental Railroad |
| Robert Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1734 |
7-May-1806 |
Financed the Revolutionary War |
| Oswald Mosley |
Politician |
16-Nov-1896 |
3-Dec-1980 |
Founder of the British Union of Fascists |
| Samuel Mudd |
Doctor |
20-Dec-1833 |
10-Jan-1883 |
Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin |
| Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| Joseph E. Murray |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1919 |
|
Kidney transplants |
| Graham Nash |
Musician |
2-Feb-1942 |
|
Crosby, Stills, and Nash |
| Sam Neill |
Actor |
14-Sep-1947 |
|
Played Reilly, Ace of Spies |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
| Queen Noor |
Royalty |
23-Aug-1951 |
|
Queen of Jordan |
| John H. Northrop |
Chemist |
5-Jul-1891 |
27-May-1987 |
Bacteriophages |
| Justin Nozuka |
Singer/Songwriter |
29-Sep-1988 |
|
You I Wind Land and Sea |
| James D. P. Ogden |
Business |
26-Aug-1790 |
7-Apr-1870 |
First President of New York Life Insurance Company |
| Ransom E. Olds |
Business |
3-Jun-1864 |
26-Aug-1950 |
Founder of Nucor and Oldsmobile |
| Elisha Otis |
Inventor |
3-Aug-1811 |
8-Apr-1861 |
Invented the safety elevator |
| William Oughtred |
Mathematician |
5-Mar-1574 |
30-Jun-1660 |
Inventor of the slide rule |
| Wilfred Owen |
Poet |
18-Mar-1893 |
4-Nov-1918 |
Dulce Et Decorum Est |
| Thomas Paine |
Activist |
29-Jan-1737 |
8-Jun-1809 |
Common Sense |
| D. D. Palmer |
Doctor |
7-Mar-1845 |
20-Oct-1913 |
Founder of chiropractic medicine |
| Korla Pandit |
Musician |
16-Sep-1921 |
2-Oct-1998 |
Hynoptic exotic |
| Charles Stewart Parnell |
Politician |
27-Jun-1846 |
6-Oct-1891 |
Irish Nationalist leader |
| Talcott Parsons |
Sociologist |
13-Dec-1902 |
8-May-1979 |
The Structure of Social Action |
| Tera Patrick |
Pornstar |
25-Jul-1976 |
|
Nuttin' Hunnies |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
Astronomer |
10-May-1900 |
7-Dec-1979 |
Hydrogen in the Sun |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Frances Perkins |
Government |
10-Apr-1882 |
14-May-1965 |
First female US cabinet member |
| John Phillips |
Educator |
27-Dec-1719 |
21-Apr-1795 |
Founder of Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Samuel Phillips, Jr. |
Educator |
5-Feb-1752 |
10-Feb-1802 |
Founder of Phillips Academy |
| Marge Piercy |
Novelist |
31-Mar-1936 |
|
Gone to Soldiers |
| Thomas Pinckney |
Politician |
23-Oct-1750 |
2-Nov-1828 |
Governor of South Carolina, 1787-89 |
| Aubrey Plaza |
Comic |
26-Jun-1984 |
|
Parks and Recreation |
| James Plimpton |
Inventor |
14-Apr-1828 |
1911 |
Four-wheeled roller skates |
| C. W. Post |
Business |
26-Oct-1854 |
9-May-1914 |
Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts |
| John Wesley Powell |
Geologist |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
| Francis A. Pratt |
Business |
15-Feb-1827 |
10-Feb-1902 |
Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney |
| Ann Preston |
Doctor |
1-Dec-1813 |
18-Apr-1872 |
Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital |
| William Procter |
Business |
7-Dec-1801 |
4-Apr-1884 |
Co-Founder of Procter & Gamble |
| Robert Purvis |
Activist |
4-Aug-1810 |
15-Apr-1898 |
President of the Underground Railroad |
| William Quantrill |
Criminal |
31-Jul-1837 |
6-Jun-1865 |
Quantrill's Raiders |
| Bessica Raiche |
Aviator |
Apr-1875 |
11-Apr-1932 |
Aviatrix and gynecologist |
| James Rainwater |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1917 |
31-May-1986 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
| Donna Reed |
Actor |
27-Jan-1921 |
14-Jan-1986 |
The Donna Reed Show |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| Keanu Reeves |
Actor |
2-Sep-1964 |
|
Dude |
| Henry Regnery |
Publisher |
5-Jan-1912 |
18-Jun-1996 |
Regnery Publishing |
| Richard Reid |
Terrorist |
12-Aug-1973 |
|
Shoe bomber |
| Thomas D. Rice |
Comic |
20-May-1808 |
19-Sep-1860 |
Played "Jim Crow" |
| Owen Willans Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Apr-1879 |
15-Feb-1959 |
Electron emissions of metals |
| Oscar Riddle |
Biologist |
27-Sep-1877 |
29-Nov-1968 |
Prolactin |
| George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
| Alvah C. Roebuck |
Business |
9-Jun-1864 |
18-Jun-1948 |
Sears Roebuck founder |
| John Rolfe |
Agriculturalist |
1585 |
22-Mar-1622 |
First Virginia tobacco baron, husband of Pocahontas |
| Charles Stewart Rolls |
Business |
27-Aug-1877 |
12-Jul-1910 |
Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce |
| James Rolph, Jr. |
Government |
23-Aug-1869 |
2-Jun-1934 |
Mayor of San Francisco, 1912-31 |
| Betsy Ross |
Business |
1-Jan-1752 |
30-Jan-1836 |
Legendary American flagmaker |
| Henry Royce |
Engineer |
27-Mar-1863 |
22-Apr-1933 |
Designed the first Rolls-Royce |
| Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
| Sade |
Singer |
16-Jan-1959 |
|
Smooth Operator |
| Saffron |
Singer |
3-Jun-1968 |
|
Republica |
| George Sanders |
Actor |
3-Jul-1906 |
25-Apr-1972 |
The Saint Strikes Back |
| Wallace Sargent |
Astronomer |
15-Feb-1935 |
|
Astrophysicist at CalTech |
| Greta Scacchi |
Actor |
18-Feb-1960 |
|
The Player |
| Erwin Schrödinger |
Physicist |
12-Aug-1887 |
4-Jan-1961 |
Schrödinger's wave equation |
| John Walter Scott |
Stamp Collector |
2-Nov-1845 |
4-Jan-1919 |
Father of American Philately |
| Richard W. Sears |
Business |
7-Dec-1863 |
28-Sep-1914 |
Sears, Roebuck founder |
| Sequoyah |
Linguist |
c. 1770 |
Aug-1843 |
Put the Cherokee language on paper |
| Peter Serafinowicz |
Comic |
10-Jul-1972 |
|
Look Around You |
| Ernest Shackleton |
Explorer |
15-Feb-1874 |
5-Jan-1922 |
Antarctic explorer |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Anna Howard Shaw |
Activist |
14-Feb-1847 |
2-Jul-1919 |
National American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Lou Sheldon |
Activist |
1934 |
|
Traditional Values Coalition |
| Jean Shepherd |
Radio Personality |
26-Jul-1921 |
16-Oct-1999 |
A Christmas Story |
| Elisabeth Shue |
Actor |
6-Oct-1963 |
|
Leaving Las Vegas |
| Alexander Siddig |
Actor |
21-Nov-1965 |
|
Dr. Julian Bashir on DS9 |
| Harry Sinclair |
Business |
6-Jul-1876 |
10-Nov-1956 |
Founder of Sinclair Oil |
| Slash |
Guitarist |
23-Jul-1965 |
|
Former lead guitarist, Guns n' Roses |
| Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
| E. E. "Doc" Smith |
Novelist |
2-May-1890 |
31-Aug-1965 |
Lensman series |
| Michael Smith |
Chemist |
26-Apr-1932 |
4-Oct-2000 |
Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis |
| Frederick Soddy |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1877 |
22-Sep-1956 |
Isotopes |
| Mike Sodrel |
Politician |
17-Dec-1945 |
|
Congressman, Indiana 9th |
| Elmer Sperry |
Inventor |
12-Oct-1860 |
10-Jun-1930 |
Gyroscopic compass |
| Lawrence B. Sperry |
Inventor |
22-Dec-1892 |
13-Dec-1923 |
Invented the autopilot |
| Caroll Spinney |
TV Personality |
26-Dec-1933 |
|
Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch |
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley |
Government |
15-Jan-1841 |
14-Jun-1908 |
Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| John Steinbeck |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1902 |
20-Dec-1968 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
| Nettie Stevens |
Biologist |
7-Jul-1861 |
4-May-1912 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Lynne Stewart |
Attorney |
8-Oct-1939 |
|
Attorney convicted of supporting the Islamic Group |
| Charles Sumner |
Politician |
6-Jan-1811 |
11-Mar-1874 |
Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
| William Graham Sumner |
Educator |
30-Oct-1840 |
12-Apr-1910 |
Laissez faire sociologist |
| Ambrose Swasey |
Business |
19-Dec-1846 |
15-Jun-1937 |
Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory |
| Violette Szabo |
Spy |
26-Jun-1921 |
5-Feb-1945 |
British secret agent, fought with French Resistance |
| Helen Taft |
First Lady |
2-Jun-1861 |
22-May-1943 |
Wife of US President William Howard Taft |
| Ernest Thayer |
Poet |
14-Aug-1863 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Casey at the Bat |
| Dave Thomas |
Comic |
20-May-1949 |
|
SCTV |
| Elihu Thomson |
Inventor |
29-Mar-1853 |
13-Mar-1937 |
Electric welding and A/C motors |
| William Thornton |
Architect |
20-May-1759 |
28-Mar-1828 |
First architect of the US Capitol |
| Edward Titchener |
Psychologist |
11-Jan-1867 |
3-Aug-1927 |
Structural psychology |
| Charles Tufts |
Business |
17-Jul-1781 |
24-Dec-1876 |
Founder of Tufts University |
| Alan Turing |
Mathematician |
23-Jun-1912 |
7-Jun-1954 |
Computing pioneer |
| Letitia Tyler |
First Lady |
12-Nov-1790 |
10-Sep-1842 |
First wife of US President John Tyler |
| Theodore Vail |
Business |
16-Jul-1845 |
16-Apr-1920 |
Founder of AT&T |
| Holly Valance |
Actor |
11-May-1983 |
|
Neighbours |
| John Venn |
Mathematician |
4-Aug-1834 |
4-Apr-1923 |
Venn diagrams |
| Benjamin F. Wade |
Politician |
27-Oct-1800 |
2-Mar-1878 |
US Senator from Ohio, 1851-69 |
| Arthur Edward Waite |
Paranormal |
2-Oct-1857 |
19-May-1942 |
Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck |
| Ruth Graves Wakefield |
Chef |
17-Jun-1903 |
10-Jan-1977 |
Accidental inventor of chocolate chip cookies |
| Mary Edwards Walker |
Doctor |
26-Nov-1832 |
21-Feb-1919 |
First female US Army surgeon |
| Vernon Walters |
Government |
3-Jan-1917 |
10-Feb-2002 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
| Lester Frank Ward |
Sociologist |
18-Jun-1841 |
18-Apr-1913 |
Dynamic Sociology |
| J. Robin Warren |
Doctor |
11-Jun-1937 |
|
H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| Martha Washington |
First Lady |
2-Jun-1731 |
22-May-1802 |
Wife of US President George Washington |
| Lewis Waterman |
Inventor |
20-Nov-1836 |
1-May-1901 |
Fountain pen |
| Alan Watts |
Philosopher |
6-Jan-1915 |
16-Nov-1973 |
Zen beat counterculture sage |
| Naomi Watts |
Actor |
28-Sep-1968 |
|
First you see The Ring, then you die |
| Joseph Welch |
Attorney |
22-Oct-1890 |
6-Oct-1960 |
Have you no sense of decency? |
| Thomas B. Welch |
Business |
31-Dec-1825 |
29-Dec-1903 |
Grape juice magnate |
| Daniel B. Wesson |
Business |
18-May-1825 |
4-Aug-1906 |
Repeating pistol |
| George Westinghouse |
Inventor |
6-Oct-1846 |
12-Mar-1914 |
Air brake and A/C power |
| Amos Whitney |
Business |
8-Oct-1832 |
5-Aug-1928 |
Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney |
| Kaiser Wilhelm |
Head of State |
27-Jan-1859 |
4-Jun-1941 |
Last of the German emperors |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| Rowan Williams |
Religion |
14-Jun-1950 |
|
Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Edith Wilson |
First Lady |
15-Oct-1872 |
28-Dec-1961 |
Second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
| Ellen Wilson |
First Lady |
15-May-1860 |
6-Aug-1914 |
First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| Frances Wright |
Activist |
6-Sep-1795 |
13-Dec-1852 |
Utopian abolitionist |
| William Wrigley, Jr. |
Business |
30-Sep-1861 |
26-Jan-1932 |
Chewing gum magnate |
| Peter Wyngarde |
Actor |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Jason King |
| Thomas Young |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1773 |
10-May-1829 |
Wave Theory of Light |
