| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Ernst F. W. Alexanderson |
Inventor |
25-Jan-1878 |
14-May-1975 |
Developed radio and television at GE and RCA |
| Hannes Alfvén |
Physicist |
30-May-1908 |
2-Apr-1995 |
Renegade Swedish astrophysicist |
| Nelson Algren |
Author |
28-Mar-1909 |
9-May-1981 |
The Man with the Golden Arm |
| Gene Amdahl |
Engineer |
16-Nov-1922 |
|
Parallel computing pioneer |
| C. Elmer Anderson |
Politician |
16-Mar-1912 |
12-Jan-1998 |
Governor of Minnesota, 1951-55 |
| Carl David Anderson |
Physicist |
3-Sep-1905 |
11-Jan-1991 |
Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
| Leroy Anderson |
Composer |
29-Jun-1908 |
18-May-1975 |
The Syncopated Clock |
| Robert O. Anderson |
Business |
13-Apr-1917 |
2-Dec-2007 |
CEO of ARCO, 1966-86 |
| Wendell R. Anderson |
Politician |
1-Feb-1933 |
|
Governor of Minnesota, 1971-76 |
| Anders Jonas Ångström |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1814 |
21-Jun-1874 |
Founder of spectroscopy |
| Ann-Margret |
Actor |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Carnal Knowledge |
| J. Hugo Aronson |
Politician |
1-Sep-1891 |
25-Feb-1978 |
Governor of Montana, 1953-61 |
| Svante Arrhenius |
Chemist |
19-Feb-1859 |
2-Oct-1927 |
Explored electrolytic conductivity |
| Nils Asther |
Actor |
17-Jan-1897 |
13-Oct-1981 |
The Single Standard |
| Vincent Bendix |
Inventor |
12-Aug-1881 |
27-Mar-1945 |
Founder of Bendix Corporation |
| Edgar Bergen |
Actor |
16-Feb-1903 |
30-Sep-1978 |
Radio's greatest ventriloquist |
| Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Nadia Bjorlin |
Actor |
2-Aug-1980 |
|
Days of Our Lives |
| Charles A. Blixt |
Attorney |
18-Aug-1951 |
|
Former counsel, RJ Reynolds |
| Bloodshy |
Music Producer |
c. 1976 |
|
Swedish hitmaker for Britney Spears et al. |
| Nils Bohlin |
Engineer |
17-Jul-1920 |
26-Sep-2002 |
Three-point safety belt |
| Sissela Bok |
Scholar |
2-Dec-1934 |
|
Ethicist |
| Dr. Bombay |
Musician |
17-Nov-1963 |
|
Purveyor of faux-ethnic Eurodance |
| Ray Bradbury |
Author |
22-Aug-1920 |
5-Jun-2012 |
Fahrenheit 451 |
| Linda B. Buck |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
| Arne Carlson |
Politician |
24-Sep-1934 |
|
Governor of Minnesota, 1991-99 |
| Chester Carlson |
Inventor |
8-Feb-1906 |
19-Sep-1968 |
Invented Xerography |
| Arvid Carlsson |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1923 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Anders Celsius |
Astronomer |
27-Nov-1701 |
25-Apr-1744 |
Astronomer, invented centigrade scale |
| King Charles XII |
Royalty |
17-Jun-1682 |
30-Nov-1718 |
King of Sweden, 1697-1718 |
| Eagle-Eye Cherry |
Musician |
7-May-1968 |
|
Desireless |
| Neneh Cherry |
Musician |
10-Mar-1964 |
|
Raw Like Sushi |
| Dale Chihuly |
Artist |
20-Sep-1941 |
|
Glass artist |
| Per Theodor Cleve |
Chemist |
10-Feb-1840 |
18-Jun-1905 |
Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm) |
| Thomas George Cowling |
Mathematician |
17-Jun-1906 |
16-Jun-1990 |
Cowling model |
| Edward Dahlberg |
Novelist |
22-Jul-1900 |
27-Feb-1977 |
Because I Was Flesh |
| Joyce DeWitt |
Actor |
23-Apr-1949 |
|
Janet on Three's Company |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer |
Film Director |
3-Feb-1889 |
20-Mar-1968 |
Greatest Danish film director |
| Mamie Eisenhower |
First Lady |
14-Nov-1896 |
1-Nov-1979 |
Ike's First Lady |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
| Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
|
Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
| Robert Englund |
Actor |
6-Jun-1947 |
|
The original Freddy Krueger |
| Stefan Eriksson |
Business |
14-Dec-1961 |
|
Gizmondo exec, crashed Ferrari |
| Ulf von Euler |
Scientist |
7-Feb-1905 |
9-Mar-1983 |
Neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and prostaglandins |
| Edie Falco |
Actor |
5-Jul-1963 |
|
The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie |
| Assar Gabrielsson |
Business |
13-Aug-1891 |
28-May-1962 |
Co-Founder of Volvo |
| Eva Green |
Actor |
5-Jul-1980 |
|
The Dreamers |
| Allvar Gullstrand |
Doctor |
5-Jun-1862 |
28-Jul-1930 |
Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye |
| Jake Gyllenhaal |
Actor |
19-Dec-1980 |
|
Donnie Darko |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Actor |
16-Nov-1977 |
|
Secretary |
| Stephen Gyllenhaal |
Film Director |
4-Oct-1949 |
|
Homegrown |
| Geri Halliwell |
Singer |
6-Aug-1972 |
|
Ginger Spice |
| Howard Hanson |
Composer |
28-Oct-1896 |
26-Feb-1981 |
Symphony No. 4 |
| Victor Davis Hanson |
Historian |
5-Sep-1953 |
|
Carnage and Culture |
| Josh Hartnett |
Actor |
21-Jul-1978 |
|
The Virgin Suicides |
| Susan Hayward |
Actor |
30-Jun-1918 |
14-Mar-1975 |
I Want to Live! |
| Mitch Hedberg |
Comic |
24-Feb-1968 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Stand-up comedian known for one-liners |
| Tippi Hedren |
Actor |
19-Jan-1930 |
|
The Birds |
| Jill Hennessy |
Actor |
25-Nov-1968 |
|
Crossing Jordan |
| Mike Holmgren |
Football |
15-Jun-1948 |
|
President, Cleveland Browns |
| Gustav Holst |
Composer |
21-Sep-1874 |
25-May-1934 |
The Planets |
| Donald Johanson |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1943 |
|
Discovered "Lucy" fossils |
| Bob Johnson |
Hockey |
4-Mar-1931 |
26-Nov-1991 |
Badger Bob, coach and Hall of Famer |
| Kelly Johnson |
Engineer |
27-Feb-1910 |
21-Dec-1990 |
Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer |
| Tor Johnson |
Wrestling |
19-Oct-1903 |
12-May-1971 |
Plan 9 from Outer Space |
| Ingvar Kamprad |
Business |
30-Mar-1926 |
|
IKEA founder |
| Gary Kildall |
Business |
19-May-1942 |
11-Jul-1994 |
Founder of Digital Research, Inc. |
| Joel Kinnaman |
Actor |
25-Nov-1979 |
|
Stephen Holder on The Killing |
| Harold LeVander |
Politician |
10-Oct-1910 |
30-Mar-1992 |
Governor of Minnesota, 1967-71 |
| Eli Lilly |
Business |
8-Jul-1838 |
6-Jun-1898 |
Founder of Eli Lilly & Co. |
| Charles Lindbergh |
Aviator |
4-Feb-1902 |
26-Aug-1974 |
Transatlantic soloist |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
|
Protein folding |
| Greg Louganis |
Diver |
29-Jan-1960 |
|
Olympic diver, four gold medals |
| Susan Lucci |
Actor |
23-Dec-1946 |
|
Erica Kane on All My Children |
| Dan Lungren |
Politician |
22-Sep-1946 |
|
Congressman, California 3rd |
| Warren G. Magnuson |
Politician |
12-Apr-1905 |
20-May-1989 |
US Senator from Washington |
| Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
| Harry Morgan |
Actor |
10-Apr-1915 |
7-Dec-2011 |
Col. Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H |
| Marilyn Carlson Nelson |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Carlson Companies, 1998-2008 |
| Ozzie Nelson |
Actor |
20-Mar-1906 |
3-Jun-1975 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
| Harry Nilsson |
Singer/Songwriter |
15-Jun-1941 |
15-Jan-1994 |
Me and My Arrow |
| Queen Noor |
Royalty |
23-Aug-1951 |
|
Queen of Jordan |
| John W. Nordstrom |
Business |
15-Feb-1871 |
1-Oct-1963 |
Founder of Nordstrom |
| Ken Olsen |
Business |
20-Feb-1925 |
6-Feb-2011 |
Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Clifford Olson |
Criminal |
1-Jan-1940 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Killed 11 youths in British Columbia |
| Lyndon L. Olson |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Sweden, 1998-2001 |
| Robert Pirsig |
Author |
6-Sep-1928 |
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| William Rehnquist |
Judge |
1-Oct-1924 |
3-Sep-2005 |
US Chief Justice, 1986-2005 |
| Charles Nelson Reilly |
Actor |
13-Jan-1931 |
25-May-2007 |
Flamboyant Match Game panelist |
| Jean Rogers |
Actor |
25-Mar-1916 |
24-Feb-1991 |
Dale Arden in Flash Gordon serials |
| Carl Sandburg |
Author |
6-Jan-1878 |
22-Jul-1967 |
Illinois poet, Lincoln biographer |
| Stephanie Herseth Sandlin |
Politician |
3-Dec-1970 |
|
Congresswoman from South Dakota, 2004-11 |
| Andrew V. Schally |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1926 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Joel Schumacher |
Film Director |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
The Lost Boys |
| Glenn Seaborg |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1912 |
25-Feb-1999 |
Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
| Manne Siegbahn |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1886 |
26-Sep-1978 |
X-Ray spectroscopy |
| Victoria Silvstedt |
Model |
19-Sep-1974 |
|
1997 Playmate of the Year |
| Ruth Snyder |
Criminal |
1895 |
12-Jan-1928 |
Electrocuted for murdering husband |
| Jasmin St. Claire |
Pornstar |
23-Oct-1970 |
|
World's Biggest Gang Bang II |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| Cat Stevens |
Singer/Songwriter |
21-Jul-1948 |
|
Morning Has Broken |
| Erik Per Sullivan |
Actor |
12-Jul-1991 |
|
Dewey on Malcolm in the Middle |
| Alexander Suvorov |
Military |
24-Nov-1729 |
18-May-1800 |
Russian general, fought Turks, French |
| The Svedberg |
Chemist |
30-Aug-1884 |
25-Feb-1971 |
Inventor of the ultracentrifuge |
| Bo Svenson |
Actor |
13-Feb-1944 |
|
North Dallas Forty |
| Gloria Swanson |
Actor |
27-Mar-1897 |
4-Apr-1983 |
Sunset Blvd. |
| Lee Tergesen |
Actor |
8-Jul-1965 |
|
Beecher in Oz |
| Jon Tester |
Politician |
21-Aug-1956 |
|
US Senator from Montana |
| Hugo Theorell |
Scientist |
6-Jul-1903 |
15-Aug-1982 |
Oxidation enzymes |
| Burr Tillstrom |
Performance Artist |
13-Oct-1917 |
6-Dec-1985 |
Puppeteer, Kukla, Fran and Ollie |
| Audrey Totter |
Actor |
20-Dec-1918 |
|
The Unsuspected |
| Tomas Tranströmer |
Poet |
15-Apr-1931 |
|
Scandinavian poet |
| Peter Ueberroth |
Baseball |
2-Sep-1937 |
|
Commissioner of Baseball, 1984-89 |
| Mamie Van Doren |
Actor |
6-Feb-1931 |
|
High School Confidential! |
| Sarah Vowell |
Radio Personality |
27-Dec-1969 |
|
This American Life |
| Mark Wahlberg |
Actor |
5-Jun-1971 |
|
Formerly of the Funky Bunch |
| Charles Walgreen |
Business |
9-Oct-1873 |
11-Dec-1939 |
Founder of Walgreen Co. |
| Earl Warren |
Judge |
19-Mar-1891 |
9-Jul-1974 |
US Chief Justice, 1953-69 |
| Jennifer Westfeldt |
Actor |
2-Feb-1970 |
|
Notes from the Underbelly |
| Torsten N. Wiesel |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1924 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Jesse Williams |
Actor |
5-Aug-1981 |
|
Dr. Jackson Avery on Grey's Anatomy |
| Luther W. Youngdahl |
Politician |
29-May-1896 |
21-Jun-1978 |
Governor of Minnesota, 1947-51 |
