LISTS

See also French Ancestry and Calvinists.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Thomas F. Bayard	Government	29-Oct-1828	28-Sep-1898	US Secretary of State, 1885-89
Simon Le Bon	Musician	27-Oct-1958		Frontman of Duran Duran
Paul D. Boyer	Chemist	31-Jul-1918		ATP process
Frank B. Brandegee	Politician	8-Jul-1864	14-Oct-1924	US Senator, committed suicide
Warren Buffett	Business	30-Aug-1930		Billionaire in Omaha
William Christopher	Actor	20-Oct-1932		Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H
Winston Churchill	Head of State	30-Nov-1874	24-Jan-1965	WWII Prime Minister of England
Joan Crawford	Actor	23-Mar-1905	10-May-1977	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Davy Crockett	Military	17-Aug-1786	6-Mar-1836	King of the Wild Frontier
Augustus De Morgan	Mathematician	27-Jun-1806	18-Mar-1871	De Morgan's Laws
W. E. B. Du Bois	Sociologist	23-Feb-1868	27-Aug-1963	Civil rights activist
William F. Durand	Engineer	5-Mar-1859	9-Aug-1958	National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
James Pollard Espy	Scientist	9-May-1785	24-Jan-1860	The Philosophy of Storms
Paul J. Flory	Chemist	19-Jun-1910	9-Sep-1985	Studied polymers
Judy Garland	Singer	10-Jun-1922	22-Jun-1969	Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
Jean-Luc Godard	Film Director	3-Dec-1930		Vivre sa Vie
Al Gore	Politician	31-Mar-1948		US Vice President under Clinton
Alexander Hamilton	Government	11-Jan-1757	12-Jul-1804	Primary author of The Federalist Papers
Henri IV	Royalty	13-Dec-1553	14-May-1610	King of France, 1589-1610
George W. Hill	Astronomer	3-Mar-1838	16-Apr-1914	A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Eddie Izzard	Comic	7-Feb-1962		Bloke in a dress going on and on
Henry Laurens	Politician	24-Feb-1724	8-Dec-1792	Captured negotiating treaty with Holland
Henry Demarest Lloyd	Journalist	1-May-1847	28-Sep-1903	Radical reporter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Poet	27-Feb-1807	24-Mar-1882	Evangeline
Jan Masaryk	Government	14-Sep-1886	10-Mar-1948	Czech Foreign Minister
Matthew Fontaine Maury	Military	14-Jan-1806	1-Feb-1873	Father of modern oceanography
Samuel S. Montague	Engineer	6-Jul-1830	24-Sep-1883	American Transcontinental Railroad
Gouverneur Morris	Politician	31-Jan-1752	6-Nov-1816	American financier, Revolutionary politician
Laurence Olivier	Actor	22-May-1907	11-Jul-1989	Shakespearean actor
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont	Business	24-Jun-1771	31-Oct-1834	Founder of DuPont
Cecil Powell	Physicist	5-Dec-1903	9-Aug-1969	Discovered the pi-meson
Tyrone Power	Actor	5-May-1913	15-Nov-1958	Witness for the Prosecution
Frederic Remington	Sculptor	4-Oct-1861	26-Dec-1909	The Bronco Buster
Jesse W. Reno	Inventor	4-Aug-1861	2-Jun-1947	Invented the escalator
Paul Revere	Military	1-Jan-1735	10-May-1818	One if by land, two if by sea...
Henry M. Robert	Administrator	2-May-1837	11-May-1923	Robert's Rules of Order
John D. Rockefeller	Business	8-Jul-1839	23-May-1937	Founder of Standard Oil
Peter Mark Roget	Author	18-Jan-1779	12-Sep-1869	Roget's Thesaurus
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Head of State	30-Jan-1882	12-Apr-1945	US President during WWII
Charlize Theron	Actor	7-Aug-1975		Monster
Henry David Thoreau	Author	12-Jul-1817	6-May-1862	Walden

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