Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Alex Abella |
Author |
8-Nov-1950 |
|
Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation |
Max Abramovitz |
Architect |
23-May-1908 |
12-Sep-2004 |
Designed UN Headquarters |
Dan Abrams |
Journalist |
20-May-1966 |
|
NBC legal reporter |
Joel Ackerman |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Partner, Warburg Pincus |
Edie Adams |
Actor |
16-Apr-1925 |
15-Oct-2008 |
Lover Come Back |
Lee Adams |
Songwriter |
14-Aug-1924 |
|
Bye Bye Birdie |
Felix Adler |
Educator |
13-Aug-1851 |
24-Apr-1933 |
Ethical Culture |
Mortimer J. Adler |
Philosopher |
28-Dec-1902 |
28-Jun-2001 |
How to Read a Book |
Casey Affleck |
Actor |
12-Aug-1975 |
|
The Assassination of Jesse James |
Herbert Agar |
Journalist |
29-Sep-1897 |
24-Nov-1980 |
The People's Choice |
James F. Albaugh |
Business |
31-May-1950 |
|
EVP at Boeing |
Mitch Albom |
Novelist |
23-May-1958 |
|
Tuesdays with Morrie |
Madeleine Albright |
Diplomat |
15-May-1937 |
|
Bill Clinton's Secretary of State |
Hafizullah Amin |
Head of State |
1-Aug-1929 |
27-Dec-1979 |
President of Afghanistan, 1979 |
Glenn Anders |
Actor |
1-Sep-1889 |
26-Oct-1981 |
The Lady from Shanghai |
Benjamin M. Anderson |
Economist |
1-May-1886 |
19-Jan-1949 |
Social Value |
Laurie Anderson |
Performance Artist |
5-Jun-1947 |
|
Tape bow violinist and performance artist |
Regina M. Anderson |
Playwright |
21-May-1901 |
5-Feb-1993 |
Climbing Jacob's Ladder |
Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
Roone Arledge |
Sports Figure |
8-Jul-1931 |
5-Dec-2002 |
Created Wide World of Sports |
Michael Armacost |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
US Ambassador to Japan, 1989-93 |
Edwin H. Armstrong |
Inventor |
18-Dec-1890 |
31-Jan-1954 |
Inventor of FM radio |
Morten Arntzen |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of Overseas Shipholding Group |
Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
|
Social Choice and Individual Values |
John Ashbery |
Poet |
28-Jul-1927 |
|
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
William Waldorf Astor |
Publisher |
31-Mar-1848 |
18-Oct-1919 |
The Observer |
Paul Auster |
Novelist |
3-Feb-1947 |
|
New York Trilogy |
Richard Avedon |
Photographer |
13-May-1923 |
1-Oct-2004 |
Photographer of the human predicament |
Oswald Avery |
Biologist |
21-Oct-1877 |
20-Feb-1955 |
Antibodies and DNA |
Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
Bill Ayers |
Activist |
26-Dec-1944 |
|
Weather Underground |
John H. Backer |
Historian |
18-Oct-1902 |
15-May-1985 |
Winds of History |
John Backus |
Computer Programmer |
3-Dec-1924 |
17-Mar-2007 |
Inventor of BNF, led FORTRAN team |
Kenneth H. Bacon |
Journalist |
21-Nov-1944 |
15-Aug-2009 |
President of Refugees International, 2001-09 |
Ramin Bahrani |
Film Director |
20-Mar-1975 |
|
At Any Price |
Stephen Baker |
Author |
15-Nov-1955 |
|
The Numerati |
Ian Ballantine |
Publisher |
15-Feb-1916 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Paperback magnate |
Richard C. Barkley |
Diplomat |
23-Dec-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to East Germany, 1988-90 |
Harry Barnes |
Diplomat |
5-Jun-1926 |
9-Aug-2012 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1985-88 |
Harry Elmer Barnes |
Historian |
15-Jun-1889 |
25-Aug-1968 |
American conspiracy theorist |
William Barr |
Government |
23-May-1950 |
|
US Attorney General, 1991-93 |
William Barrett |
Philosopher |
30-Dec-1913 |
8-Sep-1992 |
Irrational Man |
Maryanne Trump Barry |
Judge |
5-Apr-1937 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Robert L. Barry |
Diplomat |
28-Aug-1934 |
|
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1992-95 |
Jacqueline K. Barton |
Chemist |
7-May-1952 |
|
Professor of Chemistry at CalTech |
Jacques Barzun |
Historian |
30-Nov-1907 |
25-Oct-2012 |
From Dawn to Decadence |
J. T. Battenberg III |
Business |
25-Apr-1943 |
|
CEO of Delphi, 1998-2005 |
Vincent M. Battle |
Diplomat |
1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Lebanon, 2001-04 |
Charles A. Beard |
Historian |
27-Nov-1874 |
1-Sep-1948 |
The Rise of American Civilization |
Carl Becker |
Historian |
7-Sep-1873 |
10-Apr-1945 |
Everyman His Own Historian |
William Beebe |
Scientist |
29-Jul-1877 |
4-Jun-1962 |
Ocean explorer |
Marek Belka |
Head of State |
9-Jan-1952 |
|
Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-05 |
Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
Doron S. Ben-Atar |
Historian |
25-May-1957 |
|
The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy |
Baruj Benacerraf |
Scientist |
29-Oct-1920 |
2-Aug-2011 |
Gene control of HLA antigens |
Richard Benedick |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US negotiator to the Montreal Protocol |
Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
Medea Benjamin |
Activist |
10-Sep-1952 |
|
CODEPINK, Global Exchange cofounder |
Gwendolyn Bennett |
Author |
8-Jul-1902 |
30-May-1981 |
Harlem Renaissance writer |
Cathy Berberian |
Singer |
4-Jul-1925 |
6-Mar-1983 |
Operatic mezzo-soprano |
Gertrude Berg |
Radio Personality |
3-Oct-1899 |
14-Sep-1966 |
The Goldbergs |
Thomas Berger |
Novelist |
20-Jul-1924 |
13-Jul-2014 |
Little Big Man |
Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
Warren Berlinger |
Actor |
31-Aug-1937 |
|
American character actor |
Marshall Berman |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1940 |
11-Sep-2013 |
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
John Berryman |
Poet |
25-Oct-1914 |
7-Jan-1972 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua |
Religion |
17-Jun-1923 |
31-Jan-2012 |
Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1987-2003 |
Hakim Bey |
Author |
1945 |
|
Temporary Autonomous Zone |
Kathryn Bigelow |
Film Director |
27-Nov-1951 |
|
The Hurt Locker |
Poultney Bigelow |
Author |
10-Sep-1855 |
28-May-1954 |
The German Struggle for Liberty |
Bill de Blasio |
Politician |
8-May-1961 |
|
Mayor of New York City |
Burt Blechman |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1927 |
29-Dec-1998 |
How Much? |
Jeffrey L. Bleustein |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Harley-Davidson, 1997-2005 |
James Blish |
Author |
23-May-1921 |
30-Jul-1975 |
Cities in Flight |
Hans Blix |
Government |
28-Jun-1928 |
|
Weapons inspector before Iraq War |
Konrad Bloch |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1912 |
15-Oct-2000 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
Baruch S. Blumberg |
Scientist |
28-Jul-1925 |
5-Apr-2011 |
Hepatitis B vaccine |
Mark Blyth |
Political Scientist |
29-Sep-1967 |
|
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea |
Louis D. Boccardi |
Journalist |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Associated Press, 1985-2003 |
Avis Bohlen |
Diplomat |
20-Apr-1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Bulgaria, 1996-99 |
Sorrell Booke |
Actor |
4-Jan-1930 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard |
Pat Boone |
Singer |
1-Jun-1934 |
|
Lounge singer, 45-million records sold |
David Boreanaz |
Actor |
16-May-1969 |
|
Bones |
Ari Bousbib |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
President of Otis Elevator |
John Bowe |
Author |
1964 |
|
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor |
Albert H. Bowker |
Educator |
8-Sep-1919 |
20-Jan-2008 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80 |
Erskine Bowles |
Government |
8-Aug-1945 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 1996-98 |
Jesse Bradford |
Actor |
28-May-1979 |
|
Clockstoppers |
Gloria Brame |
Author |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Clinical sexologist |
Walter H. Brattain |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1902 |
13-Oct-1987 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
Aurelia E. Brazeal |
Diplomat |
24-Nov-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Ethiopia, 2002-05 |
Jenne K. Britell |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Structured Ventures, Inc. |
Louis Bromfield |
Author |
27-Dec-1896 |
18-Mar-1956 |
Early Autumn |
Geraldine Brooks |
Novelist |
14-Sep-1955 |
|
March |
Joyce Brothers |
Psychologist |
20-Sep-1927 |
13-May-2013 |
Pop psychologist |
Harold Brown |
Government |
19-Sep-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81 |
Jeffrey Brown |
Journalist |
c. 1952 |
|
Correspondent, PBS News Hour |
L. Dean Brown |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1920 |
2-May-2001 |
US Ambassador to Jordan, 1970-73 |
Robert L. Brown |
Judge |
30-Jun-1941 |
|
Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court |
Frank Bruni |
Journalist |
31-Oct-1964 |
|
New York Times food critic |
Charles F. Brush III |
Archaeologist |
3-Apr-1923 |
1-Jun-2006 |
Explorers Club president 1978-81 |
Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
Pat Buchanan |
Columnist |
2-Nov-1938 |
|
Crossfire |
Linda B. Buck |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
Algis Budrys |
Author |
9-Jan-1931 |
9-Jun-2008 |
Rogue Moon |
Warren Buffett |
Business |
30-Aug-1930 |
|
Billionaire in Omaha |
Elisabeth Bumiller |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
New York Times Washington correspondent |
Raymond Burghardt |
Diplomat |
27-May-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Vietnam, 2002-04 |
Kenneth Burke |
Critic |
5-May-1897 |
19-Nov-1993 |
Language as Symbolic Action |
Arthur F. Burns |
Economist |
27-Apr-1904 |
6-Jun-1987 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 |
Ursula M. Burns |
Business |
20-Sep-1958 |
|
CEO of Xerox |
Raymond Burr |
Actor |
21-May-1917 |
12-Sep-1993 |
Perry Mason |
Frederick Busch |
Novelist |
1-Aug-1941 |
23-Feb-2006 |
Don't Tell Anyone |
Richard C. Bush III |
Government |
c. 1947 |
|
Former Chair, American Institute in Taiwan |
Patricia A. Butenis |
Diplomat |
c. 1957 |
|
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 2006-08 |
Addie J. Butler |
Religion |
1946 |
|
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
Nicholas Murray Butler |
Educator |
2-Apr-1862 |
7-Dec-1947 |
President of Columbia University, 1901-45 |
Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
Daniel E. Button |
Politician |
1-Nov-1917 |
7-Mar-2009 |
Congressman from New York, 1967-71 |
José A. Cabranes |
Judge |
22-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Thomas Cahill |
Author |
29-Mar-1940 |
|
How the Irish Saved Civilization |
Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
Charles W. Calhoun |
Historian |
24-Feb-1948 |
|
Conceiving a New Republic |
John Calley |
Film/TV Producer |
8-Jul-1930 |
13-Sep-2011 |
CEO of Sony Pictures, 1996-2003 |
Bill Campbell |
Business |
31-Aug-1940 |
18-Apr-2016 |
CEO of Intuit, 1994-98 and 1999-2000 |
Joseph Campbell |
Author |
26-Mar-1904 |
31-Oct-1987 |
The Power of Myth |
Eric Cantor |
Politician |
6-Jun-1963 |
|
House Majority Leader, 2011-15 |
Richard G. Capen |
Publisher |
c. 1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1992-93 |
Demetrios James Caraley |
Educator |
22-Jun-1932 |
|
President, Academy of Political Science |
Ernesto Cardenal |
Poet |
20-Jan-1925 |
|
Liberation theologist, important Nicaraguan poet |
Benjamin Cardozo |
Judge |
24-May-1870 |
9-Jul-1938 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1932-38 |
Wendy Carlos |
Electronic Musician |
14-Nov-1939 |
|
Switched On Bach |
Gene R. Carter |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
Executive Director, ASCD |
Helena Carter |
Actor |
24-Aug-1923 |
11-Jan-2000 |
Invaders from Mars |
Hodding Carter III |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1935 |
|
Carter Administration mouthpiece |
Peter Cartwright |
Business |
6-Jan-1930 |
|
CEO of Calpine, 1984-2005 |
Tim Carvell |
Comic |
c. 1973 |
|
Head writer, The Daily Show |
Robert B. Catell |
Business |
1-Feb-1937 |
|
CEO of KeySpan, 1998-2007 |
Emanuel Celler |
Politician |
6-May-1888 |
15-Jan-1981 |
Congressman from New York, 1923-73 |
Bennett Cerf |
Publisher |
25-May-1898 |
27-Aug-1971 |
Founder of Random House |
David Cesarani |
Historian |
13-Nov-1956 |
25-Oct-2015 |
Eichmann: His Life and Crimes |
Richard D. Challener |
Historian |
15-Nov-1923 |
23-Sep-2002 |
The French Theory of the Nation in Arms |
Whittaker Chambers |
Author |
1-Apr-1901 |
9-Jul-1961 |
Accuser of Alger Hiss |
Elaine Chao |
Government |
26-Mar-1953 |
|
US Secretary of Labor, 2001-09 |
Jerome Charyn |
Novelist |
13-May-1937 |
|
The Good Policeman |
Shirley Chisholm |
Politician |
30-Nov-1924 |
1-Jan-2005 |
First black woman elected to US House |
Lisa Cholodenko |
Film Director |
5-Jun-1964 |
|
Laurel Canyon |
Robert Cialdini |
Psychologist |
27-Apr-1945 |
|
Influence |
Kenneth B. Clark |
Psychologist |
14-Jul-1914 |
1-May-2005 |
Studied the effects of prejudice on children |
Robert C. Clark |
Educator |
c. 1944 |
|
Dean of Harvard Law School, 1989-2003 |
Spencer Treat Clark |
Actor |
24-Sep-1987 |
|
Unbreakable |
William Clark, Jr. |
Diplomat |
12-Oct-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1989-92 |
Lucille Clifton |
Poet |
27-Jun-1936 |
13-Feb-2010 |
Good Woman |
Chelsea Clinton |
Relative |
27-Feb-1980 |
|
Daughter of Hillary and Bill Clinton |
De Witt Clinton |
Politician |
2-Mar-1769 |
11-Feb-1828 |
Twice Governor of New York |
William D. Cohan |
Author |
20-Feb-1960 |
|
The Last Tycoons |
Morris Raphael Cohen |
Philosopher |
25-Jul-1880 |
28-Jan-1947 |
Reason and Nature |
Naomi W. Cohen |
Historian |
13-Nov-1927 |
|
Jews in Christian America |
Richard Cohen |
Columnist |
1941 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
Warren I. Cohen |
Historian |
20-Jun-1934 |
|
America's Response to China |
Roy Cohn |
Government |
20-Feb-1927 |
2-Aug-1986 |
Joseph McCarthy's henchman |
James S. Coleman |
Sociologist |
12-May-1926 |
25-Mar-1995 |
Foundations of Social Theory |
James B. Collins |
Historian |
c. 1949 |
|
The State in Early Modern France |
Barry Commoner |
Biologist |
28-May-1917 |
30-Sep-2012 |
Science and Survival |
Bill Condon |
Film Director |
22-Oct-1955 |
|
Gods and Monsters |
Morgan Conway |
Actor |
16-Mar-1903 |
16-Nov-1981 |
Dick Tracy |
Robin Cook |
Novelist |
4-May-1940 |
|
Coma |
Ben Cooper |
Actor |
30-Sep-1933 |
|
The Last Command |
Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
Matthew Cooper |
Journalist |
1963 |
|
Reluctant to name Plame leak source |
André F. Cournand |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1895 |
19-Feb-1988 |
Cardiac catheterization |
Norman Cousins |
Author |
24-Jun-1912 |
30-Nov-1990 |
Editor of The Saturday Review |
Richard Ben Cramer |
Author |
12-Jun-1950 |
7-Jan-2013 |
What It Takes: The Way to the White House |
Arthur G. Crane |
Educator |
1-Sep-1877 |
11-Aug-1955 |
President, University of Wyoming, 1922-41 |
Judith Crist |
Critic |
22-May-1922 |
7-Aug-2012 |
Ascerbic film critic |
Monica Crowley |
Pundit |
19-Sep-1968 |
|
Conservative commentator on FOX News |
Heidi Cullen |
TV Personality |
c. 1971 |
|
The Climate Code |
Edward Dahlberg |
Author |
22-Jul-1900 |
27-Feb-1977 |
Because I Was Flesh |
Robert Dallek |
Historian |
16-May-1934 |
|
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 |
Jonathan Daniels |
Government |
26-Apr-1902 |
6-Nov-1981 |
FDR and Truman's press secretary |
Borzou Daragahi |
Journalist |
c. 1966 |
|
Los Angeles Times reporter |
Colgate W. Darden, Jr. |
Politician |
11-Feb-1897 |
9-Jun-1981 |
Governor of Virginia, 1942-46 |
Robert J. Darnall |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Inland Steel, 1992-98 |
Eugene I. Davis |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Pirinate Consulting Group |
Ossie Davis |
Actor |
18-Dec-1917 |
4-Feb-2005 |
Do The Right Thing |
Brian De Palma |
Film Director |
11-Sep-1940 |
|
Carrie |
Karl Dean |
Politician |
20-Sep-1955 |
|
Mayor of Nashville |
Rosa DeLauro |
Politician |
2-Mar-1943 |
|
Congresswoman, Connecticut 3rd |
Christopher W. Dell |
Diplomat |
1956 |
|
US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 2004-07 |
Brian Dennehy |
Actor |
9-Jul-1938 |
|
First Blood |
Howard Dietz |
Songwriter |
8-Sep-1896 |
30-Jul-1983 |
MGM songwriter, publicity chief |
William T. Dillard |
Business |
2-Sep-1914 |
8-Feb-2002 |
Founder of Dillard's |
T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
E. L. Doctorow |
Novelist |
6-Jan-1931 |
21-Jul-2015 |
The Book of Daniel |
Troy Donahue |
Actor |
27-Jan-1936 |
2-Sep-2001 |
A Summer Place |
Timothy Donnelly |
Poet |
3-Jun-1969 |
|
Twenty-Seven Props |
Wild Bill Donovan |
Government |
1-Jan-1883 |
8-Feb-1959 |
Founded the OSS |
Paul H. Douglas |
Politician |
26-Mar-1892 |
24-Sep-1976 |
US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67 |
Truman B. Douglass |
Religion |
15-Jul-1901 |
27-May-1969 |
United Church of Christ |
Hugh Downs |
Journalist |
14-Feb-1921 |
|
20/20 |
Theodore Draper |
Historian |
11-Sep-1912 |
21-Feb-2006 |
The Roots of American Communism |
Charles Drew |
Doctor |
3-Jun-1904 |
1-Apr-1950 |
First to separate blood plasma |
Michael Drosnin |
Journalist |
c. 1944 |
|
The Bible Code |
Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
Foster Rhea Dulles |
Historian |
24-Jan-1900 |
11-Sep-1970 |
Prelude to World Power |
Tan Dun |
Composer |
18-Aug-1957 |
|
Heaven, Earth, Mankind |
Charles F. Dunbar |
Diplomat |
1-Apr-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91 |
James F. Dunnigan |
Historian |
Aug-1943 |
|
Military historian, wargame designer |
Amelia Earhart |
Aviator |
24-Jul-1897 |
2-Jul-1937 |
Misplaced aviatrix |
Max Eastman |
Author |
12-Jan-1883 |
25-Mar-1969 |
Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism |
Fred Ebb |
Musician |
8-Apr-1935 |
11-Sep-2004 |
Top Broadway lyricist, Cabaret |
Wallace J. Eckert |
Astronomer |
19-Jun-1902 |
24-Aug-1971 |
First scientist hired by IBM |
Martin L. Edelman |
Attorney |
c. 1941 |
|
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker |
Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Dec-1915 |
5-Feb-2000 |
The Decline of American Liberalism |
Niles Eldredge |
Paleontologist |
25-Aug-1943 |
|
Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium |
Ray Eliot |
Football |
13-Jun-1905 |
24-Feb-1980 |
Illini Head Coach, 1942-59 |
Stanley M. Elkins |
Historian |
27-Apr-1925 |
16-Sep-2013 |
Slavery |
Josh Elliott |
TV Personality |
6-Jul-1971 |
|
Good Morning America |
Albert Ellis |
Psychologist |
27-Sep-1913 |
24-Jul-2007 |
Rational emotive behavior therapy |
Richard T. Ely |
Economist |
13-Apr-1854 |
4-Oct-1943 |
Introduction to Political Economy |
Richard A. Epstein |
Scholar |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
Takings |
Bonnie Erbe |
TV Personality |
? |
|
Host of To the Contrary |
Weeb Ewbank |
Football |
6-May-1907 |
17-Nov-1998 |
Head Coach, Baltimore Colts and NY Jets |
Mark Eyskens |
Head of State |
29-Apr-1933 |
|
Prime Minister of Belgium, 1981 |
Mallory Factor |
Activist |
c. 1950 |
|
Merchant banker |
Harold Underwood Faulkner |
Historian |
25-Feb-1890 |
19-Jun-1968 |
American Economic History |
Meyer Feldberg |
Educator |
17-Mar-1942 |
|
Dean of Columbia Business School, 1989-2004 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Poet |
24-Mar-1919 |
|
A Coney Island of the Mind |
Howard Fineman |
Journalist |
c. 1948 |
|
Huffington Post political analyst |
Hamilton Fish II |
Politician |
17-Apr-1849 |
15-Jan-1936 |
Congressman from New York, 1909-11 |
Hamilton Fish |
Politician |
3-Aug-1808 |
7-Sep-1893 |
US Secretary of State, 1869-77 |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
Author |
17-Feb-1879 |
9-Nov-1958 |
Understood Betsy |
Alan H. Fishman |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Meridian Capital Group |
Steven S. Fishman |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Big Lots |
Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
James Florio |
Politician |
29-Aug-1937 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1990-94 |
Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
Eric Foner |
Historian |
7-Feb-1943 |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution |
Philip S. Foner |
Historian |
14-Dec-1910 |
13-Dec-1994 |
History of the Labor Movement in the United States |
Matthew Fox |
Actor |
14-Jul-1966 |
|
Jack on Lost |
James Franco |
Actor |
19-Apr-1978 |
|
Freaks and Geeks |
Max Frankel |
Journalist |
3-Apr-1930 |
|
The New York Times |
Helen Frankenthaler |
Painter |
12-Dec-1928 |
27-Dec-2011 |
Mountains and Sea |
David Freddoso |
Journalist |
c. 1976 |
|
National Review Online |
J. Richard Fredericks |
Business |
1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Switzerland, 1999-2001 |
Hugo Fregonese |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1908 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Old Shatterhand |
Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. |
Politician |
17-Jan-1916 |
23-May-2011 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1953-75 |
Daniel Fried |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Asst. Secy. of State for European Affairs |
Milton Friedman |
Economist |
31-Jul-1912 |
16-Nov-2006 |
Free market economic theorist |
Robert L. Friedman |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Managing Partner, Blackstone Group |
Edward A. Frieman |
Physicist |
19-Jan-1926 |
11-Apr-2013 |
Director of Scripps, 1986-96 |
Ira H. Fuchs |
Administrator |
? |
|
Founder of BITNET |
Klaus Fuchs |
Spy |
29-Dec-1911 |
28-Jan-1988 |
Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR |
Susan Fuhrman |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
President, Teachers College, Columbia |
Allen Funt |
Film/TV Producer |
16-Sep-1914 |
5-Sep-1999 |
Producer and host of Candid Camera |
George Furth |
Playwright |
14-Dec-1932 |
11-Aug-2008 |
Company |
Dan Futterman |
Actor |
8-Jun-1967 |
|
Vincent on Judging Amy |
Clarence Gaines |
Basketball |
21-May-1923 |
18-Apr-2005 |
Winston-Salem Head Coach, 1946-93 |
Paul Gallico |
Author |
26-Jul-1897 |
15-Jul-1975 |
The Snow Goose |
Zach Galligan |
Actor |
14-Feb-1964 |
|
Gremlins |
Martin Garbus |
Attorney |
8-Aug-1934 |
|
Attorney for Lenny Bruce |
Eric Garcetti |
Politician |
4-Feb-1971 |
|
Mayor of Los Angeles |
Art Garfunkel |
Singer/Songwriter |
5-Nov-1941 |
|
Simon and Garfunkel |
Jason Garrett |
Football |
28-Mar-1966 |
|
Dallas Cowboys head coach |
Lorraine Gary |
Actor |
16-Aug-1937 |
|
Jaws |
Peter Gay |
Historian |
20-Jun-1923 |
12-May-2015 |
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation |
Gordon Gee |
Educator |
2-Feb-1944 |
|
President, Ohio State University |
Will Geer |
Actor |
9-Mar-1902 |
22-Apr-1978 |
Zebulon Walton in The Waltons |
Lou Gehrig |
Baseball |
19-Jun-1903 |
2-Jun-1941 |
Played 2,130 consecutive games |
Philip H. Geier, Jr. |
Business |
22-Feb-1935 |
|
CEO of Interpublic Group, 1980-2000 |
Julius Genachowski |
Government |
19-Aug-1962 |
|
FCC Chairman |
Eugene D. Genovese |
Historian |
19-May-1930 |
26-Sep-2012 |
Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made |
Vitas Gerulaitis |
Tennis |
26-Jul-1954 |
17-Sep-1994 |
Winner, 1977 Australian Open |
Lesley Gill |
Anthropologist |
1955 |
|
Peasants, Entrepreneurs, and Social Change |
Allen Ginsberg |
Poet |
3-Jun-1926 |
5-Apr-1997 |
Howl! |
Nikki Giovanni |
Poet |
7-Jun-1943 |
|
Black Feeling, Black Talk |
Greg Giraldo |
Comic |
10-Dec-1965 |
29-Sep-2010 |
Friday Night Stand-Up |
Robert Giroux |
Publisher |
8-Apr-1914 |
5-Sep-2008 |
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
Alexis Glick |
Journalist |
7-Aug-1972 |
|
Fox Business Network anchor, 2007-09 |
Thomas H. Glocer |
Business |
8-Oct-1959 |
|
CEO of Thomson Reuters |
Louise Glück |
Author |
22-Apr-1943 |
|
The Wild Iris |
Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1906 |
20-Feb-1972 |
Shell nuclear model |
Susan Golding |
Politician |
18-Aug-1945 |
|
Mayor of San Diego, 1992-2000 |
William Goldman |
Novelist |
12-Aug-1931 |
|
Marathon Man |
Harvey J. Goldschmid |
Government |
6-May-1940 |
12-Feb-2015 |
SEC Commissioner, 2002-05 |
Matt Gonzalez |
Politician |
4-Jun-1965 |
|
Progressive politician, activist |
Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Actor |
17-Feb-1981 |
|
Third Rock From the Sun |
Neil M. Gorsuch |
Judge |
29-Aug-1967 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Gordon Gould |
Physicist |
17-Jul-1920 |
16-Sep-2005 |
Invented the laser, arguably |
Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
Henry F. Grady |
Economist |
12-Feb-1882 |
14-Sep-1957 |
First US Ambassador to India, 1947-48 |
Gerrit Graham |
Actor |
27-Nov-1949 |
|
Class Reunion |
Patricia A. Graham |
Educator |
1935 |
|
Dean of Harvard GSE, 1982-91 |
Mike Gravel |
Politician |
13-May-1930 |
|
US Senator from Alaska, 1969-81 |
Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
Judd Gregg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1947 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1993-2011 |
Martin L. Gross |
Author |
15-Aug-1925 |
21-Aug-2013 |
The Government Racket |
Robert H. Grubbs |
Chemist |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
Metathesis |
Jack Grubman |
Business |
8-Oct-1953 |
|
Shady-dealings securities analyst |
Erich S. Gruen |
Historian |
7-May-1935 |
|
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Novelist |
21-Oct-1929 |
|
The Left Hand of Darkness |
Alan Guth |
Physicist |
27-Feb-1947 |
|
Inflationary theory of cosmology |
Samuel Guthrie |
Doctor |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
Discovered chloroform |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Actor |
16-Nov-1977 |
|
Secretary |
James C. Hagerty |
Government |
9-May-1909 |
11-Apr-1981 |
Eisenhower's press secretary |
Rosanne Haggerty |
Administrator |
c. 1960 |
|
Common Ground Community |
Alexander Haig |
Government |
2-Dec-1924 |
20-Feb-2010 |
US Secretary of State, 1981-82 |
Suzanne K. Hale |
Diplomat |
21-Apr-1948 |
|
US Ambassador to Micronesia |
Edward T. Hall |
Anthropologist |
16-May-1914 |
20-Jul-2009 |
The Silent Language |
Jane Hall |
Journalist |
? |
|
Fox News Watch commentator |
William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
Armand Hammer |
Business |
21-May-1898 |
10-Dec-1990 |
Soviet agent of influence |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Musician |
12-Jul-1895 |
23-Aug-1960 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
Donna Hanover |
Radio Personality |
13-Feb-1950 |
|
WOR Radio Morning Co-Host, NYC |
James E. Hansen |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1941 |
|
Greenhouse effect and global warming |
Otto Harbach |
Songwriter |
18-Aug-1873 |
24-Jan-1963 |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
William Henry Harbaugh |
Historian |
16-Jan-1920 |
28-Apr-2005 |
Power and Responsibility |
Phil Hardberger |
Politician |
27-Jul-1934 |
|
Mayor of San Antonio |
Elizabeth Hardwick |
Critic |
27-Jul-1916 |
2-Dec-2007 |
Seduction and Betrayal |
Ed Harris |
Actor |
28-Nov-1950 |
|
The Rock |
Marvin Harris |
Anthropologist |
18-Aug-1927 |
25-Oct-2001 |
Anthropological historian |
Robert Harrison |
Publisher |
14-Apr-1904 |
17-Feb-1978 |
Publisher of tabloid Confidential |
C. Lowell Harriss |
Economist |
2-Aug-1912 |
14-Dec-2009 |
Columbia University Economist |
Jeffrey Hart |
Author |
22-Apr-1930 |
|
The American Dissent |
Lorenz Hart |
Songwriter |
2-May-1895 |
22-Nov-1943 |
Lyricist, Rodgers and Hart |
Matthew J. Hart |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Hilton Hotels |
E. Newton Harvey |
Zoologist |
25-Nov-1887 |
21-Jul-1959 |
Light-emitting organisms |
Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
Patricia M. Haslach |
Diplomat |
c. 1956 |
|
US Senior Official for APEC |
Herbert A. Hauptman |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1917 |
23-Oct-2011 |
X-ray diffraction studies |
Alexander Heard |
Educator |
14-Mar-1917 |
24-Jul-2009 |
Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 1963-82 |
Ken Hechler |
Politician |
20-Sep-1914 |
|
Congressman from West Virginia, 1959-77 |
Anthony Hecht |
Poet |
16-Jan-1923 |
20-Oct-2004 |
The Hard Hours |
Dorothy Height |
Activist |
24-Mar-1912 |
20-Apr-2010 |
National Council of Negro Women |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
Novelist |
13-Jan-1926 |
9-Oct-2003 |
Amanda Cross, mystery novelist |
F. Augustus Heinze |
Business |
1869 |
4-Nov-1914 |
Copper baron, went broke in the Panic of 1907 |
Joseph Heller |
Author |
1-May-1923 |
12-Dec-1999 |
Catch-22 |
Lillian Hellman |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1905 |
30-Jun-1984 |
Little Foxes |
Fletcher Henderson |
Jazz Musician |
18-Dec-1897 |
29-Dec-1952 |
Pioneering swing and jazz bandleader |
Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
Mayo D. Hersey |
Engineer |
30-Aug-1886 |
5-Sep-1978 |
Tribology |
Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
Abram Stevens Hewitt |
Politician |
31-Jul-1822 |
18-Jan-1903 |
Mayor of New York City, 1887-88 |
Jim Hightower |
Radio Personality |
11-Jan-1943 |
|
Texan, radio voice, author |
Utada Hikaru |
Singer |
19-Jan-1983 |
|
J-Pop crossover singer |
Raul Hilberg |
Historian |
2-Jun-1926 |
4-Aug-2007 |
The Destruction of the European Jews |
Lauryn Hill |
Singer |
26-May-1975 |
|
Soul/hip hop singer and producer |
Martin J. Hillenbrand |
Diplomat |
1-Aug-1915 |
2-Feb-2005 |
US Ambassador to Germany, 1972-76 |
Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
Michael Hiltzik |
Columnist |
9-Nov-1952 |
|
Los Angeles Times columnist |
Shere Hite |
Author |
2-Nov-1942 |
|
The Hite Report on sexuality |
Philip K. Hitti |
Scholar |
24-Jun-1886 |
24-Dec-1978 |
History of the Arabs |
Jim Hoagland |
Journalist |
22-Jan-1940 |
|
The Washington Post |
Chuck Hoberman |
Inventor |
1956 |
|
Creator of unfolding structures |
Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
Richard Hofstadter |
Historian |
6-Aug-1916 |
24-Oct-1970 |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
Eric H. Holder, Jr. |
Government |
21-Jan-1951 |
|
US Attorney General, 2009-15 |
John Hollander |
Poet |
28-Oct-1929 |
17-Aug-2013 |
Powers of Thirteen |
Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
Katie Holmes |
Actor |
18-Dec-1978 |
|
Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek |
Nicole Holofcener |
Film Director |
22-Mar-1960 |
|
Friends with Money |
Sidney Hook |
Philosopher |
20-Dec-1902 |
12-Jul-1989 |
Pragmatist |
Ben Horowitz |
Business |
13-Jun-1966 |
|
Andreessen Horowitz |
David Horowitz |
Activist |
10-Jan-1939 |
|
Conservative activist |
José Ramos Horta |
Politician |
26-Dec-1949 |
|
President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
Edward Everett Horton |
Actor |
18-Mar-1886 |
29-Sep-1970 |
Prolific 1930s comedic actor |
John Hospers |
Politician |
9-Jun-1918 |
12-Jun-2011 |
First Libertarian presidential candidate |
Richard Howard |
Poet |
13-Oct-1929 |
|
Untitled Subjects |
Evelyn Hu |
Physicist |
c. 1947 |
|
Nanoscale device fabrication |
Franklin P. Huddle |
Diplomat |
9-May-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Tajikistan, 2001-03 |
Langston Hughes |
Poet |
1-Feb-1902 |
22-May-1967 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes |
Diplomat |
1958 |
|
US Ambassador to Suriname |
Vernon W. Hughes |
Physicist |
28-May-1921 |
25-Mar-2003 |
Muons |
Zora Neale Hurston |
Novelist |
7-Jan-1891 |
28-Jan-1960 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Dick Hyman |
Pianist |
8-Mar-1927 |
|
Pianist, Organist, Conductor, Composer |
Louis J. Ignarro |
Scientist |
31-May-1941 |
|
Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal |
Sandra S. Ikuta |
Judge |
24-Jun-1954 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
Toomas Hendrik Ilves |
Head of State |
26-Dec-1953 |
|
President of Estonia |
Andy Ireland |
Politician |
23-Aug-1930 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1977-93 |
Douglas A. Irwin |
Economist |
c. 1962 |
|
Free Trade Under Fire |
Molly Ivins |
Columnist |
30-Aug-1944 |
31-Jan-2007 |
Loudmouthed Texas dame |
Ralph Izzo |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of PSEG |
Donald P. Jacobs |
Economist |
22-Jun-1927 |
|
Dean of the Kellogg School, 1975-2001 |
Jane Jacobs |
Author |
4-May-1916 |
25-Apr-2006 |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
Sam Jaffe |
Actor |
10-Mar-1891 |
24-Mar-1984 |
Gunga Din |
Famke Janssen |
Actor |
5-Nov-1965 |
|
X-Men, Bond Girl |
Jim Jarmusch |
Film Director |
22-Jan-1953 |
|
Permanent Vacation |
Jerry J. Jasinowski |
Business |
4-Jan-1939 |
|
National Association of Manufacturers |
Leigh Jason |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1904 |
19-Feb-1979 |
The Mad Miss Manton |
Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
Jacob K. Javits |
Politician |
18-Mar-1904 |
7-Mar-1986 |
US Senator from New York, 1957-81 |
John Jay |
Judge |
12-Dec-1745 |
17-May-1829 |
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
Benjamin Todd Jealous |
Activist |
c. 1972 |
|
President of the NAACP |
Leonard Jeffries |
Scholar |
19-Jan-1937 |
|
Controversial blackademic |
James Weldon Johnson |
Author |
17-Jun-1871 |
26-Jun-1938 |
God's Trombones |
Howard P. Jones |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1899 |
18-Sep-1973 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1958-65 |
Matthew Josephson |
Historian |
15-Feb-1899 |
13-Mar-1978 |
The Robber Barons |
Heidi Julavits |
Author |
20-Apr-1968 |
|
The Mineral Palace |
Tina S. Kaidanow |
Government |
? |
|
US Chief of Mission in Kosovo |
Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1922 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
John Kander |
Composer |
18-Mar-1927 |
|
Top Broadway composer |
Robert A. Kann |
Historian |
11-Feb-1906 |
30-Aug-1981 |
The Multinational Empire |
Robert A. Katzmann |
Judge |
22-Apr-1953 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Henry Kaufman |
Business |
20-Oct-1927 |
|
Ex Managing Director, Salomon Brothers |
David Kay |
Government |
c. 1941 |
|
Chief Weapons Inspector |
Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
Thomas H. Kean |
Politician |
21-Apr-1935 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-90 |
Philip Kearny |
Military |
2-Jun-1815 |
1-Sep-1862 |
US Civil War general |
Max Kellerman |
Sports Journalist |
6-Aug-1973 |
|
Boxing commentator |
Jean Louisa Kelly |
Actor |
9-Mar-1972 |
|
Kim Warner on Yes, Dear |
Edward C. Kendall |
Scientist |
8-Sep-1886 |
4-May-1972 |
Adrenocortical hormones |
X. J. Kennedy |
Poet |
21-Aug-1929 |
|
Juvenile poet, Brats |
Rockwell Kent |
Painter |
21-Jun-1882 |
13-Mar-1971 |
Early 20th c. American realist painter |
Linda K. Kerber |
Historian |
23-Jan-1940 |
|
Federalists in Dissent |
Jack Kerouac |
Novelist |
12-Mar-1922 |
21-Oct-1969 |
On The Road |
Alicia Keys |
Singer |
25-Jan-1981 |
|
Fallin' |
Leon H. Keyserling |
Economist |
22-Jan-1908 |
9-Aug-1987 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53 |
Rushworth M. Kidder |
Author |
8-May-1944 |
5-Mar-2012 |
Founder, Institute for Global Ethics |
Bobbie Kilberg |
Administrator |
25-Oct-1944 |
|
Northern Virginia Technology Council |
Joyce Kilmer |
Poet |
6-Dec-1886 |
30-Jul-1918 |
Trees |
Charles P. Kindleberger |
Economist |
12-Oct-1910 |
7-Jul-2003 |
The World in Depression |
Reatha Clark King |
Business |
11-Apr-1938 |
|
President of Metropolitan State, 1977-88 |
Lester A. Kirkendall |
Sociologist |
15-Nov-1903 |
31-May-1991 |
Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships |
Jeane Kirkpatrick |
Government |
19-Nov-1926 |
7-Dec-2006 |
Reagan's UN Ambassador |
Carolyn Kizer |
Poet |
10-Dec-1925 |
9-Oct-2014 |
Yin: New Poems |
Michael T. Klare |
Scholar |
1942 |
|
Resource Wars |
John Kluge |
Business |
21-Sep-1914 |
7-Sep-2010 |
Media mogul, Metromedia, Inc. |
Alfred A. Knopf |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1892 |
11-Aug-1984 |
American publisher |
William S. Knowles |
Chemist |
1-Jun-1917 |
13-Jun-2012 |
Chiral catalysts |
Kenneth Koch |
Poet |
27-Feb-1925 |
6-Jul-2002 |
On the Great Atlantic Rainway |
Peter Kolchin |
Historian |
3-Jun-1943 |
|
American Slavery, 1619-1877 |
Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
Tom C. Korologos |
Diplomat |
16-Apr-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Belgium, 2004-07 |
Joseph Kosinski |
Film Director |
3-May-1974 |
|
Tron: Legacy |
Richard Kostelanetz |
Artist |
14-May-1940 |
|
Prodigious avant-garde artist and author |
Peter H. Kostmayer |
Politician |
27-Sep-1946 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1983-93 |
Sandy Koufax |
Baseball |
30-Dec-1935 |
|
Three-time Cy Young Award winner |
Robert Kraft |
Business |
5-Jun-1941 |
|
Owner, New England Patriots |
Hilton Kramer |
Critic |
25-Mar-1928 |
27-Mar-2012 |
The New Criterion |
Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
Henry Kravis |
Business |
6-Jan-1944 |
|
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts |
Kurt Kreuger |
Actor |
23-Jul-1916 |
12-Jul-2006 |
The Enemy Below |
Alfred Kroeber |
Anthropologist |
11-Jun-1876 |
5-Oct-1960 |
Pioneer in American Anthropology |
Steve Kroft |
Journalist |
22-Aug-1945 |
|
60 Minutes |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
Naturalist |
25-Nov-1893 |
22-May-1970 |
The Modern Temper |
Madeleine M. Kunin |
Politician |
28-Sep-1933 |
|
Governor of Vermont, 1985-91 |
Howard Kurtz |
Journalist |
1-Aug-1953 |
|
Media critic |
Paul Kurtz |
Philosopher |
21-Dec-1925 |
20-Oct-2012 |
Pro-skeptic activist |
Daniel Kurtzer |
Diplomat |
Jun-1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 2001-05 |
Polykarp Kusch |
Physicist |
26-Jan-1911 |
20-Mar-1993 |
Magnetic moment of the electron |
Tony Kushner |
Playwright |
16-Jul-1956 |
|
Angels in America |
Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
Maria Elena Lagomasino |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Private Bank, 2001-05 |
Charles R. LaMantia |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Arthur D. Little, 1988-99 |
Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
Lisa Lampanelli |
Comic |
19-Jul-1961 |
|
Insult Comic |
Audrey Landers |
Actor |
18-Jul-1959 |
|
Afton Cooper on Dallas |
Richard Landes |
Scholar |
24-Jun-1949 |
|
Center for Millennial Studies |
Dorothea Lange |
Photographer |
26-May-1895 |
11-Oct-1965 |
Depression-era photographer |
William Langer |
Politician |
30-Sep-1886 |
8-Nov-1959 |
Governor and Senator from North Dakota |
Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
Jaron Lanier |
Scientist |
3-May-1960 |
|
Coined the term "virtual reality" |
Christopher Lasch |
Author |
1-Jun-1932 |
14-Feb-1994 |
The Culture of Narcissism |
Frank Lautenberg |
Politician |
23-Jan-1924 |
3-Jun-2013 |
US Senator from New Jersey |
George P. Lawrence |
Politician |
19-May-1859 |
21-Nov-1917 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
Karen R. Lawrence |
Educator |
18-Mar-1949 |
|
President, Sarah Lawrence College |
Rochelle B. Lazarus |
Business |
1947 |
|
CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, 1996-2009 |
Lewis Leary |
Educator |
18-Apr-1906 |
1-May-1990 |
That Rascal Freneau |
Paul LeClerc |
Administrator |
28-May-1941 |
|
CEO of New York Public Library |
Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
Roger S. Leeds |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Emerging Markets Private Equity Association |
Jonah Lehrer |
Author |
25-Jun-1981 |
|
Imagine: How Creativity Works |
Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
James F. Leonard |
Diplomat |
30-May-1920 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 1977-79 |
Robert Sean Leonard |
Actor |
28-Feb-1969 |
|
House, M.D. |
Alfred Lerner |
Business |
8-May-1933 |
23-Oct-2002 |
CEO of MBNA, 1982-2002 |
Gerda Lerner |
Historian |
30-Apr-1920 |
2-Jan-2013 |
The Woman in American History |
Carl Leubsdorf |
Journalist |
17-Mar-1938 |
|
Dallas Morning News |
William E. Leuchtenburg |
Historian |
28-Sep-1922 |
|
FDR scholar |
Burton Levin |
Diplomat |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Burma, 1987-90 |
Sandy Levin |
Politician |
6-Sep-1931 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 12th |
Irving R. Levine |
Journalist |
26-Aug-1922 |
27-Mar-2009 |
NBC Correspondent, 1950-95 |
Sara Levinson |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
President of NFL Properties, 1994-2000 |
Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
Tom Lewis |
Author |
29-May-1942 |
|
Empire of the Air |
Mara Liasson |
Journalist |
13-Jun-1955 |
|
Fox News political analyst |
Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
A. J. Liebling |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1904 |
28-Dec-1963 |
The New Yorker |
Ronald D. Liebowitz |
Educator |
c. 1957 |
|
President, Middlebury College |
Thomas W. Lippman |
Journalist |
c. 1939 |
|
Washington Post Mideast Correspondent |
Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
Robert R. Livingston |
Politician |
27-Nov-1746 |
26-Feb-1813 |
Architected the Louisiana Purchase |
Henry Demarest Lloyd |
Journalist |
1-May-1847 |
28-Sep-1903 |
Radical reporter |
Joseph Byrne Lockey |
Historian |
2-Feb-1877 |
24-Sep-1946 |
Pan-Americanism: Its Beginnings |
Daniel S. Loeb |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
Third Point LLC |
John V. Lombardi |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, Louisiana State University |
Oren E. Long |
Politician |
4-Mar-1889 |
6-May-1965 |
US Senator from Hawaii, 1959-62 |
Phillip Lopate |
Critic |
16-Nov-1943 |
|
Portrait of My Body |
Audre Lorde |
Author |
18-Feb-1934 |
17-Nov-1992 |
A Burst of Light |
Konrad Lorenz |
Zoologist |
7-Nov-1903 |
27-Feb-1989 |
Founder of modern ethology |
Frank Lorenzo |
Business |
19-May-1940 |
|
Former CEO, Eastern Airlines |
Eric Lott |
Scholar |
20-May-1959 |
|
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy |
Kennett Love |
Journalist |
17-Aug-1924 |
13-May-2013 |
Suez: The Twice-Fought War |
Robert H. Lowie |
Anthropologist |
12-Jun-1883 |
21-Sep-1957 |
American ethnologist |
Edward Luck |
Scholar |
? |
|
International Affairs professor at Columbia |
Sid Luckman |
Football |
21-Nov-1916 |
5-Jul-1998 |
Chicago Bears QB, Hall of Famer |
William H. Luers |
Diplomat |
15-May-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1983-86 |
Sidney Lumet |
Film Director |
25-Jun-1924 |
9-Apr-2011 |
Dog Day Afternoon |
Grace Lumpkin |
Novelist |
3-Mar-1891 |
1980 |
To Make My Bread |
Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
Gerard E. Lynch |
Judge |
4-Sep-1951 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
Staughton Lynd |
Historian |
22-Nov-1929 |
|
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism |
Barry C. Lynn |
Journalist |
20-Aug-1961 |
|
Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism |
Eugene Lyons |
Author |
1-Jul-1898 |
10-Jan-1985 |
Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury |
Andrea Mackris |
Victim |
c. 1971 |
|
Allegedly harassed by Bill O'Reilly |
Dan Maffei |
Politician |
4-Jul-1968 |
|
Congressman from New York, 2009-11 |
Alfred Thayer Mahan |
Author |
27-Sep-1840 |
1-Dec-1914 |
The Influence of Sea Power upon History |
Theodore Maiman |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1927 |
5-May-2007 |
Built the first working laser |
Bernard Malamud |
Author |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
The Fixer |
Albert Maltz |
Playwright |
28-Oct-1908 |
26-Apr-1985 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
James Mangold |
Film Director |
16-Dec-1963 |
|
Walk the Line |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Film Director |
11-Feb-1909 |
5-Feb-1993 |
The Barefoot Contessa |
Martin Manulis |
Film/TV Producer |
30-May-1915 |
28-Sep-2007 |
Creator of Playhouse 90 |
David F. Marquardt |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Venture capital investor |
René Marqués |
Playwright |
4-Oct-1919 |
22-Mar-1979 |
La Carreta |
Jared Martin |
Actor |
21-Dec-1941 |
|
Steven Farlow on Dallas |
William McChesney Martin |
Economist |
17-Dec-1906 |
29-Jul-1998 |
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1951-70 |
Robert Maschio |
Actor |
25-Aug-1966 |
|
Dr. Todd Quinlan on Scrubs |
John C. Mather |
Physicist |
7-Aug-1946 |
|
Big Bang |
F. David Mathews |
Government |
6-Dec-1935 |
|
HEW Secretary under Ford |
Jack Matlock |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91 |
Brander Matthews |
Critic |
21-Feb-1852 |
31-Mar-1929 |
The Study of American Literature |
Tony Mauro |
Journalist |
c. 1949 |
|
Legal Times reporter |
Clifford D. May |
Activist |
c. 1951 |
|
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
Rollo May |
Psychologist |
21-Apr-1909 |
22-Oct-1994 |
Love and Will |
Mark P. Mays |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Clear Channel |
Megan McCafferty |
Novelist |
3-Feb-1973 |
|
Juvenile novelist, Sloppy Firsts |
Meghan McCain |
Blogger |
23-Oct-1984 |
|
John McCain's daughter |
Andrew C. McCarthy |
Pundit |
? |
|
National Review Online |
Betsy McCaughey |
Politician |
20-Oct-1948 |
|
Lt. Governor of New York, 1995-98 |
James McClatchy |
Publisher |
17-Dec-1920 |
26-May-2006 |
Former Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers |
James L. McConaughy |
Politician |
21-Oct-1887 |
7-Mar-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48 |
Robert J. McCool |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
Former EVP at Mobil |
Douglas H. McCorkindale |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Gannett, 2000-05 |
James McCracken |
Singer |
16-Dec-1926 |
30-Apr-1988 |
Operatic tenor, Otello |
Carson McCullers |
Author |
19-Feb-1917 |
29-Sep-1967 |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
Nancy E. McEldowney |
Diplomat |
c. 1959 |
|
US Ambassador to Bulgaria |
Douglas L. McElhaney |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2004-07 |
Joseph McElroy |
Novelist |
21-Aug-1930 |
|
Lookout Cartridge |
John McGiver |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
9-Sep-1975 |
Midnight Cowboy |
James McGreevey |
Politician |
6-Aug-1957 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 2002-04 |
Kate McKinnon |
Actor |
6-Jan-1984 |
|
Saturday Night Live |
John McLaughlin |
Talk Show Host |
29-Mar-1927 |
16-Aug-2016 |
The McLaughlin Group |
Terry McMillan |
Novelist |
18-Oct-1951 |
|
Waiting to Exhale |
Terrence McNally |
Playwright |
3-Nov-1939 |
|
Frankie and Johnny |
William McNamara |
Actor |
31-Mar-1965 |
|
Beggars and Choosers |
Harry C. McPherson |
Attorney |
22-Aug-1929 |
16-Feb-2012 |
White House Counsel to Johnson |
Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
Allan Melvin |
Actor |
18-Feb-1923 |
17-Jan-2008 |
Archie Bunker's Place |
Louis Menand |
Critic |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
The Metaphysical Club |
J. Ezra Merkin |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
Chairman of GMAC |
Charles E. Merriam |
Scholar |
15-Nov-1874 |
8-Jan-1953 |
American Political Ideas |
Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
Thomas Merton |
Author |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
Dick Miller |
Actor |
25-Dec-1928 |
|
A Bucket of Blood |
Kate Millett |
Activist |
14-Sep-1934 |
|
Sexual Politics |
Steven Millhauser |
Author |
3-Aug-1943 |
|
Martin Dressler |
Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
Robert L. Mills |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1927 |
27-Oct-1999 |
Subatomic particles |
Ira M. Millstein |
Attorney |
8-Nov-1926 |
|
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
Ilhan Mimaroglu |
Electronic Musician |
11-Mar-1926 |
17-Jul-2012 |
Sing Me A Song of Songmy |
Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
Wayne Mixson |
Politician |
16-Jun-1922 |
|
Governor of Florida, 1987 |
Gerald Mohr |
Actor |
11-Jun-1914 |
9-Nov-1968 |
American character actor |
Ashley Montagu |
Anthropologist |
28-Jun-1905 |
26-Nov-1999 |
The Natural Superiority of Women |
Rick Moody |
Author |
18-Oct-1961 |
|
Purple America |
Robert Moog |
Inventor |
23-May-1934 |
21-Aug-2005 |
Invented the synthesizer |
Clement Clarke Moore |
Poet |
15-Jul-1779 |
10-Jul-1863 |
'Twas the Night Before Christmas |
Hector E. Morales, Jr. |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to the OAS |
Dick Morris |
Government |
28-Nov-1948 |
|
Fox News lapdog, former Clinton advisor |
Gouverneur Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1752 |
6-Nov-1816 |
American financier, Revolutionary politician |
Richard B. Morris |
Historian |
24-Jul-1904 |
3-Mar-1989 |
The Peacemakers |
Robert Moses |
Government |
18-Dec-1888 |
29-Jul-1981 |
New York City planner |
Arnold Moss |
Actor |
28-Jan-1910 |
15-Dec-1989 |
My Favorite Spy |
Walter Mossberg |
Columnist |
27-Mar-1947 |
|
Technology columnist, Wall Street Journal |
Robert Motherwell |
Painter |
24-Jan-1915 |
16-Jul-1991 |
Abstract expressionist |
Greg Mottola |
Film Director |
11-Jul-1964 |
|
Superbad |
Anson Mount |
Actor |
25-Feb-1973 |
|
Cullen Bohannan on Hell on Wheels |
Michael Mukasey |
Judge |
28-Jul-1941 |
|
US Attorney General, 2007-09 |
Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
Richard Mulligan |
Actor |
13-Nov-1932 |
26-Sep-2000 |
Burt Campbell in Soap |
Bill Mundell |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of Vidyah, Inc. |
Mary O. Mundinger |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
Dean, Columbia School of Nursing |
Story Musgrave |
Astronaut |
19-Aug-1935 |
|
Spent 1281 hours in space |
Michael Musto |
Columnist |
3-Dec-1955 |
|
Village Voice gossip columnist |
Jerrold Nadler |
Politician |
13-Jun-1947 |
|
Congressman, New York 8th |
Dennis M. Nally |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Chairman of Price Waterhouse Coopers |
Christopher Napolitano |
Journalist |
c. 1963 |
|
Playboy editorial director |
David Nasaw |
Historian |
18-Jul-1945 |
|
Schooled to Order |
Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Publisher of The Nation |
Pauline Newman |
Judge |
20-Jun-1927 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
Richard G. Newman |
Business |
c. 1934 |
|
CEO of AECOM, 1990-2005 |
David D. Newsom |
Diplomat |
6-Jan-1918 |
30-Mar-2008 |
US Ambassador to Philippines, 1977-78 |
Richard Ney |
Actor |
12-Nov-1916 |
18-Jul-2004 |
Mrs. Miniver |
Roy Franklin Nichols |
Historian |
3-Mar-1896 |
12-Jan-1973 |
The Disruption of American Democracy |
Jim Nicholson |
Government |
4-Feb-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Daniel A. Ninivaggi |
Business |
c. 1966 |
|
CEO of Icahn Enterprises LP |
John Niven |
Historian |
26-Oct-1921 |
14-Aug-1997 |
John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union |
Louis Nizer |
Attorney |
6-Feb-1902 |
10-Nov-1994 |
My Life in Court |
Mary Nolan |
Historian |
17-Jan-1944 |
|
The Transatlantic Century |
Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. |
Judge |
11-Oct-1943 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
Charles Norris |
Government |
4-Dec-1867 |
11-Sep-1935 |
New York's first Chief Medical Examiner |
John H. Northrop |
Chemist |
5-Jul-1891 |
27-May-1987 |
Bacteriophages |
Bernard W. Nussbaum |
Attorney |
23-Mar-1937 |
|
White House Counsel for Bill Clinton |
Barbara O'Brien |
Politician |
18-Apr-1950 |
|
Lt. Governor of Colorado |
Beto O'Rourke |
Politician |
26-Sep-1972 |
|
Congressman, Texas 16th |
Mary Rose Oakar |
Politician |
5-Mar-1940 |
|
Congresswoman from Ohio, 1977-93 |
Barack Obama |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
44th President of the United States |
William Odom |
Military |
23-Jun-1932 |
30-May-2008 |
NSA Director 1985-88 |
Daniel Okrent |
Author |
2-Apr-1948 |
|
Former public editor, New York Times |
Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
Arthur M. Okun |
Economist |
28-Nov-1928 |
23-Mar-1980 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1964-69 |
Sharon Olds |
Poet |
19-Nov-1942 |
|
The Dead and the Living |
Victor Oristano |
Business |
10-Sep-1916 |
|
Alda Limited Partners |
Catherine Oxenberg |
Actor |
22-Sep-1961 |
|
Amanda Carrington on Dynasty |
Vance Packard |
Sociologist |
22-May-1914 |
12-Dec-1996 |
The Hidden Persuaders |
Susan Page |
Journalist |
12-Feb-1951 |
|
USA Today Washington bureau chief |
Vikram Pandit |
Business |
1957 |
|
CEO of Citigroup |
Stuart Pankin |
Actor |
8-Apr-1946 |
|
Arachnophobia |
Anna Paquin |
Actor |
24-Jul-1982 |
|
The Piano and X-Men |
Mitchell Parish |
Songwriter |
10-Jul-1900 |
31-Mar-1993 |
Volare |
Herbert S. Parmet |
Historian |
28-Sep-1929 |
|
Eisenhower and the American Crusades |
B. Lynn Pascoe |
Diplomat |
7-Jul-1943 |
|
UN Under Secy. Gen. for Political Affairs |
David A. Paterson |
Politician |
20-May-1954 |
|
Governor of New York, 2008-11 |
Harry Thurston Peck |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1856 |
23-Mar-1914 |
A History of Classical Philology |
M. Scott Peck |
Author |
22-May-1936 |
25-Sep-2005 |
The Road Less Traveled |
Jan Peerce |
Singer |
3-Jun-1904 |
15-Dec-1984 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
Amanda Peet |
Actor |
11-Jan-1972 |
|
Touch Me |
Kimberly Peirce |
Film Director |
8-Sep-1967 |
|
Boys Don't Cry |
Claiborne Pell |
Politician |
22-Nov-1918 |
1-Jan-2009 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97 |
Herbert C. Pell |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1884 |
17-Jul-1961 |
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1937-41 |
Nat Pendleton |
Actor |
9-Aug-1895 |
12-Oct-1967 |
At the Circus |
Mark Penn |
Government |
5-Jan-1954 |
|
Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign strategist |
Arno Penzias |
Astronomer |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
Detected primordial radiation |
Jacques Pépin |
Chef |
18-Dec-1935 |
|
Frequent Julia Child collaborator |
Walker Percy |
Author |
28-May-1916 |
10-May-1990 |
The Moviegoer |
Anthony Perkins |
Actor |
4-Apr-1932 |
12-Sep-1992 |
Psycho |
Frances Perkins |
Government |
10-Apr-1882 |
14-May-1965 |
First female US cabinet member |
Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
30-Sep-2014 |
Discovered the tau lepton |
Ann Petry |
Novelist |
12-Oct-1908 |
28-Apr-1997 |
The Street |
Kitty Pilgrim |
Journalist |
14-Aug-1954 |
|
Lou Dobbs Tonight |
Lionel Pincus |
Business |
2-Mar-1931 |
10-Oct-2009 |
Co-Founder, Warburg Pincus |
Bill Plante |
Journalist |
14-Jan-1938 |
|
CBS White House correspondent |
Brenda Gayle Plummer |
Historian |
20-Oct-1946 |
|
Haiti and the United States |
Norman Podhoretz |
Author |
16-Jan-1930 |
|
Prominent neocon author |
Michael Pollan |
Author |
6-Feb-1955 |
|
The Omnivore's Dilemma |
Richard H. Popkin |
Philosopher |
27-Dec-1923 |
14-Apr-2005 |
The History of Scepticism |
Adam Posen |
Scholar |
? |
|
Institute for International Economics |
Neil Postman |
Educator |
8-Mar-1931 |
5-Oct-2003 |
Amusing Ourselves to Death |
Alvin F. Poussaint |
Doctor |
15-May-1934 |
|
Child-rearing expert |
Adam Clayton Powell |
Politician |
29-Nov-1908 |
4-Apr-1972 |
Congressman from New York, 1945-71 |
Dennis Prager |
Radio Personality |
2-Aug-1948 |
|
Conservative Jewish radio host |
Josephine Premice |
Actor |
21-Jul-1926 |
13-Apr-2001 |
Calypso singer, Broadway actress |
Soon-Yi Previn |
Relative |
8-Oct-1970 |
|
Woody Allen's scandalously young wife |
Dana Priest |
Journalist |
c. 1959 |
|
Washington Post Pentagon reporter |
Susan Kaufman Purcell |
Scholar |
c. 1941 |
|
Center for Hemispheric Study |
Mario Puzo |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1920 |
2-Jul-1999 |
The Godfather |
John Quiñones |
Journalist |
23-May-1952 |
|
Primetime: What Would You Do? |
Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
Dotson Rader |
Author |
25-Jul-1942 |
|
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore! |
Richard W. Rahn |
Economist |
c. 1941 |
|
The End of Money |
Daniel R. Raichel |
Scientist |
1935 |
22-Dec-2006 |
Acoustics expert |
James Rainwater |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1917 |
31-May-1986 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
David Rakoff |
Author |
27-Nov-1964 |
9-Aug-2012 |
Don't Get Too Comfortable |
Ted Rall |
Cartoonist |
26-Aug-1963 |
|
Godless heathen cartoonist |
Norman F. Ramsey |
Physicist |
27-Aug-1915 |
4-Nov-2011 |
Energy levels of atoms |
Tony Randall |
Actor |
26-Feb-1920 |
18-May-2004 |
Felix Unger in The Odd Couple |
John Randolph of Roanoke |
Politician |
2-Jun-1773 |
24-May-1833 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27 |
Sally Jessy Raphael |
Talk Show Host |
25-Feb-1935 |
|
Controversialist talk show host |
Irving Rapper |
Film Director |
16-Jan-1898 |
20-Dec-1999 |
Now, Voyager |
Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
James Rebhorn |
Actor |
1-Sep-1948 |
21-Mar-2014 |
Independence Day |
Alan Reed |
Actor |
20-Aug-1907 |
14-Jun-1977 |
Voice of Fred Flintstone |
Stanley Reed |
Judge |
31-Dec-1884 |
2-Apr-1980 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1938-57 |
William K. Reilly |
Business |
26-Jan-1940 |
|
EPA Administrator, 1989-93 |
Ad Reinhardt |
Painter |
24-Dec-1913 |
30-Aug-1967 |
Abstract expressionist |
Jehuda Reinharz |
Educator |
1944 |
|
President, Brandeis University |
Irving Reis |
Film Director |
7-May-1906 |
3-Jul-1953 |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer |
Robert D. Reischauer |
Administrator |
c. 1941 |
|
President of the Urban Institute |
Robert V. Remini |
Historian |
17-Jul-1921 |
28-Mar-2013 |
Andrew Jackson |
James Renwick |
Architect |
11-Nov-1818 |
23-Jun-1895 |
Gothic Revival architect |
Andrew Revkin |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
New York Times science reporter |
Richard Samuel Reynolds |
Business |
15-Aug-1881 |
29-Jul-1955 |
Founder of Reynolds Metals |
Elmer Rice |
Playwright |
28-Sep-1892 |
8-May-1967 |
Street Scene |
Dickinson W. Richards |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
23-Feb-1973 |
Cardiac catheterization |
Hyman Rickover |
Military |
27-Jan-1900 |
8-Jul-1986 |
Built the nuclear navy |
Deborah D. Rieman |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of CheckPoint Software, 1995-99 |
Geraldo Rivera |
Journalist |
4-Jul-1943 |
|
Fox News commentator |
Henry Roberts |
Politician |
22-Jun-1853 |
1-May-1929 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07 |
Edward G. Robinson |
Actor |
12-Dec-1893 |
26-Jan-1973 |
Key Largo |
Joyce M. Roché |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CEO of Girls Incorporated |
Gene Roddenberry |
Screenwriter |
19-Aug-1921 |
24-Oct-1991 |
Creator of Star Trek |
Richard Rodgers |
Composer |
28-Jun-1902 |
30-Dec-1979 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
Judith Rodin |
Educator |
9-Sep-1944 |
|
President of UPenn, 1994-2004 |
Richard Rodriguez |
Essayist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Hunger of Memory |
Carl Rogers |
Psychologist |
8-Jan-1902 |
4-Feb-1987 |
Non-directive theory of psychology |
Christy Carlson Romano |
Actor |
20-Mar-1984 |
|
Ren on Even Stevens |
Wayne Allyn Root |
Author |
1963 |
|
The Zen of Gambling |
Louis Rossetto |
Publisher |
1949 |
|
Wired co-founder |
Emmy Rossum |
Actor |
12-Sep-1986 |
|
The Day After Tomorrow |
Murray Rothbard |
Economist |
2-Mar-1926 |
7-Jan-1995 |
Anarcho-capitalist |
David Rothkopf |
Author |
24-Dec-1955 |
|
Superclass |
Karen Rothmyer |
Journalist |
c. 1947 |
|
Editor of The Nation |
Carlo Rubbia |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1934 |
|
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
James P. Rubin |
Government |
1960 |
|
State Department Spokesman, 1997-2000 |
Chris Ruddy |
Journalist |
c. 1965 |
|
CEO, NewsMax Media |
David B. Ruderman |
Historian |
29-May-1944 |
|
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key |
William A. Rugh |
Diplomat |
10-May-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1984-87 |
Muriel Rukeyser |
Poet |
15-Dec-1913 |
12-Feb-1980 |
The Book of the Dead |
Michael Rumaker |
Author |
5-Mar-1932 |
|
Beat author, The Butterfly |
Adolph Rupp |
Basketball |
2-Sep-1901 |
10-Dec-1977 |
Kentucky Head Coach, 1930-72 |
J. D. Salinger |
Novelist |
1-Jan-1919 |
27-Jan-2010 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
Sidney Salkow |
Film Director |
16-Jun-1909 |
18-Oct-2000 |
Twice-Told Tales |
Richard E. Salomon |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Chairman of Mecox Ventures |
Karim Samii |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
Pardus Capital Management |
Lewis A. Sanders |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of AllianceBernstein |
Edward Sapir |
Anthropologist |
26-Jan-1884 |
4-Feb-1939 |
Anthropological linguist |
Andrew Sarris |
Critic |
31-Oct-1928 |
20-Jun-2012 |
The American Cinema |
Norman E. Saul |
Historian |
26-Nov-1932 |
|
Distant Friends: The United States and Russia |
Raymond J. Saulnier |
Economist |
20-Sep-1908 |
30-Apr-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61 |
Telly Savalas |
Actor |
22-Jan-1922 |
22-Jan-1994 |
Kojak |
Max Savelle |
Historian |
8-Jan-1896 |
12-Sep-1979 |
The Origins of American Diplomacy |
Hal Scardino |
Actor |
25-Dec-1984 |
|
The Indian in the Cupboard |
Dick Schaap |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1934 |
21-Dec-2001 |
Flashing Before My Eyes |
Jack Schaefer |
Novelist |
19-Nov-1907 |
24-Jan-1991 |
Shane |
Howard B. Schaffer |
Diplomat |
21-Jul-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87 |
Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
Arthur M. Schlesinger |
Historian |
27-Feb-1888 |
30-Oct-1965 |
The Rise of the City |
Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
Laura Schlessinger |
Radio Personality |
16-Jan-1947 |
|
The Dr. Laura Show |
Carl E. Schorske |
Historian |
15-Mar-1915 |
13-Sep-2015 |
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture |
Paul Schrader |
Film Director |
22-Jul-1946 |
|
Writer, Taxi Driver |
William Schuman |
Composer |
4-Aug-1910 |
15-Feb-1992 |
Symphony No. 6 |
Anna J. Schwartz |
Economist |
11-Nov-1915 |
21-Jun-2012 |
A Monetary History of the United States |
Arthur Schwartz |
Composer |
4-Nov-1900 |
3-Sep-1984 |
That's Entertainment |
Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
Brent Scowcroft |
Government |
19-Mar-1925 |
|
National Security Advisor to Ford and GHWB |
George Segal |
Actor |
13-Feb-1934 |
|
Fun with Dick and Jane |
David O. Selznick |
Film/TV Producer |
10-May-1902 |
22-Jun-1965 |
Producer of A Star Is Born |
Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
Andrew J. Shapiro |
Government |
1967 |
|
Asst. Secy. for Politico-Military Affairs, 2009-13 |
Judith Shapiro |
Educator |
24-Jan-1942 |
|
President, Barnard College |
Sid Sheinberg |
Business |
14-Jan-1935 |
|
President and COO of MCA, 1973-95 |
William Sheluck, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1941 |
29-Dec-2007 |
CEO of Nationar, 1983-93 |
Bob Sheppard |
Sports Journalist |
20-Oct-1910 |
11-Jul-2010 |
Voice of Yankee Stadium |
Claire Shipman |
Journalist |
1962 |
|
Good Morning America |
Irving Shulman |
Author |
21-May-1913 |
23-Mar-1995 |
The Amboy Dukes |
Robert Siegel |
Radio Personality |
1947 |
|
All Things Considered |
Robert Silverberg |
Novelist |
15-Jan-1935 |
|
Nightwings |
Louis Simpson |
Poet |
27-Mar-1923 |
14-Sep-2012 |
At The End of the Open Road |
Upton Sinclair |
Novelist |
20-Sep-1878 |
25-Nov-1968 |
The Jungle |
Elliott P. Skinner |
Scholar |
20-Jun-1924 |
1-Apr-2007 |
US Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1966-69 |
Jean Edward Smith |
Political Scientist |
13-Oct-1931 |
|
Grant |
Richard M. Smith |
Journalist |
1946 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek |
Wilbert Snow |
Politician |
6-Apr-1884 |
28-Sep-1977 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1946-47 |
Charles W. Socarides |
Activist |
24-Jan-1922 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Deprogrammer of homosexuals |
Oliver R. Sockwell, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Connie Lee, 1987-97 |
Stephen Solarz |
Politician |
12-Sep-1940 |
29-Nov-2010 |
Congressman from New York, 1975-93 |
Fred Sommers |
Philosopher |
1-Jan-1923 |
2-Oct-2014 |
The Logic of Natural Language |
Erroll Southers |
Government |
c. 1957 |
|
2009 TSA Director nominee |
Michael I. Sovern |
Educator |
1-Dec-1931 |
|
President of Columbia University, 1980-93 |
Thomas Sowell |
Economist |
30-Jul-1930 |
|
Conservative economist, Hoover fellow |
Joan Spero |
Diplomat |
2-Oct-1944 |
|
Under Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
Jerry I. Speyer |
Business |
23-Jun-1940 |
|
Tishman Speyer Properties |
Carl Spielvogel |
Business |
27-Dec-1928 |
|
Advertising executive, Bates Worldwide |
Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
Jasmin St. Claire |
Pornstar |
23-Oct-1970 |
|
World's Biggest Gang Bang II |
Jerry Stahl |
Author |
28-Sep-1953 |
|
Permanent Midnight |
Maurice H. Stans |
Government |
22-Mar-1908 |
14-Apr-1998 |
US Commerce Secretary, 1969-72 |
Paul Starr |
Educator |
12-May-1949 |
|
The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
Monteagle Stearns |
Diplomat |
5-Dec-1924 |
14-May-2016 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85 |
Francis Steegmuller |
Author |
3-Jul-1906 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Cocteau: A Biography |
Elizabeth Steele |
Business |
? |
|
Main Street Landing |
Ben Stein |
Game Show Host |
25-Nov-1944 |
|
Host of Win Ben Stein's Money |
Joseph Stein |
Playwright |
30-May-1912 |
24-Oct-2010 |
Fiddler on the Roof librettist |
William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
Laurence A. Steinhardt |
Diplomat |
6-Oct-1892 |
28-Mar-1950 |
US Ambassador to USSR, 1939-41 |
George Stephanopoulos |
TV Personality |
10-Feb-1961 |
|
Bill Clinton's communications director |
Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
18-May-2016 |
German historian |
Gerald Stern |
Poet |
22-Feb-1925 |
|
Leaving Another Kingdom |
Marc I. Stern |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Chairman, GIMS North America |
Robert J. Stevens |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Lockheed Martin |
George R. Stewart |
Author |
31-May-1895 |
22-Aug-1980 |
Earth Abides |
Paul Stewart |
Actor |
13-Mar-1908 |
17-Feb-1986 |
Citizen Kane |
Walter W. Stewart |
Economist |
1885 |
Mar-1958 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
Julia Stiles |
Actor |
28-Mar-1981 |
|
10 Things I Hate About You |
T. J. Stiles |
Historian |
c. 1964 |
|
The First Tycoon |
Walter Stoessel |
Diplomat |
24-Jan-1920 |
9-Dec-1986 |
Ambassador to the USSR, Germany, Poland |
Patrick T. Stokes |
Business |
1942 |
|
Chairman of Anheuser-Busch |
Peter Straub |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1943 |
|
Ghost Story |
Oscar S. Straus |
Diplomat |
23-Dec-1850 |
3-May-1926 |
Thrice Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire |
Annette Strauss |
Politician |
26-Jan-1924 |
14-Dec-1998 |
Mayor of Dallas 1987-91 |
Leo Strauss |
Philosopher |
20-Sep-1899 |
18-Oct-1973 |
Patron saint of Neoconservatism |
Edward W. Strong |
Educator |
1901 |
13-Jan-1990 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1961-65 |
Rider Strong |
Actor |
11-Dec-1979 |
|
Shawn on Boy Meets World |
Albert Stubblebine |
Military |
c. 1930 |
|
The Men Who Stare at Goats |
Thomas J. Sugrue |
Historian |
24-Jul-1962 |
|
The Origins of the Urban Crisis |
Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1891 |
11-Dec-1968 |
New York Times Publisher, 1935-61 |
Punch Sulzberger |
Publisher |
5-Feb-1926 |
29-Sep-2012 |
New York Times Publisher, 1963-91 |
Ron Suskind |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1959 |
|
The Price of Loyalty |
Frank Sutton |
Actor |
23-Oct-1923 |
28-Jun-1974 |
Sgt. Vince Carter on Gomer Pyle |
Dolph Sweet |
Actor |
18-Jul-1920 |
8-May-1985 |
Chief Carl Kanisky on Gimme a Break! |
Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
William Taubman |
Author |
13-Nov-1940 |
|
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
Sidney Taurel |
Business |
9-Feb-1949 |
|
CEO of Eli Lilly, 1998-2008 |
Alan Taylor |
Film Director |
1959 |
|
Thor: The Dark World |
Diana Taylor |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
NY Superindendent of Banks, 2003-07 |
John Tebbel |
Journalist |
16-Nov-1912 |
9-Oct-2004 |
A History of Book Publishing in the United States |
George Tenet |
Government |
5-Jan-1953 |
|
CIA Director, 1997-2004 |
James D. Theberge |
Diplomat |
28-Dec-1930 |
20-Jan-1988 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1982-85 |
Franklin A. Thomas |
Attorney |
27-May-1934 |
|
President of the Ford Foundation, 1979-96 |
Harry K. Thomas |
Diplomat |
c. 1956 |
|
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 2003-05 |
Richard Thomas |
Actor |
13-Jun-1951 |
|
John Boy on The Waltons |
Hunter S. Thompson |
Journalist |
18-Jul-1937 |
20-Feb-2005 |
Gonzo journalist and author |
Samuel C. C. Ting |
Physicist |
27-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
Daniel D. Tompkins |
Politician |
21-Jun-1774 |
11-Jun-1825 |
Vice President under James Monroe |
John Kennedy Toole |
Novelist |
7-Dec-1937 |
26-Mar-1969 |
A Confederacy of Dunces |
Touré |
Author |
20-Mar-1971 |
|
The Portable Promised Land |
Leonard Tow |
Business |
30-May-1928 |
|
CEO of Citizens Communications, 1990-2004 |
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
GWU President, 1988-2007 |
Hans L. Trefousse |
Historian |
18-Dec-1921 |
8-Jan-2010 |
The Radical Republicans |
Claire Trevor |
Actor |
8-Mar-1910 |
8-Apr-2000 |
Key Largo |
Lionel Trilling |
Critic |
4-Jul-1905 |
5-Nov-1975 |
The Liberal Imagination |
Liz Trotta |
Journalist |
28-Mar-1937 |
|
Fox News contributor |
Jonathan Tucker |
Actor |
31-May-1982 |
|
The Black Donnellys |
Anne Tyler |
Author |
25-Oct-1941 |
|
The Accidental Tourist |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
|
Astrophysicist |
Al Ullman |
Politician |
9-Mar-1914 |
11-Oct-1986 |
Congressman from Oregon, 1957-81 |
Vladimir Ussachevsky |
Composer |
3-Nov-1911 |
2-Jan-1990 |
Tape music composer |
Carl Van Doren |
Critic |
10-Sep-1885 |
18-Jul-1950 |
The American Novel |
Charles Van Doren |
TV Personality |
12-Feb-1926 |
|
Won the rigged game show Twenty-One |
Mark Van Doren |
Poet |
13-Jun-1894 |
10-Dec-1972 |
The Happy Critic |
Mario Van Peebles |
Actor |
15-Jan-1957 |
|
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song |
Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
Sofia Vassilieva |
Actor |
22-Oct-1992 |
|
Ariel Dubois on Medium |
Alexander Vershbow |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Ambassador to South Korea |
William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
Immanuel Wallerstein |
Sociologist |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
The Modern World System |
Eric Walrond |
Author |
18-Dec-1898 |
8-Aug-1966 |
Tropic Death |
Lawrence E. Walsh |
Government |
8-Jan-1912 |
19-Mar-2014 |
Independent Prosecutor for Iran-Contra |
Kenneth N. Waltz |
Scholar |
8-Jun-1924 |
12-May-2013 |
Man, the State, and War |
Lynd Ward |
Engraver |
26-Jun-1905 |
28-Jun-1985 |
Gods' Man |
Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
Faye Wattleton |
Activist |
8-Jul-1943 |
|
President, Planned Parenthood, 1978-92 |
Roy Webb |
Composer |
3-Oct-1888 |
10-Dec-1982 |
Music Director at RKO, 1929-55 |
Murray L. Weidenbaum |
Economist |
10-Feb-1927 |
20-Mar-2014 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82 |
Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
Tim Weiner |
Journalist |
20-Jun-1956 |
|
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
Allen Weinstein |
Historian |
1-Sep-1937 |
18-Jun-2015 |
US National Archivist, 2005-08 |
William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
Eudora Welty |
Author |
13-Apr-1909 |
23-Jul-2001 |
The Optimist's Daughter |
Paul Wendkos |
Film Director |
20-Sep-1922 |
12-Nov-2009 |
Gidget |
David Wessel |
Journalist |
21-Feb-1954 |
|
Wall Street Journal |
Ruth Westheimer |
Talk Show Host |
4-Jun-1928 |
|
4'7" of concentrated sex |
Larry L. Weyers |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
CEO of Intergrys Energy |
Leslie A. White |
Anthropologist |
19-Jan-1900 |
31-Mar-1975 |
The Science of Culture |
Marina v.N. Whitman |
Economist |
6-Mar-1935 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 |
Leon Wieseltier |
Editor |
14-Jun-1952 |
|
The New Republic |
Craig Steven Wilder |
Historian |
24-Nov-1965 |
|
Ebony & Ivy |
Sean Wilentz |
Historian |
20-Feb-1951 |
|
The Rise of American Democracy |
Mark H. Willes |
Business |
16-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000 |
Pete Williams |
Politician |
10-Dec-1919 |
17-Nov-2001 |
US Senator snagged in ABSCAM |
Ross Wilson |
Diplomat |
1955 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey |
Paul Winchell |
Actor |
21-Dec-1922 |
24-Jun-2005 |
Ventriloquist and inventor |
Ralph D. Winter |
Religion |
? |
|
US Center for World Mission |
David Wise |
Author |
10-May-1930 |
|
The Invisible Government |
Jules Witcover |
Columnist |
16-Jul-1927 |
|
Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist |
Joel-Peter Witkin |
Photographer |
13-Sep-1939 |
|
Photographer of the macabre |
Albert Wohlstetter |
Scholar |
19-Dec-1913 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclear strategist |
Bertram D. Wolfe |
Historian |
19-Jan-1896 |
21-Feb-1977 |
Three Who Made a Revolution |
William H. Woodin |
Business |
27-May-1868 |
3-May-1934 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1933 |
C. Vann Woodward |
Historian |
13-Nov-1908 |
17-Dec-1999 |
The Strange Career of Jim Crow |
Cornell Woolrich |
Novelist |
4-Dec-1903 |
25-Sep-1968 |
The Bride Wore Black |
Herman Wouk |
Novelist |
27-May-1915 |
|
The Caine Mutiny |
Kari Wuhrer |
Actor |
28-Apr-1967 |
|
Capt. Beckett on Sliders |
Charles Wuorinen |
Composer |
9-Jun-1938 |
|
Time's Encomium |
Kenneth S. Yalowitz |
Diplomat |
28-May-1941 |
|
US Ambassador to Georgia, 1998-2001 |
Donald Yamamoto |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Ethiopia |
Anzia Yezierska |
Novelist |
c. 1880 |
21-Nov-1970 |
Bread Givers |
John Young |
Architect |
c. 1936 |
|
Cryptome |
Stark Young |
Critic |
11-Oct-1881 |
6-Jan-1963 |
So Red the Rose |
Dov S. Zakheim |
Government |
18-Dec-1948 |
|
A Vulcan's Tale |
Roger Zelazny |
Novelist |
13-May-1937 |
14-Jun-1995 |
Damnation Alley |
Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |
Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |
Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
Louis Zukofsky |
Poet |
23-Jan-1904 |
12-May-1978 |
Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Arlene Ackerman |
Educator |
10-Jan-1947 |
2-Feb-2013 |
School superintendent of San Francisco |
Bruce Ackerman |
Scholar |
19-Aug-1943 |
|
We the People |
Felix Adler |
Educator |
13-Aug-1851 |
24-Apr-1933 |
Ethical Culture |
Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
Benjamin M. Anderson |
Economist |
1-May-1886 |
19-Jan-1949 |
Social Value |
Martin Anderson |
Economist |
5-Aug-1936 |
3-Jan-2015 |
Revolution: The Reagan Legacy |
Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
David Armitage |
Historian |
1965 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire |
Edwin H. Armstrong |
Inventor |
18-Dec-1890 |
31-Jan-1954 |
Inventor of FM radio |
Oswald Avery |
Biologist |
21-Oct-1877 |
20-Feb-1955 |
Antibodies and DNA |
Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
William Bagley |
Educator |
15-Mar-1874 |
1-Jul-1946 |
Opponent of Dewey's progressive education |
Ian Ballantine |
Publisher |
15-Feb-1916 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Paperback magnate |
Harry Elmer Barnes |
Historian |
15-Jun-1889 |
25-Aug-1968 |
American conspiracy theorist |
A. Doak Barnett |
Scholar |
8-Oct-1921 |
17-Mar-1999 |
China on the Eve of Communist Takeover |
Jacqueline K. Barton |
Chemist |
7-May-1952 |
|
Professor of Chemistry at CalTech |
Jacques Barzun |
Historian |
30-Nov-1907 |
25-Oct-2012 |
From Dawn to Decadence |
Charles A. Beard |
Historian |
27-Nov-1874 |
1-Sep-1948 |
The Rise of American Civilization |
Gary S. Becker |
Economist |
2-Dec-1930 |
3-May-2014 |
Human Capital |
Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
Roy Blough |
Economist |
1901 |
2000 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1950-52 |
Franz Boas |
Anthropologist |
9-Jul-1858 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Father of American Anthropology |
Stephen W. Bosworth |
Diplomat |
4-Dec-1939 |
4-Jan-2016 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000 |
Catherine Breillat |
Film Director |
13-Jul-1948 |
|
Anatomy of Hell |
Joseph Brodsky |
Poet |
24-May-1940 |
28-Jan-1996 |
"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate |
Stuart W. Bruchey |
Historian |
6-Aug-1917 |
20-Dec-2010 |
Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People |
Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
Arthur F. Burns |
Economist |
27-Apr-1904 |
6-Jun-1987 |
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1970-78 |
Richard L. Bushman |
Historian |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling |
Nicholas Murray Butler |
Educator |
2-Apr-1862 |
7-Dec-1947 |
President of Columbia University, 1901-45 |
Caroline Bynum |
Historian |
1941 |
|
Medieval historian |
David Cannadine |
Historian |
7-Sep-1950 |
|
Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy |
Demetrios James Caraley |
Educator |
22-Jun-1932 |
|
President, Academy of Political Science |
R. V. Cassill |
Novelist |
17-May-1919 |
25-Mar-2002 |
Dr. Cobb's Game |
Ernst Cassirer |
Philosopher |
28-Jul-1874 |
13-Apr-1945 |
The Myth of the State |
James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
Martin Chalfie |
Scientist |
1947 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
John Bates Clark |
Economist |
26-Jan-1847 |
21-Mar-1938 |
Philosophy of Wealth |
Henry Steele Commager |
Historian |
25-Oct-1902 |
2-Mar-1998 |
The American Mind |
Edward Condon |
Physicist |
2-Mar-1902 |
26-Mar-1974 |
Quantum Mechanics |
André F. Cournand |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1895 |
19-Feb-1988 |
Cardiac catheterization |
Henry Cowell |
Composer |
11-Mar-1897 |
10-Dec-1965 |
New Musical Resources |
Judith Crist |
Critic |
22-May-1922 |
7-Aug-2012 |
Ascerbic film critic |
Michael M. Crow |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
President, Arizona State University |
Mario Davidovsky |
Composer |
4-Mar-1934 |
|
Synchronisms |
W. Edwards Deming |
Mathematician |
14-Oct-1900 |
20-Dec-1993 |
Quality Control guru |
John Dewey |
Educator |
20-Oct-1859 |
1-Jun-1952 |
Pragmatist philosopher, education reformer |
David Dinkins |
Politician |
10-Jul-1927 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 1989-93 |
T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
Alphonse Dochez |
Doctor |
21-Apr-1882 |
30-Jun-1964 |
Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold |
David Herbert Donald |
Historian |
1-Oct-1920 |
17-May-2009 |
Lincoln's Herndon |
Timothy Donnelly |
Poet |
3-Jun-1969 |
|
Twenty-Seven Props |
Michael Eric Dyson |
Scholar |
23-Oct-1958 |
|
Know What I Mean? |
Max Eastman |
Author |
12-Jan-1883 |
25-Mar-1969 |
Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism |
Wallace J. Eckert |
Astronomer |
19-Jun-1902 |
24-Aug-1971 |
First scientist hired by IBM |
Thomas Byrne Edsall |
Journalist |
22-Aug-1941 |
|
Columnist, The New York Times |
Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
Niles Eldredge |
Paleontologist |
25-Aug-1943 |
|
Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium |
Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
Eric Foner |
Historian |
7-Feb-1943 |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution |
Carolyn Forché |
Poet |
28-Apr-1950 |
|
The Country Between Us |
Milos Forman |
Film Director |
18-Feb-1932 |
|
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest |
Joshua B. Freeman |
Historian |
1949 |
|
In Transit |
Erich Fromm |
Psychologist |
23-Mar-1900 |
18-Mar-1980 |
Psychoanalyst, Humanist |
Richard N. Gardner |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 |
Peter Gay |
Historian |
20-Jun-1923 |
12-May-2015 |
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation |
Michael Gershon |
Scientist |
c. 1936 |
|
Gut neurobiology |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
Judge |
15-Mar-1933 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
Todd Gitlin |
Educator |
6-Jan-1943 |
|
Journalism professor, social critic |
Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1906 |
20-Feb-1972 |
Shell nuclear model |
Arthur J. Goldberg |
Judge |
8-Aug-1908 |
19-Jan-1990 |
Supreme Court Justice, 1962-65 |
Brian Greene |
Author |
9-Feb-1963 |
|
The Elegant Universe |
William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
James E. Hansen |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1941 |
|
Greenhouse effect and global warming |
Marvin Harris |
Anthropologist |
18-Aug-1927 |
25-Oct-2001 |
Anthropological historian |
William V. Harris |
Historian |
13-Sep-1938 |
|
War and Imperialism in Republican Rome |
C. Lowell Harriss |
Economist |
2-Aug-1912 |
14-Dec-2009 |
Columbia University Economist |
James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
Chris Hedges |
Journalist |
18-Sep-1956 |
|
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
Novelist |
13-Jan-1926 |
9-Oct-2003 |
Amanda Cross, mystery novelist |
Bob Herbert |
Columnist |
7-Mar-1945 |
|
Former New York Times columnist |
Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
Marc Lamont Hill |
Educator |
17-Dec-1978 |
|
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life |
Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
Sociologist |
c. 1943 |
|
Mother of on-line education |
Richard Hofstadter |
Historian |
6-Aug-1916 |
24-Oct-1970 |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
Douglas Holtz-Eakin |
Economist |
3-Feb-1958 |
|
McCain chief economic advisor |
Glenn Hubbard |
Economist |
4-Sep-1958 |
|
George W. Bush economist |
Vernon W. Hughes |
Physicist |
28-May-1921 |
25-Mar-2003 |
Muons |
Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
David Ignatow |
Poet |
7-Feb-1914 |
17-Nov-1997 |
Rescue the Dead |
Merit E. Janow |
Educator |
13-May-1958 |
|
Professor of Int'l Affairs, Columbia University |
Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
Jacob K. Javits |
Politician |
18-Mar-1904 |
7-Mar-1986 |
US Senator from New York, 1957-81 |
Robert Jervis |
Historian |
1940 |
|
The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy |
Howard P. Jones |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1899 |
18-Sep-1973 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1958-65 |
Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
Frank Kermode |
Critic |
29-Nov-1919 |
17-Aug-2010 |
The Sense of an Ending |
Zalmay Khalilzad |
Diplomat |
22-Mar-1951 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2007-09 |
Penn Kimball |
Journalist |
12-Oct-1915 |
8-Nov-2013 |
Persecuted by US Government |
Christoph M. Kimmich |
Educator |
16-Jan-1939 |
|
President, Brooklyn College |
Kenneth Koch |
Poet |
27-Feb-1925 |
6-Jul-2002 |
On the Great Atlantic Rainway |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
Naturalist |
25-Nov-1893 |
22-May-1970 |
The Modern Temper |
Stanley Kunitz |
Poet |
29-Jul-1905 |
14-May-2006 |
US Poet Laureate, 2000 |
Polykarp Kusch |
Physicist |
26-Jan-1911 |
20-Mar-1993 |
Magnetic moment of the electron |
Willis Lamb |
Physicist |
12-Jul-1913 |
15-May-2008 |
Detailed the hydrogen spectrum |
Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
Lewis Leary |
Educator |
18-Apr-1906 |
1-May-1990 |
That Rascal Freneau |
Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
Tsung-Dao Lee |
Physicist |
25-Nov-1926 |
|
Violations of parity law |
Abba Lerner |
Economist |
28-Oct-1903 |
27-Oct-1982 |
The Economics of Control |
William E. Leuchtenburg |
Historian |
28-Sep-1922 |
|
FDR scholar |
Anthony Lewis |
Journalist |
27-Mar-1927 |
25-Mar-2013 |
Gideon's Trumpet |
Peter W. Likins |
Educator |
1936 |
|
President, University of Arizona, 1997-2006 |
Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
Eric Lott |
Scholar |
20-May-1959 |
|
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy |
Leo Lowenthal |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1900 |
21-Jan-1993 |
Literature and the Image of Man |
Edward Luck |
Scholar |
? |
|
International Affairs professor at Columbia |
Edward MacDowell |
Composer |
18-Dec-1860 |
23-Jan-1908 |
American piano composer |
Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
Dumas Malone |
Historian |
10-Jan-1892 |
27-Dec-1986 |
Jefferson and His Time |
Herbert Marcuse |
Philosopher |
19-Jul-1898 |
29-Jul-1979 |
One-Dimensional Man |
Anthony W. Marx |
Educator |
28-Feb-1959 |
|
President, Amherst College |
Jack Matlock |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91 |
Brander Matthews |
Critic |
21-Feb-1852 |
31-Mar-1929 |
The Study of American Literature |
Garrett Mattingly |
Historian |
6-May-1900 |
18-Dec-1962 |
Renaissance Diplomacy |
Thom Mayne |
Architect |
1943 |
|
Architect, 2005 Pritzker Prize winner |
Betsy McCaughey |
Politician |
20-Oct-1948 |
|
Lt. Governor of New York, 1995-98 |
Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
Thomas Merton |
Author |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
Stanley Miller |
Chemist |
7-Mar-1930 |
20-May-2007 |
Miller-Urey Experiment |
C. Wright Mills |
Sociologist |
28-Aug-1916 |
20-Mar-1962 |
The Power Elite |
Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
Frederic S. Mishkin |
Economist |
11-Jan-1951 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Economist |
5-Aug-1874 |
29-Oct-1948 |
Business Cycles |
Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
Douglas Stuart Moore |
Composer |
10-Aug-1893 |
25-Jul-1969 |
The Devil and Daniel Webster |
Thomas H. Morgan |
Scientist |
25-Sep-1866 |
4-Dec-1945 |
Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity |
Richard B. Morris |
Historian |
24-Jul-1904 |
3-Mar-1989 |
The Peacemakers |
Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Doctor |
1970 |
|
The Emperor of All Maladies |
Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
Mary O. Mundinger |
Educator |
c. 1937 |
|
Dean, Columbia School of Nursing |
Mira Nair |
Film Director |
15-Oct-1957 |
|
Salaam Bombay! |
Allan Nevins |
Historian |
20-May-1890 |
5-Mar-1971 |
The War for the Union |
Ernest Fox Nichols |
Physicist |
1-Jun-1869 |
29-Apr-1924 |
Infrared radiation |
Robert A. Nisbet |
Sociologist |
30-Sep-1913 |
9-Sep-1996 |
The Sociological Tradition |
Michel Oksenberg |
Scholar |
12-Oct-1938 |
22-Feb-2001 |
Leading sinologist |
Ramon de Oliveira |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
Former JP Morgan executive |
Mehmet Oz |
Doctor |
11-Jun-1960 |
|
Healing from the Heart |
George G. C. Parker |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
|
Finance Professor Emeritus, Stanford |
David A. Paterson |
Politician |
20-May-1954 |
|
Governor of New York, 2008-11 |
John Allen Paulos |
Mathematician |
4-Jul-1945 |
|
Innumeracy |
Harry Thurston Peck |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1856 |
23-Mar-1914 |
A History of Classical Philology |
Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
Walter B. Pitkin |
Psychologist |
6-Feb-1878 |
25-Jan-1953 |
Life Begins at Forty |
Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
Karl Polanyi |
Scholar |
25-Oct-1886 |
23-Apr-1964 |
The Great Transformation |
V. S. Pritchett |
Author |
16-Dec-1900 |
20-Mar-1997 |
Midnight Oil |
Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
James Rainwater |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1917 |
31-May-1986 |
Determined shapes of nuclei |
Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
Andrew Revkin |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
New York Times science reporter |
Dickinson W. Richards |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
23-Feb-1973 |
Cardiac catheterization |
James Harvey Robinson |
Historian |
29-Jun-1863 |
16-Feb-1936 |
The Mind in the Making |
Christopher W. S. Ross |
Diplomat |
3-Mar-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1991-98 |
Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
Karen Rothmyer |
Journalist |
c. 1947 |
|
Editor of The Nation |
Barnett R. Rubin |
Educator |
10-Jan-1950 |
|
The Fragmentation of Afghanistan |
Jeffrey Sachs |
Economist |
5-Nov-1954 |
|
The End of Poverty |
Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
30-Aug-2015 |
Awakenings |
Raymond J. Saulnier |
Economist |
20-Sep-1908 |
30-Apr-2009 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1955-61 |
Simon Schama |
Historian |
13-Feb-1945 |
|
Landscape and Memory |
Arthur L. Schawlow |
Physicist |
5-May-1921 |
28-Apr-1999 |
Laser spectroscopy |
Béla Schick |
Doctor |
16-Jul-1877 |
6-Dec-1967 |
Schick test for diphtheria |
Michael Schudson |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1946 |
|
Discovering the News |
Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
O. Griffith Sexton |
Business |
1944 |
|
Former investment banker, Morgan Stanley |
Donna Shalala |
Government |
14-Feb-1941 |
|
Secretary of HHS, 1993-2001 |
Dimitri K. Simes |
Government |
? |
|
Nixon Center |
Louis Simpson |
Poet |
27-Mar-1923 |
14-Sep-2012 |
At The End of the Open Road |
Isadore Singer |
Mathematician |
3-May-1924 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
Elliott P. Skinner |
Scholar |
20-Jun-1924 |
1-Apr-2007 |
US Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1966-69 |
Mark Skousen |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Forecasts & Strategies |
Charles W. Socarides |
Activist |
24-Jan-1922 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Deprogrammer of homosexuals |
Fred Sommers |
Philosopher |
1-Jan-1923 |
2-Oct-2014 |
The Logic of Natural Language |
Joan Spero |
Diplomat |
2-Oct-1944 |
|
Under Secretary of State, 1993-97 |
Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
Gayatri Spivak |
Scholar |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
Postcolonialist theorist, Can the Subaltern Speak? |
Jack Steinberger |
Physicist |
25-May-1921 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
George Stephanopoulos |
TV Personality |
10-Feb-1961 |
|
Bill Clinton's communications director |
Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
18-May-2016 |
German historian |
George J. Stigler |
Economist |
17-Jan-1911 |
1-Dec-1991 |
Economic Theory of Regulation |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
Horst L. Störmer |
Physicist |
6-Apr-1949 |
|
Fractional quantum Hall effect |
Phillips Talbot |
Diplomat |
7-Jun-1915 |
1-Oct-2010 |
US Ambassador to Greece, 1965-69 |
James Tate |
Poet |
8-Dec-1943 |
8-Jul-2015 |
The Lost Pilot |
John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
E. Donnall Thomas |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1920 |
20-Oct-2012 |
Bone marrow transplants |
Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
27-Jan-2015 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
Lionel Trilling |
Critic |
4-Jul-1905 |
5-Nov-1975 |
The Liberal Imagination |
Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
Vladimir Ussachevsky |
Composer |
3-Nov-1911 |
2-Jan-1990 |
Tape music composer |
Mark Van Doren |
Poet |
13-Jun-1894 |
10-Dec-1972 |
The Happy Critic |
Kirk Varnedoe |
Curator |
19-Jan-1946 |
15-Aug-2003 |
Curator at MOMA, 1988-2001 |
William Vickrey |
Economist |
21-Jun-1914 |
11-Oct-1996 |
Asymmetric information in economics |
Immanuel Wallerstein |
Sociologist |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
The Modern World System |
Kenneth N. Waltz |
Scholar |
8-Jun-1924 |
12-May-2013 |
Man, the State, and War |
Waloddi Weibull |
Mathematician |
18-Jun-1887 |
12-Oct-1979 |
Weibull distribution |
Anthony A. Williams |
Politician |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
Mayor of Washington DC, 1999-2007 |
Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
Peter Woit |
Physicist |
c. 1957 |
|
String Theorist |
Paul Wonnacott |
Economist |
16-Mar-1933 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93 |
Liu Xiaobo |
Activist |
28-Dec-1955 |
|
Chinese human rights activist |
John Young |
Architect |
c. 1936 |
|
Cryptome |
Michael K. Young |
Educator |
c. 1950 |
|
President, University of Utah |
Hideki Yukawa |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1907 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Predicted existence of mesons |
Warren Zimmermann |
Diplomat |
16-Nov-1934 |
2-Feb-2004 |
US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1989-92 |
Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |