Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Herbert Baxter Adams |
Historian |
16-Apr-1850 |
30-Jul-1901 |
Coined term political science |
James Agee |
Poet |
27-Nov-1909 |
16-May-1955 |
A Death in the Family |
Robert W. Anderson |
Playwright |
28-Apr-1917 |
9-Feb-2009 |
Tea and Sympathy |
Alfred L. Atherton |
Diplomat |
22-Nov-1921 |
30-Oct-2002 |
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1979-83 |
Kenneth H. Bacon |
Journalist |
21-Nov-1944 |
15-Aug-2009 |
President of Refugees International, 2001-09 |
George Bancroft |
Historian |
3-Oct-1800 |
17-Jan-1891 |
A History of the United States |
Peter B. Bensinger |
Government |
24-Mar-1936 |
|
DEA Administrator, 1976-81 |
Richard W. Bolling |
Politician |
17-May-1916 |
21-Apr-1991 |
Congressman from Missouri, 1949-83 |
Stewart Brand |
Business |
14-Dec-1938 |
|
Founder, Whole Earth Catalog |
Dan Brown |
Novelist |
22-Jun-1964 |
|
The Da Vinci Code |
Thomas Bulfinch |
Author |
15-Jul-1796 |
27-May-1867 |
Bullfinch's Mythology |
Hodding Carter III |
Journalist |
7-Apr-1935 |
|
Carter Administration mouthpiece |
Lewis Cass |
Military |
9-Oct-1782 |
17-Jun-1866 |
US Secretary of State, 1857-60 |
Pete Coors |
Relative |
20-Sep-1946 |
|
Coors scion |
Norris Cotton |
Politician |
11-May-1900 |
24-Feb-1989 |
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1954-74 |
Gregory B. Craig |
Attorney |
4-Mar-1945 |
|
White House Counsel, 2009 |
Samuel H. Day |
Activist |
5-Oct-1926 |
26-Jan-2001 |
Antinuke crusader |
C. Diddy |
Performance Artist |
23-Dec-1971 |
|
World Air Guitar Champion, 2003 |
John Adams Dix |
Politician |
24-Jul-1798 |
21-Apr-1879 |
Governor of New York, 1873-75 |
Pete du Pont |
Politician |
22-Jan-1935 |
|
Governor of Delaware, 1977-85 |
David Eisenhower |
Author |
31-Mar-1948 |
|
Camp David namesake |
Charles D. Ellis |
Business |
22-Oct-1937 |
|
Founder, Greenwich Associates |
Maya Forbes |
Film Director |
23-Jul-1968 |
|
Infinitely Polar Bear |
Arthur Freed |
Film/TV Producer |
9-Sep-1894 |
12-Apr-1973 |
MGM producer, big budget musicals |
George Gilder |
Pundit |
29-Nov-1939 |
|
Technological futurist pundit |
Terry Goddard |
Politician |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Attorney General of Arizona |
Fred Grandy |
Actor |
29-Jun-1948 |
|
Congressman, Gopher on The Love Boat |
Hugh Gregg |
Politician |
22-Nov-1917 |
24-Sep-2003 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1953-55 |
Judd Gregg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1947 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1993-2011 |
John Parker Hale |
Politician |
31-Mar-1806 |
19-Dec-1873 |
Anti-slavery US Senator from NH |
John Heinz |
Politician |
23-Oct-1938 |
4-Apr-1991 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-91 |
John Irving |
Novelist |
2-Mar-1942 |
|
The World According to Garp |
Nicholas Katzenbach |
Government |
17-Jan-1922 |
8-May-2012 |
US Attorney General, 1965-66 |
Paul Klebnikov |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1963 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
John Knowles |
Novelist |
16-Sep-1926 |
29-Nov-2001 |
A Separate Peace |
Herb Kohler |
Business |
20-Feb-1939 |
|
Chairman and President, Kohler Co. |
Charles C. Krulak |
Military |
4-Mar-1942 |
|
US Marine Corps Commandant, 1995-99 |
Corliss Lamont |
Activist |
28-Mar-1902 |
26-Apr-1995 |
Millionaire socialist |
Thomas W. Lamont |
Business |
30-Sep-1870 |
2-Feb-1948 |
Banker and diplomat |
Jonathan Homer Lane |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1819 |
3-May-1880 |
Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun |
Richard W. Leopold |
Historian |
6-Jan-1912 |
23-Nov-2006 |
Robert Dale Owen: A Biography |
Robert Todd Lincoln |
Politician |
1-Aug-1843 |
26-Jul-1926 |
US Secretary of War, 1881-85 |
Michael Lynton |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of Sony Entertainment |
Dwight Macdonald |
Critic |
24-Mar-1906 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Against the American Grain |
Alex J. Martinez |
Judge |
19-Apr-1951 |
|
Justice, Colorado Supreme Court |
John McTiernan |
Film Director |
8-Jan-1951 |
|
The Hunt for Red October |
Robert Mehrabian |
Business |
31-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Teledyne |
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
Government |
11-May-1891 |
6-Feb-1967 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45 |
John Negroponte |
Diplomat |
21-Jul-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN, 2001-04 |
Alessandro Nivola |
Actor |
28-Jun-1972 |
|
Laurel Canyon |
Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
Drew Pearson |
Journalist |
13-Dec-1897 |
1-Sep-1969 |
Washington Merry-Go-Round |
William H. Pease |
Historian |
31-Aug-1924 |
20-Jun-2013 |
The Web of Progress |
Franklin Pierce |
Head of State |
23-Nov-1804 |
8-Oct-1869 |
14th President of the U.S. |
Gifford Pinchot |
Politician |
11-Aug-1865 |
4-Oct-1946 |
Twice Governor of Pennsylvania |
George Plimpton |
Author |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Paper Lion |
Jay Rockefeller |
Politician |
18-Jun-1937 |
|
US Senator from West Virginia |
George Rublee |
Diplomat |
7-Jul-1868 |
26-Apr-1957 |
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Oct-1917 |
28-Feb-2007 |
The Age of Roosevelt |
Lloyd S. Shapley |
Mathematician |
2-Jun-1923 |
12-Mar-2016 |
Theory of stable allocations |
Kent Smith |
Actor |
19-Mar-1907 |
23-Apr-1985 |
Cat People |
Jared Sparks |
Author |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
Amos Alonzo Stagg |
Football |
16-Aug-1862 |
17-Mar-1965 |
Mr. Football |
Craig Stapleton |
Diplomat |
c. 1945 |
|
US Ambassador to France |
William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
Ambrose Swasey |
Business |
19-Dec-1846 |
15-Jun-1937 |
Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory |
John Toland |
Historian |
29-Jun-1912 |
4-Jan-2004 |
The Rising Sun |
Harold R. Tyler, Jr. |
Attorney |
14-May-1922 |
25-May-2005 |
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler |
C. William Verity |
Government |
26-Jan-1917 |
3-Jan-2007 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1987-89 |
Gore Vidal |
Author |
3-Oct-1925 |
31-Jul-2012 |
Visit to a Small Planet |
John M. Walker, Jr. |
Judge |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Appeals Court, 1992-2006 |
Daniel Webster |
Politician |
18-Jan-1782 |
24-Oct-1852 |
The completest man |
Suzy Welch |
Journalist |
1959 |
|
HBR Editor, now wife of Jack Welch |
Timothy E. Wirth |
Politician |
22-Sep-1939 |
|
US Senator from Colorado, 1987-93 |
Mark Zuckerberg |
Business |
14-May-1984 |
|
Founder of Facebook |