Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
John Abbott |
Head of State |
12-Mar-1821 |
30-Oct-1893 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1891-93 |
Burt Bacharach |
Pianist |
12-May-1929 |
|
Incomparable composer of lounge music |
Georges Berthoin |
Politician |
17-May-1925 |
|
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair, 1973-92 |
Conrad Black |
Business |
25-Aug-1944 |
|
Rapacious newspaper mogul |
Willard S. Boyle |
Physicist |
19-Aug-1924 |
7-May-2011 |
Digital photography |
Charles Bronfman |
Business |
27-Jun-1931 |
|
Fifth richest person in Canada |
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. |
Business |
20-Jun-1929 |
21-Dec-2013 |
CEO of Seagram's until 1994 |
David A. B. Brown |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
The Windsor Group |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
Bay Buchanan |
Government |
23-Dec-1948 |
|
US Treasurer, 1981-83 |
John Burns |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1944 |
|
New York Times correspondent |
Dillon Casey |
Actor |
29-Oct-1983 |
|
Trevor Lemonde on M.V.P. |
John E. Cleghorn |
Business |
7-Jul-1941 |
|
CEO of Royal Bank of Canada, 1995-2001 |
Leonard Cohen |
Singer/Songwriter |
21-Sep-1934 |
|
Everybody Knows |
François J. Coutu |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
President, Jean Coutu Canada |
Paul G. Desmarais, Jr. |
Business |
3-Jul-1954 |
|
Co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada |
Paul G. Desmarais |
Business |
4-Jan-1927 |
8-Oct-2013 |
CEO, Power Corporation of Canada, 1968-96 |
James Donald |
Actor |
18-May-1917 |
3-Aug-1993 |
Third Man on the Mountain |
Jean Doré |
Politician |
12-Dec-1944 |
15-Jun-2015 |
Mayor of Montreal, 1986-94 |
Charles Drew |
Doctor |
3-Jun-1904 |
1-Apr-1950 |
First to separate blood plasma |
Ken Dryden |
Hockey |
8-Aug-1947 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer, Canadian MP |
Victor J. Dzau |
Doctor |
1946 |
|
CEO of Duke University Health System |
Leon Edel |
Author |
9-Sep-1907 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Biographer of Henry James |
Maria S. Eitel |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
President of the Nike Foundation |
Colin Ferguson |
Actor |
22-Jul-1972 |
|
Eureka |
Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
5-Feb-2015 |
Time not necessarily reversible |
Jessalyn Gilsig |
Actor |
30-Nov-1971 |
|
Terri Schuester on Glee |
Evan Goldberg |
Screenwriter |
1982 |
|
The Interview |
Herb Gray |
Politician |
25-May-1931 |
21-Apr-2014 |
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister, 1997-2002 |
H. John Greeniaus |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Nabisco, 1993-97 |
Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
S. I. Hayakawa |
Politician |
19-Jul-1906 |
27-Feb-1992 |
Semanticist and US Senator |
Jayne Heitmeyer |
Actor |
1961 |
|
Earth: Final Conflict |
Laurie Holden |
Actor |
17-Dec-1972 |
|
Silent Hill |
David H. Hubel |
Scientist |
27-Feb-1926 |
22-Sep-2013 |
Neurophysiology of vision |
Jennifer Irwin |
Actor |
17-Jun-1975 |
|
Linda Michaels on Still Standing |
Donna Soble Kaufman |
Business |
1943 |
|
Canadian corporate director |
Frances Oldham Kelsey |
Doctor |
24-Jul-1914 |
7-Aug-2015 |
Prevented countless thalidomide babies |
Charles Krauthammer |
Columnist |
13-Mar-1950 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
Wilfrid Laurier |
Head of State |
20-Nov-1841 |
17-Feb-1919 |
Canadian Prime Minister |
Jack Layton |
Politician |
18-Jul-1950 |
22-Aug-2011 |
Leader of Canada's NDP |
Rachelle Lefevre |
Actor |
1-Feb-1979 |
|
Dr. Kate Sykora on A Gifted Man |
David Lewis |
Politician |
23-Jun-1909 |
23-May-1981 |
Leader of Canada's NDP, 1971-75 |
Rilwanu Lukman |
Government |
26-Aug-1938 |
21-Jul-2014 |
Secretary General of OPEC, 1995-2000 |
Gerald Luterman |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CFO of KeySpan, 1999-2007 |
Angus Maddison |
Economist |
6-Dec-1926 |
24-Apr-2010 |
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD |
Miles Mander |
Actor |
14-May-1888 |
8-Feb-1946 |
The Three Musketeers |
Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
Cameron Mathison |
Actor |
25-Aug-1969 |
|
All My Children |
John McCallum |
Politician |
9-Apr-1950 |
|
Canadian MP, Markham--Unionville |
Paul Moller |
Inventor |
1937 |
|
The Skycar |
Eric H. Molson |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
Chairman of Molson Coors Brewing |
Claude Mongeau |
Business |
c. 1962 |
|
CFO of Canadian National Railway |
Allan Moyle |
Film Director |
1947 |
|
Pump Up the Volume |
James Naismith |
Basketball |
6-Nov-1861 |
28-Nov-1939 |
Inventor of Basketball |
Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
David P. O'Brien |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Chairman, Royal Bank of Canada |
Kevin O'Neill |
Basketball |
24-Jan-1957 |
|
Interim Head Coach, U. of Arizona |
George P. Orban |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
Orban Partners |
William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
Lester Patrick |
Hockey |
30-Dec-1883 |
1-Jun-1960 |
NY Rangers Head Coach, 1926-39 |
Steven Pinker |
Linguist |
18-Sep-1954 |
|
The Language Instinct |
Dick Pound |
Attorney |
22-Mar-1942 |
|
Canadian Olympic official |
Sam Roberts |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Oct-1974 |
|
The Inhuman Condition |
John Ralston Saul |
Essayist |
19-Jun-1947 |
|
The Collapse of Globalism |
Andrew V. Schally |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1926 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
Harold T. Shapiro |
Educator |
8-Jun-1935 |
|
President of Princeton, 1988-2000 |
William Shatner |
Actor |
22-Mar-1931 |
|
Captain Kirk on Star Trek |
Louis St. Laurent |
Head of State |
1-Feb-1882 |
25-Jul-1973 |
Prime Minister of Canada, 1948-57 |
Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
Jack W. Szostak |
Scientist |
9-Nov-1952 |
|
First artificial chromosome |
Charles Taylor |
Philosopher |
5-Nov-1931 |
|
Sources of the Self |
E. P. Taylor |
Business |
29-Jan-1901 |
14-May-1989 |
Brewer, Thoroughbred horse breeder |
Gordon Thomson |
Actor |
3-Mar-1945 |
|
Adam Carrington on Dynasty |
Lionel Tiger |
Educator |
1937 |
|
The Decline of Males |
Justin Trudeau |
Politician |
25-Dec-1971 |
|
Prime Minister of Canada |
Vaira Vike-Freiberga |
Head of State |
1-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Latvia, 1999-2007 |
Peter S. Watson |
Government |
1953 |
|
CEO of OPIC, 2001-05 |
John L. Withers II |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Albania |
Michael B. Wood |
Doctor |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of the Mayo Foundation, 1999-2003 |
Mort Zuckerman |
Business |
4-Jun-1937 |
|
Owner, New York Daily News |