Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
Lauren Ambrose |
Actor |
20-Feb-1978 |
|
Six Feet Under |
Jack Arnold |
Film Director |
14-Oct-1916 |
17-Mar-1992 |
Creature from the Black Lagoon |
Henry Baldwin |
Judge |
14-Jan-1780 |
21-Apr-1844 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1830-44 |
Simeon E. Baldwin |
Politician |
5-Feb-1840 |
30-Jan-1927 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15 |
Lyman Beecher |
Religion |
12-Oct-1775 |
10-Jan-1863 |
American Presbyterian preacher |
Roberts Blossom |
Actor |
25-Mar-1924 |
8-Jul-2011 |
Deranged |
Jerry Bock |
Composer |
23-Nov-1928 |
3-Nov-2010 |
Fiorello! |
Michael Bolton |
Singer/Songwriter |
26-Feb-1953 |
|
Love Is a Wonderful Thing |
Edward Bouchet |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1852 |
28-Oct-1918 |
First African-American PhD |
George W. Bush |
Head of State |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
43rd US President, 2001-09 |
A. E. Campbell |
Historian |
12-May-1929 |
2002 |
Great Britain and the United States |
Al Capp |
Cartoonist |
28-Sep-1909 |
5-Nov-1979 |
Creator of Li'l Abner |
Karen Carpenter |
Singer |
2-Mar-1950 |
4-Feb-1983 |
The Carpenters |
Richard Carpenter |
Musician |
15-Oct-1946 |
|
The Carpenters |
Vint Cerf |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
Melanie Chartoff |
Actor |
15-Dec-1948 |
|
Parker Lewis Can't Lose |
Wesley A. Clark |
Engineer |
10-Apr-1927 |
22-Feb-2016 |
Designed LINC, the first PC |
Martha Coolidge |
Film Director |
17-Aug-1946 |
|
Valley Girl |
Rhonda Copelon |
Attorney |
15-Sep-1944 |
|
Law Professor at CUNY |
Daniel Cosgrove |
Actor |
16-Dec-1970 |
|
Matt Durning on Beverly Hills 90210 |
Rosa DeLauro |
Politician |
2-Mar-1943 |
|
Congresswoman, Connecticut 3rd |
Jill Eikenberry |
Actor |
21-Jan-1947 |
|
Ann Kelsey on L.A. Law |
Foster Furcolo |
Politician |
29-Jul-1911 |
5-Jul-1995 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1957-61 |
Robert Giaimo |
Politician |
15-Oct-1919 |
24-May-2006 |
Congressman from Connecticut, 1959-81 |
J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
Alfred G. Gilman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1941 |
23-Dec-2015 |
G-protein cell signal transmission |
Charles Goodyear |
Inventor |
29-Dec-1800 |
1-Jul-1860 |
Invented rubber vulcanization process |
Donald Hall |
Poet |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
The One Day |
Sam Hardy |
Actor |
21-Mar-1883 |
16-Oct-1935 |
King Kong |
Louis Harris |
Business |
6-Jan-1921 |
17-Dec-2016 |
Pollster, Louis Harris and Associates |
Jared Ingersoll |
Politician |
24-Oct-1749 |
31-Oct-1822 |
Signed the US Constitution |
Kenny Johnson |
Actor |
13-Jul-1963 |
|
Det. Lemansky on The Shield |
Michiko Kakutani |
Critic |
9-Jan-1955 |
|
Quirky New York Times book critic |
Adam LaVorgna |
Actor |
1-Mar-1981 |
|
Robbie Palmer on 7th Heaven |
Norman Lear |
Film/TV Producer |
27-Jul-1922 |
|
Creator of All in the Family |
Lewis Libby |
Government |
22-Aug-1950 |
|
Cheney's former Chief of Staff |
Gabriel Mann |
Actor |
14-May-1972 |
|
Dying to Live |
Alphonso McAuley |
Actor |
21-Apr-1984 |
|
Cash Sparks on Breaking In |
Biff McGuire |
Actor |
25-Oct-1926 |
|
Serpico |
Thomas E. McNamara |
Diplomat |
1940 |
|
US Ambassador to Colombia, 1988-91 |
Craig C. Mello |
Scientist |
19-Oct-1960 |
|
RNA interference |
Robert Moses |
Government |
18-Dec-1888 |
29-Jul-1981 |
New York City planner |
George Murphy |
Actor |
4-Jul-1902 |
3-May-1992 |
Actor and US Senator from California |
Harry Myers |
Actor |
5-Sep-1882 |
25-Dec-1938 |
City Lights |
Becki Newton |
Actor |
4-Jul-1978 |
|
Amanda Tanen on Ugly Betty |
Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. |
Judge |
11-Oct-1943 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
Peter S. Onuf |
Historian |
6-Oct-1946 |
|
Jefferson's Empire |
Frank H. Pearl |
Business |
27-May-1943 |
4-May-2012 |
CEO of Perseus LLC |
George O. Petrie |
Actor |
16-Nov-1912 |
16-Nov-1997 |
Harv Smithfield on Dallas |
Liz Phair |
Singer/Songwriter |
17-Apr-1967 |
|
Exile in Guyville |
William Lyon Phelps |
Critic |
2-Jan-1865 |
21-Aug-1943 |
Essays on Modern Novelists |
Richard Pini |
Cartoonist |
19-Jul-1950 |
|
Elfquest |
Adam Clayton Powell |
Politician |
29-Nov-1908 |
4-Apr-1972 |
Congressman from New York, 1945-71 |
Howard H. Quint |
Historian |
3-Jan-1917 |
23-Jun-1981 |
The Forging of American Socialism |
Emily Saliers |
Musician |
22-Jul-1963 |
|
The Indigo Girls |
Irwin Schiff |
Activist |
24-Feb-1928 |
16-Oct-2015 |
US income tax protester |
Alfred P. Sloan |
Business |
23-May-1875 |
17-Feb-1966 |
Chairman of GM, 1937-56 |
Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
Francis Steegmuller |
Author |
3-Jul-1906 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Cocteau: A Biography |
Lawrence H. Summers |
Economist |
30-Nov-1954 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1999-2001 |
Liz Trotta |
Journalist |
28-Mar-1937 |
|
Fox News contributor |
Titus Welliver |
Actor |
12-Mar-1961 |
|
Silas Adams on Deadwood |
David Wessel |
Journalist |
21-Feb-1954 |
|
Wall Street Journal |
Reed Whittemore |
Poet |
11-Sep-1919 |
6-Apr-2012 |
Heroes & Heroines |
Steve Wynn |
Business |
27-Jan-1942 |
|
Las Vegas billionaire |
Madeline Zima |
Actor |
16-Sep-1985 |
|
Grace Sheffield on The Nanny |
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Josef Albers |
Artist |
19-Mar-1888 |
25-Mar-1976 |
Homage to the Square |
Charles McLean Andrews |
Historian |
22-Feb-1863 |
9-Sep-1943 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
Simeon E. Baldwin |
Politician |
5-Feb-1840 |
30-Jan-1927 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15 |
Ina Balin |
Actor |
12-Nov-1937 |
20-Jun-1990 |
The Patsy |
Charles A. Beard |
Historian |
27-Nov-1874 |
1-Sep-1948 |
The Rise of American Civilization |
Alexander Bickel |
Legal Scholar |
17-Dec-1924 |
7-Nov-1974 |
The Least Dangerous Branch |
Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
Edward Bouchet |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1852 |
28-Oct-1918 |
First African-American PhD |
James Broderick |
Actor |
7-Mar-1927 |
1-Nov-1982 |
Doug Lawrence on Family |
Cleanth Brooks |
Critic |
16-Oct-1906 |
10-May-1994 |
The Well Wrought Urn |
Dirk Brouwer |
Astronomer |
1-Sep-1902 |
31-Jan-1966 |
Celestial mechanics |
Ernest W. Brown |
Astronomer |
29-Nov-1866 |
22-Jul-1938 |
Tables of the Motion of the Moon |
Donald Cook |
Actor |
26-Sep-1901 |
1-Oct-1961 |
Viva Villa! |
Wilbur L. Cross |
Politician |
10-Apr-1862 |
5-Oct-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1931-39 |
Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
Timothy Dwight |
Educator |
14-May-1752 |
11-Jan-1817 |
President of Yale, 1795-1817 |
Walker Evans |
Photographer |
3-Nov-1903 |
10-Apr-1975 |
Depression-era Photographer |
Irving Fisher |
Economist |
27-Feb-1867 |
29-Apr-1947 |
The Theory of Interest |
J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
Ross Granville Harrison |
Zoologist |
13-Jan-1870 |
30-Sep-1959 |
Embryology and tissue culture techniques |
Vernon W. Hughes |
Physicist |
28-May-1921 |
25-Mar-2003 |
Muons |
Clark L. Hull |
Psychologist |
24-May-1884 |
10-May-1952 |
Principles of Behavior |
John N. Irwin II |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1913 |
28-Feb-2000 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73 |
Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
Ralph Linton |
Anthropologist |
27-Feb-1893 |
25-Dec-1953 |
The Study of Man |
Bronislaw Malinowski |
Anthropologist |
7-Apr-1884 |
16-May-1942 |
Founder of social anthropology |
Percy Marks |
Novelist |
9-Sep-1891 |
27-Dec-1956 |
The Plastic Age |
W. C. Minor |
Scholar |
Jun-1834 |
26-Mar-1920 |
Prolific OED contributor |
Edmund S. Morgan |
Historian |
17-Jan-1916 |
8-Jul-2013 |
The Puritan Dilemma |
William Lyon Phelps |
Critic |
2-Jan-1865 |
21-Aug-1943 |
Essays on Modern Novelists |
Edward Sapir |
Anthropologist |
26-Jan-1884 |
4-Feb-1939 |
Anthropological linguist |
Roger Sherman |
Politician |
19-Apr-1721 |
23-Jul-1793 |
Architect of the Connecticut Compromise |
Nicholas J. Spykman |
Geographer |
13-Oct-1893 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Godfather of Containment |
Margaret Sullavan |
Actor |
16-May-1911 |
1-Jan-1960 |
The Shop Around the Corner |
Max Theiler |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1899 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Yellow fever vaccination |
James Tobin |
Economist |
5-Mar-1918 |
11-Mar-2002 |
Investment behaviorist |
Noah Webster |
Lexicographer |
16-Oct-1758 |
28-May-1843 |
Webster's Dictionary |
Eli Whitney |
Inventor |
8-Dec-1765 |
8-Jan-1825 |
Inventor of the cotton gin |
Elizabeth Wilson |
Actor |
4-Apr-1921 |
9-May-2015 |
The Graduate |
Teresa Wright |
Actor |
27-Oct-1918 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Shadow of a Doubt |