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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Francis Adams IV
Business
2-May-1910 5-Jan-1999 Former president of Raytheon
Charles Francis Adams
Diplomat
18-Aug-1807 21-Nov-1886 US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68
Charles Francis Adams III
Government
2-Aug-1866 11-Jun-1954 Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33
John Adams
Head of State
30-Oct-1735 4-Jul-1826 2nd President of the U.S.
John Quincy Adams
Head of State
11-Jul-1767 23-Feb-1848 6th US President, 1825-29
Louisa Adams
First Lady
12-Feb-1775 15-May-1852 Wife of US President John Quincy Adams
Horatio Alger
Author
13-Jan-1832 18-Jul-1899 Ragged Dick
Alfred L. Atherton
Diplomat
22-Nov-1921 30-Oct-2002 US Ambassador to Egypt, 1979-83
Chester G. Atkins
Politician
14-Apr-1948   Congressman from Massachusetts, 1985-93
George F. Baker
Business
27-Mar-1840 2-May-1931 "None of the public's business"
Roger Baldwin
Activist
21-Jan-1884 26-Aug-1981 Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
John Bardeen
Physicist
23-May-1908 30-Jan-1991 Co-Inventor of the transistor
P. T. Barnum
Hoaxer
5-Jul-1810 7-Apr-1891 Circus showman
Clara Barton
Activist
25-Dec-1821 12-Apr-1912 Co-Founder of the American Red Cross
Henry Whitney Bellows
Religion
11-Jun-1814 30-Jan-1882 Unitarian leader, civil reformer
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Programmer
8-Jun-1955   Inventor of the World Wide Web
John Biddle
Religion
1615 22-Sep-1662 Father of English Unitarianism
James J. Blanchard
Politician
8-Aug-1942   Governor of Michigan, 1983-91
Charles Booth
Sociologist
30-Mar-1840 23-Nov-1916 Studied poverty in London
Nathaniel Bowditch
Astronomer
26-Mar-1773 17-Mar-1838 American Practical Navigator
Chester Bowles
Politician
5-Apr-1901 25-May-1986 Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51
Andrew Brimmer
Economist
13-Sep-1926   Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74
Olympia Brown
Activist
5-Jan-1835 23-Oct-1926 Lady preacher and suffragette
Luther Burbank
Botanist
7-Mar-1849 11-Apr-1926 Botanist and plant breeder
Harold H. Burton
Judge
22-Jun-1888 28-Oct-1964 US Supreme Court Justice, 1945-58
Vannevar Bush
Scientist
11-Mar-1890 30-Jun-1974 Pre-internet visionary
Robert N. Butler
Doctor
21-Jan-1927 4-Jul-2010 Expert on aging
Joseph Chamberlain
Politician
8-Jul-1836 3-Jul-1914 British pol revered in Birmingham
Brock Chisholm
Doctor
18-May-1896 4-Feb-1971 First Director-General of World Health Organization
Grenville Clark
Attorney
5-Nov-1882 13-Jan-1967 World Peace Through World Law
Joseph Sill Clark
Politician
21-Oct-1901 21-Jan-1990 US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69
James Freeman Clarke
Religion
4-Apr-1810 8-Jun-1888 Ten Great Religions
Josephine Cochrane
Inventor
8-Mar-1839 3-Aug-1913 Invented the dishwasher
Marcus A. Coolidge
Politician
6-Oct-1865 23-Jan-1947 US Senator from Massachusetts, 1931-37
William D. Coolidge
Physicist
23-Oct-1873 4-Feb-1975 Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
Richard Dalitz
Physicist
28-Feb-1925 13-Jan-2006 Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots
Morris Dees
Activist
16-Dec-1936   Bankrupted the Klan
Don Edwards
Politician
6-Jan-1915   Congressman from California, 1963-95
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist
25-May-1803 27-Apr-1882 Essayist, wrote Nature
Edward Everett
Politician
11-Apr-1794 15-Jan-1865 Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40
Cornelius Felton
Scholar
6-Nov-1807 26-Feb-1862 Classical scholar of Greek
Abigail Fillmore
First Lady
13-Mar-1798 30-Mar-1853 Wife of US President Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Head of State
7-Jan-1800 8-Mar-1874 13th President of the US, 1850-53
Duncan U. Fletcher
Politician
6-Jan-1859 17-Jun-1936 Congressman from Florida, 1909-36
John Forster
Author
2-Apr-1812 2-Feb-1876 Life of Charles Dickens
R. Buckminster Fuller
Architect
12-Jul-1895 1-Jul-1983 Futurist, invented the geodesic dome
Frank Gannett
Business
15-Sep-1876 3-Dec-1957 Founder, Gannett publishing empire
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Author
29-Sep-1810 12-Nov-1865 Cranford
Billy Gibbons
Guitarist
16-Dec-1949   ZZ Top
Walter S. Gifford
Business
10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48
Sam Goddard
Politician
8-Aug-1919 1-Feb-2006 Governor of Arizona, 1965-67
Terry Goddard
Politician
29-Jan-1947   Attorney General of Arizona
Mike Gravel
Politician
13-May-1930   US Senator from Alaska, 1969-81
Horace Greeley
Author
3-Feb-1811 29-Nov-1872 The Tribune
Edward Everett Hale
Author
3-Apr-1822 10-Jun-1909 The Man Without a Country
Lucretia Peabody Hale
Author
2-Sep-1820 12-Jun-1900 The Peterkin Papers
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Inventor
16-Mar-1836 24-Apr-1900 Designed the first cable car system
Frances E. W. Harper
Poet
24-Sep-1825 22-Feb-1911 Abolitionist, temperance activist
Oliver Heaviside
Engineer
18-May-1850 3-Feb-1925 Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Barney Hill
Hoaxer
20-Jul-1922 25-Feb-1969 Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
Betty Hill
Hoaxer
28-Jun-1919 17-Oct-2004 Self-proclaimed UFO abductee
George F. Hoar
Politician
29-Aug-1826 30-Sep-1904 US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904
Robert W. Holley
Scientist
28-Jan-1922 11-Feb-1993 RNA's role in protein synthesis
Roman Hruska
Politician
16-Aug-1904 25-Apr-1999 US Senator from Nebraska, 1954-76
Thomas Jefferson
Head of State
13-Apr-1743 4-Jul-1826 3rd US President, 1801-09
Robert D. Joffe
Attorney
26-May-1943 28-Jan-2010 Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Nancy Johnson
Politician
5-Jan-1935   Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1983-2007
David Starr Jordan
Biologist
19-Jan-1851 19-Sep-1931 Fishes of North and Middle America
Thomas Starr King
Religion
17-Dec-1824 4-Mar-1864 Saved California to the Union
Willard M. Kiplinger
Journalist
8-Jan-1891 6-Aug-1967 Kiplinger Washington Editors
Samuel P. Langley
Astronomer
22-Aug-1834 2-Feb-1906 Heavier-than-air flying machine
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Historian
14-Jan-1882 11-Mar-1944 Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind
Arthur O. Lovejoy
Historian
10-Oct-1873 30-Dec-1962 The Great Chain of Being
A. Lawrence Lowell
Educator
1-Jan-1856 6-Jan-1943 President, Harvard University, 1909-33
James Russell Lowell
Author
22-Feb-1819 12-Aug-1891 The Biglow Papers
Harriet Martineau
Author
12-Jun-1802 27-Jun-1876 Maid of All Work
Wade H. McCree
Judge
3-Jul-1920 30-Aug-1987 US Solicitor General, 1977-81
Samuel Freeman Miller
Judge
5-Apr-1816 13-Oct-1890 US Supreme Court Justice, 1862-90
Robert A. Millikan
Physicist
22-Mar-1868 19-Dec-1953 Determined the charge of an electron
Walt Minnick
Politician
20-Sep-1942   Congressman from Idaho, 2009-11
George R. Minot
Doctor
2-Dec-1885 25-Feb-1950 Liver therapy for pernicious anemia
Maria Mitchell
Astronomer
1-Aug-1818 28-Jun-1889 First American female astronomer
Maurine Brown Neuberger
Politician
9-Jan-1907 22-Feb-2000 US Senator from Oregon, 1960-67
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Charles Eliot Norton
Scholar
16-Nov-1827 21-Oct-1908 American man of letters
Warder Norton
Business
17-Sep-1891 7-Nov-1945 W. W. Norton & Company
Keith Olbermann
Pundit
27-Jan-1959   Countdown
Camillo Olivetti
Business
13-Aug-1868 4-Dec-1943 Founder of Olivetti SpA
Bob Packwood
Politician
11-Sep-1932   Oregon Senator, sexual harrasser
Robert E. Park
Sociologist
14-Feb-1864 7-Feb-1944 Race and Culture
Russell W. Peterson
Politician
3-Oct-1916 21-Feb-2011 Governor of Delaware, 1969-73
Timothy Pickering
Politician
17-Jul-1745 29-Jan-1829 US Secretary of State, 1795-1800
Frederik Pohl
Author
26-Nov-1919   Futurian science fiction writer
Joseph Priestley
Chemist
13-Mar-1733 6-Feb-1804 Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen
Olive Higgins Prouty
Novelist
10-Jan-1882 24-Mar-1974 Stella Dallas
George Pullman
Business
3-Mar-1831 19-Oct-1897 Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car
Charles B. Purvis
Doctor
14-Apr-1842 14-Dec-1929 Pioneering African-American physician
Christopher Reeve
Actor
25-Sep-1952 10-Oct-2004 Superman
George Ripley
Journalist
3-Oct-1802 4-Jul-1880 The New York Tribune
Leverett Saltonstall
Politician
1-Sep-1892 17-Jun-1979 US Senator from Masachusetts, 1945-67
Francis W. Sargent
Politician
29-Jul-1915 21-Oct-1998 Governor of Massachusetts, 1969-75
John G. Sargent
Government
13-Oct-1860 5-Mar-1939 US Attorney General, 1925-29
May Sarton
Poet
3-May-1912 16-Jul-1995 Plant Dreaming Deep
Ellery Schempp
Activist
1940   Abington School District v. Schempp
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt
William F. Schulz
Activist
14-Nov-1949   Director, Amnesty International, 1994-2006
Pete Seeger
Singer/Songwriter
3-May-1919   We Shall Overcome
Robert W. Selander
Business
c. 1951   CEO of Mastercard
Rod Serling
Author
25-Dec-1924 28-Jun-1975 Creator of The Twilight Zone
Stephanie K. Seymour
Judge
16-Oct-1940   10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-2005
Richard A. Snelling
Politician
18-Feb-1927 14-Aug-1991 Twice Governor of Vermont
Ted Sorensen
Attorney
8-May-1928 31-Oct-2010 Aide to JFK
Jared Sparks
Author
10-May-1789 14-Mar-1866 Life and Writings of George Washington
Adlai Stevenson
Politician
5-Feb-1900 14-Jul-1965 Governor of Illinois, 1949-53
Adlai E. Stevenson III
Politician
10-Oct-1930   US Senator from Illinois, 1970-81
Lucy Stone
Activist
13-Aug-1818 18-Oct-1893 American Women's Suffrage Association
Nadine Strossen
Activist
18-Aug-1950   President of the ACLU
William Howard Taft
Head of State
15-Sep-1857 8-Mar-1930 27th US President, 1909-13
Helen B. Taussig
Doctor
24-May-1898 20-May-1986 Mother of pediatric cardiology
Clyde W. Tombaugh
Astronomer
4-Feb-1906 17-Jan-1997 Discovered Pluto
Charles Tufts
Business
17-Jul-1781 24-Dec-1876 Founder of Tufts University
Jones Very
Poet
28-Aug-1813 8-May-1880 Religious mystic
Lester Frank Ward
Sociologist
18-Jun-1841 18-Apr-1913 Dynamic Sociology
Josiah Wedgwood
Artist
1730 3-Jan-1795 Greatest potter of all time
Robert Welch
Activist
1-Dec-1899 6-Jan-1985 Founder, John Birch Society
Mary Wollstonecraft
Author
27-Apr-1759 10-Sep-1797 Vindication of the Rights of Women
Carroll D. Wright
Sociologist
25-Jul-1840 20-Feb-1909 The Industrial Evolution of the United States
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
8-Jun-1867 9-Apr-1959 Fallingwater
Sewall Wright
Biologist
21-Dec-1889 3-Mar-1988 Mathematics of evolution
Andrew Wyeth
Painter
12-Jul-1917 16-Jan-2009 American painter, Christina's World



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