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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Susan B. Anthony
Activist
15-Feb-1820 13-Mar-1906 Women's rights advocate
Emily Greene Balch
Activist
8-Jan-1867 9-Jan-1961 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
John Bartram
Naturalist
23-Mar-1699 22-Sep-1777 Colonial botanist to King George III
Charles A. Beard
Historian
27-Nov-1874 1-Sep-1948 The Rise of American Civilization
Elizabeth Blackwell
Doctor
3-Feb-1821 31-May-1910 America's first woman doctor
George Bradshaw
Publisher
29-Jul-1801 1853 Bradshaw's Monthly Railway Guide
Charles F. Brannan
Politician
23-Aug-1903 2-Jul-1992 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-53
Charles Brockden Brown
Novelist
17-Jan-1771 22-Feb-1810 First American novelist, Wieland
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Astronomer
15-Jul-1943   Co-Discoverer of pulsars
Smedley Butler
Military
30-Jul-1881 21-Jun-1940 Exposed the 1933 coup plot
John Cadbury
Business
12-Aug-1801 11-May-1889 Chocolatier
Mary Calderone
Activist
1-Jul-1904 24-Oct-1998 Questions and Answers about Love and Sex
Mario Capecchi
Scientist
6-Oct-1937   Knock-out mice
Whittaker Chambers
Author
1-Apr-1901 9-Jul-1961 Accuser of Alger Hiss
Levi Coffin
Activist
28-Oct-1798 16-Sep-1877 Helped thousands of slaves to freedom
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
Painter
18-Sep-1844 13-Jan-1934 Painted dogs playing poker
Ezra Cornell
Business
11-Jan-1807 9-Dec-1874 Founder of Cornell University
John Dalton
Chemist
6-Sep-1766 27-Jul-1844 Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Judi Dench
Actor
9-Dec-1934   Mrs. Brown
Jeremiah Dixon
Astronomer
7-Aug-1733 22-Jan-1777 Mason-Dixon Line
Paul H. Douglas
Politician
26-Mar-1892 24-Sep-1976 US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67
Arthur Eddington
Astronomer
28-Dec-1882 22-Nov-1944 Eddington luminosity
Elihu Embree
Activist
11-Nov-1782 4-Dec-1820 Abolitionist and lifelong slaveholder
Robert F. Engle III
Economist
10-Nov-1942   Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Albert Fall
Government
26-Nov-1861 30-Nov-1944 US Interior Secy., Teapot Dome Scandal
William Edward Forster
Politician
11-Jul-1818 5-Apr-1886 Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1880-82
Elizebeth Friedman
Scientist
26-Aug-1892 31-Oct-1980 America's first female cryptanalyst
Christopher Fry
Playwright
18-Dec-1907 30-Jun-2005 The Lady's Not for Burning
Thomas Garrett
Activist
21-Aug-1789 25-Jan-1871 Underground Railroad
Nathanael Greene
Military
7-Aug-1742 19-Jun-1786 Highly capable Revolutionary War general
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Politician
24-Sep-1837 15-Feb-1904 Senator from Ohio, kingmaker
Clifford M. Hardin
Government
9-Oct-1915 4-Apr-2010 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1969-71
Jan de Hartog
Novelist
22-Apr-1914 22-Sep-2002 Hollands glorie
Clare M. Hasler
Educator
c. 1957   Director, Robert Mondavi Institute
John Hickenlooper
Politician
7-Feb-1952   Governor of Colorado
Edward Hicks
Painter
4-Apr-1780 23-Aug-1849 The Peaceable Kingdom
Elias Hicks
Religion
19-Mar-1748 27-Feb-1830 Quaker abolitionist
Charles Hires
Business
19-Aug-1851 31-Jul-1937 Root beer
Rush Holt
Politician
15-Oct-1948   Congressman, New Jersey 12th
Herbert Hoover
Head of State
10-Aug-1874 20-Oct-1964 31st US President, 1929-33
Lou Hoover
First Lady
29-Mar-1874 7-Jan-1944 Wife of US President Herbert Hoover
Johns Hopkins
Philanthropist
19-May-1795 24-Dec-1873 Johns Hopkins University and Hospital
William Howitt
Author
18-Dec-1792 3-Mar-1879 The Book of the Seasons
Samuel D. Ingham
Politician
16-Sep-1779 5-Jun-1860 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1829-31
Anna T. Jeanes
Philanthropist
7-Apr-1822 24-Sep-1907 Negro Rural School Fund
Joette Katz
Judge
3-Feb-1953   Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
Florence Kelley
Activist
12-Sep-1859 17-Feb-1932 Founder of National Consumers League
William D. Kelley
Government
12-Apr-1814 9-Jan-1890 Powerful 19th century Congressman
Clark Kerr
Educator
17-May-1911 1-Dec-2003 Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1952-58
Albert Kingsbury
Engineer
23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Ben Kingsley
Actor
31-Dec-1943   Gandhi
Morris E. Leeds
Business
6-Mar-1869 8-Feb-1952 Leeds & Northrup Co.
Ralph Linton
Anthropologist
27-Feb-1893 25-Dec-1953 The Study of Man
Benjamin Lundy
Activist
4-Jan-1789 22-Aug-1839 The Genius of Universal Emancipation
Rowland H. Macy
Business
30-Aug-1822 29-Mar-1877 Founder of Macy's department stores
Jeannette Marks
Poet
16-Aug-1875 1964 The Merry Merry Cuckoo
Charlotte E. Moore
Astronomer
24-Sep-1898 3-Mar-1990 Technetium in the Sun
Lucretia Mott
Activist
3-Jan-1793 11-Nov-1880 Women's rights and anti-slavery advocate
Charles Murray
Author
1943   The Bell Curve
James Nayler
Religion
1618 1660 The Quaker Jesus
Richard M. Nixon
Head of State
9-Jan-1913 22-Apr-1994 37th US President, 1969-74
Philip Noel-Baker
Politician
1-Nov-1889 8-Oct-1982 Instrumental creating League of Nations and UN
Annie Oakley
Performance Artist
13-Aug-1860 3-Nov-1926 Little Sure Shot
A. Mitchell Palmer
Government
4-May-1872 11-May-1936 US Attorney General, Palmer Raids
Alice Paul
Activist
11-Jan-1885 9-Jul-1977 Suffragette
William Penn
Government
14-Oct-1644 30-Jul-1718 Founder of Pennsylvania
Philip Syng Physick
Doctor
7-Jul-1768 15-Dec-1837 Father of American surgery
Lydia Pinkham
Business
9-Feb-1819 17-May-1883 Herbal supplements for "ladies' problems"
Don Porter
Actor
24-Sep-1912 11-Feb-1997 Prof. Lawrence on Gidget
Ann Preston
Doctor
1-Dec-1813 18-Apr-1872 Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital
Sarah Pugh
Activist
1800 1884 Abolitionist and suffragette
Harriet Forten Purvis
Activist
1810 11-Jun-1875 African-American abolitionist
Robert Purvis
Activist
4-Aug-1810 15-Apr-1898 President of the Underground Railroad
Theodore W. Richards
Chemist
31-Jan-1868 2-Apr-1928 Atomic weights
Friend Richardson
Politician
1-Dec-1865 6-Sep-1943 Governor of California, 1923-27
Betsy Ross
Business
1-Jan-1752 30-Jan-1836 Legendary American flagmaker
Bayard Rustin
Activist
17-Mar-1910 24-Aug-1987 Organized the 1963 March on Washington
Frederick Sanger
Chemist
13-Aug-1918   Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry
Andrea Seabrook
Journalist
?   NPR Washington correspondent
John W. Seybold
Business
8-Mar-1916 14-Mar-2004 Computerized typesetting pioneer
Edward Steichen
Photographer
27-Mar-1879 25-Mar-1973 Photo-Secessionist
Joseph Sturge
Activist
2-Aug-1793 14-May-1859 Anti-slavery activist
Noah H. Swayne
Judge
7-Dec-1804 8-Jun-1884 US Supreme Court Justice, 1862-81
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
Astronomer
24-Mar-1941   Co-Discovered first binary pulsar
William Thornton
Architect
20-May-1759 28-Mar-1828 First architect of the US Capitol
Jean Toomer
Author
26-Dec-1894 30-Mar-1967 Cane
Edward Tylor
Anthropologist
2-Oct-1832 2-Jan-1917 Founder of cultural anthropology
William Vickrey
Economist
21-Jun-1914 11-Oct-1996 Asymmetric information in economics
Benjamin West
Painter
10-Oct-1738 10-Mar-1820 British-American portrait, scene painter
Jessamyn West
Author
18-Jul-1902 23-Feb-1984 The Friendly Persuasion
Walt Whitman
Poet
31-May-1819 26-Mar-1892 Leaves of Grass
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poet
17-Dec-1807 7-Sep-1892 American abolitionist poet
Robert Willan
Doctor
12-Nov-1757 17-Apr-1812 Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases
James Wilson
Publisher
3-Jun-1805 11-Aug-1860 Founder of The Economist
Kenneth G. Wilson
Physicist
8-Jun-1936   Second-order phase transitions
William Windom
Politician
10-May-1827 29-Jan-1891 US Secretary of the Treasury 1881, 1889-91
John Woolman
Religion
19-Oct-1720 7-Oct-1772 American Quaker preacher
Thomas Young
Physicist
13-Jun-1773 10-May-1829 Wave Theory of Light



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