Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Saul Alinsky |
Activist |
30-Jan-1909 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Rules for Radicals |
Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator, extinction of dinosaurs |
Philip W. Anderson |
Physicist |
13-Dec-1923 |
|
Solid state physics |
Piers Anthony |
Novelist |
6-Aug-1934 |
|
Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality |
Peggy Ashcroft |
Actor |
22-Dec-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
A Passage to India |
Hertha Ayrton |
Physicist |
28-Apr-1854 |
26-Aug-1923 |
Electric arc |
Michelle Bachelet |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1951 |
|
President of Chile, 2006-10 |
Jay Baruchel |
Actor |
9-Apr-1982 |
|
She's Out of My League |
Samuel Beckett |
Playwright |
13-May-1906 |
22-Dec-1989 |
Waiting for Godot |
John Betjeman |
Poet |
28-Aug-1906 |
19-May-1984 |
Summoned By Bells |
J. Michael Bishop |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1936 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
Playwright |
8-Dec-1832 |
26-Apr-1910 |
Synnöve Solbakken |
Paul Bowles |
Author |
30-Dec-1910 |
18-Nov-1999 |
The Sheltering Sky |
James Henry Breasted |
Archaeologist |
27-Aug-1865 |
2-Dec-1935 |
A History of Egypt |
Andrew Breitbart |
Columnist |
1-Feb-1969 |
1-Mar-2012 |
Washington Times columnist |
Susie Bright |
Columnist |
25-Mar-1958 |
|
Sexpert, porn critic |
Ford Madox Brown |
Painter |
16-Apr-1821 |
6-Oct-1893 |
English historical painter |
Warren Buffett |
Business |
30-Aug-1930 |
|
Billionaire in Omaha |
Helen Caldicott |
Activist |
7-Aug-1938 |
|
Anti-nuclear crusader |
Albert Camus |
Novelist |
7-Nov-1913 |
4-Jan-1960 |
French author and Nobel laureate |
Benjamin Cardozo |
Judge |
24-May-1870 |
9-Jul-1938 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1932-38 |
Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
Helen Clark |
Head of State |
26-Feb-1950 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1999-2008 |
Marc Connelly |
Playwright |
13-Dec-1890 |
21-Dec-1980 |
The Green Pastures |
Marie Curie |
Chemist |
7-Nov-1867 |
4-Jul-1934 |
Early nuclear chemist |
Tim Curry |
Actor |
19-Apr-1946 |
|
Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show |
Clarence Darrow |
Attorney |
18-Apr-1857 |
13-Mar-1938 |
Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side) |
Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
Novelist |
22-May-1859 |
7-Jul-1930 |
Creator of Sherlock Holmes |
John William Draper |
Chemist |
5-May-1811 |
4-Jan-1882 |
Radiant energy and portrait photography |
W. E. B. Du Bois |
Sociologist |
23-Feb-1868 |
27-Aug-1963 |
Civil rights activist |
Henry Dunant |
Activist |
8-May-1828 |
30-Oct-1910 |
Red Cross founder |
Stanley Ann Dunham |
Relative |
29-Nov-1942 |
7-Nov-1995 |
Mother of President Barack Obama |
Roger Ebert |
Critic |
18-Jun-1942 |
|
Siskel and Ebert |
Thomas Edison |
Inventor |
11-Feb-1847 |
18-Oct-1931 |
Invented the light bulb |
Paul Erdos |
Mathematician |
26-Mar-1913 |
20-Sep-1996 |
Loved only numbers |
Hans Eysenck |
Psychologist |
4-Mar-1916 |
4-Sep-1997 |
Intelligence and personality |
Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
Heinz Fischer |
Head of State |
9-Oct-1938 |
|
President of Austria |
Val Fitch |
Physicist |
10-Mar-1923 |
|
Time not necessarily reversible |
Andrew Fleming |
Film Director |
14-Mar-1963 |
|
The Craft |
Harrison Ford |
Actor |
13-Jul-1942 |
|
Han Solo in Star Wars |
Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
Saul Friedländer |
Historian |
11-Oct-1932 |
|
Holocaust historian |
Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
Robert Frost |
Poet |
26-Mar-1874 |
29-Jan-1963 |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
Noel Gallagher |
Guitarist |
29-May-1967 |
|
Former guitarist for Oasis |
Roger Martin du Gard |
Author |
23-Mar-1881 |
22-Aug-1958 |
Les Thibault |
Pat Garrett |
Government |
5-Jun-1850 |
29-Feb-1908 |
Killed Billy the Kid |
Bill Gates |
Business |
28-Oct-1955 |
|
Co-Founder of Microsoft |
Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
Julia Gillard |
Head of State |
29-Sep-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia |
Nick Gillespie |
Journalist |
8-Jul-1963 |
|
Reason magazine |
Emmanuel Goldstein |
Journalist |
16-Dec-1959 |
|
2600: The Hacker Quarterly |
Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
Matt Groening |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1954 |
|
Creator of The Simpsons |
Greg Gutfeld |
TV Personality |
12-Sep-1964 |
|
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld |
Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
Learned Hand |
Judge |
27-Jan-1872 |
18-Aug-1961 |
Influential American justice |
Stephen Hawking |
Physicist |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Wheelchair-bound physicist |
Jeff Hawkins |
Inventor |
1-Jun-1957 |
|
Inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo |
James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
Gerhard Herzberg |
Physicist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
David Hilbert |
Mathematician |
23-Jan-1862 |
14-Feb-1943 |
Hilbert Space |
Frederick Hopkins |
Scientist |
20-Jun-1861 |
16-May-1947 |
Discovered vitamins |
Jack Horkheimer |
Astronomer |
11-Jun-1938 |
20-Aug-2010 |
Naked-eye astronomer |
Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
Aldous Huxley |
Author |
26-Jul-1894 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Brave New World |
Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
Scientist |
24-May-1825 |
29-Jun-1895 |
Debated Wilberforce over evolution |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
Author |
11-Aug-1833 |
21-Jul-1899 |
Orator, politician, agnostic |
Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
Charles F. Johnson |
Blogger |
13-Apr-1953 |
|
Little Green Footballs |
Philip Johnson |
Architect |
8-Jul-1906 |
25-Jan-2005 |
The Glass House |
Otto Kahn |
Business |
21-Feb-1867 |
29-Mar-1934 |
Banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. |
Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
|
X-Ray diffraction studies |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt |
Poet |
20-Jul-1864 |
8-Apr-1931 |
Songs of the wilderness and love |
Alfred Kastler |
Physicist |
3-May-1902 |
7-Jan-1984 |
Optical pumping |
Friedrich August Kekulé |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1829 |
13-Jul-1896 |
Theory of chemical structure |
John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
John Key |
Government |
9-Aug-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand |
John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
Lester A. Kirkendall |
Sociologist |
15-Nov-1903 |
31-May-1991 |
Premarital Intercourse and Interpersonal Relationships |
Ezra Klein |
Journalist |
9-May-1984 |
|
The Washington Post |
Abner Kneeland |
Activist |
7-Apr-1774 |
27-Aug-1844 |
Blasphemous preacher |
Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
Tjalling C. Koopmans |
Economist |
28-Aug-1910 |
26-Feb-1985 |
Linear programming |
Michael Krasny |
Talk Show Host |
1944 |
|
Host of Forum on KQED-FM |
Stanley Kunitz |
Poet |
29-Jul-1905 |
14-May-2006 |
US Poet Laureate, 2000 |
Ricardo Lagos |
Head of State |
2-Mar-1938 |
|
President of Chile, 2000-06 |
Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
Anthony J. Leggett |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superfluidity |
Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
|
Synthesis of molecules |
Joseph Leidy |
Biologist |
9-Sep-1823 |
30-Apr-1891 |
Trichinosis and dinosaurs |
Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
James Lovelock |
Scientist |
26-Jul-1919 |
|
The Gaia Theory |
René Magritte |
Painter |
21-Nov-1898 |
15-Aug-1967 |
Ceci n'est pas une pipe |
Bill Maher |
Talk Show Host |
20-Jan-1956 |
|
Politically Incorrect |
Lynn Margulis |
Biologist |
5-Mar-1935 |
22-Nov-2011 |
Origin of eukaryotic organelles |
Dave Matthews |
Musician |
9-Jan-1967 |
|
The Dave Matthews Band |
Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
James Mill |
Philosopher |
6-Apr-1773 |
23-Jun-1836 |
History of India |
John Stuart Mill |
Philosopher |
20-May-1806 |
8-May-1873 |
Liberal philosopher and essayist |
Warren Mitchell |
Actor |
14-Jan-1926 |
|
Alf Garnett on Till Death Us Do Part |
Henry Morgentaler |
Doctor |
19-Mar-1923 |
|
Abortion rights in Canada |
Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
Erwin Neher |
Scientist |
20-Mar-1944 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
Paul Nurse |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1949 |
|
Regulators of cell cycle |
Conor Oberst |
Singer/Songwriter |
15-Feb-1980 |
|
Emo cloud responsible for Bright Eyes |
Bob Odenkirk |
Comic |
22-Oct-1962 |
|
Mr. Show |
George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
Philippe Petit |
Performance Artist |
13-Aug-1949 |
|
High-wire walker |
Brad Pitt |
Actor |
18-Dec-1963 |
|
Ocean's Eleven |
Vladimir Prelog |
Chemist |
23-Jul-1906 |
7-Jan-1998 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
Thomas Pynchon |
Novelist |
8-May-1937 |
|
Gravity's Rainbow |
Grote Reber |
Astronomer |
22-Dec-1911 |
20-Dec-2002 |
First radio astronomer |
Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Prime Minister of Sweden |
Charles Richet |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1850 |
4-Dec-1935 |
Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm |
Bobby Riggs |
Tennis |
25-Feb-1918 |
25-Oct-1995 |
Winner of 1939 Wimbledon |
Richard J. Roberts |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1943 |
|
Eukaryotic (split) genes |
George Rockwell |
Activist |
9-Mar-1918 |
25-Aug-1967 |
Founded American Nazi Party |
Gene Roddenberry |
Screenwriter |
19-Aug-1921 |
24-Oct-1991 |
Creator of Star Trek |
Andy Rooney |
Journalist |
14-Jan-1919 |
4-Nov-2011 |
60 Minutes' resident crank |
Karl Rove |
Government |
25-Dec-1950 |
|
Political Strategist to George W. Bush |
Patricia Rozema |
Film Director |
20-Aug-1958 |
|
Mansfield Park |
Larry Sanger |
Encyclopaedist |
16-Jul-1968 |
|
Co-Founder of Wikipedia |
Adam Savage |
TV Personality |
15-Jul-1967 |
|
Goateed host of MythBusters |
John Scalzi |
Novelist |
10-May-1969 |
|
Old Man's War |
Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
Maarten Schmidt |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1929 |
|
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
John T. Scopes |
Educator |
3-Aug-1900 |
21-Oct-1970 |
Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
Ridley Scott |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1937 |
|
Alien |
Reinhard Selten |
Economist |
5-Oct-1930 |
|
Game theory |
Harlow Shapley |
Astronomer |
2-Nov-1885 |
20-Oct-1972 |
Organizer of Heaven |
Jens C. Skou |
Scientist |
8-Oct-1918 |
|
ATPase researcher |
Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
Harry Dean Stanton |
Actor |
14-Jul-1926 |
|
Bathrobe-clad actor from Repo Man |
Sting |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Oct-1951 |
|
Lead singer of The Police |
Leopold Stokowski |
Conductor |
18-Apr-1882 |
13-Sep-1977 |
American Symphony Orchestra |
Matt Stone |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1971 |
|
South Park |
John Millington Synge |
Playwright |
16-Apr-1871 |
24-Mar-1909 |
The Playboy of the Western World |
Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
Ray Taliaferro |
Radio Personality |
7-Feb-1939 |
|
KGO late-night talk show host |
Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
Ida M. Tarbell |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1857 |
6-Jan-1944 |
History of the Standard Oil Company |
Studs Terkel |
Author |
16-May-1912 |
31-Oct-2008 |
Working |
E. Donnall Thomas |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1920 |
|
Bone marrow transplants |
G. M. Trevelyan |
Historian |
16-Feb-1876 |
21-Jul-1962 |
England under Queen Anne |
Ted Turner |
Business |
19-Nov-1938 |
|
Founder of Cable News Network |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
|
Astrophysicist |
Cenk Uygur |
Talk Show Host |
21-Mar-1970 |
|
The Young Turks |
Simon van der Meer |
Physicist |
24-Nov-1925 |
4-Mar-2011 |
Co-Discovered W and Z particles |
Mario Vargas Llosa |
Novelist |
28-Mar-1936 |
|
Acclaimed Peruvian author |
Rudolf Virchow |
Doctor |
13-Oct-1821 |
5-Sep-1902 |
Pathology and progressive politics |
Alfred North Whitehead |
Mathematician |
15-Feb-1861 |
30-Dec-1947 |
Metaphysical mathematician |
Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
George Will |
Columnist |
4-May-1941 |
|
Conservative pundit, baseball lover |
Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
Sherwin T. Wine |
Religion |
25-Jan-1928 |
21-Jul-2007 |
Humanistic Judaism |
John Ziegler |
Radio Personality |
28-Mar-1967 |
|
Right-wing talk radio host |
Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |