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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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



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