Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Charles Greeley Abbot |
Astronomer |
31-May-1872 |
17-Dec-1973 |
Solar energy |
Robert Aderholt |
Politician |
22-Jul-1965 |
|
Congressman, Alabama 4th |
Daniel Akaka |
Politician |
11-Sep-1924 |
|
US Senator from Hawaii |
Herbert Henry Asquith |
Head of State |
12-Sep-1852 |
15-Feb-1928 |
UK Prime Minister, 1908-16 |
Warren R. Austin |
Politician |
12-Nov-1877 |
25-Dec-1962 |
US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46 |
Malcolm Baldrige |
Politician |
4-Oct-1922 |
25-Jul-1987 |
US Secretary of Commerce 1981-87 |
Simeon E. Baldwin |
Politician |
5-Feb-1840 |
30-Jan-1927 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15 |
George Bancroft |
Historian |
3-Oct-1800 |
17-Jan-1891 |
A History of the United States |
Joel Barlow |
Poet |
25-Mar-1754 |
24-Dec-1812 |
The Hasty Pudding |
Charles Montgomery Barnes |
Business |
8-Sep-1833 |
19-May-1907 |
Founder of Barnes & Noble |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Religion |
24-Jun-1813 |
8-Mar-1887 |
American Congregationalist preacher |
Mary Ann Bickerdyke |
Activist |
19-Jul-1817 |
8-Nov-1901 |
"Mother to the boys in Blue" |
Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1787 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
James G. Blaine |
Politician |
31-Jan-1830 |
27-Jan-1893 |
Twice US Secretary of State |
Robert O. Blood |
Politician |
10-Nov-1887 |
3-Aug-1975 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1941-45 |
Wesley Bolin |
Politician |
1-Jul-1909 |
4-Mar-1978 |
Governor of Arizona, 1977-78 |
Lizzie Borden |
Criminal |
19-Jul-1860 |
1-Jun-1927 |
Presumed axe murderer |
David Josiah Brewer |
Judge |
20-Jan-1837 |
28-Mar-1910 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1890-1910 |
John W. Bricker |
Politician |
6-Sep-1893 |
22-Mar-1986 |
Governor of Ohio, 1939-45 |
Henry Billings Brown |
Judge |
2-Mar-1836 |
4-Sep-1913 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1891-1906 |
John Brown |
Activist |
9-May-1800 |
2-Dec-1859 |
Led the raid on Harpers Ferry |
Quentin N. Burdick |
Politician |
19-Jun-1908 |
8-Sep-1992 |
US Senator from North Dakota, 1960-92 |
Ernest Burgess |
Sociologist |
16-May-1886 |
27-Dec-1966 |
Introduction to the Science of Sociology |
Horace Bushnell |
Religion |
14-Apr-1802 |
17-Feb-1876 |
Nature and the Supernatural |
Abiram Chamberlain |
Politician |
7-Dec-1837 |
15-May-1911 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05 |
Anthony Comstock |
Activist |
7-Mar-1844 |
21-Sep-1915 |
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice |
Calvin Coolidge |
Head of State |
4-Jul-1872 |
5-Jan-1933 |
30th US President, 1923-29 |
Grace Coolidge |
First Lady |
3-Jan-1879 |
8-Jul-1957 |
Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge |
George Henry Corliss |
Inventor |
2-Jun-1817 |
21-Feb-1888 |
Corliss valve and steam engines |
John Cotton |
Religion |
4-Dec-1585 |
23-Dec-1652 |
First Church of Boston |
Norris Cotton |
Politician |
11-May-1900 |
24-Feb-1989 |
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1954-74 |
Homer S. Cummings |
Attorney |
30-Apr-1870 |
10-Sep-1956 |
US Attorney General, 1933-39 |
John Curwen |
Musicologist |
14-Nov-1816 |
16-May-1880 |
Tonic Sol-fa Method |
Joseph E. Davies |
Diplomat |
29-Nov-1876 |
9-May-1958 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1937-38 |
Geena Davis |
Actor |
21-Jan-1956 |
|
Earth Girls Are Easy |
Nathaniel Davis |
Diplomat |
12-Apr-1925 |
16-May-2011 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1971-73 |
Howard Dean |
Politician |
17-Nov-1948 |
|
Chairman of the Democratic Party |
John Deere |
Business |
7-Feb-1804 |
17-May-1886 |
Invented the self-scouring plow |
George H. Dern |
Government |
8-Sep-1872 |
27-Aug-1936 |
Governor of Utah, 1925-33 |
Walt Disney |
Business |
5-Dec-1901 |
15-Dec-1966 |
Founder of Disney empire |
Sanford Ballard Dole |
Politician |
23-Apr-1844 |
9-Jun-1926 |
Governor of Hawaii, 1900-03 |
Timothy Dwight |
Educator |
14-May-1752 |
11-Jan-1817 |
President of Yale, 1795-1817 |
Lane Dwinell |
Politician |
14-Nov-1906 |
27-Mar-1997 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1955-59 |
Jonathan Edwards |
Religion |
5-Oct-1703 |
22-Mar-1758 |
American Puritan theologian |
Oliver Ellsworth |
Judge |
29-Apr-1745 |
26-Nov-1807 |
US Chief Justice, 1796-1800 |
Stephen J. Field |
Judge |
4-Nov-1816 |
9-Apr-1899 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1863-97 |
Irving Fisher |
Economist |
27-Feb-1867 |
29-Apr-1947 |
The Theory of Interest |
John Ambrose Fleming |
Engineer |
29-Nov-1849 |
19-Apr-1945 |
Invented the vacuum tube |
Charles Goodyear |
Inventor |
29-Dec-1800 |
1-Jul-1860 |
Invented rubber vulcanization process |
Bob Graham |
Politician |
9-Nov-1936 |
|
US Senator from Florida, 1987-2005 |
Hugh Gregg |
Politician |
22-Nov-1917 |
24-Sep-2003 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1953-55 |
Judd Gregg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1947 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1993-2011 |
Robert P. Griffin |
Politician |
6-Nov-1923 |
|
US Senator from Michigan, 1966-79 |
Ernest Howard Griffiths |
Physicist |
15-Jun-1851 |
3-Mar-1932 |
The Thermal Measurement of Energy |
Edward J. Gurney |
Politician |
12-Jan-1914 |
14-May-1996 |
US Senator from Florida, 1969-74 |
Brett Guthrie |
Politician |
18-Feb-1964 |
|
Congressman, Kentucky 2nd |
Samuel Guthrie |
Doctor |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
Discovered chloroform |
L. B. Hanna |
Politician |
9-Aug-1861 |
23-Apr-1948 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1913-17 |
Robert Hawke |
Head of State |
9-Dec-1929 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91 |
Lemuel Haynes |
Religion |
18-Jul-1753 |
18-Sep-1833 |
Abolitionist preacher |
Samuel Hopkins |
Religion |
17-Sep-1721 |
20-Dec-1803 |
Hopkinsian, opponent of slavery |
Hubert Humphrey |
Politician |
27-May-1911 |
13-Jan-1978 |
US Vice President, 1965-69 |
Robert S. Ingersoll |
Diplomat |
28-Jan-1914 |
22-Aug-2010 |
CEO of Borg-Warner, 1958-72 |
William M. Jardine |
Educator |
16-Jan-1879 |
17-Jan-1955 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29 |
Jeff Jarvis |
Blogger |
12-Sep-1954 |
|
Founder of Entertainment Weekly |
Jim Jeffords |
Politician |
11-May-1934 |
|
US Senator from Vermont, 1989-2007 |
Edward C. Kendall |
Scientist |
8-Sep-1886 |
4-May-1972 |
Adrenocortical hormones |
Bob Kerrey |
Politician |
27-Aug-1943 |
|
Governor and Senator from Nebraska |
Mark Kirk |
Politician |
15-Sep-1959 |
|
US Senator from Illinois |
Frank Knox |
Politician |
1-Jan-1874 |
28-Apr-1944 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44 |
Everett J. Lake |
Politician |
8-Feb-1871 |
16-Sep-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23 |
Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Astronomer |
4-Jul-1868 |
12-Dec-1921 |
Cepheid variable |
George L. Lilley |
Politician |
3-Aug-1859 |
21-Apr-1909 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1909 |
John A. Love |
Politician |
29-Nov-1916 |
21-Jan-2002 |
Governor of Colorado, 1963-73 |
George Perkins Marsh |
Author |
15-Mar-1801 |
23-Jul-1882 |
Ecologist and camel enthusiast |
Cotton Mather |
Religion |
12-Feb-1663 |
13-Feb-1728 |
Pastor at Boston North Church |
Rollo May |
Psychologist |
21-Apr-1909 |
22-Oct-1994 |
Love and Will |
Jonathan Mayhew |
Religion |
8-Oct-1720 |
9-Jul-1766 |
Congregationalist minister, anti-Royalist |
George P. McLean |
Politician |
7-Oct-1857 |
6-Jun-1932 |
Governor and Senator from Connecticut |
George Herbert Mead |
Philosopher |
27-Feb-1863 |
26-Apr-1931 |
Pragmatist, social behaviorist |
Paul W. Merrill |
Astronomer |
15-Aug-1887 |
19-Jul-1961 |
S-process of nucleosynthesis |
Sherrill Milnes |
Singer |
10-Jan-1935 |
|
Operatic baritone, Metropolitan Opera |
Dwight L. Moody |
Religion |
5-Feb-1837 |
22-Dec-1899 |
Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon |
William W. Morgan |
Astronomer |
3-Jan-1906 |
21-Jun-1994 |
Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy |
Chip Pashayan |
Politician |
27-Mar-1941 |
|
Congressman from California, 1979-91 |
Jerry M. Patterson |
Politician |
25-Oct-1934 |
|
Congressman from California, 1975-85 |
Paul L. Patterson |
Politician |
18-Jul-1900 |
31-Jan-1956 |
Governor of Oregon, 1952-56 |
Jane Pierce |
First Lady |
12-Mar-1806 |
2-Dec-1863 |
Wife of US President Franklin Pierce |
Wesley Powell |
Politician |
13-Oct-1915 |
6-Jan-1981 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1959-63 |
Lucian W. Pye |
Scholar |
21-Oct-1921 |
5-Sep-2008 |
Sinologist |
Kim M. Robak |
Politician |
4-Oct-1955 |
|
Lt. Governor of Nebraska, 1993-99 |
Henry Roberts |
Politician |
22-Jun-1853 |
1-May-1929 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07 |
Marilynne Robinson |
Novelist |
1947 |
|
Housekeeping |
James A. Ryder |
Business |
28-Jul-1913 |
25-Mar-1997 |
Founder of Ryder System |
George E. Sangmeister |
Politician |
16-Feb-1931 |
7-Oct-2007 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1989-95 |
Pat Schroeder |
Politician |
30-Jul-1940 |
|
Congresswoman from Colorado, 1973-97 |
David Skaggs |
Politician |
22-Feb-1943 |
|
Congressman from Colorado, 1987-99 |
Nick Smith |
Politician |
5-Nov-1934 |
|
Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2005 |
Huntley N. Spaulding |
Politician |
29-Oct-1869 |
14-Nov-1955 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1927-29 |
Robert T. Stafford |
Politician |
8-Aug-1913 |
23-Dec-2006 |
Governor and Senator from Vermont |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1811 |
1-Jul-1896 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. |
Politician |
26-Mar-1740 |
7-Aug-1809 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1797-1809 |
Togiola Tulafono |
Politician |
28-Feb-1947 |
|
Governor of American Samoa |
Arthur Vandenberg |
Politician |
22-Mar-1884 |
18-Apr-1951 |
US Senator from Michigan, 1928-51 |
Lewis Waterman |
Inventor |
20-Nov-1836 |
1-May-1901 |
Fountain pen |
Noah Webster |
Lexicographer |
16-Oct-1758 |
28-May-1843 |
Webster's Dictionary |
Frank B. Weeks |
Politician |
20-Jan-1854 |
2-Oct-1935 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11 |
Frank White |
Politician |
12-Dec-1856 |
23-Mar-1940 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1901-05 |
Wallace H. White, Jr. |
Politician |
6-Aug-1877 |
31-Mar-1952 |
US Senator from Maine, 1931-49 |
William F. Whiting |
Business |
20-Jul-1864 |
31-Aug-1936 |
US Commerce Secretary, 1928-29 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur |
Educator |
13-Apr-1875 |
26-Jun-1949 |
President of Stanford University, 1916-43 |
Thornton Wilder |
Novelist |
17-Apr-1897 |
7-Dec-1975 |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
Henry Wilson |
Politician |
16-Feb-1812 |
22-Nov-1875 |
Vice President under Grant |
CeCe Winans |
Singer |
8-Oct-1964 |
|
Alone in His Presence |
John Wise |
Religion |
1652 |
8-Apr-1725 |
A Vindication of New England Churches |
Oliver Wolcott, Jr. |
Politician |
11-Jan-1760 |
1-Jun-1833 |
Connecticut Governor, Treasury Secretary |
Harry H. Woodring |
Politician |
31-May-1890 |
9-Sep-1967 |
US Secretary of War, 1936-40 |
Rollin S. Woodruff |
Politician |
14-Jul-1854 |
30-Jun-1925 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1907-09 |
William Jenkins Worth |
Military |
1-Mar-1794 |
7-May-1849 |
Namesake of Fort Worth, TX |
Andrew Young |
Politician |
12-Mar-1932 |
|
Mayor of Atlanta, 1982-90 |
C. C. Young |
Politician |
28-Apr-1869 |
24-Dec-1947 |
Governor of California, 1927-31 |