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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Buzz Aldrin
Astronaut
20-Jan-1930   Second man on the Moon
Zhores I. Alferov
Scientist
15-Mar-1930   Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program
Hannes Alfvén
Physicist
30-May-1908 2-Apr-1995 Renegade Swedish astrophysicist
Roald Amundsen
Explorer
16-Jul-1872 18-Jun-1928 First to reach South Pole
Anaximander
Philosopher
c. 609 BC c. 546 BC First to develop a cosmology
Aristarchus of Samos
Astronomer
c. 310 BC c. 230 BC First heliocentrist
Aristotle
Philosopher
384 BC 322 BC Politics
Lance Armstrong
Cyclist
18-Sep-1971   7-time Tour De France winner
Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician
4-Aug-1901 6-Jul-1971 Jazz trumpeter
Neil Armstrong
Astronaut
5-Aug-1930   First man on the Moon
Svante Arrhenius
Chemist
19-Feb-1859 2-Oct-1927 Explored electrolytic conductivity
Atahualpa
Royalty
c. 1502 29-Aug-1533 Incan king ransomed, killed by Pizarro
John Atanasoff
Inventor
4-Oct-1903 15-Jun-1995 Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Walter Baade
Astronomer
24-Mar-1893 25-Jun-1960 German-American observational astronomer
Harold D. Babcock
Astronomer
24-Jan-1882 8-Apr-1968 Solar radiation
Horace W. Babcock
Astronomer
13-Sep-1912 29-Aug-2003 Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model
Emile Baudot
Inventor
11-Sep-1845 28-Mar-1903 Baudot Code
Henri Becquerel
Physicist
15-Dec-1852 25-Aug-1908 Discoverer of radioactivity
Ingmar Bergman
Film Director
14-Jul-1918 30-Jul-2007 Scenes from a Marriage
Ludwig Biermann
Astronomer
13-Mar-1907 12-Jan-1986 Solar winds
Hiram Bingham
Politician
19-Nov-1875 6-Jun-1956 US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu
Adriaan Blaauw
Astronomer
12-Apr-1914 1-Dec-2010 Evolving galaxies
Niels Bohr
Physicist
7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory
Bart Jan Bok
Astronomer
28-Apr-1906 5-Aug-1983 Bok globules
Alec Boksenberg
Astronomer
18-Mar-1936   Image Photon Counting System
John G. Bolton
Astronomer
5-Jun-1922 6-Jul-1993 First Director of Parkes Observatory
Ira S. Bowen
Astronomer
21-Dec-1898 6-Feb-1973 Debunked nebulium
Tycho Brahe
Astronomer
14-Dec-1546 24-Oct-1601 Copper-nosed Danish astronomer
Dirk Brouwer
Astronomer
1-Sep-1902 31-Jan-1966 Celestial mechanics
Ernest W. Brown
Astronomer
29-Nov-1866 22-Jul-1938 Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Philanthropist
22-Jan-1816 13-Mar-1900 Underwriter of astronomy
E. Margaret Burbidge
Astronomer
12-Aug-1919   Synthesis of the elements in stars
Geoffrey Burbidge
Astronomer
24-Sep-1925 26-Jan-2010 Quasi-steady state cosmology
James Cagney
Actor
17-Jul-1899 30-Mar-1986 New York tough guy
William W. Campbell
Astronomer
11-Apr-1862 14-Jun-1938 Stellar Motions
Albert Camus
Novelist
7-Nov-1913 4-Jan-1960 French author and Nobel laureate
Johnny Carson
Talk Show Host
23-Oct-1925 23-Jan-2005 Longtime host of Tonight Show
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Astronomer
19-Oct-1910 21-Aug-1995 Evolutionary stages of stars
Graham Chapman
Comic
8-Jan-1941 4-Oct-1989 Monty Python's King Arthur
Carl Charlier
Astronomer
1-Apr-1862 5-Nov-1934 Motion and the Distribution of the Stars
Eric Clapton
Guitarist
30-Mar-1945   Slowhand
Arthur C. Clarke
Novelist
16-Dec-1917 19-Mar-2008 2001: A Space Odyssey
Claudius
Royalty
1-Aug-10 BC 13-Oct-54 AD Roman Emperor, 41-54 AD
John Cleese
Comic
27-Oct-1939   Monty Python
Cleopatra
Royalty
69 BC 30-Aug-30 BC Queen of Egypt
Michael Collins
Astronaut
31-Oct-1930   Apollo 11 command module pilot
Sean Connery
Actor
25-Aug-1930   James Bond
Jacques Cousteau
Activist
11-Jun-1910 25-Jun-1997 Oceanographer, environmentalist
Thomas George Cowling
Mathematician
17-Jun-1906 16-Jun-1990 Cowling model
Walter Cronkite
Journalist
4-Nov-1916 17-Jul-2009 America's most trusted newscaster
Paul J. Crutzen
Physicist
3-Dec-1933   Ozone depletion
Marie Curie
Chemist
7-Nov-1867 4-Jul-1934 Early nuclear chemist
Pierre Curie
Physicist
15-May-1859 19-Apr-1906 Early investigator of radiation
Louis Daguerre
Inventor
18-Nov-1787 10-Jul-1851 Invented Daguerreotype photography
Dante
Poet
1265 14-Sep-1321 La Divina Commedia
Paul Davies
Physicist
22-Apr-1946   The Mind of God
Willem de Sitter
Astronomer
6-May-1872 19-Nov-1934 Expanding space
Peter Debye
Physicist
24-Mar-1884 2-Nov-1966 Studied molecular structure, dipoles
Henri Alexandre Deslandres
Astronomer
24-Jul-1853 15-Jan-1948 Spectroheliograph
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor
18-Mar-1858 30-Sep-1913 Inventor of the diesel engine
Christian Doppler
Physicist
29-Nov-1803 17-Mar-1853 Discovered the Doppler Effect
Kirk Douglas
Actor
9-Dec-1916   Spartacus
Dr. Drew
Radio Personality
4-Sep-1958   Loveline
Frank W. Dyson
Astronomer
8-Jan-1868 25-May-1939 Six pips on the BBC
Arthur Eddington
Astronomer
28-Dec-1882 22-Nov-1944 Eddington luminosity
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
Johann Franz Encke
Astronomer
23-Sep-1791 26-Aug-1865 Investigated comets and asteroids
Enya
Musician
17-May-1961   Orinoco Flow
Euclid
Mathematician
c. 365 BC c. 275 BC Father of geometry
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
15-Apr-1707 18-Sep-1783 The Elements of Euclid
Michael Faraday
Physicist
22-Sep-1791 25-Aug-1867 Discovered electrical induction
Enrico Fermi
Physicist
29-Sep-1901 29-Nov-1954 First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Richard Feynman
Physicist
11-May-1918 15-Feb-1988 Surely he's joking
Leonardo Fibonacci
Mathematician
c. 1175 1250 Liber Abacis
Larry Fine
Actor
5-Oct-1902 24-Jan-1975 Larry on The Three Stooges
Alexander Fleming
Scientist
6-Aug-1881 11-Mar-1955 Discovered penicillin
Jodie Foster
Actor
19-Nov-1962   The Silence of the Lambs
Léon Foucault
Physicist
19-Sep-1819 11-Feb-1868 Measured the speed of light
Alfred Fowler
Astronomer
22-Mar-1868 24-Jun-1940 Celestial spectroscopy
William A. Fowler
Astronomer
9-Aug-1911 14-Mar-1995 Element generation within stars
Benjamin Franklin
Diplomat
17-Jan-1706 17-Apr-1790 American founding father
Sigmund Freud
Psychiatrist
6-May-1856 23-Sep-1939 Die Traumdeutung
Yuri Gagarin
Astronaut
9-Mar-1934 27-Mar-1968 First person to orbit earth
Jerry Garcia
Musician
1-Aug-1942 9-Aug-1995 Grateful Dead
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Military
4-Jul-1807 2-Jun-1882 Privateer, Italian hero
Lou Gehrig
Baseball
19-Jun-1903 2-Jun-1941 Played 2,130 consecutive games
George Gershwin
Songwriter
26-Sep-1898 11-Jul-1937 Rhapsody In Blue
Riccardo Giacconi
Astronomer
6-Oct-1931   Discovered cosmic X-ray sources
Terry Gilliam
Film Director
22-Nov-1940   Monty Python alumnus, Brazil
Maxim Gorky
Playwright
28-Mar-1868 17-Jun-1936 The Lower Depths
Stephen Jay Gould
Biologist
10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist
Cary Grant
Actor
18-Jan-1904 29-Nov-1986 North by Northwest
Jesse L. Greenstein
Astronomer
15-Oct-1909 21-Oct-2002 Co-Discoverer of quasars
J. B. S. Haldane
Biologist
5-Nov-1892 1-Dec-1964 Haldane's principle
George Ellery Hale
Astronomer
29-Jun-1868 21-Feb-1938 Palomar Observatory founder, astronomer
George Harrison
Musician
25-Feb-1943 29-Nov-2001 Beatle
Martin Harwit
Astronomer
9-Mar-1931   Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy
Herbert A. Hauptman
Mathematician
14-Feb-1917 23-Oct-2011 X-ray diffraction studies
Stephen Hawking
Physicist
8-Jan-1942   Wheelchair-bound physicist
Chushiro Hayashi
Astronomer
25-Jul-1920 28-Feb-2010 Big Bang astrophysicist
Otto Heckmann
Astronomer
23-Jun-1901 13-May-1983 Investigated cosmic expansion
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist
5-Dec-1901 1-Feb-1976 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Audrey Hepburn
Actor
4-May-1929 20-Jan-1993 My Fair Lady
George Herbig
Astronomer
2-Jan-1920   Herbig-Haro objects
Herodotus
Historian
c. 484 BC c, 425 BC The Histories
Caroline Herschel
Astronomer
16-Mar-1750 9-Jan-1848 Astronomer, sister of William
John Herschel
Astronomer
7-Mar-1792 11-May-1871 Discovered many moons of Saturn
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Astronomer
8-Oct-1873 21-Oct-1967 Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Gerhard Herzberg
Physicist
25-Dec-1904 3-Mar-1999 Molecular spectroscopy
Thor Heyerdahl
Explorer
6-Oct-1914 18-Apr-2002 Kon-Tiki
Miguel Hidalgo
Religion
8-May-1753 30-Jul-1811 Father of Mexican independence
George W. Hill
Astronomer
3-Mar-1838 16-Apr-1914 A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Edmund Hillary
Explorer
20-Jul-1919 11-Jan-2008 First to summit Mt. Everest
Hipparchus
Astronomer
c. 190 BC c. 120 BC Cataloguer of stars, trigonometrist
Alfred Hitchcock
Film Director
13-Aug-1899 29-Apr-1980 Master of Suspense
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher
5-Apr-1588 4-Dec-1679 Leviathan
Buddy Holly
Musician
7-Sep-1936 3-Feb-1959 Buddy Holly and The Crickets
Gerardus 't Hooft
Physicist
5-Jul-1946   Quantum physicist
Jack Horkheimer
Astronomer
11-Jun-1938 20-Aug-2010 Naked-eye astronomer
Curly Howard
Actor
22-Oct-1903 18-Jan-1952 Highest pitched Stooge
Moe Howard
Actor
19-Jun-1897 4-May-1975 Boss Stooge
Shemp Howard
Actor
4-Mar-1895 22-Nov-1955 Stooge who replaced Curly
Fred Hoyle
Astronomer
24-Jun-1915 20-Aug-2001 Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Tsien Hsue-shen
Scientist
11-Dec-1911 31-Oct-2009 Founder of Chinese space program
William Huggins
Astronomer
7-Feb-1824 12-May-1910 Spectrographic astronomy pioneer
David Hume
Philosopher
7-May-1711 25-Aug-1776 Empiricist nonpareil
Christiaan Huygens
Physicist
14-Apr-1629 8-Jul-1695 Wave theory of light
Eric Idle
Comic
29-Mar-1943   Monty Python
Karl Jaspers
Philosopher
23-Feb-1883 26-Feb-1969 Existential thinker
Terry Jones
Comic
1-Feb-1942   Monty Python
Charles K. Kao
Scientist
4-Nov-1933   Fiber optics
Pyotr Kapitsa
Physicist
8-Jul-1894 8-Apr-1984 Discovered superfluidity
Jacobus C. Kapteyn
Astronomer
19-Jan-1851 18-Jun-1922 Star streaming
Danny Kaye
Actor
18-Jan-1913 3-Mar-1987 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James E. Keeler
Astronomer
10-Sep-1857 12-Aug-1900 Composition of Saturn's rings
Grace Kelly
Royalty
12-Nov-1929 14-Sep-1982 American-born Princess of Monaco
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer
27-Dec-1571 15-Nov-1630 Laws of Planetary Motion
Donald E. Knuth
Computer Programmer
10-Jan-1938   The Art of Computer Programming
Vladimir Komarov
Astronaut
16-Mar-1927 24-Apr-1967 Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death
Robert P. Kraft
Astronomer
16-Jun-1927   Lick Observatory
Herbert Kroemer
Physicist
25-Aug-1928   Pioneer in laser technology
Stanley Kubrick
Film Director
26-Jul-1928 7-Mar-1999 2001: A Space Odyssey
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Mathematician
23-Mar-1749 5-Mar-1827 Traité du Mécanique Céleste
Max von Laue
Physicist
9-Oct-1879 23-Apr-1960 X-ray crystallography
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Chemist
26-Aug-1743 8-May-1794 Father of modern chemistry
David Lean
Film Director
25-Mar-1908 16-Apr-1991 Lawrence of Arabia
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Astronomer
4-Jul-1868 12-Dec-1921 Cepheid variable
Tsung-Dao Lee
Physicist
25-Nov-1926   Violations of parity law
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Scientist
24-Oct-1632 26-Aug-1723 Master of the Microscope
John Lennon
Musician
9-Oct-1940 8-Dec-1980 Beatle
Tea Leoni
Actor
25-Feb-1966   Nora Wilde on The Naked Truth
Armin O. Leuschner
Astronomer
16-Jan-1868 22-Apr-1953 Astronomer at Berkeley
Jerry Lewis
Comic
16-Mar-1926   Muscular Dystrophy Association
James Lick
Business
25-Aug-1796 1-Oct-1876 Lick Observatory
Bertil Lindblad
Astronomer
26-Nov-1895 25-Jun-1965 Spiral structure of the galaxy
Astrid Lindgren
Author
14-Nov-1907 28-Jan-2002 Pippi Longstocking
Yang Liwei
Astronaut
21-Jun-1965   First manned Chinese spaceflight
John Locke
Philosopher
29-Aug-1632 28-Oct-1704 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Bernard Lovell
Astronomer
31-Aug-1913 6-Aug-2012 Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank
Frank J. Low
Astronomer
23-Nov-1933 11-Jun-2009 Infrared astronomy
Auguste Lumière
Inventor
19-Oct-1862 10-Apr-1954 Co-Inventor of motion pictures
Louis Lumière
Inventor
5-Oct-1864 6-Jun-1948 Inventor of motion pictures
Martin Luther
Religion
10-Nov-1483 18-Feb-1546 Created Protestant movement
Willem J. Luyten
Astronomer
7-Mar-1899 21-Nov-1994 Stellar mortician
Donald Lynden-Bell
Astronomer
5-Apr-1935   Astrophysicist at Cambridge
Bernard Lyot
Astronomer
27-Feb-1897 2-Apr-1952 Sandstorms on Mars
Ernst Mach
Physicist
18-Feb-1838 19-Feb-1916 Optical and sensory perceptualist
Ferdinand Magellan
Explorer
1480 27-Apr-1521 Circumnavigated the globe
Christa McAuliffe
Astronaut
2-Sep-1948 28-Jan-1986 First teacher in space
Paul McCartney
Musician
18-Jun-1942   Beatle
William D. McElroy
Biologist
22-Jan-1917 17-Feb-1999 Bioluminescence
Gregor Mendel
Scientist
22-Jul-1822 6-Jan-1884 Discovered the laws of inheritance
Gerard Mercator
Cartographer
5-Mar-1512 2-Dec-1594 The Mercator Projection
Paul W. Merrill
Astronomer
15-Aug-1887 19-Jul-1961 S-process of nucleosynthesis
Charles Messier
Astronomer
26-Jun-1730 12-Apr-1817 Cataloguer of M objects
E. Arthur Milne
Mathematician
14-Feb-1896 21-Sep-1950 Kinematic relativity
Hermann Minkowski
Mathematician
22-Jun-1864 12-Jan-1909 Minkowski space
Rudolph Minkowski
Astronomer
28-May-1895 4-Jan-1976 Galaxies in collision
Marcel Minnaert
Astronomer
12-Feb-1893 26-Oct-1970 Solar spectrophotometry
August Möbius
Astronomer
17-Nov-1790 26-Sep-1868 Möbius strip
Mario J. Molina
Chemist
19-Mar-1943   Ozone depletion
Charlotte E. Moore
Astronomer
24-Sep-1898 3-Mar-1990 Technetium in the Sun
Gordon Moore
Business
3-Jan-1929   Co-founder of Intel, laid down Moore's Law
Patrick Moore
TV Personality
4-Mar-1923   BBC's The Sky At Night
William W. Morgan
Astronomer
3-Jan-1906 21-Jun-1994 Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy
John Muir
Activist
21-Apr-1838 24-Dec-1914 Patron saint of Yosemite National Park
Fridtjof Nansen
Explorer
10-Oct-1861 13-May-1930 Polar explorer, Nobel Prize recipient
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Nichelle Nichols
Actor
28-Dec-1932   Lt. Uhura on Star Trek
Seth Barnes Nicholson
Astronomer
12-Nov-1891 2-Jul-1963 Four satellites of Jupiter
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher
15-Oct-1844 25-Aug-1900 God is dead
Leonard Nimoy
Actor
26-Mar-1931   Commander Spock on Star Trek
Alfred Nobel
Inventor
21-Oct-1833 10-Dec-1896 Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize
Tenzing Norgay
Explorer
15-May-1914 9-May-1986 With Edmund Hilllary on Everest
Daniel O'Connell
Politician
6-Aug-1775 15-May-1847 Irish hero, called The Liberator
Sean O'Keefe
Administrator
27-Jan-1956   NASA Administrator, 2001-05
Wilhelm Olbers
Astronomer
11-Oct-1758 2-Mar-1840 Studied asteroids, comets
Jan Hendrik Oort
Astronomer
28-Apr-1900 5-Nov-1992 Theory of the origin of comets
Ernst J. Öpik
Astronomer
23-Oct-1893 10-Sep-1985 Andromeda Nebula
Donald E. Osterbrock
Astronomer
13-Jul-1924 11-Jan-2007 Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81
Jesse Owens
Track and Field
12-Sep-1913 31-Mar-1980 Four track and field medals in 1936 Olympics
Bohdan Paczynski
Astronomer
8-Feb-1940 19-Apr-2007 Gravitational microlensing
Michael Palin
Comic
5-May-1943   Monty Python
Eugene Parker
Astronomer
10-Jun-1927   Solar winds
Anna Pavlova
Dancer
12-Feb-1881 22-Jan-1931 Early 20th century Russian ballerina
P. James E. Peebles
Astronomer
25-Apr-1935   Galaxy formation
Pelé
Soccer
23-Oct-1940   Brazil's greatest soccer player
John S. Plaskett
Astronomer
17-Nov-1865 17-Oct-1941 Plaskett's star
Plato
Philosopher
c. 427 BC c. 347 BC The Republic
Pocahontas
Royalty
c. 1595 21-Mar-1617 Native American princess
Elvis Presley
Singer
8-Jan-1935 16-Aug-1977 Rock and roll icon
Richard Preston
Author
5-Aug-1954   The Hot Zone
Pythagoras
Mathematician
c. 580 BC c. 500 BC Pythagorean Theorem
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematician
22-Dec-1887 26-Apr-1920 Self-educated mathematician
James Randi
Magician
7-Aug-1928   The Amazing Randi
John Rawls
Philosopher
21-Feb-1921 24-Nov-2002 A Theory of Justice
Martin Rees
Astronomer
23-Jun-1942   President of the Royal Society
Augusto Righi
Physicist
27-Aug-1850 8-Jun-1920 Electromagnetic waves
Gene Roddenberry
Screenwriter
19-Aug-1921 24-Oct-1991 Creator of Star Trek
Fred Rogers
TV Personality
20-Mar-1928 27-Feb-2003 Mister Rogers
Carlo Rubbia
Physicist
31-Mar-1934   Co-Discovered W and Z particles
Henry Norris Russell
Astronomer
25-Oct-1877 18-Feb-1957 Giant stars and dwarfs
Meg Ryan
Actor
19-Nov-1961   Sleepless In Seattle
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
9-Nov-1934 20-Dec-1996 Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Andrei Sakharov
Physicist
21-May-1921 14-Dec-1989 Developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb
Edwin E. Salpeter
Astronomer
3-Dec-1924 26-Nov-2008 Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography
Allan R. Sandage
Astronomer
18-Jun-1926 13-Nov-2010 Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars
Carlos Santana
Musician
20-Jul-1947   House is dark, pots are cold
Wallace Sargent
Astronomer
15-Feb-1935   Astrophysicist at CalTech
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Astronomer
14-Mar-1835 4-Jul-1910 Discovered canals on Mars
Frank Schlesinger
Astronomer
11-May-1871 10-Jul-1943 Stellar parallaxes
Maarten Schmidt
Astronomer
28-Dec-1929   Co-Discoverer of quasars
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
22-Feb-1788 21-Sep-1860 Philosopher of Pessimism
Erwin Schrödinger
Physicist
12-Aug-1887 4-Jan-1961 Schrödinger's wave equation
Karl Schwarzschild
Astronomer
9-Oct-1873 11-May-1916 Black holes, Schwarzschild radius
Martin Schwarzschild
Astronomer
31-May-1912 10-Apr-1997 Structure and Evolution of the Stars
Aleksandr Scriabin
Composer
25-Dec-1871 14-Apr-1915 Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Frederick Hanley Seares
Astronomer
17-May-1873 20-Jul-1964 Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory
Sir Run Run Shaw
Film/TV Producer
23-Nov-1907   Kung fu movie mogul
Iosif S. Shklovskii
Astronomer
1-Jul-1916 3-Mar-1985 Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Author
16-Sep-1888 3-Jun-1964 The Loveliness and Wretchedness of Human Life
Frank Sinatra
Singer
12-Dec-1915 14-May-1998 It's Frank's world, we just live in it
V. M. Slipher
Astronomer
11-Nov-1875 8-Nov-1969 Interstellar dust
Louis Slotin
Physicist
1-Dec-1910 30-May-1946 Died tickling the dragon's tail
Socrates
Philosopher
469 BC 399 BC Developer of the Socratic Method
Harold Spencer Jones
Astronomer
29-Mar-1890 3-Nov-1960 10th Royal Astronomer of England
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Astronomer
26-Jun-1914 31-Mar-1997 Father of space telescopes
William Spoelhof
Educator
8-Dec-1909 3-Dec-2008 President of Calvin College, 1951-76
Bruce Springsteen
Musician
23-Sep-1949   The Boss
Ringo Starr
Drummer
7-Jul-1940   Beatle
Joel Stebbins
Astronomer
30-Jul-1878 16-Mar-1966 Photoelectric photometry
Jon Stewart
Comic
28-Nov-1962   Anchor of The Daily Show
Bengt Strömgren
Astronomer
21-Jan-1908 4-Jul-1987 Hydrogen stars
Otto Struve
Astronomer
12-Aug-1897 6-Apr-1963 Hydrogen in the interstellar medium
Chiune Sugihara
Diplomat
1-Jan-1900 31-Jul-1986 Helped Jews escape Lithuania
Rashid Sunyaev
Astronomer
1-Mar-1943   Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Ambrose Swasey
Business
19-Dec-1846 15-Jun-1937 Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory
Tacitus
Historian
56 AD c. 120 AD Historiae, Annals
George Takei
Actor
20-Apr-1937   Sulu on Star Trek
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
Astronomer
24-Mar-1941   Co-Discovered first binary pulsar
Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky
Biologist
20-Sep-1900 28-Mar-1981 Russian geneticist
Clyde W. Tombaugh
Astronomer
4-Feb-1906 17-Jan-1997 Discovered Pluto
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
Scientist
17-Sep-1857 19-Sep-1935 Astronautics and rocket dynamics pioneer
Daniel C. Tsui
Physicist
28-Feb-1939   Fractional quantum Hall effect
Herbert Hall Turner
Astronomer
13-Aug-1861 20-Aug-1930 Stellar positions
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astronomer
5-Oct-1958   Astrophysicist
Harold C. Urey
Chemist
29-Apr-1893 5-Jan-1981 Discovered Deuterium
Simon van der Meer
Physicist
24-Nov-1925 4-Mar-2011 Co-Discovered W and Z particles
Vangelis
Musician
29-Mar-1943   New Age instrumentalist
Martinus J.G. Veltman
Physicist
27-Jun-1931   Quantum physicist
Artturi Virtanen
Chemist
15-Jan-1895 11-Nov-1973 AIV method of fodder preservation
James Craig Watson
Astronomer
28-Jan-1838 23-Nov-1880 Claimed to discover the planet Vulcan
Alfred Wegener
Scientist
1-Nov-1880 Nov-1930 Continental drift
Ai Weiwei
Artist
18-May-1957   Chinese contemporary artist
Fred Whipple
Astronomer
5-Nov-1906 30-Aug-2004 Comet Guy
Otto Wichterle
Chemist
27-Oct-1913 18-Aug-1998 Invented soft contact lenses
Brian Wilson
Singer/Songwriter
20-Jun-1942   Troubled Beach Boy
Xerxes the Great
Royalty
519 BC 465 BC King of Persia, attempted to invade Greece
Frank Zappa
Composer
21-Dec-1940 4-Dec-1993 Joe's Garage
Georgi Zhukov
Military
1-Dec-1896 18-Jun-1974 Soviet commander during WWII
Fritz Zwicky
Astronomer
14-Feb-1898 8-Feb-1974 Astrophysicist at CalTech


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NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. They may be accessed by the "Bibliography" tab at the top of most pages, or via the "Related Topics" box in the sidebar. Please feel free to suggest books that might be critical omissions.