| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| David Alter |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1807 |
18-Sep-1881 |
Almost discovered spectroscopy |
| Jacobo Arbenz |
Head of State |
14-Sep-1913 |
27-Jan-1971 |
President of Guatemala, 1951-54 |
| Werner Arber |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1929 |
|
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Adolph Bandelier |
Anthropologist |
6-Aug-1840 |
18-Mar-1914 |
Native cultures of the American southwest |
| Daniel Bovet |
Scientist |
23-Mar-1907 |
8-Apr-1992 |
Anti-histamines, muscle relaxants, sulfanilamide |
| Anthony G. Brown |
Politician |
21-Nov-1961 |
|
Lt. Governor of Maryland |
| Warren Burger |
Judge |
17-Sep-1907 |
25-Jun-1995 |
US Chief Justice, 1969-86 |
| Louis Chevrolet |
Auto Racing |
25-Dec-1878 |
6-Jun-1941 |
Designed the first Chevrolet |
| William W. Coblentz |
Astronomer |
20-Nov-1873 |
15-Sep-1962 |
Infrared spectroscopy |
| Billie Dove |
Actor |
14-May-1903 |
31-Dec-1997 |
The Black Pirate |
| Augustus Egg |
Painter |
2-May-1816 |
26-Mar-1863 |
Life and Death of Buckingham |
| Minnesota Fats |
Sports Figure |
19-Jan-1913 |
15-Jan-1996 |
Billiards opponent of Willie Mosconi |
| Bobby Fischer |
Chess Player |
9-Mar-1943 |
18-Jan-2008 |
Loony chess grandmaster |
| Henry Clay Frick |
Business |
19-Dec-1849 |
2-Dec-1919 |
Robber baron, Johnstown flood |
| Jean-Luc Godard |
Film Director |
3-Dec-1930 |
|
Vivre sa Vie |
| Daniel Guggenheim |
Business |
9-Jul-1856 |
28-Sep-1930 |
Mining magnate |
| Meyer Guggenheim |
Business |
1-Feb-1828 |
15-Mar-1905 |
Patriarch of Guggenheim fortune |
| Peggy Guggenheim |
Socialite |
26-Aug-1898 |
23-Dec-1979 |
Renowned art collector |
| Gary Gygax |
Inventor |
27-Jul-1938 |
4-Mar-2008 |
Responsible for Dungeons & Dragons |
| Brion Gysin |
Artist |
19-Jan-1916 |
13-Jul-1986 |
Inventor of the Dreamachine |
| Milton Hershey |
Business |
13-Sep-1857 |
13-Oct-1945 |
Founder of Hershey's |
| Arthur Honegger |
Composer |
10-Mar-1892 |
27-Nov-1955 |
Pacific 231 |
| J. Edgar Hoover |
Government |
1-Jan-1895 |
2-May-1972 |
Corrupt FBI Director for 50 years |
| Franz Humer |
Business |
1-Jul-1946 |
|
Chairman of Roche |
| Néstor Kirchner |
Head of State |
25-Feb-1950 |
|
President of Argentina, 2003-07 |
| Theodor Kocher |
Doctor |
25-Aug-1841 |
27-Jul-1917 |
Thyroid surgeon |
| S. S. Kresge |
Business |
31-Jul-1867 |
18-Oct-1966 |
Founder of K-Mart |
| Cyndi Lauper |
Singer/Songwriter |
22-Jun-1953 |
|
Girls Just Want To Have Fun |
| Karina Lombard |
Actor |
21-Jan-1964 |
|
The L Word |
| Jean-Paul Marat |
Activist |
24-May-1743 |
13-Jul-1793 |
French revolutionary |
| Robert B. Meyner |
Politician |
3-Jul-1908 |
27-May-1990 |
Governor of New Jersey, 1954-62 |
| Max Miedinger |
Typographer |
24-Dec-1910 |
8-Mar-1980 |
Designed the Helvetica typeface |
| Grover Norquist |
Activist |
19-Oct-1956 |
|
Washington lobbyist, anti-tax crusader |
| Jean Piccard |
Aviator |
28-Jan-1884 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Extreme balloonist |
| Elizabeth Clare Prophet |
Religion |
8-Apr-1939 |
|
Church Universal and Triumphant |
| Maurice Ravel |
Composer |
7-Mar-1875 |
28-Dec-1937 |
Bolero |
| Eddie Rickenbacker |
Aviator |
8-Oct-1890 |
23-Jul-1973 |
Flying ace shot down 22 planes in WWI |
| Martin Ritt |
Film Director |
2-Mar-1914 |
8-Dec-1990 |
The Long Hot Summer |
| Peter Mark Roget |
Author |
18-Jan-1779 |
12-Sep-1869 |
Roget's Thesaurus |
| Maximilian Schell |
Actor |
8-Dec-1930 |
|
Lead defense in Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Walter Schottky |
Physicist |
23-Jul-1886 |
4-Mar-1976 |
Solid-state physics and electronics |
| Barbet Schroeder |
Film Director |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
Murder by Numbers |
| Jerome Smucker |
Business |
5-Dec-1858 |
19-Mar-1948 |
Founder of J. M. Smucker Company |
| Chesley Sullenberger |
Aviator |
23-Jan-1951 |
|
Landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River |
| Louis Sullivan |
Architect |
3-Sep-1856 |
14-Apr-1924 |
Early skyscraper architect |
| Max Theiler |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1899 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Yellow fever vaccination |
| Steven T. Walther |
Government |
c. 1943 |
|
US FEC Commissioner |
| William Wirt |
Attorney |
8-Nov-1772 |
18-Feb-1834 |
US Attorney General, 1817-29 |
| Renée Zellweger |
Actor |
25-Apr-1969 |
|
Bridget Jones' Diary |
