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Berkeley, CA
CITY
Official Website:
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ Population:
102743 (2000 census) Founding Date:
1866 County:
Alameda County Named for George Berkeley. SCHOOLS
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ben Affleck |
Actor |
15-Aug-1972 |
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Good Will Hunting |
| Melissa Sue Anderson |
Actor |
26-Oct-1962 |
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Little House on the Prairie |
| Joan Blades |
Activist |
c. 1956 |
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Cofounder of MoveOn.org |
| Aaron Cometbus |
Author |
1968 |
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Zine author, Cometbus |
| Philip M. Condit |
Business |
2-Aug-1941 |
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CEO of Boeing, 1996-2003 |
| Robert Culp |
Actor |
16-Aug-1930 |
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I Spy |
| Rodger P. Davies |
Diplomat |
7-May-1921 |
19-Aug-1974 |
US Ambassador to Cyprus, 1974 |
| Mike Dirnt |
Bassist |
4-May-1972 |
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Bassist for Green Day |
| Caitlin Flanagan |
Author |
? |
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Antifeminist |
| John Fogerty |
Musician |
28-May-1945 |
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Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Tom Fogerty |
Musician |
9-Nov-1941 |
6-Sep-1990 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Karen Grassle |
Actor |
25-Feb-1944 |
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Ma on Little House on the Prairie |
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
Novelist |
21-Oct-1929 |
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The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Nina Hartley |
Pornstar |
11-Mar-1959 |
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Little Bill's slutty wife in Boogie Nights |
| James Ivory |
Film/TV Producer |
7-Jun-1928 |
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The Remains of the Day |
| Phil Lesh |
Bassist |
15-Mar-1940 |
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Bassist for Grateful Dead |
| Malcolm M. Lucas |
Judge |
19-Apr-1927 |
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California Chief Justice, 1987-96 |
| Billy Martin |
Baseball |
16-May-1928 |
25-Dec-1989 |
NY Yankees manager, fired 5 times |
| Ed Quinn |
Actor |
26-Feb-1968 |
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Eureka |
| G. Frederick Reinhardt |
Diplomat |
21-Oct-1911 |
23-Feb-1971 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1961-68 |
| Nicole Richie |
TV Personality |
21-Sep-1981 |
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The Simple Life |
| Rose Rollins |
Actor |
30-Apr-1978 |
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Tasha Williams on The L Word |
| Rebecca Romijn |
Model |
6-Nov-1972 |
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Swimsuit supermodel |
| Andy Samberg |
Comic |
18-Aug-1978 |
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SNL, The Lonely Island |
| Jane Sibbett |
Actor |
28-Nov-1962 |
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The Second Arrival |
| Jorma Taccone |
Comic |
19-Mar-1977 |
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The Lonely Island |
| Nikki Tyler |
Pornstar |
4-Dec-1972 |
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Inscrewtible, Carnal Instincts, Porcupussy |
| Mike White |
Football |
4-Jan-1936 |
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Fighting Illini Head Coach, 1980-87 |
| Daphne Zuniga |
Actor |
28-Oct-1962 |
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Princess Vespa in Spaceballs |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Luis W. Alvarez |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1911 |
1-Sep-1988 |
Particle accelerator pioneer |
| Marion Zimmer Bradley |
Author |
3-Jun-1930 |
25-Sep-1999 |
The Mists of Avalon |
| Florian Cajori |
Historian |
28-Feb-1859 |
14-Aug-1930 |
A History of Mathematics |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Arthur H. Compton |
Physicist |
10-Sep-1892 |
15-Mar-1962 |
Discovered the Compton Effect |
| William F. Giauque |
Chemist |
12-May-1895 |
28-Mar-1982 |
Adiabatic demagnetization |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
| June Jordan |
Poet |
9-Jul-1936 |
14-Jun-2002 |
Who Look At Me |
| Armin O. Leuschner |
Astronomer |
16-Jan-1868 |
22-Apr-1953 |
Astronomer at Berkeley |
| Leo Lowenthal |
Sociologist |
3-Nov-1900 |
21-Jan-1993 |
Literature and the Image of Man |
| Robert H. Lowie |
Anthropologist |
12-Jun-1883 |
21-Sep-1957 |
American ethnologist |
| Rudolph Minkowski |
Astronomer |
28-May-1895 |
4-Jan-1976 |
Galaxies in collision |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| Robert G. Sproul |
Administrator |
22-May-1891 |
10-Sep-1975 |
President, University of California, 1930-58 |
| Otto Stern |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1888 |
17-Aug-1969 |
Molecular beam experiment |
| Edward W. Strong |
Educator |
1901 |
13-Jan-1990 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1961-65 |
| Alfred Tarski |
Mathematician |
14-Jan-1902 |
26-Oct-1983 |
Tarski's indefinability theorem |
| Roger J. Traynor |
Judge |
12-Feb-1900 |
14-May-1983 |
California Chief Justice, 1964-70 |
| Gregory Vlastos |
Philosopher |
27-Jul-1907 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Influential scholar of ancient philosophy |
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