| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Walter Abish |
Author |
24-Dec-1931 |
|
Alphabetical Africa |
| Robert Adler |
Physicist |
4-Dec-1913 |
15-Feb-2007 |
Invented wireless remote control |
| Leon Askin |
Actor |
18-Sep-1907 |
3-Jun-2005 |
General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes |
| Hans Asperger |
Doctor |
18-Feb-1906 |
21-Oct-1980 |
Asperger's Syndrome |
| Fred Astaire |
Dancer |
10-May-1899 |
22-Jun-1987 |
Broadway ballroom dancer |
| Barbara Bach |
Actor |
27-Aug-1947 |
|
Atook zug zug Lana |
| Peter Bart |
Journalist |
24-Jul-1932 |
|
Former editor of Variety |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Edward Bernays |
Business |
22-Nov-1891 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Propaganda |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Psychologist |
28-Aug-1903 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Fraudulent child psychologist |
| Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguist |
1-Apr-1887 |
18-Apr-1949 |
Structural linguistics of Tagalog |
| David Bohm |
Physicist |
20-Dec-1917 |
29-Oct-1992 |
Particle physicist |
| Ludwig Boltzmann |
Physicist |
20-Feb-1844 |
5-Sep-1906 |
Atoms and molecules |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
| Samuel T. Cohen |
Physicist |
25-Jan-1921 |
28-Nov-2010 |
Neutron bomb |
| Carl Cori |
Scientist |
5-Dec-1896 |
20-Oct-1984 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Gerty Cori |
Scientist |
15-Aug-1896 |
26-Oct-1957 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
| Dennis DeConcini |
Politician |
8-May-1937 |
|
US Senator from Arizona, 1977-95 |
| Martin Deutsch |
Physicist |
29-Jun-1917 |
16-Aug-2002 |
Discovered positronium |
| Engelbert Dollfuss |
Head of State |
4-Oct-1892 |
25-Jul-1934 |
Austrian Chancellor murdered by Nazis |
| Christian Doppler |
Physicist |
29-Nov-1803 |
17-Mar-1853 |
Discovered the Doppler Effect |
| Seymour Durst |
Business |
c. 1913 |
19-May-1995 |
New York real estate mogul |
| Bruno de Finetti |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1906 |
20-Jul-1985 |
Subjective probability |
| Edmond H. Fischer |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1920 |
|
Protein phosphorylation |
| William Fox |
Film/TV Producer |
1-Jan-1879 |
8-May-1952 |
Founder of 20th Century Fox |
| Felix Frankfurter |
Judge |
15-Nov-1882 |
22-Feb-1965 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
| John H. Gaddum |
Scientist |
31-Mar-1900 |
30-Jun-1965 |
Drug antagonism |
| Paul Gallico |
Author |
26-Jul-1897 |
15-Jul-1975 |
The Snow Goose |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Uri Geller |
Paranormal |
20-Dec-1946 |
|
Thinks he has us snowed |
| Benjamin A. Gilman |
Politician |
6-Dec-1922 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1973-2003 |
| Gaston Glock |
Business |
1929 |
|
Gunmaker |
| Kurt Gödel |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1906 |
14-Jan-1978 |
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
| Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| Victor Gruen |
Architect |
18-Jul-1903 |
14-Feb-1980 |
Popularized the shopping mall |
| Mandy Grunwald |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Hillary Clinton media adviser |
| Jörg Haider |
Politician |
26-Jan-1950 |
11-Oct-2008 |
Austrian extreme rightist |
| Irene Handl |
Actor |
27-Dec-1901 |
29-Nov-1987 |
Matronly British character actor |
| Adolf Hitler |
Head of State |
20-Apr-1889 |
30-Apr-1945 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1933-45 |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Franz Humer |
Business |
1-Jul-1946 |
|
Chairman of Roche |
| Leon Jaworski |
Government |
19-Sep-1905 |
9-Dec-1982 |
Watergate special prosecutor |
| Elizabeth Jolley |
Novelist |
4-Jun-1923 |
13-Feb-2007 |
Mr. Scobie's Riddle |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| John F. Keane |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Paraguay, 2003-05 |
| John Key |
Government |
9-Aug-1961 |
|
Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| Eusebio Kino |
Religion |
10-Aug-1645 |
15-Mar-1711 |
Jesuit missionary to Mexico |
| Melanie Klein |
Psychologist |
30-Mar-1882 |
22-Sep-1960 |
The Psychoanalysis of Children |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Arthur Kornberg |
Scientist |
3-Mar-1918 |
26-Oct-2007 |
Synthesized DNA |
| Roger D. Kornberg |
Scientist |
24-Apr-1947 |
|
Molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
| Stanley Kubrick |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1928 |
7-Mar-1999 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Richard Kuhn |
Chemist |
3-Dec-1900 |
1-Aug-1967 |
Carotenoids, and vitamins B2 and B6 |
| Hedy Lamarr |
Actor |
9-Nov-1913 |
19-Jan-2000 |
Actress, invented frequency hopping |
| Karl Landsteiner |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1868 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Discovered blood typing |
| Joseph Lieberman |
Politician |
24-Feb-1942 |
|
US Senator from Connecticut |
| Eric Mabius |
Actor |
22-Apr-1971 |
|
Tim Haspell on The L Word |
| Marie Antoinette |
Royalty |
2-Nov-1755 |
16-Oct-1793 |
Cake proponent |
| Maximilian |
Royalty |
6-Jul-1832 |
19-Jun-1867 |
Emperor of Mexico, 1864-67 |
| Marie de Medici |
Royalty |
26-Apr-1573 |
3-Jul-1642 |
Regent of France, 1610-17 |
| Lise Meitner |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1878 |
27-Oct-1968 |
Discovered nuclear fission |
| Gregor Mendel |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1822 |
6-Jan-1884 |
Discovered the laws of inheritance |
| Michael E. Murphy |
Government |
1962 |
|
Founding partner, D.C. Navigators |
| Mae Murray |
Actor |
10-May-1889 |
23-Mar-1965 |
The Girl with the Bee Stung Lips |
| Gerry Neugebauer |
Astronomer |
1932 |
|
Infrared astronomy |
| S. I. Newhouse, Sr. |
Publisher |
24-May-1895 |
29-Aug-1979 |
Founder of Advance Publications |
| Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| Roberta Peters |
Singer |
4-May-1930 |
|
Coloratura soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Fritz Pregl |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1869 |
13-Dec-1930 |
Microanalysis of organic compounds |
| Vladimir Prelog |
Chemist |
23-Jul-1906 |
7-Jan-1998 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| Otto J. Reich |
Diplomat |
16-Oct-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1986-89 |
| Max Reinhardt |
Theater Director |
9-Sep-1873 |
30-Oct-1943 |
Filmed A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Abe Reles |
Criminal |
1906 |
12-Nov-1941 |
Hitman for Murder, Inc. |
| Leah Remini |
Actor |
15-Jun-1970 |
|
Old School |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| Moishe Rosen |
Religion |
12-Apr-1932 |
19-May-2010 |
Jews for Jesus founder |
| Ethel Rosenberg |
Relative |
28-Sep-1915 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg |
| Philip Roth |
Novelist |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
| Joaquin Ruiz |
Educator |
1951 |
|
Science Dean, University of Arizona |
| Leopold Ruzicka |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1887 |
26-Sep-1976 |
Terpenes and hormones |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the first polio vaccine |
| Edwin E. Salpeter |
Astronomer |
3-Dec-1924 |
26-Nov-2008 |
Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography |
| Andrew V. Schally |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1926 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Maximilian Schell |
Actor |
8-Dec-1930 |
|
Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Egon Schiele |
Painter |
12-Jun-1890 |
31-Oct-1918 |
Painted many nudes |
| Erwin Schrödinger |
Physicist |
12-Aug-1887 |
4-Jan-1961 |
Schrödinger's wave equation |
| Allyson Schwartz |
Politician |
3-Oct-1948 |
|
Congresswoman, Pennsylvania 13th |
| Fred C. Schwarz |
Activist |
15-Jan-1913 |
24-Jan-2009 |
Christian Anti-Communist Crusade |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Actor |
30-Jul-1947 |
|
Governor of California, 2003-11 |
| Harry Shearer |
Comic |
23-Dec-1943 |
|
Almost half the voices on The Simpsons |
| Bugsy Siegel |
Criminal |
28-Feb-1906 |
20-Jun-1947 |
Brought the mob to Las Vegas |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| William Steig |
Cartoonist |
14-Nov-1907 |
3-Oct-2003 |
Shrek, The New Yorker |
| Jeanette Sterke |
Actor |
1934 |
|
A Stitch in Time |
| Howard Stern |
Radio Personality |
12-Jan-1954 |
|
The King of All Media |
| Shoshannah Stern |
Actor |
3-Jul-1980 |
|
Deaf actress |
| Mark Strong |
Actor |
30-Aug-1963 |
|
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Audrey Totter |
Actor |
20-Dec-1918 |
|
The Unsuspected |
| Maria von Trapp |
Singer |
26-Jan-1905 |
28-Mar-1987 |
The Sound of Music |
| William Tunner |
Military |
14-Jul-1906 |
6-Apr-1983 |
Organized the Berlin Airlift |
| Peter Ueberroth |
Baseball |
2-Sep-1937 |
|
Commissioner of Baseball, 1984-89 |
| Alida Valli |
Actor |
31-May-1921 |
22-Apr-2006 |
The Third Man |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Marilyn vos Savant |
Columnist |
11-Aug-1946 |
|
IQ 228, writes for Parade |
| Andrei Vyshinsky |
Government |
10-Dec-1883 |
22-Nov-1954 |
Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Ben Wattenberg |
Pundit |
26-Aug-1933 |
|
Think Tank moderator |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
| Xuxa |
TV Personality |
27-Mar-1963 |
|
Model children's TV host |
| Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |
| Richard Zsigmondy |
Chemist |
1-Apr-1865 |
23-Sep-1929 |
Ultramicroscope |
