| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
Religion |
24-Jun-1813 |
8-Mar-1887 |
American Congregationalist preacher |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1786 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| James G. Blaine |
Politician |
31-Jan-1830 |
27-Jan-1893 |
Twice US Secretary of State |
| 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 |
| John W. Bricker |
Politician |
6-Sep-1893 |
22-Mar-1986 |
Governor of Ohio, 1939-45 |
| John Brown |
Activist |
9-May-1800 |
2-Dec-1859 |
Led the raid on Harper's Ferry |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Homer S. Cummings |
Attorney |
30-Apr-1870 |
10-Sep-1956 |
US Attorney General, 1933-39 |
| Joseph E. Davies |
Diplomat |
29-Nov-1876 |
9-May-1958 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1937-38 |
| Nathaniel Davis |
Diplomat |
12-Apr-1925 |
|
US Ambassador to Switzerland, 1975-77 |
| 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 |
| Jonathan Edwards |
Religion |
5-Oct-1703 |
22-Mar-1758 |
American Puritan theologian |
| 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 |
| Judd Gregg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1947 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire |
| Ernest Howard Griffiths |
Physicist |
15-Jun-1851 |
3-Mar-1932 |
The Thermal Measurement of Energy |
| Samuel Guthrie |
Doctor |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
Discovered chloroform |
| Robert Hawke |
Head of State |
9-Dec-1929 |
|
Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 10th |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt |
Astronomer |
4-Jul-1868 |
12-Dec-1921 |
Cepheid variable |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Marilynne Robinson |
Novelist |
1947 |
|
Housekeeping |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| John Wise |
Religion |
1652 |
8-Apr-1725 |
A Vindication of New England Churches |
| Harry H. Woodring |
Politician |
31-May-1890 |
9-Sep-1967 |
US Secretary of War, 1936-40 |
| Andrew Young |
Politician |
12-Mar-1932 |
|
Second black mayor of Atlanta |
