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Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
CEMETERY
Location: Princeton, NJ
Founding Date: 1757
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Aaron Burr |
Politician |
6-Feb-1756 |
14-Sep-1836 |
Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel |
| Alonzo Church |
Mathematician |
14-Jun-1903 |
11-Aug-1995 |
Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis |
| Frances Cleveland |
First Lady |
21-Jul-1864 |
29-Oct-1947 |
Wife of US President Grover Cleveland |
| Grover Cleveland |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1837 |
24-Jun-1908 |
22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| Robert H. Dicke |
Physicist |
6-May-1916 |
4-Mar-1997 |
Dicke radiometer |
| Jonathan Edwards |
Religion |
5-Oct-1703 |
22-Mar-1758 |
American Puritan theologian |
| George Gallup |
Business |
18-Nov-1901 |
26-Jul-1984 |
Founder, The Gallup Organization |
| Kurt Gödel |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1906 |
14-Jan-1978 |
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems |
| John Grier Hibben |
Educator |
19-Apr-1861 |
16-May-1933 |
President, Princeton University, 1912-32 |
| George F. Kennan |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1904 |
17-Mar-2005 |
Architect of US policy of Soviet containment |
| John O'Hara |
Author |
31-Jan-1905 |
11-Apr-1970 |
Appointment in Samarra |
| Henry Norris Russell |
Astronomer |
25-Oct-1877 |
18-Feb-1957 |
Giant stars and dwarfs |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
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