| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Renata Adler |
Journalist |
19-Oct-1938 |
|
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker |
| Alan Alda |
Actor |
28-Jan-1936 |
|
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H |
| Bernadette M. Allen |
Diplomat |
c. 1955 |
|
US Ambassador to Niger |
| Theo Angelopoulos |
Film Director |
17-Apr-1935 |
24-Jan-2012 |
Ulysses' Gaze |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud |
Film Director |
1-Oct-1943 |
|
The Name of the Rose |
| Ernest Ansermet |
Conductor |
11-Nov-1883 |
20-Feb-1969 |
Founder, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
| Miguel Ángel Asturias |
Author |
19-Oct-1899 |
9-Jun-1974 |
Guatemalan protest writer |
| Jacques Audiard |
Film Director |
30-Apr-1952 |
|
A Prophet |
| Aram Avakian |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1926 |
17-Jan-1987 |
End of the Road |
| Irving Babbitt |
Philosopher |
2-Aug-1865 |
15-Jul-1933 |
Early leader of Neohumanism |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Abolhassan Bani-Sadr |
Head of State |
22-Mar-1933 |
|
First President of Iran, 1980-81 |
| Jean-Marc Barr |
Actor |
27-Sep-1960 |
|
Europa |
| Jean Baudrillard |
Philosopher |
29-Jul-1929 |
6-Mar-2007 |
Simulacra and Simulation |
| Romare Bearden |
Painter |
2-Sep-1911 |
12-Mar-1988 |
Collagist |
| Simone de Beauvoir |
Activist |
9-Jan-1908 |
14-Apr-1986 |
The Second Sex |
| Georges Bernanos |
Novelist |
20-Feb-1888 |
5-Jul-1948 |
The Diary of a Country Priest |
| Georges Bidault |
Head of State |
5-Oct-1899 |
27-Jan-1983 |
French President, PM, and Foreign Minister |
| Alfred Binet |
Psychologist |
11-Jul-1857 |
8-Oct-1911 |
Binet-Simon intelligence test |
| Léon Blum |
Head of State |
9-Apr-1872 |
30-Mar-1950 |
Thrice Prime Minister of France |
| Nicolas Boileau |
Poet |
1-Nov-1636 |
13-Mar-1711 |
Satires du Sieur D... |
| Sissela Bok |
Scholar |
2-Dec-1934 |
|
Ethicist |
| Yves Bonnefoy |
Poet |
24-Jun-1923 |
1-Jul-2016 |
Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve |
| Louise Bourgeois |
Sculptor |
25-Dec-1911 |
31-May-2010 |
Crouching Spider |
| Charles Boyer |
Actor |
28-Aug-1899 |
26-Aug-1978 |
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| Fernand Braudel |
Historian |
24-Aug-1902 |
27-Nov-1985 |
La méditerranée |
| André Brink |
Novelist |
29-May-1935 |
6-Feb-2015 |
A Dry White Season |
| Louis de Broglie |
Physicist |
15-Aug-1892 |
19-Mar-1987 |
Discovered the wave nature of electrons |
| R. Nicholas Burns |
Government |
28-Jan-1956 |
|
Under Secy of State for Political Affairs, 2005-08 |
| Michel Butor |
Author |
14-Sep-1926 |
24-Aug-2016 |
L'emploi du temps |
| Ernest Callenbach |
Author |
3-Apr-1929 |
16-Apr-2012 |
Ecotopia |
| Corinne Calvet |
Actor |
30-Apr-1925 |
23-Jun-2001 |
Sailor Beware |
| Karel Capek |
Author |
9-Jan-1890 |
25-Dec-1938 |
R.U.R. |
| Kitty Carlisle |
Singer |
3-Sep-1910 |
18-Apr-2007 |
A Night at the Opera |
| Henri Cartan |
Mathematician |
8-Jul-1904 |
13-Aug-2008 |
Leader of the math Bourbakistes |
| R. V. Cassill |
Novelist |
17-May-1919 |
25-Mar-2002 |
Dr. Cobb's Game |
| Claude Chabrol |
Film Director |
24-Jun-1930 |
12-Sep-2010 |
La Cérémonie |
| Costa-Gavras |
Film Director |
12-Feb-1933 |
|
Z |
| André F. Cournand |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1895 |
19-Feb-1988 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Marie Curie |
Chemist |
7-Nov-1867 |
4-Jul-1934 |
Early nuclear chemist |
| Pierre Curie |
Physicist |
15-May-1859 |
19-Apr-1906 |
Early investigator of radiation |
| John Gunther Dean |
Diplomat |
24-Feb-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1985-88 |
| Gilles Deleuze |
Philosopher |
18-Jan-1925 |
4-Nov-1995 |
Difference and Repetition |
| Henri Alexandre Deslandres |
Astronomer |
24-Jul-1853 |
15-Jan-1948 |
Spectroheliograph |
| Abdou Diouf |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1935 |
|
President of Senegal, 1981-2000 |
| Peter Duchin |
Pianist |
28-Jul-1937 |
|
Rebel Rouser |
| John Foster Dulles |
Government |
25-Feb-1888 |
24-May-1959 |
Eisenhower's Secretary of State |
| Marguerite Duras |
Novelist |
4-Apr-1914 |
3-Mar-1996 |
Hiroshima mon Amour |
| T. S. Eliot |
Poet |
26-Sep-1888 |
4-Jan-1965 |
Author of "The Waste Land" |
| Robert Faurisson |
Scholar |
25-Jan-1929 |
|
French Holocaust denier |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Poet |
24-Mar-1919 |
|
A Coney Island of the Mind |
| Howard Freeman |
Actor |
9-Dec-1899 |
11-Dec-1967 |
Theatre and character actor |
| Édouard Glissant |
Poet |
21-Sep-1928 |
3-Feb-2011 |
L'Intention Poétique |
| Jean-Luc Godard |
Film Director |
3-Dec-1930 |
|
Vivre sa Vie |
| Jorie Graham |
Poet |
9-May-1951 |
|
The Dream of the Unified Field |
| Brion Gysin |
Artist |
19-Jan-1916 |
13-Jul-1986 |
Inventor of the Dreamachine |
| Philip C. Habib |
Diplomat |
25-Feb-1920 |
24-May-1992 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74 |
| Virginia Hall |
Spy |
6-Apr-1906 |
14-Jul-1982 |
American spy |
| Eric Hippeau |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Ziff-Davis, 1993-2000 |
| Richard Howard |
Poet |
13-Oct-1929 |
|
Untitled Subjects |
| François Jacob |
Scientist |
17-Jun-1920 |
19-Apr-2013 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Pierre Janssen |
Astronomer |
22-Feb-1824 |
23-Dec-1907 |
Solar observer |
| Irène Joliot-Curie |
Physicist |
12-Sep-1897 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| Leon Jouhaux |
Labor Leader |
1-Jul-1879 |
28-Apr-1954 |
Union leader, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Kamal Jumblatt |
Politician |
6-Dec-1917 |
16-Mar-1977 |
Former Leader of the Druze |
| Ernest Just |
Biologist |
14-Aug-1883 |
27-Oct-1941 |
Cell surfaces and egg fertilization |
| Stanley Karnow |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1925 |
27-Jan-2013 |
In Our Image |
| Marilyn Kelly |
Judge |
15-Apr-1938 |
|
Justice, Michigan Supreme Court |
| Nan Kempner |
Socialite |
24-Jul-1930 |
3-Jul-2005 |
New York City socialite |
| X. J. Kennedy |
Poet |
21-Aug-1929 |
|
Juvenile poet, Brats |
| Noor Inayat Khan |
Spy |
1-Jan-1914 |
13-Sep-1944 |
British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis |
| Victor Kiam |
Business |
7-Dec-1926 |
27-May-2001 |
Liked it so much, he bought the company |
| David Kimche |
Spy |
1928 |
8-Mar-2010 |
Israeli spy, masterminded Iran-Contra |
| Charles Korvin |
Actor |
21-Nov-1907 |
18-Jun-1998 |
Interpol Calling |
| J. Krishnamurti |
Religion |
12-May-1895 |
18-Feb-1986 |
Theosophist guru |
| Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
| Alan G. Lafley |
Business |
13-Jun-1947 |
|
CEO of Procter & Gamble, 2000-09 |
| Reginald Le Borg |
Film Director |
11-Dec-1902 |
25-Mar-1989 |
The Mummy's Ghost |
| Michel Leiris |
Author |
20-Apr-1901 |
30-Sep-1990 |
Surrealist, ethnographer, autobiographer |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropologist |
28-Nov-1908 |
1-Nov-2009 |
French anthropologist |
| Wyndham Lewis |
Painter |
18-Nov-1882 |
7-Mar-1957 |
Vorticist movement |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
| Jean-Marie Lustiger |
Religion |
17-Sep-1926 |
5-Aug-2007 |
Archbishop of Paris, 1981-2005 |
| Antonio Machado |
Poet |
26-Jul-1875 |
22-Feb-1939 |
Generation of '98 |
| Lincoln MacVeagh |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1890 |
15-Jan-1972 |
Roosevelt's Ambassador to Greece |
| Nicolas Malebranche |
Philosopher |
6-Aug-1638 |
13-Oct-1715 |
De la recherche de la vérité |
| Louis Malle |
Film Director |
30-Oct-1932 |
23-Nov-1995 |
Atlantic City |
| Gabriel Marcel |
Philosopher |
7-Dec-1889 |
8-Oct-1973 |
French existential philosopher |
| Jean-Luc Marion |
Philosopher |
3-Jul-1946 |
|
Phenomenologist, God Without Being |
| Jacques Maritain |
Philosopher |
18-Nov-1882 |
28-Apr-1973 |
Interpreter of St. Thomas |
| Jean Martinon |
Conductor |
10-Jan-1910 |
1-Mar-1976 |
Music Director, Chicago Symphony, 1963-68 |
| Peter Matthiessen |
Novelist |
22-May-1927 |
5-Apr-2014 |
At Play in the Fields of the Lord |
| Sergio de Mello |
Government |
15-Mar-1948 |
19-Aug-2003 |
UN Representative to Iraq killed by carbomb |
| Thomas M. Messer |
Curator |
9-Feb-1920 |
15-May-2013 |
Director of the Guggenheim, 1961-88 |
| Dina Meyer |
Actor |
22-Dec-1968 |
|
Starship Troopers |
| Franco Modigliani |
Economist |
18-Jun-1918 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Life-cycle theory |
| Henri Moissan |
Chemist |
28-Sep-1852 |
20-Feb-1907 |
Isolated fluorine |
| Luc Montagnier |
Scientist |
18-Aug-1932 |
|
Co-Discoverer of HIV |
| Bill Murray |
Actor |
21-Sep-1950 |
|
Meatballs, SNL alumnus |
| Marcel Ophüls |
Film Director |
1-Nov-1927 |
|
The Sorrow and the Pity |
| Milman Parry |
Scholar |
20-Jun-1902 |
3-Dec-1935 |
Homeric scholar |
| Holly Robinson Peete |
Actor |
18-Sep-1964 |
|
For Your Love |
| Georges Perec |
Novelist |
7-Mar-1936 |
3-Mar-1982 |
La Vie: mode d'emploi |
| Jean Piaget |
Psychologist |
9-Aug-1896 |
17-Sep-1980 |
Elaborated the stages of childhood |
| Marcel Proust |
Author |
10-Jul-1871 |
18-Nov-1922 |
In Search of Lost Time |
| Raymond Queneau |
Novelist |
21-Feb-1903 |
25-Oct-1976 |
Zazie dans le métro |
| Stanley Reed |
Judge |
31-Dec-1884 |
2-Apr-1980 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1938-57 |
| Tim Rice |
Songwriter |
10-Nov-1944 |
|
Collaborator with Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Charles Richet |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1850 |
4-Dec-1935 |
Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm |
| Nicholas Ridley |
Religion |
c. 1500 |
16-Oct-1555 |
Anglican Bishop and martyr |
| Jacques Rivette |
Film Director |
1-Mar-1928 |
29-Jan-2016 |
La Belle Noiseuse |
| Leslie V. Rowe |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Papua New Guinea |
| Ibrahim Rugova |
Government |
2-Dec-1944 |
21-Jan-2006 |
President of Kosovo, 1992-2006 |
| Mário de Sá-Carneiro |
Poet |
19-May-1890 |
26-Apr-1916 |
Dispersão |
| Françoise Sagan |
Novelist |
21-Jun-1935 |
24-Sep-2004 |
Bonjour Tristesse |
| Nathalie Sarraute |
Novelist |
18-Jul-1900 |
19-Oct-1999 |
Portrait of a Man Unknown |
| Edward Schillebeeckx |
Religion |
12-Nov-1914 |
23-Dec-2009 |
Catholic theologian |
| Frederick Hanley Seares |
Astronomer |
17-May-1873 |
20-Jul-1964 |
Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory |
| Giorgos Seferis |
Poet |
1-Mar-1900 |
20-Sep-1971 |
Imerolóyion katastrómatos |
| Jorge Semprún |
Novelist |
10-Dec-1923 |
7-Jun-2011 |
Screenplay for Z |
| Léopold Senghor |
Head of State |
9-Oct-1906 |
20-Dec-2001 |
President of Senegal, 1960-80 |
| Fulton J. Sheen |
Religion |
8-May-1895 |
9-Dec-1979 |
America's first televangelist |
| Robert B. Silvers |
Editor |
31-Dec-1929 |
|
The New York Review of Books |
| Cornelia Otis Skinner |
Actor |
30-May-1899 |
9-Jul-1979 |
Paris '90 |
| Nathan Söderblom |
Religion |
15-Jan-1866 |
12-Jul-1931 |
Archbishop of Sweden |
| Terry Southern |
Novelist |
1-May-1924 |
29-Oct-1995 |
Dr. Strangelove |
| Ronald Steel |
Scholar |
25-Mar-1931 |
|
Pax Americana |
| George Steiner |
Critic |
23-Apr-1929 |
|
After Babel |
| Lawrence Stone |
Historian |
4-Dec-1919 |
16-Jun-1999 |
The Crisis of the Aristocracy |
| John Millington Synge |
Playwright |
16-Apr-1871 |
24-Mar-1909 |
The Playboy of the Western World |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
Diplomat |
2-Feb-1754 |
17-May-1838 |
Preeminent French diplomat |
| Ida M. Tarbell |
Journalist |
5-Nov-1857 |
6-Jan-1944 |
History of the Standard Oil Company |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Philosopher |
1-May-1881 |
10-Apr-1955 |
The Phenomenon of Man |
| Michel Tournier |
Novelist |
19-Dec-1924 |
18-Jan-2016 |
Le Roi des aulnes |
| John Turner |
Head of State |
7-Jun-1929 |
|
Prime Minister of Canada, 1984 |
| Robert J. Van de Graaff |
Inventor |
20-Dec-1901 |
16-Jan-1967 |
Van de Graaff generator |
| Agnès Varda |
Film Director |
30-May-1928 |
|
Cleo from 5 to 7 |
| Jacques Vergès |
Attorney |
5-Mar-1925 |
15-Aug-2013 |
Attorney specializing in defense of monsters |
| Linda Vester |
Talk Show Host |
11-Jun-1965 |
|
Fox News Channel talk show host |
| Vera Wang |
Fashion Designer |
27-Jun-1949 |
|
Designer of wedding dresses |
| Sam Waterston |
Actor |
15-Nov-1940 |
|
Asst DA Jack McCoy on Law & Order |
| Eugen Weber |
Historian |
24-Apr-1925 |
17-May-2007 |
The Western Tradition |
| Ruth Westheimer |
Talk Show Host |
4-Jun-1928 |
|
4'7" of concentrated sex |
| Daniel Wildenstein |
Business |
11-Sep-1917 |
23-Oct-2001 |
Wildenstein & Company |
| Iannis Xenakis |
Composer |
9-May-1922 |
4-Feb-2001 |
Avant-garde composer |
