| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Buzzie Bavasi |
Baseball |
12-Dec-1914 |
1-May-2008 |
MLB General Manager |
| Arnold Beckman |
Inventor |
10-Apr-1900 |
18-May-2004 |
Philanthropist who invented pH meter |
| J. Robert Beyster |
Business |
26-Jul-1924 |
22-Dec-2014 |
Founder of SAIC |
| Lucille Bremer |
Dancer |
21-Feb-1917 |
16-Apr-1996 |
Yolanda and the Thief |
| Edward Bullard |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1907 |
3-Apr-1980 |
Continental drift, magnetic fields |
| Geoffrey Burbidge |
Astronomer |
24-Sep-1925 |
26-Jan-2010 |
Quasi-steady state cosmology |
| J. J. Cale |
Songwriter |
5-Dec-1938 |
26-Jul-2013 |
Wrote Cocaine and After Midnight |
| Raymond Chandler |
Author |
23-Jul-1888 |
26-Mar-1959 |
Invented hard-boiled detective novel |
| Odile Crick |
Artist |
11-Aug-1920 |
5-Jul-2007 |
Sketched the double helix |
| Bob Crosby |
Musician |
25-Aug-1913 |
9-Mar-1993 |
The Bob Crosby Orchestra |
| Delmer Daves |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1904 |
17-Aug-1977 |
Destination Tokyo |
| Renato Dulbecco |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1914 |
20-Feb-2012 |
Tumor viruses and host genetics |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
17-May-2014 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Robert F. Ellsworth |
Politician |
11-Jun-1926 |
9-May-2011 |
Congressman from Kansas, 1961-67 |
| Preston Foster |
Actor |
24-Aug-1900 |
14-Jul-1970 |
My Friend Flicka |
| Edward A. Frieman |
Physicist |
19-Jan-1926 |
11-Apr-2013 |
Director of Scripps, 1986-96 |
| Tony Gillespie |
Diplomat |
22-Mar-1935 |
7-Mar-2008 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1988-91 |
| Herbert G. Klein |
Journalist |
1-Apr-1918 |
2-Jul-2009 |
White House Communications Director, 1969-73 |
| Eddie Mathews |
Baseball |
13-Oct-1931 |
18-Feb-2001 |
Hit 512 home runs |
| Mercedes McCambridge |
Actor |
17-Mar-1916 |
2-Mar-2004 |
All the King's Men |
| J. Carrol Naish |
Actor |
21-Jan-1896 |
24-Jan-1973 |
Sahara |
| Bert Parks |
TV Personality |
30-Dec-1914 |
2-Feb-1992 |
Host of the Miss America Pageant |
| Edwin O. Reischauer |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1910 |
1-Sep-1990 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1961-66 |
| Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the first polio vaccine |
| Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
| Ted Schroeder |
Tennis |
20-Jul-1921 |
26-May-2006 |
Winner of 1949 Wimbledon |
| Dr. Seuss |
Author |
2-Mar-1904 |
24-Sep-1991 |
The Cat in the Hat |
| Nikolai Sokoloff |
Conductor |
28-May-1886 |
25-Sep-1965 |
Founding Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra |
| Benjamin Spock |
Doctor |
2-May-1903 |
15-Mar-1998 |
Baby and Child Care |
| Milburn Stone |
Actor |
5-Jul-1904 |
12-Jun-1980 |
Doc Adams on Gunsmoke |
| Avrum Stroll |
Philosopher |
15-Feb-1921 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| Harold Bell Wright |
Novelist |
4-May-1872 |
24-May-1944 |
The Winning of Barbara Worth |
| Philip Yordan |
Screenwriter |
1-Apr-1914 |
24-Mar-2003 |
The Battle of the Bulge |
