| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Francis Adams IV |
Business |
2-May-1910 |
5-Jan-1999 |
Former president of Raytheon |
| Charles Francis Adams |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1807 |
21-Nov-1886 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68 |
| Charles Francis Adams III |
Government |
2-Aug-1866 |
11-Jun-1954 |
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33 |
| John Adams |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1735 |
4-Jul-1826 |
2nd President of the U.S. |
| John Quincy Adams |
Head of State |
11-Jul-1767 |
23-Feb-1848 |
6th US President, 1825-29 |
| Louisa Adams |
First Lady |
12-Feb-1775 |
15-May-1852 |
Wife of US President John Quincy Adams |
| Horatio Alger |
Author |
13-Jan-1832 |
18-Jul-1899 |
Ragged Dick |
| Alfred L. Atherton |
Diplomat |
22-Nov-1921 |
30-Oct-2002 |
US Ambassador to Egypt, 1979-83 |
| Chester G. Atkins |
Politician |
14-Apr-1948 |
|
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1985-93 |
| George F. Baker |
Business |
27-Mar-1840 |
2-May-1931 |
"None of the public's business" |
| Roger Baldwin |
Activist |
21-Jan-1884 |
26-Aug-1981 |
Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| P. T. Barnum |
Hoaxer |
5-Jul-1810 |
7-Apr-1891 |
Circus showman |
| Clara Barton |
Activist |
25-Dec-1821 |
12-Apr-1912 |
Co-Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Henry Whitney Bellows |
Religion |
11-Jun-1814 |
30-Jan-1882 |
Unitarian leader, civil reformer |
| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| John Biddle |
Religion |
1615 |
22-Sep-1662 |
Father of English Unitarianism |
| James J. Blanchard |
Politician |
8-Aug-1942 |
|
Governor of Michigan, 1983-91 |
| Charles Booth |
Sociologist |
30-Mar-1840 |
23-Nov-1916 |
Studied poverty in London |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| Chester Bowles |
Politician |
5-Apr-1901 |
25-May-1986 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51 |
| Andrew Brimmer |
Economist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor, 1966-74 |
| Olympia Brown |
Activist |
5-Jan-1835 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Lady preacher and suffragette |
| Luther Burbank |
Botanist |
7-Mar-1849 |
11-Apr-1926 |
Botanist and plant breeder |
| Harold H. Burton |
Judge |
22-Jun-1888 |
28-Oct-1964 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1945-58 |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
| Joseph Chamberlain |
Politician |
8-Jul-1836 |
3-Jul-1914 |
British pol revered in Birmingham |
| Brock Chisholm |
Doctor |
18-May-1896 |
4-Feb-1971 |
First Director-General of World Health Organization |
| Grenville Clark |
Attorney |
5-Nov-1882 |
13-Jan-1967 |
World Peace Through World Law |
| Joseph Sill Clark |
Politician |
21-Oct-1901 |
21-Jan-1990 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69 |
| James Freeman Clarke |
Religion |
4-Apr-1810 |
8-Jun-1888 |
Ten Great Religions |
| Josephine Cochrane |
Inventor |
8-Mar-1839 |
3-Aug-1913 |
Invented the dishwasher |
| Marcus A. Coolidge |
Politician |
6-Oct-1865 |
23-Jan-1947 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1931-37 |
| William D. Coolidge |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1873 |
4-Feb-1975 |
Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Richard Dalitz |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1925 |
13-Jan-2006 |
Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots |
| Morris Dees |
Activist |
16-Dec-1936 |
|
Bankrupted the Klan |
| Don Edwards |
Politician |
6-Jan-1915 |
|
Congressman from California, 1963-95 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Essayist |
25-May-1803 |
27-Apr-1882 |
Essayist, wrote Nature |
| Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
| Cornelius Felton |
Scholar |
6-Nov-1807 |
26-Feb-1862 |
Classical scholar of Greek |
| Abigail Fillmore |
First Lady |
13-Mar-1798 |
30-Mar-1853 |
Wife of US President Millard Fillmore |
| Millard Fillmore |
Head of State |
7-Jan-1800 |
8-Mar-1874 |
13th President of the US, 1850-53 |
| Duncan U. Fletcher |
Politician |
6-Jan-1859 |
17-Jun-1936 |
Congressman from Florida, 1909-36 |
| John Forster |
Author |
2-Apr-1812 |
2-Feb-1876 |
Life of Charles Dickens |
| R. Buckminster Fuller |
Architect |
12-Jul-1895 |
1-Jul-1983 |
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome |
| Frank Gannett |
Business |
15-Sep-1876 |
3-Dec-1957 |
Founder, Gannett publishing empire |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Author |
29-Sep-1810 |
12-Nov-1865 |
Cranford |
| Billy Gibbons |
Guitarist |
16-Dec-1949 |
|
ZZ Top |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| Sam Goddard |
Politician |
8-Aug-1919 |
1-Feb-2006 |
Governor of Arizona, 1965-67 |
| Terry Goddard |
Politician |
29-Jan-1947 |
|
Attorney General of Arizona |
| Mike Gravel |
Politician |
13-May-1930 |
|
US Senator from Alaska, 1969-81 |
| Horace Greeley |
Author |
3-Feb-1811 |
29-Nov-1872 |
The Tribune |
| Edward Everett Hale |
Author |
3-Apr-1822 |
10-Jun-1909 |
The Man Without a Country |
| Lucretia Peabody Hale |
Author |
2-Sep-1820 |
12-Jun-1900 |
The Peterkin Papers |
| Andrew Smith Hallidie |
Inventor |
16-Mar-1836 |
24-Apr-1900 |
Designed the first cable car system |
| Frances E. W. Harper |
Poet |
24-Sep-1825 |
22-Feb-1911 |
Abolitionist, temperance activist |
| Oliver Heaviside |
Engineer |
18-May-1850 |
3-Feb-1925 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Barney Hill |
Hoaxer |
20-Jul-1922 |
25-Feb-1969 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
| Betty Hill |
Hoaxer |
28-Jun-1919 |
17-Oct-2004 |
Self-proclaimed UFO abductee |
| George F. Hoar |
Politician |
29-Aug-1826 |
30-Sep-1904 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1877-1904 |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Roman Hruska |
Politician |
16-Aug-1904 |
25-Apr-1999 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1954-76 |
| Thomas Jefferson |
Head of State |
13-Apr-1743 |
4-Jul-1826 |
3rd US President, 1801-09 |
| Robert D. Joffe |
Attorney |
26-May-1943 |
28-Jan-2010 |
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
| Nancy Johnson |
Politician |
5-Jan-1935 |
|
Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1983-2007 |
| David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
| Thomas Starr King |
Religion |
17-Dec-1824 |
4-Mar-1864 |
Saved California to the Union |
| Willard M. Kiplinger |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1891 |
6-Aug-1967 |
Kiplinger Washington Editors |
| Samuel P. Langley |
Astronomer |
22-Aug-1834 |
2-Feb-1906 |
Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
| A. Lawrence Lowell |
Educator |
1-Jan-1856 |
6-Jan-1943 |
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Harriet Martineau |
Author |
12-Jun-1802 |
27-Jun-1876 |
Maid of All Work |
| Wade H. McCree |
Judge |
3-Jul-1920 |
30-Aug-1987 |
US Solicitor General, 1977-81 |
| Samuel Freeman Miller |
Judge |
5-Apr-1816 |
13-Oct-1890 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1862-90 |
| Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
| Walt Minnick |
Politician |
20-Sep-1942 |
|
Congressman from Idaho, 2009-11 |
| George R. Minot |
Doctor |
2-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| Maria Mitchell |
Astronomer |
1-Aug-1818 |
28-Jun-1889 |
First American female astronomer |
| Maurine Brown Neuberger |
Politician |
9-Jan-1907 |
22-Feb-2000 |
US Senator from Oregon, 1960-67 |
| Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
| Warder Norton |
Business |
17-Sep-1891 |
7-Nov-1945 |
W. W. Norton & Company |
| Keith Olbermann |
Pundit |
27-Jan-1959 |
|
Countdown |
| Camillo Olivetti |
Business |
13-Aug-1868 |
4-Dec-1943 |
Founder of Olivetti SpA |
| Bob Packwood |
Politician |
11-Sep-1932 |
|
Oregon Senator, sexual harrasser |
| Robert E. Park |
Sociologist |
14-Feb-1864 |
7-Feb-1944 |
Race and Culture |
| Russell W. Peterson |
Politician |
3-Oct-1916 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Governor of Delaware, 1969-73 |
| Timothy Pickering |
Politician |
17-Jul-1745 |
29-Jan-1829 |
US Secretary of State, 1795-1800 |
| Frederik Pohl |
Author |
26-Nov-1919 |
|
Futurian science fiction writer |
| Joseph Priestley |
Chemist |
13-Mar-1733 |
6-Feb-1804 |
Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen |
| Olive Higgins Prouty |
Novelist |
10-Jan-1882 |
24-Mar-1974 |
Stella Dallas |
| George Pullman |
Business |
3-Mar-1831 |
19-Oct-1897 |
Inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car |
| Charles B. Purvis |
Doctor |
14-Apr-1842 |
14-Dec-1929 |
Pioneering African-American physician |
| Christopher Reeve |
Actor |
25-Sep-1952 |
10-Oct-2004 |
Superman |
| George Ripley |
Journalist |
3-Oct-1802 |
4-Jul-1880 |
The New York Tribune |
| Leverett Saltonstall |
Politician |
1-Sep-1892 |
17-Jun-1979 |
US Senator from Masachusetts, 1945-67 |
| Francis W. Sargent |
Politician |
29-Jul-1915 |
21-Oct-1998 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1969-75 |
| John G. Sargent |
Government |
13-Oct-1860 |
5-Mar-1939 |
US Attorney General, 1925-29 |
| May Sarton |
Poet |
3-May-1912 |
16-Jul-1995 |
Plant Dreaming Deep |
| Ellery Schempp |
Activist |
1940 |
|
Abington School District v. Schempp |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Oct-1917 |
28-Feb-2007 |
The Age of Roosevelt |
| William F. Schulz |
Activist |
14-Nov-1949 |
|
Director, Amnesty International, 1994-2006 |
| Pete Seeger |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-May-1919 |
|
We Shall Overcome |
| Robert W. Selander |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Mastercard |
| Rod Serling |
Author |
25-Dec-1924 |
28-Jun-1975 |
Creator of The Twilight Zone |
| Stephanie K. Seymour |
Judge |
16-Oct-1940 |
|
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-2005 |
| Richard A. Snelling |
Politician |
18-Feb-1927 |
14-Aug-1991 |
Twice Governor of Vermont |
| Ted Sorensen |
Attorney |
8-May-1928 |
31-Oct-2010 |
Aide to JFK |
| Jared Sparks |
Author |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
| Adlai Stevenson |
Politician |
5-Feb-1900 |
14-Jul-1965 |
Governor of Illinois, 1949-53 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson III |
Politician |
10-Oct-1930 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 1970-81 |
| Lucy Stone |
Activist |
13-Aug-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Nadine Strossen |
Activist |
18-Aug-1950 |
|
President of the ACLU |
| William Howard Taft |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1857 |
8-Mar-1930 |
27th US President, 1909-13 |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Clyde W. Tombaugh |
Astronomer |
4-Feb-1906 |
17-Jan-1997 |
Discovered Pluto |
| Charles Tufts |
Business |
17-Jul-1781 |
24-Dec-1876 |
Founder of Tufts University |
| Jones Very |
Poet |
28-Aug-1813 |
8-May-1880 |
Religious mystic |
| Lester Frank Ward |
Sociologist |
18-Jun-1841 |
18-Apr-1913 |
Dynamic Sociology |
| Josiah Wedgwood |
Artist |
1730 |
3-Jan-1795 |
Greatest potter of all time |
| Robert Welch |
Activist |
1-Dec-1899 |
6-Jan-1985 |
Founder, John Birch Society |
| Mary Wollstonecraft |
Author |
27-Apr-1759 |
10-Sep-1797 |
Vindication of the Rights of Women |
| Carroll D. Wright |
Sociologist |
25-Jul-1840 |
20-Feb-1909 |
The Industrial Evolution of the United States |
| Frank Lloyd Wright |
Architect |
8-Jun-1867 |
9-Apr-1959 |
Fallingwater |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
| Andrew Wyeth |
Painter |
12-Jul-1917 |
16-Jan-2009 |
American painter, Christina's World |
