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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Cleveland Abbe
Physicist
3-Dec-1838 28-Oct-1916 America's first weatherman
Charles Greeley Abbot
Astronomer
31-May-1872 17-Dec-1973 Solar energy
Arunah Shepherdson Abell
Publisher
10-Aug-1806 19-Aug-1888 The Baltimore Sun
Lord Acton
Historian
10-Jan-1834 19-Jun-1902 British historian
Charles Francis Adams III
Government
2-Aug-1866 11-Jun-1954 Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33
Jane Addams
Activist
6-Sep-1860 21-May-1935 Founder of Hull House
Frances Alda
Singer
31-May-1879 18-Sep-1952 Operatic soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera
Charles Alderton
Inventor
21-Jun-1857 29-May-1941 Invented Dr Pepper
Moniza Alvi
Poet
2-Feb-1954   The Country at My Shoulder
Christiane Amanpour
Journalist
12-Jan-1958   Host of ABC's This Week
Eva Angelina
Pornstar
14-Mar-1985   Bespectacled porn actress
Gabrielle Anwar
Actor
4-Feb-1970   Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Devon Aoki
Model
10-Aug-1982   Sin City
Edward Victor Appleton
Physicist
6-Sep-1892 21-Apr-1965 Ionosphere, shortwave radio
Philip Danforth Armour
Business
16-May-1832 6-Jan-1901 Founder of Armour & Co.
Francis W. Aston
Chemist
1-Sep-1877 20-Nov-1945 Invented the mass spectograph
Lee Atwater
Politician
27-Feb-1951 29-Mar-1991 RNC Chairman, 1988-90
Oswald Avery
Biologist
21-Oct-1877 20-Feb-1955 Antibodies and DNA
Harold D. Babcock
Astronomer
24-Jan-1882 8-Apr-1968 Solar radiation
Joan Baez
Singer/Songwriter
9-Jan-1941   Diamonds and Rust
Roger Baldwin
Activist
21-Jan-1884 26-Aug-1981 Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Christian Bale
Actor
30-Jan-1974   The Dark Knight
Charles Glover Barkla
Physicist
7-Jun-1877 23-Oct-1944 X-ray scattering
Charles Montgomery Barnes
Business
8-Sep-1833 19-May-1907 Founder of Barnes & Noble
Black Bart
Criminal
c. 1829 ? Old West bandit and poet
Derek Barton
Chemist
8-Sep-1918 16-Mar-1998 Conformational analysis
Mischa Barton
Actor
24-Jan-1986   Marissa Cooper on The O.C.
John Bartram
Naturalist
23-Mar-1699 22-Sep-1777 Colonial botanist to King George III
William Bartram
Naturalist
9-Feb-1739 22-Jul-1823 18th Century American travelling naturalist
James Beard
Chef
5-May-1903 23-Jan-1985 First prominent TV chef
William Beaumont
Doctor
21-Nov-1785 25-Apr-1853 Observed human digestion
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
18-Oct-1859 4-Jan-1941 L'Évolution Créatrice
Halle Berry
Actor
14-Aug-1966   Monster's Ball
Tony Blair
Head of State
6-May-1953   UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007
Tony Blankley
Pundit
21-Jan-1948 7-Jan-2012 McLaughlin Group pundit
Brebis Bleaney
Physicist
6-Jun-1915 4-Nov-2006 Electron paramagnetic resonance
William Bligh
Military
9-Sep-1754 6-Dec-1817 Captain of the Bounty
Heinrich Böll
Novelist
21-Dec-1917 16-Jul-1985 The Train Was On Time
John Wilkes Booth
Assassin
10-May-1838 26-Apr-1865 Abraham Lincoln's assassin
Ira S. Bowen
Astronomer
21-Dec-1898 6-Feb-1973 Debunked nebulium
Bill Bowerman
Fitness Guru
19-Feb-1911 24-Dec-1999 Track coach, Co-Founder of Nike
George Box
Mathematician
18-Oct-1919   Statistician at University of Wisconsin
Lawrence Bragg
Physicist
31-Mar-1890 1-Jul-1971 Bragg's Law of diffraction
George Brayton
Inventor
3-Oct-1830 17-Dec-1892 Brayton cycle engine
Percy Williams Bridgman
Physicist
21-Apr-1882 20-Aug-1961 High-pressure physics
Harry Brittain
Journalist
24-Dec-1873 9-Jul-1974 Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Physicist
15-Jul-1918 13-Oct-2003 Triple-axis crystal spectrometry
Anne Brontë
Novelist
17-Jan-1820 28-May-1849 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Branwell Brontë
Poet
26-Jun-1817 24-Sep-1848 The Brontë sisters' brother
Charlotte Brontë
Novelist
21-Apr-1816 31-Mar-1855 Jane Eyre
Emily Brontë
Novelist
30-Jul-1818 19-Dec-1848 Wuthering Heights
Heywood Broun
Journalist
7-Dec-1888 18-Dec-1939 Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s
Ernest W. Brown
Astronomer
29-Nov-1866 22-Jul-1938 Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Tina Brown
Editor
21-Nov-1953   The Daily Beast and Newsweek
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineer
9-Apr-1806 15-Sep-1859 Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway
John Bunny
Actor
21-Sep-1863 26-Apr-1915 Comic starred in over 200 short films
E. Margaret Burbidge
Astronomer
12-Aug-1919   Synthesis of the elements in stars
Geoffrey Burbidge
Astronomer
24-Sep-1925 26-Jan-2010 Quasi-steady state cosmology
Joseph R. Burton
Politician
16-Nov-1852 27-Feb-1923 US Senator from Kansas, 1901-06
Bill The Butcher
Boxing
Jul-1821 8-Mar-1855 Inspired Gangs of New York
Richard G. Butler
Activist
23-Feb-1918 8-Sep-2004 Founder of the Aryan Nations
George Canning
Politician
11-Apr-1770 8-Aug-1827 Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain
Frederick Carder
Artist
18-Sep-1863 10-Dec-1963 "Aurene" glass artist
Helena Bonham Carter
Actor
26-May-1966   Marla in Fight Club
Kevin Carter
Photographer
13-Sep-1960 27-Jul-1994 Wanting A Meal
Nick Carter
Singer
28-Jan-1980   The Backstreet Boys
Rosalynn Carter
First Lady
18-Aug-1927   Wife of US President Jimmy Carter
Carolyn Cassady
Author
28-Apr-1923   Wife of Neal Cassady
Butch Cassidy
Criminal
13-Apr-1866 c. 1908 Train and bank robber
Camilo José Cela
Author
11-May-1916 17-Jan-2002 Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate
Henry Chadwick
Journalist
5-Oct-1824 20-Apr-1908 Father of baseball
James Chadwick
Physicist
20-Oct-1891 24-Jul-1974 Discovered the neutron
Lon Chaney
Actor
1-Apr-1883 26-Aug-1930 The Phantom of the Opera
Sydney Chapman
Mathematician
29-Jan-1888 16-Jun-1970 Geomagnetism
King Charles II
Royalty
29-May-1630 6-Feb-1685 King of England 1660-85
John Charnley
Doctor
29-Aug-1912 5-Aug-1982 Hip replacement surgery
Joseph Choate
Attorney
24-Jan-1832 14-May-1917 Attorney, ambassador
Fletcher Christian
Military
25-Sep-1764 c. 1793 Led the mutiny on the Bounty
Ward Churchill
Activist
2-Oct-1947   Compared WTC victims to Adolf Eichmann
Lord Clarendon
Government
18-Feb-1609 9-Dec-1674 The Clarendon Code
A. J. Clark
Scientist
19-Aug-1885 30-Jul-1941 Drug responses
Alvan Clark
Astronomer
8-Mar-1804 19-Aug-1887 Telescope maker
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
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Novelist
13-Apr-1940   Nomadic novelist
John Cockcroft
Physicist
27-May-1897 18-Sep-1967 Split the atom
Christopher Cockerell
Inventor
4-Jun-1910 1-Jun-1999 Hovercraft
John Maxwell Coetzee
Novelist
9-Feb-1940   Reclusive South African novelist, essayist
Levi Coffin
Activist
28-Oct-1798 16-Sep-1877 Helped thousands of slaves to freedom
William Colgate
Business
25-Jan-1783 25-Jan-1857 Toothpaste empirebuilder
Karl T. Compton
Physicist
15-Sep-1887 22-Jun-1954 Bikini Island atomic tests
Grace Coolidge
First Lady
3-Jan-1879 8-Jul-1957 Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge
William D. Coolidge
Physicist
23-Oct-1873 4-Feb-1975 Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
George Henry Corliss
Inventor
2-Jun-1817 21-Feb-1888 Corliss valve and steam engines
Ezra Cornell
Business
11-Jan-1807 9-Dec-1874 Founder of Cornell University
E. J. H. Corner
Botanist
12-Jan-1906 14-Sep-1996 Durian theory
John Cornforth
Chemist
7-Sep-1917   Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Bud Cort
Actor
29-Mar-1948   Harold in Harold and Maude
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Smokestack filters to fight pollution
Odile Crick
Artist
11-Aug-1920 5-Jul-2007 Sketched the double helix
Samuel Crompton
Inventor
3-Dec-1753 26-Jun-1827 Invented the spinning mule
Bing Crosby
Singer
3-May-1903 14-Oct-1977 White Christmas
Bob Crosby
Musician
25-Aug-1913 9-Mar-1993 The Bob Crosby Orchestra
Charles Cullen
Criminal
1960   Claimed to have killed 30-40 patients
Harlow Curtice
Business
15-Aug-1893 3-Nov-1962 President of General Motors, 1952-58
Vasco da Gama
Explorer
c. 1469 24-Dec-1524 Portuguese explorer, conqueror, privateer
Jack Daniel
Business
5-Sep-1846 10-Oct-1911 Moonshine magnate
Virginia Dare
Oddity
18-Aug-1587 ? Firstborn white child of the New World
Jaye Davidson
Actor
21-Mar-1968   The Crying Game
Marvin Davis
Business
31-Aug-1925 25-Sep-2004 Oil magnate, former owner of 20th Century Fox
Richard Harding Davis
Author
18-Apr-1864 11-Apr-1916 Yellow-era journalist
Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
29-Apr-1957   My Left Foot
John Deere
Business
7-Feb-1804 17-May-1886 Invented the self-scouring plow
Cecil B. DeMille
Film Director
12-Aug-1881 21-Jan-1959 Pioneering film director
Nick Denton
Publisher
24-Aug-1966   Gawker Media
Jewel De'Nyle
Pornstar
5-Aug-1977   Bend Over and Say Ahh 3
Thomas E. Dewey
Politician
24-Mar-1902 16-Mar-1971 Did not defeat Truman
Mike DeWine
Politician
5-Jan-1947   US Senator from Ohio, 1995-2007
Cameron Diaz
Actor
30-Aug-1972   There's Something About Mary
William K. L. Dickson
Inventor
3-Aug-1860 28-Sep-1935 Motion picture camera
Paul Dirac
Physicist
8-Aug-1902 20-Oct-1984 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Thomas Dixon
Author
11-Jan-1864 3-Apr-1946 The Clansman
William E. Dodd
Diplomat
27-Oct-1869 9-Feb-1940 US Ambassador to Nazi Germany
E. C. Dodds
Scientist
13-Oct-1899 16-Dec-1973 Diethylstilbestrol
Cleveland H. Dodge
Business
1860 1926 Woodrow Wilson's financier and advisor
Peter C. Doherty
Scientist
15-Oct-1940   T-cells and antigens
Thomas Dolby
Musician
14-Oct-1958   She Blinded Me With Science
John Langdon Down
Doctor
18-Nov-1828 7-Oct-1896 Down's syndrome
Henry Draper
Astronomer
7-Mar-1837 20-Nov-1882 Early astrophotographer
John William Draper
Chemist
5-May-1811 4-Jan-1882 Radiant energy and portrait photography
James Clement Dunn
Diplomat
27-Dec-1890 1979 Career US Ambassador
William F. Durand
Engineer
5-Mar-1859 9-Aug-1958 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
William C. Durant
Business
8-Dec-1861 18-Mar-1947 Founder of General Motors
Clint Eastwood
Actor
31-May-1930   The Man With No Name
Mary Baker Eddy
Religion
16-Jul-1821 3-Dec-1910 Founded Christian Science movement
Thomas Edison
Inventor
11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb
King Edward III
Royalty
13-Nov-1312 21-Jun-1377 King of England, 1327-77
Barbara Ehrenreich
Author
26-Aug-1941   Nickel and Dimed
Mamie Eisenhower
First Lady
14-Nov-1896 1-Nov-1979 Ike's First Lady
T. S. Eliot
Poet
26-Sep-1888 4-Jan-1965 Author of "The Waste Land"
Shannon Elizabeth
Actor
7-Sep-1973   Nadia in American Pie 1 and 2
Caterina Fake
Designer
c. 1969   Co-Founder of Flickr
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
Business
9-Apr-1864 13-Jan-1930 England's electrical grid
W. C. Fields
Comic
29-Jan-1880 25-Dec-1946 The Bank Dick
Ronald Fisher
Mathematician
17-Feb-1890 29-Jul-1962 Analysis of variance and covariance
Ezra Fitch
Business
21-Sep-1865 16-Jun-1930 Abercrombie & Fitch
Paul J. Flory
Chemist
19-Jun-1910 9-Sep-1985 Studied polymers
Henry Stuart Foote
Politician
20-Sep-1800 20-May-1880 Governor of Mississippi 1852-54
Abe Fortas
Judge
19-Jun-1910 5-Apr-1982 US Supreme Court Justice, 1965-69
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist
25-Jul-1920 16-Apr-1958 Photographed DNA's structure
Stephen Fry
Actor
24-Aug-1957   Jeeves and Wooster
Alfred C. Fuller
Business
13-Jan-1885 4-Dec-1973 Founder of Fuller Brush Company
John H. Gaddum
Scientist
31-Mar-1900 30-Jun-1965 Drug antagonism
Lucretia Garfield
First Lady
19-Apr-1832 14-Mar-1918 Wife of US President James Garfield
Thomas Garrett
Activist
21-Aug-1789 25-Jan-1871 Underground Railroad
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Physicist
24-Oct-1932 18-May-2007 Molecular structure of polymers
Wally George
TV Personality
4-Dec-1931 5-Oct-2003 Abusive conservative spectacle
Elbridge Gerry
Politician
17-Jul-1744 23-Nov-1814 Patron saint of Gerrymandering
Ricky Gervais
Actor
25-Jun-1961   The Office
Malcolm Gets
Actor
28-Dec-1964   Caroline in the City
John H. Gibbon, Jr.
Doctor
29-Sep-1903 5-Feb-1973 Open-heart surgery
J. Willard Gibbs
Physicist
11-Feb-1839 28-Apr-1903 Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics
Orville Gibson
Business
1856 21-Aug-1918 Made mandolins and guitars
King Gillette
Inventor
5-Jan-1855 9-Jul-1932 Safety razor
Malcolm Gladwell
Columnist
3-Sep-1963   The Tipping Point
Robert Goddard
Scientist
5-Oct-1882 10-Aug-1945 Father of modern rocketry
Clive W.J. Granger
Economist
4-Sep-1934 27-May-2009 Granger causality
Wilson Greatbatch
Inventor
6-Sep-1919 27-Sep-2011 Implantable pacemaker
Arthur Guinness
Business
1725 23-Jan-1803 Invented stout, founded Guinness Brewery
Brion Gysin
Artist
19-Jan-1916 13-Jul-1986 Inventor of the Dreamachine
Asaph Hall
Astronomer
15-Oct-1829 22-Nov-1907 Discovered the moons of Mars
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Inventor
16-Mar-1836 24-Apr-1900 Designed the first cable car system
Geri Halliwell
Singer
6-Aug-1972   Ginger Spice
Frederick A. Halsey
Engineer
12-Jul-1856 20-Oct-1935 Kept America safe from the metric system
William Stewart Halsted
Doctor
23-Sep-1852 7-Sep-1922 Pioneer of sterile surgical technique
Arthur Harden
Chemist
12-Oct-1865 17-Jun-1940 Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Frank Hardy
Novelist
21-Mar-1917 28-Mar-1994 Power Without Glory
Robert Hare
Chemist
17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
Anna Harrison
First Lady
25-Jul-1775 25-Feb-1864 Wife of US President William Henry Harrison
Caroline Harrison
First Lady
1-Oct-1832 25-Oct-1892 Wife of US President Benjamin Harrison
Francis Burton Harrison
Politician
18-Dec-1873 21-Nov-1957 Drug prohibition
Bret Harte
Author
25-Aug-1836 5-May-1902 Master of the western short story
Rondo Hatton
Actor
22-Apr-1894 2-Feb-1946 Horror actor afflicted with acromegaly
Norman Haworth
Chemist
19-Mar-1883 19-Mar-1950 Carbohydrates and vitamin C
Lucy Hayes
First Lady
28-Aug-1831 25-Jun-1889 Wife of US President Rutherford B. Hayes
Nan Hayworth
Politician
14-Dec-1959   Congresswoman, New York 19th
Rita Hayworth
Actor
17-Oct-1918 14-May-1987 Gilda
Oliver Heaviside
Engineer
18-May-1850 3-Feb-1925 Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Dudley R. Herschbach
Chemist
18-Jun-1932   Crossed molecular beam experiments
Gordon Hessler
Film Director
12-Dec-1930   The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
George W. Hill
Astronomer
3-Mar-1838 16-Apr-1914 A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Chemist
19-Jun-1897 9-Oct-1967 The Kinetics of Chemical Change
George H. Hitchings
Scientist
18-Apr-1905 27-Feb-1998 Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, arthritis
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Chemist
12-May-1910 29-Jul-1994 Determined structure of Vitamin B12
Arthur Holmes
Geologist
14-Jan-1890 20-Sep-1965 Father of the geological timescale
Gustav Holst
Composer
21-Sep-1874 25-May-1934 The Planets
Lou Hoover
First Lady
29-Mar-1874 7-Jan-1944 Wife of US President Herbert Hoover
Bob Hope
Comic
29-May-1903 27-Jul-2003 Centenarian comic
Johns Hopkins
Philanthropist
19-May-1795 24-Dec-1873 Johns Hopkins University and Hospital
William Howe
Military
10-Aug-1729 12-Jul-1814 Commander-in-Chief in America
Fred Hoyle
Astronomer
24-Jun-1915 20-Aug-2001 Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Mike Huckabee
Politician
24-Aug-1955   Governor of Arkansas, 1996-2007
Howard Hughes
Business
24-Sep-1905 5-Apr-1976 Insane billionaire
E. Howard Hunt
Criminal
9-Oct-1918 23-Jan-2007 Coordinated Watergate break-in
Henry Hyde
Politician
18-Apr-1924 29-Nov-2007 Congressman from Illinois, 1975-2007
Laura Ingalls
Aviator
14-Dec-1893 10-Jan-1967 Aviatrix and Nazi sympathizer
Jared Ingersoll
Politician
24-Oct-1749 31-Oct-1822 Signed the US Constitution
Alec Issigonis
Engineer
18-Nov-1906 2-Oct-1988 Designer of the Mini Cooper
J. Hughlings Jackson
Doctor
4-Apr-1835 7-Oct-1911 Father of British neurology
Rachel Jackson
First Lady
Jun-1767 22-Dec-1828 Wife of US President Andrew Jackson
Jade Jagger
Relative
21-Oct-1971   Daughter of Mick and Bianca
Karl Jansky
Astronomer
22-Oct-1905 14-Feb-1950 Radio waves from outer space
Anna T. Jeanes
Philanthropist
7-Apr-1822 24-Sep-1907 Negro Rural School Fund
James H. Jeans
Astronomer
11-Sep-1877 16-Sep-1946 Continuous creation theory
Billy Joel
Pianist
9-May-1949   Didn't start the fire
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer
18-Sep-1709 13-Dec-1784 A Dictionary of the English Language
Theodore D. Judah
Engineer
4-Mar-1826 2-Nov-1863 American Transcontinental Railroad
Alex Kapranos
Musician
20-Mar-1972   Franz Ferdinand frontman
James E. Keeler
Astronomer
10-Sep-1857 12-Aug-1900 Composition of Saturn's rings
George Kelly
Psychologist
28-Apr-1905 6-Mar-1967 Personal Construct Theory of personality
John Key
Government
9-Aug-1961   Prime Minister of New Zealand
Albert Kingsbury
Engineer
23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Charles Knowlton
Doctor
10-May-1800 20-Feb-1850 Early advocate of birth control
Jon Lajoie
Actor
21-Aug-1980   Taco on The League
Burt Lancaster
Actor
2-Nov-1913 20-Oct-1994 Elmer Gantry
Samuel P. Langley
Astronomer
22-Aug-1834 2-Feb-1906 Heavier-than-air flying machine
Mary Lasker
Activist
30-Nov-1900 21-Feb-1994 Health care advocate
T. E. Lawrence
Author
16-Aug-1888 19-May-1935 Lawrence of Arabia
David M. Lee
Physicist
20-Jan-1931   Superfluidity of helium-3
Morris E. Leeds
Business
6-Mar-1869 8-Feb-1952 Leeds & Northrup Co.
Anthony J. Leggett
Physicist
26-Mar-1938   Particle physicist, explored superfluidity
Charles James Lever
Novelist
31-Aug-1806 1-Jun-1872 Charles O'Malley
Eli Lilly
Business
8-Jul-1838 6-Jun-1898 Founder of Eli Lilly & Co.
Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady
13-Dec-1818 16-Jul-1882 Wife of US President Abraham Lincoln
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Journalist
1-May-1847 28-Sep-1903 Radical reporter
Rebecca Loos
TV Personality
19-Jun-1977   Snogged David Beckham
Louis IV
Royalty
10-Sep-920 AD 10-Sep-954 AD King of France, 936-54
Dolley Madison
First Lady
20-May-1768 12-Jul-1849 Wife of US President James Madison
James Madison
Head of State
16-Mar-1751 28-Jun-1836 4th US President, 1809-17
Jane March
Actor
20-Mar-1973   Color of Night
Bob Marley
Singer/Songwriter
6-Feb-1945 11-May-1981 No Woman No Cry
George Perkins Marsh
Author
15-Mar-1801 23-Jul-1882 Ecologist and camel enthusiast
Archer J. P. Martin
Chemist
1-Mar-1910 28-Jul-2002 Partition chromatography
Steve Martin
Comic
14-Aug-1945   The Jerk
Armistead Thomson Mason
Politician
4-Aug-1787 6-Feb-1819 US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17
Rik Mayall
Actor
7-Mar-1958   Rick on The Young Ones
Joseph McCarthy
Politician
14-Nov-1908 2-May-1957 US Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57
Barbara McClintock
Scientist
16-Jun-1902 2-Sep-1992 Discovered transposable genes
Joseph McKenna
Judge
10-Aug-1843 21-Nov-1926 US Supreme Court Justice, 1898-1925
Ida McKinley
First Lady
8-Jun-1847 26-May-1907 Wife of US President William McKinley
Peter Medawar
Biologist
28-Feb-1915 2-Oct-1987 Acquired immunological tolerance
Patricia Medina
Actor
19-Jul-1920 28-Apr-2012 Botany Bay
Edward Mellanby
Doctor
8-Apr-1884 30-Jan-1955 Rickets
Thomas Midgley
Chemist
18-May-1889 2-Nov-1944 Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Nelson A. Miles
Military
8-Aug-1839 15-May-1925 Army volunteer promoted to Commanding General
Alfred Milner
Government
23-Mar-1854 13-May-1925 Architect of the Balfour Declaration
Rhona Mitra
Actor
9-Aug-1976   Tara on The Practice
Molly Pitcher
Military
13-Oct-1754 22-Jan-1832 Fought at the Battle of Monmouth
Christopher Monckton
Politician
14-Feb-1952   Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party
Samuel S. Montague
Engineer
6-Jul-1830 24-Sep-1883 American Transcontinental Railroad
Robert Morris
Politician
31-Jan-1734 7-May-1806 Financed the Revolutionary War
Oswald Mosley
Politician
16-Nov-1896 3-Dec-1980 Founder of the British Union of Fascists
Samuel Mudd
Doctor
20-Dec-1833 10-Jan-1883 Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin
Hermann J. Muller
Scientist
21-Dec-1890 5-Apr-1967 Genetic effects of radiation
Robert S. Mulliken
Chemist
7-Jun-1896 31-Oct-1986 Molecular orbital theory
Joseph E. Murray
Doctor
1-Apr-1919   Kidney transplants
Graham Nash
Musician
2-Feb-1942   Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Sam Neill
Actor
14-Sep-1947   Played Reilly, Ace of Spies
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Ernest Fox Nichols
Physicist
1-Jun-1869 29-Apr-1924 Infrared radiation
Queen Noor
Royalty
23-Aug-1951   Queen of Jordan
John H. Northrop
Chemist
5-Jul-1891 27-May-1987 Bacteriophages
Justin Nozuka
Singer/Songwriter
29-Sep-1988   You I Wind Land and Sea
James D. P. Ogden
Business
26-Aug-1790 7-Apr-1870 First President of New York Life Insurance Company
Ransom E. Olds
Business
3-Jun-1864 26-Aug-1950 Founder of Nucor and Oldsmobile
Elisha Otis
Inventor
3-Aug-1811 8-Apr-1861 Invented the safety elevator
William Oughtred
Mathematician
5-Mar-1574 30-Jun-1660 Inventor of the slide rule
Wilfred Owen
Poet
18-Mar-1893 4-Nov-1918 Dulce Et Decorum Est
Thomas Paine
Activist
29-Jan-1737 8-Jun-1809 Common Sense
D. D. Palmer
Doctor
7-Mar-1845 20-Oct-1913 Founder of chiropractic medicine
Korla Pandit
Musician
16-Sep-1921 2-Oct-1998 Hynoptic exotic
Charles Stewart Parnell
Politician
27-Jun-1846 6-Oct-1891 Irish Nationalist leader
Talcott Parsons
Sociologist
13-Dec-1902 8-May-1979 The Structure of Social Action
Tera Patrick
Pornstar
25-Jul-1976   Nuttin' Hunnies
Linus Pauling
Chemist
28-Feb-1901 19-Aug-1994 Scientist and peacenik
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Astronomer
10-May-1900 7-Dec-1979 Hydrogen in the Sun
Raymond Pearl
Biologist
3-Jun-1879 17-Nov-1940 Biogerontology
Benjamin Peirce
Mathematician
4-Apr-1809 10-Jun-1880 Idempotent and nilpotent
Frances Perkins
Government
10-Apr-1882 14-May-1965 First female US cabinet member
John Phillips
Educator
27-Dec-1719 21-Apr-1795 Founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
Samuel Phillips, Jr.
Educator
5-Feb-1752 10-Feb-1802 Founder of Phillips Academy
Marge Piercy
Novelist
31-Mar-1936   Gone to Soldiers
Thomas Pinckney
Politician
23-Oct-1750 2-Nov-1828 Governor of South Carolina, 1787-89
Aubrey Plaza
Comic
26-Jun-1984   Parks and Recreation
James Plimpton
Inventor
14-Apr-1828 1911 Four-wheeled roller skates
C. W. Post
Business
26-Oct-1854 9-May-1914 Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts
John Wesley Powell
Geologist
24-Mar-1834 23-Sep-1902 Exploration of the Colorado River
Francis A. Pratt
Business
15-Feb-1827 10-Feb-1902 Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney
Ann Preston
Doctor
1-Dec-1813 18-Apr-1872 Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital
William Procter
Business
7-Dec-1801 4-Apr-1884 Co-Founder of Procter & Gamble
Robert Purvis
Activist
4-Aug-1810 15-Apr-1898 President of the Underground Railroad
William Quantrill
Criminal
31-Jul-1837 6-Jun-1865 Quantrill's Raiders
Bessica Raiche
Aviator
Apr-1875 11-Apr-1932 Aviatrix and gynecologist
James Rainwater
Physicist
9-Dec-1917 31-May-1986 Determined shapes of nuclei
Donna Reed
Actor
27-Jan-1921 14-Jan-1986 The Donna Reed Show
Martin Rees
Astronomer
23-Jun-1942   President of the Royal Society
Keanu Reeves
Actor
2-Sep-1964   Dude
Henry Regnery
Publisher
5-Jan-1912 18-Jun-1996 Regnery Publishing
Richard Reid
Terrorist
12-Aug-1973   Shoe bomber
Thomas D. Rice
Comic
20-May-1808 19-Sep-1860 Played "Jim Crow"
Owen Willans Richardson
Physicist
26-Apr-1879 15-Feb-1959 Electron emissions of metals
Oscar Riddle
Biologist
27-Sep-1877 29-Nov-1968 Prolactin
George Rockwell
Activist
9-Mar-1918 25-Aug-1967 Founded American Nazi Party
Alvah C. Roebuck
Business
9-Jun-1864 18-Jun-1948 Sears Roebuck founder
John Rolfe
Agriculturalist
1585 22-Mar-1622 First Virginia tobacco baron, husband of Pocahontas
Charles Stewart Rolls
Business
27-Aug-1877 12-Jul-1910 Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce
James Rolph, Jr.
Government
23-Aug-1869 2-Jun-1934 Mayor of San Francisco, 1912-31
Betsy Ross
Business
1-Jan-1752 30-Jan-1836 Legendary American flagmaker
Henry Royce
Engineer
27-Mar-1863 22-Apr-1933 Designed the first Rolls-Royce
Henry Norris Russell
Astronomer
25-Oct-1877 18-Feb-1957 Giant stars and dwarfs
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist
30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics
Sade
Singer
16-Jan-1959   Smooth Operator
Saffron
Singer
3-Jun-1968   Republica
George Sanders
Actor
3-Jul-1906 25-Apr-1972 The Saint Strikes Back
Wallace Sargent
Astronomer
15-Feb-1935   Astrophysicist at CalTech
Greta Scacchi
Actor
18-Feb-1960   The Player
Erwin Schrödinger
Physicist
12-Aug-1887 4-Jan-1961 Schrödinger's wave equation
John Walter Scott
Stamp Collector
2-Nov-1845 4-Jan-1919 Father of American Philately
Richard W. Sears
Business
7-Dec-1863 28-Sep-1914 Sears, Roebuck founder
Sequoyah
Linguist
c. 1770 Aug-1843 Put the Cherokee language on paper
Peter Serafinowicz
Comic
10-Jul-1972   Look Around You
Ernest Shackleton
Explorer
15-Feb-1874 5-Jan-1922 Antarctic explorer
Claude Shannon
Scientist
30-Apr-1916 24-Feb-2001 Pioneer in information theory
Anna Howard Shaw
Activist
14-Feb-1847 2-Jul-1919 National American Women's Suffrage Association
Lou Sheldon
Activist
1934   Traditional Values Coalition
Jean Shepherd
Radio Personality
26-Jul-1921 16-Oct-1999 A Christmas Story
Elisabeth Shue
Actor
6-Oct-1963   Leaving Las Vegas
Alexander Siddig
Actor
21-Nov-1965   Dr. Julian Bashir on DS9
Harry Sinclair
Business
6-Jul-1876 10-Nov-1956 Founder of Sinclair Oil
Slash
Guitarist
23-Jul-1965   Former lead guitarist, Guns n' Roses
Sir Hans Sloane
Curator
16-Apr-1660 11-Jan-1753 Milk chocolate and the British Museum
E. E. "Doc" Smith
Novelist
2-May-1890 31-Aug-1965 Lensman series
Michael Smith
Chemist
26-Apr-1932 4-Oct-2000 Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis
Frederick Soddy
Chemist
2-Sep-1877 22-Sep-1956 Isotopes
Mike Sodrel
Politician
17-Dec-1945   Congressman, Indiana 9th
Elmer Sperry
Inventor
12-Oct-1860 10-Jun-1930 Gyroscopic compass
Lawrence B. Sperry
Inventor
22-Dec-1892 13-Dec-1923 Invented the autopilot
Caroll Spinney
TV Personality
26-Dec-1933   Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Astronomer
26-Jun-1914 31-Mar-1997 Father of space telescopes
Frederick Arthur Stanley
Government
15-Jan-1841 14-Jun-1908 Hockey's Stanley Cup
John Steinbeck
Novelist
27-Feb-1902 20-Dec-1968 The Grapes of Wrath
Nettie Stevens
Biologist
7-Jul-1861 4-May-1912 X and Y chromosomes
Lynne Stewart
Attorney
8-Oct-1939   Attorney convicted of supporting the Islamic Group
Charles Sumner
Politician
6-Jan-1811 11-Mar-1874 Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts
James B. Sumner
Chemist
19-Nov-1887 12-Aug-1955 Crystallized enzymes
William Graham Sumner
Educator
30-Oct-1840 12-Apr-1910 Laissez faire sociologist
Ambrose Swasey
Business
19-Dec-1846 15-Jun-1937 Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory
Violette Szabo
Spy
26-Jun-1921 5-Feb-1945 British secret agent, fought with French Resistance
Helen Taft
First Lady
2-Jun-1861 22-May-1943 Wife of US President William Howard Taft
Ernest Thayer
Poet
14-Aug-1863 21-Aug-1940 Casey at the Bat
Dave Thomas
Comic
20-May-1949   SCTV
Elihu Thomson
Inventor
29-Mar-1853 13-Mar-1937 Electric welding and A/C motors
William Thornton
Architect
20-May-1759 28-Mar-1828 First architect of the US Capitol
Edward Titchener
Psychologist
11-Jan-1867 3-Aug-1927 Structural psychology
Charles Tufts
Business
17-Jul-1781 24-Dec-1876 Founder of Tufts University
Alan Turing
Mathematician
23-Jun-1912 7-Jun-1954 Computing pioneer
Letitia Tyler
First Lady
12-Nov-1790 10-Sep-1842 First wife of US President John Tyler
Theodore Vail
Business
16-Jul-1845 16-Apr-1920 Founder of AT&T
Holly Valance
Actor
11-May-1983   Neighbours
John Venn
Mathematician
4-Aug-1834 4-Apr-1923 Venn diagrams
Benjamin F. Wade
Politician
27-Oct-1800 2-Mar-1878 US Senator from Ohio, 1851-69
Arthur Edward Waite
Paranormal
2-Oct-1857 19-May-1942 Created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck
Ruth Graves Wakefield
Chef
17-Jun-1903 10-Jan-1977 Accidental inventor of chocolate chip cookies
Mary Edwards Walker
Doctor
26-Nov-1832 21-Feb-1919 First female US Army surgeon
Vernon Walters
Government
3-Jan-1917 10-Feb-2002 US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89
Lester Frank Ward
Sociologist
18-Jun-1841 18-Apr-1913 Dynamic Sociology
J. Robin Warren
Doctor
11-Jun-1937   H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers
Margaret Floy Washburn
Psychologist
25-Jul-1871 29-Oct-1939 First female American psychologist
Martha Washington
First Lady
2-Jun-1731 22-May-1802 Wife of US President George Washington
Lewis Waterman
Inventor
20-Nov-1836 1-May-1901 Fountain pen
Alan Watts
Philosopher
6-Jan-1915 16-Nov-1973 Zen beat counterculture sage
Naomi Watts
Actor
28-Sep-1968   First you see The Ring, then you die
Joseph Welch
Attorney
22-Oct-1890 6-Oct-1960 Have you no sense of decency?
Thomas B. Welch
Business
31-Dec-1825 29-Dec-1903 Grape juice magnate
Daniel B. Wesson
Business
18-May-1825 4-Aug-1906 Repeating pistol
George Westinghouse
Inventor
6-Oct-1846 12-Mar-1914 Air brake and A/C power
Amos Whitney
Business
8-Oct-1832 5-Aug-1928 Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney
Kaiser Wilhelm
Head of State
27-Jan-1859 4-Jun-1941 Last of the German emperors
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Chemist
14-Jul-1921 26-Sep-1996 Organometallic "sandwich" compounds
Rowan Williams
Religion
14-Jun-1950   Archbishop of Canterbury
Edith Wilson
First Lady
15-Oct-1872 28-Dec-1961 Second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson
Ellen Wilson
First Lady
15-May-1860 6-Aug-1914 First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson
Robert B. Woodward
Chemist
10-Apr-1917 8-Jul-1979 Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.
Frances Wright
Activist
6-Sep-1795 13-Dec-1852 Utopian abolitionist
William Wrigley, Jr.
Business
30-Sep-1861 26-Jan-1932 Chewing gum magnate
Peter Wyngarde
Actor
23-Aug-1933   Jason King
Thomas Young
Physicist
13-Jun-1773 10-May-1829 Wave Theory of Light


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