| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Alan Alda |
Actor |
28-Jan-1936 |
|
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H |
| Christopher Alexander |
Architect |
4-Oct-1936 |
|
A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order |
| R. H. Barlow |
Author |
18-May-1918 |
2-Jan-1951 |
Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft |
| Felix Bloch |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1905 |
10-Sep-1983 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Norman Borlaug |
Scientist |
25-Mar-1914 |
12-Sep-2009 |
Engineered disease-resistant wheat |
| John Brademas |
Politician |
2-Mar-1927 |
|
Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81 |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| Robert F. Chandler |
Educator |
22-Jun-1907 |
23-Mar-1999 |
International Rice Research Institute |
| Henry Cisneros |
Politician |
11-Jun-1947 |
|
Secretary of HUD, 1993-97 |
| Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
| Richard Danzig |
Government |
8-Sep-1944 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001 |
| John W. Davis |
Attorney |
13-Apr-1873 |
24-Mar-1955 |
US Solicitor General, 1913-18 |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Max Delbrück |
Scientist |
4-Sep-1906 |
10-Mar-1981 |
Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| C. Douglas Dillon |
Government |
21-Aug-1909 |
10-Jan-2003 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65 |
| Harold W. Dodds |
Educator |
28-Jun-1889 |
25-Oct-1980 |
President, Princeton University, 1932-57 |
| Orvil Dryfoos |
Publisher |
8-Nov-1912 |
26-May-1963 |
New York Times Publisher, 1961-63 |
| John Foster Dulles |
Government |
25-Feb-1888 |
24-May-1959 |
Eisenhower's Secretary of State |
| Ulf von Euler |
Scientist |
7-Feb-1905 |
9-Mar-1983 |
Neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and prostaglandins |
| Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
| Edmond H. Fischer |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1920 |
|
Protein phosphorylation |
| Abraham Flexner |
Educator |
13-Nov-1866 |
21-Sep-1959 |
The American College |
| Raymond B. Fosdick |
Business |
9-Jun-1883 |
19-Jul-1972 |
President of the Rockefeller Foundation |
| Ann M. Fudge |
Business |
23-Apr-1951 |
|
CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07 |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| Robert F. Goheen |
Educator |
15-Aug-1919 |
31-Mar-2008 |
President of Princeton University, 1957-72 |
| Ronald E. Goldsberry |
Business |
12-Sep-1942 |
|
Former VP, Ford |
| William C. Gorgas |
Doctor |
3-Oct-1854 |
3-Jul-1920 |
Malaria and yellow fever |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Rajat K. Gupta |
Business |
2-Dec-1948 |
|
Managing Partner of McKinsey, 1994-2003 |
| Trygve Haavelmo |
Economist |
13-Dec-1911 |
28-Jul-1999 |
Economic forecasting |
| Margaret A. Hamburg |
Government |
1955 |
|
FDA Commissioner |
| Clifford M. Hardin |
Government |
9-Oct-1915 |
4-Apr-2010 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1969-71 |
| Odd Hassel |
Chemist |
17-May-1897 |
11-May-1981 |
Conformational analysis |
| Linda A. Hill |
Educator |
c. 1957 |
|
Harvard Business School |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Johannes Holtfreter |
Zoologist |
9-Jan-1901 |
13-Nov-1992 |
Chemotaxis |
| Richard Jenrette |
Business |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
| Alfred Kinsey |
Scientist |
23-Jun-1894 |
25-Aug-1956 |
Researched human sexual behavior |
| Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
| David M. Lawrence |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Kaiser KHFP, 1991-2002 |
| Edward B. Lewis |
Scientist |
20-May-1918 |
21-Jul-2004 |
Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| Julianne Malveaux |
Columnist |
c. 1953 |
|
Pundit |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton |
Politician |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Congresswoman, Washington DC |
| Michael Novak |
Religion |
9-Sep-1933 |
|
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism |
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
Judge |
26-Mar-1930 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 |
| James F. Orr III |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
CEO of UNUM Corporation, 1987-99 |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| Hugh B. Price |
Activist |
1941 |
|
President of the Urban League, 1994-2003 |
| John D. Rockefeller |
Business |
8-Jul-1839 |
23-May-1937 |
Founder of Standard Oil |
| John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
Business |
29-Jan-1874 |
11-May-1960 |
Built Rockefeller Center |
| John D. Rockefeller III |
Philanthropist |
21-Mar-1906 |
10-Jul-1978 |
Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
| Judith Rodin |
Educator |
9-Sep-1944 |
|
President of UPenn, 1994-2004 |
| Anthony Romero |
Activist |
9-Jul-1965 |
|
ACLU Executive Director |
| Dean Rusk |
Government |
9-Feb-1909 |
21-Dec-1994 |
US Secretary of State, 1961-69 |
| Henry B. Schacht |
Business |
16-Oct-1934 |
|
Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent |
| Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Wole Soyinka |
Playwright |
13-Jul-1934 |
|
Politically-charged Nigerian author |
| Robert G. Sproul |
Educator |
22-May-1891 |
10-Sep-1975 |
President, University of California, 1930-58 |
| Frank Stanton |
Business |
20-Mar-1908 |
24-Dec-2006 |
President of CBS, 1946-73 |
| Walter W. Stewart |
Economist |
1885 |
Mar-1958 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55 |
| Maurice Strong |
Activist |
29-Apr-1929 |
28-Nov-2015 |
Power executive, environmentalist |
| Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1891 |
11-Dec-1968 |
New York Times Publisher, 1935-61 |
| Max Theiler |
Scientist |
30-Jan-1899 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Yellow fever vaccination |
| Hugo Theorell |
Scientist |
6-Jul-1903 |
15-Aug-1982 |
Oxidation enzymes |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
| George H. Whipple |
Scientist |
28-Aug-1878 |
2-Feb-1976 |
Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
