| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Cleveland Abbe |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1838 |
28-Oct-1916 |
America's first weatherman |
| Jon Abrahams |
Actor |
29-Oct-1977 |
|
Scary Movie |
| Shirley S. Abrahamson |
Judge |
17-Dec-1933 |
|
Wisconsin Chief Justice |
| Elliott Abrams |
Government |
24-Jan-1948 |
|
Asst. Secy. of State involved in Iran-Contra |
| Floyd Abrams |
Attorney |
9-Jul-1936 |
|
First Amendment lawyer |
| J. J. Abrams |
Film/TV Producer |
27-Jun-1966 |
|
Alias and Lost |
| Rachel Abrams |
Activist |
2-Jan-1951 |
7-Jun-2013 |
Conservative activist |
| Jill Abramson |
Journalist |
19-Mar-1954 |
|
New York Times managing editor |
| Kathy Acker |
Author |
18-Apr-1947 |
1-Dec-1997 |
Blood and Guts in High School |
| Bruce Ackerman |
Legal Scholar |
19-Aug-1943 |
|
We the People |
| Brooke Adams |
Actor |
8-Feb-1949 |
|
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Don Adams |
Actor |
13-Apr-1926 |
25-Sep-2005 |
Maxwell Smart on Get Smart |
| Jay Adler |
Actor |
26-Sep-1896 |
23-Sep-1978 |
The Family Jewels |
| Luther Adler |
Actor |
4-May-1903 |
8-Dec-1984 |
Broadway actor |
| Mortimer J. Adler |
Philosopher |
28-Dec-1902 |
28-Jun-2001 |
How to Read a Book |
| Richard Adler |
Songwriter |
3-Aug-1921 |
21-Jun-2012 |
Damn Yankees |
| Stella Adler |
Actor |
10-Feb-1901 |
21-Dec-1992 |
Theater actress, Group Theater |
| Pamela Adlon |
Actor |
9-Jul-1966 |
|
Marcy on Californication |
| Arthur Agatston |
Doctor |
1947 |
|
The South Beach Diet |
| Fred E. Ahlert |
Composer |
19-Sep-1892 |
20-Oct-1953 |
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter |
| Kamal Ahmed |
Comic |
07-May-1966 |
|
Half of The Jerky Boys |
| Liam Aiken |
Actor |
7-Jan-1990 |
|
A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| Karen Akers |
Actor |
13-Oct-1945 |
|
Broadway actress, singer |
| Todd Akin |
Politician |
5-Jul-1947 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 2001-13 |
| Alan Alda |
Actor |
28-Jan-1936 |
|
Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H |
| Robert Alda |
Actor |
26-Nov-1914 |
3-May-1986 |
Cloak and Dagger |
| Flex Alexander |
Actor |
15-Apr-1970 |
|
One on One |
| Khandi Alexander |
Actor |
4-Sep-1957 |
|
NewsRadio, CSI: Miami |
| Shana Alexander |
Journalist |
6-Oct-1925 |
23-Jun-2005 |
Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder |
| Dayton Allen |
Actor |
24-Sep-1919 |
11-Nov-2004 |
Voice actor |
| Herbert A. Allen, Sr. |
Business |
13-Feb-1908 |
18-Jan-1997 |
Allen & Company, Inc. |
| Irwin Allen |
Film/TV Producer |
12-Jun-1916 |
2-Nov-1991 |
The Master of Disaster |
| Jonelle Allen |
Actor |
18-Jul-1944 |
|
Grace on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
| Steve Allen |
Talk Show Host |
26-Dec-1921 |
30-Oct-2000 |
The Tonight Show |
| Emily Altman |
Business |
1955 |
|
Morgan Stanley |
| Trini Alvarado |
Actor |
10-Jan-1967 |
|
Little Women |
| Gil Amelio |
Business |
1-Mar-1943 |
|
CEO of Apple, 1996-97 |
| Eva Amurri |
Actor |
15-Mar-1985 |
|
Actress/daughter of Susan Sarandon |
| Luana Anders |
Actor |
12-May-1938 |
21-Jul-1996 |
The Pit and the Pendulum |
| Carl David Anderson |
Physicist |
3-Sep-1905 |
11-Jan-1991 |
Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
| Robert W. Anderson |
Playwright |
28-Apr-1917 |
9-Feb-2009 |
Tea and Sympathy |
| Natalie Angier |
Journalist |
16-Feb-1958 |
|
Science reporter |
| Leonore Annenberg |
Socialite |
20-Feb-1918 |
12-Mar-2009 |
Wife of Walter Annenberg |
| Susan Anspach |
Actor |
23-Nov-1942 |
|
Five Easy Pieces |
| Marc Anthony |
Singer |
16-Sep-1969 |
|
Leading salsa star |
| Devon Aoki |
Model |
10-Aug-1982 |
|
Sin City |
| Fiona Apple |
Musician |
13-Sep-1977 |
|
Tidal |
| Allan Arbus |
Actor |
15-Feb-1918 |
19-Apr-2013 |
Dr. Sidney on M*A*S*H |
| Diane Arbus |
Photographer |
14-Mar-1923 |
26-Jul-1971 |
Influential photographer |
| Army Archerd |
Columnist |
13-Jan-1922 |
8-Sep-2009 |
Variety's gossip columnist |
| Nate Archibald |
Basketball |
2-Sep-1948 |
|
NBA Hall of Famer |
| Moises Arias |
Actor |
12-Apr-1994 |
|
Rico on Hannah Montana |
| Adam Arkin |
Actor |
19-Aug-1956 |
|
Dr. Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope |
| Edwin H. Armstrong |
Inventor |
18-Dec-1890 |
31-Jan-1954 |
Inventor of FM radio |
| Alison Arngrim |
Actor |
18-Jan-1962 |
|
Nellie on Little House on the Prairie |
| Peter Arno |
Cartoonist |
8-Jan-1904 |
22-Feb-1968 |
The New Yorker |
| Edward Arnold |
Actor |
18-Feb-1890 |
26-Apr-1956 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Gerard Arpey |
Business |
26-Jul-1958 |
|
CEO of American Airlines |
| Rosanna Arquette |
Actor |
10-Aug-1959 |
|
Desperately Seeking Susan |
| Kenneth J. Arrow |
Economist |
23-Aug-1921 |
21-Feb-2017 |
Social Choice and Individual Values |
| Martina Arroyo |
Singer |
2-Feb-1937 |
|
Operatic soprano |
| Bea Arthur |
Actor |
13-May-1922 |
25-Apr-2009 |
Maude and The Golden Girls |
| William Asher |
Film Director |
8-Aug-1921 |
16-Jul-2012 |
Beach Blanket Bingo |
| Armand Assante |
Actor |
4-Oct-1949 |
|
Judge Dredd |
| William Waldorf Astor |
Publisher |
31-Mar-1848 |
18-Oct-1919 |
The Observer |
| René Auberjonois |
Actor |
1-Jun-1940 |
|
Changeling on Star Trek: DS9 |
| Eleanor Audley |
Actor |
19-Nov-1905 |
25-Nov-1991 |
Wicked stepmother in Cinderella |
| Artie Auerbach |
Actor |
17-May-1903 |
3-Oct-1957 |
Mr. Kitzel on The Jack Benny Program |
| Jake T. Austin |
Actor |
3-Dec-1994 |
|
Wizards of Waverly Place |
| Aram Avakian |
Film Director |
23-Apr-1926 |
17-Jan-1987 |
End of the Road |
| Richard Avedon |
Photographer |
13-May-1923 |
1-Oct-2004 |
Photographer of the human predicament |
| Phyllis Avery |
Actor |
14-Nov-1922 |
19-May-2011 |
Peggy McNulty on Meet Mr. McNulty |
| Rick Aviles |
Comic |
14-Oct-1952 |
17-Mar-1995 |
Ghost |
| George Axelrod |
Screenwriter |
9-Jun-1922 |
21-Jun-2003 |
The Seven Year Itch |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Rochelle Aytes |
Actor |
17-May-1976 |
|
White Chicks |
| Lauren Bacall |
Actor |
16-Sep-1924 |
12-Aug-2014 |
Key Largo |
| Angelo Badalamenti |
Composer |
22-Mar-1937 |
|
Scored several David Lynch films |
| Nicholson Baker |
Author |
7-Jan-1957 |
|
Double Fold |
| Robert M. Ball |
Government |
28-Mar-1914 |
29-Jan-2008 |
Director of Social Security, 1962-73 |
| Ian Ballantine |
Publisher |
15-Feb-1916 |
9-Mar-1995 |
Paperback magnate |
| Talia Balsam |
Actor |
5-Mar-1959 |
|
Crawlspace |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| Toni Cade Bambara |
Novelist |
25-Mar-1939 |
9-Dec-1995 |
Gorilla, My Love |
| Benjamin R. Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
| Joseph Barbera |
Cartoonist |
24-Mar-1911 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Hanna-Barbera cartoons |
| Edward W. Barnholt |
Business |
1943 |
|
CEO of Agilent Technologies, 1999-2005 |
| William Barr |
Government |
23-May-1950 |
|
US Attorney General, 1991-93 |
| Robert Barrat |
Actor |
10-Jul-1889 |
7-Jan-1970 |
The Kennel Murder Case |
| Rona Barrett |
Columnist |
8-Oct-1936 |
|
Entertainment gossip columnist |
| William Barrett |
Philosopher |
30-Dec-1913 |
8-Sep-1992 |
Irrational Man |
| Edgar Barrier |
Actor |
4-Mar-1907 |
20-Jun-1964 |
Macbeth |
| Alex Barris |
TV Personality |
16-Sep-1922 |
15-Jan-2004 |
Canadian TV star from the '50s and '60s |
| Dana Barron |
Actor |
22-Apr-1968 |
|
National Lampoon's Vacation |
| Maryanne Trump Barry |
Judge |
5-Apr-1937 |
|
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Richard Barthelmess |
Actor |
9-May-1895 |
17-Aug-1963 |
Tol'able David |
| Jacqueline K. Barton |
Chemist |
7-May-1952 |
|
Professor of Chemistry at CalTech |
| Adrian A. Basora |
Diplomat |
18-Jul-1938 |
|
NSC European Director, 1989-91 |
| Saul Bass |
Designer |
8-May-1920 |
25-Apr-1996 |
Master of title design |
| Angela Bassett |
Actor |
16-Aug-1958 |
|
Got her groove back |
| Robert F. Bauer |
Attorney |
22-Feb-1952 |
|
White House Counsel, 2010-11 |
| Buzzie Bavasi |
Baseball |
12-Dec-1914 |
1-May-2008 |
MLB General Manager |
| Frances Bavier |
Actor |
14-Dec-1902 |
6-Dec-1989 |
Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show |
| William Beaudine |
Film Director |
15-Jan-1892 |
18-Mar-1970 |
Billy the Kid versus Dracula |
| Julian Beck |
Actor |
31-May-1925 |
14-Sep-1985 |
Rev. Kane in Poltergeist II |
| Bob Beckel |
Pundit |
15-Nov-1948 |
|
Fox News Analyst |
| Frederic K. Becker |
Attorney |
1935 |
|
Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer |
| Harold Becker |
Film Director |
1950 |
|
City Hall and Sea of Love |
| Bonnie Bedelia |
Actor |
25-Mar-1948 |
|
Die Hard |
| Noah Beery, Jr. |
Actor |
10-Aug-1913 |
1-Nov-1994 |
Rocky on The Rockford Files |
| Jason Beghe |
Actor |
12-Mar-1960 |
|
Sean McGrail on To Have and to Hold |
| Barbara Bel Geddes |
Actor |
31-Oct-1922 |
8-Aug-2005 |
Miss Ellie on Dallas |
| Shari Belafonte |
Actor |
22-Sep-1954 |
|
Harry's daughter |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
| Lake Bell |
Actor |
24-Mar-1979 |
|
Surface |
| Pamela Bellwood |
Actor |
26-Jun-1951 |
|
Claudia Blaisdel on Dynasty |
| Perry Belmont |
Politician |
28-Dec-1851 |
25-May-1947 |
Congressman from New York, 1881-88 |
| Bea Benaderet |
Actor |
4-Apr-1906 |
13-Oct-1968 |
Voice of Betty Rubble |
| Peter Benchley |
Novelist |
8-May-1940 |
11-Feb-2006 |
Jaws |
| William Bendix |
Actor |
14-Jan-1906 |
14-Dec-1964 |
The Life of Riley |
| Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
| Richard Benjamin |
Actor |
22-May-1938 |
|
Westworld |
| Constance Bennett |
Actor |
22-Oct-1904 |
24-Jul-1965 |
The Affairs of Cellini |
| Tony Bennett |
Singer |
3-Aug-1926 |
|
Left his heart in San Francisco |
| Warren Bennis |
Educator |
8-Mar-1925 |
31-Jul-2014 |
Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge |
| Craig Benson |
Politician |
8-Oct-1954 |
|
Governor of New Hampshire, 2003-05 |
| Marisa Berenson |
Actor |
15-Feb-1947 |
|
Barry Lyndon |
| Peter Berg |
Actor |
11-Mar-1964 |
|
Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope |
| Arthur Berger |
Composer |
15-May-1912 |
7-Oct-2003 |
Ideas of Order |
| Lowell Bergman |
Film/TV Producer |
24-Jul-1945 |
|
Former 60 Minutes producer |
| Marilyn Bergman |
Songwriter |
10-Nov-1929 |
|
The Way We Were |
| Shelley Berkley |
Politician |
20-Jan-1951 |
|
Congresswoman, Nevada 1st |
| David Berkowitz |
Criminal |
1-Jun-1953 |
|
Son of Sam killer |
| Roger S. Berlind |
Film/TV Producer |
27-Jun-1930 |
|
Broadway producer |
| Charles Berlitz |
Author |
20-Nov-1914 |
18-Dec-2003 |
Language lessons and specultive non-fiction |
| Ari Berman |
Journalist |
c. 1983 |
|
Contributing writer, The Nation |
| Marshall Berman |
Scholar |
24-Nov-1940 |
11-Sep-2013 |
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
| Herschel Bernardi |
Actor |
20-Oct-1923 |
9-May-1986 |
Voiced Charlie the Tuna, Jolly Green Giant |
| Berl Bernhard |
Attorney |
7-Sep-1929 |
|
Co-Founder, Verner Liipfert |
| Elmer Bernstein |
Composer |
4-Apr-1922 |
18-Aug-2004 |
Scored The Magnificent Seven |
| Alfred Bester |
Novelist |
18-Dec-1913 |
30-Sep-1987 |
The Stars My Destination |
| Zina Bethune |
Actor |
17-Feb-1945 |
11-Feb-2012 |
Gail Lucas on The Nurses |
| Hakim Bey |
Author |
1945 |
|
Temporary Autonomous Zone |
| Troy Beyer |
Actor |
7-Nov-1964 |
|
Love Don't Cost a Thing |
| Poultney Bigelow |
Author |
10-Sep-1855 |
28-May-1954 |
The German Struggle for Liberty |
| Leslie S. Biller |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
COO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2002 |
| Peter Billingsley |
Actor |
16-Apr-1972 |
|
A Christmas Story |
| Billy the Kid |
Criminal |
23-Nov-1859 |
14-Jul-1881 |
Frontier outlaw |
| Val Bisoglio |
Actor |
7-May-1926 |
|
Danny Tovo on Quincy |
| Whit Bissell |
Actor |
25-Oct-1909 |
5-Mar-1996 |
The Time Tunnel |
| Jay Black |
Musician |
2-Nov-1938 |
|
Second "Jay" fronting Jay and the Americans |
| Bill de Blasio |
Politician |
8-May-1961 |
|
Mayor of New York City |
| Samuel Blatchford |
Judge |
9-Mar-1820 |
7-Jul-1893 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-93 |
| James M. Blaut |
Historian |
20-Oct-1927 |
11-Nov-2000 |
The Colonizer's Model of the World |
| Yasmine Bleeth |
Actor |
14-Jun-1968 |
|
Baywatch |
| Peter Blegvad |
Musician |
14-Aug-1951 |
|
Slapp Happy, Leviathan |
| Edward Bleier |
Business |
16-Oct-1929 |
|
President, Warner Broadcast/Cable, 1986-2000 |
| Henry E. Bliss |
Curator |
29-Jan-1870 |
9-Aug-1955 |
Bliss Classification System |
| Scott Bloch |
Government |
c. 1958 |
|
Office of Special Counsel, 2004-08 |
| Joan Blondell |
Actor |
30-Aug-1906 |
25-Dec-1979 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Alfred H. Bloom |
Educator |
27-Feb-1946 |
|
President, Swarthmore College |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Baruch S. Blumberg |
Scientist |
28-Jul-1925 |
5-Apr-2011 |
Hepatitis B vaccine |
| Steven Bochco |
Film/TV Producer |
16-Dec-1943 |
|
Cop Rock |
| Richard W. Boehm |
Diplomat |
25-Jun-1926 |
28-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador to Oman, 1989-92 |
| Earl Boen |
Actor |
7-Nov-1945 |
|
In three Terminator movies |
| Humphrey Bogart |
Actor |
25-Dec-1899 |
14-Jan-1957 |
Casablanca |
| Paul Bogart |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1919 |
15-Apr-2012 |
Prolific TV and film director |
| Richard W. Bolling |
Politician |
17-May-1916 |
21-Apr-1991 |
Congressman from Missouri, 1949-83 |
| Murray Bookchin |
Philosopher |
14-Jan-1921 |
30-Jul-2006 |
The Ecology of Freedom |
| Shirley Booth |
Actor |
30-Aug-1898 |
16-Oct-1992 |
Come Back, Little Sheba |
| Michael J. Boskin |
Economist |
23-Sep-1945 |
|
Economics Professor at Stanford |
| Margot Botsford |
Judge |
16-Mar-1947 |
|
Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court |
| Michael Boudin |
Judge |
29-Nov-1939 |
|
1st Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Anthony Bourdain |
Chef |
25-Jun-1956 |
|
Kitchen Confidential |
| Joseph L. Bower |
Business |
21-Sep-1938 |
|
Professor, Harvard Business School |
| John Ross Bowie |
Actor |
30-May-1971 |
|
Barry Kripke on The Big Bang Theory |
| Jane Bowles |
Novelist |
22-Feb-1917 |
4-May-1973 |
Two Serious Ladies |
| James J. Braddock |
Boxing |
7-Jun-1905 |
29-Nov-1974 |
Cinderella Man |
| Alice Brady |
Actor |
2-Nov-1892 |
28-Oct-1939 |
In Old Chicago |
| John G. Brady |
Politician |
25-May-1848 |
17-Dec-1918 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska 1897-1906 |
| Nicholas F. Brady |
Government |
11-Apr-1930 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1988-93 |
| Gloria Brame |
Author |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Clinical sexologist |
| Robert Brenner |
Historian |
28-Nov-1943 |
|
The Boom and the Bubble |
| Abigail Breslin |
Actor |
14-Apr-1996 |
|
Little Miss Sunshine |
| Patricia Breslin |
Actor |
17-Mar-1931 |
12-Oct-2011 |
The People's Choice |
| Spencer Breslin |
Actor |
18-May-1992 |
|
The Kid |
| David Brian |
Actor |
5-Aug-1914 |
15-Jul-1993 |
Mr. District Attorney |
| Fanny Brice |
Singer |
29-Oct-1891 |
29-May-1951 |
The Baby Snooks Show |
| Matthew Broderick |
Actor |
21-Mar-1962 |
|
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| Adrien Brody |
Actor |
14-Apr-1973 |
|
The Pianist |
| Geraldine Brooks |
Actor |
29-Oct-1925 |
19-Jun-1977 |
The Reckless Moment |
| Joel Brooks |
Actor |
17-Dec-1949 |
|
J. D. Lucas on My Sister Sam |
| Edward Brophy |
Actor |
27-Feb-1895 |
27-May-1960 |
The Last Hurrah |
| Claude Brown |
Author |
23-Feb-1937 |
2-Feb-2002 |
Manchild in the Promised Land |
| Harold Brown |
Government |
19-Sep-1927 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1977-81 |
| L. Dean Brown |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1920 |
2-May-2001 |
US Ambassador to Jordan, 1970-73 |
| Peter Brown |
Actor |
5-Oct-1935 |
21-Mar-2016 |
Deputy Johnny McKay in Lawman |
| Wesley Brown |
Novelist |
1945 |
|
Tragic Magic |
| Harry Browne |
Politician |
17-Jun-1933 |
1-Mar-2006 |
Libertarian candidate for President |
| Ron Brownstein |
Columnist |
6-Apr-1958 |
|
The Los Angeles Times |
| Catherine Wolfe Bruce |
Philanthropist |
22-Jan-1816 |
13-Mar-1900 |
Underwriter of astronomy |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| John E. Bryson |
Business |
24-Jul-1943 |
|
US Secretary of Commerce, 2011-12 |
| Mika Brzezinski |
Journalist |
2-May-1967 |
|
Co-Host, Morning Joe |
| Christopher Buckley |
Novelist |
24-Dec-1952 |
|
Thank You for Smoking |
| James L. Buckley |
Politician |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
US Senator from New York, 1971-77 |
| William F. Buckley |
Columnist |
24-Nov-1925 |
27-Feb-2008 |
National Review |
| Frederick Buechner |
Novelist |
11-Jul-1926 |
|
The Final Beast |
| Sandy Bull |
Guitarist |
1941 |
11-Apr-2001 |
Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo |
| Brooke Bundy |
Actor |
8-Aug-1944 |
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 |
| Stephen B. Burbank |
Legal Scholar |
8-Jan-1947 |
|
UPenn Law Professor |
| Raymond Burghardt |
Diplomat |
27-May-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Vietnam, 2002-04 |
| Andrew H. Burke |
Politician |
15-May-1850 |
17-Nov-1918 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1891-93 |
| Catherine Burns |
Actor |
24-Sep-1945 |
|
Last Summer |
| George Burns |
Comic |
20-Jan-1896 |
9-Mar-1996 |
Oh, God! |
| Ursula M. Burns |
Business |
20-Sep-1958 |
|
CEO of Xerox |
| Abe Burrows |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1910 |
17-May-1985 |
Co-Author, Guys and Dolls |
| Carter Burwell |
Composer |
19-Nov-1955 |
|
Composer for all Coen Bros films |
| Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
| Yancy Butler |
Actor |
2-Jul-1970 |
|
Witchblade |
| Red Buttons |
Actor |
5-Feb-1919 |
13-Jul-2006 |
They Shoot Horses Don't They? |
| John Byner |
Comic |
28-Jun-1938 |
|
Voice of The Aardvark cartoon |
| Edd Byrnes |
Actor |
30-Jul-1933 |
|
Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip |
| Irving Caesar |
Songwriter |
4-Jul-1895 |
17-Dec-1996 |
Tea for Two |
| Eddie Cahill |
Actor |
15-Jan-1978 |
|
Det. Don Flack on CSI: NY |
| Thomas Cahill |
Author |
29-Mar-1940 |
|
How the Irish Saved Civilization |
| Sammy Cahn |
Songwriter |
18-Jun-1913 |
15-Jan-1993 |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
| Mary Calderone |
Activist |
1-Jul-1904 |
24-Oct-1998 |
Questions and Answers about Love and Sex |
| Hortense Calisher |
Novelist |
20-Dec-1911 |
15-Jan-2009 |
In the Absence of Angels |
| Maria Callas |
Singer |
2-Dec-1923 |
16-Sep-1977 |
Operatic Soprano |
| Godfrey Cambridge |
Actor |
26-Feb-1933 |
29-Nov-1976 |
Cotton Comes to Harlem |
| L. Sprague de Camp |
Author |
27-Nov-1907 |
6-Nov-2000 |
Lest Darkness Fall |
| Frank Campanella |
Actor |
12-Mar-1919 |
30-Dec-2006 |
Character actor |
| Joseph Campanella |
Actor |
21-Nov-1933 |
|
The Colbys |
| John Candelaria |
Baseball |
6-Nov-1953 |
|
Candyman, MLB pitcher |
| Cass Canfield |
Publisher |
26-Apr-1897 |
27-Mar-1986 |
Harper & Brothers |
| Lou Cannon |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1933 |
|
Reagan |
| Eddie Cantor |
Singer |
31-Jan-1892 |
10-Oct-1964 |
Banjo Eyes |
| Nancy Cantor |
Educator |
c. 1952 |
|
Chancellor, Syracuse University |
| Jennifer Capriati |
Tennis |
29-Mar-1976 |
|
Troubled tennis pro |
| Irene Cara |
Singer |
18-Mar-1959 |
|
Oh what a feeling |
| Demetrios James Caraley |
Educator |
22-Jun-1932 |
|
President, Academy of Political Science |
| Nestor Carbonell |
Actor |
1-Dec-1967 |
|
Luis Rivera on Suddenly Susan |
| Benjamin Cardozo |
Judge |
24-May-1870 |
9-Jul-1938 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1932-38 |
| Ernestine Gilbreth Carey |
Author |
4-Apr-1908 |
4-Nov-2006 |
Cheaper by the Dozen |
| Olive Carey |
Actor |
31-Jan-1896 |
13-Mar-1988 |
Billy the Kid versus Dracula |
| Ron Carey |
Labor Leader |
22-Mar-1936 |
11-Dec-2008 |
Teamsters President, 1992-99 |
| Lou Carnesecca |
Basketball |
5-Jan-1925 |
|
Longtime coach, St. John's University |
| John Carradine |
Actor |
5-Feb-1906 |
27-Nov-1988 |
In over 200 B movies |
| Asia Carrera |
Pornstar |
6-Aug-1973 |
|
Mensa member, pornstar |
| Jim Carroll |
Author |
1-Aug-1950 |
11-Sep-2009 |
The Basketball Diaries |
| Nancy Carroll |
Actor |
19-Nov-1903 |
6-Aug-1965 |
The Devil's Holiday |
| Benny Carter |
Jazz Musician |
8-Aug-1907 |
12-Jul-2003 |
Jazz and big bandleader |
| Elliott Carter |
Composer |
11-Dec-1908 |
5-Nov-2012 |
The Defence of Corinth |
| Emily Carter |
Author |
1960 |
|
Glory Goes and Gets Some |
| Helena Carter |
Actor |
24-Aug-1923 |
11-Jan-2000 |
Invaders from Mars |
| Ralph Carter |
Actor |
30-May-1961 |
|
Michael Evans on Good Times |
| Zachary W. Carter |
Attorney |
19-Mar-1950 |
|
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney |
| Alexander Cartwright |
Baseball |
17-Apr-1820 |
12-Jul-1892 |
Original rules of baseball |
| Julian Casablancas |
Musician |
23-Aug-1978 |
|
The Strokes frontman |
| Kimberly A. Casiano |
Business |
21-Dec-1957 |
|
President of Casiano Communications, 1994-2009 |
| John Cassavetes |
Actor |
9-Dec-1929 |
3-Feb-1989 |
Rosemary's Baby |
| Nick Cassavetes |
Actor |
21-May-1959 |
|
Assault of the Killer Bimbos |
| David Cassidy |
Singer |
12-Apr-1950 |
|
The Partridge Family |
| Jack Cassidy |
Actor |
5-Mar-1927 |
12-Dec-1976 |
The Eiger Sanction |
| William Castle |
Film Director |
24-Apr-1914 |
31-May-1977 |
House on Haunted Hill |
| Jimmy Castor |
Musician |
23-Jun-1947 |
16-Jan-2012 |
Troglodyte |
| Ida L. Castro |
Government |
1953 |
|
Chairman of the EEOC, 1998-2001 |
| Gilbert Cates |
Film Director |
6-Jun-1934 |
1-Nov-2011 |
I Never Sang for My Father |
| Phoebe Cates |
Actor |
16-Jul-1963 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| Joseph Cawthorn |
Actor |
29-Mar-1868 |
21-Jan-1949 |
White Zombie |
| Wyatt Cenac |
Comic |
19-Apr-1976 |
|
The Daily Show |
| Stockard Channing |
Actor |
13-Feb-1944 |
|
The First Lady on The West Wing |
| Frederic L. Chapin |
Diplomat |
13-Jul-1929 |
8-Sep-1989 |
US Ambassador to Guatemala, 1981-84 |
| John Jay Chapman |
Essayist |
2-Mar-1862 |
4-Nov-1933 |
Essayist, founder of The Nursery |
| Barrie Chase |
Dancer |
20-Oct-1933 |
|
Danced with Fred Astaire |
| Ilka Chase |
Actor |
8-Apr-1900 |
15-Feb-1978 |
Now, Voyager |
| Ruth Chatterton |
Actor |
24-Dec-1893 |
24-Nov-1961 |
Madame X |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
| Nick Chinlund |
Actor |
18-Nov-1961 |
|
A Brother's Kiss |
| Marvin J. Chomsky |
Film Director |
23-May-1929 |
|
Holocaust |
| Carol T. Christ |
Educator |
21-May-1944 |
|
President, Smith College |
| Robert Christgau |
Critic |
18-Apr-1942 |
|
Village Voice music critic |
| Michael Cimino |
Film Director |
3-Feb-1939 |
2-Jul-2016 |
The Deer Hunter |
| Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick |
Judge |
1942 |
|
Judge, NY Court of Appeals |
| Grenville Clark |
Attorney |
5-Nov-1882 |
13-Jan-1967 |
World Peace Through World Law |
| Spencer Treat Clark |
Actor |
24-Sep-1987 |
|
Unbreakable |
| Jill Clayburgh |
Actor |
30-Apr-1944 |
5-Nov-2010 |
Starting Over |
| Harlan Cleveland |
Government |
19-Jan-1918 |
30-May-2008 |
Futurist, diplomat |
| Adam Clymer |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1937 |
|
The New York Times |
| Lee J. Cobb |
Actor |
8-Dec-1911 |
11-Feb-1976 |
The Left Hand of God |
| James Coco |
Actor |
21-Mar-1928 |
25-Feb-1987 |
Only When I Laugh |
| Henry Sloane Coffin |
Religion |
5-Jan-1877 |
25-Nov-1954 |
Meaning of the Cross |
| William Sloane Coffin |
Activist |
1-Jun-1924 |
12-Apr-2006 |
Civilly disobedient chaplain |
| Alexander H. Cohen |
Theatre Producer |
24-Jul-1920 |
22-Apr-2000 |
The Homecoming |
| Herman Cohen |
Diplomat |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia 1977-80 |
| Larry Cohen |
Film Director |
15-Jul-1938 |
|
The Stuff |
| Naomi W. Cohen |
Historian |
13-Nov-1927 |
|
Jews in Christian America |
| Roy Cohn |
Government |
20-Feb-1927 |
2-Aug-1986 |
Joseph McCarthy's henchman |
| Lester Cole |
Screenwriter |
19-Jun-1904 |
15-Aug-1985 |
Born Free |
| Cy Coleman |
Composer |
14-Jun-1929 |
18-Nov-2004 |
Hey, Big Spender |
| Schuyler Colfax |
Politician |
23-Mar-1823 |
13-Jan-1885 |
US Vice President, 1869-73 |
| Bud Collyer |
Game Show Host |
18-Jun-1908 |
8-Sep-1969 |
To Tell the Truth |
| June Collyer |
Actor |
19-Aug-1906 |
16-Mar-1968 |
The Stu Erwin Show |
| Joe Conason |
Journalist |
c. 1954 |
|
New York Observer political columnist |
| Jeff Conaway |
Actor |
5-Oct-1950 |
27-May-2011 |
Grease |
| Bill Condon |
Film Director |
22-Oct-1955 |
|
Gods and Monsters |
| Kevin Connolly |
Actor |
5-Mar-1974 |
|
Eric Murphy on Entourage |
| Con Conrad |
Songwriter |
18-Jun-1891 |
28-Sep-1938 |
The Continental |
| Michael Conrad |
Actor |
16-Oct-1925 |
22-Nov-1983 |
Sgt. Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues |
| Frank Conroy |
Author |
15-Jan-1936 |
6-Apr-2005 |
Stop-Time |
| J. Michael Cook |
Business |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Deloitte & Touche, 1989-99 |
| Robin Cook |
Novelist |
4-May-1940 |
|
Coma |
| Anderson Cooper |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1967 |
|
Anderson Cooper 360 |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Ralph Cooper |
Actor |
16-Jan-1908 |
4-Apr-1992 |
The Dark Gable |
| Sofia Coppola |
Film Director |
14-May-1971 |
|
Lost in Translation |
| Pedro de Cordoba |
Actor |
28-Sep-1881 |
16-Sep-1950 |
The Ghost Breakers |
| Frederick De Cordova |
Film/TV Producer |
27-Oct-1910 |
15-Sep-2001 |
Producer of The Tonight Show |
| Gregory Corso |
Poet |
26-Mar-1930 |
17-Jan-2001 |
Beat poet, Gasoline |
| George B. Cortelyou |
Politician |
26-Jul-1862 |
23-Oct-1940 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1907-09 |
| Ann Coulter |
Pundit |
8-Dec-1961 |
|
Rightwing bombthrower |
| Bob Cousy |
Basketball |
9-Aug-1928 |
|
Boston Celtics guard |
| Jerome Cowan |
Actor |
6-Oct-1897 |
24-Jan-1972 |
Miracle on 34th Street |
| Howard E. Cox, Jr. |
Business |
1944 |
|
Greylock Partners |
| Richard Cox |
Actor |
6-May-1948 |
|
Cruising |
| Norma Crane |
Actor |
10-Nov-1928 |
28-Sep-1973 |
Fiddler on the Roof |
| Nick Cravat |
Actor |
11-Jan-1912 |
29-Jan-1994 |
The Crimson Pirate |
| Chester A. Crocker |
Government |
29-Oct-1941 |
|
Asst. Secy. State, African Affairs, 1981-89 |
| Herbert Croly |
Author |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
The Promise of American Life |
| Floyd Crosby |
Cinematographer |
12-Dec-1899 |
30-Sep-1985 |
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas |
| Milton Cross |
Radio Personality |
16-Apr-1897 |
3-Jan-1975 |
Announcer, voice of the Metropolitan Opera |
| Lindsay Crouse |
Actor |
12-May-1948 |
|
House of Games |
| Jon Cryer |
Actor |
16-Apr-1965 |
|
Duckie Dale in Pretty in Pink |
| James W. Crystal |
Business |
9-Oct-1937 |
|
Frank Crystal & Company |
| George Cukor |
Film Director |
7-Jul-1899 |
23-Jan-1983 |
My Fair Lady |
| Kieran Culkin |
Actor |
30-Sep-1982 |
|
Brother of Macaulay Culkin |
| Macaulay Culkin |
Actor |
26-Aug-1980 |
|
Home Alone |
| Rory Culkin |
Actor |
21-Jul-1989 |
|
Kid in Signs |
| Joseph F. Cullman III |
Business |
9-Apr-1912 |
30-Apr-2004 |
CEO of Philip Morris, 1957-78 |
| Irving Cummings |
Film Director |
9-Oct-1888 |
18-Apr-1959 |
In Old Arizona |
| Rivers Cuomo |
Musician |
13-Jun-1970 |
|
Weezer frontman |
| Valerie Curtin |
Actor |
31-Mar-1945 |
|
Judy Bernly on 9 to 5 |
| Tony Curtis |
Actor |
3-Jun-1925 |
29-Sep-2010 |
Some Like It Hot |
| Lloyd Cutler |
Attorney |
10-Nov-1917 |
8-May-2005 |
White House Counsel for Carter, Clinton |
| Patti D'Arbanville |
Actor |
25-May-1951 |
|
Rose Boscorelli on Third Watch |
| Mike D |
Rapper |
20-Nov-1965 |
|
Beastie Boys |
| Alexandra Daddario |
Actor |
16-Mar-1986 |
|
Bereavement |
| Dan Dailey |
Actor |
14-Dec-1913 |
16-Oct-1978 |
When My Baby Smiles at Me |
| Curtis B. Dall |
Military |
24-Oct-1896 |
28-Jun-1991 |
Liberty Lobby |
| John Dall |
Actor |
26-May-1918 |
15-Jan-1971 |
Rope |
| Timothy Daly |
Actor |
1-Mar-1956 |
|
Seven Girlfriends |
| Stuart Damon |
Actor |
5-Feb-1937 |
|
Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital |
| Leora Dana |
Actor |
1-Apr-1923 |
13-Dec-1983 |
Some Came Running |
| Claire Danes |
Actor |
12-Apr-1979 |
|
My So-Called Life |
| Royal Dano |
Actor |
16-Nov-1922 |
15-May-1994 |
The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao |
| Ray Danton |
Actor |
19-Sep-1931 |
11-Feb-1992 |
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond |
| Richard Danzig |
Government |
8-Sep-1944 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001 |
| Terence Trent D'Arby |
Musician |
15-Mar-1962 |
|
Introducing The Hardline |
| Henry Darrow |
Actor |
15-Sep-1933 |
|
The High Chaparral |
| Damon Dash |
Business |
3-May-1971 |
|
Co-Founder, Roc-A-Fella Records |
| Harry Davenport |
Actor |
19-Jan-1866 |
9-Aug-1949 |
Gone with the Wind |
| Hal David |
Songwriter |
25-May-1921 |
1-Sep-2012 |
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head |
| Mack David |
Songwriter |
5-Jul-1912 |
30-Dec-1993 |
La vie en rose |
| Rosario Dawson |
Actor |
9-May-1979 |
|
Josie and the Pussycats |
| Charlie Day |
Actor |
9-Feb-1976 |
|
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| Clarence Day |
Author |
18-Nov-1874 |
28-Dec-1935 |
Life with Father |
| Sky Dayton |
Business |
8-Aug-1971 |
|
Earthlink, Boingo Wireless |
| Robert De Niro |
Actor |
17-Aug-1943 |
|
The Godfather: Part II |
| Kristine Debell |
Pornstar |
1954 |
|
Star of Alice in Wonderland porno |
| Kool Moe Dee |
Rapper |
8-Aug-1963 |
|
Rap artist |
| Frank DeKova |
Actor |
17-Mar-1910 |
15-Oct-1981 |
Chief Wild Eagle on F Troop |
| Samuel R. Delany |
Author |
1-Apr-1942 |
|
Triton |
| Peter DeLuise |
Actor |
6-Nov-1966 |
|
Officer Penhall on 21 Jump Street |
| Ted Demme |
Film Director |
26-Oct-1963 |
13-Jan-2002 |
Blow |
| Martin Denny |
Musician |
10-Apr-1911 |
2-Mar-2005 |
King of the Tiki Hut |
| Nick Denton |
Publisher |
24-Aug-1966 |
|
Gawker Media |
| Robert Desiderio |
Actor |
9-Sep-1951 |
|
Ted Melcher on Knots Landing |
| Buddy DeSylva |
Songwriter |
27-Jan-1895 |
11-Jul-1950 |
DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson |
| Joseph R. DeTrani |
Diplomat |
? |
|
Director, National Counterproliferation Center |
| Howard Deutch |
Film Director |
14-Sep-1950 |
|
Pretty in Pink |
| Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| Reed Diamond |
Actor |
20-Jul-1967 |
|
Det. Mike Kellerman on Homicide |
| Don Diamont |
Actor |
31-Dec-1962 |
|
The Young and the Restless |
| Melonie Diaz |
Actor |
25-Apr-1984 |
|
Be Kind Rewind |
| Vin Diesel |
Actor |
18-Jul-1967 |
|
Riddick from Pitch Black |
| Howard Dietz |
Songwriter |
8-Sep-1896 |
30-Jul-1983 |
MGM songwriter, publicity chief |
| Victoria Dillard |
Actor |
20-Sep-1969 |
|
Janelle Cooper on Spin City |
| James Dimon |
Business |
13-Mar-1956 |
|
CEO of JP Morgan Chase |
| Joseph J. DioGuardi |
Politician |
20-Sep-1940 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1985-89 |
| Michael V. DiSalle |
Politician |
6-Jan-1908 |
14-Sep-1981 |
Governor of Ohio, 1959-63 |
| Ivan Dixon |
Actor |
6-Apr-1931 |
16-Mar-2008 |
Sgt. Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes |
| Edward Djerejian |
Diplomat |
6-Mar-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 1994 |
| James F. Dobbins |
Diplomat |
31-May-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to the EU, 1991-93 |
| E. L. Doctorow |
Novelist |
6-Jan-1931 |
21-Jul-2015 |
The Book of Daniel |
| Mary Mapes Dodge |
Editor |
26-Jan-1831 |
21-Aug-1905 |
Editor of St. Nicholas, 1873-1905 |
| Troy Donahue |
Actor |
27-Jan-1936 |
2-Sep-2001 |
A Summer Place |
| Richard Donner |
Film Director |
24-Apr-1930 |
|
Superman |
| Robert Donner |
Actor |
27-Apr-1931 |
8-Jun-2006 |
Exidor on Mork and Mindy |
| Thomas J. Donohue |
Business |
1938 |
|
US Chamber of Commerce |
| King Donovan |
Actor |
25-Jan-1918 |
30-Jun-1987 |
Character actor husband of Imogene Coca |
| Shaun Donovan |
Government |
24-Jan-1966 |
|
Director of US Office of Management and Budget |
| Bob Dornan |
Politician |
3-Apr-1933 |
|
Congressman from California, 1977-97 |
| Caroline Dorsa |
Business |
1959 |
|
CFO of Gilead Sciences |
| Gordon Douglas |
Film Director |
15-Dec-1907 |
29-Sep-1993 |
Them! |
| Lewis W. Douglas, Jr. |
Business |
13-Jun-1924 |
4-Oct-2014 |
Christiana Oil Corporation |
| Billie Dove |
Actor |
14-May-1903 |
31-Dec-1997 |
The Black Pirate |
| Robert Downey, Jr. |
Actor |
4-Apr-1965 |
|
Iron Man |
| Robert Downey, Sr. |
Film Director |
24-Jun-1936 |
|
Greaser's Palace |
| Charles Drake |
Actor |
2-Oct-1917 |
10-Sep-1994 |
You Never Can Tell |
| Ervin Drake |
Songwriter |
3-Apr-1919 |
15-Jan-2015 |
It Was a Very Good Year |
| Frances Drake |
Actor |
22-Oct-1912 |
18-Jan-2000 |
WWII pinup girl, also actress |
| Michael Drosnin |
Journalist |
c. 1944 |
|
The Bible Code |
| Daniel C. Drucker |
Engineer |
1918 |
25-Aug-2001 |
Drucker's stability postulate |
| James Drury |
Actor |
18-Apr-1934 |
|
The Virginian |
| Spencer Dryden |
Drummer |
7-Apr-1938 |
11-Jan-2005 |
Jefferson Airplane drummer |
| Orvil Dryfoos |
Publisher |
8-Nov-1912 |
26-May-1963 |
New York Times Publisher, 1961-63 |
| Peter Duchin |
Pianist |
28-Jul-1937 |
|
Rebel Rouser |
| David Duchovny |
Actor |
7-Aug-1960 |
|
Mulder on The X-Files |
| Karen Duffy |
Actor |
23-May-1962 |
|
MTV VJ turned Dumb & Dumber actress |
| Alan Dugan |
Poet |
12-Feb-1923 |
3-Sep-2003 |
Poems |
| Angier Biddle Duke |
Diplomat |
30-Nov-1915 |
29-Apr-1995 |
US Ambassador to Spain, 1965-68 |
| Doris Duke |
Philanthropist |
22-Nov-1912 |
28-Oct-1993 |
Heiress to Duke fortune |
| Avery Cardinal Dulles |
Religion |
24-Aug-1918 |
12-Dec-2008 |
Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal |
| Lena Dunham |
Actor |
13-May-1986 |
|
Girls |
| James Dunn |
Actor |
2-Nov-1901 |
1-Sep-1967 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Griffin Dunne |
Actor |
8-Jun-1955 |
|
An American Werewolf in London |
| Jimmy Durante |
Comic |
10-Feb-1893 |
20-Jan-1980 |
Everybody wants ta get inta da act |
| Junior Durkin |
Actor |
2-Jul-1914 |
4-May-1935 |
Huckleberry Finn |
| Seymour Durst |
Business |
c. 1913 |
19-May-1995 |
New York real estate mogul |
| Ann Dvorak |
Actor |
2-Aug-1912 |
10-Dec-1979 |
Cesca in Scarface |
| Jakob Dylan |
Musician |
9-Dec-1969 |
|
Head Wallflower and Bob Dylan's son |
| Alexis Dziena |
Actor |
8-Jul-1984 |
|
Kira Underlay on Invasion |
| Fred Ebb |
Musician |
8-Apr-1935 |
11-Sep-2004 |
Top Broadway lyricist, Cabaret |
| Dr. Dean Edell |
Radio Personality |
c. 1941 |
|
Syndicated call-in radio doctor |
| Gerald M. Edelman |
Scientist |
1-Jul-1929 |
17-May-2014 |
Chemical structure of antibodies |
| Irwin Edman |
Philosopher |
28-Nov-1896 |
4-Sep-1954 |
Philosopher�s Holiday |
| Kurt Eichenwald |
Journalist |
28-Jun-1961 |
|
Conspiracy of Fools |
| Billy Eichner |
Comic |
18-Sep-1978 |
|
Billy on the Street |
| Sally Eilers |
Actor |
11-Dec-1908 |
5-Jan-1978 |
Coroner Creek |
| Jessica P. Einhorn |
Government |
c. 1945 |
|
Dean, School of Advanced International Studies |
| Ned Eisenberg |
Actor |
13-Jan-1957 |
|
Roger Kressler on Law & Order: SVU |
| Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Dec-1915 |
5-Feb-2000 |
The Decline of American Liberalism |
| Larry Elikann |
Film Director |
4-Jul-1920 |
4-Feb-2004 |
One Against the Wind |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Ray Eliot |
Football |
13-Jun-1905 |
24-Feb-1980 |
Illini Head Coach, 1942-59 |
| Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. |
Diplomat |
24-Jan-1928 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-78 |
| Stanley Elkin |
Novelist |
11-May-1930 |
31-May-1995 |
The Living End |
| Chris Elliott |
Comic |
31-May-1960 |
|
The David Letterman Show |
| Andrea Elson |
Actor |
6-Mar-1969 |
|
Lynn Tanner on ALF |
| John Hart Ely |
Scholar |
3-Dec-1938 |
25-Oct-2003 |
Democracy and Distrust |
| John Emery |
Actor |
20-May-1905 |
16-Nov-1964 |
Rocketship X-M |
| Noah Emmerich |
Actor |
27-Feb-1965 |
|
The Truman Show |
| Richard Engel |
Journalist |
16-Sep-1973 |
|
NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent |
| Delia Ephron |
Author |
12-Jul-1944 |
|
Heartburn |
| Nora Ephron |
Author |
19-May-1941 |
26-Jun-2012 |
When Harry Met Sally |
| Jacob Epstein |
Sculptor |
10-Nov-1880 |
21-Aug-1959 |
Strand Statues |
| Theo Epstein |
Baseball |
29-Dec-1973 |
|
General Manager, Chicago Cubs |
| Charles H. Erhart, Jr. |
Business |
31-Jul-1925 |
16-Jan-2009 |
President of W.R. Grace & Co., 1989-90 |
| Jennifer Esposito |
Actor |
11-Apr-1973 |
|
The Proposal |
| Robert A. Essner |
Business |
26-Oct-1947 |
|
CEO of Wyeth, 2002-07 |
| Emilio Estevez |
Actor |
12-May-1962 |
|
Otto in Repo Man |
| Erik Estrada |
Actor |
16-Mar-1949 |
|
Officer Francis Poncharello on CHiPs |
| Madge Evans |
Actor |
1-Jul-1909 |
26-Apr-1981 |
Hallelujah I'm a Bum |
| Robert Evans |
Film/TV Producer |
29-Jun-1930 |
|
The Kid Stays In The Picture |
| Jason Evers |
Actor |
2-Jan-1922 |
13-Mar-2005 |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die |
| Mark W. Everson |
Administrator |
10-Sep-1954 |
|
IRS Commissioner, 2003-07 |
| Judith Exner |
Author |
11-Jan-1934 |
25-Sep-1999 |
JFK mistress |
| John Fahey |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of National Geographic Society |
| Sammy Fain |
Composer |
17-Jun-1902 |
6-Dec-1989 |
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
Actor |
9-Dec-1909 |
7-May-2000 |
Sinbad the Sailor |
| Donald Faison |
Actor |
22-Jun-1974 |
|
Dr. Christopher Turk on Scrubs |
| Peter Falk |
Actor |
16-Sep-1927 |
23-Jun-2011 |
Detective Columbo |
| Antonio Fargas |
Actor |
14-Aug-1946 |
|
Huggy Bear on Starsky and Hutch |
| Oliver La Farge |
Author |
19-Dec-1901 |
2-Aug-1963 |
Laughing Boy |
| Ronan Farrow |
Relative |
19-Dec-1987 |
|
Son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow |
| John Fasano |
Film/TV Producer |
24-Aug-1961 |
19-Jul-2014 |
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare |
| Howard Fast |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1914 |
12-Mar-2003 |
Spartacus |
| Minnesota Fats |
Sports Figure |
19-Jan-1913 |
15-Jan-1996 |
Billiards opponent of Willie Mosconi |
| Drew Gilpin Faust |
Educator |
18-Sep-1947 |
|
President of Harvard University |
| Alice Faye |
Actor |
5-May-1915 |
9-May-1998 |
Fallen Angel |
| Tovah Feldshuh |
Actor |
27-Dec-1952 |
|
Kissing Jessica Stein |
| Martin Feldstein |
Economist |
25-Nov-1939 |
|
Reagan economist |
| John B. Fenn |
Chemist |
15-Jun-1917 |
10-Dec-2010 |
Electrospray ionization |
| Mark Feuerstein |
Actor |
8-Jun-1971 |
|
Good Morning, Miami |
| Kim Fields |
Actor |
12-May-1969 |
|
Tootie on The Facts of Life |
| Jeanna Fine |
Pornstar |
29-Sep-1964 |
|
Sleeping Booty |
| John Finn |
Actor |
30-Sep-1952 |
|
John Stillman on Cold Case |
| Robert Finn |
Diplomat |
19-Dec-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2002-03 |
| Hamilton Fish |
Politician |
3-Aug-1808 |
7-Sep-1893 |
US Secretary of State, 1869-77 |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Jay S. Fishman |
Business |
4-Nov-1952 |
19-Aug-2016 |
CEO of Travelers, 2007-15 |
| Patrick J. Fitzgerald |
Government |
22-Dec-1960 |
|
Special Counsel for Plame case |
| Dennis J. FitzSimons |
Business |
26-Jun-1950 |
|
CEO of Tribune Co., 2003-07 |
| Bob Flanagan |
Performance Artist |
27-Dec-1952 |
4-Jan-1996 |
Supermasochist |
| Ira Flatow |
Radio Personality |
9-Mar-1949 |
|
Talk of the Nation: Science Friday |
| Bela Fleck |
Musician |
10-Jul-1958 |
|
Banjo virtuoso |
| Chuck Fleischmann |
Politician |
11-Oct-1962 |
|
Congressman, Tennessee 3rd |
| Art Fleming |
Game Show Host |
1-May-1924 |
25-Apr-1995 |
Original Jeopardy! host |
| Rodman Flender |
Film Director |
9-Jun-1962 |
|
Idle Hands |
| William J. Flynn |
Government |
1867 |
14-Oct-1928 |
FBI Director, 1919-21 |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
| Evelyn Follit |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
CIO of Radio Shack, 1999-2005 |
| Jane Fonda |
Actor |
21-Dec-1937 |
|
Barbarella |
| Peter Fonda |
Actor |
23-Feb-1940 |
|
Easy Rider |
| Eric Foner |
Historian |
7-Feb-1943 |
|
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution |
| Whitey Ford |
Baseball |
21-Oct-1928 |
|
Ten World Series wins |
| Alan Dean Foster |
Novelist |
18-Nov-1946 |
|
Author of many movie novelizations |
| Jorja Fox |
Actor |
7-Jul-1968 |
|
Sara Sidle on CSI |
| Samantha Fox |
Pornstar |
3-Dec-1951 |
|
Pornstar cum mediocre singer |
| Nikolai Fraiture |
Bassist |
13-Nov-1978 |
|
Bassist for The Strokes |
| Tony Franciosa |
Actor |
25-Oct-1928 |
19-Jan-2006 |
A Face in the Crowd |
| Lawrence Frank |
Basketball |
23-Aug-1970 |
|
Head Coach, Detroit Pistons |
| Bethenny Frankel |
TV Personality |
4-Nov-1970 |
|
Reality TV staple, self-help author |
| David Frankel |
Film Director |
2-Apr-1959 |
|
The Devil Wears Prada |
| Lois Frankel |
Politician |
17-May-1948 |
|
Congresswoman, Florida 22nd |
| Al Franken |
Politician |
21-May-1951 |
|
US Senator from Minnesota |
| John Frankenheimer |
Film Director |
19-Feb-1930 |
6-Jul-2002 |
Seven Days in May |
| Daniel J. Freed |
Legal Scholar |
12-May-1927 |
17-Jan-2010 |
Yale Law professor |
| Joshua B. Freeman |
Historian |
1949 |
|
In Transit |
| Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. |
Politician |
17-Jan-1916 |
23-May-2011 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1953-75 |
| Rodney Frelinghuysen |
Politician |
29-Apr-1946 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 11th |
| Philip Freneau |
Poet |
2-Jan-1752 |
18-Dec-1832 |
Poet of the American Revolution |
| Paul J. Fribourg |
Business |
1954 |
|
CEO of ContiGroup |
| Albert Fried, Jr. |
Business |
19-Mar-1930 |
|
Albert Fried & Company |
| Edward A. Frieman |
Physicist |
19-Jan-1926 |
11-Apr-2013 |
Director of Scripps, 1986-96 |
| Richard S. Fuld, Jr. |
Business |
26-Apr-1946 |
|
CEO of Lehman Brothers, 1993-2008 |
| Grand Verbalizer Funkin-Lesson |
Rapper |
? |
|
Grand Verbalizer, What Time Is It? |
| Betty Furness |
Actor |
3-Jan-1916 |
2-Apr-1994 |
You can be sure if it's a Westinghouse |
| Ellen V. Futter |
Educator |
21-Sep-1949 |
|
President of Barnard College, 1980-93 |
| William M. Gaines |
Publisher |
1-Mar-1922 |
3-Jun-1992 |
Mad Magazine publisher |
| Carmine Galante |
Criminal |
21-Feb-1910 |
12-Jul-1979 |
Acting Bonanno Boss, 1974-79 |
| Helen Gallagher |
Actor |
19-Jul-1926 |
|
Maeve Ryan on Ryan's Hope |
| Richard H. Gallagher |
Engineer |
17-Nov-1927 |
30-Sep-1997 |
Finite element method |
| Alan Gallay |
Historian |
26-Nov-1957 |
|
The Indian Slave Trade |
| Paul Gallico |
Author |
26-Jul-1897 |
15-Jul-1975 |
The Snow Goose |
| Zach Galligan |
Actor |
14-Feb-1964 |
|
Gremlins |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Philanthropist |
14-Apr-1840 |
17-Jul-1924 |
Prominent art patron, collector |
| John Garfield |
Actor |
4-Mar-1913 |
21-May-1952 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Jeffrey E. Garten |
Educator |
29-Oct-1946 |
|
Dean of Yale Management, 1995-2005 |
| Lorraine Gary |
Actor |
16-Aug-1937 |
|
Jaws |
| Ben Gazzara |
Actor |
28-Aug-1930 |
3-Feb-2012 |
The Thomas Crown Affair |
| Lou Gehrig |
Baseball |
19-Jun-1903 |
2-Jun-1941 |
Played 2,130 consecutive games |
| J. Geils |
Guitarist |
20-Feb-1946 |
|
Centerfold |
| Timothy F. Geithner |
Government |
18-Aug-1961 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 2009-13 |
| Bruce S. Gelb |
Diplomat |
24-Feb-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Belgium, 1991-93 |
| Richard Gelb |
Business |
1924 |
4-Apr-2004 |
CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1972-93 |
| Robert S. Gelbard |
Diplomat |
1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1999-2001 |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Sarah Michelle Gellar |
Actor |
14-Apr-1977 |
|
Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Louis V. Gerstner |
Business |
1-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of IBM, 1993-2002 |
| Ivan Getting |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1912 |
11-Oct-2003 |
Global Positioning System |
| Estelle Getty |
Actor |
25-Jul-1923 |
22-Jul-2008 |
The Golden Girls |
| Paul Giamatti |
Actor |
6-Jun-1967 |
|
John Adams |
| Wynne Gibson |
Actor |
3-Jul-1905 |
15-May-1987 |
If I Had a Million |
| George Gilder |
Pundit |
29-Nov-1939 |
|
Technological futurist pundit |
| Richard Gilder |
Business |
c. 1932 |
|
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Nancy Giles |
Actor |
17-Jul-1960 |
|
China Beach |
| Jack Gilford |
Actor |
25-Jul-1908 |
2-Jun-1990 |
Save the Tiger |
| Carol Gilligan |
Psychologist |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
In a Different Voice |
| Frank D. Gilroy |
Playwright |
13-Oct-1925 |
12-Sep-2015 |
The Subject Was Roses |
| Robert Ginty |
Actor |
14-Nov-1948 |
21-Sep-2009 |
The Exterminator |
| Todd Gitlin |
Educator |
6-Jan-1943 |
|
Journalism professor, social critic |
| Rudy Giuliani |
Politician |
28-May-1944 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 1994-2001 |
| Robin Givens |
Actor |
27-Nov-1964 |
|
Darlene on Head of the Class |
| Rob Glaser |
Business |
16-Jan-1962 |
|
CEO of RealNetworks, 1994-2010 |
| Roy J. Glauber |
Physicist |
1-Sep-1925 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Lola Glaudini |
Actor |
24-Nov-1971 |
|
Criminal Minds |
| Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
| James Gleason |
Actor |
23-May-1882 |
12-Apr-1959 |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
| James Gleick |
Author |
1-Aug-1954 |
|
Chaos: Making a New Science |
| Christopher Glenn |
Journalist |
23-Mar-1938 |
17-Oct-2006 |
Longtime CBS radio correspondent |
| Crispin Glover |
Actor |
20-Apr-1964 |
|
Rubin and Ed |
| Louise Glück |
Author |
22-Apr-1943 |
|
The Wild Iris |
| Arthur Godfrey |
Actor |
31-Aug-1903 |
16-Mar-1983 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
| Tracey Gold |
Actor |
16-May-1969 |
|
Growing Pains |
| Bernard Goldberg |
Journalist |
31-May-1945 |
|
Bias |
| Whoopi Goldberg |
Actor |
13-Nov-1955 |
|
Sister Act |
| Harvey J. Goldschmid |
Government |
6-May-1940 |
12-Feb-2015 |
SEC Commissioner, 2002-05 |
| Jonathan Goldsmith |
Actor |
26-Sep-1938 |
|
The Most Interesting Man in the World |
| Peter Golenbock |
Sports Journalist |
19-Jul-1946 |
|
Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949�1964 |
| Carlos Gomez |
Actor |
1-Jan-1962 |
|
Carlos Sanchez on The Glades |
| Ian Gomez |
Actor |
27-Dec-1964 |
|
The Drew Carey Show |
| Thomas Gomez |
Actor |
10-Jul-1905 |
18-Jun-1971 |
Ride the Pink Horse |
| Rick Gonzalez |
Actor |
30-Jun-1979 |
|
Coach Carter |
| Paul Goodman |
Anarchist |
9-Sep-1911 |
2-Aug-1972 |
Growing Up Absurd |
| Leo Gorcey |
Actor |
3-Jun-1917 |
2-Jun-1969 |
Bowery Boy |
| C. Henry Gordon |
Actor |
17-Jun-1884 |
3-Dec-1940 |
Scarface |
| Gale Gordon |
Actor |
20-Feb-1906 |
30-Jun-1995 |
The Lucy Show |
| Keith Gordon |
Actor |
3-Feb-1961 |
|
Christine |
| Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1913 |
19-Dec-2009 |
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
| Lesley Gore |
Singer |
2-May-1946 |
16-Feb-2015 |
It's My Party |
| David S. Gottesman |
Business |
26-Apr-1926 |
|
First Manhattan Company |
| Lloyd Gough |
Actor |
21-Sep-1907 |
23-Jul-1984 |
Blacklisted character actor |
| Jason Gould |
Actor |
29-Dec-1966 |
|
Son of Streisand and Elliott Gould |
| Kingdon Gould, Jr. |
Diplomat |
3-Jan-1924 |
|
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1973-76 |
| Lewis L. Gould |
Historian |
21-Aug-1939 |
|
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Topher Grace |
Actor |
12-Jul-1978 |
|
Eric Forman in That 70's Show |
| Gerrit Graham |
Actor |
27-Nov-1949 |
|
Class Reunion |
| Jorie Graham |
Poet |
9-May-1951 |
|
The Dream of the Unified Field |
| Katharine Graham |
Publisher |
16-Jun-1917 |
17-Jul-2001 |
Washington Post publisher, 1966-79 |
| Lee Grant |
Actor |
31-Oct-1927 |
|
Portnoy's Complaint |
| F. Gary Gray |
Film Director |
17-Jul-1969 |
|
The Italian Job |
| Rocky Graziano |
Boxing |
1-Jan-1919 |
22-May-1990 |
Middleweight boxing champ |
| Johnny Green |
Composer |
10-Oct-1908 |
15-May-1989 |
Body and Soul |
| S. William Green |
Politician |
16-Oct-1929 |
14-Oct-2002 |
Congressman from New York, 1978-93 |
| Hank Greenberg |
Baseball |
1-Jan-1911 |
4-Sep-1986 |
Two-time American League MVP |
| Maurice R. Greenberg |
Business |
4-May-1925 |
|
CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005 |
| Brian Greene |
Author |
9-Feb-1963 |
|
The Elegant Universe |
| Jeff Greenfield |
Pundit |
10-Jun-1943 |
|
ABC, CNN talking head |
| Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| Jesse L. Greenstein |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1909 |
21-Oct-2002 |
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| Robert Greenwald |
Film/TV Producer |
28-Aug-1945 |
|
Outfoxed, Xanadu |
| James Gregory |
Actor |
23-Dec-1911 |
16-Sep-2002 |
Inspector Lugar on Barney Miller |
| Jennifer Grey |
Actor |
26-Mar-1960 |
|
Dirty Dancing |
| Melanie Griffith |
Actor |
9-Aug-1957 |
|
Mom from Lolita redux |
| Frank Grillo |
Actor |
8-Jun-1963 |
|
Nick Monohan on The Gates |
| Al Groh |
Football |
13-Jul-1944 |
|
Head Coach, University of Virginia |
| James J. Grosfeld |
Business |
22-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Pulte Homes, 1974-90 |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| Lizzie Grubman |
Business |
30-Jan-1971 |
|
Celebrity publicist and SUV-wielder |
| Ernest Gruening |
Politician |
6-Feb-1887 |
26-Jun-1974 |
US Senator from Alaska, 1959-69 |
| Joseph A. Grundfest |
Legal Scholar |
8-Sep-1951 |
|
Stanford law professor |
| Robert R. Grusky |
Business |
19-Aug-1957 |
|
Hope Capital Management |
| Harry Guardino |
Actor |
23-Dec-1925 |
17-Jul-1995 |
Houseboat |
| John Guare |
Playwright |
5-Feb-1938 |
|
Six Degrees of Separation |
| Bob Guccione, Jr. |
Relative |
c. 1956 |
|
Spin magazine's ex-publisher |
| Christopher Guest |
Actor |
5-Feb-1948 |
|
This Is Spinal Tap |
| Peggy Guggenheim |
Socialite |
26-Aug-1898 |
23-Dec-1979 |
Renowned art collector |
| Lani Guinier |
Educator |
19-Apr-1950 |
|
The Tyranny of the Majority |
| Steve Guttenberg |
Actor |
24-Aug-1958 |
|
Police Academy |
| Fred Gwynne |
Actor |
10-Jul-1926 |
2-Jul-1993 |
Herman on The Munsters |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Actor |
16-Nov-1977 |
|
Secretary |
| Marilyn Hacker |
Poet |
27-Nov-1942 |
|
Presentation Piece |
| Raymond Hackett |
Actor |
15-Jul-1902 |
7-Jul-1958 |
Theater and silent film actor |
| Steven Hahn |
Historian |
18-Jul-1951 |
|
A Nation Under Our Feet |
| David Halberstam |
Journalist |
10-Apr-1934 |
23-Apr-2007 |
The Powers That Be |
| Huntz Hall |
Actor |
15-Aug-1919 |
30-Jan-1999 |
Dead End Kids |
| Louis J. Halle |
Author |
17-Nov-1910 |
13-Aug-1998 |
Out of Chaos |
| Billy Halop |
Actor |
11-Feb-1920 |
9-Nov-1976 |
Dead End Kid |
| William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| Josh Hamilton |
Actor |
9-Jun-1969 |
|
Alive |
| Marvin Hamlisch |
Composer |
2-Jun-1944 |
6-Aug-2012 |
The Way We Were |
| Oscar Hammerstein II |
Musician |
12-Jul-1895 |
23-Aug-1960 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Evan Handler |
Actor |
10-Jan-1961 |
|
Taps, Ransom |
| Sean Hannity |
TV Personality |
30-Dec-1961 |
|
Hannity & Colmes |
| Bibbe Hansen |
Musician |
1952 |
|
Mother of Beck, former Warhol prot�g� |
| E. Y. Harburg |
Songwriter |
8-Apr-1896 |
5-Mar-1981 |
The Wizard of Oz |
| Ty Hardin |
Actor |
1-Jan-1930 |
|
Bronco |
| Kadeem Hardison |
Actor |
24-Jul-1965 |
|
A Different World |
| Henry Harland |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1861 |
20-Dec-1905 |
The Cardinal's Snuff-box |
| Ned Harrigan |
Actor |
26-Oct-1844 |
6-Jun-1911 |
Harrigan & Hart |
| Nedda Harrigan |
Actor |
24-Aug-1899 |
1-Apr-1989 |
Devil's Island |
| W. Averell Harriman |
Diplomat |
15-Nov-1891 |
26-Jul-1986 |
Ambassador to USSR, Governor of NY |
| Pat Harrington |
Actor |
13-Aug-1929 |
6-Jan-2016 |
Duane Schneider on One Day at a Time |
| Estelle Harris |
Actor |
4-Apr-1932 |
|
Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld |
| James B. Harris |
Film Director |
3-Aug-1928 |
|
The Bedford Incident |
| Francis Burton Harrison |
Politician |
18-Dec-1873 |
21-Nov-1957 |
Drug prohibition |
| Arthur A. Hartman |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1926 |
16-Mar-2015 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1981-87 |
| Hurd Hatfield |
Actor |
7-Dec-1917 |
26-Dec-1998 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Herbert A. Hauptman |
Mathematician |
14-Feb-1917 |
23-Oct-2011 |
X-ray diffraction studies |
| Billy Hayes |
Criminal |
3-Apr-1947 |
|
Hashish smuggler, Midnight Express |
| Bernadine P. Healy |
Doctor |
4-Aug-1944 |
6-Aug-2011 |
President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001 |
| Anthony Hecht |
Poet |
16-Jan-1923 |
20-Oct-2004 |
The Hard Hours |
| Ben Hecht |
Screenwriter |
28-Feb-1894 |
18-Apr-1964 |
The Front Page |
| Fred Heineman |
Politician |
28-Dec-1929 |
20-Mar-2010 |
Congressman from North Carolina, 1995-97 |
| Carol Heiss |
Figure Skating |
20-Jan-1940 |
|
Figure skater, Gold Medal in 1960 Olympics |
| Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| Monte Hellman |
Film Director |
12-Jul-1932 |
|
Two-Lane Blacktop |
| Warren Hellman |
Business |
25-Jul-1934 |
|
Hellman & Friedman |
| Mark Helprin |
Author |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Winter's Tale |
| Percy Helton |
Actor |
31-Jan-1894 |
11-Sep-1971 |
Character actor |
| Michael A. Henning |
Business |
1-May-1940 |
|
CEO of E&Y International, 1993-99 |
| Lance Henriksen |
Actor |
5-May-1940 |
|
Aliens, Dead Man |
| Buck Henry |
Comic |
9-Dec-1930 |
|
Frequent SNL host |
| David Herman |
Actor |
20-Feb-1967 |
|
MADtv |
| Jerry Herman |
Composer |
10-Jul-1931 |
|
Hello Dolly! |
| Bernard Herrmann |
Composer |
29-Jun-1911 |
24-Dec-1975 |
Scored Psycho, Citizen Kane |
| Hendrik Hertzberg |
Publisher |
1943 |
|
The New Yorker |
| Stephen Hess |
Author |
20-Apr-1933 |
|
International News and Foreign Correspondents |
| Don Hewitt |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Dec-1922 |
19-Aug-2009 |
60 Minutes creator |
| John Hill Hewitt |
Songwriter |
11-Jul-1801 |
7-Oct-1890 |
The Minstrels Return'd from the War |
| Ira Michael Heyman |
Educator |
30-May-1930 |
19-Nov-2011 |
Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1980-90 |
| Andrew Heyward |
Journalist |
1950 |
|
President of CBS News, 1996-2005 |
| Oscar Hijuelos |
Novelist |
24-Aug-1951 |
12-Oct-2013 |
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| Utada Hikaru |
Singer |
19-Jan-1983 |
|
J-Pop crossover singer |
| Ally Hilfiger |
Actor |
26-Feb-1985 |
|
MTV's Rich Girls |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Francesca Hilton |
Relative |
10-Mar-1947 |
5-Jan-2015 |
Daughter of Conrad Hilton and Zsa Zsa |
| Nicky Hilton |
Socialite |
5-Oct-1983 |
|
Heiress, handbag designer |
| Paris Hilton |
Socialite |
17-Feb-1981 |
|
The Simple Life |
| Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs |
Actor |
4-Sep-1953 |
|
Welcome Back, Kotter |
| Gregory Hines |
Dancer |
14-Feb-1946 |
9-Aug-2003 |
Tap dancer |
| Mitzi Hoag |
Actor |
25-Sep-1932 |
|
Liz Platt on We'll Get By |
| Edward Hoagland |
Essayist |
21-Dec-1932 |
|
The Courage of Turtles |
| Rose Hobart |
Actor |
1-May-1906 |
29-Aug-2000 |
East of Borneo |
| Laura Z. Hobson |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1900 |
28-Feb-1986 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Adam Hochschild |
Author |
5-Oct-1942 |
|
King Leopold's Ghost |
| Paul Hodes |
Politician |
21-Mar-1951 |
|
Congressman from New Hampshire, 2007-11 |
| Eric Hoffer |
Author |
25-Jul-1902 |
21-May-1983 |
The True Believer |
| Alice Hoffman |
Novelist |
16-Mar-1952 |
|
Property Of |
| Rick Hoffman |
Actor |
12-Jun-1970 |
|
Jake in Progress |
| Douglas Hofstadter |
Author |
15-Feb-1945 |
|
Godel, Escher, Bach |
| Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
| James F. Hoge, Jr. |
Editor |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Editor of Foreign Affairs |
| Richard C. Holbrooke |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1941 |
13-Dec-2010 |
US Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| John H. Holdridge |
Diplomat |
21-Aug-1924 |
12-Jul-2001 |
US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86 |
| Judy Holliday |
Actor |
21-Jun-1921 |
7-Jun-1965 |
Born Yesterday |
| Celeste Holm |
Actor |
29-Apr-1917 |
15-Jul-2012 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Nicole Holofcener |
Film Director |
22-Mar-1960 |
|
Friends with Money |
| Jack Holt |
Actor |
31-May-1888 |
18-Jan-1951 |
They Were Expendable |
| W. Stull Holt |
Historian |
2-Oct-1896 |
12-Oct-1981 |
Treaties Defeated by the Senate |
| Sidney Hook |
Philosopher |
20-Dec-1902 |
12-Jul-1989 |
Pragmatist |
| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
| William Hopper |
Actor |
26-Jan-1915 |
6-Mar-1970 |
Paul Drake on Perry Mason |
| Outerbridge Horsey |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1910 |
18-Aug-1983 |
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66 |
| Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
| Julia Ward Howe |
Activist |
27-May-1819 |
17-Oct-1910 |
Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| Steny Hoyer |
Politician |
14-Jun-1939 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 5th |
| Season Hubley |
Actor |
14-Mar-1951 |
|
Actress/Ex-Wife of Kurt Russell |
| Whip Hubley |
Actor |
28-Aug-1958 |
|
Russkies |
| Paz de la Huerta |
Actor |
3-Sep-1984 |
|
Lucy Danziger on Boardwalk Empire |
| Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. |
Government |
30-Nov-1889 |
21-Jan-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1929-30 |
| Russell A. Hulse |
Physicist |
28-Nov-1950 |
|
Co-Discovered first binary pulsar |
| Ray L. Hunt |
Business |
6-Apr-1943 |
|
Chairman of Hunt Oil |
| Evan Hunter |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1926 |
7-Jul-2005 |
The Blackboard Jungle |
| Harold Hunter |
Skateboarder |
2-Apr-1974 |
17-Feb-2006 |
Skateboarder in "Kids" |
| Tab Hunter |
Actor |
11-Jul-1931 |
|
Damn Yankees |
| Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
| Mark Hurd |
Business |
1957 |
|
President of Oracle |
| Michelle Hurd |
Actor |
21-Dec-1966 |
|
Colleen Manus on The Glades |
| Robert Hurt |
Politician |
16-Jun-1969 |
|
Congressman, Virginia 5th |
| Barbara Hutton |
Socialite |
14-Nov-1912 |
11-May-1979 |
The Poor Little Rich Girl |
| E. F. Hutton |
Business |
7-Sep-1875 |
11-Jul-1962 |
Founder of E. F. Hutton brokerage |
| Leila Hyams |
Actor |
1-May-1905 |
4-Dec-1977 |
Freaks |
| Peter Hyams |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1943 |
|
Capricorn One |
| Sarah Hyland |
Actor |
24-Nov-1990 |
|
Haley Dunphy on Modern Family |
| Dick Hyman |
Pianist |
8-Mar-1927 |
|
Pianist, Organist, Conductor, Composer |
| Robert Iger |
Business |
10-Feb-1951 |
|
CEO of Disney |
| Robert Iler |
Actor |
2-Mar-1985 |
|
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano Jr. |
| Clifford Irving |
Hoaxer |
5-Nov-1930 |
|
Howard Hughes autobiography hoax |
| Washington Irving |
Author |
3-Apr-1783 |
28-Nov-1859 |
Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Neal Israel |
Film Director |
1-Aug-1956 |
|
Bachelor Party |
| Eugene Istomin |
Pianist |
26-Nov-1925 |
10-Oct-2003 |
American piano prodigy |
| Dennis G. Jacobs |
Judge |
28-Feb-1944 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Gary N. Jacobs |
Business |
12-Jul-1945 |
|
General Counsel for MGM Mirage |
| Marc Jacobs |
Fashion Designer |
9-Apr-1963 |
|
Fired in 1993 after releasing a "Grunge" line |
| Harry V. Jaffa |
Historian |
7-Oct-1918 |
10-Jan-2015 |
Crisis of the House Divided |
| Rona Jaffe |
Author |
12-Jun-1932 |
30-Dec-2005 |
Mazes & Monsters |
| Sam Jaffe |
Actor |
10-Mar-1891 |
24-Mar-1984 |
Gunga Din |
| Clifton James |
Actor |
29-May-1921 |
|
Sheriff J. W. Pepper |
| Henry James |
Author |
15-Apr-1843 |
28-Feb-1916 |
Portrait of a Lady |
| Steve James |
Actor |
19-Feb-1952 |
18-Dec-1993 |
American Ninja |
| William James |
Philosopher |
11-Jan-1842 |
26-Aug-1910 |
The Principles of Psychology |
| Conrad Janis |
Actor |
11-Feb-1928 |
|
Fredzo on Mork & Mindy |
| Leigh Jason |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1904 |
19-Feb-1979 |
The Mad Miss Manton |
| Rick Jason |
Actor |
21-May-1923 |
16-Oct-2000 |
Lt. Gil Hanley on Combat! |
| Robert Jastrow |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1925 |
8-Feb-2008 |
Red Giants and White Dwarfs |
| Jacob K. Javits |
Politician |
18-Mar-1904 |
7-Mar-1986 |
US Senator from New York, 1957-81 |
| John Jay |
Judge |
12-Dec-1745 |
17-May-1829 |
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| George Jessel |
Actor |
3-Apr-1898 |
24-May-1981 |
Toastmaster General of the United States |
| Diamond Jim Brady |
Business |
12-Aug-1856 |
13-Apr-1917 |
Larger-than-life millionaire |
| Robert D. Joffe |
Attorney |
26-May-1943 |
28-Jan-2010 |
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
| Scarlett Johansson |
Actor |
22-Nov-1984 |
|
Ghost World, Lost in Translation |
| Johnny B. |
Comic |
8-Aug-1961 |
|
Half of The Jerky Boys |
| Boris Johnson |
Politician |
19-Jun-1964 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary |
| Charles F. Johnson |
Blogger |
13-Apr-1953 |
|
Little Green Footballs |
| Haynes Johnson |
Journalist |
9-Jul-1931 |
24-May-2013 |
Sleepwalking Through History |
| Lawrence R. Johnston |
Business |
1949 |
|
CEO of Albertson's, 2001-06 |
| Norman Dello Joio |
Composer |
24-Jan-1913 |
24-Jul-2008 |
Meditation on Ecclesiastes |
| Duane Jones |
Actor |
2-Feb-1936 |
22-Jul-1988 |
Night of the Living Dead |
| Norah Jones |
Singer |
30-Mar-1979 |
|
Come Away With Me |
| Erica Jong |
Author |
26-Mar-1942 |
|
Fear of Flying |
| Richard Jordan |
Actor |
19-Jul-1938 |
30-Aug-1993 |
Logan's Run |
| Gil Junger |
Film Director |
7-Nov-1954 |
|
10 Things I Hate About You |
| Peter Jurasik |
Actor |
25-Apr-1950 |
|
Londo Mollari on Babylon 5 |
| Norton Juster |
Author |
2-Jun-1929 |
|
The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Louis C. K. |
Comic |
12-Sep-1967 |
|
Lucky Louie |
| Leo P. Kadanoff |
Physicist |
14-Jan-1937 |
26-Oct-2015 |
Second-order phase transitions |
| Elena Kagan |
Judge |
28-Apr-1960 |
|
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Brewster Kahle |
Business |
22-Oct-1960 |
|
Founder of the Internet Archive |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Khalil Kain |
Actor |
22-Nov-1964 |
|
Darnell Wilkes on Girlfriends |
| Elliott Kalan |
Comic |
3-Dec-1981 |
|
Daily Show head writer, Flop House podcast |
| Bernard Kalb |
Journalist |
4-Feb-1922 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Marvin Kalb |
Journalist |
9-Jun-1930 |
|
CBS and NBC news correspondent |
| Chester Kallman |
Poet |
7-Jan-1921 |
18-Jan-1975 |
Librettist, translator |
| Bert Kalmar |
Songwriter |
10-Feb-1884 |
17-Sep-1947 |
Who's Sorry Now? |
| Max Kampelman |
Diplomat |
7-Nov-1920 |
25-Jan-2013 |
US Ambassador to the CSCE |
| Helene L. Kaplan |
Attorney |
19-Jun-1933 |
|
Of Counsel, Skadden Arps |
| Justin Kaplan |
Author |
5-Sep-1925 |
2-Mar-2014 |
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain |
| Robert D. Kaplan |
Journalist |
23-Jun-1952 |
|
Balkan Ghosts |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
6-Jun-2013 |
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Mel Karmazin |
Business |
24-Aug-1943 |
|
President and COO of Viacom, 2000-04 |
| David Karp |
Business |
6-Jul-1986 |
|
Tumblr |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg |
Business |
21-Dec-1950 |
|
Produced Shrek |
| Robert A. Katzmann |
Judge |
22-Apr-1953 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Stanley Kauffmann |
Critic |
24-Apr-1916 |
9-Oct-2013 |
Film critic for The New Republic |
| Andy Kaufman |
Comic |
17-Jan-1949 |
16-May-1984 |
Brilliant comic, prankster, professional wrestler |
| Lloyd Kaufman |
Film Director |
30-Dec-1945 |
|
The Toxic Avenger |
| Stubby Kaye |
Actor |
11-Nov-1918 |
14-Dec-1997 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Lainie Kazan |
Actor |
15-May-1940 |
|
My Favorite Year |
| Thomas H. Kean |
Politician |
21-Apr-1935 |
|
Governor of New Jersey, 1982-90 |
| John M. Keane |
Military |
1-Feb-1943 |
|
US Army Vice Chief of Staff, 1999-2003 |
| Philip Kearny |
Military |
2-Jun-1815 |
1-Sep-1862 |
US Civil War general |
| Caroline Kennedy |
Relative |
27-Nov-1957 |
|
Daughter of John F. Kennedy |
| Donald Kennedy |
Educator |
18-Aug-1931 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Science |
| Douglas Kennedy |
Actor |
14-Sep-1915 |
10-Aug-1973 |
Steve Donovan, Western Marshal |
| George Kennedy |
Actor |
18-Feb-1925 |
28-Feb-2016 |
Airport, Naked Gun |
| Tom Kennedy |
Actor |
15-Jul-1885 |
6-Oct-1965 |
Character actor, 1910s to 1960s |
| Muhtar Kent |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of Coca-Cola |
| Jerome Kern |
Composer |
27-Jan-1885 |
12-Nov-1945 |
Show Boat |
| John Kerr |
Actor |
15-Nov-1931 |
2-Feb-2013 |
Tea and Sympathy |
| Ronald Kessler |
Journalist |
31-Dec-1943 |
|
Inside the CIA |
| Alan Keyes |
Radio Personality |
7-Aug-1950 |
|
Illinois carpetbagger |
| Irwin Keyes |
Actor |
16-Mar-1952 |
8-Jul-2015 |
Hugo Mojelewski on The Jeffersons |
| Rashid Khalidi |
Author |
1950 |
|
Resurrecting Empire |
| Tracy Kidder |
Author |
12-Nov-1945 |
|
The Soul of a New Machine |
| Bobbie Kilberg |
Administrator |
25-Oct-1944 |
|
Northern Virginia Technology Council |
| Charles P. Kindleberger |
Economist |
12-Oct-1910 |
7-Jul-2003 |
The World in Depression |
| Pete King |
Politician |
5-Apr-1944 |
|
Congressman, New York 3rd |
| Thomas Starr King |
Religion |
17-Dec-1824 |
4-Mar-1864 |
Saved California to the Union |
| Les Kinsolving |
Journalist |
18-Dec-1927 |
|
WorldNetDaily |
| Bruno Kirby |
Actor |
28-Apr-1949 |
14-Aug-2006 |
When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers |
| Jack Kirby |
Cartoonist |
28-Aug-1917 |
6-Feb-1994 |
Captain America |
| Sally Kirkland |
Actor |
31-Oct-1944 |
|
Jeanette in ED TV |
| Andrew Klavan |
Author |
1954 |
|
True Crime |
| Paul Klebnikov |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1963 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
| Joe Klein |
Journalist |
7-Sep-1946 |
|
Anonymous author of Primary Colors |
| Andrew J. Kleinfeld |
Judge |
12-Jun-1945 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Richard Kline |
Actor |
29-Apr-1944 |
|
Larry Dallas on Three's Company |
| Alfred A. Knopf |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1892 |
11-Aug-1984 |
American publisher |
| Ed Koch |
Politician |
12-Dec-1924 |
1-Feb-2013 |
Mayor of New York City, 1978-89 |
| Howard W. Koch |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Apr-1916 |
16-Feb-2001 |
The Manchurian Candidate |
| Richard J. Kogan |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
CEO of Schering-Plough, 1996-2003 |
| Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. |
Business |
10-Jul-1925 |
30-Jul-2015 |
KKR, Kohlberg & Company |
| Colleen Kollar-Kotelly |
Judge |
1943 |
|
Chief Judge, FISA Court |
| James Komack |
Actor |
3-Aug-1924 |
24-Dec-1997 |
Norman Tinker on The Courtship of Eddie's Father |
| Kenneth P. Kopelman |
Attorney |
21-Jan-1952 |
|
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel |
| Arthur Kopit |
Playwright |
10-May-1937 |
|
Mama's Hung You in the Closet |
| Barbara Kopple |
Film Director |
30-Jul-1946 |
|
Harlan County U.S.A. |
| Lawrence J. Korb |
Author |
9-Jul-1939 |
|
The Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| C. M. Kornbluth |
Novelist |
23-Jul-1923 |
21-Mar-1958 |
The Space Merchants |
| Richard Kostelanetz |
Artist |
14-May-1940 |
|
Prodigious avant-garde artist and author |
| Peter H. Kostmayer |
Politician |
27-Sep-1946 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1983-93 |
| Yaphet Kotto |
Actor |
15-Nov-1937 |
|
Homicide |
| Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. |
Business |
1955 |
|
CEO of Baxter International, 1999-2004 |
| Judith Krantz |
Novelist |
9-Jan-1928 |
|
Scruples |
| Stephen Krasner |
Educator |
15-Feb-1942 |
|
State Dept Policy Planning Dir., 2005-07 |
| Charles Krauthammer |
Columnist |
13-Mar-1950 |
|
Washington Post columnist |
| Kent Kresa |
Business |
24-Mar-1938 |
|
CEO of Northrop Grumman, 1990-2003 |
| Alfred Kreymborg |
Author |
10-Dec-1883 |
14-Aug-1966 |
Founder of The Glebe |
| Bill Kristol |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1952 |
|
Editor of The Weekly Standard |
| Irving Kristol |
Columnist |
22-Jan-1920 |
18-Sep-2009 |
Influential neocon |
| David Krumholtz |
Actor |
15-May-1978 |
|
Charlie Eppes on Numb3rs |
| William Kunstler |
Attorney |
7-Jul-1919 |
4-Sep-1995 |
Civil rights attorney |
| Erich Kunzel |
Conductor |
21-Mar-1935 |
1-Sep-2009 |
Conductor, Cincinnati Pops, 1977-2009 |
| David Kuo |
Government |
26-Jun-1968 |
5-Apr-2013 |
Tempting Faith |
| Tuli Kupferberg |
Singer/Songwriter |
28-Sep-1923 |
12-Jul-2010 |
The Fugs |
| Robert Kuttner |
Editor |
17-Apr-1943 |
|
The American Prospect |
| Madeleine L'Engle |
Author |
29-Nov-1918 |
6-Sep-2007 |
A Wrinkle In Time |
| Big L |
Rapper |
30-May-1974 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Ebonics |
| John La Farge |
Painter |
31-Mar-1835 |
14-Nov-1910 |
Painter, muralist, stained-glass designer |
| Fiorello LaGuardia |
Politician |
11-Dec-1882 |
20-Sep-1947 |
New York City Mayor, 1934-45 |
| Bert Lahr |
Actor |
13-Aug-1895 |
4-Dec-1967 |
Lion in The Wizard of Oz |
| Anthony Lake |
Government |
2-Apr-1939 |
|
Clinton's National Security Advisor |
| Adam Lamberg |
Actor |
14-Sep-1984 |
|
Gordo on Lizzie McGuire |
| Zohra Lampert |
Actor |
13-May-1937 |
|
Let's Scare Jessica to Death |
| Burt Lancaster |
Actor |
2-Nov-1913 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Elmer Gantry |
| Edward J. Landau |
Attorney |
17-Jan-1930 |
|
Lowenthal, Landau, Fischer & Bring |
| Lew Landers |
Film Director |
2-Jan-1901 |
16-Dec-1962 |
The Raven |
| Paul Landres |
Film Director |
21-Aug-1912 |
26-Dec-2001 |
B-Movie and television director |
| Valerie Landsburg |
Actor |
12-Aug-1958 |
|
Doris Schwartz on Fame |
| Burton Lane |
Composer |
2-Feb-1912 |
5-Jan-1997 |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
| Diane Lane |
Actor |
22-Jan-1965 |
|
A Walk on the Moon |
| Stephen Lang |
Actor |
11-Jul-1952 |
|
Gettysburg |
| Jaron Lanier |
Scientist |
3-May-1960 |
|
Coined the term "virtual reality" |
| Leo Laporte |
TV Personality |
29-Nov-1956 |
|
TechTV host |
| Melvin J. Lasky |
Journalist |
15-Jan-1920 |
19-May-2004 |
Editor of journal Encounter |
| Louise Lasser |
Actor |
11-Apr-1939 |
|
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman |
| Sanaa Lathan |
Actor |
19-Sep-1971 |
|
Love & Basketball |
| Aerin Lauder |
Business |
23-Apr-1970 |
|
Senior VP at Est�e Lauder |
| Estée Lauder |
Business |
1-Jul-1908 |
24-Apr-2004 |
Cosmetics magnate |
| Leonard Lauder |
Business |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Chairman of Estee Lauder |
| Ronald S. Lauder |
Business |
26-Feb-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Austria, 1986-87 |
| Matt Lauer |
Talk Show Host |
30-Dec-1957 |
|
Today Show host |
| Arthur Laurents |
Playwright |
14-Jul-1918 |
5-May-2011 |
West Side Story |
| John Howard Lawson |
Playwright |
25-Sep-1894 |
11-Aug-1977 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Emma Lazarus |
Poet |
22-Jul-1849 |
19-Nov-1887 |
The New Colossus |
| Kelly LeBrock |
Model |
24-Mar-1960 |
|
Ex-wife of Steven Seagal |
| Mimi Leder |
Film Director |
26-Jan-1952 |
|
Deep Impact |
| Charles Lederer |
Screenwriter |
31-Dec-1911 |
5-Mar-1976 |
His Girl Friday |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Canada Lee |
Actor |
3-Mar-1907 |
9-May-1952 |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Jennifer 8. Lee |
Journalist |
15-Mar-1976 |
|
New York Times reporter |
| Stan Lee |
Cartoonist |
28-Dec-1922 |
|
Created Spider-Man and The Hulk |
| Herbert I. Leeds |
Film Director |
1900 |
1984 |
Charlie Chan in City in Darkness |
| Herbert H. Lehman |
Politician |
28-Mar-1878 |
5-Dec-1963 |
Governor of New York, 1933-42 |
| Tom Lehrer |
Comic |
9-Apr-1928 |
|
Comedic songwriter |
| Ron Leibman |
Actor |
11-Oct-1937 |
|
Kaz |
| Carol Leifer |
Comic |
27-Jul-1956 |
|
Comic inspired Seinfeld's Elaine |
| Jerome H. Lemelson |
Inventor |
18-Jul-1923 |
1-Oct-1997 |
Inventor with a very good lawyer |
| Leslie Lenkowsky |
Government |
30-Mar-1946 |
|
Philanthropic Studies |
| Sean Lennon |
Musician |
9-Oct-1975 |
|
Son of Beatle John Lennon |
| Melissa Leo |
Actor |
14-Sep-1960 |
|
Sgt. Kay Howard on Homicide |
| Sheldon Leonard |
Actor |
22-Feb-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nick the Bartender |
| Tea Leoni |
Actor |
25-Feb-1966 |
|
Nora Wilde on The Naked Truth |
| Louis Lepke |
Criminal |
6-Feb-1897 |
4-Mar-1944 |
Head of Murder, Inc. |
| Alan Jay Lerner |
Playwright |
31-Aug-1918 |
14-Jun-1986 |
An American in Paris |
| Bethel Leslie |
Actor |
3-Aug-1929 |
28-Nov-1999 |
Theater actress |
| Carl Leubsdorf |
Journalist |
17-Mar-1938 |
|
Dallas Morning News |
| William E. Leuchtenburg |
Historian |
28-Sep-1922 |
|
FDR scholar |
| Burton Levin |
Diplomat |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Burma, 1987-90 |
| Ira Levin |
Novelist |
27-Aug-1929 |
12-Nov-2007 |
Rosemary's Baby |
| Speed Levitch |
Actor |
9-Jul-1970 |
|
The Cruise |
| William Levitt |
Business |
11-Feb-1907 |
28-Jan-1994 |
Creator of Levittown |
| Jacob J. Lew |
Government |
29-Aug-1955 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury |
| Anthony Lewis |
Journalist |
27-Mar-1927 |
25-Mar-2013 |
Gideon's Trumpet |
| Huey Lewis |
Musician |
5-Jul-1950 |
|
Huey Lewis and The News |
| Joe E. Lewis |
Comic |
12-Jan-1902 |
4-Jun-1971 |
It's post time! |
| Joseph H. Lewis |
Film Director |
6-Apr-1907 |
30-Aug-2000 |
Gun Crazy |
| Morgan Lewis |
Politician |
16-Oct-1754 |
7-Apr-1844 |
Governor of New York, 1804-07 |
| Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
| Shari Lewis |
Performance Artist |
17-Jan-1933 |
2-Aug-1998 |
Lamb Chop's Play-Along |
| Mara Liasson |
Journalist |
13-Jun-1955 |
|
Fox News political analyst |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
Painter |
27-Oct-1923 |
29-Sep-1997 |
Whaam! |
| A. J. Liebling |
Journalist |
18-Oct-1904 |
28-Dec-1963 |
The New Yorker |
| Hilary Liftin |
Author |
12-Aug-1969 |
|
Candy and Me: A Love Story |
| Doug Liman |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1965 |
|
The Bourne Identity |
| Marta Linden |
Actor |
24-Oct-1903 |
13-Dec-1990 |
A Yank at Eton |
| John Lindsay |
Politician |
24-Nov-1921 |
19-Dec-2000 |
Mayor of New York City, 1966-73 |
| John Linnell |
Musician |
12-Jun-1959 |
|
They Might Be Giants |
| Laura Linney |
Actor |
5-Feb-1964 |
|
Meryl in The Truman Show |
| Ken Lipper |
Business |
19-Jun-1941 |
|
Investment banker author of Wall Street |
| Walter Lippmann |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1889 |
14-Dec-1974 |
Today and Tomorrow |
| Seymour M. Lipset |
Sociologist |
18-Mar-1922 |
31-Dec-2006 |
American Exceptionalism |
| Peggy Lipton |
Actor |
30-Aug-1946 |
|
Julie Barnes in The Mod Squad |
| Lisa Lisa |
Singer |
15-Jan-1967 |
|
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam |
| Andrew Litton |
Conductor |
16-May-1959 |
|
Music Director, Bergen Philharmonic |
| Henry Brockholst Livingston |
Judge |
25-Nov-1757 |
18-Mar-1823 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1807-23 |
| Robert R. Livingston |
Politician |
27-Nov-1746 |
26-Feb-1813 |
Architected the Louisiana Purchase |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd |
Journalist |
1-May-1847 |
28-Sep-1903 |
Radical reporter |
| Anne Lockhart |
Actor |
6-Sep-1953 |
|
Lt. Sheba on Battlestar Galactica |
| June Lockhart |
Actor |
25-Jun-1925 |
|
Mom on Lassie, Lost in Space |
| Frank Loesser |
Composer |
29-Jun-1910 |
28-Jul-1969 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Robert Loggia |
Actor |
3-Jan-1930 |
4-Dec-2015 |
The Jagged Edge |
| Stacy London |
TV Personality |
25-May-1969 |
|
What Not to Wear |
| Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
Socialite |
12-Feb-1884 |
20-Feb-1980 |
The Other Washington Monument |
| Alfred Lee Loomis |
Physicist |
4-Nov-1887 |
1-Aug-1975 |
Millionaire scientist |
| Kathryn Jean Lopez |
Columnist |
22-Mar-1976 |
|
National Review Online editor |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| Audre Lorde |
Author |
18-Feb-1934 |
17-Nov-1992 |
A Burst of Light |
| Gloria Loring |
Singer |
10-Dec-1946 |
|
Friends and Lovers |
| Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
Comic |
13-Jan-1961 |
|
Elaine on Seinfeld |
| Anita Louise |
Actor |
9-Jan-1915 |
25-Apr-1970 |
The Little Princess |
| Tina Louise |
Actor |
11-Feb-1934 |
|
Ginger on Gilligan's Island |
| Clare Boothe Luce |
Politician |
10-Apr-1903 |
9-Oct-1987 |
Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce |
| Robert Ludlum |
Novelist |
25-May-1927 |
12-Mar-2001 |
The Bourne Identity |
| Sidney Luft |
Film/TV Producer |
2-Nov-1915 |
15-Sep-2005 |
Ex-Husband of Judy Garland |
| BarBara Luna |
Actor |
2-Mar-1939 |
|
American character actress |
| Carol Lynley |
Actor |
13-Feb-1942 |
|
Return to Peyton Place |
| Natasha Lyonne |
Actor |
4-Apr-1979 |
|
Slums of Beverly Hills |
| Peter Maas |
Author |
27-Jun-1929 |
23-Aug-2001 |
Serpico |
| Cynthia Macdonald |
Poet |
2-Feb-1928 |
3-Aug-2015 |
Amputations |
| Dwight Macdonald |
Critic |
24-Mar-1906 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Against the American Grain |
| Edward MacDowell |
Composer |
18-Dec-1860 |
23-Jan-1908 |
American piano composer |
| John Mack |
Psychiatrist |
4-Oct-1929 |
27-Sep-2004 |
A Prince of Our Disorder |
| Percy MacKaye |
Playwright |
16-Mar-1875 |
31-Aug-1956 |
The Canterbury Pilgrims |
| Jeff MacNelly |
Cartoonist |
17-Sep-1948 |
8-Jun-2000 |
Editorial cartoonist, Shoe |
| Noel Madison |
Actor |
30-Apr-1897 |
6-Jan-1975 |
American character actor |
| Peter A. Magowan |
Business |
5-Apr-1942 |
|
President, San Francisco Giants |
| Jeb Magruder |
Government |
5-Nov-1934 |
11-May-2014 |
Nixon's deputy campaign director |
| Bill Maher |
Talk Show Host |
20-Jan-1956 |
|
Politically Incorrect |
| Bruce Mahler |
Actor |
12-Sep-1950 |
|
Sgt. Fackler in Police Academy |
| Robert W. Mahoney |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of Diebold, 1985-99 |
| Wendy Makkena |
Actor |
4-Oct-1958 |
|
Charlotte on Oliver Beene |
| Joshua Malina |
Actor |
17-Jan-1966 |
|
Will Bailey on The West Wing |
| Leonard Maltin |
Critic |
18-Dec-1950 |
|
Film critic |
| James Mangold |
Film Director |
16-Dec-1963 |
|
Walk the Line |
| Shelly Manne |
Drummer |
11-Jun-1920 |
26-Sep-1984 |
West Coast jazz drummer |
| Dinah Manoff |
Actor |
25-Jan-1958 |
|
Ordinary People |
| Mike Mansfield |
Politician |
16-Mar-1903 |
5-Oct-2001 |
US Senator from Montana, 1953-77 |
| Tim Mara |
Football |
29-Jul-1887 |
16-Feb-1959 |
Founder, Owner of NY Giants, 1925-59 |
| Wellington Mara |
Football |
14-Aug-1916 |
25-Oct-2005 |
Owns the New York Giants |
| Vito Marcantonio |
Politician |
10-Dec-1902 |
9-Aug-1954 |
American Labor Party |
| Andrea Marcovicci |
Actor |
18-Nov-1948 |
|
Love is a Many Splendored Thing |
| Stanley Marcus |
Judge |
27-Mar-1946 |
|
11th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Janet Margolin |
Actor |
25-Jul-1943 |
17-Dec-1993 |
Take the Money and Run |
| Rose Marie |
Actor |
15-Aug-1923 |
|
Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show |
| Ed Marinaro |
Actor |
31-Mar-1950 |
|
Hill Street Blues |
| Michael W. Marine |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Vietnam |
| Merrill Markoe |
Comic |
1951 |
|
Late Night with David Letterman |
| John Marley |
Actor |
17-Oct-1907 |
22-May-1984 |
Godfather horsehead recipient |
| Donald Marron |
Business |
21-Jul-1934 |
|
PaineWebber CEO |
| Connie Marshall |
Actor |
28-Apr-1933 |
22-May-2001 |
Dragonwyck |
| Garry Marshall |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1934 |
19-Jul-2016 |
Happy Days |
| Thurgood Marshall, Jr. |
Attorney |
12-Aug-1956 |
|
Partner, Bingham McCutchen |
| Demetri Martin |
Comic |
25-May-1973 |
|
Daily Show trend spotter |
| Quinn Martin |
Business |
22-May-1922 |
6-Sep-1987 |
Quinn Martin Productions |
| Anne Clark Martindell |
Politician |
18-Jul-1914 |
11-Jun-2008 |
US Ambassador to New Zealand, 1979-81 |
| Lee Marvin |
Actor |
19-Feb-1924 |
29-Aug-1987 |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
| Anthony W. Marx |
Educator |
28-Feb-1959 |
|
President, Amherst College |
| Chico Marx |
Actor |
22-Mar-1887 |
11-Oct-1961 |
An Italian con-man of a Marx Brother |
| Groucho Marx |
Comic |
2-Oct-1890 |
19-Aug-1977 |
You Bet Your Life |
| Gummo Marx |
Actor |
23-Oct-1892 |
21-Apr-1977 |
Left the Marx Brothers troupe early |
| Harpo Marx |
Actor |
23-Nov-1888 |
28-Sep-1964 |
Silent harp-playing Marx Brother |
| Zeppo Marx |
Actor |
25-Feb-1901 |
30-Nov-1979 |
Straight man of the Marx Brothers |
| Robert Maschio |
Actor |
25-Aug-1966 |
|
Dr. Todd Quinlan on Scrubs |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| James Maslow |
Actor |
16-Jul-1990 |
|
James Diamond on Big Time Rush |
| Ashley Massaro |
Wrestling |
26-May-1979 |
|
WWE wrestler |
| Joey Massino |
Criminal |
10-Jan-1943 |
|
Bonanno Family Boss, 1991-2004 |
| Mary Stuart Masterson |
Actor |
28-Jun-1966 |
|
Dogtown |
| Richard Masur |
Actor |
20-Nov-1948 |
|
Who'll Stop the Rain |
| Omar Mateen |
Terrorist |
16-Nov-1986 |
12-Jun-2016 |
Killed 49 at an Orlando gay nightclub |
| George Mathews |
Actor |
10-Oct-1911 |
7-Nov-1984 |
Pat and Mike |
| Jessica Tuchman Mathews |
Government |
1946 |
|
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Walter Matthau |
Actor |
1-Oct-1920 |
1-Jul-2000 |
Messy half of the Odd Couple |
| Peter Matthiessen |
Novelist |
22-May-1927 |
5-Apr-2014 |
At Play in the Fields of the Lord |
| Archie Mayo |
Film Director |
29-Jan-1891 |
4-Dec-1968 |
The Adventures of Marco Polo |
| Whitman Mayo |
Actor |
15-Nov-1930 |
22-May-2001 |
Grady on Sanford and Son |
| Paul Mazursky |
Film Director |
25-Apr-1930 |
30-Jun-2014 |
Down and Out in Beverly Hills |
| Megan McArdle |
Blogger |
29-Jan-1973 |
|
Atlantic Monthly blogger |
| Jim McBride |
Film Director |
16-Sep-1941 |
|
The Big Easy |
| Theodore Cardinal McCarrick |
Religion |
7-Jul-1930 |
|
Archbishop of Washington, 2000-06 |
| John T. McCarthy |
Diplomat |
27-Dec-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1991-94 |
| Jesse McCartney |
Singer |
9-Apr-1987 |
|
Bradin Westerly on Summerland |
| Peggy McCay |
Actor |
3-Nov-1930 |
|
Caroline Brady on Days of Our Lives |
| James L. McConaughy |
Politician |
21-Oct-1887 |
7-Mar-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48 |
| Christopher McDonald |
Actor |
15-Feb-1955 |
|
Happy Gilmore |
| William J. McDonald |
Attorney |
1928 |
19-Feb-1990 |
Chief Lawyer at Union Pacific, 1969-89 |
| Joseph McElroy |
Novelist |
21-Aug-1930 |
|
Lookout Cartridge |
| Bobby McFerrin |
Singer/Songwriter |
11-Mar-1950 |
|
Don't Worry, Be Happy |
| John C. McGinley |
Actor |
3-Aug-1959 |
|
Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs |
| John McGiver |
Actor |
5-Nov-1913 |
9-Sep-1975 |
Midnight Cowboy |
| Frank McGuire |
Basketball |
8-Nov-1914 |
11-Nov-1994 |
NCAA Basketball Coach |
| Gardner McKay |
Actor |
10-Jun-1932 |
21-Nov-2001 |
Adventures in Paradise |
| Michael McKean |
Actor |
17-Oct-1947 |
|
This Is Spinal Tap, SNL |
| James W. McLamore |
Business |
30-May-1926 |
8-Aug-1996 |
Co-Founder of Burger King |
| Vince McMahon, Sr. |
Wrestling |
6-Jul-1914 |
24-May-1984 |
World Wrestling Entertainment founder |
| Sam McMurray |
Actor |
15-Apr-1952 |
|
The Tracey Ullman Show |
| Stephen McNally |
Actor |
29-Jul-1913 |
4-Jun-1994 |
Winchester '73 |
| Maggie McNamara |
Actor |
18-Feb-1928 |
18-Feb-1978 |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
| George Meany |
Labor Leader |
16-Aug-1894 |
10-Jan-1980 |
AFL-CIO President, 1955-79 |
| Scott Mechlowicz |
Actor |
17-Jan-1981 |
|
EuroTrip |
| Kay Medford |
Actor |
14-Sep-1914 |
10-Apr-1980 |
Bye Bye Birdie |
| Terry Melcher |
Music Producer |
8-Feb-1942 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Songwriter for Byrds, Beach Boys |
| Herman Melville |
Author |
1-Aug-1819 |
28-Sep-1891 |
Moby Dick |
| Bob Menendez |
Politician |
1-Jan-1954 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| John Mengatti |
Actor |
21-Sep-1954 |
|
Nick Vitaglia on The White Shadow |
| Livingston T. Merchant |
Diplomat |
23-Nov-1903 |
15-May-1976 |
Twice US Ambassador to Canada |
| William Meredith |
Poet |
9-Jan-1919 |
30-May-2007 |
Partial Accounts |
| Susan Mernit |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
Former VP of Netscape, AOL |
| Dina Merrill |
Actor |
9-Dec-1925 |
|
EF Hutton heiress and actress |
| James Merrill |
Poet |
3-Mar-1926 |
6-Feb-1995 |
Nights and Days |
| Robert C. Merton |
Economist |
31-Jul-1944 |
|
Risk management and options |
| W. S. Merwin |
Poet |
30-Sep-1927 |
|
The Carrier of Ladders |
| Nicholas Meyer |
Film Director |
24-Dec-1945 |
|
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan |
| Helen Stevenson Meyner |
Politician |
5-Mar-1928 |
2-Nov-1997 |
Congresswoman from New Jersey, 1975-78 |
| Kari Michaelsen |
Actor |
3-Nov-1961 |
|
Katie Kanisky on Gimme a Break! |
| Ken Michelman |
Actor |
23-May-1955 |
|
Abner Goldstein on The White Shadow |
| Sylvia Miles |
Actor |
9-Sep-1923 |
|
Midnight Cowboy |
| Alan B. Miller |
Business |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
Founder of Universal Health Services |
| Arthur Miller |
Playwright |
17-Oct-1915 |
10-Feb-2005 |
Death of a Salesman |
| Christa Miller |
Actor |
28-May-1964 |
|
The Drew Carey Show |
| Franklin C. Miller |
Government |
Oct-1950 |
|
National Security Council, 2001-05 |
| Henry Miller |
Novelist |
26-Dec-1891 |
7-Jun-1980 |
Tropic of Cancer |
| John Miller |
Politician |
23-May-1938 |
|
Congressman from Washington, 1985-93 |
| Judith Miller |
Journalist |
2-Jan-1948 |
|
Credulous NY Times WMD maven |
| Matthew Miller |
Columnist |
c. 1962 |
|
The Two Percent Solution |
| Sienna Miller |
Actor |
28-Dec-1981 |
|
Ex-fianc�e of Jude Law |
| Steven Millhauser |
Author |
3-Aug-1943 |
|
Martin Dressler |
| Irving Mills |
Musician |
16-Jan-1894 |
21-Apr-1985 |
Songwriter, music scout, raconteur |
| Ira M. Millstein |
Attorney |
8-Nov-1926 |
|
Weil, Gotshal & Manges |
| Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
| Rachel Miner |
Actor |
29-Jul-1980 |
|
The Guiding Light |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
24-Jan-2016 |
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| Frederic S. Mishkin |
Economist |
11-Jan-1951 |
|
Federal Reserve Governor |
| Andrea Mitchell |
Journalist |
30-Oct-1946 |
|
NBC Foreign Affairs Correspondent |
| Arthur Mitchell |
Dancer |
27-Mar-1934 |
|
Dance Theatre of Harlem |
| Steven T. Mnuchin |
Business |
21-Dec-1962 |
|
Dune Capital Management |
| Lil' Mo |
Singer |
1978 |
|
The R&B singer next door |
| Gerald Mohr |
Actor |
11-Jun-1914 |
9-Nov-1968 |
American character actor |
| Guy Molinari |
Politician |
23-Nov-1928 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1981-89 |
| Rick Moody |
Author |
18-Oct-1961 |
|
Purple America |
| Les Moonves |
Business |
6-Oct-1949 |
|
CEO of CBS Television |
| Clement Clarke Moore |
Poet |
15-Jul-1779 |
10-Jul-1863 |
'Twas the Night Before Christmas |
| Melba Moore |
Singer |
29-Oct-1945 |
|
Lift Every Voice and Sing |
| George Moose |
Diplomat |
23-Jun-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to the UN in Europe, 1998-2001 |
| George Morfogen |
Actor |
30-Mar-1933 |
|
Rebadow on Oz |
| Frank Morgan |
Actor |
1-Jun-1890 |
18-Sep-1949 |
The Wizard of Oz |
| Henry Morgan |
Radio Personality |
31-Mar-1915 |
19-May-1994 |
Bad Boy of Radio, I've Got a Secret |
| Ralph Morgan |
Actor |
6-Jul-1883 |
11-Jun-1956 |
The Kennel Murder Case |
| Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
Government |
11-May-1891 |
6-Feb-1967 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45 |
| Patricia Morison |
Actor |
19-Mar-1915 |
|
Dressed to Kill |
| Chester Morris |
Actor |
16-Feb-1901 |
11-Sep-1970 |
Boston Blackie |
| Gouverneur Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1752 |
6-Nov-1816 |
American financier, Revolutionary politician |
| Howard Morris |
Actor |
4-Sep-1919 |
21-May-2005 |
Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show |
| Bruce A. Morrison |
Politician |
8-Oct-1944 |
|
Congressman from Connecticut, 1983-91 |
| Jeff Morrow |
Actor |
13-Jan-1907 |
26-Dec-1993 |
This Island Earth |
| Howard Morton |
Actor |
15-May-1925 |
11-May-1997 |
Officer Simpson on Gimme a Break! |
| David Moscow |
Actor |
14-Nov-1974 |
|
Big |
| Mark Moses |
Actor |
24-Feb-1958 |
|
Paul Young on Desperate Housewives |
| Howard Moss |
Poet |
22-Jan-1922 |
16-Sep-1987 |
Finding Them Lost |
| Josh Mostel |
Actor |
21-Dec-1946 |
|
Jesus Christ Superstar |
| Angelo R. Mozilo |
Business |
1938 |
|
Former CEO of Countrywide |
| Robert Mueller |
Government |
7-Aug-1944 |
|
FBI Director |
| Diana Muldaur |
Actor |
19-Aug-1938 |
|
Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law |
| Richard Mulligan |
Actor |
13-Nov-1932 |
26-Sep-2000 |
Burt Campbell in Soap |
| Alicia H. Munnell |
Economist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1996-97 |
| Jules Munshin |
Actor |
22-Feb-1915 |
19-Feb-1970 |
On the Town |
| Charlie Murphy |
Actor |
12-Jul-1959 |
|
Chapelle's Show |
| Arthur Murray |
Dancer |
4-Apr-1895 |
3-Mar-1991 |
Founded Arthur Murray dance studios |
| Joseph A. Mussomeli |
Diplomat |
26-May-1952 |
|
US Ambassador to Cambodia |
| Michael Musto |
Columnist |
3-Dec-1955 |
|
Village Voice gossip columnist |
| Ethan Nadelmann |
Activist |
13-Mar-1957 |
|
Drug Policy Alliance |
| Adam Nagourney |
Journalist |
10-Oct-1954 |
|
New York Times |
| J. Carrol Naish |
Actor |
21-Jan-1896 |
24-Jan-1973 |
Sahara |
| Janet Napolitano |
Politician |
29-Nov-1957 |
|
US Secretary of Homeland Security |
| Condé Nast |
Business |
26-Mar-1873 |
19-Sep-1942 |
Founder of Cond� Nast Publications |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Publisher of The Nation |
| Chuck Negron |
Singer |
8-Jun-1942 |
|
Singer for Three Dog Night |
| David Nelson |
Actor |
24-Oct-1936 |
11-Jan-2011 |
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet |
| Haywood Nelson |
Actor |
25-Mar-1960 |
|
Dwayne Nelson on What's Happening |
| Ralph Nelson |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1916 |
21-Dec-1987 |
Father Goose |
| Howard Nemerov |
Poet |
1-Mar-1920 |
5-Jul-1991 |
US Poet Laureate, 1987-88 |
| Sam Newfield |
Film Director |
6-Dec-1899 |
10-Nov-1964 |
I Accuse My Parents |
| Arnold Newman |
Photographer |
3-Mar-1918 |
6-Jun-2006 |
Environmental portraitist |
| Barnett Newman |
Painter |
29-Jan-1905 |
4-Jul-1970 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Edwin Newman |
Journalist |
25-Jan-1919 |
13-Aug-2010 |
Journalist and commentator for NBC News |
| Pauline Newman |
Judge |
20-Jun-1927 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
| Richard Ney |
Actor |
12-Nov-1916 |
18-Jul-2004 |
Mrs. Miniver |
| Jack Nicholson |
Actor |
22-Apr-1937 |
|
Chinatown |
| Marshall W. Nirenberg |
Scientist |
10-Apr-1927 |
15-Jan-2010 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Cynthia Nixon |
Actor |
9-Apr-1966 |
|
Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City |
| Justin Nozuka |
Singer/Songwriter |
29-Sep-1988 |
|
You I Wind Land and Sea |
| Miguel A. Núñez, Jr. |
Actor |
11-Aug-1964 |
|
Marcus Taylor on Tour of Duty |
| Bernard W. Nussbaum |
Attorney |
23-Mar-1937 |
|
White House Counsel for Bill Clinton |
| Martha Nussbaum |
Philosopher |
6-May-1947 |
|
The Fragility of Goodness |
| Diana Nyad |
Swimmer |
22-Aug-1949 |
|
Long distance swimmer |
| Edmond O'Brien |
Actor |
10-Sep-1915 |
9-May-1985 |
The Great Imposter |
| Edward I. O'Brien |
Business |
19-Sep-1928 |
|
Securities Industry Association |
| Arthur O'Connell |
Actor |
29-Mar-1908 |
18-May-1981 |
Anatomy of a Murder |
| Jerry O'Connell |
Actor |
17-Feb-1974 |
|
Pete Kaczmarek in The Defenders |
| Robert L. O'Connell |
Historian |
27-Dec-1944 |
|
Of Arms and Men |
| Glynnis O'Connor |
Actor |
19-Nov-1956 |
|
Ode to Billy Joe |
| James A. O'Gorman |
Politician |
5-May-1860 |
17-May-1943 |
US Senator from New York, 1911-17 |
| Gerald S. O'Loughlin |
Actor |
23-Dec-1921 |
31-Jul-2015 |
Lt. Ed Ryker on The Rookies |
| Dick O'Neill |
Actor |
29-Aug-1928 |
17-Nov-1998 |
Charlie Cagney on Cagney and Lacey |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1888 |
27-Nov-1953 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain |
Judge |
28-Mar-1937 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Simon Oakland |
Actor |
28-Aug-1915 |
29-Aug-1983 |
Tony Vincenzo on Kolchak |
| John Oates |
Musician |
7-Apr-1949 |
|
Half of Hall and Oates |
| James E. Oberg |
Historian |
7-Nov-1944 |
|
Space exploration historian |
| Keith Olbermann |
Pundit |
27-Jan-1959 |
|
Countdown |
| Susan Oliver |
Actor |
13-Feb-1932 |
10-May-1990 |
Actress-cum-Aviatrix |
| Christina Onassis |
Relative |
11-Dec-1950 |
19-Nov-1988 |
Daughter of Aristotle Onassis |
| David Opatoshu |
Actor |
30-Jan-1918 |
30-Apr-1996 |
Raid on Entebbe |
| Frank Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1912 |
3-Feb-1985 |
Founder of the Exploratorium |
| Robert Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1904 |
18-Feb-1967 |
Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| Robert Orben |
Author |
4-Mar-1927 |
|
Prolific jokewriter |
| Victor Oristano |
Business |
10-Sep-1916 |
|
Alda Limited Partners |
| Tony Orlando |
Singer |
3-Apr-1944 |
|
Tony Orlando and Dawn |
| Peter Orlovsky |
Poet |
8-Jul-1933 |
30-May-2010 |
Beat poet, lover of Allen Ginsberg |
| Charles Osgood |
Journalist |
8-Jan-1933 |
|
CBS News Sunday Morning |
| Margaret J. Osler |
Historian |
27-Nov-1942 |
15-Sep-2010 |
Reconfiguring the World |
| Ronn Owens |
Radio Personality |
17-Oct-1945 |
|
KGO radio talk show host |
| Catherine Oxenberg |
Actor |
22-Sep-1961 |
|
Amanda Carrington on Dynasty |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Author |
17-Apr-1928 |
|
The Puttermesser Papers |
| Robert P. Paganelli |
Diplomat |
3-Nov-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1981-84 |
| Amanda Palmer |
Singer/Songwriter |
30-Apr-1976 |
|
The Dresden Dolls |
| Jim Palmer |
Baseball |
15-Oct-1945 |
|
Longtime Baltimore Orioles pitcher |
| Chazz Palminteri |
Actor |
15-May-1952 |
|
Bullets Over Broadway |
| Anthony Pantaleoni |
Attorney |
29-May-1939 |
|
Fulbright & Jaworski |
| Barbara J. Pariente |
Judge |
24-Dec-1948 |
|
Justice, Florida Supreme Court |
| Herbert S. Parmet |
Historian |
28-Sep-1929 |
|
Eisenhower and the American Crusades |
| Marianne Miller Parrs |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CFO of International Paper, 2005-07 |
| Lee Patrick |
Actor |
22-Nov-1901 |
21-Nov-1982 |
Henrietta Topper on Topper |
| Alexandra Paul |
Actor |
29-Jul-1963 |
|
Lt. Holden on Baywatch |
| Morgan Paull |
Actor |
15-Dec-1944 |
17-Jul-2012 |
Blade Runner |
| Alice Pearce |
Actor |
16-Oct-1917 |
3-Mar-1966 |
Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched |
| Lou Pearlman |
Music Producer |
19-Jun-1954 |
19-Aug-2016 |
Boy bands and Ponzi schemes |
| Josh Peck |
Actor |
10-Nov-1986 |
|
Drake and Josh |
| M. Scott Peck |
Author |
22-May-1936 |
25-Sep-2005 |
The Road Less Traveled |
| Jordan Peele |
Actor |
21-Feb-1979 |
|
Key and Peele |
| Jan Peerce |
Singer |
3-Jun-1904 |
15-Dec-1984 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Amanda Peet |
Actor |
11-Jan-1972 |
|
Touch Me |
| Ashley Peldon |
Actor |
2-Apr-1984 |
|
Guiding Light |
| Claiborne Pell |
Politician |
22-Nov-1918 |
1-Jan-2009 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97 |
| Herbert C. Pell |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1884 |
17-Jul-1961 |
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1937-41 |
| Michael Penn |
Musician |
1-Aug-1958 |
|
Sean Penn's brother |
| Marty Peretz |
Publisher |
6-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Owner, The New Republic |
| Louis A. Pérez, Jr. |
Historian |
5-Jun-1943 |
|
Cuba Between Empires, 1878-1902 |
| Anthony Perkins |
Actor |
4-Apr-1932 |
12-Sep-1992 |
Psycho |
| Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
30-Sep-2014 |
Discovered the tau lepton |
| Richard Perle |
Government |
16-Sep-1941 |
|
Prince of Darkness |
| Ron Perlman |
Actor |
13-Apr-1950 |
|
Hellboy |
| Frank Perry |
Film Director |
21-Aug-1930 |
29-Aug-1995 |
Mommie Dearest |
| Brock Peters |
Actor |
2-Jul-1927 |
23-Aug-2005 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Clarke Peters |
Actor |
7-Apr-1952 |
|
Lester Freamon on The Wire |
| Donald Petrie |
Film Director |
2-Apr-1954 |
|
Grumpy Old Men |
| Joseph Pevney |
Film Director |
15-Sep-1911 |
18-May-2008 |
Man of a Thousand Faces |
| John J. Phelan, Jr. |
Business |
7-May-1931 |
4-Aug-2012 |
CEO of the NYSE, 1984-91 |
| Lee Philips |
Film Director |
10-Jan-1927 |
3-Mar-1999 |
TV movie director |
| Samuel F. Phillips |
Attorney |
18-Feb-1824 |
18-Nov-1903 |
US Solicitor General, 1872-85 |
| Warren H. Phillips |
Publisher |
28-Jun-1926 |
|
Chairman of Dow Jones, 1975-91 |
| Molly Picon |
Actor |
1-Jun-1898 |
5-Apr-1992 |
Yiddish theatre actress |
| Jeffry M. Picower |
Business |
5-May-1942 |
25-Oct-2009 |
Became billionaire via Madoff's Ponzi |
| William Pigott |
Business |
27-Jun-1860 |
19-Jul-1929 |
Pacific Car & Foundry |
| Rob Pilatus |
Dancer |
8-Jun-1965 |
2-Apr-1998 |
Troubled half of Milli Vanilli |
| Nicholas Pileggi |
Author |
22-Feb-1933 |
|
Goodfellas screenwriter |
| Bronson Pinchot |
Actor |
20-May-1959 |
|
Balki on Perfect Strangers |
| Robert Pine |
Actor |
10-Jul-1941 |
|
Sgt. Getraer on CHiPS |
| Rick Pitino |
Basketball |
18-Sep-1952 |
|
Head Coach, University of Louisville |
| Nicholas Platt |
Diplomat |
10-Mar-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Pakistan, 1991-92 |
| Suzanne Pleshette |
Actor |
31-Jan-1937 |
19-Jan-2008 |
The Birds |
| George Plimpton |
Author |
18-Mar-1927 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Paper Lion |
| Martha Plimpton |
Actor |
16-Nov-1970 |
|
The Goonies |
| Amanda Plummer |
Actor |
23-Mar-1957 |
|
Pulp Fiction |
| John Podhoretz |
Columnist |
18-Apr-1961 |
|
Conservative columnist |
| H. David Politzer |
Physicist |
31-Aug-1949 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| David Pomeranz |
Singer/Songwriter |
9-Feb-1951 |
|
Born for You |
| Faith Popcorn |
Pundit |
c. 1948 |
|
The Popcorn Report |
| Richard Posner |
Judge |
11-Jan-1939 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Neil Postman |
Educator |
8-Mar-1931 |
5-Oct-2003 |
Amusing Ourselves to Death |
| Chaim Potok |
Novelist |
17-Feb-1929 |
23-Jul-2002 |
The Chosen |
| H. C. Potter |
Film Director |
13-Nov-1904 |
31-Aug-1977 |
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House |
| Sally Pressman |
Actor |
1-Aug-1981 |
|
Roxy LeBlanc on Army Wives |
| Barry Primus |
Actor |
16-Feb-1938 |
|
Gold Coast |
| Harold Prince |
Theatre Producer |
30-Jan-1928 |
|
Broadway musical producer, 21 Tony awards |
| Anthony J. Principi |
Government |
16-Apr-1944 |
|
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 2001-05 |
| Henry F. Pringle |
Historian |
23-Aug-1897 |
7-Apr-1958 |
Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography |
| Joan Pringle |
Actor |
2-Jun-1945 |
|
Sybil Buchanan on The White Shadow |
| Freddie Prinze |
Actor |
22-Jun-1954 |
29-Jan-1977 |
Chico of Chico and the Man |
| Bill Quinn |
Actor |
6-May-1912 |
29-Apr-1994 |
Mr. Van Ranseleer on Archie Bunker's Place |
| Kenneth M. Quinn |
Diplomat |
26-May-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Cambodia, 1996-99 |
| Lily Rabe |
Actor |
29-Jun-1982 |
|
American Horror Story |
| Bob Rafelson |
Film Director |
21-Feb-1933 |
|
Five Easy Pieces |
| Emily K. Rafferty |
Administrator |
c. 1949 |
|
President, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| George Raft |
Actor |
26-Sep-1895 |
24-Nov-1980 |
Actor with Mafia ties |
| Ralph Rainger |
Composer |
7-Oct-1901 |
23-Oct-1942 |
Thanks For The Memory |
| John Randolph |
Actor |
1-Jun-1915 |
24-Feb-2004 |
Prizzi's Honor |
| Charles Rangel |
Politician |
11-Jun-1930 |
|
Congressman, New York 15th |
| Marcus Ranum |
Computer Programmer |
5-Nov-1962 |
|
Tenable Network Security |
| Michael Rapaport |
Actor |
20-Mar-1970 |
|
Zebrahead |
| Virginia Rappe |
Victim |
7-Jul-1891 |
9-Sep-1921 |
Fatty Arbuckle scandal |
| Jef Raskin |
Computer Programmer |
9-Mar-1943 |
26-Feb-2005 |
Designed Macintosh human interface |
| Kim Raver |
Actor |
15-Mar-1969 |
|
Audrey Raines on 24 |
| Gene Anthony Ray |
Dancer |
24-May-1962 |
14-Nov-2003 |
Leroy Johnson on Fame |
| Gene Raymond |
Actor |
13-Aug-1908 |
2-May-1998 |
Red Dust |
| Nancy Reagan |
First Lady |
6-Jul-1921 |
6-Mar-2016 |
Wife of US President Reagan |
| Alan Reed |
Actor |
20-Aug-1907 |
14-Jun-1977 |
Voice of Fred Flintstone |
| Alfred Reed |
Composer |
25-Jan-1921 |
17-Sep-2005 |
Russian Christmas Music |
| Joseph Verner Reed |
Government |
17-Dec-1937 |
29-Sep-2016 |
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1981-85 |
| Christopher Reeve |
Actor |
25-Sep-1952 |
10-Oct-2004 |
Superman |
| Dana Reeve |
Activist |
17-Mar-1961 |
6-Mar-2006 |
Christopher Reeve Foundation |
| Perrey Reeves |
Actor |
30-Nov-1970 |
|
Entourage |
| Richard Reeves |
Author |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination |
| Joe Regalbuto |
Actor |
24-Aug-1949 |
|
Frank Fontana on Murphy Brown |
| Steve Reich |
Composer |
3-Oct-1936 |
|
Minimalist composer, Different Trains |
| Ruth Reichl |
Critic |
16-Jan-1948 |
|
Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet magazine |
| Elliott Reid |
Actor |
16-Jan-1920 |
21-Jun-2013 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| Ogden R. Reid |
Politician |
24-Jun-1925 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1963-75 |
| Steven S. Reinemund |
Business |
6-Apr-1948 |
|
CEO of Pepsi, 2001-06 |
| Stephen Reinhardt |
Judge |
27-Mar-1931 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Irving Reis |
Film Director |
7-May-1906 |
3-Jul-1953 |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer |
| Paul Reiser |
Actor |
30-Mar-1957 |
|
Mad About You |
| Ed Rendell |
Politician |
5-Jan-1944 |
|
Governor of Pennsylvania, 2003-11 |
| Nicola Rescigno |
Conductor |
28-May-1916 |
4-Aug-2008 |
Conductor, Dallas Opera, 1957-90 |
| Stanley R. Resor |
Government |
5-Dec-1917 |
17-Apr-2012 |
Secretary of the Army, 1965-71 |
| James Reston, Jr. |
Author |
8-Mar-1941 |
|
The Conviction of Richard Nixon |
| Anne Revere |
Actor |
25-Jun-1903 |
18-Dec-1990 |
National Velvet |
| Ving Rhames |
Actor |
12-May-1959 |
|
Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction |
| William R. Rhodes |
Business |
15-Aug-1935 |
|
Vice Chairman of Citigroup |
| Alfonso Ribeiro |
Actor |
21-Sep-1971 |
|
Carlton Banks on Fresh Prince |
| Elmer Rice |
Playwright |
28-Sep-1892 |
8-May-1967 |
Street Scene |
| Thomas D. Rice |
Comic |
20-May-1808 |
19-Sep-1860 |
Played "Jim Crow" |
| Adam Rich |
Actor |
12-Oct-1968 |
|
Nicholas Bradford on Eight is Enough |
| David Lowell Rich |
Film Director |
31-Aug-1923 |
|
The Concorde: Airport '79 |
| Dick Richards |
Film Director |
1936 |
|
Farewell, My Lovely |
| Deon Richmond |
Actor |
2-Apr-1978 |
|
Kenny on The Cosby Show |
| Don Rickles |
Comic |
8-May-1926 |
|
King of the Insult |
| Laura Riding |
Poet |
16-Jan-1901 |
2-Sep-1991 |
A Survey of Modernist Poetry |
| Peter Riegert |
Actor |
11-Apr-1947 |
|
Barbarians at the Gate |
| Ron Rifkin |
Actor |
31-Oct-1939 |
|
Arvin Sloane on Alias |
| Stephen Riggio |
Business |
1954 |
|
CEO of Barnes & Noble |
| Martin Ritt |
Film Director |
2-Mar-1914 |
8-Dec-1990 |
The Long Hot Summer |
| Donald L. Ritter |
Politician |
21-Oct-1940 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-93 |
| David Rivera |
Politician |
16-Sep-1965 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 2011-13 |
| Geraldo Rivera |
Journalist |
4-Jul-1943 |
|
Fox News commentator |
| Roberto A. Rivera-Soto |
Judge |
10-Nov-1953 |
|
Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court |
| Joan Rivers |
Comic |
8-Jun-1933 |
4-Sep-2014 |
Can we talk? |
| Johnny Rivers |
Musician |
7-Nov-1942 |
|
Secret Agent Man |
| Melissa Rivers |
TV Personality |
20-Jan-1968 |
|
Daughter of Joan Rivers |
| Sam Robards |
Actor |
16-Dec-1961 |
|
Get a Life |
| Harold Robbins |
Novelist |
21-May-1916 |
14-Oct-1997 |
The Carpetbaggers |
| Jerome Robbins |
Choreographer |
11-Oct-1918 |
29-Jul-1998 |
West Side Story |
| Ralph J. Roberts |
Business |
13-Mar-1920 |
19-Jun-2015 |
Co-Founder of Comcast |
| Tony Roberts |
Actor |
22-Oct-1939 |
|
Annie Hall |
| Andrew Robinson |
Actor |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Garak on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| Jay Robinson |
Actor |
14-Apr-1930 |
27-Sep-2013 |
Caligula in The Robe |
| Leon Robinson |
Actor |
8-Mar-1962 |
|
Cool Runnings |
| David Rockefeller |
Business |
12-Jun-1915 |
|
Founder of the Trilateral Commission |
| Jay Rockefeller |
Politician |
18-Jun-1937 |
|
US Senator from West Virginia |
| John D. Rockefeller III |
Philanthropist |
21-Mar-1906 |
10-Jul-1978 |
Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
| Laurance Rockefeller |
Business |
26-May-1910 |
11-Jul-2004 |
Financier behind Eastern Airlines |
| Win Rockefeller |
Politician |
17-Sep-1948 |
16-Jul-2006 |
Billionaire, Arkansas Lt. Governor |
| Winthrop Rockefeller |
Business |
1-May-1912 |
22-Feb-1973 |
Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 |
| Norman Rockwell |
Painter |
3-Feb-1894 |
8-Nov-1978 |
Saturday Evening Post artist |
| ASAP Rocky |
Rapper |
3-Oct-1988 |
|
Live Love A$AP |
| Nile Rodgers |
Musician |
19-Sep-1952 |
|
Founding member of Chic |
| Alex Rodriguez |
Baseball |
27-Jul-1975 |
|
NY Yankees 3rd Baseman |
| Judith W. Rogers |
Judge |
27-Jul-1939 |
|
US Court of Appeals, DC Circuit |
| Will Rogers, Jr. |
Actor |
20-Oct-1911 |
10-Jul-1993 |
Son of Will Rogers |
| Anne Roiphe |
Author |
25-Dec-1935 |
|
Up the Sandbox! |
| Lina Romay |
Actor |
16-Jan-1919 |
17-Dec-2010 |
Adventure |
| Anthony Romero |
Activist |
9-Jul-1965 |
|
ACLU Executive Director |
| Cesar Romero |
Actor |
15-Feb-1907 |
1-Jan-1994 |
The Joker on Batman |
| George Romero |
Film Director |
4-Feb-1940 |
|
Night of the Living Dead |
| Saoirse Ronan |
Actor |
12-Apr-1994 |
|
Atonement |
| James Roosevelt |
Politician |
23-Dec-1907 |
13-Aug-1991 |
Congressman from California, 1955-65 |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
Head of State |
27-Oct-1858 |
6-Jan-1919 |
26th US President, 1901-09 |
| Richard Rorty |
Philosopher |
4-Oct-1931 |
8-Jun-2007 |
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature |
| Jamie Rose |
Actor |
26-Nov-1959 |
|
Vickie Gioberti on Falcon Crest |
| Ethel Rosenberg |
Relative |
28-Sep-1915 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg |
| Julius Rosenberg |
Spy |
12-May-1918 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR |
| Peter R. Rosenblatt |
Attorney |
4-Sep-1933 |
|
Washington attorney |
| Robert Rosenblum |
Art Historian |
24-Jul-1927 |
6-Dec-2006 |
Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art |
| Albert J. Rosenthal |
Legal Scholar |
5-Mar-1919 |
17-Mar-2010 |
Dean of Columbia Law School, 1979-84 |
| Rick Rosenthal |
Film Director |
15-Jun-1949 |
|
Halloween II |
| Joe E. Ross |
Actor |
15-Mar-1914 |
13-Aug-1982 |
Car 54, Where Are You? |
| Robert Rossen |
Screenwriter |
16-Mar-1908 |
18-Feb-1966 |
The Hustler |
| Charles O. Rossotti |
Business |
17-Jan-1941 |
|
IRS Commissioner, 1997-2002 |
| Emmy Rossum |
Actor |
12-Sep-1986 |
|
The Day After Tomorrow |
| Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
| Joe Roth |
Business |
13-Jun-1948 |
|
Revolution Studios, former Disney CEO |
| Will Rothhaar |
Actor |
12-Jan-1987 |
|
Mickey Kleinman on Listen Up |
| Russell Rouse |
Screenwriter |
20-Nov-1913 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Pillow Talk |
| Roy Rowland |
Film Director |
31-Dec-1910 |
29-Jun-1995 |
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes |
| Candida Royalle |
Pornstar |
15-Oct-1950 |
7-Sep-2015 |
Femmes De Sade |
| Prince Royce |
Singer/Songwriter |
11-May-1989 |
|
Coraz�n Sin Cara |
| Selena Royle |
Actor |
6-Nov-1904 |
23-Apr-1983 |
The Fighting Sullivans |
| James P. Rubin |
Government |
1960 |
|
State Department Spokesman, 1997-2000 |
| Robert E. Rubin |
Government |
29-Aug-1938 |
|
US Treasury Secretary, 1995-99 |
| David B. Ruderman |
Historian |
29-May-1944 |
|
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key |
| Sara Rue |
Actor |
26-Jan-1979 |
|
Less Than Perfect |
| William A. Rugh |
Diplomat |
10-May-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1984-87 |
| Louis Rukeyser |
Talk Show Host |
30-Jan-1933 |
2-May-2006 |
Host of PBS's Wall $treet Week |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
Poet |
15-Dec-1913 |
12-Feb-1980 |
The Book of the Dead |
| William S. Rukeyser |
Journalist |
1939 |
|
Managing Editor of Fortune |
| Richard Rush |
Film Director |
15-Apr-1929 |
|
The Stunt Man |
| R. J. Rushdoony |
Religion |
25-Apr-1916 |
8-Feb-2001 |
Institutes of Biblical Law |
| Joanna Russ |
Author |
22-Feb-1937 |
29-Apr-2011 |
The Female Man |
| David O. Russell |
Film Director |
20-Aug-1958 |
|
I Heart Huckabees |
| Gianni Russo |
Actor |
12-Dec-1943 |
|
The Godfather |
| James Russo |
Actor |
23-Apr-1953 |
|
The Box |
| Eileen Ryan |
Actor |
16-Oct-1928 |
|
Matriarch of the Penn family |
| Mary Ryan |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1940 |
25-Apr-2006 |
US Ambassador to Swaziland, 1988-90 |
| Mark Rydell |
Film Director |
23-Mar-1934 |
|
On Golden Pond |
| William Safire |
Columnist |
17-Dec-1929 |
27-Sep-2009 |
NYT columnist, language maven |
| Bill Sage |
Actor |
17-Jul-1962 |
|
Simple Men |
| Carole Bayer Sager |
Singer/Songwriter |
8-Mar-1947 |
|
That's What Friends Are For |
| Gene Saks |
Theater Director |
8-Nov-1921 |
28-Mar-2015 |
The Odd Couple |
| Richard Sale |
Screenwriter |
17-Dec-1911 |
4-Mar-1993 |
A Ticket to Tomahawk |
| Frederic V. Salerno |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CFO of Verizon, 2000-02 |
| J. D. Salinger |
Novelist |
1-Jan-1919 |
27-Jan-2010 |
The Catcher in the Rye |
| Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the first polio vaccine |
| Sidney Salkow |
Film Director |
16-Jun-1909 |
18-Oct-2000 |
Twice-Told Tales |
| Robert J. Samuelson |
Columnist |
23-Dec-1945 |
|
Newsweek columnist |
| Herbert Sandler |
Philanthropist |
16-Nov-1931 |
|
Golden West Financial |
| Mark Sandrich |
Film Director |
26-Aug-1900 |
4-Mar-1945 |
Top Hat |
| Steve Sandvoss |
Actor |
23-Jun-1980 |
|
Latter Days |
| Isabel Sanford |
Actor |
29-Aug-1917 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons |
| Merlin Santana |
Actor |
14-Mar-1976 |
9-Nov-2002 |
The Steve Harvey Show |
| Richard C. Sarafian |
Film Director |
28-Apr-1930 |
18-Sep-2013 |
Vanishing Point |
| William F. Sater |
Historian |
17-Nov-1937 |
|
Chile and the War of the Pacific |
| Adam Savage |
TV Personality |
15-Jul-1967 |
|
Goateed host of MythBusters |
| Herschel Savage |
Pornstar |
25-Nov-1952 |
|
Go-to performer for Seymore Butts |
| Josh Saviano |
Actor |
31-Mar-1976 |
|
Paul Pfeiffer on The Wonder Years |
| Mario Savio |
Activist |
8-Dec-1942 |
6-Nov-1996 |
Free Speech Movement |
| Eric Schaeffer |
Film Director |
22-Jan-1962 |
|
If Lucy Fell |
| Howard B. Schaffer |
Diplomat |
21-Jul-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Bangladesh, 1984-87 |
| Mary L. Schapiro |
Government |
19-Jun-1955 |
|
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
| Robert Scheer |
Columnist |
4-Apr-1936 |
|
Former L.A. Times columnist |
| Orville Schell |
Author |
20-May-1940 |
|
Prominent sinologist |
| Herbert I. Schiller |
Author |
5-Nov-1919 |
29-Jan-2000 |
Mass Communications and American Empire |
| Leslie T. Schilling |
Business |
? |
|
Union Square Investments Company |
| Frank Schlesinger |
Astronomer |
11-May-1871 |
10-Jul-1943 |
Stellar parallaxes |
| James R. Schlesinger |
Government |
15-Feb-1929 |
27-Mar-2014 |
Served Nixon, Ford, Carter |
| Eric Schlosser |
Author |
17-Aug-1959 |
|
Fast Food Nation |
| Eric Schneiderman |
Government |
31-Dec-1954 |
|
Attorney General of New York |
| Bruce Schneier |
Computer Programmer |
15-Jan-1964 |
|
Applied Cryptography |
| Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
23-Jul-2010 |
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
| Carl E. Schorske |
Historian |
15-Mar-1915 |
13-Sep-2015 |
Fin-de-Si�cle Vienna: Politics and Culture |
| Bitty Schram |
Actor |
17-Jul-1968 |
|
A League of Their Own |
| Budd Schulberg |
Novelist |
27-Mar-1914 |
5-Aug-2009 |
What Makes Sammy Run? |
| Joel Schumacher |
Film Director |
29-Aug-1939 |
|
The Lost Boys |
| William Schuman |
Composer |
4-Aug-1910 |
15-Feb-1992 |
Symphony No. 6 |
| Amy Schumer |
Comic |
1-Jun-1981 |
|
Inside Amy Schumer |
| Anna J. Schwartz |
Economist |
11-Nov-1915 |
21-Jun-2012 |
A Monetary History of the United States |
| Ben Schwartz |
Actor |
15-Sep-1981 |
|
Rejected Jokes |
| Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| Campbell Scott |
Actor |
19-Jul-1961 |
|
The Spanish Prisoner |
| Pippa Scott |
Actor |
10-Nov-1935 |
|
Cold Turkey |
| John Sculley |
Business |
6-Apr-1939 |
|
CEO of Apple, 1983-93 |
| John Sebastian |
Singer/Songwriter |
17-Mar-1944 |
|
Theme to Welcome Back, Kotter |
| Jon Seda |
Actor |
14-Oct-1970 |
|
Det. Paul Falsone on Homicide |
| Sam Seder |
Radio Personality |
28-Nov-1966 |
|
Majority Report podcast |
| Kyra Sedgwick |
Actor |
19-Aug-1965 |
|
The Closer |
| Lewis Seiler |
Film Director |
30-Sep-1890 |
8-Jan-1964 |
Guadalcanal Diary |
| William A. Seiter |
Film Director |
10-Jun-1890 |
26-Jul-1964 |
Allegheny Uprising |
| Joel Seligman |
Educator |
11-Jan-1950 |
|
President, University of Rochester |
| Anya Seton |
Author |
23-Jan-1906 |
8-Nov-1990 |
Dragonwyck |
| Brian Setzer |
Musician |
10-Apr-1959 |
|
Frontman for The Stray Cats |
| Anne Seymour |
Actor |
11-Sep-1909 |
8-Dec-1988 |
Character actress |
| Frank Shakespeare |
Diplomat |
9-Apr-1925 |
|
US Ambassador to the Vatican, 1986-89 |
| Gene Shalit |
Critic |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Film critic |
| Florence Shapiro |
Politician |
2-May-1948 |
|
Texas state senator |
| Judith Shapiro |
Educator |
24-Jan-1942 |
|
President, Barnard College |
| Robert B. Shapiro |
Business |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 |
| Mickey Shaughnessy |
Actor |
5-Aug-1920 |
23-Jul-1985 |
Jailhouse Rock |
| Melville Shavelson |
Film Director |
1-Apr-1917 |
8-Aug-2007 |
Yours, Mine and Ours |
| Artie Shaw |
Musician |
23-May-1910 |
30-Dec-2004 |
Clarinetist, big band leader |
| Wallace Shawn |
Actor |
12-Nov-1943 |
|
Ate dinner with Andre |
| Carol Shea-Porter |
Politician |
2-Dec-1954 |
|
Congresswoman from New Hampshire, 2007-11 |
| Charlie Sheen |
Actor |
3-Sep-1965 |
|
The prodigal Sheen |
| Ben Shenkman |
Actor |
26-Sep-1968 |
|
Pi |
| George Sherman |
Film Director |
14-Jul-1908 |
15-Mar-1991 |
Against All Flags |
| Richard M. Sherman |
Songwriter |
12-Jun-1928 |
|
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| Robert B. Sherman |
Songwriter |
19-Dec-1925 |
5-Mar-2012 |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
| Brooke Shields |
Model |
31-May-1965 |
|
Suddenly Susan |
| Anne Shirley |
Actor |
17-Apr-1918 |
4-Jul-1993 |
Stella Dallas |
| George Shultz |
Government |
13-Dec-1920 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1982-89 |
| Shyheim |
Rapper |
14-Nov-1977 |
|
The Rugged Child |
| Gregory Sierra |
Actor |
25-Jan-1941 |
|
Det. Sgt. Chano on Barney Miller |
| Ron Silver |
Actor |
2-Jul-1946 |
15-Mar-2009 |
Wiseguy |
| Joey Silvera |
Pornstar |
20-Dec-1951 |
|
Anal Hounds and Bitches |
| Fred Silverman |
Film/TV Producer |
13-Sep-1937 |
|
TV producer and executive |
| Phil Silvers |
Actor |
11-May-1911 |
1-Nov-1985 |
You're in the Army Now |
| Martin Silverstein |
Diplomat |
1954 |
|
US Ambassador to Uruguay, 2001-05 |
| Chet Simmons |
Business |
11-Jul-1928 |
25-Mar-2010 |
President of ESPN, 1979-82 |
| Rob Simmons |
Politician |
11-Feb-1943 |
|
Congressman from Connecticut, 2001-07 |
| Carly Simon |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Jun-1945 |
|
You're So Vain |
| Bryan Singer |
Film Director |
17-Sep-1965 |
|
X-Men |
| Paul E. Singer |
Business |
22-Aug-1944 |
|
Billionaire, vulture capitalist |
| Doris Singleton |
Actor |
28-Sep-1919 |
26-Jun-2012 |
Caroline Appleby on I Love Lucy |
| Christian Slater |
Actor |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Kuffs, True Romance |
| Everett Sloane |
Actor |
1-Oct-1909 |
6-Aug-1965 |
Patterns |
| Lawrence M. Small |
Government |
14-Sep-1941 |
|
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, 2000-07 |
| Robert Smigel |
Actor |
7-Feb-1960 |
|
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog |
| Alfred E. Smith |
Government |
30-Dec-1873 |
4-Oct-1944 |
Twice Governor of New York |
| Allison Smith |
Actor |
9-Dec-1969 |
|
Kate & Allie |
| Brooke Smith |
Actor |
22-May-1967 |
|
Grey's Anatomy |
| Hamilton O. Smith |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1931 |
|
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Kent Smith |
Actor |
19-Mar-1907 |
23-Apr-1985 |
Cat People |
| Robert S. Smith |
Judge |
31-Aug-1944 |
|
Judge, NY Court of Appeals |
| Lee Smolin |
Physicist |
1955 |
|
The Trouble with Physics |
| Jurnee Smollett |
Actor |
1-Oct-1986 |
|
Lisa Tyler on The Defenders |
| Dick Smothers |
Comic |
20-Nov-1939 |
|
A Smothers Brother |
| Tommy Smothers |
Comic |
2-Feb-1937 |
|
A Smothers Brother |
| Patty Smyth |
Musician |
26-Jun-1957 |
|
She is the warrior |
| Phoebe Snow |
Jazz Musician |
17-Jul-1952 |
26-Apr-2011 |
Jazz vocalist |
| Morton Sobell |
Spy |
11-Apr-1917 |
|
Rosenbergs' co-conspirator |
| Leelee Sobieski |
Actor |
10-Jun-1983 |
|
Eyes Wide Shut |
| Stephen Solarz |
Politician |
12-Sep-1940 |
29-Nov-2010 |
Congressman from New York, 1975-93 |
| Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
| Fred Sommers |
Philosopher |
1-Jan-1923 |
2-Oct-2014 |
The Logic of Natural Language |
| Stephen Sondheim |
Composer |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
West Side Story |
| Barry Sonnenfeld |
Film Director |
1-Apr-1953 |
|
Men in Black |
| Hugo F. Sonnenschein |
Economist |
1941 |
|
President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000 |
| Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
| Louise Sorel |
Actor |
6-Aug-1940 |
|
Days of Our Lives |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin |
Journalist |
19-Feb-1977 |
|
The New York Times |
| Michael G. Sotirhos |
Business |
12-Nov-1928 |
|
US Ambassador to Greece, 1989-93 |
| Kath Soucie |
Actor |
20-Feb-1967 |
|
Rugrats |
| Melissa De Sousa |
Actor |
25-Sep-1967 |
|
Gabriella on Reed Between the Lines |
| John Spencer |
Actor |
20-Dec-1946 |
16-Dec-2005 |
Leo McGarry on The West Wing |
| Jonathan Sperber |
Historian |
26-Dec-1952 |
|
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 |
| Carl Spielvogel |
Business |
27-Dec-1928 |
|
Advertising executive, Bates Worldwide |
| Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
| Norman Spinrad |
Author |
15-Sep-1940 |
|
SF author, Little Heroes |
| Frank Stallone |
Actor |
30-Jul-1950 |
|
Staying Alive |
| Sylvester Stallone |
Actor |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
Rocky, Rambo |
| Jean Stapleton |
Actor |
19-Jan-1923 |
31-May-2013 |
Edith on All In The Family |
| Don Stark |
Actor |
20-Aug-1954 |
|
Bob Pinciotti on That 70's Show |
| Koo Stark |
Actor |
26-Apr-1956 |
|
Ex-Girlfriend of Prince Andrew |
| Paul Starr |
Educator |
12-May-1949 |
|
The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
| Danielle Steel |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1947 |
|
Romance novelist |
| Robert D. Steele |
Spy |
16-Jul-1952 |
|
Open Source Systems |
| Joseph Stein |
Playwright |
30-May-1912 |
24-Oct-2010 |
Fiddler on the Roof librettist |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| Laurence A. Steinhardt |
Diplomat |
6-Oct-1892 |
28-Mar-1950 |
US Ambassador to USSR, 1939-41 |
| Jim Steinman |
Composer |
1-Nov-1947 |
|
Total Eclipse of the Heart |
| Richard Stengel |
Journalist |
c. 1955 |
|
Managing Editor, Time magazine |
| David J. Stern |
Basketball |
22-Sep-1942 |
|
Commissioner of the NBA |
| Joseph W. Stern |
Composer |
11-Jan-1870 |
31-Mar-1934 |
My Mother Was a Lady |
| Leonard Stern |
Business |
28-Mar-1938 |
|
Billionaire, Hartz pet supply |
| Richard G. Stern |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1928 |
24-Jan-2013 |
Other Men's Daughters |
| Walter P. Stern |
Activist |
26-Sep-1928 |
|
Chairman, Hudson Institute |
| Sy Sternberg |
Business |
24-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of New York Life |
| Alexis Stewart |
Radio Personality |
27-Sep-1965 |
|
Whatever with Alexis & Jennifer |
| Paul Stewart |
Actor |
13-Mar-1908 |
17-Feb-1986 |
Citizen Kane |
| Julia Stiles |
Actor |
28-Mar-1981 |
|
10 Things I Hate About You |
| Amy Stiller |
Actor |
9-Aug-1961 |
|
Yet Another Stiller |
| Ben Stiller |
Actor |
30-Nov-1965 |
|
There's Something About Mary |
| Henry L. Stimson |
Government |
21-Sep-1867 |
20-Oct-1950 |
US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45 |
| Fran M. Stoller |
Attorney |
20-Sep-1958 |
|
Partner, Loeb & Loeb |
| Harold J. Stone |
Actor |
3-Mar-1911 |
18-Nov-2005 |
The Harder They Fall |
| Oliver Stone |
Film Director |
15-Sep-1946 |
|
JFK |
| Richard B. Stone |
Politician |
22-Sep-1928 |
|
US Senator from Florida, 1975-80 |
| Larry Storch |
Actor |
8-Jan-1923 |
|
Corporal Agarn on F Troop |
| Adam Storke |
Actor |
18-Aug-1962 |
|
Mystic Pizza |
| Susan Strasberg |
Actor |
22-May-1938 |
21-Jan-1999 |
Picnic |
| Marcia Strassman |
Actor |
28-Apr-1948 |
24-Oct-2014 |
Welcome Back, Kotter |
| Robert Strauss |
Actor |
8-Nov-1913 |
20-Feb-1975 |
Animal in Stalag 17 |
| Charles Strouse |
Composer |
7-Jun-1928 |
|
Bye Bye Birdie |
| Mel Stuart |
Film Director |
2-Sep-1928 |
9-Aug-2012 |
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| Jock Sturges |
Photographer |
1947 |
|
Art photographer charged with obscenity |
| Barry Sullivan |
Actor |
29-Aug-1912 |
6-Jun-1994 |
The Bad and the Beautiful |
| Ed Sullivan |
TV Personality |
28-Sep-1902 |
13-Oct-1974 |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
| Nicole Sullivan |
Actor |
21-Apr-1970 |
|
Vancome Lady on MADtv |
| Susan Sullivan |
Actor |
18-Nov-1942 |
|
Falcon Crest |
| Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1891 |
11-Dec-1968 |
New York Times Publisher, 1935-61 |
| Punch Sulzberger |
Publisher |
5-Feb-1926 |
29-Sep-2012 |
New York Times Publisher, 1963-91 |
| David Susskind |
Talk Show Host |
19-Dec-1920 |
22-Feb-1987 |
The David Susskind Show |
| Steve Swallow |
Jazz Musician |
4-Oct-1940 |
|
Prolific jazz bassist |
| Dolph Sweet |
Actor |
18-Jul-1920 |
8-May-1985 |
Chief Carl Kanisky on Gimme a Break! |
| Fife Symington |
Politician |
12-Aug-1945 |
|
Governor of Arizona, 1991-97 |
| Nita Talbot |
Actor |
8-Aug-1930 |
|
Rose on Starting from Scratch |
| Jake Tapper |
Journalist |
12-Mar-1969 |
|
CNN Chief Washington Correspondent |
| William Taubman |
Author |
13-Nov-1940 |
|
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
| John Tayler |
Politician |
4-Jul-1742 |
19-Apr-1829 |
Governor of New York, 1817 |
| Renée Taylor |
Actor |
19-Mar-1933 |
|
Sylvia Fine on The Nanny |
| Sam Taylor |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1895 |
6-Mar-1958 |
Safety Last! |
| Conway Tearle |
Actor |
17-May-1878 |
1-Oct-1938 |
Stella Maris |
| Godfrey Tearle |
Actor |
12-Oct-1884 |
8-Jun-1953 |
The 39 Steps |
| John M. Templeton, Jr. |
Relative |
19-Feb-1940 |
16-May-2015 |
Conservative philanthropist |
| Studs Terkel |
Author |
16-May-1912 |
31-Oct-2008 |
Working |
| Eric Thal |
Actor |
10-Aug-1965 |
|
The Puppet Masters |
| Olivia Thirlby |
Actor |
6-Oct-1986 |
|
Juno |
| Eddie Kaye Thomas |
Actor |
31-Oct-1980 |
|
American Pie |
| Richard Thomas |
Actor |
13-Jun-1951 |
|
John Boy on The Waltons |
| Malachi Throne |
Actor |
1-Dec-1928 |
13-Mar-2013 |
Noah Bain on It Takes a Thief |
| Louis Comfort Tiffany |
Artist |
18-Feb-1848 |
17-Jan-1933 |
Stained glassmaker, jewelry designer |
| Tiny Tim |
Musician |
12-Apr-1932 |
30-Nov-1996 |
Tip Toe Thru the Tulips |
| Kenneth R. Timmerman |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1953 |
|
Foundation for Democracy in Iran |
| John L. Tishman |
Business |
24-Jan-1926 |
6-Feb-2016 |
Built the World Trade Center |
| James Toback |
Film Director |
23-Nov-1944 |
|
The Pick-up Artist |
| George Tobias |
Actor |
14-Jul-1901 |
27-Feb-1980 |
Abner Kravitz on Bewitched |
| Genevieve Tobin |
Actor |
29-Nov-1899 |
21-Jul-1995 |
One Hour with You |
| Bill Todman |
Film/TV Producer |
31-Jul-1916 |
29-Jul-1976 |
Goodson-Todman Productions |
| Alvin Toffler |
Author |
4-Oct-1928 |
27-Jun-2016 |
Future Shock |
| Jeffrey Toobin |
Attorney |
21-May-1960 |
|
CNN Senior Legal Analyst |
| Gina Torres |
Actor |
25-Apr-1969 |
|
Zoe Washburne on Firefly |
| Liz Torres |
Actor |
27-Sep-1947 |
|
Miss Patty on Gilmore Girls |
| Tico Torres |
Drummer |
7-Oct-1953 |
|
Drummer for Bon Jovi |
| John Torrey |
Botanist |
15-Aug-1796 |
10-Mar-1873 |
Flora of North America |
| Nina Totenberg |
Journalist |
14-Jan-1944 |
|
NPR reporter |
| Alex Toth |
Cartoonist |
25-Jun-1928 |
27-May-2006 |
Creator of Space Ghost |
| Michelle Trachtenberg |
Actor |
11-Oct-1985 |
|
Dawn Summers on Buffy |
| Bernard Trainor |
Military |
2-Sep-1928 |
|
Military analyst, ex-3 star Marine general |
| Marvin S. Traub |
Business |
14-Apr-1925 |
11-Jul-2012 |
CEO of Bloomingdale's, 1978-92 |
| Fred Travalena |
Comic |
6-Oct-1942 |
28-Jun-2009 |
The Man of a Thousand Faces |
| Nancy Travis |
Actor |
21-Sep-1961 |
|
Three Men and a Baby |
| Claire Trevor |
Actor |
8-Mar-1910 |
8-Apr-2000 |
Key Largo |
| Diana Trilling |
Critic |
21-Jul-1905 |
23-Oct-1996 |
Literary critic, The Nation |
| Lionel Trilling |
Critic |
4-Jul-1905 |
5-Nov-1975 |
The Liberal Imagination |
| Paul A. Trivelli |
Diplomat |
1953 |
|
US Ambassador to Nicaragua |
| Tatiana Troyanos |
Singer |
12-Sep-1938 |
21-Aug-1993 |
Operatic Mezzo-Soprano |
| Garry Trudeau |
Cartoonist |
21-Jul-1948 |
|
Doonesbury |
| Rachel True |
Actor |
15-Nov-1966 |
|
Mona Thorne on Half & Half |
| Ivanka Trump |
Relative |
30-Oct-1981 |
|
Daughter of Donald Trump |
| Roger Y. Tsien |
Scientist |
1-Feb-1952 |
24-Aug-2016 |
Green Fluorescent Protein |
| Michael Tucci |
Actor |
15-Apr-1946 |
|
Norman Briggs on Diagnosis Murder |
| Barbara Tuchman |
Historian |
30-Jan-1912 |
6-Feb-1989 |
A Distant Mirror |
| Jessica Tuck |
Actor |
19-Feb-1963 |
|
Gillian Gray on Judging Amy |
| Gene Tunney |
Boxing |
25-May-1897 |
7-Nov-1978 |
Heavyweight Boxing Champion, 1926-28 |
| John V. Tunney |
Politician |
26-Jun-1934 |
|
US Senator from California, 1971-77 |
| Ann Turkel |
Actor |
16-Jul-1946 |
|
Golden Rendezvous |
| Glynn Turman |
Actor |
31-Jan-1946 |
|
Col. Taylor on A Different World |
| Bob Turner |
Politician |
2-May-1941 |
|
Congressman, New York 9th |
| Jim Turnesa |
Golf |
9-Dec-1912 |
27-Aug-1971 |
Winner, 1952 PGA Championship |
| Jon Turteltaub |
Film Director |
8-Aug-1963 |
|
National Treasure |
| Aida Turturro |
Actor |
25-Sep-1962 |
|
Janice Soprano |
| Frank Tuttle |
Film Director |
6-Aug-1892 |
6-Jan-1963 |
This Gun for Hire |
| Boss Tweed |
Politician |
3-Apr-1823 |
12-Apr-1878 |
Boss of Tammany Hall |
| Liv Tyler |
Actor |
1-Jul-1977 |
|
Daughter of Aerosmith frontman |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astronomer |
5-Oct-1958 |
|
Astrophysicist |
| Leslie Uggams |
Actor |
25-May-1943 |
|
Roots |
| Ian Underwood |
Musician |
22-May-1939 |
|
Multi-instrumentalist for The Mothers of Invention |
| Louis Untermeyer |
Poet |
1-Oct-1885 |
18-Dec-1977 |
Anthologist of poetry |
| Andrew Vachss |
Author |
19-Oct-1942 |
|
Burke, attorney for children |
| Nick Valensi |
Guitarist |
16-Jan-1981 |
|
Guitarist for The Strokes |
| Gary Valentine |
Actor |
22-Nov-1961 |
|
The King of Queens |
| Joan Van Ark |
Actor |
16-Jun-1943 |
|
Valene Ewing on Dallas |
| Charles Van Doren |
TV Personality |
12-Feb-1926 |
|
Won the rigged game show Twenty-One |
| Joyce Van Patten |
Actor |
9-Mar-1934 |
|
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! |
| Katrina vanden Heuvel |
Editor |
7-Oct-1959 |
|
Editor of The Nation |
| Jennifer Vanderbes |
Novelist |
20-Dec-1974 |
|
Easter Island |
| Amy Vanderbilt |
Columnist |
22-Jul-1908 |
27-Dec-1974 |
Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette |
| Gloria Vanderbilt |
Fashion Designer |
20-Feb-1924 |
|
Designer jeans |
| William H. Vanderbilt |
Politician |
24-Nov-1901 |
14-Apr-1981 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1939-41 |
| Luther Vandross |
Singer |
20-Apr-1951 |
1-Jul-2005 |
R&B Singer, Never Too Much |
| A. Devitt Vanech |
Attorney |
26-Mar-1906 |
10-Sep-1967 |
Deputy US Attorney General, 1951-52 |
| Paul Vario |
Criminal |
9-Jul-1914 |
22-Nov-1988 |
Lucchese Crime Family |
| Robert Vaughn |
Actor |
22-Nov-1932 |
11-Nov-2016 |
Napoleon Solo on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. |
| Harold Vermilyea |
Actor |
10-Oct-1889 |
8-Jan-1958 |
Sorry, Wrong Number |
| Lisa Vidal |
Actor |
13-Jun-1965 |
|
Insp. Ramirez on The Division |
| Abe Vigoda |
Actor |
24-Feb-1921 |
26-Jan-2016 |
Fish on Barney Miller |
| Bruce Vilanch |
Author |
23-Nov-1948 |
|
The fat guy who writes everyone's jokes |
| John Vinocur |
Journalist |
? |
|
International Herald Tribune correspondent |
| Nana Visitor |
Actor |
26-Jul-1957 |
|
Maj. Kira Nerys on Star Trek: DS9 |
| Joseph Vitale |
Actor |
6-Sep-1901 |
5-Jun-1994 |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Daisy von Scherler Mayer |
Film Director |
14-Sep-1966 |
|
The Guru |
| Gijs de Vries |
Politician |
22-Feb-1956 |
|
EU Terrorism czar |
| Robert F. Wagner, Jr. |
Politician |
20-Apr-1910 |
12-Feb-1991 |
Mayor of New York City, 1954-65 |
| Collin Walcott |
Jazz Musician |
24-Feb-1945 |
8-Nov-1984 |
Jazz sitar player |
| Robert Walden |
Actor |
25-Sep-1943 |
|
Joe Rossi on Lou Grant |
| John M. Walker, Jr. |
Judge |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
2nd Circuit Appeals Court, 1992-2006 |
| Robert Walker, Jr. |
Actor |
15-Apr-1940 |
|
Ensign Pulver |
| Immanuel Wallerstein |
Sociologist |
28-Sep-1930 |
|
The Modern World System |
| Peter J. Wallison |
Government |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
White House Counsel, 1986-87 |
| Malcolm Wallop |
Politician |
27-Feb-1933 |
14-Sep-2011 |
US Senator from Wyoming, 1977-95 |
| Donnie Walsh |
Basketball |
1-Mar-1941 |
|
President of the New York Knicks |
| Raoul Walsh |
Film Director |
11-Mar-1887 |
31-Dec-1980 |
The Naked and the Dead |
| William D. Walsh |
Business |
4-Aug-1930 |
16-Nov-2013 |
Sequoia Associates |
| Vernon Walters |
Government |
3-Jan-1917 |
10-Feb-2002 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
| Zoë Wanamaker |
Actor |
13-May-1949 |
|
Susan Harper on My Family |
| Vera Wang |
Fashion Designer |
27-Jun-1949 |
|
Designer of wedding dresses |
| Julie Warner |
Actor |
9-Feb-1965 |
|
The Puppet Masters |
| Lesley Ann Warren |
Actor |
16-Aug-1946 |
|
The Limey |
| Rusty Warren |
Singer/Songwriter |
17-Mar-1931 |
|
Songs for Sinners |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| Damon Wayans |
Comic |
4-Sep-1960 |
|
My Wife and Kids |
| Keenen Ivory Wayans |
Comic |
8-Jun-1958 |
|
A Wayans Brother |
| Kim Wayans |
Actor |
16-Oct-1961 |
|
A Wayans sister |
| Marlon Wayans |
Comic |
23-Jul-1972 |
|
A Wayans Brother |
| Shawn Wayans |
Comic |
19-Jan-1971 |
|
A Wayans Brother |
| Michael Weatherly |
Actor |
8-Jul-1968 |
|
Navy NCIS |
| Roy Webb |
Composer |
3-Oct-1888 |
10-Dec-1982 |
Music Director at RKO, 1929-55 |
| Paul Francis Webster |
Songwriter |
20-Dec-1907 |
22-Mar-1984 |
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
| Cynthia Weil |
Songwriter |
18-Oct-1937 |
|
Half of songwriting duo Mann and Weil |
| Steven Weinberg |
Physicist |
3-May-1933 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Anthony Weiner |
Politician |
4-Sep-1964 |
|
Congressman from New York, 1999-2011 |
| Scott Weinger |
Actor |
5-Oct-1975 |
|
Steve Hale on Full House |
| Allen Weinstein |
Historian |
1-Sep-1937 |
18-Jun-2015 |
US National Archivist, 2005-08 |
| Paul Weitz |
Film Director |
19-Nov-1965 |
|
American Pie |
| Tuesday Weld |
Actor |
27-Aug-1943 |
|
Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Sumner Welles |
Diplomat |
14-Oct-1892 |
24-Sep-1961 |
US Under Secretary of State, 1937-43 |
| Tom Welling |
Actor |
26-Apr-1977 |
|
Superboy on Smallville |
| Anthony Welters |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
AmeriChoice |
| Jann Wenner |
Business |
7-Jan-1946 |
|
Publisher of Rolling Stone magazine |
| Chuck Wepner |
Boxing |
26-Feb-1939 |
|
Supposed inspiration for Rocky |
| Leslie West |
Musician |
22-Oct-1945 |
|
Mountain bandleader and guitarist |
| Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
| Randy West |
Pornstar |
12-Oct-1947 |
|
Up N Cummers, Confession of Emmanuelle |
| Nydia Westman |
Actor |
19-Feb-1902 |
23-May-1970 |
Mrs. Featherstone on Going My Way |
| Merritt Wever |
Actor |
7-Jan-1980 |
|
Zoey on Nurse Jackie |
| Edith Wharton |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1862 |
11-Aug-1937 |
The Age of Innocence |
| Joss Whedon |
Film/TV Producer |
23-Jun-1964 |
|
Creator of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly |
| Maggie Wheeler |
Actor |
7-Aug-1961 |
|
Janice Litman on Friends |
| Carole Ita White |
Actor |
24-Aug-1949 |
|
Big Rosie on Laverne and Shirley |
| Christine Todd Whitman |
Government |
26-Sep-1946 |
|
GWB's first head of EPA |
| Marina v.N. Whitman |
Economist |
6-Mar-1935 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73 |
| Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney |
Business |
9-Jan-1875 |
18-Apr-1942 |
Whitney Museum of American Art |
| Jeffrey Wigand |
Scientist |
17-Dec-1942 |
|
Tobacco industry whistleblower |
| Richard Wilbur |
Poet |
1-Mar-1921 |
|
Second U.S. Poet Laureate |
| Frank Wilczek |
Physicist |
15-May-1951 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Cornel Wilde |
Actor |
13-Oct-1915 |
16-Oct-1989 |
A Song to Remember |
| Olivia Wilde |
Actor |
10-Mar-1984 |
|
Skin |
| Sean Wilentz |
Historian |
20-Feb-1951 |
|
The Rise of American Democracy |
| J. Harvie Wilkinson III |
Judge |
29-Sep-1944 |
|
4th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Billy Dee Williams |
Actor |
6-Apr-1937 |
|
Lando Calrissian, Colt-45 malt liquor pitchman |
| Grant Williams |
Actor |
18-Aug-1930 |
28-Jul-1985 |
The Incredible Shrinking Man |
| Guy Williams |
Actor |
14-Jan-1924 |
7-May-1989 |
Prof. John Robinson on Lost in Space |
| Malcolm Wilson |
Politician |
26-Feb-1914 |
13-Mar-2000 |
Governor of New York, 1973-75 |
| Teddy Wilson |
Actor |
10-Dec-1943 |
21-Jul-1991 |
Earl Chambers on That's My Mama |
| John G. Winant |
Politician |
23-Feb-1889 |
3-Nov-1947 |
New Hampshire governor, committed suicide |
| April Winchell |
Actor |
4-Jan-1960 |
|
Voice of Clarabelle Cow |
| Paul Winchell |
Actor |
21-Dec-1922 |
24-Jun-2005 |
Ventriloquist and inventor |
| Walter Winchell |
Radio Personality |
7-Apr-1897 |
20-Feb-1972 |
Gossip commentator |
| William Windom |
Actor |
28-Sep-1923 |
16-Aug-2012 |
Glen Morley on The Farmer's Daughter |
| Gary Winick |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1961 |
27-Feb-2011 |
13 Going on 30 |
| Henry Winkler |
Actor |
30-Oct-1945 |
|
Fonz on Happy Days |
| Irwin Winkler |
Film/TV Producer |
25-May-1931 |
|
Rocky |
| Gary Winnick |
Business |
13-Oct-1947 |
|
Founder of Global Crossing |
| Marissa Jaret Winokur |
Actor |
2-Feb-1973 |
|
Hairspray |
| Dean Winters |
Actor |
20-Jul-1964 |
|
Ryan O'Reily on Oz |
| Billy Wirth |
Actor |
23-Jun-1962 |
|
The Lost Boys |
| David Wise |
Author |
10-May-1930 |
|
The Invisible Government |
| Frank G. Wisner |
Diplomat |
1938 |
|
US Ambassador to India, 1994-97 |
| James Wlcek |
Actor |
22-Feb-1964 |
|
Sons of Thunder |
| Harris Wofford |
Politician |
9-Apr-1926 |
|
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991-95 |
| John Wojtowicz |
Criminal |
9-Mar-1945 |
2-Jan-2006 |
Bank robber inspired Dog Day Afternoon |
| Dick Wolf |
Film/TV Producer |
20-Dec-1946 |
|
Producer of Law and Order |
| Gene Wolfe |
Novelist |
7-May-1931 |
|
The Book of the New Sun |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
| David L. Wolper |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Jan-1928 |
10-Aug-2010 |
Roots |
| Bokeem Woodbine |
Actor |
13-Apr-1973 |
|
The Big Hit |
| Douglas Woolf |
Novelist |
23-Mar-1922 |
18-Jan-1992 |
Fade Out |
| Monty Woolley |
Actor |
17-Aug-1888 |
6-May-1963 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Cornell Woolrich |
Novelist |
4-Dec-1903 |
25-Sep-1968 |
The Bride Wore Black |
| Herman Wouk |
Novelist |
27-May-1915 |
|
The Caine Mutiny |
| Jenny Wright |
Actor |
23-Mar-1962 |
|
Out of Bounds |
| Michael Wright |
Actor |
30-Apr-1956 |
|
Elias Taylor on V |
| Teresa Wright |
Actor |
27-Oct-1918 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Shadow of a Doubt |
| Charles Wuorinen |
Composer |
9-Jun-1938 |
|
Time's Encomium |
| Keenan Wynn |
Actor |
27-Jul-1916 |
14-Oct-1986 |
Col. Bat Guano in Dr. Strangelove |
| May Wynn |
Actor |
8-Jan-1928 |
|
The Caine Mutiny |
| Boaz Yakin |
Screenwriter |
20-Jun-1966 |
|
Remember the Titans |
| Peter Yarrow |
Singer |
31-May-1938 |
|
The Peter in Peter, Paul, and Mary |
| Vincent Youmans |
Composer |
27-Sep-1898 |
5-Apr-1946 |
No, No Nanette |
| Robert M. Young |
Film Director |
22-Nov-1924 |
|
Dominick and Eugene |
| Tony Young |
Actor |
28-Jun-1937 |
26-Feb-2002 |
Taggart |
| William Zabka |
Actor |
20-Oct-1965 |
|
Opponent of The Karate Kid |
| Nina Zagat |
Critic |
12-Aug-1942 |
|
Zagat Survey |
| Tim Zagat |
Critic |
13-Jun-1940 |
|
Zagat Survey |
| Moon Unit Zappa |
Actor |
28-Sep-1967 |
|
Daughter of Frank Zappa |
| Kevin Zeese |
Activist |
1955 |
|
Common Sense for Drug Policy |
| Herbert S. Zim |
Author |
12-Jul-1909 |
5-Dec-1994 |
Golden Guides |
| Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. |
Actor |
30-Nov-1918 |
2-May-2014 |
The F.B.I. |
| Stephanie Zimbalist |
Actor |
8-Oct-1956 |
|
Remington Steele |
| George Zimmer |
Business |
21-Nov-1948 |
|
Founder of Men's Wearhouse |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
| Joseph Zito |
Film Director |
14-May-1946 |
|
Missing In Action |
| Rachel Zoe |
Fashion Designer |
1-Sep-1971 |
|
The Rachel Zoe Project |
| John Zorn |
Composer |
2-Sep-1953 |
|
Prolific avant-garde composer |
| Louis Zukofsky |
Poet |
23-Jan-1904 |
12-May-1978 |
Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Bella Abzug |
Politician |
24-Jul-1920 |
31-Mar-1998 |
Feminist and former Congresswoman |
| Edward G. Acheson |
Inventor |
9-Mar-1856 |
6-Jul-1931 |
Discovered silicon carbide |
| Franklin Pierce Adams |
Columnist |
15-Nov-1881 |
23-Mar-1960 |
New York columnist, The Conning Tower |
| Charles Addams |
Cartoonist |
7-Jan-1912 |
29-Sep-1988 |
The Addams Family |
| Felix Adler |
Educator |
13-Aug-1851 |
24-Apr-1933 |
Ethical Culture |
| James Agee |
Poet |
27-Nov-1909 |
16-May-1955 |
A Death in the Family |
| Fred E. Ahlert |
Composer |
19-Sep-1892 |
20-Oct-1953 |
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter |
| Alvin Ailey |
Dancer |
5-Jan-1931 |
1-Dec-1989 |
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| George Akerson |
Government |
5-Sep-1889 |
21-Dec-1937 |
First White House Press Secretary |
| Licia Albanese |
Singer |
22-Jul-1913 |
15-Aug-2014 |
Operatic soprano, La Boh�me |
| Nelson W. Aldrich |
Politician |
6-Nov-1841 |
16-Apr-1915 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1881-1911 |
| Winthrop W. Aldrich |
Business |
2-Nov-1885 |
25-Feb-1974 |
Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1934-53 |
| Sholem Aleichem |
Author |
2-Mar-1859 |
13-May-1916 |
Fiddler on the Roof |
| Cris Alexander |
Photographer |
14-Jan-1920 |
7-Mar-2012 |
Portrait photographer, Broadway actor |
| Fred Allen |
Comic |
31-May-1894 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Town Hall Tonight |
| Frederick Lewis Allen |
Journalist |
5-Jul-1890 |
13-Feb-1954 |
Editor of Harpers, 1941-53 |
| Red Allen |
Jazz Musician |
7-Jan-1908 |
17-Apr-1967 |
Jazz trumpeter |
| G. G. Allin |
Musician |
29-Aug-1956 |
28-Jun-1993 |
Hated |
| Néstor Almendros |
Cinematographer |
30-Oct-1930 |
4-Mar-1992 |
Mauvaise Conduite |
| Paul Althouse |
Singer |
2-Dec-1889 |
6-Feb-1954 |
Operatic tenor |
| Adrienne Ames |
Actor |
3-Aug-1907 |
31-May-1947 |
You're Telling Me! |
| Robert B. Anderson |
Government |
4-Jun-1910 |
14-Aug-1989 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1957-61 |
| George Antheil |
Composer |
8-Jul-1900 |
12-Feb-1959 |
Le Ballet m�canique |
| Katharine Anthony |
Author |
27-Nov-1877 |
20-Nov-1965 |
Biographer, The Lambs |
| Rocky Aoki |
Business |
9-Oct-1938 |
10-Jul-2008 |
Benihana founder |
| William Apess |
Author |
31-Jan-1798 |
Apr-1839 |
A Son of the Forest |
| Fatty Arbuckle |
Actor |
24-Mar-1887 |
29-Jun-1933 |
Keystone Cop |
| Diane Arbus |
Photographer |
14-Mar-1923 |
26-Jul-1971 |
Influential photographer |
| Elizabeth Arden |
Business |
31-Dec-1878 |
18-Oct-1966 |
Founder, Elizabeth Arden Co. |
| Reinaldo Arenas |
Novelist |
16-Jul-1943 |
7-Dec-1990 |
El Mundo Alucinante |
| Hannah Arendt |
Philosopher |
14-Oct-1906 |
4-Dec-1975 |
Origins of Totalitarianism |
| Roone Arledge |
Sports Figure |
8-Jul-1931 |
5-Dec-2002 |
Created Wide World of Sports |
| Edwin H. Armstrong |
Inventor |
18-Dec-1890 |
31-Jan-1954 |
Inventor of FM radio |
| Louis Armstrong |
Jazz Musician |
4-Aug-1901 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Jazz trumpeter |
| Chester A. Arthur |
Head of State |
5-Oct-1829 |
18-Nov-1886 |
21st US President, 1881-85 |
| Ellen Arthur |
First Lady |
30-Aug-1837 |
12-Jan-1880 |
Wife of US President Chester A. Arthur |
| Arthur Ashe |
Tennis |
10-Jul-1943 |
6-Feb-1993 |
First black man to win Wimbledon |
| Nickolas Ashford |
Songwriter |
4-May-1942 |
22-Aug-2011 |
Half of Ashford and Simpson |
| John Ashley |
Actor |
25-Dec-1934 |
3-Oct-1997 |
Beach Blanket Bingo |
| Howard Ashman |
Songwriter |
17-May-1950 |
14-Mar-1991 |
Beauty and the Beast |
| Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
| John Jacob Astor |
Business |
17-Jul-1763 |
29-Mar-1848 |
Wealthiest man in America |
| Robert Atkins |
Doctor |
17-Oct-1930 |
17-Apr-2003 |
Atkins Diet doctor |
| Albert Ayler |
Jazz Musician |
13-Jul-1936 |
5-Nov-1970 |
Far-out sax blower |
| Lauren Bacall |
Actor |
16-Sep-1924 |
12-Aug-2014 |
Key Largo |
| Robert Bacon |
Government |
5-Jul-1860 |
29-May-1919 |
US Ambassador to France, 1909-12 |
| William Bagley |
Educator |
15-Mar-1874 |
1-Jul-1946 |
Opponent of Dewey's progressive education |
| George Balanchine |
Dancer |
22-Jan-1904 |
30-Apr-1983 |
Choreographer co-founded NYC Ballet |
| Anne Bancroft |
Actor |
17-Sep-1931 |
6-Jun-2005 |
Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate |
| Lester Bangs |
Critic |
14-Dec-1948 |
30-Apr-1982 |
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung |
| Tallulah Bankhead |
Actor |
31-Jan-1902 |
12-Dec-1968 |
Lifeboat |
| Samuel Barber |
Composer |
9-Mar-1910 |
23-Jan-1981 |
Adagio for Strings |
| Lex Barker |
Actor |
8-May-1919 |
11-May-1973 |
The tenth to play Tarzan |
| Djuna Barnes |
Novelist |
12-Jun-1892 |
18-Jun-1982 |
Modernist poet, Nightwood |
| John Barry |
Composer |
3-Nov-1933 |
30-Jan-2011 |
Film composer, James Bond, Out of Africa |
| Philip Barry |
Playwright |
18-Jun-1896 |
3-Dec-1949 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Paul Bartel |
Actor |
6-Aug-1938 |
13-May-2000 |
Eating Raoul |
| Reginald Bartholomew |
Diplomat |
17-Feb-1936 |
26-Aug-2012 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1993-97 |
| Bela Bartok |
Composer |
25-Mar-1881 |
26-Sep-1945 |
Hungarian composer |
| Bernard M. Baruch |
Business |
19-Aug-1870 |
20-Jun-1965 |
Coined the term Cold War |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat |
Painter |
22-Dec-1960 |
12-Aug-1988 |
NYC graffiti artist |
| Barbara Baxley |
Actor |
1-Jan-1923 |
7-Jun-1990 |
Period of Adjustment |
| Anne Baxter |
Actor |
7-May-1923 |
12-Dec-1985 |
The Razor's Edge |
| Abraham D. Beame |
Politician |
20-Mar-1906 |
10-Feb-2001 |
Mayor of New York City, 1974-77 |
| James Beard |
Chef |
5-May-1903 |
23-Jan-1985 |
First prominent TV chef |
| Romare Bearden |
Painter |
2-Sep-1911 |
12-Mar-1988 |
Collagist |
| Julian Beck |
Actor |
31-May-1925 |
14-Sep-1985 |
Rev. Kane in Poltergeist II |
| Geoffrey Beene |
Fashion Designer |
30-Aug-1927 |
28-Sep-2004 |
Award-winning fashion designer |
| David Belasco |
Playwright |
25-Jul-1853 |
14-May-1931 |
Madame Butterfly |
| George Bellows |
Painter |
12-Aug-1882 |
8-Jan-1925 |
American realist painter |
| Henry Whitney Bellows |
Religion |
11-Jun-1814 |
30-Jan-1882 |
Unitarian leader, civil reformer |
| Robert Benchley |
Author |
15-Sep-1889 |
21-Nov-1945 |
Humorist and screenwriter |
| Vincent Bendix |
Inventor |
12-Aug-1881 |
27-Mar-1945 |
Founder of Bendix Corporation |
| Ruth Benedict |
Anthropologist |
5-Jun-1887 |
17-Sep-1948 |
Anthropologist, Patterns of Culture |
| Stephen Vincent Benét |
Author |
22-Jul-1898 |
13-Mar-1943 |
John Brown's Body |
| James Gordon Bennett |
Publisher |
1-Sep-1795 |
1-Jun-1872 |
Founder, The New York Herald |
| Richard Rodney Bennett |
Composer |
29-Mar-1936 |
24-Dec-2012 |
The Mines of Sulphur |
| Gertrude Berg |
Radio Personality |
3-Oct-1899 |
14-Sep-1966 |
The Goldbergs |
| Bunny Berigan |
Jazz Musician |
2-Nov-1908 |
2-Jun-1942 |
Jazz trumpeter great |
| Irving Berlin |
Composer |
11-May-1888 |
22-Sep-1989 |
White Christmas, God Bless America |
| Maximilian Berlitz |
Business |
14-Apr-1852 |
6-Apr-1921 |
Berlitz Language Schools |
| Leonard Bernstein |
Conductor |
25-Aug-1918 |
14-Oct-1990 |
Conductor, New York Philharmonic |
| Daniel Berrigan |
Author |
9-May-1921 |
30-Apr-2016 |
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine |
| Albert Bierstadt |
Painter |
8-Jan-1830 |
18-Feb-1902 |
Western landscape painter |
| John Bigelow |
Author |
25-Nov-1817 |
19-Dec-1911 |
Ambassador to France, memoirist |
| John S. Billings |
Administrator |
12-Apr-1838 |
11-Mar-1913 |
New York Public Library |
| Eli Black |
Business |
9-Apr-1921 |
3-Feb-1975 |
Swan dive onto Park Avenue |
| Sidney Blackmer |
Actor |
13-Jul-1895 |
5-Oct-1973 |
Played Theodore Roosevelt 12 times |
| Vivian Blaine |
Actor |
21-Nov-1921 |
9-Dec-1995 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Art Blakey |
Drummer |
11-Oct-1919 |
16-Oct-1990 |
Principal bebop instigator and drummer |
| Nellie Bly |
Journalist |
5-May-1864 |
27-Jan-1922 |
Ten Days in a Mad-House |
| Franz Boas |
Anthropologist |
9-Jul-1858 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Father of American Anthropology |
| Artur Bodanzky |
Conductor |
16-Dec-1877 |
23-Nov-1939 |
Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39 |
| Louise Bogan |
Poet |
11-Aug-1897 |
4-Feb-1970 |
The New Yorker poetry critic |
| Mary Boland |
Actor |
28-Jan-1880 |
23-Jun-1965 |
Ruggles of Red Gap |
| Sudie Bond |
Actor |
13-Jul-1928 |
10-Nov-1984 |
Silkwood |
| Edwin Booth |
Actor |
13-Nov-1833 |
7-Jun-1893 |
Renowned 19th century American actor |
| Dion Boucicault |
Playwright |
26-Dec-1820 |
18-Sep-1890 |
The Corsican Brothers |
| Claude G. Bowers |
Diplomat |
20-Nov-1878 |
21-Jan-1958 |
The Tragic Era |
| Lester Bowie |
Jazz Musician |
11-Oct-1941 |
9-Nov-1999 |
Influential jazz trumpeter |
| Peter Boyle |
Actor |
18-Oct-1935 |
12-Dec-2006 |
Young Frankenstein |
| William Bradford |
Publisher |
20-May-1663 |
23-May-1752 |
Colonial American printer |
| Ed Bradley |
Journalist |
22-Jun-1941 |
9-Nov-2006 |
60 Minutes |
| Omar Bradley |
Military |
12-Feb-1893 |
8-Apr-1981 |
US Army Chief of Staff |
| Alice Brady |
Actor |
2-Nov-1892 |
28-Oct-1939 |
In Old Chicago |
| Mathew Brady |
Photographer |
15-Jan-1823 |
15-Jan-1896 |
Civil War photographer |
| David Braham |
Composer |
1838 |
11-Apr-1905 |
The Mulligan Guards |
| James Henry Breasted |
Archaeologist |
27-Aug-1865 |
2-Dec-1935 |
A History of Egypt |
| David Brenner |
Comic |
4-Feb-1936 |
15-Mar-2014 |
Guest on Tonight Show 158 times |
| Marcel Breuer |
Designer |
21-May-1902 |
1-Jul-1981 |
Bauhaus furniture designer |
| Benjamin H. Bristow |
Government |
20-Jun-1832 |
22-Jun-1896 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1874-76 |
| Glenn A. Britt |
Business |
6-Mar-1949 |
11-Jun-2014 |
CEO of Time Warner Cable, 2001-13 |
| Barbara Britton |
Actor |
26-Sep-1919 |
17-Jan-1980 |
Mr. and Mrs. North |
| Harold Brodkey |
Novelist |
25-Oct-1930 |
26-Jan-1996 |
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. |
Business |
20-Jun-1929 |
21-Dec-2013 |
CEO of Seagram's until 1994 |
| John Brougham |
Actor |
9-May-1814 |
7-Jun-1880 |
Irish-American dramatist and actor |
| Claude Brown |
Author |
23-Feb-1937 |
2-Feb-2002 |
Manchild in the Promised Land |
| Molly Brown |
Activist |
18-Jul-1867 |
26-Oct-1932 |
Unsinkable |
| Herbert Brownell, Jr. |
Government |
20-Feb-1904 |
1-May-1996 |
US Attorney General, 1953-57 |
| Catherine Wolfe Bruce |
Philanthropist |
22-Jan-1816 |
13-Mar-1900 |
Underwriter of astronomy |
| William Cullen Bryant |
Poet |
3-Nov-1794 |
12-Jun-1878 |
Editor, The New York Evening Post |
| Yul Brynner |
Actor |
11-Jul-1920 |
10-Oct-1985 |
The King and I |
| Joseph Buloff |
Actor |
20-Jan-1899 |
27-Feb-1985 |
Yiddish stage actor |
| Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
| Gordon Bunshaft |
Architect |
9-May-1909 |
6-Aug-1990 |
Skyscraper architect |
| Johnny Burke |
Songwriter |
3-Oct-1908 |
25-Feb-1964 |
Swinging on a Star |
| Abe Burrows |
Playwright |
18-Dec-1910 |
17-May-1985 |
Co-Author, Guys and Dolls |
| William Evans Burton |
Actor |
1804 |
9-Feb-1860 |
Popular comic actor |
| Frederick Busch |
Novelist |
1-Aug-1941 |
23-Feb-2006 |
Don't Tell Anyone |
| Prescott Bush |
Politician |
15-May-1895 |
8-Oct-1972 |
US Senator from Connecticut, 1952-63 |
| Robin Bush |
Relative |
20-Dec-1949 |
11-Oct-1953 |
George W. Bush sister, died at age four |
| Bill The Butcher |
Boxing |
Jul-1821 |
8-Mar-1855 |
Inspired Gangs of New York |
| Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
| Irving Caesar |
Songwriter |
4-Jul-1895 |
17-Dec-1996 |
Tea for Two |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Alexander Calder |
Sculptor |
22-Jul-1898 |
11-Nov-1976 |
Creator of the mobile as art form |
| Walter Camp |
Football |
7-Apr-1859 |
14-Mar-1925 |
Father of American football |
| Cass Canfield |
Publisher |
26-Apr-1897 |
27-Mar-1986 |
Harper & Brothers |
| Philip Carey |
Actor |
15-Jul-1925 |
6-Feb-2009 |
One Life to Live |
| Ron Carey |
Labor Leader |
22-Mar-1936 |
11-Dec-2008 |
Teamsters President, 1992-99 |
| John G. Carlisle |
Politician |
5-Sep-1834 |
31-Jul-1910 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1893-97 |
| Chester Carlson |
Inventor |
8-Feb-1906 |
19-Sep-1968 |
Invented Xerography |
| David Carr |
Journalist |
8-Sep-1956 |
12-Feb-2015 |
The New York Times |
| Eric Carr |
Drummer |
12-Jul-1950 |
24-Nov-1991 |
Drummer for KISS |
| Willis Carrier |
Inventor |
26-Nov-1876 |
7-Oct-1950 |
Created the first air conditioning |
| Janet Carroll |
Actor |
24-Dec-1940 |
22-May-2012 |
Risky Business |
| Nancy Carroll |
Actor |
19-Nov-1903 |
6-Aug-1965 |
The Devil's Holiday |
| Betty Carter |
Singer |
16-May-1929 |
26-Sep-1998 |
Jazz vocalist |
| Elliott Carter |
Composer |
11-Dec-1908 |
5-Nov-2012 |
The Defence of Corinth |
| John Carter |
Actor |
26-Nov-1927 |
23-May-2016 |
Lt. John Biddle on Barnaby Jones |
| Lynne Carver |
Actor |
13-Sep-1909 |
12-Aug-1955 |
American character actress |
| Ernst Cassirer |
Philosopher |
28-Jul-1874 |
13-Apr-1945 |
The Myth of the State |
| Willa Cather |
Novelist |
7-Dec-1873 |
24-Apr-1947 |
O Pioneers! |
| John Cazale |
Actor |
12-Aug-1935 |
12-Mar-1978 |
Fredo in The Godfather |
| Henry Chadwick |
Journalist |
5-Oct-1824 |
20-Apr-1908 |
Father of baseball |
| Gower Champion |
Theater Director |
22-Jun-1921 |
25-Aug-1980 |
Show Boat |
| Ray Chapman |
Baseball |
15-Jan-1891 |
17-Aug-1920 |
Fatally hit by pitch |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
| Salmon P. Chase |
Politician |
13-Jan-1808 |
7-May-1873 |
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64 |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
| Berton Churchill |
Actor |
9-Dec-1876 |
10-Oct-1940 |
Heroes for Sale |
| Liz Claiborne |
Fashion Designer |
31-Mar-1929 |
26-Jun-2007 |
Founder of Liz Claiborne, Inc. |
| John Bates Clark |
Economist |
26-Jan-1847 |
21-Mar-1938 |
Philosophy of Wealth |
| Tom C. Clark |
Judge |
23-Sep-1899 |
13-Jun-1977 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1949-67 |
| Montgomery Clift |
Actor |
17-Oct-1920 |
23-Jul-1966 |
From Here to Eternity |
| Howell Cobb |
Politician |
7-Sep-1815 |
9-Oct-1868 |
Congressman, Governor, Treasury Secretary |
| Irvin S. Cobb |
Author |
23-Jun-1876 |
10-Mar-1944 |
Old Judge Priest |
| Charles Coburn |
Actor |
17-Jun-1877 |
30-Aug-1961 |
The More the Merrier |
| James Coco |
Actor |
21-Mar-1928 |
25-Feb-1987 |
Only When I Laugh |
| Alexander H. Cohen |
Theatre Producer |
24-Jul-1920 |
22-Apr-2000 |
The Homecoming |
| Claudia Cohen |
Columnist |
16-Dec-1950 |
15-Jun-2007 |
Gossip columnist |
| Cy Coleman |
Composer |
14-Jun-1929 |
18-Nov-2004 |
Hey, Big Spender |
| William Colgate |
Business |
25-Jan-1783 |
25-Jan-1857 |
Toothpaste empirebuilder |
| Constance Collier |
Actor |
22-Jan-1878 |
25-Apr-1955 |
Stage Door |
| Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
| Anthony Comstock |
Activist |
7-Mar-1844 |
21-Sep-1915 |
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice |
| Roscoe Conkling |
Politician |
30-Oct-1829 |
18-Apr-1888 |
US Senator from New York, 1867-81 |
| Marc Connelly |
Playwright |
13-Dec-1890 |
21-Dec-1980 |
The Green Pastures |
| Alistair Cooke |
Journalist |
20-Nov-1908 |
29-Mar-2004 |
Alistair Cooke's America |
| Robert Coote |
Actor |
4-Feb-1909 |
26-Nov-1982 |
My Fair Lady |
| J. Fred Coots |
Songwriter |
2-May-1897 |
8-Apr-1985 |
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town |
| Ricardo Cortez |
Actor |
19-Sep-1899 |
28-Apr-1977 |
The Torrent |
| Howard Cosell |
Sports Journalist |
25-Mar-1918 |
23-Apr-1995 |
Straight-shooting, toupee-wearing commentator |
| Joan Crawford |
Actor |
23-Mar-1905 |
10-May-1977 |
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
| Jonathan Crombie |
Actor |
12-Oct-1966 |
15-Apr-2015 |
Green Gables |
| Walter Cronkite |
Journalist |
4-Nov-1916 |
17-Jul-2009 |
America's most trusted newscaster |
| Milton Cross |
Radio Personality |
16-Apr-1897 |
3-Jan-1975 |
Announcer, voice of the Metropolitan Opera |
| Russel Crouse |
Playwright |
20-Feb-1893 |
3-Apr-1966 |
The Sound of Music |
| Countee Cullen |
Poet |
30-May-1903 |
9-Jan-1946 |
Harlem Renaissance poet |
| Merce Cunningham |
Dancer |
16-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-2009 |
Merce Cunningham Dance Company |
| Mario Cuomo |
Politician |
15-Jun-1932 |
1-Jan-2015 |
Governor of New York, 1983-95 |
| Walter J. P. Curley |
Business |
17-Sep-1922 |
2-Jun-2016 |
US Ambassador to France, 1989-93 |
| George Ticknor Curtis |
Historian |
28-Nov-1812 |
28-Mar-1894 |
Constitutional History of the United States |
| Disco D |
Music Producer |
21-Sep-1980 |
23-Jan-2007 |
Ghetto-tech DJ |
| Walter Damrosch |
Conductor |
30-Jan-1862 |
22-Dec-1950 |
Conductor, popularizer of music |
| Leora Dana |
Actor |
1-Apr-1923 |
13-Dec-1983 |
Some Came Running |
| Thayer David |
Actor |
4-Mar-1927 |
17-Jul-1978 |
Jergens in Rocky |
| Stuart Davis |
Painter |
7-Dec-1892 |
24-Jun-1964 |
American cubist painter |
| Clarence Day |
Author |
18-Nov-1874 |
28-Dec-1935 |
Life with Father |
| Dorothy Day |
Activist |
8-Nov-1897 |
29-Nov-1980 |
Founder of the Catholic Worker movement |
| Nicholas L. Deak |
Business |
8-Oct-1905 |
18-Nov-1985 |
Deak-Perera |
| Lester del Rey |
Author |
2-Jun-1915 |
10-May-1993 |
Founder of Del Rey Books |
| Jack Dempsey |
Boxing |
24-Jun-1895 |
31-May-1983 |
Heavyweight champ |
| Patrick Dennis |
Novelist |
18-May-1921 |
6-Nov-1976 |
Auntie Mame |
| Chauncey Depew |
Politician |
23-Apr-1834 |
5-Apr-1928 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| Paul Desmond |
Jazz Musician |
25-Nov-1924 |
30-May-1977 |
Jazz alto saxophonist, Dave Brubeck Quartet |
| Willy DeVille |
Singer/Songwriter |
27-Aug-1950 |
6-Aug-2009 |
Frontman, Mink DeVille |
| Bernard DeVoto |
Historian |
11-Jan-1897 |
13-Nov-1955 |
Across the Wide Missouri |
| John Dewey |
Educator |
20-Oct-1859 |
1-Jun-1952 |
Pragmatist philosopher, education reformer |
| C. Douglas Dillon |
Government |
21-Aug-1909 |
10-Jan-2003 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65 |
| S. S. Van Dine |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1888 |
11-Apr-1939 |
The Canary Murder Case |
| John Adams Dix |
Politician |
24-Jul-1798 |
21-Apr-1879 |
Governor of New York, 1873-75 |
| Lee Dixon |
Actor |
22-Jan-1914 |
8-Jan-1953 |
Ready, Willing and Able |
| Alphonse Dochez |
Doctor |
21-Apr-1882 |
30-Jun-1964 |
Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold |
| E. L. Doctorow |
Novelist |
6-Jan-1931 |
21-Jul-2015 |
The Book of Daniel |
| Ruth Donnelly |
Actor |
17-May-1896 |
17-Nov-1982 |
A Slight Case of Murder |
| Tom Dooley |
Activist |
17-Jan-1927 |
18-Jan-1961 |
Deliver Us from Evil |
| Jimmy Dorsey |
Musician |
29-Feb-1904 |
12-Jun-1957 |
Popular bandleader and swing musician |
| Melvyn Douglas |
Actor |
5-Apr-1901 |
4-Aug-1981 |
Being There |
| Paul W. Douglas |
Business |
12-Sep-1926 |
18-Sep-2011 |
CEO of Freeport Minerals, 1975-81 |
| Henry Draper |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1837 |
20-Nov-1882 |
Early astrophotographer |
| Paul Dresser |
Songwriter |
21-Apr-1857 |
30-Jan-1906 |
My Gal Sal |
| Robert Drivas |
Actor |
21-Nov-1938 |
29-Jun-1986 |
Bad Habits |
| Orvil Dryfoos |
Publisher |
8-Nov-1912 |
26-May-1963 |
New York Times Publisher, 1961-63 |
| Al Dubin |
Songwriter |
10-Jun-1891 |
11-Feb-1945 |
Lullaby of Broadway |
| Eddy Duchin |
Pianist |
1-Apr-1909 |
9-Feb-1951 |
The Magic Fingers of Radio |
| Doris Duke |
Philanthropist |
22-Nov-1912 |
28-Oct-1993 |
Heiress to Duke fortune |
| James Buchanan Duke |
Business |
23-Dec-1856 |
10-Oct-1925 |
American Tobacco Company |
| Allen B. DuMont |
Inventor |
29-Jan-1901 |
14-Nov-1965 |
TV picture tube and TV network |
| Katherine Dunham |
Dancer |
22-Jun-1910 |
21-May-2006 |
Dunham School of Dance |
| William Dunlap |
Playwright |
19-Feb-1766 |
28-Sep-1839 |
Fountainville Abbey |
| Finley Peter Dunne |
Author |
10-Jul-1867 |
24-Apr-1936 |
Creator of Mr. Dooley |
| William Archibald Dunning |
Historian |
12-May-1857 |
25-Aug-1922 |
Reconstruction, Political and Economic, 1865-1877 |
| William C. Durant |
Business |
8-Dec-1861 |
18-Mar-1947 |
Founder of General Motors |
| Charles Durning |
Actor |
28-Feb-1923 |
24-Dec-2012 |
The Muppet Movie |
| Seymour Durst |
Business |
c. 1913 |
19-May-1995 |
New York real estate mogul |
| Fred Ebb |
Musician |
8-Apr-1935 |
11-Sep-2004 |
Top Broadway lyricist, Cabaret |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| David Einhorn |
Religion |
1809 |
1879 |
Jewish reform movement |
| Duke Ellington |
Jazz Musician |
29-Apr-1899 |
24-May-1974 |
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
| Albert Ellis |
Psychologist |
27-Sep-1913 |
24-Jul-2007 |
Rational emotive behavior therapy |
| Perry Ellis |
Fashion Designer |
3-Mar-1940 |
30-May-1986 |
Founder, Perry Ellis International |
| Ralph Ellison |
Novelist |
1-Mar-1914 |
16-Apr-1994 |
Invisible Man |
| John Emery |
Actor |
20-May-1905 |
16-Nov-1964 |
Rocketship X-M |
| Richard S. Emmet |
Attorney |
8-Apr-1897 |
5-Oct-1969 |
Counsel to the Bank of New York |
| Thomas O. Enders |
Diplomat |
28-Nov-1932 |
17-Mar-1996 |
US Ambassador to Canada, Spain |
| Nora Ephron |
Author |
19-May-1941 |
26-Jun-2012 |
When Harry Met Sally |
| John Ericsson |
Inventor |
31-Jul-1803 |
8-Mar-1889 |
Built the ironclad USS Monitor |
| Ahmet Ertegün |
Business |
21-Jul-1923 |
14-Dec-2006 |
Atlantic Records co-founder |
| Bill Evans |
Jazz Musician |
16-Aug-1929 |
15-Sep-1980 |
Jazz pianist |
| William M. Evarts |
Politician |
6-Feb-1818 |
28-Feb-1901 |
US Secretary of State, 1877-81 |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
Actor |
9-Dec-1909 |
7-May-2000 |
Sinbad the Sailor |
| James A. Farley |
Government |
30-May-1888 |
9-Jun-1976 |
US Postmaster General, 1933-40 |
| Glenda Farrell |
Actor |
30-Jun-1904 |
1-May-1971 |
Torchy Blane |
| James T. Farrell |
Novelist |
27-Feb-1904 |
22-Aug-1979 |
Studs Lonigan trilogy |
| Edna Ferber |
Novelist |
15-Aug-1885 |
16-Apr-1968 |
Show Boat and Giant |
| Emanuel Feuermann |
Cellist |
22-Nov-1902 |
25-May-1942 |
Cellist |
| John Fiedler |
Actor |
3-Feb-1925 |
25-Jun-2005 |
Voice of Piglet |
| Cyrus W. Field |
Business |
30-Nov-1819 |
12-Jul-1892 |
First Transatlantic cable |
| David Dudley Field |
Attorney |
13-Feb-1805 |
13-Apr-1894 |
Spurred codification of US law |
| Marshall Field III |
Business |
28-Sep-1893 |
8-Nov-1956 |
Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times |
| Marshall Field |
Business |
18-Aug-1834 |
16-Jan-1906 |
Founder of Marshall Field's |
| Dorothy Fields |
Songwriter |
15-Jul-1905 |
28-Mar-1974 |
On the Sunny Side of the Street |
| Albert Fish |
Criminal |
19-May-1870 |
16-Jan-1936 |
Serial killer and cannibal |
| Jim Fisk |
Business |
1-Apr-1834 |
6-Jan-1872 |
Business partner of Jay Gould |
| Geraldine Fitzgerald |
Actor |
24-Nov-1913 |
17-Jul-2005 |
Wuthering Heights |
| James Montgomery Flagg |
Painter |
18-Jun-1877 |
27-May-1960 |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army |
| Janet Flanner |
Journalist |
13-Mar-1892 |
7-Nov-1978 |
The New Yorker |
| James Thomas Flexner |
Historian |
13-Jan-1908 |
13-Feb-2003 |
George Washington |
| Steven Florio |
Publisher |
19-Apr-1949 |
27-Dec-2007 |
CEO of Cond� Nast, 1995-2005 |
| John T. Flynn |
Journalist |
25-Oct-1882 |
13-Apr-1964 |
The Roosevelt Myth |
| Joseph W. Folk |
Politician |
29-Oct-1869 |
29-May-1923 |
Governor of Missouri, 1905-09 |
| Bertie Forbes |
Business |
14-May-1880 |
6-May-1954 |
Forbes Magazine founder |
| Constance Ford |
Actor |
1-Jul-1923 |
26-Feb-1993 |
Ada Hobson on Another World |
| Stephen Collins Foster |
Songwriter |
4-Jul-1826 |
13-Jan-1864 |
My Old Kentucky Home |
| William Fox |
Film/TV Producer |
1-Jan-1879 |
8-May-1952 |
Founder of 20th Century Fox |
| Kay Francis |
Actor |
13-Jan-1905 |
26-Aug-1968 |
Trouble in Paradise |
| Bob Franks |
Politician |
21-Sep-1951 |
9-Apr-2010 |
Congressman from New Jersey, 1993-2001 |
| Phyllis Fraser |
Socialite |
22-Jun-1911 |
24-Nov-2006 |
Wife of Bennett Cerf |
| Howard Freeman |
Actor |
9-Dec-1899 |
11-Dec-1967 |
Theatre and character actor |
| Kathleen Freeman |
Actor |
17-Feb-1919 |
23-Aug-2001 |
Gen. Burkhalter's sister |
| John C. Fremont |
Explorer |
21-Jan-1813 |
13-Jul-1890 |
Conqueror of California |
| Glenn Frey |
Musician |
6-Nov-1948 |
18-Jan-2016 |
Lead vocals and guitar, Eagles |
| Leonard Frey |
Actor |
4-Sep-1938 |
24-Aug-1988 |
Stage actor, The Boys in the Band |
| Henry Clay Frick |
Business |
19-Dec-1849 |
2-Dec-1919 |
Robber baron, Johnstown flood |
| Fred Friendly |
Journalist |
30-Oct-1915 |
3-Mar-1998 |
President of CBS News, 1964-66 |
| Robert Fulton |
Inventor |
14-Nov-1765 |
24-Feb-1815 |
Inventor of the submarine and steamboat |
| Martin Gabel |
Actor |
19-Jun-1912 |
22-May-1986 |
The First Deadly Sin |
| Helen Gahagan |
Actor |
25-Nov-1900 |
28-Jun-1980 |
Actress, California Congresswoman |
| William M. Gaines |
Publisher |
1-Mar-1922 |
3-Jun-1992 |
Mad Magazine publisher |
| Greta Garbo |
Actor |
18-Sep-1905 |
15-Apr-1990 |
Vanted to be alone |
| John Garfield |
Actor |
4-Mar-1913 |
21-May-1952 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| William Lloyd Garrison |
Activist |
10-Dec-1805 |
24-May-1879 |
Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator |
| Elbert Henry Gary |
Business |
8-Oct-1846 |
15-Aug-1927 |
CEO of US Steel, 1901-27 |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| Horatio Gates |
Military |
26-Jul-1727 |
10-Apr-1806 |
Defeated General Burgoyne at Saratoga |
| Marjorie Gateson |
Actor |
17-Jan-1891 |
17-Apr-1977 |
Goin' to Town |
| Richard Jordan Gatling |
Inventor |
12-Sep-1818 |
26-Feb-1903 |
Inventor of the Gatling Gun |
| Richard Gelb |
Business |
1924 |
4-Apr-2004 |
CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 1972-93 |
| Peter Gennaro |
Dancer |
23-Nov-1919 |
28-Sep-2000 |
Broadway choreographer |
| Henry George |
Economist |
2-Sep-1839 |
29-Oct-1897 |
Progress and Poverty |
| Hugo Gernsback |
Author |
16-Aug-1884 |
19-Aug-1967 |
Founded Amazing Stories in 1926 |
| Khalil Gibran |
Poet |
6-Jan-1883 |
10-Apr-1931 |
The Prophet |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| Albert W. Gilchrist |
Politician |
15-Jan-1858 |
15-May-1926 |
Governor of Florida, 1909-13 |
| Jack Gilford |
Actor |
25-Jul-1908 |
2-Jun-1990 |
Save the Tiger |
| Hermione Gingold |
Actor |
9-Dec-1897 |
24-May-1987 |
Madame Alvarez in Gigi |
| Allen Ginsberg |
Poet |
3-Jun-1926 |
5-Apr-1997 |
Howl! |
| Lillian Gish |
Actor |
14-Oct-1893 |
27-Feb-1993 |
Silent film actress, director |
| Peter Glenville |
Film Director |
28-Oct-1913 |
3-Jun-1996 |
Becket |
| Arthur Godfrey |
Actor |
31-Aug-1903 |
16-Mar-1983 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
| Leopold Godowsky |
Pianist |
13-Feb-1870 |
21-Nov-1938 |
Exceptional Polish-American pianist |
| George Goethals |
Architect |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
| Rube Goldberg |
Cartoonist |
4-Jul-1883 |
7-Dec-1970 |
Designer of impossible contraptions |
| Benny Goodman |
Jazz Musician |
30-May-1909 |
13-Jun-1986 |
Bespectacled jazz clarinetist |
| Paul Goodman |
Anarchist |
9-Sep-1911 |
2-Aug-1972 |
Growing Up Absurd |
| Charles Goodyear |
Inventor |
29-Dec-1800 |
1-Jul-1860 |
Invented rubber vulcanization process |
| Cliff Gorman |
Actor |
13-Oct-1936 |
5-Sep-2002 |
Stage actor, Lenny |
| Jay Gould |
Business |
27-May-1836 |
2-Dec-1892 |
Railroad baron owned Union Pacific |
| J. Peter Grace |
Business |
25-May-1913 |
19-Apr-1995 |
W.R. Grace scion |
| William Russell Grace |
Business |
10-May-1832 |
21-Mar-1904 |
Founder of W. R. Grace & Company |
| Oskar Maria Graf |
Author |
22-Jul-1894 |
28-Jun-1967 |
Wir sind Gefangene |
| Martha Graham |
Dancer |
11-May-1894 |
1-Apr-1991 |
Innovator of modern dance |
| Gloria Grahame |
Actor |
28-Nov-1923 |
5-Oct-1981 |
The Bad and the Beautiful |
| Alexander Granach |
Actor |
18-Apr-1893 |
14-Mar-1945 |
Nosferatu |
| Spalding Gray |
Actor |
5-Jun-1941 |
11-Jan-2004 |
Swimming to Cambodia monologist |
| Rocky Graziano |
Boxing |
1-Jan-1919 |
22-May-1990 |
Middleweight boxing champ |
| Horace Greeley |
Author |
3-Feb-1811 |
29-Nov-1872 |
The Tribune |
| Adolph Green |
Songwriter |
2-Dec-1914 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| S. William Green |
Politician |
16-Oct-1929 |
14-Oct-2002 |
Congressman from New York, 1978-93 |
| David Greenglass |
Spy |
2-Mar-1922 |
1-Jul-2014 |
Gave atomic secrets to Julius Rosenberg |
| Thomas Watt Gregory |
Government |
6-Nov-1861 |
26-Feb-1933 |
US Attorney General, 1914-19 |
| Charles Griffes |
Composer |
17-Sep-1884 |
8-Apr-1920 |
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan |
| Henry A. Grunwald |
Journalist |
3-Dec-1922 |
26-Feb-2005 |
Managing Editor of Time, 1968-79 |
| Duke Guider |
Business |
10-Mar-1900 |
18-Jan-1968 |
Defense attorney for Hideki Tojo |
| John Gunther |
Journalist |
30-Aug-1901 |
29-May-1970 |
Inside Europe |
| Guru |
Rapper |
17-Jul-1962 |
19-Apr-2010 |
Rapper from Gang Starr |
| William M. Gwin |
Politician |
9-Oct-1805 |
3-Sep-1885 |
US Senator from California |
| Ruth Hale |
Activist |
1886 |
18-Sep-1933 |
Maiden name crusader |
| Frederick A. Halsey |
Engineer |
12-Jul-1856 |
20-Oct-1935 |
Kept America safe from the metric system |
| Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
| Dashiell Hammett |
Author |
27-May-1894 |
10-Jan-1961 |
The Maltese Falcon |
| Learned Hand |
Judge |
27-Jan-1872 |
18-Aug-1961 |
Influential American justice |
| W. C. Handy |
Composer |
16-Nov-1873 |
29-Mar-1958 |
Father of the Blues |
| Carol Haney |
Dancer |
24-Dec-1924 |
10-May-1964 |
The Pajama Game |
| Helene Hanff |
Author |
15-Apr-1916 |
9-Apr-1997 |
84, Charing Cross Road |
| Lorraine Hansberry |
Playwright |
19-May-1930 |
12-Jan-1965 |
A Raisin in the Sun |
| Howard Hanson |
Composer |
28-Oct-1896 |
26-Feb-1981 |
Symphony No. 4 |
| Otto Harbach |
Songwriter |
18-Aug-1873 |
24-Jan-1963 |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
| Cedric Hardwicke |
Actor |
19-Feb-1893 |
6-Aug-1964 |
Suspicion |
| Keith Haring |
Painter |
4-May-1958 |
16-Feb-1990 |
Abstract graffiti and mural artist |
| Edward Stephen Harkness |
Philanthropist |
22-Jan-1874 |
29-Jan-1940 |
Philanthropist |
| Nedda Harrigan |
Actor |
24-Aug-1899 |
1-Apr-1989 |
Devil's Island |
| Charles K. Harris |
Songwriter |
1-May-1865 |
22-Dec-1930 |
After The Ball |
| Rex Harrison |
Actor |
5-Mar-1908 |
2-Jun-1990 |
My Fair Lady |
| Lorenz Hart |
Songwriter |
2-May-1895 |
22-Nov-1943 |
Lyricist, Rodgers and Hart |
| Donny Hathaway |
Singer |
1-Oct-1945 |
13-Jan-1979 |
Where Is The Love? |
| Coleman Hawkins |
Jazz Musician |
21-Nov-1904 |
19-May-1969 |
Jazz tenor saxophonist |
| Rita Hayworth |
Actor |
17-Oct-1918 |
14-May-1987 |
Gilda |
| Ben Hecht |
Screenwriter |
28-Feb-1894 |
18-Apr-1964 |
The Front Page |
| Carolyn Heilbrun |
Novelist |
13-Jan-1926 |
9-Oct-2003 |
Amanda Cross, mystery novelist |
| John Heisman |
Football |
23-Oct-1869 |
3-Oct-1936 |
Namesake of the Heisman Trophy |
| Fletcher Henderson |
Jazz Musician |
18-Dec-1897 |
29-Dec-1952 |
Pioneering swing and jazz bandleader |
| Robert Henri |
Painter |
25-Jun-1865 |
12-Jul-1929 |
Art Students League of New York |
| O. Henry |
Author |
11-Sep-1862 |
5-Jun-1910 |
The Gift of the Magi |
| Jim Henson |
Performance Artist |
24-Sep-1936 |
16-May-1990 |
Creator of the Muppets |
| Matthew Henson |
Explorer |
8-Aug-1866 |
9-Mar-1955 |
Possibly first to reach North Pole |
| Victor Herbert |
Composer |
1-Feb-1859 |
24-May-1924 |
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life |
| Josephine Herbst |
Novelist |
5-Mar-1892 |
28-Jan-1969 |
Pity Is Not Enough |
| Oliver Herford |
Poet |
3-Dec-1863 |
5-Jul-1935 |
Cupid's Encyclopedia |
| James A. Herne |
Playwright |
1-Feb-1839 |
2-Jun-1901 |
Shore Acres |
| Edward Herrmann |
Actor |
21-Jul-1943 |
31-Dec-2014 |
Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls |
| Abram Stevens Hewitt |
Politician |
31-Jul-1822 |
18-Jan-1903 |
Mayor of New York City, 1887-88 |
| William Hickey |
Actor |
19-Sep-1927 |
29-Jun-1997 |
Prizzi's Honor |
| George Roy Hill |
Film Director |
20-Dec-1921 |
27-Dec-2002 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter |
Military |
8-May-1897 |
18-Jun-1982 |
CIA Director, 1947-50 |
| Alger Hiss |
Government |
11-Nov-1904 |
15-Nov-1996 |
Accused spy for the Soviet Union |
| Laura Z. Hobson |
Novelist |
19-Jun-1900 |
28-Feb-1986 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Richmond Pearson Hobson |
Military |
17-Aug-1870 |
16-Mar-1937 |
Spanish-American War hero |
| Johnny Hodges |
Jazz Musician |
25-Jul-1907 |
11-May-1970 |
Jazz alto saxophonist |
| Syd Hoff |
Author |
4-Sep-1912 |
12-May-2004 |
Danny and the Dinosaur |
| Hans Hofmann |
Painter |
21-Mar-1880 |
17-Feb-1966 |
Abstract expressionist, art teacher |
| Richard Hofstadter |
Historian |
6-Aug-1916 |
24-Oct-1970 |
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life |
| Wilford B. Hoggatt |
Politician |
11-Sep-1865 |
26-Feb-1938 |
Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1906-09 |
| Billie Holiday |
Singer |
7-Apr-1915 |
17-Jul-1959 |
Lady Sings the Blues |
| Judy Holliday |
Actor |
21-Jun-1921 |
7-Jun-1965 |
Born Yesterday |
| Celeste Holm |
Actor |
29-Apr-1917 |
15-Jul-2012 |
Gentleman's Agreement |
| Jan Hooks |
Comic |
23-Apr-1957 |
9-Oct-2014 |
Saturday Night Live |
| Herbert Hoover |
Head of State |
10-Aug-1874 |
20-Oct-1964 |
31st US President, 1929-33 |
| Harry Lloyd Hopkins |
Government |
17-Aug-1890 |
29-Jan-1946 |
US Secretary of Commerce, 1938-40 |
| Miriam Hopkins |
Actor |
18-Oct-1902 |
9-Oct-1972 |
The Story of Temple Drake |
| Edward Hopper |
Painter |
22-Jul-1882 |
15-May-1967 |
American realist painter, Nighthawks |
| Karen Horney |
Psychologist |
16-Sep-1885 |
4-Dec-1952 |
Disputed Freud's concept of "penis envy" |
| Vladimir Horowitz |
Pianist |
1-Oct-1903 |
5-Nov-1989 |
Virtuoso pianist |
| Edward M. House |
Diplomat |
26-Jul-1858 |
28-Mar-1938 |
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson |
| David F. Houston |
Government |
17-Feb-1866 |
2-Sep-1940 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20 |
| Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
| William Dean Howells |
Author |
1-Mar-1837 |
11-May-1920 |
The Rise of Silas Lapham |
| Miller Huggins |
Baseball |
27-Mar-1879 |
25-Sep-1929 |
Yankees Manager, 1918-29 |
| Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. |
Government |
30-Nov-1889 |
21-Jan-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1929-30 |
| John Hughes |
Film Director |
18-Feb-1950 |
6-Aug-2009 |
Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| Langston Hughes |
Poet |
1-Feb-1902 |
22-May-1967 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Josephine Hull |
Actor |
3-Jan-1886 |
12-Mar-1957 |
Harvey |
| Alberta Hunter |
Singer |
1-Apr-1895 |
17-Oct-1984 |
Downhearted Blues |
| Harold Hunter |
Skateboarder |
2-Apr-1974 |
17-Feb-2006 |
Skateboarder in "Kids" |
| Kim Hunter |
Actor |
12-Nov-1922 |
11-Sep-2002 |
Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Sol Hurok |
Theatre Producer |
9-Apr-1888 |
5-Mar-1974 |
American impresario |
| Arthur M. Hyde |
Politician |
12-Jul-1877 |
17-Oct-1947 |
Governor of Missouri, 1921-25 |
| Phyllis Hyman |
Singer |
6-Jul-1949 |
30-Jun-1995 |
Goddess of Love |
| Charles Ives |
Composer |
20-Oct-1874 |
19-May-1954 |
Third Symphony (The Camp Meeting) |
| Charles R. Jackson |
Novelist |
6-Apr-1903 |
21-Sep-1968 |
The Lost Weekend |
| Jeanne-Claude |
Artist |
13-Jun-1945 |
18-Nov-2009 |
Gift-wraps large monuments |
| Antonio Carlos Jobim |
Musician |
25-Jan-1927 |
8-Dec-1994 |
The Girl from Ipanema |
| Allan Jones |
Actor |
14-Oct-1907 |
27-Jun-1992 |
Show Boat |
| Hank Jones |
Jazz Musician |
31-Jul-1918 |
16-May-2010 |
Jazz Piano Luminary |
| Scott Joplin |
Musician |
24-Nov-1868 |
1-Apr-1917 |
The King of Ragtime |
| Michael H. Jordan |
Business |
13-Jun-1936 |
25-May-2010 |
CEO of EDS, 2003-07 |
| Fred Joseph |
Business |
22-Apr-1937 |
27-Nov-2009 |
CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert, 1985-90 |
| Theodore D. Judah |
Engineer |
4-Mar-1826 |
2-Nov-1863 |
American Transcontinental Railroad |
| Meir Kahane |
Activist |
1-Aug-1932 |
5-Nov-1990 |
Founder of Jewish Defense League |
| Otto Kahn |
Business |
21-Feb-1867 |
29-Mar-1934 |
Banker with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. |
| Garson Kanin |
Screenwriter |
24-Nov-1912 |
13-Mar-1999 |
It Should Happen to You |
| Theophilus Van Kannel |
Inventor |
1841 |
24-Dec-1919 |
Revolving door |
| Oskar Karlweis |
Actor |
10-Jun-1894 |
24-Jan-1956 |
5 Fingers |
| George S. Kaufman |
Playwright |
16-Nov-1889 |
2-Jun-1961 |
You Can't Take It With You |
| Kenneth B. Keating |
Politician |
18-May-1900 |
5-May-1975 |
US Senator from New York, 1959-65 |
| William Keighley |
Film Director |
4-Aug-1889 |
24-Jun-1984 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Ian Keith |
Actor |
27-Feb-1899 |
26-Mar-1960 |
It Came from Beneath the Sea |
| Ed Kemmer |
Actor |
29-Oct-1921 |
9-Nov-2004 |
Cmdr. Buzz Corry on Space Patrol |
| James Kent |
Judge |
31-Jul-1763 |
12-Dec-1847 |
Commentaries on American Law |
| Alexander Kerensky |
Government |
22-Apr-1881 |
11-Jun-1970 |
Head of pre-Bolshevik Russian government |
| Jerome Kern |
Composer |
27-Jan-1885 |
12-Nov-1945 |
Show Boat |
| Sophie Kerr |
Novelist |
23-Aug-1880 |
6-Feb-1965 |
The Sound of Petticoats |
| Dorothy Kilgallen |
Columnist |
3-Jul-1913 |
8-Nov-1965 |
What's My Line? |
| Preston King |
Politician |
14-Oct-1806 |
12-Nov-1865 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| James Kirkwood |
Novelist |
22-Aug-1924 |
21-Apr-1989 |
A Chorus Line |
| Lincoln Kirstein |
Author |
4-May-1907 |
5-Jan-1996 |
Co-Founder, New York City Ballet |
| Allen Klein |
Business |
18-Dec-1931 |
4-Jul-2009 |
Prehensile ABKCO executive |
| Werner Klemperer |
Actor |
22-Mar-1920 |
6-Dec-2000 |
Col. Klink on Hogan's Heroes |
| Franz Kline |
Painter |
23-May-1910 |
13-May-1962 |
Abstract expressionist painter |
| Kenneth Koch |
Poet |
27-Feb-1925 |
6-Jul-2002 |
On the Great Atlantic Rainway |
| Alfred Kohlberg |
Business |
27-Jan-1887 |
7-Apr-1960 |
The China Lobby Man |
| Jerzy Kosinski |
Author |
14-Jun-1933 |
3-May-1991 |
Being There |
| Paul Kossoff |
Guitarist |
14-Sep-1950 |
19-Mar-1976 |
Free |
| Lee Krasner |
Painter |
27-Oct-1908 |
19-Jun-1984 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Fritz Kreisler |
Violinist |
2-Feb-1875 |
29-Jan-1962 |
Austrian violin virtuoso |
| Stanley Kunitz |
Poet |
29-Jul-1905 |
14-May-2006 |
US Poet Laureate, 2000 |
| William Kunstler |
Attorney |
7-Jul-1919 |
4-Sep-1995 |
Civil rights attorney |
| Charles Kuralt |
TV Personality |
10-Sep-1934 |
4-Jul-1997 |
On the Road |
| Thomas G. Labrecque |
Business |
17-Sep-1938 |
16-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Chase Manhattan, 1990-96 |
| Tommy Ladnier |
Jazz Musician |
28-May-1900 |
4-Jun-1939 |
Jazz trumpeter |
| Fiorello LaGuardia |
Politician |
11-Dec-1882 |
20-Sep-1947 |
New York City Mayor, 1934-45 |
| Bert Lahr |
Actor |
13-Aug-1895 |
4-Dec-1967 |
Lion in The Wizard of Oz |
| Karl Landsteiner |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1868 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Discovered blood typing |
| Arthur Bliss Lane |
Diplomat |
16-Jun-1894 |
12-Aug-1956 |
US Ambassador to Poland, 1945-47 |
| Burton Lane |
Composer |
2-Feb-1912 |
5-Jan-1997 |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
| Robert Lansing |
Government |
17-Oct-1864 |
30-Oct-1928 |
US Secretary of State, 1915-20 |
| Robert Lansing |
Actor |
5-Jun-1928 |
23-Oct-1994 |
Empire of the Ants |
| Nella Larsen |
Novelist |
13-Apr-1891 |
30-Mar-1964 |
Quicksand |
| Albert Lasker |
Business |
1-May-1880 |
30-May-1952 |
Advertising executive and medical research patron |
| Frank Lautenberg |
Politician |
23-Jan-1924 |
3-Jun-2013 |
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Gertrude Lawrence |
Actor |
4-Jul-1898 |
6-Sep-1952 |
British and Broadway theatre star |
| Emma Lazarus |
Poet |
22-Jul-1849 |
19-Nov-1887 |
The New Colossus |
| Leadbelly |
Guitarist |
29-Jan-1885 |
6-Dec-1949 |
Goodnight Irene |
| Heath Ledger |
Actor |
4-Apr-1979 |
22-Jan-2008 |
Brokeback Mountain |
| Canada Lee |
Actor |
3-Mar-1907 |
9-May-1952 |
Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Margaret Leech |
Historian |
7-Nov-1893 |
24-Feb-1974 |
Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 |
| Mark Lenard |
Actor |
15-Oct-1924 |
22-Nov-1996 |
Ambassador Sarek on Star Trek |
| Lotte Lenya |
Singer |
18-Oct-1898 |
27-Nov-1981 |
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| Eugenie Leontovich |
Actor |
21-Mar-1900 |
3-Apr-1993 |
Russian-American stage actress |
| Alan Jay Lerner |
Playwright |
31-Aug-1918 |
14-Jun-1986 |
An American in Paris |
| Max Lerner |
Sociologist |
20-Dec-1902 |
5-Jun-1992 |
Ideas Are Weapons |
| Bethel Leslie |
Actor |
3-Aug-1929 |
28-Nov-1999 |
Theater actress |
| Larry Levan |
Disc Jockey |
20-Jul-1954 |
8-Nov-1992 |
Legendary Disco DJ |
| Albert Lewin |
Film Director |
23-Sep-1894 |
9-May-1968 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Daniel Lewin |
Mathematician |
14-May-1970 |
11-Sep-2001 |
Co-founder of Akamai, died in 9/11 |
| Al Lewis |
Actor |
30-Apr-1923 |
3-Feb-2006 |
Grandpa on The Munsters |
| Francis Lewis |
Politician |
21-Mar-1713 |
30-Dec-1802 |
Signatory to Declaration of Independence |
| Joe E. Lewis |
Comic |
12-Jan-1902 |
4-Jun-1971 |
It's post time! |
| Morgan Lewis |
Politician |
16-Oct-1754 |
7-Apr-1844 |
Governor of New York, 1804-07 |
| Oscar Lewis |
Anthropologist |
25-Dec-1914 |
16-Dec-1970 |
Culture of Poverty |
| Ted Lewis |
Jazz Musician |
6-Jun-1892 |
25-Aug-1971 |
Is Everybody Happy? |
| Roy Lichtenstein |
Painter |
27-Oct-1923 |
29-Sep-1997 |
Whaam! |
| David E. Lilienthal |
Government |
8-Jul-1899 |
15-Jan-1981 |
TVA Chairman, 1941-46 |
| Marta Linden |
Actor |
24-Oct-1903 |
13-Dec-1990 |
A Yank at Eton |
| Howard Lindsay |
Playwright |
29-Mar-1889 |
11-Feb-1968 |
The Sound of Music |
| Larry Linville |
Actor |
29-Sep-1939 |
10-Apr-2000 |
Maj. Frank Burns on M*A*S*H |
| Walter Lippmann |
Journalist |
23-Sep-1889 |
14-Dec-1974 |
Today and Tomorrow |
| Horace Liveright |
Publisher |
10-Dec-1886 |
24-Sep-1933 |
Publisher of the Modern Library series |
| Alain Locke |
Author |
13-Sep-1886 |
9-Jun-1954 |
Leader in the Harlem Renaissance |
| John Davis Lodge |
Politician |
20-Oct-1903 |
29-Oct-1985 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55 |
| Frank Loesser |
Composer |
29-Jun-1910 |
28-Jul-1969 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Joshua Logan |
Film Director |
5-Oct-1908 |
12-Jul-1988 |
South Pacific |
| Anita Loos |
Novelist |
26-Apr-1893 |
18-Aug-1981 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| Marion Lorne |
Actor |
12-Aug-1883 |
9-May-1968 |
Aunt Clara on Bewitched |
| Tilly Losch |
Dancer |
15-Nov-1903 |
24-Dec-1975 |
Ballet dancer, sometimes actress |
| Dorothy Loudon |
Actor |
17-Sep-1933 |
15-Nov-2003 |
American stage actress |
| Frank Lovejoy |
Actor |
28-Mar-1912 |
2-Oct-1962 |
The Hitch-Hiker |
| Robert Lowell |
Poet |
1-Mar-1917 |
12-Sep-1977 |
Lord Weary's Castle |
| Allard Lowenstein |
Politician |
16-Jan-1929 |
14-Mar-1980 |
Congressman, New York 5th |
| Myrna Loy |
Actor |
2-Aug-1905 |
14-Dec-1993 |
The Thin Man |
| Frankie Lymon |
Singer/Songwriter |
30-Sep-1942 |
28-Feb-1968 |
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers |
| Eugene Lyons |
Author |
1-Jul-1898 |
10-Jan-1985 |
Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury |
| Charles MacArthur |
Playwright |
5-Nov-1895 |
21-Apr-1956 |
The Front Page |
| Dwight Macdonald |
Critic |
24-Mar-1906 |
19-Dec-1982 |
Against the American Grain |
| Edward MacDowell |
Composer |
18-Dec-1860 |
23-Jan-1908 |
American piano composer |
| Jack MacGowran |
Actor |
13-Oct-1918 |
30-Jan-1973 |
The Fearless Vampire Killers |
| Robert Morrison MacIver |
Sociologist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Jun-1970 |
The Web of Government |
| Aline MacMahon |
Actor |
3-May-1899 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Dragon Seed |
| Bernard Malamud |
Author |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
The Fixer |
| Tim Mara |
Football |
29-Jul-1887 |
16-Feb-1959 |
Founder, Owner of NY Giants, 1925-59 |
| Salvatore Maranzano |
Criminal |
1868 |
10-Sep-1931 |
Capo di tutti capi |
| Vito Marcantonio |
Politician |
10-Dec-1902 |
9-Aug-1954 |
American Labor Party |
| Hugh Marlowe |
Actor |
30-Jan-1911 |
2-May-1982 |
Jim Matthews on Another World |
| Don Marquis |
Journalist |
29-Jul-1878 |
29-Dec-1937 |
archy and mehitabel |
| Typhoid Mary |
Chef |
22-Sep-1869 |
11-Nov-1938 |
Notorious typhoid carrier |
| John L. Mason |
Inventor |
1832 |
26-Feb-1902 |
Invented the screw-neck jar |
| Bat Masterson |
Government |
26-Nov-1853 |
25-Oct-1921 |
Frontier peace officer |
| Brander Matthews |
Critic |
21-Feb-1852 |
31-Mar-1929 |
The Study of American Literature |
| William Maxwell |
Novelist |
16-Aug-1908 |
31-Jul-2000 |
The Folded Leaf |
| MCA |
Rapper |
5-Aug-1967 |
4-May-2012 |
Beastie Boys |
| Mary McCarthy |
Author |
21-Jun-1912 |
25-Oct-1989 |
The Group |
| Rue McClanahan |
Actor |
21-Feb-1934 |
3-Jun-2010 |
Blanche on The Golden Girls |
| George B. McClellan, Jr. |
Politician |
23-Nov-1865 |
30-Nov-1940 |
Mayor of New York City, 1904-09 |
| Frank McCourt |
Author |
19-Aug-1930 |
19-Jul-2009 |
Angela's Ashes |
| James McCracken |
Singer |
16-Dec-1926 |
30-Apr-1988 |
Operatic tenor, Otello |
| Phyllis McGinley |
Poet |
21-Mar-1905 |
22-Feb-1978 |
A Pocketful of Wry |
| Andrew J. McKelvey |
Business |
c. 1935 |
27-Nov-2008 |
Founder of TMP Worldwide |
| Ruth McKenney |
Author |
18-Nov-1911 |
25-Jul-1972 |
My Sister Eileen |
| Maggie McNamara |
Actor |
18-Feb-1928 |
18-Feb-1978 |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
| Paul V. McNutt |
Politician |
19-Jul-1891 |
24-Mar-1955 |
Governor of Indiana, 1933-37 |
| Carey McWilliams |
Journalist |
13-Dec-1905 |
27-Jun-1980 |
Editor of The Nation, 1955-75 |
| Margaret Mead |
Anthropologist |
16-Dec-1901 |
15-Nov-1978 |
Coming of Age in Samoa |
| Kay Medford |
Actor |
14-Sep-1914 |
10-Apr-1980 |
Bye Bye Birdie |
| Herman Melville |
Author |
1-Aug-1819 |
28-Sep-1891 |
Moby Dick |
| Melina Mercouri |
Actor |
18-Oct-1920 |
6-Mar-1994 |
Topkapi |
| Robert Merrill |
Singer |
4-Jun-1917 |
23-Oct-2004 |
Operatic baritone, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Jo Mielziner |
Designer |
19-Mar-1901 |
15-Mar-1976 |
Broadway stage designer |
| Stanley Milgram |
Psychologist |
15-Aug-1933 |
20-Dec-1984 |
Milgram Experiment |
| Agnes de Mille |
Choreographer |
18-Sep-1905 |
7-Oct-1993 |
Influential American choreographer |
| Marilyn Miller |
Actor |
1-Sep-1898 |
7-Apr-1936 |
Broadway actress |
| Florence Mills |
Singer |
25-Jan-1896 |
1-Nov-1927 |
Jazz singer, Queen of Happiness |
| Ogden L. Mills |
Government |
23-Aug-1884 |
11-Oct-1937 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1932-33 |
| Billy Mitchell |
Military |
28-Dec-1879 |
19-Feb-1936 |
Proponent of air power |
| Wesley Clair Mitchell |
Economist |
5-Aug-1874 |
29-Oct-1948 |
Business Cycles |
| Anna Moffo |
Singer |
27-Jun-1932 |
10-Mar-2006 |
Operatic soprano |
| Ferenc Molnár |
Playwright |
12-Jan-1878 |
1-Apr-1952 |
The Paul Street Boys |
| Piet Mondrian |
Painter |
7-Mar-1872 |
1-Feb-1944 |
Dutch abstract painter |
| James Monroe |
Head of State |
28-Apr-1758 |
4-Jul-1831 |
5th President of the U.S. |
| Lola Montez |
Dancer |
17-Feb-1821 |
17-Jan-1861 |
Mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria |
| Robert Montgomery |
Actor |
21-May-1904 |
27-Sep-1981 |
Mr. and Mrs. Smith |
| Annie Moore |
|
1-Jan-1877 |
1924 |
First arrival at Ellis Island |
| Marianne Moore |
Poet |
15-Nov-1887 |
5-Feb-1972 |
Collected Poems |
| Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| Henry Morgan |
Radio Personality |
31-Mar-1915 |
19-May-1994 |
Bad Boy of Radio, I've Got a Secret |
| Henry S. Morgan |
Business |
24-Oct-1900 |
8-Feb-1982 |
Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley |
| Lee Morgan |
Jazz Musician |
10-Jul-1938 |
19-Feb-1972 |
The Sidewinder |
| Ralph Morgan |
Actor |
6-Jul-1883 |
11-Jun-1956 |
The Kennel Murder Case |
| Gouverneur Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1752 |
6-Nov-1816 |
American financier, Revolutionary politician |
| William Morris |
Business |
1873 |
2-Nov-1932 |
Founder, William Morris Agency |
| Samuel F. B. Morse |
Inventor |
27-Apr-1791 |
2-Apr-1872 |
Telegraph inventor and publicist |
| Howard Moss |
Poet |
22-Jan-1922 |
16-Sep-1987 |
Finding Them Lost |
| Ona Munson |
Actor |
16-Jun-1903 |
11-Feb-1955 |
Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind |
| Conrad Nagel |
Actor |
16-Mar-1897 |
24-Feb-1970 |
The Thirteenth Chair |
| Condé Nast |
Business |
26-Mar-1873 |
19-Sep-1942 |
Founder of Cond� Nast Publications |
| George Jean Nathan |
Author |
14-Feb-1882 |
8-Apr-1958 |
American Mercury |
| Bernard Nathanson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1926 |
21-Feb-2011 |
Pro-life activist, former abortionist |
| Mildred Natwick |
Actor |
19-Jun-1905 |
25-Oct-1994 |
Barefoot in the Park |
| Fats Navarro |
Jazz Musician |
24-Sep-1923 |
7-Jul-1950 |
Be-bop jazz trumpeter |
| Ruth Nelson |
Actor |
2-Aug-1905 |
12-Sep-1992 |
Awakenings |
| Richard John Neuhaus |
Religion |
14-May-1936 |
8-Jan-2009 |
Catholic priest |
| Louise Nevelson |
Sculptor |
23-Sep-1899 |
17-Apr-1988 |
Ukrainian-American abstract sculptor |
| Barnett Newman |
Painter |
29-Jan-1905 |
4-Jul-1970 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Frances Newman |
Novelist |
13-Sep-1888 |
22-Oct-1928 |
The Hard-Boiled Virgin |
| John Newton |
Military |
24-Aug-1823 |
1-May-1895 |
Union Army General and engineer |
| Harold Nicholas |
Dancer |
27-Mar-1921 |
3-Jul-2000 |
Tapdancer, The Nicholas Brothers |
| Richard M. Nixon |
Head of State |
9-Jan-1913 |
22-Apr-1994 |
37th US President, 1969-74 |
| Louis Nizer |
Attorney |
6-Feb-1902 |
10-Nov-1994 |
My Life in Court |
| Klaus Nomi |
Singer |
24-Jan-1944 |
6-Aug-1983 |
New Wave counter-tenor from Mars |
| Warder Norton |
Business |
17-Sep-1891 |
7-Nov-1945 |
W. W. Norton & Company |
| Elliott Nugent |
Film Director |
20-Sep-1896 |
9-Aug-1980 |
My Favorite Brunette |
| John Cardinal O'Connor |
Religion |
15-Jan-1920 |
3-May-2000 |
Archbishop of New York, 1984-2000 |
| Una O'Connor |
Actor |
23-Oct-1880 |
4-Feb-1959 |
Googly-eyed character actress |
| James A. O'Gorman |
Politician |
5-May-1860 |
17-May-1943 |
US Senator from New York, 1911-17 |
| Patrick O'Neal |
Actor |
26-Sep-1927 |
9-Sep-1994 |
Chamber of Horrors |
| Odetta |
Singer |
31-Dec-1930 |
2-Dec-2008 |
Queen of American Folk Music |
| James D. P. Ogden |
Business |
26-Aug-1790 |
7-Apr-1870 |
First President of New York Life Insurance Company |
| Herbert S. Okun |
Diplomat |
27-Nov-1930 |
8-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
| Charles Olson |
Poet |
27-Dec-1910 |
10-Jan-1970 |
The Maximus Poems |
| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
First Lady |
28-Jul-1929 |
19-May-1994 |
Wife of John F. Kennedy |
| Steve Owen |
Football |
21-Apr-1898 |
17-May-1964 |
NY Giants Head Coach, 1930-53 |
| Major Owens |
Politician |
28-Jun-1936 |
21-Oct-2013 |
Former Congressman from Brooklyn |
| José Antonio Páez |
Head of State |
13-Jun-1790 |
7-May-1873 |
First President of Venezuela |
| Geraldine Page |
Actor |
22-Nov-1924 |
13-Jun-1987 |
Toys in the Attic |
| Thomas Paine |
Activist |
29-Jan-1737 |
8-Jun-1809 |
Common Sense |
| Joseph Papp |
Theater Director |
22-Jun-1921 |
31-Oct-1991 |
Founder, New York Shakespeare Festival |
| Roy H. Park |
Philanthropist |
15-Sep-1910 |
25-Oct-1993 |
Media mogul, Park Foundation |
| Charlie Parker |
Jazz Musician |
29-Aug-1920 |
12-Mar-1955 |
Be-bop jazz musician |
| Dorothy Parker |
Author |
22-Aug-1893 |
7-Jun-1967 |
Constant Reader known for acerbic quips |
| Lew Parker |
Actor |
29-Oct-1907 |
27-Oct-1972 |
Lew Marie on That Girl |
| Gordon Parks |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1912 |
7-Mar-2006 |
Shaft |
| Sara Payson Willis Parton |
Columnist |
9-Jul-1811 |
10-Oct-1872 |
Columnist Fanny Fern |
| Alicia Patterson |
Business |
15-Oct-1906 |
2-Jul-1963 |
Founder of Newsday |
| Joseph Medill Patterson |
Business |
6-Jan-1879 |
26-May-1946 |
Founder of New York Daily News |
| Jan Peerce |
Singer |
3-Jun-1904 |
15-Dec-1984 |
Operatic tenor, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| J. C. Penney |
Business |
16-Sep-1875 |
12-Feb-1971 |
Founder of J. C. Penney Company |
| S. J. Perelman |
Author |
1-Feb-1904 |
17-Oct-1979 |
New Yorker humorist |
| Frances Perkins |
Government |
10-Apr-1882 |
14-May-1965 |
First female US cabinet member |
| Jean Perrin |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1870 |
17-Apr-1942 |
Verified atomic nature of matter |
| Frank Perry |
Film Director |
21-Aug-1930 |
29-Aug-1995 |
Mommie Dearest |
| Matthew Perry |
Military |
10-Apr-1794 |
4-Mar-1858 |
Opened Japan to the west |
| John J. Phelan, Jr. |
Business |
7-May-1931 |
4-Aug-2012 |
CEO of the NYSE, 1984-91 |
| David Graham Phillips |
Journalist |
31-Oct-1867 |
24-Jan-1911 |
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise |
| Brian Piccolo |
Football |
31-Oct-1943 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Bears FB, subject of Brians Song |
| Gifford Pinchot |
Politician |
11-Aug-1865 |
4-Oct-1946 |
Twice Governor of Pennsylvania |
| Thomas C. Platt |
Politician |
15-Jul-1833 |
6-Mar-1910 |
US Senator from New York, 1897-1909 |
| Edwin Stanton Porter |
Film Director |
21-Apr-1870 |
30-Apr-1941 |
The Great Train Robbery |
| Horace Porter |
Diplomat |
15-Apr-1837 |
25-May-1921 |
US Ambassador to France, 1897-1905 |
| Emily Post |
Columnist |
27-Oct-1873 |
25-Sep-1960 |
Etiquette |
| Bud Powell |
Pianist |
27-Sep-1924 |
31-Jul-1966 |
Seminal bop pianist and composer |
| Dawn Powell |
Novelist |
28-Nov-1897 |
14-Nov-1965 |
She Walks In Beauty |
| Otto Preminger |
Film Director |
5-Dec-1906 |
23-Apr-1986 |
Anatomy of a Murder |
| Maurice Prendergast |
Painter |
10-Oct-1859 |
1-Feb-1924 |
American Post-Impressionist watercolorist |
| Tito Puente |
Musician |
20-Apr-1923 |
31-May-2000 |
Popular Latin bandleader |
| Nathan M. Pusey |
Educator |
4-Apr-1907 |
14-Nov-2001 |
President of Harvard, 1953-71 |
| George Palmer Putnam |
Publisher |
7-Feb-1814 |
20-Dec-1872 |
Founder, G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| Robert Quine |
Guitarist |
30-Dec-1942 |
31-May-2004 |
Sonic punk rock guitarist |
| Maxwell M. Rabb |
Attorney |
28-Sep-1910 |
9-Jun-2002 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89 |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| David Rakoff |
Author |
27-Nov-1964 |
9-Aug-2012 |
Don't Get Too Comfortable |
| Joey Ramone |
Singer |
19-May-1951 |
15-Apr-2001 |
The Ramones |
| Ayn Rand |
Author |
2-Feb-1905 |
6-Mar-1982 |
Atlas Shrugged |
| Tony Randall |
Actor |
26-Feb-1920 |
18-May-2004 |
Felix Unger in The Odd Couple |
| A. Philip Randolph |
Activist |
15-Apr-1889 |
16-May-1979 |
20th century civil rights leader |
| Burton Rascoe |
Critic |
22-Oct-1892 |
19-Mar-1957 |
The New York Tribune |
| Basil Rathbone |
Actor |
13-Jun-1892 |
21-Jul-1967 |
Played original Sherlock Holmes |
| Gene Anthony Ray |
Dancer |
24-May-1962 |
14-Nov-2003 |
Leroy Johnson on Fame |
| Nicholas Ray |
Film Director |
7-Aug-1911 |
16-Jun-1979 |
Rebel Without a Cause |
| Henry J. Raymond |
Journalist |
24-Jan-1820 |
19-Jun-1869 |
Co-Founder of The New York Times |
| William C. Redfield |
Politician |
18-Jun-1858 |
13-Jun-1932 |
US Commerce Secretary, 1913-19 |
| Roger Rees |
Actor |
5-May-1944 |
10-Jul-2015 |
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| Fritz Reiner |
Conductor |
19-Dec-1888 |
15-Nov-1963 |
Music Director, Chicago Symphony, 1953-62 |
| Max Reinhardt |
Theater Director |
9-Sep-1873 |
30-Oct-1943 |
Filmed A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| James Renwick |
Architect |
11-Nov-1818 |
23-Jun-1895 |
Gothic Revival architect |
| Grantland Rice |
Sports Journalist |
1-Nov-1880 |
13-Jul-1954 |
Sportswriter, Idolmaker |
| Thomas D. Rice |
Comic |
20-May-1808 |
19-Sep-1860 |
Played "Jim Crow" |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart |
Novelist |
12-Aug-1876 |
22-Sep-1958 |
Circular Staircase |
| George Ripley |
Journalist |
3-Oct-1802 |
4-Jul-1880 |
The New York Tribune |
| Robert L. Ripley |
Curator |
25-Dec-1890 |
27-May-1949 |
Believe It or Not! |
| Michael Ritchie |
Film Director |
28-Nov-1938 |
16-Apr-2001 |
The Candidate |
| Thelma Ritter |
Actor |
14-Feb-1905 |
4-Feb-1969 |
Stella in Rear Window |
| Joan Rivers |
Comic |
8-Jun-1933 |
4-Sep-2014 |
Can we talk? |
| Jerome Robbins |
Choreographer |
11-Oct-1918 |
29-Jul-1998 |
West Side Story |
| Bill Robinson |
Dancer |
25-May-1878 |
25-Nov-1949 |
Bojangles |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Poet |
22-Dec-1869 |
6-Apr-1935 |
The Man Against the Sky |
| James Harvey Robinson |
Historian |
29-Jun-1863 |
16-Feb-1936 |
The Mind in the Making |
| Laurance Rockefeller |
Business |
26-May-1910 |
11-Jul-2004 |
Financier behind Eastern Airlines |
| Nelson Rockefeller |
Politician |
8-Jul-1908 |
26-Jan-1979 |
Ford's Vice President |
| Jimmie Rodgers |
Country Musician |
8-Sep-1897 |
26-May-1933 |
Pioneering country singer/songwriter/yodeler |
| Howard E. Rollins, Jr. |
Actor |
17-Oct-1950 |
8-Dec-1996 |
A Soldier's Story |
| Sigmund Romberg |
Composer |
29-Jul-1887 |
9-Nov-1951 |
The New Moon |
| Harold Rome |
Composer |
27-May-1908 |
26-Oct-1993 |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
| Andy Rooney |
Journalist |
14-Jan-1919 |
4-Nov-2011 |
60 Minutes' resident crank |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
First Lady |
11-Oct-1884 |
7-Nov-1962 |
First Lady under FDR |
| Elihu Root |
Government |
15-Feb-1845 |
7-Feb-1937 |
Senator, Secretary of War, State |
| Samuel I. Rosenman |
Government |
13-Feb-1896 |
24-Jun-1973 |
White House Counsel, 1943-46 |
| Herbert Ross |
Film Director |
13-May-1927 |
9-Oct-2001 |
Steel Magnolias |
| Judith Rossner |
Novelist |
31-Mar-1935 |
9-Aug-2005 |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Leo Rosten |
Author |
11-Apr-1908 |
19-Feb-1997 |
The Joys of Yiddish |
| Lillian Roth |
Actor |
13-Dec-1910 |
12-May-1980 |
I'll Cry Tomorrow |
| Murray Rothbard |
Economist |
2-Mar-1926 |
7-Jan-1995 |
Anarcho-capitalist |
| Mark Rothko |
Painter |
25-Sep-1903 |
25-Feb-1970 |
Painter of fuzzy rectangles |
| George Rublee |
Diplomat |
7-Jul-1868 |
26-Apr-1957 |
Advisor to Woodrow Wilson |
| Paul Rudolph |
Architect |
23-Oct-1918 |
8-Aug-1997 |
Brutalist architect |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
Poet |
15-Dec-1913 |
12-Feb-1980 |
The Book of the Dead |
| Damon Runyon |
Journalist |
4-Oct-1884 |
10-Dec-1946 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Nipsey Russell |
Comic |
13-Oct-1924 |
2-Oct-2005 |
Tinman in The Wiz |
| Bayard Rustin |
Activist |
17-Mar-1910 |
24-Aug-1987 |
Organized the 1963 March on Washington |
| Babe Ruth |
Baseball |
6-Feb-1895 |
16-Aug-1948 |
The Bambino |
| Robert Ryan |
Actor |
11-Nov-1909 |
11-Jul-1973 |
Billy Budd |
| Samuel Sachs |
Business |
28-Jul-1851 |
2-Mar-1935 |
Half namesake of Goldman Sachs |
| Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
30-Aug-2015 |
Awakenings |
| Edward Said |
Educator |
1-Nov-1935 |
25-Sep-2003 |
Orientalism |
| Pitts Sanborn |
Critic |
1878 |
7-Mar-1941 |
Music critic for New York Globe |
| Mari Sandoz |
Author |
11-May-1896 |
10-Mar-1966 |
Crazy Horse |
| David Sarnoff |
Business |
27-Feb-1891 |
12-Dec-1971 |
CEO of RCA, founder of NBC |
| Terry Sawchuk |
Hockey |
28-Dec-1929 |
31-May-1970 |
Goalie, NHL Hall of Famer |
| Dick Schaap |
Journalist |
27-Sep-1934 |
21-Dec-2001 |
Flashing Before My Eyes |
| Dore Schary |
Film/TV Producer |
31-Aug-1905 |
7-Jul-1980 |
President of MGM, 1951-56 |
| Béla Schick |
Doctor |
16-Jul-1877 |
6-Dec-1967 |
Schick test for diphtheria |
| Jacob Schiff |
Business |
10-Jan-1847 |
25-Sep-1920 |
New York banker |
| Joseph Schildkraut |
Actor |
22-Mar-1896 |
21-Jan-1964 |
The Life of Emile Zola |
| Thomas Schippers |
Conductor |
9-Mar-1930 |
16-Dec-1977 |
Music Director, Cinncinati Symphony, 1970-77 |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Oct-1917 |
28-Feb-2007 |
The Age of Roosevelt |
| Rose Schneiderman |
Labor Leader |
16-Apr-1882 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Union leader of the 1920s-'50s |
| William Schuman |
Composer |
4-Aug-1910 |
15-Feb-1992 |
Symphony No. 6 |
| Carl Schurz |
Politician |
2-Mar-1829 |
14-May-1906 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1877-81 |
| Charles M. Schwab |
Business |
18-Feb-1862 |
19-Sep-1939 |
Founder of Bethlehem Steel |
| Delmore Schwartz |
Poet |
8-Dec-1913 |
11-Jul-1966 |
Summer Knowledge |
| Frederick A. O. Schwarz |
Business |
18-Oct-1836 |
17-May-1911 |
Founder of FAO Schwarz |
| John Walter Scott |
Stamp Collector |
2-Nov-1845 |
4-Jan-1919 |
Father of American Philately |
| Gil Scott-Heron |
Poet |
1-Apr-1949 |
27-May-2011 |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
| Betty Shabazz |
Activist |
28-May-1936 |
23-Jun-1997 |
Widow of Malcolm X |
| Ben Shahn |
Painter |
12-Sep-1898 |
14-Mar-1969 |
American Social Realist painter |
| Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
| Karl Shapiro |
Poet |
10-Nov-1913 |
14-May-2000 |
Person, Place and Thing |
| Ray Sharkey |
Actor |
14-Nov-1952 |
11-Jun-1993 |
Sonny Steelgrave on Wiseguy |
| William Shawn |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1907 |
8-Dec-1992 |
Editor of The New Yorker, 1952-87 |
| George Shearing |
Jazz Musician |
13-Aug-1919 |
14-Feb-2011 |
George Shearing Quintet |
| Fulton J. Sheen |
Religion |
8-May-1895 |
9-Dec-1979 |
America's first televangelist |
| William T. Sherman |
Military |
8-Feb-1820 |
14-Feb-1891 |
Marched to the Sea |
| Robert E. Sherwood |
Playwright |
4-Apr-1896 |
14-Nov-1955 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| Bobby Short |
Singer |
15-Sep-1924 |
21-Mar-2005 |
Cabaret singer at the Carlyle Hotel |
| Richard B. Shull |
Actor |
24-Feb-1929 |
14-Oct-1999 |
Holmes and Yo-Yo |
| Sylvia Sidney |
Actor |
8-Aug-1910 |
1-Jul-1999 |
Mama Carlson on WKRP |
| Joel Siegel |
Critic |
7-Jul-1943 |
29-Jun-2007 |
Film critic |
| Beverly Sills |
Singer |
25-May-1929 |
2-Jul-2007 |
Soprano at the New York City Opera |
| Ron Silver |
Actor |
2-Jul-1946 |
15-Mar-2009 |
Wiseguy |
| J. Marion Sims |
Doctor |
25-Jan-1813 |
13-Nov-1883 |
Father of gynecology |
| Zoot Sims |
Jazz Musician |
29-Oct-1925 |
23-Mar-1985 |
Tenor and soprano saxophonist |
| Zutty Singleton |
Jazz Musician |
14-May-1898 |
14-Jul-1975 |
New Orleans jazz drummer |
| Cornelia Otis Skinner |
Actor |
30-May-1899 |
9-Jul-1979 |
Paris '90 |
| Otis Skinner |
Actor |
28-Jun-1858 |
4-Jan-1942 |
American stage actor |
| Alison Skipworth |
Actor |
25-Jul-1863 |
5-Jul-1952 |
Broadway and character actress |
| Alfred P. Sloan |
Business |
23-May-1875 |
17-Feb-1966 |
Chairman of GM, 1937-56 |
| Alfred E. Smith |
Government |
30-Dec-1873 |
4-Oct-1944 |
Twice Governor of New York |
| Gerrit Smith |
Activist |
6-Mar-1797 |
28-Dec-1874 |
Anti-slavery and temperance reformer |
| Harry Smith |
Musicologist |
29-May-1923 |
26-Nov-1991 |
Anthology of American Folk Music |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Willie "The Lion" Smith |
Jazz Musician |
25-Nov-1897 |
18-Apr-1973 |
Stride pianist, Finger Buster |
| Charles W. Socarides |
Activist |
24-Jan-1922 |
25-Dec-2005 |
Deprogrammer of homosexuals |
| Susan Sontag |
Author |
16-Jan-1933 |
28-Dec-2004 |
Novelist, critic, intellectual |
| Francis Cardinal Spellman |
Religion |
4-May-1889 |
2-Dec-1967 |
Archbishop of New York, 1939-67 |
| Elmer Sperry |
Inventor |
12-Oct-1860 |
10-Jun-1930 |
Gyroscopic compass |
| Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| Frank J. Sprague |
Inventor |
25-Jul-1857 |
25-Oct-1934 |
Streetcars and express elevators |
| Nancy Spungen |
Victim |
27-Feb-1958 |
12-Oct-1978 |
Sid Vicious's girlfriend |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Activist |
12-Nov-1815 |
26-Oct-1902 |
National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Jean Stapleton |
Actor |
19-Jan-1923 |
31-May-2013 |
Edith on All In The Family |
| Joseph Stein |
Playwright |
30-May-1912 |
24-Oct-2010 |
Fiddler on the Roof librettist |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| William Steinberg |
Conductor |
1-Aug-1899 |
16-May-1978 |
Music Director, Pittsburgh Symphony, 1952-76 |
| Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
| Anna Sten |
Actor |
3-Dec-1908 |
12-Nov-1993 |
The Wedding Night |
| John Lloyd Stephens |
Explorer |
28-Nov-1805 |
12-Oct-1852 |
Incidents of Travel |
| Isaac Stern |
Violinist |
21-Jul-1920 |
22-Sep-2001 |
Violin virtuoso |
| Dorothy Stickney |
Actor |
21-Jun-1896 |
2-Jun-1998 |
Broadway star of Life With Father |
| Alfred Stieglitz |
Photographer |
1-Jan-1864 |
13-Jul-1946 |
Photo-Secessionist |
| Richard Henry Stoddard |
Novelist |
2-Jul-1825 |
12-May-1903 |
Abraham Lincoln, An Horatian Ode |
| Lee Strasberg |
Theater Director |
17-Nov-1901 |
17-Feb-1982 |
Theater director and acting coach |
| Susan Strasberg |
Actor |
22-May-1938 |
21-Jan-1999 |
Picnic |
| Oscar S. Straus |
Diplomat |
23-Dec-1850 |
3-May-1926 |
Thrice Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire |
| Robert Strauss |
Actor |
8-Nov-1913 |
20-Feb-1975 |
Animal in Stalag 17 |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Composer |
17-Jun-1882 |
6-Apr-1971 |
The Rite of Spring |
| Billy Strayhorn |
Composer |
29-Nov-1915 |
31-May-1967 |
Take the A Train |
| Preston Sturges |
Screenwriter |
29-Aug-1898 |
6-Aug-1959 |
Sullivan's Travels |
| Peter Stuyvesant |
Government |
c. 1592 |
Feb-1672 |
Dutch colonial governor |
| Jule Styne |
Songwriter |
31-Dec-1905 |
20-Sep-1994 |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
| Ed Sullivan |
TV Personality |
28-Sep-1902 |
13-Oct-1974 |
The Ed Sullivan Show |
| Francis L. Sullivan |
Actor |
6-Jan-1903 |
19-Nov-1956 |
Great Expectations |
| Arthur Hays Sulzberger |
Publisher |
12-Sep-1891 |
11-Dec-1968 |
New York Times Publisher, 1935-61 |
| Jacqueline Susann |
Novelist |
20-Aug-1918 |
21-Sep-1974 |
Valley of the Dolls |
| David Susskind |
Talk Show Host |
19-Dec-1920 |
22-Feb-1987 |
The David Susskind Show |
| Gloria Swanson |
Actor |
27-Mar-1897 |
4-Apr-1983 |
Sunset Blvd. |
| Noah H. Swayne |
Judge |
7-Dec-1804 |
8-Jun-1884 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1862-81 |
| Robert A. Taft |
Politician |
8-Sep-1889 |
31-Jul-1953 |
US Senator from Ohio, 1939-53 |
| Genevieve Taggard |
Poet |
28-Nov-1894 |
8-Nov-1948 |
Travelling Standing Still |
| Lilyan Tashman |
Actor |
23-Oct-1899 |
21-Mar-1934 |
Puttin' on the Ritz |
| Billy Taylor |
Jazz Musician |
24-Jul-1921 |
28-Dec-2010 |
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free |
| Myron C. Taylor |
Business |
18-Jan-1874 |
6-May-1959 |
CEO of US Steel, 1932-38 |
| Sara Teasdale |
Poet |
8-Aug-1884 |
29-Jan-1933 |
Strange Victory |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Philosopher |
1-May-1881 |
10-Apr-1955 |
The Phenomenon of Man |
| Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada |
Head of State |
25-Apr-1827 |
21-Apr-1889 |
President of Mexico, 1872-76 |
| Thomas D. Thacher |
Attorney |
10-Sep-1881 |
12-Nov-1950 |
US Solicitor General, 1930-33 |
| U Thant |
Diplomat |
22-Jan-1909 |
25-Nov-1974 |
UN Secretary General, 1961-71 |
| Brother Theodore |
Comic |
11-Nov-1906 |
5-Apr-2001 |
Stand-up Tragedist |
| Dylan Thomas |
Poet |
27-Oct-1914 |
9-Nov-1953 |
Most influential Welsh poet |
| Lewis Thomas |
Doctor |
25-Nov-1913 |
3-Dec-1993 |
The Lives of a Cell |
| Michelle Thomas |
Actor |
23-Sep-1969 |
22-Dec-1998 |
Myra on Family Matters |
| Virgil Thomson |
Composer |
25-Nov-1896 |
30-Sep-1989 |
Four Saints in Three Acts |
| James Thornton |
Songwriter |
5-Dec-1861 |
27-Jul-1938 |
When You Were Sweet Sixteen |
| James Thurber |
Author |
8-Dec-1894 |
2-Nov-1961 |
Short story writer and cartoonist |
| Wallace Thurman |
Author |
16-Aug-1902 |
22-Dec-1934 |
The Blacker the Berry |
| Harry Tierney |
Composer |
21-May-1890 |
22-Mar-1965 |
Irene |
| Charles Lewis Tiffany |
Business |
15-Feb-1812 |
18-Feb-1902 |
Founder of Tiffany & Co. |
| Louis Comfort Tiffany |
Artist |
18-Feb-1848 |
17-Jan-1933 |
Stained glassmaker, jewelry designer |
| Laurence Tisch |
Business |
5-Mar-1923 |
15-Nov-2003 |
CEO of CBS, 1986-95 |
| Bill Todman |
Film/TV Producer |
31-Jul-1916 |
29-Jul-1976 |
Goodson-Todman Productions |
| Andrew Tombes |
Actor |
29-Jun-1885 |
17-Mar-1976 |
Doubting Thomas |
| Franchot Tone |
Actor |
27-Feb-1905 |
18-Sep-1968 |
Advise and Consent |
| John Torrey |
Botanist |
15-Aug-1796 |
10-Mar-1873 |
Flora of North America |
| Arturo Toscanini |
Conductor |
25-Mar-1867 |
16-Jan-1957 |
20th Century virtuoso conductor |
| Donald B. Tresidder |
Educator |
7-Apr-1894 |
28-Jan-1948 |
President of Stanford University, 1943-48 |
| Diana Trilling |
Critic |
21-Jul-1905 |
23-Oct-1996 |
Literary critic, The Nation |
| Lionel Trilling |
Critic |
4-Jul-1905 |
5-Nov-1975 |
The Liberal Imagination |
| Juan Trippe |
Business |
27-Jun-1899 |
3-Apr-1981 |
Founder of Pan-Am |
| John Trumbull |
Painter |
6-Jun-1756 |
10-Nov-1843 |
American Revolutionary painter |
| Sophie Tucker |
Singer |
13-Jan-1884 |
9-Feb-1966 |
Some of These Days |
| Boss Tweed |
Politician |
3-Apr-1823 |
12-Apr-1878 |
Boss of Tammany Hall |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky |
Composer |
3-Nov-1911 |
2-Jan-1990 |
Tape music composer |
| Rudolph Valentino |
Actor |
6-May-1895 |
23-Aug-1926 |
Latin lover of the silent film era |
| Carl Van Vechten |
Novelist |
17-Jun-1880 |
21-Dec-1964 |
Patron of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Cyrus Vance |
Government |
27-Mar-1917 |
12-Jan-2002 |
US Secretary of State, 1977-80 |
| Amy Vanderbilt |
Columnist |
22-Jul-1908 |
27-Dec-1974 |
Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt |
Business |
27-May-1794 |
4-Jan-1877 |
Robber baron, richest man in the United States |
| William Henry Vanderbilt |
Business |
8-May-1821 |
8-Dec-1885 |
Wealthy son of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Edgard Varèse |
Composer |
22-Dec-1883 |
8-Nov-1965 |
Po�me �lectronique |
| Sid Vicious |
Bassist |
10-May-1957 |
2-Feb-1979 |
Sex Pistols bassist |
| Oswald Garrison Villard |
Journalist |
13-Mar-1872 |
1-Oct-1949 |
Some Newspapers and Newspaper-Men |
| Joseph Vlasic |
Business |
1904 |
10-Jul-1986 |
Pickle baron |
| Ludwig von Mises |
Economist |
29-Sep-1881 |
10-Oct-1973 |
Libertarian Economist |
| Bessie Potter Vonnoh |
Sculptor |
17-Aug-1872 |
8-Mar-1955 |
American sculptor in bronze |
| Wilfrid Voynich |
Activist |
31-Oct-1865 |
19-Mar-1930 |
Voynich manuscript |
| Andrei Vyshinsky |
Government |
10-Dec-1883 |
22-Nov-1954 |
Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge |
| Robert F. Wagner, Sr. |
Politician |
8-Jun-1877 |
4-May-1953 |
US Senator from New York, 1927-49 |
| Robert F. Wagner, Jr. |
Politician |
20-Apr-1910 |
12-Feb-1991 |
Mayor of New York City, 1954-65 |
| Edward T. Wailes |
Diplomat |
16-Feb-1903 |
25-Jun-1969 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1958-61 |
| Raymond Walburn |
Actor |
9-Sep-1887 |
26-Jul-1969 |
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |
| Alfred Wallenstein |
Cellist |
7-Oct-1898 |
8-Feb-1983 |
Music Director, LA Philharmonic, 1943-56 |
| Walter Wanger |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Jul-1894 |
18-Nov-1968 |
Joan of Arc |
| Felix M. Warburg |
Business |
14-Jan-1871 |
20-Oct-1937 |
Kuhn, Loeb and Co. |
| Jack Warden |
Actor |
18-Sep-1920 |
19-Jul-2006 |
12 Angry Men |
| Andy Warhol |
Artist |
6-Aug-1928 |
22-Feb-1987 |
Pop Art movement |
| Leonard Warren |
Singer |
21-Apr-1911 |
4-Mar-1960 |
Operatic baritone, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Ruth Warrick |
Actor |
29-Jun-1915 |
15-Jan-2005 |
Phoebe Tyler on All My Children |
| Wendy Wasserstein |
Playwright |
18-Oct-1950 |
30-Jan-2006 |
The Heidi Chronicles |
| Lewis Waterman |
Inventor |
20-Nov-1836 |
1-May-1901 |
Fountain pen |
| John Watson |
Psychologist |
9-Jan-1878 |
25-Sep-1958 |
Founder of Behaviorism |
| Lucile Watson |
Actor |
27-May-1879 |
24-Jun-1962 |
Watch on the Rhine |
| Thomas J. Watson |
Business |
17-Feb-1874 |
19-Jun-1956 |
Led IBM into the computer era |
| Robert C. Weaver |
Government |
29-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1997 |
US HUD Secretary, 1966-68 |
| Thurlow Weed |
Journalist |
15-Nov-1797 |
22-Nov-1882 |
Newspaperman and Anti-Mason |
| Weegee |
Photographer |
12-Jun-1899 |
26-Dec-1968 |
Crime photographer |
| Kurt Weill |
Composer |
2-Mar-1900 |
3-Apr-1950 |
The Threepenny Opera |
| Stephen H. Weiss |
Business |
c. 1935 |
16-Apr-2008 |
Co-Founder, Weiss, Peck & Greer |
| Theodore S. Weiss |
Politician |
17-Sep-1927 |
14-Sep-1992 |
Congressman from New York, 1977-92 |
| Horace Wells |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1815 |
24-Jan-1848 |
Nitrous oxide as a surgical anesthetic |
| Señor Wences |
Performance Artist |
17-Apr-1896 |
20-Apr-1999 |
Ventriloquist |
| George Westinghouse |
Inventor |
6-Oct-1846 |
12-Mar-1914 |
Air brake and AC power |
| Jack Weston |
Actor |
21-Aug-1924 |
3-May-1996 |
Wait Until Dark |
| Theodore H. White |
Historian |
6-May-1915 |
15-May-1986 |
The Making of the President |
| Walter White |
Activist |
1-Jul-1893 |
21-Mar-1955 |
Worked against lynchings |
| John C. Whitehead |
Business |
2-Apr-1922 |
7-Feb-2015 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1985-89 |
| Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney |
Business |
9-Jan-1875 |
18-Apr-1942 |
Whitney Museum of American Art |
| William C. Whitney |
Business |
5-Jul-1841 |
2-Feb-1904 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1885-89 |
| George W. Wickersham |
Government |
19-Sep-1858 |
26-Jan-1936 |
US Attorney General, 1909-13 |
| Robert Wilcox |
Actor |
19-May-1910 |
11-Jun-1955 |
The Man They Could Not Hang |
| Wendell Willkie |
Politician |
18-Feb-1892 |
8-Oct-1944 |
Defeated by Roosevelt in 1940 |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Ricky Wilson |
Guitarist |
19-Mar-1953 |
12-Oct-1985 |
Guitarist for the B-52's |
| William Windom |
Politician |
10-May-1827 |
29-Jan-1891 |
US Secretary of the Treasury 1881, 1889-91 |
| Gary Winick |
Film Director |
31-Mar-1961 |
27-Feb-2011 |
13 Going on 30 |
| David Wojnarowicz |
Artist |
14-Sep-1955 |
22-Jul-1992 |
One Day This Kid |
| John Wojtowicz |
Criminal |
9-Mar-1945 |
2-Jan-2006 |
Bank robber inspired Dog Day Afternoon |
| Oliver Wolcott, Jr. |
Politician |
11-Jan-1760 |
1-Jun-1833 |
Connecticut Governor, Treasury Secretary |
| William H. Woodin |
Business |
27-May-1868 |
3-May-1934 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1933 |
| Alexander Woollcott |
Critic |
18-Jan-1887 |
23-Jan-1943 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
| Cornell Woolrich |
Novelist |
4-Dec-1903 |
25-Sep-1968 |
The Bride Wore Black |
| F. W. Woolworth |
Business |
13-Apr-1852 |
8-Apr-1919 |
Five and dime magnate |
| Irene Worth |
Actor |
23-Jun-1916 |
10-Mar-2002 |
Lost in Yonkers |
| James Wright |
Poet |
13-Dec-1927 |
25-Mar-1980 |
The Branch Will Not Break |
| Henry M. Wriston |
Educator |
4-Jul-1889 |
7-Mar-1978 |
President of Brown University, 1937-55 |
| Margaret Wycherly |
Actor |
26-Oct-1881 |
6-Jun-1956 |
Sergeant York |
| Elinor Wylie |
Poet |
7-Sep-1885 |
16-Dec-1928 |
Nets to Catch the Wind |
| Professor X |
Rapper |
4-Aug-1956 |
17-Mar-2006 |
Vanglorious |
| Linus Yale, Jr. |
Inventor |
14-Apr-1821 |
24-Dec-1868 |
Pin tumbler locks |
| Gig Young |
Actor |
4-Nov-1913 |
19-Oct-1978 |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
| John Young |
Politician |
12-Jun-1802 |
23-Apr-1852 |
Governor of New York, 1847-49 |
| Lester Young |
Jazz Musician |
27-Aug-1909 |
15-Mar-1959 |
Jazz tenor saxophoneist |
| Roland Young |
Actor |
11-Nov-1887 |
5-Jun-1953 |
Cosmo Topper |
| Henny Youngman |
Comic |
16-Mar-1906 |
24-Feb-1998 |
Take my wife, please |
| John Peter Zenger |
Journalist |
c. 1697 |
28-Jul-1746 |
Sedition against the Crown |
| Paul Zindel |
Author |
15-May-1936 |
27-Mar-2003 |
Books for young adults |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
