As of 2000, nearly 114,000 individuals who had won the award were still living.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edwin Abbey |
Painter |
1-Apr-1852 |
1-Aug-1911 |
American artist in London |
| Umberto Agnelli |
Business |
1-Nov-1934 |
27-May-2004 |
Chairman of Fiat, 2003-04 |
| Maurice Allais |
Economist |
31-May-1911 |
9-Oct-2010 |
Monopoly pricing and the Allais effect |
| Pedro Almodóvar |
Film Director |
25-Sep-1951 |
|
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! |
| Jorge Amado |
Novelist |
10-Aug-1912 |
6-Aug-2001 |
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands |
| Robert Anderson |
Diplomat |
6-Jan-1922 |
5-Apr-1996 |
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1976-78 |
| Walter Annenberg |
Business |
13-Mar-1908 |
1-Oct-2002 |
Media mogul, created TV Guide |
| Ernest Ansermet |
Conductor |
11-Nov-1883 |
20-Feb-1969 |
Founder, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
| Leo Apotheker |
Business |
18-Sep-1953 |
|
CEO of Hewlett-Packard, 2010-11 |
| Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
| Louis Aragon |
Poet |
3-Oct-1897 |
24-Dec-1982 |
Communistic French poet |
| Denys Arcand |
Film Director |
25-Jun-1941 |
|
The Barbarian Invasions |
| Edwin H. Armstrong |
Inventor |
18-Dec-1890 |
31-Jan-1954 |
Inventor of FM radio |
| Fernando Arrabal |
Playwright |
11-Aug-1932 |
|
Viva la muerte |
| Claudio Arrau |
Pianist |
6-Feb-1903 |
9-Jun-1991 |
Chilean virtuoso pianist |
| Pierre Auger |
Physicist |
14-May-1899 |
25-Dec-1993 |
Auger effect |
| Jean-Pierre Aumont |
Actor |
5-Jan-1911 |
30-Jan-2001 |
La Machine Infernale |
| Vincent Auriol |
Head of State |
27-Aug-1884 |
1-Jan-1966 |
President of France, 1947-54 |
| Leo Baekeland |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1863 |
23-Feb-1944 |
Father of plastics |
| Josephine Baker |
Dancer |
3-Jun-1906 |
12-Apr-1975 |
Sensual dancer turned WWII spy |
| Donald K. Bandler |
Diplomat |
1947 |
|
US Ambassador to Cyprus, 1999-2002 |
| Albert C. Barnes |
Curator |
2-Jan-1872 |
24-Jul-1951 |
Barnes Foundation |
| Georges Barrère |
Musician |
31-Oct-1876 |
14-Jun-1944 |
Franco-American flautist |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Jacques Barzun |
Historian |
30-Nov-1907 |
|
From Dawn to Decadence |
| Shirley Bassey |
Singer |
8-Jan-1937 |
|
Goldfinger |
| Emile Baudot |
Inventor |
11-Sep-1845 |
28-Mar-1903 |
Baudot Code |
| Claude Bébéar |
Business |
29-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of AXA, 1985-2000 |
| James M. Beck |
Politician |
9-Jul-1861 |
12-Apr-1936 |
US Solicitor General, 1921-25 |
| Emil von Behring |
Doctor |
15-Mar-1854 |
31-Mar-1917 |
Created diptheria innoculation |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
Inventor |
3-Mar-1847 |
2-Aug-1922 |
Inventor of the telephone |
| Lawrence Bell |
Business |
5-Apr-1894 |
20-Oct-1956 |
Founder of Bell Helicopter |
| Vincent Bendix |
Inventor |
12-Aug-1881 |
27-Mar-1945 |
Founder of Bendix Corporation |
| Henri Bergson |
Philosopher |
18-Oct-1859 |
4-Jan-1941 |
L'Évolution Créatrice |
| C. Fred Bergsten |
Economist |
23-Apr-1941 |
|
Institute for International Economics |
| Hector Berlioz |
Composer |
11-Dec-1803 |
8-Mar-1869 |
French romantic composer |
| Louis Alexandre Berthier |
Military |
20-Feb-1753 |
1-Jun-1815 |
Napoleon's chief of staff |
| Georges Berthoin |
Politician |
17-May-1925 |
|
Trilateral Commission Euro Chair, 1973-92 |
| Albert Bierstadt |
Painter |
8-Jan-1830 |
18-Feb-1902 |
Western landscape painter |
| Carl Bildt |
Head of State |
15-Jul-1949 |
|
Foreign Minister of Sweden |
| George David Birkhoff |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1884 |
12-Nov-1944 |
Modern theory of dynamical systems |
| Alfred Blalock |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1899 |
15-Sep-1964 |
"Blue baby" operation |
| Hans Blix |
Government |
28-Jun-1928 |
|
Weapons inspector before Iraq War |
| Anthony Blunt |
Historian |
26-Sep-1907 |
26-Mar-1983 |
Art historian, Soviet spy |
| Paul Bocuse |
Chef |
11-Feb-1926 |
|
Bocuse d'Or, nouvelle cuisine |
| Emperor Bokassa I |
Royalty |
22-Feb-1921 |
3-Nov-1996 |
Central African Emperor |
| Jules Bordet |
Scientist |
13-Jun-1870 |
6-Apr-1961 |
Researched antibodies and antigens |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
Author |
24-Aug-1899 |
14-Jun-1986 |
The Garden of Forking Paths |
| Paul Boucherot |
Engineer |
3-Oct-1869 |
7-Aug-1943 |
Ocean thermal energy conversion |
| Adolphe-William Bouguereau |
Painter |
30-Nov-1835 |
19-Aug-1905 |
The Abduction of Psyche |
| Georges Boulanger |
Military |
29-Apr-1837 |
30-Sep-1891 |
French general-turned-politician |
| Philippe Bourguignon |
Business |
1948 |
|
Revolution Resorts |
| Daniel Bouton |
Business |
10-Apr-1950 |
|
CEO of Société Générale |
| Daniel Bovet |
Scientist |
23-Mar-1907 |
8-Apr-1992 |
Anti-histamines, muscle relaxants, sulfanilamide |
| Omar Bradley |
Military |
12-Feb-1893 |
8-Apr-1981 |
US Army Chief of Staff |
| Georges Braque |
Painter |
13-May-1882 |
31-Aug-1963 |
Co-Founded Cubism |
| Claude Brasseur |
Actor |
15-Jun-1936 |
|
Chouchou |
| Thierry Breton |
Business |
15-Jan-1955 |
|
CEO of France Telecom, 2002-05 |
| Jean-Claude Brialy |
Actor |
30-Mar-1933 |
30-May-2007 |
Une femme est une femme |
| Philippe de Broca |
Film Director |
15-Mar-1933 |
26-Nov-2004 |
King of Hearts |
| Louis de Broglie |
Physicist |
15-Aug-1892 |
19-Mar-1987 |
Discovered the wave nature of electrons |
| Louis Bromfield |
Author |
27-Dec-1896 |
18-Mar-1956 |
Early Autumn |
| Edgar Bronfman, Sr. |
Business |
20-Jun-1929 |
|
CEO of Seagram's until 1994 |
| Molly Brown |
Activist |
18-Jul-1867 |
26-Oct-1932 |
Unsinkable |
| Charles F. Brush |
Inventor |
17-Mar-1849 |
15-Jun-1929 |
Street lights |
| John H. Bryan |
Business |
5-Oct-1936 |
|
CEO of Sara Lee, 1975-2000 |
| William C. Bullitt |
Diplomat |
25-Jan-1891 |
15-Feb-1967 |
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1933-36 |
| Jefferson Caffery |
Diplomat |
1-Dec-1886 |
13-Apr-1974 |
US Ambassador to Egypt, France, Brazil, Cuba |
| René Caillié |
Explorer |
19-Sep-1799 |
17-May-1838 |
First European to return from Timbuktu |
| Philippe Camus |
Business |
28-Jun-1948 |
|
Partner, Groupe Lagardere |
| Alexis Carrel |
Doctor |
28-Jun-1873 |
5-Nov-1944 |
Sutured blood vessels |
| Henri Cartan |
Mathematician |
8-Jul-1904 |
13-Aug-2008 |
Leader of the math Bourbakistes |
| Robert Casadesus |
Pianist |
7-Apr-1899 |
19-Sep-1972 |
French pianist/composer |
| Adolfo Bioy Casares |
Author |
15-Sep-1914 |
8-Mar-1999 |
La invención de Morel |
| Mary Cassatt |
Painter |
22-May-1843 |
14-Jun-1926 |
American impressionist, lived in Paris |
| Patrick Cescau |
Business |
1948 |
|
Group Chief Executive of Unilever |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Anne Cox Chambers |
Business |
1-Dec-1919 |
|
Billionaire, former US Ambassador to Belgium |
| Charlie Chaplin |
Actor |
16-Apr-1889 |
25-Dec-1977 |
Silent film comedian |
| Julia Child |
Chef |
15-Aug-1912 |
13-Aug-2004 |
Haute cuisine with a unique voice |
| Mark Clark |
Military |
1-May-1896 |
17-Apr-1984 |
US Army Chief of Staff |
| Wesley Clark |
Military |
23-Dec-1944 |
|
Supreme Allied Commander, 1997-2000 |
| Jackie Cochran |
Aviator |
11-May-1906 |
9-Aug-1980 |
First woman to break the sound barrier |
| Paulo Coelho |
Novelist |
24-Aug-1947 |
|
The Alchemist |
| Herman Cohen |
Diplomat |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia 1977-80 |
| Colette |
Novelist |
28-Jan-1873 |
3-Aug-1954 |
Gigi |
| Karl T. Compton |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1887 |
22-Jun-1954 |
Bikini Island atomic tests |
| André F. Cournand |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1895 |
19-Feb-1988 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Jacques Cousteau |
Activist |
11-Jun-1910 |
25-Jun-1997 |
Oceanographer, environmentalist |
| Merce Cunningham |
Dancer |
16-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-2009 |
Merce Cunningham Dance Company |
| Walter J. P. Curley |
Business |
17-Sep-1922 |
|
US Ambassador to France, 1989-93 |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| Georges Cuvier |
Zoologist |
23-Aug-1769 |
13-May-1832 |
Comparative anatomist, paleontologist |
| Louis Daguerre |
Inventor |
18-Nov-1787 |
10-Jul-1851 |
Invented Daguerreotype photography |
| Walter Damrosch |
Conductor |
30-Jan-1862 |
22-Dec-1950 |
Conductor, popularizer of music |
| George David |
Business |
7-Apr-1942 |
|
CEO of United Technologies |
| Jacques-Louis David |
Painter |
30-Aug-1748 |
29-Dec-1825 |
French Neoclassical painter |
| Jacques de Larosiere |
Government |
12-Nov-1929 |
|
IMF Director 1978-87 |
| Robert De Niro |
Actor |
17-Aug-1943 |
|
The Godfather: Part II |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Margaret Deland |
Author |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
Old Chester Tales |
| Gerard Depardieu |
Actor |
27-Dec-1948 |
|
Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Chauncey Depew |
Politician |
23-Apr-1834 |
5-Apr-1928 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| Marlene Dietrich |
Actor |
27-Dec-1901 |
6-May-1992 |
The Blue Angel |
| Ernst von Dohnányi |
Composer |
27-Jul-1877 |
9-Feb-1960 |
Opus 25 |
| Placido Domingo |
Singer |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Tenorissimo! |
| James Doolittle |
Aviator |
14-Dec-1896 |
27-Sep-1993 |
Doolittle Raid against Tokyo in 1942 |
| Donald W. Douglas |
Business |
6-Apr-1892 |
1-Feb-1981 |
Founder of Douglas Aircraft Co. |
| Alfred Dreyfus |
Victim |
9-Oct-1859 |
12-Jul-1935 |
Dreyfus Affair scapegoat |
| Allen B. DuMont |
Inventor |
29-Jan-1901 |
14-Nov-1965 |
TV picture tube and TV network |
| Jules Dupré |
Painter |
5-Apr-1811 |
6-Oct-1889 |
Barbizon school |
| Charles Durning |
Actor |
28-Feb-1923 |
|
The Muppet Movie |
| Clint Eastwood |
Actor |
31-May-1930 |
|
The Man With No Name |
| Ralph E. Eberhart |
Military |
c. 1946 |
|
Commander of NORAD, 2002-05 |
| Umberto Eco |
Author |
5-Jan-1932 |
|
Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose |
| Thomas Edison |
Inventor |
11-Feb-1847 |
18-Oct-1931 |
Invented the light bulb |
| Blake Edwards |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1922 |
15-Dec-2010 |
The Pink Panther |
| Karl W. Eikenberry |
Military |
1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan |
| Stuart Eizenstat |
Diplomat |
15-Jan-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to the EU, 1993-96 |
| Duke Ellington |
Jazz Musician |
29-Apr-1899 |
24-May-1974 |
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
| Christoph Eschenbach |
Conductor |
20-Feb-1940 |
|
Music Director, Orchestre de Paris |
| Auguste Escoffier |
Chef |
28-Oct-1846 |
12-Feb-1935 |
Emperor of chefs |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
Actor |
9-Dec-1909 |
7-May-2000 |
Sinbad the Sailor |
| Michael Faraday |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1791 |
25-Aug-1867 |
Discovered electrical induction |
| Pierre Fatou |
Mathematician |
28-Feb-1878 |
10-Aug-1929 |
Complex analytic dynamics |
| Arthur Fiedler |
Conductor |
17-Dec-1894 |
10-Jul-1979 |
Conductor of the Boston Pops |
| Gustave Flaubert |
Novelist |
12-Dec-1821 |
8-May-1880 |
Realist novelist, Madame Bovary |
| Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Robert Florey |
Film Director |
14-Sep-1900 |
16-May-1979 |
Tarzan and the Mermaids |
| Tom Foley |
Politician |
6-Mar-1929 |
|
Speaker of the House, 1989-95 |
| Glenn Ford |
Actor |
1-May-1916 |
30-Aug-2006 |
Gilda, Blackboard Jungle |
| Léon Foucault |
Physicist |
19-Sep-1819 |
11-Feb-1868 |
Measured the speed of light |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier |
Mathematician |
21-Mar-1768 |
16-May-1830 |
Fourier series |
| Pierre Fournier |
Cellist |
24-Jun-1906 |
8-Jan-1986 |
French cello virtuoso |
| William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
| Zino Francescatti |
Violinist |
9-Aug-1902 |
17-Sep-1991 |
French violin virtuoso |
| Maurice Fréchet |
Mathematician |
2-Sep-1878 |
4-Jun-1973 |
Fréchet differential |
| Arthur Freed |
Film/TV Producer |
9-Sep-1894 |
12-Apr-1973 |
MGM producer, big budget musicals |
| Christopher B. Galvin |
Business |
21-Mar-1950 |
|
CEO of Motorola, 1995-2003 |
| Robert W. Galvin |
Business |
9-Oct-1922 |
11-Oct-2011 |
CEO of Motorola, 1959-90 |
| Gabriel García Márquez |
Author |
6-Mar-1928 |
|
One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| Mary Garden |
Singer |
20-Feb-1874 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Operatic soprano |
| Jean-Pierre Garnier |
Business |
31-Oct-1947 |
|
CEO of GlaxoSmithKline |
| Cass Gilbert |
Architect |
24-Nov-1859 |
17-May-1934 |
Woolworth Building |
| Jean Giraudoux |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1882 |
31-Jan-1944 |
The Madwoman of Chaillot |
| Eugene Goossens III |
Conductor |
24-May-1893 |
13-Jun-1962 |
Cincinnati Symphony, 1931-46 |
| William C. Gorgas |
Doctor |
3-Oct-1854 |
3-Jul-1920 |
Malaria and yellow fever |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| Alan Greenspan |
Economist |
6-Mar-1926 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006 |
| Victor Grignard |
Chemist |
6-May-1871 |
13-Dec-1935 |
Grignard Reaction |
| Charles Édouard Guillaume |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1861 |
13-Jun-1938 |
Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar |
| Roger Guillemin |
Scientist |
11-Jan-1924 |
|
Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides) |
| Alice Guy |
Film Director |
1-Jul-1873 |
24-Mar-1968 |
First female film director |
| Asaph Hall |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1829 |
22-Nov-1907 |
Discovered the moons of Mars |
| John L. Hall |
Physicist |
21-Aug-1934 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Joyce C. Hall |
Business |
29-Aug-1891 |
29-Oct-1982 |
Founder of Hallmark Cards |
| Johnny Hallyday |
Singer |
15-Jun-1943 |
|
French rock star, Souvenirs, Souvenirs |
| L. B. Hanna |
Politician |
9-Aug-1861 |
23-Apr-1948 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1913-17 |
| Arthur A. Hartman |
Diplomat |
12-Mar-1926 |
|
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1981-87 |
| Salma Hayek |
Actor |
2-Sep-1966 |
|
Frida |
| Conrad Hilton |
Business |
25-Dec-1887 |
3-Jan-1979 |
Founder, Hilton Hotels |
| Leo A. Hoegh |
Politician |
30-Mar-1908 |
15-Jul-2000 |
Governor of Iowa, 1955-57 |
| Jacobus H. van 't Hoff |
Chemist |
30-Aug-1852 |
1-Mar-1911 |
Three-dimensional molecular properties |
| James L. Holloway III |
Military |
23-Feb-1922 |
|
Chief of Naval Operations, 1974-78 |
| Julius C. Holmes |
Diplomat |
24-Apr-1899 |
15-Jul-1968 |
US Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65 |
| Charles W. Hostler |
Diplomat |
12-Dec-1919 |
|
US Ambassador to Bahrain, 1989-93 |
| Jean-Antoine Houdon |
Sculptor |
20-Mar-1741 |
15-Jul-1828 |
French Rococo sculptor |
| Elias Howe |
Inventor |
9-Jul-1819 |
3-Oct-1867 |
Inventor of the sewing machine |
| John Hume |
Politician |
18-Jan-1937 |
|
Northern Ireland pol, Nobel recipient |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans |
Author |
5-Feb-1848 |
12-May-1907 |
Decadent author, À Rebours |
| John N. Irwin II |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1913 |
28-Feb-2000 |
US Deputy Secretary of State, 1970-73 |
| Eugene Istomin |
Pianist |
26-Nov-1925 |
10-Oct-2003 |
American piano prodigy |
| Edmond Jabès |
Poet |
6-Apr-1912 |
2-Jan-1991 |
The Book of Resemblances |
| Henry B. Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1855 |
14-Dec-1929 |
Radio telegraphy |
| Richard Jenrette |
Business |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette |
| Frédéric Joliot |
Physicist |
19-Mar-1900 |
14-Aug-1958 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| Irène Joliot-Curie |
Physicist |
12-Sep-1897 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| James L. Jones |
Military |
19-Dec-1943 |
|
US National Security Advisor, 2009-10 |
| John P. Jumper |
Military |
4-Feb-1945 |
|
USAF Chief of Staff, 2001-05 |
| Paul G. Kaminski |
Military |
16-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Technovation, Inc. |
| Bruce Karatz |
Business |
1945 |
|
CEO of KB Home, 1986-2006 |
| Paul Karrer |
Chemist |
21-Apr-1889 |
18-Jun-1971 |
Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K |
| Alfred Kastler |
Physicist |
3-May-1902 |
7-Jan-1984 |
Optical pumping |
| Philip Kearny |
Military |
2-Jun-1815 |
1-Sep-1862 |
US Civil War general |
| Helen Keller |
Activist |
27-Jun-1880 |
1-Jun-1968 |
Deaf and blind activist |
| Frank B. Kelso II |
Military |
11-Jul-1933 |
|
Chief of Naval Operations, 1990-94 |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Jeff Koons |
Sculptor |
21-Jan-1955 |
|
Artistic hack, Cicciolina's ex-husband |
| Serge Koussevitzky |
Conductor |
26-Jul-1874 |
4-Jun-1951 |
Music Director, Boston Symphony, 1924-49 |
| Neelie Kroes |
Government |
19-Jul-1941 |
|
EU Commissioner of Competition |
| Akira Kurosawa |
Film Director |
23-Mar-1910 |
6-Sep-1998 |
Yojimbo |
| John La Farge |
Painter |
31-Mar-1835 |
14-Nov-1910 |
Painter, muralist, stained-glass designer |
| René Laënnec |
Doctor |
17-Feb-1781 |
13-Aug-1826 |
Stethoscope |
| Christine Lagarde |
Politician |
1-Jan-1956 |
|
Managing Director, IMF |
| Émile Lahoud |
Head of State |
12-Jan-1936 |
|
President of Lebanon, 1998-2007 |
| Édouard Lalo |
Composer |
27-Jan-1823 |
22-Apr-1892 |
Le Roi d'Ys |
| Carlos Saavedra Lamas |
Diplomat |
1-Nov-1878 |
5-May-1959 |
Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Pascal Lamy |
Politician |
8-Apr-1947 |
|
WTO Director-General |
| Wanda Landowska |
Musician |
5-Jul-1879 |
16-Aug-1959 |
Harpsichord virtuoso |
| Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
| Estée Lauder |
Business |
1-Jul-1908 |
24-Apr-2004 |
Cosmetics magnate |
| Leonard Lauder |
Business |
c. 1933 |
|
Chairman of Estee Lauder |
| Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
X-ray crystallography |
| Alphonse Laveran |
Doctor |
18-Jun-1845 |
18-May-1922 |
Found the parasite that causes malaria |
| Ernest Lawrence |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1901 |
27-Aug-1958 |
Inventor of the cyclotron |
| T. E. Lawrence |
Author |
16-Aug-1888 |
19-May-1935 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| Paul LeClerc |
Administrator |
28-May-1941 |
|
CEO of New York Public Library |
| Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
|
Synthesis of molecules |
| Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
| Curtis LeMay |
Military |
15-Nov-1906 |
1-Oct-1990 |
USAF General |
| Wassily Leontief |
Economist |
5-Aug-1906 |
5-Feb-1999 |
Structure of the American Economy |
| Wolf Lepenies |
Sociologist |
11-Jan-1941 |
|
Melancholy and Society |
| Ferdinand de Lesseps |
Architect |
19-Nov-1805 |
7-Dec-1894 |
Built the Suez Canal |
| Edward H. Levi |
Government |
26-Jun-1911 |
7-Mar-2000 |
US Attorney General, 1975-77 |
| Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Anthropologist |
28-Nov-1908 |
1-Nov-2009 |
French anthropologist |
| Maurice Lévy |
Business |
18-Feb-1942 |
|
CEO of Publicis |
| Jerry Lewis |
Comic |
16-Mar-1926 |
|
Muscular Dystrophy Association |
| Charles Lindbergh |
Aviator |
4-Feb-1902 |
26-Aug-1974 |
Transatlantic soloist |
| Martin Lipton |
Attorney |
22-Jun-1931 |
|
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz |
| John Davis Lodge |
Politician |
20-Oct-1903 |
29-Oct-1985 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55 |
| Gina Lollobrigida |
Actor |
4-Jul-1927 |
|
Beautiful but dangerous |
| Jim Lovell |
Astronaut |
25-Mar-1928 |
|
Apollo 13 |
| Rilwanu Lukman |
Government |
26-Aug-1938 |
|
Secretary General of OPEC, 1995-2000 |
| Auguste Lumière |
Inventor |
19-Oct-1862 |
10-Apr-1954 |
Co-Inventor of motion pictures |
| Louis Lumière |
Inventor |
5-Oct-1864 |
6-Jun-1948 |
Inventor of motion pictures |
| André Lwoff |
Scientist |
8-May-1902 |
30-Sep-1994 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Douglas MacArthur |
Military |
26-Jan-1880 |
5-Apr-1964 |
General of the Army |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Edouard Manet |
Painter |
23-Jan-1832 |
30-Apr-1883 |
French Realist/Impressionist painter |
| Klaus J. Mangold |
Business |
6-Jun-1943 |
|
Executive Advisor to Diamler Chrysler |
| Marcel Marceau |
Performance Artist |
22-Mar-1923 |
22-Sep-2007 |
Mime, created Bip the clown |
| Stanley Marcus |
Business |
20-Apr-1905 |
22-Jan-2002 |
CEO of Neiman-Marcus, 1950-72 |
| George C. Marshall |
Military |
31-Dec-1880 |
16-Oct-1959 |
US Army Chief of Staff, 1939-45 |
| Jean Martinon |
Conductor |
10-Jan-1910 |
1-Mar-1976 |
Music Director, Chicago Symphony, 1963-68 |
| Kurt Masur |
Conductor |
18-Jul-1927 |
|
Conductor, NY Philharmonic, 1991-2002 |
| Mireille Mathieu |
Singer |
22-Jul-1946 |
|
Internationally renown French chanteuse |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury |
Military |
14-Jan-1806 |
1-Feb-1873 |
Father of modern oceanography |
| Harrison McCain |
Business |
3-Nov-1927 |
18-Mar-2004 |
Frozen french fry billionaire |
| John P. McConnell |
Military |
7-Feb-1908 |
21-Nov-1986 |
USAF Chief of Staff, 1965-69 |
| John McCormack |
Singer |
14-Jun-1884 |
16-Sep-1945 |
Operatic tenor, Irish balladeer |
| George McGovern |
Politician |
19-Jul-1922 |
|
US Senator from South Dakota, 1963-81 |
| Mike Medavoy |
Business |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
TriStar, Orion, Phoenix Pictures chairman |
| Yehudi Menuhin |
Violinist |
22-Apr-1916 |
12-Mar-1999 |
Child prodigy violinist, conductor |
| Jean-Marie Messier |
Business |
13-Dec-1956 |
|
CEO of Vivendi, 1996-2000 |
| Pierre Messmer |
Head of State |
20-Mar-1916 |
29-Aug-2007 |
Prime Minister of France, 1972-74 |
| Adam Michnik |
Activist |
17-Oct-1946 |
|
Gazeta Wyborcza |
| Franklin C. Miller |
Government |
Oct-1950 |
|
National Security Council, 2001-05 |
| Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
| Nathan Milstein |
Violinist |
31-Dec-1904 |
21-Dec-1992 |
Virtuoso violinist, interpreter of Bach |
| Dimitri Mitropoulos |
Conductor |
1-Mar-1896 |
2-Nov-1960 |
Conductor, NY Philharmonic, 1949-58 |
| Henri Moissan |
Chemist |
28-Sep-1852 |
20-Feb-1907 |
Isolated fluorine |
| Robert Mondavi |
Business |
12-Jun-1913 |
16-May-2008 |
Vintner |
| Egas Moniz |
Scientist |
29-Nov-1874 |
13-Dec-1955 |
Pre-frontal lobotomy and cerebral arteriography |
| Jacques Monod |
Scientist |
9-Feb-1910 |
31-May-1976 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Luc Montagnier |
Scientist |
18-Aug-1932 |
|
Co-Discoverer of HIV |
| Pierre Monteux |
Conductor |
4-Apr-1875 |
1-Jul-1964 |
Music Director, SF Symphony, 1935-52 |
| Grace Moore |
Singer |
5-Dec-1898 |
26-Jan-1947 |
One Night of Love |
| Anne Morgan |
Philanthropist |
25-Jul-1873 |
29-Jan-1952 |
Friend of the French |
| Henry Morgenthau, Jr. |
Government |
11-May-1891 |
6-Feb-1967 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1934-45 |
| Samuel F. B. Morse |
Inventor |
27-Apr-1791 |
2-Apr-1872 |
Telegraph inventor and publicist |
| Lord Mountbatten |
Military |
25-Jun-1900 |
27-Aug-1979 |
Last Viceroy of India |
| David C. Mulford |
Business |
1937 |
|
US Ambassador to India |
| Charles Münch |
Conductor |
26-Sep-1891 |
6-Nov-1968 |
Conductor, Orchestre National de France, 1962-68 |
| Carl E. Mundy, Jr. |
Military |
16-Jul-1935 |
|
USMC Commandant, 1991-95 |
| Audie Murphy |
Actor |
20-Jun-1924 |
28-May-1971 |
War hero turned cowboy actor |
| Ilie Nastase |
Tennis |
19-Jul-1946 |
|
Winner, 7 Grand Slam titles |
| Louis Néel |
Physicist |
22-Nov-1904 |
17-Nov-2000 |
Magnetic properties of solids |
| Marilyn Carlson Nelson |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Carlson Companies, 1998-2008 |
| Robert G. Neumann |
Diplomat |
2-Jan-1916 |
18-Jun-1999 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1969-73 |
| Chester W. Nimitz |
Military |
24-Feb-1885 |
20-Feb-1966 |
WWII Commander of US Pacific Navy |
| Lauris Norstad |
Military |
24-Mar-1907 |
12-Sep-1988 |
Supreme Allied Commander, 1956-63 |
| Eugene Ormandy |
Conductor |
18-Nov-1899 |
12-Mar-1985 |
Music Director, Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-80 |
| Seiji Ozawa |
Conductor |
1-Sep-1935 |
|
Music Director, Vienna State Opera |
| Maurice Papon |
Criminal |
3-Sep-1910 |
17-Feb-2007 |
Vichy war criminal |
| Paul Paray |
Conductor |
24-May-1886 |
10-Oct-1979 |
Music Director, Detroit Symphony, 1951-62 |
| Robert M. Parker |
Critic |
23-Jul-1947 |
|
The Wine Advocate |
| George S. Patton |
Military |
11-Nov-1885 |
21-Dec-1945 |
American WWII Army commander |
| I. M. Pei |
Architect |
26-Apr-1917 |
|
Designed Louvre's glass pyramid |
| Claiborne Pell |
Politician |
22-Nov-1918 |
1-Jan-2009 |
US Senator from Rhode Island, 1961-97 |
| Jacques Pépin |
Chef |
18-Dec-1935 |
|
Frequent Julia Child collaborator |
| Saint-John Perse |
Poet |
31-May-1887 |
20-Sep-1975 |
Exile |
| John J. Pershing |
Military |
13-Sep-1860 |
15-Jul-1948 |
General of the Armies of the United States |
| Renzo Piano |
Architect |
14-Sep-1937 |
|
Designed the Pompidou Center rehab |
| Philippe Pinel |
Psychiatrist |
20-Apr-1745 |
25-Oct-1826 |
Unchained the insane |
| Michel Platini |
Soccer |
21-Jun-1955 |
|
Exceptional French midfielder |
| Elena Poniatowska |
Journalist |
19-May-1932 |
|
Mexican feminist writer, journalist |
| Lily Pons |
Singer |
12-Apr-1898 |
13-Feb-1976 |
French-American coloratura soprano |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Theory of dissipative structures |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi |
Physicist |
29-Jul-1898 |
11-Jan-1988 |
Magnetic beam resonances |
| Prince Rainier |
Royalty |
31-May-1923 |
6-Apr-2005 |
Monarch of Monaco, 1949-2005 |
| C. N. R. Rao |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1934 |
|
Chemistry of superconductivity |
| Satyajit Ray |
Film Director |
2-May-1921 |
23-Apr-1992 |
Pather Panchali |
| Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Why the sky is blue |
| Pauline Réage |
Author |
23-Sep-1907 |
27-Apr-1998 |
Histoire d'O |
| Raj Reddy |
Educator |
13-Jun-1937 |
|
Professor of Computer Science, CMU |
| Robert Redford |
Actor |
18-Aug-1936 |
|
The Sundance Kid |
| Odilon Redon |
Artist |
22-Apr-1840 |
6-Jul-1916 |
Symbolist charcoal artist |
| Louis Renault |
Engineer |
15-Feb-1877 |
24-Oct-1944 |
Founder of Renault |
| Jean Renoir |
Film Director |
15-Sep-1894 |
12-Feb-1979 |
La Grande Illusion |
| Dickinson W. Richards |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1895 |
23-Feb-1973 |
Cardiac catheterization |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Atomic weights |
| Charles Richet |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1850 |
4-Dec-1935 |
Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm |
| Paul Craig Roberts |
Economist |
1939 |
|
The Supply-Side Revolution |
| Elmer E. Robinson |
Politician |
3-Oct-1894 |
9-Jun-1982 |
Mayor of San Francisco, 1948-56 |
| Sir Robert Robinson |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1886 |
8-Feb-1975 |
Researcher of alkaloids |
| Comte de Rochambeau |
Military |
1-Jul-1725 |
12-May-1807 |
French hero of American Revolution |
| Joe M. Rodgers |
Business |
12-Nov-1933 |
2-Feb-2009 |
US Ambassador to France, 1985-89 |
| Auguste Rodin |
Sculptor |
12-Nov-1840 |
17-Nov-1917 |
Sculptor in bronze |
| Felix Rohatyn |
Business |
29-May-1928 |
|
Financier, Lazard Frères |
| Mstislav Rostropovich |
Cellist |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
| J. K. Rowling |
Author |
31-Jul-1965 |
|
Author of Harry Potter series |
| Artur Rubinstein |
Pianist |
28-Jan-1887 |
20-Dec-1982 |
Polish-American piano virtuoso |
| Michael E. Ryan |
Military |
24-Dec-1941 |
|
USAF Chief of Staff, 1997-2001 |
| Paul Sabatier |
Chemist |
5-Nov-1854 |
14-Aug-1941 |
Heterogeneous catalysis |
| Yves Saint Laurent |
Fashion Designer |
1-Aug-1936 |
1-Jun-2008 |
Christian Dior protege |
| Malcolm Sargent |
Conductor |
29-Apr-1895 |
3-Oct-1967 |
Conductor, BBC Symphony, 1950-57 |
| Nicolas Sarkozy |
Politician |
28-Jan-1955 |
|
President of France, 2007-12 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1905 |
15-Apr-1980 |
Nausea, No Exit |
| Charles M. Schwab |
Business |
18-Feb-1862 |
19-Sep-1939 |
Founder of Bethlehem Steel |
| Tokyo Sexwale |
Business |
5-Mar-1953 |
|
Mvelaphanda Holdings |
| J. Marion Sims |
Doctor |
25-Jan-1813 |
13-Nov-1883 |
Father of gynecology |
| John F. Smith, Jr. |
Business |
6-Apr-1938 |
|
CEO of General Motors, 1992-2000 |
| Roger Smith |
Business |
12-Jul-1925 |
29-Nov-2007 |
CEO of General Motors, 1980-90 |
| Walter Bedell Smith |
Government |
5-Oct-1895 |
9-Aug-1961 |
CIA Director, 1950-53 |
| Georg Solti |
Conductor |
21-Oct-1912 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| Albert Spalding |
Violinist |
15-Aug-1888 |
26-May-1953 |
American violin virtuoso |
| Steven Spielberg |
Film Director |
18-Dec-1946 |
|
E.T. |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| Robert G. Sproul |
Educator |
22-May-1891 |
10-Sep-1975 |
President, University of California, 1930-58 |
| Chauncey Starr |
Physicist |
14-Apr-1912 |
17-Apr-2007 |
Electric Power Research Institute |
| Francis Steegmuller |
Author |
3-Jul-1906 |
20-Oct-1994 |
Cocteau: A Biography |
| Barbra Streisand |
Singer |
24-Apr-1942 |
|
You Don't Bring Me Flowers |
| Bruce Sundlun |
Politician |
19-Jan-1920 |
21-Jul-2011 |
Governor of Rhode Island, 1991-95 |
| Peter Sutherland |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
First Director General of the WTO |
| George Szell |
Conductor |
7-Jun-1897 |
30-Jul-1970 |
Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70 |
| Burton M. Tansky |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Neiman Marcus |
| Sidney Taurel |
Business |
9-Feb-1949 |
|
CEO of Eli Lilly, 1998-2008 |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Philosopher |
1-May-1881 |
10-Apr-1955 |
The Phenomenon of Man |
| Elihu Thomson |
Inventor |
29-Mar-1853 |
13-Mar-1937 |
Electric welding and A/C motors |
| Charles Lewis Tiffany |
Business |
15-Feb-1812 |
18-Feb-1902 |
Founder of Tiffany & Co. |
| William R. Timken, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Germany |
| Dimitri Tiomkin |
Composer |
10-May-1894 |
11-Nov-1979 |
Wild Is the Wind |
| Alexis de Tocqueville |
Historian |
29-Jul-1805 |
16-Apr-1859 |
Democracy in America |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
|
Invention of the maser and laser |
| John Townsend |
Mathematician |
7-Jun-1868 |
16-Feb-1957 |
Electron's charge |
| Marvin S. Traub |
Business |
14-Apr-1925 |
11-Jul-2012 |
CEO of Bloomingdale's, 1978-92 |
| Jack Valenti |
Business |
5-Sep-1921 |
26-Apr-2007 |
Presidential advisor, headed the MPAA |
| Melvin Van Peebles |
Film Director |
21-Aug-1932 |
|
Watermelon Man |
| Daniel Vasella |
Business |
c. 1954 |
|
CEO of Novartis |
| Jules Verne |
Author |
8-Feb-1828 |
24-Mar-1905 |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| Selman A. Waksman |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1888 |
16-Aug-1973 |
Streptomycin and other antibiotics |
| Arthur K. Watson |
Business |
23-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-1974 |
Past President of IBM World Corp. |
| Thomas J. Watson |
Business |
17-Feb-1874 |
19-Jun-1956 |
Led IBM into the computer era |
| Eudora Welty |
Author |
13-Apr-1909 |
23-Jul-2001 |
The Optimist's Daughter |
| Arsène Wenger |
Soccer |
22-Oct-1949 |
|
Arsenal manager |
| George Westinghouse |
Inventor |
6-Oct-1846 |
12-Mar-1914 |
Air brake and A/C power |
| Earle G. Wheeler |
Military |
13-Jan-1908 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1964-70 |
| Elie Wiesel |
Activist |
30-Sep-1928 |
|
Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist |
| Simon Wiesenthal |
Activist |
31-Dec-1908 |
20-Sep-2005 |
Nazi hunter |
| David L. Wolper |
Film/TV Producer |
11-Jan-1928 |
10-Aug-2010 |
Roots |
| Carroll D. Wright |
Sociologist |
25-Jul-1840 |
20-Feb-1909 |
The Industrial Evolution of the United States |
| Michelle Yeoh |
Actor |
6-Aug-1962 |
|
Hong Kong action movie star |
| Alvin York |
Military |
13-Dec-1887 |
2-Sep-1964 |
Highly decorated WWI veteran |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
| Elmo R. Zumwalt |
Military |
29-Nov-1920 |
2-Jan-2000 |
US Chief of Naval Operations, 1970-74 |
| Vladimir Zworykin |
Inventor |
30-Jul-1889 |
29-Jul-1982 |
Patented color televison |
