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Catholic priest
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Henry O'Connell | American Roman Catholic cardinal | United States of America | 1859-12-08 | 1944-04-22 | Lowell | Boston | Q1348458 | |
Johannes Quasten | Roman Catholic theologian (1900–1987) | Germany | 1900-05-03 | 1987-03-10 | Duisburg | Freiburg im Breisgau | Q71066 |
Judaic scholar
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Harry Austryn Wolfson | American academic | Belarus | 1887-11-02 | 1974-09-20 1974-09-19 |
Astryna | Cambridge | Q1389056 | |
Moshe Greenberg | American rabbi | United States of America Israel |
1928-07-10 | 2010-05-15 | Philadelphia | Jerusalem | Q120647 | |
Peter Sch�fer | German judaic scholar | Germany | 1943-06-29 | H�ckeswagen | Q97091 |
academic
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Hugh Latimer Dryden | American aeronautical scientist and civil servant | United States of America | 1898-07-02 | 1965-12-02 | Worcester County | Washington, D.C. | Q1349364 | |
Torsten Nils Wiesel | Swedish neuroscientist | Sweden United States of America |
1924-06-03 | Uppsala | Q271421 |
actor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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David Attenborough | British broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926) | United Kingdom | 1926-05-08 | Isleworth London |
Q183337 | |||
Beverly Sills | American operatic soprano (1929-2007) | United States of America | 1929-05-25 | 2007-07-02 | Brooklyn | New York City | Q235517 | |
Jacques d'Amboise | American dancer and choreographer (1934-2021) | United States of America | 1934-07-28 | 2021-05-02 | Dedham | Manhattan | Q1336262 | |
Alan Alda | American actor | United States of America | 1936-01-28 | Manhattan | Q310394 | |||
Ariane Mnouchkine | French theater and film director, theater director and author | France | 1939-03-03 | Boulogne-Billancourt | Q179449 | |||
Buffy Sainte-Marie | American musician | United States of America | 1941-02-20 | Stoneham | Q467027 | |||
Sam Shepard | American playwright and actor (1943–2017) | United States of America | 1943-11-05 | 2017-07-27 | Fort Sheridan | Midway | Q294583 | |
Wallace Shawn | American actor | United States of America | 1943-11-12 | New York City | Q311068 | |||
Sally Field | American actress | United States of America | 1946-11-06 | Pasadena | Q187033 | |||
Mikhail Baryshnikov | Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor | Soviet Union United States of America Latvia |
1948-01-27 1948-01-28 |
Riga | Q295420 | |||
Michelle Yeoh | Malaysian actress (born 1962) | Malaysia | 1962-08-06 | Ipoh | Q214289 | |||
Quentin Tarantino | American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor | United States of America | 1963-03-27 | Knoxville | Q3772 | |||
Audra McDonald | American actress and singer (born 1970) | United States of America | 1970-07-03 | Berlin | Q267676 |
analytic philosopher
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Rudolf Carnap | German philosopher and logician | German Empire United States of America Weimar Republic Nazi Germany |
1891-05-18 | 1970-09-14 | Ronsdorf | Santa Monica | Q76519 | |
Charles L. Stevenson | American analytic philosopher (1908-1979) | United States of America | 1908-06-27 | 1979-03-14 1979-03-13 |
Cincinnati | Bennington | Q264334 |
anatomist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840) | Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
1752-05-11 | 1840-01-22 | Gotha | Göttingen | Q58588 | |
Caspar Wistar | American physician (1761-1818) | United States of America | 1761-09-13 | 1818-01-22 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q347595 | |
Friedrich Tiedemann | German zoologist | Electorate of Hesse | 1781-08-23 | 1861-01-22 | Kassel | Munich | Q64049 | |
Carl Gegenbaur | German scientist (1826–1903) | Kingdom of Bavaria German Empire |
1826-08-21 | 1903-06-14 | Würzburg | Heidelberg | Q61300 | |
János Szentágothai | Hungarian anatomist, university professor, MP, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1912–1994) | Hungary | 1912-10-31 | 1994-09-08 | Pestújhely | Budapest | Q662084 |
anthropologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Hamilton | Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist (1730-1803) | Kingdom of Great Britain | 1730-12-13 | 1803-04-06 | Henley-on-Thames | London | Q15462 | |
Samuel George Morton | American physician and naturalist (1799–1851) | United States of America | 1799-01-26 | 1851-05-15 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q920542 | |
Karl Richard Lepsius | German archaeologist, egyptologist and librarian (1810-1884) | German Reich | 1810-12-23 | 1884-07-10 | Naumburg | Berlin | Q77231 | |
Ernst Curtius | German archaeologist and historian (1814–1896) | Lübeck | 1814-09-02 | 1896-07-11 | Lübeck | Berlin | Q61407 | |
Lewis H. Morgan | United States ethnologist (1818-1881) | United States of America | 1818-11-21 | 1881-12-17 | Aurora | Rochester | Q313458 | |
Henry James Sumner Maine | British jurist and historian (1822–1888) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1822-08-15 | 1888-02-03 | Kelso | Cannes | Q1195523 | |
John Evans | English archaeologist and geologist (1823–1908) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1823-11-17 | 1908-05-31 | Burnham | Berkhamsted | Q1246324 | |
Luigi Palma di Cesnola | Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur archaeologist; United States Army Medal of Honor recipient | United States of America | 1832-07-29 1832 1832-06-29 |
1904-11-20 | Rivarolo Canavese | Manhattan | Q528099 | |
Gustaf Retzius | Swedish histologist (1842–1919) | Sweden | 1842-10-17 | 1919-07-21 | Kungsholm parish | Adolf Fredriks parish | Q640991 | |
Eduard Seler | German academic | Germany | 1849-12-05 | 1922-11-23 | Krosno Odrzańskie | Berlin | Q68705 | |
Wilhelm Dörpfeld | German architect and archaeologist (1853–1940) | German Empire German Reich |
1853-12-26 | 1940-04-25 | Barmen | Lefkada | Q60239 | |
Franz Boas | German-American anthropologist | Kingdom of Prussia United States of America Germany German Empire |
1858-07-09 | 1942-12-21 | Minden | New York City | Q76857 | |
Arthur Keith | British anatomist and anthropologist (1866–1955) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1866-02-05 | 1955-01-07 | Aberdeenshire | Kent | Q240596 | |
Roland Burrage Dixon | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1875-11-06 | 1934-12-19 1934 |
Worcester | Q1238154 | ||
Alfred L. Kroeber | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1876-06-11 | 1960-10-05 | Hoboken | Paris | Q311538 | |
David Moore Robinson | American Classical archaeologist credited with the discovery of the ancient city of Olynthus | United States of America | 1880-09-21 | 1958-01-02 | Auburn | Oxford | Q1175734 | |
Alfred V. Kidder | American archaeologist (1885-1963) | United States of America | 1885-10-29 | 1963-06-11 | Marquette | Cambridge | Q1400749 | |
Ralph Linton | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1893-02-27 | 1953-12-24 | Philadelphia | New Haven | Q720118 | |
Robert Redfield | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1897-12-04 | 1958-10-16 1958-10-17 |
Chicago | Chicago | Q1773328 | |
W. Lloyd Warner | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1898-10-26 | 1970-05-23 | Redlands | Chicago | Q721643 | |
Gilberto Freyre | Brazilian politician and academic (1900-1987) | Brazil | 1900-03-15 | 1987-07-18 | Recife | Recife | Q677769 | |
Raymond Firth | ethnologist from New Zealand | New Zealand | 1901-03-25 | 2002-02-22 | Auckland | London | Q1746323 | |
Margaret Mead | American anthropologist (1901—1978) | United States of America | 1901-12-16 | 1978-11-15 | Philadelphia | New York City | Q180099 | |
Oliver La Farge | American novelist, anthropologist | United States of America | 1901-12-19 | 1963-08-02 | New York City | Albuquerque Santa Fe |
Q761453 | |
Gregory Bateson | English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1904-05-09 | 1980-07-04 | Grantchester | San Francisco | Q314252 | |
Meyer Fortes | South African anthropologist | United Kingdom South Africa |
1906-04-25 | 1983-01-27 | Britstown | Cambridge | Q346927 | |
Mircea Eliade | Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago | Kingdom of Romania Socialist Republic of Romania United States of America |
1907-03-09 | 1986-04-22 | Bucharest | Chicago | Q41590 | |
Ignace Gelb | American historian (1907-1985) | United States of America Poland |
1907-10-14 | 1985-12-22 | Tarnów | Chicago | Q76890 | |
Emeline Hill Richardson | American archaeologist (1910-1999) | United States of America | 1910-06-06 | 1999-08-29 | Buffalo | Durham | Q538113 | |
Max Gluckman | South African anthropologist | South Africa | 1911-01-26 | 1975-04-13 | Johannesburg | Jerusalem | Q924714 | |
Louis Dumont | French anthropologist (1911-1998) | France | 1911-08-01 | 1998-11-19 | Thessaloniki | 5th arrondissement of Paris | Q299863 | |
Herbert Bloch | German archaeologist (1911-2006) | Germany | 1911-08-18 | 2006-09-06 | Berlin | Cambridge | Q77631 | |
Walter J. Ong | American philosopher and historian | United States of America | 1912-11-30 | 2003-08-12 | Kansas City | St. Louis | Q722347 | |
Jean-Pierre Vernant | French historian and anthropologist (1914–2007) | France | 1914-01-04 | 2007-01-09 | Provins | Sèvres | Q472206 | |
Floyd Lounsbury | American mesoamericanist (1914–1998) | United States of America | 1914-04-25 | 1998-05-14 | Stevens Point | East Haven | Q1392052 | |
Oscar Lewis | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1914-12-25 | 1970-12-16 | New York City | New York City | Q1381703 | |
Joseph Greenberg | American linguist | United States of America | 1915-05-28 | 2001-05-07 2011-05-07 |
Brooklyn | Stanford | Q309997 | |
Mabel Lang | American archaeologist and classical scholar (1917–2010) | United States of America | 1917-11-12 | 2010-07-21 | Utica | Bryn Mawr | Q520359 | |
David M. Schneider | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1918-11-11 | 1995-10-30 | Brooklyn | Santa Cruz | Q1176536 | |
Jack Goody | British anthropologist (1919-2015) | United Kingdom | 1919-07-27 | 2015-07-16 | Hammersmith | Cambridge | Q636191 | |
Detlev Ploog | German anthropologist (1920-2005) | Germany | 1920-11-29 | 2005-12-07 | Hamburg | Munich | Q114951 | |
Roy Rappaport | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1926-03-25 | 1997-10-09 | Brooklyn | Ann Arbor | Q711425 | |
Clifford Geertz | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1926-08-23 | 2006-10-30 | San Francisco | Philadelphia | Q310956 | |
Emily Vermeule | American archaeologist (1928-2001) | United States of America | 1928-08-11 | 2001-02-06 | New York City | Cambridge | Q1337629 | |
Fredrik Barth | Norwegian social anthropologist | Norway | 1928-12-22 | 2016-01-24 | Leipzig | Oslo | Q466998 | |
Marshall Sahlins | American anthropologist (1930-2021) | United States of America | 1930-12-27 | 2021-04-05 | Chicago | Chicago | Q345300 | |
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney | Japanese-born anthropologist | United States of America | 1934 | Japan | Q932653 | |||
Hans Belting | German art historian (1935–2023) | Germany | 1935-07-07 | 2023-01-09 | Andernach | Berlin | Q66209 | |
David Harvey | British geographer and anthropologist | United Kingdom | 1935-10-31 | Gillingham | Q343055 | |||
Brent Berlin | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1936 | Q533102 | ||||
Ulf Hannerz | Swedish anthropologist | Sweden | 1942-06-09 | Malmö | Q713023 | |||
Dan Sperber | French academic | France | 1942-06-20 | Cagnes-sur-Mer | Q187363 | |||
Richard Shweder | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1945-02-17 | New York | Q241488 | |||
James Clifford | American historian | United States of America | 1945-06-26 | Q984620 | ||||
Joyce Marcus | American archaeologist | United States of America | 1948 | Q379139 | ||||
Israel Finkelstein | Israeli archaeologist | Israel | 1949-03-29 | Petah Tikva Tel Aviv |
Q726264 | |||
Philippe Descola | French anthropologist | France | 1949-06-19 | Paris | Q1197333 | |||
Michael Tomasello | American developmental psychologist | United States of America | 1950-01-18 | Bartow | Q714346 | |||
Ruth Behar | Jewish Cuban American writer | United States of America Cuba |
1956-11-12 | Havana | Q1699866 |
arabist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Franz Rosenthal | German Arabist (1914–2003) | Germany United States of America |
1914-08-31 | 2003-04-08 | Berlin | New Haven Branford |
Q66227 | |
Angelika Neuwirth | German academic | Nazi Germany West Germany Germany |
1943-11-04 | Nienburg/Weser | Q534480 |
archaeologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Benjamin Dean Meritt | American classical scholar and epigraphist (1899–1989) | United States of America | 1899-03-31 | 1989-07-07 | Durham | Austin | Q817446 | |
Karl W. Butzer | American geographer | United States of America | 1934-08-19 | 2016-05-04 | Mülheim an der Ruhr | Austin | Q214478 |
architect
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art collector
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Walter Annenberg | American businessman, ambassador, and philanthropist (1908–2002) | United States of America | 1908-03-13 | 2002-10-01 | Milwaukee | Wynnewood | Q1750541 | |
Eric Schmidt | software engineer, businessman, former Google CEO | United States of America | 1955-04-27 | Washington, D.C. | Q92747 |
art historian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Herman Grimm | German scholar, writer (1828-1901) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1828-01-06 | 1901-06-16 | Kassel | Berlin | Q65292 | |
Allan Marquand | American art historian | United States of America | 1853 | 1924 | New York City | Q117093 | ||
Marcel Aubert | French art historian (1884-1962) | France | 1884-04-09 | 1962-12-28 | 10th arrondissement of Paris | Paris | Q447581 | |
Sigfried Giedion | Swiss architectural historian | Switzerland | 1888-04-14 | 1968-04-09 1968-04-10 |
Prague | Zürich | Q123143 | |
Erwin Panofsky | German art historian | Germany United States of America |
1892-03-30 | 1968-03-14 | Hanover | Princeton | Q57656 | |
Kenneth John Conant | architectural historian from the United States | United States of America | 1894-06-28 | 1984-03-03 | Neenah | Bedford | Q29404 | |
André Grabar | art historian | Russian Empire France |
1896-07-26 | 1990-10-05 | Kyiv | 16th arrondissement of Paris | Q519108 | |
Edgar Wind | German-born British interdisciplinary art historian | Germany | 1900-05-14 | 1971-09-12 | Berlin | London | Q72294 | |
Rudolf Wittkower | German-American art historian | United Kingdom United States of America |
1901-06-22 | 1971-10-11 | Berlin | New York City | Q215999 | |
Alfred H. Barr | American art historian and museum director (1902-1981) | United States of America | 1902-01-28 | 1981-08-15 | Detroit | Salisbury | Q711362 | |
Nikolaus Pevsner | German-born British scholar (1902-1983) | United Kingdom Germany |
1902-01-30 | 1983-08-18 | Leipzig | London | Q61682 | |
Kenneth Clark | English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903–1983) | United Kingdom | 1903-07-13 | 1983-05-21 | London | Hythe | Q371258 | |
Kurt Weitzmann | German-American art historian (1904–1993) | Germany | 1904-03-07 | 1993-06-07 | Kleinalmerode | Princeton | Q70362 | |
Meyer Schapiro | American historian of Art | United States of America | 1904-09-23 | 1996-03-03 | Šiauliai | New York City | Q533444 | |
Jean Seznec | French historian and mythographer (1905-1983) | France | 1905-03-18 | 1983-11-21 | Morlaix | Oxford | Q368471 | |
Julius S. Held | German- American art historian and collector (1905-2002) | Germany United States of America |
1905-04-15 | 2002-12-22 | Mosbach | Bennington | Q1712683 | |
Raymond Klibansky | German-Canadian historian of philosophy | France Canada |
1905-10-15 | 2005-08-05 | Paris | Montreal | Q213996 | |
Richard Ettinghausen | German art historian (1906-1979) | United States of America | 1906-02-05 | 1979-04-02 | Frankfurt | Princeton Mercer County |
Q216041 | |
Ernst Gombrich | Austrian art historian | United Kingdom Austria |
1909-03-30 | 2001-11-03 | Vienna | London | Q78504 | |
H. W. Janson | American art historian, museum director | United States of America | 1913-10-04 | 1982-09-30 | Saint Petersburg | Q215614 | ||
Francis Haskell | British art historian (1928-2000) | United Kingdom | 1928-04-07 | 2000-01-18 | London | Oxford | Q320477 | |
Louis Marin | French philosopher | France | 1931-05-22 | 1992-10-29 | La Tronche | 20th arrondissement of Paris | Q370389 | |
Svetlana Alpers | artist, art historian and critic | United States of America | 1936-02-10 | Cambridge | Q449499 | |||
Salvatore Settis | Italian archaeologist and art historian | Italy | 1941-06-11 | Rosarno | Q520802 | |||
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh | Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University | Germany | 1941-11-15 | Cologne | Q70092 | |||
Martin Kemp | British art historian | United Kingdom | 1942-03-05 | Windsor | Q524743 | |||
Simon Schama | British University Professor of Art History and History | United Kingdom | 1945-02-13 | London | Q472272 | |||
Neil MacGregor | British art historian (born 1946) | United Kingdom | 1946-06-16 | Glasgow | Q1226759 | |||
Horst Bredekamp | German art historian | Germany | 1947-04-29 | Kiel | Q111643 |
astronaut
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Mary L. Cleave | American engineer and NASA astronaut | United States of America | 1947-02-05 | 2023-11-27 | Southampton | Annapolis | Q21842 | |
Bernard A. Harris, Jr. | American NASA astronaut, physician | United States of America | 1956-06-26 | Temple | Q822249 |
astronomer
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astrophysicist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Grigory Abramovich Shajn | Soviet astronomer (1892-1956) | Soviet Union Russian Empire |
1892-04-07 | 1956-08-04 | Odesa | Moscow | Q720719 | |
Gerald J. Wasserburg | American geologist (1927-2016) | United States of America | 1927-03-25 | 2016-06-13 | New Brunswick | Florence | Q1388562 | |
Irwin I. Shapiro | American astrophysicist | United States of America | 1929-10-10 | New York City | Q1229000 | |||
James Moran | American astrophysicist | United States of America | 1943-01-03 | Plainfield | Q1755802 | |||
William H. Press | astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, and computational biologist | United States of America | 1948-05-23 | New York City | Q376909 | |||
Neil deGrasse Tyson | African-American astrophysicist and science communicator | United States of America | 1958-10-05 | Manhattan | Q310903 | |||
Nergis Mavalvala | Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist | United States of America | 1968 | Lahore | Q1702331 |
audio engineer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Leo Beranek | American acoustical engineer | United States of America | 1914-09-15 | 2016-10-10 | Solon | Westwood | Q1344028 | |
Sidney Harman | American businessman | United States of America | 1918-08-04 | 2011-04-12 | Montreal | Washington, D.C. | Q469735 |
author
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Ralph Barton Perry | American philosopher (1875–1957) | United States of America | 1876-07-03 | 1957-01-22 | Poultney | Cambridge | Q32679 | |
Brooks Atkinson | American critic | United States of America | 1894-11-28 | 1984-01-14 | Melrose | Huntsville | Q343916 | |
Erich Heller | British scholar of German literature and philosophy | United Kingdom | 1911-03-27 | 1990-11-05 | Chomutov | Evanston | Q215444 | |
Walter Mischel | Austrian-born Jewish American psychologist | United States of America | 1930-02-22 | 2018-09-12 | Vienna | Manhattan | Q215978 | |
Dipesh Chakrabarty | Indian historian | India | 1948-12-15 | Kolkata | Q251282 |
ballet dancer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Martha Graham | American dancer and choreographer | United States of America | 1894-05-11 | 1991-04-01 | Allegheny | New York | Q487604 | |
Galina Ulanova | Soviet ballet dancer (1910-1998) | Russian Empire Soviet Union Russia |
1909-12-26 1910-01-08 |
1998-03-21 | Saint Petersburg | Moscow | Q28885 | |
Merce Cunningham | American choreographer, dancer, experimental filmmaker, teacher | United States of America | 1919-04-16 | 2009-07-26 | Centralia | New York City | Q318364 |
banker
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Lewis Thompson Preston | American banker (1926-1995) | United States of America | 1926-08-05 | 1995-05-04 | New York City | Washington, D.C. | Q718911 | |
Richard Holbrooke | American diplomat (1941-2010) | United States of America | 1941-04-24 | 2010-12-13 | New York City | Washington, D.C. | Q155649 | |
David Ren� de Rothschild | American banker; member of the French branch of the Rothschild family | United States of America France |
1942-12-15 | New York City | Q1176310 |
beekeeper
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Karl von Frisch | German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982) | Austria | 1886-11-20 | 1982-06-12 | Vienna | Munich | Q60060 | |
Martin Lindauer | German scientist (1918-2008) | Germany | 1918-12-19 | 2008-11-13 | Bad Kohlgrub | Munich | Q95573 |
biochemist
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biologist
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biophysicist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Maurice Wilkins | New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist | New Zealand | 1916-12-15 | 2004-10-05 | Pongaroa | Blackheath | Q184659 | |
Erwin Neher | German biophysicist | Nazi Germany Germany |
1944-03-20 | Landsberg am Lech | Q77126 |
botanist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Abraham Rees | Welsh encyclopedist and botanist (1743–1825) | Wales | 1743 | 1825-06-09 | Llanbrynmair | Finsbury | Q922838 | |
Joseph Banks | English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1743-02-24 1743-02-13 1743-02-02 |
1820-06-19 | Soho | Isleworth | Q153408 | |
Olof Swartz | Swedish botanist & taxonomist | Sweden | 1760-09-22 | 1817-09-18 | Norrköpings S:t Johannes parish Norrköping |
Adolf Fredriks parish | Q632088 | |
Robert Brown | Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1773-12-21 | 1858-06-10 | Montrose | London | Q155764 | |
John James Audubon | French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851) | United States of America France |
1785-04-26 | 1851-01-27 | Les Cayes | New York City | Q182882 | |
William Jackson Hooker | English botanist and botanical illustrator (1785-1865) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom |
1785-07-06 | 1865-08-12 | Norwich | Kew | Q472639 | |
Thomas Nuttall | English botanist and zoologist in America (1786-1859) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1786-01-05 | 1859-09-10 | Settle | Lancashire | Q728337 | |
Jacob Bigelow | American botanist, physician, and educational reformer (1787-1879) | United States of America | 1787-02-27 | 1879-01-10 | Watertown | Boston | Q1236142 | |
Edward Hitchcock | United States geologist and Congregationalist clergyman (1793-1864) | United States of America | 1793-05-24 1793 |
1864-02-27 1864 |
Franklin County | Massachusetts | Q322185 | |
Elias Magnus Fries | Swedish biologist considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern taxonomy of mushrooms (1794–1878) | Sweden | 1794-08-15 | 1878-02-08 | Femsjö | Uppsala Cathedral Assembly | Q15405 | |
John Torrey | U.S. botanist (1796–1873) | United States of America | 1796-08-15 | 1873-03-10 | New York City | New York City | Q1346660 | |
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu | French botanist (1797-1853) | France | 1797-12-23 | 1853-06-29 | Paris | Paris | Q377094 | |
John Lindley | English botanist, gardener, orchidologist, editor, scientific illustrator (1799–1865) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1799-02-05 | 1865-11-01 | Old Catton | Turnham Green | Q378629 | |
William Starling Sullivant | US bryologist (1803-1873) | United States of America | 1803-01-15 1803 |
1873-04-30 1873 |
Franklinton | Columbus | Q1343134 | |
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold | German physiologist and zoologist (1804-1885) | Kingdom of Bavaria | 1804-02-16 | 1885-04-07 | Würzburg | Munich | Q64262 | |
Stephan Endlicher | Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist (1804–1849) | Austrian Empire | 1804-06-24 | 1849-03-28 | Bratislava | Vienna | Q78605 | |
Hugo von Mohl | German botanist (1805–1872) | Kingdom of Württemberg | 1805-04-08 | 1872-04-01 | Stuttgart | Tübingen | Q61635 | |
George Engelmann | German-American physician and botanist (1809-1884) | United States of America Free City of Frankfurt |
1809-02-02 | 1884-02-04 | Frankfurt | St. Louis | Q214946 | |
Alvan Wentworth Chapman | American botanist and physician (1809–1899) | United States of America | 1809-09-28 | 1899-04-06 | Southampton | Apalachicola | Q448279 | |
Jacob Georg Agardh | Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist (1813-1901) | Sweden | 1813-12-08 | 1901-01-17 | Lund Cathedral parish | Lund Cathedral parish | Q520594 | |
Joseph Dalton Hooker | British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1817-06-30 | 1911-12-10 1911 |
Halesworth | Sunningdale | Q157501 | |
John William Dawson | Canadian geologist, principal of McGill University (1820–1899) | Canada | 1820-10-13 | 1899-11-19 | Pictou | Montreal | Q1702168 | |
Karl Maximovich | botanist from Russia (1827-1891) | Russian Empire | 1827-11-11 | 1891-02-04 | Tula | Saint Petersburg | Q77640 | |
Julius von Sachs | German botanist (1832-1897) | Kingdom of Prussia German Reich |
1832-10-02 | 1897-05-29 | Wrocław | Würzburg | Q61650 | |
August W. Eichler | German botanist (1839-1887) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1839-04-22 | 1887-03-02 | Neukirchen | Berlin | Q62142 | |
Thomas Jonathan Burrill | American botanist and plant pathologist (1839-1916) | United States of America | 1839-04-25 | 1916-04-14 | Pittsfield | Q626705 | ||
Karl Alfred von Zittel | German geologist and paleontologist (1839–1904) | Grand Duchy of Baden German Empire |
1839-09-25 | 1904-01-05 | Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl | Munich | Q61904 | |
Nathaniel Shaler | American paleontologist and geologist (1841–1906) | United States of America | 1841-02-20 | 1906-04-10 | Newport | Cambridge | Q263541 | |
Charles Sprague Sargent | American botanist (1841-1927) | United States of America | 1841-04-24 | 1927-03-22 | Boston | Boston | Q1066128 | |
William Tufts Brigham | American geologist, botanist, ethnologist and the first director of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (1841-1926) | United States of America | 1841-05-24 | 1926-01-30 | Boston | Honolulu | Q1728647 | |
Hermann zu Solms-Laubach | German botanist (1842–1915) | Grand Duchy of Hesse | 1842-12-23 | 1915-11-24 | Laubach | Strasbourg | Q67692 | |
Eduard Strasburger | Polish-German botanist (1844–1912) | German Empire Poland Russian Empire |
1844-02-01 | 1912-05-19 | Warsaw | Bonn | Q58834 | |
Adolf Engler | German botanist (1844-1930) | Weimar Republic | 1844-03-25 | 1930-10-10 | Żagań | Berlin | Q60718 | |
Wilhelm Pfeffer | German botanist (1845–1920) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1845-03-09 | 1920-01-31 | Grebenstein | Leipzig | Q62767 | |
Ignatz Urban | German botanist (1848–1931) | Kingdom of Prussia German Reich |
1848-01-07 | 1931-01-07 | Warburg | Berlin | Q64845 | |
Hugo de Vries | Dutch botanist (1848-1935) | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1848-02-16 | 1935-05-21 | Haarlem | Lunteren | Q160192 | |
Joseph Charles Arthur | American botanist (1850-1942) | United States of America | 1850-01-11 | 1942-04-30 | Lowville | Brook | Q1706753 | |
John Merle Coulter | U.S. Botanist (1851-1928) | United States of America | 1851-11-20 | 1928-12-23 | Ningbo | Yonkers | Q1701075 | |
William Trelease | American botanist and entomologist | United States of America | 1857-02-22 | 1945-01-01 | Mount Vernon | Urbana | Q1380171 | |
Liberty Hyde Bailey | U.S. botanist (1858-1954) | United States of America | 1858-03-15 | 1954-12-25 | Ithaca South Haven |
Ithaca | Q152366 | |
Richard Wettstein | Austrian botanist (1863-1931) | Austria-Hungary Austria |
1863-06-30 | 1931-08-10 | Vienna | Trins | Q78599 | |
Alfred Rehder | German-American professor of botany (1863-1949) | Germany United States of America |
1863-09-04 | 1949-07-25 1949-07-21 |
Waldenburg Waldenburg |
Jamaica Plain | Q68949 | |
Benjamin Lincoln Robinson | U.S. botanist (1864–1935) | United States of America | 1864-11-08 | 1935-07-27 | Bloomington | Jaffrey | Q817600 | |
Willis Linn Jepson | American botanist | United States of America | 1867-08-19 | 1946-11-07 | Vacaville | Berkeley | Q324259 | |
Maurice Caullery | French botanist and zoologist (1868-1958) | France | 1868-09-05 | 1958-07-13 | Bergues | Paris | Q919914 | |
Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. | U.S. zoologist and botanist (1869–1956) | United States of America | 1869-12-06 | 1956-02-24 | Peterboro | Washington, D.C. | Q538252 | |
John Isaac Briquet | Swiss botanist (1870-1931) | Switzerland | 1870-03-13 | 1931-10-26 | Geneva | Geneva | Q746034 | |
Ludwig Diels | German botanist (1874–1945) | German Reich | 1874-09-24 | 1945-11-30 | Hamburg | Berlin | Q77123 | |
Albert Francis Blakeslee | American botanist (1874-1954) | United States of America | 1874-11-09 1874-11-08 |
1954-11-16 | Geneseo | Northampton | Q728749 | |
Arthur Stanley Pease | American classical philologist and botanist (1881-1964) | United States of America | 1881-09-22 | 1964-01-07 | Somers | Concord | Q711591 | |
Otto Renner | German botanist, geneticist and university teacher (1883-1960) | Germany | 1883-04-25 1883 |
1960-07-08 1960 |
Neu-Ulm | Munich | Q70672 | |
Alfred Sturtevant | American biologist (1891–1970) | United States of America | 1891-11-21 | 1970-04-05 | Jacksonville | Pasadena | Q535384 | |
G. Evelyn Hutchinson | British zoologist (1903-1991) | United Kingdom United States of America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1903-01-30 | 1991-05-17 | Cambridge | London | Q302752 | |
Kenneth Bryan Raper | American botanist and mycologist (1908-1987) | United States of America | 1908-07-11 | 1987-01-15 | Davidson County Welcome |
Madison | Q1738840 | |
Folke K. Skoog | Swedish botanist (1908-2001) | Sweden United States of America |
1908-07-15 | 2001-02-15 | Halland County | Madison | Q750802 | |
Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn | American botanist and paleontologist (1915-1984) | United States of America | 1915-06-30 | 1984-01-27 | New York City | Q1333852 | ||
Robert Whittaker | American ecologist (1920–1980) | United States of America | 1920-12-27 | 1980-10-20 | Wichita | Ithaca | Q336893 |
business executive
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Bob Iger | American businessman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company | United States of America | 1951-02-10 | Oceanside | Q532423 | |||
Samuel J. Palmisano | American businessman | United States of America | 1951-07-29 | Baltimore | Q782805 | |||
Meg Whitman | American business executive | United States of America | 1956-08-04 | Cold Spring Harbor | Q55174 | |||
Abigail Johnson | American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire | United States of America | 1961-12-19 | Boston | Q321125 |
businessperson
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Akio Morita | Japanese businessman | Japan Empire of Japan |
1921-01-26 | 1999-10-03 | Tokoname | Tokyo | Q310845 | |
Edward Johnson, III | American investor and businessperson (1930–2022) | United States of America | 1930-06-29 | 2022-03-23 | Milton | Wellington | Q382502 | |
Aga Khan IV | 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism | United Kingdom Portugal |
1936-12-13 | Geneva | Q311793 | |||
Michael Bloomberg | American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City | United States of America | 1942-02-14 | Boston | Q607 | |||
Charles O. Holliday, Jr. | American businessperson and board member, former Chairman and CEO of DuPont | United States of America | 1948-03-09 | Nashville | Q1065665 | |||
Indra Nooyi | Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo | India United States of America |
1955-09-28 | Chennai | Q264913 | |||
Aliko Dangote | Nigerian entrepreneur | Nigeria | 1957-04-10 | Kano | Q1394965 |
cardiologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Helen B. Taussig | Jewish-American cardiologist (1898-1986) | United States of America | 1898-05-24 | 1986-05-20 | Cambridge | Kennett Square | Q271531 | |
Bernard Lown | American cardiologist, developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter (1921-2021) | Lithuania United States of America |
1921-06-07 | 2021-02-16 | Utena | Chestnut Hill | Q723263 | |
Eugene Braunwald | American cardiologist | United States of America | 1929-08-15 | Vienna | Q322114 | |||
David J. Skorton | 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian, cardiologist and university professor | United States of America | 1949-11-22 | Milwaukee | Q1174836 |
cellist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Pau Casals | Catalan cellist and conductor | Spain | 1876-12-29 | 1973-10-22 1973-08-14 |
El Vendrell | San Juan | Q208537 | |
János Starker | Hungarian-American cellist (1924–2013) | United States of America | 1924-07-05 | 2013-04-28 | Budapest | Bloomington | Q617920 |
chemist
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church historian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Friedrich Delitzsch | German assyriologist (1850-1922) | Germany Kingdom of Saxony |
1850-09-03 | 1922-12-19 | Erlangen | Bad Schwalbach | Q72141 | |
Wilhelm Pauck | theologian (1901-1981) | Germany | 1901-01-31 | 1981-09-03 | Bad Laasphe | Palo Alto | Q109592 | |
Enrique Dussel | Argentine-Mexican philosopher | Argentina | 1934-12-24 | 2023-11-05 | La Paz | Mexico City | Q473518 |
civil engineer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Fairbairn | Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain |
1789-02-19 | 1874-08-18 | Kelso | Moor Park Compton |
Q929499 | |
Benjamin Baker | British engineer | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1840-03-31 | 1907-05-19 | Bath | Pangbourne | Q817394 | |
John Frank Stevens | American canal engineer (1853–1943) | United States of America | 1853-04-25 | 1943-06-02 | West Gardiner | Southern Pines | Q1700114 | |
Pier Luigi Nervi | Italian engineer (1891-1979) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1891-06-21 | 1979-01-09 | Sondrio | Rome | Q313528 | |
Arthur T. Ippen | American hydrologist and engineer | United States of America | 1907-07-28 | 1974-04-05 | London | Belmont | Q73333 |
classical philologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Clifford Herschel Moore | American classical philologist and religious studies scholar (1866-1931) | United States of America | 1866-03-11 | 1931-08-31 | Massachusetts | Cambridge | Q64793 | |
Martin P. Nilsson | scholar of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems | Sweden | 1874-07-12 | 1967-04-07 | Στόμπι | Lund | Q321959 | |
Werner Jaeger | German-American classical philologist (1888-1961) | Germany United States of America |
1888-07-30 | 1961-10-19 | Lobberich | Cambridge | Q61882 | |
Roger Mynors | British classical scholar | United Kingdom | 1903-07-28 | 1989-10-17 | Wiltshire | Herefordshire | Q446625 | |
Friedrich Solmsen | German classical scholar (1904-1989) | United States of America Germany |
1904-02-04 | 1989-01-30 | Bonn | Chapel Hill | Q214712 | |
Denys Page | British classical scholar and academic (1908-1978) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1908-05-11 | 1978-07-06 | Reading | Tarset | Q523175 | |
Jacqueline de Romilly | French philologist, classical scholar (1913–2010) | France Greece |
1913-03-26 | 2010-12-18 | Chartres | Boulogne-Billancourt | Q261687 | |
Bernard Knox | British-American classical scholar (1914–2010) | United States of America | 1914-11-24 | 2010-07-22 | Bradford | Bethesda | Q822582 | |
Martin Ostwald | German-American classical scholar (1922–2010) | Germany United States of America |
1922-01-15 | 2010-04-10 | Dortmund | Swarthmore | Q110740 | |
Hugh Lloyd-Jones | British classical philologist (1922–2009) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1922-09-21 | 2009-10-05 | Saint Peter Port | Wellesley | Q301474 | |
Wendell Vernon Clausen | American classical philologist | United States of America | 1923-04-02 | 2006-10-12 | Coquille | Belmont | Q1341234 | |
Charles Segal | American classical philologist (1936–2002) | United States of America | 1936-03-19 | 2002-01-01 | Boston | Boston | Q1066038 | |
Simon Goldhill | British classicist (born 1957) | United Kingdom | 1957-03-17 | Q1247022 |
classical pianist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Menahem Pressler | German-born American classical pianist | United States of America Germany |
1923-12-16 | 2023-05-06 | Magdeburg | London | Q70142 | |
Mitsuko Uchida | Japanese-British pianist, conductor (1948-) | Japan United Kingdom |
1948-12-20 | Atami | Q238290 |
columnist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Safire | American journalist and presidential speechwriter (1929–2009) | United States of America | 1929-12-17 | 2009-09-27 | New York City | Rockville | Q254983 | |
Thomas Friedman | American journalist and author | United States of America | 1953-07-20 | St. Louis Park | Q310950 | |||
Robbert Dijkgraaf | Dutch politician, mathematical physicist and string theorist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1960-01-24 | Ridderkerk | Q710978 |
composer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Martin Loeffler | American violinist and composer (1861-1935) | United States of America | 1861-01-30 | 1935-05-19 | Mulhouse | Medfield | Q1065471 | |
Jean Sibelius | Finnish composer (1865–1957) | Finland | 1865-12-08 | 1957-09-20 | Hämeenlinna | Ainola | Q45682 | |
Frederick Converse | American classical music composer (1871-1940) | United States of America | 1871-01-05 | 1940-06-08 | Newton | Westwood | Q323613 | |
Henri Rabaud | French composer (1873-1949) | France | 1873-11-10 | 1949-09-11 | 8th arrondissement of Paris | Paris | Q503861 | |
David Stanley Smith | American composer (1877-1949) | United States of America | 1877-07-06 | 1949-12-17 | Toledo | New Haven | Q1176713 | |
Igor Stravinsky | Russian composer (1882–1971) | France Russian Empire United States of America Russia Switzerland |
1882-06-05 | 1971-04-06 | Lomonosov | New York City | Q7314 | |
Alfredo Casella | Italian composer, pianist and conductor (1883-1947) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1883-07-25 | 1947-03-05 | Turin | Rome | Q337343 | |
Archibald Thompson Davison | American conductor (1883-1961) | United States of America | 1883-10-11 | 1961-02-06 | Boston | Q633492 | ||
Charles Seeger | American musicologist | United States of America | 1886-12-14 | 1979-02-07 | Mexico City | Bridgewater | Q1066045 | |
Ross Lee Finney | American composer | United States of America | 1906-12-23 | 1997-02-04 | Wells | Carmel-by-the-Sea | Q323394 | |
Elliott Carter | American composer | United States of America | 1908-12-11 | 2012-11-05 | Manhattan | New York City | Q318835 | |
John Cage | American avant-garde composer (1912-1992) | United States of America | 1912-09-05 1912-10-05 |
1992-08-12 | Good Samaritan Hospital | New York City | Q180727 | |
Alberto Ginastera | Argentine composer (1916-1983) | Argentina | 1916-04-11 | 1983-02-20 | Buenos Aires | Geneva | Q311389 | |
George Rochberg | American composer (1918-2005) | United States of America | 1918-07-05 | 2005-05-29 | Paterson | Bryn Mawr Philadelphia |
Q710733 | |
Leon Kirchner | American composer (1919-2009) | United States of America | 1919-01-24 | 2009-09-17 | Brooklyn | Manhattan | Q928971 | |
György Ligeti | Hungarian composer (1923-2006) | Hungary Austria Romania |
1923-05-28 | 2006-06-12 2006-06-11 |
Târnăveni | Vienna | Q154331 | |
György Kurtág | Hungarian composer | Hungary Romania France |
1926-02-19 | Lugoj | Q48184 | |||
Betsy Jolas | French composer | France | 1926-08-05 | Paris | Q262420 | |||
Karlheinz Stockhausen | German composer | Germany | 1928-08-22 | 2007-12-05 | Mödrath castle | Kürten | Q154556 | |
Sonny Rollins | American jazz saxophonist and composer | United States of America | 1930-09-07 | Harlem New York City |
Q299208 | |||
Wayne Shorter | American jazz saxophonist and composer (1933–2023) | United States of America | 1933-08-25 | 2023-03-02 | Newark | Los Angeles | Q317161 | |
Mario Davidovsky | Argentine-American composer (1934-2019) | Argentina | 1934-03-04 | 2019-08-23 | Médanos | New York City | Q322790 | |
Christian Wolff | American composer and classicist | United States of America France |
1934-03-08 | Nice | Q658733 | |||
John Chowning | American composer and inventor, developed a groundbreaking technology for synthesizers | United States of America | 1934-08-22 | Salem | Q796345 | |||
Steve Reich | American composer | United States of America | 1936-10-03 | New York City | Q262791 | |||
Philip Glass | American composer (born 1937) | United States of America | 1937-01-31 | Baltimore | Q189729 | |||
Kaija Saariaho | Finnish composer (1952–2023) | Finland | 1952-10-14 | 2023-06-02 | Helsinki | 8th arrondissement of Paris | Q241432 | |
Magnus Lindberg | Finnish composer and pianist | Finland | 1958-06-27 | Helsinki | Q503672 | |||
Wynton Marsalis | American jazz musician and educator | United States of America | 1961-10-18 | New Orleans | Q273076 |
computer scientist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Vannevar Bush | American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974) | United States of America | 1890-03-11 | 1974-06-28 | Everett | Belmont | Q299595 | |
Maurice Wilkes | British computer scientist | United Kingdom | 1913-06-26 | 2010-11-29 | Dudley | Cambridge | Q62857 | |
J. C. R. Licklider | American psychologist and computer scientist | United States of America | 1915-03-11 | 1990-06-26 | St. Louis | Arlington | Q92778 | |
Robert Fano | Italian-American computer scientist (1917-2016) | United States of America | 1917-11-11 | 2016-07-13 | Turin | Naples | Q93052 | |
Donald Michie | British artificial intelligence researcher | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1923-11-11 | 2007-07-07 | Yangon | North Weald Bassett | Q93119 | |
David C. Evans | American computer scientist (1924-1998) | United States of America | 1924-02-24 | 1998-10-03 | Salt Lake City | Q92712 | ||
Fernando J. Corbató | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1926-07-01 | 2019-07-12 | Oakland | Newburyport | Q92625 | |
Frances Allen | American computer scientist (1932–2020) | United States of America | 1932-08-04 | 2020-08-04 | Peru | Schenectady | Q9602 | |
Ruzena Bajcsy | American computer scientist | Czechoslovakia Slovakia Czech Republic United States of America |
1933 | Bratislava | Q10959 | |||
Niklaus Wirth | Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024) | Switzerland | 1934-02-15 | 2024-01-01 | Winterthur | Zürich | Q92604 | |
Carver Mead | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1934-05-01 | Bakersfield | Q62910 | |||
Gordon Bell | American computer engineer | United States of America | 1934-08-19 | 2024-05-17 | Kirksville | Coronado | Q92875 | |
Edward Feigenbaum | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1936-01-20 | Weehawken | Q92823 | |||
Robert W. Floyd | American computer scientist (1936-2001) | United States of America | 1936-06-08 | 2001-09-25 | New York City | Stanford | Q92641 | |
Judea Pearl | Israeli-American computer scientist | United States of America | 1936-09-04 | Tel Aviv | Q92824 | |||
Raj Reddy | Indian-American computer scientist | British Raj India United States of America |
1937-06-13 | Katur | Q92820 | |||
Lawrence Roberts | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1937-12-21 | 2018-12-26 | Westport | Redwood City | Q92935 | |
Manuel Blum | Venezuelan computer scientist | United States of America | 1938-04-26 | Caracas | Q92626 | |||
Ivan Sutherland | American computer scientist and Internet pioneer | United States of America | 1938-05-16 | Hastings | Q62866 | |||
Bob Kahn | American Internet pioneer, computer scientist | United States of America | 1938-12-23 | New York City | Q62843 | |||
John Edward Hopcroft | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1939-10-07 | Seattle | Q62874 | |||
Stephen Cook | American-Canadian computer scientist | United States of America Canada |
1939-12-14 | Buffalo | Q62870 | |||
Alan Kay | American computer scientist (born 1940) | United States of America | 1940-05-17 | Springfield | Q92742 | |||
John Warnock | American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023) | United States of America | 1940-10-06 | 2023-08-19 | Salt Lake City | Los Altos | Q1344392 | |
Joel Moses | MIT professor (b. 1941) | United States of America | 1941 | 2022-05-29 | Mandatory Palestine | Q93129 | ||
Alfred Aho | Canadian computer scientist | Canada | 1941-08-09 | Timmins | Q62898 | |||
Brian Kernighan | Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system | Canada United States of America |
1942-01-01 1942-01-30 |
Toronto | Q92608 | |||
Anita K. Jones | American computer scientist and former U.S. government official | United States of America | 1942-03-10 | Fort Worth | Q9895 | |||
Susan L. Graham | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1942-09-16 | Cleveland | Q11612 | |||
Jeffrey David Ullman | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1942-11-22 | New York City | Q92794 | |||
Charles P. Thacker | American computer pioneer | United States of America | 1943-02-26 | 2017-06-12 | Pasadena | Palo Alto | Q92828 | |
Vint Cerf | American computer scientist (born 1943) | United States of America | 1943-06-23 | New Haven | Q92743 | |||
Michael Stonebraker | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1943-10-11 | Milton | Q92758 | |||
Butler Lampson | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1943-12-23 | Washington, D.C. | Q92644 | |||
Jim Gray | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1944-01-12 | 2012-01-28 | San Francisco | Pacific Ocean | Q92606 | |
Margaret H. Wright | American computer scientist and academic | United States of America | 1944-02-18 | Hanford | Q16494 | |||
David D. Clark | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1944-04-07 | Q92657 | ||||
Ronald Fagin | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1945-05-01 | Oklahoma City | Q93124 | |||
Edmund M. Clarke | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1945-07-27 | 2020-12-22 | Newport News | Pittsburgh | Q92819 | |
Takeo Kanade | Japanese computer scientist | Japan | 1945-10-24 | Hyōgo Prefecture | Q92675 | |||
Leonard Adleman | American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California | United States of America | 1945-12-31 | California | Q918650 | |||
Robert Metcalfe | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1946-04-07 | Brooklyn | Q92766 | |||
Andrew Yao | computer scientist and computational theorist | People's Republic of China United States of America |
1946-12-24 | Shanghai | Q62888 | |||
Iosif Sifakis | Greek-French computer scientist | Greece France |
1946-12-26 | Heraklion | Q92781 | |||
David A. Patterson | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1947-11-16 | Evergreen Park | Q92851 | |||
Geoffrey Hinton | British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist | United Kingdom Canada |
1947-12-06 | Wimbledon | Q92894 | |||
Nancy Lynch | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1948-01-19 | Brooklyn | Q11779 | |||
Leslie Valiant | British computer scientist | United Kingdom United States of America |
1949-03-28 | Budapest | Q93154 | |||
עמית מועלם | American businessman | United States of America | 1949-08-23 | Cleveland | Q1393271 | |||
Leah Jamieson | American engineer | United States of America | 1949-08-27 | Trenton | Q11688 | |||
Francine Berman | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1951-02-07 | Glendale | Q11433 | |||
John Doerr | American businessman | United States of America | 1951-06-29 | St. Louis | Q1380459 | |||
John L. Hennessy | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1952-09-22 | Huntington | Q92854 | |||
Mihalis Yannakakis | Greek theoretical computer scientist | Greece United States of America |
1953-09-13 | Athens | Q92825 | |||
Guy L. Steele | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1954-10-02 | Missouri | Q92991 | |||
Bill Joy | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1954-11-08 | Farmington Hills | Q335047 | |||
Rodney Brooks | Australian roboticist | Australia | 1954-12-30 | Adelaide | Q92809 | |||
Tim Berners-Lee | English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955) | United Kingdom | 1955-06-08 | London | Q80 | |||
Jeannette Wing | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1956-12-04 | Newark | Q16490 | |||
Peter Norvig | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1956-12-05 1956-12-14 |
Q92832 | ||||
Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska | British computer scientist | Poland | 1957-02-26 | Q11760 | ||||
Cynthia Dwork | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1958-06-27 | Q11580 | ||||
Deborah Estrin | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1959-12-06 | Los Angeles | Q7526 | |||
Anna Karlin | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1960-03-19 | Q11748 | ||||
Daniela L. Rus | Romanian-born American roboticist | United States of America | 1963 | Cluj-Napoca | Q14223 | |||
Edward Felten | professor of computer science and public affairs | United States of America | 1963-03-25 | Q92932 | ||||
Jeff Bezos | American business magnate (born 1964) | United States of America | 1964-01-12 | Albuquerque | Q312556 | |||
Madhu Sudan | Indian computer scientist | India United States of America |
1966-09-12 | Chennai | Q93149 | |||
Lydia E. Kavraki | Greek computer scientist | United States of America Greece |
1967 | Crete | Q11749 | |||
Sanjeev Arora | Theoretical computer scientist | United States of America | 1968-01 | Jodhpur | Q92664 | |||
Daphne Koller | Israeli-American computer scientist | Israel United States of America |
1968-08-27 | Jerusalem | Q11755 | |||
Jon Kleinberg | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1971 | Boston | Q92978 | |||
Ayanna Howard | American roboticist | United States of America | 1972-01-24 | Q11644 | ||||
Sergey Brin | American billionaire businessman (born 1973) | United States of America | 1973-08-21 | Moscow | Q92764 | |||
Mary Jane Irwin | American computer scientist | United States of America | 20th century | Q11648 |
conductor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams | English composer (1872–1958) | United Kingdom | 1872-10-12 | 1958-08-26 | Down Ampney | London | Q207947 | |
Charles Munch | French musician (1891-1968) | France | 1891-09-26 | 1968-11-06 | Strasbourg | Richmond | Q503940 | |
Darius Milhaud | French composer (1892–1974) | France | 1892-09-04 | 1974-06-22 | Marseille Aix-en-Provence |
Geneva | Q186264 | |
Howard Hanson | American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist | United States of America | 1896-10-28 | 1981-02-26 | Wahoo | Rochester | Q382748 | |
George Szell | Classical conductor and composer (1897–1970) | Hungary United States of America Germany |
1897-06-07 | 1970-07-30 | Budapest | Cleveland | Q310638 | |
Arthur Mendel | American conductor | United States of America | 1905-06-06 | 1979-10-14 | Boston | Newark | Q710626 | |
David Oistrakh | Soviet violinist (1908-1974) | Russian Empire Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Union |
1908-09-17 | 1974-10-24 | Odesa | Amsterdam | Q47120 | |
William Schuman | American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992) | United States of America | 1910-08-04 | 1992-02-15 | The Bronx New York City |
New York City | Q503225 | |
Gian Carlo Menotti | Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1911-07-07 | 2007-02-01 | Cadegliano Viconago | Monte Carlo Monaco |
Q270662 | |
Erich Leinsdorf | American conductor (1912-1993) | United States of America Austria |
1912-02-04 | 1993-09-11 | Vienna | Zürich | Q78602 | |
Yehudi Menuhin | American violinist and conductor (1916–1999) | United States of America United Kingdom Switzerland |
1916-04-22 | 1999-03-12 | New York City | Berlin | Q156814 | |
Elliot Forbes | American conductor (1917–2006) | United States of America | 1917-08-30 | 2006-01-10 | Cambridge | Cambridge | Q1332243 | |
Leonard Bernstein | American conductor and composer (1918–1990) | United States of America | 1918-08-25 | 1990-10-14 | Lawrence | New York City | Q152505 | |
Lukas Foss | American composer | United States of America | 1922-08-15 | 2009-02-01 | Berlin | Manhattan | Q213709 | |
Pierre Boulez | French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016) | France | 1925-03-26 | 2016-01-05 | Montbrison | Baden-Baden | Q156193 | |
André Previn | German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019) | Germany United States of America |
1929-04-06 | 2019-02-28 | Berlin | Manhattan New York City |
Q155712 | |
Helmuth Rilling | German choral conductor | Germany | 1933-05-29 | Stuttgart | Q61644 | |||
Seiji Ozawa | Japanese orchestra conductor (1935–2024) | Japan Empire of Japan |
1935-09-01 | 2024-02-06 | Shenyang | Setagaya-ku | Q313649 | |
Joan Tower | American composer, concert pianist and conductor | United States of America | 1938-09-06 | New Rochelle | Q293218 | |||
Heinz Holliger | Swiss oboist, composer and conductor | Switzerland | 1939-05-21 | Langenthal | Q123359 | |||
James Levine | American conductor and pianist | United States of America | 1943-06-23 | 2021-03-09 | Cincinnati | Palm Springs | Q336388 | |
Dennis Russell Davies | American conductor and pianist | United States of America | 1944-04-16 | Toledo | Q475198 | |||
Michael Tilson Thomas | American conductor, pianist and composer | United States of America | 1944-12-21 | Los Angeles | Q520493 | |||
Marin Alsop | American conductor and violinist | United Kingdom | 1956-10-16 | Manhattan | Q242931 | |||
Esa-Pekka Salonen | Finnish conductor and composer | Finland | 1958-06-30 | Helsinki | Q314587 | |||
David Robertson | American conductor | United States of America | 1958-07-19 | Santa Monica | Q1176353 | |||
Yu Long | Chinese conductor | People's Republic of China | 1964-07-01 | Shanghai | Q838077 | |||
Alan Gilbert | American conductor and violinist | United States of America | 1967-02-23 | New York City | Q673146 | |||
Gust�vo Dudamel | Venezuelan conductor and violinist | Venezuela | 1981-01-26 | Barquisimeto | Q160390 |
cryptographer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Wheatstone | British physicist (1802-1875) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1802-02-06 | 1875-10-19 | Gloucester | Paris | Q156942 | |
Silvio Micali | Italian-American computer scientist | United States of America | 1954-10-13 | Palermo | Q93080 | |||
Shafrira Goldwasser | American computer scientist | United States of America Israel |
1958-11-14 | New York City | Q11609 |
cultural historian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky | Irish politician (1838-1903) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1838-03-26 | 1903-10-22 | Dublin | London Dublin |
Q725927 | |
Jacques Barzun | French-born American historian (1907-2012) | United States of America France |
1907-11-30 | 2012-10-25 | Cr�teil | San Antonio | Q712946 |
curator
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Buckland | English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856) | England | 1784-03-12 | 1856-08-14 | Axminster | Islip | Q312389 | |
Oswald Heer | Swiss naturalist (1809–1883) | Switzerland | 1809-08-31 | 1883-09-27 | Uzwil | Lausanne | Q117021 | |
Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden | Belgian zoologist | Belgium | 1809-12-19 1809-12-15 |
1894-01-08 | Mechelen | Leuven | Q1386589 | |
Asa Gray | American botanist (1810–1888) | United States of America | 1810-11-18 | 1888-01-30 | Paris New York City |
Cambridge | Q347356 | |
Joel Asaph Allen | American zoologist and ornithologist (1838–1921) | United States of America | 1838-07-19 | 1921-08-29 | Springfield | New York City | Q502994 | |
Hendrik Lorentz | Dutch physicist (1853–1928) | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1853-07-18 | 1928-02-04 | Arnhem | Haarlem | Q41688 | |
Gaylord Simpson | American paleontologist (1902–1984) | United States of America | 1902-06-16 | 1984-10-06 | Chicago | Tucson | Q319603 | |
Ernst Mayr | German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005) | United States of America Germany |
1904-07-05 | 2005-02-03 | Kempten | Bedford | Q5354 |
diplomat
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Pedro Francisco de Luján y Góngora, 1st Duke of Almodóvar del Río | Spanish diplomat (1727-1794) | Spain | 1727-09-18 1727 |
1794-05-14 1794 |
Madrid | Madrid | Q650390 | |
Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen | German diplomat and scholar (1791-1860) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1791-08-25 | 1860-11-28 | Korbach | Bonn | Q67409 | |
Ferdinand de Lesseps | French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal | France | 1805-11-19 | 1894-12-07 | Versailles | Guilly | Q209169 | |
Américo Castro | Spanish historian | Spain | 1885-05-04 | 1972-07-25 | Cantagalo | Lloret de Mar | Q482275 | |
Jean Monnet | French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979) | France | 1888-11-09 | 1979-03-16 | Cognac | The Jean Monnet House | Q159700 | |
W. Averell Harriman | American businessman, politician and diplomat (1891–1986) | United States of America | 1891-11-15 | 1986-07-26 | New York City | Yorktown Heights | Q345531 | |
Hu Shih | Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomate (1891–1962) | Taiwan Republic of China Qing dynasty |
1891-12-17 | 1962-02-24 | Shanghai | Taipei | Q47667 | |
Sumner Welles | American government official and diplomat (1892-1961) | United States of America | 1892-10-14 | 1961-09-24 | New York City | Bernardsville | Q1234032 | |
Thomas K. Finletter | American diplomat (1893-1980) | United States of America | 1893-11-11 | 1980-04-24 | Philadelphia | New York City | Q1723653 | |
Ellsworth Bunker | American diplomat (1894–1984) | United States of America | 1894-05-11 | 1984-09-27 | Yonkers | Brattleboro | Q63708 | |
John Moors Cabot | American ambassador (1901-1981) | United States of America | 1901-12-11 | 1981-02-24 | Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q1701131 | |
George F. Kennan | American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005) | United States of America | 1904-02-16 | 2005-03-17 | Milwaukee | Princeton | Q156058 | |
Ralph Bunche | US-American diplomat, civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904-1971) | United States of America | 1904-08-07 | 1971-12-09 | Detroit | New York City | Q213500 | |
Charles E. Bohlen | American diplomat | United States of America | 1904-08-30 | 1974-01-01 | Clayton | Washington, D.C. | Q776165 | |
Charles Malik | Lebanese politician (1906-1987) | Lebanon | 1906 | 1987-12-28 | Btourram | Beirut | Q607841 | |
Edwin O. Reischauer | American diplomat (1910-1990) | United States of America | 1910-10-15 | 1990-09-01 | Tokyo | La Jolla | Q183253 | |
Lincoln Gordon | U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and university president | United States of America | 1913-09-10 | 2009-12-19 | New York City | Mitchellville | Q931928 | |
Thomas Watson | American businessman and diplomat (1914-1993) | United States of America | 1914-01-14 | 1993-12-31 | Dayton | Greenwich | Q46000 | |
Patricia Harris | American politician and diplomat (1924–1985) | United States of America | 1924-05-31 | 1985-03-23 | Mattoon | Washington, D.C. | Q444106 | |
Kofi Annan | 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018) | Ghana | 1938-04-08 | 2018-08-18 | Kumasi | Bern | Q1254 | |
Stephen W. Bosworth | former Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a United States diplomat | United States of America | 1939-12-04 | 2016-01-03 2016-01-04 |
Grand Rapids | Boston | Q488066 | |
Martti Koskenniemi | Finnish lawyer and diplomat | Finland | 1953-03-18 | Turku | Q1239148 | |||
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Nigerian-American economist | Nigeria | 1954-06-13 | Ogwashi-Uku | Q289350 | |||
R. Nicholas Burns | American diplomat and academic | United States of America | 1956-01-28 | Buffalo | Q519825 |
economic historian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Michael Rostovtzeff | Russian historian of ancient history | Russian Empire United States of America |
1870-11-10 | 1952-10-20 | Zhytomyr | New Haven | Q502983 | |
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. | American historian (1918–2007) | United States of America | 1918-09-15 | 2007-05-09 2007-05-12 |
New Castle County | Cambridge | Q1336939 |
economist
[edit]
egyptologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Gaston Maspero | French Egyptologist (1846–1916) | France Kingdom of Italy |
1846-06-24 | 1916-06-30 | former 1st arrondissement of Paris | Paris | Q311816 | |
George Andrew Reisner | American egyptologist (1867-1942) | United States of America | 1867-11-05 1867 |
1942-06-06 1942 |
Indianapolis | Giza | Q502932 |
electrical engineer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Bern Dibner | American engineer | United States of America | 1897-08-18 | 1988-01-06 | Lysianka | Fairfield County | Q822095 | |
John Roy Whinnery | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1916-07-26 | 2009-02-01 | Walnut Creek | Q482345 |
engineer
[edit]
entomologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Hermann August Hagen | German entomologist (1817-1893) | Kingdom of Prussia United States of America |
1817-05-30 | 1893-11-09 | Königsberg | Cambridge | Q73531 | |
Karl Jordan | German entomologist (1861-1959) | United Kingdom Germany Kingdom of Prussia |
1861-12-07 | 1959-01-12 | Almstedt | Tring | Q65882 | |
William Morton Wheeler | U.S. entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor (1865–1937) | United States of America | 1865-03-19 | 1937-04-19 | Milwaukee | Cambridge | Q1352575 | |
Edward O. Wilson | American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021) | United States of America | 1929-06-10 | 2021-12-26 | Birmingham | New Brunswick | Q211029 | |
Richard Southwood | Zoologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1931–2005) | United Kingdom | 1931-06-20 | 2005-10-26 | Northfleet | Q446313 | ||
Bert Hölldobler | German biologist | Germany | 1936-06-25 | Andechs | Q63754 |
entrepreneur
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Alfred P. Sloan | American businessman (1875–1966) | United States of America | 1875-05-23 | 1966-02-17 | New Haven | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Q344045 | |
Charles Francis Adams IV | industrialist (1910-1999) | United States of America | 1910-05-02 | 1999-01-05 | Boston | Dover | Q1064409 | |
David Packard | American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist | United States of America | 1912-09-07 | 1996-03-26 | Pueblo | Stanford | Q380484 | |
William Redington Hewlett | American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard | United States of America | 1913-05-20 | 2001-01-12 | Ann Arbor | Palo Alto | Q380467 | |
John Kluge | German-American businessman | United States of America Germany |
1914-09-21 | 2010-09-07 | Chemnitz | Charlottesville | Q179382 | |
Gordon Moore | American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023) | United States of America | 1929-01-03 | 2023-03-24 | San Francisco | Waimea | Q243969 | |
Hansjörg Wyss | Swiss businessman and Democratic megadonor | Switzerland | 1935-09-19 | Bern | Q1000803 | |||
Teresa Heinz Kerry | Businessperson | Portugal United States of America |
1938-10-05 | Maputo | Q288503 | |||
N. R. Narayana Murthy | Indian businessman | India British Raj |
1946-08-20 | Mysore | Q1398708 | |||
Howard Schultz | American businessman | United States of America | 1953-07-19 | Brooklyn | Q472330 | |||
Steve Jobs | American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011) | United States of America | 1955-02-24 | 2011-10-05 | San Francisco | Palo Alto | Q19837 | |
Nandan Nilekani | Indian businessman | India | 1955-06-02 | Vanivilas Women and Children Hospital | Q1391255 | |||
Bill Gates | American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955) | United States of America | 1955-10-28 | Seattle | Q5284 | |||
Reid Hoffman | American Co-founder of Linkedin, venture capitalist and author | United States of America | 1967-08-05 | Stanford | Q211098 | |||
Larry Page | American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur | United States of America | 1973-03-26 | East Lansing | Q4934 |
epigrapher
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Adolf Kirchhoff | German classical philologist and epigrapher (1826–1908) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1826-01-06 | 1908-02-27 | Berlin | Berlin | Q77629 | |
Louis Robert | French epigrapher (1904-1985) | France | 1904-02-15 | 1985-05-31 | Laurière | 14th arrondissement of Paris | Q711820 |
essayist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Fredric Jameson | American academic and literary critic (1934–2024) | United States of America | 1934-04-14 | 2024-09-22 | Cleveland | Durham | Q347362 | |
Kay Redfield Jamison | American bipolar disorder researcher | United States of America | 1946-06-22 | Q265762 |
evolutionary biologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Julian Huxley | British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1887-06-22 | 1975-02-14 | London | London | Q243419 | |
Theodosius Dobzhansky | geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900-1975) | Russian Empire Soviet Union United States of America |
1900-01-25 | 1975-12-18 1975-01-18 |
Nemyriv | San Jacinto | Q246731 | |
W. D. Hamilton | British evolutionary biologist (1936–2000) | United Kingdom | 1936-08-01 | 2000-03-07 | Cairo | Middlesex Hospital London |
Q15451 | |
Stephen Jay Gould | American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002) | United States of America | 1941-09-10 | 2002-05-20 | Queens | New York City | Q180619 |
explorer
[edit]
film actor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Laurence Olivier | English actor and director (1907–1989) | United Kingdom | 1907-05-22 | 1989-07-11 | Dorking | West Sussex | Q55245 | |
Judi Dench | English actress (born 1934) | United Kingdom | 1934-12-09 | York | Q28054 | |||
Dustin Hoffman | American actor (born 1937) | United States of America | 1937-08-08 | Los Angeles | Q42930 | |||
Sherry Lansing | American film studio executive and actress | United States of America | 1944-07-31 | Chicago | Q299704 | |||
Glenn Close | American actress | United States of America | 1947-03-19 | Greenwich | Q372311 | |||
Meryl Streep | American actress | United States of America | 1949-06-22 | Summit | Q873 | |||
Tom Hanks | American actor and film producer (born 1956) | United States of America Greece |
1956-07-09 | Concord | Q2263 |
film director
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Carl Theodor Dreyer | Danish film director (1889–1968) | Kingdom of Denmark | 1889-02-03 | 1968-03-20 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Q51127 | |
Jean Renoir | French film director and screenwriter (1894–1979) | France | 1894-09-15 | 1979-02-12 | 18th arrondissement of Paris | Beverly Hills | Q50713 | |
Luis Buñuel | Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983) | Spain Mexico |
1900-02-22 | 1983-07-29 | Calanda | Mexico City | Q51545 | |
Akira Kurosawa | Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998) | Japan Empire of Japan |
1910-03-23 | 1998-09-06 | Shinagawa-ku | Setagaya-ku | Q8006 | |
Ingmar Bergman | Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007) | Sweden | 1918-07-14 | 2007-07-30 | Uppsala Cathedral Assembly | Fårö parish | Q7546 | |
Federico Fellini | Italian filmmaker (1920–1993) | Italy | 1920-01-20 | 1993-10-31 | Rimini | Rome | Q7371 | |
Robert Altman | American filmmaker (1925–2006) | United States of America | 1925-02-20 | 2006-11-20 | Kansas City | Los Angeles | Q55163 | |
Marcel Ophuls | German-born French documentary film maker (b. 1927) | France United States of America |
1927-11-01 | Frankfurt | Q711420 | |||
Mike Nichols | American director and comedian (1931–2014) | United States of America | 1931-11-06 | 2014-11-19 | Berlin | New York City | Q51537 | |
Miloš Forman | Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018) | United States of America Czechoslovakia Czech Republic |
1932-02-18 | 2018-04-13 | Čáslav | Danbury | Q51525 | |
Woody Allen | American film director, actor and comedian | United States of America | 1935-11-30 | The Bronx | Q25089 | |||
Martin Scorsese | American film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor | United States of America Italy |
1942-11-17 | Queens | Q41148 | |||
Mike Leigh | English writer and director (born 1943) | United Kingdom | 1943-02-20 | Brocket Hall | Q315756 | |||
Robert De Niro | American actor, director and producer (born 1943) | United States of America Italy |
1943-08-17 | New York City | Q36949 | |||
Pedro Almodóvar | Spanish filmmaker (born 1949) | Spain | 1949-09-25 | Calzada de Calatrava | Q55171 | |||
Ken Burns | American documentarian and filmmaker (born 1953) | United States of America | 1953-07-29 | Brooklyn | Q616886 | |||
Ang Lee | Taiwanese director, screenwriter and film producer | Taiwan | 1954-10-23 | Chaozhou | Q160726 | |||
Denzel Washington | American actor, director and producer (born 1954) | United States of America | 1954-12-28 | Mount Vernon | Q42101 | |||
William Kentridge | South African artist | South Africa | 1955-04-28 | Johannesburg | Q666092 | |||
John Lasseter | American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer | United States of America | 1957-01-12 | Hollywood | Q269214 | |||
Spike Lee | American filmmaker (born 1957) | United States of America | 1957-03-20 | Atlanta | Q51566 | |||
Wong Kar-wai | Chinese screenwriter, film producer and film director | Hong Kong | 1958-07-17 | Shanghai | Q55431 |
film producer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Clint Eastwood | American actor and film director (born 1930) | United States of America | 1930-05-31 | San Francisco | Q43203 | |||
Al Pacino | American actor (born 1940) | United States of America | 1940-04-25 | Manhattan | Q41163 | |||
George Lucas | American filmmaker (born 1944) | United States of America | 1944-05-14 | Modesto | Q38222 | |||
Kathleen Kennedy | American film producer | United States of America | 1953-06-05 | Berkeley | Q237207 |
flight engineer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Stark Draper | American engineer (1901–1987) | United States of America | 1901-10-02 | 1987-07-25 | Windsor | Cambridge | Q41378 | |
Frank Whittle | British Royal Air Force engineer air officer | United Kingdom | 1907-06-01 | 1996-08-09 | Coventry | Columbia | Q312547 | |
Anatol Roshko | Canadian-born American physicist and engineer | United States of America | 1923-07-15 | 2017-01-23 | Bellevue | Altadena | Q487456 |
geneticist
[edit]
geographer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Friedrich von Schubert | Russian general and military cartographer | Russian Empire Russia |
1789-02-12 | 1865-11-15 | Saint Petersburg | Stuttgart | Q49491 | |
Raoul Blanchard | French geographer | France | 1877-09-04 | 1965-03-24 | Orléans | 16th arrondissement of Paris | Q524074 | |
Torsten Hägerstrand | Swedish geographer, inventor of time geography | Sweden | 1916-10-11 | 2004-05-04 | Alvesta Municipality | Lund | Q335879 |
geologist
[edit]
geophysicist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Arthur Holmes | English geologist | United Kingdom | 1890-01-14 | 1965-09-20 | Gateshead | London | Q606039 | |
Vladimir Keilis-Borok | Soviet geophysicist | Soviet Union Russia |
1921-07-31 | 2013-10-19 | Moscow | Culver City | Q320835 |
geopolitical analyst
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Brooks Adams | American political writer (1848-1927) | United States of America | 1848-06-24 | 1927-02-13 | Quincy | Boston | Q929695 | |
Ellsworth Huntington | American geographer (1876-1947) | United States of America | 1876-09-16 | 1947-10-17 | Galesburg | New Haven | Q1332601 | |
Joseph Nye | American political scientist | United States of America | 1937-01-19 | New Jersey | Q210362 | |||
Paul Kennedy | British historian | United Kingdom | 1945-06-17 | Wallsend | Q712123 |
guitarist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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B. B. King | American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015) | United States of America | 1925-09-16 | 2015-05-14 | Berclair Itta Bena |
Las Vegas | Q188969 | |
Paul McCartney | English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942) | United Kingdom | 1942-06-18 | Walton Hospital | Q2599 | |||
Robbie Robertson | Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist (1943–2023) | Canada | 1943-07-05 | 2023-08-09 | Toronto | Los Angeles | Q117249 |
historian
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historian of Modern Age
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Carl Lotus Becker | American historian | United States of America | 1873-09-07 | 1945-04-10 | Waterloo | Ithaca | Q1039506 | |
Hans Baron | German-American historian | Germany United States of America |
1900-06-22 | 1988-11-26 | Berlin | Urbana | Q76295 | |
Felix Gilbert | German-american historian (1905-1991) | Germany United States of America |
1905-05-21 | 1991-02-14 | Baden-Baden | Princeton | Q110691 | |
C. Vann Woodward | American historian (1908-1999) | United States of America | 1908-11-13 | 1999-12-17 | Vanndale | Hamden | Q612410 | |
David M. Potter | American historian (1910–1971) | United States of America | 1910-12-06 | 1971-02-18 | Augusta | Palo Alto | Q526331 | |
Gordon A. Craig | American historian | United States of America United Kingdom Germany |
1913-11-26 | 2005-10-30 | Glasgow | Portola Valley | Q316202 | |
George Mosse | American historian | United States of America Germany |
1918-09-20 | 1999-01-22 | Berlin | Madison | Q215636 | |
Karl Dietrich Bracher | German historian and political scientist (1922-2016) | Germany | 1922-03-13 | 2016-09-19 | Stuttgart | Bonn | Q69799 | |
Gerhard Weinberg | American military historian | United States of America | 1928-01-01 | Hanover | Q214357 | |||
Hans-Ulrich Wehler | German historian (1931-2014) | Germany | 1931-09-11 | 2014-07-05 | Freudenberg | Bielefeld | Q66155 |
historian of classical antiquity
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Philipp August Böckh | German classical scholar and antiquarian (1785-1867) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1785-11-24 | 1867-08-03 | Karlsruhe | Berlin | Q63183 | |
Theodor Mommsen | German classical scholar and historian (1817–1903) | Kingdom of Prussia Duchy of Schleswig |
1817-11-30 | 1903-11-01 | Garding | Charlottenburg | Q25351 | |
Arnaldo Momigliano | Italian historian of classical antiquity (1908–1987) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1908-09-05 | 1987-09-01 | Caraglio | London | Q644418 |
historian of science
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Otto E. Neugebauer | Austrian-American mathematician | Austria United States of America |
1899-05-26 | 1990-02-19 | Innsbruck | Princeton | Q111996 | |
A. I. Sabra | Egyptian historian of science (1924-2013) | Egypt | 1924-07-08 | 2013-12-18 | Tanta | Lexington | Q307891 | |
John L. Heilbron | American historian of science | United States of America | 1934-03-17 | 2023-11-05 | San Francisco | Padua | Q1700413 | |
Lorraine Daston | American historian of science | United States of America | 1951-06-09 | East Lansing | Q529094 |
historian of technology
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Hermann Diels | German classical scholar (1848–1922) | German Empire | 1848-05-18 | 1922-06-04 | Biebrich | Dahlem | Q61889 | |
Abbott Payson Usher | American economic historian | United States of America | 1883 | 1965 | Lynn | Salem | Q306771 |
immunologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Emil von Behring | German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin | German Empire Kingdom of Prussia |
1854-03-15 | 1917-03-31 | Ławice | Marburg | Q76425 | |
George Nuttall | American-British bacteriologist (1862–1937) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1862-07-05 | 1937-12-16 | San Francisco | London | Q1387018 | |
George Davis Snell | American geneticist | United States of America | 1903-12-19 | 1996-06-06 | Bradford | Bar Harbor | Q295666 | |
Niels Kaj Jerne | Danish immunologist | Kingdom of Denmark | 1911-12-23 | 1994-10-07 | London | Castillon-du-Gard | Q309876 | |
Rolf M. Zinkernagel | Swiss immunologist | Switzerland | 1944-01-06 | Riehen | Q116064 | |||
Don Craig Wiley | American immunologist | United States of America | 1944-10-21 | 2001-11 | Akron | Memphis | Q375709 | |
Carl F. Nathan | American microbiologist and immunologist | United States of America | 1946-04-20 | New York City | Q1037710 |
inventor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse | American inventor and painter (1791–1872) | United States of America | 1791-04-27 | 1872-04-02 | Charlestown | Manhattan | Q75698 | |
Willem Einthoven | Dutch physiologist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1860-05-21 | 1927-09-29 | Semarang | Leiden | Q189488 | |
John Stone Stone | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1869-09-24 | 1943-05-20 | Manakin-Sabot | San Diego | Q932344 | |
Edwin H. Land | American scientist and inventor | United States of America | 1909-05-07 | 1991-03-01 | Bridgeport | Cambridge | Q380134 | |
Calvin Quate | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1923-12-07 | 2019-07-06 | Baker | Menlo Park | Q482334 | |
Douglas Engelbart | American engineer and inventor | United States of America | 1925-01-30 | 2013-07-02 | Portland | Atherton | Q92614 | |
Paul Baran | American engineer | United States of America Poland |
1926-04-29 | 2011-03-26 | Hrodna | Palo Alto | Q92617 | |
George H. Heilmeier | American engineer and businessman (1936-2014) | United States of America | 1936-05-22 | 2014-04-22 2014-04-21 |
Philadelphia | Plano | Q182522 | |
Raymond Kurzweil | American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948) | United States of America | 1948-02-12 | Queens | Q298341 | |||
Robert S. Langer, Jr. | American biomedical engineer | United States of America | 1948-08-29 | Albany | Q669597 | |||
William Daniel Hillis | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1956-09-25 | Baltimore | Q92942 |
journalist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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François Mignet | French historian and journalist (1796-1884) | France | 1796-05-08 | 1884-03-24 | Aix-en-Provence | rue d'Aumale | Q660553 | |
Johann Christian Poggendorff | German physicist | Hamburg | 1796-12-29 | 1877-01-24 | Hamburg | Berlin | Q61197 | |
John LaFarge, Jr. | American writer (1880-1963) | United States of America | 1880-02-13 | 1963-11-24 | Newport | New York City | Q1700771 | |
Walter Lippmann | American journalist | United States of America | 1889-09-23 | 1974-12-14 | New York City | New York City | Q316568 | |
Rebecca West | British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist | United Kingdom | 1892-12-21 | 1983-03-15 | London | London | Q236669 | |
Simon Rawidowicz | American philosopher (1897–1957) | Germany United States of America |
1896-10-11 | 1957-07-21 | Grajewo | Waltham | Q96509 | |
Raymond Aron | French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983) | France | 1905-03-14 | 1983-10-17 | 6th arrondissement of Paris | 4th arrondissement of Paris | Q160640 | |
Alberto Lleras Camargo | Colombian journalist and politician (1906-1990) | Colombia | 1906-07-03 | 1990-01-04 | Bogotá | Bogotá | Q12002 | |
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff | German journalist | Germany | 1909-12-02 | 2002-03-11 | Friedrichstein Castle | Castle Crottorf | Q62443 | |
Barbara W. Tuchman | American historian and author (1912–1989) | United States of America | 1912-01-30 | 1989-02-06 | New York City | Greenwich | Q59112 | |
Mary McCarthy | American writer | United States of America | 1912-06-21 | 1989-10-25 | Seattle | New York City | Q268147 | |
John Hersey | American journalist, novelist, professor (1914-1993) | United States of America | 1914-06-17 | 1993-03-24 | Tianjin | Key West | Q535812 | |
Walter Cronkite | American broadcast journalist (1916-2009) | United States of America | 1916-11-04 | 2009-07-17 | St. Joseph | New York City | Q31073 | |
Herbert Lüthy | historian (1918-2002) | Switzerland | 1918-01-15 | 2002-11-16 | Basel | Basel | Q119364 | |
Norman Mailer | American writer (1923–2007) | United States of America | 1923-01-31 | 2007-11-10 | Long Branch | New York City | Q180962 | |
John Maddox | Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1925-11-27 | 2009-04-12 | Penllergaer | London | Q1700954 | |
Nayantara Sahgal | Indian writer (born 1927) | India | 1927-05-10 | Prayagraj | Q448399 | |||
William Kennedy | American writer and journalist | United States of America | 1928-01-16 | Albany | Q31984 | |||
Max Frankel | American journalist | United States of America Germany |
1930-04-03 | Gera | Q115367 | |||
Jim Lehrer | American writer (1934-2020) | United States of America | 1934-05-19 | 2020-01-23 | Wichita | Washington, D.C. | Q931148 | |
Bill Moyers | American journalist | United States of America | 1934-06-05 | Hugo | Q605370 | |||
Tom Brokaw | American broadcast journalist and author (born 1940) | United States of America | 1940-02-06 | Webster | Q919527 | |||
Doris Kearns Goodwin | American biographer and historian (born 1943) | United States of America | 1943-01-04 | Brooklyn | Q442008 | |||
Marjorie Scardino | American business woman | United States of America United Kingdom |
1947-01-25 | Flagstaff | Q534920 | |||
Karen Elliott House | American journalist and former executive | United States of America | 1947-12-07 | Matador | Q1407715 | |||
Jill Abramson | former executive editor of The New York Times | United States of America | 1954-03-19 | New York City | Q441164 | |||
Amy Goodman | American journalist (1957-) | United States of America | 1957-04-13 | Washington, D.C. | Q259317 | |||
Christiane Amanpour | English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent | United Kingdom | 1958-01-12 | Ealing | Q236939 | |||
David Remnick | American journalist, writer and editor (born 1958) | United States of America | 1958-10-29 | Hackensack | Q1176307 | |||
Daniel Mendelsohn | American writer | United States of America | 1960-04-16 | Long Island | Q662119 | |||
Michael Lewis | American writer | United States of America | 1960-10-15 | New Orleans | Q311654 |
judge
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Jay | chief justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795 | United States of America | 1745-12-12 | 1829-05-17 | New York City | Westchester County | Q310847 | |
Increase Sumner | Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice | United States of America | 1746-11-27 | 1799-06-07 | Roxbury | Boston | Q343769 | |
Emory Washburn | American politician; Harvard Law professor (1800-1877) | United States of America | 1800-02-14 | 1877-03-18 | Leicester | Cambridge | Q440607 | |
William Howard Taft | president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 | United States of America | 1857-09-15 | 1930-03-08 | Cincinnati | Washington metropolitan area | Q35648 | |
James Atkin | Baron Atkin of Aberdyfi, judge (1867-1944) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1867-11-28 | 1944-06-25 | Brisbane | Aberdyfi | Q799090 | |
Mineichirō Adachi | jurist | Japan | 1870-07-29 | 1934-12-28 | Uzen Province | Amsterdam | Q346498 | |
Learned Hand | American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge | United States of America | 1872-01-27 | 1961-08-18 | Albany | New York City | Q493155 | |
Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan | British judge (1873-1952) | United Kingdom | 1873-02-20 | 1952-09-05 | Q601898 | |||
Earl Warren | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 | United States of America | 1891-03-19 | 1974-07-09 | Los Angeles | Washington, D.C. | Q311197 | |
Hans Morgenthau | American political scientist (1904–1980) | Germany | 1904-02-17 | 1980-07-19 | Coburg | New York City | Q77161 | |
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin | British judge and jurist (1905-1992) | United Kingdom | 1905-11-25 | 1992-08-09 | London Borough of Bromley Chislehurst |
Wiltshire Pewsey |
Q1033286 | |
Lewis F. Powell Jr. | American jurist (1907–1998); US Supreme Court justice from 1972 to 1987 | United States of America | 1907-09-19 | 1998-08-25 | Suffolk | Richmond | Q252739 | |
Taslim Olawale Elias | Nigerian judge | Nigeria | 1914-11-11 | 1991-08-14 | Lagos | Lagos | Q528855 | |
William Rehnquist | chief justice of the United States from 1986 to 2005 | United States of America | 1924-10-01 | 2005-09-03 | Milwaukee | Arlington County | Q311562 | |
Shirley M. Hufstedler | American judge and Secretary of Education (1925-2016) | United States of America | 1925-08-24 | 2016-03-30 | Denver | Glendale | Q465401 | |
Sandra Day O'Connor | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006 | United States of America | 1930-03-26 | 2023-12-01 | El Paso | Phoenix | Q11132 | |
Guido Calabresi | United States federal judge | Italy United States of America |
1932-10-18 | Milan | Q121995 | |||
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020 | United States of America | 1933-03-15 | 2020-09-18 | Brooklyn | Washington, D.C. | Q11116 | |
Antonin Scalia | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016 | United States of America | 1936-03-11 | 2016-02-13 | Trenton | Cibolo Creek Ranch | Q11156 | |
Rosalyn Higgins | British barrister, judge and scholar (born 1937) | United Kingdom | 1937-06-02 | London | Q273691 | |||
Richard Posner | United States federal judge | United States of America | 1939-01-11 | New York City | Q533583 | |||
Rosalie Abella | Canadian jurist | Canada | 1946-07-01 | Stuttgart | Q930026 | |||
Eric Holder | United States Attorney General from 2009 to 2015 | United States of America | 1951-01-21 | The Bronx | Q312644 | |||
Ronny Abraham | French judge and academic | France | 1951-09-05 | Alexandria | Q382775 | |||
Sonia Sotomayor | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2009 | United States of America | 1954-06-25 | The Bronx | Q11107 | |||
Elena Kagan | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2010 | United States of America | 1960-04-28 | New York City | Q11105 |
jurist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Jacob Grimm | German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863) | Electorate of Hesse Kingdom of Prussia |
1785-01-04 | 1863-09-20 | Hanau | Berlin | Q6701 | |
Francis Lieber | German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher | Kingdom of Prussia United States of America |
1798-03-18 1800-03-18 1800 |
1872-10-02 | Berlin | New York City | Q77906 | |
Francis Wharton | American educationalist (1820-1889) | United States of America | 1820-03-07 | 1889-02-21 | Philadelphia | Washington, D.C. | Q1240282 | |
Rudolf Stammler | German jurist, law theorist, philosopher (1856-1938) | German Reich | 1856-02-19 | 1938-04-25 | Alsfeld | Wernigerode | Q77651 | |
Léon Duguit | French legal scholar | France | 1859-02-04 | 1928-12-18 | Libourne | Bordeaux | Q1195383 | |
Dionisio Anzilotti | Italian jurist/judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1867-1950) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1867-02-20 | 1950-08-23 | Pescia | Pescia | Q1226953 | |
Friedrich Kessler | German American legal scholar (1901-1998) | Germany United States of America |
1901-08-25 | 1998-01-21 | Hechingen | Berkeley | Q119480 | |
Leo Gross | American jurist | United States of America Austria |
1903-04-06 | 1990-11-09 | Krosno | Cambridge | Q112909 | |
H. L. A. Hart | English legal philosopher (1907–1992) | United Kingdom | 1907-07-18 | 1992-12-19 | Harrogate | Oxford | Q374834 | |
Archibald Cox | American prosecutor | United States of America | 1912-05-17 1912-05-12 |
2004-05-29 | Plainfield | Brooksville | Q633113 | |
Louis B. Sohn | Ukrainian and American legal scholar | United States of America Ukraine |
1914-03-01 | 2006-06-07 | Lviv | Falls Church | Q94177 | |
Maurice Duverger | French academic (1917-2014) | France | 1917-06-05 | 2014-12-16 | Angoulême | 5th arrondissement of Paris | Q380297 | |
Zelman Cowen | former Governor-General of Australia (1919-2011) | Australia | 1919-10-07 | 2011-12-08 | Melbourne | Toorak | Q189186 | |
Elliot Richardson | American lawyer and politician (1920-1999) | United States of America | 1920-07-20 | 1999-12-31 | Boston | Boston | Q719808 | |
Arthur Taylor Von Mehren | American jurist | United States of America | 1922-08-10 | 2006-01-16 | Albert Lea | Cambridge | Q711676 | |
Theodor Meron | Israeli judge and lawyer | United States of America | 1930-04-28 | Kalisz | Q718760 | |||
Stephen Breyer | US Supreme Court justice from 1994 to 2022 | United States of America | 1938-08-15 | San Francisco | Q11124 | |||
David Souter | U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1990 to 2009 | United States of America | 1939-09-17 | Melrose | Q472547 | |||
Martha Fineman | American legal scholar, feminist studies scholar | United States of America | 1943-05-27 | Q441514 | ||||
John Roberts | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2005 | United States of America | 1955-01-27 | Buffalo | Q11153 | |||
Anne-Marie Slaughter | American academic, foreign policy analyst, and public commentator | United States of America | 1958-09-27 | Charlottesville | Q465477 |
landscape architect
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. | American landscape architect (1870–1957) | United States of America | 1870-07-24 | 1957-12-25 | Staten Island | Malibu | Q538025 | |
Thomas Church | American landscape architect (1902–1978) | United States of America | 1902-04-27 | 1978-08-30 | Boston | Q529978 |
latinist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl | German classical philologist (1806-1876) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1806-04-06 | 1876-11-09 | Großvargula | Leipzig | Q64632 | |
Brooks Otis | American classical philologist (1908-1977) | United States of America | 1908-06-10 | 1977-07-26 | Boston | Chapel Hill | Q929770 |
lawyer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Adams | president of the United States from 1797 to 1801 | United States of America Kingdom of Great Britain |
1735-10-19 | 1826-07-04 | Braintree | Quincy | Q11806 | |
James Sullivan | Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and governor (1744 – 1808) | United States of America | 1744-04-22 | 1808-12-10 | Berwick | Boston | Q607767 | |
John Phillips | American politician (1770-1823) | United States of America | 1770-11-26 | 1823-05-29 1823-05-23 |
Boston | Q1701427 | ||
Adolphe Thiers | President of the French Republic (1797–1877) | France | 1797-04-15 | 1877-09-03 | Marseille | Saint-Germain-en-Laye | Q5738 | |
Benjamin N. Cardozo | United States federal judge (1870-1938) | United States of America | 1870-05-24 | 1938-07-09 | New York City | Port Chester | Q817637 | |
Felix Frankfurter | former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1882-1965) | United States of America | 1882-11-15 | 1965-02-22 | Vienna | Washington, D.C. | Q1403472 | |
Robert P. Patterson | American federal judge, Undersecretary of War, later Secretary of War (1891-1952) | United States of America | 1891-02-12 | 1952-01-22 | Glens Falls | Newark | Q723287 | |
William J. Brennan | U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1956 to 1990 | United States of America | 1906-04-25 | 1997-07-24 | Newark | Washington, D.C. | Q717401 | |
Lloyd Cutler | American lawyer | United States of America | 1917-11-10 | 2005-05-08 | New York City | Washington, D.C. | Q1378897 | |
Robert Badinter | French lawyer, politician and author (1928–2024) | France | 1928-03-30 | 2024-02-09 | 16th arrondissement of Paris | 6th arrondissement of Paris | Q336046 | |
Ronald Dworkin | American legal philosopher | United States of America | 1931-12-11 | 2013-02-14 | Providence | London | Q319803 | |
Charles Fried | American judge (1935–2024) | United States of America | 1935-04-15 | 2024-01-23 | Prague | Cambridge | Q1064457 | |
Catharine MacKinnon | American feminist and legal activist | United States of America | 1946-10-07 | Minneapolis | Q528159 | |||
Ron Kirk | American politician | United States of America | 1954-06-27 | Austin | Q1399368 | |||
Harold Hongju Koh | American lawyer | United States of America | 1954-12-08 | Boston | Q907913 | |||
Deval Patrick | Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015 | United States of America | 1956-07-31 | Chicago | Q11100 | |||
Mitchell Baker | Chairwoman; former CEO | United States of America | 1957 | Oakland | Q445250 | |||
Michelle Obama | lawyer and former First Lady of the United States | United States of America | 1964-01-17 | Chicago | Q13133 |
lexicographer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Noah Webster | American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843) | United States of America | 1758-10-16 | 1843-05-28 | West Hartford | New Haven | Q241676 | |
Ladislav Zgusta | Czech linguist | United States of America Czechoslovakia |
1924-03-20 | 2007-04-27 | Libochovice | Urbana | Q1755374 |
librarian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Justin Winsor | American librarian and historian (1831-1897) | United States of America | 1831-01-02 | 1897-10-22 | Boston | Cambridge | Q991742 | |
Herbert Putnam | American librarian and lawyer (1861-1955) | United States of America | 1861-09-20 | 1955-08-14 | New York City | Woods Hole | Q924790 | |
Eugène Tisserant | French cardinal (1884–1972) | France | 1884-03-24 1884-03-04 |
1972-02-21 | Nancy | Albano Laziale Rome |
Q648584 | |
Archibald MacLeish | American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982) | United States of America | 1892-05-07 | 1982-04-20 | Glencoe | Boston | Q633354 |
linguist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Wilhelm von Humboldt | Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1767-06-22 | 1835-04-08 | Kabinetthaus | Berlin | Q77888 | |
Immanuel Bekker | German classical scholar and philologist (1785-1871) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1785-05-21 | 1871-06-07 | Berlin | Berlin | Q77606 | |
Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier | German jurist (1787-1867) | Grand Duchy of Baden | 1787-08-05 | 1867-08-28 | Munich | Heidelberg | Q73096 | |
Franz Bopp | German linguist (1791-1861) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1791-09-14 | 1867-10-23 | Mainz | Berlin | Q76934 | |
Edward Robinson | American Biblical scholar (1794-1863) | United States of America | 1794-04-10 | 1863-01-27 | Southington | New York City | Q629131 | |
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet | British politician (1810-1895) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1810-04-05 | 1895-03-05 | Chadlington | London | Q309602 | |
Benjamin Jowett | British cleric and classics scholar (1817–1893) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1817-04-15 | 1893-10-01 | Camberwell | Oxford | Q817565 | |
Georg Curtius | German classical scholar and philologist (1820-1885) | Lübeck | 1820-04-16 | 1885-08-12 | Lübeck | Helmsdorf | Q72861 | |
Friedrich Max Müller | German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900) | Anhalt-Dessau United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1823-12-06 | 1900-10-28 | Dessau Dessau-Roßlau |
Oxford | Q60074 | |
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve | American classical philologist | United States of America | 1831-10-23 | 1924-01-09 | Charleston | Baltimore | Q810037 | |
Maurice Bloomfield | American classical philologist | United States of America | 1855-02-23 | 1928-06-12 | Bielsko | San Francisco | Q114496 | |
Herbert Weir Smyth | American classical scholar (1857–1937) | United States of America | 1857-08-08 | 1937-07-16 | Wilmington | Bar Harbor | Q471925 | |
Sylvain Lévi | French orientalist and indologist (1863–1935) | France | 1863-03-28 | 1935-10-30 | Paris | Paris | Q725444 | |
Gilbert Murray | Anglo-Australian scholar (1866-1957) | Australia | 1866-01-02 | 1957-05-20 | Sydney | Oxford | Q538478 | |
Paul Kretschmer | German linguist (1866-1956) | Germany | 1866-05-02 | 1956-03-09 | Berlin | Vienna | Q64431 | |
Ramón Menéndez Pidal | Spanish philologist (1869-1968) | Spain | 1869-03-13 | 1968-11-14 | A Coruña | Madrid | Q381953 | |
Alan Gardiner | English egyptologist and philologist (1879–1963) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1879-03-29 | 1963-12-19 | Eltham | Oxford | Q441060 | |
Archer Taylor | American folklorist (1890–1973) | United States of America | 1890-08-01 | 1973-09-30 | Philadelphia | Vallejo | Q632714 | |
Junzaburō Nishiwaki | Japanese writer | Japan Empire of Japan |
1894-01-20 | 1982-06-05 | Niigata Prefecture | Niigata Prefecture | Q908585 | |
Roman Jakobson | Russian-American linguist, philosopher and semiotician | Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Czechoslovakia United States of America |
1896-09-29 | 1982-07-18 | Moscow | Cambridge Boston |
Q156201 | |
George Sherman Lane | American linguist | United States of America | 1902-09-28 | 1981-09-18 | Chapel Hill | Q1389744 | ||
Jan Gonda | Dutch Indologist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1905-04-14 | 1991-07-28 | Gouda | Utrecht | Q1022375 | |
Wolf Leslau | Polish-Jewish, American linguist | United States of America Poland |
1906-11-14 | 2006-11-18 | Krzepice | Fullerton | Q215775 | |
Dmitry Likhachov | Russian scholar (1906-1999) | Russian Empire Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Russia |
1906-11-15 1906-11-28 |
1999-09-30 | Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | Q712412 | |
Zellig S. Harris | populariser of theoretical linguistics | United States of America | 1909-10-23 | 1992-05-22 | Balta | New York City | Q189047 | |
Mary Haas | American linguist; studied historical linguistics | United States of America | 1910-01-12 1910 |
1996-05-17 | Richmond | Alameda | Q445239 | |
Yakov Malkiel | American linguist, etymologist and philologist | United States of America | 1914-07-22 | 1998-04-24 | Kyiv | Berkeley | Q215794 | |
Igor M. Diakonoff | Russian historian and linguist (1915-1999) | Soviet Union Russia |
1914-12-30 | 1999-05-02 | Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | Q447180 | |
Randolph Quirk | British linguist (1920-2017) | United Kingdom | 1920-07-12 | 2017-12-20 | Michael | London | Q337043 | |
Charles A. Ferguson | American linguist | United States of America | 1921-07-06 | 1998-09-02 | Philadelphia | Palo Alto | Q45428 | |
Donald Keene | Japanese/American academic (1922-2019) | United States of America Japan |
1922-06-18 | 2019-02-24 | New York City | Tokyo | Q1240040 | |
Morris Halle | Latvian-American linguist | Latvia United States of America |
1923-07-29 | 2018-04-02 | Liepāja | Cambridge | Q520186 | |
Peter Ladefoged | British phonetician | United Kingdom | 1925-09-17 | 2006-01-24 | London Borough of Sutton | London | Q337920 | |
Wolfgang Iser | German philologist | Germany | 1926-07-22 | 2007-01-24 | Marienberg | Constance | Q60486 | |
Robert Bly | American poet, author, and activist (1926–2021) | United States of America | 1926-12-23 | 2021-11-21 | Lac qui Parle County | Minneapolis | Q472507 | |
Lore Segal | Novelist, translator, teacher, children's author | United States of America | 1928-03-09 1928-03-08 |
2024-10-07 | Vienna | Manhattan | Q215436 | |
Charles J. Fillmore | American linguist (1929-2014) | United States of America | 1929-08-09 | 2014-02-13 | Saint Paul | San Francisco | Q1065000 | |
Vyacheslav Ivanov | Soviet linguist (1929-2017) | Soviet Union Russia |
1929-08-21 | 2017-10-07 | Moscow | Los Angeles | Q794031 | |
Walter Burkert | German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015) | Germany | 1931-02-02 | 2015-03-11 | Neuendettelsau | Uster | Q61888 | |
J. M. Coetzee | South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940) | South Africa Australia |
1940-02-09 | Cape Town | Q43293 | |||
David R. Knechtges | American sinologist (born 1942) | United States of America | 1942-10-23 | Great Falls | Q1176232 | |||
Michael Witzel | German-American philologist (born 1943) | Germany | 1943-07-18 | Świebodzin | Q78324 | |||
Ray Jackendoff | American linguist and philosophy professor | United States of America | 1945-01-23 | Q1392229 | ||||
Deborah Tannen | American sociolinguist | United States of America | 1945-06-07 | Brooklyn | Q448496 | |||
Joan W. Bresnan | American linguist | United States of America | 1945-08-22 | Q527720 | ||||
Mark Aronoff | Canadian-American linguist | Canada United States of America |
1949-01-09 | Montreal | Q337452 | |||
Ivan Sag | American academic linguist | United States of America | 1949-11-09 | 2013-09-10 | Alliance | Menlo Park | Q337457 |
literary critic
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Georg Brandes | Danish literature critic and scholar | Kingdom of Denmark | 1842-02-04 | 1927-02-19 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Q316045 | |
Van Wyck Brooks | American literary critic, biographer and historian | United States of America | 1886-02-16 | 1963-05-02 | Plainfield | Bridgewater | Q647006 | |
Paul Bénichou | French writer | France | 1908-09-19 | 2001-05-14 | Tlemcen | Paris | Q1320604 | |
Charles S. Singleton | American scholar | United States of America | 1909-04-21 | 1985-10-10 | McLoud | Carroll County | Q642817 |
literary historian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Sidney Lee | English biographer and critic (1859–1926) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1859-12-05 | 1926-03-03 | Bloomsbury | London | Q179854 | |
Alfred Harbage | Scholar and author (1901-1976) | United States of America | 1901-07-18 | 1976-05-02 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q1243441 | |
Harold Bloom | American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930-2019) | United States of America | 1930-07-11 | 2019-10-14 | New York City | New Haven | Q345612 | |
Stephen Greenblatt | American literary critic, theorist and scholar | United States of America | 1943-11-07 | Boston | Q639065 | |||
Emma Donoghue | Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian | Canada Ireland |
1969-10-24 | Dublin | Q52255 |
lyricist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Heinrich Böll | German writer (1917–1985) | Germany | 1917-12-21 | 1985-07-16 | Cologne | Langenbroich | Q42747 | |
Günter Grass | German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015) | Free City of Danzig Germany |
1927-10-16 | 2015-04-13 | Free City of Danzig Gdańsk |
Lübeck | Q6538 |
mathematician
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medical historian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henry E. Sigerist | Swiss medical historian (1891–1957) | United States of America Switzerland |
1891-04-07 | 1957-03-17 | 10th arrondissement of Paris | Pura | Q122000 | |
Owsei Temkin | Russian-born American medical historian (1902–2002) | Germany United States of America |
1902-10-06 | 2002-07-18 | Minsk | Baltimore | Q75312 | |
Jean Starobinski | Swiss writer (1920-2019) | Switzerland | 1920-11-17 | 2019-03-04 | Geneva | Morges | Q123507 |
medievalist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henri Pirenne | Belgian historian (1862-1935) | Belgium | 1862-12-23 | 1935-10-24 | Verviers | Uccle - Ukkel | Q312501 | |
Ernst Kantorowicz | German historian | Germany | 1895-05-03 | 1963-09-09 | Poznań | Princeton | Q77499 | |
Lynn Townsend White | American historian (1907-1987) | United States of America | 1907-04-29 | 1987-03-30 | San Francisco | Q983820 | ||
Caroline Bynum | American historian | United States of America | 1941-05-10 | Atlanta | Q528840 |
meteorologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Abbott Lawrence Rotch | American meteorologist | United States of America | 1861-01-06 | 1912-04-07 | Boston | Boston | Q306767 | |
Jacob Bjerknes | Norwegian-American meteorologist | Norway United States of America |
1897-11-02 | 1975-07-07 | Stockholm Norway |
Los Angeles | Q524217 | |
Carl-Gustaf Rossby | Swedish and American meteorologist | Sweden United States of America |
1898-12-28 | 1957-08-19 | Adolf Fredriks parish | Gustav Vasa parish | Q60293 | |
Veerabhadran Ramanathan | Indian scientist | India British Raj United States of America |
1944-11-24 | Madurai | Q670496 | |||
Kerry Emanuel | American meteorologist | United States of America | 1955-04-21 | Q1739606 |
microbiologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Louis Pasteur | French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895) | France | 1822-12-27 | 1895-09-28 | Dole | Castle of Villeneuve-l'Étang | Q529 | |
C. B. van Niel | Dutch-American microbiologist (1897–1985) | Kingdom of the Netherlands United States of America |
1897-11-04 | 1985-03-10 | Haarlem | Carmel-by-the-Sea | Q122308 | |
Salvador Luria | Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991) | United States of America Kingdom of Italy Italy |
1912-08-13 | 1991-02-06 | Turin | Lexington | Q205667 | |
Maurice Hilleman | American vaccinologist | United States of America | 1919-08-30 | 2005-04-11 | Miles City | Philadelphia | Q983898 | |
Carl Woese | American microbiologist | United States of America | 1928-07-15 | 2012-12-30 | Syracuse | Urbana | Q310067 |
military officer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Benjamin Lincoln | Continental Army general (1733–1810) | United States of America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain |
1733-01-24 | 1810-05-09 | Hingham | Hingham | Q817605 | |
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette | French general and politician (1757–1834) | France United States of America |
1757-09-06 | 1834-05-20 | Chavaniac-Lafayette | former 1st arrondissement of Paris | Q186652 | |
Charles Francis Adams Jr. | American author and historian (1835–1915) | United States of America | 1835-05-27 | 1915-05-20 1915-03-20 1915 |
Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q1064413 | |
Francis Amasa Walker | Union Army general and a Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1840-1897) | United States of America | 1840-07-02 | 1897-01-05 | Boston | Boston | Q324031 | |
Cyrus Vance | United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980 | United States of America | 1917-03-27 | 2002-01-12 | Clarksburg | Mount Sinai Hospital | Q296661 | |
A. Hunter Dupree | Historian and United States Navy officer | United States of America | 1921-01-29 | 2019-11-30 | Hillsboro | Q491599 | ||
William H. Gass | American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor | United States of America | 1924-07-30 | 2017-12-06 | Fargo | University City | Q304874 | |
Warren Christopher | U.S. Secretary of State (1925-2011) | United States of America | 1925-10-27 1925-10-17 |
2011-03-18 | Scranton | Los Angeles | Q294358 | |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger | American businessman (1926–2012) | United States of America | 1926-02-05 | 2012-09-29 | New York City | Southampton | Q323342 | |
James Mattis | US Marine Corps general in retirement and former US secretary of defense | United States of America | 1950-09-08 | Pullman | Q267902 | |||
John R. Allen | United States Marine Corps general, think tank executive | United States of America | 1953-12-15 1953 |
Fort Belvoir | Q615356 |
military personnel
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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George Meade | United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872) | United States of America Spain |
1815-12-31 | 1872-11-06 | Cádiz | Philadelphia | Q297121 | |
Joseph Joffre | French general | France | 1852-01-12 | 1931-01-03 | Rivesaltes | Paris | Q207958 | |
Lucius D. Clay | United States general (1897–1978) | United States of America | 1897-04-23 | 1978-04-16 | Marietta | Chatham | Q369360 |
mineralogist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Bernhard Studer | Swiss geologist (1794-1887) | Switzerland | 1794-08-21 | 1887-05-02 | B�ren an der Aare | Bern | Q120356 | |
Alfred des Cloizeaux | French mineralogist (1817-1897) | France | 1817-10-17 | 1897-05-06 | Beauvais | Paris | Q472242 | |
George J. Brush | American mineralogist, professor, Yale University (1831-1912) | United States of America | 1831-12-15 | 1912-02-06 | Brooklyn | New Haven | Q608145 | |
Charles Palache | American mineralogist | United States of America | 1869-07-18 | 1954-12-05 | San Francisco | Berkeley | Q1065718 | |
Cecil Edgar Tilley | Australian-British mineralogist (1894-1973) | Australia United Kingdom |
1894-05-14 | 1973-01-24 | Adelaide | Cambridge | Q533612 |
molecular biologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Gunther S. Stent | American molecular biologist and philosopher and historian of biology (1924-2008) | United States of America | 1924-03-28 | 2008-06-12 | Berlin | Haverford | Q822281 | |
Alexander Rich | American biologist | United States of America | 1924-11-15 | 2015-04-27 | Hartford | Boston | Q481407 | |
C�sar Milstein | Argentine biochemist | Argentina United Kingdom |
1927-10-08 | 2002-03-24 | Bah�a Blanca | Cambridge | Q155525 | |
Pierre Chambon | French molecular biologist | France | 1931-02-07 | 2018-08-15 | Mulhouse | Q1388486 | ||
Charles Weissmann | Hungarian biologist | Switzerland | 1931-10-14 | Budapest | Q120251 | |||
Bert W. O'Malley | American endocrinologist | United States of America | 1936 | Pittsburgh | Q827492 | |||
Ada Yonath | Israeli chemist | Israel | 1939-06-22 | Jerusalem | Q7426 | |||
Charles David Allis | American molecular biologist | United States of America | 1951-03-22 | 2023-01-08 | Cincinnati | Seattle | Q1064064 |
music educator
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Terri Lyne Carrington | American drummer (born 1965) | United States of America | 1965-08-04 | Medford | Q466966 | |||
Aaron P. Dworkin | African American violinist, and music educator | United States of America | 1970-09-11 | Monticello | Q301963 |
musicologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Karl Geiringer | Austrian American musicologist | United States of America | 1899-04-26 | 1989-01-10 | Vienna | Santa Barbara | Q214848 | |
Paul Henry Lang | Hungarian-American musicologist | Hungary United States of America |
1901-08-28 | 1991-09-21 | Budapest | Lakeville | Q322381 | |
Bruno Nettl | American ethnomusicologist | United States of America | 1930-03-14 | 2020-01-15 | Prague | Champaign | Q31976 | |
László Somfai | Hungarian musicologist (born: 1934) | Hungary | 1934-08-15 | 2004 | Jászladány | Q442269 | ||
Reinhold Brinkmann | German musicologist (1934-2010) | Germany | 1934-08-21 | 2010-10-10 | Wildeshausen | Eckernförde | Q78331 | |
Christoph Wolff | German-born musicologist (born 1940) | Germany | 1940-05-24 | Solingen | Q66488 |
naturalist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Gustaf von Paykull | Swedish scientist | Sweden | 1757-08-21 1757-07-23 |
1826-01-28 | Storkyrkoförsamlingen | Östuna parish | Q932770 | |
Spencer Fullerton Baird | American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1823-1887) | United States of America | 1823-02-03 | 1887-08-19 | Reading | Woods Hole | Q14049 | |
John Dupré | British philosopher | United Kingdom | 1952 | Q322761 |
naval officer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Paul Stevens | United States Supreme Court justice (1920–2019) | United States of America | 1920-04-20 | 2019-07-16 | Chicago | Fort Lauderdale | Q11109 | |
Jimmy Carter | president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 | United States of America | 1924-10-01 | Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center | Q23685 | |||
Robert Ballard | United States Navy officer, oceanographer and underwater archaeologist | United States of America | 1942-06-30 | Wichita | Q312867 | |||
James Stavridis | US Navy admiral | United States of America | 1955-02-15 | West Palm Beach | Q116464 |
neurologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Kurt Goldstein | German neurologist (1878-1965) | Germany United States of America |
1878-11-06 | 1965-09-19 | Katowice | New York City | Q62418 | |
Rita Levi-Montalcini | Italian neurologist (1909-2012) | United States of America Kingdom of Italy Italy |
1909-04-22 | 2012-12-30 | Turin | Rome | Q185007 | |
Eric Kandel | American neuropsychiatrist | United States of America Austria |
1929-11-07 | Vienna | Q155529 | |||
António Damásio | neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California | Portugal | 1944-02-25 | Lisbon | Q380207 |
neuroscientist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Seymour S. Kety | American neuroscientist | United States of America | 1915-08-25 | 2000-05-25 | Philadelphia | Q1701636 | ||
Walle Nauta | Dutch neuroscientist | United States of America Kingdom of the Netherlands |
1916-06-08 | 1994-03-24 | Medan | Cambridge | Q820398 | |
Brenda Milner | Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist | Canada United Kingdom |
1918-07-15 | Manchester | Q468228 | |||
Endel Tulving | Estonian-Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist | Estonia Canada |
1927-05-26 | 2023-09-11 | Pechory | Mississauga | Q907933 | |
Pasko Rakic | Yugoslavian-American neuroscientist | United States of America | 1933-05-15 | Ruma | Q532002 | |||
Jean-Pierre Changeux | French biologist | France | 1936-04-06 | Domont | Q910163 | |||
Roger Nicoll | American neuroscientist | United States of America | 1941 | Princeton | Q1318548 | |||
Eric I. Knudsen | American neurobiologist | United States of America | 1949-10-07 | Palo Alto | Q1351385 | |||
Ben Barres | American neurobiologist (1954–2017) | United States of America | 1954-09-13 | 2017-12-27 | West Orange | Stanford | Q816430 |
non-fiction writer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Erik Erikson | American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist | Germany United States of America |
1902-06-15 | 1994-05-12 | Frankfurt | Harwich | Q58074 | |
Tzvetan Todorov | Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017) | France Bulgaria |
1939-03-01 | 2017-02-07 | Sofia | 13th arrondissement of Paris Paris |
Q313852 |
novelist
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nuclear physicist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Ernest Rutherford | New Zealand physicist (1871–1937) | New Zealand | 1871-08-30 | 1937-10-19 | Spring Grove | Cambridge | Q9123 | |
Lise Meitner | Austrian-Swedish physicist | Cisleithania Austria Sweden |
1878-11-07 1878-11-17 |
1968-10-27 | Vienna | Cambridge | Q56189 | |
Leó Szilárd | Hungarian-American physicist and inventor (1898–1964) | Hungary Germany United States of America |
1898-02-11 | 1964-05-30 | Budapest | La Jolla | Q153238 | |
Edward Teller | Hungarian-American nuclear physicist (1908-2003) | Hungary United States of America |
1908-01-15 | 2003-09-09 | Budapest | Stanford | Q6733 | |
Chien-Shiung Wu | Chinese-American experimental physicist | Republic of China United States of America Taiwan |
1912-05-31 | 1997-02-16 | Taicang | New York City | Q450317 |
oceanographer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Harald Sverdrup | Norwegian oceanographer (1888-1957) | Norway United States of America |
1888-11-15 | 1957-08-21 | Sogndal Municipality | Oslo | Q440346 | |
Walter Munk | American oceanographer (1917-2019) | United States of America Austria |
1917-10-19 | 2019-02-08 | Vienna | La Jolla | Q113081 | |
Henry Stommel | American oceanographer | United States of America | 1920-09-27 | 1992-01-17 | Wilmington | Boston | Q1343807 | |
Carl Wunsch | American oceanographer | United States of America | 1941-05-05 | Brooklyn | Q473213 |
oncologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Carlo Maria Croce | Italian oncologist | United States of America Italy |
1944-12-17 | Milan | Q640381 | |||
Bert Vogelstein | American oncologist | United States of America | 1949-06-02 | Baltimore | Q827502 | |||
Brian Druker | American oncologist | United States of America | 1955-04-30 | St. Louis | Q373427 | |||
Charles Sawyers | American physician-scientist | United States of America | 1959-01-26 | Nashville | Q1065232 |
opera singer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012) | Weimar Republic Nazi Germany German Reich Germany |
1925-05-28 | 2012-05-18 | Berlin | Berg | Q77060 | |
Marilyn Horne | American mezzo-soprano opera singer | United States of America | 1934-01-16 | Bradford | Q186514 | |||
Martina Arroyo | American opera singer | United States of America | 1937-02-02 | New York City | Q1702112 | |||
Frederica von Stade | American singer and recording artist | United States of America | 1945-06-01 | Somerville | Q265872 | |||
Jessye Norman | American opera singer | United States of America | 1945-09-15 | 2019-09-30 | Augusta | New York City | Q240937 | |
Dawn Upshaw | American soprano | United States of America | 1960-07-17 | Nashville | Q272823 |
ornithologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Sidney Dillon Ripley | American ornithologist and 8th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1913–2001) | United States of America | 1913-09-20 | 2001-03-12 | New York City | Washington, D.C. | Q249244 | |
John Krebs, Baron Krebs | zoologist | United Kingdom | 1945-04-11 | Sheffield | Q336513 |
painter
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Benjamin West | 18th- and 19th-century English painter | United States of America | 1738-10-10 1738-11-10 |
1820-03-11 | Springfield Township | London | Q313498 | |
John Trumbull | American artist (1756–1843) | United States of America | 1756-06-06 | 1843-11-10 | Lebanon | New York City | Q369263 | |
Washington Allston | American artist (1779-1843) | United States of America | 1779-11-05 | 1843-07-09 | Charleston | Cambridge | Q468272 | |
Wilhelm von Kaulbach | German painter (1805-1874) | Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont | 1805-10-15 | 1874-04-07 | Bad Arolsen | Munich | Q604107 | |
Jean-Léon Gérôme | French painter and sculptor (1824–1904) | France | 1824-05-11 | 1904-01-10 | Vesoul | 9th arrondissement of Paris | Q212499 | |
John Singer Sargent | American painter (1856–1925) | United States of America | 1856-01-12 | 1925-04-15 1925-04-14 |
Florence | London | Q155626 | |
John Marin | American artist (1870-1953) | United States of America | 1870-12-23 | 1953-10-02 1953-10-01 |
Rutherford | Cape Split | Q666171 | |
C. D. Howe | Canadian politician (1886–1960) | Canada United States of America |
1886-01-15 | 1960-12-31 | Waltham | Montreal | Q373508 | |
Georgia O'Keeffe | American modernist artist (1887–1986) | United States of America | 1887-11-15 1887 |
1986-03-06 1986 |
Sun Prairie | Santa Fe | Q46408 | |
Joan Miró | Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983) | Spain | 1893-04-20 | 1983-12-25 | Barcelona | Palma | Q152384 | |
Ivan Albright | American artist (1897-1983) | United States of America | 1897-02-20 | 1983-11-18 | Harvey | Woodstock | Q1392676 | |
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | English physical chemist (1897-1967) | United Kingdom | 1897-06-19 | 1967-10-09 | London | London | Q48986 | |
Stanley William Hayter | English print-maker and engraver (1901-1988) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1901-12-27 | 1988-05-04 | London | Paris | Q641304 | |
Mark Rothko | American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970) | United States of America Russian Empire |
1903-09-25 | 1970-02-25 | Daugavpils | Manhattan | Q160149 | |
Andrew Wyeth | American Realist painter (1917-2009) | United States of America | 1917-07-12 | 2009-01-16 | Chadds Ford Township | Chadds Ford Township | Q316325 | |
Leon Golub | American artist (1922-2004) | United States of America | 1922-01-23 | 2004-08-08 | Chicago | New York City | Q475655 | |
Lucian Freud | British painter and engraver (1922-2011) | United Kingdom | 1922-12-08 | 2011-07-20 | Berlin | London | Q154594 | |
Antoni Tàpies | Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist (1923-2012) | Spain | 1923-12-13 | 2012-02-06 | Barcelona | Barcelona | Q158099 | |
Kenneth Noland | American artist (1924–2010) | United States of America | 1924-04-10 | 2010-01-05 | Asheville | Port Clyde | Q527001 | |
Cy Twombly | American painter and artist (1928–2011) | United States of America | 1928-04-25 | 2011-07-05 | Lexington | Rome | Q159566 | |
Jasper Johns | American painter and sculptor (1930) | United States of America | 1930-05-15 | Augusta | Q155057 | |||
Robert Ryman | American artist (1930-2019) | United States of America | 1930-05-30 | 2019-02-08 | Nashville | Greenwich Village | Q640936 | |
Malcolm Morley | English artist (1931-2018) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1931-06-07 | 2018-06-01 | London | New York City | Q316667 | |
James Rosenquist | American artist (1933-2017) | United States of America | 1933-11-29 | 2017-03-31 | Grand Forks | New York City | Q448845 | |
David Hockney | English painter and printmaker | England United Kingdom |
1937-07-09 | Bradford | Q159907 | |||
Brice Marden | American painter (1938-2023) | United States of America | 1938-10-15 | 2023-08-09 | Bronxville | Tivoli | Q475416 | |
Vija Celmins | American artist | United States of America Latvia |
1938-10-25 | Riga | Q465777 | |||
Elizabeth Murray | American painter (1940-2007) | United States of America | 1940-09-06 | 2007-08-12 | Chicago | New York | Q212426 | |
Barbara Kruger | American conceptual artist | United States of America | 1945-01-26 | Newark | Q262284 | |||
Jenny Holzer | American conceptual artist | United States of America | 1950-07-29 | Gallipolis | Q270388 | |||
Rosemarie Trockel | German artist | Germany | 1952-11-13 | Schwerte | Q65990 | |||
Amy Sillman | American painter | United States of America | 1954 1955 1966 |
Detroit | Q481952 | |||
Kerry James Marshall | American painter and professor | United States of America | 1955-10-17 | Birmingham | Q832432 |
paleontologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henry De la Beche | English geologist and palaeontologist | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1796-02-10 | 1855-04-13 | London | London | Q302176 | |
Heinrich Ernst Beyrich | German geologist and paleontologist (1815-1896) | Kingdom of Prussia German Reich |
1815-08-31 | 1896-07-09 | Berlin | Berlin | Q64133 | |
Othniel Charles Marsh | American paleontologist (1831-1899) | United States of America | 1831-10-29 | 1899-03-18 | Lockport | New Haven | Q299756 | |
Samuel Hubbard Scudder | American entomologist and paleontologist (1837 – 1911) | United States of America | 1837-04-13 | 1911-05-17 | Boston | Boston | Q723149 | |
Alpheus Hyatt | American zoologist, paleontologist (1838-1902) | United States of America | 1838-04-05 | 1902-01-15 | Washington, D.C. | Cambridge | Q728062 | |
Charles Barrois | French geologist (1851-1939) | France | 1851-04-21 | 1939-11-05 | Lille | Sainte-Geneviève-en-Caux | Q477262 | |
Louis Dollo | Belgian paleontologist and engineer | Belgium France |
1857-12-07 | 1931-04-19 | Lille | City of Brussels Brussels |
Q714232 | |
William Berryman Scott | U.S. paleontologist (1858–1947) | United States of America | 1858-02-12 | 1947-03-29 | Cincinnati | Princeton | Q1386439 | |
John Campbell Merriam | American paleontologist | United States of America | 1869-10-20 | 1945-10-30 | Hopkinton | Oakland | Q523415 | |
T. Wayland Vaughan | U.S. geologist, paleontologist, and cnidariologist | United States of America | 1870-09-20 | 1952-01-16 | Jonesville | Washington, D.C. | Q1763339 | |
Joseph Augustine Cushman | American geologist and paleontologist (1881-1949) | United States of America | 1881-01-31 | 1949-04-16 | Bridgewater | Sharon | Q1706544 | |
D. M. S. Watson | British paleontologist | United Kingdom | 1886-06-18 | 1973-07-23 | Broughton | London | Q1175646 | |
Carl Owen Dunbar | American paleontologist (1891–1979) | United States of America | 1891-01-01 | 1979-04-07 | Hallowell | Dunedin | Q1039929 | |
Raymond Cecil Moore | U.S. geologist, paleontologist, botanist (1892-1974) | United States of America | 1892-02-20 | 1974-04-16 | Roslyn | Lawrence | Q474846 | |
G. Arthur Cooper | American paleobiologist (1902–2000) | United States of America | 1902-02-09 | 2000-10-17 | College Point | Raleigh | Q530114 | |
Conrad Hal Waddington | British biologist | United Kingdom | 1905-11-08 | 1975-09-26 | Evesham | Edinburgh | Q721128 | |
John Ostrom | American paleontologist (1928-2005) | United States of America | 1928-02-18 | 2005-07-16 | New York City | Litchfield | Q373726 | |
Malcolm McKenna | American paleontologist | United States of America | 1930-07-21 | 2008-03-03 | Pomona | Boulder | Q63587 | |
David M. Raup | American paleontologist (1933-2015) | United States of America | 1933-04-24 | 2015-07-09 | Boston | Sturgeon Bay | Q530461 | |
Farish Jenkins | American paleontologist (1940–2012) | United States of America | 1940-05-19 | 2012-11-11 | Manhattan | Boston | Q1396743 | |
Derek Briggs | Irish paleontologist | Ireland | 1950-01-10 | Ireland | Q530161 | |||
David Jablonski | American paleontologist | United States of America | 1953-06-23 | New York City | Q1174840 | |||
John P. Grotzinger | American geologist (1957-) | United States of America | 1957 | Q1701289 |
pastor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Ellery Channing | American Unitarian clergyman (1780-1842) | United States of America | 1780-04-07 | 1842-10-02 | Newport | Bennington | Q1352783 | |
Benjamin Mays | American educator, activist, minister | United States of America | 1894-08-01 | 1984-03-28 | South Carolina | Atlanta | Q817616 | |
Martin Luther King Jr. | American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968) | United States of America | 1929-01-15 | 1968-04-04 | Atlanta | Memphis | Q8027 |
philologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Hall Grandgent | American academic (1862-1939) | United States of America | 1862-11-14 | 1939-09-11 | Dorchester | Cambridge | Q1064713 | |
Joshua Whatmough | American philologist and linguist | United States of America United Kingdom |
1897-06-30 | 1964-04-25 | Rochdale | Winchester | Q1708609 | |
Albert Lord | American academic (1912-1991) | United States of America | 1912-09-15 | 1991-07-29 | Boston | Cambridge | Q762270 |
philosopher
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photographer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Imogen Cunningham | American photographer (1883-1976) | United States of America | 1883-04-12 | 1976-06-23 | Portland | San Francisco | Q238678 | |
Eliot Porter | American photographer (1901-1990) | United States of America | 1901-12-06 | 1990-11-02 | Winnetka | Santa Fe | Q762632 | |
Ansel Adams | American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984) | United States of America | 1902-02-20 | 1984-04-22 | San Francisco | Carmel-by-the-Sea | Q60809 | |
Harold Eugene Edgerton | American engineer and inventor | United States of America | 1903-04-06 | 1990-01-04 | Fremont | Cambridge | Q475733 | |
Henri Cartier-Bresson | French photographer (1908–2004) | France | 1908-08-22 | 2004-08-03 | Chanteloup-en-Brie | Montjustin | Q156567 | |
Eudora Welty | American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001) | United States of America | 1909-04-13 | 2001-07-23 | Jackson | Jackson | Q259364 | |
Wright Morris | American photographer and novelist (1910-1998) | United States of America | 1910-01-06 | 1998-04-25 | Central City | Mill Valley | Q920901 | |
Harry Callahan | American photographer (1912-1999) | United States of America | 1912-10-22 | 1999-03-15 | Detroit | Atlanta | Q1383354 | |
Lee Friedlander | American photographer | United States of America | 1934-07-14 | Aberdeen | Q711391 | |||
Sigmar Polke | German artist (1941–2010) | Germany | 1941-02-13 | 2010-06-10 | Oleśnica | Cologne | Q376062 | |
Louise Lawler | American photographer | United States of America | 1947 | Bronxville | Q539270 | |||
Sally Mann | American photographer | United States of America | 1951-05-01 | Lexington | Q256434 |
physician
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physicist
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physiologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Gabriel Valentin | physiologist (1810-1883) | Kingdom of Prussia Switzerland |
1810-07-08 | 1883-05-24 | Wrocław | Bern | Q68146 | |
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard | Mauritian physiologist and neurologist | France | 1817-04-08 | 1894-04-02 | Port Louis | Sceaux | Q725855 | |
Wilhelm Kühne | physiologist | Hamburg | 1837-03-28 | 1900-06-10 | Hamburg | Heidelberg | Q76919 | |
Ludimar Hermann | German physiologist, speech scientist | Germany | 1838-10-21 | 1914-06-05 | Berlin | Königsberg | Q69409 | |
Jacques Loeb | German-American physiologist and biologist (1859-1924) | Kingdom of Prussia United States of America Weimar Republic |
1859-04-07 | 1924-02-11 | Mayen | Hamilton | Q62982 | |
Walter Bradford Cannon | American physiologist (1871-1945) | United States of America | 1871-10-19 | 1945-10-01 | Wisconsin | Franklin | Q503192 | |
Joseph Barcroft | Physiologist, studied the oxygenation of blood | United Kingdom | 1872-07-26 | 1947-03-21 | Newry | Cambridge | Q377985 | |
Arturo Rosenblueth | Mexican physiologist | Mexico | 1900-10-02 | 1970-09-20 | Chihuahua City | Mexico City | Q121729 | |
Charles Brenton Huggins | American physiologist (1901-1997) | Canada United States of America |
1901-09-22 | 1997-01-12 | Halifax | Chicago | Q155371 | |
Haldan Keffer Hartline | American neuroscientist | United States of America | 1903-12-22 | 1983-03-17 1987-03-17 |
Bloomsburg | Fallston | Q309879 | |
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. | American pharmacologist | United States of America | 1915-11-19 | 1974-03-09 | Burlingame | Miami | Q68118 | |
Donald S. Fredrickson | American medical researcher | United States of America | 1924-08-08 | 2002-06-07 | Cañon City | Bethesda | Q1240319 | |
Ernst Knobil | American physician | United States of America | 1926-09-20 | 2000-04-13 | Berlin | Houston | Q990928 |
pianist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge | American patron of music (1864–1953) | United States of America | 1864-10-30 | 1953-11-04 | Chicago | Cambridge | Q443559 | |
Walter Piston | American composer (1894–1976) | United States of America | 1894-01-20 | 1976-11-12 | Knox County | Belmont | Q711052 | |
Duke Ellington | American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974) | United States of America | 1899-04-29 | 1974-05-24 | Washington, D.C. | New York City | Q4030 | |
Rudolf Serkin | Bohemian-born American pianist | Austria United States of America |
1903-03-28 | 1991-05-08 | Cheb | Guilford | Q213545 | |
Charles Rosen | American pianist and writer on music | United States of America | 1927-05-05 | 2012-12-09 | Manhattan | Manhattan | Q1065956 | |
Daniel Barenboim | Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor | Argentina Israel Spain State of Palestine |
1942-11-15 | Buenos Aires | Q152768 | |||
Ursula Oppens | American classical concert pianist and educator | United States of America | 1944-02-02 | New York City | Q529493 | |||
Keith Jarrett | American jazz/classical pianist and composer | United States of America | 1945-05-08 | Allentown | Q207034 |
playwright
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Paul Claudel | French diplomat, poet and playwright (1868-1955) | France | 1868-08-06 | 1955-02-23 | Villeneuve-sur-Fère | Paris | Q295830 | |
T. S. Eliot | US-born British poet (1888–1965) | United States of America United Kingdom |
1888-09-26 | 1965-01-04 | St. Louis | Kensington | Q37767 | |
S. N. Behrman | American writer | United States of America | 1893-06-09 | 1973-09-09 | Worcester | New York City | Q911096 | |
Jean-Paul Sartre | French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980) | France | 1905-06-21 | 1980-04-15 | Paris | 14th arrondissement of Paris | Q9364 | |
Eugène Ionesco | Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994) | Romania | 1909-11-26 | 1994-03-28 | Slatina | 14th arrondissement of Paris | Q46706 | |
Eric Bentley | American playwright | United States of America | 1916-09-14 | 2020-08-05 | Bolton | New York City | Q1351104 | |
Allen Ginsberg | American poet and writer | United States of America | 1926-06-03 | 1997-04-05 | Newark | East Village | Q6711 | |
Harold Pinter | British playwright (1930–2008) | United Kingdom | 1930-10-10 | 2008-12-24 | London | London | Q41042 | |
Wole Soyinka | Nobel laureate Nigerian writer | Nigeria | 1934-07-13 | Ogun State | Q41488 | |||
Don DeLillo | American novelist, playwright and essayist | United States of America | 1936-11-20 | The Bronx | Q310048 | |||
Tom Stoppard | British playwright (born 1937) | Czechoslovakia United Kingdom |
1937-07-03 | Zlín | Q294773 | |||
Roald Hoffmann | Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor | Second Polish Republic United States of America |
1937-07-18 | Zolochiv | Q273279 | |||
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | Kenyan writer (1938-) | Kenya | 1938-01-05 | Kamirithu | Q302910 | |||
John Guare | American playwright and screenwriter (born 1938) | United States of America | 1938-02-05 | New York City | Q320556 | |||
Seamus Heaney | Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer | Ireland | 1939-04-13 | 2013-08-30 | Castledawson | Dublin | Q93356 | |
August Wilson | American playwright (1945-2005) | United States of America | 1945-04-27 | 2005-10-02 | Pittsburgh | Seattle | Q764812 | |
Deborah Eisenberg | American short story writer, actress, teacher | United States of America | 1945-11-20 | Winnetka | Q528096 | |||
David Hare | British playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director (1947- ) | United Kingdom | 1947-06-05 | St Leonards-on-Sea | Q1174676 | |||
Jessica Hagedorn | Filipino-American playwright, writer, poet, storyteller, musician, multimedia performance artist | United States of America | 1949 | Manila | Q465222 | |||
Donald Margulies | American playwright | United States of America | 1954-09-02 | Brooklyn | Q531705 |
poet
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political scientist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Edward Merriam | American political scientist (1874-1953) | United States of America | 1874-11-15 | 1953-01-08 | Hopkinton | Rockville | Q716312 | |
Carl Joachim Friedrich | German political scientist (1901-1984) | Germany United States of America |
1901-06-05 | 1984-09-19 | Leipzig | Lexington | Q77442 | |
Harold Lasswell | American political scientist (1902-1978) | United States of America | 1902-02-13 | 1978-12-18 | Donnellson | Manhattan | Q314462 | |
Gabriel Almond | American political scientist (1911-2002) | United States of America | 1911-01-12 | 2002-12-25 | Rock Island | Pacific Grove | Q729543 | |
Karl Deutsch | Czech political scientist | Czechoslovakia United States of America |
1912-07-21 | 1992-11-01 | Prague | Cambridge | Q77454 | |
David Easton | Canadian academic (1917-2014) | Canada | 1917-06-24 | 2014-07-19 | Toronto | Q471431 | ||
Stein Rokkan | Norwegian political scientist | Norway | 1921-07-04 | 1979-07-22 | Vågan Municipality | Bergen | Q319704 | |
Robert Coldwell Wood | American political scientist (1923-2005) | United States of America | 1923-09-16 | 2005-04-01 | St. Louis | Boston | Q932181 | |
Seweryn Bialer | American political scientist | United States of America Poland |
1926-11-03 | 2019-02-08 | Berlin | Manhattan | Q251708 | |
Juan José Linz | Spanish sociologist and political scientist | Germany Spain United States of America |
1926-12-24 | 2013-10-01 | Bonn | New Haven | Q62478 | |
Donald E. Stokes | American political scientist | United States of America | 1927-04-01 | 1997-01-26 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q1239836 | |
James Q. Wilson | American political scientist and adviser and sociologist | United States of America | 1931-05-27 | 2012-03-02 | Denver | Boston | Q636710 | |
Chalmers Johnson | American political scientist (1931–2010) | United States of America | 1931-08-06 | 2010-11-20 | Phoenix | Cardiff-by-the-Sea | Q1060181 | |
Arend Lijphart | Dutch political scientist | Kingdom of the Netherlands United States of America |
1936-08-17 | Apeldoorn | Q641796 | |||
Carole Pateman | British feminist, academic political theorist | United Kingdom | 1940-12-11 | Sussex | Q299627 | |||
John Ruggie | Political science professor | United States of America | 1944-10-18 | 2021-09-16 | Graz | Q933059 | ||
Charles Beitz | American political theorist | United States of America | 1949-07-20 | Q1063699 | ||||
Wendy Brown | American political theorist | United States of America | 1955-11-28 | Q183265 | ||||
Paul Pierson | American political scientist | United States of America | 1959 1950-09-25 |
Eugene | Q743605 |
politician
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Benjamin Franklin | American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father (1706–1790) | British America United States of America |
1706-01-17 | 1790-04-17 | Boston | Philadelphia | Q34969 | |
Samuel Adams | American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803) | United States of America | 1722-09-27 | 1803-10-02 | Boston | Boston | Q212963 | |
Thomas Cushing | First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788) | United States of America | 1725-03-24 | 1788-02-28 | Quincy Boston |
Boston | Q781134 | |
George Washington | president of the United States from 1789 to 1797 | Kingdom of Great Britain United States of America |
1732-02-22 | 1799-12-14 | Westmoreland County Wakefield |
Mount Vernon | Q23 | |
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | British Prime Minister (1737-1805) | Kingdom of Great Britain | 1737-05-02 | 1805-05-07 | Dublin | London | Q312573 | |
John Bacon | American politician, Massachusetts (1738-1820) | United States of America | 1738-04-05 | 1820-10-25 | Canterbury | Stockbridge | Q1244688 | |
William Paterson | Governor of New Jersey (1745-1806) | United States of America | 1745-12-24 | 1806-09-09 | County Antrim | Albany | Q729054 | |
Samuel Osgood | American politician (1748-1813) | United States of America | 1748-02-03 | 1813-08-12 | Andover | New York City | Q1396334 | |
David Cobb | American politician, 1748–1830 | United States of America | 1748-09-14 | 1830-04-17 | Attleboro | Taunton | Q1174031 | |
Levi Lincoln Sr. | United States attorney general and acting governor of Massachusetts (1749-1820) | United States of America | 1749-05-15 | 1820-04-14 | Hingham | Worcester | Q720568 | |
James Madison | president of the United States from 1809 to 1817 | United States of America | 1751-03-16 | 1836-06-28 | Port Conway | Montpelier | Q11813 | |
George Cabot | American Senator (1752-1823) | United States of America | 1752-12-03 | 1823-04-18 | Salem | Boston | Q382723 | |
Jacques Pierre Brissot | French revolutionary (1754–1793) | France | 1754-01-15 | 1793-10-31 | Chartres | Paris | Q314984 | |
John Marshall | chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835) | United States of America | 1755-09-24 | 1835-07-06 | Germantown | Philadelphia | Q310829 | |
Elijah Paine | United States federal judge (1757-1842) | United States of America | 1757-01-21 | 1842-04-28 | Brooklyn | Williamstown | Q382730 | |
Samuel Sewall | American politician (1757-1814) | United States of America | 1757-12-11 | 1814-06-08 | Boston | Wiscasset | Q1712522 | |
Fisher Ames | American politician (1758–1808) | United States of America | 1758-04-09 | 1808-07-04 | Dedham | Dedham | Q1194576 | |
Benjamin Pickman, Jr. | American politician, 1763-1843 | United States of America | 1763-09-30 | 1843-08-16 | Salem | Salem | Q817647 | |
John Quincy Adams | president of the United States from 1825 to 1829 | United States of America British America |
1767-07-11 | 1848-02-23 | Braintree | United States Capitol | Q11816 | |
Isaac Parker | American politician and lawyer (1768-1830) | United States of America | 1768-06-17 | 1830-05-26 1830-07-25 |
Boston | Boston | Q927036 | |
Josiah Bartlett Jr. | American politician (1768-1838) | United States of America | 1768-08-29 | 1838-04-16 | Kingston | Stratham | Q1708618 | |
DeWitt Clinton | American politician (1769–1828) | United States of America | 1769-03-02 | 1828-02-11 | Little Britain | Albany | Q527462 | |
Asahel Stearns | American politician (1774-1839) | United States of America | 1774-06-17 | 1839-02-05 | Lunenburg | Cambridge | Q720418 | |
John Reed, Jr. | American politician (1781-1860) | United States of America | 1781-09-02 | 1860-11-25 | West Bridgewater | West Bridgewater | Q1701548 | |
François Guizot | French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874) | France | 1787-10-04 | 1874-09-12 | Nîmes | Abbey of Val-Richer | Q157324 | |
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton | British politician (1790-1851) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain |
1790-01-02 | 1851-01-17 | Q338197 | |||
Gino Capponi | Italian politician, historian and writer (1792-1876) | Kingdom of Italy | 1792-09-13 | 1876-02-03 | Florence | Florence | Q719985 | |
Abbott Lawrence | American politician (1792-1855) | United States of America | 1792-12-16 | 1855-08-18 | Groton | Boston | Q306762 | |
Charles de Rémusat | French politician and writer (1797-1875) | France | 1797-03-13 | 1875-06-06 | Paris | Paris | Q344454 | |
George Perkins Marsh | American politician (1801-1882) | United States of America | 1801-03-15 | 1882-07-23 | Woodstock | Vallombrosa Abbey | Q748127 | |
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. | American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807-1886) | United States of America | 1807-08-18 | 1886-11-21 | Boston | Boston | Q75174 | |
William Ewart Gladstone | British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom |
1809-12-29 | 1898-05-19 | Liverpool | Hawarden Castle | Q160852 | |
Charles Sumner | American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874) | United States of America | 1811-01-06 | 1874-03-11 | Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q1066198 | |
Benjamin Thomas | American politician (1813-1878) | United States of America | 1813-02-12 | 1878-09-27 | Boston | Beverly Farms | Q817713 | |
Ebenezer R. Hoar | American lawyer, judge, and politician (1816-1895) | United States of America | 1816-02-21 | 1895-01-31 | Concord | Concord | Q724521 | |
John Davis Long | Massachusetts governor and Congressman; Secretary of the Navy (1838–1915) | United States of America | 1838-10-27 | 1915-08-28 | Buckfield | Hingham | Q745731 | |
Arthur Balfour | British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1848-07-25 | 1930-03-19 | Whittingehame | Woking | Q19008 | |
Samuel Walker McCall | American politician | United States of America | 1851-02-28 | 1923-11-04 | East Providence Township | Winchester | Q440654 | |
Woodrow Wilson | president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 | United States of America | 1856-12-28 | 1924-02-03 | Staunton | Washington, D.C. | Q34296 | |
Angelo Celli | Italian physician and biologist (1857-1914) | Kingdom of Italy | 1857-03-25 | 1914-11-02 | Cagli | Monza | Q1057343 | |
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading | British politician (1860-1935) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1860-10-10 | 1935-12-30 | London | London | Q336036 | |
Charles Evans Hughes | Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941 | United States of America | 1862-04-11 | 1948-08-27 | Glens Falls | Osterville | Q313252 | |
Charles Francis Adams III | Secretary of the Navy (1866-1954) | United States of America | 1866-08-02 | 1954-06-10 | Quincy | Boston | Q382352 | |
Peter Struve | Russian journalist | Russian Empire Soviet Union Russia |
1870-01-26 | 1944-02-26 1944-02-22 |
Perm | Paris | Q377725 | |
Winston Churchill | British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965) | United Kingdom | 1874-11-30 | 1965-01-24 | Blenheim Palace | Hyde Park Gate | Q8016 | |
Heinrich Brüning | German chancellor (1885-1970) | Germany | 1885-11-26 | 1970-03-30 | Münster | Norwich | Q155398 | |
Dean Acheson | American statesman and lawyer (1893-1971) | United States of America | 1893-04-11 | 1971-10-12 | Middletown | Sandy Spring | Q214758 | |
H. V. Evatt | Australian judge and politician (1894-1965) | Australia | 1894-04-30 | 1965-11-02 | East Maitland | Canberra | Q1388459 | |
Christian Herter | American politician (1895-1966) | France United States of America |
1895-03-28 | 1966-12-30 | Paris | Washington, D.C. | Q240274 | |
Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen | Finnish geodesist (1895–1971) | Finland | 1895-07-23 | 1971-10-23 | Kangaslampi | Helsinki | Q322549 | |
Trygve Lie | 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1896–1968) | Norway | 1896-07-16 | 1968-12-30 | Grünerløkka Oslo |
Geilo | Q1271 | |
Patrick Blackett | British physicist (1897–1974) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1897-11-18 | 1974-07-13 | London | London | Q184499 | |
Paul-Henri Spaak | Belgian politician (1899-1972) | Belgium | 1899-01-25 | 1972-07-31 | Schaerbeek | Braine-l'Alleud | Q155691 | |
Leo Strauss | History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973) | United States of America Germany |
1899-09-20 | 1973-10-18 | Kirchhain | Annapolis | Q77144 | |
Adlai Stevenson II | American politician and diplomat (1900–1965); 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 | United States of America | 1900-02-05 | 1965-07-14 | Los Angeles | London | Q311719 | |
Federico Chabod | Italian historian and politician | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1901-02-23 | 1960-07-14 | Aosta | Rome | Q726979 | |
Walter Hallstein | German diplomat and statesman (1901–1982) | Germany | 1901-11-17 | 1982-03-29 | Mainz | Stuttgart | Q159995 | |
Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman | British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer (1904-1993) | United Kingdom | 1904-05-30 | 1993-04-01 | Cape Town | Burnham Thorpe | Q336650 | |
Dag Hammarskjöld | Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961) | Sweden | 1905-07-29 | 1961-09-18 | Jönköping | Ndola | Q1267 | |
Dillon Anderson | American politician (1906-1974) | United States of America | 1906-07-14 | 1974-01-29 | McKinney | Houston | Q1225600 | |
U Thant | third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1909-1974) | Myanmar | 1909-01-22 | 1974-11-25 | Pantanaw | New York City | Q1264 | |
Giulio Carlo Argan | Italian politician and art historian (1909-1992) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1909-05-17 | 1992-11-12 | Turin | Rome | Q778445 | |
Hubert Humphrey | vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969 | United States of America | 1911-05-27 | 1978-01-13 | Wallace | Waverly | Q209989 | |
Hans Leussink | German politician (1912-2008) | Germany | 1912-02-02 | 2008-02-16 | Schüttorf | Karlsruhe | Q75981 | |
John W. Gardner | American politician (1912-2002) | United States of America | 1912-10-08 | 2002-02-16 | Los Angeles | Palo Alto | Q445258 | |
Hugh Trevor-Roper | British historian (1914-2003) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1914-01-15 | 2003-01-26 | Glanton | Oxford | Q335087 | |
Edmund Muskie | American politician (1914–1996) | United States of America | 1914-03-28 | 1996-03-26 | Rumford | Washington, D.C. | Q319867 | |
Franco Venturi | Italian historian, essayist, journalist (1914-1994) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1914-05-16 | 1994-12-14 | Rome | Turin | Q481482 | |
Alan Bullock | British historian (1914-2004) | United Kingdom | 1914-12-13 | 2004-02-02 | Trowbridge | Oxford | Q335167 | |
Abba Eban | Israeli diplomat and politician (1915-2002) | Israel | 1915-02-02 | 2002-11-17 | Cape Town | Tel Aviv | Q305776 | |
John Tukey | American mathematician (1915-2000) | United States of America | 1915-06-16 | 2000-07-26 | New Bedford | New Brunswick | Q382207 | |
John F. Kennedy | President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 | United States of America | 1917-05-29 | 1963-11-22 | Brookline | Parkland Memorial Hospital | Q9696 | |
Nelson Mandela | First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013) | South Africa | 1918-07-18 | 2013-12-05 | Mvezo | Houghton Estate | Q8023 | |
Helmut Schmidt | chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982), SPD | Germany | 1918-12-23 | 2015-11-10 | Hamburg | Hamburg | Q2516 | |
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington | British Conservative politician (1919–2018) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1919-06-06 | 2018-07-09 | Chelsea | Bledlow | Q335038 | |
Roy Jenkins | British politician (1920–2003) | United Kingdom | 1920-11-11 | 2003-01-05 | Abersychan | East Hendred | Q323488 | |
John Glenn | American astronaut and politician (1921–2016) | United States of America | 1921-07-18 | 2016-12-08 | Cambridge | The James Cancer Hospital | Q182642 | |
Henry Kissinger | American politician and diplomat (1923–2023) | Weimar Republic Nazi Germany United States of America |
1923-05-27 | 2023-11-29 | Fürth | Kent | Q66107 | |
George H. W. Bush | President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 | United States of America | 1924-06-12 | 2018-11-30 | Milton | Houston | Q23505 | |
John Brademas | American politician and educator (1927–2016) | United States of America | 1927-03-02 | 2016-07-11 | Mishawaka | Manhattan | Q533169 | |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | American politician (1927-2003) | United States of America | 1927-03-16 | 2003-03-26 | Tulsa | Washington, D.C. | Q713505 | |
Nicholas F. Brady | American politician (born 1930) | United States of America | 1930-04-11 | Manhattan | Q723444 | |||
Warren Rudman | American politician (1930-2012) | United States of America | 1930-05-18 | 2012-11-19 | Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q60547 | |
Lee H. Hamilton | politician | United States of America | 1931-04-20 | Daytona Beach | Q984174 | |||
George J. Mitchell | American politician, diplomat, and judge | United States of America | 1933-08-20 | Waterville | Q368920 | |||
Louis Wade Sullivan | American politician | United States of America | 1933-11-03 | Atlanta | Q744689 | |||
Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford | British sociologist and viscount (born 1934) | United Kingdom | 1934-11-10 | 2020-12-10 | Q337127 | |||
Mickey Edwards | American politician | United States of America | 1937-07-12 | Cleveland | Q1931352 | |||
Tim Wirth | American politician | United States of America | 1939-09-22 | Santa Fe | Q1027431 | |||
Claus Offe | German political sociologist | Germany | 1940-03-16 | Berlin | Q62725 | |||
Kay Bailey Hutchison | American politician (born 1943) | United States of America | 1943-07-22 | Galveston | Q239928 | |||
Bill Bradley | American basketball player and politician (born 1943) | United States of America | 1943-07-28 | Crystal City | Q504025 | |||
Phil Bredesen | American politician | United States of America | 1943-11-21 | Oceanport | Q724001 | |||
Chris Patten | British politician and colonial administrator (born 1944) | United Kingdom | 1944-05-12 | Cleveleys | Q23368 | |||
Bill Clinton | President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 | United States of America | 1946-08-19 | Hope | Q1124 | |||
Hillary Clinton | American politician, diplomat, and presidential candidate (born 1947) | United States of America | 1947-10-26 | Edgewater Hospital | Q6294 | |||
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley | British businessman (born 1948) | United Kingdom | 1948-02-20 | Hamburg | Q335556 | |||
Al Gore | Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948) | United States of America | 1948-03-31 | Washington, D.C. | Q19673 | |||
Helen Clark | Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 | New Zealand | 1950-02-26 | Te Pahu | Q180383 | |||
Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos | British diplomat (born 1954) | United Kingdom | 1954-03-13 | Georgetown | Q335698 | |||
Condoleezza Rice | United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009 | United States of America | 1954-11-14 | Birmingham | Q47216 | |||
Penny Pritzker | American billionaire businesswoman (born 1959) | United States of America | 1959-05-02 | Chicago | Q293365 | |||
Barack Obama | President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 | United States of America Kenya |
1961-08-04 | Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children | Q76 | |||
David Miliband | British politician (born 1965) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1965-07-15 | London | Q272670 |
professor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Joseph B�dier | French philologist and writer (1864-1938) | France | 1864-01-28 | 1938-08-29 | 6th arrondissement of Paris | Le Grand-Serre | Q380842 | |
Stephen Kuffler | American neurophysiologist | United States of America | 1913-08-24 | 1980-10-11 | Austria-Hungary | Woods Hole | Q445338 | |
E. C. Pielou | Canadian ecologist | Canada | 1924-02-20 | 2016-07-16 | Bognor Regis | Comox | Q1381717 | |
Philip Levine | Jewish-American poet (1928-2015) | United States of America | 1928-01-10 | 2015-02-14 | Detroit | Fresno | Q531273 | |
Maxine Hong Kingston | Chinese American author | United States of America | 1940-10-27 | Stockton | Q19330 | |||
Louise Richardson | Irish political scientist | Ireland | 1958 | Tramore | Q440934 |
programmer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Richard Stallman | American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project | United States of America | 1953-03-16 | Manhattan | Q7439 | |||
Ray Ozzie | American businessman | United States of America | 1955-11-20 | Chicago | Q92637 |
psychiatrist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Vincent Dole | American physician (1913-2006) | United States of America | 1913-05-18 | 2006-08-01 | Chicago | New York City | Q983762 | |
Aaron Beck | American psychiatrist | United States of America | 1921-07-18 | 2021-11-01 | Providence | Philadelphia | Q302849 | |
Robert Jay Lifton | American psychiatrist and author | United States of America | 1926-05-16 | Brooklyn | Q711066 |
psychoanalyst
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Anna Freud | Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895–1982) | United Kingdom Austria |
1895-12-03 1896 |
1982-10-09 | Vienna | London | Q78485 | |
Julia Kristeva | Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic | France Bulgaria |
1941-06-24 | Sliven | Q159876 |
psychologist
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radio personality
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Garrison Keillor | American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality | United States of America | 1942-08-07 | Anoka | Q183031 | |||
David Grossman | Israeli author | Israel | 1954-01-25 | Jerusalem | Q160263 |
research fellow
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Gordon Allport | American psychologist (1897–1967) | United States of America | 1897-11-11 | 1967-10-09 | Montezuma | Cambridge | Q310741 | |
Karl Ulrich Mayer | German research fellow | Germany | 1945-04-10 | Geislingen an der Steige | Q1733222 |
scientist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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James Rhyne Killian | the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States of America | 1904-07-24 | 1988-01-29 | Blacksburg | Cambridge | Q49618 | |
T. Keith Glennan | NASA administrator | United States of America | 1905-09-08 | 1995-04-11 | Enderlin | Mitchellville | Q623624 | |
Hamao Umezawa | Japanese microbiologist | Japan Empire of Japan |
1914-10-01 | 1986-12-25 | Obama | Tokyo | Q822666 |
screenwriter
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Stephen Vincent Benét | American poet, short story writer, novelist | United States of America | 1898-07-22 | 1943-03-13 | Bethlehem | New York City | Q1348138 | |
Fred Hoyle | British astronomer | United Kingdom | 1915-06-24 | 2001-08-20 | Bingley | Bournemouth | Q183397 | |
Horton Foote | American playwright and screenwriter (1916–2009) | United States of America | 1916-03-14 | 2009-03-04 | Wharton County | Hartford | Q529696 | |
Peter O'Donnell | English writer | United Kingdom | 1920-04-11 | 2010-05-03 | Lewisham | Brighton | Q1341654 | |
James Salter | American novelist and short-story writer (1925–2015) | United States of America | 1925-06-10 | 2015-06-19 | New York City Preston |
Sag Harbor | Q1395915 | |
William Trevor | Irish writer | Ireland | 1928-05-24 | 2016-11-20 | Mitchelstown | Somerset | Q528826 | |
Diane Johnson | American novelist and essayist | United States of America | 1934-04-28 | Moline | Q533343 | |||
Joan Didion | American writer (1934-2021) | United States of America | 1934-12-05 | 2021-12-23 | Sacramento | Manhattan | Q267691 | |
Francis Ford Coppola | American filmmaker | United States of America | 1939-04-07 | Detroit | Q56094 | |||
Russell Banks | American writer (1940-2023) | United States of America | 1940-03-28 | 2023-01-07 | Newton | Saratoga Springs | Q665144 | |
Ariel Dorfman | Chilean writer | Argentina | 1942-05-06 | Buenos Aires | Q659027 | |||
Terrence Malick | American film director and screenwriter | United States of America | 1943-11-30 | Ottawa | Q215478 | |||
John Banville | Irish writer | Ireland | 1945-12-08 | Wexford | Q313077 | |||
Paul Auster | American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter | United States of America | 1947-02-03 | 2024-04-30 | Newark | New York City | Q214642 | |
John Patrick Shanley | American writer | United States of America | 1950-10-03 | The Bronx | Q1349456 | |||
Richard Linklater | American director and screenwriter | United States of America | 1960-07-30 | Houston | Q40035 | |||
Tracy Letts | American actor and screenwriter | United States of America | 1965-07-04 | Tulsa | Q984572 | |||
Liev Schreiber | American actor | United States of America | 1967-10-04 | San Francisco | Q298368 | |||
Shonda Rhimes | American television producer, television and film writer, and author | United States of America | 1970-01-13 | Chicago | Q242329 |
sculptor
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seismologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Beno Gutenberg | seismologist (1889-1960) | Germany United States of America |
1889-06-04 | 1960-01-25 | Darmstadt | Pasadena | Q76770 | |
Charles Francis Richter | Seismologist and mathematician | United States of America | 1900-04-26 | 1985-09-30 | Overpeck | Pasadena | Q184014 | |
Keiiti Aki | Japanese-American professor of geophysics | Japan Empire of Japan |
1930-03-03 | 2005-05-17 | Yokohama | Saint-Pierre | Q493209 |
singer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Carol Burnett | American actress, comedian and singer | United States of America | 1933-04-26 | San Antonio | Q255565 | |||
Paul Simon | American singer-songwriter (born 1941) | United States of America | 1941-10-13 | Newark | Q4028 | |||
Meredith Monk | American musician | United States of America | 1942-11-20 | Queens | Q267170 | |||
Bruce Springsteen | American rock singer (born 1949) | United States of America | 1949-09-23 | Long Branch | Q1225 |
singer-songwriter
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Leonard Cohen | Canadian poet and singer-songwriter (1934–2016) | Canada | 1934-09-21 | 2016-11-07 | Montreal | Los Angeles | Q1276 | |
Bono | Irish singer-songwriter and rock musician, member of U2 | Ireland | 1960-05-10 | Dublin | Q834621 | |||
John Legend | American singer-songwriter | United States of America | 1978-12-28 | Springfield | Q44857 |
social psychologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Philip Zimbardo | American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment | United States of America | 1933-03-23 | New York City | Q296042 | |||
Stanley Milgram | American social psychologist | United States of America | 1933-08-15 | 1984-12-20 | The Bronx | Manhattan | Q208236 |
sociologist
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stage actor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Colleen Dewhurst | Canadian-American actress (1924-1991) | Canada United States of America |
1924-06-03 | 1991-08-22 | Montreal | New York City | Q253916 | |
Jane Alexander | American actress (b. 1939) | United States of America | 1939-10-28 | Boston | Q242717 | |||
Anna Deavere Smith | American actress, playwright and professor | United States of America | 1950-09-18 1950 |
Baltimore | Q286777 |
statistician
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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George Gallup | American statistician (1901–1984) | United States of America | 1901-11-18 | 1984-07-26 | Jefferson | Tschingel | Q315542 | |
William C. Krumbein | American geologist | United States of America | 1902-01-28 | 1979-08-18 | Beaver Falls | Los Angeles | Q1773305 | |
James Vaupel | American demographer | United States of America | 1945-05-02 | 2022-03-27 | New York City | Q833843 |
surgeon
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Joseph Lister | British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1827-04-05 | 1912-02-10 | Upton House, Newham | Walmer | Q155768 | |
Jacob Mendes Da Costa | American physician | United States of America | 1833-02-07 | 1900-09-11 | Saint Thomas | Pennsylvania | Q676958 | |
Wilder Penfield | Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach | Canada | 1891-01-26 | 1976-04-05 | Spokane | Montréal-Nord | Q711394 | |
Alfred Blalock | American surgeon | United States of America | 1899-04-05 | 1964-09-15 | Culloden | Baltimore | Q984215 | |
John Heysham Gibbon | American surgeon | United States of America | 1903-09-29 | 1973-02-05 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q1378995 |
teacher
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Thomas Jefferson | president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 | United States of America | 1743-04-13 1743-04-02 |
1826-07-04 | Shadwell | Monticello | Q11812 | |
David F. Swensen | American businessman (1954-2021) | United States of America | 1954-01-26 | 2021-05-05 | Ames | New Haven | Q1174392 | |
Michael Sipser | American mathematician | United States of America | 1954-09-17 | Brooklyn | Q93104 |
television actor
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Uta Hagen | German-born American actress and drama teacher (1919-2004) | German Reich United States of America |
1919-06-12 | 2004-01-14 2004-01-01 |
Göttingen | New York City | Q64260 | |
Bill Cosby | American actor and comedian (born 1937) | United States of America | 1937-07-12 | Philadelphia | Q213512 | |||
Steve Martin | American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born 1945) | United States of America | 1945-08-14 | Waco | Q16473 | |||
John Lithgow | American actor | United States of America | 1945-10-19 | Rochester | Q311271 |
television presenter
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Chancellor | American TV journalist | United States of America | 1927-07-14 | 1996-07-12 | Chicago | Princeton | Q1770797 | |
Oprah Winfrey | American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954) | United States of America | 1954-01-29 | Kosciusko | Q55800 |
theatrical director
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Peter Brook | English theatre and film director (1925–2022) | United Kingdom France |
1925-03-21 | 2022-07-02 | Chiswick | 15th arrondissement of Paris | Q49760 | |
Dario Fo | Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016) | Italy | 1926-03-24 | 2016-10-13 | Sangiano Leggiuno |
Luigi Sacco Hospital Milan |
Q765 | |
Richard Schechner | American theatre director (born 1934) | United States of America | 1934-08-23 | Newark | Q723144 |
theologian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Johann Gottfried Eichhorn | German theologian | Kingdom of Württemberg | 1752-10-16 | 1827-06-25 | Ingelfingen | Göttingen | Q66355 | |
Barnas Sears | President of Brown University (1802-1880) | United States of America | 1802-11-19 | 1880-07-06 | Sandisfield | Saratoga | Q808439 | |
Albert Schweitzer | French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher | German Reich France |
1875-01-14 | 1965-09-04 | Kaysersberg | Lambaréné | Q49325 | |
Augustin Bea | German Jesuit priest and scholar and cardinal (1881-1968) | Germany | 1881-05-28 1881 |
1968-11-16 1968 |
Blumberg | Rome | Q61060 | |
Paul Tillich | German-American theologian and philosopher | German Empire Weimar Republic United States of America |
1886-08-20 | 1965-10-22 | Starosiedle | Chicago | Q60104 | |
Georges Florovsky | Russian Christian theologian and historian (1893–1979) | Ukraine United States of America France |
1893-08-28 | 1979-08-11 | Odesa Kropyvnytskyi |
Princeton | Q714187 | |
Nahum Norbert Glatzer | Jewish literary scholar, theologian, and editor | United States of America | 1903-03-25 | 1990-02-27 | Lviv | Tucson | Q214116 | |
Henry Chadwick | British academic and Anglican priest (1920–2008) | United Kingdom | 1920-06-23 | 2008-06-17 | Bromley | Oxford | Q321624 | |
Frank Moore Cross | American biblical scholar | United States of America | 1921-07-13 | 2012-10-16 | Ross | Rochester | Q1343665 | |
Helmut Koester | German-born American scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity (1926-2016) | Germany | 1926-12-18 | 2016-01-01 | Hamburg | Lexington | Q96837 | |
Gustavo Gutiérrez | Peruvian theologian | Peru | 1928-06-08 | Lima | Q335384 | |||
Harvey Cox | American theologian (born 1929) | United States of America | 1929-05-19 | Malvern | Q674993 | |||
E. P. Sanders | American biblical scholar | United States of America | 1937-04-18 | 2022-11-21 | Grand Prairie | Q601009 | ||
Bernard McGinn | theologian, historian, and scholar of spirituality | United States of America | 1937-08-19 | Yonkers | Q822604 | |||
David Tracy | American theologian | United States of America | 1939-01-06 | Yonkers | Q1176885 | |||
Rowan Williams | Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012) | United Kingdom | 1950-06-14 | Swansea | Q49615 | |||
Cornel West | American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953) | United States of America | 1953-06-02 | Tulsa | Q712469 |
theoretical chemist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert Parr | American theoretical chemist (1921-2017) | United States of America | 1921-09-22 | 2017-03-27 | Chicago | Chapel Hill | Q908642 | |
Stuart A. Rice | American physical chemist | United States of America | 1932-01-06 | New York City | Q715584 |
theoretical physicist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Max Planck | German theoretical physicist (1858-1947) | German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Bizone |
1858-04-23 | 1947-10-04 1947-12-04 |
Kiel | Göttingen | Q9021 | |
Arnold Sommerfeld | German physicist (1868-1951) | Germany | 1868-12-05 | 1951-04-26 | Königsberg | Munich | Q77078 | |
Igor Tamm | Russian physicist | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
1895-07-08 | 1971-04-12 | Vladivostok | Moscow | Q155759 | |
Wolfgang Pauli | physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958) | United States of America Switzerland Austria |
1900-04-25 | 1958-12-15 | Vienna | Zürich | Q65989 | |
Werner Heisenberg | German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner | German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany |
1901-12-05 | 1976-02-01 | Würzburg | Munich | Q40904 | |
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | Japanese physicist (1906-1979) | Japan Empire of Japan |
1906-03-31 | 1979-07-08 | Tokyo | Tokyo | Q184563 | |
Rudolf Peierls | German-born British physicist | United Kingdom Germany |
1907-06-05 | 1995-09-19 | Berlin | Oxford | Q61735 | |
Yoichiro Nambu | American theoretical physicist (1921-2015) | United States of America Japan |
1921-01-18 | 2015-07-05 | Tokyo | Toyonaka | Q188120 | |
Geoffrey Chew | American theoretical physicist | United States of America | 1924-06-05 | 2019-04-11 | Washington, D.C. | Berkeley | Q376617 | |
Stephen Hawking | British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018) | United Kingdom | 1942-01-08 | 2018-03-14 | Oxford | Cambridge | Q17714 | |
Gerard 't Hooft | Dutch theoretical physicist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1946-07-05 | Den Helder | Q184592 |
translator
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | American poet and educator (1807–1882) | United States of America | 1807-02-27 | 1882-03-24 | Portland | Cambridge | Q152513 | |
Jorge Luis Borges | Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986) | Argentina | 1899-08-24 | 1986-06-14 | Buenos Aires | Geneva | Q909 | |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | Polish-American author | United States of America Poland Russian Empire |
1904-07-14 | 1991-07-24 | Leoncin Radzymin |
Surfside Miami |
Q75612 | |
Annemarie Schimmel | German scholar of Islam (1922-2003) | Germany | 1922-04-07 | 2003-01-26 | Erfurt | Bonn | Q75860 | |
Yves Bonnefoy | French poet and essayist, translator | France | 1923-06-24 | 2016-07-01 | Tours | 15th arrondissement of Paris | Q250136 |
university teacher
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veterinarian
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Arnold Theiler | Swiss-South African veterinarian (1867-1936) | Switzerland | 1867-03-26 | 1936-07-24 | Frick | London | Q119270 | |
Karl Friedrich Meyer | American pathologist (1884-1974) | United States of America Switzerland |
1884-05-19 | 1974-04-27 | Basel | San Francisco | Q121372 |
violinist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Isaac Stern | American musician | United States of America | 1920-07-21 | 2001-09-22 | Kremenets | New York City | Q311317 | |
Itzhak Perlman | Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945) | Israel United States of America |
1945-08-31 | Jaffa | Q215905 | |||
Anne-Sophie Mutter | German violinist | Germany | 1963-06-29 | Rheinfelden | Q3374 | |||
Midori Gotō | Japanese American Violinist | United States of America | 1971-10-25 | Osaka | Q268644 |
virologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Franklin Enders | American medical researcher (1897-1985) | United States of America | 1897-02-10 | 1985-09-08 | West Hartford | Waterford | Q312961 | |
Richard Shope | American virologist (1901-1966) | United States of America | 1901-12-25 | 1966-10-02 | Des Moines | Q445001 | ||
David Bodian | American medical scientist (1910-1992) | United States of America | 1910-05-15 | 1992-09-18 | St. Louis | Baltimore | Q179780 | |
Renato Dulbecco | Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012) | Italy United States of America Kingdom of Italy |
1914-02-22 | 2012-02-19 | Catanzaro | La Jolla | Q109553 | |
Howard Temin | American geneticist | United States of America | 1934-12-10 | 1994-02-09 | Philadelphia | Madison | Q243536 | |
David Baltimore | American biologist | United States of America | 1938-03-07 | New York City | Q234949 | |||
Harold E. Varmus | American scientist | United States of America | 1939-12-18 | Oceanside | Q295691 | |||
David Ho | Taiwanese-American physician and scientist | United States of America | 1952-11-03 | Taichung | Q378003 |
writer
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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James Freeman Clarke | American theologian and writer (1810–1888) | United States of America | 1810-04-04 | 1888-06-08 | Hanover | Jamaica Plain | Q323362 | |
Richard Henry Dana | American author and lawyer (1815–1882) | United States of America | 1815-08-01 | 1882-01-06 | Cambridge | Rome | Q527981 | |
John Ruskin | English writer and art critic (1819–1900) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom |
1819-02-08 | 1900-01-20 | London | Coniston | Q179126 | |
Edward Everett Hale | American author, historian and Unitarian minister (1822-1909) | United States of America | 1822-04-03 | 1909-06-10 | Boston | Roxbury | Q786616 | |
Edmondo de Amicis | Italian writer (1846-1908) | Kingdom of Italy | 1846-10-21 | 1908-03-11 | Oneglia | Bordighera | Q240576 | |
Ferdinand Brunetière | French writer | France | 1849-07-19 | 1906-12-09 | Toulon | rue Joseph-Bara | Q729578 | |
Rudyard Kipling | English writer and poet (1865–1936) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1865-12-30 | 1936-01-18 | Mumbai | London | Q34743 | |
E. M. Forster | English novelist (1879-1970) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1879-01-01 | 1970-06-07 | London | Coventry | Q189119 | |
James Branch Cabell | American author | United States of America | 1879-04-14 | 1958-05-05 | Richmond | Richmond | Q723374 | |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964 | British Raj India Dominion of India |
1889-11-14 | 1964-05-27 | Prayagraj | New Delhi | Q1047 | |
Rudolf Arnheim | German psychologist (1904-2007) | Germany | 1904-07-15 | 2007-06-09 | Berlin | Ann Arbor | Q213642 | |
Samuel Beckett | Nobel-winning Irish writer (1906–1989) | Ireland France |
1906-04-13 | 1989-12-22 | Foxrock | 14th arrondissement of Paris | Q37327 | |
Golo Mann | German-Swiss historian (1909-1994) | Germany Switzerland |
1909-03-27 | 1994-04-07 | Munich | Leverkusen | Q77109 | |
Marjorie Grene | American philosopher (1910–2009) | United States of America | 1910-12-13 | 2009-03-16 | Milwaukee | Blacksburg | Q293224 | |
Max Frisch | Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991) | Switzerland | 1911-05-15 | 1991-04-04 | Zürich | Zürich | Q115483 | |
John Cheever | American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982) | United States of America | 1912-05-27 | 1982-06-18 | Quincy | Ossining | Q336151 | |
Julia Child | American chef | United States of America | 1912-08-15 | 2004-08-13 | Pasadena | Santa Barbara | Q214477 | |
Albert Camus | French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960) | France | 1913-11-07 | 1960-01-04 | Dréan | Villeblevin | Q34670 | |
Ralph Ellison | American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994) | United States of America | 1914-03-01 | 1994-04-16 | Oklahoma City | New York City | Q299965 | |
Elizabeth Hardwick | American writer and literary critic | United States of America | 1916-07-27 | 2007-12-02 | Lexington | Manhattan | Q465242 | |
Ian Watt | literary historian | United Kingdom | 1917-03-09 | 1999-12-13 | Windermere | Menlo Park | Q1351106 | |
Eric Hobsbawm | British academic historian and Marxist historiographer | United Kingdom | 1917-06-09 | 2012-10-01 | Alexandria | London | Q34933 | |
Richard Ellmann | American writer and literary critic | United States of America | 1918-03-15 | 1987-05-13 | Highland Park | Oxford | Q1233576 | |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008) | Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Russia statelessness |
1918-12-11 | 2008-08-03 | Kislovodsk | Moscow | Q34474 | |
Bernard Bailyn | American historian (1922–2020) | United States of America | 1922-09-10 | 2020-08-07 | Hartford | Belmont | Q822286 | |
Kurt Vonnegut | American author (1922–2007) | United States of America | 1922-11-11 | 2007-04-11 | Indianapolis | New York City | Q49074 | |
Grace Paley | American writer and activist | United States of America | 1922-12-11 | 2007-08-22 2007-08-21 |
The Bronx | Thetford | Q443966 | |
Kōbō Abe | Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor | Empire of Japan Japan |
1924-03-07 | 1993-01-22 | Kita-ku | Tokyo | Q186273 | |
William Styron | American novelist and essayist | United States of America | 1925-06-11 | 2006-11-01 | Newport News | Martha's Vineyard | Q245257 | |
Alison Lurie | American novelist and academic -1926-2020) | United States of America | 1926-09-03 | 2020-12-03 | Chicago | Ithaca | Q272638 | |
Elie Wiesel | Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016) | United States of America Kingdom of Romania Kingdom of Hungary |
1928-09-30 | 2016-07-02 | Sighetu Marmației | New York City | Q18391 | |
Carlos Fuentes | Mexican writer (1928-2012) | Mexico | 1928-11-11 | 2012-05-15 | Panama City | Mexico City | Q154691 | |
Milan Kundera | Franco-Czech poet and novelist (1929-2023) | France Czech Republic Czechoslovakia statelessness |
1929-04-01 | 2023-07-11 | Královo Pole | 7th arrondissement of Paris | Q93166 | |
Derek Bok | American lawyer and college administrator | United States of America | 1930-03-22 | Bryn Mawr | Q717181 | |||
John Barth | American writer (1930–2024) | United States of America | 1930-05-27 | 2024-04-02 | Cambridge | Bonita Springs | Q315683 | |
Toni Morrison | African American novelist, essayist, and academic | United States of America | 1931-02-18 | 2019-08-05 | Lorain | The Bronx | Q72334 | |
John McPhee | American writer | United States of America | 1931-03-08 | Princeton | Q1701049 | |||
Charles Taylor | Canadian philosopher | Canada | 1931-11-05 | Montreal | Q311757 | |||
Walter Abish | Austrian-American author | United States of America | 1931-12-24 | 2022-05-28 | Vienna | Manhattan | Q213806 | |
Athol Fugard | South African playwright (born 1932) | South Africa | 1932-06-11 | Middelburg | Q601307 | |||
V. S. Naipaul | Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018) | Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom |
1932-08-17 | 2018-08-11 | Chaguanas | London | Q44593 | |
Susan Sontag | American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933–2004) | United States of America | 1933-01-16 | 2004-12-28 | New York City | New York City | Q152824 | |
Oliver Sacks | British neurologist and writer (1933–2015) | United Kingdom | 1933-07-09 | 2015-08-30 | Willesden | Greenwich Village | Q258662 | |
Carl Andre | American artist | United States of America | 1935-09-16 | 2024-01-24 | Quincy | New York City | Q315348 | |
Thomas Keneally | Australian novelist | Australia | 1935-10-07 | Sydney | Q298334 | |||
Kenneth Silverman | American biographer (1936-2017) | United States of America | 1936-02-05 | 2017-07-07 | Manhattan | Manhattan | Q1738912 | |
Václav Havel | Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011) | Czechoslovakia Czech Republic |
1936-10-05 | 2011-12-18 | Prague | Hrádeček | Q36233 | |
Luisa Valenzuela | Argentine writer | Argentina | 1938-11-26 | Buenos Aires | Q450690 | |||
Margaret Atwood | Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor | Canada | 1939-11-18 | Ottawa | Q183492 | |||
Tu Weiming | Chinese philosopher | People's Republic of China | 1940-02-06 | Kunming | Q710092 | |||
Wendy Doniger | American Indologist (born 1940) | United States of America | 1940-11-20 | New York City | Q1058154 | |||
Wolf Lepenies | German sociologist | Germany | 1941-01-11 | Olsztyn | Q66216 | |||
Roberto Calasso | Italian writer | Italy | 1941-05-30 | 2021-07-28 | Florence | Milan | Q669956 | |
Anne Tyler | American novelist | United States of America | 1941-10-25 | Minneapolis | Q235615 | |||
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic | India | 1942-02-24 | Kolkata | Q240851 | |||
Peter Carey | Australian novelist | Australia | 1943-05-07 | Bacchus Marsh | Q313254 | |||
Steven Millhauser | American novelist and short story writer | United States of America | 1943-08-03 | New York City | Q640807 | |||
Marilynne Robinson | American novelist and essayist | United States of America | 1943-11-26 | Sandpoint | Q253926 | |||
Angela Davis | American political activist, scholar, and author | United States of America | 1944-01-26 | Birmingham | Q160456 | |||
Alice Walker | American author and activist (1944- ) | United States of America | 1944-02-09 | Eatonton | Q215868 | |||
Nuruddin Farah | Somali writer | Somalia | 1945-11-24 | Baidoa | Q323344 | |||
Julian Barnes | English writer | United Kingdom | 1946-01-19 | Leicester | Q295431 | |||
Dương Thu Hương | Vietnamese writer and politician | Vietnam France |
1947 | Thái Bình | Q269992 | |||
Salman Rushdie | Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947) | United Kingdom United States of America India |
1947-06-19 | Mumbai | Q44306 | |||
Charles R. Johnson | American fiction writer, essayist, and academic | United States of America | 1948-04-23 | Evanston | Q1065901 | |||
James Fallows | American journalist | United States of America | 1949-08-02 | Philadelphia | Q667171 | |||
Christos Papadimitriou | Greek computer scientist (b. 1949) | Greece United States of America |
1949-08-16 | Athens | Q92639 | |||
Jane Smiley | American novelist | United States of America | 1949-09-26 | Los Angeles | Q441067 | |||
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | American scholar of queer theory (1950-2009) | United States of America | 1950-05-02 | 2009-04-12 | Dayton | Manhattan New York City |
Q258462 | |
Amy Hempel | American writer | United States of America | 1951-12-14 | Chicago | Q481871 | |||
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. | American scholar of Buddhism | United States of America | 1952-06-01 | Washington, D.C. | Q1240353 | |||
Orhan Pamuk | Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureate (born 1952) | Turkey | 1952-06-07 | Istanbul | Q241248 | |||
Michael Cunningham | American novelist and screenwriter | United States of America | 1952-11-06 | Cincinnati | Q310257 | |||
Bill McKibben | American environmentalist and writer | United States of America | 1960-12-08 | Palo Alto | Q503815 | |||
Lisa Randall | American theoretical physicist | United States of America | 1962-06-18 | Queens | Q450404 | |||
Michael Chabon | American novelist, short story writer, essayist | United States of America | 1963-05-24 | Washington, D.C. | Q313466 | |||
James Wood | literary critic | United Kingdom | 1965-11-01 | Durham | Q528164 |
zoologist
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Johannes Peter Müller | German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1801-07-14 | 1858-04-28 | Koblenz | Berlin | Q57992 | |
Samuel Jackson Holmes | Noted zoologist and eugenicist | United States of America | 1868-03-07 | 1964-03-05 | Henry | Q788605 | ||
Frank Rattray Lillie | American zoologist | United States of America | 1870-06-27 | 1947-11-05 | Toronto | Chicago | Q659087 | |
Joseph Grinnell | American zoologist (1877-1939) | United States of America | 1877-02-27 | 1939-05-29 | Fort Sill | Berkeley | Q927582 | |
Karl Patterson Schmidt | American herpetologist (1890-1957) | United States of America | 1890-06-19 | 1957-09-26 | Lake Forest | Chicago | Q1397402 | |
Charles Sutherland Elton | British zoologist and ecologist (1900-1991) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1900-03-29 | 1991-05-01 | Liverpool Manchester |
Oxford | Q1066200 | |
Edward B. Lewis | American biologist (1918-2004) | United States of America | 1918-05-20 | 2004-07-21 | Wilkes-Barre | Pasadena | Q274123 | |
Robert Hinde | British zoologist (1923–2016) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1923-10-26 | 2016-12-23 | Norwich | Q321842 | ||
Avrion Mitchison | British zoologist and immunologist | United Kingdom | 1928-05-05 | 2022-12-28 | Q791396 | |||
Jane Lubchenco | American ecologist | United States of America | 1947-12-04 | Denver | Q241155 | |||
Beth Shapiro | American evolutionary molecular biologist (born 1976) | United States of America | 1976-01-14 | Allentown | Q831152 |
Misc
[edit]name | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Hancock | American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793) | United States of America | 1737-01-23 | 1793-10-08 | Braintree | Hancock Manor | Q272774 | |
John Brinkley | Bishop of Cloyne; Royal Astronomer of Ireland; Irish Anglican bishop and astronomer | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain |
1763 | 1835-09-14 | Suffolk | Dublin | Q1231580 | |
Louis Vicat | French engineer who invented artificial cement | France | 1786-03-31 | 1861-04-10 | Nevers | Grenoble | Q650602 | |
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet | Scottish metaphysician (1788-1856) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1788-03-08 | 1856-05-06 | Glasgow | Edinburgh | Q15474 | |
Evangelinos Apostolides Sophokles | Greek university professor | Greece | 1807-03-08 | 1883-12-17 | Tsagkarada | Cambridge | Q1379774 | |
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet | surgeon, histologist, anatomist (1816-1892) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1816-07-20 | 1892-03-29 | Nantwich | Dorking | Q1352869 | |
Francis Parkman | American historian (1823-1893) | United States of America | 1823-09-16 | 1893-11-08 | Boston | Jamaica Plain | Q1340161 | |
William Stubbs | British historian and Anglican bishop (1825–1901) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1825-06-21 | 1901-04-22 | Knaresborough | Cuddesdon | Q443648 | |
Abraham Jacobi | German-American pediatrician (1830-1919) | Germany United States of America |
1830-05-06 | 1919-07-10 | Hartum | Lake George | Q72359 | |
A. V. Dicey | British jurist and constitutional theorist (1835–1922) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1835-02-04 | 1922-04-07 | Claybrooke Magna | Oxford | Q1344299 | |
Archibald Geikie | British geologist | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom |
1835-12-28 | 1924-11-10 | Edinburgh | Haslemere | Q633167 | |
Charles Francis Brush | American businessman | United States of America | 1849-03-17 | 1929-06-15 | Euclid | Cleveland | Q1064423 | |
Hermann Jacobi | German indologist (1850-1937) | German Reich | 1850-02-11 | 1937-10-19 | Cologne | Bonn | Q73862 | |
George Brown Goode | American ichthyologist (1851-1896) | United States of America | 1851-02-13 1851 |
1896-09-06 1896 |
New Albany | Washington, D.C. | Q1333772 | |
Karl Friedrich Geldner | German orientalist | Weimar Republic German Empire |
1852-12-17 | 1929-02-05 | Saalfeld | Marburg | Q71625 | |
Friedrich Meinecke | German historian, philosopher of history and university teacher (1862-1954) | Germany | 1862-10-30 | 1954-02-06 | Salzwedel | West Berlin | Q66147 | |
Antoine Meillet | French linguist (1866–1936) | France | 1866-11-11 | 1936-09-21 | Moulins | Châteaumeillant | Q347001 | |
Otto Loewi | Jewish-German pharmacologist | Germany United States of America Austria |
1873-06-03 | 1961-12-25 | Frankfurt | New York City | Q77173 | |
Stanley Unwin | British publisher (1884-1968): George Allen & Unwin; Allen and Unwin | United Kingdom | 1884-12-19 | 1968-10-13 | Lewisham | London | Q95160 | |
Karl Lashley | American psychologist | United States of America | 1890-06-07 1890-07-07 |
1958-08-07 | Davis | Poitiers | Q603678 | |
Paul Hindemith | German composer (1895–1963) | Germany West Germany United States of America |
1895-11-16 | 1963-12-28 | Hanau | Frankfurt | Q57244 | |
John Dos Passos | American novelist (1896–1970) | United States of America | 1896-01-14 | 1970-09-28 | Chicago | Baltimore | Q312407 | |
André-Jean Festugière | (1898-1982) French historian of religion | France | 1898-03-15 | 1982-08-13 | 8th arrondissement of Paris | Saint-Dizier | Q481307 | |
John Farquhar Fulton | American neurophysiologist and historian of science | United States of America | 1899-11-01 | 1960-05-29 | Saint Paul | Hamden | Q1700039 | |
Seán Ó Faoláin | Irish writer (1900-1991) | Ireland | 1900-02-22 | 1991-04-20 | Cork | Dublin | Q1348153 | |
Herbert Bayer | Austrian architect, photographer, graphic and typographer (1900-1985) | Austria United States of America |
1900-04-05 | 1985-09-30 | Haag am Hausruck | Montecito | Q213637 | |
Lon L. Fuller | American philosopher of law (1902-1978) | United States of America | 1902-06-15 | 1978-04-08 | Hereford | Cambridge | Q286431 | |
Konrad Lorenz | Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 | Austria | 1903-11-07 | 1989-02-27 | Vienna | Vienna | Q78496 | |
Karl Rahner | German Catholic theologian | Germany | 1904-03-05 | 1984-03-30 | Freiburg im Breisgau | Innsbruck | Q57317 | |
Ulf von Euler | Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist (1905–1983) | Sweden | 1905-02-07 | 1983-03-09 | Stockholm | Stockholm | Q237142 | |
Paul Oskar Kristeller | German-American philosopher and art historian | Germany United States of America |
1905-05-22 | 1999-06-07 | Berlin | New York City | Q63895 | |
Leon Radzinowicz | British criminologist (1906-1999) | United Kingdom Poland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1906-08-15 | 1999-12-29 | Łódź | Haverford | Q1767361 | |
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Polish-American rabbi, philosopher, and civil rights activist (1907-1972) | United States of America Poland |
1907-01-11 | 1972-12-23 | Warsaw | New York City | Q215833 | |
Stephan Kuttner | American legal scholar | Germany United States of America |
1907-03-24 | 1996-08-12 | Bonn | Berkeley | Q95496 | |
Derk Bodde | American academic and sinologist (1909–2003) | United States of America | 1909-03-09 | 2003-11-03 | Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock | Germantown | Q373880 | |
A. J. Ayer | English philosopher | United Kingdom | 1910-10-29 | 1989-06-27 1989-07-26 |
London | London | Q243757 | |
George M.A. Hanfmann | Russian born American classical archaeologist (1911-1986) | United States of America Russian Empire |
1911-11-20 | 1986-03-13 | Saint Petersburg | Watertown | Q215411 | |
John Thomas Dunlop | American labor economist and former United States Secretary of Labor (1975-1976) | United States of America | 1914-07-05 | 2003-10-02 | Placerville | Boston | Q382049 | |
Martin Gardner | American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010) | United States of America | 1914-10-21 1914 1940 |
2010-05-22 2010 |
Tulsa | Norman | Q677706 | |
Elwood Henneman | American neurophysiologist (1915-1996) | United States of America | 1915 | 1996-02-22 | Washington, D.C. | Q1334378 | ||
Machteld Mellink | Dutch-American archaeologist of Near eastern cultures (1917-2006) | United States of America Kingdom of the Netherlands |
1917-10-26 | 2006-02-23 | Amsterdam | Haverford | Q533573 | |
Kenneth Dover | British classical scholar (1920–2010) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1920-03-11 | 2010-03-07 | London | St Andrews | Q1738862 | |
Asa Briggs | English historian (1921-2016) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1921-05-07 | 2016-03-15 | Keighley | Lewes | Q336863 | |
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza | Italian population geneticist | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1922-01-25 | 2018-08-31 | Genoa | Belluno | Q315454 | |
Richard Avedon | American photographer (1923–2004) | United States of America | 1923-05-15 | 2004-10-01 | New York City | San Antonio | Q305497 | |
Roger Guillemin | French-American neuroscientist (1924–2024) | France United States of America |
1924-01-11 | 2024-02-21 | Dijon | San Diego | Q242169 | |
Heinrich Holland | British geologist (1927-2012) | United States of America | 1927-05-27 | 2012-05-21 | Mannheim | Wynnewood | Q215441 | |
Donald Henderson | American physician (1928-2016) | United States of America | 1928-09-07 | 2016-08-19 | Lakewood | Towson | Q1239660 | |
Helen Frankenthaler | American painter | United States of America | 1928-12-12 1928 |
2011-12-27 2011 |
Manhattan | Darien Darien |
Q235281 | |
Stephen Sondheim | American composer and lyricist (1930–2021) | United States of America | 1930-03-22 | 2021-11-26 | Manhattan | Roxbury | Q153579 | |
George Soros | Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930) | United States of America Hungary |
1930-08-12 | Budapest | Q12908 | |||
Warren Buffett | American investor, entrepreneur and businessman | United States of America | 1930-08-30 | Omaha | Q47213 | |||
Hamilton Smith | American microbiologist | United States of America | 1931-08-23 | New York City | Q108896 | |||
Paul R. Ehrlich | American biologist and environmentalist noted for his warning about population growth being unsustainable | United States of America | 1932-05-29 | Philadelphia | Q377983 | |||
David Kaplan | American philosopher and logician | United States of America | 1933 | Los Angeles | Q1174939 | |||
James Massey | American information theorist and cryptologist (1934-2013) | United States of America | 1934-02-11 | 2013-06-16 | Wauseon | Copenhagen | Q251262 | |
Jane Goodall | English primatologist and anthropologist (born 1934) | United Kingdom | 1934-04-03 | Hampstead | Q184746 | |||
Carl Sagan | American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996) | United States of America | 1934-11-09 | 1996-12-20 | Brooklyn | Seattle | Q410 | |
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill | British politician and barrister (1936-2020) | United Kingdom | 1936-07-03 | 2020-08-08 | Q112908 | |||
Peter Ueberroth | American water polo player and businessman | United States of America | 1937-09-02 | Evanston | Q713746 | |||
Robert Rubin | American banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary | United States of America | 1938-08-29 | New York City | Q370316 | |||
Judy Collins | American singer and songwriter | United States of America | 1939-05-01 | Seattle | Q254576 | |||
Michael J. Colacurcio | UCLA Professor | United States of America | 1939-07-02 | Cincinnati | Q1927975 | |||
Stanley Hauerwas | American theologian | United States of America | 1940-07-24 | Dallas | Q1328650 | |||
Pina Bausch | German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director | Germany | 1940-07-27 | 2009-06-30 | Solingen | Wuppertal | Q155538 | |
J�rgen Kocka | German historian | Germany | 1941-04-19 | Hejnice | Q65770 | |||
Bob Dylan | American singer-songwriter (born 1941) | United States of America | 1941-05-24 | Duluth | Q392 | |||
Richard Stoltzman | American musician | United States of America | 1942-07-12 | Omaha | Q1324433 | |||
Kenny Barron | American jazz pianist | United States of America | 1943-06-09 | Philadelphia | Q489233 | |||
David Hammons | American painter and performance artist | United States of America | 1943-07-24 | Springfield | Q320846 | |||
Robert Gates | CIA director, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and university president | United States of America | 1943-09-25 | Wichita | Q212979 | |||
Christopher Browning | American historian of the Holocaust | United States of America | 1944-05-22 | Durham | Q59098 | |||
Richard Leakey | Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician (1944-2022) | Kenya | 1944-12-19 | 2022-01-02 | Nairobi | Nairobi | Q318960 | |
Chris Burden | American sculptor and performance artist | United States of America | 1946-04-11 1946 |
2015-05-10 | Boston | Topanga | Q720832 | |
Michael Geyer | Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, University of Chicago | Germany | 1947 | Freiburg Government Region | Q109763 | |||
David E. Wellbery | American literary critic | United States of America | 1947 | Q1174293 | ||||
Garry Trudeau | American cartoonist (born 1948) | United States of America | 1948-07-21 | New York City | Q1340213 | |||
Charles Simonyi | Hungarian-American computer software executive | Hungary United States of America |
1948-09-10 | Budapest | Q49819 | |||
Michael Peskin | American theoretical physicist | United States of America | 1951-10-27 | Philadelphia | Q1744292 | |||
Kim Nasmyth | British biochemist | United Kingdom | 1952-10-18 | London | Q1741557 | |||
Michael Sandel | American political philosopher | United States of America | 1953-03-05 1953-05-03 |
Minneapolis | Q381044 | |||
David Haussler | bioengineering scientist | United States of America | 1953-10 | Q92714 | ||||
Denis Mukwege | Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1955-03-01 | Bukavu | Q1187542 | |||
Stephen Walt | American political scientist | United States of America | 1955-07-02 | Los Alamos | Q535356 | |||
Susan Solomon | American atmospheric chemist | United States of America | 1956-01-19 | Chicago | Q445519 | |||
Mark Morris | American ballet dancer and choreographer | United States of America | 1956-08-29 | Seattle | Q711688 | |||
Brewster Kahle | American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive | United States of America | 1960-10-22 | New York City | Q92945 | |||
Ellen Lupton | American graphic designer | United States of America | 1963 | Philadelphia | Q535193 | |||
Kara Walker | African American painter and installation artist | United States of America | 1969-11-26 | Stockton | Q444277 | |||
Julie Mehretu | Ethiopian American painter | United States of America | 1970 | Addis Ababa | Q447568 |
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