Wikipedia:WikiProject Science/Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences list part 2
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Catholic priest
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Wright | American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1909–1979) | United States of America | 1909-07-18 | 1979-08-10 | Boston | Cambridge | Q942702 | |
John O'Malley | American Jesuit priest and professor of theology | United States of America | 1927-06-11 | 2022-09-11 | Tiltonsville | Baltimore | Q3182201 | |
Raymond E. Brown | American priest and biblical scholar | United States of America | 1928-05-22 | 1998-08-08 | New York City | Menlo Park | Q1285436 |
academic
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Torsten Nils Wiesel | Swedish neuroscientist | Sweden United States of America |
1924-06-03 | Uppsala | Q271421 | |||
William Pounds | American academic and politician | 1928 | 2023-08-23 | Q8008857 | ||||
Carol T. Christ | American academic administrator | United States of America | 1944 | New York City | Q5044576 | |||
Ernest J. Wilson III | American communication scholar | United States of America | 1948 | Q5393329 | ||||
Amy Gutmann | American academic and diplomat (born 1949) | United States of America | 1949-11-19 | Brooklyn | Q2481855 | |||
Biddy Martin | American academic administrator | United States of America | 1951 | Q5045422 |
actor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Mel Brooks | American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1926) | United States of America | 1926-06-28 | Brooklyn | Q104266 | |||
Trisha Brown | artist, dancer, and choreographer (1936-2017) | United States of America | 1936-11-25 | 2017-03-18 | Aberdeen | San Antonio | Q460833 | |
Sally Field | American actress | United States of America | 1946-11-06 | Pasadena | Q187033 | |||
Wes Studi | American actor | United States of America | 1947-12-17 | Tahlequah | Q350819 | |||
Audra McDonald | American actress and singer (born 1970) | United States of America | 1970-07-03 | Berlin | Q267676 |
anatomist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Caspar Wistar | American physician (1761-1818) | United States of America | 1761-09-13 | 1818-01-22 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q347595 | |
George W. Corner | American anatomist and embryologist | United States of America | 1889-12-12 | 1981-09-28 | Baltimore | Huntsville | Q1508419 | |
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
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Edward S. Morse | American zoologist and anthropologist | United States of America | 1838-06-18 | 1925-12-20 | Portland | Salem | Q2519303 | |
Frederic Ward Putnam | United States archaeologist, ethnologist and curator (1839-1915) | United States of America | 1839-04-16 | 1915-08-14 | Salem | Cambridge | Q3087081 | |
Gustaf Retzius | Swedish histologist (1842–1919) | Sweden | 1842-10-17 | 1919-07-21 | Kungsholm parish | Adolf Fredriks parish | Q640991 | |
Clark Wissler | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1870-09-18 | 1947-08-25 | Hagerstown | New York City | Q1074998 | |
George Henry Chase | American archaeologist (1874-1952) | United States of America | 1874-06-13 | 1952-02-02 | Lynn | Cambridge | Q1507551 | |
Edward Sapir | American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939) | United States of America | 1884-01-26 | 1939-02-04 | Lębork | New Haven | Q191095 | |
Carl Blegen | American archaeologist | United States of America | 1887-01-27 | 1971-08-24 | Minneapolis | Athens | Q552469 | |
Ruth Benedict | American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948) | United States of America | 1887-06-05 1887-07-05 |
1948-09-17 | New York City | New York City | Q228822 | |
Earnest Hooton | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1887-11-20 | 1954-05-03 | Wisconsin | Cambridge | Q517619 | |
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 | |
Audrey Richards | English anthropologist | United Kingdom | 1899-07-08 | 1984-06-29 | London | Midhurst | Q548029 | |
Gilberto Freyre | Brazilian politician and academic (1900-1987) | Brazil | 1900-03-15 | 1987-07-18 | Recife | Recife | Q677769 | |
Nelson Glueck | American rabbi, academic and archaeologist (1900–1971) | United States of America | 1900-06-04 | 1971-02-12 | Cincinnati | Cincinnati | Q355780 | |
Raymond Firth | ethnologist from New Zealand | New Zealand | 1901-03-25 | 2002-02-22 | Auckland | London | Q1746323 | |
Erik Sjöqvist | Swedish archaeologist | Sweden | 1903-07-15 | 1975-07-16 | Ronneby | Stockholm | Q5388837 | |
Cora DuBois | anthropologist, academic | United States of America | 1903-10-26 | 1991-04-07 | New York City | Cambridge | Q1131794 | |
Clyde Kluckhohn | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1905-01-11 | 1960-07-28 | Le Mars | Santa Fe | Q1103678 | |
Meyer Fortes | South African anthropologist | United Kingdom South Africa |
1906-04-25 | 1983-01-27 | Britstown | Cambridge | Q346927 | |
Froelich Rainey | American anthropologist (1907-1992) | United States of America | 1907-06-18 | 1992-10-11 | Black River Falls | St Austell | Q5505157 | |
Robert John Braidwood | American anthropologist and archaeologist | United States of America | 1907-07-29 | 2003-01-15 | Detroit | Chicago | Q933418 | |
Loren Eiseley | American philosopher (1907-1977) | United States of America | 1907-09-03 | 1977-07-09 | Lincoln | Philadelphia | Q2634723 | |
Cyrus Herzl Gordon | American Near Eastern scholar (1908–2001) | United States of America | 1908-06-29 | 2001-03-30 | Philadelphia | Brookline | Q1148959 | |
Edmund Leach | British anthropologist (1910–1989) | United Kingdom | 1910-11-07 | 1989-01-06 | Sidmouth Lancashire |
Cambridge | Q550729 | |
Walter J. Ong | American philosopher and historian | United States of America | 1912-11-30 | 2003-08-12 | Kansas City | St. Louis | Q722347 | |
Mary Leakey | British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996) | United Kingdom | 1913-02-06 | 1996-12-09 | London | Nairobi | Q231111 | |
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff | Austrian anthropologist (1912–1994) | Cisleithania Austria Colombia |
1913-03-15 | 1994-05-16 | Salzburg | Bogotá | Q79011 | |
Beatrice Blyth Whiting | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1914-04-14 | 2003-09-29 | New York City | Q4877125 | ||
William Foote Whyte | American sociologist (1914-2000) | United States of America | 1914-06-27 | 2000-07-16 | Q1074700 | |||
Richard Evans Schultes | American ethnobotanist (1915-2001) | United States of America | 1915-01-12 | 2001-04-10 | Boston | Boston | Q1124975 | |
Charles F. Hockett | American linguist (1916-2000) | United States of America | 1916-01-17 | 2000-11-03 | Columbus | Ithaca | Q2621452 | |
J. Desmond Clark | British archaeologist | United Kingdom United States of America |
1916-04-10 | 2002-02-14 | London | Oakland | Q355519 | |
Jack Goody | British anthropologist (1919-2015) | United Kingdom | 1919-07-27 | 2015-07-16 | Hammersmith | Cambridge | Q636191 | |
Victor Turner | British cultural anthropologist (1920-1983) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1920-05-28 | 1983-12-18 | Glasgow | Charlottesville | Q357480 | |
Mary Douglas | British anthropologist | United Kingdom | 1921-03-25 | 2007-05-16 | Sanremo | London | Q231349 | |
F. G. Bailey | British anthropologist | 1924 | 2020-07-08 | Q5423894 | ||||
Morris Goodman | 20th century American anthropologist and evolution scholar | United States of America | 1925 | 2010-11-14 | Q5392003 | |||
Roy Rappaport | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1926-03-25 | 1997-10-09 | Brooklyn | Ann Arbor | Q711425 | |
Marshall Sahlins | American anthropologist (1930-2021) | United States of America | 1930-12-27 | 2021-04-05 | Chicago | Chicago | Q345300 | |
Alan Dundes | American folklorist | United States of America | 1934-09-08 | 2005-03-30 | New York City | Berkeley | Q955305 | |
David Harvey | British geographer and anthropologist | United Kingdom | 1935-10-31 | Gillingham | Q343055 | |||
James C. Scott | American political scientist and anthropologist | United States of America | 1936-12-02 | 2024-07-19 | Mount Holly Township | Durham | Q3025403 | |
Catherine S. Fowler | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1940 | Q5052903 | ||||
Manfred Bietak | Austrian archaeologist | Austria | 1940-10-06 | Vienna | Q78894 | |||
Ulf Hannerz | Swedish anthropologist | Sweden | 1942-06-09 | Malmö | Q713023 | |||
Dan Sperber | French academic | France | 1942-06-20 | Cagnes-sur-Mer | Q187363 | |||
James Clifford | American historian | United States of America | 1945-06-26 | Q984620 | ||||
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | American anthropologist and primatologist | United States of America | 1946-07-11 | Dallas | Q456177 | |||
Bruno Latour | French sociologist and philosopher | France | 1947-06-22 | 2022-10-09 2022-10-08 |
Beaune | 13th arrondissement of Paris | Q355237 | |
Joyce Marcus | American archaeologist | United States of America | 1948 | Q379139 | ||||
David Kertzer | American historian and anthropologist | United States of America | 1948-02-20 | New York City | Q3018193 | |||
Israel Finkelstein | Israeli archaeologist | Israel | 1949-03-29 | Petah Tikva Tel Aviv |
Q726264 | |||
Barbara Smuts | American anthropologist | United States of America | 1950 | Q4859312 | ||||
Michael Tomasello | American developmental psychologist | United States of America | 1950-01-18 | Bartow | Q714346 | |||
Tim D. White | American paleoanthropologist | United States of America | 1950-08-24 | Los Angeles | Q955500 | |||
Ruth Behar | Jewish Cuban American writer | United States of America Cuba |
1956-11-12 | Havana | Q1699866 | |||
Zeresenay Alemseged | Ethiopian paleoanthropologist | Ethiopia | 1969-06-04 | Axum | Q163169 |
archaeologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Adolf von Hüpsch | German collector and writer | 1730-08-31 | 1803-01-01 | Vielsalm | Cologne | Q364794 | ||
Henri Hyvernat | American coptologist | France | 1858-06-30 | 1941-05-30 1941-05-29 |
L'Horme | Washington, D.C. | Q1605876 | |
William F. Albright | American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics (1891-1971) | United States of America | 1891-05-24 | 1971-09-19 | Coquimbo | Baltimore | Q451799 | |
Homer Thompson | American classical archaeologist (1906–2000) | Canada United States of America |
1906-09-07 | 2000-05-07 | Devlin | Hightstown | Q1626000 | |
Grahame Clark | British archaeologist and prehistorian | United Kingdom | 1907-07-28 | 1995-09-12 | Bromley | Cambridge | Q1542008 | |
Leonardo López Luján | archaeologist | Mexico | 1964-03-31 | Mexico City | Q3229721 |
architect
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art collector
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Irene Manton | British botanist (1904-1988) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1904-04-17 | 1988-05-31 | Kensington | Leeds | Q3154323 | |
Walter Annenberg | American businessman, ambassador, and philanthropist (1908–2002) | United States of America | 1908-03-13 | 2002-10-01 | Milwaukee | Wynnewood | Q1750541 | |
Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. | American librarian (1910-2001) | United States of America | 1910-03-28 | 2001-01-07 | Greenwich | Q5497333 | ||
Henry H. Arnhold | German banker and art collector | Germany | 1921-09-15 | 2018-08-23 | Dresden | Manhattan | Q1543805 |
art critic
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Arthur Coleman Danto | American art critic and philosopher (1924-2013) | United States of America | 1924-01-01 | 2013-10-25 | Ann Arbor | Manhattan New York City |
Q365129 | |
Michael Fried | American art critic | United States of America | 1939-04-12 | New York City | Q733720 |
art historian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Callahan Perkins | American artist | United States of America | 1823-03-01 | 1886-08-25 | Boston | Windsor | Q5076048 | |
Bernard Berenson | American art critic and collector (1865-1959) | United States of America Russian Empire |
1865-06-26 | 1959-10-06 | Vilnius | Florence | Q359047 | |
Margarete Bieber | German-American art historian (1879–1978) | Germany United States of America |
1879-07-31 | 1978-02-25 | Przechowo | New Canaan | Q97436 | |
Marcel Aubert | French art historian (1884-1962) | France | 1884-04-09 | 1962-12-28 | 10th arrondissement of Paris | Paris | Q447581 | |
Jakob Rosenberg | German-US art historian (1893-1980) | Germany United States of America |
1893-09-05 | 1980-04-07 | Berlin Germany |
Cambridge United States of America |
Q1280473 | |
Alfred H. Barr | American art historian and museum director (1902-1981) | United States of America | 1902-01-28 | 1981-08-15 | Detroit | Salisbury | Q711362 | |
Kenneth Clark | English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster (1903–1983) | United Kingdom | 1903-07-13 | 1983-05-21 | London | Hythe | Q371258 | |
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 | |
James Rorimer | Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1905-1966) | United States of America | 1905-09-07 | 1966-05-11 | Cleveland | Q3161180 | ||
Harold Rosenberg | American writer and art critic | United States of America | 1906-02-02 | 1978-07-11 | New York City | New York City | Q959768 | |
George Kubler | American art historian (1912-1996) | United States of America | 1912-07-26 | 1996-10-03 | Hollywood | Hamden | Q547741 | |
André Chastel | French art historian (1912-1990) | France | 1912-11-15 | 1990-07-18 | 12th arrondissement of Paris | 16th arrondissement of Paris | Q283088 | |
Leo Steinberg | American historian (1920-2011) | United States of America Soviet Union |
1920-07-09 | 2011-03-13 | Moscow | New York City | Q457739 | |
Jean Sutherland Boggs | Canadian art historian | Canada | 1922-06-11 | 2014-08-22 | Negritos | Ottawa | Q3174708 | |
Willibald Sauerländer | German art historian (1924-2018) | Germany | 1924 | 2018-04-18 | Bad Waldsee | Munich | Q100511 | |
William Rubin | Art curator (1927-2006) | United States of America | 1927-08-11 | 2006-01-22 | Brooklyn | Pound Ridge | Q951624 | |
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 | |
Michael Baxandall | British art historian (1933-2008) | United Kingdom | 1933-08-18 | 2008-08-12 | Cardiff | London | Q741130 | |
Svetlana Alpers | artist, art historian and critic | United States of America | 1936-02-10 | Cambridge | Q449499 | |||
James Cuno | American museum director & art historian | United States of America | 1951-04-04 | St. Louis | Q3161001 | |||
Barry Bergdoll | American art historian | United States of America | 1955 | Q4864010 | ||||
Hal Foster | art critic, Townsend Martin 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University | United States of America | 1955-08-13 | Seattle | Q1570107 | |||
Jeffrey F. Hamburger | American art historian | United States of America | 1957-02-19 | London | Q1676288 | |||
Jas Elsner | British art historian | United Kingdom | 1962-12-19 | London | Q1683731 |
artist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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James Turrell | American sculptor | United States of America | 1943-05-06 | Los Angeles | Q740966 | |||
Kara Walker | African American painter and installation artist | United States of America | 1969-11-26 | Stockton | Q444277 |
astronomer
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astrophysicist
editname | 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 | |
Pol Swings | astrophysicist (1906-1983) | Belgium | 1906-09-24 | 1983-10-28 | Ransart | Esneux | Q940401 | |
Victor Ambartsumian | Soviet Armenian astrophysicist | Russian Empire Soviet Union Armenia |
1908-09-05 | 1996-08-12 | Tbilisi | Byurakan | Q164396 | |
James Hartle | American physicist (1939-2023) | United States of America | 1939-08-20 | 2023-05-17 | Baltimore | Switzerland | Q1680534 | |
W. David Arnett | American astrophysicist | United States of America | 1940 | Q2536680 | ||||
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 | |||
J. Richard Bond | Astrophysicist and cosmologist | Canada | 1950 | Toronto | Q1676381 | |||
Nergis Mavalvala | Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist | United States of America | 1968 | Lahore | Q1702331 | |||
Guinevere Kauffmann | American astrophysicist | United States of America | 1968 | California | Q1264226 |
author
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Brooks Atkinson | American critic | United States of America | 1894-11-28 | 1984-01-14 | Melrose | Huntsville | Q343916 | |
James S. Fishkin | American academic | United States of America | 1948-05-09 | Q1681065 |
ballet dancer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Ninette de Valois | British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet | Ireland United Kingdom |
1898-06-06 | 2001-03-08 | Blessington | London | Q234436 | |
Merce Cunningham | American choreographer, dancer, experimental filmmaker, teacher | United States of America | 1919-04-16 | 2009-07-26 | Centralia | New York City | Q318364 | |
Suzanne Farrell | American ballerina | United States of America | 1945-08-16 | Cincinnati | Q452198 |
banker
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert McNamara | American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009) | United States of America | 1916-06-09 | 2009-07-06 | San Francisco | Washington, D.C. | Q191999 | |
Lewis Thompson Preston | American banker (1926-1995) | United States of America | 1926-08-05 | 1995-05-04 | New York City | Washington, D.C. | Q718911 | |
Matt Ridley | British author and journalist | United Kingdom | 1958-02-07 | Northumberland | Q961972 |
biochemist
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biographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Farquhar Fulton | American neurophysiologist and historian of science | United States of America | 1899-11-01 | 1960-05-29 | Saint Paul | Hamden | Q1700039 | |
Francine du Plessix Gray | American writer (1930-2019) | United States of America | 1930-09-25 | 2019-01-13 | Warsaw | Manhattan | Q3207670 |
biologist
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biophysicist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William A. Eaton | American biophysicist | United States of America | 1938-06-04 | West Philadelphia | Q15854629 | |||
Wayne Hendrickson | American biophysicist | United States of America | 1941-04-25 | Wisconsin | Q2553062 |
biotechnologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Sydney Brenner | South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 | South Africa United Kingdom |
1927-01-13 | 2019-04-05 | Germiston | Singapore | Q234463 | |
David Botstein | American biologist | United States of America | 1942-09-08 1942-09-04 |
Zürich | Q1173787 |
botanist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | French natural historian (1707-1788) | France | 1707-09-07 | 1788-04-15 | Montbard | Paris | Q229264 | |
Peter Jonas Bergius | Swedish botanist (1730-1790) | Sweden | 1730-07-06 1730-07-13 |
1790-07-10 | Vittaryd | Adolf Fredriks parish | Q2612272 | |
Olof Swartz | Swedish botanist & taxonomist | Sweden | 1760-09-22 | 1817-09-18 | Norrköpings S:t Johannes parish Norrköping |
Adolf Fredriks parish | Q632088 | |
Benjamin Smith Barton | American physician, professor, and botanist (1766-1815) | United States of America | 1766-02-10 | 1815-12-19 | Lancaster | New York City | Q276825 | |
Stephen Elliott | American politician, botanist (1771-1830) | United States of America | 1771-11-11 | 1830-03-28 | Beaufort | Charleston | Q2982922 | |
David Brewster | British astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom |
1781-12-11 | 1868-02-10 | Jedburgh | Melrose | Q168468 | |
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque | French naturalist (1783-1840) | United States of America | 1783-10-22 | 1840-09-18 | Constantinople | Philadelphia | Q364857 | |
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 | |
Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet | British geologist (1792-1871) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1792-02-19 | 1871-10-22 | Ross and Cromarty | London | Q361900 | |
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 | |
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 | |
George Bentham | British botanist (1800-1884) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1800-09-22 | 1884-09-10 | Stoke | London | Q731808 | |
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle | Swiss scientist (1806-1893) | France Republic of Geneva Switzerland |
1806-10-27 | 1893-04-04 | Paris | Geneva | Q123807 | |
Alvan Wentworth Chapman | American botanist and physician (1809–1899) | United States of America | 1809-09-28 | 1899-04-06 | Southampton | Apalachicola | Q448279 | |
Jacob Whitman Bailey | American naturalist (1811-1857) | United States of America | 1811-04-29 | 1857-02-26 | Auburn | West Point | Q3301476 | |
Carl Nägeli | Swiss botanist | Switzerland | 1817-03-26 | 1891-05-10 | Kilchberg | Munich | Q123876 | |
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 | |
Henry James Clark | American naturalist (1826-1873) | United States of America | 1826-06-22 | 1873-07-01 | Bristol County | Amherst | Q3132861 | |
Sereno Watson | American botanist (1826-1892) | United States of America | 1826-12-01 | 1892-03-09 | East Windsor | Cambridge | Q960820 | |
Thomas Jonathan Burrill | American botanist and plant pathologist (1839-1916) | United States of America | 1839-04-25 | 1916-04-14 | Pittsfield | Q626705 | ||
George Lincoln Goodale | American botanist (1839-1923) | United States of America | 1839-08-03 | 1923-04-12 | Saco | Cambridge | Q3101725 | |
Eugenius Warming | Danish botanist (1841-1924) | Kingdom of Denmark | 1840-11-03 1841-11-03 |
1924-04-02 | Mandø | Copenhagen | Q355888 | |
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 | |
Horace Mann Junior | American botanist (1844-1868) | United States of America | 1844-02-25 | 1868-11-11 | Boston | Q1166908 | ||
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 | |
Charles Doolittle Walcott | American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850-1927) | United States of America | 1850-03-31 | 1927-02-09 | New York Mills | Washington, D.C. | Q362124 | |
John Merle Coulter | U.S. Botanist (1851-1928) | United States of America | 1851-11-20 | 1928-12-23 | Ningbo | Yonkers | Q1701075 | |
Nathaniel Lord Britton | American botanist and geologist (1859-1934) | United States of America | 1859-01-15 | 1934-06-25 | New Dorp | New York City | Q553714 | |
Albert Charles Seward | British botanist (1863–1941) | United Kingdom | 1863-10-09 | 1941-04-11 | Lancaster | Oxford | Q951610 | |
Willis Linn Jepson | American botanist | United States of America | 1867-08-19 | 1946-11-07 | Vacaville | Berkeley | Q324259 | |
Roscoe Pound | American legal scholar and educator (1870-1964) | United States of America | 1870-10-27 | 1964-06-30 1964 1964-07-01 |
Lincoln | Cambridge | Q1149723 | |
Carl Hansen Ostenfeld | Danish botanist and academic (1873-1931) | Kingdom of Denmark Australia |
1873-08-03 | 1931-01-16 | Randers | Copenhagen | Q2981163 | |
Oakes Ames | American botanist (1874-1950) | United States of America | 1874-09-26 | 1950-04-28 | Easton | Ormond Beach | Q1669326 | |
Albert Francis Blakeslee | American botanist (1874-1954) | United States of America | 1874-11-09 1874-11-08 |
1954-11-16 | Geneseo | Northampton | Q728749 | |
Edward Wilber Berry | American paleobotanist (1875-1945) | United States of America | 1875-02-10 | 1945-09-20 | Newark | Q3048727 | ||
Elmer Drew Merrill | U.S. botanist (1876–1956) | United States of America | 1876-10-15 | 1956-02-25 | Auburn | Forest Hills | Q729926 | |
Arthur Stanley Pease | American classical philologist and botanist (1881-1964) | United States of America | 1881-09-22 | 1964-01-07 | Somers | Concord | Q711591 | |
Albert Kluyver | Dutch botanist, microbiologist, and biochemist (1888-1956) | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1888-06-03 | 1956-05-14 | Breda | Delft | Q903240 | |
Jens Clausen | American botanist (1891-1969) | United States of America | 1891-03-11 | 1969-11-22 | Eskilstrup | Palo Alto | Q1687144 | |
Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi | Argentinian botanist (1895-1966) | Argentina | 1895-01-23 | 1966-04-21 | Pergamino | Buenos Aires | Q359462 | |
Ivan Murray Johnston | American botanist (1898-1960) | United States of America | 1898-02-28 | 1960-05-31 | Los Angeles | Jamaica Plain | Q729850 | |
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby | British botanist (1904-1992) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1904-08-24 | 1992-10-22 | London Borough of Waltham Forest | Q5386049 | ||
Kenneth Bryan Raper | American botanist and mycologist (1908-1987) | United States of America | 1908-07-11 | 1987-01-15 | Davidson County Welcome |
Madison | Q1738840 | |
Robert Whittaker | American ecologist (1920–1980) | United States of America | 1920-12-27 | 1980-10-20 | Wichita | Ithaca | Q336893 | |
Theodor Otto Diener | American phytopathologist (1921–2023) | United States of America | 1921-02-28 | 2023-03-28 | Zürich | Beltsville | Q2463965 | |
Estella Leopold | American botanist (1927-2004) | United States of America | 1927-01-08 | 2024-02-25 | Madison | Seattle | Q5400909 | |
J. William Schopf | American paleobiologist | United States of America | 1941-09-27 | Illinois | Q1676425 | |||
Susanne S. Renner | German botanist and university teacher | Germany | 1954-10-05 | Tübingen | Q98268 | |||
Joanne Chory | American plant biologist | United States of America | 1955-03-19 | Methuen | Q15994359 | |||
Sandra Knapp | American botanist | United Kingdom | 1956-12-09 | Q276405 |
business executive
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Miles D. White | American businessman | United States of America | 1955-03-10 | Minneapolis | Q281657 | |||
Abigail Johnson | American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaire | United States of America | 1961-12-19 | Boston | Q321125 |
businessperson
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Frederic Adrian Delano | American businessman (1863-1953) | United States of America | 1863-09-10 | 1953 1953-03-28 |
Hong Kong | Boston | Q5496970 | |
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. | American businessman (1925–2015) | United States of America | 1925-07-10 | 2015-07-30 | New Rochelle | Martha's Vineyard | Q1687749 | |
William Perry | American mathematician and businessman, former Secretary of Defense | United States of America | 1927-10-11 | Vandergrift | Q539791 | |||
Edward Johnson, III | American investor and businessperson (1930–2022) | United States of America | 1930-06-29 | 2022-03-23 | Milton | Wellington | Q382502 | |
Chuck Feeney | American businessman | United States of America Ireland |
1931-04-23 | 2023-10-09 | Elizabeth | San Francisco | Q2967590 | |
Jack Welch | American executive: General Electric CEO | United States of America | 1935-11-19 | 2020-03-01 | Peabody | Manhattan | Q355314 | |
Phil Knight | American billionaire and co-founder of Nike | United States of America | 1938-02-24 | Portland | Q557305 | |||
Bob Haas | former Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co | United States of America | 1942 | San Francisco | Q4932639 | |||
James A. Johnson | American businessman and political figure | United States of America | 1943-12-24 | 2020-10-18 | Benson | Washington, D.C. | Q3160881 | |
Charles O. Holliday, Jr. | American businessperson and board member, former Chairman and CEO of DuPont | United States of America | 1948-03-09 | Nashville | Q1065665 | |||
James McNerney | American businessman (born 1949) | United States of America | 1949-08-22 | Providence | Q1680807 | |||
Marillyn Hewson | American business executive; former president, chair and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin | United States of America | 1953-12-27 | Junction City | Q4953889 | |||
Indra Nooyi | Indian-American business executive and former CEO of PepsiCo | India United States of America |
1955-09-28 | Chennai | Q264913 | |||
Laurene Powell Jobs | American political activist, business executive, philanthropist, heiress, billionaire | United States of America | 1963-11-06 | West Milford | Q3133593 | |||
Melinda Gates | American philanthropist | United States of America | 1964-08-15 | Dallas | Q463877 | |||
Marc Benioff | American businessman | United States of America | 1964-09-25 | San Francisco | Q1521908 |
cardiologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Joseph Garland | American cardiologist | United States of America | 1893 | 1973 | Gloucester | Q1668328 | ||
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 |
cartographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Archibald Geikie | British geologist | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom |
1835-12-28 | 1924-11-10 | Edinburgh | Haslemere | Q633167 | |
George Mercer Dawson | Canadian scientist (1849 – 1901) | Canada | 1849-08-01 | 1901-03-02 | Pictou | Ottawa | Q934867 |
cellist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
János Starker | Hungarian-American cellist (1924–2013) | United States of America | 1924-07-05 | 2013-04-28 | Budapest | Bloomington | Q617920 | |
Yo-Yo Ma | American cellist (born 1955) | France United States of America Republic of China |
1955-10-07 | Paris | Q234891 |
chemist
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choreographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Joan Jonas | American artist | United States of America | 1936-07-13 | New York City | Q453808 | |||
Twyla Tharp | American dancer and choreographer | United States of America | 1941-07-01 | Portland | Q454336 | |||
Christopher Wheeldon | British contemporary ballet choreographer | United Kingdom | 1973-03-22 | Yeovil | Q2966661 |
church historian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | English churchman, Dean of Westminster (1815-1881) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1815-12-13 | 1881-07-18 | Alderley Edge | London | Q348613 | |
George Lindbeck | American theologian | United States of America | 1923-03-10 | 2018-01-08 | Luoyang | Florida | Q348889 |
civil engineer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Frank Stevens | American canal engineer (1853–1943) | United States of America | 1853-04-25 | 1943-06-02 | West Gardiner | Southern Pines | Q1700114 | |
Frank E. Winsor | American civil engineer | United States of America | 1870-11-16 | 1939-01-30 | Providence | Newton | Q5486408 | |
Arthur Casagrande | soil mechanic engineer and collaborator of Terzaghi (1902-1981) | United States of America Austria |
1902-08-28 | 1981-09-06 | Ajdovščina Municipality | Boston | Q79050 | |
Ralph Brazelton Peck | American civil engineer | Canada United States of America |
1912-06-23 | 2008-02-18 | Winnipeg | Albuquerque | Q1520488 | |
Ven Te Chow | Hydrologist and engineer (1919-1981) | Republic of China Taiwan United States of America |
1919-10-07 | 1981-07-30 | Hangzhou | Q3108440 | ||
G. Wayne Clough | President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian | United States of America | 1941-09-24 | Douglas | Q1285108 |
classical archaeologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Hetty Goldman | American archaeologist | United States of America | 1881-12-19 | 1972-05-04 | New York City | Princeton | Q1616306 | |
Paul Zanker | German classical archaeologist (born 1937) | Germany | 1937-02-07 | Constance | Q102026 |
classical composer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Roger Sessions | American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896-1985) | United States of America | 1896-12-28 | 1985-03-16 | Brooklyn | Princeton | Q550632 | |
Carlos Chávez | Mexican composer (1899-1978) | Mexico | 1899-06-13 | 1978-08-02 | Popotla | Mexico City | Q357326 | |
Dmitri Shostakovich | Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975) | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
1906-09-12 | 1975-08-09 | Saint Petersburg | Moscow | Q80135 | |
Luciano Berio | Italian composer (1925–2003) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1925-10-24 | 2003-05-27 | Imperia Oneglia |
Rome | Q221450 |
classical philologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro | British classical scholar (1819-1885) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1819-10-29 | 1885-03-30 | Elgin | Rome | Q1634213 | |
Ingram Bywater | English classical scholar (1840–1914) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1840-06-27 | 1914-12-18 | London | London | Q458401 | |
Martin P. Nilsson | scholar of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems | Sweden | 1874-07-12 | 1967-04-07 | Στόμπι | Lund | Q321959 | |
Ivan Mortimer Linforth | American classics professor | United States of America | 1879-09-15 | 1976-12-15 | San Francisco | Berkeley | Q1675569 | |
William Abbott Oldfather | American classical philologist (1880 – 1945) | United States of America | 1880-10-23 | 1945-05-27 | Urmia | Homer | Q2577766 | |
Berthold Ullman | American classical scholar (1882-1965) | United States of America | 1882-08-18 | 1965-06-21 | Chicago | Rome | Q4895580 | |
E. R. Dodds | Irish classical scholar (1893–1979) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1893-07-26 | 1979-04-08 | Banbridge | Oxford | Q176172 | |
Milman Parry | American academic | United States of America | 1902-06-20 | 1935-12-03 | Oakland | Los Angeles | Q463948 | |
Roger Mynors | British classical scholar | United Kingdom | 1903-07-28 | 1989-10-17 | Wiltshire | Herefordshire | Q446625 | |
D. R. Shackleton Bailey | British scholar (1917-2005) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1917-12-10 | 2005-11-28 | Lancaster | Ann Arbor | Q1121913 | |
Thomas G. Rosenmeyer | German-American classical philologist (1920-2007) | Germany United States of America |
1920-04-03 | 2007-02-06 | Hamburg | Oakland | Q102782 | |
Michael C. J. Putnam | American classicist (born 1933) | United States of America | 1933-09-20 | Springfield | Q1650782 | |||
Charles Segal | American classical philologist (1936–2002) | United States of America | 1936-03-19 | 2002-01-01 | Boston | Boston | Q1066038 | |
Gregory Nagy | American classical scholar | Hungary | 1942-10-22 | Budapest | Q2634647 | |||
Denis Feeney | New Zealand classical scholar (born 1955) | New Zealand | 1955-10-16 | New Zealand | Q166062 |
clergyman
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Chauncy | American clergy | United States of America | 1705 | 1787 | Boston | Q5076207 | ||
William Emerson | American Unitarian clergyman (1769-1811) | United States of America | 1769-05-06 | 1811-05-12 | Concord | Boston | Q8008600 |
columnist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Paul Krugman | American economist (born 1953) | United States of America | 1953-02-28 | Albany | Q131112 | |||
Robbert Dijkgraaf | Dutch politician, mathematical physicist and string theorist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1960-01-24 | Ridderkerk | Q710978 | |||
Kara Swisher | American journalist | United States of America | 1962-05-09 | Q6367550 |
composer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Knowles Paine | American composer (1839–1906) | United States of America | 1839-01-09 | 1906-04-25 | Portland | Cambridge | Q1649745 | |
George Whitefield Chadwick | American composer (1854-1931) | United States of America | 1854-11-13 | 1931-04-04 | Lowell | Boston | Q542747 | |
Charles Martin Loeffler | American violinist and composer (1861-1935) | United States of America | 1861-01-30 | 1935-05-19 | Mulhouse | Medfield | Q1065471 | |
Frederick Converse | American classical music composer (1871-1940) | United States of America | 1871-01-05 | 1940-06-08 | Newton | Westwood | Q323613 | |
Daniel Gregory Mason | American composer (1873–1953) | United States of America | 1873-11-20 | 1953-12-04 | Brookline | Greenwich | Q1160957 | |
John Alden Carpenter | American composer (1876-1951) | United States of America | 1876-02-28 | 1951-04-26 | Park Ridge | Chicago | Q1699111 | |
John Erskine | American educator and novelist (1879–1951) | United States of America | 1879-10-05 | 1951-06-02 1951-06-01 |
New York City | New York City | Q552067 | |
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 | |
Joseph Dubin | American composer and orchestrator (1900–1961) | United States of America | 1900-06-02 1900-12-30 |
1961-01-16 | Philadelphia | Sherman Oaks | Q3184874 | |
Ross Lee Finney | American composer | United States of America | 1906-12-23 | 1997-02-04 | Wells | Carmel-by-the-Sea | Q323394 | |
Olivier Messiaen | French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992) | France | 1908-12-10 | 1992-04-27 | Avignon | Clichy | Q151593 | |
Elliott Carter | American composer | United States of America | 1908-12-11 | 2012-11-05 | Manhattan | New York City | Q318835 | |
Samuel Barber | American composer (1910-1981) | United States of America | 1910-03-09 | 1981-01-23 | West Chester | Manhattan | Q216870 | |
Arthur Berger | American composer and music critic (1912-2003) | United States of America | 1912-05-15 | 2003-10-07 | New York City | Boston | Q553493 | |
George Perle | American composer (1915–2009) | United States of America | 1915-05-06 | 2009-01-23 | Bayonne | Manhattan | Q201359 | |
George Rochberg | American composer (1918-2005) | United States of America | 1918-07-05 | 2005-05-29 | Paterson | Bryn Mawr Philadelphia |
Q710733 | |
Peter Mennin | American composer, administrator and teacher (1923-1983) | United States of America | 1923-05-17 | 1983-06-17 | Erie | New York City | Q958720 | |
Ned Rorem | American composer and diarist | United States of America | 1923-10-23 | 2022-11-18 | Richmond | Manhattan | Q733299 | |
Betsy Jolas | French composer | France | 1926-08-05 | Paris | Q262420 | |||
Mstislav Rostropovich | Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007) | Soviet Union Russia |
1927-03-27 | 2007-04-27 | Baku | Moscow | Q152043 | |
George Crumb | American composer (1929-2022) | United States of America | 1929-10-24 | 2022-02-06 | Charleston | Media | Q356804 | |
Donald Martino | American composer (1931-2005) | United States of America | 1931-05-16 | 2005-12-08 | Plainfield | Antigua | Q357171 | |
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 | |||
Carla Bley | American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936–2023) | United States of America | 1936-05-11 | 2023-10-17 | Oakland | Willow | Q233721 | |
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 | |||
John Harbison | American composer | United States of America | 1938-12-20 | Orange | Q2527585 | |||
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | American composer | United States of America | 1939-04-30 | Miami | Q457425 | |||
Chen Yi | Chinese-American composer and violinist | People's Republic of China | 1953-04-04 | Guangzhou | Q464813 | |||
Wynton Marsalis | American jazz musician and educator | United States of America | 1961-10-18 | New Orleans | Q273076 | |||
Augusta Read Thomas | American composer | United States of America | 1964-04-24 | Glen Cove | Q514584 | |||
Lin-Manuel Miranda | American actor, composer and director | United States of America | 1980-01-16 | Manhattan | Q1646482 |
computer scientist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert G. Gallager | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1931-05-29 | Philadelphia | Q461687 | |||
Michael O. Rabin | Israeli computer scientist | Israel | 1931-09-01 | Wrocław | Q357965 | |||
Andries van Dam | Dutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1938-12-08 | Groningen | Q2571880 | |||
Burton Smith | American computer architect (1941-2018) | United States of America | 1941-03-21 | 2018-04-03 | Chapel Hill | Burien | Q5000922 | |
Susan J. Eggers | computer scientist, computer science professor emeritus | United States of America | 1943 | Cincinnati | Q15995047 | |||
Barbara J. Grosz | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1948-07-21 | Philadelphia | Q15995108 | |||
Moshe Vardi | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1954-07-04 | Haifa | Q1585964 | |||
Bill Joy | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1954-11-08 | Farmington Hills | Q335047 | |||
Héctor García-Molina | Mexican computer scientist | Mexico United States of America |
1954-11-15 | 2019-11-25 | Monterrey | Q509556 | ||
Bernard Chazelle | French computer scientist | France | 1955-11-05 | Clamart | Q892115 | |||
F. Thomson Leighton | American mathematician & business executive; CEO of Akamai | United States of America | 1956 | Q5424058 | ||||
Michael I. Jordan | American computer scientist, University of California, Berkeley | United States of America | 1956 | Maryland | Q3308285 | |||
Mark Dean | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1957-03-02 | Jefferson City | Q556544 | |||
Eric Horvitz | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1958 | Q5386755 | ||||
Bill Dally | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1960-08-17 | Q4908661 | ||||
Thomas E. Anderson | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1961-08-21 1961 |
Orlando | Q15994862 | |||
Nick McKeown | British engineer | 1963-04-07 | Bedford | Q15995293 | ||||
Jennifer Rexford | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1969 | Honolulu | Q15995429 | |||
Dina Katabi | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1970 | Damascus | Q15995234 | |||
Sara Kiesler | social psychologist | United States of America | 20th century 1940 |
Washington, D.C. | Q15995239 | |||
Margaret Martonosi | American computer scientist | 20th century | Boston | Q15995282 |
conductor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Howard Hanson | American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist | United States of America | 1896-10-28 | 1981-02-26 | Wahoo | Rochester | Q382748 | |
Virgil Thomson | American composer and critic | United States of America | 1896-11-25 | 1989-09-30 | Kansas City | New York City | Q544485 | |
Aaron Copland | American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990) | United States of America | 1900-11-14 | 1990-12-02 | Brooklyn | Sleepy Hollow | Q192185 | |
Michael Tippett | English composer (1905-1996) | United Kingdom | 1905-01-02 | 1998-01-08 | London Borough of Hillingdon | London | Q356499 | |
Arthur Mendel | American conductor | United States of America | 1905-06-06 | 1979-10-14 | Boston | Newark | Q710626 | |
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 | |
Benjamin Britten | English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976) | United Kingdom | 1913-11-22 | 1976-12-04 | Lowestoft | Aldeburgh | Q150767 | |
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 | |
John Williams | American composer and conductor (born 1932) | United States of America | 1932-02-08 | New York City | Q131285 | |||
Quincy Jones | American record producer and composer (born 1933) | United States of America | 1933-03-14 | Chicago | Q193645 | |||
Charles Wuorinen | American composer | United States of America | 1938-06-09 | 2020-03-11 | Manhattan | Manhattan | Q961861 | |
Jaime Laredo | Bolivian-American conductor and violinist | Bolivia | 1941-06-07 | Cochabamba | Q2520253 | |||
Riccardo Muti | Italian conductor | Italy | 1941-07-28 | Naples | Q276038 | |||
Tania León | Cuban composer and conductor | Cuba | 1943-05-14 | 1996 | Havana | Q463308 | ||
James Levine | American conductor and pianist | United States of America | 1943-06-23 | 2021-03-09 | Cincinnati | Palm Springs | Q336388 | |
Leonard Slatkin | American conductor and composer | United States of America | 1944-09-01 | Los Angeles | Q509870 | |||
Steven Stucky | American composer | United States of America | 1949-11-07 | 2016-02-14 | Hutchinson | Ithaca | Q3535299 | |
Esa-Pekka Salonen | Finnish conductor and composer | Finland | 1958-06-30 | Helsinki | Q314587 | |||
Alan Gilbert | American conductor and violinist | United States of America | 1967-02-23 | New York City | Q673146 | |||
Gustávo Dudamel | Venezuelan conductor and violinist | Venezuela | 1981-01-26 | Barquisimeto | Q160390 |
cultural historian
editname | 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 | Créteil | San Antonio | Q712946 | |
Roger Chartier | French historian | France | 1945-12-09 | Lyon | Q2466876 |
curator
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Richard Owen | English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892) | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1804-07-20 | 1892-12-18 | Lancaster | London | Q151556 | |
Asa Gray | American botanist (1810–1888) | United States of America | 1810-11-18 | 1888-01-30 | Paris New York City |
Cambridge | Q347356 | |
Gaylord Simpson | American paleontologist (1902–1984) | United States of America | 1902-06-16 | 1984-10-06 | Chicago | Tucson | Q319603 |
diplomat
editname | 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 | |
Benjamin Vaughan | British diplomat and politician | Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1751-04-19 | 1835-12-08 | Colony of Jamaica | Hallowell | Q4889328 | |
George Bancroft | American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891) | United States of America | 1800-10-03 | 1891-01-17 | Worcester | Washington, D.C. | Q741482 | |
Jean Jules Jusserand | French historian | France | 1855-02-18 | 1932-07-18 | 2nd arrondissement of Lyon | Paris | Q1685608 | |
John Hays Hammond Sr. | (1855-1936) American businessman | United States of America | 1855-03-31 | 1936-06-08 | San Francisco | Gloucester | Q3181717 | |
William Cameron Forbes | American diplomat (1870-1959) | United States of America | 1870-05-21 | 1959-12-24 | Milton | Boston | Q887933 | |
Joseph Grew | American diplomat, U.S. ambassador to Japan (1880-1965) | United States of America | 1880-05-27 | 1965-05-25 | Boston | Manchester-by-the-Sea | Q3267622 | |
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde | Peruvian politician (1883-1966) | Peru | 1883-12-15 | 1966-12-14 | Arequipa | New York City | Q1248015 | |
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 | |
Thomas K. Finletter | American diplomat (1893-1980) | United States of America | 1893-11-11 | 1980-04-24 | Philadelphia | New York City | Q1723653 | |
Adolf A. Berle | American diplomat (1895-1971) | United States of America | 1895-01-27 1895-01-29 |
1971-02-17 | Boston | New York City | Q360809 | |
John Moors Cabot | American ambassador (1901-1981) | United States of America | 1901-12-11 | 1981-02-24 | Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q1701131 | |
James Russell Wiggins | American newspaper editor and diplomat | United States of America | 1903-12-04 | 2000-11-19 | Luverne | Brooklin | Q1681058 | |
Charles Malik | Lebanese politician (1906-1987) | Lebanon | 1906 | 1987-12-28 | Btourram | Beirut | Q607841 | |
Sol Linowitz | American diplomat (1913-2005) | United States of America | 1913-12-07 | 2005-03-18 | Trenton | Washington, D.C. | Q552951 | |
Anne Cox Chambers | American diplomat (1919-2020) | United States of America | 1919-12-01 | 2020-01-31 | Dayton | Atlanta | Q463381 | |
Patricia Harris | American politician and diplomat (1924–1985) | United States of America | 1924-05-31 | 1985-03-23 | Mattoon | Washington, D.C. | Q444106 | |
William H. Luers | American diplomat | United States of America | 1929-05-15 | Springfield | Q8010493 | |||
Madeleine Kunin | Former governor of Vermont | United States of America | 1933-09-28 | Zürich | Q453942 | |||
Madeleine Albright | United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 | Czechoslovakia United States of America |
1937-05-15 | 2022-03-23 | Prague | Washington, D.C. | Q174438 | |
Mary Ann Glendon | American diplomat | United States of America | 1938-10-07 | Pittsfield | Q453910 | |||
Lloyd Axworthy | Canadian politician | Canada | 1939-12-21 | North Battleford | Q556027 | |||
Irina Bokova | Bulgarian diplomat | Bulgaria | 1952-07-12 | Sofia | Q230850 | |||
William J. Burns | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021 | United States of America | 1956-04-04 | Fort Liberty | Q1276563 |
ecologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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F. Herbert Bormann | American plant ecologist (1922-2012) | United States of America | 1922-03-24 | 2012-06-07 | Q5423913 | |||
Frances James | American ecologist | United States of America | 1930-09-29 | Q5478749 | ||||
F. Stuart Chapin III | American entomologist | United States of America | 1944-02-02 | Portland | Q5424051 | |||
Eric Charnov | American ecologist | 1947-10-29 | Q5386262 | |||||
William H. Schlesinger | American biochemist | 1950-04-30 | Q8010581 | |||||
Pamela A. Matson | American scientist | United States of America | 1953 | Madison | Q15995285 |
economic historian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Carlo M. Cipolla | Italian economic historian | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1922-08-15 | 2000-09-05 | Pavia | Pavia | Q454036 | |
Herman Van der Wee | Belgian economic historian | Belgium | 1928-07-10 | Lier | Q3134096 |
economist
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engineer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Loammi Baldwin | American engineer, politician and soldier (1744–1807) | United States of America | 1744-01-10 | 1807-10-20 | Woburn | Woburn | Q3307417 | |
Marc Isambard Brunel | French engineer | France United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain |
1769-04-25 | 1849-12-12 | Hacqueville | London | Q445306 | |
William John Macquorn Rankine | civil engineer | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1820-07-05 | 1872-12-24 | Edinburgh | Glasgow | Q232149 | |
Julius Erasmus Hilgard | United States engineer (1825-1890) | Germany United States of America |
1825-01-07 | 1891-05-08 | Zweibrücken | Washington, D.C. | Q97922 | |
William Price Craighill | United States Army Chief of Engineers (1833-1909) | United States of America | 1833-07-01 | 1909-01-18 | Charles Town | Charles Town | Q8017082 | |
Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. | American engineer | United States of America | 1836-10-27 | 1916-03-11 | Lowell | Q5384956 | ||
Aurel Stodola | Slovak scientist | Austrian Empire Hungary Czechoslovakia Slovak Republic |
1859-05-10 | 1942-12-25 | Liptovský Mikuláš | Zürich | Q666875 | |
Albert Sauveur | Belgian physicist (1863-1939) | United States of America | 1863-06-21 | 1939-01-26 | Leuven | Boston | Q322730 | |
Karl Willy Wagner | German electrical engineer | Germany | 1883-02-22 | 1953-09-04 | Friedrichsdorf | Friedrichsdorf | Q108239 | |
Hardy Cross | American engineer | United States of America | 1885-02-10 | 1959-02-11 | Virginia | Q380079 | ||
Farrington Daniels | American physical chemist | United States of America | 1889-03-08 | 1972-06-23 | Minneapolis | Madison | Q1123489 | |
Percy Spencer | American engineer and inventor | United States of America | 1894-07-09 | 1970-09-08 | Howland | Newton | Q451052 | |
Ernst Guillemin | American computer scientist | United States of America | 1898-05-08 | 1970-04-01 | Milwaukee | Q5395009 | ||
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog | Dutch American mechanical engineer | United States of America Kingdom of the Netherlands |
1901-07-23 | 1989-03-17 | Hanover | Q1677606 | ||
Nicholas J. Hoff | American aeronautical engineer | United States of America Hungary |
1906-01-03 | 1997-08-04 | Magyaróvár | Stanford | Q1037294 | |
Avery Fisher | American audio specialist (1906-1994) | United States of America | 1906-03-04 | 1994-02-26 | New York City | New York City | Q337050 | |
Jerome Wiesner | American academic engineer (1915-1994) | United States of America | 1915-05-30 | 1994-10-21 | Detroit | Watertown | Q729661 | |
Amos E. Joel, Jr. | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1918-03-12 | 2008-10-25 | Philadelphia | Maplewood | Q441794 | |
Daniel C. Drucker | American mechanical engineer (1918-2001) | United States of America | 1918-06-03 | 2001-09-01 | New York City | Gainesville | Q1160461 | |
Erich Bloch | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1925-01-09 1925 |
2016-11-25 | Sulzburg | Washington, D.C. | Q5388007 | |
Emilio Rosenblueth | Mexican engineer | Mexico | 1926-04-08 | 1994-01-11 | Mexico City | Mexico City | Q3305837 | |
John L. Lumley | American Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering (1930-2015) | United States of America | 1930-11-04 | 2015-05-30 | Detroit | Ithaca | Q3528841 | |
Jacob Ziv | Israeli computer scientist | Israel | 1931-11-27 | 2023-03-25 | Tiberias | Q957439 | ||
John Ffowcs Williams | British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics (1935-2020) | United Kingdom Wales |
1935-05-25 | 2020-12-12 | Wales | Bodelwyddan | Q1700056 | |
Michael F. Ashby | British materials engineer | United Kingdom | 1935-11-20 | Q3308905 | ||||
C. Daniel Mote, Jr. | American mechanical engineer | United States of America | 1937-02-05 | San Francisco | Q5006379 | |||
Samuel Bodman | United States Secretary of Energy and previously Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. | United States of America | 1938-11-26 | 2018-09-07 | Chicago | El Paso | Q1276376 | |
James R. Rice | American scientist in engineering of solid mechanics | United States of America | 1940-12-03 | Frederick | Q3161354 | |||
Bob Colwell | American electrical engineer | United States of America | 1954 | Q4932116 | ||||
Randy Katz | American computer scientist | 1955 | Q15995235 | |||||
Lisa P. Jackson | American politician: EPA administrator | United States of America | 1962-02-08 | Philadelphia | Q445734 | |||
Huajian Gao | Chinese American mechanician | United States of America | 1963-12-07 | Chengdu | Q15995086 | |||
Demis Hassabis | British entrepreneur and artificial intelligence researcher (born 1976) | United Kingdom | 1976-07-27 | London | Q3022141 | |||
Ben G. Streetman | American engineer | Q4885692 |
entomologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Leland Ossian Howard | American entomologist (1857-1950) | United States of America | 1857-06-11 | 1950-05-01 | Rockford | Bronxville | Q553918 | |
Nathan Banks | U.S. entomologist (1868-1953) | United States of America | 1868-04-13 | 1953-01-24 | Roslyn | Holliston | Q952825 | |
Edward F. Knipling | American entomologist | United States of America | 1909-03-20 | 2000-03-17 | Victoria | Arlington County | Q1534254 | |
Torkel Weis-Fogh | Danish entomologist | Kingdom of Denmark | 1922-03-25 | 1975-11-13 | Aarhus | Cambridge | Q3532308 | |
Richard Southwood | Zoologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1931–2005) | United Kingdom | 1931-06-20 | 2005-10-26 | Northfleet | Q446313 |
entrepreneur
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Godfrey Lowell Cabot | American entrepreneur and philanthropist | United States of America | 1861-02-26 | 1962-11-02 | Boston | Boston | Q1533808 | |
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 | |
Paul Mellon | American art collector, philanthropist and racehorse owner (1907-1999) | United States of America | 1907-06-11 | 1999-02-01 | Pittsburgh | Upperville | Q1542805 | |
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 | |
Preston Robert Tisch | United States Postmaster general, co-owner of the New York Giants football team | United States of America | 1926-04-29 | 2005-11-15 | New York City | New York City | Q1270995 | |
Peter George Peterson | American businessman, investment banker, philanthropist, and author (1926-2018) | United States of America Greece |
1926-06-05 | 2018-03-20 | Kearney | Manhattan | Q456216 | |
Donald Bren | American businessman | United States of America | 1932-05-11 | Los Angeles | Q554822 | |||
Hansjörg Wyss | Swiss businessman and Democratic megadonor | Switzerland | 1935-09-19 | Bern | Q1000803 | |||
Les Wexner | American billionaire, chairman and CEO of the L Brands | United States of America | 1937-09-08 | Dayton | Q1675849 | |||
David Rubenstein | American businessman | United States of America | 1949-08-11 | Baltimore | Q3018737 | |||
Kenneth Chenault | American business executive | United States of America | 1951-06-02 | Mineola | Q516550 | |||
Henry Samueli | American businessman | United States of America | 1954-09-20 | Buffalo | Q944937 | |||
Jeff Immelt | American businessman | United States of America | 1956-02-19 | Cincinnati | Q1686485 | |||
Hugh Grant | Scottish business executive | United Kingdom | 1958-03-23 | Larkhall | Q1634366 | |||
Michael Dell | American businessman and CEO | United States of America | 1965-02-23 | Houston | Q218630 |
essayist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Frances Yates | English historian of the Renaissance (1899–1981) | United Kingdom | 1899-11-28 | 1981-09-29 | Portsmouth | London | Q132105 | |
Marc Fumaroli | French historian of literature (1932-2020) | France | 1932-06-10 | 2020-06-24 | Marseille | 14th arrondissement of Paris | Q558114 | |
Fredric Jameson | American academic and literary critic (1934–2024) | United States of America | 1934-04-14 | 2024-09-22 | Cleveland | Durham | Q347362 | |
Thomas Pavel | Romanian writer | Romania | 1941-04-04 | Bucharest | Q1608527 | |||
Kay Redfield Jamison | American bipolar disorder researcher | United States of America | 1946-06-22 | Q265762 |
evolutionary biologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Thomas Hunt Morgan | American biologist (1866–1945) | United States of America | 1866-09-25 | 1945-12-04 | Lexington | Pasadena | Q177681 | |
Lynn Margulis | American evolutionary biologist (1938-2011) | United States of America | 1938-03-05 | 2011-11-22 | Chicago | Amherst | Q234583 | |
David Hillis | Evolutionary Biologist (1958-) | United States of America | 1958-12-21 | Copenhagen | Q3018366 |
explorer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer (1832–1901) | Sweden Grand Principality of Finland |
1832-11-18 | 1901-08-12 | Helsinki | Dalbyö gård | Q156749 | |
John Wesley Powell | American geologist (1834-1902) | United States of America | 1834-03-24 | 1902-09-23 | Mount Morris | North Haven | Q348325 | |
Clarence King | American geologist (1842-1901) | United States of America | 1842-01-06 | 1901-12-24 | Newport | Phoenix | Q1095462 | |
Alfred Maudslay | British explorer and scholar | United Kingdom | 1850-03-18 | 1931-01-22 | London | Hereford | Q2548284 | |
William Wright Smith | British botanist (1875–1956) | United Kingdom | 1875-02-02 | 1956-12-15 | Lochmaben | Edinburgh | Q1278792 | |
Isaiah Bowman | American geographer | United States of America | 1878-12-26 | 1950-01-06 | Waterloo | Baltimore | Q650594 | |
Vilhjalmur Stefansson | Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962) | Canada United States of America |
1879-11-03 | 1962-08-26 | Gimli | Hanover | Q712715 |
film actor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Alec Guinness | British actor (1914–2000) | United Kingdom | 1914-04-02 | 2000-08-05 | Marylebone | Midhurst | Q103894 | |
Sidney Poitier | Bahamian and American actor and diplomat (1927–2022) | United States of America The Bahamas |
1927-02-20 | 2022-01-06 | Miami | Los Angeles | Q104049 | |
Glenn Close | American actress | United States of America | 1947-03-19 | Greenwich | Q372311 | |||
Daniel Day-Lewis | British-Irish actor | Ireland United Kingdom |
1957-04-29 | Kensington London |
Q166389 |
film director
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Andrzej Wajda | Polish film director (1926–2016) | Poland | 1926-03-06 | 2016-10-09 | Suwałki | Warsaw | Q106685 | |
Marcel Ophuls | German-born French documentary film maker (b. 1927) | France United States of America |
1927-11-01 | Frankfurt | Q711420 | |||
Yvonne Rainer | American artist | United States of America | 1934-11-24 | San Francisco | Q452238 | |||
Sam Waterston | American actor, producer and director | United States of America | 1940-11-15 | Cambridge | Q284876 | |||
Mike Leigh | English writer and director (born 1943) | United Kingdom | 1943-02-20 | Brocket Hall | Q315756 | |||
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 | |||
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 |
financier
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Felix G. Rohatyn | Investment banker | United States of America | 1928-05-29 | 2019-12-14 | Vienna | New York City | Q3068171 | |
Eli Broad | American businessperson and philanthropist (1933-2021) | United States of America | 1933-06-06 | 2021-04-30 | The Bronx | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Q1139602 | |
Peter Lynch | American investor, mutual fund manager | United States of America | 1944-01-19 | Newton | Q1156395 |
flight engineer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert Thomas Jones | American aerospace engineer | United States of America | 1910-05-28 | 1999-08-11 | Macon County | Los Altos Hills | Q4901639 | |
William R. Sears | American aeronautical engineer (1913-2002) | United States of America | 1913-03-01 | 2002-10-12 | Minneapolis | Tucson | Q8017281 | |
William Hawthorne | aerospace engineer | 1913-05-22 | 2011-09-16 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Q8011044 |
geneticist
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geographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Jedidiah Morse | American geographer and clergyman (1761-1826) | United States of America | 1761-08-23 | 1826-06-09 | Woodstock | New Haven | Q1686158 | |
Georg Hassel | German geographer (1770-1829) | Duchy of Brunswick | 1770-12-30 | 1829-01-18 | Wolfenbüttel | Weimar | Q103830 | |
Herbert E. Gregory | American geographer | United States of America | 1869-10-15 | 1952-01-23 | Middleville | Honolulu | Q1608228 | |
Jean Gottmann | French geographer | France | 1915-10-10 | 1994-02-28 | Kharkiv | Oxford | Q2569327 | |
Torsten Hägerstrand | Swedish geographer, inventor of time geography | Sweden | 1916-10-11 | 2004-05-04 | Alvesta Municipality | Lund | Q335879 | |
Yi-Fu Tuan | Chinese-American geographer (1930-2022) | Republic of China United States of America |
1930-12-05 | 2022-08-10 | Tianjin | Q3279442 | ||
William Denevan | American geographer | United States of America | 1931-10-16 | San Diego | Q8007750 | |||
Michael Frank Goodchild | professor of geographic information science | United Kingdom United States of America |
1944-02-24 | Q3513446 | ||||
John A. Agnew | American British-born geographer | United States of America United Kingdom |
1949-08-29 | Millom | Q938959 |
geologist
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geophysicist
editname | 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 | |
Hugo Benioff | American seismologist | United States of America | 1899-09-14 | 1968-02-29 | Los Angeles | Los Angeles | Q952878 | |
Maurice Ewing | American geophysicist and oceanographer (1906–1974) | United States of America | 1906-05-12 | 1974-05-04 | Lockney | Galveston | Q1561583 | |
Vladimir Keilis-Borok | Soviet geophysicist | Soviet Union Russia |
1921-07-31 | 2013-10-19 | Moscow | Culver City | Q320835 | |
Marcia McNutt | American geophysicist | United States of America | 1952-02-19 | Minneapolis | Q1683869 |
geopolitical analyst
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Zbigniew Brzezinski | Polish-American diplomat and political scientist (1928–2017) | United States of America Second Polish Republic |
1928-03-28 | 2017-05-26 | Warsaw | Falls Church | Q168041 | |
Paul Kennedy | British historian | United Kingdom | 1945-06-17 | Wallsend | Q712123 |
grammarian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès | French geographer and translator (1767-1846) | France | 1767-06-24 | 1846-06-13 | Marseille | Le Havre | Q3163870 | |
Antoine Meillet | French linguist (1866–1936) | France | 1866-11-11 | 1936-09-21 | Moulins | Châteaumeillant | Q347001 |
historian
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historian of Modern Age
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historian of classical antiquity
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Arnaldo Momigliano | Italian historian of classical antiquity (1908–1987) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1908-09-05 | 1987-09-01 | Caraglio | London | Q644418 | |
Ernst Badian | Austrian classical scholar (1925–2011) | Austria United States of America |
1925-08-08 | 2011-02-01 | Vienna | Boston | Q78996 |
historian of science
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John L. Heilbron | American historian of science | United States of America | 1934-03-17 | 2023-11-05 | San Francisco | Padua | Q1700413 | |
Naomi Oreskes | American historian, scientist, academic | United States of America | 1958-11-25 | New York City | Q205618 |
ichthyologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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David Humphreys Storer | American Ichthyologist (1804–1891) | United States of America | 1804-03-26 | 1891-09-10 | Portland | Boston | Q3018105 | |
Charles Tate Regan | British zoologist (1878–1943) | United Kingdom | 1878-02-01 | 1943-01-12 | Sherborne | Q953139 |
immunologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Frank Macfarlane Burnet | Australian virologist (1899-1985) | Australia | 1899-09-03 | 1985-08-31 | Traralgon | Melbourne | Q193550 | |
Henry Kunkel | American immunologist (1916-1983) | United States of America | 1916-09-09 | 1983-12-15 | Brooklyn | Q1606764 | ||
Michael Sela | Israeli immunologist | Israel | 1924-03-02 | 2022-05-27 | Tomaszów Mazowiecki | Rehovot | Q512627 | |
Kimishige Ishizaka | Japanese Immunologist (1925-2018) | Japan Empire of Japan |
1925-12-03 | 2018-07-06 | Tokyo | Yamagata | Q544711 | |
Hans J. Müller-Eberhard | American biochemist (1927-1998) | Germany United States of America |
1927-05-05 | 1998-03-03 | Magdeburg | Q103150 | ||
Hugh McDevitt | American immunologist | United States of America | 1930-08-26 | 2022-04-28 | Cincinnati | Stanford | Q1634470 | |
William E. Paul | American immunologist | United States of America | 1936-06-12 | 2015-09-18 | Brooklyn | Manhattan | Q2578568 | |
Klaus Rajewsky | German immunologist | Germany | 1936-11-12 | Frankfurt | Q126992 | |||
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 | |||
Timothy A. Springer | American immunologist | United States of America | 1948-02-23 | Fort Moore | Q1649143 | |||
Ruslan Medzhitov | Uzbekistani American immunologist | United States of America | 1966-03-12 | Tashkent | Q517459 |
international relations scholar
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert Keohane | political scientist from the United States | United States of America | 1941-10-03 1941-11-03 |
Chicago | Q544500 | |||
John Mearsheimer | American political scientist | United States of America | 1947-12-14 | Brooklyn | Q461830 |
inventor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Benjamin Dearborn | American inventor | 1754 | 1838 | Q4888482 | ||||
Erastus Brigham Bigelow | American businessman | United States of America | 1814-04-02 | 1879-12-06 | West Boylston | Boston | Q5385003 | |
George Henry Corliss | American engineer (1817-1888) | United States of America | 1817-06-02 | 1888-02-21 | Easton | Providence | Q937731 | |
Willem Einthoven | Dutch physiologist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1860-05-21 | 1927-09-29 | Semarang | Leiden | Q189488 | |
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard | American radio pioneer | United States of America | 1877-02-14 | 1956-01-08 | Portland | Newton | Q1544764 | |
Peter Carl Goldmark | American inventor | Hungary United States of America |
1906-12-02 | 1977-12-07 | Budapest | Port Chester | Q943577 | |
Edwin H. Land | American scientist and inventor | United States of America | 1909-05-07 | 1991-03-01 | Bridgeport | Cambridge | Q380134 | |
Ken Olsen | American engineer and businessman | United States of America | 1926-02-20 | 2011-02-06 | Bridgeport | Indianapolis | Q454315 | |
Max Mathews | American pioneer in computer music | United States of America | 1926-11-13 | 2011-04-21 | Columbus | San Francisco | Q2587669 | |
Alfred Y. Cho | Chinese electrical engineer | United States of America | 1937-07-10 | Pei-p'ing | Q462900 | |||
Robert S. Langer, Jr. | American biomedical engineer | United States of America | 1948-08-29 | Albany | Q669597 | |||
Paul Allen | American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Microsoft (1953–2018) | United States of America | 1953-01-21 | 2018-10-15 | Seattle | Seattle | Q162005 |
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judge
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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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 | |
Benjamin Robbins Curtis | American judge (1809-1874) | United States of America | 1809-11-04 | 1874-09-15 | Watertown | Newport | Q202276 | |
John Bassett Moore | American jurist | United States of America | 1860-12-03 | 1947-11-12 | Smyrna | New York City | Q173897 | |
Mineichirō Adachi | jurist | Japan | 1870-07-29 | 1934-12-28 | Uzen Province | Amsterdam | Q346498 | |
Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan | British judge (1873-1952) | United Kingdom | 1873-02-20 | 1952-09-05 | Q601898 | |||
Calvert Magruder | American judge | United States of America | 1893-12-26 | 1968-05-22 | Annapolis | Q5024266 | ||
John Marshall Harlan II | US Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971 | United States of America | 1899-05-20 | 1971-12-29 | Chicago | Washington, D.C. | Q957749 | |
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 | |
Wolfgang Friedmann | German American legal scholar | United Kingdom Germany United States of America |
1907-01-25 | 1972-09-20 | Berlin | New York City | Q103099 | |
Rosalyn Higgins | British barrister, judge and scholar (born 1937) | United Kingdom | 1937-06-02 | London | Q273691 | |||
Richard Goldstone | South African former judge | South Africa | 1938-10-26 | Boksburg | Q517589 | |||
Frank H. Easterbrook | American judge | United States of America | 1948-09-03 | Buffalo | Q5487000 | |||
Ronny Abraham | French judge and academic | France | 1951-09-05 | Alexandria | Q382775 | |||
Edwin Cameron | South African judge | South Africa | 1953-02-15 | Pretoria | Q125037 |
jurist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Federico Sclopis di Salerano | Italian judge and politician (1798-1878) | Kingdom of Italy Kingdom of Sardinia |
1798-01-10 | 1878-03-08 | Turin | Turin | Q3067950 | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932 | United States of America | 1841-03-08 | 1935-03-06 | Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q360574 | |
Robert Cutler | United States Army officer (1895-1974) | United States of America | 1895-06-12 | 1974-05-08 | Brookline | Concord | Q1526941 | |
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 | |
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 | |||
Gerhard Casper | American academic administrator | United States of America Germany |
1937-12-25 | Hamburg | Q102196 | |||
Martha Fineman | American legal scholar, feminist studies scholar | United States of America | 1943-05-27 | Q441514 | ||||
Mark Tushnet | American constitutional law scholar | United States of America | 1945-11-18 | Newark | Q737842 | |||
Cass Sunstein | American legal scholar, writer, blogger (b. 1954) | United States of America | 1954-09-21 | Concord | Q956164 | |||
Lawrence Lessig | American academic, political activist | United States of America | 1961-06-03 | Rapid City | Q217790 |
lawyer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert Treat Paine | American lawyer and judge, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (1731-1814) | United States of America | 1731-03-11 | 1814-05-11 | Boston | Boston | Q743472 | |
Francis Dana | Chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | United States of America | 1743-06-13 | 1811-04-25 | Charlestown | Cambridge | Q1261198 | |
James Sullivan | Massachusetts lawyer, politician, and governor (1744 – 1808) | United States of America | 1744-04-22 | 1808-12-10 | Berwick | Boston | Q607767 | |
John Lowell, Jr. | United States lawyer and writer | United States of America | 1769-10-06 | 1840-03-12 | Q16499785 | |||
John Phillips | American politician (1770-1823) | United States of America | 1770-11-26 | 1823-05-29 1823-05-23 |
Boston | Q1701427 | ||
John H. Clifford | Massachusetts Whig governor and attorney general (1809–1876) | United States of America | 1809-01-16 | 1876-01-02 | Providence | New Bedford | Q175757 | |
Horace Gray | American judge (1828–1902) | United States of America | 1828-03-24 | 1902-09-15 | Boston | Nahant | Q1627868 | |
Melville Fuller | chief justice of the United States from 1888 to 1910 | United States of America | 1833-02-11 | 1910-07-04 | Augusta | Sorrento | Q943046 | |
Simeon Eben Baldwin | American judge (1840–1927) | United States of America | 1840-02-05 | 1927-01-30 | New Haven | New Haven | Q886146 | |
George Woodward Wickersham | American lawyer (1858-1936) | United States of America | 1858-09-19 | 1936-01-25 | Pittsburgh | New York City | Q351949 | |
Harlan F. Stone | chief justice of the United States from 1941 to 1946 | United States of America | 1872-10-11 | 1946-04-22 | Chesterfield | Washington, D.C. | Q942386 | |
William D. Mitchell | American politician (1874-1955) | United States of America | 1874-09-09 | 1955-08-24 | Winona | Syosset | Q351955 | |
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 | |
Francis Reginald Scott | Canadian legal scholar | Canada | 1899-08-01 | 1985-01-30 | Quebec City | Montreal | Q3081656 | |
William H. Hastie | American politician and civil rights activist (1904-1976) | United States of America | 1904-11-17 | 1976-04-14 | Knoxville | East Norriton Township Norristown |
Q2579062 | |
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 | |
Louis Auchincloss | American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917–2010) | United States of America | 1917-09-27 | 2010-01-26 | Lawrence | Manhattan | Q1621598 | |
Charles Alan Wright | Constitutional lawyer, law professor | United States of America | 1927-09-03 | 2000-07-07 | Philadelphia | Austin | Q5075005 | |
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 | |
Barbara Aronstein Black | American legal scholar | United States of America | 1933 | Borough Park | Q4858722 | |||
Charles Fried | American judge (1935–2024) | United States of America | 1935-04-15 | 2024-01-23 | Prague | Cambridge | Q1064457 | |
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. | lawyer | United States of America | 1935-04-20 | New York City | Q5497208 | |||
Walter E. Dellinger III | American attorney, law professor, and former government official | United States of America | 1941-05-15 | 2022-02-16 | Charlotte | Chapel Hill | Q2544051 | |
Drew S. Days, III | American academic | United States of America | 1941-08-29 | 2020-11-15 | Atlanta | Q1258757 | ||
Ellen Victoria Futter | American museum administrator | United States of America | 1949-09-21 | Q5365044 | ||||
Jack Lew | United States Ambassador to Israel since 2023 | United States of America | 1955-08-29 | New York City | Q1677579 | |||
Mitchell Baker | Chairwoman; former CEO | United States of America | 1957 | Oakland | Q445250 | |||
Janet Napolitano | American politician, lawyer, and academic administrator (born 1957) | United States of America | 1957-11-29 | New York City | Q229032 | |||
Tomiko Brown-Nagin | American legal academic | United States of America | 1970 | Q16245509 |
lexicographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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James Murray | British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1837-02-07 | 1915-07-26 | Roxburghshire | Oxford | Q960207 | |
Hans Kurath | American linguist (1891-1992) | United States of America | 1891-12-13 | 1992-01-02 | Villach | Ann Arbor | Q1580931 | |
Einar Haugen | American linguist (1906-1994) | United States of America | 1906-04-19 | 1994-06-20 | Sioux City | Q903823 | ||
Ladislav Zgusta | Czech linguist | United States of America Czechoslovakia |
1924-03-20 | 2007-04-27 | Libochovice | Urbana | Q1755374 | |
Richard Howard | American poet and literary critic | United States of America | 1929-10-13 | 2022-03-31 | Cleveland | Q2636383 |
librarian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Coffin Jewett | American librarian | United States of America | 1816-08-12 | 1868-01-09 | Lebanon | Boston | Q5076358 | |
Justin Winsor | American librarian and historian (1831-1897) | United States of America | 1831-01-02 | 1897-10-22 | Boston | Cambridge | Q991742 | |
Daniel Coit Gilman | American educator and academic (1831–1908) | United States of America | 1831-07-06 | 1908-10-13 | Norwich | Norwich | Q129598 | |
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 | |
Luther H. Evans | American political scientist (1902-1981) | United States of America | 1902-10-13 | 1981-12-23 | Bastrop County | San Antonio | Q936897 | |
Daniel J. Boorstin | American historian (1914–2004) | United States of America | 1914-10-01 | 2004-02-28 | Atlanta | Washington, D.C. | Q551252 | |
James H. Billington | 13th Librarian of Congress | United States of America | 1929-06-01 | 2018-11-20 | Bryn Mawr | Washington, D.C. | Q137576 | |
Ismail Serageldin | Egyptian academic | Egypt | 1944-05-09 | Giza | Q168517 | |||
Carla Hayden | Librarian of Congress, American librarian | United States of America | 1952-08-10 | Tallahassee | Q5041065 |
linguist
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literary critic
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literary historian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Paul Hazard | French historian (1878-1944) | France | 1878-08-30 | 1944-04-12 | Noordpeene | Paris | Q462281 | |
Henry Carrington Lancaster | American literary critic (1882-1954) | United States of America | 1882-11-10 | 1954-01-29 | Richmond | Baltimore | Q1606581 | |
Fredson Bowers | bibliographer | United States of America | 1905-04-25 | 1991-04-11 | New Haven | Charlottesville | Q5499578 | |
Albrecht Schöne | German literary historian | Germany | 1925-07-17 | Barby | Q2639967 | |||
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 | |||
James S. Shapiro | American academic and author | United States of America | 1955-09-11 | Brooklyn | Q1681071 |
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medical historian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Mirko Grmek | Croatian-French psychiatrist & historian of medicine | France Croatia |
1924-01-09 | 2000-03-06 2000-03-05 |
Krapina | Paris | Q938645 | |
G. E. R. Lloyd | Historian of ancient science | United Kingdom Wales |
1933-01-25 | Swansea | Q456444 | |||
Charles E. Rosenberg | American science historian | United States of America | 1936-11-11 | New York City | Q5077167 | |||
Heinrich von Staden | German-born American classical philologist and historian of science and medicine | United States of America Germany |
1939-03-02 | Q1599684 |
merchant
editname | 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 | |
William Vaughan | English West India merchant and author (1752–1850) | 1752-09-22 | 1850-05-05 | Q15994800 |
meteorologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Ferrel | American metereologist | United States of America | 1817-01-29 | 1891-09-18 | Fulton County | Wyandotte County | Q959065 | |
Henry Helm Clayton | meteorologist (1861-1946) | United States of America | 1861-03-12 | 1946-10-26 | Murfreesboro | Massachusetts | Q1606841 | |
Verner E. Suomi | American meteorologist | United States of America | 1915-12-06 | 1995-07-30 | Eveleth | Madison | Q3270314 | |
Joanne Simpson | American meteorologist | United States of America | 1923-03-23 | 2010-03-04 | Boston | Washington, D.C. | Q1690835 | |
William J. Borucki | American meteorologist, planetary scientist and physicist | United States of America | 1939 | Chicago | Q8013156 | |||
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 |
military officer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henry Knox | American general and Secretary of War (1750–1806) | United States of America | 1750-07-25 | 1806-10-25 1806-10-21 |
Boston | Augusta | Q355680 | |
Andrew A. Humphreys | Union Army General | United States of America | 1810-11-02 | 1883-12-27 | Philadelphia | Washington, D.C. | Q166277 | |
William Alexander Hammond | American military physician and neurologist (1828–1900) | United States of America | 1828-08-28 | 1900-01-05 | Annapolis | Washington, D.C. | Q3136599 | |
Henry Larcom Abbot | American military officer (1831-1927) | United States of America | 1831-08-13 | 1927-10-01 | Beverly | Cambridge | Q3057348 | |
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 | |
Alfred Thayer Maan | United States Navy admiral and historian | United States of America | 1840-09-27 | 1914-12-01 | West Point | Washington, D.C. | Q142988 | |
William Herbert Bixby | United States Army Chief of Engineers (1849-1928) | United States of America | 1849-12-27 | 1928-09-29 | Charlestown | Washington, D.C. | Q8012242 | |
Ferdinand Foch | French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929) | France | 1851-10-02 | 1929-03-20 | Tarbes | Paris | Q192615 | |
George Washington Goethals | United States Army officer and civil engineer | United States of America | 1858-06-29 | 1928-01-21 | Brooklyn | Manhattan | Q741605 | |
William Sowden Sims | United States admiral | United States of America | 1858-10-15 | 1936-09-25 1936-09-28 |
Port Hope | Boston | Q2600765 | |
C. Douglas Dillon | United States Navy officer (1909-2003) | United States of America | 1909-08-21 | 2003-01-10 | Geneva | New York City | Q509225 | |
Robert A. Scalapino | American political scientist (1919-2011) | United States of America | 1919-10-19 | 2011-11-01 | Leavenworth | Oakland | Q556163 | |
William H. Oldendorf | American neurologist | United States of America | 1925-03-27 | 1992-12-14 | Schenectady | Los Angeles | Q2579234 | |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger | American businessman (1926–2012) | United States of America | 1926-02-05 | 2012-09-29 | New York City | Southampton | Q323342 | |
James Baker | American lawyer and statesman (born 1930) | United States of America | 1930-04-28 | Houston | Q223151 | |||
Brian Lamb | American journalist and founder of C-SPAN public affairs television network (born 1941) | United States of America | 1941-10-09 | Lafayette | Q4964416 | |||
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 physician
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William Henry Welch | American physician and scientist | United States of America | 1850-04-08 | 1934-04-30 1934-04-20 |
Norfolk | Johns Hopkins Hospital | Q174743 | |
Victor Horsley | Physiologist and surgeon | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1857-04-14 | 1916-07-16 | Kensington | Amarah | Q1258797 | |
Hans Zinsser | American physician, bacteriologist (1878–1940) | United States of America | 1878-11-17 | 1940-09-04 | New York City | New York City | Q512647 | |
Elliott Cutler | American general | United States of America | 1888-07-30 | 1947-08-16 | Bangor | Brookline | Q1590597 | |
Albert Coons | United States Army officer, pathologists and immunologist | United States of America | 1912-06-28 | 1978-09-30 | Gloversville | Brookline | Q2638148 |
mineralogist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henry-James Brooke | British crystallographer | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Great Britain |
1771 1771-05-25 |
1857 1857-06-26 |
Exeter | Clapham | Q3132560 | |
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 | |
Esper S. Larsen, Jr. | American mineralogist (1879-1961) | United States of America | 1879-03-14 | 1961-03-08 | Astoria | Washington, D.C. | Q1262111 | |
Peter John Wyllie | American mineralogist | United Kingdom | 1930-02-08 | London | Q1545460 |
molecular biologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Sol Spiegelman | American molecular biologist (1914-1983) | United States of America | 1914-12-14 | 1983-01-21 | Brooklyn | Herkimer County | Q735982 | |
John Cairns | British molecular biologist | United Kingdom | 1922-11-21 | 2018-11-12 | Oxford | Q1699519 | ||
Gordon H. Sato | American cell biologist (1927-2017) | United States of America | 1927-12-17 | 2017-03-31 | Los Angeles | Beverly | Q1538023 | |
Walter M. Fitch | American academic | United States of America | 1929-05-21 | 2011-03-10 | San Diego | Irvine | Q2545465 | |
David Weatherall | physician and academic (1933-2018) | United Kingdom | 1933-03-09 | 2018-12-08 | Liverpool | Oxford | Q138563 | |
Harry F. Noller | American biochemist | United States of America | 1939-06-10 | Oakland | Q1586673 | |||
Susumu Tonegawa | Japanese biologist (1939 - ) | Japan | 1939-09-06 | Nagoya | Q108602 | |||
Charles David Allis | American molecular biologist | United States of America | 1951-03-22 | 2023-01-08 | Cincinnati | Seattle | Q1064064 | |
William McGinnis | American molecular biologist | United States of America | 1952 | Q8015418 | ||||
Hans Clevers | Dutch geneticist, immunologist | Kingdom of the Netherlands | 1957-03-27 | Eindhoven | Q1579050 |
musician
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Luis A. Ferré | Puerto Rican politician (1904-2003) | Puerto Rico | 1904-02-17 | 2003-10-21 | Ponce | San Juan | Q366317 | |
Stanley Crouch | American writer (1945-2020) | United States of America | 1945-12-14 | 2020-09-16 | Los Angeles | The Bronx | Q355531 |
musicologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Oliver Strunk | American musicologist (1901-1980) | United States of America | 1901-03-22 | 1980-02-24 | Ithaca | Grottaferrata | Q1266266 | |
Paul Henry Lang | Hungarian-American musicologist | Hungary United States of America |
1901-08-28 | 1991-09-21 | Budapest | Lakeville | Q322381 | |
Allen Forte | American musicologist (1926-2014) | United States of America | 1926-12-23 | 2014-10-16 | Portland | Hamden | Q1528610 | |
David Lewin | American music theorist, music critic and composer | United States of America | 1933-07-02 | 2003-05-05 | New York City | Boston | Q3018295 | |
László Somfai | Hungarian musicologist (born: 1934) | Hungary | 1934-08-15 | 2004 | Jászladány | Q442269 | ||
Don Michael Randel | American musicologist | United States of America | 1940-12-09 | Q3035860 | ||||
Hermann Danuser | Swiss musicologist and musician | Switzerland Germany |
1946-10-03 | Frauenfeld | Q125095 | |||
Philip Bohlman | American academic | United States of America | 1952-08-08 | Boscobel | Q3333795 | |||
Carolyn Abbate | American musicologist | United States of America | 1956-11-20 | New York City | Q5045302 |
naturalist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Bachman | American clergyman, social activist, ornithologist and botanist (1790 – 1874) | United States of America | 1790-02-04 | 1874-02-24 | Rhinebeck | Charleston | Q130345 | |
Louis François de Pourtalès | American naturalist (1823-1880) | Switzerland | 1823-03-04 1824-03-04 |
1880-07-17 | Neuchâtel | Beverly Farms | Q3261956 | |
Thomas Barbour | American zoologist (1884-1946) | United States of America | 1884-08-19 | 1946-01-08 | Martha's Vineyard | Boston | Q1682880 | |
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe | American Venezuelan scientist | Venezuela | 1942-03-08 | 2022-09-29 | Venezuela | Q3505265 | ||
John Dupré | British philosopher | United Kingdom | 1952 | Q322761 |
neurologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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James Jackson Putnam | American neurologist | United States of America | 1846-10-03 | 1918-11-04 | Boston | Boston | Q3067385 | |
Hanna Damasio | Professor of Psychology and Neurology | Portugal | 1942-09-24 | Lisbon | Q459068 | |||
António Damásio | neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California | Portugal | 1944-02-25 | Lisbon | Q380207 |
neuroscientist
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novelist
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nuclear physicist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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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 | |
Bernard T. Feld | American nuclear physicist | United States of America | 1919-12-21 | 1993-02-19 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn | Q4893684 | |
Yuri Orlov | Soviet physicist | Soviet Union United States of America |
1924-08-13 | 2020-09-27 | Moscow | Ithaca | Q1280936 | |
Albert Overhauser | American physicist | United States of America | 1925-08-17 | 2011-12-10 | San Diego | West Lafayette | Q2622608 | |
Ben Roy Mottelson | Danish nuclear physicist | United States of America Kingdom of Denmark |
1926-07-09 | 2022-05-13 | Chicago | Copenhagen | Q107423 | |
Gerald E. Brown | American theoretical physicist (1926-2013) | United States of America | 1926-07-22 | 2013-05-31 | Brookings | New York City | Q1509811 |
oceanographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Henry Bryant Bigelow | American oceanographer | United States of America | 1879-10-03 | 1967-12-11 | Boston | Concord | Q1606556 | |
Harald Sverdrup | Norwegian oceanographer (1888-1957) | Norway United States of America |
1888-11-15 | 1957-08-21 | Sogndal Municipality | Oslo | Q440346 | |
John Steele | oceanographer (1926-2013) | 1926-11-15 | 2013-11-04 | Edinburgh | Falmouth | Q15993122 | ||
Joseph Pedlosky | American oceanographer | United States of America | 1938-04-07 | Paterson | Q15995392 |
oncologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Emil Frei | American physician and oncologist | United States of America | 1924-02-21 | 2013-04-30 | St. Louis | Oak Park | Q5371238 | |
Carlo Maria Croce | Italian oncologist | United States of America Italy |
1944-12-17 | Milan | Q640381 | |||
Stanley J. Korsmeyer | American oncologist (1950–2005) | United States of America | 1950-06-08 | 2005-03-31 | Beardstown | Boston | Q138795 | |
Brian Druker | American oncologist | United States of America | 1955-04-30 | St. Louis | Q373427 | |||
Ezekiel Emanuel | American physician | United States of America | 1957-09-06 | Chicago | Q5423140 | |||
Charles Sawyers | American physician-scientist | United States of America | 1959-01-26 | Nashville | Q1065232 |
opera singer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Marian Anderson | African-American contralto (1897–1993) | United States of America | 1897-02-21 | 1993-04-08 | Philadelphia | Portland | Q231923 | |
Leontyne Price | African-American soprano | United States of America | 1927-02-10 | Laurel | Q233718 | |||
Martina Arroyo | American opera singer | United States of America | 1937-02-02 | New York City | Q1702112 | |||
Plácido Domingo | Spanish tenor and conductor | Spain | 1941-01-21 | Madrid | Q130853 | |||
Frederica von Stade | American singer and recording artist | United States of America | 1945-06-01 | Somerville | Q265872 | |||
Thomas Hampson | American lyric baritone | United States of America | 1955-06-28 | Elkhart | Q539708 | |||
Renée Fleming | American opera soprano | United States of America | 1959-02-14 | Indiana | Q165637 | |||
Dawn Upshaw | American soprano | United States of America | 1960-07-17 | Nashville | Q272823 |
ornithologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert Ricklefs | American ornithologist | United States of America | 1943-06-06 | San Francisco | Q1267340 | |||
John Krebs, Baron Krebs | zoologist | United Kingdom | 1945-04-11 | Sheffield | Q336513 |
painter
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Trumbull | American artist (1756–1843) | United States of America | 1756-06-06 | 1843-11-10 | Lebanon | New York City | Q369263 | |
Johann Friedrich Overbeck | German painter, a member of the Nazarene movement (1789–1869) | Lübeck | 1789-07-03 | 1869-11-12 | Lübeck | Rome | Q169311 | |
Wilhelm von Kaulbach | German painter (1805-1874) | Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont | 1805-10-15 | 1874-04-07 | Bad Arolsen | Munich | Q604107 | |
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes | French artist best known for his mural painting (1824–1898) | France | 1824-12-14 | 1898-10-24 | Lyon | Paris | Q216873 | |
Frederic Edwin Church | American landscape painter (1826–1900) | United States of America | 1826-05-04 1826 |
1900-04-07 | Hartford | New York City | Q366212 | |
Léon Bonnat | French painter and educator (1833–1922) | France | 1833-06-20 | 1922-09-08 | Bayonne | Monchy-Saint-Éloi | Q170259 | |
Frank Weston Benson | American painter (1862–1951) | United States of America | 1862-03-24 | 1951-11-15 | Salem | Salem | Q956055 | |
Edmund Charles Tarbell | American Impressionist painter (1862-1938) | United States of America | 1862-04-26 | 1938-08-01 | Groton | New Castle | Q2460318 | |
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 | |
Josef Albers | German-American designer, painter, educator and typographer (1888–1976) | Germany United States of America |
1888-03-19 | 1976-03-25 | Bottrop | New Haven | Q170071 | |
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 | |
Willem de Kooning | Dutch painter (1904–1997) | United States of America Kingdom of the Netherlands |
1904-04-24 | 1997-03-19 | Rotterdam | East Hampton | Q132305 | |
Agnes Martin | American painter | Canada United States of America |
1912-03-22 | 2004-12-16 | Macklin | Taos | Q275610 | |
Jack Levine | American artist (1915-2010) | United States of America | 1915-01-03 | 2010-11-08 | Boston | Manhattan | Q2992864 | |
Robert Motherwell | American artist (1915-1991) | United States of America | 1915-01-24 | 1991-07-16 | Aberdeen | Provincetown | Q165275 | |
Andrew Wyeth | American Realist painter (1917-2009) | United States of America | 1917-07-12 | 2009-01-16 | Chadds Ford Township | Chadds Ford Township | Q316325 | |
Jacob Lawrence | African American painter and art professor (1917-2000) | United States of America | 1917-09-07 | 2000-06-09 | Atlantic City | Seattle | Q355566 | |
Richard Diebenkorn | American painter (1922-1993) | United States of America | 1922-04-22 | 1993-03-30 | Portland | Berkeley | Q1281597 | |
Roy Lichtenstein | American pop artist (1923–1997) | United States of America | 1923-10-27 | 1997-09-15 1997-09-29 |
New York | Manhattan | Q151679 | |
Antoni Tàpies | Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist (1923-2012) | Spain | 1923-12-13 | 2012-02-06 | Barcelona | Barcelona | Q158099 | |
Cy Twombly | American painter and artist (1928–2011) | United States of America | 1928-04-25 | 2011-07-05 | Lexington | Rome | Q159566 | |
Robert Ryman | American artist (1930-2019) | United States of America | 1930-05-30 | 2019-02-08 | Nashville | Greenwich Village | Q640936 | |
Faith Ringgold | African American painter and sculptor | United States of America | 1930-10-08 | 2024-04-13 2024-04-12 |
Harlem | Englewood | Q5431220 | |
Bridget Riley | British painter | United Kingdom | 1931-04-24 | South Norwood London |
Q234449 | |||
Malcolm Morley | English artist (1931-2018) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1931-06-07 | 2018-06-01 | London | New York City | Q316667 | |
Gerhard Richter | German visual artist (b. 1932) | Germany | 1932-02-09 | Dresden | Q164351 | |||
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 | |||
Chuck Close | American artist (1940–2021) | United States of America | 1940-07-05 | 2021-08-19 | Monroe | Oceanside | Q453883 | |
Michael Heizer | American painter and sculptor | United States of America | 1944-11-04 | Berkeley | Q558432 | |||
Barbara Kruger | American conceptual artist | United States of America | 1945-01-26 | Newark | Q262284 | |||
Anselm Kiefer | German painter and sculptor | Germany Austria |
1945-03-08 | Donaueschingen | Q170344 | |||
Eric Fischl | American artist | United States of America | 1948-03-09 | New York City | Q936534 | |||
Jenny Holzer | American conceptual artist | United States of America | 1950-07-29 | Gallipolis | Q270388 |
paleontologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Joachim Barrande | geologist, paleontologist and engineer | France Austria-Hungary |
1799-08-11 | 1883-10-05 | Saugues | Lanzenkirchen | Q547714 | |
Joseph Leidy | American anatomist and paleontologist (1823 – 1891) | United States of America | 1823-09-09 | 1891-04-30 1891-04-29 |
Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q461250 | |
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 | |
Louis Dollo | Belgian paleontologist and engineer | Belgium France |
1857-12-07 | 1931-04-19 | Lille | City of Brussels Brussels |
Q714232 | |
Charles Schuchert | American paleontologist (1858–1942) | United States of America | 1858-07-03 | 1942-11-20 | Cincinnati | New Haven | Q2623977 | |
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 | |
Walter Hermann Bucher | American scientist | United States of America | 1888-03-12 | 1965-02-17 1965-02-18 |
Akron | Houston | Q1576820 | |
Carl Owen Dunbar | American paleontologist (1891–1979) | United States of America | 1891-01-01 | 1979-04-07 | Hallowell | Dunedin | Q1039929 | |
Conrad Hal Waddington | British biologist | United Kingdom | 1905-11-08 | 1975-09-26 | Evesham | Edinburgh | Q721128 | |
Bryan Patterson | U.S. paleontologist | United States of America | 1909-03-10 | 1979-12-01 | Greater London | Chicago | Q4980297 | |
Preston Cloud | American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist (1912–1991) | United States of America | 1912-09-26 | 1991-01-16 | Worcester County | Santa Barbara | Q938452 | |
Heinz A. Lowenstam | American ecologist | United States of America | 1912-10-09 | 1993-06-07 | Siemianowice Śląskie | California | Q1599984 | |
James W. Valentine | American evolutionary biologist | United States of America | 1926-11-10 | 2023-04-07 | Los Angeles | Walnut Creek | Q1559068 | |
John Ostrom | American paleontologist (1928-2005) | United States of America | 1928-02-18 | 2005-07-16 | New York City | Litchfield | Q373726 | |
John P. Grotzinger | American geologist (1957-) | United States of America | 1957 | Q1701289 | ||||
Neil Shubin | American paleontologist | United States of America | 1960-12-22 | Philadelphia | Q458247 | |||
Kay Behrensmeyer | American taphonomist and paleoecologist | United States of America | 20th century | Quincy | Q16275057 |
particle physicist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Leon M. Lederman | American mathematician and physicist | United States of America | 1922-07-15 | 2018-10-03 | New York City | Rexburg | Q192695 | |
Piermaria Oddone | American physicist | United States of America Peru |
1944-03-26 | Arequipa | Q285232 | |||
Michael Peskin | American theoretical physicist | United States of America | 1951-10-27 | Philadelphia | Q1744292 |
pedagogue
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Elmer Ellsworth Brown | American educator | United States of America | 1861-08-28 | 1934-11-03 | Kiantone | New York City | Q5366536 | |
James O. Freedman | American educator and academic administrator | United States of America | 1935-09-21 | 2006-03-21 | Manchester | Cambridge | Q3161314 |
pediatrician
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Guido Fanconi | Swiss pediatrician (1892-1979) | Switzerland | 1892-01-01 | 1979-10-10 | Poschiavo | Poschiavo | Q123927 | |
Mary Ellen Avery | American pediatrician (1927-2011) | United States of America | 1927-05-06 | 2011-12-04 | Camden | West Orange | Q515101 |
pharmacologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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William A. Catterall | American pharmacologist | United States of America | 1946-10-12 | 2024-02-28 | Providence | Q1666427 | ||
Joan Massagué Solé | Professor of Cancer biology | Spain United States of America |
1953-04-30 | Barcelona | Q462775 |
philologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Gaston Paris | French medieval scholar and writer (1839-1903) | France | 1839-08-09 | 1903-03-05 | Avenay-Val-d'Or | Cannes | Q514741 | |
Charles Hall Grandgent | American academic (1862-1939) | United States of America | 1862-11-14 | 1939-09-11 | Dorchester | Cambridge | Q1064713 | |
Amado Alonso | Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic | Spain Argentina |
1896-09-13 | 1952-05-26 | Lerín | Arlington | Q452093 | |
Joshua Whatmough | American philologist and linguist | United States of America United Kingdom |
1897-06-30 | 1964-04-25 | Rochdale | Winchester | Q1708609 | |
Victor Brombert | American philologist and specialist in literature | United States of America | 1923-11-11 | Berlin | Q2522213 | |||
Michel Zink | French philologist and professor | France | 1945-05-05 | Issy-les-Moulineaux | Q3311134 | |||
Joachim Küpper | German philologist, romanist and specialist in literature | Germany | 1952-01-22 | Recklinghausen | Q1690264 |
philosopher
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photographer
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Paul Strand | American photographer (1890–1976) | United States of America | 1890-10-16 | 1976-03-31 | New York City | Orgeval | Q453839 | |
Walker Evans | American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975) | United States of America | 1903-11-03 | 1975-04-10 | St. Louis | New Haven | Q363308 | |
Beaumont Newhall | American curator, art historian, writer and photographer | United States of America | 1908-06-22 | 1993-02-26 | Lynn | Santa Fe | Q144164 | |
Henri Cartier-Bresson | French photographer (1908–2004) | France | 1908-08-22 | 2004-08-03 | Chanteloup-en-Brie | Montjustin | Q156567 | |
Robert Rauschenberg | American painter and graphic artist (1925–2008) | Germany United States of America |
1925-10-22 | 2008-05-12 | Port Arthur | Captiva | Q164358 | |
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 | |
Carrie Mae Weems | African American photographer (born 1953) | United States of America | 1953-04-20 | Portland | Q5046268 | |||
Cindy Sherman | American photographer | United States of America | 1954-01-19 | Glen Ridge | Q229455 |
physician
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Thomas Percival | British physician | Kingdom of Great Britain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1740 | 1804 | Warrington | Warrington | Q549582 | |
Charles Blagden | British physician and scientist | United Kingdom | 1748-04-17 | 1820-03-26 | Gloucestershire | Arcueil | Q1063743 | |
William Paine | Massachusetts physician and politician 1750-1833 | Canada | 1750-06-05 | 1833-04-19 | Worcester | Worcester | Q8016538 | |
David Hosack | American physician, botanist, and educator (1769-1835) | United States of America | 1769-08-31 1769 |
1835-12-22 1835 |
New York City | New York City | Q3018093 | |
Joel Roberts Poinsett | politician and diplomat (1779-1851) | United States of America | 1779-03-02 | 1851-12-12 | Charleston | Stateburg | Q723956 | |
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis | French physician (1787-1872) | France | 1787-04-14 | 1872-08-22 | Aÿ | Paris | Q2481742 | |
Carl von Rokitansky | Czech anatomist, dermatologist and patologist (1804-1878) | Austria | 1804-02-19 1804-02-11 |
1878-07-23 | Hradec Králové | Vienna | Q78714 | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | American poet and physician (1809–1894) | United States of America | 1809-08-29 | 1894-10-07 | Cambridge | Boston | Q319829 | |
Silas Weir Mitchell | American physician | United States of America | 1829-02-15 | 1914-01-04 | Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q1283916 | |
Ádám Politzer | Austro-Hungarian physician | Austria Hungary |
1835-10-01 | 1920-08-10 | Alberti | Vienna | Q78799 | |
Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet | British doctor | United Kingdom | 1845-11-04 | 1945-01-12 | Lancashire | London | Q726965 | |
William Osler | Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital | Canada | 1849-07-12 | 1919-12-29 | Bond Head | Oxford | Q369668 | |
Simon Flexner | American scientist (1863-1946) | United States of America | 1863-03-25 | 1946-05-02 | Louisville | New York City | Q984262 | |
Harvey Williams Cushing | American neurosurgeon (1869-1939) | United States of America | 1869-04-08 | 1939-10-07 1939-10-08 |
Cleveland | New Haven | Q380038 | |
Paul Dudley White | American cardiologist (1886-1973) | United States of America | 1886-06-06 | 1973-10-31 | Roxbury | Boston | Q366363 | |
Herbert Spencer Gasser | American physiologist (1888-1963) | United States of America | 1888-07-05 | 1963-05-11 | Platteville | New York City | Q273201 | |
Edgar Douglas Adrian | English electrophysiologist (1889-1977) | United Kingdom | 1889-11-30 | 1977-08-04 | Hampstead | Cambridge | Q231292 | |
André Frédéric Cournand | French physiologist | France United States of America |
1895-09-24 | 1988-02-19 | Paris | Great Barrington | Q271757 | |
Detlev Bronk | American biophysicist | United States of America | 1897-08-13 | 1975-11-17 | New York City | New York City | Q644005 | |
Soma Weiss | American physician | Hungary United States of America |
1898 | 1942 | Bistrița | United States of America | Q712593 | |
Fuller Albright | endocrinologist (1900-1969) | United States of America | 1900-01-12 | 1969-12-08 | Buffalo | Boston | Q339260 | |
Tinsley R. Harrison | American physician | United States of America | 1900-03-18 | 1978-08-04 | Talladega | Birmingham | Q3082238 | |
Alexander Luria | Soviet psychologist | Soviet Union | 1902-07-03 1902-07-16 |
1977-08-14 | Kazan | Moscow | Q350778 | |
Severo Ochoa | Spanish physician | Spain United States of America |
1905-09-24 | 1993-11-01 | Ḷḷuarca | Madrid | Q233957 | |
Jan G. Waldenström | Swedish physician (1906-1996) | Sweden | 1906-04-17 | 1996-12-01 | Stockholm | Malmö | Q1682340 | |
Luis Federico Leloir | Argentine biochemist | Argentina France |
1906-09-06 | 1987-12-02 | Paris | Catamarca Province Buenos Aires |
Q233985 | |
Frank Horsfall | American microbiologist (1906–1971) | United States of America | 1906-12-14 | 1971-02-19 | Seattle | New York City | Q5487322 | |
Carl Gustaf Bernhard | Swedish physician | Sweden | 1910-04-28 | 2001-01-13 | Jakob parish | Lidingö församling | Q5040248 | |
Richard Doll | British physician and epidemiologist | United Kingdom | 1912-10-28 | 2005-07-24 | London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | Oxford | Q740803 | |
George Emil Palade | Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate | Romania United States of America |
1912-11-19 | 2008-10-07 | Iași | Del Mar | Q219718 | |
Lewis Thomas | American physician, poet and educator (1913-1993) | United States of America | 1913-11-25 | 1993-12-03 | Flushing | Manhattan | Q3124100 | |
Jonas Salk | Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995) | United States of America | 1914-10-28 | 1995-06-23 | New York City | La Jolla | Q200101 | |
C. Everett Koop | American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator | United States of America | 1916-10-14 | 2013-02-25 | Brooklyn | Hanover | Q3306168 | |
Joseph Murray | US surgeon (1919-2012) | United States of America | 1919-04-01 | 2012-11-26 | Milford | Boston | Q192282 | |
James Mourilyan Tanner | British pediatrician | United Kingdom | 1920-08-01 | 2010-08-11 | Camberley | Wellington | Q366436 | |
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek | Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher | United States of America | 1923-09-09 | 2008-12-12 | Yonkers | Tromsø Municipality | Q108576 | |
Baruch Samuel Blumberg | American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011) | United States of America | 1925-07-28 | 2011-04-05 | Brooklyn | Mountain View | Q105830 | |
Thomas E. Starzl | American physician (1926-2017) | United States of America | 1926-03-11 | 2017-03-04 | Le Mars | Pittsburgh | Q1248240 | |
William Henry Danforth | American academic administrator (1926–2020) | United States of America | 1926-04-10 | 2020-09-16 | St. Louis | Q1643693 | ||
Andrew Schally | Polish-American endocrinologist | Second Polish Republic United States of America |
1926-11-30 | Vilnius | Q141147 | |||
Gerhard Giebisch | American physician | United States of America Austria |
1927-01-17 | 2020-04-06 | Vienna | Branford | Q1511628 | |
Bernard Babior | American physician (1935-2004) | 1935-11-10 | 2004-06-29 | San Diego | Q4892911 | |||
Erkki Ruoslahti | Finnish American cancer researcher | United States of America | 1940-02-16 | Puumala | Q543772 | |||
Huda Zoghbi | Lebanese neurogeneticist | United States of America | 1954-06-20 | Beirut | Q1633764 | |||
Margaret Hamburg | American physician and medical/public health administrator | United States of America | 1955-07-12 | Chicago | Q513807 | |||
Emery Brown | American statistician, neuroscientist, and anesthesiologist | United States of America | 1957 | Ocala | Q5370976 | |||
Francisco G. Cigarroa | American physician | United States of America | 1957-12-01 | Laredo | Q5483393 | |||
Bruce Beutler | American immunologist and geneticist | United States of America | 1957-12-29 | Chicago | Q104592 |
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physiologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard | Mauritian physiologist and neurologist | France | 1817-04-08 | 1894-04-02 | Port Louis | Sceaux | Q725855 | |
Henry Pickering Bowditch | American physiologist, educator | United States of America | 1840-04-04 | 1911-03-13 | Boston | Boston | Q1607155 | |
H. Newell Martin | British physiologist | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | 1848-07-01 | 1896-10-27 | Newry | Q1562608 | ||
Joseph Barcroft | Physiologist, studied the oxygenation of blood | United Kingdom | 1872-07-26 | 1947-03-21 | Newry | Cambridge | Q377985 | |
Homer Smith | American physiologist (1895–1962) | United States of America | 1895-01-02 | 1962-03-25 | Denver | New York City | Q1626035 | |
Irvine Page | American physiologist | United States of America | 1901-01-07 | 1991-06-10 | Indianapolis | Q1282594 | ||
Edwin B. Astwood | Bermudian-American physiologist/endocrinologist (1909-1976) | United States of America | 1909-12-19 1909 |
1976-02-17 | Hamilton | Hamilton | Q552570 | |
Baruj Benacerraf | Venezuelan-American- Moroccan immunologist | Venezuela United States of America |
1920-10-29 | 2011-08-02 | Caracas | Boston | Q234701 | |
Carl W. Gottschalk | American medical academic | United States of America | 1922 | 1997 | Q5040917 | |||
Ernst Knobil | American physician | United States of America | 1926-09-20 | 2000-04-13 | Berlin | Houston | Q990928 | |
Clay Armstrong | American physiologist | United States of America | 1934 | Chicago | Q1099172 | |||
Walter Heiligenberg | German physiologist (1938-1994) | Germany | 1938-01-31 | 1994-09-08 | Berlin | Pennsylvania | Q102173 |
pianist
editname | 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 | |
Nadia Boulanger | French musician, conductor, and teacher | France | 1887-09-16 | 1979-10-22 | 9th arrondissement of Paris | 9th arrondissement of Paris | Q140619 | |
Walter Piston | American composer (1894–1976) | United States of America | 1894-01-20 | 1976-11-12 | Knox County | Belmont | Q711052 | |
Dave Brubeck | American jazz pianist and composer (1920–2012) | United States of America | 1920-12-06 | 2012-12-05 | Concord | Norwalk | Q108597 | |
Charles Rosen | American pianist and writer on music | United States of America | 1927-05-05 | 2012-12-09 | Manhattan | Manhattan | Q1065956 | |
Cy Coleman | American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist (1929-2004) | United States of America | 1929-06-14 | 2004-11-18 | New York City | New York City | Q1146861 |
playwright
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Galsworthy | English novelist and playwright (1867-1933) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1867-08-14 | 1933-01-31 | Kingston upon Thames London |
London | Q82248 | |
Lillian Hellman | American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984) | United States of America | 1905-06-20 | 1984-06-30 1984-09-30 |
New Orleans | Dukes County | Q233701 | |
Tennessee Williams | American playwright (1911–1983) | United States of America | 1911-03-26 1914-03-26 |
1983-02-25 | Columbus | New York City | Q134262 | |
Arthur Miller | American playwright and essayist (1915–2005) | United States of America | 1915-10-17 | 2005-02-10 | New York City | Roxbury | Q80596 | |
Edward Albee | American playwright (1928–2016) | United States of America | 1928-03-12 | 2016-09-16 | Washington, D.C. | Montauk | Q219420 | |
Michael Frayn | British writer | United Kingdom | 1933-09-08 | London | Q506231 | |||
Roald Hoffmann | Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor | Second Polish Republic United States of America |
1937-07-18 | Zolochiv | Q273279 | |||
John Guare | American playwright and screenwriter (born 1938) | United States of America | 1938-02-05 | New York City | Q320556 | |||
Joyce Carol Oates | American author | United States of America | 1938-06-16 | Lockport | Q217557 | |||
Lynn Nottage | American playwright (born 1964) | United States of America | 1964-11-02 | Brooklyn | Q541910 |
poet
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political scientist
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politician
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priest
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Charles Brent | American Episcopal bishop and Army chaplain | 1862-04-09 | 1929-03-27 | Newcastle | Lausanne | Q5075765 | ||
Krister Stendahl | Swedish theologian and New Testament scholar (1921-2008) | Sweden | 1921-04-21 | 2008-04-15 | Stockholm | Boston | Q542381 |
professor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Karl Weinhold | German folklorist and linguist (1823-1901) | Kingdom of Prussia | 1823-10-26 | 1901-08-15 | Dzierżoniów | Berlin | Q104301 | |
Joseph Bédier | French philologist and writer (1864-1938) | France | 1864-01-28 | 1938-08-29 | 6th arrondissement of Paris | Le Grand-Serre | Q380842 | |
Peter Debye | Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist | Kingdom of the Netherlands United States of America |
1884-03-24 | 1966-11-02 | Maastricht | Ithaca | Q103835 | |
Stephen Kuffler | American neurophysiologist | United States of America | 1913-08-24 | 1980-10-11 | Austria-Hungary | Woods Hole | Q445338 | |
Mona Nemer | Lebanese-Canadian scientist | Canada | 1957 | Beirut | Q3320062 | |||
Louise Richardson | Irish political scientist | Ireland | 1958 | Tramore | Q440934 | |||
Axel Meyer | German zoologist | Germany | 1960-08-04 | Mölln | Q100824 | |||
Claudia Rankine | American poet | United States of America | 1963-09-04 | Kingston | Q2978433 |
psychiatrist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Isaac Ray | American psychiatrist | United States of America | 1807-01-16 | 1881-03-31 | Q3154766 | |||
Carl Binger | American psychiatrist | 1889 | 1976 | Q5039906 | ||||
Vincent Dole | American physician (1913-2006) | United States of America | 1913-05-18 | 2006-08-01 | Chicago | New York City | Q983762 | |
Robert Jay Lifton | American psychiatrist and author | United States of America | 1926-05-16 | Brooklyn | Q711066 | |||
Chester Middlebrook Pierce | psychiatrist (1927-2016) | United States of America | 1927-03-04 | 2016-09-23 | Glen Cove | Q1070742 |
psychologist
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scientist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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T. Keith Glennan | NASA administrator | United States of America | 1905-09-08 | 1995-04-11 | Enderlin | Mitchellville | Q623624 | |
George F. Cahill, Jr. | American physician (1927-2012) | United States of America | 1927-07-07 | 2012-07-30 | New York City | Peterborough | Q1507321 | |
William Eskridge | American legal academic | United States of America | 1951-10-27 | Princeton | Q8008657 | |||
Monica Olvera de la Cruz | Soft-matter theorist | Mexico United States of America |
1958 | Mexico City | Q15995378 |
screenwriter
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Joan Didion | American writer (1934-2021) | United States of America | 1934-12-05 | 2021-12-23 | Sacramento | Manhattan | Q267691 | |
Annie Proulx | American novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935) | United States of America | 1935-08-22 | Norwich | Q229840 | |||
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 | |||
Suzan-Lori Parks | American writer | United States of America | 1963-05-10 | Fort Knox | Q511432 | |||
Tracy Letts | American actor and screenwriter | United States of America | 1965-07-04 | Tulsa | Q984572 |
sculptor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Hiram Powers | American sculptor (1805-1873) | United States of America | 1805-06-29 | 1873-06-27 | Woodstock | Florence | Q2572996 | |
Daniel Chester French | American sculptor (1850–1931) | United States of America | 1850-04-20 | 1931-10-07 | Exeter | Stockbridge | Q720910 | |
Cyrus Edwin Dallin | American sculptor (1861-1944) | United States of America | 1861-11-22 | 1944-11-14 | Springville | Arlington | Q1148931 | |
Jacques Lipchitz | American and French sculptor (1891–1973) | Russian Empire France United States of America |
1891-08-22 | 1973-05-26 | Druskininkai | Capri | Q380426 | |
Alexander Calder | American artist (1898–1976) | United States of America | 1898-07-22 | 1976-11-11 | Lawnton Philadelphia |
New York City | Q151580 | |
Isamu Noguchi | Japanese-American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988) | Japan United States of America |
1904-11-17 | 1988-12-30 | Los Angeles | New York City | Q442628 | |
Louise Bourgeois | French-American artist (1911–2010) | France United States of America |
1911-12-25 | 2010-05-31 | Paris | Beth Israel Medical Center | Q159409 | |
Leonard Baskin | American artist | United States of America | 1922-08-15 | 2000-06-03 | New Brunswick | Northampton | Q2601617 | |
Ellsworth Kelly | American painter, sculptor, and printmaker (1923-2015) | United States of America | 1923-05-31 | 2015-12-27 | Newburgh | Spencertown | Q544899 | |
Eduardo Chillida | Spanish Basque sculptor | Spain | 1924-01-10 | 2002-08-19 | San Sebastián | San Sebastián | Q156736 | |
Claes Oldenburg | American sculptor and printmaker | Sweden United States of America |
1929-01-28 | 2022-07-18 | Malmö Stockholm |
Manhattan | Q156731 | |
Magdalena Abakanowicz | Polish textile artist and sculptor (1930–2017) | Poland | 1930-06-20 | 2017-04-20 | Falenty | Warsaw | Q158080 | |
Lee Bontecou | American sculptor and printmaker | United States of America | 1931-01-15 | 2022-11-08 | Providence | Florida | Q276372 | |
Richard Serra | American sculptor (1938–2024) | United States of America | 1938-11-02 1939-11-02 |
2024-03-26 | San Francisco | Orient | Q321245 | |
Nancy Graves | American conceptual artist | United States of America | 1939-12-23 1940-12-23 |
1995-10-21 | Pittsfield | New York City | Q541831 | |
Bruce Nauman | American sculptor and performance artist (1941) | United States of America | 1941-12-06 | Fort Wayne | Q168665 | |||
Kiki Smith | American sculptor and printmaker | United States of America | 1954-01-18 | Nuremberg Germany |
Q447300 |
seismologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Hiroo Kanamori | Japanese seismologist | Japan | 1936-10-17 | Tokyo | Q943693 | |||
Adam Dziewonski | Polish-American seismologist (1936-2016) | Poland United States of America |
1936-11-15 | 2016-03-01 | Lviv | Cambridge | Q349221 |
singer-songwriter
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Ralph Stanley | American singer and banjo player | United States of America | 1927-02-25 | 2016-06-23 | McClure | Coeburn | Q3302436 | |
Herbie Hancock | American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940) | United States of America | 1940-04-12 | Chicago | Q105875 | |||
Joan Baez | American contemporary folk musician (born 1941) | United States of America | 1941-01-09 | Staten Island | Q131725 | |||
Patricia Barber | American composer, jazz singer and pianist as well as bandleader and arranger | United States of America | 1955-11-08 | Chicago | Q462219 |
sinologist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Derk Bodde | American academic and sinologist (1909–2003) | United States of America | 1909-03-09 | 2003-11-03 | Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock | Germantown | Q373880 | |
Michael Loewe | British sinologist and historian (born 1922) | United Kingdom | 1922-11-02 | Oxford | Q349715 |
sociologist
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statistician
editname | 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 | |
Frederick Mosteller | American statistician | United States of America | 1916-12-24 | 2006-07-23 | Clarksburg | Falls Church | Q735455 | |
George E. P. Box | British statistician (1919-2013) | United Kingdom | 1919-10-18 | 2013-03-28 | Gravesend | Madison | Q957661 | |
Howard Raiffa | American academic (1924-2016) | United States of America | 1924-01-24 | 2016-07-08 | The Bronx | Oro Valley | Q1631892 | |
Robert Groves | American sociologist | United States of America | 1948-09-27 | Kansas City | Q962030 | |||
David Donoho | American statistician | United States of America | 1957-03-05 | Los Angeles | Q1114742 |
surgeon
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Samuel Washington Woodhouse | American ornithologist | United States of America | 1821-06-27 | 1904-10-23 1904-11-23 |
Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Q2632163 | |
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 | |
Cato T. Laurencin | American surgeon, biomedical engineer | United States of America | 1959 | United States of America | Q5053606 | |||
Sanjay Gupta | American neurosurgeon, medical reporter and writer | United States of America | 1969-10-23 | Novi | Q510034 |
teacher
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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W. A. H. Rushton | British physiologist | United Kingdom | 1901-12-08 | 1980-06-21 1980-06-12 |
Greater London | Cambridge | Q2577816 | |
Eric Posner | American legal scholar | United States of America | 1965-12-05 | Chicago | Q3056380 | |||
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigerian writer | Nigeria | 1977-09-15 | Enugu | Q230141 |
television actor
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Christopher Plummer | Canadian actor (1929–2021) | Canada United States of America |
1929-12-13 | 2021-02-05 | Toronto | Weston | Q190523 | |
James Earl Jones | American actor | United States of America | 1931-01-17 | 2024-09-09 | Arkabutla | Pawling | Q203960 | |
Diana Rigg | English actress (1938–2020) | United Kingdom | 1938-07-20 | 2020-09-10 | Doncaster | London | Q232876 | |
Helen Mirren | British actress (born 1945) | United Kingdom United States of America |
1945-07-26 | Hammersmith | Q349391 | |||
Anjelica Huston | American actress | United States of America | 1951-07-08 | Santa Monica | Q190998 | |||
Laurence Fishburne | American actor | United States of America | 1961-07-30 | Augusta | Q193048 |
theatrical director
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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John Gielgud | British actor and theatre director | United Kingdom | 1904-04-14 | 2000-05-21 | South Kensington | Wotton House | Q204685 | |
Giorgio Strehler | Italian opera and theatre director (1921–1997) | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1921-08-14 | 1997-12-25 | Barcola | Lugano | Q737794 | |
Richard Schechner | American theatre director (born 1934) | United States of America | 1934-08-23 | Newark | Q723144 | |||
Robert Wilson | American stage director and playwright (born 1941) | United States of America | 1941-10-04 | Waco | Q541526 | |||
Frank Galati | American actor, writer and director | United States of America | 1943-11-29 | 2023-01-02 | Highland Park | Sarasota | Q5486761 |
theologian
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Francis Wayland | American educator (1796–1865); President of Brown University 1827–1855 | United States of America | 1796-03-07 | 1865-09-30 | New York City | Providence | Q5482708 | |
Adolf von Harnack | Baltic German theologian and prominent church historian | Germany | 1851-05-07 | 1930-06-10 | Tartu | Heidelberg | Q164699 | |
Karl Barth | Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968) | Switzerland | 1886-05-10 | 1968-12-10 | Basel | Basel | Q107473 | |
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 | |
H. Richard Niebuhr | American theologian (1894-1962) | United States of America | 1894-09-03 | 1962-07-05 | Wright City | New Haven | Q1076201 | |
Henry Chadwick | British academic and Anglican priest (1920–2008) | United Kingdom | 1920-06-23 | 2008-06-17 | Bromley | Oxford | Q321624 | |
Jaroslav Pelikan | US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale | United States of America | 1923-12-17 | 2006-05-13 | Akron | Hamden | Q457939 | |
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 | ||
Cornel West | American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953) | United States of America | 1953-06-02 | Tulsa | Q712469 |
theoretical chemist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Edgar Bright Wilson | American chemist (1908-1992) | United States of America | 1908-12-18 | 1992-07-12 | Tennessee | Cambridge | Q511581 | |
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins | British chemist and cognitive scientist (1923-2004) | United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1923-04-11 | 2004-03-27 | Kent | Q899772 | ||
Martin Karplus | Austrian-born American theoretical chemist | Austria United States of America |
1930-03-15 | Vienna | Q903471 | |||
Stuart A. Rice | American physical chemist | United States of America | 1932-01-06 | New York City | Q715584 | |||
Oktay Sinanoğlu | Turkish chemist (1935-2015) | Turkey | 1935-02-25 | 2015-04-19 | Bari | Miami | Q3064310 |
theoretical physicist
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Robert Oppenheimer | American theoretical physicist, known as "father of the atomic bomb" | United States of America | 1904-04-22 | 1967-02-18 | Manhattan | Princeton | Q132537 | |
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 | |
Robert A. Frosch | American theoretical physicist | United States of America | 1928-05-22 | 2020-12-30 | New York City | South Hadley | Q283195 | |
Nicola Cabibbo | Italian physicist | Italy Kingdom of Italy |
1935-04-10 | 2010-08-16 | Rome | Rome | Q350305 | |
Kenneth G. Wilson | Nobel prize winning US physicist | United States of America | 1936-06-08 | 2013-06-15 | Waltham | Saco | Q193503 | |
Miguel Ángel Virasoro | Argentine physicist | Argentina Italy |
1940-05-09 | 2021-07-23 | Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires | Q201145 | |
Joseph Polchinski | physicist working on string theory | United States of America | 1954-05-16 | 2018-02-02 | Hawthorne | Santa Barbara | Q1156878 | |
Nima Arkani-Hamed | American-Canadian physicist | Canada United States of America |
1972-04-05 | Houston | Q545142 |
translator
editname | image | description | country of citizenship | date of birth | date of death | place of birth | place of death | item |
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Ezra Stiles | American theologian, clergyman, Yale President 1727-1795 | United States of America | 1727-12-10 | 1795-05-12 | North Haven | New Haven | Q547352 | |
Cornelius Conway Felton | president of Harvard University (1807-1862) | United States of America | 1807-11-06 | 1862-02-26 | West Newbury | Chester | Q1133760 | |
Eugene Ulrich | American academic | United States of America | 1938-11-05 | Louisville | Q5407810 | |||
Michael Hofmann | German-born poet and translator | Germany | 1957-08-25 | Freiburg im Breisgau | Q101170 | |||
George Saunders | American writer (born 1958) | United States of America | 1958-12-02 | Amarillo | Q1251926 |
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virologist
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Richard Shope | American virologist (1901-1966) | United States of America | 1901-12-25 | 1966-10-02 | Des Moines | Q445001 | ||
Albert Sabin | Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993) | United States of America Russian Empire |
1906-08-26 | 1993-03-03 | Białystok | Washington, D.C. | Q164790 | |
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat | biochemist (1910-1999) | Germany United States of America |
1910-07-29 | 1999-04-10 | Wrocław | Oakland | Q106360 | |
Hilary Koprowski | Polish physician, virologist, immunologist and medical researcher | United States of America Poland |
1916-12-05 | 2013-04-11 | Warsaw | Philadelphia | Q936389 | |
Harry Rubin | American virologist | United States of America | 1926-06-23 | 2020-02-02 | New York City | Q1586738 | ||
David Ho | Taiwanese-American physician and scientist | United States of America | 1952-11-03 | Taichung | Q378003 |
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