| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Sheldon Adelson |
Business |
1-Aug-1933 |
|
Las Vegas billionaire |
| Shmuel Agnon |
Author |
17-Jul-1888 |
17-Feb-1970 |
'Tmol Shilshom |
| Izzy Asper |
Business |
11-Aug-1932 |
7-Oct-2003 |
Founder, CanWest Global |
| Isaac Babel |
Author |
1-Jul-1894 |
27-Jan-1940 |
Soviet master of short stories |
| Hector Babenco |
Film Director |
7-Feb-1946 |
|
Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| Oksana Baiul |
Figure Skating |
16-Nov-1977 |
|
Olympic figure skater |
| Albert Bandura |
Psychologist |
4-Dec-1925 |
|
Bobo doll experiments |
| Charlene Barshefsky |
Diplomat |
11-Aug-1950 |
|
US Trade Representative, 1997-2001 |
| Bruce A. Beutler |
Biologist |
29-Dec-1957 |
|
Lipopolysaccharide receptors |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Neko Case |
Singer/Songwriter |
8-Sep-1970 |
|
New Pornographers |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
| Kiran Chetry |
Journalist |
26-Aug-1974 |
|
CNN anchor |
| Cid Corman |
Poet |
29-Jun-1924 |
12-Mar-2004 |
Founder of Origin poetry magazine |
| Rick Danko |
Singer |
9-Dec-1943 |
10-Dec-1999 |
The Band |
| Mike Ditka |
Football |
18-Oct-1939 |
|
Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1982-92 |
| Edward Dmytryk |
Film Director |
4-Sep-1908 |
1-Jul-1999 |
The Caine Mutiny |
| T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
| Erika Eleniak |
Actor |
29-Sep-1969 |
|
Shauni on Baywatch |
| Vera Farmiga |
Actor |
6-Aug-1973 |
|
Down to the Bone |
| Russ Feingold |
Politician |
2-Mar-1953 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1993-2011 |
| Dianne Foster |
Actor |
31-Oct-1928 |
|
The Last Hurrah |
| Sam Fox |
Business |
9-May-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Belgium |
| George Gamow |
Physicist |
4-Mar-1904 |
19-Aug-1968 |
Proponent of Big Bang Theory |
| David Geffen |
Business |
21-Feb-1943 |
|
Music and movie industry mogul |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| Maurice Goldhaber |
Physicist |
18-Apr-1911 |
11-May-2011 |
Neutrons |
| Duff Goldman |
Chef |
17-Dec-1974 |
|
Ace of Cakes |
| Raisa Gorbachev |
First Lady |
5-Jan-1932 |
20-Sep-1999 |
First Lady of the Soviet Union |
| David J. Gross |
Physicist |
19-Feb-1941 |
|
Deep structure of matter |
| Alexander Grothendieck |
Mathematician |
28-May-1928 |
|
Grothendieck topologies |
| Armand Hammer |
Business |
21-May-1898 |
10-Dec-1990 |
Soviet agent of influence |
| Dale Hawerchuk |
Hockey |
4-Apr-1963 |
|
NHL Hall of Famer |
| Jill Hennessy |
Actor |
25-Nov-1968 |
|
Crossing Jordan |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky |
Film Director |
7-Feb-1929 |
|
El Topo |
| Philip M. Kaiser |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1913 |
24-May-2007 |
US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81 |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Scientist |
7-Nov-1929 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Erin Karpluk |
Actor |
17-Oct-1978 |
|
Erica Strange on Being Erica |
| Larry Klayman |
Activist |
20-Jul-1951 |
|
Founder, Judicial Watch |
| Lee Krasner |
Painter |
27-Oct-1908 |
19-Jun-1984 |
Abstract expressionist |
| Nikolai Krylenko |
Government |
2-May-1885 |
29-Jul-1938 |
Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge |
| Anton LaVey |
Religion |
11-Apr-1930 |
29-Oct-1997 |
Founder, Church of Satan |
| Traci Lords |
Pornstar |
7-May-1968 |
|
We Love You, Traci |
| Ranan Lurie |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1932 |
|
Hugely popular political cartoonist |
| Trofim Lysenko |
Scientist |
29-Sep-1898 |
20-Nov-1976 |
Dazzled Stalin with false genetic theory |
| Mike Mazurki |
Actor |
25-Dec-1907 |
9-Dec-1990 |
Murder, My Sweet |
| Edward Mezvinsky |
Politician |
17-Jan-1937 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1973-77 |
| George Montgomery |
Actor |
29-Aug-1916 |
12-Dec-2000 |
Coney Island |
| Bronko Nagurski |
Football |
3-Nov-1908 |
7-Jan-1990 |
NFL Hall of Famer |
| Leonard Nimoy |
Actor |
26-Mar-1931 |
|
Commander Spock on Star Trek |
| Larisa Oleynik |
Actor |
7-Jun-1981 |
|
The Secret World of Alex Mack |
| Mollie Orshansky |
Economist |
9-Jan-1915 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Orshansky Index |
| Jack Palance |
Actor |
18-Feb-1919 |
10-Nov-2006 |
Performed one-handed push-ups |
| Grace Paley |
Author |
11-Dec-1922 |
22-Aug-2007 |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
| Nikolai Podgorny |
Head of State |
18-Feb-1903 |
11-Jan-1983 |
President of the USSR, 1965-77 |
| Sidney Reilly |
Spy |
24-Mar-1874 |
5-Nov-1925 |
Ace of Spies |
| Randi Rhodes |
Radio Personality |
28-Jan-1959 |
|
Liberal talk show host |
| Henry Roth |
Author |
8-Feb-1906 |
13-Oct-1995 |
Call It Sleep |
| Mike Royko |
Columnist |
19-Sep-1932 |
29-Apr-1997 |
Syndicated Chicago columnist |
| Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
Novelist |
27-Jan-1836 |
9-Mar-1895 |
Venus in Furs |
| Carl Sagan |
Astronomer |
9-Nov-1934 |
20-Dec-1996 |
Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos |
| Flip Saunders |
Basketball |
23-Feb-1955 |
|
Head Coach, Detroit Pistons |
| Terry Sawchuk |
Hockey |
28-Dec-1929 |
31-May-1970 |
Goalie, NHL Hall of Famer |
| Bob Schaffer |
Politician |
24-Jul-1962 |
|
Congressman from Colorado, 1997-2003 |
| David Schizer |
Educator |
c. 1968 |
|
Dean of Columbia Law School |
| Selim II |
Royalty |
28-May-1524 |
15-Dec-1574 |
Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74 |
| Iosif S. Shklovskii |
Astronomer |
1-Jul-1916 |
3-Mar-1985 |
Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula |
| Mikhail Sholokhov |
Author |
24-May-1905 |
21-Feb-1984 |
The Silent Don |
| Elaine Showalter |
Critic |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Lead alpha Gynocritic |
| Michael Showalter |
Comic |
17-Jun-1970 |
|
The State |
| Joe Shuster |
Cartoonist |
10-Jul-1914 |
30-Jul-1992 |
Co-Creator of Superman |
| Igor Sikorsky |
Business |
25-May-1889 |
26-Oct-1972 |
Helicopter magnate |
| Beverly Sills |
Singer |
25-May-1929 |
2-Jul-2007 |
Soprano at the New York City Opera |
| Yakov Smirnoff |
Comic |
24-Jan-1951 |
|
What a country |
| Arlen Specter |
Politician |
12-Feb-1930 |
|
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011 |
| Otto Struve |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1897 |
6-Apr-1963 |
Hydrogen in the interstellar medium |
| Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Stephen Timoshenko |
Engineer |
23-Dec-1878 |
29-May-1972 |
Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford |
| Jonathan Togo |
Actor |
25-Aug-1977 |
|
Ryan Wolfe on CSI: Miami |
| Eugene Volokh |
Blogger |
29-Feb-1968 |
|
Volokh Conspiracy |
| Georgy Voronoy |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1868 |
20-Nov-1908 |
Voronoi diagram |
| Selman A. Waksman |
Scientist |
22-Jul-1888 |
16-Aug-1973 |
Streptomycin and other antibiotics |
| Mike Wallace |
Journalist |
9-May-1918 |
7-Apr-2012 |
Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent |
| Jude Wanniski |
Columnist |
17-Jun-1936 |
29-Aug-2005 |
Supply-side theorist |
| Simon Wiesenthal |
Activist |
31-Dec-1908 |
20-Sep-2005 |
Nazi hunter |
| Adele Wiseman |
Author |
21-May-1928 |
1-Jun-1992 |
The Sacrifice |
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
Poet |
18-Jul-1933 |
|
Babi Yar |