Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ

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Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ

CEMETERY

Founding Date:
1757

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Aaron Burr Politician 6-Feb-1756 14-Sep-1836 Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel

Alonzo Church Mathematician 14-Jun-1903 11-Aug-1995 Lambda calculus, Church-Turing thesis

Frances Cleveland First Lady 21-Jul-1864 29-Oct-1947 Wife of US President Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland Head of State 18-Mar-1837 24-Jun-1908 22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97

Robert H. Dicke Physicist 6-May-1916 4-Mar-1997 Dicke radiometer

Jonathan Edwards Religion 5-Oct-1703 22-Mar-1758 American Puritan theologian

George Gallup Business 18-Nov-1901 26-Jul-1984 Founder, The Gallup Organization

Kurt Gödel Mathematician 28-Apr-1906 14-Jan-1978 Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

John Grier Hibben Educator 19-Apr-1861 16-May-1933 President, Princeton University, 1912-32

George F. Kennan Diplomat 16-Feb-1904 17-Mar-2005 Architect of US policy of Soviet containment

John O'Hara Author 31-Jan-1905 11-Apr-1970 Appointment in Samarra

Henry Norris Russell Astronomer 25-Oct-1877 18-Feb-1957 Giant stars and dwarfs

John von Neumann Mathematician 28-Dec-1903 8-Feb-1957 Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory

Eugene Wigner Physicist 17-Nov-1902 1-Jan-1995 Law of conservation of parity

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