| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Charles Francis Adams |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1807 |
21-Nov-1886 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68 |
| Charles Francis Adams IV |
Business |
2-May-1910 |
5-Jan-1999 |
Former president of Raytheon |
| Charles Francis Adams, Jr. |
Business |
27-May-1835 |
20-May-1915 |
President of Union Pacific, 1884-90 |
| Henry Adams |
Historian |
16-Feb-1838 |
28-Mar-1918 |
The Education of Henry Adams |
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Samuel Adams |
Politician |
27-Sep-1722 |
2-Oct-1803 |
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party |
| Charles Adler |
Actor |
2-Oct-1956 |
|
Voice of Buster Bunny |
| John F. Akers |
Business |
28-Dec-1934 |
22-Aug-2014 |
CEO of IBM, 1986-93 |
| Jane Alexander |
Actor |
28-Oct-1939 |
|
The Ring |
| Frederick Lewis Allen |
Journalist |
5-Jul-1890 |
13-Feb-1954 |
Editor of Harpers, 1941-53 |
| John Amaechi |
Basketball |
26-Nov-1970 |
|
Only openly gay ex-NBA player |
| Ed Ames |
Singer |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
Try to Remember |
| Robert Anderson |
Diplomat |
6-Jan-1922 |
5-Apr-1996 |
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1976-78 |
| Richard Armitage |
Government |
26-Apr-1945 |
|
US Deputy Secretary of State, 2001-05 |
| Jeff Bagwell |
Baseball |
27-May-1968 |
|
Former 1st Baseman, Houston Astros |
| Emily Greene Balch |
Activist |
8-Jan-1867 |
9-Jan-1961 |
Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Joanna Barnes |
Actor |
15-Nov-1934 |
|
Goodbye Charlie |
| Clarence W. Barron |
Publisher |
2-Jul-1855 |
2-Oct-1928 |
Wall Street Journal proprietor, 1903-28 |
| Charlie Bass |
Politician |
8-Jan-1952 |
|
Congressman, New Hampshire 2nd |
| Emily Morison Beck |
Editor |
c. 1916 |
28-Mar-2004 |
Editor of Bartlett's Quotations |
| Henry Whitney Bellows |
Religion |
11-Jun-1814 |
30-Jan-1882 |
Unitarian leader, civil reformer |
| James Bennet |
Journalist |
28-Mar-1966 |
|
Editor-in-Chief of Atlantic Monthly |
| Nancy Benoit |
Wrestling |
21-May-1964 |
22-Jun-2007 |
Wife, murder victim of Chris Benoit |
| Ray Benzino |
Rapper |
1967 |
|
Co-Owner of The Source |
| Herbert P. Bix |
Historian |
1938 |
|
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
| Michael Bloomberg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 2002-13 |
| Veda Ann Borg |
Actor |
11-Jan-1915 |
16-Aug-1973 |
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer |
| David N. Bossie |
Activist |
1965 |
|
Citizens United |
| Henry S. Boutell |
Politician |
14-Mar-1856 |
11-Mar-1926 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1897-1911 |
| James Bowdoin |
Politician |
7-Aug-1726 |
6-Nov-1790 |
Governor of Massachusetts 1785-87 |
| Robert F. Bradford |
Politician |
15-Dec-1902 |
18-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49 |
| Ben Bradlee |
Editor |
26-Aug-1921 |
21-Oct-2014 |
Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91 |
| William J. Bratton |
Law Enforcement |
6-Oct-1947 |
|
NYPD Commissioner, 2014-16 |
| Connie Britton |
Actor |
6-Mar-1968 |
|
Nikki Faber on Spin City |
| Paul Brodeur |
Novelist |
16-May-1931 |
|
The Sick Fox |
| Bobby Brown |
Singer |
5-Feb-1969 |
|
My Prerogative |
| Charles Bulfinch |
Architect |
8-Aug-1763 |
15-Apr-1844 |
Architect of the U.S. Capitol |
| Whitey Bulger |
Criminal |
3-Sep-1929 |
|
Boston crimelord |
| Mac Bundy |
Government |
30-Mar-1919 |
16-Sep-1996 |
National Security Advisor, 1961-66 |
| Gelett Burgess |
Cartoonist |
30-Jan-1866 |
17-Sep-1951 |
Has never seen a purple cow |
| Godfrey Lowell Cabot |
Business |
26-Feb-1861 |
2-Nov-1962 |
Founder of Cabot Corporation |
| Susan Cabot |
Actor |
9-Jul-1927 |
10-Dec-1986 |
The Wasp Woman |
| Mario Cantone |
Comic |
9-Dec-1959 |
|
Laugh Whore |
| Mary Carlisle |
Actor |
3-Feb-1912 |
|
Dead Men Walk |
| Doug Carlston |
Business |
1947 |
|
Co-Founder, Br0derbund Software |
| Albert V. Casey |
Business |
28-Feb-1920 |
10-Jul-2004 |
CEO of American Airlines, 1974-85 |
| Peggy Cass |
Actor |
21-May-1924 |
8-Mar-1999 |
Auntie Mame |
| John Cazale |
Actor |
12-Aug-1935 |
12-Mar-1978 |
Fredo in The Godfather |
| John Ciardi |
Poet |
24-Jun-1916 |
30-Mar-1986 |
How Does a Poem Mean? |
| Lenny Clarke |
Actor |
16-Sep-1953 |
|
Uncle Teddy on Rescue Me |
| Eliot A. Cohen |
Government |
3-Apr-1956 |
|
Prominent neoconservative |
| Robert Coles |
Psychiatrist |
12-Oct-1929 |
|
Children of Crisis |
| James B. Collins |
Historian |
c. 1949 |
|
The State in Early Modern France |
| Misha Collins |
Actor |
20-Aug-1974 |
|
Castiel on Supernatural |
| Jerry Colonna |
Radio Personality |
17-Sep-1904 |
21-Nov-1986 |
Sidekick of Bob Hope |
| Chuck Colson |
Government |
16-Oct-1931 |
21-Apr-2012 |
Minister, former Watergate figure |
| Gerry Connolly |
Politician |
30-Mar-1950 |
|
Congressman, Virginia 11th |
| Gary Conway |
Actor |
4-Feb-1936 |
|
Det. Tilson on Burke's Law |
| Dane Cook |
Comic |
18-Mar-1972 |
|
Harmful If Swallowed |
| Archibald Cary Coolidge |
Educator |
6-Mar-1866 |
14-Jan-1928 |
The United States as a World Power |
| Jennifer Coolidge |
Actor |
28-Aug-1961 |
|
Legally Blonde |
| John Singleton Copley |
Painter |
3-Jul-1738 |
9-Sep-1815 |
Boy with a Squirrel |
| Michael T. Cowhig |
Business |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
Senior Gillette executive |
| Judith A. Cowin |
Judge |
29-Apr-1942 |
|
Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court |
| Paul Cronin |
Government |
14-Mar-1938 |
5-Apr-1997 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-75 |
| Alfred W. Crosby |
Historian |
15-Jan-1931 |
|
The Columbian Exchange |
| Norm Crosby |
Comic |
15-Sep-1927 |
|
Stand-up and nightclub comic |
| Bill Cunningham |
Photographer |
13-Mar-1929 |
25-Jun-2016 |
Fashion photographer, The New York Times |
| James M. Curley |
Politician |
20-Nov-1874 |
12-Nov-1958 |
Four-time Mayor of Boston |
| Richard Cardinal Cushing |
Religion |
24-Aug-1895 |
2-Nov-1970 |
Catholic Archbishop of Boston, 1944-70 |
| John Henry Cutler |
Publisher |
10-Jun-1910 |
16-Sep-1998 |
Duxbury Clipper |
| Walter Cutler |
Diplomat |
25-Nov-1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1984-87 |
| Edward Dahlberg |
Author |
22-Jul-1900 |
27-Feb-1977 |
Because I Was Flesh |
| Dick Dale |
Guitarist |
4-May-1937 |
|
Surf music guitarist, Deltones |
| Evan Dando |
Musician |
4-Mar-1967 |
|
Lemonheads frontman |
| Jeffrey Davidow |
Diplomat |
26-Jan-1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Mexico, 1998-2001 |
| Nathaniel Davis |
Diplomat |
12-Apr-1925 |
16-May-2011 |
US Ambassador to Chile, 1971-73 |
| Brad Delp |
Singer |
12-Jun-1951 |
9-Mar-2007 |
Lead singer of Boston |
| Daniel C. Dennett |
Philosopher |
28-Mar-1942 |
|
Leading Darwinist and philosopher |
| Joseph Dennie |
Journalist |
30-Aug-1768 |
7-Jan-1812 |
America's Joseph Addison |
| Peter B. Dervan |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
DNA Researcher |
| Paul A. Dever |
Politician |
15-Jan-1903 |
11-Apr-1958 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1949-53 |
| Samuel Dexter |
Politician |
14-May-1761 |
4-May-1816 |
US Secretary of War, Treasury |
| Jared Diamond |
Scientist |
10-Sep-1937 |
|
Guns, Germs and Steel |
| Sara Diamond |
Sociologist |
28-Nov-1958 |
|
Spiritual Warfare |
| Brian J. Donnelly |
Politician |
2-Mar-1946 |
|
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1979-93 |
| Robert Drinan |
Politician |
15-Nov-1920 |
28-Jan-2007 |
Jesuit priest, Massachusetts Congressman |
| Anne Dudek |
Actor |
22-Mar-1975 |
|
Dr. Amber Volakis on House |
| William C. Durant |
Business |
8-Dec-1861 |
18-Mar-1947 |
Founder of General Motors |
| Eliza Dushku |
Actor |
30-Dec-1980 |
|
Tru Calling |
| Timothy B. Dyk |
Judge |
14-Feb-1937 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
| Richard Dysart |
Actor |
30-Mar-1929 |
5-Apr-2015 |
Leland McKenzie on L.A. Law |
| Lisa Edelstein |
Actor |
21-May-1966 |
|
Dr. Lisa Cuddy on House, MD |
| Charles William Eliot |
Educator |
20-Mar-1834 |
22-Aug-1926 |
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 |
| Christine Elise |
Actor |
12-Feb-1965 |
|
Ex-Fianc�e of Jason Priestley |
| Stanley M. Elkins |
Historian |
27-Apr-1925 |
16-Sep-2013 |
Slavery |
| Bob Elliott |
Comic |
26-Mar-1923 |
2-Feb-2016 |
Half of Bob & Ray |
| Charles D. Ellis |
Business |
22-Oct-1937 |
|
Founder, Greenwich Associates |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Essayist |
25-May-1803 |
27-Apr-1882 |
Essayist, wrote Nature |
| John Ennis |
Comic |
6-May-1964 |
|
Mr. Show with Bob and David |
| John Enos III |
Actor |
12-Jun-1962 |
|
Bullet, The Rock |
| William M. Evarts |
Politician |
6-Feb-1818 |
28-Feb-1901 |
US Secretary of State, 1877-81 |
| Amelia C. Fawcett |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
COO of Morgan Stanley Intl., 2002-06 |
| Noah Feldman |
Author |
22-May-1970 |
|
After Jihad |
| Edith Fellows |
Actor |
20-May-1923 |
26-Jun-2011 |
1930s child actor |
| Ed Felten |
Computer Programmer |
25-Mar-1963 |
|
Broke SDMI |
| Colm Feore |
Actor |
22-Aug-1958 |
|
Trudeau |
| Frances D. Fergusson |
Educator |
3-Oct-1944 |
|
President of Vassar, 1986-2006 |
| E. James Ferland |
Business |
19-Mar-1942 |
|
CEO of PSEG, 1986-2007 |
| Charles D. Ferris |
Government |
9-Apr-1933 |
|
FCC Chairman, 1977-81 |
| Arthur Fiedler |
Conductor |
17-Dec-1894 |
10-Jul-1979 |
Conductor of the Boston Pops |
| Betty Field |
Actor |
8-Feb-1913 |
13-Sep-1973 |
Picnic |
| Dudley Fitts |
Scholar |
28-Apr-1903 |
10-Jul-1968 |
Translator of Greek literature |
| John F. Fitzgerald |
Politician |
11-Feb-1863 |
2-Oct-1950 |
Twice Mayor of Boston |
| Raymond L. Flynn |
Politician |
22-Jul-1939 |
|
Mayor of Boston, 1984-93 |
| Mary Parker Follett |
Business |
3-Sep-1868 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Community centers and conflict resolution |
| Ben Foster |
Actor |
29-Oct-1980 |
|
The Door in the Floor |
| Stephen R. Fox |
Author |
28-Feb-1945 |
|
Blood and Power |
| Arlene Francis |
Actor |
20-Oct-1907 |
31-May-2001 |
What's My Line? |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Diplomat |
17-Jan-1706 |
17-Apr-1790 |
American founding father |
| Pauline Frederick |
Actor |
12-Aug-1883 |
19-Sep-1938 |
This Modern Age |
| Peter Galbraith |
Diplomat |
31-Dec-1950 |
|
The End of Iraq |
| Jack Germond |
Columnist |
30-Jan-1928 |
14-Aug-2013 |
Fat Man in a Middle Seat |
| Bart Giamatti |
Baseball |
4-Apr-1938 |
1-Sep-1989 |
Baseball Commissioner, 1989 |
| Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
| Philip S. Goldberg |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Bolivia, 2006-08 |
| Daniel Jonah Goldhagen |
Scholar |
30-Jun-1959 |
|
Hitler's Willing Executioners |
| Ilene S. Gordon |
Business |
1953 |
|
CEO of Alcan Packaging |
| Mike Gordon |
Bassist |
3-Jun-1965 |
|
Bass guitarist for Phish |
| Benjamin Apthorp Gould |
Astronomer |
27-Sep-1824 |
26-Nov-1896 |
American astronomer and star-catalogist |
| Temple Grandin |
Architect |
29-Aug-1947 |
|
Autistic slaughterhouse designer |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| Horace Gray |
Judge |
24-Mar-1828 |
15-Sep-1902 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-1902 |
| Ari Graynor |
Actor |
27-Apr-1983 |
|
Rachel on Fringe |
| Mark Green |
Politician |
1-Jun-1960 |
|
Congressman from Wisconsin, 1999-2007 |
| Stephen Greenblatt |
Critic |
7-Nov-1943 |
|
The Swerve |
| Clark Gregg |
Actor |
2-Apr-1962 |
|
The New Adventures of Old Christine |
| Joseph Grew |
Diplomat |
27-May-1880 |
25-May-1965 |
US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41 |
| Tammy Grimes |
Actor |
30-Jan-1934 |
30-Oct-2016 |
The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| Paul Guilfoyle |
Actor |
28-Apr-1949 |
|
Capt. Jim Brass on CSI |
| Jasmine Guy |
Actor |
10-Mar-1962 |
|
A Different World |
| Edward Everett Hale |
Author |
3-Apr-1822 |
10-Jun-1909 |
The Man Without a Country |
| Lucretia Peabody Hale |
Author |
2-Sep-1820 |
12-Jun-1900 |
The Peterkin Papers |
| Jack Haley |
Actor |
10-Aug-1898 |
6-Jun-1979 |
Tin Man on The Wizard of Oz |
| Alexander Hall |
Film Director |
11-Jan-1894 |
30-Jul-1968 |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
| Anthony Michael Hall |
Actor |
14-Apr-1968 |
|
Sixteen Candles |
| Thurston Hall |
Actor |
10-May-1882 |
20-Feb-1958 |
Mr. Schuyler on Topper |
| Peter Haskell |
Actor |
15-Oct-1934 |
12-Apr-2010 |
Kevin Grant on Bracken's World |
| Maggie Hassan |
Politician |
27-Feb-1958 |
|
Governor of New Hampshire |
| Reed Hastings |
Business |
8-Oct-1960 |
|
Founder and CEO of Netflix |
| Nat Hentoff |
Critic |
10-Jun-1925 |
7-Jan-2017 |
The Jazz Life |
| John Michael Higgins |
Actor |
12-Feb-1963 |
|
The Late Shift |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
Judge |
8-Mar-1841 |
6-Mar-1935 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1902-32 |
| Winslow Homer |
Painter |
24-Feb-1836 |
30-Sep-1910 |
Maritime painter, Eight Bells |
| Samuel Gridley Howe |
Educator |
10-Nov-1801 |
9-Jan-1876 |
Founder of Perkins Institution |
| Beth Howland |
Actor |
28-May-1941 |
31-Dec-2015 |
Vera Louise Gorman on Alice |
| Alfred C. Hughes |
Religion |
2-Dec-1932 |
|
Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans |
| Thomas Hutchinson |
Government |
9-Sep-1711 |
3-Jun-1780 |
Last Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Ellen Huvelle |
Judge |
1948 |
|
US District Judge, District of Columbia |
| Lewis Hyde |
Critic |
16-Oct-1945 |
|
The Gift |
| J. Franklin Jameson |
Historian |
19-Sep-1859 |
28-Sep-1937 |
Dictionary of United States History |
| Tom Jennings |
Computer Programmer |
1955 |
|
Author of FidoNet BBS protocols |
| Fred Joseph |
Business |
22-Apr-1937 |
27-Nov-2009 |
CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert, 1985-90 |
| George Jung |
Criminal |
6-Aug-1942 |
|
Cocaine smuggler |
| Madeline Kahn |
Actor |
29-Sep-1942 |
3-Dec-1999 |
Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles |
| Joel D. Kaplan |
Government |
c. 1969 |
|
White House policy advisor |
| Ian Keith |
Actor |
27-Feb-1899 |
26-Mar-1960 |
It Came from Beneath the Sea |
| Paul X. Kelley |
Military |
11-Nov-1928 |
|
28th USMC Commandant, 1983-87 |
| Henry W. Kendall |
Physicist |
9-Dec-1926 |
15-Feb-1999 |
Verified existence of quarks |
| Edward Kennedy, Jr. |
Politician |
26-Sep-1961 |
|
Son of Ted Kennedy |
| Joseph P. Kennedy |
Business |
6-Sep-1888 |
18-Nov-1969 |
Smuggler and patriarch of the Kennedy clan |
| Joseph P. Kennedy III |
Politician |
4-Oct-1980 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 4th |
| Joseph Patrick Kennedy II |
Politician |
24-Sep-1952 |
|
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1987-99 |
| Robert F. Kennedy |
Politician |
20-Nov-1925 |
6-Jun-1968 |
Slain Presidential candidate |
| Rose Kennedy |
Relative |
22-Jul-1890 |
22-Jan-1995 |
Kennedy Matriarch |
| Jay Keyworth |
Physicist |
c. 1939 |
|
Science advisor to Reagan |
| Sarah Kemble Knight |
Author |
19-Apr-1666 |
25-Sep-1727 |
The Journal of Mme. Knight |
| Frank Knox |
Politician |
1-Jan-1874 |
28-Apr-1944 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44 |
| Henry Knox |
Government |
25-Jul-1750 |
25-Oct-1806 |
US Secretary of War, 1785-94 |
| Jonathan Kozol |
Educator |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Death at an Early Age |
| Bill Laimbeer |
Basketball |
19-May-1957 |
|
Detroit Pistons #40, retired |
| Adrian Lamo |
Hacker |
20-Feb-1981 |
|
So-called homeless hacker |
| William Leonard Langer |
Historian |
16-Mar-1896 |
26-Dec-1977 |
Our Vichy Gamble |
| Fred Leuchter, Jr. |
Inventor |
1943 |
|
Execution technologist, hero to neo-Nazis |
| Tony Levin |
Bassist |
6-Jun-1946 |
|
Bassist for King Crimson |
| Mr. Lif |
Rapper |
1977 |
|
I Phantom |
| David Lindsay-Abaire |
Playwright |
30-Nov-1969 |
|
Rabbit Hole |
| Peyton List |
Actor |
6-Apr-1998 |
|
Emma Ross on Jessie |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Dorothy Loudon |
Actor |
17-Sep-1933 |
15-Nov-2003 |
American stage actress |
| Alan D. Lourie |
Judge |
13-Jan-1935 |
|
US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit |
| Percival Lowell |
Astronomer |
13-Mar-1855 |
12-Nov-1916 |
Predicted existence of planet Pluto |
| Robert Lowell |
Poet |
1-Mar-1917 |
12-Sep-1977 |
Lord Weary's Castle |
| Stephen Lynch |
Politician |
31-Mar-1955 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 9th |
| Champ Lyons, Jr. |
Judge |
6-Dec-1940 |
|
Justice, Alabama Supreme Court |
| Alexander Mackendrick |
Film Director |
8-Sep-1912 |
22-Dec-1993 |
The Sweet Smell of Success |
| Peter Mackenzie |
Actor |
19-Jan-1961 |
|
Genius on Herman's Head |
| Burton Malkiel |
Economist |
28-Aug-1932 |
|
A Random Walk Down Wall Street |
| Ellen R. Marram |
Business |
1947 |
|
CEO of Tropicana, 1997-98 |
| Boyce F. Martin, Jr. |
Judge |
23-Oct-1935 |
|
6th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| William Martin |
Novelist |
c. 1950 |
|
Back Bay |
| Leslie H. Martinson |
Film Director |
16-Jan-1915 |
3-Sep-2016 |
Batman: The Movie |
| Cotton Mather |
Religion |
12-Feb-1663 |
13-Feb-1728 |
Pastor at Boston North Church |
| Norman S. Matthews |
Business |
1933 |
|
President and COO of Federated, 1987-88 |
| Brini Maxwell |
TV Personality |
23-Jul-1969 |
|
The Brini Maxwell Show |
| Robert P. May |
Business |
5-May-1949 |
2-Apr-2011 |
CEO of Calpine, 2005-08 |
| David Maysles |
Film Director |
10-Jan-1932 |
3-Jan-1987 |
Documentary filmmaker |
| Christa McAuliffe |
Astronaut |
2-Sep-1948 |
28-Jan-1986 |
First teacher in space |
| John McCarthy |
Computer Programmer |
4-Sep-1927 |
24-Oct-2011 |
Created LISP programming language |
| Scott McCloud |
Cartoonist |
10-Jun-1960 |
|
Understanding Comics |
| John W. McCormack |
Politician |
21-Dec-1891 |
22-Nov-1980 |
Speaker of the House, 1962-70 |
| Michael C. McFarland |
Educator |
1948 |
|
President, College of the Holy Cross |
| Edward McGaffigan |
Government |
8-Dec-1948 |
2-Sep-2007 |
NRC Commissioner, 1996-2007 |
| Mary McGrory |
Journalist |
22-Aug-1918 |
21-Apr-2004 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberal Icon |
| Jimmy McHugh |
Songwriter |
10-Jul-1893 |
23-May-1969 |
On the Sunny Side of the Street |
| Thomas Menino |
Politician |
27-Dec-1942 |
30-Oct-2014 |
Mayor of Boston for twenty years |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Jan Miner |
Actor |
15-Oct-1917 |
15-Feb-2004 |
Soaking in Palmolive dishwashing liquid |
| George R. Minot |
Doctor |
2-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| Joseph Moakley |
Politician |
27-Apr-1927 |
28-May-2001 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-2001 |
| Paul Mockapetris |
Scientist |
18-Nov-1948 |
|
Inventor, Internet Domain Name System |
| Robin Moore |
Author |
31-Oct-1925 |
21-Feb-2008 |
The Green Berets |
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
Historian |
9-Jul-1887 |
15-May-1976 |
Rear Admiral and naval historian |
| Sarah Wentworth Morton |
Poet |
1759 |
14-May-1846 |
Ouabi |
| Richard W. Murphy |
Diplomat |
29-Jul-1929 |
|
US Ambassador to Syria, 1974-78 |
| Story Musgrave |
Astronaut |
19-Aug-1935 |
|
Spent 1281 hours in space |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Anne Nagel |
Actor |
29-Sep-1915 |
6-Jul-1966 |
The Green Hornet |
| Jack Nance |
Actor |
21-Dec-1943 |
30-Dec-1996 |
Eraserhead |
| Barry Newman |
Actor |
7-Nov-1938 |
|
Petrocelli |
| David G. Newton |
Diplomat |
13-Nov-1935 |
|
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1984-88 |
| Leonard Nimoy |
Actor |
26-Mar-1931 |
27-Feb-2015 |
Commander Spock on Star Trek |
| Alessandro Nivola |
Actor |
28-Jun-1972 |
|
Laurel Canyon |
| John T. Noonan, Jr. |
Judge |
24-Oct-1926 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-96 |
| Edward Norton |
Actor |
18-Aug-1969 |
|
Fight Club |
| Lawrence O'Donnell |
Journalist |
7-Nov-1951 |
|
MSNBC political analyst |
| Mike O'Malley |
Actor |
31-Oct-1969 |
|
Jimmy Hughes on Yes, Dear |
| Patrice O'Neal |
Comic |
7-Dec-1969 |
29-Nov-2011 |
Mr. P |
| Marvin Olasky |
Pundit |
12-Jun-1950 |
|
The Tragedy of American Compassion |
| Peter R. Orszag |
Government |
16-Dec-1968 |
|
Beltway economist |
| Francis Parkman |
Historian |
16-Sep-1823 |
8-Nov-1893 |
France and England in North America |
| Bruce Pearl |
Basketball |
18-Mar-1960 |
|
Former Head Coach, University of Tennessee |
| Dexter Perkins |
Historian |
20-Jun-1889 |
12-May-1984 |
The Monroe Doctrine |
| Frances Perkins |
Government |
10-Apr-1882 |
14-May-1965 |
First female US cabinet member |
| Howard Phillips |
Activist |
3-Feb-1941 |
20-Apr-2013 |
Founder, US Taxpayers Party |
| Edward Charles Pickering |
Astronomer |
19-Jul-1846 |
3-Feb-1919 |
Photometer inventor and surveyor |
| Albert Pike |
Military |
29-Dec-1809 |
2-Apr-1891 |
Confederate general, Freemason |
| John Pinette |
Comic |
23-Mar-1964 |
5-Apr-2014 |
You go now! You been here four owa! |
| Daniel Pipes |
Government |
9-Sep-1949 |
|
Influential neocon |
| Sylvia Plath |
Poet |
27-Oct-1932 |
11-Feb-1963 |
Daddy |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Author |
19-Jan-1809 |
7-Oct-1849 |
The Raven |
| Laura Poitras |
Film Director |
2-Feb-1964 |
|
My Country, My Country |
| David F. Powers |
Curator |
25-Apr-1912 |
27-Mar-1998 |
Special Assistant at the JFK White House |
| Carroll Quigley |
Historian |
9-Nov-1910 |
3-Jan-1977 |
Harvard professor, mentor to Bill Clinton |
| Josiah Quincy |
Educator |
4-Feb-1772 |
1-Jul-1864 |
President of Harvard, 1829-45 |
| Maxwell M. Rabb |
Attorney |
28-Sep-1910 |
9-Jun-2002 |
US Ambassador to Italy, 1981-89 |
| Eric S. Raymond |
Computer Programmer |
4-Dec-1957 |
|
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
| Sumner Redstone |
Business |
27-May-1923 |
|
Chairman and CEO of Viacom |
| Joseph D. Reitman |
Actor |
25-May-1968 |
|
Actor/Husband of Shannon Elizabeth |
| James Remar |
Actor |
31-Dec-1953 |
|
The Warriors |
| Eugene C. Renzi |
Military |
16-Dec-1933 |
9-Feb-2008 |
Army Maj. Gen., ManTech VP |
| Paul Revere |
Military |
1-Jan-1735 |
10-May-1818 |
One if by land, two if by sea... |
| Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Turkey |
| Elliot Richardson |
Government |
20-Jul-1920 |
31-Dec-1999 |
Refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor |
| Jonathan Richman |
Musician |
15-May-1951 |
|
Modern Lovers frontman, pre-punk influence |
| Alex Rocco |
Actor |
29-Feb-1936 |
18-Jul-2015 |
Moe Greene in The Godfather |
| Eugene Roche |
Actor |
22-Sep-1928 |
28-Jul-2004 |
Bill Parker on Webster |
| Lew Rockwell |
Activist |
1-Jul-1944 |
|
Libertarian activist |
| Willard Rockwell |
Business |
31-Mar-1888 |
16-Oct-1978 |
Founder of Rockwell Automation |
| Ed Rollins |
Government |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
GOP political strategist |
| Marc Rotenberg |
Activist |
20-Apr-1960 |
|
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
| Eli Roth |
Film Director |
18-Apr-1972 |
|
Cabin Fever |
| Lillian Roth |
Actor |
13-Dec-1910 |
12-May-1980 |
I'll Cry Tomorrow |
| Daniela Ruah |
Actor |
2-Dec-1983 |
|
Kensi Blye on NCIS: Los Angeles |
| Warren Rudman |
Politician |
18-May-1930 |
19-Nov-2012 |
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1980-93 |
| Andrew Russell |
Aristocrat |
30-Mar-1962 |
|
14th Duke of Bedford |
| Richard Scarry |
Author |
5-Jun-1919 |
30-Apr-1994 |
Delightful children's book author and artist |
| Taylor Schilling |
Actor |
27-Jul-1984 |
|
Piper Chapman on Orange Is the New Black |
| John Schuck |
Actor |
4-Feb-1940 |
|
Sgt. Enright on McMillan and Wife |
| George B. Seitz |
Film Director |
3-Jan-1888 |
8-Jul-1944 |
Andy Hardy series |
| William F. Sharpe |
Economist |
16-Jun-1934 |
|
Capital asset pricing model |
| David Sheff |
Author |
23-Dec-1955 |
|
Beautiful Boy |
| Wilmar H. Shiras |
Novelist |
23-Sep-1908 |
23-Dec-1990 |
Children of the Atom |
| William Shurcliff |
Physicist |
27-Mar-1909 |
20-Jun-2006 |
Manhattan Project physicist |
| John Slattery |
Actor |
13-Aug-1962 |
|
Roger on Mad Men |
| Peter Smith |
Educator |
31-Oct-1945 |
|
President, CSU Monterey Bay, 1995-2005 |
| William Kennedy Smith |
Relative |
4-Sep-1960 |
|
Lesser Kennedy, not guilty of rape |
| Tower Snow |
Attorney |
1947 |
|
Chairman of Brobeck, 1998-2001 |
| Alan D. Solomont |
Business |
1957 |
|
DNC National Finance Chairman, 1997 |
| Bob Somerby |
Journalist |
? |
|
The Daily Howler |
| James Spader |
Actor |
7-Feb-1960 |
|
Sex, Lies, and Videotape |
| Richard B. Spencer |
Activist |
11-May-1978 |
|
White Nationalist, Alt-Right figure |
| Sonny Stitt |
Jazz Musician |
2-Feb-1924 |
22-Jul-1982 |
Jazz saxophonist |
| Biz Stone |
Business |
10-Mar-1974 |
|
Co-Founder of Twitter |
| Stephanie A. Streeter |
Business |
c. 1957 |
|
CEO of Banta Corporation, 2002-07 |
| Herbert L. Strock |
Film Director |
13-Jan-1918 |
30-Nov-2005 |
The Crawling Hand |
| Gordon R. Sullivan |
Military |
25-Sep-1937 |
|
US Army Chief of Staff, 1991-95 |
| Louis Sullivan |
Architect |
3-Sep-1856 |
14-Apr-1924 |
Early skyscraper architect |
| Donna Summer |
Singer |
31-Dec-1948 |
17-May-2012 |
Hot Stuff |
| Charles Sumner |
Politician |
6-Jan-1811 |
11-Mar-1874 |
Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts |
| Edwin Vose Sumner |
Military |
30-Jan-1797 |
21-Mar-1863 |
Union Army General |
| John E. Sununu |
Politician |
10-Sep-1964 |
|
US Senator from New Hampshire, 2003-09 |
| Al B. Sure |
Singer/Songwriter |
4-Jun-1969 |
|
In Effect Mode |
| Richard F. Syron |
Business |
25-Oct-1943 |
|
CEO of Freddie Mac, 2003-08 |
| Matthew J. Szulik |
Business |
1956 |
|
CEO of Red Hat, 1999-2007 |
| Bob Taft |
Politician |
8-Jan-1942 |
|
Governor of Ohio, 1999-2007 |
| James Taylor |
Singer/Songwriter |
12-Mar-1948 |
|
Seen fire, rain |
| Meshach Taylor |
Actor |
11-Apr-1947 |
28-Jun-2014 |
Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women |
| Michelle Thomas |
Actor |
23-Sep-1969 |
22-Dec-1998 |
Myra on Family Matters |
| James A. Thomson |
Administrator |
21-Jan-1945 |
|
President and CEO, Rand Corporation |
| Callie Thorne |
Actor |
20-Nov-1969 |
|
Sheila Keefe on Rescue Me |
| Uma Thurman |
Actor |
29-Apr-1970 |
|
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 |
| T. J. Thyne |
Actor |
7-Mar-1975 |
|
Dr. Jack Hodgins on Bones |
| George Ticknor |
Educator |
1-Aug-1791 |
26-Jan-1871 |
History of Spanish Literature |
| Maura Tierney |
Actor |
3-Feb-1965 |
|
Abby from ER |
| Maurice J. Tobin |
Politician |
22-May-1901 |
19-Jul-1953 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1948-53 |
| Touré |
Author |
20-Mar-1971 |
|
The Portable Promised Land |
| Jonathan Tucker |
Actor |
31-May-1982 |
|
The Black Donnellys |
| Sonny Tufts |
Actor |
16-Jul-1911 |
4-Jun-1970 |
Cat-Women of the Moon |
| Guinevere Turner |
Actor |
23-May-1968 |
|
Preaching to the Perverted |
| Royall Tyler |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1757 |
26-Aug-1826 |
The Contrast |
| Robert W. Upton |
Politician |
3-Feb-1884 |
28-Apr-1972 |
US Senator from New Hampshire, 1953-54 |
| Helen Vendler |
Critic |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
American poetry critic |
| Alexander Vershbow |
Diplomat |
1952 |
|
US Ambassador to South Korea |
| Cynthia Voigt |
Author |
25-Feb-1942 |
|
Juvenile author, Tillerman Cycle |
| Francis A. Walker |
Economist |
2-Jul-1840 |
5-Jan-1897 |
The Wages Question |
| Barbara Walters |
Journalist |
25-Sep-1929 |
|
20/20, The View |
| David Walton |
Actor |
27-Oct-1978 |
|
Will on About a Boy |
| Alexander F. Watson |
Diplomat |
8-Aug-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Peru, 1986-89 |
| Dick Wesson |
Actor |
19-Nov-1922 |
25-Apr-1996 |
Destination Moon |
| Dorothy West |
Novelist |
2-Jun-1907 |
16-Aug-1998 |
The Wedding |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
| Brian J. White |
Actor |
21-Apr-1973 |
|
Stomp the Yard |
| Kevin H. White |
Politician |
25-Sep-1929 |
27-Jan-2012 |
Mayor of Boston, 1968-84 |
| Theodore H. White |
Historian |
6-May-1915 |
15-May-1986 |
The Making of the President |
| Richard B. Wigglesworth |
Government |
25-Apr-1891 |
22-Oct-1960 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1928-58 |
| Patricia J. Williams |
Scholar |
28-Aug-1951 |
|
The Alchemy of Race and Rights |
| Justin Winsor |
Curator |
2-Jan-1831 |
22-Oct-1897 |
Librarian of Harvard University |
| Roland Winters |
Actor |
22-Nov-1904 |
22-Oct-1989 |
Charlie Chan |
| Robert Charles Winthrop |
Politician |
12-May-1809 |
16-Nov-1894 |
Speaker of the 30th Congress |
| Frederick Wiseman |
Film Director |
1-Jan-1930 |
|
Titicut Follies |
| Scott Wolf |
Actor |
4-Jun-1968 |
|
Bailey Salinger on Party of Five |
| Danny Wood |
Singer |
14-May-1969 |
|
New Kids on the Block |
| James N. Wood |
Administrator |
20-Mar-1941 |
11-Jun-2010 |
President of Art Institute of Chicago, 1980-2004 |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| George Wyner |
Actor |
20-Oct-1945 |
|
ADA Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues |
| Elihu Yale |
Philanthropist |
5-Apr-1649 |
8-Jul-1721 |
Namesake of Yale University |
| Peter T. Zarella |
Judge |
13-Oct-1949 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
| Strauss Zelnick |
Business |
26-Jun-1957 |
|
CEO of BMG Entertainment, 1998-2000 |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Chinua Achebe |
Novelist |
16-Nov-1930 |
22-Mar-2013 |
Things Fall Apart |
| Brooks Adams |
Historian |
24-Jun-1848 |
13-Feb-1927 |
The Law of Civilization and Decay |
| Charles Francis Adams |
Diplomat |
18-Aug-1807 |
21-Nov-1886 |
US Ambassador to the UK, 1861-68 |
| Charles Francis Adams III |
Government |
2-Aug-1866 |
11-Jun-1954 |
Secretary of the Navy, 1929-33 |
| Samuel Adams |
Politician |
27-Sep-1722 |
2-Oct-1803 |
Brewer led the Boston Tea Party |
| William Taylor Adams |
Author |
30-Jul-1822 |
27-Mar-1897 |
Oliver Optic's Magazine |
| John F. Akers |
Business |
28-Dec-1934 |
22-Aug-2014 |
CEO of IBM, 1986-93 |
| Louisa May Alcott |
Author |
29-Nov-1832 |
6-Mar-1888 |
Little Women |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
Poet |
11-Nov-1836 |
19-Mar-1907 |
The Story of a Bad Boy |
| Crispus Attucks |
Activist |
1723 |
5-Mar-1770 |
First man killed in the American Revolution |
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Baruj Benacerraf |
Scientist |
29-Oct-1920 |
2-Aug-2011 |
Gene control of HLA antigens |
| Arthur Berger |
Composer |
15-May-1912 |
7-Oct-2003 |
Ideas of Order |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1787 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
Poet |
8-Feb-1911 |
6-Oct-1979 |
North & South |
| Yelena Bonner |
Activist |
15-Feb-1923 |
18-Jun-2011 |
Activist-wife of Andrei Sakharov |
| Stephen W. Bosworth |
Diplomat |
4-Dec-1939 |
4-Jan-2016 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1997-2000 |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| James Bowdoin |
Politician |
7-Aug-1726 |
6-Nov-1790 |
Governor of Massachusetts 1785-87 |
| Lloyd W. Bowers |
Attorney |
9-Mar-1859 |
9-Sep-1910 |
US Solicitor General, 1909-10 |
| Robert F. Bradford |
Politician |
15-Dec-1902 |
18-Mar-1983 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1947-49 |
| David Brudnoy |
Radio Personality |
5-Jun-1940 |
8-Dec-2004 |
Boston talk radio host |
| Charles Bulfinch |
Architect |
8-Aug-1763 |
15-Apr-1844 |
Architect of the U.S. Capitol |
| Thomas Bulfinch |
Author |
15-Jul-1796 |
27-May-1867 |
Bullfinch's Mythology |
| Mac Bundy |
Government |
30-Mar-1919 |
16-Sep-1996 |
National Security Advisor, 1961-66 |
| William M. Butler |
Politician |
29-Jan-1861 |
29-Mar-1937 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1924-26 |
| Richard E. Byrd |
Explorer |
25-Oct-1888 |
11-Mar-1957 |
Arctic and Antarctic explorer |
| Godfrey Lowell Cabot |
Business |
26-Feb-1861 |
2-Nov-1962 |
Founder of Cabot Corporation |
| Paul Cellucci |
Politician |
24-Apr-1948 |
8-Jun-2013 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1997-2001 |
| Jule Charney |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1917 |
16-Jun-1981 |
Quasi-gesotrophic theory |
| Eddie Collins |
Baseball |
2-May-1887 |
25-Mar-1951 |
Second baseman, 1914 MVP |
| John F. Collins |
Politician |
20-Jul-1919 |
23-Nov-1995 |
Mayor of Boston, 1960-68 |
| John T. Connor |
Business |
3-Nov-1914 |
6-Oct-2000 |
CEO of Allied Chemical, 1967-79 |
| Archibald Cary Coolidge |
Educator |
6-Mar-1866 |
14-Jan-1928 |
The United States as a World Power |
| Robert Cormier |
Author |
17-Jan-1925 |
2-Nov-2000 |
I am the Cheese |
| Erastus Corning II |
Politician |
7-Oct-1909 |
28-May-1983 |
Mayor of Albany, New York, 1942-83 |
| John Cotton |
Religion |
4-Dec-1585 |
23-Dec-1652 |
First Church of Boston |
| Paul Cronin |
Government |
14-Mar-1938 |
5-Apr-1997 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-75 |
| James M. Curley |
Politician |
20-Nov-1874 |
12-Nov-1958 |
Four-time Mayor of Boston |
| Richard N. Current |
Historian |
5-Oct-1912 |
26-Oct-2012 |
The Lincoln Nobody Knows |
| Richard Cardinal Cushing |
Religion |
24-Aug-1895 |
2-Nov-1970 |
Catholic Archbishop of Boston, 1944-70 |
| Margaret Deland |
Author |
23-Feb-1857 |
13-Jan-1945 |
Old Chester Tales |
| Paul A. Dever |
Politician |
15-Jan-1903 |
11-Apr-1958 |
Governor of Massachusetts, 1949-53 |
| David Herbert Donald |
Historian |
1-Oct-1920 |
17-May-2009 |
Lincoln's Herndon |
| Georges Doriot |
Business |
24-Sep-1899 |
2-Jun-1987 |
Father of Venture Capitalism |
| John T. Dunlop |
Government |
5-Jul-1914 |
2-Oct-2003 |
US Secretary of Labor, 1975-76 |
| Richard J. Egan |
Business |
28-Feb-1936 |
28-Aug-2009 |
Co-Founder, EMC Corporation |
| Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
| Geraldine Ferraro |
Politician |
26-Aug-1935 |
26-Mar-2011 |
Walter Mondale's VP candidate in 1984 |
| James Thomas Fields |
Editor |
31-Dec-1817 |
24-Apr-1881 |
Editor of the Atlantic Monthly |
| John F. Fitzgerald |
Politician |
11-Feb-1863 |
2-Oct-1950 |
Twice Mayor of Boston |
| Mary Parker Follett |
Business |
3-Sep-1868 |
18-Dec-1933 |
Community centers and conflict resolution |
| A. Stone Freedberg |
Doctor |
30-May-1908 |
25-Aug-2009 |
Found H. Pylori near stomach ulcers |
| Robert Frost |
Poet |
26-Mar-1874 |
29-Jan-1963 |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
| Hugh J. Gallen |
Politician |
30-Jul-1924 |
29-Dec-1982 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1979-82 |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Philanthropist |
14-Apr-1840 |
17-Jul-1924 |
Prominent art patron, collector |
| Abraham Gosman |
Business |
8-Dec-1928 |
21-Oct-2013 |
Palm Beach nursing home magnate |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| Erwin Griswold |
Attorney |
14-Jul-1904 |
19-Nov-1994 |
US Solicitor General, 1967-73 |
| Walter Gropius |
Architect |
18-May-1883 |
5-Jul-1969 |
Founder of the Bauhaus school |
| John Harvard |
Religion |
26-Nov-1607 |
14-Sep-1638 |
Bequest to Harvard College |
| Michael C. Hawley |
Business |
c. 1938 |
13-Jun-2004 |
CEO of Gillette, 1999-2000 |
| Louis Jean Heydt |
Actor |
17-Apr-1905 |
29-Jan-1960 |
American character actor |
| A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
Judge |
25-Feb-1928 |
14-Dec-1998 |
Chief Justice, 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Samuel Gridley Howe |
Educator |
10-Nov-1801 |
9-Jan-1876 |
Founder of Perkins Institution |
| William R. Hutchison |
Historian |
21-May-1930 |
16-Dec-2005 |
The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism |
| Buck Jones |
Actor |
4-Dec-1889 |
30-Nov-1942 |
Cowboy actor died at Cocoanut Grove |
| Yousuf Karsh |
Photographer |
23-Dec-1908 |
13-Jul-2002 |
Portrait photographer |
| Dick Kazmaier |
Football |
23-Nov-1930 |
1-Aug-2013 |
Winner, 1951 Heisman Trophy |
| Arthur E. Kennelly |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1861 |
18-Jun-1939 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Serge Koussevitzky |
Conductor |
26-Jul-1874 |
4-Jun-1951 |
Music Director, Boston Symphony, 1924-49 |
| William Leonard Langer |
Historian |
16-Mar-1896 |
26-Dec-1977 |
Our Vichy Gamble |
| Edward H. Linde |
Business |
c. 1940 |
10-Jan-2010 |
CEO of Boston Properties, 1997-2010 |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
27-Oct-2016 |
Protein folding |
| A. Lawrence Lowell |
Educator |
1-Jan-1856 |
6-Jan-1943 |
President, Harvard University, 1909-33 |
| George Maciunas |
Artist |
8-Nov-1931 |
9-May-1978 |
Founder of Fluxus |
| Archibald Macleish |
Poet |
7-May-1892 |
20-Apr-1982 |
Conquistador |
| Robert Mapplethorpe |
Photographer |
4-Nov-1946 |
9-Mar-1989 |
Erotic photographer |
| Cotton Mather |
Religion |
12-Feb-1663 |
13-Feb-1728 |
Pastor at Boston North Church |
| Increase Mather |
Religion |
21-Jun-1639 |
23-Aug-1723 |
Massachusetts Puritan leader |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| Ernest R. May |
Historian |
19-Nov-1928 |
1-Jun-2009 |
The World War and American Isolation 1914-17 |
| Jonathan Mayhew |
Religion |
8-Oct-1720 |
9-Jul-1766 |
Congregationalist minister, anti-Royalist |
| Harrison McCain |
Business |
3-Nov-1927 |
18-Mar-2004 |
Frozen french fry billionaire |
| Lucia Ames Mead |
Activist |
5-May-1856 |
1-Nov-1936 |
Swords and Ploughshares |
| Humberto Cardinal Medeiros |
Religion |
6-Oct-1915 |
17-Sep-1983 |
Archbishop of Boston, 1970-83 |
| Thomas Menino |
Politician |
27-Dec-1942 |
30-Oct-2014 |
Mayor of Boston for twenty years |
| Grace Metalious |
Novelist |
8-Sep-1924 |
25-Feb-1964 |
Peyton Place |
| Marvin Minsky |
Scientist |
9-Aug-1927 |
24-Jan-2016 |
Father of Artificial Intelligence |
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
Historian |
9-Jul-1887 |
15-May-1976 |
Rear Admiral and naval historian |
| Joseph E. Murray |
Doctor |
1-Apr-1919 |
26-Nov-2012 |
Kidney transplants |
| Edwin O'Connor |
Novelist |
29-Jul-1918 |
23-Mar-1968 |
The Last Hurrah |
| Kenneth P. O'Donnell |
Politician |
4-Mar-1924 |
9-Sep-1977 |
Assistant to President Kennedy |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Playwright |
16-Oct-1888 |
27-Nov-1953 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Tip O'Neill |
Politician |
9-Dec-1912 |
5-Jan-1994 |
Speaker of the House, 1977-87 |
| Richard Olney |
Government |
15-Sep-1835 |
8-Apr-1917 |
US Secretary of State, 1895-97 |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| William H. Prescott |
Historian |
4-May-1796 |
28-Jan-1859 |
The Conquest of Mexico |
| Hilary Putnam |
Philosopher |
31-Jul-1926 |
13-Mar-2016 |
Philosophy of Mind |
| Lucian W. Pye |
Scholar |
21-Oct-1921 |
5-Sep-2008 |
Sinologist |
| Josiah Quincy |
Educator |
4-Feb-1772 |
1-Jul-1864 |
President of Harvard, 1829-45 |
| Willard Van Orman Quine |
Philosopher |
25-Jun-1908 |
25-Dec-2000 |
Two Dogmas of Empiricism |
| Anthony Quinn |
Actor |
21-Apr-1915 |
3-Jun-2001 |
Zorba the Greek |
| Paul Revere |
Military |
1-Jan-1735 |
10-May-1818 |
One if by land, two if by sea... |
| Elliot Richardson |
Government |
20-Jul-1920 |
31-Dec-1999 |
Refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor |
| Artur Rodzinski |
Conductor |
2-Jan-1892 |
27-Nov-1958 |
Conductor, NY Philharmonic, 1943-47 |
| Edith Nourse Rogers |
Politician |
19-Mar-1881 |
10-Sep-1960 |
Congresswoman from Massachusetts, 1925-60 |
| Harold W. Ross |
Publisher |
6-Nov-1892 |
6-Dec-1951 |
Founder of The New Yorker |
| Susanna Rowson |
Author |
c. 1762 |
2-Mar-1824 |
Charlotte, a Tale of Truth |
| Pedro Salinas |
Poet |
27-Nov-1891 |
4-Dec-1951 |
Generation of '27 |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger |
Historian |
27-Feb-1888 |
30-Oct-1965 |
The Rise of the City |
| William L. Shirer |
Historian |
23-Feb-1904 |
28-Dec-1993 |
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
| John Silber |
Educator |
15-Aug-1926 |
27-Sep-2012 |
President of Boston University, 1971-96 |
| Alfred A. Slifka |
Business |
3-Jun-1932 |
9-Mar-2014 |
Chairman of Global Partners, 2005-14 |
| John Smibert |
Painter |
24-Mar-1688 |
2-Apr-1751 |
The Bermuda Group |
| Lysander Spooner |
Activist |
19-Jan-1808 |
14-May-1887 |
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority |
| Frank Stanton |
Business |
20-Mar-1908 |
24-Dec-2006 |
President of CBS, 1946-73 |
| William Steig |
Cartoonist |
14-Nov-1907 |
3-Oct-2003 |
Shrek, The New Yorker |
| I. F. Stone |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1989 |
I. F. Stone's Weekly |
| Lucy Stone |
Activist |
13-Aug-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Gilbert Stuart |
Painter |
3-Dec-1755 |
9-Jul-1828 |
American portrait painter |
| Gerry Studds |
Politician |
12-May-1937 |
14-Oct-2006 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-97 |
| Nguyen Van Thieu |
Head of State |
5-Apr-1923 |
29-Sep-2001 |
President of South Vietnam, 1967-75 |
| George Ticknor |
Educator |
1-Aug-1791 |
26-Jan-1871 |
History of Spanish Literature |
| William Monroe Trotter |
Activist |
7-Apr-1872 |
7-Apr-1934 |
Co-founder, Boston Guardian |
| Paul Tsongas |
Politician |
14-Feb-1941 |
18-Jan-1997 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1979-85 |
| Robert C. Turner |
Economist |
2-Mar-1908 |
5-Dec-1978 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1952-53 |
| Robert J. Van de Graaff |
Inventor |
20-Dec-1901 |
16-Jan-1967 |
Van de Graaff generator |
| Eddie Waitkus |
Baseball |
4-Sep-1919 |
16-Sep-1972 |
Prototype of The Natural |
| Francis A. Walker |
Economist |
2-Jul-1840 |
5-Jan-1897 |
The Wages Question |
| David I. Walsh |
Politician |
11-Nov-1872 |
11-Jun-1947 |
Governor and Senator from Massachusetts |
| Dorothy West |
Novelist |
2-Jun-1907 |
16-Aug-1998 |
The Wedding |
| Phillis Wheatley |
Poet |
c. 1743 |
5-Dec-1784 |
First prominent African-American poet |
| Kevin H. White |
Politician |
25-Sep-1929 |
27-Jan-2012 |
Mayor of Boston, 1968-84 |
| Richard B. Wigglesworth |
Government |
25-Apr-1891 |
22-Oct-1960 |
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1928-58 |
| James Q. Wilson |
Scholar |
27-May-1931 |
2-Mar-2012 |
The Moral Sense |
| John Winthrop |
Politician |
12-Jan-1588 |
26-Mar-1649 |
Governor of Massachusetts Colony |
| Robert Charles Winthrop |
Politician |
12-May-1809 |
16-Nov-1894 |
Speaker of the 30th Congress |
| John Winthrop the Younger |
Politician |
12-Feb-1606 |
5-Apr-1676 |
Governor of Colonial Connecticut |
