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color=red><b>HONOR</b></font><p> <p>Awarded since 2000.<p> <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000022600/"><font size=-1>Hank Aaron</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Baseball</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hit 755 home runs over his career</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000023911/"><font size=-1>Madeleine Albright</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bill Clinton's Secretary of State</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/487/000022421/"><font size=-1>Muhammad Ali</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Boxing</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Floated like butterfly, stung like bee</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/074/000023005/"><font size=-1>Harry Belafonte</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer/Songwriter</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Calypso singer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000023118/"><font size=-1>Tony Bennett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Left his heart in San Francisco</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/664/000022598/"><font size=-1>Larry Bird</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Basketball</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Boston Celtics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/318/000022252/"><font size=-1>Judy Blume</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Author of children's books</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/149/000023080/"><font size=-1>William F. Buckley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Columnist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>National Review</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000022718/"><font size=-1>Carol Burnett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Carol Burnett Show</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000127379/"><font size=-1>Benjamin S. Carson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/124/000048977/"><font size=-1>Benny Carter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Jazz Musician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Jazz and big bandleader</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000023707/"><font size=-1>Johnny Cash</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Country Musician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Man in Black</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000023676/"><font size=-1>Vint Cerf</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/127/000051971/"><font size=-1>Linda Chavez</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Activist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neoconservative activist, pundit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/648/000022582/"><font size=-1>Julia Child</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chef</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Haute cuisine</i> with a unique voice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000032326/"><font size=-1>Beverly Cleary</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Children's author, <i>Ramona Quimby</i> series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000024578/"><font size=-1>David Copperfield</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Magician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Disappeared the Statue of Liberty</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000022608/"><font size=-1>Bill Cosby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Comic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jul-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Comedy fixture, pudding industry shill</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000179606/"><font size=-1>Merce Cunningham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Dancer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Merce Cunningham Dance Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000027160/"><font size=-1>Michael DeBakey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of cardiovascular surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/171/000055006/"><font size=-1>Marian Wright Edelman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Activist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder, Children's Defense Fund</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000122577/"><font size=-1>Ahmet Ertegün</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atlantic Records co-founder</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000206071/"><font size=-1>Suzanne Farrell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Dancer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ballerina, NYC Ballet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/630/000022564/"><font size=-1>John Kenneth Galbraith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Modern economics renegade</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000024569/"><font size=-1>Stephen Jay Gould</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolutionary scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000051380/"><font size=-1>Katharine Graham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Publisher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Washington Post</i> publisher, 1966-79</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/719/000023650/"><font size=-1>Ursula K. Le Guin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/019/000031923/"><font size=-1>Mickey Hart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Drummer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Drummer for <i>Grateful Dead</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000206430/"><font size=-1>Herblock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Cartoonist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Editorial Cartoonist, <i>The Washington Post</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000031794/"><font size=-1>Al Hirschfeld</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Artist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jan-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pen and ink caricaturist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/678/000023609/"><font size=-1>Quincy Jones</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Music Producer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Musician, Composer, Producer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000025798/"><font size=-1>Jackie Joyner-Kersee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Track and Field</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Track and Field medalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/097/000119737/"><font size=-1>Max Kampelman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Ambassador to the CSCE</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/989/000048845/"><font size=-1>George F. Kennan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Architect of US policy of Soviet containment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000023067/"><font size=-1>B. B. King</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Musician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>King of the Blues</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/230/000023161/"><font size=-1>Billie Jean King</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Tennis</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Defeated Bobby Riggs in '73 <i>Battle of the Sexes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000023124/"><font size=-1>Jeane Kirkpatrick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Reagan's UN Ambassador</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/014/000024939/"><font size=-1>Annie Leibovitz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Photographer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Celebrity photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000025757/"><font size=-1>Carl Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Track and Field</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Olympian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000039510/"><font size=-1>John Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Congressman, Georgia 5th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/207/000112868/"><font size=-1>Alan Lomax</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Musicologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Preserved thousands of folksongs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000024397/"><font size=-1>Yo-Yo Ma</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Cellist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cellist, <i>The Silk Road Ensemble</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000023379/"><font size=-1>Mark McGwire</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Baseball</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>583 home runs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/463/000023394/"><font size=-1>Rita Moreno</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>West Side Story</i>, <i>Electric Company</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/411/000023342/"><font size=-1>Toni Morrison</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Beloved</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/596/000025521/"><font size=-1>I. M. Pei</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Architect</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Designed Louvre's glass pyramid</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000206431/"><font size=-1>Jaroslav Pelikan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Christian Tradition</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/684/000024612/"><font size=-1>Itzhak Perlman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Violinist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Israeli violinist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/649/000022583/"><font size=-1>Colin Powell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>US Secretary of State, 2001-05</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/000/000115652/"><font size=-1>Leontyne Price</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Singer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operatic soprano</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000046544/"><font size=-1>Tito Puente</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Musician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Popular Latin bandleader</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000025090/"><font size=-1>Sally Ride</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronaut</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First American woman in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000025727/"><font size=-1>Cal Ripken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Baseball</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>American League MVP 1983, 1991</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/927/000023858/"><font size=-1>Fred Rogers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Mar-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mister Rogers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/681/000023612/"><font size=-1>Philip Roth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Portnoy's Complaint</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/678/000022612/"><font 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