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<html> <head> <title>Cambridge, MA</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Cambridge, MA CITY Official Website: <a href="http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/">http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/</a> Population: 101355 (2000 census)Founding Date: 1630County: <a href="/geo/132/000142703/">Middlesex County</a>Founded as New Towne in 1630. NEWSPAPERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Newspaper</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/media/334/000172815/">The Harvard Crimson</a></td></tr></table> SCHOOLS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>School</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/edu/738/000365640/">Cambridge Rindge and Latin School</a></td><td><center>1977</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/476/000121113/">Cambridge College Massachusetts</a></td><td><center>1971</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/401/000127020/">John F. Kennedy School of Government</a></td><td><center>1936</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/489/000121126/">Longy School of Music</a></td><td><center>1915</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/266/000110933/">Lesley University</a></td><td><center>1909</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/402/000127021/">Harvard Business School</a></td><td><center>1908</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/573/000175048/">Buckingham Browne & Nichols</a></td><td><center>1883</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/568/000068364/">Radcliffe College</a></td><td><center>1879</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/487/000068283/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a></td><td><center>1861</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/404/000127023/">Harvard Law School</a></td><td><center>1817</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/405/000127024/">Harvard Divinity School</a></td><td><center>1816</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/403/000127022/">Harvard Medical School</a></td><td><center>1782</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/edu/473/000068269/">Harvard University</a></td><td><center>1636</center></td></tr></table> MUSEUM <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Museum</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/org/781/000082535/">Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology</a></td><td><center>1859</center></td></tr></table> COMPANY HEADQUARTERS <table border=1 class="bordered"> <tr><th>Company</th><th>Founded</th></tr> <tr><td><a href="/company/658/000119301/">Biogen Idec</a></td><td><center>2003</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/329/000124954/">Alnylam Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center>2002</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/328/000124953/">Infinity Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center>2001</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/767/000127386/">Momenta Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center>2001</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/977/000126599/">Curis</a></td><td><center>2000</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/512/000170999/">@stake</a></td><td><center>1999</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/778/000124406/">Akamai</a></td><td><center>1998</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/996/000170486/">Dyax Corporation</a></td><td><center>1995</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/340/000128953/">Millennium Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center>1993</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/331/000124956/">Vertex Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center>1989</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/433/000128049/">Alkermes</a></td><td><center>1987</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/463/000060283/">Cambridge Energy Research Associates</a></td><td><center>1983</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/127/000357053/">Forrester Research</a></td><td><center>1983</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/079/000125701/">Lotus Development</a></td><td><center>1982</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/750/000124378/">Genzyme</a></td><td><center>1981</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/102/000123730/">Index Group</a></td><td><center>1969</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/753/000114411/">Bolt, Beranek and Newman</a></td><td><center>1948</center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/657/000119300/">Biogen</a></td><td><center> </center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/142/000160659/">ARIAD Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center> </center></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/company/909/000172393/">Idenix Pharmaceuticals</a></td><td><center> </center></td></tr></table> BIRTHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_births"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000035838/">Bhumibol Adulyadej</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Oct-2016</tt></td> <td>King of Thailand, 1946-2016</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000115602/">Fred Allen</a></td> <td><center>Comic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1956</tt></td> <td>Town Hall Tonight</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000109731/">Leroy Anderson</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1975</tt></td> <td>The Syncopated Clock</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000159868/">Hugh Bancroft</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1933</tt></td> <td>President of Dow Jones, 1928-31</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/738/000121375/">Walworth Barbour</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jun-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1982</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Israel, 1961-73</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/672/000118318/">Peter Beinart</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1971</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Washington Post columnist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000079216/">Charles Bickford</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1967</tt></td> <td>The Song of Bernadette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/457/000031364/">Traci Bingham</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Baywatch, Surreal Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000161327/">David F. Bradford</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-2005</tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1991-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000099453/">Percy Williams Bridgman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1961</tt></td> <td>High-pressure physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000112888/">Phil Brown</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-2006</tt></td> <td>Uncle Owen in Star Wars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/694/000136286/">Jere Burns</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Breughel on Max Headroom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/783/000196195/">Thomas Dudley Cabot</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jun-1995</tt></td> <td>CEO of Cabot, 1922-60</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000024888/">e. e. cummings</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1962</tt></td> <td>Majuscule-challenged American poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000024741/">Jane Curtin</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>SNL, Third Rock from the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000022877/">Matt Damon</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1970</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Good Will Hunting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000047866/">Richard Henry Dana</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1815</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1882</tt></td> <td>Two Years Before the Mast</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/369/000036261/">Susan Davis</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congresswoman, California 53rd</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/302/000205684/">Eddy Duchin</a></td> <td><center>Pianist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1951</tt></td> <td>The Magic Fingers of Radio</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000023931/">Kitty Dukakis</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Wife of Michael Dukakis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/758/000128374/">Charles F. Dunbar</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Yemen, 1988-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/989/000401783/">Thomas Byrne Edsall</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Columnist, The New York Times</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000119421/">Luigi R. Einaudi</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Secy. General of the OAS, 2004-05</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000109732/">Bruce Fein</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former Reagan lawyer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/243/000205625/">Frank Fontaine</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1978</tt></td> <td>Crazy Guggenheim</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000397119/">Maya Forbes</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1968</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Infinitely Polar Bear</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000085098/">Margaret Fuller</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1810</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1850</tt></td> <td>Woman in the Nineteenth Century</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/393/000024321/">Paul Michael Glaser</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Starsky and Hutch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/101/000052942/">William Dodd Hathaway</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-2013</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Maine, 1973-79</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/557/000026479/">Chuck Hoberman</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Creator of unfolding structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000205692/">Johnny Hodges</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1970</tt></td> <td>Jazz alto saxophonist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/240/000044108/">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1809</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1894</tt></td> <td>The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000127236/">Alanson B. Houghton</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to the UK, 1925-29</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/544/000118190/">David Ignatius</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Washington Post op-ed columnist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000025038/">Ann Jillian</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ellis Island</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/461/000204846/">Mindy Kaling</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1979</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Kelly Kapoor on The Office</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000398771/">Lawrence S. Kaplan</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NATO and the United States</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/787/000080547/">Chris Langton</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Father of Artificial Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000346907/">Richard Libertini</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-2016</tt></td> <td>The In-Laws</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/001/000097707/">James Russell Lowell</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1819</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1891</tt></td> <td>The Biglow Papers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000350300/">Ray Magliozzi</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>"Don't drive like my brother"</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/155/000026077/">Anne McCaffrey</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-2011</tt></td> <td>Pern series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000159649/">Douglass C. North</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-2015</tt></td> <td>Cliometrics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/514/000115169/">Charles Eliot Norton</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1827</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1908</tt></td> <td>American man of letters</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000346857/">Joan O'Brien</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Operation Petticoat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/428/000024356/">Tip O'Neill</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1994</tt></td> <td>Speaker of the House, 1977-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/517/000179977/">Charles Sanders Peirce</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1839</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>Founder of Pragmatism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/535/000138121/">Rebecca Pidgeon</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1965</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Spanish Prisoner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000102451/">Jim Pinkerton</a></td> <td><center>Pundit</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fox News Watch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000204600/">Richard Preston</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Hot Zone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000172610/">Roxanne Quimby</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Founder, Burt's Bees</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/098/000347054/">Alan Rachins</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Larry Finkelstein on Dharma & Greg</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000026120/">Ted Rall</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Godless heathen cartoonist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000062468/">Donald Regan</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-2003</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Treasury, 1981-85</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/306/000401100/">Lloyd S. Shapley</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-2016</tt></td> <td>Theory of stable allocations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000048238/">Elaine Showalter</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Lead alpha Gynocritic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000160865/">Richard D. Simmons</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Washington Post Co., 1981-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/181/000205563/">Otis Skinner</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1942</tt></td> <td>American stage actor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000120410/">Monteagle Stearns</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-2016</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Greece, 1981-85</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000206281/">Helen B. Taussig</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1986</tt></td> <td>Mother of pediatric cardiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/157/000346116/">Russi Taylor</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Voice of Minnie Mouse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000367611/">Eddie Waitkus</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1972</tt></td> <td>Prototype of The Natural</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000022706/">Sam Waterston</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Asst DA Jack McCoy on Law & Order</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/700/000022634/">Steven Wright</a></td> <td><center>Comic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>King of Wry</td> </tr> </table> DEATHS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_deaths"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000082528/">Louis Agassiz</a></td> <td><center>Paleontologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-1807</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td>Ichthyologist at Harvard</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000117655/">Gordon W. Allport</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1967</tt></td> <td>Personality: A Psychological Interpretation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/361/000049214/">Washington Allston</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1779</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1843</tt></td> <td>The Dead Man Revived</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000082590/">Irving Babbitt</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Aug-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1933</tt></td> <td>Early leader of Neohumanism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/523/000091250/">Emily Greene Balch</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1961</tt></td> <td>Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000084857/">John Bartlett</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1905</tt></td> <td>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/797/000113458/">Daniel Bell</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-2011</tt></td> <td>The End of Ideology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000113463/">Edward Bernays</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1995</tt></td> <td>Propaganda</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000206036/">E. Power Biggs</a></td> <td><center>Organist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1977</tt></td> <td>Anglo-American organist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/926/000166428/">George David Birkhoff</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Modern theory of dynamical systems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000164376/">George Phillips Bond</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1825</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1865</tt></td> <td>Father of astrophotography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/931/000117580/">Edwin G. 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