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<html> <head> <title>Explorers Club</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> Explorers Club ORGANIZATION Official Website: <a href="http://www.explorers.org/">http://www.explorers.org/</a> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/320/000023251/">Buzz Aldrin</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Second man on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000022422/">Neil Armstrong</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-2012</tt></td> <td>First man on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000023633/">Isaac Asimov</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1992</tt></td> <td>Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/286/000092010/">Hiram Bingham</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1956</tt></td> <td>US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/955/000023886/">Ben Bova</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Science fiction writer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000117804/">Charles F. Brush III</a></td> <td><center>Archaeologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-2006</tt></td> <td>Explorers Club president 1978-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/385/000025310/">James Cameron</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/250/000085992/">Jacques Cousteau</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1997</tt></td> <td>Oceanographer, environmentalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000163863/">Charles Duke</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>10th to walk on the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/980/000086722/">George Eastman</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1932</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the Kodak camera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000160430/">Ranulph Fiennes</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>World explorer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/345/000089078/">Jack Fletcher</a></td> <td><center>Photographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-2003</tt></td> <td>National Geographic photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000043696/">Malcolm Forbes</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1990</tt></td> <td>Forbes publisher, Faberge collector</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000032217/">Steve Fossett</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-2007</tt></td> <td>First to cross Pacific in a balloon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/626/000023557/">Jim Fowler</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Did all the work on Wild Kingdom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000023241/">Murray Gell-Mann</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quarks and strangeness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000025083/">J. Paul Getty, Sr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1976</tt></td> <td>Founder of Getty Oil Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000022806/">John Glenn</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>First American to orbit earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000065418/">Arthur Godfrey</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1983</tt></td> <td>Arthur Godfrey and His Friends</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/684/000026606/">Barry Goldwater</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1998</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/796/000023727/">Jane Goodall</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Apr-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Primate researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/752/000026674/">Thor Heyerdahl</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-2002</tt></td> <td>Kon-Tiki</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000022760/">Edmund Hillary</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-2008</tt></td> <td>First to summit Mt. Everest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000026467/">L. Ron Hubbard</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1986</tt></td> <td>Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/152/000179612/">Alfred Kohlberg</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1960</tt></td> <td>The China Lobby Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/373/000094091/">Richard Leakey</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Excavated Koobi Fora</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000026609/">Charles Lindbergh</a></td> <td><center>Aviator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Feb-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Transatlantic soloist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/388/000094106/">Tenzing Norgay</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1986</tt></td> <td>With Edmund Hilllary on Everest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000212051/">Scott E. Parazynski</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Shuttle astronaut, summited Everest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/317/000086059/">Robert E. Peary</a></td> <td><center>Explorer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td>First to reach the North Pole</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/406/000105091/">Andrew Revkin</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>New York Times science reporter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/165/000025090/">Sally Ride</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2012</tt></td> <td>First American woman in space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000026352/">Theodore Roosevelt</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1919</tt></td> <td>26th US President, 1901-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000345873/">Carl Safina</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Song for the Blue Ocean</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000060774/">Thomas P. Stafford</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000174413/">Kathryn D. Sullivan</a></td> <td><center>Astronaut</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Columbus Center for Science and Industry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000171871/">James V. 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