Notable Alumni of Amherst College [Sorted List]

1. Galusha A. Grow

1822-1907 (aged 85)

lawyer businessperson politician

Galusha Aaron Grow was the 24th speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1861 to 1863. Elected as a Democrat in the 1850 congressional elections, he switched to the newly organized Republican Party in the mid-1850s when the Democratic Party tried to force the extension of slavery into western territories.

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2. Robert Purvis

1810-1898 (aged 88)

abolitionist civil rights advocate

Robert Purvis was an American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was likely educated at Amherst Academy, a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts. He spent most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1833, he helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1845 to 1850, he...

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3. Bruce Fairchild Barton

1886-1967 (aged 81)

writer entrepreneur essayist philanthropist legislator

Bruce Fairchild Barton was an American author, advertising executive, and Republican politician. He represented Manhattan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941. In 1940, he ran for election to the U.S. Senate, but was defeated by incumbent Senator James M. Mead. During the 1940 campaign, Barton became a high-profile target of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was...

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4. Charles E. Mitchell

1877-1955 (aged 78)

financier banker

Charles Edwin Mitchell was an American banker whose incautious securities policies facilitated the speculation which led to the Crash of 1929. First National City Bank's (now Citibank) controversial activities under his leadership were a major contributing factor in the passage of the Glass–Steagall Act.

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5. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

1875-1966 (aged 91)

photojournalist photographer journalist

Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was an American magazine editor who was the first full-time editor of the National Geographic magazine from 1899 to 1954, and is credited with having consolidated the nascent magazine. As President of the National Geographic Society from 1920 to 1954, he assisted its rise to one of the world's largest and best known science and learning organizations,...

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6. Frederick H. Gillett

1851-1935 (aged 84)

lawyer politician

Frederick Huntington Gillett was an American politician who served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1919 to 1925 and as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1925 to 1931. A Republican, Gillett first began his career in politics when he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1890 to 1891, and would go...

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7. John Abele

1941-. (aged 85)

businessperson

John E. Abele is an American businessman and co-founder of Boston Scientific, a medical device company. He received the ASME Medal in 2010 and, as of November 2024, has a net worth of $1.9 billion. He was first listed on the Forbes 400 in 1996 as a self-made billionaire. Although he has given away a significant portion of his wealth,...

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8. Jonatha Brooke

1964-. (aged 62)

composer singer-songwriter guitarist singer

Jonatha Brooke is an American folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist from Massachusetts, United States. Her music merges elements of folk, rock and pop, often with poignant lyrics and complex harmonies. She has been a performer, writer, and artist since the late 1980s, and her songs have been used in television shows and movies.

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9. Marcy Wheeler

journalist writer

Marcy Wheeler, long known by the handle "emptywheel", a nickname derived from "M. T. Wheeler", is a liberal American independent journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties. Wheeler publishes on her own site, Emptywheel, established in July 2011. She has reported on United States v. Libby and the investigation of President Donald Trump's connections to Russia, among other national...

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10. Peter Franchot

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

Peter Van Rensselaer Franchot is an American politician who served as the 33rd comptroller of Maryland, from 2007 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Franchot served for 20 years in the Maryland House of Delegates representing Takoma Park and Silver Spring.

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11. Lyndsey Scott

1984-. (aged 42)

mobile application development actor model

Lyndsey Scott is an American model and iOS mobile app software developer. She was the first African American to sign an exclusive runway contract with Calvin Klein, and has worked for Gucci, Prada, and Victoria's Secret.

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12. George Yeh

1904-1981 (aged 77)

diplomat politician

George Kung-chao Yeh, also known as Yeh Kung-chao, was a diplomat and politician of the Republic of China. Educated in the U.S. and the U.K., he graduated from Amherst College in 1925 and later Cambridge University. He taught English literature at Beijing's Tsinghua University, where his students included renowned 20th century Chinese writer Ch'ien Chung-shu. He was the first Minister...

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13. Paul Rieckhoff

writer

Paul Rieckhoff is an American writer, social entrepreneur, activist and veteran of the United States Army and the Iraq War. He is the president of Righteous Media Inc and the host of the Independent Americans podcast. Prior to that, he was the founder, CEO and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a non-partisan non-profit founded in 2004....

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14. B. Alan Wallace

1950-. (aged 76)

teacher writer translator

Bruce Alan Wallace is an American Buddhologist of Tibetan Buddhism. He has authored many texts in the field of contemplative science, most notably The Attention Revolution on the cultivation of Samatha, and Dreaming Yourself Awake on the lucid dreaming practice of dream yoga. Wallace's works include an English translation of the foremost Tibetan Buddhism text, the Bardo Thodol, by Padmasambhava....

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15. Kabayama Aisuke

1865-1953 (aged 88)

samurai politician

Count Kabayama Aisuke was a Japanese businessman and privy counselor.

16. Dan Duquette

1958-. (aged 68)

baseball player

Dan Duquette is an American baseball executive. He is the former general manager of the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox, and Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. He is also the founder of the Dan Duquette Sports Academy. He has twice been named the Major League Baseball Executive of the Year by Sporting News (1992 with the Expos and 2014...

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17. David MacLennan

businessperson chief executive officer

David W. MacLennan is an American businessman, the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Cargill from 2013 to 2023.

18. Karin Immergut

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer judge politician

Karin Johanna Immergut is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon since 2019. She has concurrently served as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 2024.

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19. Dwight Morrow

1873-1931 (aged 58)

businessperson lawyer diplomat politician

Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.–Mexico relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion (1926–29), but also contributing to an easing of conflict between the two countries over oil. The Morrow Mission to Mexico was an "important step in the 'retreat from imperialism.'...

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20. Richard Wilbur

1921-2017 (aged 96)

translator poet university teacher writer

Richard Purdy Wilbur was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. He was acclaimed in his youth as the heir to Robert Frost, translated the verse dramas of Moliere, Corneille,...

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21. William E. Ford

1961-. (aged 65)

businessperson

William E. Ford is an American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of General Atlantic, a global investing firm with $118 billion in assets under management as of September, 2025.

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22. James Merrill

1926-1995 (aged 69)

poet writer

James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover (published in three volumes...

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23. Charles C. Mann

1955-. (aged 71)

science journalist non-fiction writer journalist

Charles C. Mann is an American journalist and author, specializing in scientific topics. In 2006 his book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year.

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24. John Cariani

1969-. (aged 57)

film actor television actor stage actor

John Edward Cariani is an American actor and playwright. Cariani is best known as the forensic expert Julian Beck in Law & Order. On stage, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He is also known for his roles in Broadway shows Something...

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25. Harold E. Varmus

1939-. (aged 87)

university teacher virologist

Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.

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26. David Aaron Kessler

1951-. (aged 75)

university teacher author lawyer official academic administrator

David Aaron Kessler is an American pediatrician, attorney, author, and administrator (both academic and governmental) who served as Chief Science Officer of the White House COVID-19 Response Team from January 20, 2021 to May 2023.

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27. John Roosevelt Boettiger

1939-. (aged 87)

writer university teacher

John Roosevelt Boettiger is a retired professor of developmental and clinical psychology, and the son of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and her second husband, Clarence John Boettiger. He is a grandson of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. He lives in northern California.

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28. Charles Hamilton Houston

1895-1950 (aged 55)

university teacher jurist lawyer

Charles Hamilton Houston Sr. was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially combating segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow".

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29. Edmund Phelps

1933-. (aged 93)

university teacher economist

Edmund Strother Phelps is an American economist and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

30. Chris Bohjalian

1962-. (aged 64)

novelist writer journalist

Chris A. Bohjalian is an American novelist and the author of over twenty novels, including Midwives (1997), The Sandcastle Girls (2012), The Guest Room (2016), and The Flight Attendant (2018). Bohjalian's work has been published in over thirty languages, and three of his novels have been adapted into films. Bohjalian's The Flight Attendant has been adapted for a television drama...

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31. Robert Lansing

1864-1928 (aged 64)

diplomat lawyer politician

Robert Lansing was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 42nd United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. As Counselor to the State Department and then as Secretary of State, he was a leading advocate for American involvement in World War I.

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32. John M. Deutch

1938-. (aged 88)

university teacher chemist politician

John Mark Deutch is an American civil servant and physical chemist. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from May 10, 1995, until December 15, 1996. He is an emeritus Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and serves on the boards of directors of Citigroup,...

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33. Jeffrey C. Hall

1945-. (aged 81)

university teacher geneticist biologist

Jeffrey Connor Hall is an American geneticist and chronobiologist. Hall is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Brandeis University and currently resides in Cambridge, Maine.

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34. David D. Burns

1942-. (aged 84)

psychiatrist

David D. Burns is an American psychiatrist and adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the author of bestselling books such as Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, The Feeling Good Handbook and Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety.

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35. Tess Taylor

1977-. (aged 49)

poet writer

Tess Taylor is an American poet, academic, and a contributor to CNN and NPR.

36. Ben Cherington

1974-. (aged 52)

baseball manager

Benjamin P. Cherington is an American baseball executive serving as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB) since November 2019. He previously served as the vice-president of baseball operations for the Toronto Blue Jays, and was the executive vice president and general manager of the Boston Red Sox from 2011 to 2015. He succeeded Theo...

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37. John Coolidge

1906-2000 (aged 94)

politician

John Coolidge was an American executive, businessman, and entrepreneur with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He was the first son of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States (1923–1929) and Grace Coolidge, the First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.

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38. Douglas Kennedy

1955-. (aged 71)

playwright novelist journalist actor screenwriter

Douglas Richards Kennedy was an American actor who appeared in more than 190 films from 1935 to 1973.

39. Patrick Fitzgerald

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer politician

Patrick J. Fitzgerald is an American attorney and former partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

40. Stephen Cole Kleene

1909-1994 (aged 85)

computer scientist philosopher university teacher mathematician

Stephen Cole Kleene was an American mathematician and logician. One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subsequently helped to provide the foundations of theoretical computer science. Kleene's work grounds the study of...

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41. Francisco Flores

1959-2016 (aged 57)

politician

Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1999 to 1 June 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He previously served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 1999, having been president of the Assembly from 1997 to 1999.

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42. David Rieff

1952-. (aged 74)

writer journalist political scientist political writer

David Rieff is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.

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43. Stansfield Turner

1923-2018 (aged 95)

military officer historian sailor military commander reporter

Stansfield Turner was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as President of the Naval War College (1972–1974), commander of the United States Second Fleet (1974–1975), and Supreme Allied Commander NATO Southern Europe (1975–1977), and was Director of Central Intelligence (1977–1981) under the Carter administration. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford and the United States Naval Academy, Turner...

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44. William Austin Dickinson

1829-1895 (aged 66)

lawyer poet

William Austin Dickinson was an American lawyer who lived and worked in Amherst, Massachusetts. Known to family and friends as "Austin", he was, notably, the older brother of poet Emily Dickinson.

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45. Kevin McAleenan

1971-. (aged 55)

lawyer

Kevin Kealoha McAleenan is an American attorney and government official who served as the acting United States secretary of homeland security from April to November 2019.

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46. Lauren Groff

1978-. (aged 48)

novelist bookseller short story writer

Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written five novels and two short story collections, including Delicate Edible Birds (2009), Fates and Furies (2015), Matrix (2022), and The Vaster Wilds (2023).

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47. Clarence Birdseye

1886-1956 (aged 70)

biologist businessperson inventor

Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He founded the frozen food company Birds Eye. Among his inventions during his career was the double belt freezer.

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48. Harlan F. Stone

1872-1946 (aged 74)

lawyer judge university teacher politician

Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had...

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49. Robert M. Morgenthau

1919-2019 (aged 100)

lawyer military officer

Robert Morris Morgenthau was an American lawyer. From 1975 until his retirement in 2009, he was the District Attorney for New York County (the borough of Manhattan), having previously served as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York throughout much of the 1960s on the appointment of John F. Kennedy. At retirement, Morgenthau was the longest-serving district...

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50. Sarah Bloom Raskin

1961-. (aged 65)

lawyer

Sarah Bloom Raskin is an American attorney and financial markets policymaker who served as the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 2014 to 2017. Raskin previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2010 to 2014. She also was Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation. She was a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University....

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51. John J. McCloy

1895-1989 (aged 94)

jurist army officer lawyer banker politician

John Jay McCloy was an American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and high-ranking bureaucrat. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson. In this capacity he dealt with German sabotage and political tensions in the North Africa Campaign. He was the prime mover of Japanese internment, as well as a high-ranking Federal bureaucrat who opposed the...

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52. Buck Sexton

1981-. (aged 45)

political writer talk show host political pundit

James Buckman Sexton, known professionally as Buck Sexton, is an American radio and television talk show host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the co-host of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show he presents with Clay Travis, and the host of Hold the Line, a weeknight program on The First TV.

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53. Matt Besser

1967-. (aged 59)

screenwriter podcaster television actor film director

Matthew Gregory Besser is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, and one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from 1998 to 2000. He hosts the improvisation-based podcast Improv4humans, previously on the Earwolf network, but now solely operated by himself and Brett Morris.

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54. Aatish Taseer

1980-. (aged 46)

author translator journalist

Aatish Ali Taseer is a British-American writer and journalist.

55. Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887 (aged 74)

writer journalist theologian politician

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on the love of Christ has influenced mainstream Christianity through the 21st century.

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56. Ezekiel Emanuel

1957-. (aged 69)

oncologist bioethicist

Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel is an American oncologist and bioethicist. He is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He is the current Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Previously, Emanuel served as the Diane and Robert Levy University Professor at Penn. He...

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57. Scott Turow

1949-. (aged 77)

writer novelist lawyer poet lawyer

Scott Frederick Turow is an American writer and lawyer. Turow worked as a lawyer for a decade before writing full-time, and has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County. Films...

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58. Eric Schneiderman

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer politician

Eric Tradd Schneiderman is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 65th attorney general of New York from 2011 until his resignation in May 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he spent ten years in the New York State Senate before being elected Attorney General. In May 2018, Schneiderman resigned from his position as Attorney General after...

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59. William H. Webster

1924-2025 (aged 101)

military officer lawyer judge

William Hedgcock Webster was an American attorney and jurist who served as chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council from 2005 until 2020. He was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before...

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60. Kanzō Uchimura

1861-1930 (aged 69)

missionary columnist writer essayist religious writer

Uchimura Kanzō was a Japanese author, Christian evangelist, and the founder of the Nonchurch Movement (Mukyōkai) of Christianity during the Meiji and Taishō periods in Japan. He is often considered to be the most well-known Japanese pre–World War II pacifist.

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61. Carl Woese

1928-2012 (aged 84)

university teacher microbiologist biologist

Carl Richard Woese was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain of life) in 1977 through a pioneering phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique that has revolutionized microbiology. He also originated the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. Woese held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and...

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62. John S. Middleton

businessperson

John Staubus Middleton is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the managing partner and principal owner of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. He purchased a minority stake in 1994 and increased his ownership to 48 percent by 2014. He became the Phillies' controlling owner in 2016.

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63. Antonis Samaras

1951-. (aged 75)

diplomat economist politician

Antonis Samaras is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2012 to 2015. A member of the New Democracy party, he was its president from 2009 until 2015. He also founded the Political Spring party, which he led as president from 1993 to 2004, when he returned to New Democracy. He has been Member of the...

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64. Joseph Hardy Neesima

1843-1890 (aged 47)

teacher missionary

Niijima Jō, better known by his English name Joseph Hardy Neesima, was a Japanese Protestant missionary and educator of the Meiji era who founded Doshisha English School (later Doshisha University).

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65. Charles Drew

1904-1950 (aged 46)

university teacher physician surgeon

Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of Allied forces' lives during the war. As the most prominent African American in the...

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66. Aparna Nancherla

1982-. (aged 44)

screenwriter voice actor television actor comedian

Aparna Nancherla is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has had recurring roles on television series including BoJack Horseman and Corporate and has written for Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla released her debut comedy album Just Putting It Out There through Tig Notaro's Bentzen Ball Records on July 8, 2016.

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67. David Eisenhower

1948-. (aged 78)

writer military officer

Dwight David Eisenhower II is an American author, public policy fellow, and television host. He is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon.

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68. David Suzuki

1936-. (aged 90)

writer science writer biologist climate activist zoologist

David Takayoshi Suzuki CC OBC FRSC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department at the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and...

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69. Julie Powell

1973-2022 (aged 49)

blogger opinion journalist writer

Julie Anne Powell was an American author known for her 2005 book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen which was based on her blog, the Julie/Julia Project. A film adaptation based on her book called Julie & Julia was released in 2009.

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70. Ken Howard

1944-2016 (aged 72)

actor television actor film actor basketball player stage actor

Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 (1972) and as high school basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The White Shadow (1978–1981). Howard won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1970 for his performance in Child's...

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71. Daniel Goleman

1946-. (aged 80)

writer researcher journalist psychologist

Daniel Goleman is an American psychologist, author, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half, a bestseller in many countries, and is in print worldwide in 40 languages....

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72. Jim Steinman

1947-2021 (aged 74)

composer singer-songwriter pianist songwriter producer

James Richard Steinman was an American composer, lyricist and record producer. He also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work included songs in the adult contemporary, rock, dance, pop, musical theater, and film score genres. He wrote albums for Bonnie Tyler and Meat Loaf, including Bat Out of Hell (one of the best-selling albums in history), and also...

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73. Uhuru Kenyatta

1961-. (aged 65)

politician minister

Uhuru Mũigai Kenyatta CGH is a Kenyan politician who served as the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. The son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, he had previously served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013 and as the leader of official opposition from 2003 to 2007.

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74. Drew Pinsky

1958-. (aged 68)

physician podcaster actor radio personality

David Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. In...

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75. John Michael Higgins

1963-. (aged 63)

comedian television actor film actor game show host voice actor

John Michael Higgins is an American actor, comedian and game show host whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's The Late Shift, and a starring role in the American version of Kath & Kim. He portrayed Peter Lovett in the TV Land original sitcom Happily Divorced and provided the voice of Iknik Blackstone...

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76. Teller

1948-. (aged 78)

teacher executive producer magician film director actor

Teller is an American magician. He is half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette, and usually does not speak during performances. Teller is a H.L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute.

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77. Joseph E. Stiglitz

1943-. (aged 83)

non-fiction writer critic science writer economist professor

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He is also a former...

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78. Hamish Linklater

1976-. (aged 50)

film producer film actor stage actor film director television actor

Hamish Linklater is an American actor and playwright. He is known for playing Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–2010), Andrew Keanelly in The Crazy Ones (2013–2014), and Clark Debussy in Legion (2017–2019). He is the son of dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater.

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79. David O. Russell

1958-. (aged 68)

screenwriter director film director writer film producer

David Owen Russell is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He has earned numerous accolades including two British Academy Film Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for five Academy Awards.

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80. Stephen Collins

1947-. (aged 79)

actor television actor television director film actor novelist

Stephen Weaver Collins is an American former actor. He is known for playing Eric Camden on the WB/CW television series 7th Heaven from 1996 to 2007. Afterwards, Collins played the roles of Dayton King on the ABC television series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the NBC television series Revolution, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's character, Rachel Matheson. Before 7th...

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81. Harlan Coben

1962-. (aged 64)

novelist screenwriter writer

Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Twelve of his novels have been adapted for film and television.

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82. Burgess Meredith

1907-1997 (aged 90)

film director journalist director television actor theatrical director

Oliver Burgess Meredith was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television.

83. Dan Brown

1964-. (aged 62)

musician teacher novelist researcher journalist

Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025). His novels are treasure hunts that usually take place over a 24-hour period and center on recurring themes of...

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84. Calvin Coolidge

1872-1933 (aged 61)

autobiographer statesperson lawyer politician

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, he previously served as the 29th vice president from 1921 to 1923, under President Warren G. Harding, and as the 48th governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921. Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, with a taciturn personality...

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85. David Foster Wallace

1962-2008 (aged 46)

writer novelist essayist university teacher

David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine named one of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the Los Angeles Times that Wallace was "one of the most influential...

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86. Thomas Eagleton

1929-2007 (aged 78)

military officer lawyer politician

Thomas Francis Eagleton was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. He suffered from bouts of depression throughout his life, resulting in several hospitalizations, which were kept secret from the public. When they were revealed, the McGovern campaign...

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87. Jeffrey Wright

1965-. (aged 61)

stage actor television actor film producer actor film actor

Jeffrey Wright is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.

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88. Henry Way Kendall

1926-1999 (aged 73)

university teacher mountaineer physicist

Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics."

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89. Larry Miller

1953-. (aged 73)

television actor character actor screenwriter film actor podcaster

Larry G. Miller is an American business executive for Nike, Inc. He spent five years as the team president of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. In his memoir, Jump: My Secret Journey From the Streets to the Boardroom, Miller writes that he was involved in a gang when he was 16, committing the murder of another...

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90. Jeffrey A. Hoffman

1944-. (aged 82)

academic astronaut

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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91. Dave Freudenthal

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer

David Duane Freudenthal is an American politician, attorney and economist who served as the 31st Governor of Wyoming from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served from 1994 to 2001 as the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming. To date, he is the last Democrat to have won or held statewide office in...

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92. Rob Brown

1984-. (aged 42)

television actor film actor

Rob Brown is a Canadian television journalist and anchor for CBC News Calgary.

93. Sung-Joo Kim

1956-. (aged 70)

entrepreneur

Sung-Joo Kim is a South Korean businesswoman. She is the founder of Sungjoo Group and Chairperson of MCM Holding AG.

94. Toshikazu Kase

1903-2004 (aged 101)

diplomat writer

Toshikazu Kase was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat. During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official. Hideaki Kase (1936–2022) was his son and Yoko Ono is his niece.

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95. Albert II, Prince of Monaco

1958-. (aged 68)

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Albert II is Prince of Monaco, reigning since 2005.

96. John Bates Clark

1847-1938 (aged 91)

university teacher economist writer

John Bates Clark was an American neoclassical economist. He was one of the pioneers of the marginalist revolution and opponent to the Institutionalist school of economics, and spent most of his career as a professor at Columbia University. He was one of the most prominent American economists of his time.

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97. Giorgos Papandreou

1952-. (aged 74)

diplomat sociologist politician

George Andreas Papandreou is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for PASOK-Kinima Allagis.

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98. William Smith Clark

1826-1886 (aged 60)

chemist botanist botanical collector writer university teacher

William Smith Clark was an American professor of chemistry, botany, and zoology; a colonel during the American Civil War; and a leader in agricultural education. Raised and schooled in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Clark spent most of his adult life in Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst College in 1848 and obtained a doctorate in chemistry from Georgia Augusta University in Göttingen...

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99. Talcott Parsons

1902-1979 (aged 77)

university teacher sociologist biologist

Talcott Parsons was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1973. In 1930, he was among the first...

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100. Chris Coons

1963-. (aged 63)

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Christopher Andrew Coons is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.

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