Notable Alumni of Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art [Sorted List]

1. Jacqueline Moss

1927-2005 (aged 78)

art historian curator journalist

Jacqueline Moss was an American art historian, lecturer, writer and art critic. She was the curator of education at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (since renamed) and lectured widely on modern and 20th-century art. Her articles and seminars often had a focus on women artists. In the 1980s, she had a travel business touring art and architecture in Europe,...

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2. Renata Bernal

1937-. (aged 89)

contemporary artist

Renata Bernal (born February 3, 1937, in Munich, Germany is a contemporary American artist. Her work spans a broad range of media including oil paintings, acrylic paintings, pastel paintings, lithograph, woodcuts, and ink drawings. She has exhibited in New York City, San Francisco, Providence, Rhode Island, and in numerous cities in upstate New York, and her artwork can be seen...

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3. Nyeema Morgan

1977-. (aged 49)

conceptual artist collagist draftsperson installation artist visual artist

Nyeema Morgan is an American interdisciplinary and conceptual artist. Working in drawing, sculpture and print media, her works focus on how meaning is constructed and communicated given complex socio-political systems. Born in Philadelphia, she earned her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has held artist residencies at...

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4. Ella Ferris Pell

1846-1922 (aged 76)

painter sculptor

Ella Ferris Pell was an American painter, sculptor, and illustrator. She was the niece of William Ferris Pell, who bought the ruins of Fort Ticonderoga in 1820. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and trained as an artist with William Rimmer at Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York City, graduating in 1870.

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5. Victor D'Amico

1904-1987 (aged 83)

educator teaching artist

Victor Edmond D'Amico was an American teaching artist and the founding Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. D’Amico explored the essence of the art experience and the ability to communicate one's most profound ideas and emotions through aesthetic expression. He considered that the individual's personality had to be respected and developed by...

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6. Oliver Ingraham Lay

1845-1890 (aged 45)

painter

Oliver Ingraham Lay, was an American portrait painter.

7. Randolph Perkins

1871-1936 (aged 65)

lawyer politician

Randolph Perkins was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 to 1936.

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8. David Heymann

architect

David Heymann is an American architect, writer, and educator. He is most known for his design of an environmentally friendly house for then Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, and Laura Bush for their Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas. Heymann is a contributing writer for Places Journal. In 2014 he published a book of short stories, My Beautiful City...

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9. Kristin Lucas

1968-. (aged 58)

video artist television producer artist

Kristin Lucas is a media artist who works in video, performance, installation and on the Internet. Her work explores the impacts of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal. In her work she frequently casts herself as the protagonist in videos and performances where her interactions with technology lead to isolation, and physical and mental contamination.

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10. Anthony Jerome Griffin

1866-1935 (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Anthony Jerome Griffin was an American lawyer, war veteran, and politician from New York. He served ten terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1918 to 1935. An amateur author he wrote poetry, stories and dramas. He wrote an epic poem entitled Chaos.

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11. Leonidas D. Marinelli

1906-1974 (aged 68)

inventor radiologist

Leonidas D. Marinelli was the American radiological physicist who is best known for founding the field of Human Radiobiology and developing the Marinelli beaker.

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12. Victor Gustav Bloede I

1849-1937 (aged 88)

inventor chemist

Victor Gustav Bloede I, (pronounced as Blerda) was a chemist and manufacturer of chemicals, president of the Victor G. Bloede Company, and businessman.

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13. Maximilian Toch

1864-1946 (aged 82)

chemist

Maximilian Toch was an American paint manufacturer and industrial chemist who developed a concrete filler method that was used in the construction of the Panama Canal. He was the co-owner of the New York firms Toch Brothers and the Standard Varnish Works, where he was head of research and production. Before and during World War I, he was a major...

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14. Pedro Lasch

artist

Pedro Lasch is a visual artist born in 1975 in Mexico City, and based in the U.S. since 1994. He produces works of conceptual art, institutional critique, social practice, and site-specific art, as well as paintings, photographs, prints, and other traditional media. His art has intersected with the international immigrants’ movement, and the philosophies of critical pedagogy, radical democracy, and...

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15. Grace Renzi

1922-2011 (aged 89)

painter

Grace Renzi, married name Grace Kantuser, was an American painter.

16. Catharine Carter Critcher

1868-1964 (aged 96)

painter artist

Catharine Carter Critcher (September 13, 1868 – June 11, 1964) was an American painter. A native of Westmoreland County, Virginia, she worked in Paris and Washington, D.C. before becoming, in 1924, a member of the Taos Society of Artists, the only woman ever elected to that body. She was a long time member of the Arts Club of Washington.

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17. Karen Bausman

1958-. (aged 68)

architect

Karen Bausman is an American architect. She has previously served as the Eliot Noyes Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Eero Saarinen Chair at Yale School of Architecture at Yale University, the only American woman to hold both design chairs.

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18. Linn Meyers

1968-. (aged 58)

painter

Linn Meyers, known professionally as linn meyers, is a visual artist based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. She is known for dense, intricate drawings, paintings, installations and prints that range in scale from page-sized images to large pieces on Mylar and panel to monumental, site-specific wall works. Her art is rooted in a process of repetitive drawing—thousands of hand-drawn...

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19. Tomashi Jackson

1980-. (aged 46)

visual artist painter

Tomashi Jackson is an American multimedia artist working across painting, video, textiles and sculpture. Jackson was born in Houston, Texas, raised in Los Angeles, and currently lives and works in New York, NY and Cambridge, MA. Jackson was named a 2019 Whitney Biennial participating artist. Jackson also serves on the faculty for sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design. Her...

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20. Dimitri Hadzi

1921-2006 (aged 85)

printmaker sculptor

Dimitri Hadzi was an American abstract sculptor who lived and worked in Rome, Italy for 25 years and later resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he also taught at Harvard University for over a decade.

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21. Willard F. Jones

1890-1967 (aged 77)

marine architect

Willard F. Jones I was an American naval architect, business executive, and philanthropist. He served as a general manager and Vice President of the Gulf Oil corporation during the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Jones was one of the instrumental figures in establishing effective transport of crude oil from Venezuela, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the United States in...

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22. Bruce Pasternack

1947-2021 (aged 74)

writer

Bruce Pasternack was the President and CEO of the Special Olympics International from 2005 to 2007. He served on the board of directors of Codexis (NASDAQ: CDXS), a biotechnology company based out of Redwood City California, Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) a software company specializing in biotechnology, BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) a company specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products, Quantum Corporation...

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23. Amanda Brewster Sewell

1839-1926 (aged 87)

painter artist

Lydia Amanda Brewster Sewell was a 19th-century American painter of portraits and genre scenes. Lydia Amanda Brewster studied art in the United States and in Paris before marrying her husband, fellow artist Robert Van Vorst Sewell. She won a bronze medal for her mural Arcadia at The World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. She continued to win medals at expositions and...

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24. Maria Yoon

1971-. (aged 55)

artist

Maria Yoon, also known as Maria the Korean Bride, is a Korean-born American performance artist and filmmaker. Based in New York City, she is best known for her extended performance art project and film where in the course of nine years, she gets married in all fifty U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the...

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25. Javaka Steptoe

1971-. (aged 55)

art educator librarian

Javaka Steptoe is an American author and illustrator. He won the 2017 Caldecott Medal as well as the Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association for his picture book Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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26. Leslie Hewitt

1977-. (aged 49)

painter video artist artist photographer

Leslie Hewitt is an American contemporary visual artist.

27. Alice Cordelia Morse

1863-1961 (aged 98)

teacher

Alice Cordelia Morse was an American designer of book covers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work was inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and she is often placed as one of the top three book designers of her day.

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28. Charles Rosen

1917-2002 (aged 85)

computer scientist artificial intelligence researcher

Charles Rosen was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and founder of SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center. He led the project that led to the development of Shakey the Robot, "who" now resides in a glass case at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California.

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29. Kate Cory

1861-1958 (aged 97)

photographer painter

Kate Cory was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi for several years, recording their lives in about 600 photographs.

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30. Reynold Ruffins

1930-2021 (aged 91)

graphic designer painter

Reynold Dash Ruffins was an American painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Seymour Chwast, Ruffins founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. An illustrator of more than twenty children's books, Ruffins is known for his "stylistic versatility, vibrant colors, and penchant for fanciful creatures." He has had many solo exhibitions and been part of group show...

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31. Brad Friedmutter

architect

Brad Henry Friedmutter, A.I.A. is an architect and founder of Friedmutter Group, a design, architecture, master planning and interior design firm. Friedmutter Group has designed dozens of integrated resorts including The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the fifth-most expensive building in the world. Friedmutter is a registered architect in 43 states. Friedmutter Group has offices in Las Vegas, Nevada, Newport Beach,...

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32. Morgan Foster Larson

1882-1961 (aged 79)

politician

Morgan Foster Larson was an American Republican politician who served as the 40th governor of New Jersey.

33. Henry L. Myers

1862-1943 (aged 81)

lawyer judge politician

Henry Lee Myers was a United States senator from Montana.

34. William Dubilier

1888-1969 (aged 81)

inventor

William Dubilier was an American inventor in the field of radio and electronics. He demonstrated radio communication at Seattle's Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition on June 21, 1909; ten years before the first commercial station operated. A graduate of Cooper Union, he was the first to use sheets of naturally occurring mica as the dielectric in a capacitor. Mica capacitors were widely used...

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35. Henry Scheffé

1907-1977 (aged 70)

university teacher statistician

Henry Scheffé was an American statistician. He is known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and Scheffé's method.

36. Marisa Lago

1955-. (aged 71)

lawyer

Marisa Lago is an American attorney who served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade from 2021 to 2025. She previously served as director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission from 2017 to 2021. Before that, Lago served as assistant secretary for international markets and development in the...

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37. Jerome Myers

1867-1940 (aged 73)

painter

Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people. He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.

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38. Anthony Fiala

1869-1950 (aged 81)

explorer

Anthony Fiala was an American explorer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and educated at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, New York City. In early life he was engaged in various employments—as lithographic designer, chemist, cartoonist, head of the art and engraving department of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1894–99), and correspondent for that paper while serving as...

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39. C. B. J. Snyder

1860-1945 (aged 85)

architect

Charles B. J. Snyder was an American architect, architectural engineer, and mechanical engineer in the field of urban school building design and construction. He is widely recognized for his leadership, innovation, and transformation of school building construction process, design, and quality during his tenure as Superintendent of School Buildings for the New York City Board of Education between 1891 and...

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40. Lou Dorfsman

1918-2008 (aged 90)

graphic designer

Louis Dorfsman was an American graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his 40 years with the network between 1946–1987.

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41. Michel Mossessian

1959-. (aged 67)

architect

Michel Mossessian is a French architect of Armenian origin, based in London, UK.

42. Hugo Gellert

1892-1985 (aged 93)

painter graphic artist illustrator caricaturist

Hugo Gellert was a Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist. A committed radical and member of the Communist Party of America, Gellert created much work for political activism in the 1920s and 1930s. It was distinctive in style, considered by some art critics as among the best political work of the first half of the 20th century.

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43. William M. Calder

1869-1945 (aged 76)

politician

William Musgrave Calder I was an American politician and architect who served as a member of both chambers of the United States Congress from New York.

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44. Louis Waldman

1892-1982 (aged 90)

lawyer politician trade unionist

Louis Waldman was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American garment worker, engineer, lawyer and politician who was a leading figure in the Socialist Party of America from the late 1910s through the mid-1930s. A founding member of the Social Democratic Federation and a prominent New York labor lawyer, he was expelled from the New York State Assembly in 1920 during the First Red...

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45. Sara Plummer Lemmon

1836-1923 (aged 87)

botanical collector scientific collector botanical illustrator environmentalist mountaineer

Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon was an American botanist. Mount Lemmon in Arizona is named for her, as she was the first Euro-American woman to ascend it. She was responsible for the designation of the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California, in 1903. A number of plants are also named in her honor, including the new genus...

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46. Philip Taaffe

1955-. (aged 71)

illustrator painter

Philip Taaffe is an American artist, who has shown his works all around the world. His work sometimes blended motifs from multiple cultures.

47. Liana Finck

1986-. (aged 40)

cartoonist

Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and author. She is the author of Passing for Human and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker.

48. Firelei Báez

1980-. (aged 46)

visual artist

Firelei Báez is a Dominican Republic-born, New York City-based artist known for intricate works on paper and canvas, as well as large scale sculpture. Her art focuses on untold stories and unheard voices, using portraiture, landscape, and design to explore the Western canon.

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49. Paul Kirchner

1952-. (aged 74)

comics artist illustrator writer

Paul Kirchner is an American writer and illustrator who has worked in diverse areas, from comic strips and toy design to advertising and editorial art.

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50. A. Harry Moore

1877-1952 (aged 75)

lawyer politician

Arthur Harry Moore was an American attorney and politician of the Democratic Party who served three nonconsecutive three-year terms as governor of New Jersey (1926–1929, 1932–1935, and 1938–1941). He is the longest-served modern governor of New Jersey and the only one elected to three terms. He also served a partial term as United States Senator from 1935 to 1938, before...

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51. Anthony de Francisci

1887-1964 (aged 77)

medalist sculptor

Anthony de Francisci ( Italian pronunciation: [de franˈtʃiʃʃi]; July 13, 1887 – August 20, 1964) was an Italian-American sculptor who designed a number of United States coins and medals. His most famous design was the Peace Dollar, which was first minted in 1921.

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52. Conrad Marca-Relli

1913-2000 (aged 87)

painter designer

Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris. New York School Abstract Expressionism, represented by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, Marca-Relli and others became a leading art movement of...

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53. Toshiko Mori

1951-. (aged 75)

architect

Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York–based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc. She is also the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. In 1995, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at the GSD.

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54. Thom Fitzgerald

1968-. (aged 58)

screenwriter film director director film producer

Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an American-Canadian film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright and producer.

55. Palmer Hayden

1890-1973 (aged 83)

painter draftsperson

Palmer C. Hayden was an American painter who depicted African-American life, landscapes, seascapes, and African influences. He sketched, painted in both oils and watercolors, and was a prolific artist of his era.

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56. Jan Jakub Kotík

1972-2007 (aged 35)

visual artist

Jan Jakub Kotík was a Czech-American visual artist and rock drummer.

57. Shirley Jaffe

1923-2016 (aged 93)

painter sculptor

Shirley Jaffe was an American abstract painter. Her early work is of the gestural abstract expressionist style, however in the late 1960s she changed to a more geometric style. This change was initially received with caution by the art world, but later in her career she was praised for the "idiosyncratic" and individual nature of her work. She spent most...

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58. Sagi Haviv

1974-. (aged 52)

graphic designer designer

Sagi Haviv is a New York graphic designer and a partner in the design firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Called a "logo prodigy" by The New Yorker, and a "wunderkind" by Out magazine, he is best known for having designed the trademarks and visual identities for brands and institutions such as Discovery, Inc.'s online streaming service Discovery+, the United...

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59. Ellen Lupton

1963-. (aged 63)

writer graphic designer curator museum professional

Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, curator, writer, critic, and educator. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the Betty Cooke and William O. Steinmetz Design Chair at Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously she was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City and was named Curator Emerita after 30...

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60. Chuck Hoberman

1956-. (aged 70)

engineer inventor businessperson architect

Chuck Hoberman is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere.

61. Jennie Augusta Brownscombe

1850-1936 (aged 86)

painter artist

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist, and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, student and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. She made genre paintings, including revolutionary and colonial American history, most notably The First Thanksgiving held at Pilgrim Hall...

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62. Victor David Brenner

1871-1924 (aged 53)

medalist sculptor

Victor David Brenner was a Lithuanian sculptor, engraver and medalist known primarily as the designer of the United States Lincoln cent.

63. George Frederick Kunz

1856-1932 (aged 76)

researcher curator mineralogist

George Frederick Kunz was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.

64. Ashley Bryan

1923-2022 (aged 99)

painter poet writer university teacher children's writer

Ashley Frederick Bryan was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African-American experience. He was a U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me was short-listed for...

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65. P. Buckley Moss

1933-2024 (aged 91)

painter

Patricia Buckley Moss was an American artist, known especially for her paintings of rural Virginia, and for her support of children with learning disabilities.

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66. Prabda Yoon

1973-. (aged 53)

screenwriter writer translator

Prabda Yoon is a Thai writer, novelist, filmmaker, artist, graphic designer, magazine editor, screenwriter, translator and media personality. His literary debut, Muang Moom Shak (City of Right Angles), a collection of five related stories about New York City, and the follow-up story collection, Kwam Na Ja Pen (Probability), both published in 2000, immediately turned him into "...the talk of the...

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67. William Wallace Denslow

1856-1915 (aged 59)

writer children's writer comics artist illustrator

William Wallace Denslow was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an editorial cartoonist with a strong interest in politics, which has fueled political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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68. Elizabeth Diller

1954-. (aged 72)

lecturer architect

Elizabeth Diller, also known as Liz Diller, is an American architect and partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which she co-founded in 1981. She is also an architecture professor at Princeton University.

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69. Joshua Lionel Cowen

1877-1965 (aged 88)

inventor

Joshua Lionel Cowen, born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and cofounder of the Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains who gained prominence in the market before and after World War II.

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70. Seymour Chwast

1931-. (aged 95)

graphic designer designer visual artist illustrator graphic artist

Seymour Chwast is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.

71. Samuel R. Scottron

1841-1908 (aged 67)

merchant barber businessperson patent inventor

Samuel Raymond Scottron was an African-American inventor, merchant, and businessman. He received six patents throughout his career for inventions including an improved mirror, a curtain rod, a supporting bracket, a pole tip, and two designs for window cornices. Scottron lived in Brooklyn, New York City.

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72. Norman Bridwell

1928-2014 (aged 86)

illustrator writer

Norman Ray Bridwell was an American author and cartoonist best known for creating the Clifford the Big Red Dog book series.

73. Augusta Savage

1892-1962 (aged 70)

sculptor human rights defender artist

Augusta Savage was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.

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74. Miriam Cooper

1891-1976 (aged 85)

actor film actor

Miriam Cooper, also credited Marion Cooper, was an American silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D. W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1924 but was rediscovered by the film community in the...

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75. Russell Alan Hulse

1950-. (aged 76)

astrophysicist researcher physicist astronomer

Russell Alan Hulse is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics with Joseph Hooton Taylor "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". This was the first indirect detection of gravitational waves, later directly detected by Kip Thorne, Barry Barish and Rainer...

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76. Victor Papanek

1923-1998 (aged 75)

university teacher teacher designer anthropologist art theorist

Victor Josef Papanek was an Austrian-born American designer and educator, who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. His book Design for the Real World, originally published in 1971 and translated into more than 24 languages, had lasting international impact.

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77. Angela Hill

1988-. (aged 38)

Thai boxer kickboxer mixed martial arts fighter

Angela Patrice Hill is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She was formerly signed with the Invicta Fighting Championships, where she was the strawweight champion. She is also a former World Kickboxing Association champion. As of November 18, 2025, she is #14 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings.

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78. Augustus Saint-Gaudens

1848-1907 (aged 59)

sculptor

Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an Irish sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study. After he returned to New York City, he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes...

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79. Evan Hunter

1926-2005 (aged 79)

novelist children's writer science fiction writer author screenwriter

Evan Hunter was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre.

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80. Joel-Peter Witkin

1939-. (aged 87)

photographer artist

Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures...

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81. Aline Kominsky-Crumb

1948-2022 (aged 74)

comics creator caricaturist comics artist

Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an American underground comics artist. Kominsky-Crumb's work, which is almost exclusively autobiographical, is known for its unvarnished, confessional nature. In 2016, ComicsAlliance listed Kominsky-Crumb as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. She was married to cartoonist Robert Crumb, with whom she frequently collaborated. Their daughter, Sophie Crumb, is also a cartoonist.

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82. Alex Katz

1927-. (aged 99)

painter designer sculptor artist graphic artist

Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Since 1951, Katz's work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. He is well known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and heightened colors are considered as precursors to Pop Art.

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83. Emile Berliner

1851-1929 (aged 78)

inventor industrialist entrepreneur electrical engineer

Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894;

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84. Milton Glaser

1929-2020 (aged 91)

graphic designer

Milton Glaser was an American graphic designer whose most recognized works include the I ❤ NY logo, the 1966 Bob Dylan poster, as well as late 1960s publicity posters for the introduction of the Olivetti Valentine typewriter, and logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn Brewery, among others.

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85. Calvin Lockhart

1934-2007 (aged 73)

stage actor film director television actor actor film actor

Calvin Lockhart was a Bahamian–American stage and film actor. Lockhart was perhaps best known for his roles as Reverend Deke O'Malley in the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem and Biggie Smalls in the 1975 Warner Bros. film Let's Do It Again.

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86. Patty Jenkins

1971-. (aged 55)

film producer screenwriter director television director executive producer

Patricia Lea Jenkins is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. She has directed the feature films Monster (2003), Wonder Woman (2017), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).

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87. Alice Wetterlund

1981-. (aged 45)

television actor actor comedian film actor

Alice Wetterlund is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and podcast host. She played Carla Walton on the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, and played D'arcy Bloom on the SyFy/USA Network TV series Resident Alien.

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88. Lee Krasner

1908-1984 (aged 76)

painter artist printmaker illustrator

Lenore "Lee" Krasner was an American painter and visual artist active primarily in New York whose work has been associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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89. Thomas Edison

1847-1931 (aged 84)

physicist mathematician engineer inventor film producer

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors...

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90. Morris Michael Edelstein

1888-1941 (aged 53)

lawyer politician

Morris Michael Edelstein was a Polish-born congressional representative and lawyer from the state of New York, serving from 1940 to 1941.

91. John Hejduk

1929-2000 (aged 71)

sculptor pedagogue university teacher architect

John Quentin Hejduk was an American architect, artist and educator from New York City. Hejduk studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, the University of Cincinnati, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He worked in several offices in New York including that of I. M. Pei and the office of A.M. Kinney. He established his own...

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92. Bob Kane

1915-1998 (aged 83)

screenwriter comics artist writer penciller draftsperson

Bob Paul Kane was an American painter known for his gestural style, vibrant colors, and festive subject matter.

93. Niilo Koponen

1928-2013 (aged 85)

teacher businessperson politician

Niilo Emil Koponen was an American educator and politician.

94. David Lynch

1946-2025 (aged 79)

cinematographer lyricist animator film screenwriter photographer

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including a...

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95. Mitch Epstein

1952-. (aged 74)

photojournalist cinematographer journalist artist photographer

Mitchell Epstein is an American photographer and author. His books include Vietnam: A Book of Changes (1997); Family Business (2003), which won the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award; Recreation: American Photographs 1973–1988 (2005); Mitch Epstein: Work (2006); American Power (2009); Berlin (2011); New York Arbor (2013); Rocks and Clouds (2018); Sunshine Hotel (2019); In India (2021); and Property Rights (2021).

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96. Shigeru Ban

1957-. (aged 69)

restorer architect

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovative ways. He was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field...

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97. Nir Hod

1970-. (aged 56)

painter sculptor

Nir Hod is an Israeli visual artist, based in New York. He works in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video art.

98. Daniel Libeskind

1946-. (aged 80)

architect

Daniel Libeskind is a Polish–American architect, artist, professor, and set designer. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.

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99. Nina Tandon

scientist engineer businessperson

Nina Marie Tandon is an American biomedical engineer. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone. She is an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union and is a senior fellow at the Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia. She was a 2011 TED Fellow and a 2012 senior TED Fellow.

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100. Nicole Grobert

university teacher chemist

Nicole Grobert FRSC FYAE is a German-British materials chemist. She is a professor of nanomaterials at the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Royal Society industry fellow at Williams Advanced Engineering.

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