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Pat SILVER-LASKY
American actress, screenwriter, and writer, mostly known for her collaborations with her second husband Jesse Lasky Jr.
1927 -
Emma EAMES
American soprano renowned for the beauty of her voice
1865 - 1952 -
Clare EAMES
Influential Broadway actress and stage director
1894 - 1930 -
Hiram Percy MAXIM
American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
1869 - 1936 -
Hiram Stevens MAXIM
American-born inventor of the Maxim Gun – the first portable, fully automatic machine gun
1840 - 1916 -
Hudson MAXIM
American inventor and chemist who invented a variety of explosives, including smokeless gunpowder
1853 - 1927 -
Bosley CROWTHER
American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years
1905 - 1981 -
Dana ANDREWS
American film actor
1909 - 1992 -
Will CROWTHER
American computer programmer and caver, best known as the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure
1936 -
Andy WILLIAMS
American popular music singer.
1927 - 2012 -
Rick DEES
American comedic performer, entertainer, and radio personality
1950 -
Jabez A. BOSTWICK
American businessman who was a founding partner of Standard Oil
1830 - 1892 -
Robert P. BASS
American farmer, forestry expert, and politician, 53rd Governor of New Hampshire
1873 - 1960 -
Marshall FIELD III
American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune
1893 - 1956 -
Marshall FIELD
Founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago-based department stores
1834 - 1906 -
Stephen VAN RENSSELAER
Lieutenant Governor of New York as well as a statesman, soldier, and land-owner
1764 - 1839 -
Oliver Wolcott GIBBS
American chemist
1822 - 1908 -
Alfred GIBBS
Career officer in the United States Army (Regular Army) who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
1823 - 1868 -
Owen D. YOUNG
American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929
1874 - 1962 -
N.C. WYETH
American artist and illustrator
1882 - 1945