Cornell family

William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.

James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He lived longer than any other president in US history, reaching age 100.

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he represented California in both houses of the United States Congress before serving as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal.

American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1939)

American politician and diplomat (born 1943)

private and statutory land-grant research university in Ithaca, New York, USA

First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. She also starred in the 1992 TV film Miss Rose White, which won an Emmy Award. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits include Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992). She also had a recurring role as Chief Madeline Wuntch on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

English philosopher (1920–2010)

8th prime minister of Canada (1854–1937)

Lizzie Andrew Borden was an American woman who was tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders and, despite ostracism from other residents, Borden spent the remainder of her life in Fall River. She died of pneumonia at age 66, just nine days before the death of her older sister Emma.

United States federal judge (1886-1968)

American actress, theatre manager and producer (1893-1974)

American biblical scholar and poet

American businessman (1807-1874)

American politician and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

American businessman (1849–1929)

American lawyer, author, and politician (1936–2024)

American lawyer, diplomat and politician, former director of the CIA (born 1941)

American photographer (1866–1952)

Union Army officer (1828–1861)

American neuroscientist

American football player (born 1997)

Governor of New York (1832-1904)

American politician (1826-1902)

11th Commandant of the Marine Corps

American jurist; president of Yale University (1801–1889)

U.S. ornithologist (1862–1933)

American politician and businessman, major in the New York Militia

Union Army general (1798–1873)

American painter, muralist and lithographer (1885-1973)

American lawyer and Chicago real estate investor (1822–1904)

American painter and sculptor 1905-1975)

American politician (1807-1897)

American politician