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Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Melania Trump
Melania Knauss Trump is a Slovenian and American former model serving as the first lady of the United States since 2025, a role she previously held from 2017 to 2021 as the third wife of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. She is the first naturalized citizen and the first non-native English speaker to become first lady; the second foreign-born first lady, after Louisa Adams; the second Roman Catholic first lady, after Jacqueline Kennedy; and the second to hold the position nonconsecutively, after Frances Cleveland.
Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu
Ottoman noble (1912–2009)
Harold Prince
American theatre producer and director (1928–2019)
Lewis Strauss
American banker and chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1896-1974)
Hope Hicks
American public relations executive and political advisor (born 1988)
Henriette Avram
American computer programmer and system analyst (1919–2006)
William Windom
American actor (1923–2012)
Helen E. Fisher
Canadian anthropologist (1945–2024)
Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark
daughter of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, and Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece
Happy Rockefeller
Second Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Tom Dowd
American music producer (1925–2002)
Maria Bartiromo
American financial journalist, television personality, news anchor, and author
Alexander Cartwright
early developer of baseball (1820–1892)
Benny Safdie
Benjamin Safdie is an American filmmaker and actor, most known for his film collaborations with his elder brother, Josh, in Heaven Knows What (2014), Good Time (2017), which he also starred in, and Uncut Gems (2019).
Dina Powell
Egyptian-American diplomat and banker
Jess McMahon
(1882-1954) American professional wrestling and boxing promoter
Norm Ferguson
American animator (1902–1957)
Donald M. Blinken
American diplomat and businessman
Leonard Jerome
American financier and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill (1817-1891)
Jackie Curtis
American actor, writer, singer (1947-1985)
George Frederick Kunz
American mineralogist (1856-1932)
Haris Savides
American cinematographer (1957–2012)
Dick Giordano
American comic book artist (1932-2010)
Helen Schucman
American clinical and research psychologist (1909–1981)
Heidi Albertsen
Danish model
Josephine Hopper
American painter and model (1883-1967)
Samuel S. Cox
American politician (1824-1889)
John Casablancas Ubach
American modeling agent, scout (1942–2013)
Joseph Brooks
American director and composer (1938-2011)
Alfred Lee Loomis
American businessman, scientist and philanthropist (1887–1975)
Hilly Kristal
American club owner and musician (1931–2007)
Eddie August Schneider
American aviator (1911–1940)
Judith D. Sally
professor emeritus of mathematics (1937–2024)
Myron Charles Taylor
American diplomat (1874–1959)
John C. Whitehead
Recipient of the Presidential Citizens medal (1922-2015)
Valerie Sutton
American dancer and inventor
Josh Bernstein
Explorer and TV personality
Shi Yan Ming
American martial artist
Jean MacArthur
wife of General Douglas MacArthur (1898–2000)
Edna Kramer
American mathematician (1902–1984)
William Rubin
Art curator (1927-2006)
B. Smith
American restaurateur, model, author, businesswoman, and television host
Mayuko Kawakita
American-born actress and model
Larry Hama
American comic book writer, artist, actor and musician
Edward Hoagland
American academic
Dietrich von Bothmer
German art historian (1918–2009)
Joanne Grant
American journalist, activist
Ernst Jäckh
Journalist and Orientalist (1875–1959)
Livingston T. Merchant
American diplomat (1903-1976)
Dan Abrams
American entrepreneur, television host, and lawyer
Walter Siegmeister
American esotericist and health writer (1903–1965)
Henry H. Bliss
first person killed in a motor vehicle accident in the US
Jack Solomon
sound engineer (1913-2002)
Sam Wagstaff
American art curator (1921-1987)
Paul Magriel
American backgammon and poker player (1946–2018)
Kingdon Gould II
American diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist
Cynthia May Alden
teacher, editor
Keli Price
American actor and musician
Bill Chadwick
American ice hockey official