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Woodrow Wilson
president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 (1856–1924)
Hannah Arendt
German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
Satoshi Ōmura
Japanese biochemist, microbiologist, and university teacher (born 1935)
C. P. Snow
English novelist and physical chemist (1905–1980)
Jerzy Kosiński
Polish-American novelist
George Saunders
American writer (born 1958)
David McClelland
American psychologist (1917–1998)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
American politician (1927-2003)
Herbert Edward Read
English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art (1893-1968)
Edmund Wilson
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters (1895-1972)
Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
André Aciman
Italian-American writer and professor
Mark Strand
Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator (1934–2014)
Annie Dillard
American writer (born 1945)
Stanley Cavell
American philosopher (1926-2018)
A. O. Scott
American journalist and film critic
Jean Stafford
American author (1915–1979)
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)
Clarence Irving Lewis
American philosopher (1883–1964)
Jimmy Garrison
American double bassist (1934-1976)
René Dubos
American microbiologist (1901-1982)
Arthur Kopit
American playwright (b.1937)
Shlomo Avineri
Israeli political scientist, professor
Conrad Hal Waddington
British biologist (1905–1975)
Alvin Lucier
American composer of experimental music and sound installations (1931–2021)
Maggie Nelson
American writer
Arno J. Mayer
American historian, academic and intellectual (1926–2023)
William Manchester
American author, journalist and historian (1922–2004)
J. P. Clark
Nigerian poet (1935–2020)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
American writer (1946–2011)
Yuz Aleshkovsky
Soviet and Russian writer, poet, and playwright (1929—2022)
Erica Chenoweth
American political scientist
Suzanne Berne
novelist
E. D. Hirsch
American literary critic
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
American art historian (1903–1987)
Robert Coldwell Wood
American political scientist (1923-2005)
Wilbur Olin Atwater
American agricultural chemist (1844–1907); developer of the respiration calorimeter
Dana Gioia
American writer (born 1950)
Ed Blackwell
American jazz drummer (1929–1992)
Judith Tarr
American fantasy writer, historian
Susan Howe
American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic (born 1937)
Carl Emil Schorske
American historian (1915–2015)
Joshua Sobol
Israeli dramatist (born 1939)
Max Tishler
American chemist (1906-1989)
Quiara Alegría Hudes
American playwright and composer
Jonathan Schell
American author (1943–2014)
Christina Crosby
American scholar and writer
Debby Applegate
American biographer
Judith Cora Brown
American historian
Sigmund Neumann
German academic (1904-1962)
Leslie Knox Munro
New Zealand lawyer, journalist, and politician (1901-1974)
Norman O. Brown
classicist (1913–2002)
Reginald Bartholomew
American diplomat (1936-2012)
Walter Guyton Cady
American physicist (1874–1974)
Omar Sangare
Polish actor
K. V. Narayanaswamy
South Indian Carnatic Musician (1923-2002)