Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1967)
scientist, physicist, Throat cancer death, German-American, los alamos national laboratory, World War II…EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the...
Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

male, 79 years old
gypsy, LGBT, Follies, Jewish person, sweeney todd, west side story…EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni, Williams College alumni
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is widely seen as his generation's leading writer of the stage musical. Described by Frank Rich in the...
Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron

male, 60 years old (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni, musician, Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) alumni, Spoken word poet, Activism, militant
Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1 1949) is an American poet and musician known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word...
Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola

female, 38 years old (New York, United States)
film producer, Coppola family, Academy Award for Directing, American, from California, actress…EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first...
Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

female, deceased (1971)
Jewish, committed suicide, American, Drug-related suicide, EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni, Contemporary artist
Diane Arbus was an American photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society. (Her first name is pronounced "dee-ANN.")
Robert Moses

Robert Moses

male, deceased (1981)
public transit, Yale University alumni, Secretary of State of New York, American urban planner, westchester county, State cabinet secretary of the United States…EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni
Robert Moses (December 18 1888-July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County. As...
Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

male, deceased (1991)
American Poet Laureate, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, Diane Nemerov Arbus, photographer, from New York City, poet…EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni, Fieldstone School
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to...
Sean Lennon

Sean Lennon

male, 34 years old
Dalton School alumni, half-sibling, Sean Ono Lennon, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, The Beatles' children, EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni
Sean Taro Ono Lennon (aka Sean Ono Lennon, born October 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is the son of musicians...
Paul Strand

Paul Strand

male, deceased (1976)
Jewish, photographer, from New York City, Jewish American, film director, Cinematographer…EthicalCultureFieldstonSchoolalumni
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like...
James H. Scheuer

James H. Scheuer

male, deceased (2005)
Public officeholders of Rockaway, Queen, opponent of the Vietnam War, politician, from New York, Jewish American, Columbia University alumni…Harvard University alumni, Harvard Business School, Swarthmore College alumni, Columbia University Law School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School
James Haas (Jim) Scheuer (February 6, 1920 - August 30, 2005) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....