Laura Bridgman

Laura Bridgman

female, deceased (1889)
Laura Dewey Bridgman (December 21, 1829 - May 24, 1889) is known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the...
Mary Ingalls

Mary Ingalls

female, deceased (1928)
Mary Amelia Ingalls (January 10, 1865-October 20, 1928) was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the first child of Caroline and Charles...
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

male, deceased (1935)
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory who...
Charles Waring Darwin

Charles Waring Darwin

male, deceased (1858)
Charles Waring Darwin was the last of the children of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin, their tenth child and sixth boy. It was noted by Henrietta,...
Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

male, deceased (1897)
Gardiner Greene Hubbard was the first president of the National Geographic Society. Born in Boston, Massachusetts he was a lawyer, financier, and...
George Frederick Dick

George Frederick Dick

male, deceased (1967)
George Frederick Dick (July 21, 1881 - October 10, 1967) was an American physician and bacteriologist best known for his work with scarlet fever....

Béla Schick

male, deceased (1967)
Béla Schick, was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Was born in Balatonbolgar, Hungary, and brought up i...

Robert Cathcart

male
Robert F. Cathcart III (1932 - present) is a Los Altos, California-based physician and leading proponent of orthomolecular medicine, specifically...
Edith Rockefeller McCormick

Edith Rockefeller McCormick

female, deceased (1937)
Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872-1932) was an American socialite and opera patron. McCormick was the fourth daughter of Standard Oil...

Richard Réti

male, deceased (1929)
Richard Réti (28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) - 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player and chess p...