Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

male, 59 years old
George Polk Award recipient, Harvard University, American, piedmont, African-American studies scholar, West Virginia writer
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at...
Wim Deetman

Wim Deetman

male, 64 years old
State Secretary of the Netherlands, Mayor of places in the Netherlands, political science, minister, Mayor, chair
Willem "Wim" Joost Deetman is the mayor of The Hague. He studied political science at the Free University Amsterdam, where he graduated in 1972. He...
August Busch III

August Busch III

male, 72 years old (SAINT LOUIS, Missouri, United States)
Business person in the brewing industry, Anheuser-Busch, August Anheuser Busch III, Business Person, At&t, Busch family…chair
August Anheuser Busch III (born June 6, 1937) is the great-grandson of Anheuser-Busch founder Adolphus Busch and was the company's Chairman until...
William L. Langer

William L. Langer

male, deceased (1977)
Peter N. Stearns, Yale University, William Leonard Langer, American military, LL.D., American Historical Association…chair
William Leonard Langer is the last to be edited by Langer. Peter N. Stearns and thirty other prominent historians edited the sixth edition,...
Charles O. Perry

Charles O. Perry

male, 80 years old
Washington DC, Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome, jewelry, MoMA, American…chair
Charles O. Perry (born 1929) is an American sculptor particularly known for his large scale public sculptures. Perry initially studied architecture...
Victoria Hattam

Victoria Hattam

female
Yale University, race, New School University, University of Melbourne, APSA, State University of New York at Buffalo…chair
Victoria Hattam (born 1954) is an Australian-born American political scientist, noted for her research on American political economy and political...
Denison Olmsted

Denison Olmsted

male, deceased (1859)
Yale University, physicist, Astronomer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Academic, physics…chair
Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 - May 13, 1859), U.S. physicist and astronomer, was born at East Hartford, Connecticut. Professor Olmsted is...
Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

Thomas Kingsmill Abbott

male, deceased (1913)
writer, trinity college, Academic, Irish, chair, kant
Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913) was an Irish scholar and educator. He was born at Dublin and was educated at Trinity College, where he...

Christina Kramer

female
professor, balkan, Balkans, Slavic Languages, Macedonian language, descriptive linguistics…chair
Christina Elizabeth Kramer is Professor of Slavic and Balkan languages and linguistics at the University of Toronto and Chair of the university's...
Gray Davis

Gray Davis

male, 66 years old
recalled, recall election, governor, pro-choice politician, Democrat, Stanford University alumni
Described by the San Jose Mercury News as "perhaps the best-trained Governor-in-waiting California has ever produced," Governor Gray Davis has made...