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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist; 1822 Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer; 1823 Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter; Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), painter; Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), painter; William Hart (1823–1894), painter; Thomas Waterman Wood (1823 ...
Austrian-born American virologist [133] Rudolph A. Marcus: 1923– 101: Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry [134] Harris Mayer: 1921–2023: 102: American physicist (Manhattan Project) [135] Ernst Mayr: 1904–2005: 100: German-American biologist [136] John J. McKetta: 1915–2019: 103: American chemical ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
31st governor of American Samoa: Born in Chicago Eliot Ness: Apr 19, 1903: May 16, 1957: Federal agent; leader of The Untouchables; born in Chicago Born in Chicago Barack Obama: Aug 4, 1961: US senator and 44th President of the United States: Resided in Chicago 1983–2008 William B. Ogden: Jun 15, 1805: Aug 3, 1877: Entrepreneur and first ...
As early as 1678, a class of free black people existed in North America. [1] Various groups contributed to the growth of the free Negro population: children born to colored free women (see Partus sequitur ventrem) mulatto children born to white indentured or free women; mixed-race children born to free Native American women (the emancipation in ...
First Chinese-American female military pilot Yes [230] Marc Alan Lee: 1978–2006 United States Navy SEAL: Yes [231] Barbara Lekberg: 1925–2018 Artist, sculptor Yes [232] Ion Lewis: 1853–1923 Architect No [233] Jack Lewis: 1964– Author Yes [234] Norman Leyden: 1917–2014 Conductor, clarinetist No [235] Carl L. Linde: 1864–1945 German ...
A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes locomotive engineers, railway construction engineers, operators of railway companies, major railway investors and politicians, of national and international importance for the development of rail transport.