Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, known for being moderately liberal, called for the repeal of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment giving Americans the right to bear firearms in response to student protests. President Trump replied it “will never be repealed.”
Earnest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization.
Marilu Henner is known for her acting career, particularly on the hit sitcom 'Taxi,' along with her series of health and fitness books.
James D. Watson is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.
Eliot Ness was a law enforcement official in Chicago, best known for his efforts to enforce Prohibition as head of 'The Untouchables.'
Richard Loeb is best known for teaming with Nathan Leopold to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924, with a resulting trial that spared them both the death penalty.
Actress Danica McKellar played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years.' She has also written a series of best-selling books about math, including 'Math Doesn't Suck.'
Philip Glass is an Oscar-nominated avant-garde composer whose notable works include 'Einstein on the Beach,' 'The Hours' and 'Notes on a Scandal.'
Susan Sontag was a critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker. She wrote 'On Photography,' 'Illness as Metaphor,' 'The Volcano Lover' and 'In America,' among many other works.
Paul Samuelson used mathematics to formulate influential economic theories and, in 1970, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African-American woman to hold a Cabinet position, serve as U.S. ambassador and head a law school.
Carl Sagan was probably the most well-known scientist of the 1970s and 1980s. He studied extraterrestrial intelligence, advocated for nuclear disarmament, and co-wrote and hosted 'Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.'
A brilliant thinker, Vernon Johns was a pastor and activist who was the predecessor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.
Mike Nichols was an American theater and film director best known for his 1967 classic, The Graduate. He won an Emmy, Oscar, Tony and Grammy awards—and is one of only 14 to do so.
Philip Roth has died in a Manhattan hospital at age 85 of congestive heart failure. Critics have compared the darkly comic novelist -- author of ‘American Pastoral’ and winner of numerous awards including two National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize -- to John Updike.
Nathan Leopold is best known for teaming with Richard Loeb to murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924, with a resulting trial that spared them both the death penalty.
Euphemia Lofton Haynes became the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1943.
20th century visionary Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, focusing on labor organizing, civil rights and advocacy for the poor.
Charles S. Johnson was a sociologist and university president best known for his work on race relations in the United States and Liberia.
Robert Todd Lincoln was an American lawyer and secretary of war best known as the first-born son of President Abraham Lincoln.
Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm is known for her roles in the 1943 Broadway musical Oklahoma! and the film Gentleman's Agreement.
Grace Abbott is best known for her social activism on behalf of immigrants and children. She headed the Children's Bureau from 1921 to 1934.
John Scopes is best known as the Tennessee educator found guilty of breaking the law for teaching evolution in his class room.