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2003 Hal Clement, science fiction writer/educator, Mission of Gravity, dies at 81
2003 Neil Postman, American Educator 2002 John Rawls, American Educator 2002 Stephen Jay Gould, "educator, writer", The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, dies at 60 2002 John W. Gardner, American Educator 2001 Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator 2000 John Harsanyi, American Educator 1998 Shinichi Suzuki, music educator, "developed the ""Suzuki Method"" which taugh violin to children", dies at 98 1997 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phe, nomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', dies from heart failure 1996 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45 1996 Timothy Leary, American Educator 1995 Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67 1995 Morrie Schwartz, American Educator 1995 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88 1995 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89 1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator 1987 Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator 1986 Corita Kent, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash, dies of cancer 1984 Sylvia Ashton-Warner, educator, poet, and writer, dies 1982 Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator 1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84 1977 Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator 1972 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator 1967 Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies 1967 John Yoo, American Educator 1965 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies 1963 Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer 1961 Lawrence Lessig, American Educator 1959 Lyman Bryson, educator (U.N. Casebook), dies at 71 1959 Abraham Flexner, American Educator 1957 Terri R Adams, educator, teacher in space 1957 Erich Auerbach, German writer and educator, dies 1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79 1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 1953 Jon Faddis, born in Oakland, California, musician, jazz trumpeter, conductor, composer, music educator, sound compared to his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, member Lionel Hampton's big band, led Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, released Grammy-Award nominated work, Remembrances, 1999 1953 Cornel West, American Educator 1951 Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator 1950 Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator 1950 Marvin Olasky, American Educator 1949 Robert Sternberg, American Educator 1948 Eleanor Margaret Burbridge, astronomer and educator 1947 Ward Churchill, American Educator 1947 Temple Grandin, American Educator 1944 Desmond Nuttall, English educator 1944 Gordon Gee, American Educator 1943 William Lyon Phelps, American Educator 1942 Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, mathemetician/educator 1940 Betty Shabazz, educator/talk show hostess/widow, Malcolm X 1939 Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator 1939 Leon Kass, American Educator 1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator 1938 Niara Sudarkasa, Gloria M Clark, educator/president, Lincoln College 1938 Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College 1938 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator 1938 Patricia W. Amicone, educator and midwife 1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights 1936 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator 1936 Anne Sullivan, American Educator 1936 Johnnetta B. Cole, educator and president Spellman College 1936 Marva Nettles Collins, educator, west side preparatory school 1934 Larry Sitsky, born in Tianjin, China, pianist, Australian composer, educator, musicologist, studied with Winifred Burston, awarded Centenary Medal, 2000 1933 Bernard van Beurden, Dutch composer/music educator 1933 John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child' 1933 Felix Adler, German Educator 1933 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies 1932 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center 1932 Dennis Banks, American Educator 1931 John Rae, British educator, Conscience and Politics 1931 Neil Postman, American Educator 1930 Vladimir Emel Yanovich Lev Alekseevich Samsonov Maksimov, educator 1930 Marvin Kalb, born in New York City, educator/newscaster, CBS/NBC, Meet the Press 1929 Georgette Amowitz, choreographer/educator 1929 Betty Dodson, American Educator 1929 Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash 1929 Michael Atiyah, educator, Trinity College - Cambridge England 1929 Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator 1928 Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor, NY's State Universities-SUNY 1927 Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator 1926 James Lipton, American Educator 1926 Charles W. Eliot, American Educator 1926 Charles William Eliot, American Educator 1926 Barbara Tizzard, British educator 1925 Robert Linn, born in America, composer, educator, University of Southern California, composed music for chorus and chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and wind orchestra 1924 Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/president, California State University at Fullerton 1923 Joseph Weizenbaum, American Educator 1922 Leo Kraft, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, author, educator, recorded on CRI label, studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Randall Thompson, Nadio Boulander 1921 Paulo Freire, born in Recife, Brazil, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phenomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' 1921 John Rawls, American Educator 1920 John Harsanyi, American Educator 1920 Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant 1918 Corita Kent, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash 1918 Julius Wellhausen, German Educator 1916 Morrie Schwartz, American Educator 1916 Seth Low, American Educator 1916 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot and Sien), dies at 57 1915 Booker T. Washington, American Educator 1915 Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala 1914 Harold Taylor, Canada, educator, Art and the Future 1913 Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician 1913 Cyril English, British educator 1912 John W. Gardner, American Educator 1912 Kenneth Jameson, art educator 1910 Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees, Nobel 1958 1909 Paul Farmer, American Educator 1909 Michael Porter, American Educator 1909 Grace Mitchell, educator 1908 Sylvia Ashton-Warner, born in Stratford, New Zealand, New Zealand educator, poet, and writer 1907 Nathan M. Pusey, born in Iowa, educator, National Association for Social Sciences-1963 1907 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator 1906 Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963 1906 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator 1906 Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary 1905 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Jungian analyst/educator 1904 Theodore Brameld, author/educator, Use of Explosive Ideas 1903 Grayson Kirk, Jeffersonville Ohio, educator 1902 Charles Kendall Adams, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901, dies at age 67, in Redlands, California 1901 James Pitman, Bath England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller 1900 Max Muller, German Educator 1899 Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian 1899 Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator 1898 Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator 1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator 1897 William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named minister to Haiti 1895 Susanne Langer, U.S., philosopher/educator, Philosophy in a New Key 1895 Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator 1895 Benjamin E Mays, South Carolina, black educator, Morehouse, Howard University 1895 Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator 1895 William Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia 1892 Erich Auerbach, born in Berlin, Germany, German writer and educator 1891 Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California 1890 Mordecai W. Johnson, educator 1888 Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator, U.N. Casebook 1887 Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author, Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award 1887 Helen Parkhurst, U.S. educator, Education on the Dalton plan 1884 Ethel Percy Andrus, born in San Francisco, California, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons 1884 Frank Laubach, Benton, Pennsylvania, educator, taught reading through phonetics 1882 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator 1882 Simon Elzinga, Dutch educator 1878 Christian Gauss, educator/writer, Phi Beta Kappa award namesake 1875 Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College 1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator 1874 Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man 1871 William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher/educator 1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 1870 Maria Montessori, Italy, educator, spontaneous response 1867 August W. Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist 1866 Abraham Flexner, American Educator 1866 Anne Sullivan, American Educator 1865 Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator, Contact with Plants 1865 William Lyon Phelps, American Educator 1864 Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator 1863 Emma Mary Wooley, educator, Mary Anna Wells 1863 Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator 1861 Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin, historian/educator, Harvard U 1861 Victoria E Matthews, educator 1859 Frank D. Adams, Canada geologist/educator 1859 Horace Mann, American Educator 1859 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator, Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien 1857 Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College 1856 Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator, 1st black on U.S. stamp 1856 Booker T. Washington, American Educator 1855 Alice Freeman Palmer, educator, Hall of Fame 1854 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator, Theory of Education 1852 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg 1851 Felix Adler, German Educator 1850 Seth Low, American Educator 1849 Dudley Allen Sargent, U.S., physician/educator, Harvard U gymnasium 1849 Elizabeth Harrison, U.S., educator, National Congress of Parents and Teachers 1844 Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator, Boston Cooking School 1844 Julius Wellhausen, German Educator 1841 Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927 1838 Joseph Lancaster, English Educator 1836 Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator, PTA 1836 Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad 1835 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator 1835 Charles Kendall Adams, born in Derby, Vermont, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901 1834 Charles W. Eliot, American Educator 1834 Charles William Eliot, American Educator 1832 Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell 1827 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81 1827 Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator 1825 Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, born in Georgia, educator, Rep-Ala, 1857-61 1824 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator 1823 Max Muller, German Educator 1811 Daniel A. Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church 1811 Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey 1810 William Hepworth Thompson, English Educator 1804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator and founder, U.S. kindergarten 1802 Mark Hopkins, U.S., educator/philosopher, Williams College 1800 William H McGuffey, educator, McGuffey Readers 1800 Catherine Beecher, educator, championed higher education for women 1799 Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. educator/poet, Concord Days 1797 Mary Lyon, U.S., educator, Mount Holyoke, Hall of Fame 1796 Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools 1795 Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome 1782 Friedrich W. A. Frobel, German educator, founded kindergarten 1778 Joseph Lancaster, English Educator 1767 Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator 1746 Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude, 1746 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, born in Switzerland, educator 1746 Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator 1712 Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, French educator, school for the deaf 1670 Jan A Comenius, Komensky, Czechoslovakia/Netherlands educator/philosopher, dies 1670 John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator 1592 John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator |
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