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2003 Death - Hal Clement, science fiction writer/educator, Mission of Gravity, dies at 81

2003 Death - Neil Postman, American Educator

2002 Death - John Rawls, American Educator

2002 Death - Stephen Jay Gould, "educator, writer", The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, dies at 60

2002 Death - John W. Gardner, American Educator

2001 Death - Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator

2000 Death - John Harsanyi, American Educator

1998 Death - Shinichi Suzuki, music educator, "developed the ""Suzuki Method"" which taugh violin to children", dies at 98

1997 Death - 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 Death - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45

1996 Death - Timothy Leary, American Educator

1995 Death - Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67

1995 Death - Morrie Schwartz, American Educator

1995 Death - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88

1995 Death - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, jungian analyst educator, dies at 89

1989 Death - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator

1987 Death - Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator

1986 Death - 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 Death - Sylvia Ashton-Warner, educator, poet, and writer, dies

1982 Death - Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator

1980 Death - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84

1977 Death - Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

1972 Death - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

1967 Death - Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies

1967 Birthday - John Yoo, American Educator

1965 Death - Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non), dies

1963 Death - Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer

1961 Birthday - Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

1959 Death - Lyman Bryson, educator (U.N. Casebook), dies at 71

1959 Death - Abraham Flexner, American Educator

1957 Birthday - Terri R Adams, educator, teacher in space

1957 Death - Erich Auerbach, German writer and educator, dies

1955 Death - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79

1954 Death - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90

1953 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Cornel West, American Educator

1953 Birthday - Rod Morgenstein, born in New York, drummer, member of '80's heavy metal band Wing, Dixie Dregs, educator, served as professor of percussion, Berklee College of Music

1951 Birthday - Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator

1950 Birthday - Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator

1950 Birthday - Marvin Olasky, American Educator

1949 Birthday - Robert Sternberg, American Educator

1948 Birthday - Eleanor Margaret Burbridge, astronomer and educator

1947 Birthday - Ward Churchill, American Educator

1947 Birthday - Temple Grandin, American Educator

1944 Birthday - Desmond Nuttall, English educator

1944 Birthday - Gordon Gee, American Educator

1943 Death - William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

1942 Birthday - Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, mathemetician/educator

1940 Birthday - Betty Shabazz, educator/talk show hostess/widow, Malcolm X

1939 Birthday - Judith P Appelbaum, magazine and newspaper editor, educator

1939 Birthday - Leon Kass, American Educator

1938 Birthday - Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator

1938 Birthday - Niara Sudarkasa, Gloria M Clark, educator/president, Lincoln College

1938 Birthday - Gloria Dean Randle Scott, educator/president, Beaumont College

1938 Birthday - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator

1938 Birthday - Patricia W. Amicone, educator and midwife

1938 Birthday - Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1936 Death - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

1936 Death - Anne Sullivan, American Educator

1936 Birthday - Johnnetta B. Cole, educator and president Spellman College

1936 Birthday - Marva Nettles Collins, educator, west side preparatory school

1934 Birthday - Larry Sitsky, born in Tianjin, China, pianist, Australian composer, educator, musicologist, studied with Winifred Burston, awarded Centenary Medal, 2000

1933 Birthday - Bernard van Beurden, Dutch composer/music educator

1933 Birthday - John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child'

1933 Death - Felix Adler, German Educator

1933 Death - 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 Birthday - Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center

1932 Birthday - Dennis Banks, American Educator

1931 Birthday - John Rae, British educator, Conscience and Politics

1931 Birthday - Neil Postman, American Educator

1930 Birthday - Vladimir Emel Yanovich Lev Alekseevich Samsonov Maksimov, educator

1930 Birthday - Marvin Kalb, born in New York City, educator/newscaster, CBS/NBC, Meet the Press

1929 Birthday - Georgette Amowitz, choreographer/educator

1929 Birthday - Betty Dodson, American Educator

1929 Birthday - Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash

1929 Birthday - Michael Atiyah, educator, Trinity College - Cambridge England

1929 Birthday - Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator

1928 Birthday - Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor, NY's State Universities-SUNY

1927 Birthday - Lawrence Kohlberg, American Educator

1926 Birthday - James Lipton, American Educator

1926 Death - Charles W. Eliot, American Educator

1926 Death - Charles William Eliot, American Educator

1926 Birthday - Barbara Tizzard, British educator

1925 Birthday - Robert Linn, born in America, composer, educator, University of Southern California, composed music for chorus and chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and wind orchestra

1924 Birthday - Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/president, California State University at Fullerton

1923 Birthday - Joseph Weizenbaum, American Educator

1922 Birthday - Leo Kraft, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, author, educator, recorded on CRI label, studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Randall Thompson, Nadio Boulander

1921 Birthday - 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 Birthday - John Rawls, American Educator

1920 Birthday - John Harsanyi, American Educator

1920 Birthday - Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant

1918 Birthday - 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 Death - Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

1916 Birthday - Morrie Schwartz, American Educator

1916 Death - Seth Low, American Educator

1916 Death - [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator (Ot and Sien), dies at 57

1915 Death - Booker T. Washington, American Educator

1915 Death - Booker T Washington, educator/organizier, dies at 59 in Tuskegee Ala

1914 Birthday - Harold Taylor, Canada, educator, Art and the Future

1913 Birthday - Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician

1913 Birthday - Cyril English, British educator

1912 Birthday - John W. Gardner, American Educator

1912 Birthday - Kenneth Jameson, art educator

1910 Birthday - Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees, Nobel 1958

1909 Birthday - Paul Farmer, American Educator

1909 Birthday - Michael Porter, American Educator

1909 Birthday - Grace Mitchell, educator

1908 Birthday - Sylvia Ashton-Warner, born in Stratford, New Zealand, New Zealand educator, poet, and writer

1907 Birthday - Nathan M. Pusey, born in Iowa, educator, National Association for Social Sciences-1963

1907 Birthday - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

1906 Birthday - Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963

1906 Birthday - Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator

1906 Birthday - Benedict Vilakazi, South Africa, poet/educator, Zulu-English Dictionary

1905 Birthday - Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Jungian analyst/educator

1904 Birthday - Theodore Brameld, author/educator, Use of Explosive Ideas

1903 Birthday - Grayson Kirk, Jeffersonville Ohio, educator

1902 Death - 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 Birthday - James Pitman, Bath England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller

1900 Death - Max Muller, German Educator

1899 Birthday - Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian

1899 Birthday - Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

1898 Birthday - Millicent Carey McIntosh, American Educator

1898 Birthday - Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator

1897 Event - William Frank Powell, New Jersey educator, named minister to Haiti

1895 Birthday - Susanne Langer, U.S., philosopher/educator, Philosophy in a New Key

1895 Birthday - Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator

1895 Birthday - Benjamin E Mays, South Carolina, black educator, Morehouse, Howard University

1895 Birthday - Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator

1895 Event - William Heard, AME minister and educator, named minister to Liberia

1892 Birthday - Erich Auerbach, born in Berlin, Germany, German writer and educator

1891 Birthday - Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California

1890 Birthday - Mordecai W. Johnson, educator

1888 Birthday - Lyman Bryson, Valentine Nebr, educator, U.N. Casebook

1887 Birthday - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author, Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award

1887 Birthday - Helen Parkhurst, U.S. educator, Education on the Dalton plan

1884 Birthday - Ethel Percy Andrus, born in San Francisco, California, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons

1884 Birthday - Frank Laubach, born in Benton, Pennsylvania, educator, taught reading through phonetics

1882 Birthday - Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator

1882 Birthday - Simon Elzinga, Dutch educator

1878 Birthday - Christian Gauss, educator/writer, Phi Beta Kappa award namesake

1875 Birthday - Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College

1874 Birthday - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

1874 Birthday - Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man

1871 Birthday - William H Kilpatrick, U.S. mathematician/philosopher/educator

1870 Death - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46

1870 Birthday - Maria Montessori, Italy, educator, spontaneous response

1867 Birthday - August W. Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist

1866 Birthday - Abraham Flexner, American Educator

1866 Birthday - Anne Sullivan, American Educator

1865 Birthday - Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator, Contact with Plants

1865 Birthday - William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

1864 Birthday - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

1863 Birthday - Emma Mary Wooley, educator, Mary Anna Wells

1863 Birthday - Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator

1861 Birthday - Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin, historian/educator, Harvard U

1861 Birthday - Victoria E Matthews, educator

1859 Birthday - Frank D. Adams, Canada geologist/educator

1859 Death - Horace Mann, American Educator

1859 Birthday - [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator, Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien

1857 Birthday - Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College

1856 Birthday - Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator, 1st black on U.S. stamp

1856 Birthday - Booker T. Washington, American Educator

1855 Birthday - Alice Freeman Palmer, educator, Hall of Fame

1854 Birthday - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator, Theory of Education

1852 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Felix Adler, German Educator

1850 Birthday - Seth Low, American Educator

1849 Birthday - Dudley Allen Sargent, U.S., physician/educator, Harvard U gymnasium

1849 Birthday - Elizabeth Harrison, U.S., educator, National Congress of Parents and Teachers

1844 Birthday - Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator, Boston Cooking School

1844 Birthday - Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

1841 Birthday - Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927

1838 Death - Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

1836 Birthday - Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator, PTA

1836 Birthday - Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad

1835 Death - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

1835 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Charles W. Eliot, American Educator

1834 Birthday - Charles William Eliot, American Educator

1832 Birthday - Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell

1827 Death - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator, dies at 81

1827 Death - Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator

1825 Birthday - Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, born in Georgia, educator, Rep-Ala, 1857-61

1824 Birthday - Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator

1823 Birthday - Max Muller, German Educator

1811 Birthday - Daniel A. Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church

1811 Birthday - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey

1810 Birthday - William Hepworth Thompson, English Educator

1804 Birthday - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator and founder, U.S. kindergarten

1802 Birthday - Mark Hopkins, U.S., educator/philosopher, Williams College

1800 Birthday - William H McGuffey, educator, McGuffey Readers

1800 Birthday - Catherine Beecher, educator, championed higher education for women

1799 Birthday - Amos Bronson Alcott, U.S. educator/poet, Concord Days

1797 Birthday - Mary Lyon, U.S., educator, Mount Holyoke, Hall of Fame

1796 Birthday - Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools

1795 Birthday - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome

1782 Birthday - Friedrich W. A. Frobel, German educator, founded kindergarten

1778 Birthday - Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

1767 Birthday - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

1746 Birthday - Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude,

1746 Birthday - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, born in Switzerland, educator

1746 Birthday - Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss Educator

1712 Birthday - Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, French educator, school for the deaf

1670 Death - Jan A Comenius, Komensky, Czechoslovakia/Netherlands educator/philosopher, dies

1670 Death - John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator

1592 Birthday - John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator

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