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