Aaron Burr
Politician, lawyer known for Burr conspiracy trial in 1804-1807, 3rd VP of the United States in 1801-1805 with Thomas Jefferson
1756-1836 (80)
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Socialite aka Abby Rockefeller, philanthropist, wife of John D Rockefeller Jr., curator, founder of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
1874-1948 (74)
pbs.org
Alain Wertheimer living
Alan Schwartz living
investment banker, executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, co-president, co-COO & CEO of Bear Stearns from 2001-2008, the New York Fed oversaw the acquisition by JPMorgan Chase during the 2008 Wall Street Financial Crisis, baseball player, pitcher drafted by the Cincinnati Reds (never played)
1950- (74)
Alan Watts
Bohemian philosopher, predictive programming, fake virtues, keynote speaker, theologian, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, writer, author of Talking Zen, The Wisdom of Insecurity
1915-1973 (58)
alanwatts.org
Alexis Dziena living
Actress in Entourage as E's girlfriend in Season 6
1984- (40)
Alfred P. Sloan
Automotive executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors
1875-1966 (91)
economist.com
Alfred Vanderbilt
Businessman, sportsman, heir to the Vanderbilt family dynasty, died in the sunken RMS Lusitania
1877-1915 (38)
Alonzo Rothschild
Jeweler, biographer, journalist, reporter for the New York Commercial Advertiser, founder of The Jewelry's Weekly
1862-1915 (53)
archon.library.illinois.edu
Ambrose Olsen
Male fashion model for Click Management, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, died by suicide
1985-2010 (25)
Andrew Goldberg living
Andrew Weissmann
criminal fraud lawyer, criminal lawyer, attorney, special counsel assigned by Robert Mueller
its.law.nyu.edu
Ann Nitze
Private art dealer, art collector, private dealer, artists, artworks
annkendallrichards.com
Anthony Lake living
Business executive, Democratic politician, political strategist, US national security advisor from 1993-1997, executive director of UNICEF from 2010-2017
1939- (85)
Arnold Rothstein
crime boss aka The Brain, gangster, mob boss, mobster, illegal gambling, racketeering, conspired to fix the 1919 World Series, murdered in 1928
1882-1928 (46)
Arvind Krishna
Chairman and CEO at IBM since 2021
linkedin.com
Barry Sternlicht living
Billionaire, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, chairman of Starwood Property Trust, chairman of Jaws Mustang Acquisition
1960- (64)
Ben Cohen living
Businessman, entrepreneur, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1951- (73)
Benjamin H. Freedman
Political activist, businessman, Holocaust whistleblower, healthcare investor, businessman, Catholic ant
1890-1984 (94)
Betsy von Furstenberg
Broadway theatre, actress, ballet dancer, socialite
1931-2015 (84)
Bhavani Lev
Ayurvedic health practitioner, yoga teacher, co-founder of Organic India in 1997, founder of Bet Lev Foundation in 2006
Bill Barr living
US attorney general from 1991-1993 and 2019-2020, lawyer, attorney, pioneer in predictive analytics and of pre-crime programs (aka DEEP), author of One Damn Thing After Another
1950- (74)
Bill Drayton living
founder & CEO of Ashoka changemakers, father of social entrepreneurship (1970)
1943- (81)
Bill Kristol
Editor-in-chief of The Bulwark, writer, journalist, formerly founder and editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard
Billy Vanderbilt
Railroad tycoon aka William Vanderbilt, farmer, financier, business turnarounds, philanthropist, his father was Cornelius Vanderbilt with steamship lines
1821-1885 (64)
britannica.com
Bob Iger living
media executive, dealmaker, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney since 2005, Disney+ businessman, director at Genies, bestselling author of The Ride of a Lifetime
1951- (73)
Brooke Shields
model, actress in Pretty Baby, Endless Love, The Blue Lagoon, heiress to Revlon family fortune of Frank Shields
Carlo Gambino
Mob boss, crime boss, head of the Gambino crime family, one of the Five Families of the American Mafia
Caroline Astor
aristocrat, queen bee of the knickerbockers, House of Astor, socialite known for having the "Four Hundred" party guests at her annual ball
1830-1908 (78)
britannica.com
C.D. Jackson
Forbes publisher, managing director at Time-Life International in 1945, bought the Zipruter film
1902-1964 (62)
snaccooperative.org
Charles Henry Marshall
Director of The Globe Insurance Company, Hanover National Bank, president of the Union League Club (ULC) during the Civil War, pilot, harbor commissioner of New York
1838-1912 (74)
Charles M. Schwab
Industrialist aka Charles Schwab, steel magnate, started as a laborer at Edgar Thomson Steel Works (for Andrew Carnegie), president of Carnegie Steel, US Steel, and then CEO of Bethlehem Steel
1862-1939 (77)
britannica.com
Charles Henry Marshall Jr.
Philanthropist, businessman, stock broker, financier, socialite, husband of Brooke Astor
1891-1952 (61)
Charlie Javice living
tech entrepreneur in microfinance, founder of Poverup, Frank for federal student loans, scam artist in micro loans, fraudster, artificially inflated customer accounts to sell to JPMorgan Chase
1993- (31)
Chris Hondros
Warfare photographer, died in Libya
1970-2011 (41)
chrishondros.com
Conrad Hughes Hilton living
Dan Akerson
Chairman of KLDiscovery, vice-chairman of the Carlyle Group from March 2014-2015, chairman and CEO of General Motors from 2010 to 2014, director at Lockheed Martin, Commscope
lockheedmartin.com
David René de Rothschild living
Banker, financier aka David René de Rothschild, chairman of Rothschild & Co., Rothschild Continuation Holdings, former chairman of De Beers
1942- (82)
family.rothschildarchive.org
David Graeber
anthropologist, anarchist, political activist in the Occupy Wall Street or Occupy movement, author of Bullshit Jobs (2018), Debt the First 5000 Years (2011), The Dawn of Everything (2021), founder of the Museum of Care (David Graeber Institute)
1961-2020 (59)
davidgraeber.org
David Miliband living
President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, Labor Party politician, MP for South Shields from 2001-2013, UK Foreign Secretary from 2007-2010
1965- (59)
David Rothkopf living
CEO of the Rothkopf Group, formerly chairman of International Media Partners, political scientist, international relations, journalist, media consultant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), managing director at Kissinger Associates, co-founder and chairman of Intellibridge, author of Superclass
1955- (69)
David Van Nostrand
Publisher, co-founder of the St. Nicholas Society, Holland Society
1811-1886 (75)
Deborah Berke living
architect, interior designer, founder of TenBurke (Deborah Berke Partners), professor at the Yale School of Architecture
1954- (70)
tenberke.com
Dina Merrill
TV star in Murder She Wrote, The Nanny, actress in The Desk Set, Operation Petticoat, The Player, The Sundowners, film producer at RKO Pictures, businesswoman, heiress of Mar-A-Lago, half-sister of Glenn Close, cousin of Barbara Hutton, movie star actress in The Mermaid Singing play of 1945, George Washington Slept Here,
Donald J. Trump living
45th President of the United States from 2016-2020, Republican Party politician, statesman, real estate mogul, billionaire founder of Trump International Hotels & Resorts
1946- (78)
donaldjtrump.com
Dorothy Hart
Socialite aka Dorothy Hart Hearst, Dorothy Hart Hirschon, philanthropist, political and human rights activist, former wife of CBS founder William S. Paley, died in automobile accident near Glen Cove, Long Island
1909-1998 (89)
chicagotribune.com
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group (UMG) from MCA Records which bought Polygram Entertainment, chairman of Global Thermostat, Endeavor Global, co-founder and managing director of Accretive LLC, former chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group (WMG) which sold to Access Industries, director at Everspring, Insureon, fuboTV
accretivellc.com
Edwin H. Armstrong living
Electrical engineer, inventor of FM radio, father of the FM radio
1890- (134)
mayoclinicproceedings.org
Eleanor Roosevelt
political activist, co-creator of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), socialist aka Eleonor Roosevelt, diplomat, longest serving First Lady of the United States from 1933-1945 via husband Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), philanthropist at Val-Kill, influencial world leader
1884-1962 (78)
fdrlibrary.org
Eric Holder living
Lawyer, attorney, Democratic Party politician, 82nd Attorney General of the United States from 2009-2015
1951- (73)
Fiona Apple
Singer, political activist, raped at age 12 outside her mother's Manhattan apartment
Frank Wisner Jr. living
Fred Friendly
TV producer of See It Now with Edward Murrow, journalist, president of CBS News, helped establish PBS, communications adviser for the Ford Foundation
1915-1998 (83)
britannica.com
Frederick Osborn
Major General, military veteran, co-founder of the Population Council
1889-1981 (92)
Hannah Bronfman
venture capitalist, angel investor, DJ, music producer, boxing, fitness junkie
Hans Morgenthau
jurist, political scientist, pioneer in realist schools, realism and realist theory, author of Politics Among Nations (1948)
1904-1980 (76)
Harry Winston
Founder of Harry Winston Inc. (Harry H. Winston Jewels) luxury jewelers in 1932, Swiss watchmaker known as the King of Diamonds
1896-1978 (82)
Henry Hudson
Navigator, explorer who discovered the Hudson River in New Jersey and New York City, the Hudson Bay Strait in 1610 which are part of the Northwestern Passages in Canada linking the Labrador Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
1565-1611 (46)
britannica.com
Howard S. Marks living
billionaire value investor, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management (1995) private equity firm, vulture capitalist of distressed companies, formerly at TCW Group from 1985-1995, author of The Most Important Thing, Mastering the Market Cycle
1946- (78)
oaktreecapital.com
Isaac Singer
Inventor of the sewing machine, co-founder of Singer, pioneer of financial tactic of payment installments
1811-1875 (64)
pbs.org
J. Michael Cline
Founder and managing partner of Accretive LLC, executive chairman of Juxtapose, serial entrepreneur, founder of Fandango, Accretive Health (R1 RCM), investment banker, former vice-chairman at Bridgewater Associates, co-inventor of Panthera Poacher Cam, co-founder of Everspring, Accolade, Accumen, Insureon
accretivellc.com
James Baldwin
Novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, writer, black activist
1924-1987 (63)
James Loeb
US Federal Reserve, met at Jekyll Island, banker at Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
James Stillman
Businessman, banker, railroad tycoon, land owner, US Federal Reserve Bank, married into the Rockefellers
1850-1918 (68)
James Whitney Fosburgh
Art historian, painter, art collector, chairman of White House Paintings special committee
1910-1978 (68)
metmuseum.org
Jeffrey Epstein
Wall Street financier at Bear Stearns, advisor to Leslie Wexner (Limited Brands) from 1986-1991, owner of the 1953 Trust, banker, mathematician, math teacher, con artist, convicted for sex trafficking ring known as Little St James Island aka Pedo Island (Epstein Island), arrested for running a sex blackmail ring and jailed before being strangled to death in prison (or "died by suicide"), Mossad intelligence officer, jet owner of the Lolita Express
1953-2019 (66)
wallstreetonparade.com
Jill E. Barad living
CEO of Mattel from 1997-2000, businesswoman, kickstarted the Barbie brand as a product manager, one of the first female CEOs of large companies, acquired The Learning Company (Mattel Interactive) in 1999 a deal that sunk the company and ultimately got her fired, cosmetologist at Coty
1951- (73)
britannica.com
Jim Wolfensen
Economist, lawyer, banker, financier, 9th President of the World Bank Group from 1995-2005
1933-2020 (87)
worldbank.org
John Avlon living
Journalist, political commentator, politics, news anchor at CNN, editor-in-chief at the Daily Beast, author of Washington's Farewell, Wingnuts, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, Independent Nation, owns a former Astor family duplex in New York City
1973- (51)
John Gutfreund
Investment banker aka the King of Wall Street, bond trader, chairman & CEO of Salomon Brothers
1929-2016 (87)
John Heimann living
Investment banker, US comptroller of the currency for Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, chairman of the Financial Stability Institute since 1999
1929- (95)
group30.org
John Jacob Astor
Businessman, merchant, opium smuggler, fur trader, founder of The American Fur Company in 1808, Pacific Fur Company, real estate mogul, art collector, fur trader until 1830 with a fur trading post on the Missouri River, opium smuggler to China, musical instruments maker/manufacturer, industrialist, one of the first multi-millionaires in the United States
1763-1848 (85)
John McPhee
author of A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
Cardinal John O'Connor
Cardinal at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop of New York, co-author of His Eminence and Hizzoner: A Candid Exchange
1920-2000 (80)
britannica.com
Julia Louis-Dreyfus living
Actress as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, her mother was Judith Bowles and father was billionaire Gerard Louis-Dreyfus
1961- (63)
Kay Swift
Classical music composer, Fine and Dandy in 1930, jazz music
1897-1993 (96)
kayswift.com
Kenneth J. Bialkin
lawyer, attorney, general partner at Skadden Arps, director at Citigroup who assisted with the Travelers Companies merger with Salomon Inc., lobbyist for the Republican Jewish Coalition, chairman of the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) from 1983-1986, founder of Bialkin Family Foundation (1968), his widow Ann Bialkin created ELEM.org
Kevin Bacon living
Laurance Rockefeller
financier, co-founder of Eastern Airlines, pilot, procurement of McDonnell Aircraft for the US Navy, investor, pioneer in paranormal research, UFOs, aliens, crop circles
1910-2004 (94)
britannica.com
Louis Keller
genealogist, genealogical news publisher of family trees, socialite, newspaper columnist, founder of the Social Register in 1880 one of the leading society blue books
1857-1922 (65)
Louis Lepke
Mobster aka Louis Buchalter, mafia labor racketeering in New York City, member of the hit squad Murder, Inc.
Louis F. Rothschild
Merchant banker, investor, founder of L.F. Rothschild in 1899 which collapsed during the 1987 stock market crash, arrested by Adolf Hitler
1869-1957 (88)
Margaret Mead
Anthropologist, multiple marriages, divorces, aging, midlife crisis, speaker, author
1901-1978 (77)
Maurice R. Greenberg living
Billionaire, financier, chairman of The Starr Foundation, former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), Starr Insurance Companies, vice-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations
1925- (99)
starrfoundation.org
Mayer Lehman
investment banker, businessman, co-founder of Lehman Brothers
1830-1897 (67)
Michael Hudner
billionaire, shipping magnate, co-founder of B+H Ocean Carriers (Bergvall+Hudner Company) in 1978, president of Navinvest Marine Services
bhships.com
Michel David-Weill living
Chairman of Eurazeo, vice-chairman of Groupe Danone, investment banker, former chairman of Lazard Frères Banque, author of A Taste for Happiness
1932- (92)
eurazeo.com
Minnie Cushing
Socialiate, philanthropist, art collector, surgeons daugther, married to Vincent Astor and then James Whitney Fosburgh
1906-1978 (72)
nytimes.com
Moses Yale Beach
genealogist, pioneer in geneology, socialite, publisher of Genealogical and Geographical Notices of the Principal Persons in 1846, The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York
Neva Goodwin living
Nicholas Eberstadt living
Political economist, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), author of Poverty in China, The North Korean Economy, The End of North Korea, A Nation of Takers, The Tyranny of Numbers, The Poverty of Communism, Men Without Work
1955- (69)
Nick Rohatyn
founder of TRG (2002), crypto, partner and CEO of the Rohatyn Group
rohatyngroup.com
Owney Madden
prohibition era gangster aka The Killer, nightclub manager of the Cotton Club
Paul Singer living
Hedge fund manager, billionaire, activist investor in Start-Up Nation Central, startups, president and co-CEO of Elliott Management, known as a vulture capitalist for his role with EMC, LGBTQ activist investor, philanthropist
1944- (80)
elliottmgmt.com
Peter Stuyvesant living
settler, colonial governor of the colony of New Netherland from 1647-1664 until it ceded territory to England (as the United States of New York and New Jersey)
1592- (432)
britannica.com
Philippe Laffont
Billionaire financier, hedge funds, founder of Coatue Management
linkedin.com
Piet Mondrian
Painter, post-impressionism artist
1872-1944 (72)
piet-mondrian.org
Ralph Schneider
co-founder and chairman of the Diner's Club, financier, pioneer in credit cards
1909-1964 (55)
Ray Kurzweil living
Futurist, author of Superintelligence, The Singularity is Near, transhumanism, singularity, computer scientist, inventor, pioneer in optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, director of engineering at Google (Alphabet), consumed 250 supplements daily to beat cancer and diabetes
1948- (76)
Robert David Steele
CIA intelligence officer, special agent, secret service agent, political commentator, politics, CIA whistleblower, died of bronchitis or pneumonia
1952-2021 (69)
robertdavidsteele.com
Robert De Niro living
Actor, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Casino, Meet The Fockers
1943- (81)
Robert Lehman
investment banker, former CEO at Lehman Brothers, art collector of 2600 paintings, racehorse owner
1891-1969 (78)
metmuseum.org
Robert Moses
Urban planner for New York City, public official, civil servant, civil engineering
1888-1981 (93)
Robert Rubin living
chairman emeritus, co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 2007-2017 with Carla A. Hills, banker, economist, 70th US Secretary of the Treasury, counselor at Centerview Partners in 2010
1938- (86)
cfr.org
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System since 1997, former President and CEO at TIAA
federalreservehistory.org
Roy Lichtenstein
parody pop artist, modern contemporary artist, pioneer in the new arts movement
1923-1997 (74)
lichtensteinfoundation.org
Samuel P. Huntington
American historian, academic scholar, advisor, professor, political scientist, author of political theory "The Clash of Civilizations", director of the Harvard Center of International Affairs, linked to PW Botha in the Apartheid of South Africa, coined the term the "Davos Men"
1927-2008 (81)
Seymour Durst
Commercial real estate investor, office buildings, inventor of the National Debt Clock
1913-1995 (82)
Shari Arison living
Billionaire heiress of the Ted Arison Family Foundation, philanthropist, investor, hedge fund manager, owner of Arison Investments (Arison Group)
1957- (67)
shariarison.com
William Tecumseh Sherman
US general in the American Civil War, leader of the Union forces between 1864-1865, the Sherman tank is named after him
1820-1891 (71)
britannica.com
Stanley Kubrick
screenwriter, photographer, legendary film director, film producer, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr Strangelove, mystic, psychic, remote viewer
1928-1999 (71)
Tatiana Casiraghi
Fashion designer, co-founder of Muzungu Sisters, wife of Andrea Casiraghi
Nikola Tesla
Electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, theoretical physicist, Death Ray teleforce plasma gun, dynamic theory of gravity, inventor of the alternator in 1896, alternating-current (AC) power system, automobile speedometers, mechanical rev counters, radio broadcasting, bladeless turbines, electrotherapy machines, inventor, invented the A/C induction motor, fluorescent light, x-rays, wireless radio telegraph, awarded the Order of the Yugoslav Crown, his father was an archbishop Orthodox priest
1856-1943 (87)
Thomas J. Watson
Businessman, entrepreneur, founder, chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) from 1914-1956, diplomat, US ambassador in Moscow Russia
1874-1956 (82)
ibm.com
Anthony D. Marshall
CIA intelligence officer, ambassador, son of Brooke Astor, Dryden Kuser
1924-2014 (90)
Vincent Mangano
mobster, head of the Gambino crime family, one of the Five Families of the American Mafia
Walter Annenberg
Billionaire news magnate, businessman, news publisher for the Inquirer, Ambassador the United Kingdom, investor, founded Annenberg Foundation with his wife Leonore Annenberg
Walter N. Rothschild
Chairman and President of Federated Department Stores from 1937-1960, Lazarus of Columbus, Filene's of Boston, his father Abraham Rothschild founded Abraham and Straus department stores in New York
1892-1960 (68)
Walter Winchell
Vaudeville theatre performer, news writer at Hearst, tabloid journalist, celebrity gossip columnist, radio broadcaster, comedian, lieutenant commander in the US Navy, military veteran
1897-1972 (75)
Whitney Straight
Grand Prix racecar driver, aviator of the Pratt & Whitney (Raytheon, United Technologies) aerospace family dynasty
1912-1979 (67)
William H. Donaldson
Lawyer, attorney, co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
William James
Educator, known as the father of American psychology, first teacher of psychology in the United States, psychologist, philosopher, historian
1842-1910 (68)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu
William Safire
Political commentator, journalist, columnist at the New York Times, author of On Language, Lend Me Your Ears, Freedom
1929-2009 (80)