* 1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist ( d. 1990 )

* 1936 – James Dobson, American evangelist, author, and psychologist, founder of Focus on the Family

* 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist ( b. 1844 )

Burrhus Frederic " B. F ." Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990 ) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.

Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987 ) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

* 1928 – Ulric Neisser, American cognitive psychologist

* 1949 – Robert Sternberg, American psychologist and psychometrician

* 1986 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist ( b. 1912 )

The pioneering American psychologist William James commented that:

* Jaak Panksepp ( born 1943 ) – Estonian-born American psychologist, psychobiologist and neuroscientist ; pioneer in affective neuroscience.

American psychologist.

* 1987 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist ( b. 1902 )

* 1918 – Jane Loevinger, American psychologist ( d. 2008 )

Herbert Alexander Simon ( June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001 ) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor — most notably at Carnegie Mellon University — whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.

Clark L. Hull, an eminent American psychologist, published the first major compilation of laboratory studies on hypnosis, Hypnosis & Suggestibility ( 1933 ), in which he proved that hypnosis and sleep had nothing in common.

American psychologist Henry H. Goddard published a translation of it in 1910.

American psychologist Lewis Terman at Stanford University revised the Binet-Simon scale, which resulted in the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales ( 1916 ).

Walter Dill Scott, who was elected President of the American Psychological Association ( APA ) in 1919, was arguably the most prominent I – O psychologist of his time, although James McKeen Cattell ( elected APA President in 1895 ) and Hugo Münsterberg ( 1898 ) were influential in the early development of the field.

* 1877 – Lewis Terman, American psychologist ( d. 1956 )

* 1912 – Carl Iver Hovland, American psychologist ( d. 1961 )

* 1842 – William James, American psychologist and philosopher ( d. 1910 )

* 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist ( b. 1908 )

* 1904 – James J. Gibson, American ecological psychologist ( d. 1979 )

* 1943 – Howard Gardner, American psychologist

* 1947 – Richard C. McCarty, American psychologist and academic

* 1941 – Dr. Demento, American radio personality

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.

-- Dr. Charles Harpole in " History of American Cinema " Scribner / U. Calif Press.

The shield was cast by American metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain, who was contracted by the U. S. government, from orders of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to create an impenetrable substance to use for tanks during World War II.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

The two-disc set includes the American television version and the theatrical version Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow in widescreen format.

* 1833 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American physician ( d. 1883 )

Theodor Seuss Geisel (; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991 ) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone.

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

* 1965 – Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper ( World Class Wreckin ' Cru and N. W. A )

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented November 4, 1862.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "

* 1949 – Dennis Locorriere, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show )

* 1883 – Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor ( b. 1833 )

* Dr. Judah Folkman, American cellular biologist, founder of the field of antiangiogenesis

As for the whale shark, Dr. E. W. Gudger, an Honorary Associate in Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, noted that " while the mouth is cavernous, the throat itself is only four inches wide and has a sharp elbow or bend behind the opening.

He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).

The band did find some success at the American Music Awards, as Dr. Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock / Metal Award, losing once to Guns N ' Roses ' Appetite for Destruction, but winning the following year, beating out Aerosmith's Pump and Poison's Flesh And Blood.

* 1904 – Dr. Seuss ( Theodor Seuss Geisel ), American author ( d. 1991 )

* 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

* 1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.