* 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 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

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

" He closely followed Henry Clay in supporting the American Colonization Society program of making the abolition of slavery practical by helping the freed slaves to settle in Liberia in Africa.

* Henry Austin ( architect ) ( 1804 – 1891 ), American architect

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

* 1904 – Henry Iba, American basketball player and coach ( d. 1993 )

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

* 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

Both the American and the Annales historians picked up important family reconstitution techniques from French demographer Louis Henry.

* 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1893 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist ( d. 1962 )

* 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer ( d. 2001 )

* 1923 – Gloria Henry, American actress

* 1811 – Henry Bergh, American activist and writer, founder of ASPCA ( d. 1888 )

* 1924 – Henry Hyde, American politician ( d. 2007 )

Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian English and British English would be mutually unintelligible.

The figurative style of his large bronzes is perceived as an important precursor to the greater simplifications of Henry Moore and Alberto Giacometti, and his serene classicism set a standard for European ( and American ) figure sculpture until the end of World War II.

* African American Lives, edited by Henry L. Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Oxford University Press, 2004 — more than 600 biographies.

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )