* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author

* 1938 – Stanley Fish, American theorist and scholar

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

* William Chomsky ( 1896 – 1977 ), American scholar of Hebrew

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

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.

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

Throughout the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, American scholar Bertrand Harris Bronson published an exhaustive, four-volume collection of the then-known variations of both the texts and tunes associated with what came to be known as the Child Canon.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

* 1921 – Edward Seidensticker, American scholar ( d. 2007 )

Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.

Rosemary Radford Ruether the American feminist scholar and theologian wrote a book called " Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing ".

* 1938 – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American scholar and historian

* 1902 – E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar ( d. 1965 )

* John H. Brown, American scholar of public diplomacy

Jacob Neusner ( born July 28, 1932 ) is an American academic scholar of Judaism who lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

An American scholar and government advisor, Doak Barnett, praised Ma Bufang's government as " one of the most efficient in China, and one of the most energetic.

* 1927 – Robert Bork, American legal scholar

* 1927 – Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar, and cleric ( d. 2007 )

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

Army of Mississippi in Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.

* 1947 – David Letterman, American comedian and talk show host

* 1950 – David Cassidy, American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist ( The Partridge Family )

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

* 1971 – David Monahan, American actor

" In Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler.

* 1960 – David Yow, American singer-songwriter ( Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui )

* 1890 – David Wilber, American politician ( b. 1820 )

* 1969 – David Wain, American actor

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1950 – David Graf, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, American singer

* 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

* 1964 – David Kohan, American television producer and writer

* 1862 – American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.

* 1941 – David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and CPR )

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

* 1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer

* 1934 – David Durenberger, American politician

* 1961 – David Morales, American DJ and producer

* 1938 – David Canary, American actor

* 1962 – David Packer, American actor