* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist ( d. 1985 )

* 1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist ( d. 2006 )

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

Another criticism is that universities tend more to pseudo-intellectualism than intellectualism per se ; for example, to protect their positions and prestige, academicians may over-complicate problems and express them in obscure language ( e. g., the Sokal affair, a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal attempting to show that American humanities professors invoke complicated, pseudoscientific jargon to support their political positions.

* 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

* 1992 – Gerard K. O ' Neill, American physicist ( b. 1927 )

* 1999 – Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer ( b. 1927 )

* 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1961 )

The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist Alan Guth, who named it " inflation ".

Building on the work of Clausius, between the years 1873-76 the American mathematical physicist Willard Gibbs published a series of three papers, the most famous one being the paper On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.

* 1923 – Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist

* 1958 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1900 )

* 1964 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1883 )

* 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

* 1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1948 – Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist ( b. 1883 )

* 1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1986 )

* 1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1999 )

* 1934 – John Norris Bahcall, American physicist ( d. 2005 )

Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor ( d. 1967 )

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

* 1953 – J. Neil Schulman, American writer

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician

* 1888 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist, bandleader, and composer ( d. 1943 )

* 1862 – American Civil War: Major General J. E. B.

* 1954 – Sam J. Jones, American actor

* 1979 – D. J. Houlton, American baseball player

* 1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player

* 1985 – J. Evan Bonifant, American actor

* 1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet and author

* 1984 – B. J. Upton, American baseball player

* 1983 – J. C. Bailey, American wrestler ( d. 2010 )

* 1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American judge

* Frank J. Aquila ( born 1957 ), American lawyer

The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy.

* 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier ( d. 1913 )

* 1961 – Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader

* 1982 – Terrence J, American ator and television host

* 1906 – William J. Brennan, American Supreme Court Justice ( d. 1997 )