* 1952 – Will Durst, American political satirist

* 1956 – Steve Doocy, American television satirist

Thomas Andrew Lehrer ( born April 9, 1928 ) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician.

* May 13 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian and satirist

** Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, American disc jockey and political satirist

* December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist ( d. 1993 )

* May 27 – John Kendrick Bangs, American author and satirist ( d. 1922 )

* June 24 – Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American writer and satirist ( d. ca.

** Pat Paulsen, American comedian and political satirist ( d. 1997 )

" O ' Rourke ( born November 14, 1947 ) is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author.

American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion.

William Melvin " Bill " Hicks ( December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994 ) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.

Henry Louis " H. L ." Mencken ( September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956 ), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.

Vincent Canby, in his November 1976 review of the film for The New York Times, called the film " outrageous ... brilliantly, cruelly funny, a topical American comedy that confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position as a major new American satirist " and a film whose " wickedly distorted views of the way television looks, sounds, and, indeed, is, are the satirist's cardiogram of the hidden heart, not just of television but also of the society that supports it and is, in turn, supported.

* John Trumbull ( 1750 – 1831 ), American political satirist and poet, was born in Watertown.

Maddox, an American internet satirist famous for his site The Best Page in the Universe, and author of the book " The Alphabet of Manliness ", is a graduate of the Woods Cross High School.

* Stephen Colbert ( b. 1964 ), American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host

* Stephen Colbert ( born 1964 ), American political satirist, comedian, and television host

* Mo Rocca ( born 1969 ), American writer, comedian, and political satirist

Neoism was coined in 1914 by the American satirist Franklin P. Adams as a parody of modern arts.

In 2002 the Chicago Tribune, in a review of The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo, noted: " The wry, ornery, brilliantly perceptive satirist will go down as one of the Great American Humorists.

* 1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician ( d. 2001 )

* 1934 – Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician ( d. 2007 )

* 1909 – Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician ( d. 2005 )

* 1951 – Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician

September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, sometimes known as " the father of pragmatism ".

* American mathematician Alonzo Church created a method for defining functions called the λ-calculus,

* 1948 – Luis Caffarelli, Argentine-born American mathematician

* 1895 – Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician ( d. 1969 )

* 1917 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1932 – Gene Golub, American mathematician ( d. 2007 )

Freeman John Dyson FRS ( born December 15, 1923 ) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.

* John Wesley Young ( 1879 – 1932 ), American mathematician

* 1928 – John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1933 – Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician ( d. 2007 )

* 1888 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1980 )

* 1938 – Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist

* 1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician

* John Forbes Nash, Jr. ( born 1928 ), American mathematician, 1994 Nobel Economics laureate, subject of the book and film titled A Beautiful Mind

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (; ; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978 ) was an Austrian American logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

* 1921 – Frank Harary, American mathematician ( d. 2005 )

* 1917 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist ( d. 2008 )

* 1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician ( b. 1773 )

* 1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician ( d. 1977 )

* 1917 – Irving Kaplansky, American mathematician ( d. 2006 )