* 1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( b. 1857 )

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

* 1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist ( d. 1962 )

* 1902 – Talcott Parsons, American sociologist, ( d. 1979 )

The American sociologist Lester Frank Ward and the English writer G. K. Chesterton were early critics of the philosophy of eugenics.

* 1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian

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.

* 1937 – Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher

* 1910 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist ( d. 2003 )

* 1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist ( d. 1929 )

* 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American sociologist

In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that " technology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them.

One example of the clash of intellectual culture and Adorno's methods can be found in Paul Lazarsfeld, the American sociologist for whom Adorno worked in the middle 1930s after fleeing Hitler.

" In the American Monthly Review magazine, Richard York and the sociologist Brett Clark praised the book's thematic concentration, saying that " rather than attempt a grand critique of all ' scientific ' efforts aimed at justifying social inequalities, Gould performs a well-reasoned assessment of the errors underlying a specific set of theories and empirical claims.

Theodor Holm Nelson ( born June 17, 1937 ) is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology ( IT sociolosopher ).

Political scientists such as French sociologist Maurice Duverger as well as American professor William H. Riker of the University of Rochester and others speculate that there are correlations between voting rules and type of party system.

The United States sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz compared the attraction of Unification teachings for American young people at this time to the hippie and radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

* March 20 – C. Wright Mills, American sociologist ( b. 1916 )

* May 11 – Albion Woodbury Small, American sociologist ( d. 1926 )

* Barney Glaser, American sociologist

* Dalton Conley, American sociologist

" American sociologist James Q. Wilson encapsulated this argument as the Broken Window Theory, which asserts that relatively minor problems left unattended ( such as litter, graffiti, or public urination by homeless individuals ) send a subliminal message that disorder in general is being tolerated, and as a result, more serious crimes will end up being committed ( the analogy being that a broken window left unrepaired shows an image of general dilapidation ).

The American sociologist David G. Bromley defined the apostate role as follows and distinguished it from the defector and whistleblower roles.

Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.

* 1923 – Al Lewis, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1961 – Dawnn Lewis, American actress

* 1979 – Rashard Lewis, American basketball player

* 1903 – Lewis Sargent, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, author, and actor

* 1888 – Duffy Lewis, American baseball player ( d. 1979 )

* 1901 – Al Lewis, American lyricist ( d. 1967 )

* 1915 – Joy Davidman, American poet and writer, wife of C. S. Lewis ( d. 1960 )

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

In 1974, long-time mayor Lewis Easterlin and a group of concerned citizens decided to promote tourism in the town by turning the clock back and making Andersonville look much as it did during the American Civil War.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

* 1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi / fantasy author

* 1803 – Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence ( b. 1713 )

* 1925 – Lewis Glucksman, American financier ( d. 2006 )

* 1935 – Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer ( d. 2001 )

* 1940 – John Lewis, American politician and civil rights activist

* 1812 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler ( d. 1902 )

* 1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1943 – Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter

* 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general ( d. 1863 )

Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS ( October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946 ) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond ( see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper " The Atom and the Molecule "), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments.