Mills College Honorary Degree Recipients
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List of Mills College
, Oakland, California
, U.S.A., honorary degree recipients:
Mills College
Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...
, Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
, U.S.A., honorary degree recipients:
- 2010 - Dolores Huerta
- 2010 - Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiNancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and served as the 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011...
- 2010 - Betty Wo
- 2009 - Stephanie Mills
- 2009 - Kavita RamdasKavita Ramdas-Background and Affiliations:Ramdas was born in Delhi, India and grew up in Mumbai, Delhi, London, Rangoon, and Bonn. She attended high school at the Nikolaus Cusanus Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany; the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and graduated from Springdales School, New...
- 2009 - Renel Brooks-MoonRenel Brooks-MoonRenel Brooks-Moon is the public address announcer for the San Francisco Giants, as well as a local radio personality. She is known for her booming voice and ability to announce each Giants player with a unique spin on their name....
- 2008 - Glenn Voyles
- 2008 - Rita MorenoRita MorenoRita Moreno is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award....
- 2007 - Shirley M. TilghmanShirley M. TilghmanShirley Marie Tilghman, FRS is a scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator, the President of Princeton University. She is the first woman to hold the position and only the second female president in the Ivy League...
- 2007 - Roselyne Chroman Swig
- 2006 - Barbara BoxerBarbara BoxerBarbara Levy Boxer is the junior United States Senator from California . A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives ....
- 2005 - Vivian M. Stephenson
- 2005 - Ronald V. Dellums
- 2004 - Lorry Lokey
- 2004 - Pauline OliverosPauline OliverosPauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
- 2003 - Lois De Domenico
- 2003 - Earl F. Cheit
- 2003 - Eleanor Holmes NortonEleanor Holmes NortonEleanor Holmes Norton is a Delegate to Congress representing the District of Columbia. In her position she is able to serve on and vote with committees, as well as speak from the House floor...
- 2002 - Thoraya Ahmed Obaid ’66
- 2001 - Antonia Hernández
- 2001 - Suzanne AdamsSuzanne AdamsSuzanne Adams was an American lyric coloratura soprano. Known for her agile and pure voice, Adams first became well known in France before establishing herself as one of the Metropolitan Opera's leading sopranos at the beginning of the twentieth century.-Biography:Adams was born in Cambridge,...
- 2000 - Herma Hill Kay
- 2000 - Mary Catherine BatesonMary Catherine BatesonMary Catherine Bateson is an American writer and cultural anthropologist.A graduate of the Brearley School, Bateson is the daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Since 1960, she has been married to Barkev Kassarjian, a professor of business management at Babson College...
- 2000 - Isabel AllendeIsabel AllendeIsabel Allende Llona is a Chilean writer with American citizenship. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts , which have been commercially successful...
- 1999 - Barbara LeeBarbara LeeBarbara Jean Lee is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1998. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the first woman to represent that district. Lee was the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and was the Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus...
’73 - 1999 - Lenore BlumLenore BlumLenore Blum is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. Her dissertation was on Generalized Algebraic Structures and her advisor was Gerald Sacks...
- 1999 - Johnnetta Cole
- 1998 - Eleanor HadleyEleanor HadleyEleanor Martha Hadley was an American academic, economist, and professor at Smith College and George Washington University.-Early life:Hadley was born in 1916, in Seattle...
’38 - 1998 - Anita L. DeFrantz
- 1997 - Trisha BrownTrisha BrownTrisha Brown is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. For several summers she studied with Louis Horst at the American Dance...
- 1997 - Chang-Lin TienChang-Lin TienChang-lin Tien was a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering and university administrator. He was the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley , the first Asian to head a major university in the United States.-Early years:Born in Huangpi, Wuhan, China, Tien and...
- 1997 - Evelyn Cisneros
- 1996 - Marian Wright EdelmanMarian Wright EdelmanMarian Wright Edelman is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.-Early years:...
- 1995 - Tillie OlsenTillie OlsenTillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.-Biography:...
- 1995 - Paula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn AllenPaula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation...
- 1994 - Alice WatersAlice WatersAlice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.Waters opened the restaurant in 1971. It has consistently ranked...
- 1994 - Angela Glover BlackwellAngela Glover BlackwellAngela Glover Blackwell is the founder and president of PolicyLink, which is "[A] national research and action institute that works collaboratively to develop and implement local, state, and federal policies to achieve economic and social equity...
- 1994 - Dennis A. Collins
- 1993 - Margaret Wentworth Owings
- 1993 - Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr.
- 1992 - Kathleen BrownKathleen BrownKathleen Lynn Brown is a Democratic politician from California. She is the youngest of four children of former Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown and is the sister of current California Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr...
- 1992 - Jane Newhall ’36
- 1992 - Wilma MankillerWilma MankillerWilma Pearl Mankiller was the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She served as principal chief for ten years from 1985 to 1995.-Early life:...
- 1992 - Virginia B. Smith
- 1991 - Beate Sirota Gordon ’43
- 1990 - Carolyn KizerCarolyn KizerCarolyn Ashley Kizer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.-Life and work:...
- 1989 - April GlaspieApril GlaspieApril Catherine Glaspie is a former American diplomat, best known for her role in the events leading up to the Persian Gulf War of 1991.-Early life and career:...
- 1988 - Lou HarrisonLou HarrisonLou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...
- 1987 - Madeleine MilhaudMadeleine MilhaudMadeleine Milhaud was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French composer.Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels...
- 1986 - Rosalyn Yalow
- 1986 - Jennifer Losch BartlettJennifer BartlettJennifer Losch Bartlett is an American artist. She is best-known for paintings combining abstract and representational styles.-Education:...
’63 - 1985 - Dianne FeinsteinDianne FeinsteinDianne Goldman Berman Feinstein is the senior U.S. Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988....
- 1985 - Anna Jane Harrison
- 1984 - Sylvia F. Porter
- 1984 - Mary E. Lanigar ’38
- 1982 - Ansel AdamsAnsel AdamsAnsel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
- 1982 - Dave BrubeckDave BrubeckDavid Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...
- 1980 - Esther R. Landa ’33, MA ’37
- 1978 - James David Hart
- 1977 - Carla Anderson HillsCarla Anderson HillsCarla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and a public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative...
- 1976 - Constance Wong Ong (Jade Snow WongJade Snow WongJade Snow Wong was an American ceramic artist and author of two autobiographical volumes.- Biography :Wong was born in San Francisco and brought her family that maintained traditional Chinese customs...
) ’42 - 1976 - Robert Joseph Wert
- 1975 - Maya AngelouMaya AngelouMaya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
- 1975 - Imogen CunninghamImogen CunninghamImogen Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals, nudes and industry.-Life and career:...
- 1974 - Mary Woods Bennett
- 1973 - Leslie Langnecker Luttgens
- 1973 - Laura ThompsonLaura ThompsonLaura Thompson is a Canadian musician and music columnist for CBC Newsworld's daily arts wrap, CBC News: The Scene.Thompson is also a producer on The Scene and a member of Toronto-based pop band The Good Soldiers.-External links:*...
’27 - 1973 - Eugene Edgar Trefethen, Jr.
- 1972 - Richard Wall LymanRichard Wall LymanRichard Wall Lyman is an American educator, historian, and professor at the Stanford University School of Education.He served as the provost of Stanford University between 1967 and 1970. He then served as president of Stanford University from 1970 to 1980...
- 1972 - Mary Louise James O’Brien
- 1970 - William Parmer Fuller Brawner
- 1969 - Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
- 1968 - Walter Abraham Haas
- 1968 - Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser
- 1967 - Kathryn Grove Shipp
- 1967 - Camille Mermod
- 1967 - Dixy Lee RayDixy Lee RayDixy Lee Ray was the 17th Governor of the U.S. State of Washington. She was Washington's first female governor.-Early years:...
- 1967 - Darius MilhaudDarius MilhaudDarius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
- 1967 - Charles Easton Rothwell
- 1967 - John Ewart Wallace Sterling
- 1966 - Marian AndersonMarian AndersonMarian Anderson was an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century...
- 1966 - Martha GrahamMartha GrahamMartha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
- 1965 - Bernhard Blume
- 1965 - Claire Giannini Hoffman
- 1965 - Josephine MilesJosephine MilesJosephine Miles was an American poet and literary critic; the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism....
- 1965 - Maurine Brown NeubergerMaurine Brown NeubergerMaurine Brown Neuberger was an United States senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967. She was the fourth woman elected to the United States Senate and the tenth woman to serve in the body. She and her husband, Richard L. Neuberger, are regarded as the Senate's first...
- 1964 - Dorothy Stimson BullittDorothy Stimson BullittDorothy Stimson Bullitt was a radio and television pioneer who founded King Broadcasting Company, a major owner of broadcast stations in Seattle, Washington...
- 1964 - Constantinos Arostolou Doxiadis
- 1964 - Sir George Bailey Sansom
- 1964 - General Lauris Norstad
- 1963 - Kate Hevner Mueller
- 1963 - Virginia Foisie Rusk
- 1963 - Ei Komada
- 1963 - Phillips Talbot
- 1962 - Katherine EsauKatherine EsauKatherine Esau was a German-American botanist.She was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire to a family of Mennonites of German descent. After the Revolution her family moved to Germany, and then to California, where she achieved her doctorate in 1931...
- 1962 - Herbert Edwin Hall
- 1962 - George Frederick Reinhardt
- 1962 - Emma Moffat McLaughlin
- 1961 - Charlotte D’Evelyn
- 1961 - Margaret Habein
- 1961 - Edith Ronald Mirrielees
- 1961 - Luis Monguio
- 1960 - Edith Margaret Coulter
- 1960 - William Leonard Langer
- 1960 - Wendell Meredith StanleyWendell Meredith StanleyWendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BS in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He then studied at the University of Illinois, gaining an MS in science in 1927 followed by...
- 1959 - Cora Du Bois
- 1958 - Angela Diller
- 1958 - Georgia Elma Harknoss
- 1958 - John Edwin Pomfret
- 1958 - Lynn Townsend White, Jr.Lynn Townsend White, Jr.Lynn Townsend White, Jr. was a professor of medieval history at Princeton, Stanford and, for many years, University of California, Los Angeles. He was president of Mills College, Oakland from 1943 to 1958....
- 1957 - Margaret Chase SmithMargaret Chase SmithMargaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name...
- 1957 - Pearl Anderson Wanamaker
- 1956 - George Keith Funston
- 1955 - Helenor Campbell Wilder Foerster
- 1955 - Edwin Grabhorn
- 1955 - Agnes Ernst Meyer
- 1954 - Katherine Fleming Branson
- 1954 - Detlev Wulf Bronk
- 1954 - Warren Olney III
- 1953 - Flora Belle Ludington
- 1953 - Marjorie Hope NicolsonMarjorie Hope NicolsonMarjorie Hope Nicolson , was born February 18, 1894 in Yonkers, New York, USA, the daughter of Charles Butler Nicolson, editor-in-chief of the Detroit Free Press during World War I and later that paper's correspondent in Washington, DC, and Lissie Hope Morris.She graduated from the University of...
- 1952 - Agnes George DeMille
- 1952 - Lillian Moller GilbrethLillian Moller GilbrethLillian Moller Gilbreth was an American psychologist and industrial engineer. One of the first working female engineers holding a Ph.D., she is arguably the first true industrial/organizational psychologist. She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr...
- 1952 - Elinor Raas Heller
- 1952 - Ruth Marian Leach
- 1952 - Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'KeeffeGeorgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists...
- 1952 - Helen Crocker Russell
- 1952 - Esther Dayman Strong
- 1952 - Katherine Amelia Towle
- 1951 - Lotte LehmannLotte LehmannCharlotte "Lotte" Lehmann was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Puccini, Mozart and Massenet. The Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest...
- 1951 - Stephen Fielding Bayne, Jr.
- 1951 - William Fife Knowland
- 1950 - Cornelia Otis SkinnerCornelia Otis SkinnerCornelia Otis Skinner was an American author and actress.-Biography:Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud Skinner. After attending the all-girls' Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr College and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage...
- 1950 - Jessamyn WestJessamyn West (writer)Mary Jessamyn West was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion ....
- 1950 - Annette Abott Adams
- 1950 - Rosalind Cassidy
- 1949 - Sarah Gibson BlandingSarah Gibson BlandingSarah Gibson Blanding was an American educator and academic administrator who served as Vassar’s sixth president and its first female president...
- 1949 - Earl WarrenEarl WarrenEarl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...
- 1949 - Alice Tisdale Hobart
- 1949 - Dorothy McCullough Lee
- 1948 - Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong
- 1948 - Dorothy Wright Liebes MorinDorothy LiebesDorothy Wright Liebes was an American textile designer and weaver renowned for her innovative, custom-designed modern fabrics for architects and interior designers. She was known as "the mother of modern weaving".- Early life :...
- 1948 - David Dean Rusk
- 1947 - Louis Booker WrightLouis Booker WrightLouis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian.Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.-Publications:Wright, Louis B. The Colonial...
- 1947 - Lily Ross TaylorLily Ross TaylorLily Ross Taylor is an American academic and author, who in 1917 became the first female Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.-Biography:...
- 1947 - Gabriela MistralGabriela MistralGabriela Mistral was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945...
- 1946 - Vera BrittainVera BrittainVera Mary Brittain was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.-Life:Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the...
- 1946 - Edward Lambe Parsons
- 1946 - Mary Yost
- 1945 - Esther Caukin Brunauer
- 1945 - Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
- 1945 - Florence Horsbrugh
- 1945 - Bertha Lutz
- 1945 - Wu Yi-fang
- 1945 - Herbert Vere Evatt
- 1944 - German Arciniogas
- 1944 - Mabel Ray Gillis
- 1944 - Erico Vorissimo
- 1943 - Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
- 1943 - Robert Gordon SproulRobert Gordon SproulRobert Gordon Sproul was eleventh President of the University of California serving from 1930 to 1958....
- 1943 - Marian Long Stebbins
- 1943 - Cornelia McKinney Stanwood
- 1942 - Leonora Wood Armsby
- 1942 - June Richardson Lucas
- 1942 - Emma Moffat McLaughlin
- 1942 - Hattie Hecht Sloss
- 1942 - Jade Wong Wu
- 1941 - Michi Kawai
- 1940 - Dexter Morriam Keezer
- 1940 - Frederic William Goudy
- 1940 - Pearl Chase
- 1939 - Eve CurieÈve CurieÈve Denise Curie Labouisse was a French-American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie...
- 1939 - Louise Arner Boyd
- 1939 - Althea Warren
- 1939 - Pierre MonteuxPierre MonteuxPierre Monteux was an orchestra conductor. Born in Paris, France, Monteux later became an American citizen.-Life and career:Monteux was born in Paris in 1875. His family was descended from Sephardi Jews who came to France in the wake of the Spanish Inquisition. He studied violin from an early age,...
- 1939 - Dorothy Macardlo
- 1938 - Mary Emma WoolleyMary Emma WoolleyMary Emma Woolley was an American educator, peace activist and women's suffrage supporter. She was the first female student to attend Brown University and served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1900-1937....
- 1938 - Antonia BricoAntonia BricoAntonia Brico was a conductor and pianist.Brico was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She and her foster parents immigrated to the United States in 1908 and settled in California. On leaving high school in Oakland in 1919 she was already an accomplished pianist and had experience in conducting...
- 1937 - Olga Bridgman
- 1937 - Yves Mario De Bellefon
- 1937 - Robert French Leavens
- 1937 - Anna Cox Brinton
- 1937 - Charles Reynolds BrownCharles Reynolds BrownCharles Reynolds Brown was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, W. Va. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University...
- 1937 - William Edward ColbyWilliam Edward Colbyright|225pxWilliam Edward Colby was an American lawyer, conservationist, and first Secretary of the Sierra Club.-Early life and education:...
- 1937 - Monroe Emanuel Deutsch
- 1937 - Katharine Folton
- 1937 - Susan Kingsbury
- 1937 - Grace McCann Morley
- 1937 - Maude Roydon
- 1937 - Roswell Gray Ham
- 1936 - Frederick Morgan Padelford
- 1936 - Jules RomainsJules RomainsJules Romains, born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule , was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement...
- 1935 - Robert Andrews Killikan
- 1935 - Gertrude AthertonGertrude AthertonGertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was an American writer.-Early Childhood:Gertrude Franklin Horn was born on October 30, 1857 in San Francisco to Thomas Ludovich Horn and his wife, the former Gertrude Franklin...
- 1935 - Jessica Peixotto
- 1934 - Herman Phleger
- 1934 - Clelia Duel MosherClelia Duel MosherClelia Duel Mosher was a physician, hygienist and women's health advocate who disapproved of Victorian stereotypes about the physical incapacities of women...
- 1934 - Joseph R. KnowlandJoseph R. KnowlandJoseph Russell Knowland was an American politician and newspaper publisher. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California and was owner, editor and publisher of the Oakland Tribune. He was the father of United States Senator William F...
- 1934 - Albert Bender
- 1933 - Frederic Logan Parson
- 1933 - Lucy Ward StebbinsLucy Ward StebbinsLucy Ward Stebbins was the Dean of Women at University of California, Berkeley.Lucy Ward Stebbins was born in San Francisco in 1880. She was the daughter of Horatio Stebbins, pastor of the San Francisco First Unitarian Church and Regent for UC Berkeley...
- 1933 - Kathleen Parlow
- 1933 - Sara Bard Field
- 1932 - Dorothy Frances Wilson
- 1932 - Adelaide Brown
- 1932 - Emily Wilson
- 1931 - Robert DollarRobert DollarCaptain Robert Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland. The title "Captain" was honorary and he was called the “Grand Old Man of the Pacific". Both were bestowed after his entry into the shipping industry. Dollar became a lumber baron, shipping magnate, philanthropist; he was also a Freemason...
- 1931 - William Bennet Munro
- 1931 - Caroline Hasard
- 1931 - Sara Margery Fry
- 1929 - Charles Henry Rieber
- 1928 - Elizabeth Sprague CoolidgeElizabeth Sprague CoolidgeElizabeth Sprague Coolidge aka Liz Coolidge , born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, was an American pianist and patron of music, especially of chamber music....
- 1928 - Mary Hunter AustinMary Hunter AustinMary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain describes the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of...
- 1927 - Mary Roberts Coolidge
- 1927 - Edwin MarkhamEdwin MarkhamCharles Edwin Anson Markham was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.-Life:Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children; his parents divorced shortly after his birth...
- 1925 - Norman Frank Coleman
- 1925 - Clara Bradley Bardette
- 1925 - William Frederic Bade
- 1925 - William Andrews Clark, Jr.William Andrews Clark, Jr.William Andrews Clark, Jr. , son of U.S. senator and billionaire William Andrews Clark, was the founder of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1919. Clark also had a hand in the construction of the Hollywood Bowl. Clark was an avid collector of rare books, especially fine prints...
- 1925 - Hettie Belle Ege
- 1925 - Albert Maurice Bender
- 1925 - David Prescott Barrows
- 1925 - Luella Clay Carson
- 1923 - Melville Best Anderson
- 1923 - Ina Donna Coolbrith
- 1923 - Lou Henry HooverLou Henry HooverLou Henry Hoover was the wife of President of the United States Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States, 1929-1933. Mrs. Hoover was president of the Girl Scouts of the USA for two terms, 1922-1925 and 1935-1937....
- 1923 - Bernard Ralph Maybeck
- 1923 - John Henry Nash
- 1920 - Lucinda Wyman Prince
- 1903 - Jane Cordelia Tolman
- 1902 - Emma Wixom Palmer
- 1902 - Louis Lisser