New England Leaders in the Cold War and Beyond

List of People: New England

New England leaders drove modern political and technological progress. President John F. Kennedy navigated severe Cold War crises, while Ted Kennedy championed major social legislation. Regional institutions like MIT and Harvard nurtured pioneers who spurred the digital revolution and biotech industry.

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Year	New England
1868	Birth of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Location: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States)
1871	Birth of James Weldon Johnson (Location: Jacksonville, Florida, United States)
1880	Birth of George Catlett Marshall Jr. (Location: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States)
1882	Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Location: Hyde Park, New York, United States)
1884	Birth of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1885	Birth of Chester William Nimitz (Location: Fredericksburg, Texas, United States)
1888	Birth of John Foster Dulles (Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Birth of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1889	Birth of Asa Philip Randolph (Location: Crescent City, Florida, United States)
1890	Birth of Dwight David Eisenhower (Location: Denison, Texas, United States)
1891	Birth of William Averell Harriman (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1893	Birth of Dean Gooderham Acheson (Location: Middletown, Connecticut, United States)
1895	Birth of Prescott Sheldon Bush (Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States) Birth of Robert Abercrombie Lovett (Location: Huntsville, Texas, United States)
1900	Birth of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Location: Los Angeles, California, United States) Birth of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Location: Los Angeles, California, United States)
1904	Birth of George Frost Kennan (Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) Birth of Ralph Johnson Bunche (Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States)
1906	Birth of Curtis Emerson LeMay (Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States)
1907	Birth of Paul Henry Nitze (Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)
1908	Birth of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Location: Bar Harbor, Maine, United States) Birth of Lyndon Baines Johnson (Location: Stonewall, Texas, United States) Birth of John Kenneth Galbraith (Location: Iona Station, Ontario, Canada)
1909	Birth of David Dean Rusk (Location: Cherokee County area, Georgia, United States)
1911	Birth of Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (Location: Wallace, South Dakota, United States)
1914	Birth of William Childs Westmoreland (Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States) Birth of Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Location: Rumford, Maine, United States)
1915	Birth of David Rockefeller (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1916	Birth of Robert Strange McNamara (Location: San Francisco, California, United States) Birth of Walt Whitman Rostow (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1917	Birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States) Birth of Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States)
1919	Birth of McGeorge Bundy (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1921	Birth of Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan (Location: Peoria, Illinois, United States)
1923	Birth of Norman Kingsley Mailer (Location: Long Branch, New Jersey, United States) Birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger (Location: Fürth, Bavaria, Germany)
1924	Birth of George Herbert Walker Bush (Location: Milton, Massachusetts, United States) Birth of James Arthur Baldwin (Location: New York City, New York, United States (Harlem district)) Birth of Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (Location: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States)
1925	Birth of Robert Francis Kennedy (Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States)
1927	Birth of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) Birth of Samuel Phillips Huntington (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1928	Birth of Avram Noam Chomsky (Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
1929	Birth of Martin Luther King Jr. (Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States) Birth of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (Location: Southampton, New York, United States)
1932	Birth of Edward Moore Kennedy (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1933	Birth of Susan Lee Rosenblatt (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1934	Birth of Gloria Marie Steinem (Location: Toledo, Ohio, United States)
1938	Death of James Weldon Johnson
1945	Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1959	Death of John Foster Dulles Death of George Catlett Marshall Jr.
1962	Death of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
1963	Death of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
1965	Death of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II Death of Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
1966	Death of Chester William Nimitz
1968	Death of Martin Luther King Jr. Death of Robert Francis Kennedy
1969	Death of Dwight David Eisenhower Death of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.
1971	Death of Dean Gooderham Acheson Death of Ralph Johnson Bunche
1972	Death of Prescott Sheldon Bush
1973	Death of Lyndon Baines Johnson
1978	Death of Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
1979	Death of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Death of Asa Philip Randolph
1986	Death of Robert Abercrombie Lovett Death of William Averell Harriman
1987	Death of James Arthur Baldwin
1990	Death of Curtis Emerson LeMay
1994	Death of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Death of David Dean Rusk
1996	Death of Edmund Sixtus Muskie Death of McGeorge Bundy
2003	Death of Walt Whitman Rostow Death of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
2004	Death of Paul Henry Nitze Death of Susan Lee Rosenblatt
2005	Death of Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm Death of George Frost Kennan Death of William Childs Westmoreland
2006	Death of Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan Death of John Kenneth Galbraith
2007	Death of Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. Death of Norman Kingsley Mailer
2008	Death of Samuel Phillips Huntington
2009	Death of Robert Strange McNamara Death of Edward Moore Kennedy
2017	Death of David Rockefeller
2018	Death of George Herbert Walker Bush
2023	Death of Heinz Alfred Kissinger
2026	Death of Avram Noam Chomsky
Unknown	Death of Gloria Marie Steinem

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