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University President

University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within the academic administration of a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as chancellor or rector. The relative seniority varies between institutions. In the Republic of...
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A. Bartlett Giamatti

Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti (April 4, 1938–September 1, 1989) was the President of Yale University, and later, the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti agreed to the deal that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by...

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  • Apr 4, 1938

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  • Sep 1, 1989 (age 51 years)

Edward Everett

Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United...

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  • Apr 11, 1794

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  • Jan 15, 1865 (age 70 years)

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Kingman Brewster, Jr., (June 17, 1919 – November 8, 1988) was an educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat. He was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, the son of Florence Foster Besse, a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley...

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  • Jun 17, 1919

Date of death:

  • Nov 8, 1988 (age 69 years)

Samuel Belkin

Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) is best known as the second University President of Yeshiva University. A distinguished Torah scholar, he is credited with leading Yeshiva University through a period of substantial expansion . Belkin was born in...

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  • Dec 12, 1911

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  • 1976 (age 64 years)

Marion L. Brittain

Marion Luther Brittain, Sr. (November 11, 1866 – July 13, 1953) was an American academic administrator and president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1944. Brittain was born in Georgia and, aside from a brief stint at the...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 11, 1866

Date of death:

  • Jul 13, 1953 (age 86 years)

Nobuhiro Suwa

Nobuhiro Suwa (諏訪 敦彦, Suwa Nobuhiro, born May 28, 1960 in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture) is a Japanese film director. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei...

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  • May 28, 1960 (age 49 years)

John Wesley Gilbert

John Wesley Gilbert (1864-1923) was the first African American archaeologist, the first graduate of Paine College, the first African American professor of that school, and the first African American to receive a master's degree from Brown University...

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  • Jul 6, 1864

Date of death:

  • 1923 (age 58 years)
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