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Berkeley, California (usa)

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Berkeley, California ranks 299th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Pyongyang, Providence, Rhode Island, and Dijon. Memorable people born in Berkeley, California include Ursula K. Le Guin, Ben Affleck, and James Ivory. Memorable people who died in Berkeley, California include Otto Stern, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Donald A. Glaser. Berkeley, California has been the birth place of many actors, and musicians and the death place of many physicists, and philosophers. Berkeley, California is located in United States.

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 1997, Berkeley, California was the birth place of 45 globally memorable people, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ben Affleck, and James Ivory. Additionaly, 55 globally memorable people have passed away in Berkeley, California including Otto Stern, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Donald A. Glaser. Interestingly, more notably known people have passed away in Berkeley, California than were born there.

People Born in Berkeley, California

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People Deceased in Berkeley, California

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Berkeley, California were actors (10), musicians (7), film directors (3), writers (2), and basketball players (2),  while most who died were physicists (9), philosophers (6), chemists (6), mathematicians (5), and writers (5).

Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Berkeley, California, including Ben Affleck, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Berkeley, California, including Ben Affleck, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson.

Places

Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 8 globally memorable people born in Berkeley, California since 1700.