John Tukey — American Scientist born on June 16, 1915, died on July 26, 2000
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name... (wikipedia)