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Leo Esaki
  1. physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925)
Leonhard Euler
  1. Swiss mathematician (1707-1783)
Lynn Fontanne
  1. United States actress (born in England) who married Alfred Lunt and performed with him in many plays (1887-1983)
Luigi Galvani
  1. Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
Lorca
  1. Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)
Lou Gehrig
  1. baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)
Lillian Gish
  1. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lady Godiva
  1. according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080)
Luis De Gongora Y Argote
  1. a Spanish poet whose work was characterized by an affected elegance of style (1561-1627)
Louis Harold Gray
  1. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)