Jeremiah Stamler was born on 27 October 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Gloria Beckerman and Rose Steinberg . He died on 26 January 2022 in Sag Harbor, New York, USA.
He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, and graduated from the Long Island College of Medicine (now SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University) in Brooklyn. He interned at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, and served as an Army radiologist at the end of WWII.