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HALL OF FAME

Noted Nonagenarians and Centenarians Through the Years

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

  ~ George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – 1943) ~

		Thomas à Kempis German clergyman and mystic, author of The Imitation of Christ c. 1380 – 1471
		Andrea Doria Italian admiral and statesman 11/30/1466 – 11/25/1560
		Mimar Sinan Ottoman architect c. 1490 – 07/17/1588
		Bernardino de Sahagún Spanish missionary and Aztec archaeologist c. 1499 – 10/23/1590
		Sofonisba Anguissola Italian painter c. 1532 – 11/16/1625
		Thomas Hobbes English philosopher and writer, Leviathan 04/05/1588 – 12/04/1679
		Izaak Walton English writer, The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation 08/09/1593 – 12/15/1683
		Madeleine de Scudéry French writer and salonnière 11/15/1607 – 06/02/1701
		Christopher Wren English architect 10/20/1632 – 02/25/1723
		Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Dutch naturalist and microscopist 10/24/1632 – 08/30/1723
		Antonio Stradivari Italian luthier, manufactured Stradivarius violins c. 1644 – 12/18/1737
		Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle French writer, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds 02/11/1657 – 01/09/1757
		Edmond Hoyle English writer on the rules and play of card games 1672 – 08/29/1769
		Adam Ferguson Scottish philosopher and historian 06/20/1723 – 02/22/1816
		François-Joseph Gossec Belgian-born French composer, Te Deum 01/17/1734 – 02/16/1829
		Thomas Sumter American Revolutionary War general and politician 08/14/1734 – 06/01/1832
		John Adams American president (1797-1801) 10/30/1735 – 07/04/1826
		Caroline Herschel German-born English astronomer 03/16/1750 – 01/09/1848
		Pierre Fontaine French architect and interior designer 09/20/1762 – 10/10/1853
		Peter Mark Roget English lexicographer, author of Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases 01/18/1779 – 09/12/1869
		Mary Somerville Scottish scientist and mathematician 12/26/1780 – 11/28/1872
		Michel Eugène Chevreul French chemist 08/31/1786 – 04/09/1889
		Sarah Josepha Hale American editor, novelist, and poet, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" 10/24/1788 – 04/30/1879
		Francesco Hayez Italian painter 02/10/1791 – 02/12/1882
		Leopold von Ranke German historian, known as the father of modern history-writing 12/21/1795 – 05/23/1886
		George Bancroft American historian and statesman 10/03/1800 – 01/17/1891
		George Biddell Airy English astronomer 07/27/1801 – 01/02/1892
		Leo XIII Italian pope (1878-1903) 03/02/1810 – 07/20/1903
		Cassius Marcellus Clay American antislavery leader 10/19/1810 – 07/22/1903
		Charles Lewis Tiffany American jeweler 02/15/1812 – 02/18/1902
		Joseph Dalton Hooker English botanist 06/30/1817 – 12/10/1911
		Marius Petipa French-born dancer and choreographer, known as the father of classical ballet 03/11/1818 – 07/14/1910
		Julia Ward Howe American social activist and poet, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" 05/27/1819 – 10/17/1910
		John Tenniel English satirical artist and illustrator, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 02/28/1820 – 02/25/1914
		Fanny Crosby American poet and hymn writer, "Blessed Assurance" 03/24/1820 – 02/12/1915
		Florence Nightingale English nurse and social reformer, nicknamed "The Lady with the Lamp" 05/12/1820 – 08/13/1910
		Harriet Tubman American abolitionist, "conductor" on the Underground Railway c. 1820 – 03/10/1913
		Clara Barton American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross 12/25/1821 – 04/12/1912
		Frédéric Passy French economist, pacifist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 05/20/1822 – 06/12/1912
		Alfred Russel Wallace Welsh-born English naturalist, co-founded the theory of evolution 01/08/1823 – 11/07/1913
		Jean-Henri Fabre French entomologist 12/22/1823 – 10/11/1915
		Antoinette Brown Blackwell American social reformer and minister, first U.S. clergywoman 05/20/1825 – 11/05/1921
		Gustave Eiffel French civil engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower 12/15/1832 – 12/27/1923
		Jules Chéret French illustrator and graphic designer, known as the father of the modern poster 05/31/1836 – 09/23/1932
		Mother Jones Irish-born American social activist 08/01/1837 – 11/30/1930
		John D. Rockefeller American industrialist and philanthropist 07/08/1839 – 05/23/1937
		Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. American Supreme Court justice (1902-1932) 03/08/1841 – 03/06/1935
		Ferdinand Buisson French statesman, educator, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 12/20/1841 – 02/16/1932
		William Henry Jackson American painter and photographer 04/04/1843 – 06/30/1942
		Elihu Root American statesman and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 02/15/1845 – 02/07/1937
		Arthur Evans English archaeologist 07/08/1851 – 07/11/1941
		John Harvey Kellogg American nutritionist and health-food pioneer 02/26/1852 – 12/14/1943
		Henry Morgenthau, Sr. German-born American diplomat 04/26/1856 – 11/25/1946
		George Bernard Shaw Irish-born English Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Major Barbara, Pygmalion 07/26/1856 – 11/02/1950
		Katharine Drexel American nun, patron saint of racial justice and philanthropists 11/26/1858 – 03/03/1955
		Knut Hamsun Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning writer, Hunger 08/04/1859 – 02/19/1952
		John Dewey American philosopher and educator 10/20/1859 – 06/01/1952
		Gustave Charpentier French composer, Louise 06/25/1860 – 02/18/1956
		Grandma Moses American painter 09/07/1860 – 12/13/1961
		Auguste Lumière French inventor, pioneer of filmmaking technology 10/19/1862 – 04/10/1954
		Connie Mack American baseball player and manager 12/22/1862 – 02/08/1956
		Henry van de Velde Belgian architect and interior designer, co-founded the Art Nouveau movement 04/03/1863 – 10/25/1957
		Mary Church Terrell American suffragist and civil rights activist 09/23/1863 – 07/24/1954
		Qi Baishi Chinese painter 01/01/1864 – 09/16/1957
		Jean Sibelius Finnish composer, Finlandia 12/08/1865 – 09/20/1957
		Emily Greene Balch American sociologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 01/08/1867 – 01/09/1961
		Laura Ingalls Wilder American children's writer, the Little House on the Prairie series 02/07/1867 – 02/10/1957
		Frank Lloyd Wright American architect 06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959
		Edith Hamilton American classicist 08/12/1867 – 05/31/1963
		W. E. B. Du Bois American civil rights activist, co-founded the NAACP 02/23/1868 – 08/27/1963
		La Belle Otero Spanish dancer, actress, and courtesan 11/04/1868 – 04/12/1965
		Alice Hamilton American industrial toxicologist, known as the mother of occupational medicine 02/27/1869 – 09/22/1970
		Esther Pohl Lovejoy American public health reformer 11/16/1869 – 08/31/1967
		Jules Bordet Belgian Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and immunologist 06/13/1870 – 04/06/1961
		Maxfield Parrish American painter and illustrator 07/25/1870 – 03/30/1966
		Frederick F. Russell American physician, developed the first successful typhoid fever vaccine 08/17/1870 – 12/29/1960
		Bernard Baruch American financier and presidential adviser 08/19/1870 – 06/20/1965
		Helena Rubinstein Polish-born American businesswoman, founded Helena Rubinstein cosmetics 12/25/1870 – 04/01/1965
		Bertrand Russell Welsh-born English philosopher, social reformer, and Nobel Prize-winning writer 05/18/1872 – 02/02/1970
		Norman Angell English economist, writer, The Great Illusion, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 12/26/1872 – 10/07/1967
		Adolph Zukor Hungarian-born American film studio mogul, founded Paramount Pictures 01/07/1873 – 06/10/1976
		Alice Guy-Blaché French filmmaker, first female motion picture director 07/01/1873 – 03/24/1968
		W. Somerset Maugham English writer, Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge 01/25/1874 – 12/16/1965
		Romaine Brooks American painter 05/01/1874 – 12/07/1970
		Herbert Hoover American president (1929-1933) 08/10/1874 – 10/20/1964
		Mary Heaton Vorse American journalist, novelist, and labor activist 10/11/1874 – 06/14/1966
		Winston Churchill English prime minister (1940-1945, 1951-1955) and Nobel Prize-winning writer 11/30/1874 – 01/24/1965
		Albert Schweitzer German-born French physician, theologian, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 01/14/1875 – 09/04/1965
		Alfred P. Sloan American industrialist, leader of General Motors (1923-1956) 05/23/1875 – 02/17/1966
		Cléo de Mérode French dancer 09/27/1875 – 10/17/1966
		Konrad Adenauer German chancellor (1949-1963) 01/05/1876 – 04/19/1967
		Anna Hyatt Huntington American sculptor 03/10/1876 – 10/04/1973
		Natalie Clifford Barney American writer and salonnière 10/31/1876 – 02/02/1972
		Pablo Casals Spanish cellist 12/29/1876 – 10/22/1973
		Kees van Dongen Dutch-born French painter 01/26/1877 – 05/28/1968
		Upton Sinclair American writer, The Jungle, Oil! 09/20/1878 – 11/25/1968
		E. M. Forster English writer, Howards End, A Passage to India 01/01/1879 – 06/07/1970
		Edward Steichen Luxembourgian-born American photographer 03/27/1879 – 03/25/1973
		Rudolf Friml Czech-born American composer, Rose Marie 12/07/1879 – 11/12/1972
		Jeannette Rankin American suffragist, pacifist, and politician, first female member of Congress 06/11/1880 – 05/18/1973
		Alice Evans American microbiologist 01/29/1881 – 09/05/1975
		Louella Parsons American gossip columnist 08/06/1881 – 12/09/1972
		Asta Nielsen Danish actress, Mata Hari 09/11/1881 – 05/24/1972
		Ludwig von Mises Austrian-born American free-market economist and social philosopher 09/29/1881 – 10/10/1973
		P. G. Wodehouse English-born American writer, the Jeeves canon 10/15/1881 – 02/14/1975
		Pablo Picasso Spanish painter and sculptor 10/25/1881 – 04/08/1973
		Leopold Stokowski English-born American conductor 04/18/1882 – 09/13/1977
		Samuel Goldwyn Polish-born American motion picture producer, Wuthering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives 08/27/1882 – 01/31/1974
		Éamon de Valera American-born Irish president (1959-1973) 10/14/1882 – 08/29/1975
		Sybil Thorndike English actress, Saint Joan 10/24/1882 – 06/09/1976
		Imogen Cunningham American photographer 04/12/1883 – 06/24/1976
		Scott Nearing American social activist and writer, The Good Life 08/06/1883 – 08/24/1983
		Roger Nash Baldwin American civil rights activist, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union 01/21/1884 – 08/26/1981
		Alice Roosevelt Longworth American socialite, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt 02/12/1884 – 02/20/1980
		Alice Paul American suffragist leader 01/11/1885 – 07/09/1977
		Tamara Karsavina Russian-born prima ballerina 03/10/1885 – 05/26/1978
		Ernst Bloch German philosopher, author of The Principle of Hope 07/08/1885 – 08/04/1977
		Will Durant American philosopher and historian, author or co-author of The Story of Civilization series 11/05/1885 – 11/07/1981
		Sonia Delaunay Russian-born French painter, illustrator, and textile designer 11/14/1885 – 12/05/1979
		Oskar Kokoschka Austrian painter and writer 03/01/1886 – 02/22/1980
		Arthur Rubinstein Polish-born American pianist 01/28/1887 – 12/20/1982
		Eubie Blake American ragtime pianist and songwriter, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" 02/07/1887 – 02/12/1983
		Raoul Walsh American motion picture director, What Price Glory?, White Heat 03/11/1887 – 12/31/1980
		George Abbott American theatrical director, producer, and playwright 06/25/1887 – 01/31/1995
		Marc Chagall Russian-born French painter 07/07/1887 – 03/28/1985
		Nadia Boulanger French composer, conductor, and music teacher 09/16/1887 – 10/22/1979
		Georgia O'Keeffe American painter 11/15/1887 – 03/06/1986
		Lynn Fontanne English-born actress, stage partner and spouse of Alfred Lunt 12/06/1887 – 07/30/1983
		Irving Berlin Russian-born American songwriter, "God Bless America", "White Christmas" 05/11/1888 – 09/22/1989
		Giorgio de Chirico Greek-born Italian painter and sculptor 07/10/1888 – 11/20/1978
		Jean Monnet French political economist and diplomat 11/09/1888 – 03/16/1979
		Adrian Boult English conductor 04/08/1889 – 02/22/1983
		A. Philip Randolph American civil rights activist and labor leader 04/15/1889 – 05/16/1979
		Anita Loos American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 04/26/1889 – 08/18/1981
		Vladimir Zworykin Russian-born American electronic engineer and inventor, pioneer of television technology 07/30/1889 – 07/29/1982
		Abel Gance French motion picture director, Napoléon 10/25/1889 – 11/10/1981
		Marjory Stoneman Douglas American conservationist, champion of the Florida Everglades 04/07/1890 – 05/14/1998
		Katherine Anne Porter American writer, Ship of Fools 05/15/1890 – 09/18/1980
		Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy American political matriarch, mother of President John F. Kennedy 07/22/1890 – 01/22/1995
		Colonel Harland Sanders American entrepreneur, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain 09/09/1890 – 12/16/1980
		Hal Roach American motion picture producer and director, the Our Gang film series 01/14/1892 – 11/02/1992
		Djuna Barnes American writer, Nightwood 06/12/1892 – 06/18/1982
		William Powell American actor, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey 07/29/1892 – 03/05/1984
		Erté (aka Romain de Tirtoff) Russian-born French fashion illustrator and designer 11/23/1892 – 04/21/1990
		Rebecca West English journalist, novelist, and feminist 12/21/1892 – 03/15/1983
		Andrés Segovia Spanish classical guitarist 02/21/1893 – 06/03/1987
		Joan Miró Spanish painter and sculptor 04/20/1893 – 12/25/1983
		Albert Szent-Györgyi Hungarian-born American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, discovered vitamin C 09/16/1893 – 10/22/1986
		Lillian Gish American actress, Way Down East, The Night of the Hunter 10/14/1893 – 02/27/1993
		Raymond Loewy French-born American industrial designer 11/05/1893 – 07/14/1986
		Harold Macmillan English prime minister (1957-1963) 02/10/1894 – 12/29/1986
		Martha Graham American dancer and choreographer 05/11/1894 – 04/01/1991
		Beatrice Lillie Canadian comedienne and actress 05/29/1894 – 01/20/1989
		Hermann Oberth Romanian-born German rocket scientist, known as the father of space travel 06/25/1894 – 12/28/1989
		André Kertész Hungarian-born American photographer 07/02/1894 – 09/28/1985
		Pola Negri Polish-born American actress, Forbidden Paradise 12/31/1894 – 08/01/1987
		Robert Graves English poet and novelist, The White Goddess, I, Claudius 07/24/1895 – 12/07/1985
		George Burns American Oscar-winning actor and comedian, stage partner and spouse of Gracie Allen 01/20/1896 – 03/09/1996
		Virgil Thomson American composer, Four Saints in Three Acts 11/25/1896 – 09/30/1989
		Jimmy Doolittle American aviator and general, led the 1942 air raids on Japan 12/14/1896 – 09/27/1993
		Marian Anderson American contralto 02/27/1897 – 04/08/1993
		Soong Mei-ling (aka Madame Chiang Kai-shek) Taiwanese First Lady (1948-1975) 03/05/1897 – 10/23/2003
		Frank Capra Italian-born American motion picture director, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life 05/18/1897 – 09/03/1991
		Philippe Soupault French poet and novelist, co-founded the Surrealism movement 08/02/1897 – 03/11/1990
		Rouben Mamoulian Georgian-born American theatrical and motion picture director, Becky Sharp 10/08/1897 – 12/04/1987
		Margaret Chase Smith American politician, Maine representative (1940-1949) and senator (1949-1973) 12/14/1897 – 05/29/1995
		Enzo Ferrari Italian race car driver and automobile manufacturer 02/18/1898 – 08/14/1988
		Norman Vincent Peale American minister and writer, The Power of Positive Thinking 05/31/1898 – 12/24/1993
		Ninette de Valois Irish-born English dancer and choreographer, founded the Royal Ballet 06/06/1898 – 03/08/2001
		Berenice Abbott American photographer 07/17/1898 – 12/09/1991
		Alfred Eisenstaedt German-born American photographer 12/06/1898 – 08/24/1995
		Irene Dunne American actress, The Awful Truth 12/20/1898 – 09/04/1990
		Eva Le Gallienne English-born American actress and theatrical director and producer 01/11/1899 – 06/03/1991
		P. L. Travers Australian-born English children's writer, the Mary Poppins series 08/09/1899 – 04/23/1996
		Rufino Tamayo Mexican painter 08/26/1899 – 06/24/1991
		Hans-Georg Gadamer German philosopher, author of Truth and Method 02/11/1900 – 03/13/2002
		Nathalie Sarraute Russian-born French writer, Portrait of a Man Unknown 07/18/1900 – 10/19/1999
		Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon English royal, spouse of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II 08/04/1900 – 03/30/2002
		Helen Hayes American Oscar-winning actress, nicknamed "The First Lady of the American Theatre" 10/10/1900 – 03/17/1993
		Jean Arthur American actress, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 10/17/1900 – 06/19/1991
		Aaron Copland American composer, Appalachian Spring 11/14/1900 – 12/02/1990
		Linus Pauling American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace activist 02/28/1901 – 08/19/1994
		Barbara Cartland English romance novelist 07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000
		Robert Bresson French motion picture director and screenwriter, Diary of a Country Priest 09/25/1901 – 12/18/1999
		Marlene Dietrich German-born American actress, The Blue Angel, Morocco, and singer 12/27/1901 – 05/06/1992
		Rudolf Bing Austrian-born English opera director 01/09/1902 – 09/02/1997
		Gene Sarazen American golfer 02/27/1902 – 05/13/1999
		Erik Erikson German-born American psychoanalyst 06/15/1902 – 05/12/1994
		Barbara McClintock American Nobel Prize-winning cytogeneticist 06/16/1902 – 09/02/1992
		Karl Popper Austrian-born English philosopher, author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery 07/28/1902 – 09/17/1994
		Leni Riefenstahl German filmmaker, Triumph of the Will 08/22/1902 – 09/08/2003
		Strom Thurmond American politician, South Carolina governor (1947-1951) and senator (1954-2003) 12/05/1902 – 06/26/2003
		Mike Mansfield American politician, Senate Majority Leader (1961-1977) 03/16/1903 – 10/05/2001
		Benjamin Spock American pediatrician, author of Baby and Child Care 05/02/1903 – 03/15/1998
		Bob Hope English-born American comedian, actor, and humanitarian 05/29/1903 – 07/27/2003
		Al Hirschfeld American caricaturist 06/21/1903 – 01/20/2003
		Claudette Colbert French-born American Oscar-winning actress, It Happened One Night 09/13/1903 – 07/30/1996
		Ernest Walton Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, co-developed the first nuclear particle accelerator 10/06/1903 – 06/25/1995
		John Gielgud English Oscar-winning actor and theatrical director 04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000
		Willem de Kooning Dutch-born American painter 04/24/1904 – 03/19/1997
		Ernst Mayr German-born American evolutionary biologist 07/05/1904 – 02/03/2005
		Deng Xiaoping Chinese communist leader 08/22/1904 – 02/19/1997
		Greer Garson English-born American Oscar-winning actress, Mrs. Miniver 09/29/1904 – 04/06/1996
		Viktor Frankl Austrian psychiatrist, author of Man's Search for Meaning 03/26/1905 – 09/02/1997
		Max Schmeling German boxer 09/28/1905 – 02/02/2005
		Helen Wills Moody American tennis player 10/06/1905 – 01/01/1998
		Gertrude Ederle American athlete, first woman to swim the English Channel 10/23/1905 – 11/30/2003
		Victor Vasarely Hungarian-born French painter 04/09/1906 – 03/15/1997
		William Brennan American Supreme Court justice (1956-1990) 04/25/1906 – 07/24/1997
		Anne Morrow Lindbergh American aviator and writer, A Gift from the Sea 06/22/1906 – 02/07/2001
		Billy Wilder Austrian-born American motion picture director and screenwriter, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot 06/22/1906 – 03/27/2002
		Estée Lauder American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder fragrance and cosmetics company 07/01/1906 – 04/24/2004
		Hans Bethe German-born American Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist 07/02/1906 – 03/06/2005
		Philip Johnson American architect 07/08/1906 – 01/25/2005
		Henry Beachell American plant breeder, developed high-yielding "miracle rice" 09/21/1906 – 12/13/2006
		James Michener American writer, Hawaii, Centennial 02/03/1907 – 10/16/1997
		Katharine Hepburn American Oscar-winning actress, The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen 05/12/1907 – 06/29/2003
		Benny Carter American jazz musician, composer, arranger, and bandleader 08/08/1907 – 07/12/2003
		Fay Wray Canadian-born American actress, King Kong 09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004
		Gene Autry American actor and singer, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 09/29/1907 – 10/02/1998
		Astrid Lindgren Swedish children's writer, the Pippi Longstocking series 11/14/1907 – 01/28/2002
		Edward Teller Hungarian-born American physicist, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb 01/15/1908 – 09/09/2003
		Balthus French painter 02/29/1908 – 02/18/2001
		Lionel Hampton American jazz vibraphonist and bandleader 04/20/1908 – 08/31/2002
		Willard Van Orman Quine American philosopher and logician 06/25/1908 – 12/25/2000
		Milton Berle American comedian and actor, nicknamed "Mr. Television" 07/12/1908 – 03/27/2002
		Henri Cartier-Bresson French photographer 08/22/1908 – 08/03/2004
		Michael DeBakey American cardiovascular surgeon and medical researcher 09/07/1908 – 07/11/2008
		John Kenneth Galbraith Canadian-born American economist and diplomat 10/15/1908 – 04/29/2006
		Harry Blackmun American Supreme Court justice (1970-1994) 11/12/1908 – 03/04/1999
		Imogene Coca American comedienne, TV's Your Show of Shows, and actress 11/18/1908 – 06/02/2001
		Alistair Cooke English-born American journalist and television host, Masterpiece Theatre 11/20/1908 – 03/30/2004
		Claude Lévi-Strauss French social anthropologist 11/28/1908 – 10/30/2009
		Elliott Carter American composer, The Defense of Corinth 12/11/1908 – 11/05/2012
		Yousuf Karsh Turkish-born Canadian photographer 12/23/1908 – 07/13/2002
		Quentin Crisp English raconteur and writer, The Naked Civil Servant 12/25/1908 – 11/21/1999
		Simon Wiesenthal Austrian human rights activist and Nazi hunter 12/31/1908 – 09/20/2005
		Victor Borge Danish-born American pianist and comedian 01/03/1909 – 12/23/2000
		Eudora Welty American writer, The Optimist's Daughter 04/13/1909 – 07/23/2001
		Rita Levi-Montalcini Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning neurologist 04/22/1909 – 12/30/2012
		Nicholas Winton English humanitarian, orchestrated the rescue of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia 05/19/1909 – 07/01/2015
		Katherine Dunham American dancer and choreographer 06/22/1909 – 05/21/2006
		Elia Kazan Turkish-born American theatrical and motion picture director, On the Waterfront, East of Eden 09/07/1909 – 09/28/2003
		Luise Rainer German-born Oscar-winning actress, The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth 01/12/1910 – 12/30/2014
		Irena Sendler Polish humanitarian, smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto 02/15/1910 – 05/12/2008
		Artie Shaw American clarinetist and bandleader 05/23/1910 – 12/30/2004
		John Wooden American basketball player and coach 10/14/1910 – 06/04/2010
		Ronald Reagan American actor and president (1981-1989) 02/06/1911 – 06/05/2004
		Willem Kolff Dutch-born American physician and inventor, known as the father of artificial organs 02/14/1911 – 02/11/2009
		Czesław Miłosz Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist, The Captive Mind 06/30/1911 – 08/14/2004
		Gian Carlo Menotti Italian composer and librettist, Amahl and the Night Visitors 07/07/1911 – 02/01/2007
		Louise Bourgeois French-born American sculptor 12/25/1911 – 05/31/2010
		Byron Nelson American golfer 02/04/1912 – 09/26/2006
		Dorothy Height American civil and women’s rights activist 03/24/1912 – 04/20/2010
		Milton Friedman American Nobel Prize-winning economist 07/31/1912 – 11/16/2006
		Julia Child American culinary writer and television personality, The French Chef 08/15/1912 – 08/13/2004
		Michelangelo Antonioni Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, Blow-Up 09/29/1912 – 07/30/2007
		Gordon Parks American photojournalist, writer, and motion picture director, The Learning Tree 11/30/1912 – 03/07/2006
		Lady Bird Johnson American First Lady (1963-1969) and environmentalist 12/22/1912 – 07/11/2007
		Rosa Parks American civil rights activist 02/04/1913 – 10/24/2005
		Paul Ricœur French philosopher, author of Oneself as Another 02/27/1913 – 05/20/2005
		Oleg Cassini French-born American fashion designer 04/10/1913 – 03/17/2006
		Gerald Ford American president (1974-1977) 07/14/1913 – 12/26/2006
		Sammy Baugh American football player 03/17/1914 – 12/17/2008
		Norman Borlaug American Nobel Prize-winning agronomist 03/25/1914 – 09/12/2009
		Carlo Maria Giulini Italian conductor 05/09/1914 – 06/14/2005
		Frances Oldham Kelsey Canadian-born American FDA reviewer, blocked approval of thalidomide in the U.S. 07/24/1914 – 08/07/2015
		Robert Wise American motion picture director, West Side Story, The Sound of Music 09/10/1914 – 09/14/2005
		Richard Widmark American actor, Kiss of Death 12/26/1914 – 03/24/2008
		Herman Wouk American writer, The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War 05/27/1915 – 05/17/2019
		Les Paul American musician and inventor, developed the solid-body electric guitar 06/09/1915 – 08/12/2009
		Beverly Cleary American children's writer, the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series 04/12/1916 – 03/25/2021
		Glenn Ford Canadian-born American actor, Gilda 05/01/1916 – 08/30/2006
		Olivia de Havilland American Oscar-winning actress, Gone with the Wind, The Heiress 07/01/1916 – 07/26/2020
		Walter Cronkite American journalist and broadcaster 11/04/1916 – 07/17/2009
		Kirk Douglas American actor, Lust for Life, Spartacus 12/09/1916 – 02/05/2020
		Vera Lynn English singer, "We'll Meet Again", nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart" 03/20/1917 – 06/18/2020
		I. M. Pei Chinese-born American architect 04/26/1917 – 05/16/2019
		Irving Penn American photographer 06/16/1917 – 10/07/2009
		Lena Horne American singer, "Stormy Weather", and actress 06/30/1917 – 05/09/2010
		Andrew Wyeth American painter 07/12/1917 – 01/16/2009
		Phyllis Diller American comedienne and actress 07/17/1917 – 08/20/2012
		Joan Fontaine American Oscar-winning actress, Rebecca, Suspicion 10/22/1917 – 12/15/2013
		Arthur C. Clarke English futurist and science fiction writer, 2001: A Space Odyssey 12/16/1917 – 03/19/2008
		Betty Ford American First Lady (1974-1977) and social reformer 04/08/1918 – 07/08/2011
		Mike Wallace American journalist and television interviewer, 60 Minutes 05/09/1918 – 04/07/2012
		Nelson Mandela South African anti-apartheid leader, president (1994-1999), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 07/18/1918 – 12/05/2013
		Hank Jones American jazz pianist 07/31/1918 – 05/16/2010
		Bob Feller American baseball player 11/03/1918 – 12/15/2010
		Billy Graham American evangelist and spiritual adviser 11/07/1918 – 02/21/2018
		Helmut Schmidt German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1974-1982) 12/23/1918 – 11/10/2015
		J. D. Salinger American writer, The Catcher in the Rye 01/01/1919 – 01/27/2010
		Lawrence Ferlinghetti American poet, A Coney Island of the Mind 03/24/1919 – 02/22/2021
		Merce Cunningham American dancer and choreographer 04/16/1919 – 07/26/2009
		Pete Seeger American folk singer and political activist 05/03/1919 – 01/27/2014
		George Shearing English-born American jazz pianist 08/13/1919 – 02/14/2011
		Kitty Wells American country singer, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" 08/30/1919 – 07/16/2012
		Doris Lessing English Nobel Prize-winning writer, The Golden Notebook 10/22/1919 – 11/17/2013
		Ravi Shankar Indian sitar player 04/07/1920 – 12/11/2012
		Ray Harryhausen American stop-motion animator, Jason and the Argonauts 06/29/1920 – 05/07/2013
		Maureen O'Hara Irish/American actress, Miracle on 34th Street, The Quiet Man 08/17/1920 – 10/24/2015
		Ray Bradbury American science fiction writer, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 08/22/1920 – 06/05/2012
		Mickey Rooney American actor, Babes in Arms, the Andy Hardy film series 09/23/1920 – 04/06/2014
		Gail Halvorsen American Air Force pilot, nicknamed the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" 10/10/1920 – 02/16/2022
		Wayne Thiebaud American painter and printmaker 11/15/1920 – 12/25/2021
		Stan Musial American baseball player 11/21/1920 – 01/19/2013
		Dave Brubeck American jazz pianist and composer, "Take Five" 12/06/1920 – 12/05/2012
		Clark Terry American jazz trumpeter and flügelhornist 12/14/1920 – 02/21/2015
		Alicia Alonso Cuban prima ballerina absoluta and choreographer 12/21/1920 – 10/17/2019
		Carol Channing American actress and singer, Broadway's Hello, Dolly! 01/31/1921 – 01/15/2019
		LeRoy Neiman American painter 06/08/1921 – 06/20/2012
		Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Greek-born English royal, consort of Queen Elizabeth II 06/10/1921 – 04/09/2021
		John Glenn American astronaut and politician, Ohio senator (1974-1999) 07/18/1921 – 12/08/2016
		Ben Bradlee American journalist and newspaper editor, The Washington Post (1965-1991) 08/26/1921 – 10/21/2014
		Deanna Durbin Canadian-born American singer and actress, Three Smart Girls 12/04/1921 – 04/17/2013
		Betty White American actress, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls 01/17/1922 – 12/31/2021
		Haskell Wexler American cinematographer, Bound for Glory 02/06/1922 – 12/27/2015
		Carl Reiner American comedian, TV's Your Show of Shows, actor, and motion picture director, The Jerk 03/20/1922 – 06/29/2020
		Doris Day American singer, "Que Sera, Sera", and actress, Pillow Talk 04/03/1922 – 05/13/2019
		Christopher Lee English actor, The House That Dripped Blood 05/27/1922 – 06/07/2015
		Alain Resnais French motion picture director and screenwriter, Night and Fog, Hiroshima, Mon Amour 06/03/1922 – 03/01/2014
		Pierre Cardin Italian-born French fashion designer 07/02/1922 – 12/29/2020
		Jake LaMotta American boxer, nicknamed "The Raging Bull" 07/10/1922 – 09/19/2017
		Sid Caesar American comedian, TV's Your Show of Shows, and actor 09/08/1922 – 02/11/2014
		Ruby Dee American actress, A Raisin in the Sun 10/27/1922 – 06/11/2014
		Stan Lee American comic book writer, co-created Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four 12/28/1922 – 11/12/2018
		Jean Stapleton American actress, TV's All in the Family 01/19/1923 – 05/31/2013
		Franco Zeffirelli Italian opera and motion picture director and producer, Romeo and Juliet 02/12/1923 – 06/15/2019
		Chuck Yeager American Air Force officer and test pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound 02/13/1923 – 12/07/2020
		Bob Dole American politician, Kansas senator (1969-96), and 1996 Republican presidential nominee 07/22/1923 – 12/05/2021
		Nadine Gordimer South African Nobel Prize-winning writer, The Pickup 11/20/1923 – 07/13/2014
		Stanley Donen American choreographer and motion picture director, Singin' in the Rain 04/13/1924 – 02/21/2019
		Neville Marriner English conductor 04/15/1924 – 10/02/2016
		Charles Aznavour French singer, songwriter, and actor 05/22/1924 – 10/01/2018
		George Bush American president (1989-1993) 06/12/1924 – 11/30/2018
		Lee Iacocca American businessman, president and CEO of the Chrysler Corporation (1978-1992) 10/15/1924 – 07/02/2019
		Cicely Tyson American actress, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 12/19/1924 – 01/28/2021
		Pierre Boulez French composer and conductor 03/26/1925 – 01/05/2016
		Yogi Berra American baseball player and manager 05/12/1925 – 09/22/2015
		Andrzej Wajda Polish motion picture director and screenwriter, Ashes and Diamonds 03/06/1926 – 10/09/2016
		Jerry Lewis American comedian, actor, motion picture director, The Nutty Professor, and humanitarian 03/16/1926 – 08/20/2017
		Dario Fo Italian actor and Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Accidental Death of an Anarchist 03/24/1926 – 10/13/2016
		Hugh Hefner American magazine publisher, creator of Playboy 04/09/1926 – 09/27/2017
		Cloris Leachman American Oscar-winning actress, Young Frankenstein, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show 04/30/1926 – 01/27/2021
		Don Rickles American comedian and actor 05/08/1926 – 04/06/2017
		Fidel Castro Cuban revolutionary, prime minister (1959-1976), and president (1976-2008) 08/13/1926 – 11/25/2016
		Donald Pinkel American pediatrician, pioneer in pediatric cancer treatment 09/07/1926 – 03/09/2022
		Chuck Berry American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, "Maybellene", "Johnny B. Goode" 10/18/1926 – 03/18/2017
		Hubert de Givenchy French fashion designer 02/20/1927 – 03/10/2018
		Sidney Poitier American Oscar-winning actor, Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night 02/20/1927 – 01/06/2022
		Neil Simon American playwright, The Odd Couple, and screenwriter, The Goodbye Girl 07/04/1927 – 08/26/2018
		Tommy Lasorda American baseball player and manager 09/22/1927 – 01/07/2021
		Walter Mondale American vice president (1977-1981) and 1984 Democratic presidential nominee 01/05/1928 – 04/19/2021
		Harold Prince American theatrical producer and director, Cabaret, Follies 01/30/1928 – 07/31/2019
		Agnès Varda Belgian-born French motion picture director, Cleo from 5 to 7 05/30/1928 – 03/29/2019
		Lina Wertmüller Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, Swept Away, Seven Beauties 08/14/1928 – 12/09/2021
		Whitey Ford American baseball player 10/21/1928 – 10/08/2020
		Max von Sydow Swedish actor, The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist 04/10/1929 – 03/08/2020
		E. O. Wilson American naturalist, pioneer of evolutionary biology 06/10/1929 – 12/26/2021
		Stirling Moss English race car driver 09/17/1929 – 04/12/2020
		Ed Asner American actor, Up, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant 11/15/1929 – 08/29/2021
		Christopher Plummer Canadian Oscar-winning actor, The Sound of Music, Beginners 12/13/1929 – 02/05/2021
		Don Shula American football player and coach 01/04/1930 – 05/04/2020
		Stephen Sondheim American composer and lyricist, West Side Story, A Little Night Music 03/22/1930 – 11/26/2021
		Sean Connery Scottish Oscar-winning actor, the James Bond film series 08/25/1930 – 10/31/2020
		Michael Collins American astronaut, command module pilot for the Apollo 11 moon mission 10/31/1930 – 04/28/2021
		Desmond Tutu South African archbishop, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 10/07/1931 – 12/26/2021

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