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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) ~

  George Abbott
American stage director, producer, and playwright
06/25/1887 – 01/31/1995
  John Adams
American president (1797–1801)
10/30/1735 – 07/04/1826
  Konrad Adenauer
German chancellor (1949–1963)
01/05/1876 – 04/19/1967
  George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
07/27/1801 – 01/02/1892
  Marian Anderson
American contralto
02/27/1897 – 04/08/1993
  Sofonisba Anguissola
Italian painter
c. 1532 – 11/16/1625
  Gene Autry
American actor and singer, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
09/29/1907 – 10/02/1998
  Charles Aznavour
French singer, songwriter, and actor
05/22/1924 – 10/01/2018
  Burt Bacharach
American songwriter, "Alfie", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and pianist
05/12/1928 – 02/08/2023
  Emily Greene Balch
American sociologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
01/08/1867 – 01/09/1961
  Roger Nash Baldwin
American civil rights activist, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union
01/21/1884 – 08/26/1981
  Balthus
French painter
02/29/1908 – 02/18/2001
  George Bancroft
American historian and statesman
10/03/1800 – 01/17/1891
  Djuna Barnes
American writer, Nightwood
06/12/1892 – 06/18/1982
  Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer and salonnière
10/31/1876 – 02/02/1972
  Clara Barton
American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross
12/25/1821 – 04/12/1912
  Bernard Baruch
American financier and statesman
08/19/1870 – 06/20/1965
  Sammy Baugh
American football player
03/17/1914 – 12/17/2008
  Henry Beachell
American plant breeder, developed high-yielding "miracle rice"
09/21/1906 – 12/13/2006
  Harry Belafonte
American singer, "The Banana Boat Song", actor, Carmen Jones, and activist
03/01/1927 – 04/25/2023
  Tony Bennett
American singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
08/03/1926 – 07/21/2023
  Milton Berle
American comedian and actor, nicknamed "Mr. Television"
07/12/1908 – 03/27/2002
  Irving Berlin
Russian-born American songwriter, "God Bless America", "White Christmas"
05/11/1888 – 09/22/1989
  Yogi Berra
American baseball player and manager
05/12/1925 – 09/22/2015
  Chuck Berry
American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, "Maybellene", "Johnny B. Goode"
10/18/1926 – 03/18/2017
  Hans Bethe
German-born American Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist
07/02/1906 – 03/06/2005
  Antoinette Brown Blackwell
American social reformer and minister, first U.S. clergywoman
05/20/1825 – 11/05/1921
  Eubie Blake
American ragtime pianist and songwriter, "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
02/07/1887 – 02/12/1983
  Victor Borge
Danish-born American pianist and comedian
01/03/1909 – 12/23/2000
  Norman Borlaug
American Nobel Prize-winning agronomist
03/25/1914 – 09/12/2009
  Nadia Boulanger
French composer, conductor, and music teacher
09/16/1887 – 10/22/1979
  Pierre Boulez
French composer and conductor
03/26/1925 – 01/05/2016
  Louise Bourgeois
French-born American sculptor
12/25/1911 – 05/31/2010
  Ray Bradbury
American science fiction writer, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451
08/22/1920 – 06/05/2012
  William Brennan
American Supreme Court justice (1956–1990)
04/25/1906 – 07/24/1997
  Robert Bresson
French motion picture director and screenwriter, Diary of a Country Priest
09/25/1901 – 12/18/1999
  Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer, "Take Five"
12/06/1920 – 12/05/2012
  Ferdinand Buisson
French statesman, educator, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
12/20/1841 – 02/16/1932
  George Burns
American Oscar-winning actor and comedian, stage partner and spouse of Gracie Allen
01/20/1896 – 03/09/1996
  George Bush
American president (1989–1993)
06/12/1924 – 11/30/2018
  Sid Caesar
American comedian, TV's Your Show of Shows, and actor
09/08/1922 – 02/11/2014
  Frank Capra
Italian-born American motion picture director, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life
05/18/1897 – 09/03/1991
  Pierre Cardin
Italian-born French fashion designer
07/02/1922 – 12/29/2020
  Benny Carter
American jazz musician, composer, arranger, and bandleader
08/08/1907 – 07/12/2003
  Elliott Carter
American composer, The Defense of Corinth
12/11/1908 – 11/05/2012
  Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer
08/22/1908 – 08/03/2004
  Barbara Cartland
English romance novelist
07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000
  Pablo Casals
Spanish cellist
12/29/1876 – 10/22/1973
  Fidel Castro
Cuban revolutionary, prime minister (1959–1976), and president (1976–2008)
08/13/1926 – 11/25/2016
  Marc Chagall
Russian-born French painter
07/07/1887 – 03/28/1985
  Carol Channing
American actress and singer, Broadway's Hello, Dolly!
01/31/1921 – 01/15/2019
  Gustave Charpentier
French composer, Louise
06/25/1860 – 02/18/1956
  Jules Chéret
French illustrator and graphic designer, known as the father of the modern poster
05/31/1836 – 09/23/1932
  Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
08/31/1786 – 04/09/1889
  Julia Child
American culinary writer and television personality, The French Chef
08/15/1912 – 08/13/2004
  Winston Churchill
English prime minister (1940–1945, 1951–1955) and Nobel Prize-winning writer
11/30/1874 – 01/24/1965
  Arthur C. Clarke
English futurist and science fiction writer, 2001: A Space Odyssey
12/16/1917 – 03/19/2008
  Cassius Marcellus Clay
American antislavery leader
10/19/1810 – 07/22/1903
  Beverly Cleary
American children's writer, the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series
04/12/1916 – 03/25/2021
  Imogene Coca
American comedienne, TV's Your Show of Shows, and actress
11/18/1908 – 06/02/2001
  Claudette Colbert
French-born American Oscar-winning actress, It Happened One Night
09/13/1903 – 07/30/1996
  Michael Collins
American astronaut, command module pilot for the Apollo 11 moon mission
10/31/1930 – 04/28/2021
  Sean Connery
Scottish Oscar-winning actor, the James Bond film series
08/25/1930 – 10/31/2020
  Alistair Cooke
English-born American journalist and television host, Masterpiece Theatre
11/20/1908 – 03/30/2004
  Aaron Copland
American composer, Appalachian Spring
11/14/1900 – 12/02/1990
  Roger Corman
American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors
04/05/1926 – 05/09/2024
  Quentin Crisp
English raconteur and memoirist, The Naked Civil Servant
12/25/1908 – 11/21/1999
  Walter Cronkite
American journalist and broadcaster
11/04/1916 – 07/17/2009
  Fanny Crosby
American poet and hymn writer, "Blessed Assurance"
03/24/1820 – 02/12/1915
  Merce Cunningham
American dancer and choreographer
04/16/1919 – 07/26/2009
  Doris Day
American singer, "Que Sera, Sera", and actress, Pillow Talk
04/03/1922 – 05/13/2019
  Giorgio de Chirico
Greek-born Italian painter and sculptor
07/10/1888 – 11/20/1978
  Olivia de Havilland
American Oscar-winning actress, Gone with the Wind, The Heiress
07/01/1916 – 07/26/2020
  Willem de Kooning
Dutch-born American painter
04/24/1904 – 03/19/1997
  Madeleine de Scudéry
French writer and salonnière
11/15/1607 – 06/02/1701
  Éamon de Valera
American-born Irish president (1959–1973)
10/14/1882 – 08/29/1975
  Michael DeBakey
American cardiovascular surgeon and medical researcher
09/07/1908 – 07/11/2008
  Sonia Delaunay
Russian-born French painter, illustrator, and textile designer
11/14/1885 – 12/05/1979
  Deng Xiaoping
Chinese communist leader
08/22/1904 – 02/19/1997
  John Dewey
American philosopher and educator
10/20/1859 – 06/01/1952
  Marlene Dietrich
German-born American actress, The Blue Angel, Morocco, and singer
12/27/1901 – 05/06/1992
  Phyllis Diller
American comedienne and actress
07/17/1917 – 08/20/2012
  Lou Donaldson
American jazz saxophonist
11/01/1926 – 11/09/2024
  Jimmy Doolittle
American aviator and general, led the 1942 air raids on Japan
12/14/1896 – 09/27/1993
  Kirk Douglas
American actor, Lust for Life, Spartacus
12/09/1916 – 02/05/2020
  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American conservationist, champion of the Florida Everglades
04/07/1890 – 05/14/1998
  W. E. B. Du Bois
American civil rights activist, co-founded the NAACP
02/23/1868 – 08/27/1963
  Katherine Dunham
American dancer and choreographer
06/22/1909 – 05/21/2006
  Will Durant
American philosopher and historian, co-author of The Story of Civilization series
11/05/1885 – 11/07/1981
  Gertrude Ederle
American athlete, first woman to swim the English Channel
10/23/1905 – 11/30/2003
  Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower
12/15/1832 – 12/27/1923
  Alfred Eisenstaedt
German-born American photographer
12/06/1898 – 08/24/1995
  Elizabeth II
British monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952–2022)
04/21/1926 – 09/08/2022
  Erik Erikson
German-born American psychoanalyst
06/15/1902 – 05/12/1994
  Erté (aka Romain de Tirtoff)
Russian-born French fashion illustrator and designer
11/23/1892 – 04/21/1990
  Alice Evans
American microbiologist
01/29/1881 – 09/05/1975
  Bob Feller
American baseball player
11/03/1918 – 12/15/2010
  Adam Ferguson
Scottish philosopher and historian
06/20/1723 – 02/22/1816
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American poet, A Coney Island of the Mind
03/24/1919 – 02/22/2021
  Lynn Fontanne
English-born actress, stage partner and spouse of Alfred Lunt
12/06/1887 – 07/30/1983
  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French scientist and philosopher, author of Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
02/11/1657 – 01/09/1757
  Betty Ford
American first lady (1974–1977) and social reformer
04/08/1918 – 07/08/2011
  Gerald Ford
American president (1974–1977)
07/14/1913 – 12/26/2006
  E. M. Forster
English writer, Howards End, A Passage to India
01/01/1879 – 06/07/1970
  Robert Frank
Swiss-born American photographer and documentarian
11/09/1924 – 09/09/2019
  Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychiatrist, author of Man's Search for Meaning
03/26/1905 – 09/02/1997
  Milton Friedman
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
07/31/1912 – 11/16/2006
  John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-born American economist and diplomat
10/15/1908 – 04/29/2006
  Abel Gance
French motion picture director, Napoléon
10/25/1889 – 11/10/1981
  John Gielgud
English Oscar-winning actor, Arthur, and stage director
04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000
  Lillian Gish
American actress, Way Down East, The Night of the Hunter
10/14/1893 – 02/27/1993
  Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
05/09/1914 – 06/14/2005
  John Glenn
American astronaut and politician, Ohio senator (1974–1999)
07/18/1921 – 12/08/2016
  Jean-Luc Godard
French/Swiss motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary
12/03/1930 – 09/13/2022
  Samuel Goldwyn
Polish-born American motion picture producer, Wuthering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives
08/27/1882 – 01/31/1974
  Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian politician, President of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
03/02/1931 – 08/30/2022
  François-Joseph Gossec
Belgian-born French composer, Te Deum
01/17/1734 – 02/16/1829
  Billy Graham
American evangelist and spiritual adviser
11/07/1918 – 02/21/2018
  Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer
05/11/1894 – 04/01/1991
  Robert Graves
English poet and novelist, The White Goddess, I, Claudius
07/24/1895 – 12/07/1985
  Alice Guy-Blaché
French filmmaker, first female motion picture director
07/01/1873 – 03/24/1968
  Sarah Josepha Hale
American editor, novelist, and poet, "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
10/24/1788 – 04/30/1879
  Gail Halvorsen
American Air Force pilot, nicknamed the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber"
10/10/1920 – 02/16/2022
  Alice Hamilton
American industrial toxicologist, known as the mother of occupational medicine
02/27/1869 – 09/22/1970
  Harry Hay
English-born American gay rights activist
04/07/1912 – 10/24/2002
  Helen Hayes
American Oscar-winning actress, nicknamed "The First Lady of the American Theatre"
10/10/1900 – 03/17/1993
  Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer
03/13/1925 – 11/12/2024
  Hugh Hefner
American magazine publisher, creator of Playboy
04/09/1926 – 09/27/2017
  Dorothy Height
American civil and women’s rights activist
03/24/1912 – 04/20/2010
  Katharine Hepburn
American Oscar-winning actress, The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen
05/12/1907 – 06/29/2003
  Caroline Herschel
German-born English astronomer
03/16/1750 – 01/09/1848
  Peter Higgs
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist, proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle
05/29/1929 – 04/08/2024
  Al Hirschfeld
American caricaturist
06/21/1903 – 01/20/2003
  Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher, author of Leviathan
04/05/1588 – 12/04/1679
  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
American Supreme Court justice (1902–1932)
03/08/1841 – 03/06/1935
  Joseph Dalton Hooker
English botanist
06/30/1817 – 12/10/1911
  Herbert Hoover
American president (1929–1933)
08/10/1874 – 10/20/1964
  Bob Hope
English-born American comedian, actor, and humanitarian
05/29/1903 – 07/27/2003
  Lena Horne
American singer, "Stormy Weather", and actress
06/30/1917 – 05/09/2010
  Julia Ward Howe
American social activist and poet, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
05/27/1819 – 10/17/1910
  Edmond Hoyle
English writer on the rules and play of card games
c. 1672 – 08/29/1769
  Anna Hyatt Huntington
American sculptor
03/10/1876 – 10/04/1973
  Lee Iacocca
American automobile executive, leader of the Chrysler Corporation (1978–1992)
10/15/1924 – 07/02/2019
  William Henry Jackson
American photographer and painter
04/04/1843 – 06/30/1942
  Ella Jenkins
American singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The First Lady of Children's Music"
08/06/1924 – 11/09/2024
  Lady Bird Johnson
American first lady (1963–1969) and environmentalist
12/22/1912 – 07/11/2007
  Philip Johnson
American architect
07/08/1906 – 01/25/2005
  Hank Jones
American jazz pianist
07/31/1918 – 05/16/2010
  James Earl Jones
American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars
01/17/1931 – 09/09/2024
  Mother Jones
Irish-born American social activist
08/01/1837 – 11/30/1930
  Quincy Jones
American music producer, musician, and composer
03/14/1933 – 11/03/2024
  Tamara Karsavina
Russian-born prima ballerina
03/10/1885 – 05/26/1978
  Yousuf Karsh
Turkish-born Canadian photographer
12/23/1908 – 07/13/2002
  Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian/American FDA reviewer, blocked approval of thalidomide in the U.S.
07/24/1914 – 08/07/2015
  André Kertész
Hungarian-born American photographer
07/02/1894 – 09/28/1985
  Henry Kissinger
German-born American statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
05/27/1923 – 11/29/2023
  Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter, poet, and playwright
03/01/1886 – 02/22/1980
  Willem Kolff
Dutch-born American physician and inventor, known as the father of artificial organs
02/14/1911 – 02/11/2009
  Jake LaMotta
American boxer, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull"
07/10/1922 – 09/19/2017
  Angela Lansbury
English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote
10/16/1925 – 10/11/2022
  Eva Le Gallienne
English-born American actress and stage director and producer
01/11/1899 – 06/03/1991
  Norman Lear
American motion picture and television producer, All in the Family, Good Times
07/27/1922 – 12/05/2023
  Stan Lee
American comic book writer, co-created Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four
12/28/1922 – 11/12/2018
  Leo XIII
Italian pope (1878–1903)
03/02/1810 – 07/20/1903
  Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning neurologist
04/22/1909 – 12/30/2012
  Claude Lévi-Strauss
French social anthropologist
11/28/1908 – 10/30/2009
  Jerry Lewis
American comedian, actor, motion picture director, The Nutty Professor, and humanitarian
03/16/1926 – 08/20/2017
  Beatrice Lillie
Canadian/English comedienne and actress
05/29/1894 – 01/20/1989
  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American aviator and writer, A Gift from the Sea
06/22/1906 – 02/07/2001
  Astrid Lindgren
Swedish children's writer, the Pippi Longstocking series
11/14/1907 – 01/28/2002
  Raymond Loewy
French-born American industrial designer
11/05/1893 – 07/14/1986
  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
American socialite, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt
02/12/1884 – 02/20/1980
  Anita Loos
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
04/26/1889 – 08/18/1981
  Esther Pohl Lovejoy
American public health reformer
11/16/1869 – 08/31/1967
  Auguste Lumière
French inventor, pioneer of filmmaking technology
10/19/1862 – 04/10/1954
  Loretta Lynn
American country singer and songwriter, Coal Miner's Daughter
04/14/1932 – 10/04/2022
  Vera Lynn
English singer, "We'll Meet Again", nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart"
03/20/1917 – 06/18/2020
  Connie Mack
American baseball player and manager
12/22/1862 – 02/08/1956
  Harold Macmillan
English prime minister (1957–1963)
02/10/1894 – 12/29/1986
  Nelson Mandela
South African anti-apartheid leader, president (1994–1999), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
07/18/1918 – 12/05/2013
  Mike Mansfield
American politician, Senate Majority Leader (1961–1977)
03/16/1903 – 10/05/2001
  Neville Marriner
English conductor
04/15/1924 – 10/02/2016
  W. Somerset Maugham
English writer, Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge
01/25/1874 – 12/16/1965
  Ernst Mayr
German-born American evolutionary biologist
07/05/1904 – 02/03/2005
  Willie Mays
American baseball player and coach
05/06/1931 – 06/18/2024
  Barbara McClintock
American Nobel Prize-winning cytogeneticist
06/16/1902 – 09/02/1992
  Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian composer and librettist, Amahl and the Night Visitors
07/07/1911 – 02/01/2007
  James Michener
American writer, Hawaii, Centennial
02/03/1907 – 10/16/1997
  Joan Miró
Spanish painter and sculptor
04/20/1893 – 12/25/1983
  Ludwig von Mises
Austrian-born American free-market economist and social philosopher
09/29/1881 – 10/10/1973
  Jean Monnet
French political economist and diplomat
11/09/1888 – 03/16/1979
  Helen Wills Moody
American tennis player
10/06/1905 – 01/01/1998
  Henry Morgenthau Sr.
German-born American diplomat
04/26/1856 – 11/25/1946
  Grandma Moses
American painter
09/07/1860 – 12/13/1961
  Stirling Moss
English race car driver
09/17/1929 – 04/12/2020
  Stan Musial
American baseball player
11/21/1920 – 01/19/2013
  Scott Nearing
American social activist and environmentalist
08/06/1883 – 08/24/1983
  Pola Negri
Polish-born American actress, Forbidden Paradise
12/31/1894 – 08/01/1987
  Byron Nelson
American golfer
02/04/1912 – 09/26/2006
  Bob Newhart
American comedian and actor, Elf, TV's The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart
09/05/1929 – 07/18/2024
  Florence Nightingale
English nurse and social reformer, nicknamed "The Lady with the Lamp"
05/12/1820 – 08/13/1910
  Hermann Oberth
Romanian-born German rocket scientist, known as the father of space travel
06/25/1894 – 12/28/1989
  Sandra Day O'Connor
American Supreme Court justice (1981–2006)
03/26/1930 – 12/01/2023
  Maureen O'Hara
Irish/American actress, Miracle on 34th Street, The Quiet Man
08/17/1920 – 10/24/2015
  Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter
11/15/1887 – 03/06/1986
  Gordon Parks
American photojournalist, writer, and motion picture director, The Learning Tree
11/30/1912 – 03/07/2006
  Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist
02/04/1913 – 10/24/2005
  Maxfield Parrish
American painter and illustrator
07/25/1870 – 03/30/1966
  Louella Parsons
American gossip columnist
08/06/1881 – 12/09/1972
  Alice Paul
American suffragist leader
01/11/1885 – 07/09/1977
  Les Paul
American musician and inventor, developed the solid-body electric guitar
06/09/1915 – 08/12/2009
  Linus Pauling
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace activist
02/28/1901 – 08/19/1994
  Norman Vincent Peale
American religious leader, author of The Power of Positive Thinking
05/31/1898 – 12/24/1993
  I. M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
04/26/1917 – 05/16/2019
  Irving Penn
American photographer
06/16/1917 – 10/07/2009
  Marius Petipa
French-born dancer and choreographer, known as the father of classical ballet
03/11/1818 – 07/14/1910
  Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor
10/25/1881 – 04/08/1973
  Donald Pinkel
American pediatrician, pioneer in pediatric cancer treatment
09/07/1926 – 03/09/2022
  Sidney Poitier
American Oscar-winning actor, Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night
02/20/1927 – 01/06/2022
  Karl Popper
Austrian-born English philosopher, author of The Open Society and Its Enemies
07/28/1902 – 09/17/1994
  Katherine Anne Porter
American writer, Ship of Fools
05/15/1890 – 09/18/1980
  William Powell
American actor, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey
07/29/1892 – 03/05/1984
  Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician
06/25/1908 – 12/25/2000
  A. Philip Randolph
American civil rights activist and labor leader
04/15/1889 – 05/16/1979
  Jeannette Rankin
American suffragist, pacifist, and politician, first female member of Congress
06/11/1880 – 05/18/1973
  Ronald Reagan
American actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, and president (1981–1989)
02/06/1911 – 06/05/2004
  Leni Riefenstahl
German filmmaker, Triumph of the Will, and photographer
08/22/1902 – 09/08/2003
  Chita Rivera
American actress, singer, and dancer, Broadway's West Side Story, Chicago
01/23/1933 – 01/30/2024
  Hal Roach
American motion picture producer and director, the Our Gang film series
01/14/1892 – 11/02/1992
  John D. Rockefeller
American industrialist and philanthropist
07/08/1839 – 05/23/1937
  Peter Mark Roget
English lexicographer, author of Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
01/18/1779 – 09/12/1869
  Mickey Rooney
American actor, Babes in Arms, the Andy Hardy film series
09/23/1920 – 04/06/2014
  Elihu Root
American statesman and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
02/15/1845 – 02/07/1937
  Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-born American pianist
01/28/1887 – 12/20/1982
  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
  Frederick F. Russell
American physician, developed the first successful typhoid fever vaccine
08/17/1870 – 12/29/1960
  Bernardino de Sahagún
Spanish missionary and Aztec archaeologist
c. 1499 – 10/23/1590
  J. D. Salinger
American writer, The Catcher in the Rye
01/01/1919 – 01/27/2010
  Colonel Harland Sanders
American entrepreneur, founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain
09/09/1890 – 12/16/1980
  Gene Sarazen
American golfer
02/27/1902 – 05/13/1999
  Max Schmeling
German boxer
09/28/1905 – 02/02/2005
  Albert Schweitzer
German-born French physician, theologian, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
01/14/1875 – 09/04/1965
  Pete Seeger
American folk singer and political activist
05/03/1919 – 01/27/2014
  Andrés Segovia
Spanish classical guitarist
02/21/1893 – 06/03/1987
  Irena Sendler
Polish humanitarian, smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto
02/15/1910 – 05/12/2008
  Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player
04/07/1920 – 12/11/2012
  Artie Shaw
American clarinetist and bandleader
05/23/1910 – 12/30/2004
  George Bernard Shaw
Irish-born English Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Major Barbara, Pygmalion
07/26/1856 – 11/02/1950
  George Shearing
English-born American jazz pianist and composer, "Lullaby of Birdland"
08/13/1919 – 02/14/2011
  Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer, Finlandia
12/08/1865 – 09/20/1957
  Neil Simon
American playwright, The Odd Couple, and screenwriter, The Goodbye Girl
07/04/1927 – 08/26/2018
  Mimar Sinan
Ottoman architect
c. 1490 – 07/17/1588
  Upton Sinclair
American writer, The Jungle, Oil!
09/20/1878 – 11/25/1968
  Margaret Chase Smith
American politician, Maine representative (1940–1949) and senator (1949–1973)
12/14/1897 – 05/29/1995
  Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist and mathematician
12/26/1780 – 11/28/1872
  Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist, West Side Story, A Little Night Music
03/22/1930 – 11/26/2021
  Soong Mei-ling (aka Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
Taiwanese first lady (1948–1975)
03/05/1897 – 10/23/2003
  Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician, author of Baby and Child Care
05/02/1903 – 03/15/1998
  Edward Steichen
Luxembourgian-born American photographer
03/27/1879 – 03/25/1973
  Leopold Stokowski
English-born American conductor
04/18/1882 – 09/13/1977
  Antonio Stradivari
Italian luthier, manufactured Stradivarius violins
c. 1644 – 12/18/1737
  Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb
01/15/1908 – 09/09/2003
  John Tenniel
English satirical artist and illustrator, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
02/28/1820 – 02/25/1914
  Mary Church Terrell
American suffragist and civil rights activist
09/23/1863 – 07/24/1954
  Clark Terry
American jazz trumpeter and flügelhornist
12/14/1920 – 02/21/2015
  Thomas à Kempis
German clergyman and mystic, author of The Imitation of Christ
c. 1380 – 1471
  Virgil Thomson
American composer, Four Saints in Three Acts
11/25/1896 – 09/30/1989
  Sybil Thorndike
English actress, Saint Joan
10/24/1882 – 06/09/1976
  P. L. Travers
Australian-born English children's writer, the Mary Poppins series
08/09/1899 – 04/23/1996
  Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist, "conductor" on the Underground Railway
c. 1820 – 03/10/1913
  Desmond Tutu
South African archbishop, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
10/07/1931 – 12/26/2021
  Cicely Tyson
American actress, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
12/19/1924 – 01/28/2021
  Henry van de Velde
Belgian architect and interior designer, co-founded the Art Nouveau movement
04/03/1863 – 10/25/1957
  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch naturalist and microscopist
10/24/1632 – 08/30/1723
  Agnès Varda
Belgian-born French motion picture director, Cleo from 5 to 7
05/30/1928 – 03/29/2019
  Max von Sydow
Swedish actor, The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist
04/10/1929 – 03/08/2020
  Alfred Russel Wallace
Welsh-born English naturalist, co-founded the theory of evolution
01/08/1823 – 11/07/1913
  Raoul Walsh
American motion picture director, What Price Glory?, White Heat
03/11/1887 – 12/31/1980
  Barbara Walters
American journalist, The Today Show, and television interviewer
09/25/1929 – 12/30/2022
  Ernest Walton
Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, co-developed the first nuclear particle accelerator
10/06/1903 – 06/25/1995
  Kitty Wells
American country singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The Queen of Country Music"
08/30/1919 – 07/16/2012
  Eudora Welty
American writer, The Optimist's Daughter
04/13/1909 – 07/23/2001
  Lina Wertmüller
Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, Swept Away, Seven Beauties
08/14/1928 – 12/09/2021
  Rebecca West
English journalist, novelist, and feminist
12/21/1892 – 03/15/1983
  Betty White
American actress, TV's The Golden Girls, and television personality
01/17/1922 – 12/31/2021
  Richard Widmark
American actor, Kiss of Death
12/26/1914 – 03/24/2008
  Simon Wiesenthal
Austrian human rights activist and Nazi hunter
12/31/1908 – 09/20/2005
  Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American motion picture director and screenwriter, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot
06/22/1906 – 03/27/2002
  Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, the Little House on the Prairie series
02/07/1867 – 02/10/1957
  E. O. Wilson
American naturalist, pioneer of evolutionary biology
06/10/1929 – 12/26/2021
  Nicholas Winton
English humanitarian, orchestrated the rescue of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia
05/19/1909 – 07/01/2015
  P. G. Wodehouse
English-born American writer, the Jeeves canon
10/15/1881 – 02/14/1975
  John Wooden
American basketball coach
10/14/1910 – 06/04/2010
  Herman Wouk
American writer, The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War
05/27/1915 – 05/17/2019
  Fay Wray
Canadian-born American actress, King Kong
09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004
  Christopher Wren
English architect
10/20/1632 – 02/25/1723
  Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959
  Andrew Wyeth
American painter
07/12/1917 – 01/16/2009
  Chuck Yeager
American Air Force officer and test pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound
02/13/1923 – 12/07/2020
  Adolph Zukor
Hungarian-born American film studio mogul, founded Paramount Pictures
01/07/1873 – 06/10/1976
  Vladimir Zworykin
Russian-born American electronic engineer and inventor, pioneer of television technology
07/30/1889 – 07/29/1982

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