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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
		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
		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
		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
		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
		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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