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