Berenice Abbott, American photographer
07/17/1898 – 12/09/1991

Max Abramovitz, American architect
05/23/1908 – 09/12/2004

Mortimer Adler, American philosopher
12/28/1902 – 06/28/2001

Stella Adler, American drama instructor
02/10/1901 – 12/21/1992

Carl Albert, American politician, Speaker of the House (1971-1977)
05/10/1908 – 02/04/2000

Eddie Albert, American actor, "Roman Holiday", TV's "Green Acres"
04/22/1906 – 05/26/2005

Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet and playwright
12/16/1902 – 10/28/1999

Judith Anderson, Australian-born actress, "Rebecca"
02/10/1897 – 03/03/1992

Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist
03/13/1908 – 10/01/2002

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director and screenwriter, "Blow-Up"
09/29/1912 – 07/30/2007

Arletty, French actress, "Children of Paradise"
05/15/1898 – 07/23/1992

Jean Arthur, American actress, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "The More the Merrier"
10/17/1900 – 06/19/1991

Joseph Barbera, American animator, "Tom and Jerry", "Yogi Bear"
03/24/1911 – 12/18/2006

Sammy Baugh, American football player
03/17/1914 – 12/17/2008

Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator and co-founder of the Boy Scouts
06/21/1850 – 06/11/1941

Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera impresario
01/09/1902 – 09/02/1997

Harry Blackmun, American Supreme Court justice (1970-1994)
11/12/1908 – 03/04/1999

Maurice Blanchot, French writer, "Thomas the Obscure"
09/22/1907 – 02/20/2003

Herbert Block (aka Herblock), American editorial cartoonist
10/13/1909 – 10/07/2001

Margaret Booth, American film editor, "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Camille"
01/14/1898 – 10/28/2002

Shirley Booth, American Oscar-winning actress, "Come Back, Little Sheba", TV's "Hazel"
08/30/1898 – 10/16/1992

Adrian Boult, British conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra (1930-1950)
04/08/1889 – 02/22/1983

Kay Boyle, American writer and political activist
02/19/1902 – 12/27/1992

Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer
08/27/1908 – 02/25/2001

Romaine Brooks, American painter
05/01/1874 – 12/07/1970

Clarence Brown, American film director, "Flesh and the Devil", "National Velvet"
05/10/1890 – 08/17/1987

Irving Caesar, American songwriter, "Tea for Two", "Swanee"
07/04/1895 – 12/18/1996

Mary Calderone, American physician and sexual education advocate
07/01/1904 – 10/24/1998

Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, longest validated lifespan in human history
02/21/1875 – 08/04/1997

Marcel Carné, French film director, "Children of Paradise"
08/18/1906 – 10/31/1996

Barbara Cartland, British romance novelist
07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American patriot leader and politician
09/19/1737 – 11/14/1832

Benny Carter, American jazz musician and bandleader
08/08/1907 – 07/12/2003

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer
08/22/1908 – 08/03/2004

Oleg Cassini, French-born American fashion designer
04/10/1913 – 03/17/2006

Ina Claire, American actress, "Ninotchka"
10/15/1893 – 02/21/1985

Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer and futurist, "2001: A Space Odyssey"
12/16/1917 – 03/19/2008

Imogene Coca, American comedienne, TV's "Your Show of Shows"
11/18/1908 – 06/02/2001

Anna J. Cooper, American educator and writer, "A Voice from the South"
08/10/1858 – 02/27/1964

Malcolm Cowley, American poet and literary critic
08/28/1898 – 03/27/1989

Quentin Crisp, British raconteur and writer, "The Naked Civil Servant"
12/25/1908 – 11/21/1999

Hume Cronyn, Canadian-born American actor, "Lifeboat", "Cocoon"
07/18/1911 – 06/15/2003

Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born bandleader
01/01/1900 – 10/27/1990

Imogen Cunningham, American photographer
04/12/1883 – 06/24/1976

Michael DeBakey, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical researcher
09/07/1908 – 07/11/2008

Democritus, Greek philosopher
c. 460 – c. 370 BC

Rudolph Dirks, German-born American comic strip artist, "The Katzenjammer Kids"
02/26/1877 – 04/20/1968

Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic
01/05/1904 – 01/26/1997

Andrea Doria, Italian admiral
11/30/1466 – 11/25/1560

Billie Dove, American silent film actress, "The American Beauty"
05/14/1903 – 12/31/1997

Katharine Drexel, American saint
11/26/1858 – 03/03/1955

Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American economist
11/19/1909 – 11/11/2005

Irene Dunne, American actress, "The Awful Truth", "I Remember Mama"
12/20/1898 – 09/04/1990

Will Durant, American philosopher and historian, "The Story of Civilization"
11/05/1885 – 11/07/1981

Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, American cowboy and deputy marshal
10/26/1860 – 04/08/1958

Buddy Ebsen, American dancer and actor, TV's "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Barnaby Jones"
04/02/1908 – 07/06/2003

Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born American photographer
12/06/1898 – 08/24/1995

Charles William Eliot, American educator, Harvard University president (1869-1909)
03/20/1834 – 08/22/1926

Erté (aka Romain de Tirtoff), Russian-born French artist and designer
11/23/1892 – 04/21/1990

Weeb Ewbank, American football coach
05/06/1907 – 11/17/1998

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor, "Little Caesar", "Gunga Din"
12/09/1909 – 05/07/2000

Frederick Fennell, American wind band conductor
07/02/1914 – 12/07/2004

Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer, and racing-car driver
02/18/1898 – 08/14/1988

John Ambrose Fleming, British physicist and electrical engineer
11/29/1849 – 04/18/1945

Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor, "Gilda", "Blackboard Jungle"
05/01/1916 – 08/30/2006

Milton Friedman, American Nobel Prize-winning economist
07/31/1912 – 11/16/2006

Rudolf Friml, Czech-born American composer, "Rose Marie"
12/07/1879 – 11/12/1972

Christopher Fry, British playwright, "The Lady's Not for Burning"
12/18/1907 – 06/30/2005

Vivian Fuchs, British polar explorer, made first surface crossing of the Antarctic
02/11/1908 – 11/11/1999

Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher, "Truth and Method"
02/11/1900 – 03/13/2002

Abel Gance, French film director, "Napoléon"
10/25/1889 – 11/10/1981

John Nance Garner, American vice president (1933-1941)
11/22/1868 – 11/07/1967

Greer Garson, British-born American Oscar-winning actress, "Mrs. Miniver"
09/29/1904 – 04/06/1996

Patrick Gass, American frontiersman, journalist for the Lewis and Clark expedition (1801-1806)
06/12/1771 – 04/02/1870

Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer and industrial psychologist
05/24/1878 – 01/02/1972

Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor
05/09/1914 – 06/14/2005

Joseph Glidden, American teacher and farmer, patented barbed wire
01/18/1813 – 10/09/1906

E. H. Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian, "The Story of Art"
03/30/1909 – 11/03/2001

Robert Graves, British poet and novelist, "The White Goddess", "I, Claudius"
07/24/1895 – 12/07/1985

Gustav V of Sweden, Swedish king (1907-1950)
06/16/1858 – 10/29/1950

Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, Swedish king (1950-1973)
11/11/1882 – 09/15/1973

Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician
12/08/1865 – 10/17/1963

Gus Hall, American Communist Party leader and presidential candidate
10/08/1910 – 10/13/2000

Armand Hammer, American petroleum executive and entrepreneur
05/21/1898 – 12/10/1990

Lionel Hampton, American jazz vibraphonist and bandleader
04/20/1908 – 08/31/2002

William Hanna, American animator, "Tom and Jerry", "Yogi Bear"
07/14/1910 – 03/22/2001

W. Averell Harriman, American diplomat and presidential advisor
11/15/1891 – 07/26/1986

Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress, arts advocate, and game show panelist
09/03/1910 – 04/17/2007

Nancy Hart, American Revolutionary War heroine
c. 1735 – 1830

Harry Hay, British-born American gay rights activist
04/07/1912 – 10/24/2002

Wendy Hiller, British Oscar-winning actress, "Separate Tables"
08/15/1912 – 05/14/2003

Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded Hilton Hotel chain
12/25/1887 – 01/03/1979

Syd Hoff, American cartoonist and children's book writer and illustrator, "Danny and the Dinosaur"
09/04/1912 – 05/12/2004

Red Horner, Canadian hockey player
05/29/1909 – 04/27/2005

Edmond Hoyle, British writer on the rules and play of card games
1672 – 08/29/1769

Anna Hyatt Huntington, American sculptor
03/10/1876 – 10/04/1973

Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish Communist leader
12/09/1895 – 11/12/1989

Ernst Jünger, German writer, "Storm of Steel"
03/29/1895 – 02/17/1998

Elia Kazan, Turkish-born American Oscar-winning film director, "Gentleman's Agreement", "On the Waterfront"
09/07/1909 – 09/28/2003

W. K. Kellogg, American businessman, founded Kellogg cereal company
04/07/1860 – 10/06/1951

André Kertész, Hungarian-born American photographer
07/02/1894 – 09/28/1985

Ancel Keys, American physiologist and nutritionist
01/26/1904 – 11/20/2004

Henry King, American film director, "In Old Chicago", "The Song of Bernadette"
01/24/1886 – 06/29/1982

Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter and Governor-President (1848-1849)
09/19/1802 – 03/20/1894

Alf Landon, American politician, 1936 Republican presidential candidate
09/09/1887 – 10/12/1987

Walter Lantz, American animator, "Woody Woodpecker"
04/27/1899 – 03/22/1994

Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, founded Estée Lauder cosmetics company
07/01/1908 – 04/24/2004

Buck Leonard, American baseball player
09/08/1907 – 11/27/1997

Rosina Lhévinne, Russian-born American pianist and piano instructor
03/29/1880 – 11/09/1976

Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager
08/20/1908 – 10/29/2005

Rouben Mamoulian, Russian-born theater and film director, "Becky Sharp", "Blood and Sand"
10/08/1897 – 12/04/1987

Bernard Maybeck, American architect
02/07/1862 – 10/03/1957

Oscar Mayer, German-born American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer meat company
03/29/1859 – 03/11/1955

Sanford Meisner, American drama instructor
08/31/1905 – 02/02/1997

Robert K. Merton, American sociologist
07/04/1910 – 02/23/2003

Dale Messick, American comic strip artist, "Brenda Starr"
04/11/1906 – 04/05/2005

John Mills, British Oscar-winning actor, "Ryan's Daughter"
02/22/1908 – 04/23/2005

Ashley Montagu, British-born American anthropologist, "The Natural Superiority of Women"
06/28/1905 – 11/26/1999

Levi P. Morton, American vice president (1889-1893)
05/16/1824 – 05/16/1920

George Müller, Prussian-born British evangelist and philanthropist
09/27/1805 – 03/10/1898

Arthur Murray, American dance instructor
04/04/1895 – 03/03/1991

R. K. Narayan, Indian writer, "Swami and Friends"
10/10/1906 – 05/13/2001

John G. Neihardt, American novelist and poet, "A Cycle of the West"
01/08/1881 – 11/24/1973

Byron Nelson, American golfer
02/04/1912 – 09/26/2006

Martin Niemöller, German anti-Nazi theologian and pastor, originator of the quote "First they came..."
01/14/1892 – 03/06/1984

Paul Nitze, American military strategist
01/16/1907 – 10/19/2004

Louis Nizer, British-born American trial lawyer
02/06/1902 – 11/10/1994

Hermann Oberth, Romanian-born German rocket scientist
06/25/1894 – 12/28/1989

Ruth Page, American dancer and choreographer
03/22/1899 – 04/07/1991

Gordon Parks, American photojournalist and film director, "The Learning Tree"
11/30/1912 – 03/07/2006

Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist
08/06/1881 – 12/09/1972

James Cash Penney, American businessman, founded J. C. Penney retail stores
09/16/1875 – 02/12/1971

Marius Petipa, French ballet master and choreographer
03/11/1818 – 07/14/1910

Molly Picon, American singer, actress, and comedienne of the Yiddish theater
06/01/1898 – 04/05/1992

Karl Popper, Austrian-born British philosopher
07/28/1902 – 09/17/1994

Katherine Anne Porter, American writer, "Ship of Fools"
05/15/1890 – 09/18/1980

Ramesses II, Egyptian pharaoh
c. 1314 – 1224 BC

Leopold von Ranke, German historian
12/21/1795 – 05/23/1886

Grote Reber, American radio astronomer, built first radio telescope
12/22/1911 – 12/20/2002

Stanley F. Reed, American Supreme Court justice (1938-1957)
12/31/1884 – 04/02/1980

Paul Ricœur, French philosopher
02/27/1913 – 05/20/2005

Matthew Ridgway, American general, led U.S. forces in Normandy and United Nations troops in Korea
03/03/1895 – 07/26/1993

Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, "Triumph of the Will"
08/22/1902 – 09/08/2003

Hal Roach, American film producer and director, the "Our Gang" film series
01/14/1892 – 11/02/1992

Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician, first U.S. female governor
11/29/1876 – 12/19/1977

Frederik Ruysch, Dutch botanist and anatomist
03/23/1638 – 02/22/1731

Colonel Harland Sanders, American entrepreneur, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken
09/09/1890 – 12/16/1980

Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun, witnessed 1917 Marian apparitions at Fátima
03/22/1907 – 02/13/2005

Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer, "Portrait of a Man Unknown"
07/18/1900 – 10/19/1999

George Seldes, American journalist and press critic
11/16/1890 – 07/02/1995

Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader
05/23/1910 – 12/30/2004

E. H. Shepard, British children's book illustrator, "The Wind in the Willows", "Winnie-the-Pooh"
12/10/1879 – 03/24/1976

Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman, General Motors chairman (1937-1956)
05/23/1875 – 02/17/1966

Philippe Soupault, French poet and novelist, co-founded Surrealism movement
08/02/1897 – 03/11/1990

Amos Alonzo Stagg, American collegiate football player and coach
08/16/1862 – 03/17/1965

Harold Stassen, American politician and perennial presidential candidate
04/13/1907 – 03/04/2001

John C. Stennis, American politician, Mississippi senator (1947-1989)
08/03/1901 – 04/23/1995

Adela Rogers St. Johns, American journalist and screenwriter, "What Price Hollywood?"
05/20/1894 – 08/10/1988

Thomas Sumter, American Revolutionary War hero and politician
08/14/1734 – 06/01/1832

Blanche Sweet, American silent film actress, "Judith of Bethulia"
06/18/1896 – 09/06/1986

Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter
08/25/1899 – 06/24/1991

Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect
09/04/1913 – 03/22/2005

John Tenniel, British political cartoonist and illustrator, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
02/28/1820 – 02/25/1914

Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager
10/30/1898 – 01/09/1989

Michael Tippett, British composer, "A Child of Our Time"
01/02/1905 – 01/08/1998

Claire Trevor, American Oscar-winning actress, "Key Largo"
03/09/1910 – 04/08/2000

Bess Truman, American First Lady (1945-1953)
02/13/1885 – 10/18/1982

Henry Van de Velde, Belgian architect and designer, co-founded Art Nouveau movement
04/03/1863 – 10/25/1957

Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter
01/26/1877 – 05/28/1968

Raoul Walsh, American film director, "What Price Glory?", "White Heat"
03/11/1887 – 12/31/1980

Izaak Walton, British fishing enthusiast and writer, "The Compleat Angler"
08/09/1593 – 12/15/1683

Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, American television executive, NBC president (1949-1955)
12/21/1908 – 03/17/2002

André Weil, French mathematician
05/06/1906 – 08/06/1998

Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist
04/17/1896 – 04/20/1999

William Westmoreland, American general, commanded U.S. forces during Vietnam War
03/26/1914 – 07/18/2005

John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist, coined the term "black hole"
07/09/1911 – 04/13/2008

Lois Wilson, American social reformer, co-founded Al-Anon for friends and family of alcoholics
03/04/1891 – 10/06/1988

Robert Wise, American Oscar-winning film director, "West Side Story", "The Sound of Music"
09/10/1914 – 09/14/2005

C. Vann Woodward, American historian, "The Strange Career of Jim Crow"
11/13/1908 – 12/17/1999

Jane Wyman, American Oscar-winning actress, "Johnny Belinda", TV's "Falcon Crest"
01/05/1917 – 09/10/2007

Freddie Young, British cinematographer, "Lawrence of Arabia", "Dr. Zhivago"
10/09/1902 – 12/01/1998

Robert Young, American actor, TV's "Father Knows Best", "Marcus Welby"
02/22/1907 – 07/21/1998

Henny Youngman, British-born American comedian, "Take my wife, please"
03/16/1906 – 02/24/1998

Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born American film studio mogul, founded Paramount Pictures
01/07/1873 – 06/10/1976