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.
― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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George Abbott
American
Broadway producer, director, and playwright, "Damn Yankees"
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
British 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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Gene Autry
American actor and singer, "Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer"
09/29/1907 - 10/02/1998
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Emily Greene Balch
American Nobel Prize-winning pacifist and
editor, The Nation
01/08/1867 - 01/09/1961
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Roger Nash Baldwin
American civil libertarian, co-founder of
the ACLU
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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Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer
and
salonnière
10/31/1876 - 02/02/1972
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Clara Barton
American
nursing pioneer
12/25/1821 - 04/12/1912
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Bernard Baruch
American financier and presidential adviser
08/19/1870 - 06/20/1965
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Milton
Berle
American comedian, TV's "Texaco
Star Theater"
07/12/1908 - 03/27/2002
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Irving Berlin
American
songwriter, "God Bless America", "White Christmas"
05/11/1888 - 09/22/1989
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Antoinette Brown
Blackwell
American
social reformer and first U.S. clergywoman
05/20/1825 - 11/05/1921 |
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Eubie Blake
American 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 humorist
01/03/1909 - 12/23/2000
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Nadia Boulanger
French composer, conductor, and music teacher
09/16/1887 - 10/22/1979
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
British queen consort and mother of Queen
Elizabeth II
08/04/1900 - 03/30/2002
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William J. Brennan,
Jr.
American jurist,
Supreme Court justice (1956-1990)
04/25/1906 - 07/24/1997
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George Burns
American comedian and Oscar-winning actor,
"The Sunshine Boys"
01/20/1896 - 03/09/1996
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Jeanne Calment
French supercentenarian, longest validated
lifespan in human history
02/21/1875 - 08/04/1997
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Frank Capra
Sicilian-born
American Oscar-winning film director, "It
Happened One Night"
05/18/1897 - 09/03/1991
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer
08/22/1908 - 08/03/2004
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Barbara Cartland
British
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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Marc Chagall
Russian-born French painter
07/07/1887 - 03/28/1985
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Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
08/31/1786 - 04/09/1889
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek (aka Soong May-ling)
Taiwanese First Lady (1948-1975)
03/05/1897 - 10/23/2003
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Julia Child
American TV chef
and writer, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"
08/15/1912 - 08/13/2004
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Winston Churchill
British
prime minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955)
11/30/1874 - 01/24/1965
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Imogene Coca
American comedienne, TV's "Your Show of
Shows"
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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Alistair Cooke
British-born American journalist and
broadcaster, TV's "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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Quentin Crisp
British bon vivant and writer, "The Naked
Civil Servant"
12/25/1908 - 11/21/1999
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Willem de Kooning
Dutch-born American painter
04/24/1904 - 03/19/1997
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Deng Xiaoping
Chinese government official
08/22/1904 - 02/19/1997
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Romain de Tirtoff (aka Erté)
Russian-born
French artist and designer
11/23/1892 - 04/21/1990
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Éamon de Valera
Irish president (1959-1973)
10/14/1882 - 08/29/1975
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John Dewey
American philosopher and educational
reformer
10/20/1859 - 06/01/1952
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Marlene Dietrich
German-born actress, "The Blue Angel"
12/27/1901 - 05/06/1992
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Jimmy Doolittle
American aviator
12/14/1896 - 09/27/1993
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American conservationist,
champion of Florida Everglades
04/07/1890 - 05/14/1998
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W. E. B. Du Bois
American civil rights activist
02/23/1868 - 08/27/1963
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Will Durant
American philosopher and historian,
"The Story of Civilization"
11/05/1885 - 11/07/1981
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Buddy Ebsen
American dancer and actor, TV's "The Beverly
Hillbillies", "Barnaby Jones"
04/02/1908 - 07/06/2003
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Gertrude Ederle
American swimmer, first woman to swim across
the English Channel
10/23/1905 - 11/30/2003
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Gustave Eiffel
French engineer and architect, designer of
the Eiffel Tower
12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
Prussian-born American photographer
12/06/1898 - 08/24/1995
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Erik Erikson
German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst
06/15/1902 - 05/12/1994
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Luis A. Ferré
Puerto Rican industrialist and governor
(1969-1973)
02/17/1904 - 10/21/2003
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Lynn Fontanne
British-born
actress,
half of
the stage couple Lunt and Fontanne
12/06/1887 - 07/30/1983
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E. M. Forster
British writer, "Howards End"
01/01/1879 - 06/07/1970
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John Gielgud
British Oscar-winning actor, "Arthur"
04/14/1904 - 05/21/2000
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Lillian Gish
American actress, "The Wind", "The Whales of
August"
10/14/1893 - 02/27/1993
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Samuel Goldwyn
Polish-born American film producer, "The
Best Years of Our Lives"
08/27/1882 - 01/31/1974
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Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer
05/11/1894 - 04/01/1991
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Alice Guy-Blaché
French filmmaker, first female director
07/01/1873 - 03/24/1968
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Sarah Josepha Hale
American editor and writer, "Mary Had a
Little Lamb"
10/24/1788 - 04/30/1879
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Alice Hamilton
American toxicologist
02/27/1869 - 09/22/1970
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Knut Hamsun
Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning writer,
"Hunger"
08/04/1859 - 02/19/1952
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Harry Hay
British-born American gay rights activist
04/07/1912 - 10/24/2002
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Helen Hayes
American Oscar-winning actress, "The Sin of
Madelon Claudet", "Airport"
10/10/1900 - 03/17/1993
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Katharine Hepburn
American Oscar-winning actress, "Morning
Glory", "On Golden Pond"
05/12/1907 - 06/29/2003
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Caroline Herschel
German-born British astronomer
03/16/1750 - 01/09/1848
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Al Hirschfeld
American caricaturist
06/21/1903 - 01/20/2003
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Thomas Hobbes
British philosopher and writer, "Leviathan"
04/05/1588 - 12/04/1679
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
American jurist, Supreme Court justice
(1902-1932)
03/08/1841 - 03/06/1935
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
British 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
British-born
American comedian and actor,
"The Road to Morocco"
05/29/1903 - 07/27/2003
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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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Philip Johnson
American architect
07/08/1906 - 01/25/2005
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Mother Jones
Irish-born
American social activist
08/01/1837 - 11/30/1930
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
American political matriarch
07/22/1890 - 01/22/1995
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Halldór Laxness
Icelandic Nobel Prize-winning writer,
"Iceland's Bell"
04/23/1902 - 02/08/1998
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Beatrice Lillie
(aka Lady Peel)
Canadian comedienne
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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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
American socialite, daughter of President Theodore
Roosevelt
02/12/1884 - 02/20/1980
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Esther Pohl Lovejoy
American public health pioneer and
suffragist
11/16/1869 - 08/31/1967
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Connie Mack
American baseball player and manager
12/22/1862 - 02/08/1956
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Harold Macmillan
British prime minister
(1957-1963)
02/10/1894 - 12/29/1986
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Mike Mansfield
American
politician, majority leader of the Senate (1961-1977)
03/16/1903 - 10/05/2001
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Alicia Markova
British prima ballerina assoluta
12/01/1910 - 12/02/2004
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W. Somerset Maugham
British writer, "Of Human Bondage"
01/25/1874 - 12/16/1965
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Barbara McClintock
American Nobel Prize-winning cytogeneticist
06/16/1902 - 09/02/1992
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James A. 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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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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Anna "Grandma" Moses
American painter
09/07/1860 - 12/13/1961
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Scott Nearing
American social activist and writer
08/06/1883 - 08/24/1983
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Pola Negri
Polish-born American silent film actress,
"Forbidden Paradise"
12/31/1894 - 08/01/1987
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John G. Neihardt
American novelist and poet, "A Cycle of the
West"
01/08/1881 - 11/24/1973
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Florence Nightingale
British
nursing pioneer
05/12/1820 - 08/13/1910
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Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter
11/15/1887 - 03/06/1986
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Rosa Parks
American civil rights pioneer
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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Alice Paul
American
suffragist leader
01/11/1885 - 07/09/1977
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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 minister and writer, "The Power of
Positive Thinking"
05/31/1898 - 12/24/1993
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Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor
10/25/1881 - 04/08/1973
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Karl Popper
Austrian-born British philosopher
07/28/1902 - 09/17/1994
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A. Philip Randolph
American civil rights and labor leader
04/15/1889 - 05/16/1979
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Jeannette Rankin
American politician, first female member of
Congress
06/11/1880 - 05/18/1973
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Ronald Reagan
American actor and president (1981-1989)
02/06/1911 - 06/05/2004
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Leni Riefenstahl
German film
director, "Triumph of the Will"
08/22/1902 - 09/08/2003
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Hal Roach
American film producer and director, "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 Roget
British lexicographer, "Thesaurus of English
Words and Phrases"
01/18/1779 - 09/12/1869
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Elihu Root
American Nobel Prize-winning statesman
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, Helena
Rubinstein cosmetics
12/25/1870 - 04/01/1965
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Bertrand Russell
Welsh-born British Nobel Prize-winning
writer and philosopher
05/18/1872 - 02/02/1970
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Harland Sanders (aka Colonel Sanders)
American restaurateur, Kentucky Fried
Chicken
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 and
humanitarian
01/14/1875 - 09/04/1965
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Andrés Segovia
Spanish classical guitarist
02/21/1893 - 06/03/1987
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish-born
playwright, "Major Barbara", "Pygmalion"
07/26/1856 - 11/02/1950
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Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer, "Finlandia"
12/08/1865 - 09/20/1957
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Upton Sinclair
American
writer, "The Jungle"
09/20/1878 - 11/25/1968
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Margaret Chase Smith
American politician, Maine representative
and senator
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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Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician, "Baby and Child Care"
05/02/1903 - 03/15/1998
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Louis St. Laurent
Canadian prime minister (1948-1957)
02/01/1882 - 07/25/1973
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Edward Steichen
Luxembourgian-born American photographer
03/27/1879 - 03/25/1973
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Leopold Stokowski
British-born American orchestra conductor
04/18/1882 - 09/13/1977
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Antonio Stradivari
Italian luthier
c. 1644 - 12/18/1737
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Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist, developer
of the hydrogen bomb
01/15/1908 - 09/09/2003
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Mary Church Terrell
American writer and civil rights activist
09/23/1863 - 07/24/1954
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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
British actress, "Saint Joan"
10/24/1882 - 06/09/1976
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Strom
Thurmond
American politician, South Carolina governor
and senator
12/05/1902 - 06/26/2003
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P. L. Travers
Australian-born British writer, "Mary
Poppins"
08/09/1899 - 04/23/1996
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Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist and conductor on the
Underground Railway
c. 1820 - 03/10/1913
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch microbiologist
10/24/1632 - 08/30/1723
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Welsh-born British naturalist, co-founder of
the theory of evolution
01/08/1823 - 11/07/1913
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Raoul Walsh
American film director, "What Price Glory?", "White Heat"
03/11/1887 - 12/31/1980
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Ernest Walton
Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist,
splitter of the atom
10/06/1903 - 06/25/1995
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Eudora Welty
American writer, "The Optimist's Daughter"
04/13/1909 - 07/23/2001
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Rebecca West
British feminist and writer
12/21/1892 - 03/15/1983
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Simon Wiesenthal
Ukrainian-born Austrian Nazi hunter
12/31/1908 - 09/20/2005
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Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American Oscar-winning film
director and screenwriter, "The Apartment"
06/22/1906 - 03/27/2002
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
American children's writer, "Little House on
the Prairie"
02/07/1867 - 02/10/1957
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P. G. Wodehouse
British-born American writer, the "Jeeves"
canon
10/15/1881 - 02/14/1975
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Fay Wray
Canadian-born American actress, "King Kong"
09/15/1907 - 08/08/2004
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Christopher Wren
British architect, designer of St. Paul's
Cathedral
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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Robert Young
American
actor, TV's "Father Knows Best", "Marcus Welby"
02/22/1907 - 07/21/1998
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Adolph Zukor
Hungarian-born
American film mogul, founder of Paramount Pictures
01/07/1873 - 06/10/1976
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Vladimir Zworykin
Russian-born American inventor, pioneer of
television technology
07/30/1889 - 07/29/1982
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