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HALL OF FAME

Noted Nonagenarians & 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) ―
 

 

George Abbott
American Broadway producer, director, and playwright, "Damn Yankees"
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
British astronomer
07/27/1801 - 01/02/1892

 

Marian Anderson
American contralto
02/27/1897 - 04/08/1993

 

Gene Autry
American actor and singer, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
09/29/1907 - 10/02/1998

 

Emily Greene Balch
American Nobel Prize-winning pacifist and feminist
01/08/1867 - 01/09/1961

 

Roger Nash Baldwin
American civil libertarian, co-founded the ACLU
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

 

Natalie Clifford Barney
American writer and
salonnière
10/31/1876 - 02/02/1972

 

Clara Barton
American Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross
12/25/1821 - 04/12/1912

 

Bernard Baruch
American financier and presidential adviser
08/19/1870 - 06/20/1965

  Henry Beachell
American plant breeder, developed "miracle rice"
09/21/1906 - 12/13/2006

 

Milton Berle
American comedian, TV's "
Texaco Star Theater"
07/12/1908 - 03/27/2002

 

Irving Berlin
Russian-born American songwriter, "God Bless America", "White Christmas"
05/11/1888 - 09/22/1989

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell
American social reformer and minister, first U.S. clergywoman
05/20/1825 - 11/05/1921
 

Eubie Blake
American pianist and songwriter, "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
02/07/1887 - 02/12/1983

 

Victor Borge
Danish-born American pianist and humorist
01/03/1909 - 12/23/2000

 

Nadia Boulanger
French composer, conductor, and music instructor
09/16/1887 - 10/22/1979

 

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
British queen consort and mother of Queen Elizabeth II
08/04/1900 - 03/30/2002

 

William J. Brennan, Jr.
American Supreme Court justice (1956-1990)
04/25/1906 - 07/24/1997

 

Ferdinand Buisson
French Nobel Prize-winning
statesman, educator, and pacifist
12/20/1841 - 02/16/1932

 

George Burns
American comedian and Oscar-winning actor, "The Sunshine Boys"
01/20/1896 - 03/09/1996

 

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

 

Frank Capra
Italian-born American Oscar-winning film director, "It Happened One Night"
05/18/1897 - 09/03/1991

 

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

 

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

 

Pablo Casals
Spanish cellist
12/29/1876 - 10/22/1973

 

Marc Chagall
Russian-born French painter
07/07/1887 - 03/28/1985

 

Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
08/31/1786 - 04/09/1889

 

Julia Child
American cooking expert, writer, and television personality, "The French Chef"
08/15/1912 - 08/13/2004

 

Winston Churchill
British prime minister (1940-1945, 1951-1955)
11/30/1874 - 01/24/1965

 

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

 

Claudette Colbert
French-born American Oscar-winning actress, "It Happened One Night"
09/13/1903 - 07/30/1996

 

Alistair Cooke
British-born American journalist and broadcaster, TV's "Masterpiece Theatre"
11/20/1908 - 03/30/2004

 

Aaron Copland
American composer, "
Appalachian Spring"
11/14/1900 - 12/02/1990

 

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

 

Willem de Kooning
Dutch-born American painter
04/24/1904 - 03/19/1997

 

Deng Xiaoping
Chinese government official
08/22/1904 - 02/19/1997

 

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

 

Éamon de Valera
American-born Irish president (1959-1973)
10/14/1882 - 08/29/1975

 

John Dewey
American philosopher and educational reformer
10/20/1859 - 06/01/1952

 

Marlene Dietrich
German-born American actress, "The Blue Angel", "Morocco"
12/27/1901 - 05/06/1992

 

Jimmy Doolittle
American aviator and army general, led 1942 air raid on Tokyo
12/14/1896 - 09/27/1993

 

Marjory Stoneman Douglas
American conservationist,
champion of 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
06/22/1912 - 05/21/2006
 

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

 

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

 

Gertrude Ederle
American swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel
10/23/1905 - 11/30/2003

 

Gustave Eiffel
French architect and civil engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower
12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923

 

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

 

Erik Erikson
German-born American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst
06/15/1902 - 05/12/1994

 

Luis A. Ferré
Puerto Rican industrialist and governor (1969-1973)
02/17/1904 - 10/21/2003

  Lynn Fontanne
British-born actress,
stage partner and spouse of Alfred Lunt
12/06/1887 - 07/30/1983
  Gerald R. Ford
American president (1974-1977)
07/14/1913 - 12/26/2006
 

E. M. Forster
British writer, "Howards End"
01/01/1879 - 06/07/1970

  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
 

John Gielgud
British Oscar-winning actor, "Arthur"
04/14/1904 - 05/21/2000

 

Lillian Gish
American actress, "The Wind", "The Whales of August"
10/14/1893 - 02/27/1993

 

Samuel Goldwyn
Polish-born American film producer, "The Best Years of Our Lives"
08/27/1882 - 01/31/1974

 

Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer
05/11/1894 - 04/01/1991

 

Alice Guy-Blaché
French filmmaker, first female 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

 

Alice Hamilton
American toxicologist
02/27/1869 - 09/22/1970

 

Knut Hamsun
Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning writer, "Hunger"
08/04/1859 - 02/19/1952

 

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

 

Helen Hayes
American Oscar-winning actress, "The Sin of Madelon Claudet", "Airport"
10/10/1900 - 03/17/1993

 

Katharine Hepburn
American Oscar-winning actress, "The Lion in Winter", "On Golden Pond"
05/12/1907 - 06/29/2003

 

Caroline Herschel
German-born British astronomer
03/16/1750 - 01/09/1848

 

Al Hirschfeld
American caricaturist
06/21/1903 - 01/20/2003

 

Thomas Hobbes
British philosopher and writer, "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
British botanist
06/30/1817 - 12/10/1911

 

Herbert Hoover
American president (1929-1933)
08/10/1874 - 10/20/1964

 

Bob Hope
British-born American comedian, actor
, and humanitarian
05/29/1903 - 07/27/2003

 

Julia Ward Howe
American social activist and poet, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
05/27/1819 - 10/17/1910

  Lady Bird Johnson
American First Lady and environmentalist
12/22/1912 - 07/11/2007
 

Philip Johnson
American architect
07/08/1906 - 01/25/2005

 

Mother Jones
Irish-born American social activist
08/01/1837 - 11/30/1930

 

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
American political matriarch
07/22/1890 - 01/22/1995

 

Halldór Laxness
Icelandic Nobel Prize-winning writer, "Iceland's Bell"
04/23/1902 - 02/08/1998

  Leo XIII
Italian pope (1878-1903)
03/02/1810 - 07/20/1903
 

Beatrice Lillie (aka Lady Peel)
Canadian comedienne
05/29/1894 - 01/20/1989

 

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American aviator and writer, "A Gift from the Sea"
06/22/1906 - 02/07/2001

 

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
American socialite, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt
02/12/1884 - 02/20/1980

 

Esther Pohl Lovejoy
American public health reformer
11/16/1869 - 08/31/1967

 

Connie Mack
American baseball player and manager
12/22/1862 - 02/08/1956

 

Harold Macmillan
British prime minister (1957-1963)
02/10/1894 - 12/29/1986

 

Mike Mansfield
American politician, Senate majority leader (1961-1977)
03/16/1903 - 10/05/2001

 

Alicia Markova
British prima ballerina assoluta
12/01/1910 - 12/02/2004

 

W. Somerset Maugham
British writer, "Of Human Bondage", "The Razor's Edge"
01/25/1874 - 12/16/1965

 

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 A. Michener
American writer, "Hawaii", "Centennial"
02/03/1907 - 10/16/1997 

 

Joan Miró
Spanish painter and sculptor
04/20/1893 - 12/25/1983

 

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

 

Scott Nearing
American social activist and writer, "The Good Life"
08/06/1883 - 08/24/1983

 

Pola Negri
Polish-born American silent film actress, "Forbidden Paradise"
12/31/1894 - 08/01/1987

 

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

 

Florence Nightingale
British nursing pioneer, "The Lady with the Lamp"
05/12/1820 - 08/13/1910

 

Georgia O'Keeffe
American painter
11/15/1887 - 03/06/1986

 

Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist
02/04/1913 - 10/24/2005

 

Maxfield Parrish
American painter and illustrator
07/25/1870 - 03/30/1966

 

Alice Paul
American suffragist leader
01/11/1885 - 07/09/1977

 

Linus Pauling
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and pacifist
02/28/1901 - 08/19/1994

 

Norman Vincent Peale
American minister and writer, "The Power of Positive Thinking"
05/31/1898 - 12/24/1993

 

Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor
10/25/1881 - 04/08/1973

 

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

 

A. Philip Randolph
American civil rights and labor leader
04/15/1889 - 05/16/1979

 

Jeannette Rankin
American feminist, pacifist, and politician, first female member of Congress
06/11/1880 - 05/18/1973

 

Ronald Reagan
American actor and president (1981-1989)
02/06/1911 - 06/05/2004

 

Leni Riefenstahl
German film director, "Triumph of the Will"

08/22/1902 - 09/08/2003

 

Hal Roach
American film producer and director, "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
British lexicographer, "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases"
01/18/1779 - 09/12/1869

 

Elihu Root
American Nobel Prize-winning statesman
02/15/1845 - 02/07/1937

 

Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-born American pianist
01/28/1887 - 12/20/1982

 

Helena Rubinstein
Polish-born American businesswoman, Helena Rubinstein cosmetics
12/25/1870 - 04/01/1965

 

Bertrand Russell
Welsh-born British Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and social reformer
05/18/1872 - 02/02/1970

  Frederick F. Russell
American physician, developed first successful typhoid fever vaccine
08/17/1870 - 12/29/1960
 

Louis St. Laurent
Canadian prime minister (1948-1957)
02/01/1882 - 07/25/1973

 

Colonel Harland Sanders
American
entrepreneur, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken
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 and humanitarian
01/14/1875 - 09/04/1965

 

Andrés Segovia
Spanish classical guitarist
02/21/1893 - 06/03/1987

 

George Bernard Shaw
Irish-born playwright, "Major Barbara", "Pygmalion"
07/26/1856 - 11/02/1950

 

Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer, "Finlandia"
12/08/1865 - 09/20/1957

 

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

 

Soong Mei-ling (aka Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
Taiwanese First Lady (1948-1975)
03/05/1897 - 10/23/2003

 

Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician, "Baby and Child Care"
05/02/1903 - 03/15/1998

 

Edward Steichen
Luxembourgian-born American photographer
03/27/1879 - 03/25/1973

 

Leopold Stokowski
British-born American orchestra conductor
04/18/1882 - 09/13/1977

 

Antonio Stradivari
Italian luthier
c. 1644 - 12/18/1737

 

Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist, developed the hydrogen bomb
01/15/1908 - 09/09/2003

 

Mary Church Terrell
American civil rights and women's rights activist
09/23/1863 - 07/24/1954

 

Virgil Thomson
American composer, "Four Saints in Three Acts"
11/25/1896 - 09/30/1989

 

Sybil Thorndike
British actress, "Saint Joan"
10/24/1882 - 06/09/1976

 

Strom Thurmond
American politician, South Carolina governor (1947-1951) and senator (1954-2003)
12/05/1902 - 06/26/2003

 

P. L. Travers
Australian-born British children's writer, the "Mary Poppins" series
08/09/1899 - 04/23/1996

 

Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railway
c. 1820 - 03/10/1913

 

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch microbiologist
10/24/1632 - 08/30/1723

 

Alfred Russel Wallace
Welsh-born British naturalist, co-founded the theory of evolution
01/08/1823 - 11/07/1913

 

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

 

Ernest Walton
Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, split the atom
10/06/1903 - 06/25/1995

 

Eudora Welty
American writer, "The Optimist's Daughter"
04/13/1909 - 07/23/2001

 

Rebecca West
British journalist, novelist, and feminist
12/21/1892 - 03/15/1983

 

Simon Wiesenthal
Ukrainian-born Austrian Nazi hunter
12/31/1908 - 09/20/2005

 

Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter, "The Apartment"
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

 

P. G. Wodehouse
British-born American writer, the "Jeeves" canon
10/15/1881 - 02/14/1975

 

Fay Wray
Canadian-born American actress, "King Kong"
09/15/1907 - 08/08/2004

 

Christopher Wren
British architect
10/20/1632 - 02/25/1723

 

Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
06/08/1867 - 04/09/1959

 

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

 

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

 

Vladimir Zworykin
Russian-born American
electronic engineer, inventor, and father of modern television
07/30/1889 - 07/29/1982

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