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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

W. E. B. Du Bois
American civil rights activist, co-founded the NAACP
02/23/1868 - 08/27/1963

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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