[ Home ] [ Hall of Fame - Auxiliary List ]

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) ―

WEBMASTER'S NOTES:
 ●  Click the link above to go to the Hall of Fame - Auxiliary List page and discover more classic nonagenarians and centenarians.
 ●  Noted nonagenarians and centenarians who died after 2007 can be found on the In Memoriam pages.

  

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-founder of 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 nursing pioneer, 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, developer of "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 chef, cookbook writer, and TV host, "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-founder of 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, designer of 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, wife and stage partner 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 suffragist and public health pioneer
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 pioneer
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, founder of 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, developer of 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-founder of 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, splitter of 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, founder of Paramount Pictures
 01/07/1873 - 06/10/1976

 

Vladimir Zworykin
Russian-born American inventor, pioneer of television technology
07/30/1889 - 07/29/1982

[ Home ] [ Hall of Fame - Auxiliary List ]

Last modified: March 02, 2010