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HALL OF FAME

Noted Nonagenarians & Centenarians Across the Years

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

  ~ George Washington Carver (c. 1864–1943) ~

		George Abbott American stage director, producer, and playwright 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 English astronomer 07/27/1801 – 01/02/1892
		Marian Anderson American contralto 02/27/1897 – 04/08/1993
		Sofonisba Anguissola Italian painter c. 1532 – 11/16/1625
		Giorgio Armani Italian fashion designer 07/11/1934 – 09/04/2025
		Gene Autry American actor and singer, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" 09/29/1907 – 10/02/1998
		Charles Aznavour French singer, songwriter, and actor 05/22/1924 – 10/01/2018
		Burt Bacharach American songwriter, "Alfie", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and pianist 05/12/1928 – 02/08/2023
		Emily Greene Balch American sociologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 01/08/1867 – 01/09/1961
		Roger Nash Baldwin American civil rights activist, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union 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
		Brigitte Bardot French actress, And God Created Woman, and animal rights activist 09/28/1934 – 12/28/2025
		Djuna Barnes American writer, Nightwood 06/12/1892 – 06/18/1982
		Natalie Clifford Barney American writer and salonnière 10/31/1876 – 02/02/1972
		Clara Barton American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross 12/25/1821 – 04/12/1912
		Bernard Baruch American financier and statesman 08/19/1870 – 06/20/1965
		Sammy Baugh American football player 03/17/1914 – 12/17/2008
		Henry Beachell American plant breeder, developed high-yielding "miracle rice" 09/21/1906 – 12/13/2006
		Harry Belafonte American singer, "The Banana Boat Song", actor, Carmen Jones, and activist 03/01/1927 – 04/25/2023
		Benedict XVI German pope (2005–2013) 04/16/1927 – 12/31/2022
		Tony Bennett American singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" 08/03/1926 – 07/21/2023
		Milton Berle American comedian and actor, nicknamed "Mr. Television" 07/12/1908 – 03/27/2002
		Irving Berlin Russian-born American songwriter, "God Bless America", "White Christmas" 05/11/1888 – 09/22/1989
		Yogi Berra American baseball player and manager 05/12/1925 – 09/22/2015
		Chuck Berry American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, "Maybellene", "Johnny B. Goode" 10/18/1926 – 03/18/2017
		Hans Bethe German-born American Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist 07/02/1906 – 03/06/2005
		Antoinette Brown Blackwell American social reformer and minister, first U.S. clergywoman 05/20/1825 – 11/05/1921
		Eubie Blake American ragtime pianist and songwriter, "I'm Just Wild About Harry" 02/07/1887 – 02/12/1983
		Victor Borge Danish-born American pianist and comedian 01/03/1909 – 12/23/2000
		Norman Borlaug American Nobel Prize-winning agronomist 03/25/1914 – 09/12/2009
		Nadia Boulanger French composer, conductor, and music teacher 09/16/1887 – 10/22/1979
		Pierre Boulez French composer and conductor 03/26/1925 – 01/05/2016
		Louise Bourgeois French-born American sculptor 12/25/1911 – 05/31/2010
		Ray Bradbury American science fiction writer, The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 08/22/1920 – 06/05/2012
		Don Bradman Australian cricketer 08/27/1908 – 02/25/2001
		Eugene Braunwald Austrian-born American cardiologist, pioneer in cardiovascular research 08/15/1929 – 04/22/2026
		William Brennan American Supreme Court justice (1956–1990) 04/25/1906 – 07/24/1997
		Robert Bresson French motion picture director and screenwriter, Diary of a Country Priest 09/25/1901 – 12/18/1999
		Peter Brook English stage director and producer, Marat/Sade 03/21/1925 – 07/02/2022
		Dave Brubeck American jazz pianist and composer, "Take Five" 12/06/1920 – 12/05/2012
		Ferdinand Buisson French statesman, educator, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 12/20/1841 – 02/16/1932
		George Burns American Oscar-winning actor and comedian, stage partner and spouse of Gracie Allen 01/20/1896 – 03/09/1996
		George Bush American president (1989–1993) 06/12/1924 – 11/30/2018
		Sid Caesar American comedian, TV's Your Show of Shows, and actor 09/08/1922 – 02/11/2014
		Frank Capra Italian-born American motion picture director, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life 05/18/1897 – 09/03/1991
		Pierre Cardin Italian-born French fashion designer 07/02/1922 – 12/29/2020
		Benny Carter American jazz musician, composer, arranger, and bandleader 08/08/1907 – 07/12/2003
		Elliott Carter American composer, The Defense of Corinth 12/11/1908 – 11/05/2012
		Jimmy Carter American president (1977–1981), humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 10/01/1924 – 12/29/2024
		Rosalynn Carter American first lady (1977–1981) and mental health advocate 08/18/1927 – 11/19/2023
		Henri Cartier-Bresson French photographer 08/22/1908 – 08/03/2004
		Barbara Cartland English romance novelist 07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000
		Pablo Casals Spanish cellist 12/29/1876 – 10/22/1973
		Fidel Castro Cuban revolutionary, prime minister (1959–1976), and president (1976–2008) 08/13/1926 – 11/25/2016
		Marc Chagall Russian-born French painter 07/07/1887 – 03/28/1985
		Carol Channing American actress and singer, Broadway's Hello, Dolly! 01/31/1921 – 01/15/2019
		Gustave Charpentier French composer, Louise 06/25/1860 – 02/18/1956
		Jules Chéret French illustrator and graphic designer, known as the father of the modern poster 05/31/1836 – 09/23/1932
		Michel Eugène Chevreul French chemist 08/31/1786 – 04/09/1889
		Julia Child American cooking expert, culinary writer, and television personality, The French Chef 08/15/1912 – 08/13/2004
		Winston Churchill English prime minister (1940–1945, 1951–1955) and Nobel Prize-winning writer 11/30/1874 – 01/24/1965
		Arthur C. Clarke English futurist and science fiction writer, 2001: A Space Odyssey 12/16/1917 – 03/19/2008
		Cassius Marcellus Clay American antislavery leader 10/19/1810 – 07/22/1903
		Beverly Cleary American children's writer, the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series 04/12/1916 – 03/25/2021
		Imogene Coca American comedienne, TV's Your Show of Shows, and actress 11/18/1908 – 06/02/2001
		Claudette Colbert French-born American Oscar-winning actress, It Happened One Night 09/13/1903 – 07/30/1996
		Michael Collins American astronaut, command module pilot for the Apollo 11 moon mission 10/31/1930 – 04/28/2021
		Sean Connery Scottish Oscar-winning actor, the James Bond film series 08/25/1930 – 10/31/2020
		Alistair Cooke English-born American journalist and television host, Masterpiece Theatre 11/20/1908 – 03/30/2004
		Aaron Copland American composer, Appalachian Spring 11/14/1900 – 12/02/1990
		Roger Corman American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors 04/05/1926 – 05/09/2024
		Quentin Crisp English raconteur and memoirist, The Naked Civil Servant 12/25/1908 – 11/21/1999
		Walter Cronkite American journalist and broadcaster 11/04/1916 – 07/17/2009
		Fanny Crosby American poet and hymn writer, "Blessed Assurance" 03/24/1820 – 02/12/1915
		Merce Cunningham American dancer and choreographer 04/16/1919 – 07/26/2009
		Doris Day American singer, "Que Sera, Sera", and actress, Pillow Talk 04/03/1922 – 05/13/2019
		Giorgio de Chirico Greek-born Italian painter and sculptor 07/10/1888 – 11/20/1978
		Olivia de Havilland American Oscar-winning actress, Gone with the Wind, The Heiress 07/01/1916 – 07/26/2020
		Willem de Kooning Dutch-born American painter 04/24/1904 – 03/19/1997
		Madeleine de Scudéry French writer and salonnière 11/15/1607 – 06/02/1701
		Éamon de Valera American-born Irish president (1959–1973) 10/14/1882 – 08/29/1975
		Michael DeBakey American cardiovascular surgeon and medical researcher 09/07/1908 – 07/11/2008
		Sonia Delaunay Russian-born French painter, illustrator, and textile designer 11/14/1885 – 12/05/1979
		Deng Xiaoping Chinese revolutionary, political theorist, and leader (1978–1989) 08/22/1904 – 02/19/1997
		John Dewey American philosopher and educator 10/20/1859 – 06/01/1952
		Marlene Dietrich German-born American actress, The Blue Angel, Morocco, and singer 12/27/1901 – 05/06/1992
		Phyllis Diller American comedienne and actress, Eight on the Lam 07/17/1917 – 08/20/2012
		Jimmy Doolittle American aviator and general, led the 1942 air raids on Japan 12/14/1896 – 09/27/1993
		Kirk Douglas American actor, Lust for Life, Spartacus 12/09/1916 – 02/05/2020
		Marjory Stoneman Douglas American conservationist, champion of the 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, choreographer, and dance anthropologist 06/22/1909 – 05/21/2006
		Will Durant American philosopher and historian, co-author of The Story of Civilization series 11/05/1885 – 11/07/1981
		Deanna Durbin Canadian-born American singer and actress, Three Smart Girls 12/04/1921 – 04/17/2013
		Robert Duvall American Oscar-winning actor, The Godfather, Tender Mercies 01/05/1931 – 02/15/2026
		Gertrude Ederle American athlete, first woman to swim the English Channel 10/23/1905 – 11/30/2003
		Gustave Eiffel French civil engineer, designed the Eiffel Tower 12/15/1832 – 12/27/1923
		Alfred Eisenstaedt German-born American photographer 12/06/1898 – 08/24/1995
		Elizabeth II British monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952–2022) 04/21/1926 – 09/08/2022
		Erik Erikson German-born American psychoanalyst 06/15/1902 – 05/12/1994
		Erté (aka Romain de Tirtoff) Russian-born French fashion illustrator and designer 11/23/1892 – 04/21/1990
		Alice Evans American microbiologist 01/29/1881 – 09/05/1975
		Jean-Henri Fabre French entomologist 12/22/1823 – 10/11/1915
		Bob Feller American baseball player 11/03/1918 – 12/15/2010
		Adam Ferguson Scottish philosopher and historian 06/20/1723 – 02/22/1816
		Lawrence Ferlinghetti American poet, A Coney Island of the Mind 03/24/1919 – 02/22/2021
		Dario Fo Italian actor and Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Accidental Death of an Anarchist 03/24/1926 – 10/13/2016
		Lynn Fontanne English-born actress, stage partner and spouse of Alfred Lunt 12/06/1887 – 07/30/1983
		Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle French scientist and philosopher, author of Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds 02/11/1657 – 01/09/1757
		Betty Ford American first lady (1974–1977) and social reformer 04/08/1918 – 07/08/2011
		Gerald Ford American president (1974–1977) 07/14/1913 – 12/26/2006
		E. M. Forster English writer, Howards End, A Passage to India 01/01/1879 – 06/07/1970
		Robert Frank Swiss-born American photographer and documentarian 11/09/1924 – 09/09/2019
		Viktor Frankl Austrian psychiatrist, author of Man's Search for Meaning 03/26/1905 – 09/02/1997
		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
		Abel Gance French motion picture director, Napoléon 10/25/1889 – 11/10/1981
		Greer Garson English-born American Oscar-winning actress, Mrs. Miniver 09/29/1904 – 04/06/1996
		Frank Gehry Canadian/American architect 02/28/1929 – 12/05/2025
		John Gielgud English Oscar-winning actor, Arthur, and stage director 04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000
		Miep Gies Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian, helped shelter diarist Anne Frank and her family 02/15/1909 – 01/11/2010
		Lillian Gish American actress, Way Down East, The Night of the Hunter 10/14/1893 – 02/27/1993
		Carlo Maria Giulini Italian conductor 05/09/1914 – 06/14/2005
		John Glenn American astronaut and politician, Ohio senator (1974–1999) 07/18/1921 – 12/08/2016
		Jean-Luc Godard French/Swiss motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary 12/03/1930 – 09/13/2022
		Samuel Goldwyn Polish-born American motion picture producer, Wuthering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives 08/27/1882 – 01/31/1974
		Benny Golson American jazz saxophonist and composer, "Along Came Betty" 01/25/1929 – 09/21/2024
		Jane Goodall English primatologist and conservationist 04/03/1934 – 10/01/2025
		Mikhail Gorbachev Russian politician, president of the Soviet Union (1990–1991), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 03/02/1931 – 08/30/2022
		François-Joseph Gossec Belgian-born French composer, Te Deum 01/17/1734 – 02/16/1829
		Billy Graham American evangelist and spiritual adviser 11/07/1918 – 02/21/2018
		Martha Graham American dancer and choreographer 05/11/1894 – 04/01/1991
		Robert Graves English poet and novelist, The White Goddess, I, Claudius 07/24/1895 – 12/07/1985
		Alice Guy-Blaché French filmmaker, first female motion picture director 07/01/1873 – 03/24/1968
		Jürgen Habermas German philosopher and sociologist 06/18/1929 – 03/14/2026
		Gene Hackman American Oscar-winning actor, Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection 01/30/1930 – c. 02/18/2025
		Sarah Josepha Hale American editor, novelist, and poet, "Mary Had a Little Lamb" 10/24/1788 – 04/30/1879
		Gail Halvorsen American Air Force pilot, nicknamed the Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber" 10/10/1920 – 02/16/2022
		Alice Hamilton American industrial toxicologist, known as the mother of occupational medicine 02/27/1869 – 09/22/1970
		Ray Harryhausen American stop-motion animator and special effects pioneer 06/29/1920 – 05/07/2013
		Harry Hay English-born American gay rights activist 04/07/1912 – 10/24/2002
		Helen Hayes American Oscar-winning actress, nicknamed "The First Lady of the American Theatre" 10/10/1900 – 03/17/1993
		Roy Haynes American jazz drummer 03/13/1925 – 11/12/2024
		Hugh Hefner American magazine publisher, creator of Playboy 04/09/1926 – 09/27/2017
		Dorothy Height American civil and women’s rights activist 03/24/1912 – 04/20/2010
		Katharine Hepburn American Oscar-winning actress, The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen 05/12/1907 – 06/29/2003
		Caroline Herschel German-born English astronomer 03/16/1750 – 01/09/1848
		Peter Higgs English Nobel Prize-winning physicist, proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle 05/29/1929 – 04/08/2024
		Al Hirschfeld American caricaturist 06/21/1903 – 01/20/2003
		Thomas Hobbes English philosopher, author of 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 English botanist and explorer 06/30/1817 – 12/10/1911
		Herbert Hoover American president (1929–1933) 08/10/1874 – 10/20/1964
		Bob Hope English-born American comedian, actor, The Paleface, and humanitarian 05/29/1903 – 07/27/2003
		Lena Horne American singer, "Stormy Weather", and actress, The Wiz 06/30/1917 – 05/09/2010
		Julia Ward Howe American social activist and poet, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" 05/27/1819 – 10/17/1910
		Edmond Hoyle English writer on the rules and play of card games c. 1672 – 08/29/1769
		Anna Hyatt Huntington American sculptor 03/10/1876 – 10/04/1973
		Lee Iacocca American automobile executive, leader of the Chrysler Corporation (1978–1992) 10/15/1924 – 07/02/2019
		William Henry Jackson American photographer and painter 04/04/1843 – 06/30/1942
		Ella Jenkins American singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The First Lady of Children's Music" 08/06/1924 – 11/09/2024
		Norman Jewison Canadian motion picture director, In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck, and producer 07/21/1926 – 01/20/2024
		Lady Bird Johnson American first lady (1963–1969) and environmentalist 12/22/1912 – 07/11/2007
		Philip Johnson American architect 07/08/1906 – 01/25/2005
		Hank Jones American jazz pianist 07/31/1918 – 05/16/2010
		James Earl Jones American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars 01/17/1931 – 09/09/2024
		Mother Jones Irish-born American social activist 08/01/1837 – 11/30/1930
		Quincy Jones American musician, producer, arranger, and composer 03/14/1933 – 11/03/2024
		Tamara Karsavina Russian-born prima ballerina 03/10/1885 – 05/26/1978
		Yousuf Karsh Turkish-born Canadian photographer 12/23/1908 – 07/13/2002
		Frances Oldham Kelsey Canadian/American FDA reviewer, blocked approval of thalidomide in the U.S. 07/24/1914 – 08/07/2015
		André Kertész Hungarian-born American photographer 07/02/1894 – 09/28/1985
		Henry Kissinger German-born American statesman, Secretary of State (1973–1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 05/27/1923 – 11/29/2023
		Oskar Kokoschka Austrian painter, poet, and playwright 03/01/1886 – 02/22/1980
		Willem Kolff Dutch-born American physician and inventor, known as the father of artificial organs 02/14/1911 – 02/11/2009
		Mathilde Krim Italian-born American AIDS researcher and activist 07/09/1926 – 01/15/2018
		Jake LaMotta American boxer, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" 07/10/1922 – 09/19/2017
		Angela Lansbury English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote 10/16/1925 – 10/11/2022
		Eva Le Gallienne English-born American actress and stage director and producer 01/11/1899 – 06/03/1991
		Norman Lear American screenwriter and producer, TV's All in the Family, Maude 07/27/1922 – 12/05/2023
		Stan Lee American comic book writer, co-created Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four 12/28/1922 – 11/12/2018
		Inge Lehmann Danish seismologist, discovered the Earth's inner core 05/13/1888 – 02/21/1993
		Tom Lehrer American musical satirist, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" 04/09/1928 – 07/26/2025
		Leo XIII Italian pope (1878–1903) 03/02/1810 – 07/20/1903
		Rita Levi-Montalcini Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning neurologist 04/22/1909 – 12/30/2012
		Claude Lévi-Strauss French social anthropologist 11/28/1908 – 10/30/2009
		Jerry Lewis American comedian, actor, motion picture director, The Nutty Professor, and humanitarian 03/16/1926 – 08/20/2017
		Beatrice Lillie Canadian/English comedienne and actress, Thoroughly Modern Millie 05/29/1894 – 01/20/1989
		Anne Morrow Lindbergh American aviator and writer, A Gift from the Sea 06/22/1906 – 02/07/2001
		Astrid Lindgren Swedish children's writer, the Pippi Longstocking series 11/14/1907 – 01/28/2002
		Raymond Loewy French-born American industrial designer 11/05/1893 – 07/14/1986
		Alice Roosevelt Longworth American socialite and political figure, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt 02/12/1884 – 02/20/1980
		Anita Loos American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 04/26/1889 – 08/18/1981
		Esther Pohl Lovejoy American public health reformer 11/16/1869 – 08/31/1967
		Jim Lovell American astronaut, commanded the 1970 Apollo 13 mission 03/25/1928 – 08/07/2025
		James Lovelock English atmospheric chemist, proposed the Gaia theory 07/26/1919 – 07/26/2022
		Auguste Lumière French inventor, pioneer of filmmaking technology 10/19/1862 – 04/10/1954
		Loretta Lynn American country singer and songwriter, Coal Miner's Daughter 04/14/1932 – 10/04/2022
		Vera Lynn English singer, "We'll Meet Again", nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart" 03/20/1917 – 06/18/2020
		Connie Mack American baseball player and manager 12/22/1862 – 02/08/1956
		Harold Macmillan English prime minister (1957–1963) 02/10/1894 – 12/29/1986
		Nelson Mandela South African anti-apartheid leader, president (1994–1999), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 07/18/1918 – 12/05/2013
		Mike Mansfield American politician, Senate Majority Leader (1961–1977) 03/16/1903 – 10/05/2001
		Neville Marriner English conductor 04/15/1924 – 10/02/2016
		W. Somerset Maugham English writer, Of Human Bondage, The Razor's Edge 01/25/1874 – 12/16/1965
		Ernst Mayr German-born American evolutionary biologist 07/05/1904 – 02/03/2005
		Willie Mays American baseball player and coach 05/06/1931 – 06/18/2024
		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 Michener American writer, Hawaii, Centennial 02/03/1907 – 10/16/1997
		Joan Miró Spanish painter and sculptor 04/20/1893 – 12/25/1983
		Ludwig von Mises Austrian-born American free-market economist and social philosopher 09/29/1881 – 10/10/1973
		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, alerted the U.S. government to the Armenian Genocide 04/26/1856 – 11/25/1946
		Grandma Moses American painter 09/07/1860 – 12/13/1961
		Stirling Moss English race car driver 09/17/1929 – 04/12/2020
		Stan Musial American baseball player 11/21/1920 – 01/19/2013
		Scott Nearing American social activist and environmentalist 08/06/1883 – 08/24/1983
		Pola Negri Polish-born American actress, Forbidden Paradise 01/03/1897 – 08/01/1987
		Byron Nelson American golfer 02/04/1912 – 09/26/2006
		Bob Newhart American comedian and actor, Elf, TV's The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart 09/05/1929 – 07/18/2024
		Florence Nightingale English nurse and social reformer, nicknamed "The Lady with the Lamp" 05/12/1820 – 08/13/1910
		Hermann Oberth Romanian-born German rocket scientist, known as the father of space travel 06/25/1894 – 12/28/1989
		Sandra Day O'Connor American Supreme Court justice (1981–2006) 03/26/1930 – 12/01/2023
		Maureen O'Hara Irish/American actress, Miracle on 34th Street, The Quiet Man 08/17/1920 – 10/24/2015
		Georgia O'Keeffe American painter 11/15/1887 – 03/06/1986
		Gordon Parks American photojournalist, writer, and motion picture director, The Learning Tree 11/30/1912 – 03/07/2006
		Rosa Parks American civil rights activist 02/04/1913 – 10/24/2005
		Maxfield Parrish American painter and illustrator 07/25/1870 – 03/30/1966
		Louella Parsons American gossip columnist 08/06/1881 – 12/09/1972
		Alice Paul American women’s suffrage leader 01/11/1885 – 07/09/1977
		Les Paul American musician and inventor, developed the solid-body electric guitar 06/09/1915 – 08/12/2009
		Linus Pauling American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace activist 02/28/1901 – 08/19/1994
		Norman Vincent Peale American religious leader, author of The Power of Positive Thinking 05/31/1898 – 12/24/1993
		I. M. Pei Chinese-born American architect 04/26/1917 – 05/16/2019
		César Pelli Argentinian-born American architect 10/12/1926 – 07/19/2019
		Irving Penn American photographer 06/16/1917 – 10/07/2009
		Shimon Peres Polish-born Israeli prime minister, president, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 08/02/1923 – 09/28/2016
		Marius Petipa French/Russian dancer and choreographer, known as the father of classical ballet 03/11/1818 – 07/14/1910
		Pablo Picasso Spanish painter and sculptor 10/25/1881 – 04/08/1973
		Donald Pinkel American pediatrician, pioneer in pediatric cancer treatment 09/07/1926 – 03/09/2022
		Sidney Poitier American Oscar-winning actor, Lilies of the Field, In the Heat of the Night 02/20/1927 – 01/06/2022
		Karl Popper Austrian-born English philosopher, author of The Open Society and Its Enemies 07/28/1902 – 09/17/1994
		Katherine Anne Porter American writer, Ship of Fools 05/15/1890 – 09/18/1980
		William Powell American actor, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey 07/29/1892 – 03/05/1984
		Harold Prince American stage director and producer, Cabaret, Company, Follies 01/30/1928 – 07/31/2019
		Willard Van Orman Quine American philosopher and logician 06/25/1908 – 12/25/2000
		A. Philip Randolph American civil rights activist and labor leader 04/15/1889 – 05/16/1979
		Jeannette Rankin American suffragist, pacifist, and politician, first female member of Congress 06/11/1880 – 05/18/1973
		Ronald Reagan American actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, and president (1981–1989) 02/06/1911 – 06/05/2004
		Carl Reiner American comedian, TV's Your Show of Shows, actor, and motion picture director, The Jerk 03/20/1922 – 06/29/2020
		Leni Riefenstahl German filmmaker, Triumph of the Will, and photographer 08/22/1902 – 09/08/2003
		Chita Rivera American actress, singer, and dancer, Broadway's West Side Story, Chicago 01/23/1933 – 01/30/2024
		Hal Roach American motion picture producer and director, the 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 English lexicographer, author of Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases 01/18/1779 – 09/12/1869
		Mickey Rooney American actor, Babes in Arms, the Andy Hardy film series 09/23/1920 – 04/06/2014
		Elihu Root American statesman and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 02/15/1845 – 02/07/1937
		Gena Rowlands American actress, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria 06/19/1930 – 08/14/2024
		Arthur Rubinstein Polish-born American pianist 01/28/1887 – 12/20/1982
		Helena Rubinstein Polish-born American entrepreneur, founded Helena Rubinstein cosmetics 12/25/1870 – 04/01/1965
		Bertrand Russell Welsh-born English philosopher, social reformer, and Nobel Prize-winning writer 05/18/1872 – 02/02/1970
		Frederick F. Russell American physician, developed the first successful typhoid fever vaccine 08/17/1870 – 12/29/1960
		Bernardino de Sahagún Spanish missionary and Aztec archaeologist c. 1499 – 10/23/1590
		J. D. Salinger American writer, The Catcher in the Rye 01/01/1919 – 01/27/2010
		Colonel Harland Sanders American entrepreneur, founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain 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, theologian, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 01/14/1875 – 09/04/1965
		Pete Seeger American folk singer and political activist 05/03/1919 – 01/27/2014
		Andrés Segovia Spanish classical guitarist 02/21/1893 – 06/03/1987
		Irena Sendler Polish humanitarian, smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto 02/15/1910 – 05/12/2008
		Ravi Shankar Indian sitar player 04/07/1920 – 12/11/2012
		Artie Shaw American clarinetist and bandleader 05/23/1910 – 12/30/2004
		George Bernard Shaw Irish-born English Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Major Barbara, Pygmalion 07/26/1856 – 11/02/1950
		George Shearing English-born American jazz pianist and composer, "Lullaby of Birdland" 08/13/1919 – 02/14/2011
		Jean Sibelius Finnish composer, Finlandia 12/08/1865 – 09/20/1957
		Neil Simon American playwright, The Odd Couple, and screenwriter, The Goodbye Girl 07/04/1927 – 08/26/2018
		Mimar Sinan Ottoman architect c. 1490 – 07/17/1588
		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
		Stephen Sondheim American composer and lyricist, West Side Story, A Little Night Music 03/22/1930 – 11/26/2021
		Soong Mei-ling (aka Madame Chiang Kai-shek) Taiwanese first lady (1948–1975) 03/05/1897 – 10/23/2003
		Benjamin Spock American pediatrician, author of Baby and Child Care 05/02/1903 – 03/15/1998
		Edward Steichen Luxembourgian-born American photographer 03/27/1879 – 03/25/1973
		Leopold Stokowski English-born American conductor 04/18/1882 – 09/13/1977
		Antonio Stradivari Italian luthier, manufactured Stradivarius violins c. 1644 – 12/18/1737
		Edward Teller Hungarian-born American physicist, known as the father of the hydrogen bomb 01/15/1908 – 09/09/2003
		John Tenniel English satirical artist and illustrator, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 02/28/1820 – 02/25/1914
		Mary Church Terrell American suffragist and civil rights activist 09/23/1863 – 07/24/1954
		Clark Terry American jazz trumpeter and flügelhornist 12/14/1920 – 02/21/2015
		Thomas à Kempis German clergyman and mystic, author of The Imitation of Christ c. 1380 – 1471
		Virgil Thomson American composer, Four Saints in Three Acts 11/25/1896 – 09/30/1989
		Sybil Thorndike English actress, Saint Joan 10/24/1882 – 06/09/1976
		P. L. Travers Australian-born English children's writer, the Mary Poppins series 08/09/1899 – 04/23/1996
		Harriet Tubman American abolitionist, "conductor" on the Underground Railway c. 1820 – 03/10/1913
		Desmond Tutu South African archbishop, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 10/07/1931 – 12/26/2021
		Cicely Tyson American actress, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 12/19/1924 – 01/28/2021
		James Van Allen American physicist, discovered the Van Allen radiation belts 09/07/1914 – 08/09/2006
		Henry van de Velde Belgian architect and interior designer, co-founded the Art Nouveau movement 04/03/1863 – 10/25/1957
		Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Dutch naturalist and microscopist 10/24/1632 – 08/30/1723
		Agnès Varda Belgian-born French motion picture director, Cleo from 5 to 7 05/30/1928 – 03/29/2019
		Max von Sydow Swedish actor, The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist 04/10/1929 – 03/08/2020
		Alfred Russel Wallace Welsh-born English naturalist, co-founded the theory of evolution 01/08/1823 – 11/07/1913
		Raoul Walsh American motion picture director, What Price Glory?, White Heat 03/11/1887 – 12/31/1980
		Barbara Walters American broadcast journalist and television personality, The Today Show, The View 09/25/1929 – 12/30/2022
		Ernest Walton Irish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, co-developed the first nuclear particle accelerator 10/06/1903 – 06/25/1995
		James Watson American Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and biophysicist 04/06/1928 – 11/06/2025
		Kitty Wells American country singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The Queen of Country Music" 08/30/1919 – 07/16/2012
		Eudora Welty American writer, The Optimist's Daughter 04/13/1909 – 07/23/2001
		Lina Wertmüller Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, Swept Away, Seven Beauties 08/14/1928 – 12/09/2021
		Rebecca West English journalist, novelist, and feminist 12/21/1892 – 03/15/1983
		Ruth Westheimer German-born American psychosexual therapist and talk show host 06/04/1928 – 07/12/2024
		Betty White American actress, TV's The Golden Girls, and television personality 01/17/1922 – 12/31/2021
		Richard Widmark American actor, Kiss of Death, Madigan 12/26/1914 – 03/24/2008
		Simon Wiesenthal Austrian human rights activist and Nazi hunter 12/31/1908 – 09/20/2005
		Billy Wilder Austrian-born American motion picture director and screenwriter, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot 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
		E. O. Wilson American naturalist, pioneer of evolutionary biology 06/10/1929 – 12/26/2021
		Nicholas Winton English humanitarian, orchestrated the rescue of 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia 05/19/1909 – 07/01/2015
		P. G. Wodehouse English-born American writer, the Jeeves canon 10/15/1881 – 02/14/1975
		John Wooden American basketball coach 10/14/1910 – 06/04/2010
		Herman Wouk American writer, The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War 05/27/1915 – 05/17/2019
		Fay Wray Canadian-born American actress, King Kong 09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004
		Christopher Wren English architect 10/20/1632 – 02/25/1723
		Frank Lloyd Wright American architect 06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959
		Andrew Wyeth American painter 07/12/1917 – 01/16/2009
		Chuck Yeager American Air Force officer and test pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound 02/13/1923 – 12/07/2020
		Adolph Zukor Hungarian-born American film studio mogul, founded Paramount Pictures 01/07/1873 – 06/10/1976
		Vladimir Zworykin Russian-born American electronic engineer and inventor, pioneer of television technology 07/30/1889 – 07/29/1982

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