Marian Anderson was an African American singer, one of the finest contraltos of her time, and recipient of the Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
1897-1993
Dorothy Arzner was a pioneer in the film industry, becoming one of the first women directors of feature films and the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America.
1897-1979
Subhas Chandra Bose was a 20th century organizational and military leader who fought for India’s freedom from British rule.
1897-1945
1897-1991
Henry Cowell was an American pianist and experimental composer whose music influenced John Cage.
1897-1965
Dorothy Day was an activist who worked for such social causes as pacifism and women’s suffrage through the prism of the Catholic Church.
1897-1980
Jack "Legs" Diamond was a Prohibition-era mob leader, hit man and bootlegger who was based in New York.
1897-1931
Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
1897-1939
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the American South, who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is known for novels like Sartoris.
1897-1962
Joseph Goebbels was minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler. He presented a favorable image of the Nazi regime to the Germans.
1897-1945
1897-1981
1897-1952
Moe Howard was the leader of the vaudeville and film comedy team, The Three Stooges.
1897-1975
Howard Johnson was a 20th century entrepreneur who opened up a pioneering chain of restaurants and motels.
1897-1972
1897-1954
Lucky Luciano was an Italian-born American mobster best known for engineering the structure of modern organized crime in the United States.
1897-1962
Herman J. Mankiewicz was a journalist and screenwriter who won an Academy Award for his work on the film Citizen Kane.
1897-1953
1897-1975
Elijah Muhammad rose from poverty to become the charismatic leader of the black nationalist group Nation of Islam, and mentor of Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan.
1897-1975
A.C. Nielsen was an American market-research engineer and business executive, best known for creating Nielsen ratings, a national rating of television viewing.
1897-1980
1897-1972
Wilhelm Reich was a psychiatrist who developed psychoanalysis that concentrated on overall character structure rather than on individual symptoms.
1897-1957
Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer who became famous for his style of yodeling. He was one of the first country superstars, and is remembered as the father of country music.
1897-1933
1897-1995
Thornton Wilder is a multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright known for works like The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Ides of March and Our Town.
1897-1975
1897-1972