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Ansel Adams
Environmental Activist, Photographer / 1902 - 1984
Ansel Adams was an American photographer best known for his iconic images of the American West, including Yosemite National Park.
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(1902-1984)
Environmental Activist, Photographer
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Albert Anastasia
Organized Crime Boss / 1902 - 1957
Mob boss Albert Anastasia started out as a hitman and became one of the most powerful crime bosses of the 20th century. He helped run Murder Inc.
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(1902-1957)
Organized Crime Boss
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Brooke Astor
Activist, Philanthropist, Journalist, Author / 1902 - 2007
Brooke Astor was a philanthropist who served on the boards of many cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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(1902-2007)
Activist, Philanthropist, Journalist, Author
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Tallulah Bankhead
Film Actress, Theater Actress / 1902 - 1968
Stage and screen actress Tallulah Bankhead starred in the plays They Knew What They Wanted and The Little Foxes. She was also in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat.
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(1902-1968)
Film Actress, Theater Actress
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Luis Barragán
Architect, Engineer / 1902 - 1988
Luis Barragán was an architect and engineer whose evocative houses, gardens, plazas and fountains won him acclaim.
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(1902-1988)
Architect, Engineer
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Gwendolyn Bennett
Artist, Editor, Author, Poet / 1902 - 1981
A vital figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Bennett is best known for the sensuality and visual imagery in her poems, the most famous being 'To a Dark Girl'.
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(1902-1981)
Artist, Editor, Author, Poet
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Arna Bontemps
Editor, Author, Poet / 1902 - 1973
Arna Bontemps was an African-American author best known for his novels, children’s books and poems written during the 1930s-1970s.
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(1902-1973)
Editor, Author, Poet
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Lon Chaney Jr.
Film Actor / 1902 - 1973
Lon Chaney Jr. was known for being the only actor to play all of the "big four" monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.
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(1902-1973)
Film Actor
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Erik H. Erikson
Educator, Scholar, Psychologist, Journalist / 1902 - 1994
Personality development, in Erik H. Erikson's view, occurs through a series of identity crises that occur in stages that must be overcome and internalized.
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(1902-1994)
Educator, Scholar, Psychologist, Journalist
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Mayor / 1902 - 1948
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was a political leader who was considered a champion of the Colombian people and was revered as a martyr after his assassination.
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(1902-1948)
Mayor
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Mohammed Hatta
Economist, Diplomat, Prime Minister / 1902 - 1980
Mohammed Hatta was a leader of the Indonesian independence movement who was prime minister (1948–50) and vice president (1950–56) of Indonesia.
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(1902-1980)
Economist, Diplomat, Prime Minister
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John Houseman
Film Actor, Producer, Television Producer / 1902 - 1988
John Houseman was a Romanian-American stage, film, radio, and television producer who is perhaps best known for his later career as a character actor.
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(1902-1988)
Film Actor, Producer, Television Producer
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Langston Hughes
Playwright, Poet / 1902 - 1967
Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
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(1902-1967)
Playwright, Poet
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Blind Willie Johnson
Guitarist, Singer / 1902 - 1947
Blind Willie Johnson was a singer who performed on Southern streets, noted for the power of his singing and for his ingenious guitar parts.
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(1902-1947)
Guitarist, Singer
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Political Leader, Religious Leader / 1902 - 1989
Ayatollah Khomeini became the supreme religious leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, following many years of resistance to Shah Pahlavi.
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(1902-1989)
Political Leader, Religious Leader
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Ray Kroc
Entrepreneur / 1902 - 1984
Ray Kroc was an American entrepreneur best known for expanding McDonald’s from a local chain to the world’s most profitable restaurant franchise operation.
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(1902-1984)
Entrepreneur
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Meyer Lansky
White Collar Criminal, Organized Crime Boss / 1902 - 1983
Meyer Lansky was a Polish American organized crime figure instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate in the United States.
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(1902-1983)
White Collar Criminal, Organized Crime Boss
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Eric Liddell
Track and Field Athlete, Missionary / 1902 - 1945
British runner Eric Lidell won a gold medal in the 1924 Olympic Games. The movie Chariots of Fire (1981) tells the story of his triumph.
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(1902-1945)
Track and Field Athlete, Missionary
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Charles Lindbergh
Inventor, Pilot, Writer / 1902 - 1974
Aviator Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927.
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(1902-1974)
Inventor, Pilot, Writer
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Barbara McClintock
Botanist, Geneticist / 1902 - 1992
Scientist Barbara McClintock won a Nobel Prize in 1983 for her study of corn chromosomes, which revolutionized the field of cytogenetics.
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(1902-1992)
Botanist, Geneticist
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George Murphy
Film Actor, Theater Actor, U.S. Representative / 1902 - 1992
Actor George Murphy starred in more than 45 films, including Little Miss Broadway opposite Shirley Temple. In 1964, he was elected to represent California in the U.S. Senate.
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(1902-1992)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, U.S. Representative
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Ogden Nash
Poet / 1902 - 1971
Ogden Nash published more than 20 collections of humorous poetry. His first collection, Hard Lines, was published in 1931.
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(1902-1971)
Poet
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Richard Rodgers
Songwriter, Singer / 1902 - 1979
From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma! to South Pacific, Richard Rodgers helped change the face of Broadway musicals, giving them stories and making them both memorable and "hum-able."
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(1902-1979)
Songwriter, Singer
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Dutch Schultz
Organized Crime Boss / 1902 - 1935
Gangster Dutch Schultz built up a criminal network that included bootlegging, illegal gambling and murder. His biggest enemies were Legs Diamond and the IRS.
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(1902-1935)
Organized Crime Boss
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David O. Selznick
Producer / 1902 - 1965
David O. Selznick was a Hollywood film producer who made a huge string of hits in the 1930s through the 1950s, including Gone with the Wind.
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(1902-1965)
Producer
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John Steinbeck
Author / 1902 - 1968
John Steinbeck was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose book The Grapes of Wrath portrayed the plight of migrant workers during the Depression.
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(1902-1968)
Author
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Wallace Henry Thurman
Literary Critic, Editor, Author, Playwright / 1902 - 1934
Wallace Henry Thurman was an African-American literary figure associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
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(1902-1934)
Literary Critic, Editor, Author, Playwright
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Strom Thurmond
U.S. Representative / 1902 - 2003
Strom Thurmond served as a U.S. senator for South Carolina from 1956 to 2003, during which time he switched from Democrat to Republican due to his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He resigned from the Senate at age 100—becoming the oldest congressman in U.S. history.
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(1902-2003)
U.S. Representative
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William Wyler
Director / 1902 - 1981
William Wyler was an Oscar-winning film director known for such films as Ben Hur and The Best Years of Our Lives.
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(1902-1981)
Director
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer / 1902 - 1979
Darryl Zanuck was an icon of Hollywood, the producer behind such blockbusters as The Grapes of Wrath, The Public Enemy, and The Sound of Music.
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(1902-1979)
Producer
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Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Photographer / 1902 - 2002
Influenced by Surrealism, Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a photographer known for his poetic images of Mexican people and places.
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(1902-2002)
Photographer