1906-1992
Egyptian Hassan al-Banna was the founder the Muslim Brotherhood, with goals of expelling the British from Egypt and re-establishing the Caliphate.
1906-1949
Actor Eddie Albert starred in films like The Sun Also Rises and Roman Holiday as well as the TV show Green Acres.
1906-2005
Hannah Arendt gained much attention for her writings on totalitarianism and Jewish affairs after World War II.
1906-1975
1906-2006
1906-1987
Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer who became wildly popular in France during the 1920s. She also devoted much of her life to fighting racism.
1906-1975
20th century Irish novelist, playwright and poet Samuel Beckett penned the play Waiting for Godot. In 1969, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1906-1989
1906-2005
1906-1997
1906-1982
1906-1985
1906-1971
In 1935, actor John Carradine began a non-stop film career. He appeared in 10 films by director John Ford, including The Prisoner of Shark Island.
1906-1988
Working with Bud Abbott, Lou Costello was part of one of most popular comedy duos of the 20th century.
1906-1959
Adolf Eichmann would be executed by the state of Israel for his role as coordinator of logistics for "the final solution to the Jewish question."
1906-1962
Philo T. Farnsworth was an American inventor best known as a pioneer of television technology.
1906-1971
1906-1999
1906-1990
Silent film actress Janet Gaynor won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929, for her role in the movie Seventh Heaven.
1906-1984
Ed Gein was a notorious serial killer and grave robber. He inspired the creation of several film characters, including Norman Bates (Psycho), Jame Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
1906-1984
1906-1970
1906-1987
Philip Johnson was an American architect best known for the design for his own home, the Glass House, in New Canaan, CT.
1906-2005
William Joyce is best known for his involvement in the British Fascist Party during World War II and immigrating to Nazi Germany.
1906-1946
1906-1978
1906-1972
Writer and aviation pioneer Anne Morrow Lindbergh was married to aviator Charles Lindbergh. The couple’s child was kidnapped for ransom and murdered in 1932.
1906-2001
1906-1987
1906-2001
1906-1963
Aristotle Onassis is best known as the Greek shipping tycoon who married JFK’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, in 1968. Onassis died on March 15, 1975.
1906-1975
Legendary pitcher Satchel Paige became the oldest player to join Major League baseball, with a career that spanned 40 years.
1906-1982
1906-1986
1906-1976
Roberto Rossellini, father of actress Isabella Rossellini, was an Italian film director associated with the Neorealist movement. His most celebrated work is Rome, Open City.
1906-1977
1906-2001
1906-1975
Iconic mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel built the Flamingo casino in Las Vegas, igniting an era of glamour, gambling and gangsters in the desert.
1906-1947
1906-1990
1906-1976
1906-2004
T.H. White was an English writer known for his novel series about King Arthur, The Once and Future King.
1906-1964
1906-2002