Daisy Bates was an African American civil rights activist and newspaper publisher who documented the battle to end segregation in Arkansas.
1914-1999
1914-2009
In 1949, mathematician Marjorie Lee Browne became one of the first two African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in her field.
1914-1979
British historian Alan Bullock is the author of several works on 20th century Europe, including studies of Hitler, Bevin and Stalin.
1914-2004
William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of drug culture, most famously in the book Naked Lunch.
1914-1997
Psychologist and educator Kenneth Bancroft Clark was the first black president of the American Psychological Association.
1914-2005
Actor Jackie Coogan played Charlie Chaplin's sidekick in the silent film The Kid and Uncle Fester on the TV sitcom The Addams Family.
1914-1984
Joe DiMaggio was one of the best all-round baseball players in the history of the game, helping the NY Yankees to nine World Series titles.
1914-1999
Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist best known winning the Nobel Prize for pioneering the growing of viruses in culture in the 1950s.
1914-2012
1914-1992
1914-2005
1914-1993
Ralph Ellison was a 20th century African-American writer and scholar best known for his renowned, award-winning novel Invisible Man.
1914-1994
1914-2008
Raymond Fernandez is a serial killer best known, along with his partner Martha Beck, as the Lonely Hearts Killers. The two were executed in 1949.
1914-1951
Lester Flatt was best known for his bluegrass guitar stylings as part of the Foggy Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs.
1914-1979
Alec Guinness is an Oscar-winning British actor known for his roles in films like Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago and Star Wars.
1914-2000
Charles Hamilton was an autograph dealer, handwriting expert and author of works like Great Forgers and Famous Fakes.
1914-1996
Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl made a celebrated journey aboard a raft called Kon-Tiki in 1947, and later wrote an international best-seller about his amazing expedition.
1914-2002
Daniel J. Boorstin was a writer and historian known for his Americans trilogy and The Discoverers.
1914-2004
The "godfather of fitness," Jack LaLanne, is known for his 1950s TV fitness program and for his endorsement of a power juicer in 2002.
1914-2011
The world heavyweight boxing champion from June 22, 1937, until March 1, 1949, Joe Louis held the title longer than anyone else in history.
1914-1981
1914-2005
Bernard Malamud was an American writer known for his novels and short stories of the Jewish-American life in the first half of the 20th century.
1914-1986
Actor E.G. Marshall starred on Broadway in the original runs of The Crucible and Waiting for Godot before becoming a film and TV star.
1914-1998
Actor Clayton Moore appeared in approximately 70 feature films and played the Lone Ranger on a ABC network television version of the radio program.
1914-1999
1914-1998
British author Chapman Pincher has concentrated on history and espionage-related topics in his investigative journalism as well as his fiction writing.
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Tyrone Power was a stage and film actor known for his roles in such films as Witness for the Prosecution and The Mark of Zorro.
1914-1958
1914-1992
Jiang Qing was the wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung and implemented policies during the country’s Cultural Revolution.
1914-1991
Experimental jazz pianist, songwriter, composer and bandleader Sun Ra formed the band Arkestra in the 1950s and played in it until his death in 1993.
1914-1993
1914-1959
Jonas Salk was an American physician and medical researcher who developed the first safe and effective vaccine for polio.
1914-1995
King Mohammed Zahir Shah was king of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973, during which time he provided an era of stable government to his country.
1914-2007
Woody Strode was a Hollywood actor who also had a brief career as a professional football player.
1914-1994
Writer Dylan Thomas is best known for the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," the play "Under Milk Wood," and for his heavy drinking.
1914-1953
Santo Trafficante is best known for running casinos in Cuba, prior to Castro's revolution.
1914-1987
1914-1984
Actor Ray Walston enjoyed a successful acting career and is best known for his character Uncle Martin O'Hara on the CBS series My Favorite Martian.
1914-2001
William Westmoreland was a U.S. Army general who made a name for himself as commander of American troops in Vietnam.
1914-2005
1914-2008
Sonny Boy Williamson, originally John Lee Curtis Williamson, was a blues singer and harmonica player. He was the first musician to use the nickname Sonny Boy.
1914-1948
English actress Anna Wing is known for her long career on stage and screen, but most of all for her role on the long-running television series EastEnders.
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