Red Adair was an American oil well firefighter best known for completing over 1,000 jobs internationally.
1915-2004
Roland Barthes was a French literary philosopher whose work influenced structuralism, semiotics and anthropology.
1915-1980
Saul Bellow was a celebrated novelist who won the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
1915-2005
Ingrid Bergman was one of the most popular motion-picture actresses in the United States from the 1940s until her death in 1982. She was also an international star across Europe.
1915-1982
From 1957 to 1963, actress Barbara Billingsley played the perfect apron-wearing, cookie-baking housewife June Cleaver on TV's Leave it to Beaver.
1915-2010
Paul Castellano is best known for becoming the boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
1915-1985
Artist Elizabeth Catlett celebrates African-American workers in sculptures and prints. She's known for works like "Negro Woman," "Sharecropper" and "Survivor."
1915-2012
1915-1981
1915-1992
Alice Faye was a Broadway actress and chorus girl who played the mother of Shirley Temple in several films.
1915-1998
1915-2009
Television producer Mark Goodson created many of the best-loved game shows of the 20th century, including What's My Line, The Price is Right and Family Feud.
1915-1992
Randolph A. Hearst was born a billionaire, but he helped transform the vast Hearst newspaper empire built by his father from a flagging company to a profitable private media company. However, the media melee over his daughter, Patty Hearst's abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army overshadowed other aspects of his life.
1915-2000
Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She had a thriving career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction.
1915-1959
Jerome Lawrence was an American playwright. He collaborated with Robert Edwin Lee for over 50 years. Inherit The Wind is their most well known play.
1915-2004
American artist Jack Levine is best remembered for his American Social Realist paintings, including "Gangster Funeral," which satirized corruption in the modern world.
1915-2010
1915-2005
Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk who was a revered pacifist and author, with works like Seven Storey Mountain and Thoughts in Solitude.
1915-1968
Arthur Miller was an American playwright whose bitting criticism of societal problems defined his genius. His best known play is Death of a Salesman.
1915-2005
Stage, television and screen actor Zero Mostel won a Tony Award playing Tevye in Jerome Robbins' Fiddler on the Roof, and starred in Mel Brooks' film The Producers.
1915-1977
1915-1991
Les Paul was a musician who designed a solid-body guitar in 1941, which then was a new type of instrument.
1915-2009
Édith Piaf, also known as “The Little Sparrow,” was a French singer who became an icon of France during World War II.
1915-1963
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Allende government in 1973 and stayed in power until 1998. He was never tried for alleged human rights abuses.
1915-2006
Anthony Quinn was an Oscar-winning Mexican-American actor known for his roles in Viva Zapata!, Lust for Life and Zorba the Greek.
1915-2001
David Rockefeller is an American banker and philanthropist, the youngest of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
1915-
Ethel Rosenberg and husband Julius Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951. They were both executed by the U.S. government in 1953.
1915-1953
American economist Paul Samuelson is best known as a founder of neo-Keynesian economics and for being the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
1915-2009
Sargent Shriver was a political administrator and diplomat perhaps best known for designing the U.S. Peace Corps, which was established in 1961. Shriver served as first director of the organization from its inception until 1966.
1915-2011
Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century, forging a career as an award-winning singer and film actor.
1915-1998
1915-1980
1915-1985
1915-1967
1915-2005
American singer Rosetta Tharpe is credited with popularizing gospel music among secular audiences during the 1930s and '40s.
1915-1973
1915-2007
1915-1983
1915-1998
American actor Eli Wallach has appeared in such films as The Misfits; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
1915-
American singer and guitarist Muddy Waters may have been born in Mississippi, but he defined Chicago blues with songs like "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man."
1915-1983
Orson Welles wrote, directed and starred in the film Citizen Kane, among others, which remains one of the most influential films ever made.
1915-1985
1915-1986
Ann Woodward was an American socialite best known as a murder suspect for the death of her husband who had planned to divorce her. She was never convicted of the crime.
1915-1975
1915-
1915-1981