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Red Adair
Firefighter / 1915 - 2004
Red Adair was an American oil well firefighter best known for completing over 1,000 jobs internationally.
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(1915-2004)
Firefighter
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Roland Barthes
Philosopher, Literary Critic, Academic Author / 1915 - 1980
Roland Barthes was a French literary philosopher whose work influenced structuralism, semiotics and anthropology.
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(1915-1980)
Philosopher, Literary Critic, Academic Author
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Saul Bellow
Historian, Author / 1915 - 2005
Saul Bellow was a celebrated novelist who won the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
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(1915-2005)
Historian, Author
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Ingrid Bergman
Actress / 1915 - 1982
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.
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(1915-1982)
Actress
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Barbara Billingsley
Television Actress / 1915 - 2010
From 1957 to 1963, actress Barbara Billingsley played the perfect apron-wearing, cookie-baking housewife June Cleaver on TV's Leave it to Beaver.
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(1915-2010)
Television Actress
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Paul Castellano
Organized Crime Boss / 1915 - 1985
Paul Castellano is best known for becoming the boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.
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(1915-1985)
Organized Crime Boss
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Elizabeth Catlett
Sculptor / 1915 - 2012
Artist Elizabeth Catlett celebrates African-American workers in sculptures and prints. She's known for works like "Negro Woman," "Sharecropper" and "Survivor."
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(1915-2012)
Sculptor
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Moshe Dayan
Military Leader, Political Leader / 1915 - 1981
Israeli military leader and statesman Moshe Dayan fought for Israel's independence, and became a chief architect of the Camp David Accords.
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(1915-1981)
Military Leader, Political Leader
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Willie Dixon
Bassist, Songwriter, Music Producer / 1915 - 1992
Willie Dixon was a blues musician who exerted a major influence on the post-WWII Chicago style.
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(1915-1992)
Bassist, Songwriter, Music Producer
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Alice Faye
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Dancer / 1915 - 1998
Alice Faye was a Broadway actress and chorus girl who played the mother of Shirley Temple in several films.
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(1915-1998)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Dancer
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John Hope Franklin
Educator, Historian, Journalist / 1915 - 2009
American historian and educator John Hope Franklin is noted for his reappraisal of the American Civil War era and the importance of the black American struggle.
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(1915-2009)
Educator, Historian, Journalist
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Mark Goodson
Television Producer / 1915 - 1992
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.
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(1915-1992)
Television Producer
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Billie Holiday
Singer / 1915 - 1959
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.
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(1915-1959)
Singer
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Jerome Lawrence
Playwright / 1915 - 2004
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.
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(1915-2004)
Playwright
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Jack Levine
Painter / 1915 - 2010
American artist Jack Levine is best remembered for his American Social Realist paintings, including "Gangster Funeral," which satirized corruption in the modern world.
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(1915-2010)
Painter
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Sid Luft
Producer / 1915 - 2005
American film producer Sid Luft was the third husband of famed performer Judy Garland. He is credited with reviving her career in the 1950s.
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(1915-2005)
Producer
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Thomas Merton
Monk, Journalist / 1915 - 1968
Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk who was a revered pacifist and author, with works like Seven Storey Mountain and Thoughts in Solitude.
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(1915-1968)
Monk, Journalist
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Arthur Miller
Playwright / 1915 - 2005
Arthur Miller was an American playwright whose bitting criticism of societal problems defined his genius. His best known play is Death of a Salesman.
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(1915-2005)
Playwright
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Zero Mostel
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1915 - 1977
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.
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(1915-1977)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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Robert Motherwell
Painter, Academic Author / 1915 - 1991
Robert Motherwell was an American painter best known for being an influential force in the abstract expressionism movement of the 1940s.
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(1915-1991)
Painter, Academic Author
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Les Paul
Inventor, Guitarist / 1915 - 2009
Les Paul was a musician who designed a solid-body guitar in 1941, which then was a new type of instrument.
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(1915-2009)
Inventor, Guitarist
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Edith Piaf
Singer / 1915 - 1963
Édith Piaf, also known as “The Little Sparrow,” was a French singer who became an icon of France during World War II.
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(1915-1963)
Singer
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Augusto Pinochet
General, Dictator / 1915 - 2006
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.
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(1915-2006)
General, Dictator
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Anthony Quinn
Film Actor, Television Actor, Painter, Sculptor / 1915 - 2001
Anthony Quinn was an Oscar-winning Mexican-American actor known for his roles in Viva Zapata!, Lust for Life and Zorba the Greek.
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(1915-2001)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Painter, Sculptor
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David Rockefeller
Business Leader, Philanthropist / 1915 -
David Rockefeller is an American banker and philanthropist, the youngest of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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(1915-)
Business Leader, Philanthropist
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Ethel Rosenberg
War Criminal, Spy / 1915 - 1953
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.
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(1915-1953)
War Criminal, Spy
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Paul Samuelson
Academic, Economist / 1915 - 2009
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.
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(1915-2009)
Academic, Economist
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Sargent Shriver
Activist, Legal Professional, Military Leader, Diplomat / 1915 - 2011
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.
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(1915-2011)
Activist, Legal Professional, Military Leader, Diplomat
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Frank Sinatra
Film Actor, Singer / 1915 - 1998
Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century, forging a career as an award-winning singer and film actor.
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(1915-1998)
Film Actor, Singer
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Elizabeth Stern
Scientist / 1915 - 1980
Pathologist Elizabeth Stern tracked the 250 stages of a cell's progression from normal to cancerous, enabling early cancer screening.
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(1915-1980)
Scientist
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Potter Stewart
Civil Rights Activist, Judge, Government Official / 1915 - 1985
Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 - 1981. He is best known for his contributions to criminal justice reform.
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(1915-1985)
Civil Rights Activist, Judge, Government Official
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Billy Strayhorn
Songwriter, Pianist / 1915 - 1967
Billy Strayhorn is best known for his musical collaborations with Jazz legend Duke Ellington, including "Take the 'A' Train".
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(1915-1967)
Songwriter, Pianist
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Henry Taube
Academic, Chemist / 1915 - 2005
Henry Taube was the first Canadian-born scientist to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work in electron transfer reactions.
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(1915-2005)
Academic, Chemist
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Singer / 1915 - 1973
American singer Rosetta Tharpe is credited with popularizing gospel music among secular audiences during the 1930s and '40s.
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(1915-1973)
Singer
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Paul Tibbets
Military Leader / 1915 - 2007
Paul Tibbets was a brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force and is best known for piloting the aircraft to drop the first atomic bomb in the history of warfare.
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(1915-2007)
Military Leader
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John Vorster
World Leader, Prime Minister / 1915 - 1983
Politician John Vorster served as prime minister and president of South Africa. He was forced to resign from the presidency because of a political scandal.
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(1915-1983)
World Leader, Prime Minister
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Margaret Walker
Author, Poet / 1915 - 1998
Margaret Walker is best known for writing on the African-American experience through fiction and poetry.
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(1915-1998)
Author, Poet
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Eli Wallach
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1915 -
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.
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(1915-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Muddy Waters
Songwriter, Guitarist, Singer / 1915 - 1983
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."
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(1915-1983)
Songwriter, Guitarist, Singer
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Orson Welles
Film Actor, Director / 1915 - 1985
Orson Welles wrote, directed and starred in the film Citizen Kane, among others, which remains one of the most influential films ever made.
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(1915-1985)
Film Actor, Director
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Theodore H. White
Journalist / 1915 - 1986
Theodore H. White was an American journalist, best known for his presidential accounts The Making of the President, 1960 and The Making of the President, 1964.
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(1915-1986)
Journalist
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Ann Woodward
1915 - 1975
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.
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(1915-1975)
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Herman Wouk
Author / 1915 -
Herman Wouk is best known for his novel The Caine Mutiny.
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Author
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Yitzhak Zuckerman
Civil Rights Activist, Folk Hero / 1915 - 1981
Yitzhak Zuckerman was a hero of Jewish resistance to the Nazis in WWII and one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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(1915-1981)
Civil Rights Activist, Folk Hero