1916-2006
1916-2011
Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike was a Sri Lankan political leader, becoming the world’s first woman prime minister in 1960.
1916-2000
1916-2006
Alice Childress is an African-American playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She is also the author of several young adult novels.
1916-1994
Charlie Christian was a pioneering electric jazz guitarist of the mid-20th century who would go on to greatly influence his successors.
1916-1942
Francis Crick is responsible for discovering, along with James Watson, the double-helix structure of the DNA strand.
1916-2004
1916-2009
Children's author Roald Dahl wrote the kids' classics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, among other famous works. He was married to actress Patricia Neal.
1916-1990
1916-
Actor Kirk Douglas brought his formidable chin and talent to movies like Spartacus and The Bad and the Beautiful. You may also know him as the father of Michael Douglas.
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1916-1977
Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative. He was also a significant contributor to the Ken Burns series The Civil War.
1916-2005
Actor Glenn Ford rose to fame after serving in World War II, thanks to several film roles in the '30s and beyond.
1916-2006
1916-1987
Betty Grable was a musical film star and popular pin up model, after starting as a chorus-line dancer in the 1930's.
1916-1973
Art Hanes was mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, between 1961 and 1963. He actively opposed racial integration.
1916-1997
James Herriot was a British veterinarian and author best known for his books detailing life as a country vet. Two films and a TV series were based on his book All Creatures Great and Small.
1916-1995
Writer Shirley Jackson is best known for her story “The Lottery," which suggests a sinister underside to small-town America, and The Haunting of Hill House.
1916-1965
Author and activist Jane Jacobs wrote about preserving urban neighborhoods, in books like The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Dark Age Ahead.
1916-2006
1916-1983
American politician Eugene J. McCarthy challenged Lyndon B. Johnson in the race for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, which led to Johnson's withdrawal.
1916-2005
1916-2009
1916-1962
1916-1996
1916-1978
Gregory Peck is best known for his larger-than-life film roles, particularly as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
1916-2003
Walker Percy was a novelist known chiefly for his first novel, The Moviegoer, which explored spiritual emptiness.
1916-1990
Tokyo Rose, whose real name was Iva Toguri, was an American-born Japanese woman who hosted a Japanese propaganda radio program aimed at U.S. troops during World War II.
1916-2006
Sherwood Schwartz created two of television's most enduring comedies: Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch.
1916-2001
1916-1999
Dinah Shore was an award-winning television personality and singer known for her string of TV shows, including Dinah!, Dinah's Place, and Dinah and Friends.
1916-1994
1916-2002