Bea Arthur was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress who starred in the television shows Maude and The Golden Girls.
1922-2009
1922-2007
1922-2004
1922-2002
Blues Singer Charles Brown belonged to John Moore’s Three Blazers and gained fame when the band released “Driftin’ Blues.”
1922-1999
Sid Caesar is a comedian and the creator of the classic Emmy Award-winning television variety program Your Show of Shows.
1922-
Pierre Cardin is an Italian-born French fashion designer best known for his haute couture geometric avant-garde designs.
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Child actor Jackie Cooper was in the Our Gang short film series and the Little Rascals television show. He also starred in the 1931 film The Champ.
1922-2011
Dorothy Dandridge was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress.
1922-1965
Actress Yvonne De Carlo was Moses' wife in DeMille's The Ten Commandments, but is better known for playing the matriarch on TV's The Munsters.
1922-2007
Blake Edwards was an American film director, producer and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for The Pink Panther and its sequels.
1922-2010
1922-1991
Actress Ava Gardner was a sultry beauty famous for playing femme fatale roles, and for her marriages to Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw and Mickey Rooney.
1922-1990
Actress and singer Judy Garland was the star of many classic musical films, and was known for her tremendous talent and troubled life.
1922-1969
Leon Golub was an American painter who was both horrified and inspired by the Vietnam War.
1922-2004
Helen Gurley Brown served as Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief for more than 30 years.
1922-2012
Walter Haut is best known for drafting a 1947 press release for the U.S. Army that claimed a "flying disc" had landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
1922-2005
Don Hewitt was a television producer who created the long-running news show 60 Minutes.
1922-2009
Steven Hill is a Jewish-American actor known for his roles in Mission Impossible and on Law & Order.
1922-
Jack Kerouac was an American writer best known for the novel On the Road, which became an American classic, pioneering the Beat Generation in the 1950s.
1922-1969
Jack Klugman is an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in the Broadway play The Odd Couple and the TV series of the same name.
1922-2012
1922-
Christopher Lee began his legendary career in monster movies in the 1950, playing both Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula, the latter in several classics of the genre. Lee has recently become known to a whole new generation of filmgoers in The Lord
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Stan Lee is a revered comic-book creator who co-launched superheroes like the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and the X-Men for Marvel Comics.
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1922-1976
Actor Len Lesser played Uncle Leo on the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-starred with Hollywood legends Steve McQueen, Robert DeNiro and Clint Eastwood.
1922-2011
James Ling was the former head of the Ling-Temco-Vought corporation, or LTV.
1922-2004
1922-1987
English actor Patrick Macnee is best known for playing secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers.
1922-
William Manchester was a historian who notably wrote about American president John F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill.
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Though he helped reform the Democratic Party, U.S. Senator George S. McGovern lost his 1972 presidential campaign to Richard Nixon.
1922-2012
1922-1991
1922-1979
Tanzanian statesman and president Julius Kambarage was premier when Tanganyika was granted internal self-government, and was made president on independence.
1922-1999
1922-2007
1922-1995
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Jason Robards Jr. was an intense stage and film actor, and a frequent interpreter of Eugene O'Neill's work. He starred in the 1960 television production The Iceman Cometh, and later starred in films like Philadelphia and Magnolia.
1922-2000
José Saramago was a Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
1922-2010
Telly Savalas was an American actor best known for his role as a tough, New York City detective in the 1970’s television series Kojak.
1922-1994
Charles Schulz was a cartoonist best known for creating the one of the world's most successful comic strips, Peanuts.
1922-2000
British actor Paul Scofield is one of only a handful of actors who have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony.
1922-2008
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Italian operatic soprano Renata Tebaldi was best known for her exquisite and emotional quality of her singing.
1922-2004
Kurt Vonnegut was an American author best known for the novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
1922-2007
Actress Nancy Walker appeared in films and on stage before playing Ida Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rosie in the Bounty paper towel commercials.
1922-1992
Harold Washington became the first African-American mayor of Chicago in 1983.
1922-1987
Betty White is a comedic actress who has been in show business, from TV to film, since the 1950s, most notably on The Golden Girls.
1922-
Iannis Xenakis was a Greek avant-garde composer of electronic music and musique concrete.
1922-2001
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