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Bea Arthur
Animal Rights Activist, Actress / 1922 - 2009
Bea Arthur was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress who starred in the television shows Maude and The Golden Girls.
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(1922-2009)
Animal Rights Activist, Actress
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Hank Bauer
Baseball Player / 1922 - 2007
Hank Bauer was a professional baseball player that spent most of his playing career with the New York Yankees, winning seven championships.
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(1922-2007)
Baseball Player
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Elmer Bernstein
Songwriter / 1922 - 2004
Composer Elmer Bernstein wrote over 100 major film scores, including the music behind The Ten Commandments and Ghostbusters.
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(1922-2004)
Songwriter
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Bill Blass
Fashion Designer / 1922 - 2002
Bill Blass, American fashion designer, is known for building a fashion company on his approach to women's fashion that focused on ease and comfort.
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(1922-2002)
Fashion Designer
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Charles Brown
Pianist, Singer / 1922 - 1999
Blues Singer Charles Brown belonged to John Moore’s Three Blazers and gained fame when the band released “Driftin’ Blues.”
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(1922-1999)
Pianist, Singer
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Sid Caesar
Comedian / 1922 -
Sid Caesar is a comedian and the creator of the classic Emmy Award-winning television variety program Your Show of Shows.
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(1922-)
Comedian
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Pierre Cardin
Fashion Designer / 1922 -
Pierre Cardin is an Italian-born French fashion designer best known for his haute couture geometric avant-garde designs.
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(1922-)
Fashion Designer
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Jackie Cooper
Film Actor, Television Actor, Television Producer / 1922 - 2011
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.
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(1922-2011)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Television Producer
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Dorothy Dandridge
Film Actress, Pin-up, Singer / 1922 - 1965
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.
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(1922-1965)
Film Actress, Pin-up, Singer
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Yvonne De Carlo
Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up / 1922 - 2007
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.
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(1922-2007)
Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up
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Blake Edwards
Director, Screenwriter / 1922 - 2010
Blake Edwards was an American film director, producer and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for The Pink Panther and its sequels.
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(1922-2010)
Director, Screenwriter
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Redd Foxx
Film Actor, Television Actor, Comedian / 1922 - 1991
Redd Foxx was the stage name of John Elroy Sanford, an American comedian and actor best known for his role in the 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son.
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(1922-1991)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Comedian
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Ava Gardner
Film Actress, Pin-up / 1922 - 1990
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.
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(1922-1990)
Film Actress, Pin-up
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Judy Garland
Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up, Singer / 1922 - 1969
Actress and singer Judy Garland was the star of many classic musical films, and was known for her tremendous talent and troubled life.
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(1922-1969)
Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up, Singer
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Leon Golub
Anti-War Activist, Painter / 1922 - 2004
Leon Golub was an American painter who was both horrified and inspired by the Vietnam War.
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(1922-2004)
Anti-War Activist, Painter
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Helen Gurley Brown
Publisher / 1922 - 2012
Helen Gurley Brown served as Cosmopolitan's editor-in-chief for more than 30 years.
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(1922-2012)
Publisher
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Walter Haut
Military Leader / 1922 - 2005
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.
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(1922-2005)
Military Leader
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Don Hewitt
Television Producer / 1922 - 2009
Don Hewitt was a television producer who created the long-running news show 60 Minutes.
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(1922-2009)
Television Producer
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Steven Hill
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1922 -
Steven Hill is a Jewish-American actor known for his roles in Mission Impossible and on Law & Order.
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(1922-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Jack Kerouac
Journalist, Author, Poet / 1922 - 1969
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.
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(1922-1969)
Journalist, Author, Poet
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Jack Klugman
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1922 - 2012
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.
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(1922-2012)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Norman Lear
Producer, Pilot, Television Producer, Screenwriter / 1922 -
Norman Lear wrote popular, long-running sitcoms including All in the Family and The Jeffersons. His work addressed racial and political issues in the U.S.
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(1922-)
Producer, Pilot, Television Producer, Screenwriter
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Christopher Lee
Film Actor / 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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(1922-)
Film Actor
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Stan Lee
Producer, Television Producer, Editor, Publisher, Author / 1922 -
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-)
Producer, Television Producer, Editor, Publisher, Author
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Margaret Leighton
Film Actress, Theater Actress / 1922 - 1976
Margaret Leighton is best known for her acting career in British theater and film, including two separate Tony Awards.
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(1922-1976)
Film Actress, Theater Actress
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Len Lesser
Film, Television / 1922 - 2011
Actor Len Lesser played Uncle Leo on the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-starred with Hollywood legends Steve McQueen, Robert DeNiro and Clint Eastwood.
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(1922-2011)
Film, Television
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James Ling
Business Leader / 1922 - 2004
James Ling was the former head of the Ling-Temco-Vought corporation, or LTV.
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(1922-2004)
Business Leader
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Rene Levesque
Political Leader / 1922 - 1987
Canadian reporter René Lévesque is best known for being the first Quebec politician since Confederation to attempt to negotiate political separation for Quebec.
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(1922-1987)
Political Leader
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Patrick Macnee
Film Actor, Television Actor / 1922 -
English actor Patrick Macnee is best known for playing secret agent John Steed in the 1960s television series The Avengers.
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(1922-)
Film Actor, Television Actor
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William Manchester
Historian, Journalist, Author / 1922 -
William Manchester was a historian who notably wrote about American president John F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill.
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(1922-)
Historian, Journalist, Author
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George McGovern
U.S. Representative / 1922 - 2012
Though he helped reform the Democratic Party, U.S. Senator George S. McGovern lost his 1972 presidential campaign to Richard Nixon.
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(1922-2012)
U.S. Representative
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Floyd B. McKissick
Civil Rights Activist, Legal Professional / 1922 - 1991
Floyd B. McKissick was the first black recipient of a law degree from the University of North Carolina. He specialized in civil rights cases.
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(1922-1991)
Civil Rights Activist, Legal Professional
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Charles Mingus
Civil Rights Activist, Songwriter, Guitarist, Pianist / 1922 - 1979
Charles Mingus was an American jazz composer, bassist, bandleader, and pianist who defied categorization in the jazz genre.
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(1922-1979)
Civil Rights Activist, Songwriter, Guitarist, Pianist
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Julius Nyerere
World Leader / 1922 - 1999
Tanzanian statesman and president Julius Kambarage was premier when Tanganyika was granted internal self-government, and was made president on independence.
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(1922-1999)
World Leader
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Grace Paley
Educator, Anti-War Activist, Author, Poet / 1922 - 2007
Short-story writer and poet Grace Paley is
known both for her written work and for her political activism, most notably against the Vietnam War.
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(1922-2007)
Educator, Anti-War Activist, Author, Poet
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Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister / 1922 - 1995
Yitzhak Rabin was Israeli statesman who, as prime minister of Israel, led his country toward peace with its Palestinian and Arab neighbors.
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(1922-1995)
Prime Minister
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Carl Reiner
Television Actor, Director, Author / 1922 -
Carl Reiner created, wrote and produced The Dick Van Dyke Show. It was based on his experience as a television writer for Your Show of Shows.
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(1922-)
Television Actor, Director, Author
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Jason Robards
Film Actor, Theater Actor / 1922 - 2000
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.
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(1922-2000)
Film Actor, Theater Actor
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José Saramago
Journalist, Author / 1922 - 2010
José Saramago was a Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
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(1922-2010)
Journalist, Author
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Telly Savalas
Film Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Talk Show Host / 1922 - 1994
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.
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(1922-1994)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Talk Show Host
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Charles Schulz
Illustrator, Writer / 1922 - 2000
Charles Schulz was a cartoonist best known for creating the one of the world's most successful comic strips, Peanuts.
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(1922-2000)
Illustrator, Writer
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Paul Scofield
Actor / 1922 - 2008
British actor Paul Scofield is one of only a handful of actors who have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony.
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(1922-2008)
Actor
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Charles Sifford
Golfer / 1922 -
Charles Sifford is an African American former professional golfer who helped to desegregate golf by becoming the first black athlete to compete on the PGA Tour.
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(1922-)
Golfer
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Renata Tebaldi
Pianist, Singer / 1922 - 2004
Italian operatic soprano Renata Tebaldi was best known for her exquisite and emotional quality of her singing.
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(1922-2004)
Pianist, Singer
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Kurt Vonnegut
Author / 1922 - 2007
Kurt Vonnegut was an American author best known for the novels Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
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(1922-2007)
Author
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Nancy Walker
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1922 - 1992
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.
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(1922-1992)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Harold Washington
Mayor, U.S. Representative / 1922 - 1987
Harold Washington became the first African-American mayor of Chicago in 1983.
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(1922-1987)
Mayor, U.S. Representative
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Betty White
Animal Rights Activist, Television Actress, Comedian / 1922 -
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.
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(1922-)
Animal Rights Activist, Television Actress, Comedian
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Iannis Xenakis
Songwriter, Writer / 1922 - 2001
Iannis Xenakis was a Greek avant-garde composer of electronic music and musique concrete.
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(1922-2001)
Songwriter, Writer
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Chen Ning Yang
Academic, Physicist / 1922 -
Chinese-American physicist Chen Ning Yang was co-awarded the 1957 Nobel prize for work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction.
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(1922-)
Academic, Physicist