Director, producer and playwright George Abbott lived to be 107 and participated in such Broadway productions as Boy Meets Girl, The Fall Guy and Our Town.
1887-1995
Chef, TV host, author. Chef Anthony Bourdain moved out of the kitchen to become a bestselling author and TV personality, gaining wider fame with his unique culinary worldview.
1956-
Antoni Gaudí was a Barcelona-based Spanish architect whose free-flowing works were greatly influenced by nature.
1852-1926
Ricky Gervais is a British comedian best known for co-writing and co-directing the television series The Office.
1961-
Director Sidney Lumet was best known for his films Twelve Angry Men and Serpico. He made more than 40 films during his career.
1924-2011
James Meredith is a civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.
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1894-1989
George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic most famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949).
1903-1950
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Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in US history.
1954-