1898-1991
1905-1991
Jean Arthur was an American actress best known for her roles in films such as Mr. Smith Goes To Washington and The More The Merrier.
1900-1991
1907-1991
Nazi leader Klaus Barbie was head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, and was held responsible for the death and deportation thousands.
1913-1991
1908-1991
1903-1991
1908-1991
Freddie Mercury is best known as the rock worlds most versatile and engaging performers and for his mock operatic masterpiece, Bohemian Rhapsody.
1946-1991
1897-1991
1933-1991
Nine-time Grammy Award winner Miles Davis was a major force in the jazz world, as both a trumpet player and a bandleader.
1926-1991
1905-1991
Tennessee Ernie Ford was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop and gospel musical genres.
1919-1991
1922-1991
Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist best known for his popularization of the bossa nova sound.
1927-1991
Charles Goren was an American lawyer and world champion bridge player known for his books and television program on the game.
1901-1991
Bill Graham was a legendary rock concert promoter who arranged tours for bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones from the 1960s until the '90s.
1931-1991
Martha Graham is considered by many to be the 20th century's most important dancer and the mother of modern dance.
1894-1991
1903-1991
1904-1991
In 1951, Barbara Johns led her fellow students in a walkout to protest school segregation. She then started a lawsuit that became part of Brown v. Board of Ed.
1935-1991
Actor Klaus Kinski made his mark in such films as Aguirre (1972), Nosferatu (1979) and Fitzcarraldo (1982).
1926-1991
Jerzy Kosinksi was a Polish-American novelist. He wrote Being There in 1971, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1979.
1933-1991
Edwin Land is best known as the inventor of the Polaroid camera and film, and as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
1909-1991
Michael Landon was an American actor, writer, director and producer known for his roles in I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie.
1936-1991
David Lean was a British director and screenwriter best known for his spectacular cinematography and adaptations of Charles Dickens classics, including Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948).
1908-1991
1908-1991
1922-1991
1921-1991
1915-1991
1895-1991
Twice appointed the United States' poet laureate, Howard Nemerov was a writer with wit and illuminating irony.
1920-1991
1921-1991
Jiang Qing was the wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung and implemented policies during the country’s Cultural Revolution.
1914-1991
Actress Lee Remick appeared with Andy Griffith in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd and starred opposite Jack Lemmon in Days of Wine and Roses.
1935-1991
1928-1991
American writer and producer Gene Rodenberry created the immensely influential Star Trek television series in the 1960s.
1921-1991
David Ruffin was an American soul singer who rose to fame as one of the lead singers of the Temptations.
1941-1991
Throughout his career, cartoonist and writer Dr. Seuss published 60 children's books, including The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham.
1904-1991
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Jewish-American writer who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.
1904-1991
In 1966, Richard Speck committed one of the most horrifying mass murders in American history when he brutalized and killed eight student nurses living on Chicago's South Side.
1941-1991
Margaret Suckley was a close friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as the archivist for the first American presidential library.
1891-1991
1899-1991
Actress Gene Tierney had a rocky start in Hollywood, but is best known for her role as a memorable murder victim in the 1944 film Laura.
1920-1991
1932-1991