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Berenice Abbott
Photographer / 1898 - 1991
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her work with
expatriates in Paris and of Depression New York City neighborhoods.
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(1898-1991)
Photographer
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Carl D. Anderson
Physicist / 1905 - 1991
Carl D. Anderson and Victor Francis Hess received the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the positron, or the positively charged electron.
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(1905-1991)
Physicist
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Jean Arthur
Academic, Film Actress / 1900 - 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.
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(1900-1991)
Academic, Film Actress
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Peggy Ashcroft
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1907 - 1991
Dame Peggy Ashcroft was an English stage actress and won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in A Passage to India.
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(1907-1991)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Klaus Barbie
War Criminal, Military Leader / 1913 - 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.
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(1913-1991)
War Criminal, Military Leader
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John Bardeen
Educator, Inventor, Physicist / 1908 - 1991
Physicist John Bardeen was co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for inventing the transistor, and in 1972 for the theory of superconductivity.
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(1908-1991)
Educator, Inventor, Physicist
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Cool Papa Bell
Baseball Player / 1903 - 1991
Cool Papa Bell was a player in the Baseball Negro Leagues in the 1920s-1940s; reputedly the fastest baserunner of all time. He's in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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(1903-1991)
Baseball Player
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Paul Brown
Coach, Football Player / 1908 - 1991
Football coach Paul Brown is best known for the innovative coaching techniques that he developed throughout his long and successful career.
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(1908-1991)
Coach, Football Player
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Freddie Mercury
Songwriter, Singer / 1946 - 1991
Freddie Mercury is best known as the rock worlds most versatile and engaging performers and for his mock operatic masterpiece, Bohemian Rhapsody.
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(1946-1991)
Songwriter, Singer
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Frank Capra
Director / 1897 - 1991
Filmmaker Frank Capra directed a series of sentimental comedies during the '30s and '40s. He directed It's a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart in 1946.
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(1897-1991)
Director
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Bert Convy
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Game Show Host / 1933 - 1991
Bert Convy was an actor and game show host for many decades. In addition to theater, Convy was the host of Super Password and Win, Lose, or Draw.
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(1933-1991)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Singer, Game Show Host
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Miles Davis
Songwriter, Trumpet Player / 1926 - 1991
Nine-time Grammy Award winner Miles Davis was a major force in the jazz world, as both a trumpet player and a bandleader.
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(1926-1991)
Songwriter, Trumpet Player
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Leo Durocher
Baseball Player, Coach / 1905 - 1991
Biography.com profiles baseball player and manager Leo Durocher, who played managed the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros.
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(1905-1991)
Baseball Player, Coach
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
Singer / 1919 - 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.
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(1919-1991)
Singer
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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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Stan Getz
Saxophonist / 1927 - 1991
Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist best known for his popularization of the bossa nova sound.
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(1927-1991)
Saxophonist
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Charles Goren
Journalist / 1901 - 1991
Charles Goren was an American lawyer and world champion bridge player known for his books and television program on the game.
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(1901-1991)
Journalist
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Bill Graham
1931 - 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.
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(1931-1991)
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Martha Graham
Choreographer / 1894 - 1991
Martha Graham is considered by many to be the 20th century's most important dancer and the mother of modern dance.
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(1894-1991)
Choreographer
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Red Grange
Football Player, Radio Personality / 1903 - 1991
Red Grange was an American football player best known for his frequent touchdowns, earning him the nickname "the Galloping Ghost."
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(1903-1991)
Football Player, Radio Personality
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Graham Greene
Journalist, Author, Playwright / 1904 - 1991
Graham Greene, who wrote The End of the Affair in 1951, is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed British novelists of the 20th century.
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(1904-1991)
Journalist, Author, Playwright
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Barbara Johns
Civil Rights Activist / 1935 - 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.
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(1935-1991)
Civil Rights Activist
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Klaus Kinski
Film Actor / 1926 - 1991
Actor Klaus Kinski made his mark in such films as Aguirre (1972), Nosferatu (1979) and Fitzcarraldo (1982).
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(1926-1991)
Film Actor
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Jerzy Kosinski
Author / 1933 - 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.
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(1933-1991)
Author
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Edwin Land
Inventor, Physicist / 1909 - 1991
Edwin Land is best known as the inventor of the Polaroid camera and film, and as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.
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(1909-1991)
Inventor, Physicist
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Michael Landon
Television Actor / 1936 - 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.
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(1936-1991)
Television Actor
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David Lean
Director, Producer, Screenwriter / 1908 - 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).
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(1908-1991)
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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Fred MacMurray
Film Actor, Television Actor / 1908 - 1991
Comedic actor Fred MacMurray starred in films from the ‘30s through the ‘60s, but was known for his role as the father in the 1960s TV show My Three Sons.
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(1908-1991)
Film Actor, Television Actor
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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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Yves Montand
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Singer / 1921 - 1991
Yves Montand was an Italian actor known for such films as Wages of Fear and Manon of the Spring.
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(1921-1991)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Singer
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Robert Motherwell
Painter, Academic Author / 1915 - 1991
Robert Motherwell was an American painter best known for being an influential force in the abstract expressionism movement of the 1940s.
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(1915-1991)
Painter, Academic Author
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Arthur Murray
Educator, Dancer / 1895 - 1991
Ballroom dance instructor Arthur Murray began with a correspondence course in 1912, then opened studios all over the world.
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(1895-1991)
Educator, Dancer
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Howard Nemerov
Educator, Author, Poet / 1920 - 1991
Twice appointed the United States' poet laureate, Howard Nemerov was a writer with wit and illuminating irony.
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(1920-1991)
Educator, Author, Poet
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Joe Papp
Television Producer / 1921 - 1991
Theatrical producer-director Joe Pap founded the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theatre and was a major force in theater in the late 20th century.
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(1921-1991)
Television Producer
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Jiang Qing
Government Official / 1914 - 1991
Jiang Qing was the wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung and implemented policies during the country’s Cultural Revolution.
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(1914-1991)
Government Official
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Lee Remick
Film Actress, Theater Actress / 1935 - 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.
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(1935-1991)
Film Actress, Theater Actress
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Tony Richardson
Director / 1928 - 1991
Tony Richardson was a director of stage plays and films who is known for such projects as Look Back in Anger and Tom Jones.
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(1928-1991)
Director
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Gene Roddenberry
Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter / 1921 - 1991
American writer and producer Gene Rodenberry created the immensely influential Star Trek television series in the 1960s.
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(1921-1991)
Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter
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David Ruffin
Singer / 1941 - 1991
David Ruffin was an American soul singer who rose to fame as one of the lead singers of the Temptations.
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(1941-1991)
Singer
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Dr. Seuss
Illustrator, Author / 1904 - 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.
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(1904-1991)
Illustrator, Author
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author / 1904 - 1991
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Jewish-American writer who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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(1904-1991)
Author
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Richard Speck
Serial Killer / 1941 - 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.
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(1941-1991)
Serial Killer
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Margaret Suckley
Historian, Writer / 1891 - 1991
Margaret Suckley was a close friend and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and served as the archivist for the first American presidential library.
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(1891-1991)
Historian, Writer
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Rufino Tamayo
Painter, Sculptor / 1899 - 1991
Rufino Tamayo was a 20th century painter who was famous for combining Mexican folk themes and modern European surrealist imagery.
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(1899-1991)
Painter, Sculptor
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Gene Tierney
Film Actress, Pin-up / 1920 - 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.
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(1920-1991)
Film Actress, Pin-up
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Dottie West
Songwriter, Singer / 1932 - 1991
Dottie West was a country music singer/songwriter known for such hist as "Rings of Gold" and "Would You Hold It Against Me."
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(1932-1991)
Songwriter, Singer