Philip Barry is an American playwright best known for writing comedies of life. His most famous play is The Philadelphia Story.
1896-1949
1820-1905
Gwendolyn Brooks was a postwar poet best known as the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her 1949 book Annie Allen.
1917-2000
1735-1815
1821-1910
Madeleine Kahn was an actress of stage and screen known for her roles in Mel Brooks' comedies such as Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety.
1942-1999
A leading Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the most famous artists of the early twentieth century.
1841-1919
Charles Ringling co-founded the Ringling Bros., and later co-owned the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1863-1926
Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish writer notable for such novels as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
1850-1894
William Grant Still was a conductor and composer and the first African-American to conduct a professional symphony orchestra in the U.S.
1895-1978
1506-1552