1927-2010
American motion-picture actress Clare Bow personified the flapper of the 1920s. From 1927 to 1930 she was one of the top five Hollywood box-office attractions.
1905-1965
1817-1876
Painter and sculptor Edgar Degas was a highly celebrated 19th-century French Impressionist whose work helped shape the fine art landscape for years to come.
1834-1917
Hilda Doolittle (or H.D.) was a poet of the avant-garde Imagist movement and was openly bisexual.
1886-1961
1896-1993
1894-1985
Aristide Maillol was a French artist, mostly known as a sculptor of monumental statues of female nudes.
1861-1944
Aimee Semple McPherson was a controversial Pentecostal evangelist whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel had tens of thousands of followers.
1890-1944
1925-2004
1772-1833
1929-2009
1937-1995
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914–1956) was named "Woman Athlete of the Half Century" in 1950 for her skills in basketball, track & field, and golf.
1911-1956