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.
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.
Hilda Doolittle (or H.D.) was a poet of the avant-garde Imagist movement and was openly bisexual.
Aristide Maillol was a French artist, mostly known as a sculptor of monumental statues of female nudes.
Aimee Semple McPherson was a controversial Pentecostal evangelist whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel had tens of thousands of followers.
William Safire was a writer whose column "On Language" was a long-running feature of The New York Times Magazine.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914–1956) was named "Woman Athlete of the Half Century" in 1950 for her skills in basketball, track & field, and golf.