Colonel Tom Parker managed Elvis Presley’s career, turning the singer into one of the first rock superstars.

• Rock Music Promoter
  (1909–1997)

Outlaw Clyde Barrow and his partner Bonnie Parker robbed banks and store owners during the Depression, with the duo and their gang held responsible for an array of murders.

• Murderer, Thief
  (1909–1934)

Benny Goodman, "The King of Swing", was the clarinetist composer responsible for multiple hit singles as a band leader before World War II.

• Songwriter
  (1909–1986)

Barry Goldwater was an American politician best known as a senator from Arizona and the Republican candidate for president in 1964.

• U.S. Representative
  (1909–1998)

Sir Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia at the dawn of World War II.

• Stockbroker
  (1909–2015)

Vivian Vance was an actress best known as Ethel Mertz on the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy.

• Film Actress, Television Actress
  (1909–1979)

Art Tatum was a highly influential 20th century jazz pianist known for his ornate arrangements and radical reinventions of pop standards.

• Pianist
  (1909–1956)

As housewife and mother on the hit series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Harriet Nelson became one of television's best-loved characters during the 1950s.

• Film Actress, Television Actress
  (1909–1994)

Australian actor Errol Flynn was celebrated as the screen's foremost swashbuckler. He had a reputation as an irrepressible drinker and womanizer.

• Film Actor
  (1909–1959)

Edwin Land is best known as the inventor of the Polaroid camera and film, and as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

• Scientist, Physicist, Inventor
  (1909–1991)

Artist Francis Bacon is best known for his post-World War II paintings, in which he represented the human face and figure in an expressive, often grotesque style.

• Painter
  (1909–1992)

"Mad Sam" Destefano was an infamous Chicago loan shark who was known to torture and kill those who defied him or failed to pay their debts.

• Murderer, Organized Crime
  (1909–1973)

Hermine Santruschitz Gies, better known as Miep Gies, helped hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, and saved her diaries.

• Anti-War Activist
  (1909–2010)

Thanks to the model 356, created in 1948 by Ferdinand Anton Ernst "Ferry" Porsche, the Porsche car company became known worldwide as a producer of successful sports and racing cars. Several years earlier, in 1934, Porsche worked with father Ferdinand Porsche on the first designs of the Volkswagen car.

• Engineer, Business Leader
  (1909–1998)

Singer and guitarist Mother Maybelle Carter began performing with The Carter Family in the 1920s and influenced country and folk music for decades to come.

• Guitarist, Singer
  (1909–1978)

Lester Young was a saxophonist who introduced an approach to improvisation that provided much of the basis for modern jazz solo conception.

• Saxophonist
  (1909–1959)

Short-story writer and novelist Eudora Welty’s work focuses on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town that resembles her birthplace.

• Journalist, Photographer, Author
  (1909–2001)

Simone Weil was a French intellectual, activist and Christian Mystic.

• Anti-War Activist, Civil Rights Activist, Philosopher, Educator, Journalist
  (1909–1943)

U Thant was a Burmese diplomat, pacifist and third secretary general of the United Nations.

• Civil Servant, Diplomat, Educator
  (1909–1974)

Biochemist Edward Tatum won the 1958 Nobel Prize for his research, which helped create the field of molecular genetics.

• Scientist
  (1909–1975)

Jessica Tandy was an English-born U.S. actress well known for her role in Broadway's Foxfire and her Oscar-winning performance in the film Driving Miss Daisy.

• Theater Actress, Television Actress, Film Actress
  (1909–1994)

Author Cyril Northcote Parkinson is a British historian. He has written a number of books, but is best known for 1955’s Parkinson’s Law.

• Educator, Academic, Historian
  (1909–1993)