TV chef and author Julia Child adapted complex French cooking for everyday Americans, with her groundbreaking cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

• Journalist, Television Personality, Chef
  (1912–2004)

Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African-American women.

• Women's Rights Activist, Civil Rights Activist
  (1912–2010)

Gene Kelly was a dancer whose athletic style transformed the movie musical and did much to change the American public's conception of male dancers.

• Film Actor, Dancer
  (1912–1996)

Famous 20th century artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized the world of modern art with his unique abstract painting techniques.

• Painter
  (1912–1956)

Pat Nixon was the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States. As first lady, she traveled extensively and championed volunteerism.

• Children's Activist, U.S. First Lady
  (1912–1993)

The wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson served as first lady from 1963 to 1969.

• Women's Rights Activist, U.S. First Lady
  (1912–2007)

Eva Braun was the mistress and later the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun and Hitler killed themselves on April 30, 1945, the day after their wedding—a decided alternative to falling into the hands of enemy troops.

• Model
  (1912–1945)

Tobacco heiress Doris Duke was the only child of American tobacco baron, James Duke. When she was born, the press called her the 'million dollar baby.' She later established the Doris Duke Foundation.

• Art Collector, Philanthropist
  (1912–1993)

Woody Guthrie was a singer-songwriter, and one of the legendary figures of American folk music.

• Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter
  (1912–1967)

Chinese-American nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, also known as "the First Lady of Physics,” contributed to the Manhattan Project and made history with an experiment that disproved the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.

• Physicist
  (1912–1997)

Swedish businessman and diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is best known for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II.

• Diplomat, Activist
  (1912–c. 1947)

Lucie Aubrac was a French Resistance leader who struggled against the Nazis during World War II.

• (1912–2007)

Dale Evans was the longtime screen partner and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers. She wrote several hit songs, including "Happy Trails to You."

• Television Personality, Singer, Television Actress, Film Actress, Songwriter
  (1912–2001)

Famed mathematician Alan Turing proved in his 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers," that a universal algorithmic method of determining truth in math cannot exist.

• Educator, Mathematician
  (1912–1954)

Art Linkletter was a family-friendly radio and television personality who incorporated ordinary people into his broadcasts with comic results.

• Radio Personality, Television Personality, Author
  (1912–2010)

Jo Ann Robinson organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America.

• Civil Rights Activist
  (1912–1992)

Barbara Tuchman, American historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is best known for writing The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45.

• Journalist, Historian
  (1912–1989)

Photographer Sam Shaw is remembered for his iconic images of such stars as Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando. He also produced several films, including 1961's Paris Blues.

• Photographer
  (1912–1999)

Karl Malden has established a venerable career as a character actor, appearing in close to seventy films in his fifty years in Hollywood.

• Television Actor, Film Actor
  (c. 1912–2009)

Teddy Wilson was an influential pianist of jazz and swing. He played and recorded with jazz greats such as Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald.

• Pianist
  (1912–1986)

Studs Terkel was a Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian who compiled books of interviews with everyday people.

• Radio Talk Show Host, Journalist
  (1912–2008)

Elizabeth Coles Taylor was a British novelist and short-story writer known for works like At Mrs. Lippincote's, Angel and A Game of Hide and Seek.

• Author
  (1912–1975)

Sam Snead was an American pro golfer who won a record 82 PGA tournaments.

• Golfer
  (1912–2002)

May Sarton was a writer of poetry, novels and memoirs including her Journal of a Solitude.

• Journalist, Poet, Author
  (1912–1995)