- Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He is perhaps best known in the US for his roles in two Hollywood films, the title role in "Zorba the Greek" and his Oscar-winning performance in "Viva Zapata!", while in the rest of the world he is associated with his role of the brutish circus strongman Zampanò in Federico Fellini's "La strada". - Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 - April 15, 1990) was a Swedish-born actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age. Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. - Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. His most memorable lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "The Lady is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", and "My Funny Valentine". Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Rodgers, … - Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and for her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. - Don Rose
Don Rose (born Donald Rosenberg- best known as Dr. Don Rose or just Dr. Don- July 5, 1934 - March 30, 2005) was a memorable radio personality on KFRC AM 610 in San Francisco, California from October 1973 to 1986. With earlier experience at WQXI (AM) in Atlanta, Georgia, and WFIL in Philadelphia, he was known for his corny one-liners, wacky sound effects, and kindheartedness. - Fats Waller
Fats Waller (born Thomas Wright Waller on May 21, 1904, died December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. A skilled pianist and one of the most popular performers of his era, Waller was also a prolific songwriter, with many songs he wrote or co-wrote still known to modern audiences, such as "Honeysuckle Rose", "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Squeeze Me". - Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (b. April 13 1909, Jackson, Mississippi - d. July 23 2001, Jackson, Mississippi) was an award-winning author and photographer who wrote about the American South. Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi and lived a significant portion of her life in the city's Belhaven neighborhood, where her home has been preserved. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women (now called Mississippi University for Women), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, … - Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger, GBE (August 18 1917 – March 28 2006), was an American politician and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld. - Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim. - Fred MacMurray
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 - November 5, 1991) was an actor who appeared in over one hundred movies and a highly successful television series during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. MacMurray's most famous role was in the 1944 film noir "Double Indemnity", in which he starred with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in life, he became better known as the slightly stammering Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on the CBS TV series, … - Marvin Pentz Gay Sr.
The Reverend Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr. was an American fundamentalist minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and later a spin-off sect called the House of God. Born on a farm along Catnip Hill Pike in Jessamine County, Kentucky, he was the father and murderer of famous Motown performer Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., later known as Marvin Gaye. The father and son were said not to have gotten along. - Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an American Academy Award-winning actor best known for his intense performances in such films as "In the Heat of the Night", "On the Waterfront" and "Doctor Zhivago". - Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen (April 2, 1908 - July 6, 2003) was an American actor and dancer, who is best-remembered for his role as Jed Clampett in the popular television series "The Beverly Hillbillies". - Eddie Mathews
Edwin Lee "Eddie" Mathews was a Hall of Fame third baseman in Major League Baseball and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, third baseman to play the game. Born in Texarkana, Texas, Eddie Mathews was six years old when his family moved to Santa Barbara, California where he developed into a star high school player. - Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 - 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath's accession represented a change in the leadership of the Conservative party, from aristocratic figures such as Harold Macmillan to the self-consciously meritocratic Ted Heath, and later, Margaret Thatcher. - Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors (April 10 1921 - November 10 1992) was an American actor and professional basketball and baseball player. - Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (September 26 1877-September 6, 1959) was an English theatre and film actor. Born Edmund Kellaway in Wandsworth, London, Gwenn started his acting career in theatre in 1895. Playwright George Bernard Shaw was impressed with his acting, and cast him in the first production of "Man and Superman", and subsequently in five more of his plays. - Henry Youngman
Henry "Henny" Youngman was a British-born American comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known (and oft misquoted) one-liner was "Take my wife-please". - Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905-February 6, 1994) was an American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included "Citizen Kane", "The Third Man", and "Journey Into Fear", which Cotten wrote, and for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. He received his start on Broadway, starring in the original productions of "The Philadelphia Story" and "Sabrina Fair", … - Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 - May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award. - K. R. Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan (Malayalam: കോച്ചേരില് രാമന് നാരായണന്; 4 February 1921 - 9 November 2005), also known as K. R. Narayanan, was the tenth President of the Republic of India. He is the only Dalit and the only Malayali to have held the Presidency. - Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 - March 30 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He taught for many years at the University at Buffalo. He lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. - Franklin Cover
Franklin Cover was an American actor most noted for starring on the sitcom "The Jeffersons". His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television. Cover was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His career started on the stage acting in "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Hamlet". He also appeared in "Forty Carats" with Julie Harris. - Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an Academy Award-nominated American screen actress who worked on film and television. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time. - Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13 1931 - May 25 2007) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, comedian, director, and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show "Match Game". - Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee (April 23 1944 (or 1942; see below) - February 20 2005) was an American film actress best known for her role as "Gidget." - Bob Matsui
Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served 13 terms (although elected to 14) in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district. - Robert Morgan
Robert K. Morgan (July 31 1918 - May 15 2004) was a United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" during World War II. Morgan attended the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and entered the Army Air Corps in 1940. He won his pilot wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant December 12, 1941, then after advanced training at Walla Walla, Washington, … - Korbinian Brodmann
Korbinian Brodmann (November 17, 1868 - August 22, 1918) was a German neurologist who became famous for his definition of the cerebral cortex into 52 distinct regions from their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics. These areas are now usually referred to as Brodmann areas. Some of these areas were later associated to nervous functions, such as areas 41 and 42 in the temporal lobe (related to hearing), … - Candy Barr
Candy Barr (July 6, 1935 - December 30, 2005) was an American stripper, burlesque exotic dancer, actress in one pornographic movie, and model in men's magazines of the mid-20th century. During the 1950s, she received nationwide attention for her stripping career in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas; her troubles with the law; shooting her estranged second husband; and being arrested and sentenced to a prison term for drug possession, … - Ferenc Puskás
Ferenc Puskás, as Puskás Ferenc or Ferenc Puskas Biro, was a legendary Hungarian footballer and manager, one of the greatest players of all times. He scored 84 goals in 85 internationals for Hungary, and 511 goals in 533 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. Puskás played for Honvéd and Hungary before joining Real Madrid and going on to play for Spain. - Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea, (November 5, 1905 - October 20, 1990) was an American film actor. Born in South Pasadena, California, McCrea became interested in films after graduating from Pomona College. He worked as an extra in films from 1927 before being cast in a major role in "The Jazz Age" (1929). A contract with MGM followed, and then another contract with RKO. - Shigechiyo Izumi
Shigechiyo Izumi tall and weighed 42.6 kilograms (94 pounds), and lived through 71 Japanese Prime Ministers.As for diet, for most of his life Izumi has lived on vegetables from his farm - potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, tomato, aubergine, cucumber, carrots, spinach and cabbage. As a young man Izumi was very fit. He was a local champion in sumo wrestling. But he did not have to train specially. - Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe "who is moving kinda slow", he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. - Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award. - Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an African American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader who has been one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. As a composer and a band leader especially, Ellington's reputation has increased since his death, with thematic repackagings of his signature music often becoming best-sellers. A man of suave demeanor and puckish wit that masked occasional brusqueness, … - Bruce Paltrow
Television and film producer Bruce Paltrow was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the late 1960s he began directing stage productions in New York City, where he met actress Blythe Danner, whom he married in 1970. He is probably best known as the producer of the television series "The White Shadow" and "St. Elsewhere". He also worked on the critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street". - E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" - a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg sent a series of documents, … - Gerald Green
Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 - August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, producer and director.
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