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August "Gussie" Busch (1899 - 1989)

August "Gussie" Anheuser Busch, Jr. (March 28, 1899 – September 29, 1989) was an American brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the largest brewery in the world as company chair...

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Dag Hammarskjöld MP (1905 - 1961)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_Hammars kj%C3%B6ld Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( Dag Hammarskjöld (help·info)) (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist and author. He was t...

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Gwen Verdon MP (1925 - 2000)

Gwenyth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an actress and dancer who won four Tony awards for her musical comedy performances. With flaming red hair and an endearing quave...

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Goodwin Knight, Governor (1896 - 1970)

Goodwin Jess “Goodie” Knight (December 9, 1896 – May 22, 1970) was a U.S. politician who was the 31st governor of California from 1953 until 1959. Early years Knight was born in Provo, Utah, ...

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Claire McCardell (1905 - 1958)

Claire McCardell (1905–1958) was an American fashion designer in the arena of ready-to-wear clothing in the 20th century. From the 1930s to the 1950s, she was known for designing functional, affordab...

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Thomas J. Watson, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1914 - 1993)

. Thomas John Watson, Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, political figure, and philanthropist. He was the 2nd president of IBM (1952-1971), the 11th national pres...

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George Meany (1894 - 1980)

William George Meany (August 16, 1894 – January 10, 1980) led labor union federations in the United States. As an officer of the American Federation of Labor, he represented the AFL on the National W...

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George N. Craig, Governor (1909 - 1992)

George North Craig (August 6, 1909-December 17, 1992) was the 39th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1953 until 1957. A lawyer and veteran of World War II who was promoted to serve in a divi...

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Carl Jung, II MP (1875 - 1961)

Carl Gustav Jung (German pronunciation: [ˈkaːɐ̯l ˈɡʊstaf ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is often cons...

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Admiral Alfred M. Pride (1897 - 1988)

Alfred Melville Pride (September 10, 1897 – December 24, 1988) was a United States Navy admiral and pioneer Naval aviator, who distinguished himself during World War II as an aircraft-carrier command...

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Richard L. Neuberger, U.S. Senator (1912 - 1960)

Richard Lewis Neuberger (December 26, 1912 – March 9, 1960) was a U.S. journalist, author, and politician during the middle of the 20th century. A native of Oregon, he would write for The New York Ti...

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Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator (1900 - 1974)

Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was a politician and attorney from Oregon, United States, known for his proclivity for opposing his parties' leadership, and specifically for his ...

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Bobby Layne (1926 - 1986)

Robert Lawrence "Bobby" Layne (December 19, 1926 – December 1, 1986) was an American football quarterback who played for 15 seasons in the National Football League. He played for the Chicago Bears in...

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Harlow Curtice (1893 - 1962)

Harlow Herbert Curtice (August 15, 1893 - November 3, 1962) was an American auto industry executive who led General Motors (GM) from 1953 to 1958. As GM's chief, Curtice was selected as Man of the Ye...

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Billy Graham MP

Montreat, NC, United States

William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. (born November 7, 1918) is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, who rose to celebrity status as his sermons were broadcast on radio and television. Graha...

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Clifford P. Case, U.S. Senator (1904 - 1982)

Clifford Philip Case, Jr. (April 16, 1904 – March 5, 1982) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Representative (1945–1953) and a U.S. Senator (...

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Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)

Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an Academy Award-winning American actor, whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely considered one of the greatest actors of all ...

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Arthur V. Watkins, U.S. Senator MP (1886 - 1973)

U.S. Senator from 1946 to 1959. Watkins attended Brigham Young University, 1903-1906, and New York University, 1909-1910. He graduated from Columbia University Law School, and was admitted to the b...

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Alicia Patterson (1906 - 1963)

Alicia Patterson (October 15, 1906 - July 2, 1963) was the founder and editor of Newsday. Life A daughter of Alice (née Higinbotham) and Joseph Medill Patterson, the founder of the New York D...

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Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972)

Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, GCVO, PC (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961. Background Fisher was brought up in an Anglican bac...

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Douglas McKay, Governor, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1893 - 1959)

James Douglas McKay (June 24, 1893 – July 22, 1959) was an American businessman and politician from Oregon. A native of the state, he served in World War I before he became a successful businessman, ...

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Gina Lollobrigida MP

She is an Italian actress and photojournalist. She was one of Italy's most prominent actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. Today, she remains an active supporter of Italian and Italian American cause...

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William Allen (1900 - 1985)

William McPherson "Bill" Allen (September 1, 1900–October 28, 1985) was a U.S. aircraft businessman. Born in Lolo, Montana, he attended the University of Montana, where he became a member of the Sigm...

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John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator (1901 - 1991)

John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was a politician, jurist, and diplomat from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States S...

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Sam Snead (1912 - 2002)

Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events incl...

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Clint Murchison, Sr. (1895 - 1969)

. Clinton Williams Murchison, Sr. (April 11, 1895 – 20 June 1969), was a noted Texas-based oil magnate and political operative. He was also the father of Dallas Cowboys owner Clint Murchison, Jr.. ...

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Briggs Cunningham (1907 - 2003)

Briggs Swift Cunningham II (January 19, 1907 - July 2, 2003) was an American entrepreneur and sportsman, who raced automobiles and yachts. Born into a wealthy family, he became a racing car construct...

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Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG (1902 - 1982)

Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conserv...

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Jonas Salk (1914 - 1995)

Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He ...

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Nathan M. Pusey (1907 - 2001)

Nathan Marsh Pusey (April 4, 1907 – November 14, 2001) was a prominent American university educator. Early life and education Pusey was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa to John and Rosa Pusey. He...

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General Nathan F. Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1897 - 1982)

Nathan Farragut Twining, KBE (pronounced /ˈtwaɪnɪŋ/ TWY-ning; October 11, 1897 - March 29, 1982) was a United States Air Force General, born in Monroe, Wisconsin. He was Chief of Staff of the United ...

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George Balanchine MP (1904 - 1983)

George Balanchine, born Giorgi Balanchivadze (Georgian: გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე, Russian: Георгий Мелитонович Баланчивадзе) (January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1904 – April 30, 1983), was one of the 20th century...

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Grandma Moses MP (1860 - 1961)

Anna Mary (Robertson) Moses: September 7, 1860-December 13, 1961 Parents: Russell Robertson 1820-1901 and Margaret Shanahan 1840-c.1880 Husband: Thomas Moses 1862-1927 Children: Ten children, 5 l...

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Major General William Frishe Dean, Sr. (1899 - 1981)

Medal of Honor recipient William Dean graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1922. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the California National Guard in 1921, he was tendered a Re...

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Queen Frederika von Hannover, Queen of the Hellenes MP (1917 - 1981)

Friederike Luise Thyra Viktoria Margarette Sophie Olga Cecile Isabelle Christa, Princess(Prinzessin) zu Hannover, Dutchess(Herzogin) zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg HRH Princess Friederike of the United Kin...

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Neil H. McElroy, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1904 - 1972)

Neil Hosler McElroy (October 30, 1904 - November 30, 1972) was United States Secretary of Defense from 1957 to 1959 under President Eisenhower. He had been president of Procter & Gamble. Early li...

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Audrey Hepburn MP (1929 - 1993)

Born in Ixelles, Belgium as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, Hepburn spent her childhood chiefly in the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem, Netherlands, during the Second World War. She studied balle...

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Alfred Kinsey (1894 - 1956)

Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, no...

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Christian Herter, Governor, U.S. Secretary of State (1895 - 1966)

Christian Archibald Herter was an American politician and statesman; 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1956, and Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. Herter was born in Paris, France, to...

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Shirley Booth (1898 - 1992)

Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American actress. Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, i...

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Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1893 - 1969)

Allen Welsh Dulles (April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was the first civilian and the longest serving (1953–61) Director of Central Intelligence (de facto head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)...

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Charles Erwin Wilson, U.S. Secretary of Defense (1890 - 1961)

Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 – September 26, 1961), American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine C...

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Benson Ford (1919 - 1978)

Second son of Edsel Bryant Ford I and Eleanor Lowthian Clay, he was at first named Edsel Junior, but re-named Benson, a Hudson family name, his maternal grandmother's maiden name. Easygoing, affable an...

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Henry Ford II ("HF2" and "Hank the Deuce") MP (1917 - 1987)

Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 — September 29, 1987), commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford. He was president of the Ford Motor Company ...

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Willaim Clay Ford, Sr. (1925 - d.)

on the right in profile photo . William Clay Ford, Sr. (born March 14, 1925) is the youngest of the four children of Edsel Ford and the youngest grandchild of Henry Ford. Biography Ford served ...

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Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture (LDS Church President) MP (1899 - 1994)

Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "... Ezra Taft Benson (August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his ...

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Rosalind Russell MP (1911 - 1976)

Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball com...

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Rosemary Clooney MP (1928 - 2002)

Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress who came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" (a ...

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Herbert Brownell, Jr., U.S. Attorney General (1904 - 1996)

. Herbert Brownell, Jr. (February 20, 1904 – May 1, 1996) was the Attorney General of the United States in President Eisenhower's cabinet from 1953 to 1957. Early life Brownell, one of the se...

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George M. Humphrey, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1890 - 1970)

George Magoffin Humphrey (March 8, 1890 – January 20, 1970) was an American lawyer, businessman and Cabinet secretary. Raised in Edenbronx, Humphrey received both his undergraduate and law degree...

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Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady MP (1896 - 1979)

Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower (November 14, 1896 - November 1, 1979) was the wife of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States. She acted as the First Lady of the United States ...

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Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and dramatist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his pla...

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Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG (1898 - 1979)

Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1898–25 October 1979) was a British military commander who fought in both World Wars. He is best known for his def...

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General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. (USMC) (1896 - 1990)

Lemuel Cornick Shepherd, Jr. (February 10, 1896 – August 6, 1990) was a four-star general of the United States Marine Corps. A veteran of World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, he was the 20t...

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Joyce Cary (1888 - 1957)

Joyce Cary (born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, December 7, 1888 – March 29, 1957) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist. Youth and education Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary was born in a hospital in Derr...

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Allan Shivers, Governor (1907 - 1985)

Robert Allan Shivers (October 5, 1907 – January 14, 1985) was a Texas politician who led the conservative faction of the Texas Democratic Party during the turbulent 1940s and 1950s. Shivers also deve...

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G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams, Governor (1911 - 1988)

Gerhard Mennen "Soapy" Williams, (February 23, 1911 – February 2, 1988), was a politician from the US state of Michigan. An heir to a personal grooming products fortune, he was known as "Soapy," and ...

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Katharine Hepburn MP (1907 - 2003)

Four time Academy Award winning actress Katharine Hepburn maintained a successful acting career for over 70 years. Her notable performances in The African Queen and On Golden Pond, as well as countless...

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Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States MP (1913 - 1994)

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States (1969-1974). During his administration the United States withdrew its military forces from Vietnam and informally recognized the govern...

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John Sparkman, U.S. Senator (1899 - 1985)

John Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American politician from the state of Alabama. A conservative Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the U.S. House of Representati...

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Commodore Harry Manning (1897 - 1974)

When Harry Manning took the helm of the S.S.United States on it’s maiden voyage, the US had developed a reputation as a country with a first rate Navy and a third rate passenger fleet. Manning was ab...

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Lucille Ball MP (1911 - 1989)

Lucille Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film executive, and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy , a four ...

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Richard Brevanrd Russell, Jr., Governor, U.S. Senator (1897 - 1971)

Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was a Democratic Party politician from the southeastern state of Georgia. He served as state governor from 1931 to 1933 and United S...

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Bishop Peter (Fulton J) Sheen (1895 - 1979)

Fulton John Sheen, (born Peter John Sheen, May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American archbishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. H...

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John Wayne MP (1907 - 1979)

John Wayne (born Marion Robert Morrison), nicknamed "Duke", was a legendary Hollywood actor who played a key role in establishing and popularizing the western genre in American cinema. He started wor...

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Clarence Decatur Howe (1886 - 1960)

Clarence Decatur Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960), generally known as C. D. Howe, was a powerful Canadian Cabinet minister of the Liberal Party. Howe served in the governments of Prime M...

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Adlai Stevenson, II MP (1900 - 1965)

Gov. Aldlai E. Stevenson, II was the grandson of Vice President Aldlai Ewing Stevenson and the son of Illinois Secretary of State Lewis G. Stevenson. Adlai II was born Feb. 5, 1900 in Los Angeles, Ca...

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Gordon Dean (1905 - 1958)

Gordon Evans Dean (December 28, 1905 - August 15, 1958) was a Seattle-born American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1950 to 1953. Dean r...

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Julius "Groucho" Marx MP (1890 - 1977)

As an entertainer and comedian, Groucho Marx remains a well-known figure some 30 years after his death. Marx's grease-paint bushy eyebrows and mustache, and trademark cigar, made him immediately recogn...

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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Senator, U.S.Ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the Holy See (1902 - 1985)

. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was a Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, South Vietnam, West Germany, and the...

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Graham Greene MP (1904 - 1991)

Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904–1991), author, was born on 2 October 1904 at St John's, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, the fourth of six children of Charles Henry Greene (1865–1942), teacher, and his wife ...

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Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (1908 - 1957)

Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Begin...

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Ava Gardner MP (1922 - 1990)

Ava Lavinia Gardner was a famous Hollywood beauty of the 1940s and 1950s. Her stunning looks made her one of the most popular leading ladies of the day, and her reputation for wild behavior -- and marr...

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Vasily Stalin (1921 - 1962)

Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili, known also as Vasily Stalin, was the son of Joseph Stalin and his second wife, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. As a schoolboy, Vasily distinguished himself only for his pranks;...

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John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State MP (1888 - 1959)

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was a U.S. Senator from New York and served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significa...

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Boudewijn I koning der Belgen, Baudouin I roi des Belges (Baldwin I, king of the Belgians) MP (1930 - 1993)

Name/title: Baudouin Albert Charles Léopold Axel Marie Gustave de Belgique, Prinz zu, Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha Links: The Peerage Geneall NNDB Find a grave Wikipedia

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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The Ne...

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Frederick Rentschler MP (1887 - 1956)

Frederick Brant Rentschle r (November 8, 1887 – April 25, 1956) was an American aircraft engine designer, aviation engineer, and industrialist. A talented inventor of aviation equipment, Rentschler fou...

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Crawford Greenewalt (1902 - 1993)

Crawford Hallock Greenewalt (16 August 1902 – 28 September 1993) was an American chemical engineer who served as president of the DuPont Company from 1948 to 1962 and as board chairman from 1962 to 1...

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Barbara Bel Geddes (1922 - 2005)

Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor...

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Henry Knox Sherrill (1890 - 1980)

Henry Knox Sherrill (November 6, 1890 – May 11, 1980) was an Episcopal clergyman. He was the 20th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1947 to 1958, having previously served as Bishop of Mas...

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Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator (1903 - 1963)

Carey Estes Kefauver ( /ˈɛstɨs ˈkiːfɔːvər/;[1] July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representat...

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Warren Austin, U.S. Senator, 2nd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1877 - 1962)

Warren Robinson Austin (November 12, 1877 – December 25, 1962) was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont. Born in Highgate Center in Franklin ...

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Lt. General William H. Turner (1906 - 1983)

William Henry Tunner (July 14, 1906 - April 6, 1983) was a general officer in the United States Air Force and its predecessor, the United States Army Air Forces. Tunner was known for his expertise in...

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William Boyd (1895 - 1972)

) An "Okie" whose parents died when he was a child, William Boyd became a manual laborer before breaking into the movies in 1919 as an extra in Cecil B. De Mille's "Why Change Your Wife?" He soon bec...

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Christopher Fry (1907 - 2005)

Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the ...

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George Ludlum Hartford (1864 - 1957)

on the left in profile photo George Ludlum Hartford (November 7, 1864 - September 23, 1957) was the long time Chairman and Treasurer of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P), serving in ...

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John Augustine Hartford (1872 - 1951)

on the right in profile photo John Augustine Hartford (February 10, 1872 – September 20, 1951) was the long time President of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company ("A&P"), serving in that pos...

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Robert Frost MP (1874 - 1963)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of Am...

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General Oliver P. Smith (USMC) (1893 - 1977)

Oliver Prince Smith (October 26, 1893 – December 25, 1977) was a General in the United States Marine Corps and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He is most noted f...

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Admiral Arthur W. Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1896 - 1973)

Arthur William Radford (February 27, 1896 – August 17, 1973) was a United States Navy Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A...

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Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1932 MP (1881 - 1957)

Irving Langmuir (31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" ...

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Lt. General Edward A. Craig (USMC) (1896 - 1994)

Edward A. Craig (November 22, 1896 — December 11, 1994) was a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, and a decorated combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War who eventually ...

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General Walton Harris (1889 - 1950)

Walton Harris Walker (December 3, 1889 – December 23, 1950) was an American army officer and the first commander of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War. Biography Walker was born in Be...

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Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007)

Gian Carlo Menotti (pronounced [dʒan ˈkarlo meˈnɔtːi]) (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer...

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Alan Jay Lerner (1918 - 1986)

Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of mus...

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Betty Hutton (1921 - 2007)

Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007) was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer. Early life Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of ...

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Edward "Eddie" Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)

With 26 aerial victories, Eddie Rickenbacker survived the war as America's "Ace of Aces." The former race car driver's 7 awards of the Distinguished Service Cross (an eighth was upgraded to the Medal o...

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Ted Williams MP (1918 - 2002)

Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002), was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielde...

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Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations (1896 - 1951)

Forrest Percival Sherman (30 October 1896 – 22 July 1951) was an admiral in the United States Navy and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations until Admiral Elmo Zumwalt became Chief o...

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