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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dean Acheson
Government
11-Apr-1893 12-Oct-1971 US Secretary of State, 1949-53
Roger Adams
Chemist
2-Jan-1889 6-Jul-1971 Organic chemist at Illinois
Joe Adonis
Criminal
22-Nov-1902 26-Nov-1971 Mafia boss, eventually deported
William Foxwell Albright
Archaeologist
24-May-1891 19-Sep-1971 Biblical archaeologist at Johns Hopkins
Duane Allman
Guitarist
20-Nov-1946 29-Oct-1971 Guitarist, The Allman Brothers
Gilbert M. Anderson
Actor
21-Mar-1880 20-Jan-1971 Broncho Billy
Pier Angeli
Actor
19-Jun-1932 10-Sep-1971 Tomorrow Is Too Late
Jacobo Arbenz
Head of State
14-Sep-1913 27-Jan-1971 President of Guatemala, 1951-54
Diane Arbus
Photographer
14-Mar-1923 26-Jul-1971 Influential photographer
Louis Armstrong
Jazz Musician
4-Aug-1901 6-Jul-1971 Jazz trumpeter
J. D. Bernal
Physicist
10-May-1901 15-Sep-1971 X-ray crystallography
Hugo Black
Judge
27-Feb-1886 25-Sep-1971 US Supreme Court Justice, 1937-71
Lawrence Bragg
Physicist
31-Mar-1890 1-Jul-1971 Bragg's Law of diffraction
Ralph Bunche
Diplomat
4-Aug-1904 9-Dec-1971 UN Mediator in Palestine 1948
Leo Burnett
Business
21-Oct-1891 7-Jun-1971 American advertising pioneer
H. Ralph Burton
Government
1882 5-Aug-1971 Red-baiting Senate staffer
Spring Byington
Actor
17-Oct-1886 7-Sep-1971 You Can't Take it With You
John W. Campbell
Editor
8-Jun-1910 11-Jul-1971 Editor of Astounding, 1938-71
Bennett Cerf
Publisher
25-May-1898 27-Aug-1971 Founder of Random House
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
19-Aug-1883 10-Jan-1971 Chanel No. 5
Alfred Chester
Novelist
7-Sep-1928 1-Aug-1971 The Exquisite Corpse
Brock Chisholm
Doctor
18-May-1896 4-Feb-1971 First Director-General of World Health Organization
Walter van Tilburg Clark
Novelist
3-Aug-1909 10-Nov-1971 The Ox-Bow Incident
Gladys Cooper
Actor
18-Dec-1888 17-Nov-1971 My Fair Lady
John Dall
Actor
26-May-1918 15-Jan-1971 Rope
Bebe Daniels
Actor
14-Jan-1901 16-Mar-1971 42nd Street
Basil Dearden
Film Director
1-Jan-1911 23-Mar-1971 Khartoum
Thomas E. Dewey
Politician
24-Mar-1902 16-Mar-1971 Did not defeat Truman
Roy O. Disney
Business
24-Jun-1893 20-Dec-1971 Walt Disney's brother
Thomas J. Dodd
Politician
15-May-1907 24-May-1971 US Senator from Connecticut, 1958-71
Peter Duel
Actor
24-Feb-1940 31-Dec-1971 Alias Smith and Jones
Marcel Dupré
Organist
3-May-1886 30-May-1971 French organist and composer
François Duvalier
Head of State
14-Apr-1907 21-Apr-1971 Ruthless "President for Life" of Haiti
Wallace J. Eckert
Astronomer
19-Jun-1902 24-Aug-1971 First scientist hired by IBM
J. Howard Edmondson
Politician
27-Sep-1925 17-Nov-1971 Governor of Oklahoma, 1959-63
Cliff Edwards
Musician
14-Jun-1895 17-Jul-1971 Ukulele Ike
Philo Farnsworth
Inventor
19-Aug-1906 11-Mar-1971 Inventor of electronic television
Glenda Farrell
Actor
30-Jun-1904 1-May-1971 Torchy Blane
Fernandel
Actor
8-May-1903 26-Feb-1971 Prolific French comedy star
Jay C. Flippen
Actor
6-Mar-1899 3-Feb-1971 The Killing
Carlos P. Garcia
Head of State
4-Nov-1896 14-Jun-1971 8th President of the Philippines
Billy Gilbert
Actor
12-Sep-1894 23-Sep-1971 Comic actor and vaudevillian
Thomas Gomez
Actor
10-Jul-1905 18-Jun-1971 Ride the Pink Horse
Goose Goslin
Baseball
16-Oct-1900 15-May-1971 MLB Hall of Famer
Tyrone Guthrie
Theater Director
2-Jul-1900 15-May-1971 Influential Anglo-Irish theatre director
John Marshall Harlan
Judge
20-May-1899 29-Dec-1971 US Supreme Court Justice, 1955-71
Leland Hayward
Theatre Producer
13-Sep-1902 18-Mar-1971 The Sound of Music
Van Heflin
Actor
13-Dec-1910 23-Jul-1971 Till the Clouds Roll By
Percy Helton
Actor
31-Jan-1894 11-Sep-1971 Character actor
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Politician
21-Jul-1896 4-Sep-1971 Governor and Senator from Iowa
Spessard Holland
Politician
10-Jul-1892 6-Nov-1971 Governor and Senator from Florida
Seth Holt
Film Director
1923 14-Feb-1971 The Nanny
Bernardo Houssay
Scientist
10-Apr-1887 21-Sep-1971 Pituitary hormones in sugar metabolism
Ub Iwerks
Cartoonist
24-Mar-1901 7-Jul-1971 First to animate Mickey Mouse
George Jackson
Criminal
23-Sep-1941 21-Aug-1971 Soledad Brother
Tor Johnson
Wrestling
19-Oct-1903 12-May-1971 Plan 9 from Outer Space
Bobby Jones
Golf
17-Mar-1902 18-Dec-1971 Winner of 13 major championships
G. Lewis Jones
Diplomat
18-May-1907 13-Nov-1971 US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1956-59
Paul Karrer
Chemist
21-Apr-1889 18-Jun-1971 Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K
Rockwell Kent
Painter
21-Jun-1882 13-Mar-1971 Early 20th c. American realist painter
Nikita Khrushchev
Head of State
5-Apr-1894 11-Sep-1971 Deposed leader of the Soviet Union
E. V. Knox
Editor
10-May-1881 2-Jan-1971 Editor of Punch, 1932-49
Fritz Kolbe
Spy
25-Sep-1900 1971 Allied mole in WWII Berlin
Joe E. Lewis
Comic
12-Jan-1902 4-Jun-1971 It's post time!
Ted Lewis
Jazz Musician
6-Jun-1892 25-Aug-1971 Is Everybody Happy?
Harold Lloyd
Actor
20-Apr-1893 8-Mar-1971 Prolific silent film actor
John Longden
Actor
11-Nov-1900 26-May-1971 Quatermass 2
Edmund Lowe
Actor
3-Mar-1890 21-Apr-1971 What Price Glory
Robert Lowery
Actor
17-Oct-1913 26-Dec-1971 The Mummy's Ghost
Paul Lukas
Actor
26-May-1887 15-Aug-1971 Watch on the Rhine
Diana Lynn
Actor
7-Oct-1926 18-Dec-1971 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Denis Mackail
Novelist
3-Jun-1892 1971 Greenery Street
Heinie Manush
Baseball
20-Jul-1901 12-May-1971 MLB Hall of Famer
Thomas E. Martin
Politician
18-Jan-1893 27-Jun-1971 US Senator from Iowa, 1955-61
Maurice McDonald
Business
26-Nov-1902 11-Dec-1971 Co-Founder of McDonald's
Horace McMahon
Actor
17-May-1906 17-Aug-1971 Lt. Parker on Naked City
Jim Morrison
Singer/Songwriter
8-Dec-1943 3-Jul-1971 Lead singer and songwriter, The Doors
Audie Murphy
Actor
20-Jun-1924 28-May-1971 War hero turned cowboy actor
Ogden Nash
Poet
19-Aug-1902 19-May-1971 Candy is dandy; but liquor is quicker
Allan Nevins
Historian
20-May-1890 5-Mar-1971 Civil War historian
Reinhold Niebuhr
Religion
21-Jun-1892 1-Jun-1971 Prominent historical/political theologian
Gerald P. Nye
Politician
19-Dec-1892 17-Jul-1971 US Senator from North Dakota, 1925-45
John Boyd Orr
Scientist
23-Sep-1880 25-Jun-1971 Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient
Cecil Parker
Actor
3-Sep-1897 20-Apr-1971 The Ladykillers
Junior Parker
Musician
27-Mar-1932 18-Nov-1971 Blues harmonica player, Mystery Train
J. C. Penney
Business
16-Sep-1875 12-Feb-1971 Founder of J. C. Penney Company
Chips Rafferty
Actor
26-Mar-1909 27-May-1971 Wake in Fright
Alan Rawsthorne
Composer
2-May-1905 24-Jul-1971 Theme and Variations for Two Violins
G. Frederick Reinhardt
Diplomat
21-Oct-1911 23-Feb-1971 US Ambassador to Italy, 1961-68
Michael Rennie
Actor
25-Aug-1909 10-Jun-1971 The Day the Earth Stood Still
Royal Rife
Doctor
16-May-1888 11-Aug-1971 Beam Ray Machine destroys cancer
Absalom Willis Robertson
Politician
27-May-1887 1-Nov-1971 US Senator from Virginia, 1946-66
Elmo Roper
Business
31-Jul-1900 30-Apr-1971 American pollster
Kenneth C. Royall
Attorney
24-Jul-1894 27-May-1971 US Secretary of the Army, 1947-49
Richard B. Russell
Politician
2-Nov-1897 21-Jan-1971 US Senator from Georgia, 1933-71
David Sarnoff
Business
27-Feb-1891 12-Dec-1971 CEO of RCA, founder of NBC
Edie Sedgwick
Socialite
20-Apr-1943 16-Nov-1971 Warhol factory girl
Giorgos Seferis
Poet
1-Mar-1900 20-Sep-1971 Imerolóyion katastrómatos
Wendell M. Stanley
Chemist
16-Aug-1904 15-Jun-1971 First to crystallize a virus
Max Steiner
Composer
10-May-1888 28-Dec-1971 Gone With the Wind
Igor Stravinsky
Composer
17-Jun-1882 6-Apr-1971 The Rite of Spring
The Svedberg
Chemist
30-Aug-1884 25-Feb-1971 Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
Igor Y. Tamm
Physicist
8-Jul-1895 12-Apr-1971 Cherenkov radiation
Ross Thatcher
Politician
24-May-1917 22-Jul-1971 Premier of Saskatchewan, 1964-71
Arne Tiselius
Chemist
10-Aug-1902 29-Aug-1971 Electrophoresis
Jim Turnesa
Golf
9-Dec-1912 27-Aug-1971 Winner, 1952 PGA Championship
Gene Vincent
Musician
11-Feb-1935 12-Oct-1971 Be-Bop-A-Lula
Bill W.
Activist
26-Nov-1895 24-Jan-1971 Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder
Nella Walker
Actor
6-Mar-1886 22-Mar-1971 Mack and Walker
Helene Weigel
Actor
12-May-1900 6-May-1971 The Berliner Ensemble
James Westerfield
Actor
22-Mar-1913 20-Sep-1971 On the Waterfront


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