| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| George Abbott |
Playwright |
25-Jun-1887 |
31-Jan-1995 |
Damn Yankees |
| Roy Acuff |
Country Musician |
15-Sep-1903 |
23-Nov-1992 |
Country music pioneer |
| Edward Albee |
Playwright |
12-Mar-1928 |
|
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Jacques d'Amboise |
Dancer |
28-Jul-1934 |
|
Founder of the National Dance Institute |
| Marian Anderson |
Singer |
27-Feb-1897 |
8-Apr-1993 |
Operatic contralto |
| Julie Andrews |
Singer |
1-Oct-1935 |
|
Mary Poppins |
| Fred Astaire |
Dancer |
10-May-1899 |
22-Jun-1987 |
Broadway ballroom dancer |
| Lauren Bacall |
Actor |
16-Sep-1924 |
|
Key Largo |
| Lucille Ball |
Actor |
6-Aug-1911 |
26-Apr-1989 |
I Love Lucy |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov |
Dancer |
27-Jan-1948 |
|
Kirov ballet dancer defected to USA |
| Count Basie |
Pianist |
21-Aug-1904 |
26-Apr-1984 |
Big band pianist |
| Warren Beatty |
Actor |
30-Mar-1937 |
|
Dick Tracy |
| Harry Belafonte |
Singer/Songwriter |
1-Mar-1927 |
|
Calypso singer |
| Leonard Bernstein |
Conductor |
25-Aug-1918 |
14-Oct-1990 |
Conductor, New York Philharmonic |
| Chuck Berry |
Singer |
18-Oct-1926 |
|
My Ding-A-Ling |
| Victor Borge |
Pianist |
3-Jan-1909 |
23-Dec-2000 |
Comedic pianist |
| Mel Brooks |
Film Director |
28-Jun-1926 |
|
Blazing Saddles |
| James Brown |
Singer |
3-May-1933 |
25-Dec-2006 |
Godfather of Soul |
| Dave Brubeck |
Jazz Musician |
6-Dec-1920 |
|
Take Five |
| Grace Bumbry |
Singer |
4-Jan-1937 |
|
Operatic mezzo-soprano, then soprano |
| Carol Burnett |
Actor |
26-Apr-1933 |
|
The Carol Burnett Show |
| George Burns |
Comic |
20-Jan-1896 |
9-Mar-1996 |
Oh, God! |
| James Cagney |
Actor |
17-Jul-1899 |
30-Mar-1986 |
New York tough guy |
| Johnny Carson |
Talk Show Host |
23-Oct-1925 |
23-Jan-2005 |
Longtime host of Tonight Show |
| Benny Carter |
Jazz Musician |
8-Aug-1907 |
12-Jul-2003 |
Jazz and big bandleader |
| Johnny Cash |
Country Musician |
26-Feb-1932 |
12-Sep-2003 |
The Man in Black |
| Ray Charles |
Musician |
23-Sep-1930 |
10-Jun-2004 |
Georgia On My Mind |
| Van Cliburn |
Pianist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Piano prodigy |
| Claudette Colbert |
Actor |
13-Sep-1903 |
30-Jul-1996 |
It Happened One Night |
| Betty Comden |
Songwriter |
3-May-1915 |
23-Nov-2006 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| Perry Como |
Singer |
18-May-1912 |
12-May-2001 |
It's Impossible |
| Sean Connery |
Actor |
25-Aug-1930 |
|
James Bond |
| Bill Cosby |
Comic |
12-Jul-1937 |
|
Comedy fixture, pudding industry shill |
| Hume Cronyn |
Actor |
18-Jul-1911 |
15-Jun-2003 |
Cocoon |
| Merce Cunningham |
Dancer |
16-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-2009 |
Merce Cunningham Dance Company |
| Roger Daltrey |
Singer |
1-Mar-1944 |
|
Vocalist for The Who |
| Bette Davis |
Actor |
5-Apr-1908 |
6-Oct-1989 |
All About Eve |
| Ossie Davis |
Actor |
18-Dec-1917 |
4-Feb-2005 |
Do The Right Thing |
| Sammy Davis, Jr. |
Singer |
8-Dec-1925 |
16-May-1990 |
Coolest hepcat in the Rat Pack |
| Robert De Niro |
Actor |
17-Aug-1943 |
|
The Godfather: Part II |
| Ruby Dee |
Actor |
27-Oct-1924 |
|
The Jackie Robinson Story |
| Placido Domingo |
Singer |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Tenorissimo! |
| Kirk Douglas |
Actor |
9-Dec-1916 |
|
Spartacus |
| Katherine Dunham |
Dancer |
22-Jun-1910 |
21-May-2006 |
Dunham School of Dance |
| Irene Dunne |
Actor |
20-Dec-1898 |
4-Sep-1990 |
Penny Serenade |
| Bob Dylan |
Musician |
24-May-1941 |
|
The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| Clint Eastwood |
Actor |
31-May-1930 |
|
The Man With No Name |
| Fred Ebb |
Musician |
8-Apr-1935 |
11-Sep-2004 |
Top Broadway lyricist, Cabaret |
| Suzanne Farrell |
Dancer |
16-Aug-1945 |
|
Ballerina, NYC Ballet |
| Ella Fitzgerald |
Singer |
25-Apr-1917 |
15-Jun-1996 |
The First Lady of Jazz |
| Leon Fleisher |
Pianist |
23-Jul-1928 |
|
Piano virtuoso |
| Henry Fonda |
Actor |
16-May-1905 |
12-Aug-1982 |
12 Angry Men |
| Aretha Franklin |
Singer |
25-Mar-1942 |
|
R-E-S-P-E-C-T |
| Morgan Freeman |
Actor |
1-Jun-1937 |
|
Unforgiven |
| Dizzy Gillespie |
Jazz Musician |
21-Oct-1917 |
7-Jan-1993 |
Be-bop jazz trumpeter |
| Lillian Gish |
Actor |
14-Oct-1893 |
27-Feb-1993 |
Silent film actress, director |
| Benny Goodman |
Jazz Musician |
30-May-1909 |
13-Jun-1986 |
Bespectacled jazz clarinetist |
| Cary Grant |
Actor |
18-Jan-1904 |
29-Nov-1986 |
North by Northwest |
| Adolph Green |
Songwriter |
2-Dec-1914 |
23-Oct-2002 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| Merle Haggard |
Country Musician |
6-Apr-1937 |
|
Okie From Muskogee |
| Lionel Hampton |
Jazz Musician |
20-Apr-1908 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Jazz vibrophonist and bandleader |
| Julie Harris |
Actor |
2-Dec-1925 |
|
East of Eden |
| Helen Hayes |
Actor |
10-Oct-1900 |
17-Mar-1993 |
First Lady of the Theater |
| Katharine Hepburn |
Actor |
12-May-1907 |
29-Jun-2003 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Jerry Herman |
Composer |
10-Jul-1931 |
|
Hello Dolly! |
| Charlton Heston |
Actor |
4-Oct-1923 |
5-Apr-2008 |
The Ten Commandments |
| Bob Hope |
Comic |
29-May-1903 |
27-Jul-2003 |
Centenarian comic |
| Lena Horne |
Singer |
30-Jun-1917 |
9-May-2010 |
Stormy Weather |
| Marilyn Horne |
Singer |
16-Jan-1934 |
|
Operatic mezzo soprano |
| Judith Jamison |
Dancer |
10-May-1943 |
|
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre |
| Elton John |
Singer/Songwriter |
25-Mar-1947 |
|
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
| George Jones |
Country Musician |
12-Sep-1931 |
|
Country singer, White Lightning |
| James Earl Jones |
Actor |
17-Jan-1931 |
|
Voice of Darth Vader and CNN |
| Quincy Jones |
Music Producer |
14-Mar-1933 |
|
Musician, Composer, Producer |
| John Kander |
Composer |
18-Mar-1927 |
|
Top Broadway composer |
| Danny Kaye |
Actor |
18-Jan-1913 |
3-Mar-1987 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| Elia Kazan |
Film Director |
7-Sep-1909 |
28-Sep-2003 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Gene Kelly |
Actor |
23-Aug-1912 |
2-Feb-1996 |
Singin' in the Rain |
| B. B. King |
Musician |
16-Sep-1925 |
|
King of the Blues |
| Angela Lansbury |
Actor |
16-Oct-1925 |
|
Murder She Wrote |
| Jack Lemmon |
Actor |
8-Feb-1925 |
27-Jun-2001 |
The Odd Couple |
| Alan Jay Lerner |
Playwright |
31-Aug-1918 |
14-Jun-1986 |
An American in Paris |
| James Levine |
Conductor |
23-Jun-1943 |
|
Music Director, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Frederick Loewe |
Composer |
10-Jun-1901 |
14-Feb-1988 |
My Fair Lady |
| Myrna Loy |
Actor |
2-Aug-1905 |
14-Dec-1993 |
The Thin Man |
| Loretta Lynn |
Country Musician |
14-Apr-1932 |
|
Coal Miner's Daughter |
| Mary Martin |
Actor |
1-Dec-1913 |
3-Nov-1990 |
Peter Pan |
| Steve Martin |
Comic |
14-Aug-1945 |
|
The Jerk |
| Paul McCartney |
Musician |
18-Jun-1942 |
|
Beatle |
| Gian-Carlo Menotti |
Composer |
7-Jul-1911 |
1-Feb-2007 |
The Saint of Bleecker Street |
| Yehudi Menuhin |
Violinist |
22-Apr-1916 |
12-Mar-1999 |
Child prodigy violinist, conductor |
| Arthur Miller |
Playwright |
17-Oct-1915 |
10-Feb-2005 |
Death of a Salesman |
| Arthur Mitchell |
Dancer |
27-Mar-1934 |
|
Dance Theatre of Harlem |
| Willie Nelson |
Country Musician |
30-Apr-1933 |
|
The red-headed stranger |
| Paul Newman |
Actor |
26-Jan-1925 |
26-Sep-2008 |
Salad dressing magnate |
| Mike Nichols |
Film Director |
6-Nov-1931 |
|
Primary Colors |
| Jack Nicholson |
Actor |
22-Apr-1937 |
|
Chinatown |
| Jessye Norman |
Singer |
15-Sep-1945 |
|
Operatic soprano |
| Odetta |
Singer |
31-Dec-1930 |
2-Dec-2008 |
Queen of American Folk Music |
| Luciano Pavarotti |
Singer |
12-Oct-1935 |
6-Sep-2007 |
Operatic tenor |
| Gregory Peck |
Actor |
5-Apr-1916 |
12-Jun-2003 |
To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Itzhak Perlman |
Violinist |
31-Aug-1945 |
|
Israeli violinist |
| Sidney Poitier |
Actor |
20-Feb-1927 |
|
In The Heat Of The Night |
| André Previn |
Pianist |
6-Apr-1929 |
|
Concert pianist and orchestral conductor |
| Leontyne Price |
Singer |
10-Feb-1927 |
|
Operatic soprano |
| Chita Rivera |
Dancer |
23-Jan-1933 |
|
Anita in West Side Story on Broadway |
| Jason Robards |
Actor |
26-Jul-1922 |
26-Dec-2000 |
All The President's Men |
| Richard Rodgers |
Composer |
28-Jun-1902 |
30-Dec-1979 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Diana Ross |
Singer |
26-Mar-1944 |
|
Dominion over The Supremes |
| Mstislav Rostropovich |
Cellist |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
| Martin Scorsese |
Film Director |
17-Nov-1942 |
|
Taxi Driver |
| Pete Seeger |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-May-1919 |
|
We Shall Overcome |
| Beverly Sills |
Singer |
25-May-1929 |
2-Jul-2007 |
Soprano at the New York City Opera |
| Neil Simon |
Playwright |
4-Jul-1927 |
|
The Odd Couple |
| Paul Simon |
Singer/Songwriter |
13-Oct-1941 |
|
Simon and Garfunkel |
| Frank Sinatra |
Singer |
12-Dec-1915 |
14-May-1998 |
It's Frank's world, we just live in it |
| Georg Solti |
Conductor |
21-Oct-1912 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| Stephen Sondheim |
Composer |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
West Side Story |
| Bruce Springsteen |
Musician |
23-Sep-1949 |
|
The Boss |
| Isaac Stern |
Violinist |
21-Jul-1920 |
22-Sep-2001 |
Violin virtuoso |
| Jimmy Stewart |
Actor |
20-May-1908 |
2-Jul-1997 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
| Barbra Streisand |
Singer |
24-Apr-1942 |
|
You Don't Bring Me Flowers |
| Jule Styne |
Songwriter |
31-Dec-1905 |
20-Sep-1994 |
Three Coins in the Fountain |
| Joan Sutherland |
Singer |
7-Nov-1926 |
10-Oct-2010 |
"La Stupenda" opera soprano |
| Maria Tallchief |
Dancer |
24-Jan-1925 |
|
New York City Ballet |
| Jessica Tandy |
Actor |
7-Jun-1909 |
11-Sep-1994 |
Driving Miss Daisy |
| Elizabeth Taylor |
Actor |
27-Feb-1932 |
23-Mar-2011 |
Cleopatra |
| Shirley Temple |
Actor |
23-Apr-1928 |
|
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
| Twyla Tharp |
Dancer |
1-Jul-1941 |
|
Choreographer |
| Virgil Thomson |
Composer |
25-Nov-1896 |
30-Sep-1989 |
Four Saints in Three Acts |
| Pete Townshend |
Guitarist |
19-May-1945 |
|
Lead guitarist for The Who |
| Edward Villella |
Dancer |
1-Oct-1936 |
|
New York City Ballet |
| Billy Wilder |
Film Director |
22-Jun-1906 |
27-Mar-2002 |
Sunset Blvd. |
| John Williams |
Composer |
8-Feb-1932 |
|
Composer for Jaws, E.T. |
| Tennessee Williams |
Playwright |
26-Mar-1911 |
25-Feb-1983 |
The Glass Menagerie |
| Brian Wilson |
Singer/Songwriter |
20-Jun-1942 |
|
Troubled Beach Boy |
| Oprah Winfrey |
Talk Show Host |
29-Jan-1954 |
|
The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| Stevie Wonder |
Singer/Songwriter |
13-May-1950 |
|
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered |
| Joanne Woodward |
Actor |
27-Feb-1930 |
|
The Three Faces of Eve |
