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The list 20th-century philanthropists includes Chris Cline, Marion Davies, Hugh O'Brian, Nelson Mandela and Fernando Poe Jr.. The list consists of 2,005 members and 2 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Geri Horner
    English singer (born 1972)
    Geri Horner
    Overview: Geraldine Estelle Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972), is an English singer, songwriter, author, actress, and philanthropist. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the ...
    Date of birth: 6 August 1972
    Age: 52
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
    Partner: Christian Horner (Married)
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    Innocent Records artists 11T
    Actors from Watford 4T
    Musicians from Watford 6T
  • 2.

    Chris Cline
    American coal mining entrepreneur and philanthropist
    Chris Cline
    Overview: Christopher Cline (born July 5, 1958 – July 4, 2019) was an American billionaire mining entrepreneur and philanthropist. As of March 2013, he was the majority owner of privately-held Foresight Reserves ...
    Date of birth: 5 July 1958
    Date of death: 4 July 2019
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    2019 deaths 9,204T
    2019 deaths 6,613T
    People from North Palm Beach, Florida 22T
  • 3.

    Marion Davies
    American, Actress
    Marion Davies
    Overview: Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school ...
    Date of birth: 3 January 1897
    Date of death: 22 September 1961
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    American vaudeville performers 119T
    Polio survivors 208T
    Actresses from Brooklyn 363T
  • 4.

    Hugh O'Brian
    American actor (1925–2016)
    Hugh O'Brian
    Overview: Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend ...
    Date of birth: 19 April 1925
    Date of death: 5 September 2016
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    Golden Boot Awards recipients 6T
    20th-century American philanthropists 1,043T
    United States Marine Corps non-commissioned officers 158T
  • 5.

    Nelson Mandela
    President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
    Nelson Mandela
    Overview: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 ...
    Date of birth: 18 July 1918
    Date of death: 5 December 2013
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Head of State
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    Respiratory disease deaths in South Africa 4T
    Deaths from respiratory tract infection 20T
    International Simón Bolívar Prize recipients 11T
  • 6.

    Fernando Poe Jr.
    Filipino actor, film director, and politician
    Fernando Poe Jr.
    Overview: Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ, Ronwaldo Reyes and Da King, was a Filipino actor, director and politician ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1939
    Date of death: 14 December 2004
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: Filipino
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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    Male actors of Irish descent 682T
    20th-century comedians 472T
    Deaths in Metro Manila 93T
  • 7.

    Jerry Buss
    American businessman and real estate investor
    Jerry Buss
    Overview: Gerald Hatten Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball ...
    Date of birth: 27 January 1933
    Date of death: 18 February 2013
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century American philanthropists 1,056T
    People from Kemmerer, Wyoming 10T
    Businesspeople from Salt Lake City 71T
  • 8.

    Barbara Sinatra
    American model, showgirl, socialite, and philanthropist (1927–2017)
    Barbara Sinatra
    Overview: Barbara Marx Sinatra (née Blakeley; March 10, 1927 – July 25, 2017) was an American model, showgirl, socialite, philanthropist, and the fourth wife of Frank Sinatra.
    Date of birth: 10 March 1927
    Date of death: 25 July 2017
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Model
    Gender: Female
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    Sinatra family 6T
    20th-century American philanthropists 1,211T
    Female models from Missouri 24T
  • 9.

    Theodore Forstmann
    American businessman and investor
    Theodore Forstmann
    Overview: Theodore Joseph Forstmann (February 13, 1940 – November 20, 2011) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a global sports and ...
    Date of birth: 13 February 1940
    Date of death: 20 November 2011
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    Businesspeople from Manhattan 125T
    Deaths from brain cancer in New York (state) 77T
    Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 532T
  • 10.

    Nita Ambani
    Indian philanthropist (born 1963)
    Nita Ambani
    Overview: Nita Mukesh Ambani (née Dalal, born 1 November 1963) is an Indian philanthropist. She is the chairperson and founder of the Reliance Foundation, Dhirubhai Ambani International School and a director of ...
    Date of birth: 1 November 1963
    Age: 60
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Philanthropist
    Gender: Female
    Partner: Mukesh Ambani (Married)
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    20th-century Indian philanthropists 1T
    Businesswomen from Maharashtra 72T
    21st-century Indian businesspeople 156T
  • 11.

    Patricia Breslin
    American actress and philanthropist (1925–2011)
    Patricia Breslin
    Overview: Patricia Rose Breslin (March 17, 1931 – October 12, 2011) was an American actress and philanthropist. She had a prominent career in television, which included recurring roles as Amanda Miller on The P ...
    Date of birth: 17 March 1931
    Date of death: 12 October 2011
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
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    Parkchester, Bronx 7T
    Actresses of Irish descent 597T
    Catholics from Maryland 103T
  • 12.

    Vidal Sassoon
    English hairstylist, businessman, and philanthropist
    Vidal Sassoon
    Overview: Vidal Sassoon CBE (17 January 1928 – 9 May 2012) was a British hairstylist, businessman, and philanthropist. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hair style called the bob cut ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1928
    Date of death: 9 May 2012
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century British philanthropists 152T
    British Sephardi Jews 31T
    Jewish British philanthropists 43T
  • 13.

    Pegi Young
    American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, philanthropist
    Pegi Young
    Overview: Margaret Mary "Pegi" Young (née Morton; December 1, 1952 – January 1, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist.
    Date of birth: 1 December 1952
    Date of death: 1 January 2019
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women musicians 816T
    2019 deaths 9,204T
    2019 deaths 6,613T
  • 14.

    George M. Steinbrenner III
    American businessman (1930–2010)
    George M. Steinbrenner III
    Overview: George Michael Steinbrenner III (July 4, 1930 – July 13, 2010) was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. During St ...
    Date of birth: 4 July 1930
    Date of death: 13 July 2010
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' (183 cm)
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    21st-century American philanthropists 53T
    20th-century American philanthropists 1,056T
    Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology alumni 51T
  • 15.

    Claire Adams
    Canadian actress
    Claire Adams
    Overview: Claire Adams (née Beryl Vere Nassau Adams; 24 September 1898 – 25 September 1978) was a silent film actress and benefactor. She was born in Canada, studied there and in England, and developed a movie career ...
    Date of birth: 24 September 1896
    Date of death: 25 September 1978
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    Canadian women nurses 106T
    20th-century Canadian philanthropists 21T
    20th-century Australian women 1,622T
  • 16.

    Kirk Kerkorian
    American businessman
    Kirk Kerkorian
    Overview: Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian (Armenian: Քըրքոր Քըրքորեան; June 6, 1917 – June 15, 2015) was an Armenian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation ...
    Date of birth: 6 June 1917
    Date of death: 15 June 2015
    Age: 98 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Business
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    2015 deaths 9,624T
    American chief executives of financial services companies 507T
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives 41T
  • 17.
    Karlheinz Böhm
    Overview: Karlheinz Böhm (16 March 1928 – 29 May 2014) was an Austrian-German actor and philanthropist. He took part in 45 films and became well known in Austria and Germany for his role as Emperor Franz Joseph ...
    Date of birth: 16 March 1928
    Date of death: 29 May 2014
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    Founders of charitable organizations 69T
    2014 deaths 9,515T
    Austrian male film actors 325T
  • 18.

    Sam Simon
    American television producer (1955–2015)
    Sam Simon
    Overview: Samuel Michael Simon (June 6, 1955 – March 8, 2015) was an American director, producer, writer, animal rights activist and philanthropist, who co-developed the television series The Simpsons.
    Date of birth: 6 June 1955
    Date of death: 9 March 2015
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    American male television writers 1,879T
    Screenwriters from California 1,055T
    Animal rights activists 263T
  • 19.

    Juan Gabriel
    Mexican singer
    Juan Gabriel
    Overview: Alberto Aguilera Valadez (January 7, 1950 – August 28, 2016), known professionally as Juan Gabriel ( ), was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. Colloquially nicknamed as Juanga and El Divo de Juárez ...
    Date of birth: 7 January 1950
    Date of death: 28 August 2016
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: Mexican
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century male singers 5,297T
    21st-century male singers 6,386T
    21st-century Mexican singers 226T
  • 20.

    Marjorie Merriweather Post
    American businesswoman (1887–1973)
    Marjorie Merriweather Post
    Overview: Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist, and owner of General Foods, Inc. She used much of her fortune to collect art ...
    Date of birth: 15 March 1887
    Date of death: 12 September 1973
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philanthropist
    Gender: Female
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    Hutton family 6T
    General Foods 12T
    20th-century American philanthropists 1,005T
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