American film producer and philanthropist (1919–2021)
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Anne Buydens or Anne Douglas (born Hannelore Marx; 23 April 1919 – 29 April 2021) was a German-born American philanthropist and film producer. She was the wife of actor Kirk Douglas from 1954 until his ...
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Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 72 years. Lane gave his last performance at the age of ...
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Mona Greenberg was the wife of actor Karl Malden. She was an stage actress going by the name Mona Graham. She married Karl Malden in 1938 and remained his wife until his death on July 1, 2009. She is ...
American singer, entertainer, philanthropist (1909–2011)
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Dolores Hope, DC*SG (née DeFina; May 27, 1909 – September 19, 2011) was an American singer, entertainer, philanthropist, and wife/widow of American actor and comedian Bob Hope.
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Suzy Delair (born Suzette Pierrette Delaire; December 31, 1917 – March 15, 2020) was a French actress, dancer, singer, comedian and star of vaudeville.
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Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 - April 6, 2022) was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and plays in a career spanning over 50 years, beginning after ...
American interior designer and fashion icon (1921–2024)
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Iris Apfel (née Barrel; August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024) was an American businesswoman, interior designer, fashion icon and actress. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel led a career ...
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Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss chemist known best for being the first known person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide ...
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Etta Moten Barnett (November 5, 1901 – January 2, 2004) was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in Porgy and Bess. She created new roles ...
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Dorothy Dickson (July 25, 1893 – September 25, 1995) was an American-born, London-based theater actress and singer. She died two months after her 102nd birthday.
Hungarian American jeweler and socialite (1896–1997)
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Jolie Gabor, Countess de Szigethy (born Janka Tilleman, September 30, 1896 – April 1, 1997) was a Hungarian-born American jeweler and socialite, known as the mother of actresses and fellow socialites Magda ...
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Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal (27 April 1912 – 10 July 2014) was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting roles ...
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Earlston J. Cameron, CBE (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a British actor, born in Bermuda and a long-time resident in England. Along with Cy Grant, he is known as one of the first ...
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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, GCB, CI, GCVO, GBE (born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of ...
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Hans-Georg Gadamer (11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) ...
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Carl Esmond (born Karl Simon; June 14, 1902– December 4, 2004) was an Austrian film and stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Although his age was given as 33 in the passenger list when he ...
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Ieoh Ming Pei FAIA RIBA ( yoh-ming-PAY; Chinese: 貝聿銘; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Raised in Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas ...
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"Professor" Irwin Corey (July 29, 1914 – February 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as "The World's Foremost Authority". He introduced his unscripted, impr ...