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Who Was Alive in 1939

163 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1939

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 83
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 83
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 83
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 81
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 78
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 77
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 76
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 76
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 73
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 72
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 70
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 70
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 68
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 67
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 65
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 64
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 64
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 64
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 61
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 61
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 60
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 60
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 59
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 58
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 58
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 57
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 57
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 57
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 57
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 56
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 56
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 56
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 55
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 55
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 54
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 53
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 52
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 52
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 52
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 52
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 51
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 50
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 50
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 50
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 50
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 49
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 49
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 49
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 49
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 47
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 47
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Mao Zedong
Mao ZedongAge 46
1893–1976 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Aldous Huxley
Aldous HuxleyAge 45
1894–1963 · Literature
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita KhrushchevAge 45
1894–1971 · Politics & Leadership
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babe Ruth
Babe RuthAge 44
1895–1948 · Sports
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Buster Keaton
Buster KeatonAge 44
1895–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Silent film comedian, The General
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 43
1896–1940 · Literature
The Great Gatsby
Golda Meir
Golda MeirAge 41
1898–1978 · Politics & Leadership
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisAge 41
1898–1963 · Literature
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Duke Ellington
Duke EllingtonAge 40
1899–1974 · Music
Jazz legend, big band pioneer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest HemingwayAge 40
1899–1961 · Literature
The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel laureate
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 40
1899–1986 · Literature
Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred HitchcockAge 40
1899–1980 · Film & Entertainment
Master of Suspense — Psycho, Vertigo
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey BogartAge 40
1899–1957 · Film & Entertainment
Casablanca, Hollywood icon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 39
1900–1944 · Literature
Aviator and author of The Little Prince
Werner Heisenberg
Werner HeisenbergAge 38
1901–1976 · Science & Invention
Uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics pioneer
Louis Armstrong
Louis ArmstrongAge 38
1901–1971 · Music
What a Wonderful World, jazz trumpet
Walt Disney
Walt DisneyAge 38
1901–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Created Mickey Mouse, Disney empire
Enrico Fermi
Enrico FermiAge 38
1901–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of the nuclear age, first nuclear reactor
Hirohito
HirohitoAge 38
1901–1989 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Japan during WWII
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene DietrichAge 38
1901–1992 · Film & Entertainment
German-American film star and singer
George Orwell
George OrwellAge 36
1903–1950 · Literature
1984, Animal Farm
Bob Hope
Bob HopeAge 36
1903–2003 · Film & Entertainment
Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert OppenheimerAge 35
1904–1967 · Science & Invention
Father of the atomic bomb
Salvador Dalí
Salvador DalíAge 35
1904–1989 · Art
The Persistence of Memory, surrealist
Pablo Neruda
Pablo NerudaAge 35
1904–1973 · Literature
Chilean poet and Nobel laureate
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul SartreAge 34
1905–1980 · Philosophy & Thought
Existentialism, declined the Nobel Prize
Hannah Arendt
Hannah ArendtAge 33
1906–1975 · Philosophy & Thought
The Banality of Evil, political theorist
Frida Kahlo
Frida KahloAge 32
1907–1954 · Art
Self-portraits, Mexican cultural icon
Rachel Carson
Rachel CarsonAge 32
1907–1964 · Activism & Social Change
Silent Spring, environmental movement
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de BeauvoirAge 31
1908–1986 · Philosophy & Thought
The Second Sex, feminist existentialist
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 31
1908–1973 · Politics & Leadership
36th US president, signed the Civil Rights Act
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame NkrumahAge 30
1909–1972 · Politics & Leadership
First President of Ghana
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy HodgkinAge 29
1910–1994 · Science & Invention
Nobel Prize for X-ray crystallography of biochemical substances
Mother Teresa
Mother TeresaAge 29
1910–1997 · Activism & Social Change
Missionary of Charity in Calcutta
Akira Kurosawa
Akira KurosawaAge 29
1910–1998 · Film & Entertainment
Seven Samurai, master filmmaker
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques CousteauAge 29
1910–1997 · Exploration
Ocean explorer, pioneered scuba diving
Ronald Reagan
Ronald ReaganAge 28
1911–2004 · Politics & Leadership
40th US president, former Hollywood actor
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib MahfouzAge 28
1911–2006 · Literature
Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate
Alan Turing
Alan TuringAge 27
1912–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of computer science, codebreaker
Jackson Pollock
Jackson PollockAge 27
1912–1956 · Art
Action painting, abstract expressionism
Rosa Parks
Rosa ParksAge 26
1913–2005 · Activism & Social Change
Mother of the civil rights movement
Jesse Owens
Jesse OwensAge 26
1913–1980 · Sports
4 gold medals at 1936 Berlin Olympics
Richard Nixon
Richard NixonAge 26
1913–1994 · Politics & Leadership
37th US president, resigned after Watergate
Albert Camus
Albert CamusAge 26
1913–1960 · Literature
Author of The Stranger, Nobel laureate
Gerald Ford
Gerald FordAge 26
1913–2006 · Politics & Leadership
38th President of the United States
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy LamarrAge 25
1914–2000 · Science & Invention
Hollywood star who co-invented frequency hopping
Orson Welles
Orson WellesAge 24
1915–1985 · Film & Entertainment
Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds broadcast
Frank Sinatra
Frank SinatraAge 24
1915–1998 · Music
My Way, Ol' Blue Eyes
Billie Holiday
Billie HolidayAge 24
1915–1959 · Music
Strange Fruit, jazz vocal legend
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid BergmanAge 24
1915–1982 · Film & Entertainment
Star of Casablanca, three-time Academy Award winner
Roald Dahl
Roald DahlAge 23
1916–1990 · Literature
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
John F. Kennedy
John F. KennedyAge 22
1917–1963 · Politics & Leadership
35th US President, Space Race
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella FitzgeraldAge 22
1917–1996 · Music
First Lady of Song, jazz icon
Indira Gandhi
Indira GandhiAge 22
1917–1984 · Politics & Leadership
First female Prime Minister of India
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar BergmanAge 21
1918–2007 · Film & Entertainment
The Seventh Seal, master of art cinema
Nelson Mandela
Nelson MandelaAge 21
1918–2013 · Politics & Leadership
Anti-apartheid hero, South African President
Richard Feynman
Richard FeynmanAge 21
1918–1988 · Science & Invention
Quantum electrodynamics, bongo-playing physicist
Eva Perón
Eva PerónAge 20
1919–1952 · Politics & Leadership
Argentina's beloved Evita
Edmund Hillary
Edmund HillaryAge 20
1919–2008 · Exploration
First to summit Mount Everest
Jackie Robinson
Jackie RobinsonAge 20
1919–1972 · Sports
Broke baseball's color barrier
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind FranklinAge 19
1920–1958 · Science & Invention
Key to discovering DNA's structure
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul IIAge 19
1920–2005 · Philosophy & Thought
First Polish pope, led the Catholic Church 1978–2005
Toshiro Mifune
Toshiro MifuneAge 19
1920–1997 · Film & Entertainment
Star of Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Yojimbo
Stan Lee
Stan LeeAge 17
1922–2018 · Film & Entertainment
Co-created Spider-Man, X-Men, Marvel
Marlon Brando
Marlon BrandoAge 15
1924–2004 · Film & Entertainment
The Godfather, method acting pioneer
James Baldwin
James BaldwinAge 15
1924–1987 · Literature
Go Tell It on the Mountain, civil rights essayist
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy CarterAge 15
1924–2024 · Politics & Leadership
39th US president and Nobel Peace laureate
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. BushAge 15
1924–2018 · Politics & Leadership
41st President of the United States
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice LumumbaAge 14
1925–1961 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent Congo
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret ThatcherAge 14
1925–2013 · Politics & Leadership
The Iron Lady, British Prime Minister
B.B. King
B.B. KingAge 14
1925–2015 · Music
King of the Blues
Malcolm X
Malcolm XAge 14
1925–1965 · Activism & Social Change
Civil rights leader and Nation of Islam spokesman
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn MonroeAge 13
1926–1962 · Film & Entertainment
Hollywood icon, cultural legend
Fidel Castro
Fidel CastroAge 13
1926–2016 · Politics & Leadership
Cuban revolutionary leader
Elizabeth II
Elizabeth IIAge 13
1926–2022 · Politics & Leadership
Queen of the United Kingdom for 70 years
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García MárquezAge 12
1927–2014 · Literature
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVIAge 12
1927–2022 · Philosophy & Thought
Pope from 2005 until his resignation in 2013
James Watson
James WatsonAge 11
1928–2025 · Science & Invention
Co-discovered the structure of DNA
Andy Warhol
Andy WarholAge 11
1928–1987 · Art
Pop art icon, Campbell's Soup Cans
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley KubrickAge 11
1928–1999 · Film & Entertainment
2001: A Space Odyssey, perfectionist auteur
Maya Angelou
Maya AngelouAge 11
1928–2014 · Literature
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Che Guevara
Che GuevaraAge 11
1928–1967 · Politics & Leadership
Argentine revolutionary icon
Vera Rubin
Vera RubinAge 11
1928–2016 · Science & Invention
Discovered evidence for dark matter
Noam Chomsky
Noam ChomskyAge 11
1928–present · Philosophy & Thought
Father of modern linguistics, political activist
Anne Frank
Anne FrankAge 10
1929–1945 · Activism & Social Change
Diary of a Young Girl, Holocaust victim
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 10
1929–1968 · Activism & Social Change
"I Have a Dream," civil rights leader
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey HepburnAge 10
1929–1993 · Film & Entertainment
Breakfast at Tiffany's, humanitarian
Grace Kelly
Grace KellyAge 10
1929–1982 · Film & Entertainment
Hollywood star turned Princess of Monaco
Chinua Achebe
Chinua AchebeAge 9
1930–2013 · Literature
Things Fall Apart, landmark of modern African literature
Neil Armstrong
Neil ArmstrongAge 9
1930–2012 · Exploration
First human to walk on the Moon
Ray Charles
Ray CharlesAge 9
1930–2004 · Music
The Genius of Soul, Georgia On My Mind
Tu Youyou
Tu YouyouAge 9
1930–present · Science & Invention
Discovered artemisinin, Nobel Prize in Medicine
James Dean
James DeanAge 8
1931–1955 · Film & Entertainment
Rebel Without a Cause, died at 24
Desmond Tutu
Desmond TutuAge 8
1931–2021 · Activism & Social Change
Anti-apartheid cleric, Nobel Peace Prize
Toni Morrison
Toni MorrisonAge 8
1931–2019 · Literature
Beloved, Nobel Prize in Literature
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail GorbachevAge 8
1931–2022 · Politics & Leadership
Last leader of the Soviet Union
Johnny Cash
Johnny CashAge 7
1932–2003 · Music
The Man in Black, country music legend
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth TaylorAge 7
1932–2011 · Film & Entertainment
Cleopatra, golden age Hollywood star
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia PlathAge 7
1932–1963 · Literature
The Bell Jar, confessional poetry
Yoko Ono
Yoko OnoAge 6
1933–present · Art
Avant-garde artist, peace activist
Wole Soyinka
Wole SoyinkaAge 5
1934–present · Literature
First African Nobel laureate in Literature
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri GagarinAge 5
1934–1968 · Exploration
First human in space
Carl Sagan
Carl SaganAge 5
1934–1996 · Science & Invention
Cosmos, pale blue dot, science communicator
Jane Goodall
Jane GoodallAge 5
1934–2025 · Science & Invention
World's foremost expert on chimpanzees
Dalai Lama
Dalai LamaAge 4
1935–present · Philosophy & Thought
Tibetan spiritual leader, Nobel Peace Prize
Elvis Presley
Elvis PresleyAge 4
1935–1977 · Music
The King of Rock and Roll
Woody Allen
Woody AllenAge 4
1935–present · Film & Entertainment
Annie Hall, prolific filmmaker
Pope Francis
Pope FrancisAge 3
1936–2025 · Philosophy & Thought
First pope from the Americas
Jack Nicholson
Jack NicholsonAge 2
1937–present · Film & Entertainment
Actor in The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Saddam Hussein
Saddam HusseinAge 2
1937–2006 · Politics & Leadership
President of Iraq 1979–2003
Kofi Annan
Kofi AnnanAge 1
1938–2018 · Politics & Leadership
UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace laureate
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 0
1939–present · Film & Entertainment
The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now

Born in 1939

Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Born 1939 · Film & Entertainment
The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now

Also Born in 1939

1939–2026 · born April 19
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
1939–2023 · born November 26
Singer-songwriter and actress (1939–2023)
1939–present · born November 18
Canadian writer (born 1939)
1939–2013 · born April 13
Irish poet (1939–2013)
1939–present · born August 9
Italian politician (born 1939)
1939–present · born April 20
Norwegian politician (born 1939)
1939–present · born May 25
English actor (born 1939)
1939–2026 · born June 22
Israeli chemist (1939–2026)
1939–present · born July 26
Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
1939–present · born January 29
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
1939–1984 · born April 2
American singer and songwriter (1939–1984)
1939–present · born October 27
English comedian and actor (born 1939)

Died in 1939

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis

Also Died in 1939

1865–1939 · died January 28
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
1857–1939 · died February 10
Head of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
1874–1939 · died March 2
British archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874–1939)
1860–1939 · died July 14
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
1875–1939 · died February 22
Spanish poet (1875–1939)
1894–1939 · died May 27
Austro-Hungarian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
1883–1939 · died December 12
American actor and filmmaker (1883–1939)
1861–1939 · died November 28
Inventor of basketball (1861–1939)
1865–1939 · died November 29
German politician (1865–1939)
1892–1939 · died October 28
American actress (1892–1939)
1859–1939 · died July 8
British physician, eugenicist, writer and social reformer (1859–1939)
1884–1939 · died October 31
Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)

Notable World Events in 1939

Sources

  1. 1939 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  3. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  4. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  5. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  6. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  7. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  8. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  9. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  10. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  11. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  12. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  13. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  14. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  15. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  16. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  17. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  18. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  19. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  20. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  21. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  22. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  23. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  24. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  25. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  26. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  27. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  28. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  29. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  30. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  31. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  32. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  33. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  34. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  35. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  36. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  37. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  38. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  39. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  40. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  41. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  42. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  43. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  44. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  45. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  46. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  47. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  48. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  49. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  50. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  51. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  52. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
  53. Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
  54. Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
  55. Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
  56. Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
  57. Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
  58. F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  59. Golda Meir — Wikipedia
  60. C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
  61. Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
  62. Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
  63. Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
  64. Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
  65. Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
  66. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
  67. Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
  68. Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
  69. Walt Disney — Wikipedia
  70. Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
  71. Hirohito — Wikipedia
  72. Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
  73. George Orwell — Wikipedia
  74. Bob Hope — Wikipedia
  75. J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
  76. Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
  77. Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
  78. Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
  79. Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
  80. Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
  81. Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
  82. Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
  83. Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
  84. Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
  85. Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
  86. Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
  87. Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
  88. Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
  89. Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
  90. Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
  91. Alan Turing — Wikipedia
  92. Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
  93. Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
  94. Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
  95. Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
  96. Albert Camus — Wikipedia
  97. Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
  98. Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
  99. Orson Welles — Wikipedia
  100. Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
  101. Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
  102. Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
  103. Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
  104. John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
  105. Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  106. Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
  107. Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
  108. Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
  109. Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
  110. Eva Perón — Wikipedia
  111. Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
  112. Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
  113. Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
  114. Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
  115. Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
  116. Stan Lee — Wikipedia
  117. Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
  118. James Baldwin — Wikipedia
  119. Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
  120. George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
  121. Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
  122. Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
  123. B. B. King — Wikipedia
  124. Malcolm X — Wikipedia
  125. Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
  126. Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
  127. Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
  128. Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
  129. Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
  130. James Watson — Wikipedia
  131. Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
  132. Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
  133. Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
  134. Che Guevara — Wikipedia
  135. Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
  136. Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
  137. Anne Frank — Wikipedia
  138. Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
  139. Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
  140. Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
  141. Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
  142. Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
  143. Ray Charles — Wikipedia
  144. Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
  145. James Dean — Wikipedia
  146. Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
  147. Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
  148. Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
  149. Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
  150. Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
  151. Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
  152. Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
  153. Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
  154. Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
  155. Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
  156. Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
  157. 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
  158. Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
  159. Woody Allen — Wikipedia
  160. Pope Francis — Wikipedia
  161. Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
  162. Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
  163. Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
  164. Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia
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