Armstrong, Louis (August 4)
The charismatic jazz trumpeter who recorded "Hello Dolly"
Famous People Born in 1901
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Batista, Fulgencio (January 16)
The Cuban president overthrown by Castro -
Cartland, Barbara (July 9)
The very British "Queen of the Romance Novel" -
Cooper, Gary (May 7)
The tall, laconic actor who starred in High Noon -
Dietrich, Marlene (December 27)
The sexy German star of the 1930 film The Blue Angel -
Disney, Walt (December 5)
The creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland -
Fermi, Enrico (September 29)
Italian-American pioneer in nuclear fission -
Gable, Clark (February 1)
Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind -
Gallup, George (November 18)
The founder of Gallup public opinion polls -
Hirohito (April 29)
Emperor of Japan, 1926-1989 -
Lawrence, Ernest O. (August 8)
Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the cyclotron -
Mead, Margaret (December 16)
The anthropologist author of Coming of Age in Samoa -
Newman, Alfred (March 17)
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Pauling, Linus (February 28)
Vitamin C advocate and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize -
Peavy, Pauline (August 24)
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Sukarno (June 6)
President of Indonesia, 1945-67 -
Sullivan, Ed (September 28)
Host of TV's The Ed Sullivan Show, 1948-71