Acuff, Roy (September 15)
"The King of Country Music"
Famous People Born in 1903
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Bunche, Ralph (August 7)
The first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize -
Colbert, Claudette (September 13)
Clark Gable's co-star in It Happened One Night -
Crosby, Bing (May 3)
The singer of "White Christmas" -
Dillinger, John (June 22)
The gangster given up by the "Lady in Red" -
Edgerton, Harold (April 6)
The professor who made strobe photography popular -
Gehrig, Lou (June 19)
The New York Yankee hero known as "The Iron Horse" -
Hines, Earl (December 28)
Influential jazz pianist -
Hirschfeld, Al (June 21)
The longtime humorous caricaturist of Broadway stars -
Hope, Bob (May 29)
Master comedian and Bing Crosby's movie co-star -
Luce, Clare Boothe (March 10)
Socialite, playwright, ambassador and wife of publisher Henry Luce -
Ness, Eliot (April 19)
The G-Man who nabbed Al Capone -
Nin, Anais (February 21)
Diarist and lover of Henry Miller -
Orwell, George (June 25)
The author of Nineteen eighty-four -
Rothko, Mark (September 25)
Abstract expressionist painter of 1958's "Black on Maroon" -
Ryan, Irene (October 17)
Granny on the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies -
Simenon, Georges (February 13)
Prolific author of the Detective Maigret novels -
Spock, Dr. (May 2)
The author of Baby and Child Care -
Wakefield, Ruth (July 17)
The inventor of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie