Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy' (December 4)
The World War II pilot made famous on TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep
Famous People Born in 1912
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Braun, Eva (February 6)
Mistress and last-minute wife of Adolf Hitler -
Cage, John (September 5)
Composer of the silent piano piece 4' 33" -
Child, Julia (August 15)
The popular chef who wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking -
Como, Perry (May 18)
Smooth crooner of "Catch a Falling Star" -
Evans, Dale (October 31)
Partner of singing cowboy Roy Rogers -
Fuller, Samuel (August 12)
The director of Pickup on South Street and The Naked Kiss -
Guthrie, Woody (July 14)
The guy who wrote "This Land Is Your Land" -
Henie, Sonja (April 8)
She was the first big celebrity figure skater -
Johnson, Lady Bird (December 22)
Wife of President Lyndon Johnson -
Jones, Chuck (September 21)
Animated director of Bugs Bunny -
Kelly, Gene (August 23)
The dancing star of Singin' In The Rain -
Kim Il-sung (April 15)
Longtime "Great Leader" of North Korea -
Nixon, Pat (March 16)
President Richard Nixon's wife -
Philby, Harold "Kim"
British "Master Spy" and Soviet double-agent -
Pollock, Jackson (January 28)
The abstract painter who splattered his canvasses -
Pope John Paul I (October 17)
The pope who reigned for 33 days -
Rustin, Bayard (March 17)
Organizer behind Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington -
Thomas, Danny (January 6)
Star of TV's Make Room For Daddy -
Tuchman, Barbara (January 30)
Author of The Guns of August -
Turing, Alan (June 23)
The famous British pioneer of computers and artificial intelligence -
Von Braun, Wernher (March 23)
Ex-Nazi rocket scientist and father of the U.S. space program -
Yamasaki, Minoru (December 1)
Designer of Manhattan's World Trade Center