Adair, Red (June 18)
Oil well firefighting legend
Famous People Born in 1915
From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:
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Bellow, Saul (June 10)
Author of Henderson, The Rain King and Seize the Day -
Bergman, Ingrid (August 29)
Ilsa Lund in Casablanca -
Holiday, Billie (April 7)
The popular jazz singer known as "Lady Day" -
Kennedy, Joseph Jr. (July 28)
The older brother of president John Kennedy -
Lehman, Ernest (December 8)
The guy who wrote Hitchcock's North by Northwest -
Miller, Arthur (October 17)
The author of Death of a Salesman -
Moore, Garry (January 31)
Host of TV's Garry Moore Show -
Morgan, Harry (April 10)
Col. Sherman Potter on the long-running TV series MASH -
Paul, Les (June 9)
Inventor of the solid-body electric guitar -
Piaf, Edith (December 19)
French singer known as "the waif sparrow" -
Pinochet, Augusto (November 25)
Dictator, then president of Chile, 1973-1990 -
Quinn, Anthony (April 21)
The actor who played Zorba the Greek -
Rockefeller, David (June 12)
Leader of Chase Manhattan Bank, 1969-81 -
Shamir, Yitzhak
Prime Minister of Israel, 1983-1984 and 1986-1992 -
Sinatra, Frank (December 12)
Singer of New York, New York and leader of the Rat Pack -
Strayhorn, Billy (November 29)
Composer of "Take the 'A' Train" -
Wallach, Eli (December 7)
The "Ugly" of the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly -
Waters, Muddy (April 4)
The slide-guitarist bluesman of "Got My Mojo Workin'" -
Watts, Alan (January 6)
The author of 'The Way of Zen' -
Welles, Orson (May 6)
The man who made Citizen Kane