Famous People Born in 1920

• Asimov, Isaac (January 2)

  Writer of popular science and author of I, Robot

• Bradbury, Ray (August 22)

  Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles

• Brubeck, David (December 6)

  The jazz pianist who did the song "Take Five"

• Bukowski, Charles (August 16)

  The guy who wrote the movie Barfly

• Clift, Montgomery (October 17)

  Pvt. Prewitt in the film From Here to Eternity

• Comfort, Alex (February 10)

  The uninhibited author of The Joy of Sex

• Cullen, Bill (February 18)

  The game show host with the horn-rimmed glasses

• Doohan, James (March 3)

  Scotty on the TV series Star Trek

• Fellini, Federico (January 20)

  The Italian director of La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2

• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (March 24)

  Beat poet/publisher and co-founder of City Lights Books

• Franklin, Rosalind (July 25)

  The woman whose crystal studies showed the structure of DNA

• Harryhausen, Ray (June 29)

  The stop-motion filmmaker who did Jason and the Argonauts

• Heimlich, Henry (February 3)

  The guy who developed the Heimlich Maneuver

• Helmsley, Leona

  The hotelier called the "Queen of Mean"

• Herbert, Frank (October 8)

  Author of the novel Dune

• James, P.D. (August 3)

  The "queen of crime" who wrote the Adam Dagliesh mystery novels

• Kamen, Jack (May 29)

  Cover artist for EC Comics

• Kelley, DeForest (January 20)

  Dr. McCoy on the TV series Star Trek

• Ketcham, Hank (March 14)

  Creator of Dennis the Menace

• Lacks, Henrietta (August 1)

  The woman who was the source of HeLa "immortal" cells

• Leary, Timothy (October 22)

  The drug-taking professor who said "Turn on, tune in, drop out"

• Lee, Peggy (May 26)

  Singer of "Fever"

• Lord, Jack (December 30)

  Steve McGarrett on TV's Hawaii Five-O

• Matthau, Walter (October 1)

  Curmudgeonly star of the film The Odd Couple

• Montalban, Ricardo (November 25)

  Mr. Roarke from TV's Fantasy Island

• Moon, Sun Myung (January 6)

  Founder of the Unification Church

• Parker, Charlie (August 29)

  Influential alto saxophone player

• Pope John Paul II (May 18)

  History's first Polish pope

• Randall, Tony (February 26)

  Felix Unger on the TV series The Odd Couple

• Rooney, Mickey (September 23)

  Star of the Andy Hardy movies

• Scott, Hazel (June 11)

  The jazz star who had her own TV show in 1950, The Hazel Scott Show

• Shankar, Ravi (April 7)

  The sitar virtuoso who influenced The Beatles

• Shultz, George (December 13)

  United States Secretary of State, 1982-89

• Stevens, John Paul (April 20)

  Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1975-2010

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