Born 1899

Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, died May 12. She was 116 years and 311 days old, the last American born in the 19th century. Born July 6, 1899, …

Duke Ellington is one of the best known figures in jazz history. But did you know he was a movie star, too?

Thirty-two years after Alfred Hitchcock’s death, Sir Anthony Hopkins is starring in a new Hitchcock film.