At 97, he was the oldest person ever to win a Nobel Prize.
Born 1922
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He won bronze in long jump at the 1948 Olympics.
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Her 1941 performance at El Rancho was the first by a magician in Las Vegas.
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His “giant monster” movies included “Cyclops” and “Empire of the Ants.”
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He was the founding anchor of CNN’s “Reliable Sources.”
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He shot down at least 10 planes in the Pacific Theater.
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The “Mary Tyler Moore Show” costar had a Hollywood career spanning nine decades.
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Shames was portrayed in the “Band of Brothers” miniseries by Joseph May.
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He was the last of the Maddox siblings to survive.
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She and her husband wrote “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music).”