Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg (1928–2024), namesake of Fort Gregg-Adams

Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg was the first Black U.S. Army officer to reach his rank and the only living person in modern history with a military installation named in their honor.

Mary Wells Lawrence (1928–2024), legendary advertising exec

Mary Wells Lawrence was a groundbreaking advertising executive who founded Wells Rich Greene and was known for quotable ad slogans like “I ♥ NY” and “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.” 

Betsy Rawls (1928–2023), LPGA champion

Betsy Rawls was a professional golfer who won the U.S. Women’s Open four times, among dozens of other career wins on the LPGA Tour.

Burt Bacharach (1928–2023), great 20th-century songwriter

Burt Bacharach was a songwriting giant whose credits include “What the World Needs Now Is Love” and “I Say a Little Prayer.”

Robert Graetz (1928–2020), minister who helped organize Montgomery bus boycott

Rev. Robert Graetz was a Lutheran minister and civil rights activist who was among the residents of Montgomery, Alabama who organized a historic bus boycott.

T. Boone Pickens (1928–2019), legendary oil tycoon

Colorful Texas businessman was a generous philanthropist.

Frank Avruch (1928–2018), starred as Bozo the Clown on Boston TV

Frank Avruch, longtime Boston TV personality who starred as Bozo the Clown from 1959 to 1970, died Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at his home in Boston, according to The Associated Press. He was 89.

Alice Drummond (1928 - 2016), Ghostbuster actress

Alice Drummond, the character who was featured as the librarian in “Ghostbusters,” died Wednesday, November 30, 2016 according to multiple news sources. She was 88.

William Trevor (1928 - 2016), award-winning Irish writer

William Trevor, the award-winning Irish novelist, playwright, and author of short stories, died Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in England, according to multiple news sources. He was 88. Trevor was a three-time winner of the Whitbread Prize (now known as the Costa Book Awards). He also was a five-time nominee for the Booker Prize, most recently for his 2009 novel “Love and Summer.” Writers paid tribute to their colleague. John Banville, the author of “Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir” praised Trevor in The Irish Times as “one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov and Babel. But we should also celebrate his novels, in particular ’Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel,’ an inexplicably neglected twentieth-century masterpiece. … His death is a heavy loss to Irish letters and to world literature.”

Dolph Schayes (1928 - 2015), 12-time NBA All-Star with the 76ers

NBA Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes died Thursday at the age of 87.

Rosemary Clooney, Too Marvelous for Words

Rosemary Clooney's first and biggest hit was a song she couldn't stand...