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Henry Kissinger
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Kirk Douglas
American actor (1916–2020)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Irving Berlin
American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)
Luise Rainer
German-born actress (1910–2014)
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian chemist
George Burns
American comedian, actor, writer and singer (1896–1996)
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist (1920–2021)
Edward Bernays
American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)
Bernard Lewis
British-American historian (1916–2018)
Herman Wouk
American writer (1915-2019)
Ágnes Keleti
Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2025)
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist and scholar
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)
Jacque Fresco
American futurist and self-described social engineer
Aaron Beck
American psychiatrist, researcher, therapist
Elazar Shach
Lithuanian-Jewish Haredi leader (1898-2001)
Edgar Morin
French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1921)
Ben Ferencz
American lawyer and pacifist born in Romania (Great Romania Kingdom)
Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon (1921–2024)
Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)
Adolph Zukor
Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)
Alice Herz-Sommer
British Jewish pianist and music teacher from Bohemia
Rudolf Arnheim
German psychologist (1904-2007)
György Kurtág
Hungarian composer
Norman Lloyd
American actor, producer and director (1914–2021)
Moses Montefiore
British financier and Jewish activist (1784–1885)
Priscilla Pointer
American actress (1924–2025)
Marta Eggerth
American actress, singer
Roy Medvedev
Russian historian and writer
Boris Yefimov
Soviet and Russian political and propaganda artist (1900-2008)
Yisrael Kristal
Holocaust survivor, oldest living man
Nehemiah Persoff
American actor and painter (1919–2022)
Stanley Kunitz
American poet (1905-2006)
Norman Lear
American television writer and producer (1922-2023)
Connie Sawyer
American actress (1912-2018)
Mordecai Kaplan
Lithuanian American rabbi (1881-1983)
Alexander Imich
Polish-born American chemist, parapsychologist, and supercentenarians (1903–2014)
Benzion Netanyahu
Jewish encyclopedist, historian and medievalist (1910–2012)
Maurice Goldhaber
American physicist (1911-2011)
Joseph M. Juran
Romanian-American engineer and management consultant (1904–2008)
Carla Laemmle
American actress (1909-2014)
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer (1894-1995)
Franca Valeri
Italian actress (1920-2020)
Bel Kaufman
American novelist, teacher (1911-2014)
Amelia Bence
Argentine film actress (1914–2016)
Isaak Khalatnikov
university teacher at Leiden University (1919–2021)
Leo Ornstein
American composer and pianist (1895–2002)
Kurt Maetzig
film director (1911–2012)
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
German-born musician and Holocaust survivor (b. 1925)
M. H. Abrams
American literary theorist (1912–2015)
Walter Munk
American oceanographer (1917–2019)
Leonid Shvartsman
Russian artist
Beatrice Mintz
American biologist (1921–2022)
Charles Lane
American actor (1905–2007)
Eva Zeisel
Hungarian artist, industrial designer (1906–2011)
Artur Brauner
Polish-born, German film producer and Holocaust survivor
W. Michael Blumenthal
former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury