United States Merchant Mariners

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

American writer (1922–1969)

American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)

American actor (1930-1980)

American film and television actor (1928–2014)

American track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)

American actor (1923–2011)

American singer (1927–2012)

American author

American actor (1916–1986)

American comedian and social critic (1925–1966)

American actor (1920–2006)

American writer (1928–2004)

John Carroll O'Connor was an American actor whose television career spanned over four decades. He found widespread fame as Archie Bunker, the main character in the CBS television sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1979) and its continuation, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). He later starred in the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995), where he played the role of police chief William "Bill" Gillespie. In the late 1990s, he played Gus Stemple, the father of Jamie Buchman on Mad About You. In 1996, O'Connor was ranked number 38 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time. He won five Emmys and one Golden Globe Award.

American actor (1902-1985)

American actor (1927–2018)

American actor (1920-1998)

American actor (1925–1995)

American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator (1921-1985)

American musical theatre composer

American actor (1920-1997)

United States Army soldier and centenarian

American writer and film historian (1924–2013)

American activist (1927-1998)

American writer (1861–1915)

American actor (1925-1966)

American theologian (born 1929)

American television news producer (1922–2009)

one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family

American motorcycle builder

American writer (born 1952)

American Samoan professional wrestler (1945-2024)

American political novelist (1915–1996)

American sailor

American writer of hardboiled crime fiction (1909-1975)

American actor and filmmaker (1915-2008)

American mathematician

UFO writer (1925–2016)

scriptwriter (1917–2003)

American author, Vietnam War veteran, former police officer and former university professor born in 1945 in North Carolina

American composer and cellist (1915-2002)

American anthropologist and photographer (1913-1992)

American actor (1920–1998)