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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (1821–1906), Hawaiian-born painter and sketch artist; 1822 Mathew Brady (1822–1896), photographer; 1823 Daniel Folger Bigelow (1823–1910), painter; Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900), painter; Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), painter; William Hart (1823–1894), painter; Thomas Waterman Wood (1823 ...
In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [6] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
1900 Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
Austrian-born American virologist [133] Rudolph A. Marcus: 1923– 101: Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry [134] Harris Mayer: 1921–2023: 102: American physicist (Manhattan Project) [135] Ernst Mayr: 1904–2005: 100: German-American biologist [136] John J. McKetta: 1915–2019: 103: American chemical ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M. Howard: 1908 1976 United States: founder of Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership: Winifred C. Stanley: 1909 ...