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St. Louis Walk of Fame, the Glossary

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  1. 169 relations: A. E. Hotchner, Agnes Moorehead, Al Hirschfeld, Albert King, Archie Moore, Arthur Compton, Auguste Chouteau, Barry Commoner, Betty Grable, Bill Clay, Bill Mauldin, Blueberry Hill (restaurant), Bob Costas, Bob Gibson, Bob Pettit, Branch Rickey, Buddy Ebsen, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Cedric the Entertainer, Charles Eames, Charles Guggenheim, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Marion Russell, Chic Young, Christine Brewer, Chuck Berry, Clark Terry, Cool Papa Bell, Culture of the United States, Curt Flood, Dan Dierdorf, Dave Garroway, David Merrick, David R. Francis, David Sanborn, Delmar Boulevard, Delmar Loop, Dick Gregory, Dick Weber, Dizzy Dean, Donny Hathaway, Dred Scott, Dwight F. Davis, Ed Macauley, Edward O'Hare, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Elizabeth Keckley, Ernest Trova, Eugene Field, Evarts Ambrose Graham, ... Expand index (119 more) »

  2. 1989 establishments in Missouri
  3. Awards for contributions to culture
  4. Halls of fame in Missouri
  5. Missouri-related lists

A. E. Hotchner

Aaron Edward Hotchner (June 28, 1917 – February 15, 2020) was an American editor, novelist, playwright, and biographer.

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Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress.

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Al Hirschfeld

Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

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Albert King

Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time.

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Archie Moore

Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1913 – December 9, 1998) was an American catch wrestler and professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (1952 – 1962).

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Arthur Compton

Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

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Auguste Chouteau

René-Auguste Chouteau Jr. (September 7, 1749, or September 26, 1750 – February 24, 1829Beckwith, 8.), also known as Auguste Chouteau, was the founder of St. Louis, Missouri, a successful fur trader and a politician.

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Barry Commoner

Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician.

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Betty Grable

Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model and singer.

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Bill Clay

William Lacy "Bill" Clay Sr. (born April 30, 1931) is an American politician from Missouri.

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Bill Mauldin

William Henry Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

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Blueberry Hill (restaurant)

Blueberry Hill is a restaurant and music club located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis Walk of Fame and Blueberry Hill (restaurant) are Tourist attractions in St. Louis.

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Bob Costas

Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster who is known for his long tenure with NBC Sports, from 1980 through 2019.

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Bob Gibson

Robert Gibson (born Pack Robert Gibson; November 9, 1935October 2, 2020), nicknamed "Gibby" and "Hoot", was an American baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1959 to 1975.

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Bob Pettit

Robert Lee Pettit Jr. (born December 12, 1932) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Branch Rickey

Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive.

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Buddy Ebsen

Buddy Ebsen (born Christian Ludolf Ebsen Jr.; April 2, 1908 – July 6, 2003), also known as Frank "Buddy" Ebsen, was an American actor and dancer.

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Carl Ferdinand Cori

Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was a Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist.

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Cedric the Entertainer

Cedric Antonio Kyles (born April 24, 1964), better known by his stage name Cedric the Entertainer, is an American stand-up comedian, actor and television host.

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Charles Eames

Charles Ormond Eames Jr. (June 17, 1907 – August 21, 1978) was an American designer, architect and filmmaker.

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Charles Guggenheim

Charles Eli Guggenheim (March 31, 1924 – October 9, 2002) was an American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator and military officer.

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Charles Marion Russell

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West.

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Chic Young

Murat Bernard "Chic" Young (January 9, 1901March 14, 1973) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Blondie.

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Christine Brewer

Christine Brewer (born October 26, 1955) is an American soprano opera singer.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.

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Cool Papa Bell

James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell (May 17, 1903 – March 7, 1991) was an American center fielder in Negro league baseball from 1922 to 1946.

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Culture of the United States

The culture of the United States of America, also referred to as American culture, encompasses various social behaviors, institutions, and norms in the United States, including forms of speech, literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, food, sports, religion, law, technology as well as other customs, beliefs, and forms of knowledge.

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Curt Flood

Curtis Charles Flood Sr. (January 18, 1938 – January 20, 1997) was an American professional baseball player and activist.

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Dan Dierdorf

Daniel Lee Dierdorf (born June 29, 1949) is an American sportscaster and former football player.

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Dave Garroway

David Cunningham Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American television personality.

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David Merrick

David Merrick (born David Lee Margulois; November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was an American theatrical producer who won a number of Tony Awards.

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David R. Francis

David Rowland Francis (October 1, 1850January 15, 1927) was an American politician and diplomat.

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David Sanborn

David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist.

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Delmar Boulevard

Delmar Boulevard is a major east-west street in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Delmar Loop

The Delmar Loop, often referred to by St. St. Louis Walk of Fame and Delmar Loop are Tourist attractions in St. Louis.

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Dick Gregory

Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic.

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Dick Weber

Richard Anthony Weber (December 23, 1929 – February 13, 2005) was an American professional ten-pin bowler and founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).

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Dizzy Dean

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean (January 16, 1910 – July 17, 1974), also known as Jerome Herman Dean (both the 1910 and 1920 Censuses show his name as "Jay"), was an American professional baseball pitcher.

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Donny Hathaway

Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who ''Rolling Stone'' described as a "soul legend".

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Dred Scott

Dred Scott (– September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision".

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Dwight F. Davis

Dwight Filley Davis Sr. (July 5, 1879 – November 28, 1945) was an American tennis player and politician.

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Ed Macauley

Charles Edward Macauley (March 22, 1928 – November 8, 2011) was a professional basketball player and coach.

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Edward O'Hare

Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O'Hare (March 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was an American naval aviator of the United States Navy, who on February 20, 1942, became the Navy's first fighter ace of the war when he single-handedly attacked a formation of nine medium bombers approaching his aircraft carrier.

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist.

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Elizabeth Keckley

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) was an American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln.

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Ernest Trova

Ernest Tino Trova (February 19, 1927 – March 8, 2009) was a self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor.

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Eugene Field

Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.

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Evarts Ambrose Graham

Evarts Ambrose Graham (March 19, 1883– March 4, 1957) was an American academic, physician, and surgeon.

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Fontella Bass

Fontella Marie Bass (July 3, 1940 – December 26, 2012) was an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit "Rescue Me" in 1965.

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Frankie Muse Freeman

Marie Frankie Muse Freeman (née Muse; November 24, 1916 – January 12, 2018) was an American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964–79), a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination.

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George Sisler

George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 – March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George", was an American professional baseball first baseman and player-manager.

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Gerald Early

Gerald Lyn Early (born April 21, 1952) is an American essayist and American culture critic.

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Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Bohemian-Austrian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".

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Grace Bumbry

Grace Melzia Bumbry (January 4, 1937 – May 7, 2023) was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, who also ventured to soprano roles.

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Greater St. Louis

Greater St.

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Gyo Obata

Gyo Obata (小圃 暁, February 28, 1923 – March 8, 2022) was an American architect, the son of painter Chiura Obata and his wife, Haruko Obata, a floral designer.

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Hale Irwin

Hale S. Irwin (born June 3, 1945) is an American professional golfer.

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Harold Ramis

Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.

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Harriett Woods

Ruth Harriett Woods (June 2, 1927 – February 8, 2007) was an American politician and activist, two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and the 42nd lieutenant governor of Missouri.

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Harry Caray

Harry Christopher Caray (March 1, 1914 – February 18, 1998) was an American radio and television sportscaster.

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Helen Traubel

Helen Francesca Traubel (June 16, 1899July 28, 1972) was an American opera and concert singer.

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Henry Armstrong

Henry Jackson Jr. (December 12, 1912 – October 22, 1988) was an American professional boxer and a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong.

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Henry Hampton

Henry Eugene Hampton Jr. (8 January 1940 – 22 November 1998) was an American filmmaker.

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Henry Shaw (philanthropist)

Henry Shaw (July 24, 1800, in Sheffield, England – August 25, 1889, in St. Louis, Missouri) was a businessman, amateur botanist, and slave owner in St.

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Henry Townsend (musician)

Henry "Mule" Townsend (born Henry Jesse James Townsend; October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006) was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist.

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Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet.

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Ike Turner

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.

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Irma S. Rombauer

Irma Rombauer (October 30, 1877 – October 14, 1962) was an American cookbook author, best known for The Joy of Cooking (1931), one of the world's most widely read cookbooks.

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Jack Buck

John Francis Buck (August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jacqueline Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American track and field athlete, ranked among the all-time greats in the heptathlon as well as long jump.

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Jackie Smith

Jackie Larue Smith (born February 23, 1940) is an American former football tight end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys.

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James Buchanan Eads

Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents.

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Janice Rule

Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress and psychotherapist, earning her PhD while still acting, then acting occasionally while working in her new profession.

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Jimmy Connors

James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is an American former world No. 1 tennis player.

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Joe Edwards (St. Louis)

Joe Edwards is a businessman, developer, and civic leader who helped revitalize the Delmar Loop area, which connects St. Louis and University City, Missouri.

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Joe Garagiola

Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host.

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John Danforth

John Claggett Danforth (born September 5, 1936) is an American politician, attorney, diplomat, and Episcopal priest who served as the Attorney General of Missouri from 1969 to 1976 and as a United States Senator from 1976 to 1995.

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John Goodman

John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor.

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John Hartford

John Cowan Hartford (December 30, 1937 – June 4, 2001) was an American folk, country, and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore.

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Johnnie Johnson (musician)

Johnnie Clyde Johnson (July 8, 1924 – April 13, 2005) was an American pianist who played jazz, blues, and rock and roll.

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Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer (born Pulitzer József,; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.

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Josephine Baker

Freda Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress.

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Judy Rankin

Judy Rankin (Torluemke; born February 18, 1945) is an American professional golfer and golf broadcaster.

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Karl Ferdinand Wimar

Karl Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar; 20 February 1828 – 28 November 1862), was a German-American painter who concentrated on Native Americans in the West and the great herds of buffalo.

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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin (also; born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.

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Katherine Dunham

Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist.

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Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909"In the St. Louis Registry of Births, in the volume covering the period July 1909 – January 1910, on page 85, is the following entry: "Catherine Louise Fink, November 9, 1909.", kaythompsonwebsite.com; accessed July 26, 2015.

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Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor.

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Lee Falk

Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross (April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom.

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Leonard Slatkin

Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor, author and composer.

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List of awards for contributions to culture

This list of awards for contributions to culture is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to culture in a general sense. St. Louis Walk of Fame and list of awards for contributions to culture are awards for contributions to culture.

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List of halls and walks of fame

A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or fame in their field. St. Louis Walk of Fame and list of halls and walks of fame are walks of fame.

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List of people from St. Louis

This is a list of notable people from St. Louis or St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Lou Brock

Louis Clark Brock (June 18, 1939September 6, 2020) was an American professional baseball left fielder.

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor.

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Marlin Perkins

Richard Marlin Perkins (March 28, 1905 – June 14, 1986) was an American zoologist.

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Marsha Mason

Marsha Mason is an American actress and theatre director.

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Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.

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Mary Engelbreit

Mary Engelbreit (born June 5, 1952) is an artist whose illustrations have been printed in books, cards and calendars.

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Mary Wickes

Mary Wickes (born Mary Isabella Wickenhauser; June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995) was an American actress.

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Masters and Johnson

The Masters and Johnson research team, composed of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s.

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Max Starkloff

Max Starkloff (September 18, 1937, St. Louis, Missouri – December, 2010) was a disability rights activist.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Mel Bay

Melbourne E. Bay (February 25, 1913 – May 14, 1997), known professionally as Mel Bay, was an American musician and publisher best known for his series of music education books.

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Michael McDonald (musician)

Michael H. McDonald (born February 12, 1952) is an American singer, keyboardist and songwriter known for his distinctive, soulful voice and as a member of Steely Dan (1973–1974), and the Doobie Brothers (1975–1982, 1987, 2019–present).

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Mike Peters (cartoonist)

Michael Bartley Peters (born October 9, 1943), better known as Mike Peters, is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Mona Van Duyn

Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 – December 2, 2004) was an American poet.

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Nelly

Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, and actor.

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Ntozake Shange

Ntozake Shange (FilmReference.com. Retrieved October 27, 2018. October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet.

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Ozzie Smith

Osborne Earl Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Paul C. Reinert

Rev.

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Peter H. Raven

Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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Pierre Laclède

Pierre Laclède Liguest or Pierre Laclède (22 November 1729 – 20 June 1778) was a French fur trader who, with his young assistant and stepson Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis in 1764, in what was then Spanish Upper Louisiana, in present-day Missouri.

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Red Schoendienst

Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst (February 2, 1923 – June 6, 2018) was an American professional baseball second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), and is largely known for his coaching, managing, and playing years with the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Redd Foxx

John Elroy Sanford (December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991), better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.

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Ridley Pearson

Ridley Pearson (born March 13, 1953, in Glen Cove, New York) is an American author of suspense, thriller and adventure books.

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Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurobiologist.

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Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Robert Guillaume

Robert Guillaume (born Robert Peter Williams; November 30, 1927 – October 24, 2017) was an American actor and singer.

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Robert McFerrin

Robert Keith McFerrin Sr. (March 19, 1921 – November 24, 2006) was an American operatic baritone and the first African-American man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

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Robert S. Brookings

Robert Somers Brookings (January 22, 1850 – November 15, 1932) was an American businessman and philanthropist, known for his involvement with Washington University in St. Louis and his founding of the Brookings Institution.

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Rocco Landesman

Rocco Landesman (born July 20, 1947) is a long-time Broadway theatre producer.

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Rogers Hornsby

Rogers Hornsby (April 27, 1896 – January 5, 1963), nicknamed "the Rajah", was an American baseball infielder, manager, and coach who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Rose Philippine Duchesne

Rose Philippine Duchesne, RCSJ (August 29, 1769 – November 18, 1852), was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988.

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Sara Teasdale

Sara Trevor Teasdale (later Filsinger; August 8, 1884January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.

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Scott Bakula

Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor.

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Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist.

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Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St.

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Stan Musial

Stanley Frank Musial (born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial; November 21, 1920 – January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American baseball outfielder and first baseman.

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Stanley Elkin

Stanley Lawrence Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Susan Blow

Susan Elizabeth Blow (June 7, 1843 – March 27, 1916) was an American educator who opened the first successful public kindergarten in the United States.

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T Bone Burnett

Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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The 5th Dimension

The 5th Dimension is an American vocal group.

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The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that began as a vocal trio consisting of the brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley in the 1950s.

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The Rockettes

The Rockettes are an American precision dance company.

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Theodore C. Link, FAIA, (March 17, 1850 – November 12, 1923) was a German-born American architect and newspaper publisher.

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Thomas Eagleton

Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987.

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Thomas Hart Benton (politician)

Thomas Hart Benton (March 14, 1782April 10, 1858), nicknamed "Old Bullion", was an American politician, attorney, soldier, and longtime United States Senator from Missouri.

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Tim McCarver

James Timothy McCarver (October 16, 1941 – February 16, 2023) was an American professional baseball catcher, television sports commentator, and singer.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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University City, Missouri

University City (colloquially, U. City) is an inner-ring suburb of the city of St. Louis in St. Louis County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains.

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Virginia E. Johnson

Virginia E. Johnson (born Mary Virginia Eshelman; February 11, 1925 – July 24, 2013) was an American sexologist and a member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team.

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Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones; November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer.

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Walker Evans

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.

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Walker Hancock

Walker Kirtland Hancock (June 28, 1901 – December 30, 1998) was an American sculptor and teacher.

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Whitey Herzog

Dorrel Norman Elvert "Whitey" Herzog (November 9, 1931 – April 15, 2024) was an American professional baseball outfielder and manager, most notable for his Major League Baseball (MLB) managerial career.

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William B. Ittner

William Butts Ittner (September 4, 1864 – 1936) was an American architect in St. Louis, Missouri.

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William Clark

William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor.

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William Greenleaf Eliot

William Greenleaf Eliot (August 5, 1811 – January 23, 1887) was an American educator, Unitarian minister, and civic leader in Missouri.

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William H. Danforth

William H. Danforth (September 10, 1870 – December 24, 1955) was an American businessman known for founding Ralston Purina in St. Louis, Missouri in 1894.

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William H. Gass

William Howard Gass (July 30, 1924 – December 6, 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s.

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William Inge

William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913 – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations.

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William Masters

William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) was an American gynecologist and the senior member of the Masters and Johnson human sexuality research team.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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Willie Mae Ford Smith

Willie Mae Ford Smith (June 23, 1904 – February 2, 1994) was an American musician and Christian evangelist instrumental in the development and spread of gospel music in the United States.

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Yogi Berra

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born Lorenzo Pietro Berra; May 12, 1925 – September 22, 2015) was an American professional baseball catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach.

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See also

1989 establishments in Missouri

Awards for contributions to culture

Halls of fame in Missouri

References

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