Same Day / Decades
The 1920s
62 icons active, 31 born, 16 at their peak.
The twelve longest careers
Born in the 1920s
- Montgomery Clift1920
- Federico Fellini1920
- Charlie Parker1920
- Lana Turner1921
- Judy Garland1922
- Ava Gardner1922
- Doris Day1922
- Dorothy Dandridge1922
- Hank Williams1923
- Jim Reeves1923
- Richard Avedon1923
- Diane Arbus1923
- Marlon Brando1924
- Lauren Bacall1924
- Paul Newman1925
- Peter Sellers1925
- Jack Lemmon1925
- Sam Peckinpah1925
- Sammy Davis Jr.1925
- Bill Haley1925
- Marilyn Monroe1926
- John Coltrane1926
- Miles Davis1926
- Chuck Berry1926
- Sidney Poitier1927
- Stanley Kubrick1928
- Fats Domino1928
- Bo Diddley1928
- Audrey Hepburn1929
- Grace Kelly1929
- Sergio Leone1929
At their peak in the 1920s
- Bessie SmithMusic
- Bix BeiderbeckeMusic
- Buster KeatonFilm
- Cecil B. DeMilleDirector
- Clara BowFilm
- Douglas FairbanksFilm
- Edward SteichenPhotographer
- Fritz LangDirector
- Gloria SwansonFilm
- Lillian GishFilm
- Lon ChaneyFilm
- Louis ArmstrongMusic
- Louise BrooksFilm
- Man RayPhotographer
- Mary PickfordFilm
- Rudolph ValentinoFilm
Active in the 1920s
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1927 to 1993
- Alfred Hitchcock1920 to 1976
- Anna May Wong1919 to 1960
- Ansel Adams1927 to 1984
- Barbara Stanwyck1927 to 1986
- Bela Lugosi1917 to 1956
- Bessie Smith1912 to 1937
- Billy Wilder1929 to 1981
- Bing Crosby1926 to 1977
- Bix Beiderbecke1923 to 1930
- Boris Karloff1919 to 1968
- Buster Keaton1917 to 1966
- Carole Lombard1921 to 1942
- Cecil B. DeMille1914 to 1956
- Cecil Beaton1925 to 1974
- Charlie Chaplin1914 to 1976
- Clara Bow1922 to 1933
- Clark Gable1924 to 1960
- D. W. Griffith1908 to 1931
- Dorothea Lange1918 to 1965
- Douglas Fairbanks1915 to 1934
- Duke Ellington1923 to 1974
- Edward G. Robinson1916 to 1973
- Edward Steichen1898 to 1962
- Frank Capra1922 to 1961
- Fred Astaire1905 to 1981
- Fritz Lang1919 to 1960
- Gary Cooper1925 to 1961
- George Hurrell1925 to 1992
- Ginger Rogers1929 to 1984
- Glenn Miller1924 to 1944
- Gloria Swanson1914 to 1975
- Greta Garbo1922 to 1941
- Groucho Marx1905 to 1976
- Henry Fonda1928 to 1981
- Howard Hawks1926 to 1970
- Humphrey Bogart1928 to 1956
- Jean Harlow1928 to 1937
- Joan Crawford1925 to 1972
- John Ford1914 to 1971
- John Wayne1926 to 1976
- Judy Garland1928 to 1969
- Katharine Hepburn1928 to 1994
- Lead Belly1903 to 1949
- Lillian Gish1912 to 1987
- Lon Chaney1912 to 1930
- Louis Armstrong1919 to 1971
- Louise Brooks1925 to 1938
- Mae West1907 to 1978
- Mahalia Jackson1927 to 1971
- Man Ray1915 to 1976
- Margaret Bourke-White1927 to 1957
- Marlene Dietrich1923 to 1978
- Mary Pickford1909 to 1933
- Myrna Loy1925 to 1981
- Oliver Hardy1914 to 1955
- Robert Johnson1929 to 1938
- Rudolph Valentino1914 to 1926
- Spencer Tracy1921 to 1967
- Stan Laurel1906 to 1955
- W. C. Fields1898 to 1946
- Walt Disney1921 to 1966