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1 - 100 of 823 historically important and notable people from the Traditionalist or Silent Generation, used to describe people born between 1928 and 1945. Ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
- 1. John Lennon
- 2. Elvis Presley
- 3. Saddam Hussein
- 4. Paul McCartney
- 5. Bruce Lee
- 6. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 7. Muammar Gaddafi
- 8. Audrey Hepburn
- 9. George Harrison
- 10. Manuel Noriega
- 11. Clint Eastwood
- 12. Joe Biden
- 13. Elizabeth Taylor
- 14. Muhammad Ali
- 15. Brigitte Bardot
- 16. Bob Dylan
- 17. Anne Frank
- 18. Barbra Streisand
- 19. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- 20. Yoko Ono
- 21. Che Guevara
- 22. Tim Horton
- 23. Gordon Lightfoot
- 24. Billie Jean King
- 25. Jimi Hendrix
- 26. Bob Marley
- 27. Wilt Chamberlain
- 28. Pattie Boyd
- 29. Mikhail Gorbachev
- 30. Joe Gallo
- 31. Ringo Starr
- 32. Shirley Temple
- 33. Boris Yeltsin
- 34. Buzz Aldrin
- 35. Wole Soyinka
- 36. Buddy Holly
- 37. Eric Clapton
- 38. Jayne Mansfield
- 39. Neil Armstrong
- 40. Kim Jong-il
- 41. Dustin Hoffman
- 42. Pope Francis
- 43. Frank Borman
- 44. Floyd Patterson
- 45. Jim Morrison
- 46. Diana Ross
- 47. Yasser Arafat
- 48. Stanley Kubrick
- 49. James Earl Ray
- 50. Al Pacino
- 51. Johnny Cash
- 52. Jerry Lee Lewis
- 53. James Dean
- 54. Ted Kaczynski
- 55. John Gotti
- 56. Jane Fonda
- 57. Rod Laver
- 58. Mickey Mantle
- 59. Pele
- 60. Pete Rose
- 61. Yuri Gagarin
- 62. John Madden
- 63. Willie Mays
- 64. Sharon Tate
- 65. Rita Moreno
- 66. Jimmie Lee Jackson
- 67. Lee Harvey Oswald
- 68. Huey P. Newton
- 69. Sophia Loren
- 70. Valentina Tereshkova
- 71. Jack Nicholson
- 72. Charles Manson
- 73. Juvénal Habyarimana
- 74. Janis Joplin
- 75. Christopher Walken
- 76. Sylvia Plath
- 77. Marvin Gaye
- 78. Otis Redding
- 79. Hosni Mubarak
- 80. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- 81. Hank Aaron
- 82. Linda McCartney
- 83. Elizabeth Montgomery
- 84. Carl Icahn
- 85. John Wayne Gacy
- 86. Jack Nicklaus
- 87. Arthur Ashe
- 88. Roberto Suárez Gómez
- 89. Aretha Franklin
- 90. Frank Zappa
- 91. Joni Mitchell
- 92. Willie Nelson
- 93. Barry Manilow
- 94. Alan Alda
- 95. Bill Bixby
- 96. Mick Jagger
- 97. Hunter S. Thompson
- 98. Mobutu Sese Seko
- 99. Joe Pepitone
- 100. Nina Simone