National Medal of Arts | Awards & Honors

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Frank Gehry

02/28/1929 – 12/05/2025

96 years

Canadian and American architect

Santa Monica

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Robert Redford

08/18/1936 – 09/16/2025

89 years

American actor and director (1936—2025)

Provo

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Flaco Jiménez

03/11/1939 – 07/31/2025

86 years

San Antonio

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James Earl Jones

01/17/1931 – 09/09/2024

93 years

American actor

Pawling

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Frank Stella

05/12/1936 – 05/04/2024

87 years

American painter and printmaker

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N. Scott Momaday

02/27/1934 – 01/24/2024

89 years

Kiowa author and academic

Santa Fe

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Norman Lear

07/27/1922 – 12/05/2023

101 years

American television writer and producer

Los Angeles

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Robert Brustein

04/21/1927 – 10/29/2023

96 years

Cambridge

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André Watts

06/20/1946 – 07/12/2023

77 years

Bloomington

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Angela Lansbury

10/16/1925 – 10/11/2022

96 years

British-American-Irish actress and singer

Los Angeles

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Claes Oldenburg

01/28/1929 – 07/18/2022

93 years

American sculptor and printmaker

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Wayne Thiebaud

11/15/1920 – 12/25/2021

101 years

Sacramento

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Joan Didion

12/05/1934 – 12/23/2021

87 years

American writer

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Carlisle Floyd

06/11/1926 – 09/30/2021

95 years

Tallahassee

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Jacques d’Amboise

07/28/1934 – 05/02/2021

86 years

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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

10/10/1922 – 03/06/2021

98 years

Washington, D.C.

16th arrondissement of Paris

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Olivia de Havilland

07/01/1916 – 07/26/2020

104 years

British actress

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Kirk Douglas

12/09/1916 – 02/05/2020

103 years

American actor

Beverly Hills

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Ernest J. Gaines

01/15/1933 – 11/05/2019

86 years

Oscar

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I. M. Pei

04/26/1917 – 05/16/2019

102 years

Chinese-American architect

New York City

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Stan Lee

12/28/1922 – 11/12/2018

95 years

American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer

181

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Paul Taylor

07/29/1930 – 08/29/2018

88 years

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Aretha Franklin

03/25/1942 – 08/16/2018

76 years

American singer, songwriter, and pianist

Detroit

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Donald Hall

09/20/1928 – 06/23/2018

89 years

Wilmot