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President George W.
Bush
First Lady Laura
Bush
Walter Cronkite
James Earl Jones
James Levine
Chita Rivera
Paul Simon
Elizabeth Taylor
Burt Bacharach
Matt Bogart
Charlotte d'Amboise
Placido Domingo
Charles S. Dutton
Kelsey Grammer
Rudolph Giuliani
Billy Hartung
Alicia Keys
Alison Krauss
Brian Stokes
Mitchell
Steve Martin
John Mellencamp
Donna Murphy
Patricia Ben
Peterson
Valarie Pettiford
Sidney Poitier
Harold Prince
Alice Ripley
James Taylor
Bryn Terfel
John Travolta
Courtney B. Vance
Frederica Von Stade
Dionne Warwick
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25 YEARS OF KENNEDY CENTER HONORS RECIPIENTS
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Here is a complete list of Kennedy Center honorees:
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| Year | Place of Birth |
| 2002 |
| James Earl Jones | Arkabutla, MS |
| James Levine | Cincinnati, OH |
| Chita Rivera | Washington, D.C. |
| Paul Simon | Newark, NJ |
| Elizabeth Taylor | London, England |
2001 |
| Julie Andrews | Walton-on-Thames, England |
| Van Cliburn | Shreveport, LA. |
| Quincy Jones | Chicago, IL |
| Jack Nicholson | Neptune, NJ |
| Luciano Pavarotti | Modena, Italy |
2000 |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | Riga, Latvia |
| Chuck Berry | St. Louis, MO |
| Placido Domingo | Madrid, Spain |
| Clint Eastwood | San Francisco, CA |
| Angela Lansbury | London, England |
1999 |
| Victor Borge | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Sean Connery | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Judith Jamison | Philadelphia, PA |
| Jason Robards, Jr. | Chicago, IL |
| Stevie Wonder | Saginaw, MI |
1998
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| Bill Cosby | Philadelphia, PA |
| John Kander | Kansas City, MO |
| Fred Ebb | New York, NY |
| Willie Nelson | Abbott, TX |
| Andre Previn | Berlin, Germany |
| Shirley Temple (Black) | Santa Monica, CA |
1997 |
| Lauren Bacall | New York, NY |
| Bob Dylan | Hibbing, MN |
| Charlton Heston | Evanston, IL |
| Jessye Norman | Augusta, GA |
| Edward Villella | Bayside, NY |
1996 |
| Edward Albee | Washington, D.C. |
| Benny Carter | New York, NY |
| Johnny Cash | Kingsland, AR. |
| Jack Lemmon | Boston, MA |
| Maria Tallchief | Fairfax, OK |
1995 |
| Jacques d’Amboise | Dedham, MA |
| Marilyn Horne | Bradford, PA |
| Riley “B.B.” King | Itta Bena, MS |
| Sidney Poitier | Miami, FL |
| Neil Simon | Bronx, NY |
1994 |
| Kirk Douglas | Amsterdam, NY |
| Aretha Franklin | Memphis, TN |
| Morton Gould | Richmond Hills, NY |
| Harold Prince | New York, NY |
| Pete Seeger | New York, NY |
1993 |
| Johnny Carson | Corning, IA |
| Arthur Mitchell | New York, NY |
| Sir Georg Solti | Budapest, Hungary |
| Stephen Sondheim | New York, NY |
| Marion Williams | Miami, FL |
1992 |
| Lionel Hampton | Louisville, KY |
| Paul Newman | Cleveland, OH |
| Joanne Woodward | Thomasville, GA |
| Ginger Rogers | Independence, MO |
| Mstislav Rostropovich | Baku, Soviet Union |
| Paul Taylor | Pittsburgh, PA |
1991 |
| Roy Acuff | Maynardville, TN |
| Betty Comden | New York, NY |
| Adolph Green | New York, NY |
| Fayard Nicholas | Mobile, AL |
| Harold Nicholas | Winston-Salem, NC |
| Gregory Peck | La Jolla, CA |
| Robert Shaw | Red Bluff, CA |
1990 |
| Dizzy Gillespie | Cheraw, SC |
| Katharine Hepburn | Hartford, CT |
| Risë Stevens | New York, NY |
| Jule Styne | London, England |
| Billy Wilder | Vienna, Austria |
1989 |
| Harry Belafonte | New York, NY |
| Claudette Colbert | Paris, France |
| Alexandra Danilova | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Mary Martin | Weatherford, TX |
| William Schuman | New York, NY |
1988 |
| Alvin Ailey | Rogers, Texas |
| George Burns | New York, NY |
| Myrna Loy | Raidersburg, MT |
| Alexander Schneider | Vilna, Russia |
| Roger L. Stevens | Detroit, MI |
>1987 |
| Perry Como | Canonsburg, PA |
| Bette Davis | Lowell, MA |
| Sammy Davis Jr. | New York, NY |
| Nathan Milstein | Odessa, Russia |
| Alwin Nikolais | Southington, CT |
1986 |
| Lucille Ball | Celoron, NY |
| Ray Charles | Albany, GA |
| Hume Cronyn | London, Ontario, Canada |
| Jessica Tandy | London, England |
| Yehudi Menuhin | New York, NY |
| Antony Tudor | London, England |
1985 |
| Merce Cunningham | Centralia, WA |
| Irene Dunne | Louisville, KY |
| Bob Hope | Eltham, England |
| Alan Jay Lerner | New York, NY |
| Frederick Loewe | Vienna, Austria |
| Beverly Sills | Brooklyn, NY |
1984 |
| Lena Horne | Brooklyn, NY |
| Danny Kaye | Brooklyn, NY |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | Cadegliano, Italy |
| Arthur Miller | New York, NY |
| Isaac Stern | Kreminiwcz, Russia |
1983 |
| Katherine Dunham | Glen Ellyn, IL |
| Elia Kazan | Constantinople, Turkey |
| Frank Sinatra | Hoboken, NJ |
| James Stewart | Indiana, PA |
| Virgil Thomson | Kansas City, MO |
1982 |
| George Abbott | Forestville, NY |
| Lillian Gish | Springfield, OH |
| Benny Goodman | Chicago, IL |
| Gene Kelly | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Eugene Ormandy | Budapest, Hungary |
1981 |
| Count Basie | Red Bank, NJ |
| Cary Grant | Bristol, England |
| Helen Hayes | Washington, D.C. |
| Jerome Robbins | New York, NY |
| Rudolf Serkin | Eger, Bohemia |
1980 |
| Leonard Bernstein | Lawrence, MA |
| James Cagney | New York, NY |
| Agnes deMille | New York, NY |
| Lynn Fontanne | Essex, England |
| Leontyne Price | Laurel, MS |
1979 |
| Aaron Copland | Brooklyn, NY |
| Ella Fitzgerald | Newport News, VA |
| Henry Fonda | Grand Island, NE |
| Martha Graham | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Tennessee Williams | Columbus, OH |
1978 |
| Marian Anderson | Philadelphia, PA |
| Fred Astaire | Omaha, NE |
| George Balanchine | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Richard Rodgers | New York, NY |
| Arthur Rubinstein | Lodz, Poland |
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