1915–1998 · American singer & actor · Hoboken, New Jersey
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) was one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century, a singer and Academy Award–winning actor whose career spanned bobby-soxer stardom in the 1940s, a comeback anchored by his 1953 From Here to Eternity role, and decades as the definitive interpreter of the Great American Songbook. His swaggering, take-no-guff public image made him a magnet for aphorisms about confidence, loyalty, and living on one’s own terms — some documented, many polished by admirers and biographers after the fact.