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Also Known As John Davison Rockefeller III
Born March 21, 1906 • New York City • New York
Died July 10, 1978 (aged 72) • New York
Notable Family Members father John D. Rockefeller, Jr. • brother Nelson Rockefeller • brother Laurance S. Rockefeller • brother Winthrop Rockefeller • brother David Rockefeller
Andrew Mellon
American financier and politician
S.H. Kress
American businessman
Henry Clay Frick.
Henry Clay Frick
American industrialist and philanthropist
Widener, Peter A.B.
Peter A.B. Widener
American businessman and philanthropist
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
American financier
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
American industrialist
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
American philanthropist
Kahn, Otto Hermann
Otto Hermann Kahn
American businessman
Samuel Putnam Avery
American artist and philanthropist
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
English writer and artist
Louis I, detail from an oil painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach; in the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Louis I
king of Bavaria
Wallace, Sir Richard, Baronet
Sir Richard Wallace, Baronet
British art collector
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon
French artist
Stavros Spyros Niarchos
Greek businessman
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
French art dealer and publisher
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
British painter
Ambroise Vollard
French art dealer
Niccolò Niccoli
Italian humanist
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
English art collector
Vitaly Komar
American artist