Not sure where I came across this picture on the internet, but it seemed so perfect it got me thinking - what differences would 50 years make in the birth of famous people from the past? I decided to move the people born in the 1890s and 1900s forward 50 years to the baby boom generation, and included a few that stretched the boundaries a bit. Here are my best guesses as to what would happen in this alternate reality, but please feel free to add your own.

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George and Ira Gershwin - Prog rock heroes, co-founders of Yes. Their album Rhapsody in Tie Dye is ranked #2 on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Albums of All Time.

George Burns and Gracie Allen - Hugely successful comedy act, starred in When Harry met Sally, You've Got Mail, Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle

Howard Hawks - Director, Silverado, The Long Riders, Terminator, Star Trek 5, Black Hawk Down

Amelia Earhart - First female US astronaut, logged more shuttle missions than any other astronaut. Mysteriously lost during an EVA to fix a heat shield problem.

Elijah Muhammad - Hugely influential hip hop/rap artist/producer, most famous album is the multi-platinum Fear of a Black Planet

Joseph Goebbels - Chairman, SAP

Walter Winchell - Highest paid radio host, author, major supporter of Republican party. Became addicted to Oxycodone in a major scandal involving underage male hookers

C. S. Lewis - Founder, Anglican splinter movement; Pope of Belfast in exile

Norman Vincent Peale - Most popular televangelist in the US, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Christians

Paul Robeson - Musician, funk pioneer, lead vocalist for Sly and the Family Stone

Humphrey Bogart - Actor, star of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Goodfellas, Analyze This

James Cagney - Actor, star of The Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President's Men, Rain Man

Duke Ellington - Jazz musician, known for funk-jazz-hip hop fusion movement of the 1990s. His album The Birth of the Warm is considered one of the greatest Jazz fusion albums of all time.

Leo Strauss - Co-founder, Yippie movement

Xavier Cugat - Co-founder of Miami Sound Machine

Margaret Mitchell - Author, Vom Winde Verweht

Kurt Weill - Musician, early leader of punk rock movement. His band Knife appeared regularly at CBGBs in the 1970s and 80s.

Gary Cooper - Actor, star of Star Wars, Splash, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan

Richard J. Daley - Student radical, killed at 1968 Republican Convention riots in Miami

Leni Riefenstahl - Acclaimed director of television commercials and music videos

Strom Thurmond - Congressman, Senator, Republican nominee for President 1996. First white member of Congressional Black Caucus.

Lou Gehrig - AL MVP for 10 straight years

Anais Nin - Author, Fifty Shades of Gray

Roy Acuff - Musician, fiddler for the Byrds, Allman Brothers Band

Cary Grant - Actor, director, star of ER, Three Kings, Ocean's Eleven, Syriana

S. J. Perelman - Comedy writer, A Fish Called Wanda, Saturday Night Live, Anchorman, The Hangover, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report

William M. Shirer - Author, The Rise and the Fall of the GOP

Deng Xiaoping - Leader, Tienanmen protests

Harold Arlen - Lyricist, The Grateful Dead

Howard Hughes - Chairman, Goldman Sachs

Marlin Perkins - Founder, Animal Planet

Ayn Rand - Author, In Defense of the Proletariat; leader, New Soviet Movement

Ozzie Nelson - Actor, Modern Family

Satchel Paige - Baseball player, winner of Cy Young award 5 times. Second pitcher to throw a no hitter under the influence of LSD.

Bugsy Siegel - Hollywood producer, Heaven's Gate, Ishtar, Cutthroat Island, Waterworld, Catwoman

Billy Wilder - Director, Tootsie, A Fish Called Wanda, American Beauty, Being John Malkovitch, Fight Club

Jack Dempsey - Former heavyweight champ, traded titles with Muhammad Ali 5 times in the 1960s and 70s

J. Edgar Hoover - Gay rights pioneer, leader of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, NYC, 1969. Popularized the use of the word "gay", and was commonly referred to as "Gay J". Major influence in publicizing and politicizing the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

Buster Keaton - Actor, The Deer Hunter, Airplane, The Dead Zone, Pulp Fiction, The Suicide Kings. Has hosted Saturday Night Live more times than any other person.

Dwight D. Eisenhower - Wounded in Vietnam; ran Operation Eagle Claw, successfully rescuing US hostages in Iran and ensuring re-election of Jimmy Carter; Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, resigned his commission when ordered to draw up plans to attack Iraq in 2002 by President Jeb Bush