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BORN 1911

Turning 97 in 2008

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
― Bill Cosby (1937-Present) ―

		Roman Totenberg Polish-born American violinist 01/01/1911
		Jean Bourcier Canadian hockey player 01/03/1911
		Wendell J. Westcott American carillonneur 01/20/1911
		Kurt Maetzig German film director 01/25/1911
		Willem Kolff Dutch-born American medical researcher and inventor 02/14/1911
		Orrin Tucker American bandleader and composer 02/17/1911
		Otakar Vávra Czech film director 02/28/1911
		Ebby Halliday American realtor 03/09/1911
		Pierre Harmel Belgian prime minister (1965-1966) 03/16/1911
		Freya von Moltke German resistance fighter 03/29/1911
		Fauja Singh Indian-born marathon runner 04/01/1911
		Lester Rodney American sportswriter 04/17/1911
		Maurice Goldhaber Austrian-born American physicist 04/18/1911
		Ronald Neame British cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter, and director 04/23/1911
		Connie Marrero Cuban baseball player 04/25/1911 (Some sources claim 05/01/1911 or 08/11/1911)
		Andor Lilienthal Hungarian chess grandmaster 05/05/1911
		Bel Kaufman German-born American writer, "Up the Down Staircase" 05/10/1911
		Maurice Nadeau French literary critic and writer, "The History of Surrealism" 05/21/1911
		Paul Augustin Mayer German cardinal 05/23/1911
		Carleen Hutchins American inventor of string instruments 05/24/1911
		Maurice Allais French Nobel Prize-winning economist 05/31/1911
		Paul Pietsch German auto racer and magazine publisher 06/20/1911
		Irving Fein American manager and producer 06/21/1911
		Ernesto Sábato Argentine writer and literary critic 06/24/1911
		Sergei Sokolov Ukrainian-born Russian military commander and government official 07/01/1911
		Mitch Miller American recording artist and TV host, "Sing Along with Mitch" 07/04/1911
		Lionel Ferbos American jazz trumpeter 07/17/1911
		James E. Charlton Canadian publisher and numismatist 07/26/1911
		John Calvert American magician and actor, "The Falcon" film series 08/05/1911
		Norman Gordon South African cricketer 08/06/1911
		William H. Avery American politician, Kansas representative (1955-1965) and governor (1965-1967) 08/11/1911
		Amelia Boynton Robinson American civil rights activist 08/18/1911
		Vo Nguyen Giap Vietnamese military and political leader 08/25/1911 (Several sources claim 1912)
		Herb Jeffries American singer and actor 09/24/1911
		Ruth Gruber American journalist, photographer, and humanitarian 09/30/1911
		Pierre Dansereau Canadian ecologist 10/05/1911
		Clare Hollingworth British journalist 10/10/1911
		Sidney Wood American tennis player 11/01/1911
		Marie Osborne American child actress of the 1910's 11/05/1911
		Fe del Mundo Filipino pediatrician 11/27/1911
		Tsien Hsue-shen Chinese rocket scientist 12/11/1911
		Hortense Calisher American writer, "Queenie" 12/20/1911
		Nino Bongiovanni American baseball player 12/21/1911
		Louise Bourgeois French-born American sculptor 12/25/1911
		Rose Friedman Russian-born American economist 12/1911 (Exact date of birth is not currently available)