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BORN 1915

Turning 93 in 2008

Old age is no place for sissies.
― Bette Davis (1908-1989)

 

John Hope Franklin
American historian and writer, "From Slavery to Freedom"
01/02/1915

 

Sid Hudson
American baseball player
01/03/1915

 

Jack Levine
American social realist painter
01/03/1915

 

Mady Rahl
German actress
01/03/1915

 

Don Edwards
American politician, California representative (1963-1995)
01/06/1915

 

Joseph Galibardy
Indian gold medal-winning Olympic field hockey player
01/10/1915

 

Leo Mol
Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor
01/15/1915

 

Leslie H. Martinson
American TV and film director, "PT 109", "Batman: The Movie"
01/16/1915

 

Santiago Carrillo
Spanish government official, General Secretary of the PCE (1960-1982)
01/18/1915

 

George A. "Banana George" Blair
American water skier
01/22/1915

 

Nien Cheng
Chinese-born American writer, "Life and Death in Shanghai"
01/28/1915

 

Alicia Rhett
American actress, "Gone with the Wind"
02/01/1915

 

Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
02/02/1915

 

Ingeborg Hunzinger
German sculptor
02/03/1915

 

Norman Wisdom
British comedian and actor
02/04/1915

 

Audrey Lawson-Johnston (nee Audrey Pearl)
American-born British Lusitania survivor
02/05/1915

 

Patrick Leigh Fermor
British travel writer
02/11/1915

 

Mimi Weddell
American character actress, "Hats Off"

02/15/1915

 

John Freeman
British politician and TV host, "Face to Face"
02/19/1915

 

Danuta Szaflarska
Polish actress
02/20/1915

 

Preacher Roe
American baseball player
02/26/1915

 

Nick Strincevich
American baseball player
03/01/1915

 

Caterina Boratto
Italian actress, "8½", "Juliet of the Spirits"
03/15/1915

 

Bill Roycroft
Australian gold medal-winning Olympic equestrian
03/17/1915

 

Jean Anglade
French writer
03/18/1915

 

Patricia Morison
American actress
03/19/1915
(Several sources claim 1914)

  John McConnell
American peace activist and environmentalist, founder of Earth Day
03/22/1915
 

Pietro Ingrao
Italian politician
03/30/1915

  Axel Axgil
Danish gay rights activist
04/03/1915
 

Piet de Jong
Dutch prime minister (1967-1971)
04/03/1915

 

İhsan Doğramacı
Turkish family healthcare advocate
04/03/1915

 

Albert O. Hirschman
German-born American political economist
04/07/1915

 

Harry Morgan
American character actor, TV's "
Dragnet", "M*A*S*H"
04/10/1915

 

Leo Vroman
Dutch-born American poet and hematologist
04/10/1915

 

Elizabeth Catlett
American-born sculptor and printmaker
04/15/1915

 

René Berger
Belgian-born Swiss philosopher and art historian
04/29/1915

 

Elio Toaff
Italian clergyman,
chief rabbi of Rome (1951-2001)
04/30/1915

 

Van Alexander
American musical arranger, composer, and conductor
05/02/1915

 

George Perle
American composer and musicologist
05/06/1915

 

Milton Meltzer
American writer of history books for children and young adults
05/08/1915

 

Mario Monicelli
Italian film director and screenwriter
05/15/1915

 

Paul Samuelson
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
05/15/1915

 

Peter Copley
British actor
05/20/1915

 

Robin Day
British furniture and interior designer
05/25/1915

 

Herman Wouk
American writer, "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War"
05/27/1915

 

Florence Holway
American advocate for the rights of victims of sexual assault
06/02/1915

 

Ruth Stone
American poet
06/08/1915

 

Les Paul
American musician and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar
06/09/1915

 

Peride Celal
Turkish writer
06/10/1915

 

David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist
06/12/1915

 

Thomas Huckle Weller
American Nobel Prize-winning virologist
06/15/1915

 

Mario Echandi Jiménez
Costa Rican president (1958-1962)
06/17/1915

 

Alice T. Schafer
American mathematician
06/18/1915

 

Charlotte Zolotow
American children's writer and editor
06/26/1915

 

Grace Lee Boggs
American writer, activist, and feminist
06/27/1915

 

David "Honeyboy" Edwards
American blues guitarist and singer
06/28/1915

 

Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
British brigadier and landowner
07/02/1915

 

Billy Mure
American guitarist and recording artist, "Supersonic Guitars"
07/07/1915

 

Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist
07/15/1915

 

Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
Indian yoga instructor
07/26/1915

 

Charles Hard Townes
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
07/28/1915

 

Ruth Lilly
American philanthropist, heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune
08/02/1915

 

Pete Newell
Canadian-born American college basketball coach
08/03/1915

 

Irving Fields
American pianist and recording artist,
"Bagels and Bongos"
08/04/1915

 

Sickan Carlsson
Swedish actress
08/12/1915

 

Mary Fedden
British painter
08/14/1915

 

Maryvonne Kendergi
Turkish-born Canadian broadcaster and classical music advocate
08/15/1915

 

María Rostworowski
Peruvian historian and writer, "History of the Inca Realm"
08/15/1915

 

Antonio Innocenti
Italian cardinal
08/23/1915

 

Carl Pohlad
American businessman,
owner of the Minnesota Twins baseball franchise
08/23/1915

 

Norman F. Ramsey
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
08/27/1915

 

Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
Welsh-born Swedish royal
08/30/1915

 

Meinhardt Raabe
American actor,
"The Wizard of Oz"
09/02/1915

 

Knut Nystedt
Norwegian orchestral and choral composer
09/03/1915

 

Kiyoshi Itô
Japanese mathematician
09/07/1915

 

Frank Cady
American character actor, TV's
"Petticoat Junction", "Green Acres"
09/08/1915

 

John Dobson
American amateur astronomer and telescope designer
09/14/1915

 

M. F. Husain
Indian painter
09/17/1915

 

Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer
09/17/1915

 

K. H. Ting
Chinese Anglican bishop
09/20/1915

 

Oscar Handlin
American historian and writer, "The Uprooted"
09/29/1915

 

Jerome Bruner
American cognitive psychologist
10/01/1915

 

Chuck Williams
American businessman, Williams-Sonoma
10/02/1915

 

Clifford M. Hardin
American government official, Secretary of Agriculture (1969-1971)
10/09/1915

 

T. Llew Jones
Welsh children's writer
10/11/1915

 

Yitzhak Shamir
Polish-born Israeli prime minister (1983-1984, 1986-1992)
10/15/1915

 

Nancy Bird-Walton
Australian aviatrix
10/16/1915

 

Roger Milliken
American businessman, Milliken & Company
10/24/1915

 

Hal Jackson
American radio personality
11/03/1915

 

Innocent Lotocky
Ukrainian-born American bishop
11/03/1915

 

Marguerite Patten
British food writer and TV chef
11/04/1915

 

R. Sargent Shriver
American government official and 1972 Democratic presidential running mate
11/09/1915

 

Nina Andrycz
Polish actress
11/11/1915

 

Howard Cooke
Jamaican governor-general (1991-2006)
11/13/1915

 

V. R. Krishna Iyer
Indian government official and Supreme Court justice (1973-1980)
11/14/1915

 

Jean Fritz
American writer of history books for children and young adults
11/16/1915

 

Oswald Morris
British Oscar-winning cinematographer,
"Fiddler on the Roof"
11/22/1915

 

Marc Simont
French-born American illustrator of books for children
11/23/1915

 

Ron Hamence
Australian cricketer
11/25/1915

 

Earl Wild
American pianist and composer
11/26/1915

 

Evald Okas
Estonian painter
11/28/1915

 

Mikasa Takahito
Japanese royal
12/02/1915 (Some sources claim 12/15/1915)

 

James D. Hodgson
American government official, Secretary of Labor (1970-1973)
12/03/1915

 

Eli Wallach
American actor, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
12/07/1915

 

Robert A. Dahl
American political scientist, "Who Governs?"
12/17/1915

 

Barbara Billingsley
American actress, TV's "Leave It To Beaver"
12/22/1915
(Several sources claim 1922)

 

Pete Rugolo
Italian-born American composer and arranger
12/25/1915

 

Marty Gold
American composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist
12/26/1915

 

Paul McCracken
American economist
12/29/1915

 

Sverker Åström
Swedish diplomat and writer
12/30/1915

 

Anna Schwartz
American economist
1915
(Exact date of birth is not currently available)

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