BORN 1915
Turning 95 in 2010
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Jack Levine
American social realist painter
01/03/1915
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Don Edwards
American politician, California representative (1963-1995)
01/06/1915
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Joseph
Galibardy
Indian gold medal-winning Olympic field hockey
player
01/10/1915
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Leslie H. Martinson
American television and film director, "PT 109",
"Batman: The Movie"
01/16/1915
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Santiago Carrillo
Spanish Communist leader
01/18/1915
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George
Blair (aka Banana George)
American water skier
01/22/1915
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Alicia Rhett
American actress, "Gone with the Wind"
02/01/1915
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Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
02/02/1915
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Norman Wisdom
British comedian and actor
02/04/1915
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Audrey Lawson-Johnston
(nee Audrey Pearl)
American-born British
Lusitania passenger,
last survivor of the
sinking
02/05/1915
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Ralph Hodgin
American baseball player
02/10/1915 (Some sources
cite 1916) |
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
British travel
writer
02/11/1915
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John Freeman
British politician and
television host, "Face to Face"
02/19/1915
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Danuta Szaflarska
Polish actress
02/20/1915
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Nick Strincevich
American baseball player
03/01/1915
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Wally Cassell
Italian-born American actor, "The Story of G.
I. Joe",
"Sands of Iwo Jima"
03/03/1915 |
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Caterina Boratto
Italian actress, "8½", "Juliet of the Spirits"
03/15/1915
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Don Lang
American baseball player
03/15/1915
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Bill Roycroft
Australian
gold medal-winning Olympic
equestrian
03/17/1915
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Jean Anglade
French writer
03/18/1915
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Patricia Morison
American actress,
Broadway's "Kiss Me, Kate"
03/19/1915 (Some sources
cite 1914)
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John McConnell
American peace activist and
environmentalist, founded equinoctial Earth Day
03/22/1915 |
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Jack Rollins
American film producer, "Annie Hall", "Hannah and
Her Sisters"
03/23/1915 |
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Pietro
Ingrao
Italian politician
03/30/1915
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Axel Axgil
Danish gay rights activist
04/03/1915 |
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Piet de Jong
Dutch prime minister (1967-1971)
04/03/1915
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Albert O. Hirschman
German-born American political economist
04/07/1915
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Harry Morgan
American actor, TV's "Dragnet",
"M*A*S*H"
04/10/1915
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Leo Vroman
Dutch-born American poet and hematologist
04/10/1915
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Elizabeth Catlett
American-born
sculptor and printmaker (Holds dual
American/Mexican citizenship)
04/15/1915
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Elio Toaff
Italian clergyman,
chief rabbi of Rome (1951-2001)
04/30/1915
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Van
Alexander
American musical arranger, composer, and conductor
05/02/1915
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Mario Monicelli
Italian film director and screenwriter, "Casanova
'70"
05/15/1915
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S. Donald Stookey
American chemist, CorningWare inventor
05/23/1915 |
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Robin Day
British furniture and interior designer
05/25/1915
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Herman Wouk
American writer, "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War"
05/27/1915
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Florence Holway
American advocate for the rights of sexual assault victims
06/02/1915
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Ruth
Stone
American poet
06/08/1915
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David Rockefeller
American banker and philanthropist
06/12/1915
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Mario Echandi Jiménez
Costa Rican president (1958-1962)
06/17/1915
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Charlotte Zolotow
American children's writer
and editor
06/26/1915
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Grace Lee Boggs
American writer, activist, and feminist
06/27/1915
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Honeyboy Edwards
American blues guitarist and singer
06/28/1915
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Arthur Wellesley, 8th
Duke of Wellington
British brigadier and landowner
07/02/1915
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Billy Mure
American guitarist and recording artist,
"Supersonic Guitars"
07/07/1915
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Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist
07/15/1915
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Charles Hard Townes
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
07/28/1915
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Irving Fields
American pianist,
composer, and
recording artist, "Bagels and
Bongos"
08/04/1915
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Sickan Carlsson
Swedish actress
08/12/1915
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Mary Fedden
British painter
08/14/1915
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Maryvonne Kendergi
Turkish-born Canadian broadcaster and classical music advocate
08/15/1915
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María Rostworowski
Peruvian historian, "History of the Inca Realm"
08/15/1915
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Norman F. Ramsey
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
08/27/1915
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Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
Welsh-born Swedish royal
08/30/1915
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Knut Nystedt
Norwegian orchestral and choral composer
09/03/1915
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Frank Cady
American actor, TV's "Petticoat
Junction", "Green Acres"
09/08/1915
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John Dobson
American amateur astronomer and telescope designer
09/14/1915
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M.
F. Husain
Indian painter
09/17/1915
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Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer
09/17/1915
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K. H. Ting
Chinese Anglican bishop
09/20/1915
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Oscar Handlin
American historian, "The Uprooted"
09/29/1915
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Jerome Bruner
American cognitive psychologist
10/01/1915
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Chuck Williams
American cookbook author and businessman, founder of Williams-Sonoma
10/02/1915
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Yitzhak Shamir
Polish-born Israeli prime minister (1983-1984, 1986-1992)
10/15/1915
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Mike Sandlock
American baseball player
10/17/1915
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Roger Milliken
American businessman, Milliken & Company
10/24/1915
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Hal Jackson
American radio personality
11/03/1915
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Innocent Lotocky
Ukrainian-born American bishop
11/03/1915
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Marguerite Patten
British home economist, food writer, and broadcaster
11/04/1915
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Benny McCoy
American baseball player
11/09/1915
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R. Sargent Shriver
American government official and 1972 Democratic presidential running
mate
11/09/1915
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Nina Andrycz
Polish actress
11/11/1915
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Anna Schwartz
American economist
11/11/1915
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Howard Cooke
Jamaican governor-general (1991-2006)
11/13/1915
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V. R. Krishna Iyer
Indian Supreme Court justice (1973-1980)
11/15/1915
(Some sources cite 11/01/1915 or 11/14/1915)
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Jean Fritz
American children's writer
and biographer
11/16/1915
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Oswald Morris
British Oscar-winning
cinematographer, "Fiddler on
the Roof"
11/22/1915
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Marc Simont
French-born American children's book illustrator
11/23/1915
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Evald Okas
Estonian painter
11/28/1915
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Mikasa Takahito
Japanese royal
12/02/1915 (Some
sources cite 12/15/1915)
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James D. Hodgson
American government official, Secretary of Labor (1970-1973)
12/03/1915
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Eli Wallach
American actor, "The Misfits", "The Good, the Bad and
the Ugly"
12/07/1915
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Robert A. Dahl
American political scientist, "Who Governs?"
12/17/1915
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Barbara Billingsley
American
actress, TV's "Leave It To Beaver"
12/22/1915 (Some sources
cite 1922)
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Pete Rugolo
Italian-born American composer and arranger
12/25/1915
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Marty Gold
American composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist
12/26/1915
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Paul McCracken
American economist
12/29/1915
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Sverker
Åström
Swedish diplomat and United Nations ambassador
(1964-1970)
12/30/1915
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Last modified:
September 08, 2010