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

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

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

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

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

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

Pietro Ingrao
Italian politician
03/30/1915

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

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

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

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

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

Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist
07/15/1915

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)