1915

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BORN 1915

Turning 97 in 2012

		Don Edwards American politician, California representative (1963-1995) 01/06/1915
		Karl Maramorosch Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist, and plant pathologist 01/16/1915
		Leslie H. Martinson American television and film director, "PT 109", "Batman: The Movie" 01/16/1915
		Santiago Carrillo Spanish Communist leader 01/18/1915
		George Blair (aka Banana George) American water skier 01/22/1915
		Alicia Rhett American actress, "Gone with the Wind" 02/01/1915
		Khushwant Singh Indian writer 02/02/1915
		Vladimir Zeldin Russian actor 02/10/1915
		John Freeman British politician and television host, "Face to Face" 02/19/1915
		Danuta Szaflarska Polish actress 02/20/1915
		Wally Cassell Italian-born American actor, "The Story of G. I. Joe", "Sands of Iwo Jima" 03/03/1915
		Jean Anglade French writer 03/18/1915
		Patricia Morison American actress, Broadway's "Kiss Me, Kate" 03/19/1915 (Some sources cite 1914)
		John McConnell American peace activist and environmentalist, founded equinoctial Earth Day 03/22/1915
		Jack Rollins American film producer, "Annie Hall", "Hannah and Her Sisters" 03/23/1915
		Pietro Ingrao Italian politician 03/30/1915
		Piet de Jong Dutch prime minister (1967-1971) 04/03/1915
		Albert O. Hirschman German-born American political economist 04/07/1915
		Leo Vroman Dutch-born American poet and hematologist 04/10/1915
		Elizabeth Catlett American-born sculptor and printmaker (Holds dual American/Mexican citizenship) 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
		Renée Asherson British actress, "Henry V", "The Others" 05/19/1915 (Some sources cite 1920)
		S. Donald Stookey American chemist, CorningWare inventor 05/23/1915
		Herman Wouk American writer, "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War" 05/27/1915
		David Rockefeller American banker and philanthropist 06/12/1915
		Charlotte Zolotow American children's writer and editor 06/26/1915
		Grace Lee Boggs American writer, activist, and feminist 06/27/1915
		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
		Charles Hard Townes American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 07/28/1915
		Irving Fields American pianist, composer, and recording artist, "Bagels and Bongos" 08/04/1915
		Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland Welsh-born Swedish royal 08/30/1915
		Knut Nystedt Norwegian orchestral and choral composer 09/03/1915
		Frank Cady American actor, TV's "Petticoat Junction", "Green Acres" 09/08/1915
		John Dobson American amateur astronomer and telescope designer 09/14/1915
		K. H. Ting Chinese Anglican bishop 09/20/1915
		Jerome Bruner American cognitive psychologist 10/01/1915
		Chuck Williams American cookbook author and businessman, founder of Williams-Sonoma 10/02/1915
		Yitzhak Shamir Polish-born Israeli prime minister (1983-1984, 1986-1992) 10/15/1915
		Mike Sandlock American baseball player 10/17/1915
		Marguerite Patten British food writer and television chef 11/04/1915
		Nina Andrycz Polish actress 11/11/1915
		Anna Schwartz American economist 11/11/1915
		Howard Cooke Jamaican governor-general (1991-2006) 11/13/1915
		V. R. Krishna Iyer Indian Supreme Court justice (1973-1980) 11/15/1915 (Some sources cite 11/01/1915 or 11/14/1915)
		Jean Fritz American children's writer and biographer 11/16/1915
		Oswald Morris British Oscar-winning cinematographer, "Fiddler on the Roof" 11/22/1915
		Marc Simont French-born American children's book illustrator 11/23/1915
		Prince Mikasa Japanese royal 12/02/1915 (Some sources cite 12/15/1915)
		James D. Hodgson American government official, Secretary of Labor (1970-1973) 12/03/1915
		Eli Wallach American actor, "The Misfits", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 12/07/1915
		Robert A. Dahl American political scientist, "Who Governs?" 12/17/1915
		Paul McCracken American economist 12/29/1915
		Sverker Åström Swedish diplomat and United Nations ambassador (1964-1970) 12/30/1915