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BORN 1916

Turning 92 in 2008

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty- four?
Paul McCartney (1942-Present) ―

 

Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

British financier and philanthropist
01/02/1916

 

Bernard Greenhouse

American cellist
01/03/1916

 

Vic Mizzy

American composer, TV's "The Addams Family", "Green Acres"
01/09/1916 (Several sources claim 1922)

 

Eldzier Cortor

American painter
01/10/1916

 

House Peters, Jr.

American character actor
01/12/1916

 

Christel Peters

German actress
01/15/1916

 

Sam Maloof

American furniture designer and maker
01/16/1916

 

Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr.

American politician, New Jersey representative (1953-1975)
01/17/1916

 

Edmund Morgan

American historian and writer
01/17/1916

 

Harry Huskey

American computer designer
01/19/1916

 

Henri Dutilleux

French composer
01/22/1916

 

David Douglas Duncan

American photojournalist
01/23/1916

 

Rafael Caldera

Venezuelan president (1969-1974 and 1994-1999)
01/24/1916

 

Marvin Creamer

American amateur sailor, circled globe without navigational instruments
01/24/1916

 

Arnoldo Foà

Italian actor
01/24/1916

 

Bruce Gordon

American character actor, TV's "The Untouchables"
02/01/1916

 

Olaf Pooley

British actor, TV's "Dr. Who"
02/02/1916

 

Jean Margéot

Mauritian cardinal
02/03/1916

 

John Sweet

American actor, "A Canterbury Tale"
02/08/1916

 

Marcel Bigeard

French general
02/14/1916

 

Denham Harman

American biogerontologist
02/14/1916

 

Ernest Millington

British politician, Member of Parliament (1945-1950)
02/15/1916

 

Maria Altmann

Austrian-born American art heiress
02/18/1916

 

Jean Erdman

American dancer and dance instructor
02/20/1916

 

Lauran Paine

American writer of Western fiction, "Utah Summer"
02/25/1916

 

Svend Asmussen

Danish jazz violinist, "The Fiddling Viking"
02/28/1916

 

Frank Crean

Australian politician, deputy prime minister (1975)
02/28/1916

 

Monique Mélinand

French actress
03/09/1916

 

Lindy Boggs

American politician, Louisiana representative (1973-1991)
03/13/1916

 

Horton Foote

American playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, "Tender Mercies"
03/14/1916

 

Frank Coghlan, Jr.

American actor, "Adventures of Captain Marvel"
03/15/1916

 

Mort Abrahams

American TV and film producer, "Doctor Dolittle", "Planet of the Apes"
03/26/1916

 

Harry Rabinowitz

South African-born British film composer and conductor
03/26/1916

 

Peter Geach

British philosopher
03/29
/1916

 

Lucille Bliss

American voice artist, "Crusader Rabbit", "Smurfette"
03/31
/1916 (Several sources claim 1929)

 

Peter Gowland

American glamour photographer
04/03
/1916

 

Albert H. Ottenweller

American bishop
04/05
/1916

 

Beverly Cleary

American children's writer, "Henry Huggins"
04/12/1916

 

Russell Garcia

American composer, arranger, and trumpeter
04/12
/1916

 

Finn Lied

Norwegian military researcher and government official, Minister of Industry (1971-1972)
04/12
/1916

 

Ken Wallis

British autogyros designer and manufacturer
04/16/1916

 

José Joaquín Trejos Fernández

Costa Rican president (1966-1970)
04/18
/1916

 

Eldon Rathburn

Canadian film composer
04/21
/1916

 

Yiannis Moralis

Greek painter
04/23/1916

 

Stanley Kauffmann

American film and theater critic
04/24
/1916

 

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

American crime fiction writer
04/26
/1916

 

George Tuska (aka Carl Larson)

American comic book illustrator, "Captain Marvel", "Iron Man"
04/26
/1916

 

Sif Ruud

Swedish actress
05/06
/1916

 

João Havelange

Brazilian-born sports official, president of FIFA (1974-1998)
05/08
/1916

 

Milton Babbitt

American composer of serial and electronic music
05/10
/1916

 

Peg Lynch

American radio scriptwriter and actress, "Ethel and Albert"
05/11/1916

 

Albert Murray

American writer, "Stomping the Blues"
05/12
/1916

 

Vera Gebuhr

Danish actress
05/15
/1916

 

Ephraim Katzir

Ukrainian-born Israeli president (1973-1978) and biophysicist
05/16
/1916

 

Owen Chadwick

British ecclesiastical historian
05/20
/1916

 

Bernard Lewis

British-born American Islamic and Middle Eastern historian
05/31
/1916

 

Robert F. Furchgott

American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
06/04
/1916

 

Eddie Joost

American baseball player and manager
06/05
/1916

 

Robert McNamara

American government official, Secretary of Defense (1961-1968)
06/09/1916

 

Raúl H. Castro

Mexican-born American politician, Arizona governor (1975-1977)
06/12
/1916

 

Horacio Salgán

Argentine tango composer and pianist
06/15
/1916

 

William B. Saxbe

American politician, Ohio senator (1969-1974), and Attorney General (1974-1975)
06/24/1916

 

Giuseppe Taddei

Italian opera singer
06/26
/1916

 

Olivia de Havilland

American Oscar-winning actress, "To Each His Own", "The Heiress"
07/01/1916

 

Lawrence Halprin

American landscape architect
07/01
/1916

 

John Kundla

American college and professional basketball coach
07/03
/1916

 

Fernand Leduc

Canadian abstract expressionist painter
07/04
/1916

 

Malcolm Toon

American diplomat
07/04/1916

 

Harold Norse

American poet
07/06
/1916

 

Wilebaldo Solano

Spanish freedom fighter, journalist, and politician
07/07
/1916

 

Jean Rouverol

American actress and screenwriter
07/08
/1916

 

Reg Varney

British actor, TV's "On the Buses"
07/11
/1916

 

Gough Whitlam

Australian prime minister (1972–1975)
07/11
/1916

 

Phil Cavarretta

American baseball player, coach, and manager
07/19
/1916

 

David Brown

American film producer, "Jaws", "Cocoon", "A Few Good Men"
07/28
/1916

 

Fiorenzo Angelini

Italian cardinal
08/01/1916

 

Dom Mintoff

Maltese prime minister (1955-1958 and 1971-1984)
08/06
/1916

 

Manea Mănescu

Romanian prime minister (1974-1979)
08/09
/1916

 

Buddy Lewis

American baseball player
08/10
/1916

 

Jeni LeGon

American dancer and dance instructor
08/14
/1916

 

Neagu Djuvara

Romanian diplomat, writer, and historian
08/18
/1916

 

Don Keefer

American character actor, "Sleeper", "Liar Liar"
08/18
/1916

 

George Rosenkranz

Hungarian-born Mexican steroid chemist
08/20/1916

 

Hoy Wong

Hong Kong-born American bartender
08/22
/1916

 

Amparo Arozamena

Mexican actress
08/24
/1916

 

Van Johnson

American actor, "Brigadoon", "The Caine Mutiny"
08/25/1916

 

Jack Vance

American fantasy and science fiction writer
08/28/1916

 

Danny Litwhiler

American baseball player and coach
08/31
/1916

 

Daniel Schorr

American journalist
08/31
/1916

 

John S. Wold

American politician, Wyoming representative (1969-1971)
08/31
/1916

 

Dorothy "Dodo" Cheney

American tennis player
09/01
/1916

 

Asta Vender

Estonian illustrator of books for children
09/01
/1916

 

Ömer Lütfi Akad

Turkish film director, "Strike the Whore"
09/02
/1916

 

Ed Sabol

American filmmaker and businessman, NFL Films
09/11
/1916

 

Mary Stewart

British fantasy and mystery writer
09/12
/1916 (Several sources claim 09/17/1916)

 

Eric Bentley

British-born American critic and playwright
09/14/
1916

 

Luis Corvalán

Chilean politician and dissident
09/14/
1916

 

Frederick C. Weyand

American general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1974-1976)
09/15/1916

 

Russell W. Peterson

American politician, governor of Delaware (1969-1973)
10/03
/1916

 

Vitaly Ginzburg

Russian Nobel Prize-winning physicist
10/04
/1916

 

Stetson Kennedy

American writer, folklorist, and human rights activist
10/05
/1916

 

Julian Kawalec

Polish writer and poet
10/11
/1916

 

C. Everett Koop

American government official, Surgeon General of the United States (1982-1989)
10/14/1916

 

Friedrich Schoenfelder

German actor
10/17
/1916

 

Jean Dausset

French Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
10/19
/1916

 

Carl Johan Bernadotte

Swedish royal, great-grandson of Queen Victoria
10/31
/1916

 

Walter Cronkite

American journalist, "CBS Evening News" (1962-1981)
11/04/1916

 

Louis le Brocquy

Irish painter
11/10
/1916

 

Doctor Tangalanga

Argentine humorist
11/10
/1916

 

Robert Carr

British politician, Member of Parliament (1950-1976)
11/11
/1916

 

Verne Orr

American government official, Secretary of the Air Force (1981-1985)
11/12/1916

 

Sherwood Schwartz

American TV producer, "Gilligan's Island", "The Brady Bunch"
11/14
/1916

 

Bill Melendez

Mexican-born American animator, "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
11/15
/1916

 

Alvin Schwartz

American comic book writer, "Batman", "Superman"
11/17
/1916

 

P. K. Page

British-born Canadian poet
11/23
/1916

 

Forrest J. Ackerman

American science fiction promoter and collector
11/24/1916

 

Ramón José Velásquez

Venezuelan president (1993-1994)
11/28/1916

 

Hilary Koprowski

Polish-born American virologist and immunologist
12/05/1916

 

Kirk Douglas

American actor, "Champion", "Lust for Life"
12/09/1916

 

I. J. Good

British-born statistician and cryptographer
12/09
/1916

 

Birgitta Valberg

Swedish actress, "The Virgin Spring"
12/16
/1916

 

Roy Ward Baker

British TV and film director, "A Night to Remember"
12/19
/1916

 

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

German political scientist
12/19
/1916

 

Michel Chartrand

Canadian union leader and activist
12/20
/1916

 

Maurice Chappaz

Swiss writer
12/21
/1916

 

Ahmed Ben Bella

Algerian prime minister (1962-1963) and president (1963-1965)
12/25/1916 (Several sources claim 1918)

 

T. K. Whitaker

Irish economist and civil servant
12/1916 (Exact date of birth is not currently available)

 

Robert S. Baker

British film and TV producer and director, "The Saint"
1916 (Exact date of birth is not currently available)

 

Sam Fink

American illustrator and calligrapher
1916 (Exact date of birth is not currently available)

 

Sol Price

American businessman, Price Club
1916 (Exact date of birth is not currently available)

 

Stanley Rubin

American film and TV producer and writer, "Macao"
1916 (Exact date of birth is not currently available)

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