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BORN 1917

Turning 91 in 2008

Growing old is compulsory growing up is optional.
― Bob Monkhouse (1928-2003) ―

 

Lucienne Day
British textile designer
01/05/1917

 

Jerry Wexler
American music producer
01/10/1917

  Otto Leisner
Danish radio and TV host
01/16/1917
 

Ernest Borgnine
American Oscar-winning actor, "Marty"
01/24/1917

  José Luis Sampedro
Spanish writer and economist
02/01/1917
  Đỗ Mười
Vietnamese prime minister (1988-1991)
02/02/1917
 

Isuzu Yamada
Japanese actress, "Throne of Blood"
02/05/1917

 

Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hungarian-born American actress and TV personality
02/06/1917

 

Dom DiMaggio
American baseball player
02/12/1917

 

Herbert A. Hauptman
American Nobel Prize-winning mathematician
02/14/1917

 

Juan Vicente Torrealba
Venezuelan harpist and composer
02/20/1917

 

Ernst von Glasersfeld
Austrian-born American philosopher and cybernetician
03/08/1917

 

Robert L. Carter
American civil rights activist and judge
03/11/1917

 

Millard Kaufman
American screenwriter, "Bad Day at Black Rock"
03/12/1917

 

Googie Withers
British actress, wife of actor John McCallum
03/12/1917

 

John McCallum
Australian actor, husband of actress Googie Withers
03/14/1917

 

Vera Lynn
British singer, "We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover"
03/20/1917

 

Anton Coppola
American opera conductor and composer
03/21/1917

  Hélène Duc
French actress, "Tanguy"
03/22/1917
 

Leonora Carrington
British-born Mexican p
ainter and writer
04/06/1917

 

R. G. Armstrong
American character actor, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", "Dick Tracy"
04/07/1917

 

Morton Sobell
American espionage figure, co-defendant in the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg trial
04/11/1917

 

Marvin Miller
American union leader, MLBPA executive director (1966-1982)
04/14/1917

 

Bill Clements
American politician, governor of Texas (1979-1983 and 1987-1991)
04/17/1917

 

I. M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
04/26/1917

 

Virgil Trucks
American baseball player
04/26/1917

 

Robert Anderson
American playwright and screenwriter, "Tea and Sympathy"
04/28/1917

 

Celeste Holm
American Oscar-winning actress, "Gentleman's Agreement"
04/29/1917

 

Bea Wain
American singer, "Deep Purple", "Heart and Soul"
04/30/1917

 

Danielle Darrieux
French a
ctress, ""The Earrings of Madame de..."
05/01/1917

 

Kiro Gligorov
Macedonian president (1991-1999)
05/03/1917

 

Domenico Bartolucci
Italian composer and director of the Sistine Chapel Choir (1956-1997)
05/07/1917

 

John Anderson, Jr.
American politician, governor of Kansas (1961-1965)
05/08/1917

 

Fay Kanin
American screenwriter, playwright, and producer
05/09/1917

 

George Gaynes
Finnish-born American character actor, TV's "Punky Brewster"
05/16/1917

 

Florence Knoll
American architect and furniture designer
05/24/1917

 

Theodore Hesburgh
American clergyman and president of the University of Notre Dame (1952-1987)
05/25/1917

 

Barry Commoner
American biologist and presidential candidate on the Citizens Party ticket
05/28/1917

 

Marcel Trudel
Canadian historian and writer
05/29/1917

 

William S. Knowles
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
06/01/1917

 

Kirk Kerkorian
American businessman, Tracinda Corporation
06/06/1917

 

Eric Hobsbawm
British h
istorian and writer
06/09/1917

 

Lise Nørgaard
Danish journalist and writer
06/14/1917

 

John Bennett Fenn
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
06/15/1917

 

Irving Penn
American photographer
06/16/1917

 

Lena Horne
American singer and actress, "Stormy Weather", "The Wiz"
06/30/1917

  Georgette Plana
French singer, "Riquita"
07/04/1917
 

Andrew Wyeth
American painter, "Christina's World"
07/12/1917

  Robert Conquest
British historian
07/15/1917
 

Phyllis Diller
American comedienne
07/17/1917

 

William Scranton
American politician, governor of Pennsylvania (1963-1967)
07/19/1917

 

Rochus Misch
German courier and bodyguard for Adolf Hitler
07/29/1917

 

Earl Cameron
Bermudian-born British actor, "The Interpreter"
08/08/1917

  Adolf Burger
Slovakian Holocaust survivor and memoirist, "The Devil's Workshop"
08/12/1917
 

Ebba Haslund
Norwegian writer, "Nothing Happened"
08/12/1917

  Lisbeth Movin
Danish actress, "Babette's Feast"
08/25/1917
 

Denis Healey
British politician, Member of Parliament (1952-1992)
08/30/1917

 

John Cornforth
Australian-born British Nobel Prize-winning chemist
09/07/1917

 

Herbert Lom
Czech-born British actor, the "Pink Panther" film series
09/11/1917

 

Han Suyin
Chinese-born writer, "
A Many-Splendored Thing"
09/12/1917

 

June Foray
American voice artist, "Rocket J. Squirrel", "Natasha Fatale"
09/18/1917

 

Louis Auchincloss
American writer, "The House of Five Talents"
09/27/1917

 

Cahal Brendan Daly
Irish cardinal
10/01/1917

 

Christian de Duve
British-born Belgian Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and biochemist
10/02/1917

  Alan W. Livingston
American record executive and creator of Bozo the Clown
10/15/1917
 

Marsha Hunt
American actress, "The Valley of Decision"
10/17/1917

 

Joan Fontaine
American Oscar-winning actress, "Suspicion"
10/22/1917

 

Lee MacPhail
American baseball administrator
10/25/1917

 

Bobby Bragan
American baseball player, coach, manager, and administrator
10/30/1917

 

Edgar Whitcomb
American politician, governor of Indiana (1969-1973)
11/06/1917

 

Helen Suzman
South African social activist and politician
11/07/1917

 

John Matheson
Canadian politician and judge,
developed the maple leaf flag and the Order of Canada
11/14/1917

 

Robert Byrd
American politician, West Virginia senator (1959-present)
11/20/1917

 

Andrew Huxley
British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and biophysicist
11/22/1917

 

Luigi Poggi
Italian cardinal
11/25/1917

 

Marty Marion
American baseball player, coach, and manager
12/01/1917

 

Wenche Foss
Norwegian actress
12/05/1917

 

John Hart
American actor, TV's "The Lone Ranger"
12/13/1917

 

Elyse Knox
American actress, the "Joe Palooka" film series
12/14/1917

  Gonzalo Rojas
Chilean poet
12/20/1917
 

August Clarence Swenson
American actor, "The Wizard of Oz"
12/29/1917

 

Suzy Delair
French actress and singer
12/31/1917

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