BORN 1917
Turning 95 in 2012

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Nicholas
Oresko
American World War II Medal of Honor
recipient
01/18/1917
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Ernest Borgnine
American Oscar-winning actor, "Marty", TV's "McHale's Navy"
01/24/1917
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José Luis Sampedro
Spanish writer and
economist
02/01/1917 |
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Đỗ Mười
Vietnamese prime minister (1988-1991)
02/02/1917
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Isuzu Yamada
Japanese actress, "Throne of Blood"
02/05/1917
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hungarian-born American actress and
television personality
02/06/1917 |
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Martin Litton
American environmentalist
02/13/1917
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Juan Vicente Torrealba
Venezuelan harpist and composer
02/20/1917
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Harriet Frank, Jr.
American screenwriter, "Hud",
"Norma Rae"
03/02/1917 |
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Vera Lynn
British singer, "We'll Meet Again", "The White Cliffs of Dover"
03/20/1917
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Anton Coppola
American opera conductor and
composer
03/21/1917
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Hélène Duc
French actress, "Tanguy"
03/22/1917
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Paul Rogers
British actor, "The Homecoming"
03/22/1917
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R.
G. Armstrong
American actor, "Pat Garrett and
Billy the Kid", "Dick Tracy"
04/07/1917
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Morton Sobell
American espionage figure, co-defendant in the
1951
Rosenberg spy trial
04/11/1917 |
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Marvin Miller
American baseball union leader,
MLBPA
executive director (1966-1982)
04/14/1917 |
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Yvette Chauviré
French prima
ballerina assoluta
04/22/1917
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I. M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
04/26/1917
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Virgil Trucks
American baseball
player
04/26/1917
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Celeste Holm
American Oscar-winning actress, "Gentleman's Agreement"
04/29/1917
(Some sources cite 1919) |
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Bea
Wain
American big band singer, "Deep Purple", "My Reverie"
04/30/1917
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Danielle Darrieux
French actress, "The Earrings of Madame de..."
05/01/1917
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Lennie
Merullo
American baseball player
05/05/1917 |
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Domenico Bartolucci
Italian cardinal, composer, and Sistine Chapel Choir director (1956-1997)
05/07/1917
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John Anderson, Jr.
American politician,
Kansas
governor (1961-1965)
05/08/1917
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Fay Kanin
American playwright and screenwriter, "Teacher's Pet"
05/09/1917 |
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George Gaynes
Finnish-born American actor,
the "Police Academy" film series, TV's "Punky Brewster"
05/16/1917 |
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Florence Knoll
American architect and furniture designer
05/24/1917
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Theodore
Hesburgh
American clergyman and University of Notre Dame
president (1952-1987)
05/25/1917
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Barry Commoner
American biologist and 1980 presidential
candidate on the Citizens Party ticket
05/28/1917
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William S. Knowles
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
06/01/1917
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Maurice Duverger
French political scientist
06/05/1917 |
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Kirk Kerkorian
American businessman, Tracinda Corporation
06/06/1917
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Eric Hobsbawm
British Marxist
historian
06/09/1917
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Lise
Nørgaard
Danish journalist and writer
06/14/1917
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David Easton
Canadian-born American political
scientist
06/24/1917 |
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Georgette Plana
French singer, "Riquita"
07/04/1917
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Robert Conquest
British historian
07/15/1917
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Phyllis Diller
American comedienne and actress,
"Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!"
07/17/1917
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William Scranton
American politician, Pennsylvania governor
(1963-1967)
07/19/1917 |
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Alberta Adams
American blues singer
07/26/1917 |
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Rochus Misch
German courier and bodyguard for Adolf Hitler
07/29/1917 |
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Earl Cameron
Bermudian-born British actor, "The Interpreter"
08/08/1917 |
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Adolf Burger
Slovakian Holocaust survivor and memoirist, "The
Devil's Workshop"
08/12/1917
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Denis Healey
British politician, Member of Parliament (1952-1992)
08/30/1917
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Armando Trovajoli
Italian film conductor and
composer, "Two Women", "The Valachi Papers"
09/02/1917 |
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John
Cornforth
Australian-born British Nobel
Prize-winning chemist
09/07/1917
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Herbert Lom
Czech-born British actor, the "Pink Panther" film series
09/11/1917
(Some sources cite 01/09/1917)
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Han Suyin
Chinese-born British writer, "A
Many-Splendored Thing"
09/12/1917
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June Foray
American voice artist,
voice of
Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale
09/18/1917 |
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Richard C. Hottelet
American journalist and broadcaster
09/22/1917 |
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Yuri Lyubimov
Russian actor, director, and playwright
09/30/1917 |
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Christian de Duve
British-born Belgian Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and biochemist
10/02/1917
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Stanley Rubin
American
television and film producer and writer, "Macao"
10/08/1917
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Marsha Hunt
American actress, "The Valley of Decision"
10/17/1917 |
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Walter Munk
Austrian-born American oceanographer
10/19/1917 |
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Stéphane Hessel
German-born French diplomat,
ambassador, and human rights advocate
10/20/1917 |
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Joan Fontaine
American Oscar-winning actress, "Suspicion"
10/22/1917 |
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Lee MacPhail
American baseball administrator
10/25/1917
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Mario
Biaggi
American
politician, New York representative (1969-1988)
10/26/1917 |
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Edgar Whitcomb
American politician, Indiana governor (1969-1973)
11/06/1917
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Andrew Huxley
British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and biophysicist
11/22/1917
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Movita
Castaneda
American actress, "Mutiny on
the Bounty", "Fort Apache"
12/04/1917 |
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Stanley Rogers Resor
American government official, Secretary of the Army (1965-1971)
12/05/1917 |
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Elyse Knox
American actress, the "Joe Palooka" film series
12/14/1917
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Diana Athill
British literary editor and writer
12/21/1917 |
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Suzy
Delair
French actress and singer
12/31/1917
(Some sources cite 1916)
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Last modified:
February 04, 2012