BORN 1917
Turning 93 in 2010
Growing old is compulsory.
Growing up is optional.
― Bob Monkhouse
(1928-2003)
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Ernest Borgnine
American Oscar-winning actor, "Marty"
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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Herbert A. Hauptman
American Nobel Prize-winning
mathematician
02/14/1917
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Juan Vicente Torrealba
Venezuelan harpist and
composer
02/20/1917
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Ernst von Glasersfeld
Austrian-born American philosopher and
cybernetician
03/08/1917
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Robert L. Carter
American civil rights activist and judge
03/11/1917
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Googie Withers
British actress, "The Lady
Vanishes", "Night and the City"
03/12/1917
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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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Alex Steinweiss
American graphic designer, originated album
cover art
03/24/1917 |
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Leonora Carrington
British-born Mexican painter
and writer
04/06/1917
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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 Ethel and Julius 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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Bill Clements
American politician, Texas governor
(1979-1983, 1987-1991)
04/17/1917
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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 singer, "Deep
Purple", "Heart and Soul"
04/30/1917
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Danielle Darrieux
French actress,
"The Earrings of Madame de..."
05/01/1917 |
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Kiro Gligorov
Macedonian president
(1991-1999)
05/03/1917
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Lennie Merullo
American baseball player
05/05/1917
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Domenico Bartolucci
Italian 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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Albert Ueltschi
American businessman, FlightSafety International
05/15/1917
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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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Marcel Trudel
Canadian historian
05/29/1917
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William S. Knowles
American Nobel Prize-winning
chemist
06/01/1917
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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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John B. Fenn
American Nobel Prize-winning
chemist
06/15/1917
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David Easton
Canadian-born American political scientist
06/24/1917 |
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Lena Horne
American singer and actress,
"Stormy Weather", "The Wiz"
06/30/1917
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Walter Doniger
American screenwriter and television director, "Bat
Masterson"
07/01/1917 |
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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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Margarete Mitscherlich
German psychoanalyst
07/17/1917 |
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William Scranton
American politician, Pennsylvania
governor (1963-1967)
07/19/1917
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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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Lisbeth Movin
Danish actress, "Day of Wrath", "Babette's Feast"
08/25/1917 |
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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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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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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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Harold Garfinkel
American sociologist
10/29/1917 |
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Clarence E. Miller
American politician, Ohio representative
(1967-1993)
11/01/1917 |
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Edgar Whitcomb
American politician, Indiana governor
(1969-1973)
11/06/1917
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Manuel Alexandre
Spanish actor
11/11/1917 |
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John
Matheson
Canadian politician and judge,
developed the maple leaf flag and the Order
of Canada
11/14/1917
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Robert Byrd
American politician, West
Virginia senator (1959-present)
11/20/1917
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Andrew Huxley
British Nobel Prize-winning
physiologist and biophysicist
11/22/1917
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Michael Gough
British actor, the "Batman" film series
11/23/1917
(Some sources
cite 1913 or 1914)
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Luigi Poggi
Italian cardinal
11/25/1917
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Marty Marion
American baseball player,
coach, and manager
12/01/1917
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Movita Castenada
American actress, "Mutiny on
the Bounty", "Fort Apache"
12/04/1917 |
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Wenche Foss
Norwegian actress
12/05/1917
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Elyse Knox
American actress, the "Joe
Palooka" film series
12/14/1917
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Gonzalo Rojas
Chilean poet
12/20/1917 |
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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:
March 01, 2010