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BORN 1917
Turning 91 in 2008
Growing old is compulsory
–
growing up is optional.
― Bob Monkhouse
(1928-2003)
―

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Lucienne Day
British textile designer
01/05/1917
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Jerry Wexler
American music producer
01/10/1917
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Otto Leisner
Danish radio and TV host
01/16/1917 |
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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 TV personality
02/06/1917
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Dom DiMaggio
American baseball player
02/12/1917
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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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Millard Kaufman
American screenwriter, "Bad
Day at Black Rock"
03/12/1917
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Googie Withers
British actress, wife of actor
John McCallum
03/12/1917
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John McCallum
Australian actor, husband of actress Googie
Withers
03/14/1917
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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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Leonora Carrington
British-born Mexican painter
and writer
04/06/1917
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R. G. Armstrong
American character 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 trial
04/11/1917
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Marvin Miller
American union leader, MLBPA
executive director (1966-1982)
04/14/1917
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Bill Clements
American politician, governor of Texas
(1979-1983 and 1987-1991)
04/17/1917
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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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Robert Anderson
American playwright and
screenwriter, "Tea and Sympathy"
04/28/1917
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Celeste Holm
American Oscar-winning
actress, "Gentleman's Agreement"
04/29/1917
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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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Domenico Bartolucci
Italian composer and director
of the Sistine Chapel Choir (1956-1997)
05/07/1917
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John Anderson, Jr.
American politician, governor
of Kansas (1961-1965)
05/08/1917
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Fay Kanin
American screenwriter,
playwright, and producer
05/09/1917
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George Gaynes
Finnish-born American
character actor, 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 president of the
University of Notre Dame (1952-1987)
05/25/1917
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Barry Commoner
American biologist and presidential
candidate on the Citizens Party ticket
05/28/1917
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Marcel Trudel
Canadian historian and writer
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 historian
and writer
06/09/1917
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Lise Nørgaard
Danish journalist and writer
06/14/1917
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John Bennett Fenn
American Nobel Prize-winning
chemist
06/15/1917
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Irving Penn
American photographer
06/16/1917
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Lena Horne
American singer and actress,
"Stormy Weather", "The Wiz"
06/30/1917
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Georgette Plana
French singer, "Riquita"
07/04/1917 |
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Andrew Wyeth
American painter, "Christina's
World"
07/12/1917
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Robert Conquest
British historian
07/15/1917 |
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Phyllis Diller
American comedienne
07/17/1917
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William Scranton
American politician, governor
of Pennsylvania (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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Ebba Haslund
Norwegian writer, "Nothing Happened"
08/12/1917
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Lisbeth Movin
Danish actress, "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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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
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Han Suyin
Chinese-born writer, "A
Many-Splendored Thing"
09/12/1917
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June Foray
American voice artist, "Rocket
J. Squirrel", "Natasha Fatale"
09/18/1917
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Louis Auchincloss
American writer, "The House of Five
Talents"
09/27/1917
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Cahal Brendan Daly
Irish cardinal
10/01/1917
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Christian de Duve
British-born Belgian Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and biochemist
10/02/1917
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Alan W. Livingston
American record executive and creator of Bozo the
Clown
10/15/1917 |
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Marsha Hunt
American actress, "The Valley
of Decision"
10/17/1917
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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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Bobby Bragan
American baseball player,
coach, manager, and administrator
10/30/1917
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Edgar Whitcomb
American politician, governor
of Indiana (1969-1973)
11/06/1917
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Helen Suzman
South African social activist
and politician
11/07/1917
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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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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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Wenche Foss
Norwegian actress
12/05/1917
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John Hart
American actor, TV's "The Lone
Ranger"
12/13/1917
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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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August Clarence Swenson
American actor, "The Wizard of Oz"
12/29/1917
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Suzy Delair
French actress and singer
12/31/1917
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Last modified:
July 17, 2008