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BORN 1917

Turning 93 in 2010

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

 

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
television personality
02/06/1917

 

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

 

Googie Withers
British actress, "The Lady Vanishes", "Night and the City"
03/12/1917

 

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
  Paul Rogers
British actor, "The Homecoming"
03/22/1917
  Alex Steinweiss
American graphic designer, originated album cover art
03/24/1917
 

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

 

R. G. Armstrong
American 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 spy trial
04/11/1917

 

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

 

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

  Yvette Chauviré
French prima ballerina assoluta
04/22/1917
 

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

 

Virgil Trucks
American baseball player
04/26/1917

 

Celeste Holm
American Oscar-winning actress, "Gentleman's Agreement"
04/29/1917
(Some sources cite 1919)

 

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

 

Lennie Merullo
American baseball player
05/05/1917

 

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

 

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

 

Fay Kanin
American playwright and screenwriter, "Teacher's Pet"
05/09/1917

 

Albert Ueltschi
American businessman, FlightSafety International
05/15/1917

 

George Gaynes
Finnish-born American actor, the "Police Academy" film series, TV's "Punky Brewster"
05/16/1917

 

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

 

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

 

Barry Commoner
American biologist and 1980 presidential candidate on the Citizens Party ticket
05/28/1917

 

Marcel Trudel
Canadian historian
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 Marxist
historian
06/09/1917

 

Lise Nørgaard
Danish journalist and writer
06/14/1917

 

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

  David Easton
Canadian-born American political scientist
06/24/1917
 

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

  Walter Doniger
American screenwriter and television director, "Bat Masterson"
07/01/1917
  Georgette Plana
French singer, "Riquita"
07/04/1917
  Robert Conquest
British historian
07/15/1917
  Phyllis Diller
American comedienne and actress, "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!"
07/17/1917
  Margarete Mitscherlich
German psychoanalyst
07/17/1917
 

William Scranton
American politician, Pennsylvania governor (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
  Lisbeth Movin
Danish actress, "Day of Wrath", "Babette's Feast"
08/25/1917
  Denis Healey
British politician, Member of Parliament (1952-1992)
08/30/1917
  Armando Trovajoli
Italian film conductor and composer, "Two Women", "The Valachi Papers"
09/02/1917
 

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
(Some sources cite 01/09/1917)

 

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

 

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

  Richard C. Hottelet
American journalist and broadcaster
09/22/1917
 

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

 

Stanley Rubin

American television and film producer and writer, "Macao"
10/08/1917

 

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

  Stéphane Hessel
German-born French diplomat, ambassador, and human rights advocate
10/20/1917
 

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

 

Lee MacPhail
American baseball administrator
10/25/1917

  Mario Biaggi
American politician, New York representative (1969-1988)
10/26/1917
  Harold Garfinkel
American sociologist
10/29/1917
  Clarence E. Miller
American politician, Ohio representative (1967-1993)
11/01/1917
 

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

  Manuel Alexandre
Spanish actor
11/11/1917
 

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

 

Michael Gough
British actor, the "Batman" film series
11/23/1917
(Some sources cite 1913 or 1914)

 

Luigi Poggi
Italian cardinal
11/25/1917

 

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

  Movita Castenada
American actress, "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Fort Apache"
12/04/1917
 

Wenche Foss
Norwegian actress
12/05/1917

 

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

  Gonzalo Rojas
Chilean poet
12/20/1917
  Diana Athill
British literary editor and writer
12/21/1917
 

Suzy Delair
French actress and singer
12/31/1917
(Some sources cite 1916)

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