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BORN 1917

Turning 95 in 2012

 

Nicholas Oresko
American World War II Medal of Honor recipient
01/18/1917

 

Ernest Borgnine
American Oscar-winning actor, "Marty", TV's "McHale's Navy"
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
 

Martin Litton
American environmentalist
02/13/1917

 

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

  Harriet Frank, Jr.
American screenwriter, "Hud", "Norma Rae"
03/02/1917
 

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

 

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
1951 Rosenberg spy trial
04/11/1917
  Marvin Miller
American baseball union leader,
MLBPA executive director (1966-1982)
04/14/1917
 

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 big band singer, "Deep Purple", "My Reverie"
04/30/1917

 

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

  Lennie Merullo
American baseball player
05/05/1917
 

Domenico Bartolucci
Italian cardinal, 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
  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

 

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

  Maurice Duverger
French political scientist
06/05/1917
 

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

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

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

 

Robert Conquest
British h
istorian
07/15/1917

 

Phyllis Diller
American comedienne and actress, "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!"
07/17/1917

  William Scranton
American politician, Pennsylvania governor (1963-1967)
07/19/1917
  Alberta Adams
American blues singer
07/26/1917
  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

 

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
  Yuri Lyubimov
Russian actor, director, and playwright
09/30/1917
 

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
  Walter Munk
Austrian-born American oceanographer
10/19/1917
  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
 

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

 

Andrew Huxley
British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and biophysicist

11/22/1917

  Movita Castaneda
American actress, "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Fort Apache"
12/04/1917
  Stanley Rogers Resor
American government official, Secretary of the Army (1965-1971)
12/05/1917
 

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

  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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