BORN 1918
Turning 92 in 2010
Frances Bay Canadian actress, "Happy Gilmore" 01/01/1918
George M. Leader American politician, Pennsylvania governor (1955-1959) 01/17/1918
Peter Hobbs American actor, "The Man With Two Brains", TV's "The Secret Storm" 01/18/1918
Nevin S. Scrimshaw American clinical and public health nutritionist 01/20/1918
Richard Winters American army commander, memorialized in "Band of Brothers" 01/21/1918
Elmer Lach Canadian hockey player 01/22/1918
Hella Haasse Dutch writer, "In a Dark Wood Wandering" 02/02/1918
Porky Chedwick American radio personality, "The Daddio of the Raddio" 02/04/1918
Janet Waldo American actress and voice artist, voice of Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop 02/04/1918 (Some sources cite 1920 or 1924)
Blaine Gibson American Disney animator and sculptor 02/11/1918
Norman Farberow American suicidologist 02/12/1918
Allan Arbus American actor, TV's "M*A*S*H" 02/15/1918
Patty Andrews American singer, The Andrews Sisters 02/16/1918
Don Pardo American radio and television announcer, "Jeopardy", "Saturday Night Live" 02/22/1918
Otis Bowen American cabinet member and politician, Indiana governor (1973-1981) 02/26/1918
Lloyd Geering New Zealand theologian 02/26/1918
Alfred Burke British actor, TV's "Public Eye" 02/28/1918
Peter O'Sullevan Irish-born British BBC horseracing commentator (1947-1997) 03/03/1918
Dwayne Andreas American political campaign donor and businessman, Archer Daniels Midland 03/04/1918
Margaret Osborne duPont American tennis player 03/04/1918
Milt Schmidt Canadian hockey player, coach, and manager 03/05/1918
Mike Road American actor and voice artist, voice of Race Bannon on TV's "Jonny Quest" 03/18/1918 (Some sources cite 1915)
Marian McPartland British-born American jazz pianist and radio host 03/20/1918
Patrick J. Lucey American politician, Wisconsin governor (1971-1977) 03/21/1918
Ted Post American television and film director, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", "Magnum Force" 03/31/1918
Bobby Doerr American baseball player 04/07/1918
Betty Ford American First Lady (1974-1977) 04/08/1918
Elliot Handler American businessman, co-founded Mattel toy company 04/09/1918
Saqr bin Mohammed al-Qassimi Emirati monarch, Ras al-Khaimah ruler (1948-present) 04/09/1918
Mary Healy American singer and actress, "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" 04/14/1918
Gabriel Axel Danish film director and screenwriter, "Babette's Feast" 04/18/1918
Shinobu Hashimoto Japanese screenwriter, "Rashômon", "Ikiru" 04/18/1918
Eddy Christiani Dutch singer and guitarist 04/21/1918
William Jay Smith American poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (1968-1970) 04/22/1918
Mike Wallace American journalist, TV's "60 Minutes" 05/09/1918
T. Berry Brazelton American pediatrician, columnist, and television host, "What Every Baby Knows" 05/10/1918
A. C. Lyles American film producer, "Short Cut to Hell" 05/17/1918
Katharina Szelinski-Singer German sculptor 05/24/1918
Yasuhiro Nakasone Japanese prime minister (1982-1987) 05/27/1918 (Some sources cite 1917)
Kathryn Tucker Windham American writer and storyteller 06/02/1918
John Hospers American philosopher and 1972 presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket 06/09/1918
Patachou French singer and actress 06/10/1918
Jerome Karle American Nobel Prize-winning physical chemist 06/18/1918
Tsilla Chelton French actress, "Pandora's Box" 06/21/1918
Jiří Krejčík Czech film director and screenwriter 06/26/1918
Adolph Kiefer American gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer 06/27/1918
Maxine Stuart American actress, "Days of Wine and Roses", TV's "The Wonder Years" 06/28/1918
Pauline Phillips American advice columnist, "Dear Abby" 07/04/1918
Jeno Paulucci American businessman, founded Jeno's Pizza Rolls and Chung King 07/07/1918
Irwin Hasen American cartoonist, "Wildcat", "Dondi" 07/08/1918
Marcia Brown American children's writer and illustrator, "Stone Soup" 07/13/1918
Jay Forrester American computer engineer and systems scientist 07/14/1918
Arthur Laurents American screenwriter, stage director, playwright, and librettist, "West Side Story" 07/14/1918
Brenda Milner British-born Canadian neuropsychologist 07/15/1918
Joan Roberts American actress, Broadway's "Oklahoma" 07/15/1918
Kenan Evren Turkish president (1980-1989) 07/17/1918 (Some sources cite 1917)
Nelson Mandela South African Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader and president (1994-1999) 07/18/1918
Ruth Duccini (aka Ruth L. Robinson) American actress, munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" 07/23/1918
Ruggiero Ricci American violinist 07/24/1918
Marjorie Lord American actress, TV's "Make Room for Daddy" 07/26/1918
Paul D. Boyer American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist 07/31/1918
Artur Brauner Polish-born German film producer, "Europa Europa" 08/01/1918
James MacGregor Burns American political scientist and historian, "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox" 08/03/1918
Sid Bernstein American music producer and promoter 08/12/1918
Frederick Sanger British Nobel Prize-winning biochemist 08/13/1918
Martin Pope American physical chemist 08/22/1918
Gerald Wilson American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer 09/04/1918
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Italian president (1992-1999) 09/09/1918
Karl Slover German-born American actor, munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" 09/21/1918
Richard Hoggart British sociologist and cultural critic, "The Uses of Literacy" 09/24/1918
Giovanni Canestri
Italian cardinal 09/30/1918
Giovanni Cheli
Italian cardinal 10/04/1918
Jens C. Skou
Danish Nobel Prize-winning chemist 10/08/1918
Bebo Valdés Cuban jazz musician 10/09/1918
Henri Vernes Belgian action and science-fiction writer, the "Bob Morane" series 10/16/1918
Ralph Wilson American businessman, founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills football franchise
10/17/1918
Constantine Mitsotakis Greek prime minister (1990-1993) 10/18/1918
Robert S. Strauss American diplomat and presidential adviser 10/19/1918
Hulett C. Smith American politician, West Virginia governor (1965-1969) 10/21/1918
René de Obaldia French playwright 10/22/1918
Diana Serra Cary (aka Baby Peggy Montgomery)
American child actress 10/26/1918 (Some sources cite 10/29/1918)
Frédérick Leboyer French obstetrician, popularized gentle birthing techniques 11/01/1918
Bob Feller American baseball player 11/03/1918
Billy Graham American evangelist and spiritual adviser 11/07/1918
Bob Schiller American screenwriter, TV's "I Love Lucy", "All in the Family" 11/08/1918
Hermann Zapf German typeface designer and calligrapher 11/08/1918
Ellen Albertini Dow American actress, "The Wedding Singer", "Wedding Crashers" 11/16/1918
Patricio Aylwin Chilean president (1990-1994) 11/26/1918
Huber Matos Cuban revolutionary 11/26/1918
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. American actor, TV's "77 Sunset Strip", "The F.B.I." 11/30/1918
Joyce Redman Irish-born British Oscar-nominated actress, "Tom Jones", "Othello" 12/09/1918
Radu Beligan Romanian actor 12/14/1918
B. K. S. Iyengar Indian yoga instructor 12/14/1918
Hal Kanter American screenwriter and television producer, "Julia", "All in the Family" 12/18/1918
Audrey Totter American actress, "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Lady in the Lake" 12/20/1918
Helmut Schmidt German chancellor (1974-1982) 12/23/1918
Ahmed Ben Bella Algerian prime minister (1962-1963) and president (1963-1965) 12/25/1918 (Some sources cite 1916)
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