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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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