BORN 1918
Turning 94 in 2012

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Dal Richards
Canadian bandleader
01/05/1918 |
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Gunnar Sønsteby
Norwegian World War II resistance fighter
01/11/1918 |
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George M. Leader
American politician, Pennsylvania governor (1955-1959)
01/17/1918
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Nevin S.
Scrimshaw
American
clinical and public health nutritionist
01/20/1918
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Elmer Lach
Canadian hockey player
01/22/1918
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Porky Chedwick
American radio personality, "The Daddio of the
Raddio"
02/04/1918
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Janet Waldo
American actress and voice artist, voice of Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop
02/04/1918
(Some sources cite 1920 or 1924)
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Blaine Gibson
American Disney animator and sculptor
02/11/1918
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Norman Farberow
American suicidologist
02/12/1918
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Allan Arbus
American actor, TV's "M*A*S*H"
02/15/1918
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Patty Andrews
American singer, The Andrews Sisters
02/16/1918
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Don Pardo
American radio and television announcer, "Jeopardy", "Saturday
Night Live"
02/22/1918
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Otis Bowen
American cabinet member and politician, Indiana governor (1973-1981)
02/26/1918
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Lloyd
Geering
New Zealand theologian
02/26/1918
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Peter O'Sullevan
Irish-born British BBC horseracing commentator
(1947-1997)
03/03/1918
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Margaret Osborne duPont
American tennis player
03/04/1918
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Milt
Schmidt
Canadian hockey player, coach, and manager
03/05/1918
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Mike Road
American actor and voice artist, voice of Race Bannon on TV's "Jonny Quest"
03/18/1918 (Some sources cite 1915)
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Marian McPartland
British-born American jazz pianist and radio host
03/20/1918
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Patrick J. Lucey
American politician, Wisconsin
governor (1971-1977)
03/21/1918
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Bob Finkel
American television director and producer,
"The Andy Williams Show"
03/25/1918 |
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Ted Post
American television and film director, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", "Magnum
Force"
03/31/1918
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Bobby Doerr
American baseball player
04/07/1918
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Mary Healy
American singer and actress, "The 5,000 Fingers of
Dr. T"
04/14/1918
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Gabriel Axel
Danish film director and screenwriter, "Babette's Feast"
04/18/1918
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Shinobu Hashimoto
Japanese screenwriter, "Rashômon", "Ikiru"
04/18/1918
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Eddy Christiani
Dutch singer and guitarist
04/21/1918
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William Jay Smith
American poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (1968-1970)
04/22/1918
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Mike
Wallace
American journalist, TV's "60 Minutes"
05/09/1918
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T. Berry
Brazelton
American pediatrician, columnist, and television host, "What Every Baby Knows"
05/10/1918
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A. C. Lyles
American film producer, "Short Cut to Hell"
05/17/1918
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Yasuhiro Nakasone
Japanese prime minister (1982-1987)
05/27/1918 (Some sources cite 1917)
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Patachou
French singer and actress
06/10/1918
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Jerome Karle
American Nobel Prize-winning physical chemist
06/18/1918
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Tsilla Chelton
French actress, "Pandora's Box"
06/21/1918
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Jiří Krejčík
Czech film director and screenwriter
06/26/1918
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Adolph Kiefer
American Olympic gold
medal-winning swimmer
06/27/1918
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Maxine Stuart
American actress, "Days of Wine and Roses", TV's
"The Wonder Years"
06/28/1918
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Pauline Phillips
American advice columnist, "Dear Abby"
07/04/1918
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Irwin Hasen
American cartoonist, "Wildcat", "Dondi"
07/08/1918
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Marcia Brown
American
children's writer and illustrator,
"Stone Soup"
07/13/1918
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Jay Forrester
American computer engineer and systems scientist
07/14/1918
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Joan Roberts
American actress, Broadway's "Oklahoma"
07/15/1918
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Kenan Evren
Turkish president (1980-1989)
07/17/1918
(Some sources cite 1917)
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Nelson Mandela
South African Nobel Prize-winning civil rights
leader and president (1994-1999)
07/18/1918
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Ruth Duccini (aka Ruth L. Robinson)
American actress, munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz"
07/23/1918
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Ruggiero Ricci
American violinist
07/24/1918
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Marjorie Lord
American actress, TV's "Make Room for Daddy"
07/26/1918
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Paul D. Boyer
American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
07/31/1918
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Artur Brauner
Polish-born German
film producer, "Europa Europa"
08/01/1918
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James MacGregor Burns
American political scientist and historian,
"Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox"
08/03/1918
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Sid Bernstein
American music producer and promoter
08/12/1918
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Frederick Sanger
British Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
08/13/1918
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Martin Pope
American physical chemist
08/22/1918
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Gerald Wilson
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
09/04/1918
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Richard Hoggart
British sociologist and cultural critic, "The Uses
of Literacy"
09/24/1918
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Giovanni Cheli
Italian cardinal
10/04/1918
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Jens C. Skou
Danish Nobel Prize-winning chemist
10/08/1918
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Bebo Valdés
Cuban jazz musician
10/09/1918
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Henri Vernes
Belgian action and science-fiction writer,
the "Bob Morane" series
10/16/1918
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Constantine Mitsotakis
Greek prime minister (1990-1993)
10/18/1918
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Robert S. Strauss
American diplomat and presidential adviser
10/19/1918
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René de Obaldia
French poet, novelist, and playwright
10/22/1918
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Diana Serra Cary (aka Baby Peggy Montgomery)
American child
actress
10/26/1918 (Some sources
cite
10/29/1918)
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Frédérick
Leboyer
French obstetrician, popularized gentle birthing techniques
11/01/1918
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Billy Graham
American evangelist and spiritual adviser
11/07/1918
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Bob Schiller
American screenwriter, TV's "I Love Lucy", "All in
the Family"
11/08/1918
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Hermann Zapf
German typeface designer and calligrapher
11/08/1918
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Louise Tobin
American big band singer, "There'll Be Some
Changes Made"
11/11/1918 |
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Ellen Albertini Dow
American actress, "The Wedding Singer", "Wedding
Crashers"
11/16/1918
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Patricio Aylwin
Chilean president (1990-1994)
11/26/1918
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Huber Matos
Cuban revolutionary
11/26/1918
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Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
American actor, TV's "77 Sunset Strip", "The F.B.I."
11/30/1918
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Joyce Redman
Irish-born British Oscar-nominated actress, "Tom Jones", "Othello"
12/09/1918
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Radu Beligan
Romanian actor
12/14/1918
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B. K. S. Iyengar
Indian yoga instructor
12/14/1918
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Audrey Totter
American actress, "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Lady in the Lake"
12/20/1918
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Helmut Schmidt
German chancellor (1974-1982)
12/23/1918
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Ahmed Ben Bella
Algerian
prime minister (1962-1963) and president (1963-1965)
12/25/1918 (Some
sources cite 1916)
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Last modified:
January 29, 2012