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BORN 1919

Turning 91 in 2010

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
― Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) ―

		Giulio Andreotti Italian prime minister (1972-1973, 1976-1979, 1989-1992) 01/14/1919
		Andy Rooney American humorist and political commentator, TV's "60 Minutes" 01/14/1919
		Antonio Mingote Spanish cartoonist and humorist 01/17/1919
		Sid Ramin American composer, arranger, and orchestrator, "West Side Story" 01/22/1919 (Some sources cite 1924)
		Edwin Newman American journalist, broadcaster, and writer, "Strictly Speaking" 01/25/1919
		N. F. Simpson British playwright, "One Way Pendulum" 01/29/1919
		Charles S. Dubin American television director, "Omnibus", "MAS*H" 02/01/1919
		Lisa Della Casa Swiss soprano 02/02/1919
		Snooky Young American jazz trumpeter 02/03/1919
		Eddie Snyder American songwriter, "Strangers in the Night", "Spanish Eyes" 02/22/1919
		Monte Irvin American baseball player 02/25/1919
		Eddie Lawrence American actor and monologist, "The Old Philosopher" 03/02/1919
		Peter Abrahams South African writer, "Mine Boy" 03/03/1919
		Harry Coover American chemist and inventor, developed Super Glue 03/06/1919
		George Avakian Russian-born American music producer 03/15/1919
		Christopher Challis British cinematographer, "Two for the Road", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" 03/18/1919
		Lawrence Ferlinghetti American poet, "A Coney Island of the Mind" 03/24/1919
		Joseph Murray American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist 04/01/1919
		Ervin Drake American songwriter, "Good Morning Heartache", "It Was A Very Good Year" 04/03/1919
		Lester James Peries Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and producer 04/05/1919
		Hugh Carey American politician, New York representative (1961-1974) and governor (1975-1982) 04/11/1919
		Chavela Vargas Costa Rican-born Mexican singer 04/17/1919
		Glafkos Klerides Cypriot president (1993-2003) 04/24/1919
		Antonio Frasconi Argentine-born American woodcut artist 04/28/1919
		Walter Berns American political philosopher, "Making Patriots" 05/03/1919
		Jane Scott American rock critic 05/03/1919
		Pete Seeger American folk singer and political activist 05/03/1919
		Daniel Bell American sociologist, "The End of Ideology" 05/10/1919
		Betty Garrett American actress, "On the Town", TV's "All in the Family", "Laverne and Shirley" 05/23/1919
		Huston Smith American religious scholar, "Why Religion Matters" 05/31/1919
		Peter Carrington British politician, Father of the House of Lords (2007-present) 06/06/1919
		Louis Jourdan French actor, "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gigi" 06/19/1919
		Paolo Soleri Italian-born American architect 06/21/1919
		Al Molinaro American actor, TV's "The Odd Couple", "Happy Days" 06/24/1919
		Jean Craighead George American children's writer, "Julie of the Wolves" 07/02/1919
		Walter Scheel German president (1974-1979) 07/08/1919
		James Lovelock British atmospheric chemist, originated the Gaia theory 07/26/1919
		Nehemiah Persoff Israeli-born American actor, "Some Like It Hot", "Yentl" 08/02/1919 (Some sources cite 08/14/1920)
		Michel Déon French writer, "Un taxi mauve" 08/04/1919
		Pauline Betz American tennis player 08/06/1919
		Dino de Laurentiis Italian film producer, "La Strada", 1976's "King Kong" 08/08/1919
		Ralph Houk American baseball player, coach, and manager 08/09/1919
		Luis Olmo Puerto Rican baseball player 08/11/1919
		George Shearing British-born American jazz pianist 08/13/1919
		Walter J. Hickel American politician, Alaska governor (1966-1969, 1990-1994) and cabinet member 08/18/1919
		Walter Bernstein American screenwriter, "The Front", "Semi-Tough" 08/20/1919
		Ben Agajanian American football player and coach 08/28/1919
		Sono Osato American dancer and actress, Broadway's "On the Town" 08/29/1919
		Kitty Wells American country music singer, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" 08/30/1919 (Some sources cite 1918)
		Marge Champion American dancer and choreographer 09/02/1919
		Phil Stern American photographer 09/03/1919
		Gualtiero Jacopetti Italian documentarian, "Mondo Cane" 09/04/1919
		Wilson Greatbatch American engineer and inventor, created implantable cardiac pacemaker 09/06/1919
		Daphne Odjig Canadian painter 09/11/1919
		Reed Whittemore American poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (1964-1965, 1984-1985) 09/11/1919
		Mario Bunge Argentine-born Canadian philosopher 09/21/1919
		Betty Ballantine American publisher, co-founded Bantam and Ballantine Books 09/25/1919
		Tom Carnegie American sports announcer, Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1946-2006) 09/26/1919
		Charles Percy American politician, Illinois senator (1967-1985) 09/27/1919
		Johnny Pesky American baseball player, coach, and manager 09/27/1919
		Doris Singleton American actress, Caroline Appleby on TV's "I Love Lucy" 09/28/1919
		William L. Guy American politician, North Dakota governor (1961-1973) 09/30/1919
		James M. Buchanan American Nobel Prize-winning economist 10/03/1919
		José Hermano Saraiva Portuguese historian and jurist 10/03/1919
		Robert Kee British broadcaster, journalist, and writer, "A Crowd Is Not Company" 10/05/1919
		Belva Plain American writer, "Evergreen" 10/09/1919
		Jason Wingreen American actor, TV's "All in the Family", "Archie Bunker's Place" 10/09/1919
		Doris Lessing British Nobel Prize-winning writer, "The Golden Notebook" 10/22/1919
		Edward Brooke American politician, Massachusetts senator (1967-1979) 10/26/1919
		Tim M. Babcock American politician, Montana governor (1962-1969) 10/27/1919
		Warren Stevens American actor, "Forbidden Planet" 11/02/1919
		Shirley Mitchell American actress, Marion Strong on TV's "I Love Lucy" 11/04/1919
		Mikhail Kalashnikov Russian firearms designer 11/10/1919
		Joseph Wapner American jurist and television personality, "The People's Court" 11/15/1919
		Anatoly Dobrynin Russian ambassador to the United States (1962-1986) 11/16/1919
		Georgia Carroll American model, actress, and singer 11/18/1919
		Alan Young British-born American actor, "The Time Machine", TV's "Mr. Ed" 11/19/1919
		Dulcie Gray British actress, "They Were Sisters", TV's "Howard's Way" 11/20/1919
		Paul Bogart American film and television director, "All in the Family" 11/21/1919
		Frederik Pohl American science fiction writer, "Man Plus" 11/26/1919
		Frank Kermode British literary critic, "The Sense of an Ending" 11/29/1919
		Anne Cox Chambers American ambassador and media proprietor, Cox Enterprises 12/01/1919
		William Lipscomb American Nobel Prize-winning chemist 12/09/1919
		Furio Scarpelli Italian screenwriter, "Casanova '70", "Il postino" 12/16/1919
		Tomáš Špidlík Czech cardinal 12/17/1919
		Pierre Soulages French painter and sculptor 12/24/1919
		Alfred de Grazia American political scientist, "Public and Republic" 12/29/1919
		David Willcocks British choral director, organist, and composer 12/30/1919