BORN 1920
Turning 92 in 2012

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Clive Dunn
British actor, TV's "Dad's Army", "My Old Man"
01/09/1920
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Elliott Reid
American actor, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes",
"The Absent-Minded
Professor"
01/16/1920
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Javier
Pérez de Cuéllar
Peruvian
diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982-1991)
01/19/1920
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Marcos Ana
Spanish poet
01/20/1920 |
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Sam Gibbons
American politician, Florida
representative (1963-1997)
01/20/1920 |
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Gottfried Böhm
German architect
01/23/1920
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Jerry Maren
American actor, Lollipop Guild member from "The Wizard
of Oz"
01/24/1920
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Maria Becker
German-born Swiss actress
01/28/1920 |
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Michael Anderson
British film director, "Around the World in
80 Days", "Logan's Run"
01/30/1920
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Benoîte
Groult
French writer, "Salt on Our Skin"
01/31/1920 |
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Yuriko
American dancer and choreographer
02/02/1920 |
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Russell Arms
American actor and singer, TV's "Your Hit
Parade"
02/03/1920
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Henry Heimlich
American physician,
originated
anti-choking maneuver
02/03/1920
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George Armitage Miller
American psychologist,
"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"
02/03/1920
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Pran
Indian actor
02/12/1920
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Sun Myung Moon
Korean evangelist, Unification Church
founder
02/25/1920
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Michèle Morgan
French actress, "Port of
Shadows", "The Chase"
02/29/1920
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Del Latta
American politician, Ohio representative (1959-1989)
03/05/1920
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Lewis Gilbert
British film director, "Alfie", "Educating
Rita"
03/06/1920
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Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dutch-born American Nobel Prize-winning
physicist
03/11/1920
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Ralph
J. Roberts
American businessman,
co-founder of Comcast Communications
03/13/1920
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E. Donnall Thomas
American Nobel Prize-winning physician
03/15/1920
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Tonino Guerra
Italian screenwriter, "Blow-Up", "Amacord"
03/16/1920
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Neal Smith
American politician, Iowa
representative (1959-1995)
03/23/1920
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Babe Martin
American baseball player
03/28/1920 |
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Deborah Mitford
(aka Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire)
British aristocrat
03/31/1920 |
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Harry Lewis
American actor, "Key Largo", and
Hamburger Hamlet restaurant chain co-founder
04/01/1920
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Edmond H. Fischer
American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
04/06/1920
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Ravi Shankar
Indian sitarist
04/07/1920
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Emilio Colombo
Italian prime minister (1970-1972)
04/11/1920
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Liam Cosgrave
Irish prime minister (1973-1977)
04/13/1920
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Ken Nordine
American voiceover and recording artist,
the "Word Jazz" album series
04/13/1920 |
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Richard von Weizsäcker
German president (1984-1994)
04/15/1920
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Marvin Mandel
American politician, Maryland governor
(1969-1979)
04/19/1920
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John Paul Stevens
American Supreme Court justice
(1975-2010)
04/20/1920
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Richard Adams
British writer, "Watership Down"
05/09/1920
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Nasrallah Sfeir
Lebanese cardinal
05/15/1920
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Dave Philley
American baseball player
05/16/1920
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Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Polish-born German literary critic
06/02/1920
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Russell E. Train
American conservationist and government
official, Environmental Protection Agency director (1973-1977)
06/04/1920 |
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Maggie Griffin
American reality-television personality, "My Life
on the D-List"
06/10/1920
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Stanley Sheinbaum
American activist and
publisher, New
Perspectives Quarterly
06/12/1920 |
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Setsuko Hara
Japanese actress, "Late Spring",
"Early Summer"
06/17/1920 |
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François Jacob
French Nobel Prize-winning biologist
06/17/1920 |
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Lester Wunderman
American advertising executive, created
direct marketing
06/22/1920
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Ray Harryhausen
American stop-motion
animator, "Jason
and the Argonauts"
06/29/1920
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William T. Coleman, Jr.
American government official, Secretary of
Transportation (1975-1977)
07/07/1920
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Patricia Medina
British-born actress, "Botany
Bay", "Mr. Arkadin"
07/19/1920
(Some sources cite 1919 or 1921)
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Andrew V. McLaglen
British-born American
television and film director,
"McLintock!",
"Chisum"
07/28/1920
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Sammy Lee
American
Olympic gold medal-winning platform diver
08/01/1920
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P. D. James
British crime fiction writer, the "Adam
Dalgliesh" series
08/03/1920
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Helen Thomas
American journalist and columnist
08/04/1920
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Maureen O'Hara
Irish-born American actress, "Miracle on
34th Street", "The Quiet Man"
08/17/1920
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Vincent Scully
American architectural historian and
critic
08/21/1920
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Ray Bradbury
American science fiction writer, "The
Martian Chronicles", "Fahrenheit 451"
08/22/1920
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Denton Cooley
American heart surgeon
08/22/1920
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Jim Leavelle
American police detective, Lee
Harvey Oswald's escort when shot by Jack Ruby
08/23/1920
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Alex Colville
Canadian magic realist painter
08/24/1920
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Prem Tinsulanonda
Thai prime minister (1980-1988)
08/26/1920
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Bob Stewart
American game show creator and producer,
"The Price Is Right", "To Tell the Truth"
08/27/1920
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León Ferrari
Argentine conceptual artist
09/03/1920 |
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Lawrence LeShan
American
psychologist, pioneer of mind-body therapy
09/08/1920
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Lawrence Klein
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
09/14/1920
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Marjorie Holt
American politician, Maryland
representative (1973-1987)
09/17/1920 |
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Dinah Sheridan
British actress, "Genevieve", TV's
"Don't Wait Up"
09/17/1920
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Roger Angell
American editor and
sportswriter
09/19/1920
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Mickey Rooney
American actor, "Babes in Arms", the "Andy
Hardy" film series
09/23/1920
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Jayne Meadows
American actress and television
personality
09/27/1920
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Gail Halvorsen
American Air Force pilot, Berlin
Airlift "Candy Bomber"
10/10/1920
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Chris Economaki
American motorsports commentator
10/15/1920
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Robert D. Maxwell
American World War II Medal of Honor
recipient
10/26/1920
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Nanette Fabray
American actress and comedienne, TV's
"Caesar's Hour",
"One Day at a Time"
10/27/1920
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Ann Rutherford
Canadian-born American actress, "Gone
With
the Wind", the "Andy Hardy" film series
11/02/1920
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Douglass North
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
11/05/1920
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Eugênio Sales
Brazilian cardinal
11/08/1920 |
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Wally Westlake
American baseball player
11/08/1920 |
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James Sheldon
American television director, "Mister
Peepers", "The Twilight Zone"
11/12/1920
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Wayne Thiebaud
American pop art painter
11/15/1920
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Stan Musial
American baseball player
11/21/1920
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Noel Neill
American actress, TV's "Adventures of
Superman"
11/25/1920
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Cal Worthington
American auto dealer and television
personality
11/27/1920
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Nadir Afonso
Portuguese painter
12/04/1920 |
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Dave Brubeck
American jazz pianist and composer
12/06/1920
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Italian prime minister (1993-1994) and
president (1999-2006)
12/09/1920
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George Shultz
American government official, Secretary of
State (1982-1989)
12/13/1920
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Clark Terry
American jazz trumpeter and flügelhornist
12/14/1920
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Eddie Robinson
American baseball player, coach, and
manager
12/15/1920 |
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Little Jimmy Dickens
American country music singer, "May the
Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"
12/19/1920
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Alicia Alonso
Cuban prima ballerina absoluta and
choreographer
12/21/1920
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Georges Balandier
French sociologist, anthropologist,
and ethnologist
12/21/1920 |
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Kel Nagle
Australian golfer
12/21/1920
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Dave Bartholomew
American
musician, songwriter, and music producer
12/24/1920
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Jane Morgan
American singer, "Fascination"
12/25/1920
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Last modified:
January 30, 2012