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BORN 1921
Turning 91 in 2012
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Alain Mimoun Algerian-born French Olympic gold medal-winning distance runner 01/01/1921 |
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Bill Gold American movie poster designer, "Yankee Doodle Dandy", "Casablanca" 01/03/1921 |
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Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Luxembourgian ruler (1964-2000) 01/05/1921 |
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Lou Harris American pollster 01/06/1921 |
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Pierre-Yves Trémois French artist and sculptor 01/08/1921 |
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Frank Thornton British actor, TV's "Are You Being Served?", "Last of the Summer Wine" 01/15/1921 |
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Yoichiro Nambu Japanese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 01/18/1921 |
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Silvio Gazzaniga Italian sculptor, designer of the FIFA World Cup Trophy 01/23/1921 |
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Carol Channing American singer and actress, Broadway's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "Hello, Dolly!" 01/31/1921 |
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Peter Sallis British actor, the "Wallace and Gromit" film series, TV's "Last of the Summer Wine" 02/01/1921 |
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Lotfi A. Zadeh Azerbaijanian-born American mathematician, inventor of fuzzy logic 02/04/1921 |
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Hugh Downs American journalist and television host, "20/20" 02/14/1921 |
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Alfredo Martini Italian cyclist 02/18/1921 |
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George T. Sakato American World War II Medal of Honor recipient 02/19/1921 |
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Abe Vigoda American actor, "The Godfather", TV's "Barney Miller" 02/24/1921 |
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Andy Pafko American baseball player 02/25/1921 |
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Saul Zaentz American film producer, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Amadeus" 02/28/1921 |
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Richard Wilbur American poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (1987-1988) 03/01/1921 |
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Halim El-Dabh Egyptian-born American composer 03/04/1921 |
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Berkley Bedell American politician, Iowa representative (1975-1987) 03/05/1921 |
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Denys de La Patellière French film director and screenwriter, "Taxi for Tobruk" 03/08/1921 |
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Al Jaffee American cartoonist, Mad magazine 03/13/1921 |
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S. Truett Cathy American businessman, Chick-fil-A restaurant chain founder 03/14/1921 |
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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow Senegalese educator and UNESCO Director-General (1974-1987) 03/20/1921 |
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John J. Gilligan American politician, Ohio governor (1971-1975) 03/22/1921 |
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Wilson Harris Guyanese-born British writer, "Palace of the Peacock", "The Ghost of Memory" 03/24/1921 |
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Elizabeth Wilson American actress, "Picnic", "The Graduate", "9 to 5" 04/04/1921 |
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Marie Ponsot American poet 04/06/1921 |
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Yitzhak Navon Israeli president (1978-1982) 04/09/1921 |
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Carol Emshwiller American science fiction writer, "The Mount" 04/12/1921 |
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Thomas Schelling American Nobel Prize-winning economist 04/14/1921 |
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Joan Colom Spanish photographer 04/30/1921 |
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Patsy Garrett American actress, the "Benji" film series, TV's "Nanny and the Professor" 05/04/1921 |
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Walter D. Ehlers American World War II Medal of Honor recipient 05/07/1921 |
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Daniel Berrigan American poet and peace activist 05/09/1921 |
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Farley Mowat Canadian conservationist and writer, "Never Cry Wolf" 05/12/1921 |
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Harry Carey, Jr. American actor, "Rio Grande", "The Searchers", TV's "Spin and Marty" 05/16/1921 |
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Hal David American lyricist, "Alfie", "The Look of Love", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" 05/25/1921 |
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Jack Steinberger German-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 05/25/1921 |
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Clifton James American actor, "Live and Let Die", "The Untouchables" 05/29/1921 |
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Bernard Lown Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 06/07/1921 |
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LeRoy Neiman American sports artist 06/08/1921 |
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Forrest Bird |
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Greek-born British royal, consort of Queen Elizabeth II 06/10/1921 |
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Barbara Vucanovich |
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Paul Findley American politician, Illinois representative (1961-1983) 06/23/1921 |
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Jean Kent British actress, "Trottie True", "The Woman in Question" 06/29/1921 |
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Nancy Reagan
(aka Nancy Davis) American actress and First Lady (1981-1989) 07/06/1921 |
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Edgar Morin French philosopher and sociologist 07/08/1921 |
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Jake LaMotta American boxer, "The Raging Bull" 07/10/1921 |
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Frank Moore Cross American Biblical scholar 07/13/1921 |
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Aaron T. Beck American psychiatrist, developed cognitive behavior therapy 07/18/1921 |
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John Glenn American astronaut and politician, Ohio senator (1974-1999) 07/18/1921 |
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Chris Marker |
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Richard Adler American Broadway composer and lyricist, "The Pajama Game", "Damn Yankees" 08/03/1921 |
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Charles H. Coolidge American World War II Medal of Honor recipient 08/04/1921 |
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William Asher American film and television director, "Beach Blanket Bingo", "Bewitched" 08/08/1921 (Some sources cite 1919) |
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Esther
Williams American actress, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", "Neptune's Daughter" 08/08/1921 (Some sources cite 1922) |
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Agnes Giebel Dutch-born German soprano 08/10/1921 |
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Julia Hartwig Polish poet and translator 08/14/1921 |
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Bernard d'Espagnat French physicist and philosopher of science 08/22/1921 |
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Kenneth Arrow American Nobel Prize-winning economist 08/23/1921 |
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Henry J. Abraham German-born American judiciary scholar 08/25/1921 |
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Monty Hall Canadian-born game show host, "Let's Make a Deal" 08/25/1921 |
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Ben Bradlee American newspaper editor, The Washington Post (1965-1991) 08/26/1921 |
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Iris Apfel American fashionista 08/29/1921 |
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Otis Pike American politician, New York representative (1961-1979) 08/31/1921 |
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Michael Dann American television executive, CBS programming vice president (1963-1970) 09/11/1921 |
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Paulo
Evaristo Arns
Brazilian cardinal 09/14/1921 |
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Miklós Jancsó Hungarian film director and screenwriter, "The Lord's Lantern in Budapest" 09/27/1921 |
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Franny Beecher American guitarist, Bill Haley & His Comets 09/29/1921 |
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Stanisław Nagy Polish cardinal 09/30/1921 |
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Joseph Lowery American civil rights activist, Southern Christian Leadership Conference co-founder 10/06/1921 |
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Tadeusz
Różewicz Polish poet and playwright, "The Card Index" 10/09/1921 |
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Matt Batts American baseball player 10/16/1921 |
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Michael of Romania Romanian king (1927-1930, 1940-1947) 10/25/1921 |
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Ilse Aichinger Austrian poet and prose writer 11/01/1921 |
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Wadih El Safi |
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Wanda Półtawska Polish psychiatrist and memoirist 11/02/1921 |
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Princess Fawzia Fuad of
Egypt Egyptian-born royal, Queen Consort of Iran (1941-1948) 11/05/1921 |
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Walter Mirisch American film producer, "Hawaii", "In the Heat of the Night" 11/08/1921 |
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Gene Saks American actor and Broadway and film director, "The Odd Couple", "Cactus Flower" 11/08/1921 |
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Phyllis
Thaxter American actress, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", "Superman" 11/20/1921 |
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Françoise Gilot French-born painter, lover and artistic muse of Pablo Picasso (Holds dual French/American citizenship) 11/26/1921 |
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Vernon McGarity American World War II Medal of Honor recipient 12/01/1921 |
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Phyllis Curtin American opera singer 12/03/1921 |
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Deanna Durbin Canadian-born singer and actress, "Three Smart Girls" 12/04/1921 |
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Peter Hansen American actor, "When Worlds Collide", TV's "General Hospital" 12/05/1921 |
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Liz Smith British actress, "A Private Function", TV's "The Royle Family" 12/11/1921 |
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Mike McCormack American politician, Washington representative (1971-1981) 12/14/1921 |
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Charley Trippi American football player 12/14/1921 (Some sources cite 1920 or 1922) |
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Anne Golon
(aka
Sergeanne Golon) French writer, the "Angélique" series 12/19/1921 |
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Gerald S. O'Loughlin American actor, "In Cold Blood", TV's "The Rookies" 12/23/1921 |
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Dobrica Ćosić Serbian writer and politician, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992-1993) 12/29/1921 |
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