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Peter Abrahams
South African writer, "Mine Boy"
03/03/1919

 

M. H. Abrams
American literary critic and writer, "The Mirror and the Lamp"
07/23/1912

  Richard Adams
British writer, "Watership Down"
05/09/1920
  Ben Agajanian
American football player and coach
08/28/1919

 

Ömer Lütfi Akad
Turkish film director, "Strike the Whore"
09/02/1916

 

Licia Albanese
Italian-born American opera singer
07/22/1913

 

Armen Alchian
American economist
04/12/1914

 

Van Alexander
American musical arranger, composer, and conductor
05/02/1915

  Manuel Alexandre
Spanish actor
11/11/1917

 

Émile Allais
French skier
02/25/1912

 

Maurice Allais
French Nobel Prize-winning economist
05/31/1911

 

Maria Altmann
Austrian-born American art heiress
02/18/1916

 

Lukas Ammann
Swiss actor
09/29/1912

 

John Anderson, Jr.
American politician, Kansas governor (1961-1965)
05/08/1917

  Michael Anderson
British film director, "Around the World in 80 Days", "Logan's Run"
01/30/1920
  Dwayne Andreas
American political campaign donor and businessman, Archer Daniels Midland
03/04/1918
 

Giulio Andreotti
Italian prime minister (1972-1973, 1976-1979, 1989-1992)
01/14/1919

 

Patty Andrews
American singer, The Andrews Sisters
02/16/1918

 

Nina Andrycz
Polish actress
11/11/1915

 

Fiorenzo Angelini
Italian cardinal
08/01/1916

 

Jean Anglade
French writer
03/18/1915

 

Allan Arbus
American actor, TV's "M*A*S*H"
02/15/1918

  Russell Arms
American actor and singer, TV's "Your Hit Parade"
02/03/1920
 

R. G. Armstrong
American actor, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", "Dick Tracy"
04/07/1917

 

Eve Arnold
American photojournalist
04/21/1912

  Renée Asherson
British actress, "Henry V", "The Others"
05/19/1920

 

Svend Asmussen
Danish jazz violinist, "The Fiddling Viking"
02/28/1916

 

Sverker Åström
Swedish diplomat and United Nations ambassador (1964-1970)
12/30/1915

  Diana Athill
British literary editor and writer
12/21/1917
 

Raymond Aubrac
French WWII resistance fighter
07/31/1914

  George Avakian
Russian-born American music producer
03/15/1919

 

Gabriel Axel
Danish film director and screenwriter, "Babette's Feast"
04/18/1918

 

Axel Axgil
Danish gay rights activist
04/03/1915

 

Patricio Aylwin
Chilean president (1990-1994)
11/26/1918

 

Milton Babbitt
American composer of serial and electronic music
05/10/1916

 

Tim M. Babcock
American politician, Montana governor (1962-1969)
10/27/1919

 

James Bacon
American entertainment columnist and reporter
05/12/1914

 

Roy Ward Baker
British television and film director, "A Night to Remember"
12/19/1916

 

Betty Ballantine
American publisher, co-founded Bantam and Ballantine Books
09/25/1919

 

Richard L. Bare
American film and television director, "Green Acres"
08/12/1913 (Some sources cite 1909)

  Will Barnet
American artist and printmaker
05/25/1911

 

Domenico Bartolucci
Italian composer and Sistine Chapel Choir director (1956-1997)
05/07/1917

 

Jacques Barzun
French-born American historian and cultural critic
11/30/1907

 

Perkins Bass
American politician, New Hampshire representative (1955-1963)
10/06/1912

 

Henry Bauchau
Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst
01/22/1913

 

Frances Bay
Canadian actress, "Happy Gilmore"
01/01/1918

 

Berthold Beitz
German industrialist and humanitarian
09/26/1913

  Radu Beligan
Romanian actor
12/14/1918
 

Daniel Bell
American sociologist, "
The End of Ideology"
05/10/1919

 

Graeme Bell
Australian jazz pianist and composer
09/07/1914

 

Ahmed Ben Bella
Algerian prime minister (1962-1963) and president (1963-1965)
12/25/1918 (Some sources cite 1916)

 

Eric Bentley
British-born American critic and playwright
09/14/1916

 

Leo Beranek
American acoustical scientist
09/15/1914

 

Gretel Bergmann (aka Margaret Bergmann-Lambert)
German-born American high jumper
04/12/1914

 

Carl Johan Bernadotte
Swedish royal, great-grandson of Queen Victoria
10/31/1916

  Walter Berns
American political philosopher, "Making Patriots"
05/03/1919
  Harry Bernstein
British-born American writer, "The Invisible Wall", "The Dream"
05/30/1910
  Sid Bernstein
American music producer and promoter
08/12/1918
 

Walter Bernstein
American screenwriter, "The Front", "Semi-Tough"
08/20/1919

  Pauline Betz
American tennis player
08/06/1919
  Mario Biaggi
American politician, New York representative (1969-1988)
10/26/1917
 

Barbara Billingsley
American actress, TV's "Leave It To Beaver"
12/22/1915 (Some sources cite 1922)

 

George Binks
American baseball player
07/11/1914
(Some sources cite 1916)

 

Adriaan Blaauw
Dutch astronomer
04/12/1914

 

George Blair (aka Banana George)
American water skier
01/22/1915

 

Eugénie Blanchard
French supercentenarian,
world's oldest validated person
02/16/1896

 

Lucille Bliss
American actress and voice artist, voice of Crusader Rabbit, Smurfette
03/31
/1916

  Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dutch-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
03/11/1920
 

Paul Bogart
American film and television director, "All in the Family"
11/21/1919

 

Grace Lee Boggs
American writer, activist, and feminist
06/27/1915

 

Lindy Boggs
American politician, Louisiana
representative (1973-1991)
03/13/1916

 

Caterina Boratto
Italian actress, "8½", "Juliet of the Spirits"
03/15/1915

 

Ernest Borgnine
American Oscar-winning actor, "Marty", TV's "McHale's Navy"
01/24/1917

 

Esther Borja
Cuban singer
12/05/1913

 

Otis Bowen
American cabinet member and politician, Indiana governor (1973-1981)
02/26/1918

 

Paul D. Boyer
American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
07/31/1918

  Ray Bradbury
American science fiction writer, "The Martian Chronicles", "Fahrenheit 451"
08/22/1920

 

Grace Bradley
American actress, "Anything Goes", "Larceny on the Air"
09/21/1913

 

Lilian Jackson Braun
American writer, "The Cat Who..." mystery series
1912 (Birth year sources range from 1911 to 1916 and exact date of birth is not currently available)

  Artur Brauner
Polish-born German film producer, "Europa Europa"
08/01/1918
 

T. Berry Brazelton
American pediatrician, columnist, and television host, "What Every Baby Knows"
05/10/1918

 

Walter Breuning
American supercentenarian,
world's oldest validated man
09/21/1896

 

Edward Brooke
American politician, Massachusetts senator (1967-1979)
10/26/1919

 

Marcia Brown
American children's writer and illustrator, "Stone Soup"
07/13/1918

 

Jerome Bruner
American cognitive psychologist
10/01/1915

  Clemar Bucci
Argentine racing driver
09/04/1920
 

James M. Buchanan
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
10/03/1919

 

Frank Buckles
American WWI veteran
02/01/1901

 

Mario Bunge
Argentine-born Canadian philosopher
09/21/1919

  Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astrophysicist
08/12/1919

 

Adolf Burger
Slovakian Holocaust survivor and memoirist, "The Devil's Workshop"
08/12/1917

 

Alfred Burke
British actor, TV's "Public Eye"
02/28/1918

  James MacGregor Burns
American political scientist and historian, "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox"
08/03/1918

 

Roberto Busa
Italian Jesuit scholar, humanities computing pioneer
11/28/1913
(Some sources cite 11/13/1913)

 

Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
American politician, Virginia senator (1965-1983)

12/20/1914

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