Frank Cady
American actor, TV's "Petticoat Junction", "Green Acres"
09/08/1915

John Calvert
American magician and actor, "The Falcon" film series
08/05/1911

Earl Cameron
Bermudian-born British actor, "The Interpreter"
08/08/1917

Giovanni Canestri
Italian cardinal
09/30/1918

Hugh Carey
American politician, New York representative (1961-1974) and governor (1975-1982)
04/11/1919

Mary Carlisle
American actress, "Once to Every Woman", "Dead Men Walk"
02/03/1912

Sickan Carlsson
Swedish actress
08/12/1915

Tom Carnegie
American sports announcer, Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1946-2006)
09/26/1919

Robert Carr
British politician, Member of Parliament (1950-1976)
11/11/1916

Santiago Carrillo
Spanish Communist leader
01/18/1915

Leonora Carrington
British-born Mexican painter and writer
04/06/1917

Peter Carrington
British politician, Father of the House of Lords (2007-present)
06/06/1919

Georgia Carroll
American model, actress, and singer
11/18/1919

Elliott Carter
American classical music composer
12/11/1908

Robert L. Carter
American civil rights activist and judge
03/11/1917

Diana Serra Cary (aka Baby Peggy Montgomery)
American child actress
10/26/1918 (Some sources cite 10/29/1918)

Gisèle Casadesus

French actress
06/14/1914

Wally Cassell
Italian-born American actor, "The Story of G. I. Joe", "Sands of Iwo Jima"
03/03/1915

Raúl H. Castro
Mexican-born American politician, Arizona governor (1975-1977)
06/12/1916

Elizabeth Catlett
American-born sculptor and printmaker (Holds dual American/Mexican citizenship)
04/15/1915

Phil Cavarretta
American baseball player, coach, and manager
07/19/1916

Peride Celal
Turkish writer
06/10/1916 (Some sources cite 1915)

Owen Chadwick
British ecclesiastical historian
05/20/1916

Christopher Challis
British cinematographer, "Two for the Road", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
03/18/1919

Anne Cox Chambers
American ambassador and media proprietor, Cox Enterprises
12/01/1919

Marge Champion
American dancer and choreographer
09/02/1919

Britton Chance
American biochemist, biophysicist, and gold medal-winning Olympic sailor
07/24/1913

James E. Charlton
Canadian publisher and numismatist
07/26/1911

Michel Chartrand
Canadian union leader and activist
12/20/1916

Yvette Chauviré
French prima ballerina assoluta
04/22/1917

Porky Chedwick
American radio personality, "The Daddio of the Raddio"
02/04/1918

Giovanni Cheli
Italian cardinal
10/04/1918

Dorothy "Dodo" Cheney
American tennis player
09/01/1916

Boris Chertok
Polish-born Russian rocket designer
03/01/1912

Claude Choules
British-born Australian WWI veteran, served in British armed forces
03/03/1901

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Turkish archeologist
06/20/1914

Beverly Cleary
American children's writer, "Henry Huggins"
04/12/1916

Bill Clements
American politician, Texas governor (1979-1983, 1987-1991)
04/17/1917

Ronald Coase
British-born American Nobel Prize-winning economist
12/29/1910

Barry Commoner
American biologist and 1980 presidential candidate on the Citizens Party ticket
05/28/1917

Vő Chí Công
Vietnamese president (1987-1992)
08/07/1912 (Some sources cite 1913)

Robert Conquest
British historian
07/15/1917

Jacinto Convit
Venezuelan epidemiologist
09/11/1913

Richard Coogan
American actor, TV's original Captain Video (1949-1950)
04/04/1914

Howard Cooke
Jamaican governor-general (1991-2006)
11/13/1915

Harry Coover
American chemist and inventor, developed Super Glue
03/06/1919

Anton Coppola
American opera conductor and composer
03/21/1917

Professor Irwin Corey
American comedian and actor, "Car Wash"
07/29/1914

John Cornforth
Australian-born British Nobel Prize-winning chemist
09/07/1917

Eldzier Cortor
American painter
01/10/1916

Luis Corvalán
Chilean politician and dissident
09/14/1916

Norman Corwin
American radio pioneer, writer, and producer
05/03/1910

James Coyne
Canadian government official, Bank of Canada governor (1955-1961)
07/17/1910

Marvin Creamer
American amateur sailor, circled globe without navigational instruments
01/24/1916

Joe Medicine Crow
American tribal historian and anthropologist
10/27/1913

Donald Crowdis
Canadian television host, "The Nature of Things"
12/24/1913

Hugues Cuénod
Swiss tenor
06/26/1902

Robert A. Dahl
American political scientist, "Who Governs?"
12/17/1915

Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Italian screenwriter, "The Bicycle Thief", "Big Deal on Madonna Street"
07/21/1914

Pierre Dansereau
Canadian ecologist
10/05/1911

Danielle Darrieux
French actress, "The Earrings of Madame de..."
05/01/1917

Basil Davidson
British Africanist historian
11/09/1914

Dorothy Salisbury Davis
American crime fiction writer
04/26/1916

Kathryn Wasserman Davis
American philanthropist
02/25/1907

Robin Day
British furniture and interior designer
05/25/1915

Daya Mata
American spiritual leader, Self-Realization Fellowship president (1955-present)
01/31/1914

Jacques Debary
French actor
11/25/1914

Christian de Duve
British-born Belgian Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist and biochemist
10/02/1917

Alfred de Grazia
American political scientist, "Public and Republic"
12/29/1919

Olivia de Havilland
American Oscar-winning actress, "To Each His Own", "The Heiress"
07/01/1916

Piet de Jong
Dutch prime minister (1967-1971)
04/03/1915

Suzy Delair
French actress and singer
12/31/1917 (Some sources cite 1916)

Dino de Laurentiis
Italian film producer, "La Strada", 1976's "King Kong"
08/08/1919

Lisa Della Casa
Swiss soprano
02/02/1919

Fe del Mundo
Filipino pediatrician
11/27/1911

Leila Denmark
American pediatrician, medical researcher, and supercentenarian
02/01/1898

Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese film director, "Aniki-Bóbó", "Belle Toujours"
12/11/1908

Michel Déon
French writer, "Un taxi mauve"
08/04/1919

Martín de Riquer
Spanish writer and Romantic scholar
05/03/1914

Jacqueline de Romilly
French philologist
03/26/1913

Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt
French Egyptologist
11/17/1913

Phyllis Diller
American comedienne and actress, "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!"
07/17/1917

Neagu Djuvara
Romanian diplomat, writer, and historian
08/18/1916

Đỗ Mười
Vietnamese prime minister (1988-1991)
02/02/1917

Anatoly Dobrynin
Russian ambassador to the United States (1962-1986)
11/16/1919

John Dobson
American amateur astronomer and telescope designer
09/14/1915

Doctor Tangalanga
Argentine humorist
11/10/1916

Bobby Doerr
American baseball player
04/07/1918

Abdias do Nascimento
Brazilian actor and politician
03/14/1914

Kirk Douglas

American Oscar-nominated actor, "Champion", "Lust for Life"
12/09/1916

Roy Douglas
British composer and arranger
12/12/1917

Paulette Dubost
French actress, "The Rules of the Game", "Viva Maria!"
10/08/1910 (Some sources cite 1911)

Hélène Duc
French actress, "Tanguy"
03/22/1917

Ruth Duccini (aka Ruth L. Robinson)
American actress, munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz"
07/23/1918

Renato Dulbecco
Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning virologist
02/22/1914

David Douglas Duncan
American photojournalist
01/23/1916

Henri Dutilleux
French composer
01/22/1916