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

Mortimer Caplin
American tax attorney, educator, and IRS Commissioner (1961–1964)
07/11/1916

Harry Carey, Jr.
American actor, "Rio Grande", "The Searchers", TV's "Spin and Marty"
05/16/1921

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

Santiago Carrillo
Spanish Communist leader
01/18/1915

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

Elliott Carter
American classical music composer
12/11/1908

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

Movita Castaneda
American actress, "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Fort Apache"
12/04/1917

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

S. Truett Cathy
American businessman, Chick-fil-A restaurant chain founder
03/14/1921

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

Owen Chadwick
British ecclesiastical historian
05/20/1916

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

Marge Champion
American dancer and choreographer
09/02/1919

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

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

Tsilla Chelton
French actress, "Pandora's Box"
06/21/1918

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

Eddy Christiani
Dutch singer and guitarist
04/21/1918

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Italian prime minister (1993-1994) and president (1999-2006)
12/09/1920

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
Turkish archeologist
06/20/1914

Beverly Cleary
American children's writer, the "Ramona Quimby" series
04/12/1916

Glafcos Clerides
Cypriot president (1993-2003)
04/24/1919

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

William T. Coleman, Jr.
American government official, Secretary of Transportation (1975-1977)
07/07/1920

Joan Colom
Spanish photographer
04/30/1921

Emilio Colombo
Italian prime minister (1970-1972)
04/11/1920

Alex Colville
Canadian magic realist painter
08/24/1920

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

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

Denton Cooley
American heart surgeon
08/22/1920

Charles H. Coolidge
American World War II Medal of Honor recipient
08/04/1921

Besse Cooper
American supercentenarian, world's oldest validated woman
08/26/1896

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

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

Eldzier Cortor
American painter
01/10/1916

Liam Cosgrave
Irish prime minister (1973-1977)
04/13/1920

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

Frank Moore Cross
American Biblical scholar
07/13/1921

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

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

Frances Crowe
American peace activist
03/15/1919

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

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

Hal David
American lyricist, "Alfie", "The Look of Love", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
05/25/1921

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

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)

Lisa Della Casa
Swiss opera singer
02/02/1919

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

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

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

Little Jimmy Dickens
American country music singer, "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"
12/19/1920

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

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

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

Roy Douglas
British composer and arranger
12/12/1907

Ellen Albertini Dow
American actress, "The Wedding Singer", "Wedding Crashers"
11/16/1918

Hugh Downs
American journalist and television host, "20/20"
02/14/1921

Marion Downs
American audiologist
01/26/1914

Ervin Drake
American songwriter, "Good Morning Heartache", "It Was A Very Good Year"
04/03/1919

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

David Douglas Duncan
American photojournalist
01/23/1916

Margaret Osborne duPont
American tennis player
03/04/1918

Henri Dutilleux
French composer
01/22/1916

Maurice Duverger
French political scientist
06/05/1917