Lina Haag
German World War II resistance fighter
01/18/1907

Walter Haefner
Swiss billionaire and horse breeder
09/13/1910

Monty Hall
Canadian-born game show host, "Let's Make a Deal"
08/25/1921

Ebby Halliday
American realtor
03/09/1911

Gail Halvorsen
American Air Force pilot, Berlin Airlift "Candy Bomber"
10/10/1920

Han Suyin
Chinese-born British writer, "A Many-Splendored Thing"
09/12/1917

Setsuko Hara
Japanese actress, "Late Spring", "Early Summer"
06/17/1920

Denham Harman
American biogerontologist
02/14/1916

Lou Harris
American pollster
01/06/1921

Wilson Harris
Guyanese-born British writer, "Palace of the Peacock", "The Ghost of Memory"
03/24/1921

Ray Harryhausen
American stop-motion animator, "Jason and the Argonauts"
06/29/1920

Julia Hartwig
Polish poet and translator
08/14/1921

Irwin Hasen
American cartoonist, "Wildcat", "Dondi"
07/08/1918

Shinobu Hashimoto
Japanese screenwriter, "Rashômon", "Ikiru"
04/18/1918

João Havelange
Brazilian sports official, FIFA president (1974-1998)
05/08/1916

Denis Healey
British politician, Member of Parliament (1952-1992)
08/30/1917

Mary Healy
American singer and actress, "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T"
04/14/1918

Ken Hechler
American politician, West Virginia representative (1959-1977)
09/20/1914

Henry Heimlich
American physician, originated anti-choking maneuver
02/03/1920

Alice Herz-Sommer
Czech-born concert pianist and Holocaust survivor, "The Pianist of Theresienstadt"
11/26/1903

Theodore Hesburgh
American clergyman and University of Notre Dame president (1952-1987)
05/25/1917

Stéphane Hessel
German-born French diplomat, ambassador, and human rights advocate
10/20/1917

Margot Hielscher
German singer and actress
09/29/1919

Albert O. Hirschman
German-born American political economist
04/07/1915

Eric Hobsbawm
British Marxist historian
06/09/1917

James D. Hodgson
American government official, Secretary of Labor (1970-1973)
12/03/1915

Richard Hoggart
British sociologist and cultural critic, "The Uses of Literacy"
09/24/1918

Clare Hollingworth
British journalist, first reporter to file a dispatch on the outbreak of World War II
10/10/1911

Celeste Holm
American Oscar-winning actress, "Gentleman's Agreement"
04/29/1917 (Some sources cite 1919)

Richard C. Hottelet
American journalist and broadcaster
09/22/1917

John Houbolt
American space engineer
04/10/1919

Marsha Hunt
American actress, "The Valley of Decision"
10/17/1917

Harry Huskey
American computer designer
01/19/1916

Andrew Huxley
British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and biophysicist
11/22/1917

Pietro Ingrao
Italian politician
03/30/1915

Monte Irvin
American baseball player
02/25/1919

B. K. S. Iyengar
Indian yoga instructor
12/14/1918

V. R. Krishna Iyer
Indian Supreme Court justice (1973-1980)
11/15/1915 (Some sources cite 11/01/1915 or 11/14/1915)

Hal Jackson
American radio personality
11/03/1914 (Some sources cite 1915)

François Jacob
French Nobel Prize-winning biologist
06/17/1920

Al Jaffee
American cartoonist, Mad magazine
03/13/1921

Clifton James
American actor, "Live and Let Die", "The Untouchables"
05/29/1921

P. D. James
British crime fiction writer, the "Adam Dalgliesh" series
08/03/1920

Miklós Jancsó
Hungarian film director and screenwriter, "The Lord's Lantern in Budapest"
09/27/1921

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Luxembourgian ruler (1964-2000)
01/05/1921

Herb Jeffries
American singer and actor
09/24/1913 (Some sources cite 1911)

Evelyn Bryan Johnson
American aviator, female pilot with the most logged flight time
11/04/1909

Louis Jourdan
French actor, "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gigi"
06/19/1919 (Some sources cite 1920 or 1921)

Zita Kabátová
Czech actress
04/27/1913

Irving Kahn
American financial analyst and investor
12/19/1905

Mikhail Kalashnikov
Russian firearms designer
11/10/1919

Fay Kanin
American playwright and screenwriter, "Teacher's Pet"
05/09/1917

Jerome Karle
American Nobel Prize-winning physical chemist
06/18/1918

Yutaka Katayama
Japanese automobile executive, "Father of the Z Car"
09/15/1909

Stanley Kauffmann
American film and theater critic
04/24/1916

Bel Kaufman
German-born American writer, "Up the Down Staircase"
05/10/1911

Julian Kawalec
Polish novelist and poet
10/11/1916

Robert Kee
British broadcaster, journalist, and writer, "A Crowd Is Not Company"
10/05/1919

Don Keefer
American actor, "Sleeper", "Liar Liar"
08/18/1916

Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-born American FDA reviewer, refused to authorize sale of thalidomide in U.S.
06/24/1914

Kirk Kerkorian
American businessman, Tracinda Corporation
06/06/1917

Adolph Kiefer
American Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer
06/27/1918

Jiroemon Kimura
Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest validated man
04/19/1897

Lawrence Klein
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
09/14/1920

Florence Knoll
American architect and furniture designer
05/24/1917

William S. Knowles
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
06/01/1917

C. Everett Koop
American public health official, Surgeon General of the United States (1982-1989)
10/14/1916

Hilary Koprowski
Polish-born American virologist and immunologist
12/05/1916

Jiří Krejčík
Czech film director and screenwriter
06/26/1918

John Kundla
American college and professional basketball coach
07/03/1916