Ċensu Tabone
Maltese president (1989-1994) and ophthalmologist
03/30/1913

Gilbert Taylor
British cinematographer, "Dr. Strangelove", "A Hard Day's Night"
04/12/1914

Clark Terry
American jazz trumpeter and flügelhornist
12/14/1920

Wayne Thiebaud
American pop art painter
11/15/1920

E. Donnall Thomas
American Nobel Prize-winning physician
03/15/1920

Helen Thomas
American journalist and columnist
08/04/1920

Frank Thornton
British actor, TV's "Are You Being Served?", "Last of the Summer Wine"
01/15/1921

Prem Tinsulanonda
Thai prime minister (1980-1988)
08/26/1920

Elio Toaff
Italian clergyman, chief rabbi of Rome (1951-2001)
04/30/1915

Louise Tobin
American big band singer, "There'll Be Some Changes Made"
11/11/1918

Ersilio Tonini
Italian cardinal
07/20/1914

Juan Vicente Torrealba
Venezuelan harpist and composer
02/20/1917

Roman Totenberg
Polish-born American violinist
01/01/1911

Audrey Totter
American actress, "The Postman Always Rings Twice", "Lady in the Lake"
12/20/1918

Lupita Tovar
Mexican actress, 1931's Spanish-language "Dracula"
07/27/1910

Charles Hard Townes
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
07/28/1915

Eiji Toyoda
Japanese industrialist, Toyota Motor Corporation
09/12/1913

Pierre-Yves Trémois
French artist and sculptor
01/08/1921

Armando Trovajoli
Italian film conductor and composer, "Two Women", "The Valachi Papers"
09/02/1917

Virgil Trucks
American baseball player
04/26/1917

Elsie Tu
British-born Hong Kong social activist, politician, and writer
06/02/1913

Bebo Valdés
Cuban jazz musician
10/09/1918

Jack Vance
American fantasy and science fiction writer
08/28/1916

Chavela Vargas
Costa Rican-born Mexican singer
04/17/1919

Ramón José Velásquez
Venezuelan president (1993-1994)
11/28/1916

Henri Vernes
Belgian action and science-fiction writer, the "Bob Morane" series
10/16/1918

Abe Vigoda
American actor, "The Godfather", TV's "Barney Miller"
02/24/1921

Maria Franziska von Trapp
Austrian-born American singer, the Trapp Family Singers
08/28/1914

Leo Vroman
Dutch-born American poet and hematologist
04/10/1915

Bea Wain
American big band singer, "Deep Purple", "My Reverie"
04/30/1917

Janet Waldo
American actress and voice artist, voice of Judy Jetson, Penelope Pitstop
02/04/1918 (Some sources cite 1920 or 1924)

Mike Wallace
American journalist, TV's "60 Minutes"
05/09/1918

Eli Wallach
American actor, "The Misfits", "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
12/07/1915

Ken Wallis
British autogyros designer and manufacturer
04/16/1916

Lawrence Walsh
Canadian-born American jurist, independent prosecutor for the 1986 Iran-Contra Affair
01/08/1912

Walter Walsh
American FBI agent and Olympic shooter
05/04/1907

Joseph Wapner
American jurist and television personality, "The People's Court"
11/15/1919

Richard von Weizsäcker
German president (1984-1994)
04/15/1920

Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
British brigadier and landowner
07/02/1915

Kitty Wells
American country music singer, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
08/30/1919 (Some sources cite 1918)

Wally Westlake
American baseball player
11/08/1920

T. K. Whitaker
Irish economist and civil servant
12/08/1916

Edgar Whitcomb
American politician, Indiana governor (1969-1973)
11/06/1917

Gough Whitlam
Australian prime minister (1972–1975)
07/11/1916

Reed Whittemore
American poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (1964-1965, 1984-1985)
09/11/1919

Richard Wilbur
American poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (1987-1988)
03/01/1921

David Willcocks
British choral director, organist, and composer
12/30/1919

Chuck Williams
American cookbook author and businessman, founded Williams-Sonoma
10/02/1915

Elmo Williams
American film producer and Oscar-winning editor, "High Noon"
04/30/1913

Esther Williams
American actress, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", "Neptune's Daughter"
08/08/1921 (Some sources cite 1922)

Elizabeth Wilson
American actress, "Picnic", "The Graduate", "9 to 5"
04/04/1921

Gerald Wilson
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
09/04/1918

Anna Wing
British actress, TV's "EastEnders"
10/30/1914

Jason Wingreen
American actor, TV's "All in the Family", "Archie Bunker's Place"
10/09/1920

Nicholas Winton
British humanitarian, saved the lives of 669 Czech children during the Holocaust
05/19/1909

Tyrus Wong
Chinese-born American animator, "Bambi"
10/25/1910

Cal Worthington
American auto dealer and television personality
11/27/1920

Herman Wouk
American writer, "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War"
05/27/1915

Lester Wunderman
American advertising executive, created direct marketing
06/22/1920

Isuzu Yamada
Japanese actress, "Throne of Blood"
02/05/1917

Alan Young
British-born American actor, "The Time Machine", TV's "Mr. Ed"
11/19/1919

Yuriko
American dancer and choreographer
02/02/1920

Lotfi A. Zadeh
Azerbaijanian-born American mathematician, inventor of fuzzy logic
02/04/1921

Saul Zaentz
American film producer, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Amadeus"
02/28/1921

Hermann Zapf
German typeface designer and calligrapher
11/08/1918

Silvio Zavala
Mexican historian
02/07/1909

Vladimir Zeldin
Russian actor
02/10/1915

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
American actor, TV's "77 Sunset Strip", "The F.B.I."
11/30/1918