William Hartnell, British actor, TV's "Doctor Who"
01/08/1908 - 04/23/1975

Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and writer, "The Second Sex"
01/09/1908 - 04/14/1986

Paul Henreid, Austrian-born American actor, "Casablanca"
01/10/1908 - 03/29/1992

Bernard Lee, British actor, the "James Bond" film series
01/10/1908 - 01/16/1981

Lionel Stander, American actor, TV's "Hart to Hart"
01/11/1908 - 11/30/1994

Russ Columbo, American singer
01/14/1908 - 09/02/1934

Edward Teller, Hungarian-born American physicist, developer of the hydrogen bomb
01/15/1908 - 09/09/2003

Ethel Merman, American singer and actress, Broadway's "Annie Get Your Gun", "Gypsy"
01/16/1908 - 02/15/1984

Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born British mathematician and television host, "The Ascent of Man"
01/18/1908 - 08/22/1974

Ish Kabibble, American trumpeter and novelty singer
01/19/1908 - 06/05/1994

Otto Lang, Bosnian-born American film and TV producer and director
01/21/1908 - 01/30/2006

Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz trumpeter and singer
01/27/1908 - 11/04/1954

Richard Hearne, British comedian and actor, TV's "Mr. Pastry"
01/30/1908 - 08/23/1979

E. H. Bronner, German-born American soap manufacturer
02/01/1908 - 03/07/1997

George Pál, Hungarian-born American film producer, director, and animator
02/01/1908 - 05/02/1980

Wes Ferrell, American baseball player
02/02/1908 - 12/09/1976

Daisy Hilton, British-born American conjoined twin and vaudeville performer
02/05/1908 - 01/06/1969

Violet Hilton, British-born American conjoined twin and vaudeville performer
02/05/1908 - 01/06/1969

Buster Crabbe, American actor, the "Flash Gordon" film series
02/07/1908 - 04/23/1983

Hilda van Stockum, Dutch children's writer and illustrator
02/09/1908 - 11/01/2006

Vivian Fuchs, British explorer
02/11/1908 - 11/11/1999

Red Barber, American sportscaster
02/17/1908 - 10/22/1992

Bo Yibo, Chinese politician, one of the Eight Immortals of Communist China
02/17/1908 - 01/15/2007

John Mills, British Oscar-winning actor, "Ryan's Daughter"
02/22/1908 - 04/23/2005

Elma "Pem" Farnsworth, American inventor's assistant, the "Mother of Television"
02/25/1908 - 04/27/2006

Tex Avery, American animator and director, "Daffy Duck"
02/26/1908 - 08/26/1980

Billie Bird, American actress, TV's "Dear John"
02/28/1908 - 11/27/2002

Dee Brown, American historian and writer, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
02/28/1908 - 12/12/2002

Balthus, French painter
02/29/1908 - 02/18/2001

Rex Harrison, British Oscar-winning actor, "My Fair Lady"
03/05/1908 - 06/02/1990

Anna Magnani, Italian Oscar-winning actress, "The Rose Tattoo"
03/07/1908 - 09/26/1973

Walter Annenberg, American publisher and diplomat
03/13/1908 - 10/01/2002

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher
03/14/1908 - 05/04/1961

Robert Rossen, American director and screenwriter, "The Hustler"
03/16/1908 - 02/18/1966

Michael Redgrave, British actor, "Mourning Becomes Electra"
03/20/1908 - 03/21/1985

Frank Stanton, American broadcasting executive
03/20/1908 - 12/24/2006

Louis L'Amour, American writer, "Hondo"
03/22/1908 - 06/10/1988

David Lean, British Oscar-winning director, "Lawrence of Arabia"
03/25/1908 - 04/16/1991

Arthur O'Connell, American actor, "Picnic", "Anatomy of a Murder"
03/29/1908 - 05/18/1981

Abraham Maslow, American psychologist, "Motivation and Personality"
04/01/1908 - 06/08/1970

Buddy Ebsen, American dancer and actor, TV's "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Barnaby Jones"
04/02/1908 - 07/06/2003

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American writer, "Cheaper by the Dozen"
04/04/1908 - 11/04/2006

Bette Davis, American Oscar-winning actress, "Dangerous", "Jezebel"
04/05/1908 - 10/06/1989

Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor
04/05/1908 - 07/16/1989

Percy Faith, Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, and composer
04/07/1908 - 02/09/1976

Jane Bolin, American jurist, first African-American female judge
04/11/1908 - 01/08/2007

Virginia Cherrill, American actress, "City Lights"
04/12/1908 - 11/14/1996

Robert L. Scott, Jr., American fighter pilot and writer, "God Is My Co-Pilot"
04/12/1908 - 02/27/2006

Lionel Hampton, American jazz vibraphonist and bandleader
04/20/1908 - 08/31/2002

Edward R. Murrow, American journalist
04/25/1908 - 04/27/1965

Oskar Schindler, German industrialist and humanitarian
04/28/1908 - 10/09/1974

Jack Williamson, American science fiction writer
04/29/1908 - 11/10/2006

Eve Arden, American actress, TV's "Our Miss Brooks"
04/30/1908 - 11/12/1990

Jack Zander, American animator
05/03/1908 - 12/17/2007

Lucien Ballard, American cinematographer, "The Wild Bunch"
05/06/1908 - 10/01/1988

Ian Fleming, British writer, the "James Bond" series
05/08/1908 - 08/12/1964

Carl Albert, American politician, Speaker of the House (1971-1977)
05/10/1908 - 02/04/2000

Joe Grant, American Disney animator
05/15/1908 - 05/06/2005

James Stewart, American Oscar-winning actor, "The Philadelphia Story"
05/20/1908 - 07/02/1997

John Bardeen, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and electrical engineer
05/23/1908 - 01/30/1991

Theodore Roethke, American poet, "The Waking"
05/25/1908 - 08/01/1963

Robert Morley, British actor, "The African Queen"
05/26/1908 - 06/03/1992

Hannes Alfvén, Swedish Nobel Prize-winning plasma physicist
05/30/1908 - 04/02/1995

Mel Blanc, American voice artist, "Bugs Bunny" "Porky Pig"
05/30/1908 - 07/10/1989

Don Ameche, American Oscar-winning actor, "Cocoon"
05/31/1908 - 12/06/1993

Margherita Carosio, Italian opera singer
06/07/1908 - 01/10/2005

Robert Cummings, American actor, TV's "The Bob Cummings Show"
06/10/1908 - 12/02/1990

Sam "Momo" Giancana, American crime boss
06/15/1908 - 06/19/1975

Aloysius John Wycislo, American bishop
06/17/1908 - 10/11/2005

Bud Collyer, American game show host, "Beat the Clock", "To Tell the Truth"
06/18/1908 - 09/08/1969

Nedra Volz, American actress, "10"
06/18/1908 - 01/20/2003

Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and logician
06/25/1908 - 12/25/2000

João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer, "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands"
06/27/1908 - 11/19/1967

Leroy Anderson, American composer, "The Syncopated Clock", "Sleigh Ride"
06/29/1908 - 05/18/1975

Peg Entwistle, Welsh-born American starlet
07/01/1908 - 09/18/1932

Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, Estée Lauder cosmetics
07/01/1908 - 04/24/2004

Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, Supreme Court justice (1967-1991)
07/02/1908 - 01/24/1993

Nelson Rockefeller, American vice president (1974-1977)
07/08/1908 - 01/26/1979

Milton Berle, American comedian, TV's "Texaco Star Theater"
07/12/1908 - 03/27/2002

Max M. Fisher, American industrialist and philanthropist
07/15/1908 - 03/03/2005

Lupe Vélez, Mexican-born actress
07/18/1908 - 12/13/1944

Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette authority
07/22/1908 - 12/27/1974

Elio Vittorini, Italian writer, "Conversations in Sicily"
07/23/1908 - 02/13/1966

Jack Gilford, American actor, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
07/25/1908 - 06/02/1990

Harold Peary, American actor, radio's "The Great Gildersleeve"
07/25/1908 - 03/30/1985

Salvador Allende, Chilean president (1970-1973)
07/26/1908 - 09/11/1973

Joseph Mitchell, American writer, The New Yorker
07/27/1908 - 05/24/1996

Miriam Rothschild, British zoologist and entomologist
08/05/1908 - 01/20/2005

Arthur Goldberg, American government official and Supreme Court justice (1962-1965)
08/08/1908 - 01/19/1990

Ford Rainey, American character actor
08/08/1908 - 07/25/2005

A. I. Bezzerides, Turkish-born American novelist and screenwriter
08/09/1908 - 01/01/2007

Mary G. Ross, American mathematician and aerospace engineer
08/09/1908 - 04/29/2008

David Renton, British politician, Member of Parliament (1945-1979)
08/12/1908 - 05/24/2007

Gene Raymond, American actor, "Smilin' Through"
08/13/1908 - 05/02/1998

Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet
08/18/1908 - 05/23/1994

Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager
08/20/1908 - 10/29/2005

M. M. Kaye, British writer, "The Far Pavilions"
08/21/1908 - 01/29/2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer
08/22/1908 - 08/03/2004

Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer
08/27/1908 - 02/25/2001

Lyndon B. Johnson, American president (1963-1969)
08/27/1908 - 01/22/1973

Marguerite Young, American writer, "Miss MacIntosh, My Darling"
08/28/1908 - 11/17/1995

Fred MacMurray, American actor, TV's "My Three Sons"
08/30/1908 - 11/06/1991

William Saroyan, American writer, "The Time of Your Life"
08/31/1908 - 05/18/1981

Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born American director
09/04/1908 - 07/01/1999

Richard Wright, American writer, "Native Son"
09/04/1908 - 11/28/1960

Gloria Holden, British-born American actress, "Dracula's Daughter"
09/05/1908 - 03/22/1991

Paul Brown, American football coach, namesake of Cleveland Browns
09/07/1908 - 08/05/1991

Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist
09/09/1908 - 08/27/1950

Raymond Scott, American composer, orchestra leader, and inventor of the sequencer
09/10/1908 - 02/08/1994

Mae Questel, American actress and voice artist, "Betty Boop"
09/13/1908 - 01/04/1998

Penny Singleton, American actress, the "Blondie" film series
09/15/1908 - 11/12/2003

Joshua Logan, American stage and film director and writer
10/05/1908 - 07/12/1988

Carole Lombard, American actress, "My Man Godfrey"
10/06/1908 - 01/16/1942

Cartola, Brazilian singer and composer
10/11/1908 - 11/30/1980

Ann Petry, American writer, "The Street"
10/12/1908 - 04/28/1997

John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat
10/15/1908 - 04/29/2006

Enver Hoxha, Albanian head of state (1944-1985)
10/16/1908 - 04/11/1985

Lee Krasner, American painter
10/27/1908 - 06/19/1984

Patsy Montana, American country singer and songwriter
10/30/1908 - 05/03/1996

Bunny Berigan, American jazz trumpeter
11/02/1908 - 06/02/1942

Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-born American football player
11/03/1908 - 01/07/1990

Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born British Nobel Prize-winning physicist
11/04/1908 - 08/31/2005

Raja Rao, Indian writer, "Kanthapura", "The Serpent and the Rope"
11/08/1908 - 07/08/2006 (Several sources claim born in 1909)

Harry Blackmun, American jurist, Supreme Court justice (1970-1994)
11/12/1908 - 03/04/1999

C. Vann Woodward, American historian, "The Strange Career of Jim Crow"
11/13/1908 - 12/17/1999

Joseph McCarthy, American politician, Wisconsin senator (1947-1957)
11/14/1908 - 05/02/1957

Burgess Meredith, American actor, "Of Mice and Men", "Rocky"
11/16/1908 - 09/09/1997

Imogene Coca, American comedienne, TV's "Your Show of Shows"
11/18/1908 - 06/02/2001

Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist and broadcaster, TV's "Masterpiece Theatre"
11/20/1908 - 03/30/2004

Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer
11/23/1908 - 11/04/2006

Charles Forte, Italian-born British hotelier and restaurateur
11/26/1908 - 02/28/2007

Lefty Gomez, American baseball player
11/26/1908 - 02/17/1989

Adam Clayton Powell, American politician, New York representative (1945-1971)
11/29/1908 - 04/04/1972

Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born American actress, "The Wedding Night"
12/03/1908 - 11/12/1993

Alfred Hershey, American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist
12/04/1908 - 05/22/1997

Mária Szepes, Hungarian writer, "The Red Lion - The Elixir of Eternal Life"
12/04/1908 - 09/03/2007

Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber
12/06/1908 - 11/27/1934

Olivier Messiaen, French composer and organist
12/10/1908 - 04/27/1992

Van Heflin, American Oscar-winning actor, "Johnny Eager"
12/13/1908 - 07/23/1971

Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor, TV's "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
12/14/1908 - 10/27/1996

Willard Libby, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
12/17/1908 - 09/08/1980

Celia Johnson, British actress, "Brief Encounter"
12/18/1908 - 04/26/1982

Dennis Morgan, American actor, Kitty Foyle"
12/20/1908 - 09/07/1994

Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, American broadcasting pioneer
12/21/1908 - 03/17/2002

Sol Carter, American baseball player
12/23/1908 - 12/23/2006

Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Canadian photographer
12/23/1908 - 07/13/2002

Quentin Crisp, British writer, performer, and lecturer
12/25/1908 - 11/21/1999

Helen Twelvetrees, American actress
12/25/1908 - 02/13/1958

Lew Ayres, American actor, "All Quiet on the Western Front"
12/28/1908 - 12/30/1996

Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-born Nazi hunter
12/31/1908 - 09/20/2005