BORN 1926

Turning 94 in 2020

		W. Michael Blumenthal German-born American government official, Secretary of the Treasury (1977-1979) 01/03/1926
		Newton Minow American government official, Federal Communications Commission chair (1961-1963) 01/17/1926
		Valéry Giscard d'Estaing French president (1974-1981) 02/02/1926
		Robert McGinnis American painter and illustrator 02/03/1926
		Allan Rich American actor, Serpico, Amistad 02/08/1926
		György Kurtág Hungarian composer 02/19/1926
		Alfonso Sastre Spanish playwright, Death Squad 02/20/1926
		Robert Clary French-born American actor, TV's Hogan's Heroes 03/01/1926
		Alan Greenspan American economist, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006) 03/06/1926
		George Ariyoshi American politician, Hawaii governor (1974-1986) 03/12/1926
		Gene Shalit American film and book critic and television personality, The Today Show (1973-2010) 03/25/1926
		Peter Marshall American singer and game show host, The Hollywood Squares 03/30/1926
		Roger Corman American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors 04/05/1926
		Alexander Butterfield American White House aide, revealed existence of Nixon tapes during Watergate scandal 04/06/1926
		Shecky Greene American comedian and actor 04/08/1926
		Jürgen Moltmann German theologian 04/08/1926
		Jane Withers American actress, Bright Eyes, Giant 04/12/1926
		Elizabeth II English monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952-present) 04/21/1926
		Cloris Leachman American Oscar-winning actress, The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein 04/30/1926
		Peter Lax Hungarian-born American mathematician 05/01/1926
		Val Bisoglio American actor, Saturday Night Fever, TV's Quincy, M.E. 05/07/1926
		David Attenborough English naturalist and television host, Life on Earth 05/08/1926
		Marcia Nasatir American motion picture producer and film studio executive 05/08/1926
		Robert Jay Lifton American psychiatrist, author of Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism 05/16/1926
		Mark Andrews American politician, North Dakota representative (1963-1981) and senator (1981-1987) 05/19/1926
		Abdoulaye Wade Senegalese president (2000-2012) 05/29/1926
		Joe Negri American jazz guitarist and actor, TV's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 06/10/1926
		Carlisle Floyd American opera composer, Susannah 06/11/1926
		Arno J. Mayer Luxembourgian-born American historian, author of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? 06/19/1926
		Arnaldo Pomodoro Italian sculptor 06/23/1926
		George Booth American cartoonist, frequent contributor to The New Yorker 06/28/1926
		Mel Brooks American actor, screenwriter, and motion picture director, The Producers, Blazing Saddles 06/28/1926
		Julius W. Becton, Jr. American government official, Director of FEMA (1985-1989) 06/29/1926
		Paul Berg American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist 06/30/1926
		Ben Roy Mottelson American/Danish Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist 07/09/1926
		Carleton Carpenter American actor, Three Little Words, Summer Stock 07/10/1926
		Frederick Buechner American theologian and writer, The Book of Bebb, Godric 07/11/1926
		Helen Gallagher American actress, TV's Ryan's Hope 07/19/1926
		Norman Jewison Canadian motion picture producer and director, In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck 07/21/1926
		J. I. Packer English-born Canadian theologian 07/22/1926
		Betye Saar American assemblage artist 07/30/1926
		Tony Bennett American singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" 08/03/1926
		Jiang Zemin Chinese president (1993-2003) 08/17/1926
		Arthur Rock American venture capitalist 08/19/1926
		Betty Lynn American actress, Cheaper by the Dozen, TV's The Andy Griffith Show 08/29/1926
		Alison Lurie American writer, Foreign Affairs 09/03/1926
		Robert J. Lagomarsino American politician, California representative (1975-1993) 09/04/1926
		Charles Duncan, Jr. American government official, Secretary of Energy (1979-1981) 09/09/1926
		Jean-Pierre Serre French mathematician 09/15/1926
		Masatoshi Koshiba Japanese Nobel Prize-winning physicist 09/19/1926
		Max Morath American ragtime pianist 10/01/1926
		Jan Morris English-born Welsh travel writer 10/02/1926
		Frances "Sissy" Farenthold American activist and politician 10/02/1926
		Thích Nhất Hạnh Vietnamese monk and peace activist 10/11/1926
		Charles Dolan American media mogul, founded Cablevision and HBO 10/16/1926
		Lou Donaldson American jazz saxophonist 11/01/1926
		Hilary Knight American illustrator, the Eloise book series 11/01/1926
		Valdas Adamkus Lithuanian president (1998-2003, 2004-2009) 11/03/1926
		José Manuel Caballero Spanish novelist and poet 11/11/1926
		Noah Gordon American writer, The Physician, The Last Jew 11/11/1926
		Robert Brown American actor, TV's Here Come the Brides 11/17/1926
		Judith Magre French actress, The Lovers, Elle 11/20/1926
		Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 11/24/1926
		Terry Kilburn English-born American actor, A Christmas Carol, Goodbye, Mr. Chips 11/25/1926
		Murray Schisgal American playwright and screenwriter, Tootsie 11/25/1926
		Andrew Schally Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning endocrinologist 11/30/1926
		Carl Erskine American baseball player 12/13/1926
		Charles Peters American journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly 12/22/1926
		Robert Bly American poet, Iron John: A Book About Men 12/23/1926