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BORN 1928

Turning 96 in 2024

  William Kennedy
American writer, Ironweed, Roscoe
01/16/1928
  Desmond Morris
English zoologist and sociobiologist, author of The Naked Ape
01/24/1928
  Kim Yong-nam
North Korean government official, ceremonial head of state (1998–2019)
02/04/1928
  Paul Dooley
American actor, Breaking Away, Popeye
02/22/1928
  Lennart Carleson
Swedish mathematician
03/18/1928
  Peggy Dow
American actress, Harvey, Bright Victory
03/18/1928
  Bill Archer
American politician, Texas representative (1971–2001)
03/22/1928
  E. D. Hirsch
American literary critic, author of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
03/22/1928
  Jim Lovell
American astronaut
03/25/1928
  James Watson
American Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and biophysicist
04/06/1928
  Tom Lehrer
American satirist and songwriter, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
04/09/1928
  Marilyn Maye
American jazz and pop singer
04/10/1928
  Ethel Kennedy
American human rights activist and political figure, widow of Senator Robert Kennedy
04/11/1928
  Cynthia Ozick
American writer, The Puttermesser Papers
04/17/1928
  Richard Garwin
American physicist, co-designed the first successful hydrogen bomb
04/19/1928
  Yaacov Agam
Israeli sculptor
05/11/1928
  Michelle Perrot
French historian, author of The Bedroom: An Intimate History
05/18/1928
  Thea Musgrave
Scottish/American composer, Harriet, the Woman Called Moses
05/27/1928
  James Ivory
American motion picture producer, director, Howard's End, and screenwriter, Call Me by Your Name
06/07/1928
  Charles Strouse
American composer, Broadway's Bye Bye Birdie, Annie
06/07/1928
  Gustavo Gutiérrez
Peruvian priest, pioneer of Latin American liberation theology
06/08/1928
  Li Ka-shing
Hong Kong business magnate
06/13/1928
  Jean-Marie Le Pen
French nationalist, founded and led the National Front political party (1972–2011)
06/20/1928
  Hans Blix
Swedish politician and diplomat, United Nations weapons inspector (2000–2003)
06/28/1928
  Patrick Hemingway
American literary editor, Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light
06/28/1928
  Line Renaud
French singer, actress, and AIDS activist
07/02/1928
  Elias James Corey
American Nobel Prize-winning organic chemist
07/12/1928
  Johnny Gilbert
American television announcer, Jeopardy!
07/13/1928
(Some sources cite 1924)
  Nancy Olson
American actress, Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor
07/14/1928
  Pavel Kohout
Czech-born Austrian playwright and novelist, The Widow Killer
07/20/1928
  Bob Cousy
American basketball player and coach
08/09/1928
  Ann Blyth
American actress, Mildred Pierce, The Helen Morgan Story
08/16/1928
  Ray Marshall
American government official, Secretary of Labor (1977–1981)
08/22/1928
  Earl Holliman
American actor, The Rainmaker, TV's Police Woman
09/11/1928
  Julio Le Parc
Argentinian kinetic artist
09/23/1928
  Harold Becker
American motion picture director, The Onion Field, Sea of Love
09/25/1928
  Zhu Rongji
Chinese premier (1998–2003)
10/23/1928
(Some sources cite 10/01/1928)
  Marion Ross
American actress, TV's Happy Days
10/25/1928
  Roy Romer
American politician, Colorado governor (1987–1999)
10/31/1928
  Kathleen Hughes
American actress, It Came from Outer Space
11/14/1928
  Sheila Jordan
American jazz singer
11/18/1928
  Noam Chomsky
American linguist and political activist
12/07/1928
  Martin Cooper
American engineer, invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone
12/26/1928

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