BORN 1929

Turning 97 in 2026

		Vikki Dougan American model and actress 01/01/1929
		Terry Moore American actress, Mighty Joe Young, Come Back, Little Sheba 01/07/1929
		Peter Dale Scott Canadian-born poet and political analyst 01/11/1929
		Queen Ida American zydeco accordionist 01/15/1929
		John Polanyi German-born Canadian Nobel Prize-winning chemist 01/23/1929
		Michael Craig English/Australian actor and screenwriter, The Angry Silence 01/27/1929 (Some sources cite 1928)
		Alejandro Jodorowsky Chilean-born French motion picture director and screenwriter, El Topo 02/17/1929
		James Hong American actor, Big Trouble in Little China, Everything Everywhere All at Once 02/22/1929
		Rebecca Schull American actress, TV's Wings 02/22/1929
		Arnold Roth American cartoonist and illustrator 02/25/1929
		Lupe Anguiano American social activist 03/12/1929
		Yayoi Kusama Japanese painter and sculptor 03/22/1929
		Mark Rydell American motion picture director, The Rose, On Golden Pond 03/23/1929
		Claire Maurier French actress, La Cage aux Folles, Amélie 03/27/1929
		Édouard Balladur French prime minister (1993–1995) 05/02/1929
		Margaret Kerry American actress, model for Tinker Bell in Disney's Peter Pan 05/11/1929
		Harvey Cox American theologian 05/19/1929
		Werner Arber Swiss Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist 06/03/1929
		James Barnor Ghanaian photographer 06/06/1929
		Bonnie Bartlett American actress, TV's Little House on the Prairie, St. Elsewhere 06/20/1929
		Imelda Marcos Filipino first lady (1965–1986) 07/02/1929
		Helen Merrill American jazz singer 07/21/1929 (Some sources cite 1930)
		Sid Krofft Canadian-born puppeteer and television producer, H.R. Pufnstuf 07/30/1929
		Betty Brosmer American model, bodybuilder, and fitness expert 08/06/1929
		Hugues Aufray French folk and pop singer and songwriter 08/18/1929
		Margarita Melville Mexican-born American anti-war activist, member of the Catonsville Nine 08/19/1929
		Vera Miles American actress, The Searchers, Psycho 08/23/1929 (Some sources cite 1930)
		Stu Phillips American motion picture and television composer, Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider 09/09/1929
		Leroy Van Dyke American country singer, "The Auctioneer", "Walk on By" 10/04/1929
		Fernanda Montenegro Brazilian actress, Central Station 10/16/1929
		Rachel Ames American actress, TV's General Hospital 11/02/1929
		June Squibb American actress, About Schmidt, Nebraska 11/06/1929
		Eric Kandel Austrian-born American Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist 11/07/1929
		Jerry Hardin American actor, The Firm, TV's The X-Files 11/20/1929
		Berry Gordy Jr. American entrepreneur, founded Motown Records 11/28/1929
		Joan Ganz Cooney American television producer, Sesame Street, The Electric Company 11/30/1929
		Harry Benson Scottish photographer 12/02/1929
		Toshiko Akiyoshi Japanese-born American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist 12/12/1929
		Alan Gerry American entrepreneur, founded Cablevision Industries 12/24/1929
		George Schlatter American television producer, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Real People 12/31/1929