BORN 1930
Turning 91 in 2021

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Adonis
Syrian-born Lebanese poet and literary critic
01/01/1930 |
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Frederick Wiseman
American documentarian, In Jackson Heights
01/01/1930 |
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Jennifer Johnston
Irish writer, The Old Jest
01/12/1930 |
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Frances Sternhagen
American actress, Starting Over, TV's Cheers
01/13/1930 |
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Norman Podhoretz
American neoconservative writer and commentator
01/16/1930 |
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Tippi Hedren
American actress, The Birds, Marnie
01/19/1930 |
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Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut, second person to walk on the Moon
01/20/1930 |
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John Romita, Sr.
American comic book artist, co-creator of The Punisher
01/24/1930 |
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Luis de Pablo
Spanish composer
01/28/1930 |
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Gene Hackman
American Oscar-winning actor, Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection
01/30/1930 |
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Robert Wagner
American actor, the Austin Powers film series, TV's Hart to Hart
02/10/1930 |
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Mary Quant
English fashion designer
02/11/1930 (Some sources cite 1934) |
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Sara Jane Moore
American political extremist, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford
02/15/1930 |
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Roger Craig
American baseball player, coach, and manager
02/17/1930 |
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Joanne Woodward
American Oscar-winning actress, The Three Faces of Eve, Rachel, Rachel
02/27/1930 |
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Leon Cooper
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
02/28/1930 |
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John Cullum
American singer and actor, Broadway's Shenandoah, TV's Northern Exposure
03/02/1930 |
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Ion Iliescu
Romanian president (1989-1996, 2000-2004)
03/03/1930 |
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Scoey Mitchell
American actor, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, and game show panelist
03/12/1930 |
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Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist
03/15/1930 |
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Sue Johanson
Canadian sex educator and television personality, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson
03/16/1930
(Some sources cite 07/29/1930) |
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Rusty Warren
American comedienne and singer, "Bounce Your Boobies"
03/20/1930 |
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Pat Robertson
American evangelist and television host, The 700 Club
03/22/1930 |
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Stephen Sondheim
American composer and lyricist, West Side Story, A Little Night Music
03/22/1930 |
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Sandra Day O'Connor
American Supreme Court justice (1981-2006)
03/26/1930 |
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Daniel Spoerri
Romanian-born Swiss artist
03/27/1930 |
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Jerome Isaac Friedman
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
03/28/1930 |
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Albert Ruddy
Canadian-born American motion picture producer, The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby
03/28/1930 |
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John Astin
American actor, TV's The Addams Family
03/30/1930 |
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Mary Costa
American opera singer, voiced Princess Aurora in Disney's Sleeping Beauty
04/05/1930 |
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Dolores Huerta
American labor leader and activist
04/10/1930 |
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Nicholas Brady
American government official, Secretary of the Treasury (1988-1993)
04/11/1930 |
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Richard Davis
American jazz bassist
04/15/1930 |
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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Icelandic president (1980-1996)
04/15/1930 |
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Chris Barber
English jazz trombonist and bandleader
04/17/1930 |
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Clive Revill
New Zealand actor, Avanti!, The Empire Strikes Back
04/18/1930 |
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José Sarney
Brazilian president (1985-1990)
04/24/1930 |
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Richard Donner
American motion picture director, Superman, Lethal Weapon
04/24/1930 |
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Robert Simanek
American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
04/26/1930 |
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James Baker
American government official, Secretary of State (1989-1992)
04/28/1930 |
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Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French linguist, psychoanalyst, and feminist philosopher
05/03/1930 |
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Will Hutchins
American actor, TV's Sugarfoot
05/05/1930 |
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Gary Snyder
American poet, Turtle Island
05/08/1930 |
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George E. Smith
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
05/10/1930 |
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Pat McCormick
American Olympic gold medal-winning diver
05/12/1930 |
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Mike Gravel
American politician, Alaska senator (1969-1981)
05/13/1930 |
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Jasper Johns
American painter and graphic artist
05/15/1930 |
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Don Lind
American astronaut
05/18/1930 |
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James McEachin
American actor, Play Misty for Me, TV's Tenafly
05/20/1930 |
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John Barth
American writer, Lost in the Funhouse
05/27/1930 |
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Frank Drake
American astronomer and astrophysicist
05/28/1930 |
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and motion picture director, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby
05/31/1930 |
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Robert Aumann
German-born American/Israeli Nobel Prize-winning mathematician
06/08/1930 |
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Marvin Kalb
American journalist
06/09/1930 |
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Grace Mirabella
American magazine editor, editor-in-chief of Vogue and Mirabella
06/10/1930 |
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Charles Rangel
American politician, New York representative (1971-2017)
06/11/1930 |
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Gena Rowlands
American actress, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria
06/19/1930 |
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William Campbell
Irish-born American Nobel Prize-winning parasitologist
06/28/1930 |
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Thomas Sowell
American economist
06/30/1930 |
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Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Bolivian president (1993-1997, 2002-2003)
07/01/1930 |
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Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader
07/02/1930 |
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Carlos Menem
Argentinian president (1989-1999)
07/02/1930 |
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George Armstrong
Canadian hockey player
07/06/1930 |
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Gordon Pinsent
Canadian actor, The Rowdyman, Away from Her
07/12/1930 |
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Stephen Smale
American mathematician
07/15/1930 |
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Sally Ann Howes
English/American singer and actress, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
07/20/1930 |
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Ali al-Sistani
Iranian-born Shiite cleric and community leader
08/04/1930 |
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Nita Talbot
American actress, Buck and the Preacher, TV's Hogan's Heroes
08/08/1930 |
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George Soros
Hungarian/American investor and philanthropist
08/12/1930 |
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Jacques Tits
Belgium-born French mathematician
08/12/1930 |
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Tony Trabert
American tennis player
08/16/1930 |
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Warren Buffett
American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
08/30/1930 |
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Raymond Donovan
American government official, Secretary of Labor (1981-1985)
08/31/1930 |
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist
09/07/1930 |
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Mario Adorf
Swiss-born German actor, The Tin Drum
09/08/1930 |
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Akira Suzuki
Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist
09/12/1930 |
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Thomas Stafford
American astronaut
09/17/1930 |
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Joni James
American singer, "Why Don't You Believe Me?"
09/22/1930 |
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Nino Cerruti
Italian fashion designer and businessman
09/25/1930 |
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Richard Bonynge
Australian conductor and pianist
09/29/1930 |
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James Olson
American actor, Rachel, Rachel, The Andromeda Strain
10/08/1930 |
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Faith Ringgold
American painter
10/08/1930 |
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Adlai Stevenson III
American politician, Illinois senator (1970-1981)
10/10/1930 |
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John Polkinghorne
English physicist and Anglican priest
10/16/1930 |
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Estela De Carlotto
Argentinian human rights activist
10/22/1930 |
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Johan Galtung
Norwegian sociologist, known as the father of peace studies
10/24/1930 |
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Bernie Ecclestone
English business magnate, former chief executive of the Formula One Group
10/28/1930 |
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Omara Portuondo
Cuban singer and dancer
10/29/1930 |
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Michael Collins
American astronaut
10/31/1930 |
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Lois Smith
American actress, East of Eden, Twister
11/03/1930 |
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Dick Groat
American basketball and baseball player
11/04/1930 |
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Rudy Boschwitz
German-born American politician, Minnesota senator (1978-1991)
11/07/1930 |
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Fred Harris
American politician, Oklahoma senator (1964-1973)
11/13/1930 |
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Kenneth Frampton
English architectural historian
11/20/1930 |
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Bill Brock
American politician, Tennessee representative (1963-1971) and senator (1971-1977)
11/23/1930 |
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Jack McKeon
American baseball manager and front-office executive
11/23/1930 |
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G. Gordon Liddy
American FBI agent, figure in the Watergate scandal
11/30/1930 |
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Roberto Capucci
Italian fashion designer
12/02/1930 |
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Jean-Luc Godard
French motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary
12/03/1930 |
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Jean-Louis Trintignant
French actor, A Man and a Woman, Z, Amour
12/11/1930 |
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Edna O'Brien
Irish writer, The Country Girls
12/15/1930 |
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
German actor, Avalon, Shine
12/17/1930 |
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Marshall Sahlins
American anthropologist
12/27/1930 |
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Tu Youyou
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning pharmaceutical chemist
12/30/1930 |
