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Helen Gallagher American actress, TV's Ryan's Hope 07/19/1926 |
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Don Garlits American race car driver 01/14/1932 |
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Jake Garn American politician, Utah senator (1974–1993) 10/12/1932 |
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Richard Garwin American physicist, co-designed the first successful hydrogen bomb 04/19/1928 |
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Mitzi Gaynor American singer, dancer, and actress, South Pacific 09/04/1931 |
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Lloyd Geering New Zealand theologian 02/26/1918 |
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Frank Gehry Canadian/American architect 02/28/1929 |
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Ivar Giaever Norwegian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 04/05/1929 |
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Marla Gibbs American actress, TV's The Jeffersons, 227 06/14/1931 |
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Terry Gibbs American jazz vibraphonist 10/13/1924 |
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Johnny Gilbert American television announcer, Jeopardy! 07/13/1928 (Some sources cite 1924) |
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Walter Gilbert American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and physicist 03/21/1932 |
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Sheldon Glashow American Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist 12/05/1932 |
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John Glen English motion picture editor and director, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy 05/15/1932 |
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Alexander Goehr German-born English composer 08/10/1932 |
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Benny Golson American jazz saxophonist and composer 01/25/1929 |
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Eugen Gomringer Bolivian-born Swiss concrete poet 01/20/1925 |
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Jane Goodall English primatologist and conservationist 04/03/1934 |
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Berry Gordy, Jr. American entrepreneur, founded Motown Records 11/28/1929 |
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Kenneth Grange English industrial designer 07/17/1929 |
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Lee Grant American Oscar-winning actress, Shampoo, and documentarian 10/31/1925 (Birth year sources vary) |
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Chuck Grassley American politician, Iowa representative (1975–1981) and senator (1981–present) 09/17/1933 |
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Alan Greenspan American economist, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987–2006) 03/06/1926 |
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Joel Grey American Oscar-winning actor, singer, and dancer, Cabaret 04/11/1932 |
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Rosey Grier American football player and actor, The Thing with Two Heads 07/14/1932 |
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Yuri Grigorovich Russian dancer and choreographer 01/02/1927 |
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Stanislav Grof Czech-born American psychiatrist, pioneer of transpersonal psychology 07/01/1931 |
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Sofia Gubaidulina Russian composer, Offertorium 10/24/1931 |
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Richie Guerin American basketball player and coach 05/29/1932 |
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John Gurdon English Nobel Prize-winning developmental biologist 10/02/1933 |
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Hal Gurnee American television director, Late Night with David Letterman 01/25/1925 |
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Gustavo Gutiérrez Peruvian priest, pioneer of Latin American liberation theology 06/08/1928 |
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Jürgen Habermas German philosopher and sociologist 06/18/1929 |
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Gene Hackman American Oscar-winning actor, Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection 01/30/1930 |
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Fred Haise American astronaut 11/14/1933 |
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Glenn Hall Canadian hockey player 10/03/1931 |
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Brett Halsey American actor, Return of the Fly, The Godfather Part III 06/20/1933 |
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Lee H. Hamilton American politician, Indiana representative (1965–1999) 04/20/1931 |
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Sheila Hancock English actress, TV's Bedtime 02/22/1933 |
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Jerry Hardin American actor, The Firm, TV's The X-Files 11/20/1929 |
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Fred Harris American politician, Oklahoma senator (1964–1973) 11/13/1930 |
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Rosemary Harris English actress, Tom & Viv, the Spider-Man film series 09/19/1927 |
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John Hart American broadcast journalist 02/01/1932 |
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Klaus Hasselmann German Nobel Prize-winning oceanographer 10/25/1931 |
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Don Hastings American actor, TV's Captain Video and His Video Rangers, As the World Turns 04/01/1934 |
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Roy Hattersley English politician, journalist, and historian 12/28/1932 |
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Roy Haynes American jazz drummer 03/13/1925 |
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Jonathan Haze American actor, 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors 04/01/1929 |
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Tippi Hedren American actress, The Birds, Marnie 01/19/1930 |
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Patrick Hemingway American literary editor, Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light 06/28/1928 |
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Dudley R. Herschbach American Nobel Prize-winning chemist 06/18/1932 |
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Michael Heseltine English politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1995–1997) 03/21/1933 |
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Darryl Hickman American actor, The Grapes of Wrath, and television executive 07/28/1931 |
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Clint Hill American Secret Service agent, shielded the Kennedys after the president was shot 01/04/1932 |
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Jack Hill American motion picture director, Coffy, Foxy Brown 01/28/1933 |
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Carla A. Hills American government official, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1975–1977) 01/03/1934 |
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Mimi Hines Canadian-born comedian and actress 07/17/1933 |
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E. D. Hirsch American literary critic, author of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know 03/22/1928 |
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Tony Hoare English computer scientist 01/11/1934 |
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Jerzy Hoffman Polish motion picture director and screenwriter, The Deluge 03/15/1932 |
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Nonny Hogrogian American children's writer and illustrator, One Fine Day 05/07/1932 |
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Earl Holliman American actor, The Rainmaker, TV's Police Woman 09/11/1928 |
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Bill Holman American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger 05/21/1927 |
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Gerald Holton German-born American physicist and science historian 05/23/1922 |
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Jac Holzman American music industry executive, founder of Elektra Records 09/15/1931 |
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James Hong American actor, Big Trouble in Little China, Everything Everywhere All at Once 02/22/1929 |
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Marilyn Horne American opera singer 01/16/1934 |
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Selim Hoss Lebanese prime minister (1976–1980, 1987–1990, 1998–2000) and president (1988–1989) 12/20/1929 |
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Cissy Houston American soul and gospel singer 09/30/1933 |
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Dolores Huerta American labor leader and activist 04/10/1930 |
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Kathleen Hughes American actress, It Came from Outer Space 11/14/1928 |
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Tommy Hunt American soul singer, member of the Flamingos doo-wop group 06/18/1933 |
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Will Hutchins American actor, TV's Sugarfoot 05/05/1930 |
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Dick Hyman American jazz pianist and composer 03/08/1927 |
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Paul Ignatius American government official, Secretary of the Navy (1967–1969) 11/11/1920 |
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Ion Iliescu Romanian president (1989–1996, 2000–2004) 03/03/1930 |
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Luce Irigaray Belgian-born French linguist, psychoanalyst, and feminist philosopher 05/03/1930 |
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James Ivory American motion picture producer, director, Howard's End, and screenwriter, Call Me by Your Name 06/07/1928 |
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Ken Jacobs American experimental filmmaker, Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son 05/25/1933 |
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Madhur Jaffrey Indian-born actress, culinary writer, and television personality 08/13/1933 |
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Fredric Jameson American Marxist theorist and cultural critic 04/14/1934 |
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Ned Jarrett American race car driver 10/12/1932 |
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Ella Jenkins American singer and songwriter, nicknamed "The First Lady of Children's Music" 08/06/1924 |
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Hayes Alan Jenkins American Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater 03/23/1933 |
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Chilean-born French motion picture director and screenwriter, El Topo 02/17/1929 |
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Knut Johannesen Norwegian Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater 11/06/1933 |
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Jasper Johns American painter and graphic artist 05/15/1930 |
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George E. Johnson, Sr. American entrepreneur, founded Johnson Hair Care Products 06/12/1927 |
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J. Bennett Johnston American politician, Louisiana senator (1972–1997) 06/10/1932 |
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Jennifer Johnston Irish writer, The Old Jest 01/12/1930 |
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Betsy Jolas French/American composer, A Little Summer Suite 08/05/1926 |
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Jonathan Seychellois-hatched St. Helenian giant tortoise, world's oldest known living land animal c. 1832 |
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Dub Jones American football player 12/29/1924 |
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James Earl Jones American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars 01/17/1931 |
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Parnelli Jones American race car driver 08/12/1933 |
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Quincy Jones American music producer, musician, and composer 03/14/1933 |
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Shirley Jones American Oscar-winning actress, Oklahoma!, Elmer Gantry, TV's The Partridge Family 03/31/1934 |
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Sheila Jordan American jazz singer 11/18/1928 |
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Jackie Joseph American actress, The Little Shop of Horrors, TV’s The Doris Day Show 11/07/1933 |
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Marvin Kalb American journalist 06/09/1930 |
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Eric Kandel Austrian-born American Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist 11/07/1929 |
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John Kander American songwriter, "Cabaret", "New York, New York", collaborator with Fred Ebb 03/18/1927 |
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Martin Karplus Austrian-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist 03/15/1930 |
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Nancy Kassebaum American politician, Kansas senator (1978–1997) 07/29/1932 |
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Alex Katz American painter and printmaker 07/24/1927 |
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Ágnes Keleti Hungarian/Israeli Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast 01/09/1921 |
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Adrienne Kennedy American playwright, Funnyhouse of a Negro 09/13/1931 |
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Ethel Kennedy American human rights activist and political figure, widow of Senator Robert Kennedy 04/11/1928 |
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William Kennedy American writer, Ironweed, Roscoe 01/16/1928 |
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X. J. Kennedy American poet, Nude Descending a Staircase 08/21/1929 |
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Graham Kerr English chef and television personality, The Galloping Gourmet 01/22/1934 |
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Margaret Kerry American actress, model for Tinker Bell in Disney's Peter Pan 05/11/1929 |
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Joseph Kerwin American astronaut 02/19/1932 |
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Terry Kilburn English-born American actor, A Christmas Carol, Goodbye, Mr. Chips 11/25/1926 |
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Kim Yong-nam North Korean government official, ceremonial head of state (1998–2019) 02/04/1928 |
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Don King American boxing promoter 08/20/1931 |
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Peggy King American pop singer and television personality 02/16/1930 |
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Nancy Kissinger American socialite and philanthropist 04/13/1934 |
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Alexander Kluge German writer and filmmaker, The Candidate 02/14/1932 |
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Hilary Knight American illustrator, the Eloise book series 11/01/1926 |
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Marilyn Knowlden American actress, Imitation of Life, Les Misérables 05/12/1926 |
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Alison Knowles American sound and visual artist 04/29/1933 |
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Marianne Koch German actress, The Devil's General, A Fistful of Dollars 08/19/1931 |
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Pavel Kohout Czech-born Austrian playwright and novelist, The Widow Killer 07/20/1928 |
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Bernie Kopell American actor, TV’s Get Smart, The Love Boat 06/21/1933 |
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Michael Korda English-born novelist, biographer, editor, and publisher 10/08/1933 |
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Ted Kotcheff Canadian motion picture director, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Weekend at Bernie's 04/07/1931 |
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Philip Kotler American marketing strategist, known as the father of modern marketing 05/27/1931 |
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Gene Kranz American aerospace engineer, NASA's Chief Flight Director during Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 08/17/1933 |
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Sid Krofft Canadian-born American puppeteer and television producer, H.R. Pufnstuf 07/30/1929 |
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Christiane Kubrick German-born painter 05/10/1932 |
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Reiner Kunze German writer and GDR dissident 08/16/1933 |
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György Kurtág Hungarian composer 02/19/1926 |
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Yayoi Kusama Japanese painter and sculptor 03/22/1929 |
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William Labov American sociolinguist 12/04/1927 |
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Cleo Laine English singer and actress, nicknamed "The Queen of Jazz" 10/28/1927 |
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Abbe Lane American singer and actress 12/14/1932 |
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch German Holocaust survivor, member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz 07/17/1925 |
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Phyllida Law Scottish actress, The Winter Guest 05/08/1932 |
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Carol Lawrence American actress and singer, Broadway's West Side Story 09/05/1932 |
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Mary Wells Lawrence American advertising executive 05/25/1928 |
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James Lawson American activist, minister, and educator 09/22/1928 |
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Peter Lax Hungarian-born American mathematician 05/01/1926 |
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Frank Layden American basketball coach and executive 01/05/1932 |
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David Lee American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 01/20/1931 |
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Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 11/24/1926 |
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Tom Lehrer American satirist and songwriter, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” 04/09/1928 |
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Julio Le Parc Argentinian kinetic artist 09/23/1928 |
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Jean-Marie Le Pen French nationalist, founded and led the National Front political party (1972–2011) 06/20/1928 |
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Philippe Leroy French actor, The Night Porter, La Femme Nikita 10/15/1930 |
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Richard Lester American motion picture director, A Hard Day's Night, Help! 01/19/1932 |
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William Leuchtenburg American historian, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 09/28/1922 |
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Sander Levin American politician, Michigan representative (1983–2019) 09/06/1931 |
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Marv Levy American football coach 08/03/1925 |
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Li Ka-shing Hong Kong business magnate 06/13/1928 |
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Robert Jay Lifton American psychiatrist, author of Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism 05/16/1926 |
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Hal Linden American actor, TV's Barney Miller 03/20/1931 |
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Penelope Lively English writer, A Stitch in Time, Moon Tiger 03/17/1933 |
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June Lockhart American actress, TV's Lassie, Lost in Space 06/25/1925 |
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Tina Louise American actress, God's Little Acre, TV's Gilligan's Island 02/11/1934 |
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Jim Lovell American astronaut 03/25/1928 |
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Jerome Lowenthal American classical pianist 02/11/1932 |
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Lisa Lu Chinese-born American actress, The Joy Luck Club, Crazy Rich Asians 07/08/1927 |
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Peter Lupus American bodybuilder and actor, TV's Mission: Impossible 06/17/1932 |
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Bob Lutz Swiss-born American automobile executive 02/12/1932 |
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Alasdair MacIntyre Scottish-born philosopher 01/12/1929 |
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Shirley MacLaine American Oscar-winning actress, The Apartment, Terms of Endearment 04/24/1934 |
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Judith Magre French actress, The Lovers, Elle 11/20/1926 |
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Mahathir Mohamad Malaysian prime minister (1981–2003, 2018–2020) 07/10/1925 |
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Fumihiko Maki Japanese architect 09/06/1928 |
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Burton Malkiel American economist, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street 08/28/1932 |
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Jan Malmsjö Swedish actor, Scenes from a Marriage, and singer 05/29/1932 |
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David Malouf Australian poet and novelist, The Great World 03/20/1934 |
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Imelda Marcos Filipino First Lady (1965–1986) 07/02/1929 |
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Bernard Marcus American businessman, co-founded Home Depot 05/12/1929 |
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Rudolph A. Marcus Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning chemist 07/21/1923 |
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Peter Marshall American pop singer and game show host, The Hollywood Squares 03/30/1926 |
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Ray Marshall American government official, Secretary of Labor (1977–1981) 08/22/1928 |
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Wink Martindale American game show host, Gambit, Tic-Tac-Dough 12/04/1933 |
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Lea Massari Italian actress, L'Avventura, Murmur of the Heart 06/30/1933 |
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Mack Mattingly American politician, Georgia senator (1981–1987) 01/07/1931 |
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Roddy Maude-Roxby English comedian and actor, White Hunter Black Heart, TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 04/02/1930 |
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Claire Maurier French actress, La Cage aux Folles, Amélie 03/27/1929 |
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Charlie Maxwell American baseball player 04/08/1927 |
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Elaine May American comedian, motion picture director, screenwriter, playwright, and actress 04/21/1932 |
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John Mayall English blues-rock singer and musician, frontman of the Bluesbreakers 11/29/1933 |
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Marilyn Maye American jazz and pop singer 04/10/1928 |
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza Spanish scholar and politician, Director-General of UNESCO (1987–1999) 01/27/1934 |
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Willie Mays American baseball player and coach 05/06/1931 |
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Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow Senegalese educator, UNESCO Director-General (1974–1987) 03/20/1921 |
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Mitzi McCall American actress and comedian 09/09/1932 |
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Pete McCloskey American politician, California representative (1967–1983) 09/29/1927 |
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James McEachin American actor, Play Misty for Me, TV's Tenafly 05/20/1930 |
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Robert McGinnis American painter and illustrator 02/03/1926 |
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Virginia McKenna English actress, Born Free, and wildlife activist 06/07/1931 |
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Jack McKeon American baseball manager and front-office executive 11/23/1930 |
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John McPhee American journalist and writer, Annals of the Former World 03/08/1931 |
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Edwin Meese American government official, Attorney General (1985–1988) 12/02/1931 |
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Larry Merchant American boxing analyst 02/11/1931 |
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James Meredith American civil rights activist, first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi 06/25/1933 |
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Helen Merrill American jazz singer 07/21/1930 (Some sources cite 1929) |
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Duane Michals American photographer 02/18/1932 |
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J. William Middendorf American government official, Secretary of the Navy (1974–1977) 09/22/1924 |
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Vera Miles American actress, The Searchers, Psycho 08/23/1929 |
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Brenda Milner English-born Canadian clinical neuropsychologist 07/15/1918 |
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George J. Mitchell American politician, Maine senator (1980–1995) 08/20/1933 |
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Jürgen Moltmann German theologian 04/08/1926 |
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Fernanda Montenegro Brazilian actress, Central Station 10/16/1929 |
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Sara Jane Moore American political extremist, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford 02/15/1930 |
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Terry Moore American actress, Mighty Joe Young, Come Back, Little Sheba 01/07/1929 |
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Rita Moreno Puerto Rican-born American Oscar-winning actress, West Side Story, TV's The Electric Company 12/11/1931 |
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Jane Morgan American pop singer, "Fascination", "The Day the Rains Came" 05/03/1924 |
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Jaye P. Morgan American pop singer, actress, and game show panelist 12/03/1931 |
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Joe Morgenstern American film critic 10/03/1932 |
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Edgar Morin French philosopher and sociologist 07/08/1921 |
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Desmond Morris English zoologist and sociobiologist, author of The Naked Ape 01/24/1928 |
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Dick Motta American basketball coach 09/03/1931 |
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Armin Mueller-Stahl German actor, Avalon, Shine 12/17/1930 |
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Alice Munro Canadian Nobel Prize-winning writer, Runaway 07/10/1931 |
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Tomiichi Murayama Japanese prime minister (1994–1996) 03/03/1924 |
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Rupert Murdoch Australian-born American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur 03/11/1931 |
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David H. Murdock American businessman, CEO of Dole Food Company 04/11/1923 |
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Frank Murkowski American politician, Alaska senator (1981–2002) and governor (2002–2006) 03/28/1933 |
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Thea Musgrave Scottish/American composer, Harriet, the Woman Called Moses 05/27/1928 |