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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Leo Abse
Politician
22-Apr-1917 19-Aug-2008 Labour MP for Torfaen, 1983-87
Kay Aldridge
Actor
9-Jul-1917 12-Jan-1995 Perils of Nyoka
June Allyson
Actor
7-Oct-1917 8-Jul-2006 Two Girls and a Sailor
Cleveland Amory
Author
2-Sep-1917 14-Oct-1998 The Cat Who Came for Christmas
John Anderson, Jr.
Politician
8-May-1917   Governor of Kansas, 1961-65
Robert O. Anderson
Business
13-Apr-1917 2-Dec-2007 CEO of ARCO, 1966-86
Robert W. Anderson
Playwright
28-Apr-1917   Tea and Sympathy
R. G. Armstrong
Actor
7-Apr-1917   Pruneface in Dick Tracy
Desi Arnaz
Actor
2-Mar-1917 2-Dec-1986 Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy
Louis Auchincloss
Author
27-Sep-1917   Portrait in Brownstone
Red Auerbach
Basketball
20-Sep-1917 28-Oct-2006 Boston Celtics coach
Billy Benedict
Actor
16-Apr-1917 25-Nov-1999 Whitey in The Bowery Boys shorts
John Berry
Film Director
6-Sep-1917 29-Nov-1999 The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Mario Biaggi
Politician
26-Oct-1917   Congressman from New York, 1969-88
David Bohm
Physicist
20-Dec-1917 29-Oct-1992 Particle physicist
Heinrich Böll
Novelist
21-Dec-1917 16-Jul-1985 The Train Was On Time
Richard Boone
Actor
18-Jun-1917 10-Jan-1981 Have Gun, Will Travel
Ernest Borgnine
Actor
24-Jan-1917   Marty
Lou Boudreau
Baseball
17-Jul-1917 10-Aug-2001 MLB Shortstop, Hall of Famer
Bourvil
Actor
27-Jul-1917 23-Sep-1970 La Grande Vadrouille
Jane Bowles
Novelist
22-Feb-1917 4-May-1973 Two Serious Ladies
Tom Bradley
Politician
27-Dec-1917 29-Sep-1998 Mayor of Los Angeles, 1973-93
Lucille Bremer
Dancer
21-Feb-1917 16-Apr-1996 Yolanda and the Thief
Bertrand R. Brinley
Author
19-Jun-1917 20-Oct-1994 The Mad Scientists' Club
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poet
7-Jun-1917 3-Dec-2000 Annie Allen
H. Monroe Browne
Diplomat
9-May-1917   US Ambassador to New Zealand, 1981-85
William Bundy
Government
24-Sep-1917 6-Oct-2000 Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ
Anthony Burgess
Novelist
25-Feb-1917 25-Nov-1993 A Clockwork Orange
Raymond Burr
Actor
21-May-1917 12-Sep-1993 Perry Mason
Robert Byrd
Politician
20-Nov-1917   US Senator, former klan member
Leonora Carrington
Painter
6-Apr-1917   Last living Surrealist
Al Cervi
Basketball
12-Feb-1917   NBA Hall of Famer
Arthur C. Clarke
Novelist
16-Dec-1917 19-Mar-2008 2001: A Space Odyssey
James M. Clarke
Politician
12-Jun-1917 13-Apr-1999 Congressman from North Carolina, 1987-91
Jan Clayton
Actor
26-Aug-1917 28-Aug-1983 Ellen Miller on Lassie
Bill Clements
Politician
17-Apr-1917   Twice Governor of Texas
Steve Cochran
Actor
25-May-1917 15-Jun-1965 The Damned Don't Cry
Nat King Cole
Singer
17-Mar-1917 15-Feb-1965 Unforgettable
Barry Commoner
Biologist
28-May-1917   Science and Survival
John Connally
Politician
27-Feb-1917 15-Jun-1993 Governor of Texas, 1963-69
Hans Conried
Actor
15-Apr-1917 5-Jan-1982 Character actor, 1930s to 1970s
Joseph Coors, Sr.
Business
12-Nov-1917 15-Mar-2003 Ultraconservative beer baron
John Cornforth
Chemist
7-Sep-1917   Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Lloyd Cutler
Attorney
10-Nov-1917 8-May-2005 White House Counsel for Carter, Clinton
Helmut Dantine
Actor
7-Oct-1917 2-May-1982 Edge of Darkness
Danielle Darrieux
Actor
1-May-1917   8 Femmes
Frankie Darro
Actor
22-Dec-1917 25-Dec-1976 The Phantom Empire
Donald Davidson
Philosopher
6-Mar-1917 30-Aug-2003 Actions, Reasons And Causes
Ossie Davis
Actor
18-Dec-1917 4-Feb-2005 Do The Right Thing
Laraine Day
Actor
13-Oct-1917 10-Nov-2007 Foreign Correspondent
Martin Deutsch
Physicist
29-Jun-1917 16-Aug-2002 Discovered positronium
Brad Dexter
Actor
9-Apr-1917 12-Dec-2002 The Magnificent Seven
Phyllis Diller
Actor
17-Jul-1917   The original female stand-up comic
James Donald
Actor
18-May-1917 3-Aug-1993 Third Man on the Mountain
Christian de Duve
Scientist
2-Oct-1917   Microstructure of the cell
Will Eisner
Cartoonist
6-Mar-1917 3-Jan-2005 Turned comic book authors into Sequential Artists
Ross Elliott
Actor
18-Jun-1917 12-Aug-1999 Sheriff Abbott on The Virginian
Faye Emerson
Actor
8-Jul-1917 9-Mar-1983 Namesake of the Emmy award
Dante Fascell
Politician
9-Mar-1917 28-Nov-1998 Congressman from Florida, 1955-93
John B. Fenn
Chemist
15-Jun-1917   Electrospray ionization
Mel Ferrer
Actor
25-Aug-1917 2-Jun-2008 War and Peace
Leslie A. Fiedler
Critic
8-Mar-1917 29-Jan-2003 Love and Death in the American Novel
Ella Fitzgerald
Singer
25-Apr-1917 15-Jun-1996 The First Lady of Jazz
Joan Fontaine
Actor
22-Oct-1917   Suspicion
June Foray
Actor
18-Sep-1917   Voice of Rocky the Squirrel
Henry Ford II
Business
4-Sep-1917 29-Sep-1987 Former President, CEO of Ford
Anne Francine
Actor
8-Aug-1917 3-Dec-1999 Stage actress, Vera Charles in MAME
Freddie Francis
Film Director
22-Dec-1917 17-Mar-2007 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Ed Furgol
Golf
22-Mar-1917 6-Mar-1997 Winner, 1954 US Open
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actor
6-Feb-1917   Cop-slapping Gabor sister
Indira Gandhi
Head of State
19-Nov-1917 31-Oct-1984 First Female Prime Minister of India
George Gaynes
Actor
16-May-1917   Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster
Dizzy Gillespie
Jazz Musician
21-Oct-1917 7-Jan-1993 Be-bop jazz trumpeter
Marshall Goldberg
Football
25-Oct-1917 3-Apr-2006 Chicago Cardinals RB
Leo Gorcey
Actor
3-Jun-1917 2-Jun-1969 Bowery Boy
Michael Gough
Actor
23-Nov-1917   Alfred in Batman films
Katharine Graham
Publisher
16-Jun-1917 17-Jul-2001 Washington Post publisher, 1966-79
Dabbs Greer
Actor
2-Apr-1917 28-Apr-2007 Rev. Alden on Little House
Virginia Grey
Actor
22-Mar-1917 31-Jul-2004 Hullabaloo
Fannie Lou Hamer
Activist
6-Oct-1917 14-Mar-1977 Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer
John P. Harbin
Business
c. 1917   CEO of Halliburton, 1972-83
Frank Hardy
Novelist
21-Mar-1917 28-Mar-1994 Power Without Glory
John Hart
Actor
13-Dec-1917   Replaced Clayton Moore as TV's Lone Ranger
Hurd Hatfield
Actor
7-Dec-1917 26-Dec-1998 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Herbert A. Hauptman
Mathematician
14-Feb-1917   X-Ray diffraction studies
Denis Healey
Politician
30-Aug-1917   Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-79
Park Chung Hee
Head of State
30-Sep-1917 26-Oct-1979 President of South Korea, 1961-79
Don Herbert
TV Personality
10-Jul-1917 12-Jun-2007 Mr. Wizard
Robert C. Hill
Diplomat
30-Sep-1917 28-Nov-1978 US Ambassador to Argentina, 1974-77
Valerie Hobson
Actor
14-Apr-1917 13-Nov-1998 Kind Hearts and Coronets
John Lee Hooker
Musician
22-Aug-1917 21-Jun-2001 Prominent blues musician
Lena Horne
Singer
30-Jun-1917   Jazz singer, famous for Stormy Weather
Frankie Howerd
Actor
6-Mar-1917 19-Apr-1992 Up Pompeii
Roy M. Huffington
Business
4-Oct-1917 11-Jul-2008 Texas Oilman
Marsha Hunt
Actor
17-Oct-1917   Johnny Got His Gun
Leonid Hurwicz
Economist
21-Aug-1917 24-Jun-2008 Mechanism design theory
Andrew F. Huxley
Scientist
22-Nov-1917   Electrical impulses in nerves
Pedro Infante
Actor
18-Nov-1917 15-Apr-1957 Idolo de Guamúchil
Adele Jergens
Actor
26-Nov-1917 22-Nov-2002 Ladies of the Chorus
Kamal Jumblatt
Politician
6-Dec-1917 16-Mar-1977 Former Leader of the Druze
John Justin
Actor
24-Nov-1917 29-Nov-2002 The Thief of Bagdad
Carl Karcher
Business
16-Jan-1917 11-Jan-2008 Founder of Carl's Jr.
Tadao Kashio
Business
1917 4-Mar-1993 President of Casio, 1960-84
John C. Kendrew
Chemist
24-Mar-1917 23-Aug-1997 Determined structure of myoglobin
John F. Kennedy
Head of State
29-May-1917 22-Nov-1963 35th US President, 1961-63
Kirk Kerkorian
Business
6-Jun-1917   Las Vegas baron
Yahya Khan
Head of State
4-Apr-1917 10-Aug-1980 President of Pakistan, ordered Bengali genocide
Jack Kirby
Cartoonist
28-Aug-1917 6-Feb-1994 Captain America
William S. Knowles
Chemist
1-Jun-1917   Chiral catalysts
Elyse Knox
Actor
14-Dec-1917   Hit the Ice
Jim Konstanty
Baseball
2-Mar-1917 11-Jun-1976 National League 1950 MVP
June Lang
Actor
5-May-1917 16-May-2005 Bonnie Scotland
Glenn Langan
Actor
8-Jul-1917 19-Jan-1991 The Amazing Colossal Man
Lash La Rue
Actor
15-Jun-1917 21-May-1996 B-Western star
Philip Leacock
Film Director
8-Oct-1917 14-Jul-1990 The Spanish Gardener
Goh Tong Lim
Business
c. 1917 23-Oct-2007 Malaysian casino billionaire
Bobby Locke
Golf
20-Nov-1917 9-Mar-1987 Won the British Open four times
Herbert Lom
Actor
11-Sep-1917   Mysterious Island
Edward Lorenz
Scientist
23-May-1917 16-Apr-2008 Chaos theory
Robert Lowell
Poet
1-Mar-1917 12-Sep-1977 Lord Weary's Castle
Allen Ludden
Game Show Host
5-Oct-1917 9-Jun-1981 Host of Password TV game show
Jack Lynch
Head of State
15-Aug-1917 20-Oct-1999 Twice Prime Minister of Ireland
Vera Lynn
Singer
20-Mar-1917   We'll Meet Again
Torbert H. Macdonald
Politician
6-Jun-1917 21-May-1976 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1955-76
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Religion
12-Jan-1917 5-Feb-2008 Transcendental meditation guru
Dayton S. Mak
Government
10-Jul-1917   US Ambassador to Kuwait, 1962-63
Ferdinand Marcos
Head of State
11-Sep-1917 28-Sep-1989 Disgraced Philippine dictator
Margo
Actor
10-May-1917 17-Jul-1985 Lost Horizon
William Marshall
Actor
2-Oct-1917 8-Jun-1994 State Fair
Dean Martin
Singer
7-Jun-1917 25-Dec-1995 Member of Rat Pack
Sophie Masloff
Politician
23-Dec-1917   Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1988-94
Reginald Maudling
Politician
7-Mar-1917 14-Feb-1979 UK Home Secretary, 1970-72
Wiley Mayne
Politician
19-Jan-1917 27-May-2007 Congressman from Iowa, 1967-75
Carson McCullers
Author
19-Feb-1917 29-Sep-1967 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
William D. McElroy
Biologist
22-Jan-1917 17-Feb-1999 Bioluminescence
Alice McGrath
Activist
5-Apr-1917   Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee
John J. McLaughry
Football
8-Apr-1917 28-Nov-2007 Head Coach at Brown, 1959-66
William H. McNeill
Historian
31-Oct-1917   The Rise of the West
Francis E. Meloy, Jr.
Diplomat
28-Mar-1917 16-Jun-1976 US Ambassador to Lebanon, assassinated
John Merivale
Actor
1-Dec-1917 6-Feb-1990 The List of Adrian Messenger
Howard Metzenbaum
Politician
4-Jun-1917 12-Mar-2008 US Senator from Ohio, 1977-95
Clarence E. Miller
Politician
1-Nov-1917   Congressman from Ohio, 1967-93
Jan Miner
Actor
15-Oct-1917 15-Feb-2004 Soaking in Palmolive dishwashing liquid
Robert Mitchum
Actor
6-Aug-1917 1-Jul-1997 Cape Fear
Jessica Mitford
Author
11-Sep-1917 23-Jul-1996 The American Way of Death
Thelonious Monk
Jazz Musician
10-Oct-1917 17-Feb-1982 Influential jazz pianist and composer
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Author
3-Nov-1917 18-Dec-2008 Irish Parliamentarian and Scholar
George M. O'Brien
Politician
17-Jun-1917 18-Jul-1986 Congressman from Illinois, 1973-86
Victor Oristano
Business
c. 1917   Alda Limited Partners
Robert D. Orr
Politician
17-Nov-1917 10-Mar-2004 Governor of Indiana, 1989-92
Humphry Osmond
Doctor
1-Jul-1917 6-Feb-2004 LSD proponent, turned on Aldous Huxley
Alice Pearce
Actor
16-Oct-1917 3-Mar-1966 Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched
I. M. Pei
Architect
26-Apr-1917   Designed Louvre's glass pyramid
Rodney R. Porter
Scientist
8-Oct-1917 6-Sep-1985 Chemical structure of antibodies
Ilya Prigogine
Chemist
25-Jan-1917 28-May-2003 Thermodynamic systems
Fletcher Prouty
Military
24-Jan-1917 5-Jun-2001 USAF Intelligence Officer
James Rainwater
Physicist
9-Dec-1917 31-May-1986 Determined shapes of nuclei
Gene Rayburn
Game Show Host
22-Dec-1917 29-Nov-1999 Host of Match Game
George E. Reedy
Government
5-Aug-1917 21-Mar-1999 LBJ's press secretary
Fernando Rey
Actor
20-Sep-1917 9-Mar-1994 The French Connection
Marjorie Reynolds
Actor
12-Aug-1917 1-Feb-1997 Holiday Inn
Buddy Rich
Drummer
30-Sep-1917 2-Apr-1987 Legendary drummer
Ann Richards
Actor
20-Dec-1917 24-Aug-2006 Sorry, Wrong Number
Irv Robbins
Business
6-Dec-1917 5-May-2008 Co-Founder of Baskin-Robbins
Paul Rogers
Actor
22-Mar-1917   British stage actor
Claude G. Ross
Diplomat
1917 18-Jan-2006 US Ambassador to Haiti, 1967-69
William M. Rountree
Diplomat
28-Mar-1917 1995 US Ambassador to Brazil, 1970-73
Boris Sagal
Film Director
18-Oct-1917 22-May-1981 The Omega Man
Isabel Sanford
Actor
29-Aug-1917 09-Jul-2004 Louise Jefferson on The Jeffersons
Terry Sanford
Politician
20-Aug-1917 18-Apr-1998 Governor and Senator from North Carolina
Santo
Wrestling
23-Sep-1917 5-Feb-1984 The Silver-Masked Man
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Historian
15-Oct-1917 28-Feb-2007 The Age of Roosevelt
William W. Scranton
Politician
19-Jul-1917   Governor of Pennsylvania, 1963-67
Raymond P. Shafer
Politician
5-Mar-1917 12-Dec-2006 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967-71
Melville Shavelson
Film Director
1-Apr-1917 8-Aug-2007 Yours, Mine and Ours
Sidney Sheldon
Author
11-Feb-1917 30-Jan-2007 Annie Get Your Gun
Max Showalter
Actor
2-Jun-1917 30-Jul-2000 Niagara
Buffalo Bob Smith
TV Personality
27-Nov-1917 30-Jul-1998 Howdy Doody
William French Smith
Government
26-Aug-1917 29-Oct-1990 US Attorney General, 1981-85
Morton Sobell
Criminal
11-Apr-1917   Rosenbergs Co-Defendant
Jo Stafford
Singer
12-Nov-1917 16-Jul-2008 You Belong to Me
Robert Sterling
Actor
13-Nov-1917 30-May-2006 George Kerby on Topper
Oliver Tambo
Government
27-Oct-1917 24-Apr-1993 ANC President, 1969-91
June Taylor
Dancer
14-Dec-1917 17-May-2004 June Taylor Dancers choreographer
Peter Taylor
Author
8-Jan-1917 2-Nov-1994 A Summons to Memphis
Ross Thatcher
Politician
24-May-1917 22-Jul-1971 Premier of Saskatchewan, 1964-71
Kenneth Tobey
Actor
23-Mar-1917 22-Dec-2002 Wings of Eagles
David Tomlinson
Actor
7-May-1917 24-Jun-2000 Mary Poppins
Merle Travis
Country Musician
29-Nov-1917 20-Oct-1983 Influential fingerpicking country guitarist
Leonard S. Unger
Diplomat
17-Dec-1917   US Ambassador to Taiwan, 1974-79
Cyrus Vance
Government
27-Mar-1917 12-Jan-2002 US Secretary of State, 1977-80
Sheldon B. Vance
Diplomat
18-Jan-1917 12-Nov-1995 US Ambassador to Congo, 1969-74
C. William Verity
Government
26-Jan-1917 3-Jan-2007 US Secretary of Commerce, 1987-89
Marvin Wachman
Educator
24-Mar-1917 22-Dec-2007 Temple University President, 1973-83
Vernon Walters
Government
3-Jan-1917 10-Feb-2002 US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89
Y. C. Wang
Business
18-Jan-1917   Taiwanese plastics billionaire
Caspar Weinberger
Government
18-Aug-1917 28-Mar-2006 Iran-Contra figure pardoned by Bush
Edgar Whitcomb
Politician
6-Nov-1917   Governor of Indiana, 1969-73
Byron White
Judge
8-Jun-1917 15-Apr-2002 US Supreme Court Justice
Jesse White
Actor
3-Jan-1917 9-Jan-1997 The Maytag Repairman, 1967-88
Charles Z. Wick
Government
12-Oct-1917 20-Jul-2008 Director of the USIA, 1981-89
Daniel Wildenstein
Business
11-Sep-1917 23-Oct-2001 Wildenstein & Company
Googie Withers
Actor
12-Mar-1917   One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Rose Mary Woods
Government
26-Dec-1917 22-Jan-2005 Blamed for 18.5 minute Watergate tape erasure
Robert B. Woodward
Chemist
10-Apr-1917 8-Jul-1979 Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.
Andrew Wyeth
Painter
12-Jul-1917   American watercolorist
Jane Wyman
Actor
5-Jan-1917 10-Sep-2007 Falcon Crest
Isuzu Yamada
Actor
5-Feb-1917   Yojimbo
Francis Parker Yockey
Author
18-Sep-1917 16-Jun-1960 Imperium


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