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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bella Abzug
Politician
24-Jul-1920 31-Mar-1998 Feminist and former Congresswoman
Richard Adams
Author
9-May-1920   Watership Down
Rex Allen
Actor
31-Dec-1920 17-Dec-1999 The Arizona Cowboy
Kenneth Allsop
Critic
29-Jan-1920 23-May-1973 London Evening News book critic
Michael Anderson
Film Director
30-Jan-1920   Logan's Run
Robert Anderson
Business
2-Nov-1920 28-Oct-2006 Chairman of Rockwell, 1979-88
Keith Andes
Actor
12-Jul-1920 11-Nov-2005 Clash by Night
Isaac Asimov
Author
2-Jan-1920 6-Apr-1992 Foundation
Hy Averback
Film Director
21-Oct-1920 14-Oct-1997 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Anthony Barber
Politician
4-Jul-1920 16-Dec-2005 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-74
Baruj Benacerraf
Scientist
29-Oct-1920   Gene control of HLA antigens
Dave Berg
Cartoonist
12-Jun-1920 17-May-2002 The Lighter Side of...
Pierre Berton
Author
12-Jul-1920 30-Nov-2004 Canadian writer and TV personality
Barend Biesheuvel
Head of State
5-Apr-1920 29-Apr-2001 Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1971-73
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Physicist
11-Mar-1920   Nonlinear optics
Robert O. Bowen
Novelist
7-May-1920   The Weight of the Cross
Ray Bradbury
Author
22-Aug-1920   The Martian Chronicles
Neville Brand
Actor
13-Aug-1920 16-Apr-1992 Birdman of Alcatraz
David Brinkley
Journalist
10-Jul-1920 11-Jun-2003 The Huntley-Brinkley Report
George E. Brown, Jr.
Politician
6-Mar-1920 15-Jul-1999 Congressman from California, 1973-99
L. Dean Brown
Diplomat
21-Aug-1920 2-May-2001 US Ambassador to Jordan, 1970-73
Dave Brubeck
Musician
6-Dec-1920   Take Five
Yul Brynner
Actor
11-Jul-1920 10-Oct-1985 The King and I
David P. Buckson
Politician
25-Jul-1920   Governor of Delaware for 19 days
Charles Bukowski
Author
16-Aug-1920 09-Mar-1994 Love is a Dog from Hell
Frank W. Burke
Politician
1-Jun-1920 29-Jun-2007 Mayor of Louisville, 1969-1973
Roberto Calvi
Business
13-Apr-1920 17-Jun-1982 Vatican banker who died mysteriously
Ian Carmichael
Actor
18-Jun-1920   Bertie Wooster
Martine Carol
Actor
16-May-1920 6-Feb-1967 Lola Montès
Sunset Carson
Actor
12-Nov-1920 1-May-1990 B-Movie cowboy
Albert V. Casey
Business
28-Feb-1920 10-Jul-2004 CEO of American Airlines, 1974-85
Andrew Cavendish
Aristocrat
2-Jan-1920 3-May-2004 11th Duke of Devonshire
Paul Celan
Poet
23-Nov-1920 20-Apr-1970 Todesfuge
Owen Chamberlain
Physicist
10-Jul-1920 28-Feb-2006 Co-Discoverer of the antiproton
Lonny Chapman
Actor
1-Oct-1920 12-Oct-2007 American character actor
Virginia Christine
Actor
5-Mar-1920 24-Jul-1996 Folger Coffee's Mrs. Olson
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Head of State
9-Dec-1920   President of Italy, 1999-2006
Frank G. Clement
Politician
2-Jun-1920 4-Nov-1969 Governor of Tennessee
Montgomery Clift
Actor
17-Oct-1920 23-Jul-1966 From Here to Eternity
William Colby
Spy
4-Jan-1920 27-Apr-1996 CIA Director 1973-75
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Government
7-Jul-1920   US Secretary of Transportation, 1975-77
William Conrad
Actor
27-Sep-1920 11-Feb-1994 Jake and the Fatman
Denton Cooley
Doctor
22-Aug-1920   Pioneering heart surgeon
Henry Corden
Actor
6-Jan-1920 19-May-2005 Hanna-Barbara voice actor
Odile Crick
Artist
11-Aug-1920 5-Jul-2007 Sketched the double helix
Javier Pérez de Cuellar
Government
19-Jan-1920   Secretary General of UN 1982-91
Bill Cullen
Game Show Host
18-Feb-1920 7-Jul-1990 Host of The Price is Right
Bob Davies
Basketball
15-Jan-1920 22-Apr-1990 Rochester Royals, Hall of Famer
John Demjanjuk
Victim
3-Apr-1920   Retired auto worker hounded for war crimes
James Doohan
Actor
3-Mar-1920 20-Jul-2005 Scotty on Star Trek
Robert Drinan
Politician
15-Nov-1920 28-Jan-2007 Jesuit priest, Massachusetts Congressman
Adolph Dubs
Diplomat
4-Aug-1920 14-Feb-1979 US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79
Roger Easton
Inventor
c. 1920   Global Positioning System
Larry Elikann
Film Director
4-Jul-1920 4-Feb-2004 One Against the Wind
Michael Evans
Actor
27-Jul-1920 4-Sep-2007 The Young and the Restless
Nanette Fabray
Actor
27-Oct-1920   Caesar's Hour
James Farmer
Activist
12-Jan-1920 9-Jul-1999 Co-Founder, CORE
Richard Farnsworth
Actor
1-Sep-1920 6-Oct-2000 Comes a Horseman
Federico Fellini
Film Director
20-Jan-1920 30-Oct-1993 La Dolce Vita
Tom of Finland
Artist
8-May-1920 7-Nov-1991 Beefcake fetish artist
Edmond H. Fischer
Scientist
6-Apr-1920   Protein phosphorylation
Dick Francis
Novelist
31-Oct-1920   Dead Cert
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist
25-Jul-1920 16-Apr-1958 Photographed DNA's structure
Arthur Franz
Actor
29-Feb-1920 17-Jun-2006 The Sniper
Paul Frees
Actor
22-Jun-1920 2-Nov-1986 The Man of a Thousand Voices
Sam M. Gibbons
Politician
20-Jan-1920   Congressman from Florida, 1963-97
Jacob H. Gilbert
Politician
17-Jun-1920 27-Feb-1981 Congressman from New York, 1960-71
Lewis Gilbert
Film Director
6-Mar-1920   The Spy Who Loved Me
Thomas Gold
Scientist
22-May-1920 22-Jun-2004 Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel
Gordon Gould
Physicist
17-Jul-1920 16-Sep-2005 Invented the laser
Philip C. Habib
Diplomat
25-Feb-1920 24-May-1992 US Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74
Arthur Hailey
Novelist
5-Apr-1920 24-Nov-2004 Hotel and Airport
Billy Halop
Actor
11-Feb-1920 9-Nov-1976 Dead End Kid
Gail Halvorsen
Military
10-Oct-1920   Berlin Airlift candy bomber
Pamela Harriman
Diplomat
20-Mar-1920 5-Feb-1997 Socialite and Ambassador to France 1993-97
Ray Harryhausen
Artist
29-Jun-1920   Stop-motion genius
John C. Harsanyi
Economist
29-May-1920 9-Aug-2000 Game theory
Chushiro Hayashi
Astronomer
25-Jul-1920   Big Bang astrophysicist
Henry Heimlich
Doctor
3-Feb-1920   Heimlich maneuver
Leona Helmsley
Business
4-Jul-1920 20-Aug-2007 Queen of Mean
Frank Herbert
Author
8-Oct-1920 11-Feb-1986 Author of Dune series
George Herbig
Astronomer
2-Jan-1920   Herbig-Haro objects
Robert Hersant
Publisher
30-Jan-1920 21-Apr-1996 Le Papivore
Jennifer Holt
Actor
10-Nov-1920 21-Sep-1997 Stage to Mesa City
Red Holzman
Basketball
10-Aug-1920 13-Nov-1998 NY Knicks Head Coach, 1957-82
Donald F. Hornig
Educator
17-Mar-1920   President of Brown University, 1970-76
Charles W. Hostler
Diplomat
c. 1920   US Ambassador to Bahrain, 1989-93
Irving Howe
Critic
11-Jun-1920 5-May-1993 Editor of Dissent
Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.
Diplomat
1-Jun-1920 6-Feb-2001 US Ambassador to China, 1981-85
Josefa Iloilo
Head of State
29-Dec-1920   President of Fiji
François Jacob
Scientist
17-Jun-1920   Operon theory of genetic control
P. D. James
Author
3-Aug-1920   Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.
Roy Jenkins
Politician
11-Nov-1920 5-Jan-2003 Twice UK Home Secretary
Pope John Paul II
Religion
18-May-1920 2-Apr-2005 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005
Jack Kamen
Cartoonist
29-May-1920   EC Comics artist
Max Kampelman
Diplomat
7-Nov-1920   US Ambassador to the CSCE
DeForest Kelley
Actor
20-Jan-1920 11-Jun-1999 Dr. McCoy on Star Trek
Kathleen Kennedy
Relative
20-Feb-1920 13-May-1948 Sister of John F. Kennedy
Hank Ketcham
Cartoonist
14-Mar-1920 1-Jun-2001 Dennis the Menace
James J. Kilpatrick
Columnist
1-Nov-1920   Syndicated columnist, conservative
Lawrence R. Klein
Economist
14-Sep-1920   Macroeconometric modeling
Werner Klemperer
Actor
22-Mar-1920 6-Dec-2000 Col. Klink on Hogan's Heroes
Irving Kristol
Columnist
1920   Influential neocon
Jack Lambert
Actor
13-Apr-1920 18-Feb-2002 Riverboat
George W. Landau
Diplomat
4-Mar-1920   US Ambassador to Venezuela, 1982
Melvin J. Lasky
Journalist
15-Jan-1920 19-May-2004 Editor of journal Encounter
Delbert L. Latta
Politician
5-Mar-1920   Congressman from Ohio, 1959-89
Timothy Leary
Activist
22-Oct-1920 31-May-1996 Tune in, turn on, drop out
Peggy Lee
Singer
26-May-1920 21-Jan-2001 Is That All There Is?
Sammy Lee
Swimmer/Diver
1-Aug-1920   Olympic diver
James F. Leonard
Diplomat
30-May-1920   US Ambassador to the UN, 1977-79
Gerda Lerner
Historian
30-Apr-1920   The Woman in American History
Yegor Ligachev
Politician
29-Nov-1920   Former Politburo hardliner
Viveca Lindfors
Actor
29-Dec-1920 25-Oct-1995 Night Unto Night
Bruno Maderna
Composer
21-Apr-1920 13-Nov-1973 Avant-garde composer
Marvin Mandel
Politician
19-Apr-1920   Governor of Maryland, 1969-79
Delbert Mann
Film Director
30-Jan-1920 11-Nov-2007 That Touch of Mink
Ross Martin
Actor
22-Mar-1920 3-Jul-1981 Artemus Gordon on Wild Wild West
Tony Martinez
Actor
27-Jan-1920 16-Sep-2002 Pepino on The Real McCoy's
Walter Matthau
Actor
1-Oct-1920 1-Jul-2000 Messy half of the Odd Couple
John Maynard Smith
Biologist
6-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
Virginia Mayo
Actor
30-Nov-1920 17-Jan-2005 South Sea Woman
James McClatchy
Publisher
17-Dec-1920 26-May-2006 Former Chairman, McClatchy Newspapers
Leo McKern
Actor
16-Mar-1920 23-Jul-2002 Travelling North, Rumpole of the Bailey
Andrew V. McLaglen
Film Director
28-Jul-1920   Gunsmoke
Jayne Meadows
Actor
27-Sep-1920   City Slickers
Patricia Medina
Actor
19-Jul-1920   Botany Bay
Ralph Meeker
Actor
21-Nov-1920 5-Aug-1988 Kiss Me Deadly
Sid Melton
Actor
23-May-1920   Alf Monroe on Green Acres
Melina Mercouri
Actor
18-Oct-1920 6-Mar-1994 Topkapi
Toshirô Mifune
Actor
1-Apr-1920 24-Dec-1997 Yojimbo
Peter Mitchell
Chemist
29-Sep-1920 10-Apr-1992 ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia
Ricardo Montalban
Actor
25-Nov-1920   Roarke on Fantasy Island
Sonny Montgomery
Politician
5-Aug-1920 12-May-2006 Congressman from Mississippi, 1967-97
Sun Myung Moon
Religion
6-Jan-1920   Head Moonie
Constance Moore
Actor
18-Jan-1920 16-Sep-2005 Show Business
Michèle Morgan
Actor
29-Feb-1920   La Symphonie pastorale
Fred Morrison
Business
23-Jan-1920   Invented the frisbee
Marion Motley
Football
5-Jun-1920 27-Jun-1999 Fullback, NFL Hall of Famer
Stan Musial
Baseball
21-Nov-1920   St. Louis Cardinals
Noel Neill
Actor
25-Nov-1920   Adventures of Superman
Barry Nelson
Actor
16-Apr-1920 7-Apr-2007 Yank on the Burma Road
Gene Nelson
Actor
24-Mar-1920 16-Sep-1996 Oklahoma!
Howard Nemerov
Poet
1-Mar-1920 5-Jul-1991 US Poet Laureate, 1987-88
Helmut Newton
Photographer
31-Oct-1920 23-Jan-2004 Celebrity photographer
Julian M. Niemczyk
Military
26-Aug-1920   US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1986-89
Ken Nordine
Radio Personality
19-Jan-1920   Word Jazz
Douglass C. North
Economist
5-Nov-1920   Cliometrics
John Cardinal O'Connor
Religion
15-Jan-1920 3-May-2000 Archbishop of New York, 1984-2000
Maureen O'Hara
Actor
17-Aug-1920   Miracle on 34th Street
James R. Olin
Politician
28-Feb-1920 29-Jul-2006 Congressman from Virginia, 1983-93
Henry D. Owen
Diplomat
26-Aug-1920   US Ambassador at Large, 1977-81
LaWanda Page
Actor
19-Oct-1920 14-Sep-2002 Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son
Charlie Parker
Jazz Musician
29-Aug-1920 12-Mar-1955 Be-bop jazz musician
Michael Pate
Actor
26-Feb-1920   Hondo
Endicott Peabody
Politician
15-Feb-1920 1-Dec-1997 Governor of Massachusetts, 1963-65
Alfred Peet
Business
10-Mar-1920 27-Aug-2007 Founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea
Frank Perdue
Business
9-May-1920 31-Mar-2005 A Tough Man for a Tender Chicken
Daniel Petrie
Film Director
26-Nov-1920 22-Aug-2004 A Raisin in the Sun
Kaysone Phomvihane
Head of State
13-Dec-1920 21-Nov-1992 Laotian president, prime minister
George Porter
Chemist
6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Studied fast chemical reactions
José López Portillo
Head of State
16-Jun-1920 17-Feb-2004 President of Mexico, 1976-82
Pierre Poujade
Activist
1-Dec-1920 27-Aug-2003 French anti-tax crusader
Mario Puzo
Novelist
15-Oct-1920 2-Jul-1999 The Godfather
Denver Pyle
Actor
11-May-1920 25-Dec-1997 Jesse Duke on Dukes of Hazzard
Richard Quine
Film Director
12-Nov-1920 10-Jun-1989 Bell Book and Candle
Mujibur Rahman
Head of State
17-Mar-1920 15-Aug-1975 President, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Ella Raines
Actor
6-Aug-1920 30-May-1988 Hail the Conquering Hero
Tony Randall
Actor
26-Feb-1920 18-May-2004 Felix Unger in The Odd Couple
Merlyn Rees
Politician
18-Dec-1920 5-Jan-2006 UK Home Secretary, 1976-79
John Reinhardt
Diplomat
1920   US Ambassador to Nigeria, 1971-75
Beah Richards
Actor
12-Jul-1920 14-Sep-2000 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Elliot Richardson
Government
20-Jul-1920 31-Dec-1999 Refused to fire Watergate Special Prosecutor
Frank Rizzo
Politician
23-Oct-1920 16-Jul-1991 Mayor of Philadelphia, 1972-80
Yves Robert
Film Director
21-Jun-1920 10-May-2002 My Father's Glory
Ralph J. Roberts
Business
c. 1920   Co-Founder of Comcast
Éric Rohmer
Film Director
4-Apr-1920   Artsy French film director
Esther Rolle
Actor
8-Nov-1920 17-Nov-1998 Florida Evans on Good Times
Mickey Rooney
Actor
23-Sep-1920   Actor in Andy Hardy comedies, musicals
Eldon Dean Rudd
Politician
15-Jul-1920 8-Feb-2002 Congressman from Airzona, 1977-87
Ann Rutherford
Actor
2-Nov-1920   Andy Hardy's girlfriend Polly
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Sports Figure
17-Jul-1920   Former Olympic Committee President
Franklin J. Schaffner
Film Director
30-May-1920 2-Jul-1989 Patton and Planet of the Apes
James H. Scheuer
Politician
6-Feb-1920 30-Aug-2005 Congressman from New York, 1965-93
Tex Schramm
Football
2-Jun-1920 15-Jul-2003 General manager of Dallas Cowboys
Bill Scott
Actor
2-Aug-1920 29-Nov-1985 Voice of Bullwinkle Moose, Dudley Do-Right
Paul Scott
Novelist
25-Mar-1920 1-Mar-1978 The Jewel in the Crown
Charles E. Scripps
Business
27-Jan-1920 3-Feb-2007 E. W. Scripps scion
Ronald Searle
Cartoonist
3-Mar-1920   St. Trinian's
Ravi Shankar
Musician
7-Apr-1920   World-reknowned composer, performer
Dinah Sheridan
Actor
17-Sep-1920   Genevieve
George Shultz
Government
13-Dec-1920   US Secretary of State, 1982-89
Frank Sinkwich
Football
10-Oct-1920 22-Oct-1990 Winner, 1942 Heisman Trophy
Eddie Slovik
Military
18-Feb-1920 31-Jan-1945 U.S. soldier executed for desertion
Neal Smith
Politician
23-Mar-1920   Congressman from Iowa, 1959-95
Ezra Solomon
Economist
1920 9-Dec-2002 Council of Economic Advisers, 1971-73
Alberto Sordi
Actor
15-Jun-1920 25-Feb-2003 I Vitelloni
Anthony Steel
Actor
21-May-1920 21-Mar-2001 Where No Vultures Fly
Isaac Stern
Violinist
21-Jul-1920 22-Sep-2001 Violin virtuoso
John Paul Stevens
Judge
20-Apr-1920   US Supreme Court Justice
Walter Stoessel
Diplomat
24-Jan-1920 9-Dec-1986 Ambassador to the USSR, Germany, Poland
Robert W. Straub
Politician
6-May-1920 27-Nov-2002 Governor of Oregon, 1975-79
Bruce Sundlun
Politician
19-Jan-1920   Governor of Rhode Island, 1991-95
Wayne Thiebaud
Artist
1920   California pop artist
E. Donnall Thomas
Scientist
15-Mar-1920   Bone marrow transplants
Gerald Thomas
Film Director
10-Dec-1920 9-Nov-1993 Carry On...
Helen Thomas
Journalist
4-Aug-1920   White House reporter since 1961
Gene Tierney
Actor
19-Nov-1920 6-Nov-1991 Laura
Patrick Troughton
Actor
25-Mar-1920 28-Mar-1987 The Second Doctor Who
Lana Turner
Actor
8-Feb-1920 29-Jun-1995 The Postman Always Rings Twice
Victor W. Turner
Anthropologist
28-May-1920 1983 The Drums of Affliction
Stewart Udall
Politician
31-Jan-1920   US Secretary of the Interior, 1961-69
Henri Verneuil
Playwright
15-Oct-1920 11-Jan-2002 I as in Icarus
José Luis de Villalonga
Actor
29-Jan-1920 30-Aug-2007 Breakfast at Tiffany's
Jack Warden
Actor
18-Sep-1920 19-Jul-2006 12 Angry Men
Bernard Weatherill
Politician
25-Nov-1920 6-May-2007 Speaker of the House of Commons, 1983-92
Jack Webb
Actor
2-Apr-1920 23-Dec-1982 Joe Friday in Dragnet
Richard von Weizsäcker
Head of State
15-Apr-1920   President of Germany, 1984-94
Edward Bennett Williams
Attorney
31-May-1920 13-Aug-1988 Washington Superlawyer
Shelley Winters
Actor
18-Aug-1920 14-Jan-2006 Method actress and camp queen
Melvin B. Wolzinger
Business
c. 1920   Las Vegas investor, W. W. Investment Co.
Cal Worthington
Business
27-Nov-1920   Will eat a bug to make a deal
Chalmers P. Wylie
Politician
23-Nov-1920 14-Aug-1998 Congressman from Ohio, 1967-93
Early Wynn
Baseball
6-Jan-1920 4-Apr-1999 MLB Hall of Famer


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