BORN 1926
Turning 97 in 2023

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W. Michael Blumenthal
German-born American government official, Secretary of the Treasury (1977–1979)
01/03/1926 |
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Robert McGinnis
American painter and illustrator
02/03/1926 |
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György Kurtág
Hungarian composer
02/19/1926 |
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Alan Greenspan
American economist, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987–2006)
03/06/1926 |
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George Ariyoshi
American politician, Hawaii governor (1974–1986)
03/12/1926 |
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Gene Shalit
American film and book critic and television personality, The Today Show (1973–2010)
03/25/1926 |
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Peter Marshall
American pop singer and game show host, The Hollywood Squares
03/30/1926 |
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Roger Corman
American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors
04/05/1926 |
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Alexander Butterfield
American White House aide, revealed existence of Nixon tapes during Watergate scandal
04/06/1926 |
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Shecky Greene
American comedian and actor
04/08/1926 |
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Jürgen Moltmann
German theologian
04/08/1926 |
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Peter Lax
Hungarian-born American mathematician
05/01/1926 |
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David Attenborough
English naturalist and television host, Life on Earth
05/08/1926 |
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Marilyn Knowlden
American actress, Imitation of Life, Les Misérables
05/12/1926 |
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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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Stanley Baxter
Scottish actor, comedian, and impressionist
05/24/1926 |
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Abdoulaye Wade
Senegalese president (2000–2012)
05/29/1926 |
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Joe Negri
American jazz guitarist and actor, TV's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
06/10/1926 |
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Arno J. Mayer
Luxembourgian-born American historian, author of Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?
06/19/1926 |
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
Italian sculptor
06/23/1926 |
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Mel Brooks
American actor, screenwriter, and motion picture director, The Producers, Blazing Saddles
06/28/1926 |
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Julius W. Becton, Jr.
American government official, Director of FEMA (1985–1989)
06/29/1926 |
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Helen Gallagher
American actress, TV's Ryan's Hope
07/19/1926 |
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Norman Jewison
Canadian motion picture producer and director, In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck
07/21/1926 |
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Betye Saar
American assemblage artist
07/30/1926 |
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Tony Bennett
American pop singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
08/03/1926 |
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Betsy Jolas
French/American composer, A Little Summer Suite
08/05/1926 |
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Arthur Rock
American venture capitalist
08/19/1926 |
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Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
09/15/1926 |
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Max Morath
American ragtime pianist
10/01/1926 |
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Charles Dolan
American media mogul, founded Cablevision and HBO
10/16/1926 |
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Lou Donaldson
American jazz saxophonist
11/01/1926 |
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Hilary Knight
American illustrator, the Eloise book series
11/01/1926 |
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Valdas Adamkus
Lithuanian president (1998–2003, 2004–2009)
11/03/1926 |
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Judith Magre
French actress, The Lovers, Elle
11/20/1926 |
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Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
11/24/1926 |
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Terry Kilburn
English-born American actor, A Christmas Carol, Goodbye, Mr. Chips
11/25/1926 |
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Andrew Schally
Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning endocrinologist
11/30/1926 |
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Ralph Puckett
American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
12/08/1926 |
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Carl Erskine
American baseball player
12/13/1926 |
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Charles Peters
American journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly
12/22/1926 |
