BORN 1927

Turning 98 in 2025

		Vernon L. Smith American Nobel Prize-winning economist 01/01/1927
		Yuri Grigorovich Russian dancer and choreographer 01/02/1927
		Thomas Noguchi Japanese-born American medical examiner, nicknamed "Coroner to the Stars" 01/04/1927
		Maybelle Blair American baseball player 01/16/1927
		Arthur Cohn Swiss motion picture producer, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 02/04/1927
		Leontyne Price American opera singer 02/10/1927
		Dick Hyman American jazz pianist and composer 03/08/1927
		John Kander American songwriter, "Cabaret", "New York, New York", collaborator with Fred Ebb 03/18/1927
		William Daniels American actor, The Graduate, TV's St. Elsewhere, Boy Meets World 03/31/1927
		Nayantara Sahgal Indian journalist and novelist, Rich Like Us 05/10/1927
		George E. Johnson Sr. American entrepreneur, founded Johnson Hair Care Products 06/12/1927
		Jerry Schatzberg American photographer and motion picture director, Scarecrow 06/26/1927
		Doc Severinsen American trumpeter and bandleader, The Tonight Show (1967–1992) 07/07/1927
		Lisa Lu Chinese-born American actress, The Joy Luck Club, Crazy Rich Asians 07/08/1927
		William Smithers American actor, Papillon, TV's Dallas 07/10/1927
		Herbert Blomstedt American-born Swedish conductor 07/11/1927
		Alex Katz American painter and printmaker 07/24/1927
		Rosemary Harris English actress, Tom & Viv, the Spider-Man film series 09/19/1927
		William Perry American government official, Secretary of Defense (1994–1997) 10/11/1927
		Pierre Alechinsky Belgian painter 10/19/1927
		Cleo Laine English singer and actress, nicknamed "The Queen of Jazz" 10/28/1927
		Frank Sedgman Australian tennis player 10/29/1927
		Marcel Ophuls French/American documentarian, The Sorry and the Pity 11/01/1927
		Estelle Parsons American Oscar-winning actress, Bonnie and Clyde, TV's Roseanne 11/20/1927
		Bill Crow American jazz bassist 12/27/1927