BORN 1927
Turning 97 in 2024
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Vernon L. Smith
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
01/01/1927 |
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Yuri Grigorovich
Russian dancer and choreographer
01/02/1927 |
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Thomas Noguchi
Japanese-born American medical examiner, nicknamed "Coroner to the Stars"
01/04/1927 |
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Maybelle Blair
American baseball player
01/16/1927 |
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Arthur Cohn
Swiss motion picture producer, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
02/04/1927 |
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Leontyne Price
American opera singer
02/10/1927 |
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Dick Hyman
American jazz pianist and composer
03/08/1927 |
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John Kander
American songwriter, "Cabaret", "New York, New York", collaborator with Fred Ebb
03/18/1927 |
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William Daniels
American actor, The Graduate, TV's St. Elsewhere, Boy Meets World
03/31/1927 |
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Charlie Maxwell
American baseball player
04/08/1927 |
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Nayantara Sahgal
Indian journalist and novelist, Rich Like Us
05/10/1927 |
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George E. Johnson Sr.
American entrepreneur, founded Johnson Hair Care Products
06/12/1927 |
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Jerry Schatzberg
American photographer and motion picture director, Scarecrow
06/26/1927 |
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Doc Severinsen
American trumpeter and bandleader, The Tonight Show (1967–1992)
07/07/1927 |
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Lisa Lu
Chinese-born American actress, The Joy Luck Club, Crazy Rich Asians
07/08/1927 |
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William Smithers
American actor, Papillon, TV's Dallas
07/10/1927 |
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Herbert Blomstedt
American-born Swedish conductor
07/11/1927 |
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Alex Katz
American painter and printmaker
07/24/1927 |
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Martial Solal
Algerian-born French jazz pianist and composer
08/23/1927 |
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Rosemary Harris
English actress, Tom & Viv, the Spider-Man film series
09/19/1927 |
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William Perry
American government official, Secretary of Defense (1994–1997)
10/11/1927 |
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Pierre Alechinsky
Belgian painter
10/19/1927 |
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Cleo Laine
English singer and actress, nicknamed "The Queen of Jazz"
10/28/1927 |
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Frank Sedgman
Australian tennis player
10/29/1927 |
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Marcel Ophuls
French/American documentarian, The Sorry and the Pity
11/01/1927 |
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Estelle Parsons
American Oscar-winning actress, Bonnie and Clyde, TV's Roseanne
11/20/1927 |
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William Labov
American sociolinguist
12/04/1927 |
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Tommy Brown
American baseball player
12/06/1927 |
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Geneviève Page
French actress, Belle de jour, Mayerling
12/13/1927 |
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Bill Crow
American jazz bassist
12/27/1927 |