BORN 1929
Turning 95 in 2024
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Vikki Dougan
American model and actress
01/01/1929 |
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Terry Moore
American actress, Mighty Joe Young, Come Back, Little Sheba
01/07/1929 |
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Gerry Spence
American trial lawyer, author of How to Argue and Win Every Time
01/08/1929 |
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Peter Dale Scott
Canadian-born poet and political analyst
01/11/1929 |
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Alasdair MacIntyre
Scottish-born philosopher
01/12/1929 |
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Queen Ida
American zydeco accordionist
01/15/1929 |
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John Polanyi
German-born Canadian Nobel Prize-winning chemist
01/23/1929 |
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Benny Golson
American jazz saxophonist and composer
01/25/1929 |
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Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter, Carnal Knowledge
01/26/1929 |
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Michael Craig
English/Australian actor and screenwriter, The Angry Silence
01/27/1929
(Some sources cite 1928) |
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Jerry Adler
American actor, TV's Mad About You, The Sopranos
02/04/1929 |
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Jim Whittaker
American mountain climber, first American to ascend Mount Everest
02/10/1929 |
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean-born French motion picture director and screenwriter, El Topo
02/17/1929 |
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Patricia Routledge
English actress, TV's Keeping Up Appearances
02/17/1929 |
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Len Deighton
English writer, The IPCRESS File, Funeral in Berlin
02/18/1929 |
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James Hong
American actor, Big Trouble in Little China, Everything Everywhere All at Once
02/22/1929 |
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Rebecca Schull
American actress, TV's Wings
02/22/1929 |
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Arnold Roth
American cartoonist and illustrator
02/25/1929 |
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Frank Gehry
Canadian/American architect
02/28/1929 |
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Yayoi Kusama
Japanese painter and sculptor
03/22/1929 |
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Mark Rydell
American motion picture director, The Rose, On Golden Pond
03/23/1929 |
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Claire Maurier
French actress, La Cage aux Folles, Amélie
03/27/1929 |
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Jonathan Haze
American actor, 1960's The Little Shop of Horrors
04/01/1929 |
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Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
04/05/1929 |
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Édouard Balladur
French prime minister (1993–1995)
05/02/1929 |
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Margaret Kerry
American actress, model for Tinker Bell in Disney's Peter Pan
05/11/1929 |
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Eva Schloss
Austrian/English Holocaust survivor and memoirist, stepsister of Anne Frank
05/11/1929 |
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Bernard Marcus
American businessman, co-founded Home Depot
05/12/1929 |
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Sam Nujoma
Namibian president (1990–2005)
05/12/1929 |
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Harvey Cox
American theologian
05/19/1929 |
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Werner Arber
Swiss Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
06/03/1929 |
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Billy Williams
English cinematographer, On Golden Pond, Gandhi
06/03/1929 |
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James Barnor
Ghanaian photographer
06/06/1929 |
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Jürgen Habermas
German philosopher and sociologist
06/18/1929 |
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Bonnie Bartlett
American actress, TV's Little House on the Prairie, St. Elsewhere
06/20/1929 |
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Imelda Marcos
Filipino First Lady (1965–1986)
07/02/1929 |
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Arthur Frommer
American travel writer and publisher
07/17/1929 |
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Dick Button
American Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater and skating analyst
07/18/1929 |
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Sid Krofft
Canadian-born American puppeteer and television producer, H.R. Pufnstuf
07/30/1929 |
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Betty Brosmer
American model, bodybuilder, and fitness expert
08/06/1929 |
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Hugues Aufray
French folk and pop singer and songwriter
08/18/1929 |
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X. J. Kennedy
American poet, Nude Descending a Staircase
08/21/1929 |
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Vera Miles
American actress, The Searchers, Psycho
08/23/1929 |
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Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
09/08/1929 |
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Leroy Van Dyke
American country singer, "The Auctioneer", "Walk on By"
10/04/1929 |
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Fernanda Montenegro
Brazilian actress, Central Station
10/16/1929 |
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Violeta Chamorro
Nicaraguan president (1990–1997)
10/18/1929 |
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Joan Plowright
English actress, The Entertainer, Avalon, Enchanted April
10/28/1929 |
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June Squibb
American actress, About Schmidt, Nebraska
11/06/1929 |
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Eric Kandel
Austrian-born American Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist
11/07/1929 |
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Jerry Hardin
American actor, The Firm, TV's The X-Files
11/20/1929 |
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Berry Gordy, Jr.
American entrepreneur, founded Motown Records
11/28/1929 |
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Joan Ganz Cooney
American television producer, Sesame Street, The Electric Company
11/30/1929 |
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Harry Benson
Scottish photographer
12/02/1929 |
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Arnulf Rainer
Austrian painter
12/08/1929 |
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Toshiko Akiyoshi
Japanese-born American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist
12/12/1929 |
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Selim Hoss
Lebanese prime minister (1976–1980, 1987–1990, 1998–2000) and president (1988–1989)
12/20/1929 |
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George Schlatter
American television producer, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Real People
12/31/1929 |
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