BORN 1931

Turning 93 in 2024

		Alfred Brendel Czech-born Austrian pianist 01/05/1931
		Robert Duvall American Oscar-winning actor, The Godfather, Tender Mercies 01/05/1931
		Mack Mattingly American politician, Georgia senator (1981–1987) 01/07/1931
		Eve Queler American conductor 01/11/1931
		Caterina Valente French-born Italian singer, guitarist, and actress 01/14/1931
		James Earl Jones American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars 01/17/1931
		Douglas Wilder American politician, Virginia governor (1990–1994) 01/17/1931
		David Lee American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 01/20/1931
		Judith Viorst American writer, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 02/02/1931
		Isabel Perón Argentinian president (1974–1976) 02/04/1931
		Mamie Van Doren American actress, Sex Kittens Go to College, and singer 02/06/1931
		James West American inventor and acoustician, co-developed the foil electret microphone 02/10/1931
		Larry Merchant American boxing analyst 02/11/1931
		Claire Bloom English actress, Limelight, The Haunting 02/15/1931
		Dominic Chianese American actor, The Godfather Part II, TV's The Sopranos 02/24/1931
		Carmen de Lavallade American dancer, choreographer, and actress 03/06/1931
		John McPhee American journalist and writer, Annals of the Former World 03/08/1931
		Rupert Murdoch Australian-born American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur 03/11/1931
		Norman Francis American academic, president of Xavier University of Louisiana (1968–2015) 03/20/1931
		Hal Linden American actor, TV's Barney Miller 03/20/1931
		William Shatner Canadian actor, Miss Congeniality, TV's Star Trek, Boston Legal 03/22/1931
		Ted Kotcheff Canadian motion picture director, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Weekend at Bernie's 04/07/1931
		Lee H. Hamilton American politician, Indiana representative (1965–1999) 04/20/1931
		Bridget Riley English painter 04/24/1931
		Frank Auerbach German-born English painter 04/29/1931
		Bill Clay American politician, Missouri representative (1969–2001) 04/30/1931
		Willie Mays American baseball player and coach 05/06/1931
		Vance D. Brand American astronaut 05/09/1930
		Joseph Califano American government official, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1977–1979) 05/15/1931
		Barbara Barrie American actress, Breaking Away, TV's Barney Miller 05/23/1931
		Irwin Winkler American motion picture producer, Rocky, Raging Bull 05/25/1931
		Philip Kotler American marketing strategist, known as the father of modern marketing 05/27/1931
		Carroll Baker American actress, Baby Doll, Ironweed 05/28/1931
		Audrey Flack American painter and sculptor 05/30/1931
		Larry Silverstein American real estate developer 05/30/1931
		Raúl Castro Cuban president (2008–2018) 06/03/1931
		Carmen Dell'Orefice American model 06/03/1931
		John Norman American writer, the Gor series of fantasy novels 06/03/1931
		Virginia McKenna English actress, Born Free, and wildlife activist 06/07/1931
		Claudia Andujar Swiss-born Brazilian photographer and advocate for the Amazon's indigenous people 06/12/1931
		Irvin D. Yalom American psychiatrist and writer, When Nietzsche Wept 06/13/1931
		Marla Gibbs American actress, TV's The Jeffersons, 227 06/14/1931
		Fernando Henrique Cardoso Brazilian president (1995–2002) 06/18/1931
		James Tolkan American actor, Back to the Future, Top Gun 06/20/1931
		Leslie Caron French/American actress, An American in Paris, Gigi 07/01/1931
		Stanislav Grof Czech-born American psychiatrist, pioneer of transpersonal psychology 07/01/1931
		Alice Munro Canadian Nobel Prize-winning writer, Runaway 07/10/1931
		Jan Troell Swedish motion picture director, The Emigrants, The New Land 07/23/1931
		Robert Colbert American actor, TV's The Time Tunnel 07/26/1931
		Darryl Hickman American actor, The Grapes of Wrath, and television executive 07/28/1931
		Kenny Burrell American jazz guitarist 07/31/1931
		Ramblin' Jack Elliott American folk singer and musician 08/01/1931
		Roger Penrose English Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and theoretical physicist 08/08/1931
		Frederic Raphael American-born English novelist, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter, Darling, Eyes Wide Shut 08/14/1931
		Seymour Chwast American illustrator and graphic designer 08/18/1931
		Art Fry American scientist and inventor, co-creator of the Post-it Note 08/19/1931
		Marianne Koch German actress, The Devil's General, A Fistful of Dollars 08/19/1931
		Don King American boxing promoter 08/20/1931
		Barbara Eden American actress, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, TV's I Dream of Jeannie 08/23/1931
		Hamilton O. Smith American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist 08/23/1931
		Alan Simpson American politician, Wyoming senator (1979–1997) 09/02/1931
		Dick Motta American basketball coach 09/03/1931
		Mitzi Gaynor American singer, dancer, and actress, South Pacific 09/04/1931
		Sander Levin American politician, Michigan representative (1983–2019) 09/06/1931
		Bill Persky American television writer, director, and producer, The Dick Van Dyke Show 09/09/1931
		Silvia Pinal Mexican actress, Viridiana 09/12/1931
		Barbara Bain American actress, TV's Mission: Impossible, Space: 1999 09/13/1931
		Adrienne Kennedy American playwright, Funnyhouse of a Negro 09/13/1931
		Yoji Yamada Japanese motion picture director and screenwriter, The Twilight Samurai 09/13/1931
		Alain Cavalier French motion picture director and screenwriter, Thérèse 09/14/1931
		Jac Holzman American music industry executive, founder of Elektra Records 09/15/1931
		Angie Dickinson American actress, Dressed to Kill, TV's Police Woman 09/30/1931
		Jiří Suchý Czech actor, playwright, singer, and songwriter 10/01/1931
		Glenn Hall Canadian hockey player 10/03/1931
		Denise Scott Brown Northern Rhodesian-born American architect 10/03/1931
		Isadore Sharp Canadian hotelier, founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts 10/08/1931
		Vivian Pickles English actress, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Harold and Maude 10/21/1931
		Sofia Gubaidulina Russian composer, Offertorium 10/24/1931
		Klaus Hasselmann German Nobel Prize-winning oceanographer 10/25/1931
		Dan Rather American journalist and broadcaster 10/31/1931
		Thomas Pickering American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1989–1992) 11/05/1931
		Charles Taylor Canadian philosopher 11/05/1931
		Mary Louise Wilson American actress, TV's One Day at a Time, Broadway's Grey Gardens 11/12/1931
		Pierre Nora French historian 11/17/1931
		Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Argentinian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 11/26/1931
		Edwin Meese American government official, Attorney General (1985–1988) 12/02/1931
		Jaye P. Morgan American pop singer, actress, and game show panelist 12/03/1931
		Alex Delvecchio Canadian hockey player, coach, and manager 12/04/1931
		Bob Arum American boxing promoter 12/08/1931
		Rita Moreno Puerto Rican-born American Oscar-winning actress, West Side Story, TV's The Electric Company 12/11/1931
		Jerome Rothenberg American poet and translator 12/11/1931
		Ronnie Schell American comedian and actor, TV's Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. 12/23/1931