BORN 1933

Turning 91 in 2024

		Richard Riley American politician, South Carolina governor (1979–1987), and U.S. Secretary of Education (1993–2001) 01/02/1933
		Phyllis Reynolds Naylor American writer of children's and young adult fiction, the Shiloh and Alice series 01/04/1933
		Michael Aspel English newsreader, television and radio presenter, and talk show host 01/12/1933
		Liliana Cavani Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, The Night Porter 01/12/1933
		John Boorman English motion picture director, Deliverance, Hope and Glory 01/18/1933
		Jack Hill American motion picture director, Coffy, Foxy Brown 01/28/1933
		Costa-Gavras Greek-born French motion picture director and screenwriter, Z, Missing 02/12/1933
		Paul Biya Cameroonian president (1982–present) 02/13/1933
		Kim Novak American actress, Picnic, Vertigo, Bell, Book and Candle 02/13/1933
		Bruce P. Crandall American Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient 02/17/1933
		Yoko Ono Japanese-born conceptual artist, singer, and peace activist 02/18/1933
		Frederick Crews American literary critic, author of The Pooh Perplex 02/20/1933
		Sheila Hancock English actress, TV's Bedtime 02/22/1933
		Nicholas Pileggi American author and screenwriter, Goodfellas 02/22/1933
		Raymond Berry American football player and coach 02/27/1933
		Sidney J. Furie Canadian motion picture director, The Ipcress File, Lady Sings the Blues 02/28/1933
		Barbara Feldon American actress, TV’s Get Smart 03/12/1933
		Mike Stoller American songwriter, "Jailhouse Rock", "Stand by Me" 03/13/1933
		Michael Caine English actor, The Ipcress File, Alfie, Hannah and Her Sisters 03/14/1933
		Quincy Jones American music producer, musician, and composer 03/14/1933
		Sanford I. Weill American financier and philanthropist 03/16/1933
		Penelope Lively English writer, A Stitch in Time, Moon Tiger 03/17/1933
		Renée Taylor American actress, TV’s The Nanny, and screenwriter, Lovers and Other Strangers 03/19/1933
		Michael Heseltine English politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1995–1997) 03/21/1933
		Hayes Alan Jenkins American Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater 03/23/1933
		Philip Zimbardo American psychologist, conducted 1971's Stanford Prison Experiment 03/23/1933
		Tinto Brass Italian motion picture director, Caligula, and screenwriter 03/26/1933
		Frank Murkowski American politician, Alaska senator (1981–2002) and governor (2002–2006) 03/28/1933
		Claude Cohen-Tannoudji French Nobel Prize-winning physicist 04/01/1933
		Bob Dornan American actor and politician, California representative (1977–1983, 1985–1997) 04/03/1933
		Tony Brown American journalist and television host, Tony Brown's Journal 04/11/1933
		Ben Nighthorse Campbell American politician, Colorado senator (1993–2005) 04/13/1933
		Morton Subotnick American electronic music composer, Silver Apples of the Moon 04/14/1933
		Shani Wallis English/American singer and actress, Oliver! 04/14/1933
		Joan Bakewell English journalist and television presenter 04/16/1933
		Dickie Bird English cricketer and umpire 04/19/1933
		Mark Damon American actor, House of Usher, and motion picture producer, 9½ Weeks 04/22/1933
		John Barbour Canadian-born comedian and television host, Real People 04/24/1933
		Carol Burnett American comedian and actress, Annie, TV’s The Carol Burnett Show 04/26/1933
		Alison Knowles American sound and visual artist 04/29/1933
		Willie Nelson American country singer, musician, songwriter, "On the Road Again”, and actor 04/29/1933
		Helen Vendler American literary critic 04/30/1933
		Jean Becker French motion picture director and screenwriter, Conversations with My Gardener 05/10/1933
		Barbara Taylor Bradford English/American writer, the Emma Harte series 05/10/1933
		Françoise Fabian French actress, My Night at Maud's 05/10/1933
		Louis Farrakhan American religious figure, leader of the Nation of Islam (1978–present) 05/11/1933
		Siân Phillips Welsh actress, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, TV's I, Claudius 05/14/1933
		Constance Towers American actress, Shock Corridor, TV's General Hospital 05/20/1933
		Joan Collins English actress, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, TV’s Dynasty 05/23/1933
		Ken Jacobs American experimental filmmaker, Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son 05/25/1933
		Helmuth Rilling German conductor 05/29/1933
		Rod Paige American government official, Secretary of Education (2000–2004) 06/17/1933
		Tommy Hunt American soul singer, member of the Flamingos doo-wop group 06/18/1933
		Brett Halsey American actor, Return of the Fly, The Godfather Part III 06/20/1933
		Claire Tomalin English journalist and biographer, Jane Austen: A Life 06/20/1933
		Bernie Kopell American actor, TV’s Get Smart, The Love Boat 06/21/1933
		Michelangelo Pistoletto Italian painter and sculptor 06/23/1933
		James Meredith American civil rights activist, first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi 06/25/1933
		Lea Massari Italian actress, L'Avventura, Murmur of the Heart 06/30/1933
		Franz von Bayern German duke, head of the former ruling family of the Kingdom of Bavaria 07/14/1933
		M. T. Vasudevan Nair Indian novelist, screenwriter, and motion picture director, Nirmalyam 07/15/1933
		Mimi Hines Canadian-born comedian and actress 07/17/1933
		Edmund Phelps American Nobel Prize-winning economist 07/26/1933
		Robert Fuller American actor, TV’s Laramie, Emergency! 07/29/1933
		Cees Nooteboom Dutch novelist, Rituals, poet, and travel writer 07/31/1933
		Rocky Colavito American baseball player and coach 08/10/1933
		Parnelli Jones American race car driver 08/12/1933
		Joycelyn Elders American government official, Surgeon General (1993–1994) 08/13/1933
		Madhur Jaffrey Indian-born actress, culinary writer, and television personality 08/13/1933
		Reiner Kunze German writer and GDR dissident 08/16/1933
		Julie Newmar American actress, TV’s My Living Doll, Batman 08/16/1933
		Gene Kranz American aerospace engineer, NASA's Chief Flight Director during Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 08/17/1933
		Roman Polanski French/Polish motion picture director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Pianist 08/18/1933
		Debra Paget American actress, The Ten Commandments, Love Me Tender 08/19/1933
		George J. Mitchell American politician, Maine senator (1980–1995) 08/20/1933
		Janet Baker English opera singer 08/21/1933
		Pete Wilson American politician, California senator (1983–1991) and governor (1991–1999) 08/23/1933
		Tom Skerritt American actor, Alien, Top Gun, Steel Magnolias 08/25/1933
		Kerstin Ekman Swedish writer, Blackwater 08/27/1933
		Tsai Chin Chinese actress, You Only Live Twice, The Joy Luck Club 09/01/1933
		Bruce Davidson American photographer 09/05/1933
		Asha Bhosle Indian playback singer 09/08/1933
		Michael Frayn English playwright, Noises Off, and novelist, Headlong 09/08/1933
		Eileen Fulton American actress, TV’s As the World Turns 09/13/1933
		Patricia Crowley American actress, TV’s Please Don't Eat the Daisies 09/17/1933
		Chuck Grassley American politician, Iowa representative (1975–1981) and senator (1981–present) 09/17/1933
		Scotty Bowman Canadian hockey coach 09/18/1933
		Hubie Brown American basketball player, coach, and television analyst 09/25/1933
		Kathleen Nolan American actress, TV’s The Real McCoys 09/27/1933
		Cissy Houston American soul and gospel singer 09/30/1933
		Michael Parenti American political analyst and social critic, author of Make-Believe Media 09/30/1933
		John Gurdon English Nobel Prize-winning developmental biologist 10/02/1933
		Michel Plasson French conductor 10/02/1933
		Louis Begley Polish-born American writer, Wartime Lies, About Schmidt 10/06/1933
		Michael Korda English-born novelist, biographer, editor, and publisher 10/08/1933
		Leonard Peikoff Canadian-born American philosopher, author of The Ominous Parallels 10/15/1933
		William Anders American astronaut 10/17/1933
		Barrie Chase American dancer 10/20/1933
		Norman Rush American writer, Mating 10/24/1933
		Michael Dukakis American politician, Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee 11/03/1933
		Amartya Sen Indian Nobel Prize-winning economist 11/03/1933
		Louis Wade Sullivan American government official, Secretary of Health and Human Services (1989–1993) 11/03/1933
		Knut Johannesen Norwegian Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater 11/06/1933
		Jackie Joseph American actress, The Little Shop of Horrors, TV’s The Doris Day Show 11/07/1933
		Bobby Rush American blues musician 11/10/1933
		Fred Haise American astronaut 11/14/1933
		Jerry Sheindlin American jurist and television personality, The People's Court 11/19/1933
		Kathryn Crosby (aka Kathryn Grant) American singer and actress, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 11/25/1933
		Gordon S. Wood American historian, author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution 11/27/1933
		John Mayall English blues-rock singer and musician, frontman of the Bluesbreakers 11/29/1933
		Jane Elliott American educator and diversity trainer, originated the “blue eyes/brown eyes" exercise 11/30/1933
		Wink Martindale American game show host, Gambit, Tic-Tac-Dough 12/04/1933
		Lou Adler American music and motion picture producer 12/13/1933
		Abel Pacheco Costa Rican president (2002–2006) 12/22/1933
		Akihito Japanese emperor (1989–2019) 12/23/1933