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Tatsuya Nakadai
Japanese actor, Kagemusha, Ran
12/13/1932 |
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Giorgio Napolitano
Italian president (2006–2015)
06/29/1925 |
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Ram Narayan
Indian sarangi player
12/25/1927 |
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Noreen Nash
American actress, The Devil on Wheels, Giant
04/04/1924 |
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
American writer of children's and young adult fiction, the Shiloh and Alice series
01/04/1933 |
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Joe Negri
American jazz guitarist and actor, TV's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
06/10/1926 |
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Russell M. Nelson
American religious leader, Church of Latter-day Saints president (2018–present)
09/09/1924 |
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Willie Nelson
American country singer, musician, songwriter, "On the Road Again”, and actor
04/29/1933 |
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Bob Newhart
American comedian and actor, Elf, TV's The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart
09/05/1929 |
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Thomas Noguchi
Japanese-born American medical examiner, nicknamed "Coroner to the Stars"
01/04/1927 |
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John Norman
American writer, the Gor series of fantasy novels
06/03/1931 |
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Kim Novak
American actress, Picnic, Vertigo, Bell, Book and Candle
02/13/1933 |
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Sam Nujoma
Namibian president (1990–2005)
05/12/1929 |
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Alanis Obomsawin
American-born Canadian documentarian, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
08/31/1932 |
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Edna O'Brien
Irish writer, The Country Girls
12/15/1930 |
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Sandra Day O'Connor
American Supreme Court justice (1981–2006)
03/26/1930 |
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Nancy Olson
American actress, Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor
07/14/1928 |
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Jirō Ono
Japanese restaurateur and sushi master
10/27/1925 |
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Yoko Ono
Japanese-born conceptual artist, singer, and peace activist
02/18/1933 |
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Marcel Ophuls
French/American documentarian, The Sorry and the Pity
11/01/1927 |
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Alan Oppenheimer
American actor and voice artist, TV's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
04/23/1930 |
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Charles Osgood
American journalist, writer, commentator, and television host, CBS News Sunday Morning
01/08/1933 |
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Cynthia Ozick
American writer, The Puttermesser Papers
04/17/1928 |
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Bob Packwood
American politician, Oregon senator (1969–1995)
09/11/1932 |
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Geneviève Page
French actress, Belle de jour, Mayerling
12/13/1927 |
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Janis Paige
American actress, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Broadway's The Pajama Game
09/16/1922 |
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Estelle Parsons
American Oscar-winning actress, Bonnie and Clyde, TV's Roseanne
11/20/1927 |
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Katherine Paterson
American children's writer, Bridge to Terabithia
10/31/1932 |
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Marisa Pavan
Italian-born actress, The Rose Tattoo
06/19/1932 |
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Roger Penrose
English Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and theoretical physicist
08/08/1931 |
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Arno Penzias
German-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist
04/26/1933 |
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Argentinian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
11/26/1931 |
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Isabel Perón
Argentinian president (1974–1976)
02/04/1931 |
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Michelle Perrot
French historian, author of The Bedroom: An Intimate History
05/18/1928 |
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William Perry
American government official, Secretary of Defense (1994–1997)
10/11/1927 |
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Bill Persky
American television writer, director, and producer, The Dick Van Dyke Show
09/09/1931 |
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Charles Peters
American journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of The Washington Monthly
12/22/1926 |
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Bob Pettit
American basketball player
12/12/1932 |
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Siân Phillips
Welsh actress, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, TV's I, Claudius
05/14/1933 |
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Thomas Pickering
American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1989–1992)
11/05/1931 |
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Vivian Pickles
English actress, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Harold and Maude
10/21/1931 |
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Nicholas Pileggi
American author and screenwriter, Goodfellas
02/22/1933 |
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Silvia Pinal
Mexican actress, Viridiana
09/12/1931 |
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Theodor Pištěk
Czech painter and costume designer, Amadeus
10/25/1932 |
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Frances Fox Piven
Canadian-born American political scientist and activist
10/10/1932 |
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Alvin Plantinga
American analytic philosopher
11/15/1932 |
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Joan Plowright
English actress, The Entertainer, Avalon, Enchanted April
10/28/1929 |
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Norman Podhoretz
American neoconservative writer and commentator
01/16/1930 |
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Priscilla Pointer
American actress, Carrie, TV's Dallas
05/18/1924 |
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John Polanyi
German-born Canadian Nobel Prize-winning chemist
01/23/1929 |
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Wanda Półtawska
Polish Nazi concentration camp survivor and memoirist
11/02/1921 |
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Arnaldo Pomodoro
Italian sculptor
06/23/1926 |
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Elena Poniatowska
French-born Mexican journalist and writer, Massacre in Mexico
05/19/1932 |
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Omara Portuondo
Cuban singer and dancer
10/29/1930 |
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Micheline Presle
French actress, Devil in the Flesh, Under My Skin
08/22/1922 |
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Don Preston
American keyboardist, member of the Mothers of Invention
09/21/1932 |
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Leontyne Price
American opera singer
02/10/1927 |
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Oleg Protopopov
Russian-born Swiss Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater
07/16/1932 |
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Ralph Puckett
American Korean War Medal of Honor recipient
12/08/1926 |
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Queen Ida
American zydeco accordionist
01/15/1929 |
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Eve Queler
American conductor
01/11/1931 |
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Al Quie
American politician, Minnesota representative (1958–1979) and governor (1979–1983)
09/18/1923 |
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Arnulf Rainer
Austrian painter
12/08/1929 |
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Dieter Rams
German industrial designer
05/20/1932 |
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Joyce Randolph
American actress, TV's The Honeymooners
10/21/1924 |
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Charles Rangel
American politician, New York representative (1971–2017)
06/11/1930 |
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Ernest Ranglin
Jamaican ska and jazz guitarist
06/19/1932 |
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C. R. Rao
Indian-born American mathematician and statistician
09/10/1920 |
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Frederic Raphael
American-born English novelist, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter, Darling, Eyes Wide Shut
08/14/1931 |
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Jean-Paul Rappeneau
French screenwriter and motion picture director, A Matter of Resistance
04/08/1932 |
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Dan Rather
American journalist and broadcaster
10/31/1931 |
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Betsy Rawls
American golfer
05/04/1928 |
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Hubert Reeves
Canadian astrophysicist, author of Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind
07/13/1932 |
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Edgar Reitz
German filmmaker, the Heimat series
11/01/1932 |
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Line Renaud
French singer, actress, and AIDS activist
07/02/1928 |
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Clive Revill
New Zealand actor, Avanti!, The Empire Strikes Back
04/18/1930 |
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Gerhard Richter
German painter
02/09/1932 |
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Bridget Riley
English painter
04/24/1931 |
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Richard Riley
American politician, South Carolina governor (1979–1987), and U.S. Secretary of Education (1993–2001)
01/02/1933 |
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Helmuth Rilling
German conductor
05/29/1933 |
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Faith Ringgold
American painter
10/08/1930 |
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Maria Riva
German-born American actress and memoirist, Marlene Dietrich
12/13/1924 |
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Chita Rivera
American actress, singer, and dancer, Broadway's West Side Story, Chicago
01/23/1933 |
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William Roache
English actor, TV's Coronation Street
04/25/1932 |
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Tom Robbins
American writer, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
07/22/1932 |
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Pat Robertson
American evangelist and television host, The 700 Club
03/22/1930 |
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Rachel Robinson
American activist and educator, widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson
07/19/1922 |
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Arthur Rock
American venture capitalist
08/19/1926 |
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Pete Rodriguez
American boogaloo musician and bandleader
04/16/1932 |
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist
09/07/1930 |
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Roy Romer
American politician, Colorado governor (1987–1999)
10/31/1928 |
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John Romita, Sr.
American comic book artist, co-creator of The Punisher
01/24/1930 |
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Marion Ross
American actress, TV's Happy Days
10/25/1928 |
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Arnold Roth
American cartoonist and illustrator
02/25/1929 |
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Jerome Rothenberg
American poet and translator
12/11/1931 |
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Jacques Roubaud
French poet and novelist, The Great Fire of London
12/05/1932 |
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Patricia Routledge
English actress, TV's Keeping Up Appearances
02/17/1929 |
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Gena Rowlands
American actress, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria
06/19/1930 |
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Albert Ruddy
Canadian-born American motion picture producer, The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby
03/28/1930 |
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Barbara Rush
American actress, The Young Lions, The Young Philadelphians
01/04/1927 |
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William Russell
English actor, TV's Doctor Who
11/19/1924 |
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Mark Rydell
American motion picture director, The Rose, On Golden Pond
03/23/1929 |
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Betye Saar
American assemblage artist
07/30/1926 |
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Nayantara Sahgal
Indian journalist and novelist, Rich Like Us
05/10/1927 |
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Eva Marie Saint
American Oscar-winning actress, On the Waterfront, North by Northwest
07/04/1924 |
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Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Bolivian president (1993–1997, 2002–2003)
07/01/1930 |
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Paul Sand
American actor, The Hot Rock, TV's Friends and Lovers
03/05/1932 (Some sources cite 1935) |
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Silvio Santos
Brazilian entrepreneur, media tycoon, and television host
12/12/1930 |
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José Sarney
Brazilian president (1985–1990)
04/24/1930 |
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Prunella Scales
English actress, TV's Fawlty Towers
06/22/1932 |
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Andrew Schally
Polish-born American Nobel Prize-winning endocrinologist
11/30/1926 |
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Jerry Schatzberg
American photographer and motion picture director, Scarecrow
06/26/1927 |
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Ronnie Schell
American comedian and actor, TV's Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
12/23/1931 |
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Lalo Schifrin
Argentinian-born American film and television score composer, Mission: Impossible
06/21/1932 |
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George Schlatter
American television producer, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Real People
12/31/1932 |
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Eva Schloss
Austrian/English Holocaust survivor and memoirist, stepsister of Anne Frank
05/11/1929 |
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Joe Schmidt
American football player and coach
01/19/1932 |
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Rebecca Schull
American actress, TV's Wings
02/22/1929 |
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Ted Schwinden
American politician, Montana governor (1981–1989)
08/31/1925 |
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David Scott
American astronaut
06/06/1932 |
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Peter Dale Scott
Canadian-born poet and political analyst
01/11/1929 |
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Denise Scott Brown
Northern Rhodesian-born American architect
10/03/1931 |
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John Searle
American philosopher
07/31/1932 |
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Vic Seixas
American tennis player
08/30/1923 |
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Joan Semmel
American painter
10/19/1932 |
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Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
09/15/1926 |
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Doc Severinsen
American trumpeter and bandleader, The Tonight Show (1967–1992)
07/07/1927 |
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Carmen Sevilla
Spanish actress, Vengeance, King of Kings, and singer
10/16/1930 |
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Gene Shalit
American film and book critic and television personality, The Today Show (1973–2010)
03/25/1926 |
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Bobby Shantz
American baseball player
09/26/1925 |
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Isadore Sharp
Canadian hotelier, founder and chairman of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
10/08/1931 |
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William Shatner
Canadian actor, Miss Congeniality, TV's Star Trek, Boston Legal
03/22/1931 |
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Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer and pianist
12/16/1932 |
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Richard M. Sherman
American songwriter, "Chim Chim Cher-ee", collaborator with brother Robert B. Sherman
06/12/1928 |
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Bernie S. Siegel
American pediatric surgeon, advocate of alternative healing and patients' rights
10/14/1932 |
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Elliot Silverstein
American motion picture director, Cat Ballou, A Man Called Horse
08/03/1927 |
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Larry Silverstein
American real estate developer
05/30/1931 |
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Alan Simpson
American politician, Wyoming senator (1979–1997)
09/02/1931 |
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Fauja Singh
Indian-born English marathon runner
04/01/1911 |
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Manmohan Singh
Indian prime minister (2004–2014)
09/26/1932 |
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Ali al-Sistani
Iranian-born Shiite cleric and community leader
08/04/1930 |
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Sister Jean
American nun, chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team
08/21/1919 |
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Stephen Smale
American mathematician
07/15/1930 |
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George E. Smith
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
05/10/1930 |
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Hamilton O. Smith
American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist
08/23/1931 |
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Lois Smith
American actress, East of Eden, Twister
11/03/1930 |
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Vernon L. Smith
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
01/01/1927 |
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William Smithers
American actor, Papillon, TV's Dallas
07/10/1927 |
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Gary Snyder
American poet, Turtle Island
05/08/1930 |
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Martial Solal
Algerian-born French jazz pianist and composer
08/23/1927 |
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Robert Solow
American Nobel Prize-winning economist
08/23/1924 |
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George Soros
Hungarian/American investor and philanthropist
08/12/1930 |
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Thomas Sowell
American economist and social theorist
06/30/1930 |
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June Spencer
English actress, The Archers radio series
06/14/1919 |
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Daniel Spoerri
Romanian-born Swiss artist
03/27/1930 |
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June Squibb
American actress, About Schmidt, Nebraska
11/06/1929 |
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Thomas Stafford
American astronaut
09/17/1930 |
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Frances Sternhagen
American actress, Starting Over, TV's Cheers
01/13/1930 |
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George Stevens, Jr.
American producer and writer, founder of the American Film Institute
04/03/1932 |
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Mike Stoller
American songwriter, "Jailhouse Rock", "Stand by Me"
03/13/1933 |
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Charles Strouse
American composer, Broadway's Bye Bye Birdie, Annie
06/07/1928 |
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Morton Subotnick
American electronic music composer, Silver Apples of the Moon
04/14/1933 |
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Jiří Suchý
Czech actor, playwright, singer, and songwriter
10/01/1931 |
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Akira Suzuki
Japanese Nobel Prize-winning chemist
09/12/1930 |
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M. S. Swaminathan
Indian plant geneticist, known as the father of India's Green Revolution
08/07/1925 |
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Inga Swenson
American actress, The Miracle Worker, TV's Benson
12/29/1932 |
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Nita Talbot
American actress, Buck and the Preacher, TV's Hogan's Heroes
08/08/1930 |
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Gay Talese
American literary journalist, Honor Thy Father
02/07/1932 |
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Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher
11/05/1931 |
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Renée Taylor
American actress, TV’s The Nanny, and screenwriter, Lovers and Other Strangers
03/19/1933 |
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Olav Thon
Norwegian real estate magnate
06/29/1923 |
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James Tolkan
American actor, Back to the Future, Top Gun
06/20/1931 |
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Calvin Tomkins
American art critic, staff writer for The New Yorker
12/17/1925 |
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Alain Touraine
French sociologist
08/03/1925 |
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Constance Towers
American actress, Shock Corridor, TV's General Hospital
05/20/1933 |
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Jan Troell
Swedish motion picture director, The Emigrants, The New Land
07/23/1931 |
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Tu Youyou
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning pharmaceutical chemist
12/30/1930 |
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Caterina Valente
French-born Italian singer, guitarist, and actress
01/14/1931 |
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Valentino
Italian fashion designer
05/11/1932 |
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Dries van Agt
Dutch prime minister (1977–1982)
02/02/1931 |
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Mamie Van Doren
American actress, Sex Kittens Go to College, and singer
02/06/1931 |
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Dick Van Dyke
American actor, Mary Poppins, TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis: Murder
12/13/1925 |
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Leroy Van Dyke
American country singer, "The Auctioneer", "Walk on By"
10/04/1929 |
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Hans van Manen
Dutch choreographer
07/11/1932 |
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Nina van Pallandt
Danish singer and actress, American Gigolo
07/15/1932 |
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Judith Viorst
American writer, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
02/02/1931 |
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Ida Vitale
Uruguayan poet and literary critic
11/02/1923 |
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Abdoulaye Wade
Senegalese president (2000–2012)
05/29/1926 |
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Robert Wagner
American actor, the Austin Powers film series, TV's Hart to Hart
02/10/1930 |
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Shani Wallis
English/American singer and actress, Oliver!
04/14/1933 |
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Martin Walser
German writer, A Gushing Fountain
03/24/1927 |
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Don Walsh
American oceanographer
11/02/1931 |
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James Watson
American Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and biophysicist
04/06/1928 |
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William H. Webster
American government official, director of the FBI (1978–1987) and CIA (1987–1991)
03/06/1924 |
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Lowell Weicker
American politician, Connecticut representative (1969–1971), senator (1971–1989), and governor (1991–1995)
05/16/1931 |
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Sanford I. Weill
American financier and philanthropist
03/16/1933 |
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Rainer Weiss
German-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist
09/29/1932 |
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James West
American inventor and acoustician, co-developed the foil electret microphone
02/10/1931 |
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Ruth Westheimer
German-born American psychosexual therapist and talk show host
06/04/1928 |
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Gloria Whelan
American children's writer, Homeless Bird
11/23/1923 |
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Jacqueline White
American actress, Crossfire, The Narrow Margin
11/27/1922 |
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Torsten Wiesel
Swedish Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist
06/03/1924 |
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Douglas Wilder
American politician, Virginia governor (1990–1994)
01/17/1931 |
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Billy Williams
English cinematographer, The Exorcist, On Golden Pond, Gandhi
06/03/1929 |
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John Williams
American film score composer, Jaws, Star Wars, and conductor
02/08/1932 |
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Beverly Willis
American architect
02/17/1928 |
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Mary Louise Wilson
American actress, TV's One Day at a Time, Broadway's Grey Gardens
11/12/1931 |
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James Wines
American sculptor, architect, and environmental designer
06/27/1932 |
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Irwin Winkler
American motion picture producer, Rocky, Raging Bull
05/25/1931 |
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Frederick Wiseman
American documentarian, In Jackson Heights
01/01/1930 |
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Evelyn Witkin
American geneticist
03/09/1921 |
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Woody Woodbury
American comedian and talk show host
02/09/1924 |
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Joanne Woodward
American Oscar-winning actress, The Three Faces of Eve, Rachel, Rachel
02/27/1930 |
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Irvin D. Yalom
American psychiatrist and writer, When Nietzsche Wept
06/13/1931 |
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Yoji Yamada
Japanese motion picture director and screenwriter, The Twilight Samurai
09/13/1931 |
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Yang Chen-Ning
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist
10/01/1922 |
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Andrew Young
American civil rights leader, politician, and diplomat
03/12/1932 |
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Robert M. Young
American documentarian and motion picture director, Dominick and Eugene
11/22/1924 |
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Zhu Rongji
Chinese premier (1998–2003)
10/23/1928
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Philip Zimbardo
American psychologist, conducted 1971's Stanford Prison Experiment
03/23/1933 |

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