CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAYS
Departed Individuals of Note Who Would Have Turned 100
~ January & February 2025 ~

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Stymie Beard
American actor, the Our Gang film series
01/01/1925 – 01/08/1981 |
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Johnny Lujack
American football player
01/04/1925 – 07/25/2023 |
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John DeLorean
American automobile manufacturer and entrepreneur
01/06/1925 – 03/19/2005 |
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Lee Van Cleef
American actor, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Escape from New York
01/09/1925 – 12/16/1989 |
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Rosemary Murphy
American actress, To Kill a Mockingbird, Eleanor and Franklin
01/13/1925 – 07/05/2014 |
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Gwen Verdon
American actress and dancer, Broadway’s Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, Chicago
01/13/1925 – 10/18/2000 |
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Yukio Mishima
Japanese writer, Confessions of a Mask, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy
01/14/1925 – 11/25/1970 |
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Maria Tallchief
American prima ballerina
01/24/1925 – 04/11/2013 |
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Joan Leslie
American actress, High Sierra, Sergeant York, Yankee Doodle Dandy
01/26/1925 – 10/12/2015 |
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Paul Newman
American Oscar-winning actor, Hud, motion picture director, Rachel, Rachel, and philanthropist
01/26/1925 – 09/26/2008 |
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Elaine Stritch
American actress and singer, September, Out to Sea, Broadway’s Company
02/02/1925 – 07/17/2014 |
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Shelley Berman
American comedian and actor, TV’s Curb Your Enthusiasm
02/03/1925 – 09/01/2017 |
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John Fiedler
American actor, 12 Angry Men, The Odd Couple, TV’s The Bob Newhart Show
02/03/1925 – 06/25/2005 |
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Jack Lemmon
American Oscar-winning actor, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Save the Tiger
02/08/1925 – 06/27/2001 |
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Kim Stanley
American actress, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Right Stuff
02/11/1925 – 08/20/2001 |
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Hal Holbrook
American actor, Mark Twain Tonight, Into the Wild
02/17/1925 – 01/23/2021 |
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George Kennedy
American Oscar-winning actor, Cool Hand Luke, Airport
02/18/1925 – 02/28/2016 |
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Robert Altman
American motion picture director, M*A*S*H, Nashville, Gosford Park
02/20/1925 – 11/20/2006 |
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Sam Peckinpah
American motion picture director and screenwriter, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs
02/21/1925 – 12/28/1984 |
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Edward Gorey
American writer, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, illustrator, and designer
02/22/1925 – 04/15/2000 |
