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CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAYS

Departed Individuals of Note Who Would Have Turned 100

~ August & September 2023 ~ 

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  Shimon Peres
Israeli prime minister, president, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
08/02/1923 – 09/28/2016
  Jean Hagen
American actress, Singin’ in the Rain, TV’s Make Room for Daddy
08/03/1923 – 08/29/1977
  Rhonda Fleming
American actress, Spellbound, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
08/10/1923 – 10/14/2020
  Alice Ghostley
American actress, TV’s Bewitched, Designing Women
08/14/1923 – 09/21/2007
  Rose Marie
American singer and actress, TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show
08/15/1923 – 12/28/2017
  Larry Rivers
American painter, jazz musician, and filmmaker
08/17/1923 – 08/14/2002
(Some sources cite a 1925 birth year)
  Giorgio Albertazzi
Italian actor, Last Year at Marienbad
08/20/1923 – 05/28/2016
  Jim Reeves
American country singer, “He'll Have to Go”
08/20/1923 – 07/31/1964
  Chris Schenkel
American sportscaster
08/21/1923 – 09/11/2005
  Richard Attenborough
English actor, Jurassic Park, and motion picture director, Gandhi
08/29/1923 – 08/24/2014
  Rocky Marciano
American boxer
09/01/1923 – 08/31/1969
  Mort Walker
American comic strip writer and artist, Beetle Bailey
09/03/1923 – 01/27/2018
  Peter Lawford
English-born American actor, Good News, Ocean’s 11
09/07/1923 – 12/24/1984
  Cliff Robertson
American Oscar-winning actor, PT 109, Charly
09/09/1923 – 09/10/2011
  Betsy Drake
American actress, Room for One More
09/11/1923 – 10/27/2015
  Hank Williams
American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, “Hey, Good Lookin’”, “Your Cheatin' Heart”
09/17/1923 – 01/01/1953
  Al Quie
American politician, Minnesota representative (1958–1979) and governor (1979–1983)
09/18/1923 – 08/18/2023
  Fats Navarro
American jazz trumpeter
09/24/1923 – 07/06/1950
  Tuli Kupferberg
American poet and singer, co-founded The Fugs underground rock group
09/28/1923 – 07/12/2010
  William Windom
American actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, TV’s My World and Welcome to It, Murder, She Wrote
09/28/1923 – 08/16/2012

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