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