CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAYS
Departed Individuals of Note Who Would Have Turned 100
~ August & September 2024 ~
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James Baldwin
American novelist, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and playwright, The Amen Corner
08/02/1924 – 12/01/1987 |
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Carroll O'Connor
American actor, TV's All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night
08/02/1924 – 06/21/2001 |
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Leon Uris
American writer, Exodus, QB VII
08/03/1924 – 06/21/2003 |
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Martha Hyer
American actress, Some Came Running, The Chase
08/10/1924 – 05/31/2014 |
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Robert Bolt
English playwright and screenwriter, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons
08/15/1924 – 02/20/1995 |
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Fess Parker
American actor, TV's Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone
08/16/1924 – 03/18/2010 |
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William Marshall
American actor, Blacula, TV's Pee-wee's Playhouse
08/19/1924 – 06/11/2003 |
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Jack Weston
American actor, Wait Until Dark, Cactus Flower, The Four Seasons
08/21/1924 – 05/03/1996 |
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Dinah Washington
American singer, "What a Diff’rence a Day Makes"
08/29/1924 – 12/14/1963 |
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Buddy Hackett
American comedian and actor, The Music Man, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
08/31/1924 – 06/30/2003 |
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Grace Metalious
American writer, Peyton Place
09/08/1924 – 02/25/1964 |
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Jane Greer
American actress, Out of the Past, The Big Steal
09/09/1924 – 08/24/2001 |
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Sylvia Miles
American actress, Midnight Cowboy, Farewell, My Lovely
09/09/1924 – 06/12/2019 |
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Tom Landry
American football player and coach
09/11/1924 – 02/12/2000 |
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Maurice Jarre
French film composer, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, A Passage to India
09/13/1924 – 03/28/2009 |
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Bobby Short
American cabaret singer and pianist
09/15/1924 – 03/21/2005 |
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Lauren Bacall
American actress, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, Written on the Wind
09/16/1924 – 08/12/2014 |
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Gail Russell
American actress, The Uninvited, Angel and the Badman
09/21/1924 – 08/26/1961 |
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Marcello Mastroianni
Italian actor, La Dolce Vita, 8½, A Special Day
09/28/1924 – 12/19/1996 |
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Truman Capote
American writer, Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood
09/30/1924 – 08/25/1984 |