The Webmaster's Personal Selection of
NONAGENARIAN & CENTENARIAN
LIVING LEGENDS

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Buzz Aldrin
American astronaut, second person to walk on the Moon
01/20/1930 |
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Iris Apfel
American interior designer and fashion icon
08/29/1921 |
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David Attenborough
English naturalist and television host, Life on Earth
05/08/1926 |
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Burt Bacharach
American pianist and songwriter, "Alfie", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
05/12/1928 |
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Harry Belafonte
American singer, "The Banana Boat Song", actor, and activist
03/01/1927 |
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Benedict XVI
German pope (2005-2013)
04/16/1927 |
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Tony Bennett
American pop singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
08/03/1926 |
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Claire Bloom
English actress, Limelight, The Haunting
02/15/1931 |
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Fernando Botero
Colombian painter and sculptor
04/19/1932 |
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Peter Brook
English theater and motion picture director, Marat/Sade
03/21/1925 |
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Mel Brooks
American actor, screenwriter, and motion picture director, The Producers, Blazing Saddles
06/28/1926 |
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Warren Buffett
American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
08/30/1930 |
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Leslie Caron
French/American actress, An American in Paris, Gigi
07/01/1931 |
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Jimmy Carter
American president (1977-1981), humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
10/01/1924 |
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Rosalynn Carter
American First Lady (1977-1981) and humanitarian
08/18/1927 |
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Noam Chomsky
American linguist and political activist
12/07/1928 |
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Joan Ganz Cooney
American television producer, Sesame Street, The Electric Company
11/30/1929 |
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Martin Cooper
American engineer, invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone
12/26/1928 |
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Roger Corman
American motion picture producer and director, The Little Shop of Horrors
04/05/1926 |
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Robert Duvall
American Oscar-winning actor, The Godfather, Tender Mercies
01/05/1931 |
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and motion picture director, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby
05/31/1930 |
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Elizabeth II
English monarch, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952-present)
04/21/1926 |
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Jules Feiffer
American cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter, Carnal Knowledge
01/26/1929 |
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Frank Gehry
Canadian/American architect
02/28/1929 |
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Jean-Luc Godard
French motion picture director, Breathless, Hail Mary
12/03/1930 |
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Benny Golson
American jazz saxophonist and composer
01/25/1929 |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian politician, President of the Soviet Union (1990-1991), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
03/02/1931 |
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Berry Gordy, Jr.
American entrepreneur, founded Motown Records
11/28/1929 |
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Lee Grant
American Oscar-winning actress, Shampoo, and documentarian
10/31/1925
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Alan Greenspan
American economist, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006)
03/06/1926 |
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Jürgen Habermas
German philosopher and sociologist
06/18/1929 |
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Gene Hackman
American Oscar-winning actor, Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection
01/30/1930 |
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Rosemary Harris
English actress, Tom & Viv, the Spider-Man film series
09/19/1927 |
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Peter Higgs
English Nobel Prize-winning physicist
05/29/1929 |
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Dolores Huerta
American labor leader and activist
04/10/1930 |
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Marsha Hunt
American actress, Pride and Prejudice, Blossoms in the Dust
10/17/1917 |
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James Ivory
American motion picture producer, director, Howard's End, and screenwriter, Call Me by Your Name
06/07/1928 |
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Al Jaffee
American cartoonist, regular contributor to Mad magazine
03/13/1921 |
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Norman Jewison
Canadian motion picture producer and director, In the Heat of the Night, Moonstruck
07/21/1926 |
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Jasper Johns
American painter and graphic artist
05/15/1930 |
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James Earl Jones
American actor, The Great White Hope, Star Wars
01/17/1931 |
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John Kander
American songwriter, "Cabaret", "New York, New York", collaborator with Fred Ebb
03/18/1927 |
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Don King
American boxing promoter
08/20/1931 |
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Henry Kissinger
German-born American statesman, Secretary of State (1973-1977), and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
05/27/1923 |
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Yayoi Kusama
Japanese painter and sculptor
03/22/1929 |
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Cleo Laine
English singer and actress, nicknamed "The Queen of Jazz"
10/28/1927 |
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Angela Lansbury
English-born American actress, Gaslight, Broadway's Mame, TV's Murder, She Wrote
10/16/1925 |
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Norman Lear
American motion picture and television producer, All in the Family, Good Times
07/27/1922 |
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Tom Lehrer
American satirist and songwriter, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
04/09/1928 |
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June Lockhart
American actress, TV's Lassie, Lost in Space
06/25/1925 |
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Gina Lollobrigida
Italian actress, Beat the Devil, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
07/04/1927 |
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Jim Lovell
American astronaut
03/25/1928 |
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James Lovelock
English atmospheric chemist, originated the Gaia theory
07/26/1919 |
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Loretta Lynn
American country singer and songwriter, Coal Miner's Daughter
04/14/1932 |
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Elaine May
American comedian, motion picture director, screenwriter, playwright, and actress
04/21/1932 |
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Willie Mays
American baseball player and coach
05/06/1931 |
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Newton Minow
American government official, FCC Chairman, called television a "vast wasteland"
01/17/1926 |
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Rita Moreno
American Oscar-winning actress, West Side Story, TV's The Electric Company
12/11/1931 |
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Edgar Morin
French philosopher and sociologist
07/08/1921 |
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Alice Munro
Canadian Nobel Prize-winning writer, Runaway
07/10/1931 |
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Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur
03/11/1931 |
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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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Sandra Day O'Connor
American Supreme Court justice (1981-2006)
03/26/1930 |
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Marcel Ophuls
French/American documentarian, The Sorry and the Pity
11/01/1927 |
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Argentinian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
11/26/1931 |
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Joan Plowright
English actress, The Entertainer, Avalon, Enchanted April
10/28/1929 |
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Leontyne Price
American opera singer
02/10/1927 |
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Mary Quant
English fashion designer
02/11/1930 (Some sources cite 1934) |
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Dan Rather
American journalist and broadcaster
10/31/1931 |
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist
09/07/1930 |
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Ned Rorem
American composer and diarist
10/23/1923 |
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Gena Rowlands
American actress, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria
06/19/1930 |
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Eva Marie Saint
American Oscar-winning actress, On the Waterfront, North by Northwest
07/04/1924 |
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Doc Severinsen
American trumpeter and bandleader, The Tonight Show (1967-1992)
07/07/1927 |
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William Shatner
Canadian actor, Miss Congeniality, TV's Star Trek, Boston Legal
03/22/1931 |
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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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Michael Snow
Canadian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, Wavelength
12/10/1928 |
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Pierre Soulages
French painter and sculptor
12/24/1919 |
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Gay Talese
American literary journalist, Honor Thy Father
02/07/1932 |
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Valentino
Italian fashion designer
05/11/1932 |
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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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Barbara Walters
American journalist and television personality, The Today Show, The View
09/25/1929 |
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Ruth Westheimer
German-born American psychosexual therapist and talk show host
06/04/1928 |
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John Williams
American film score composer, Jaws, Star Wars, and conductor
02/08/1932 |
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Joanne Woodward
American Oscar-winning actress, The Three Faces of Eve, Rachel, Rachel
02/27/1930 |
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Andrew Young
American civil rights leader, politician, and diplomat
03/12/1932 |
