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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 (Birth year sources vary) |
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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 |