• January 1 •
Ernest Hollings, U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005 (d.
2019) •
Roz Howard, race car driver (d.
2013) • January 3 –
John R. Schmidhauser, politician (d.
2018) • January 5 –
Helen Smith, female baseball player (d.
2019) • January 13 –
Bud Anderson, fighter pilot (d.
2024) • January 17 –
Betty White, actress, comedian and producer (d.
2021) • January 19 •
Lila Cockrell, former
Mayor of San Antonio (d.
2019) •
Guy Madison, actor (d.
1996) • January 20 •
Ray Anthony, trumpet player, composer, bandleader and actor •
Ed Westcott, photographer (d.
2019) • January 21 –
Sam Mele, baseball player and manager (d.
2017) •
Telly Savalas, actor and singer (d.
1994) • January 22 •
Annabelle Lee, female professional baseball player (d.
2008) •
Howard Moss, poet, playwright and critic (d.
1987) • January 24 •
Bob Hoover, World War II air ace and test pilot (d.
2016) •
Charles Socarides, psychiatrist (d.
2005) • January 26 –
Bob Thomas, Hollywood biographer and reporter (d.
2014) • January 28 –
Robert W. Holley, biochemist and Nobel laureate (d.
1993) • January 30 •
Rosemary Kuhlmann, soprano and actress (d.
2019) •
Dick Martin, comedian (d.
2008) • January 31 –
Joanne Dru, actress (d.
1996) • February 2 –
James L. Usry, first
African-American mayor of
Atlantic City, New Jersey (d.
2002) • February 4 •
Bernard Kalb, journalist (d.
2023) •
William Edward Phipps, actor and producer (d.
2018) • February 6 •
Leon Bibb, American-Canadian singer (d.
2015) •
Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator from North Dakota in 1992 (d.
2019) • February 9 –
Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d.
2010) • February 10 –
Harold Hughes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1969 to 1975 (d.
1996) • February 12 •
Elisabeth Carron, operatic soprano (d.
2016) •
William Rashkind, cardiologist (d.
1986) • February 13 •
David O. Moberg, sociologist (d.
2023) •
Hal Moore,
Lieutenant general, non-fiction writer (d.
2017) •
Gordon Tullock, economist (d.
2014) • February 15 –
John B. Anderson, Congressman and presidential candidate (d.
2017) • February 17 •
Enrico Banducci, nightclub owner (d.
2007) •
Tommy Edwards, singer-songwriter (d.
1969) • February 18 •
Helen Gurley Brown, editor and publisher (d.
2012) •
Joe Tipton, baseball player (d.
1994) •
Connie Wisniewski, baseball player (d.
1995) • February 19 –
Margherita Marchione, Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologist (d.
2021) • February 23 –
James L. Holloway III, naval officer (d.
2019) • February 24 •
Ruth Godfrey, film actress (d.
1985) •
Steven Hill, actor (d.
2016) • March 1 –
William Gaines, magazine publisher (
MAD) (d.
1992) • March 2 –
Arnold Hano, editor and non-fiction writer (d.
2021) • March 4 •
Richard E. Cunha, cinematographer and film director (d.
2005) •
Martha O'Driscoll, film actress (d.
1998) • March 7 –
Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (d.
2001) • March 8 •
Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor (d.
2014) •
Cyd Charisse, American actress, dancer (d.
2008) • March 9 •
Herb Douglas, athlete (d.
2023) •
Floyd McKissick, lawyer and civil rights activist (d.
1991) • March 12 •
Jack Kerouac, novelist and poet (d.
1969) •
Lane Kirkland, union leader (d.
1999) • March 14 –
Arch Johnson, actor (d.
1997) • March 17 –
Patrick Suppes, philosopher (d.
2014) • March 18 –
Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights leader (d.
2011) • March 20 –
Carl Reiner, comedian, actor, director and screenwriter (d.
2020) • March 22 –
Alex Xydias, racing driver (d.
2024) • March 23 –
Marty Allen, comedian and television actor (d.
2018) • March 26 –
William Milliken, American politician (d.
2019) • March 27 •
Murray Olderman, sports cartoonist and writer (d.
2020) •
Josephine Kabick, baseball player (
AAGPBL) (d.
1978) • March 29 –
March Fong Eu, politician (d.
2017) • March 31 •
Richard Kiley, actor and singer (d.
1999) •
Art Shay, photographer and writer (d.
2018) • April 1 –
William Manchester, writer (d.
2004) • April 3 –
Doris Day, actress, singer and animal rights activist (d.
2019) • April 4 •
Irwin Belk, businessman and politician (d.
2018) •
Elmer Bernstein, composer (d.
2004) • April 7 –
Margia Dean, actress (d.
2023) • April 9 –
Johnny Thomson, racing driver (d.
1960) • April 16 –
Pat Peppler, American football player and coach (d.
2015) • April 19 •
William M. Ellinghaus, business executive (d.
2022) •
Rose Marie McCoy, African-American songwriter (d.
2015) •
Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer (d.
2011) • April 23 –
Marjorie Cameron, writer, painter, actress and occultist (d.
1995) • April 27 –
Jack Klugman, actor (d.
2012) • April 28 –
William Broomfield, politician (d.
2019) • May 2 –
Roscoe Lee Browne, actor and director (d.
2007) • May 3 –
Robert De Niro Sr., painter (d.
1993) • May 4 –
Eugenie Clark, marine biologist (d.
2015) • May 7 •
Darren McGavin, actor (d.
2006) •
Joe O'Donnell,
documentary photographer and
photojournalist (d.
2007) • May 10 –
Nancy Walker, actress, singer and director (d.
1992) • May 11 •
Nestor Chylak, baseball player and umpire (d.
1982) •
Thelma Eisen, baseball player and manager (d.
2014) • May 12 •
Paul Milstein, real estate developer (d.
2010) •
Wilburn K. Ross, WWII veteran (d.
2017) •
Murray Gershenz, character actor, entrepreneur (d.
2013) • May 18 –
Bill Macy, actor (
Maude) (d.
2019) • May 21 –
James Lopez Watson, judge (d.
2001) • May 25 –
Donald M. McPherson, WWII fighter ace (d.
2025) • May 26 –
Troy Smith, businessman, founder of
Sonic Drive-In (d.
2009) • May 28 –
Lou Duva, boxing trainer (d.
2017) • May 29 –
Eleanor Coerr, writer (d.
2010) • May 30 –
Hal Clement, writer (d.
2003) • June 1 •
Joan Caulfield, actress (d.
1991) •
Joan Copeland, actress (d.
2022) • June 2 –
Charlie Sifford, golfer (d.
2015) • June 9 –
George Axelrod, scriptwriter (d.
2003) • June 10 •
Robert Alan Aurthur, screenwriter (d.
1978) •
Judy Garland, singer and movie actress (d.
1969 in the United Kingdom) • June 13 –
Edward Shames, army officer (d.
2021) • June 16 –
Wayne Mixson, politician (d.
2020) • June 23 –
Morris R. Jeppson, physicist (d.
2010) • June 24 –
Jack Carter, comedian (d.
2015) • June 25 –
Alex Garbowski, baseball player (d.
2008) • June 27 –
George Walker, African American classical composer (d.
2018) • June 29 –
John William Vessey Jr., military officer (d.
2016) • July 1 –
Warren Winkelstein, epidemiologist (d.
2012) • July 2 –
Howard Wesley Johnson, educator (d.
2009) • July 3 –
Howie Schultz, baseball and basketball player (d.
2009) • July 4 •
Charles Csuri, artist (d.
2022) •
R. James Harvey, politician and jurist (d.
2019) • July 6 •
William Schallert, character actor (d.
2016) •
Toni Seven, cover girl and actress (d.
1991) • July 7 –
James D. Hughes, US Air Force lieutenant general (d.
2024) • July 9 –
Jim Pollard, basketball player and coach (d.
1993) • July 10 •
Jack Arthurs, politician (d.
2020) •
Jake LaMotta, boxer (d.
2017) • July 11 •
John J. Maurer, politician and airline pilot (d.
2019) •
Jerald terHorst, journalist, White House press secretary (d.
2010) • July 12 –
Mark Hatfield, politician and educator (d.
2011) • July 13 •
Bernie Agrons, politician (d.
2015) •
Leslie Brooks, actress (d.
2011) •
Fred Fiedler, psychologist (d.
2017) •
Louis R. Harlan, academic historian (d.
2010) •
Fran Hopper, comic book artist (d.
2017) • July 14 –
Robin Olds, fighter pilot (d.
2007) • July 15 –
Leon M. Lederman, experimental physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 (d.
2018) • July 16 –
Samuel Conti, politician (d.
2018) • July 17 –
Jane Cronin Scanlon, mathematician (d.
2018) • July 18 –
Thomas Kuhn, philosopher of science (d.
1996) • July 19 •
Al Haig, jazz pianist, best known as a pioneer of
bebop (d.
1982) •
George McGovern, U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1963 to 1981 and
Democratic Party presidential nominee in the
1972 presidential election (d.
2012) •
Rachel Robinson, nurse and teacher • July 20 –
Alan S. Boyd, attorney and 1st
United States Secretary of Transportation (d.
2020) • July 24 –
Dean Caswell, World War II flying ace (d.
2022) • July 25 –
John B. Goodenough, German-American solid-state physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 (d.
2023) • July 26 •
Anna Berger, actress (d.
2014) •
Blake Edwards, film director (d.
2010) •
Jason Robards, actor (d.
2000) •
Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball pitcher (d.
2002) • July 27 –
Norman Lear, television writer and producer (d.
2023) • July 31 •
Hank Bauer, baseball right fielder and manager (d.
2007) •
Bill Kaysing, conspiracy theorist (d.
2005) •
Mildred T. Stahlman, neonatologist and academic (d.
2024) • August 1 –
Paul Lambert, actor (d.
1997) • August 2 •
Betsy Bloomingdale, socialite and philanthropist (d.
2016) •
Paul Laxalt, U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1974 to 1987 (d.
2018) • August 3 –
Robert Sumner, evangelist (d.
2016) • August 4 –
Charles Winick, anthropologist, sociologist and author (d.
2015) • August 5 –
Sandy Kenyon, actor (d.
2010) • August 15 –
Peter Berkos, sound editor (d.
2024) • August 17 –
Frederick B. Dent, businessman and politician (d.
2019) • August 21 –
Mel Fisher,
treasure hunter, founder of the
Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d.
1998) • August 23 –
George Kell, baseball player (d.
2009) • August 24 –
Howard Zinn, social activist and historian (d.
2010) • August 25 –
Gloria Dea, actress and magician (d.
2023) • August 29 –
Arthur Anderson, American actor of radio, film, television, and stage (d.
2016) • September 2 –
Arthur Ashkin, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 (d.
2020) • September 9 •
Bernard Bailyn, historian and author (d.
2020) •
Hoyt Curtin, composer and music producer (d.
2000) • September 11 –
Charles Evers, politician and civil rights activist (d.
2020) • September 12 –
Jackson Mac Low, poet (d.
2004) • September 13 –
Tony Sumpter, American football player (d.
2017) • September 15 •
Jackie Cooper, actor and director (d.
2011) •
Phyllis Koehn, professional baseball player (d.
2007) • September 17 –
Vance Bourjaily, writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d.
2010) • September 18 –
John S. Foster Jr., physicist (d.
2025) • September 22 –
Rosa Speer, gospel singer (d.
2017) • September 23 –
Louise Latham, actress (d.
2018) • September 24 •
Meche Barba, American-Mexican film actress and dancer (d.
2000) •
Bert I. Gordon, film director and screenwriter (d.
2023) •
Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist (d.
2007) • October 1 –
Burke Marshall, lawyer and politician (d.
2003) • October 7 –
Martha Stewart, actress and singer (d.
2021) • October 9 –
Fyvush Finkel, comedian (d.
2016) • October 10 –
Wilhelmina Holladay, art collector and patron (d.
2021) • October 13 –
Nathaniel Clifton, basketball and baseball player (d.
1990) • October 15 –
Tommy Edwards, singer-songwriter (d.
1969) • October 16 –
George R. Price, population geneticist (d.
1975) • October 19 –
Jack Anderson, journalist (d.
2005) • October 20 –
John Anderson, actor (d.
1992) • October 23 –
Coleen Gray, actress (d.
2015) • October 26 •
Juli Lynne Charlot, singer and fashion designer (d.
2024) •
Madelyn Dunham, maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States (d.
2008) • October 27 •
Ruby Dee, actress, poet, activist, journalist and second wife of
Ossie Davis (d.
2014) •
Ralph Kiner,
Baseball Hall of Famer (d.
2014) •
Del Rice, baseball player, coach and manager (d.
1983) • October 28 –
Butch van Breda Kolff, basketball coach (d.
2007) • October 30 –
Marie Van Brittan Brown, inventor (d.
1999) • November 3 –
Townsend Cromwell, oceanographer (d.
1958) • November 4 –
Eddie Basinski, baseball player (d.
2022) • November 5 –
Yitzchok Scheiner, American-born rabbi (d.
2021) • November 6 –
Vivian Kellogg, baseball player (d.
2013) • November 9 –
Dorothy Dandridge, actress and singer (d.
1965) • November 11 –
Kurt Vonnegut, writer (d.
2007) • November 15 –
David Sidney Feingold, biochemist (d.
2019) • November 16 •
Royal Dano, actor (d.
1994) •
Patricia Barry, actress (d.
2016) •
Sidney Mintz, anthropologist (d.
2015) • November 23 –
Donald Tennant, advertising agency executive (d.
2001) • November 27 –
Jacqueline White, actress • December 2 •
Charles Diggs, politician (d.
1998) •
Leo Gordon, actor (d.
2000) • December 5 •
William Davidson, sports owner (d.
2009) •
Don Robertson, songwriter and pianist (d.
2015) • December 6 –
Benjamin A. Gilman, politician (d.
2016) • December 8 •
Jean Porter, actress (d.
2018) •
Sol Yaged, jazz clarinetist (d.
2019) • December 11 –
Noah Hutchings, president of Southwest Radio Ministries (d.
2015) • December 12 –
Edythe Perlick, baseball player (d.
2003) • December 16 –
B. G. Hendrix, politician (d.
2020) • December 17 –
Alan Voorhees, engineer and urban planner (d.
2005) • December 18 •
Jack Brooks, politician (d.
2012) •
Esther Lederberg, microbiologist (d.
2006) •
December 20 •
Charita Bauer, actress, soap opera star (d.
1985) •
Beverly Pepper, sculptor and painter (d.
2020) •
Tony Vaccaro, photographer (d.
2022) • December 24 –
Ava Gardner, actress (d.
1990) • December 26 –
Chuck Cecil, radio broadcaster (d.
2019) • December 27 –
Miller Anderson, diver (d.
1965) • December 28 –
Stan Lee, comic-book writer, editor, publisher, media producer, television host, actor and president and chairman of
Marvel Comics (d.
2018) == Deaths ==