January •
January 1 –
Charlie Capps, American politician (d.
2009) •
January 2 –
Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (d.
2008) •
January 4 •
Henry Gleitman, American academic (d.
2015) •
Johnny Lujack, American football player (d.
2023) •
January 6 –
John DeLorean, American car maker (d.
2005) •
January 7 –
Harry Stradling Jr., American cinematographer (d.
2017) •
January 8 –
Tharon Musser, American designer (d.
2009) •
January 9 •
Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer (d.
2019) •
Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d.
1989) •
January 10 –
Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan, American judge (d.
2004) •
January 11 •
Betty Bumpers, American childhood immunizations activist (d.
2018) •
William Styron, American writer (d.
2006) •
January 12 •
Bill Burrud, American child star, television host and producer (d.
1990) •
Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d.
2018) •
January 13 •
Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d.
2014) •
Nat Peck, American jazz trombonist (d.
2015) •
C. O. Simpkins Sr., American dentist, civil rights activist and politician (d.
2019) •
Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d.
2000) •
January 15 –
Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist (d.
2026) •
January 16 •
Harold "Slim" Switzer, child actor (d.
1967) •
Jesse J. Taylor, United States Navy naval aviator (d.
1965) •
January 17 •
Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d.
1996) •
Edgar Ray Killen, Ku Klux Klan leader and convicted murderer (d.
2018) •
Blanche Marvin, American-born British theater critic (d.
2026) •
January 18 –
Art Paul, American graphic designer (d.
2018) •
January 21 –
Charles Aidman, American actor (d.
1993) •
January 22 –
Bobby Young, American professional baseball player (d.
1985) •
January 24 –
Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d.
2013) •
January 25 –
Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist (d.
2017) •
January 26 •
Joan Leslie, American actress (d.
2015) •
Paul Newman, American actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d.
2008) •
January 29 •
Harold C. Agerholm, soldier, posthumous
Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944) (killed in action in the Mariana Islands) •
Dub Garrett, American football player (d.
1976) •
Robert W. McCollum, American epidemiologist (d.
2010) •
January 30 –
Douglas Engelbart, pioneer in
human–computer interaction (d.
2013) •
January 31 –
Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights activist, minister, and attorney (d.
2010)
February •
February 1 •
Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (d.
2013) •
Gus Stavros, American businessman and philanthropist (d.
2022) •
John F. Yardley, American aeronautical engineer (d.
2001) •
February 2 –
Elaine Stritch, American actress (d.
2014) •
February 3 •
Shelley Berman, American comedian (d.
2017) •
John Fiedler, American actor (d.
2005) •
February 8 –
Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d.
2001) •
February 9 •
John B. Cobb, American theologian and philosopher (d.
2024) •
Bobby Lewis, American R&B singer (d.
2020) •
Billy Williamson, American musician (d.
1996) •
February 11 •
Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (d.
2013) •
Kim Stanley, American actress (d.
2001) •
Marvin Stein, American comics artist, animator and illustrator (d.
2010) •
February 15 •
Angella D. Ferguson, American pediatrician (d.
2026) •
Jerome Waldie, American politician (d.
2009) •
February 17 –
Hal Holbrook, American actor (d.
2021) •
February 18 –
George Kennedy, American actor (d.
2016) •
February 20 –
Robert Altman, American film director (d.
2006) •
February 21 –
Sam Peckinpah, American film director (d.
1984) •
February 22 •
Edward Gorey, American illustrator and writer (d.
2000) •
Gerald Stern, American poet, essayist and educator (d.
2022) •
February 23 –
Patricia Broderick, American playwright and painter (d.
2003) •
February 24 –
Bud Day, United States Air Force colonel (d.
2013) •
February 25 •
Maddy English, American female baseball player (d.
2004) •
Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (d.
1990) •
February 26 •
Arthur S. Abramson, American linguist (d.
2017) •
Lefty Kreh, American sports photojournalist, author and sport fisherman (d.
2018) •
Dave Pell, American jazz musician (d.
2017) •
Robert F. Williams, African-American civil rights activist and author (d.
1996) •
February 27 •
Samuel Dash, Watergate Congressional counsel (d.
2004) •
Ed Quirk, American football player (d.
1962) •
February 28 –
Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (d.
2020)
March •
March 1 –
Keith Harvey Miller, American politician (d.
2019) •
March 4 –
Dale Barnstable, American basketball player (d.
2019) •
March 5 •
Jimmy Bryant, American guitarist (d.
1980) •
Leroy Chollet, American basketball player (d.
1998) •
March 6 –
Clyde Biggers, American football coach (d.
1976) •
March 7 –
Rene Gagnon, U.S. Marine (d.
1979) •
March 8 •
John Harland Bryant, American physician (d.
2017) •
Gladys Stone Wright, American band director (d.
2025) •
March 9 –
G. William Miller, American politician (d.
2006) •
March 12 –
G. William Whitehurst, American politician •
March 13 •
Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer (d.
2024) •
John Tate, American mathematician (d.
2019) •
March 14 –
Joseph A. Unanue, American chief executive (d.
2013) •
March 15 –
Art Murakowski, American football player (d.
1985) •
March 16 –
Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and choreographer (d.
2014) •
March 19 –
Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat (d.
2020) •
March 20 –
Romana Acosta Bañuelos, American public servant (d.
2018) •
March 23 –
Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d.
2005) •
March 25 –
Flannery O'Connor, American author (d.
1964) •
March 28 –
Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (d.
2010) •
March 31 –
John Wesley Hanes III, American civil servant (d.
2018)
April • April 2 –
Hard Boiled Haggerty, professional wrestler and actor (died
2004) • April 3 –
Jan Merlin, actor, screenwriter and author (died
2019) • April 5 –
Donald Burgett, writer and World War II veteran (died
2017) • April 9 –
Frank J. Shakespeare, diplomat and media executive (died
2022) • April 12 •
Evelyn Berezin, computer engineer (died
2018) •
Ned Miller, country music singer-songwriter (died
2016) • April 14 •
Gene Ammons, jazz saxophonist (died
1974) •
Rod Steiger, film actor (died
2002) • April 17 •
Charles Yanofsky, American geneticist (died
2018) •
Mallory Horne, American politician (died
2009) • April 18 –
Bob Hastings, actor (died
2014) • April 19 •
Chuck Klausing, American football player and coach (died
2018) •
Hugh O'Brian, actor (died
2016) • April 20 •
Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player died
2006) •
Elena Verdugo, actress (d.
2017) •
Bob Will, Olympic rower (died
2019) • April 24 –
Faye Dancer, baseball player (died
2002) • April 25 –
Kay E. Kuter, actor (died
2003) • April 27 –
Joey LaMotta, boxer and manager (died
2020) • April 29-
Iwao Takamoto, animator, television producer and film director (died
2007)
May •
May 1 •
Scott Carpenter, American
astronaut (d.
2013) •
Anna May Hutchison, American professional baseball player (d.
1998) •
May 4 –
Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman •
May 5 •
Charles Chaplin Jr., American actor (d.
1968) •
Edwin Michael Kosik, American judge (d.
2019) •
May 10 •
Pete Babando, American ice hockey player (d.
2020) •
Stephen Bechtel Jr., American businessman and engineer (d.
2021) •
May 11 •
William Glasser, American psychiatrist and author (d.
2013) •
Edward Zemprelli, American politician (d.
2017) •
May 12 –
Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d.
2015) •
May 14 •
Sophie Kurys, American professional baseball player (d.
2013) •
Patrice Munsel, American actress, singer and operatic soprano (d.
2016) •
Oona O'Neill, American actress (d.
1991) •
Marvin Traub, American businessman and writer (d.
2012) •
May 15 –
Harvey D. Tallackson, American politician (d.
2022) •
May 16 •
James F. Holland, American physician (d.
2018) •
Nancy Roman, American astronomer (d.
2018) •
May 17 –
Herb Henson, American country musician (d.
1963) •
May 19 –
Malcolm X, African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist (d.
1965) •
May 21 –
Frank Kameny, American gay rights activist (d.
2011) •
May 22 –
James King, American tenor (d.
2005) •
May 23 •
Mac Wiseman, American bluegrass musician (d.
2019) •
Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2008) •
May 27 –
Frank Dempsey, American football player (d.
2013) •
May 28 –
Lucien Nedzi, American politician (d.
2025) •
May 29 –
Thomas Collier Platt Jr., American judge (d.
2017) •
May 31 •
Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet and painter (d.
1985) •
Thomas Murphy, American broadcasting executive (d.
2022)
June •
June 3 –
Tony Curtis, American actor (d.
2010) •
June 5 •
Warren Frost, American actor (d.
2017) •
Bill Hayes, American actor and singer (d.
2024) •
June 6 –
Fitzhugh L. Fulton, American pilot (d.
2015) •
June 7 •
John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer (d.
2008) •
Robert Smithdas, American deaf-blind teacher, advocate and author (d.
2014) •
June 8 •
Barbara Bush, born Barbara Pierce,
First Lady of the United States (d.
2018) •
Del Ennis, American baseball player and coach (d.
1996) •
Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player with dwarfism (d.
1961) •
George Hardy, American Tuskagee Airman (d.
2025) •
June 9 •
Herman Sarkowsky, German-born American businessman and executive (d.
2014) •
Robert H. Traurig, American lawyer and businessman (d.
2018) •
June 10 –
Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist (d.
2017) •
June 11 –
William Styron, American writer (d.
2006) •
June 12 –
Richard Paul Conaboy, American judge (d.
2018) •
June 14 –
Pierre Salinger, American politician (d.
2004) •
June 16 –
Lewis Morley, American photographer (d.
2013) •
June 17 –
Alexander Shulgin, American
psychopharmacologist (d.
2014) •
June 19 –
Wendell Erickson, American politician (d.
2018) •
June 20 –
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d.
1971) •
June 21 •
Stanley Moss, American poet, publisher, and art dealer (d.
2024) •
Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d.
2006) •
June 22 •
Nat Boxer, American sound engineer (d.
2009) •
Ben Jarvis, American politician (d.
2018) •
June 23 •
Benjamin Abeles, American physicist (d.
2020) •
Clay Evans, American pastor (d.
2019) •
Art Modell, American businessman (d.
2012) •
Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d.
2017) •
June 24 –
Ogden R. Reid, United States Representative from New York (d.
2019) •
June 25 •
John Briley, American screenwriter (d.
2019) •
June Lockhart, American actress (d.
2025) •
Virginia Patton, American actress (d.
2022) •
Robert Venturi, American architect (d.
2018) •
June 26 –
Richard X. Slattery, American actor (d.
1997) •
June 27 •
Fiora Contino, American opera conductor (d.
2017) •
Doc Pomus, born Jerome Solon Felder, songwriter (d.
1991) •
Wayne Terwilliger, American baseball player, coach and manager (d.
2021) •
June 28 –
Ray Boyle, American actor (d.
2022) •
June 29 •
Francis S. Currey, American
Medal of Honour recipient (d.
2019) •
John Fujioka, American actor of Japanese descent (d.
2018) •
Shirley Brannock Jones, American judge (d.
2019) •
Arthur Storch, American actor and stage director (d.
2013) •
Cara Williams, American actress (d.
2021) •
June 30 –
Fred Schaus, American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d.
2010)
July •
July 1 •
Farley Granger, American actor (d.
2011) •
Art McNally, American football referee (d.
2023) •
July 2 •
Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter (d.
2013) •
Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist (d.
1963) •
July 3 –
Danny Nardico, American professional boxer (d.
2010) •
July 4 •
Cathy Berberian, American mezzo-soprano and composer (d.
1983) •
John Imbrie, American paleoceanographer (d.
2016) •
Max Pievsky, American politician •
July 6 •
Merv Griffin, American game show host and producer, talk show host, singer (d.
2007) •
Bill Haley, American pop singer (d.
1981) •
July 7 •
Marc Breslow, American television director (d.
2015) •
Jud Kinberg, American producer and screenwriter (d.
2016) •
July 8 •
Arthur Imperatore Sr., Italian-American businessman (d.
2020) •
Sidney Kramer, American politician (d.
2022) •
Bill Mackrides, American football quarterback (d.
2019) •
July 9 –
Mary de Rachewiltz, American poet and translator •
July 10 •
Ernest Bertrand Boland,
Roman Catholic bishop (d.
2023) •
Mildred Kornman, American actress and model (d.
2022) •
Jerome Kohlberg Jr., businessman (d.
2015) •
July 11 •
Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American coloratura soprano (d.
2015) •
Peter Kyros, American politician (d.
2012) •
July 12 –
William Benner Enright, judge (d.
2020) •
July 14 •
Bruce L. Douglas, politician (d.
2025) •
Sheila Guyse, African-American singer, actress, and recording artist (d.
2013) •
July 15 •
Evan Hultman, politician and attorney (d.
2025) •
D. A. Pennebaker, documentary filmmaker (d.
2019) •
July 18 •
Windy McCall, American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (d.
2015) •
Glen Wood, American race car driver (d.
2019) •
July 19 –
Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer (d.
2021) •
July 22 •
Irving Sandler, art critic, art historian and educator (d.
2018) •
Joseph Sargent, film director (d.
2014) •
July 23 •
G. Holmes Braddock, American politician (d.
2025) •
Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d.
2016) •
July 25 –
Benny Benjamin, musician, known as the main drummer used by
Motown for studio recordings (d.
1969) •
July 28 –
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, physician and geneticist (d.
2011) •
July 29 –
Arnie Ferrin, basketball player (d.
2022) •
July 31 •
Harry Malmberg, American second baseman and coach (d.
1976) •
Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer and performer (d.
2021)
August •
August 1 –
Roy Mackal, biologist (d.
2013) •
August 3 –
Marv Levy, football coach and executive •
August 12 •
Dale Bumpers, politician (d.
2016) •
Lois Jurgens, convicted murderer (d.
2013) •
Dean Sensanbaugher, American football player (d.
2005) •
August 13 –
Benny Bailey, bebop and hard-bop jazz trumpeter (d.
2005) •
August 14 –
Russell Baker, writer (d.
2019) •
August 15 •
Mike Connors, actor (d.
2017) •
Ruth Lessing, female professional baseball player (d.
2000) •
Bill Pinkney, performer and singer (d.
2007) •
August 16 •
Mal Waldron, jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d.
2002) •
William G. Hundley, criminal defense attorney (d.
2006) •
Kirke Mechem, composer •
August 19 •
John Penton, motorcycle racer and businessman (d.
2025) •
Frederic M. Richards,
biochemist and
biophysicist (d.
2009) •
August 29 –
Earle Brucker Jr.,
baseball player (d.
2009) •
August 31 •
Paul Hinrichs, baseball player (d.
2023) •
Ted Schwinden, politician (d.
2023) •
Pete Vonachen, restaurateur and baseball team owner (d.
2013)
September •
September 1 –
Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights activist (d.
2018) •
September 2 –
Ike Franklin Andrews, American politician (d.
2010) •
September 3 –
Hank Thompson, American country musician (d.
2007) •
September 8 –
Jacqueline Ceballos, American feminist •
September 12 •
Stan Lopata, American professional baseball player (d.
2013) •
Dick Moore, American child actor (d.
2015) •
September 13 •
Marshall Flaum, American television director, producer and screenwriter (d.
2010) •
Mel Tormé, American musician (d.
1999) •
September 15 –
Peggy Webber, American actress •
September 16 •
Martha Firestone Ford, American businesswoman •
Eugene Garfield, American linguist and businessman (d.
2017) •
B.B. King, African-American blues guitarist (d.
2015) •
Morgan Woodward, American actor (d.
2019) •
September 17 –
Dorothy Loudon, American actress, singer (d.
2003) •
September 19 –
Franklin Sousley, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d.
1945) •
September 20 –
Bobby Nunn, R&B singer (d.
1986) •
September 25 •
Edwin N. Lightfoot, American chemical engineer (d.
2017) •
Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d.
2007) •
September 26 –
Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d.
1982) •
September 28 –
Carolyn Morris, American female professional baseball player (d.
1996) •
September 29 –
John Tower, American politician (d.
1991)
October •
October 2 –
Paul Goldsmith, American
NASCAR driver (d.
2024) •
October 3 •
Gore Vidal, American writer (d.
2012) •
George Wein, American pianist and producer (d.
2021) •
October 5 •
Gail Davis, American actress (d.
1997) •
Robert Burren Morgan, American politician (d.
2016) •
October 6 –
Hiroshi Miyamura, American
Medal of Honor recipient (d.
2022) •
October 7 –
Mildred Earp, American baseball player (d.
2017) •
October 8 –
Eleanor Anne Young, American religious sister, research scientist, and educator (d.
2007) •
October 10 •
Anne Pippin Burnett, American classics scholar (d.
2017) •
Thomas F. Stroock, American politician (d.
2009) •
October 11 –
Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d.
2013) •
October 13 –
Lenny Bruce, American comic (d.
1966) •
October 15 –
Ted Lerner, American real estate developer and baseball team owner (d.
2023) •
October 16 –
Daniel J. Evans, American politician (d.
2024) •
October 20 •
Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d.
2007) •
Theodore Hall, physicist and atomic spy (d.
1999) •
Gene Wood, American game show announcer (d.
2004) •
October 22 –
Robert Rauschenberg, American painter (d.
2008) •
October 23 –
Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d.
2005) •
October 24 –
Al Feldstein, American comic book artist (d.
2014) •
October 25 –
John J. Snyder,
Roman Catholic bishop (d.
2019) •
October 27 –
Warren Christopher, American diplomat (d.
2011) •
October 29 –
Dominick Dunne, American writer (d.
2009) •
October 31 –
Robert Rheault, American army officer (d.
2013)
November •
November 4 •
Bobby Breen, Canadian-born American actor and singer (d.
2016) •
Doris Roberts, American actress (d.
2016) •
November 6 •
Howard Golden, American lawyer and politician (d.
2024) •
Fred B. Rooney, American politician (d.
2019) •
November 7 –
Angelo Thomas Acerra, American Roman Catholic bishop (d.
1990) •
November 11 •
Donald M. Blinken, American businessman and diplomat (d.
2022) •
H. Jack Geiger, American physician and civil rights activist. (d.
2020) •
Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d.
2013) •
November 15 –
Howard Baker, American politician (d.
2014) •
November 17 •
Jean Faut, American baseball player (d.
2023) •
Rock Hudson, American film actor (d.
1985) •
Walt Peregoy, American artist (d.
2015) •
November 18 –
Gene Mauch, American baseball manager (d.
2005) •
November 20 •
Kaye Ballard, American actress, comedian (d.
2019) •
Robert F. Kennedy, American politician,
Attorney General of the United States and a leading
1968 Democratic presidential candidate (d.
1968) •
November 22 •
Carla Balenda, American actress (d.
2024) •
Gunther Schuller, American musician (d.
2015) •
November 23 •
Gene Brito, American football defensive end (d.
1965) •
Maria di Gerlando, American operatic soprano (d.
2010) •
Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor (d.
2020) •
November 24 –
William F. Buckley, Jr., American journalist (d.
2008) •
November 26 –
Eugene Istomin, American classical pianist (d.
2003) •
November 27 –
Marshall Thompson, American actor (d.
1992) •
November 28 •
Grace Berg Schaible, American lawyer and politician (d.
2017) •
Herb Wallerstein, American director and producer (d.
1985) •
November 29 •
Naomi Stevens, American actress (d.
2018) •
"Sunshine" Sonny Payne, American radio presenter (d.
2018) •
November 30 •
Maryon Pittman Allen, American politician and journalist (d.
2018) •
Donald Collins, American politician (d.
2018) •
Bill Gates Sr., American attorney, philanthropist and author (d.
2020) •
Burt Gustafson, American athlete and sports coach (d.
2022)
December •
December 1 –
Martin Rodbell, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1998) •
December 2 –
Julie Harris, American actress (d.
2013) •
December 8 •
Sammy Davis Jr., African American singer, dancer, musician and actor (d.
1990) •
Hank Thompson, player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (d.
1969) •
December 11 •
Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist (d.
2021) •
John R. Gorman, American
Roman Catholic bishop (d.
2025) •
Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2019) •
December 13 •
John Ehle, American writer (d.
2018) •
Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, dancer and comedian •
December 15 –
Kasey Rogers, American actress (d.
2006) •
December 19 –
Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d.
2012) •
December 21 •
John Harlan, American game show announcer (d.
2017) •
Dorothy Kamenshek, American baseball player (d.
2010) •
December 23 –
Harry Guardino, American actor (d.
1995) •
December 25 •
Ned Garver, American professional baseball pitcher (d.
2017) •
Dorothy Mueller, American baseball player (d.
1985) •
December 26 –
Jimmy Roselli, American singer (d.
2011) •
December 27 –
Wilson Frost, American politician (d.
2018) •
December 29 –
Pete Dye, American golf course architect (d.
2020) •
December 30 –
Shirley Herz, American Broadway theatre press representative (d.
2013) •
December 31 –
Dick Manville, American baseball player (d.
2019)
Undated •
William Arce, American college baseball coach (d.
2019) ==Deaths==