January •
January 2 •
Harold Bradley, American country music session guitarist (d.
2019) •
Howard Caine, American actor (d.
1993) •
January 5 •
Hosea Williams, civil rights leader, activist, minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician (d.
2000) •
W. D. Snodgrass, poet (d.
2009) •
January 6 •
Ralph Branca, baseball player (d.
2016) •
Pat Flaherty, race car driver (d.
2002) •
January 8 •
Chester Feldman, television game show producer (d.
1997) •
Evelyn Lear, soprano (d.
2012) •
Soupy Sales, comedian (d.
2009) •
January 11 –
Grant Tinker, television executive (d.
2016) •
January 12 –
Ray Price, American country music singer and songwriter (d.
2013) •
January 14 –
Tom Tryon, American actor, novelist (d.
1991) •
January 17 –
Newton N. Minow, attorney (d.
2023) •
January 20 •
Patricia Neal, actress (d.
2010) •
David Tudor, American pianist, composer (d.
1996) •
January 21 •
Saul Mandel, illustrator, artist, animator and graphic designer (d.
2011) •
Steve Reeves, American actor (d.
2000) •
January 24 –
Ruth Asawa, sculptor (d.
2013) •
January 29 –
Bob Falkenburg, tennis player and entrepreneur (d.
2022) •
January 31 –
Chuck Willis, singer and songwriter (d.
1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1928)
February •
February 1 –
Nancy Gates, American actress (d.
2019) •
February 3 –
Richard Yates, novelist (d.
1992) •
February 7 –
Bill Hoest, cartoonist (d.
1988) •
February 8 –
Neal Cassady, American writer (d.
1968) •
February 10 –
Mimi Sheraton, food critic (d.
2023) •
February 12 •
Charles Van Doren, American professor, subject of film
Quiz Show (d.
2019) •
Joe Garagiola, baseball player (d.
2016) •
February 13 –
Bill Mercer, sportscaster (d.
2025) •
February 14 •
Al Brodax, film, television producer (d.
2016) •
Moneta Sleet Jr., press photographer (d.
1996) •
February 17 •
Peter T. Flawn, geologist and educator (d.
2017) •
Lee Hoiby, composer (d.
2011) •
February 18 •
A. R. Ammons, poet and academic (d.
2001) •
Wallace Berman, painter and illustrator (d.
1976) •
Len Ford, American football player (d.
1972) •
February 20 •
Whitney Blake, American actress (d.
2002) •
Richard Matheson, American author (d.
2013) •
Bob Richards, American track and field athlete (d.
2023) • February 22 –
Nelson Bunker Hunt, businessman (d.
2014) • February 23 •
Lawrence Holofcener, sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director (d.
2017) •
Claire Shulman, American politician (d.
2020) • February 26 •
Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (d.
2015) •
Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d.
2008) •
Doris Belack, American actress (d.
2011)
March •
March 1 –
Pete Rozelle, National Football League commissioner (d.
1996) •
March 2 –
Murray Rothbard, economist (d.
1995) •
March 3 •
Craig Dixon, athlete (d.
2021) •
James Merrill, poet (d.
1995) •
March 4 •
DeVan Dallas, politician (d.
2016) •
Richard DeVos, billionaire, co-founder of
Amway (d.
2018) •
Fran Warren, popular singer (d.
2013) •
March 5 –
Joan Shawlee, actress (d.
1987) •
March 6 –
Alan Greenspan, economist •
March 8 –
Dick Teed, Major League Baseball player (d.
2014) •
March 9 –
Joe Franklin, radio, television personality (d.
2015) •
March 11 •
Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d.
1990) •
Thomas Starzl, American physician (d.
2017) •
March 12 –
George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer (d.
2026) •
March 15 •
Ben Johnston, composer (d.
2019) •
Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d.
1983) •
March 16 •
Charles Goodell, politician (d.
1987) •
Jerry Lewis, comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (d.
2017) •
Geraldine Weiss, trader (d.
2022) •
March 17 –
Jaynne Bittner, baseball player (d.
2017) •
March 18 –
Peter Graves, American actor (d.
2010) •
March 20 –
Marge Calhoun, surfer (d.
2017) •
March 25 –
Gene Shalit, film and book critic and television personality •
March 27 –
Harry Connick Sr., attorney (d.
2024) •
March 30 –
Peter Marshall, entertainer (d.
2024)
April •
April 1 •
Charles Bressler, American operatic tenor and educator (d.
1996) •
Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d.
2011) •
April 3 •
Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d.
1967) •
R. W. Schambach, American televangelist, speaker and author (d.
2012) •
April 4 •
Addo Bonetti, politician and soldier (d.
2021) •
Bill Ryan, American journalist (d.
1997) •
April 5 –
Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman (d.
2024) •
April 6 •
Alexander Butterfield, American public official, Watergate whistleblower (d.
2026) •
Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (d.
2018) •
April 8 •
Sue Casey, American actress (d.
2019) •
Shecky Greene, American actor and comedian (d.
2023) •
April 9 •
Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor, founder of
Playboy (d.
2017) •
Harris Wofford, American politician, U.S. Senator from 1991 to 1995 (d.
2019) •
April 11 –
David Manker Abshire, United States Army officer (d.
2014) •
April 12 –
Jane Withers, American actress (d.
2021) •
April 15 –
Walter Dee Huddleston, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1973 to 1985 (d.
2018) •
April 21 –
Wayne E. Meyer, American rear-admiral (d.
2009) •
April 22 –
Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d.
2018) •
April 23 –
J. P. Donleavy, American novelist (d.
2017 in Ireland) •
April 24 –
Marilyn Erskine, actress •
April 27 •
Alvin Baldus, American Democratic politician (d.
2017) •
Tim LaHaye, evangelist, speaker and author (d.
2016) •
April 28 •
James Bama, American artist, illustrator (d.
2022) •
Greg Gates, American Olympic rower (d.
2020) •
Harper Lee, American novelist (d.
2016) •
April 29 •
Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d.
2011) •
Carrie Meek, American politician and educator (d.
2021) •
April 30 –
Cloris Leachman, American actress (d.
2021)
May •
May 5 •
Ann B. Davis, American actress (d.
2014) •
Bing Russell, American actor (d.
2003) •
May 8 –
Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d.
2017) •
May 10 –
Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality, publisher of
The Hollywood Reporter (d.
2004) •
May 11 –
Caesar Trunzo, American soldier and politician (d.
2013) •
May 12 •
Earl Dewitt Hutto, American politician (d.
2020) •
Marilyn Knowlden, American child actress (d.
2025) •
May 18 –
Douglas Henry, American politician (d.
2017) •
May 19 –
Mark Andrews, U.S. Senator from North Dakota from 1981 to 1987 (d.
2020) •
May 21 –
Robert Creeley, American poet (d.
2005) •
May 23 –
Aileen Hernandez, African American civil rights activist (d.
2017) •
May 25 •
Claude Akins, American actor (d.
1994) •
Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d.
2013) •
May 26 –
Miles Davis, African-American jazz musician (d.
1991) •
May 30 •
Johnny Gimble, country musician, fiddler (d.
2015) •
Marilyn Hagerty, newspaper columnist (d.
2025) •
Tony Terran, trumpet player, session musician (d.
2017)
June •
June 1 •
Andy Griffith, American actor (d.
2012) •
Marilyn Monroe, American actress and icon (d.
1962) •
Richard Schweiker, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1981 (d.
2015) •
June 3 •
Roscoe Bartlett,
Republican member of the
United States House of Representatives •
Roxcy Bolton, American feminist and civil and women's rights activist (d.
2017) •
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d.
1997) •
June 5 –
Peter G. Peterson, American banker and businessman, American Secretary of Commerce (d.
2018) •
June 6 –
Sholom Rivkin, American rabbi (d.
2011) •
June 9 •
Georgia Holt, singer and actress (d.
2022) •
Happy Rockefeller,
Second Lady of the United States as wife of
Nelson A. Rockefeller (d.
2015) •
June 10 –
June Haver, American actress and singer (d.
2005) •
June 11 –
Carlisle Floyd, American composer (d.
2021) •
June 13 •
Satoru Abe, American sculptor and painter (d.
2025) •
Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d.
1982) •
June Krauser, American swimmer (d.
2014) •
June 14 •
Gene Derricotte, American football player (d.
2023) •
Don Newcombe, American baseball player (d.
2019) •
June 16 –
William F. Roemer, Jr., United States
FBI agent (d.
1996) •
June 18 –
Murray A. Straus, American sociologist and professor (
University of New Hampshire), creator of the
Conflict tactics scale (d.
2016) •
June 19 •
Erna Schneider Hoover, mathematician and inventor •
Arno Mayer, historian and writer (d.
2023) •
June 21 •
Fred Cone, professional American football fullback (d.
2021) •
Noel Parmentel, American writer and political journalist (d.
2024) •
June 22 •
George Englund, film editor, director, producer and actor (d.
2017) •
Ray Szmanda, radio and television announcer (d.
2018) •
June 24 •
Blackie Gejeian, race car driver, race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d.
2016) •
Barbara Scofield, tennis player (d.
2023) •
June 27 •
Len Ceglarski, hockey player (d.
2017) •
Don Raleigh, ice hockey player (d.
2012) •
June 28 •
George Booth, American cartoonist (d.
2022) •
Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter •
June 29 •
Roger Stuart Bacon, American politician (d. 2021) •
Bobby Morgan, baseball player (d. 2023)
July •
July 1 •
Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d.
2019) •
Robert Fogel, American economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2013) •
July 3 –
Rae Allen, American actress, director, and singer (d.
2022) •
July 4 •
Mary Stuart, soap actress and musician (d.
2002) •
Lake Underwood, race car driver and businessman (d.
2008) •
July 5 •
Roy Hawes, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (d.
2017) •
Mario Picone. American pitcher (d.
2013) •
July 8 –
John Dingell, American politician (d.
2019) •
July 10 •
Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer (d.
2022) •
Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d.
2015) •
Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d.
1993) •
Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d.
2017) •
Tony Settember, American racing driver (d.
2014) •
July 11 •
Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian (d.
2022) •
Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d.
2015) •
July 12 –
Abe Addams, American soccer player (d.
2017) •
July 13 •
T. Loren Christianson, American politician (d.
2019) •
Thomas Clark, American politician (d.
2020) •
July 14 •
Wallace Jones, basketball player (d.
2014) •
Harry Dean Stanton, actor (d.
2017) •
July 16 •
Paul M. Ellwood Jr., physician (d.
2022) •
Irwin Rose, biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
2015) •
July 17 •
William Pierson, American television, motion picture and stage actor (d.
2004) •
Charles Zwick, American civil servant (d.
2018) •
July 18 –
Nita Bieber, American actress (d.
2019) •
July 19 •
Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer (d.
2024) •
Robert E. Lavender, American Justice (d.
2020) •
July 23 –
Johnny Groth, American baseball player and scout (d.
2021) •
July 27 •
Marlow Cook, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1968 to 1974 (d.
2016) •
Simpson Kalisher, American photographer (d.
2023) •
July 31 •
Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d.
2011) •
Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d.
2016)
August •
August 1 –
Meg Randall, actress (d.
2018) •
August 2 –
W. Carter Merbreier, television host (Captain Noah) (d.
2016) •
August 3 •
Tony Bennett, singer (d.
2023) •
David Johnson, photographer (d.
2024) •
August 6 –
Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d.
2019) •
August 7 •
John Otho Marsh Jr., American politician, 14th
United States Secretary of the Army (d.
2019) •
Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d.
2015) •
Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (d.
2019) •
August 9 –
Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d.
2014) •
August 11 –
Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d.
2017) •
August 12 •
Douglas Croft, actor (d.
1963) •
John Derek, American actor and film director (d.
1998) •
Wallace Markfield, American writer (d.
2002) •
August 14 –
Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d.
2017) •
August 16 –
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d.
1999) •
August 21 –
Carolyn Leigh, lyricist (d.
1983) •
August 22 –
Lois Hall, American actress (d.
2006) •
August 26 –
Robert Vickrey, American artist and author (d.
2011) •
August 27 –
Albert H. Owens Jr., American oncologist (d.
2017) •
August 29 •
Don Doll, American football player and coach (d.
2010) •
Betty Lynn, American actress (d.
2021)
September •
September 1 –
Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d.
2018) •
September 3 •
Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (d.
2019) •
Alison Lurie, American author and academic (d.
2020) •
September 4 –
Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician (d.
2021) •
September 6 •
Maurice Prather, American photographer (d.
2001) •
Clancy Sigal, American writer (d.
2017) •
September 7 •
Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and songwriter (d.
2015) •
Don Messick, American voice actor (d.
1997) •
Donald Pinkel, American physician (d.
2022) •
September 9 –
Charles Duncan Jr., American businessman and politician (d.
2022) •
September 14 •
Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d.
2014) •
John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d.
2015) •
September 15 –
William J. Bauer, American judge (d.
2025) •
September 16 •
Tommy Bond, American actor (d.
2005) •
John Knowles, American author (d.
2001) •
Robert Schuller, American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d.
2015) •
September 17 –
Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader, a pioneer of rock and roll music (d.
1965) •
September 18 •
Joe Kubert, American author and illustrator, founded
The Kubert School (d.
2012) •
Bob Toski, American golfer •
September 19 •
James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d.
2020) •
Duke Snider, American baseball player (d.
2011) •
September 21 –
Donald A. Glaser, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2013) •
September 22 –
Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer (d.
2020) •
September 23 •
John Coltrane, African-American jazz saxophonist (d.
1967) •
Henry Silva, American actor (d.
2022) •
September 25 –
Charles J. Colgan, American politician and businessman (d.
2017) •
September 26 –
Julie London, American jazz and pop singer, screen actress and model (d.
2000) •
September 28 •
Ralph Ahn, American actor (d.
2022) •
Jerry Clower, American country comedian (d.
1998) •
Oliver W. Dillard,
United States Army major general (d.
2015) •
September 29 •
Chuck Cooper, basketball player (d.
1984) •
Philip Ruppe, American politician •
September 30 –
Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d.
2013)
October •
October 1 –
Max Morath, American musician (d.
2023) •
October 4 –
Senaida Wirth, American female professional baseball player (d.
1967) •
October 10 –
Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d.
1997) •
October 11 –
Earle Hyman, American actor (d.
2017) •
October 13 –
Jesse L. Brown, first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d.
1950) •
October 15 •
Jeffrey Hayden, American television director and producer (d.
2016) •
Jean Peters, American actress (d.
2000) •
October 16 –
Charles Dolan, American billionaire businessman (d.
2024) •
October 17 •
Julie Adams, American actress (d.
2019) •
Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d.
2008) •
October 18 •
Chuck Berry, African-American guitarist, singer and songwriter, a pioneer of rock and roll music (d.
2017) •
Pauline Pirok, American female professional baseball player (d.
2020) •
October 19 –
Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina (d.
2021) •
October 21 –
Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d.
2009) •
October 25 •
Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d.
2020) •
Biff McGuire, American actor (d.
2021) •
Eddie Sheldrake. American restaurateur and basketball player (d.
2025) •
October 27 –
H. R. Haldeman, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d.
1993) •
October 28 –
Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d.
2007)
November •
November 1 –
Betsy Palmer, American actress (d.
2015) •
November 2 •
Whitey Skoog, American basketball player (d.
2019) •
Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d.
2008) •
November 4 •
Carmen A. Orechio, American politician (d.
2018) •
Laurence Rosenthal, composer •
November 8 •
Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist (d.
2025) •
Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d.
2017) •
Ira Millstein, American lawyer (d.
2024) •
November 9 –
Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower (d.
2021) •
November 13 –
Harry Hughes, American politician (d.
2019) •
November 14 –
Tom Hatten, American radio and television personality (d.
2019) •
November 16 –
Amy Applegren, American professional baseball player (d.
2011) •
November 19 –
Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d.
2006) •
November 20 –
Ann Turner Cook, American educator and writer (d.
2022) •
November 22 –
Bobbie Wygant, American broadcaster (d.
2024) •
November 23 –
R. L. Burnside, American musician (d.
2005) •
November 25 •
Poul Anderson, science fiction author (d.
2001) •
Claire Fagin, American nurse and academic (d.
2024) •
Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d.
1969) •
Terry Kilburn, American actor •
November 30 –
Richard Crenna, American actor (d.
2003)
December •
December 7 –
William John McNaughton, American bishop (d.
2020) •
December 8 –
Ralph Puckett, U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (d.
2024) •
December 9 •
Henry Way Kendall, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1999) •
Lorenzo Wright, American track and field athlete (d.
1972) •
December 10 –
Guitar Slim, American
New Orleans blues guitarist (d.
1959) •
December 12 –
Dorli Rainey, American political activist (d.
2022) •
December 13 –
Carl Erskine, American baseball player (d.
2024) •
December 16 –
James McCracken, American tenor (d.
1988) •
December 17 –
Patrice Wymore, American actress (d.
2014) •
December 19 –
Herb Stempel, American game show contestant (d.
2020) •
December 20 –
David Levine, American artist and illustrator (d.
2009) •
December 21 •
Elisabeth Elliot, Christian author and speaker (d.
2015) •
Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d.
2012) •
December 23 –
Robert Bly, poet (d.
2021) •
December 26 –
Champ Butler, singer (d. 1992) ==Deaths==