96 Years Old Males
The list of famous 96 year old males includes Lyndon LaRouche, Martin Cooper, Jiang Zemin, Gordon Moore, Leon M. Lederman. Famous males featured on this list, include political leaders, actors, physicists and novelists and from other domains of life. This list of 96 Year Old includes people from United States, England, Germany & France and many more countries.
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Noam Chomsky(A Major Figure in Analytic Philosophy Who is Also Known as 'The Father of Modern Linguistics')
Birthdate: December 7, 1928
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Regarded by many as the father of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky has authored over 100 books on varied topics, such as politics, linguistics, and war. A multi-talented personality, Noam Chomsky is considered a popular figure in analytic philosophy. Apart from influencing a wide array of academic fields, he has also contributed to the development of cognitivism.
Birthdate: February 22, 1929
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Frank Gehry(Architect and Designer Whose Works are Considered Among the Most Important of Contemporary Architecture)
Birthdate: February 28, 1929
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Canadian-born American architect and designer Frank Gehry is best known for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Spain, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in France, and the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, U.S. He has won countless awards, such as the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Praemium Imperiale.
Birthdate: January 27, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: El-Gomorok, Alexandria
Mohamed Al-Fayed is a businessman whose son Dodi Fayed's death in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales became international news. Apart from being one of the richest businessmen in the world, Al-Fayed is also a humanitarian. In 1987, he established the Al Fayed Charitable Foundation, which aims at helping children living in poverty and children with life-limiting conditions.
Birthdate: December 26, 1928
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Electrical engineer Martin Cooper had initially served the U.S. Navy in the Korean War. He later joined Motorola and pioneered many inventions in wireless communications. The Charles Stark Draper Prize winner also invented the world’s first mobile phone and made the first cell phone call.
Birthdate: January 3, 1929
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: San Francisco
Birthdate: February 17, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Tocopilla, Chile
Chilean-French filmmaker and artist, Alejandro Jodorowsky, is best known for his avant-garde films. A multifaceted personality, he is also a novelist, poet, musician, composer, and spiritual guru. His films are filled with surreal images and mysticism. A much-revered figure in international cinema, he is the recipient of the Jack Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago Underground Film Festival (CUFF).
Birthdate: September 15, 1928
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
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Dick Button
(American Former Figure Skater, Skating Analyst and Two-Time Olympic Champion)
Birthdate: July 18, 1929
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Peter Higgs
(British Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate for His Work on the Mass of Subatomic Particles)
Birthdate: May 29, 1929
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Peter Higgs is a British theoretical physicist. He studied at King's College London and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1954. He went on to have a brilliant academic career and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1983. In 2013, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Belgian physicist François Englert.
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Claes Oldenburg
(Artist, Sculptor, Painter, Graphic artist)
Birthdate: January 28, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Stockholm
Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish-American sculptor recognized for his public art installations. Many of his artworks, which were co-designed by his wife Coosje van Bruggen until 2009, feature everyday objects. One of the most celebrated sculptors of his generation, Claes Oldenburg has been honored with many prestigious awards like the National Medal of Arts and the Wolf Prize in Arts.
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Alasdair MacIntyre
(American Philosopher Who Has Contributed to Moral and Political Philosophy)
Birthdate: January 12, 1929
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Scottish-American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre is noted for his contributions to moral and political philosophy. His major writings include Whose Justice? Which Rationality? and After Virtue. The latter is considered to be a significant work of Anglophone moral and political philosophy and an important text in the contemporary revival of virtue theory.
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Robert Indiana
(Costume designer, Painter, Sculptor, Postage stamp designer)
Birthdate: September 13, 1928
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: New Castle
Robert Indiana was an American artist best remembered for his association with the pop art movement. He is credited with creating the popular Love sculpture. The sculpture, which is situated at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), was the basis for the 1973 US Postal Service LOVE stamp. Indiana's works are preserved in numerous museums, including the McNay Art Museum.
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Galt MacDermot
(Composer, Songwriter, Film score composer)
Birthdate: December 18, 1928
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Montreal
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James Lawson
(university teacher, pastor)
Birthdate: September 22, 1928
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Massillon
James Lawson is an American professor and activist. A prominent tactician and theoretician of nonviolence, Lawson played a major role during the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1960s, Lawson doubled up as a mentor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as well as the Nashville Student Movement. James Lawson also served as a pastor for 25 years.
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Len Deighton
(British Author Best Known for His Espionage Fiction Novels)
Birthdate: February 18, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Marylebone, London, England
Len Deighton is an author whose works have inspired several movies and TV shows. Many of his novels, such as Funeral in Berlin, The Ipcress File, Spy Story, and Billion Dollar Brain, have been adapted into films. His works have influenced other popular personalities like Aung San Suu Kyi. Anthony Burgess mentioned Deighton's novel Bomber in his work Ninety-nine Novels.
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Torben Ulrich
(Danish Writer, Musician and Former Professional Tennis Player)
Birthdate: October 4, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Frederiksberg, Denmark
Torben Ulrich is a Danish former professional tennis player turned writer, musician, and filmmaker. As a tennis player, he was the top-ranked senior player in the world in the mid-1970s. He became a writer after retirement and primarily wrote on music, film, athletics, and culture. He eventually founded a New Orleans-type jazz band and made films as well.
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Mochtar Riady
(Indonesian Financial Magnate and the Founder of 'Lippo Group')
Birthdate: May 12, 1929
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Malang, Indonesia
Mochtar Riady is an Indonesian financial magnate. He is best known as the founder of Lippo Group where he is currently serving as Chairman Emeritus. Lippo Group, a multinational conglomerate company, was founded by Mochtar Riady in 1950. The company has a collective presence across North America and Asia.
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Paul Johnson
(Journalist & Conservative Popular Historian)
Birthdate: November 2, 1928
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Manchester, England
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Pallonji Mistry
(Businessman known for 17.3% stake in Tata Sons)
Birthdate: 1929 AD
Birthplace: India
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Jürgen Habermas
(German Philosopher and Sociologist Best Known for His Theory of ‘Communicative Action')
Birthdate: June 18, 1929
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany
German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas is counted among the most influential philosophers across the world and is identified with the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He influenced many disciplines through his work which addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere, and includes topics starting from social-political theory to aesthetics, language to philosophy of religion, and epistemology.
Birthdate: June 3, 1929
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Gränichen, Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland
Werner Arber is a Swiss geneticist and microbiologist whose discovery of restriction endonucleases earned him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978; he shared the award with Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith. Arber's work alongside Nathans and Smith led to the progression of recombinant DNA technology. Werner Arber is also credited with co-founding the World Cultural Council.
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John Polanyi(Canadian Chemist and Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Birthdate: January 23, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
John Charles Polanyi is a Hungarian-Canadian scientist, who won the Noble Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to the dynamics of chemical reaction. He developed a technique called infrared chemiluminescence, which helped him to study the exchange of chemical bonds and detail how the excess energy is removed during chemical reactions.
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Jim Pattison
(Canadian Businessperson and Investor)
Birthdate: October 1, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Saskatoon, Canada
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Geert Hofstede
(Psychologist, University teacher, Anthropologist, Economist)
Birthdate: October 2, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Haarlem
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Jim Whittaker
(US Mountaineer Who Became the First American to Reach the Mt. Everest Summit)
Birthdate: February 10, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Seattle
Jim Whittaker was a US mountaineer and mountain guide who is known for his legendary 1963 Mount Everest expedition, which was led by Norman Dyhrenfurth. He scripted history as the first American to reach the Mount Everest summit. He was later bestowed with the Hubbard Medal by John F. Kennedy.
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Shridath Ramphal
(2nd Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations)
Birthdate: October 3, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: New Amsterdam, Guyana
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Jerry Adler
(Known for his role in the series The Sopranos)
Birthdate: February 4, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
Birthdate: December 16, 1928
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Milton Glaser
(Designer, Illustrator, Graphic designer, Typographer)
Birthdate: June 26, 1929
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: New York City
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Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi
(Chief executive officer)
Birthdate: February 3, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Delhi, India
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Neil Harvey
(Australian Former Cricketer)
Birthdate: October 8, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
Birthdate: April 5, 1929
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Bergen, Norway
Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American physicist and engineer whose discovery of the tunnelling phenomena in solids earned him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Over the course of his illustrious career, Ivar Giaever has also received several other awards, such as the Oliver E. Buckley Prize, Golden Plate Award, and Zworykin Award.
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Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
(Saudi Arabian Billionaire and Corporate Figure)
Birthdate: November 30, 1928
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi is a Saudi Arabian billionaire and corporate figure. Counted among the country's wealthiest non-royals, the Al Rajhi family has also been among the leading philanthropists in the world. In 2012, Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi was honored with the prestigious King Faisal International Prize for pledging half his fortune to charity.
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Melvin Russell Ballard, Jr.
Birthdate: October 8, 1928
Sun Sign: Libra
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Stanley Drucker
(Clarinetist)
Birthdate: February 4, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Birthdate: November 3, 1928
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Zeigler, Illinois, United States
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Jules Feiffer
(Writer, Screenwriter, University teacher, Children's writer, Comics artist, Journalist)
Birthdate: January 26, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: New York City
Birthdate: March 21, 1929
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Utah, United States
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Albert Azaryan
(Soviet-Armenian Artistic Gymnast and the First One to Win Two Olympic Gold Medals on the Still Rings)
Birthdate: February 11, 1929
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Gharakilisa, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union
Albert Azaryan is a Soviet Armenian former artistic gymnast best known for winning two gold medals at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. In the next Olympic Games in Rome, Azaryan won a gold medal and a silver medal. Albert Azaryan is the first gymnast to win two Olympic gold medals on the still rings.
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Jerome Kagan
(psychologist)
Birthdate: February 25, 1929
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Newark
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Amitai Etzioni
(Sociologist)
Birthdate: January 4, 1929
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Cologne, Germany
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Bernabé Martí
(Spanish Operatic Tenor Whose Career Ended due to a Cardiac Condition)
Birthdate: November 14, 1928
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Villarroya de la Sierra, Spain
Spanish operatic tenor Bernabé Martí began training in the saxophone in his early days and grew up to study music in places such as Rome and Madrid. He gained fame with his performances in operas such as La vida breve and Salome, and later married soprano Montserrat Caballé. A cardiac condition ended his career.
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Bruce Ames
(Biochemist, University teacher, Chemist)
Birthdate: December 16, 1928
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New York City
University of California, Berkeley professor, biochemist, and geneticist Bruce Ames is largely known for his invention of the Ames test, used to test the ability of chemicals to cause mutations, and his studies on cancer and ageing. The Cornell and Caltech alumnus has been associated with the NIAMD, too.
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Fali Sam Nariman
(Senior Advocate to the Supreme Court of India)
Birthdate: January 10, 1929
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Yangon, Myanmar
Fali Sam Nariman is an Indian jurist best known for his association with the Supreme Court of India where he has been serving as a senior advocate since 1971. From 1991 to 2010, he also served as the Bar Association of India's president. Over the course of his career, Nariman has been honored with prestigious awards like the Padma Vibhushan.
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Charles Wadsworth
(American Classical Pianist and Musical Promoter)
Birthdate: May 21, 1929
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Newnan, Georgia, United States
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Maurice Tempelsman
(Businessman)
Birthdate: August 26, 1929
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Antwerp, Belgium
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Bernard Marcus
(Entrepreneur)
Birthdate: May 12, 1929
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
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Christoph von Dohnanyi
(Conductor)
Birthdate: September 8, 1929
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
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Hugues Aufray
(Singer-songwriter)
Birthdate: August 18, 1929
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France