97 Years Old Males
The list of famous 97 year old males includes John D. Rockefeller, Pope Benedict XVI, Bertrand Russell, Tony Bennett, Louis Zamperini. Famous males featured on this list, include political leaders, actors, poets and novelists and from other domains of life. This list of 97 Year Old includes people from United States, England, Germany & France and many more countries.
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Tony Bennett(American Popular Retired Singer Best Known for His Album ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco')
Birthdate: August 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Tony Bennett is an American painter and singer. He is credited with founding the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, popular performing arts high school. A famous and critically praised concert performer and recording artist, Tony Bennett has sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
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Harry Belafonte
(Singer, Actor)
Birthdate: March 1, 1927
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: New York City, United States
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
Birthdate: March 31, 1927
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
Birthdate: July 7, 1927
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Arlington, Oregon, USA
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
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Michael Constantine
(Actor)
Birthdate: May 22, 1927
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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James Lipton
(actor, screenwriter, poet, television presenter)
Birthdate: September 19, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Detroit
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Bud Grant(Former American Football Forward and Former Head Coach)
Birthdate: May 20, 1927
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Superior, Wisconsin, United States
Bud Grant is known for his 18-year stint as the Minnesota Vikings head coach. He has 168 NFL wins, making him one of the most successful NFL coaches. He is also 4-time Grey Cup champion. Post-retirement, he focused on bringing about environmental reforms, such as the conservation of wetlands.
Birthdate: May 20, 1927
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
Birthdate: July 9, 1927
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Height: 6'3" (190 cm)
Birthdate: April 16, 1927
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Markit, Germany
Pope Benedict XVI started off as a Hitler Youth member, but a finger injury prevented him from fighting in the German army. In 2005, he became the head of the Catholic Church. The liberal theologian-turned-conservative resigned in 2013, becoming the first pope to do so since the 1400s.
Birthdate: November 24, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Shanghai, China
Tsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese-American physicist renowned for his work on particle physics, parity violation, soliton stars, nontopological solitons, and the Lee Model. In 1957, he became the third-youngest person to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in the science fields; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also the first Chinese Nobel laureate.
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Carl Erskine
(Baseball pitcher)
Birthdate: December 13, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Anderson, Indiana, United States
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Thich Nhat Hanh
(Buddhist monk and peace activist who has founded dozens of schools and universities and has published over 100 books.)
Birthdate: October 11, 1926
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, French Indochina
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Robert Bly
(American Poet & Essayist Best Know for his Prose Book 'Iron John: A Book About Men')
Birthdate: December 23, 1926
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States
Robert Bly was an American poet, activist, and essayist. He is best remembered for leading the mythopoetic men's movement. He is also remembered for his book Iron John: A Book About Men. Robert Bly is also well-known for his work The Light Around the Body, which earned him the National Book Award for Poetry in 1968.
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Endel Tulving
(Neuroscientist, Psychologist)
Birthdate: May 26, 1927
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Pechory
Endel Tulving is an Estonian-born Canadian experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is best known for his pioneering research on human memory. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and began his academic work at the University of Toronto, where he remained for the rest of his career. He is a recipient of the Canada Gairdner International Award.
Birthdate: August 11, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Lithuania
Birthdate: April 20, 1927
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: United States
Birthdate: November 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kaunas, Lithuania
Former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus had fought against the Soviet army during World War II. After fleeing to Germany, he studied in Munich and then migrated to the U.S., where he earned a civil engineering degree. Among his many accolades are honorary doctorates from countless foreign universities.
Birthdate: July 24, 1927
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
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Rupert Neve
(Engineer, Audio engineer)
Birthdate: July 31, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Newton Abbot
A pioneer in the design of audio recording equipments, Arthur Rupert Neve began his career designing public address systems, recording speakers and singers on lacquer discs. He later started his own business, designing analog recording and audio mixing equipments, .establishing Neve Electronics, Focusrite, AMS Neve, and finally Rupert Neve Designs. Many of his long-discontinued products are now considered collectors' items.
Birthdate: June 8, 1927
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Carrington Village, Barbados
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César Pelli
(Architect, Entrepreneur)
Birthdate: October 12, 1926
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: San Miguel de Tucumán
Birthdate: August 29, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Jacmel, Haiti
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
Birthdate: December 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Jean-Pierre Serre
(Mathematician, Topologist, Professor)
Birthdate: September 15, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Pyrénées-Orientales
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Alvin Sargent
(Screenwriter)
Birthdate: April 12, 1927
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi
(Egyptian Islamic Scholar)
Birthdate: September 9, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Saft Turab, Egypt
Yusuf al-Qaradawi was an Egyptian scholar based in Qatar. An important influencer in the Muslim world, Al-Qaradawi is best remembered for his program, Sharia and Life. In addition to authoring over 120 books, Yusuf al-Qaradawi also helped found a website known as IslamOnline. Al-Qaradawi is often counted among the most influential Islamic scholars of his generation.
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Vernon L. Smith
(American Economist, Professor and Winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences)
Birthdate: January 1, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Stanley Cavell
(Philosopher, University teacher)
Birthdate: September 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Atlanta
30
Yury Grigorovich
(Russian Dancer and Choreographer)
Birthdate: January 2, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Yury Grigorovich is a Soviet and Russian choreographer and dancer. One of the most popular and successful ballet dancers of his generation, Grigorovich dominated the Russian ballet scene for over three decades. Grigorovich has also headed the juries of several international competitions in classical ballet. He has also received several awards, such as the Lenin Prize and Ludvig Nobel Prize.
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Kenneth Anger
(Film producer)
Birthdate: February 3, 1927
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, United States
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Frederick Vreeland
(Diplomat)
Birthdate: June 24, 1927
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Danbury
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Laurence Rosenthal
(Composer, Musician, Film score composer)
Birthdate: November 4, 1926
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Detroit
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Basha Bakri
(Sports shooter)
Birthdate: 1927 AD
Birthplace: Daiong, Sudan
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
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Murray Schisgal
(Playwright, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor, Writer)
Birthdate: November 25, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New York City
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Andrew Schally(American Endocrinologist and Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
Birthdate: November 30, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vilnius, Lithuania
Andrew Schally escaped Poland and went to Romania and the UK with his family following the Nazi invasion, eventually settling in Canada. He grew up to be a renowned endocrinologist and won the Nobel Prize for his research on the hypothalamus and how it controls the hormones in the body.
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Robert Orben
(Stage Magician, Writer)
Birthdate: March 4, 1927
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: United States of America
Robert Orben is an American comedy writer and magician. Over the years Orben has written several books on comedy as part of his popular newsletter Orben's Current Comedy. He has also written many books for magicians. A multi-talented personality, Robert Orben served as the head speechwriter to politician and then-Vice President Gerald R. Ford in 1973.
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Harry Whittington
(Lawyer)
Birthdate: March 3, 1927
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Henderson
Birthdate: March 18, 1927
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Birthdate: March 24, 1927
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany
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Sunderlal Bahuguna
(Environmentalist, Political activist)
Birthdate: January 9, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tehri
Sunderlal Bahuguna was an Indian environmentalist best remembered for his involvement in the Chipko movement. The movement, which aims at conserving forests, received a major boost after Bahuguna created the slogan ecology is the permanent economy. The movement inspired similar movements across India. Sunderlal Bahuguna is also remembered for leading the anti-Tehri Dam movement.
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Herbert Blomstedt
(Conductor)
Birthdate: July 11, 1927
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
(Composer, Music director)
Birthdate: February 18, 1927
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Rahon
Mohammed Zahur Khayyam was an Indian music director and background score composer. In a long career spanning four decades, he won several prestigious awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music and the Padma Bhushan. His music was rooted in Indian classical music with elements of ghazal. He was married to singer Jagjit Kaur.
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K. Alex Müller(Swiss Physicist and Winner of 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics)
Birthdate: April 20, 1927
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Nobel Prize-winning physicist K. Alex Müller was the son of a budding musician and was sent to an Evangelical college after his mother’s death. He later joined ETH Zurich and then continued his research at the IBM Research laboratory. He is best known for his joint discovery of superconductivity in ceramic material.
Birthdate: November 26, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Birthdate: December 19, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
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Erhard Eppler
(Politician)
Birthdate: December 9, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Ulm
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Gunther Brennecke
(Field hockey player)
Birthdate: January 13, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Germany
Birthdate: August 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ohio, United States