Ronald Reagan6th February, American
40th U.S. President
Josef Mengele16th March, German
War Criminal
Lucille Ball6th August, American
Comedienne, Actress
Mahalia Jackson26th October, American
Singer, Television Personality
Jack Ruby25th March, American
Nightclub Operator
Jean Harlow3rd March, American
Hollywood Sex Symbol of the 1930s
L Ron Hubbard13th March, American
Founder of Church of Scientology
Robert Johnson8th May, American
Singer
Vincent Price27th May, American
Actor
Merle Oberon19th February, Indian, American
Actress
Tennessee Williams26th March, American
American playwright
Ginger Rogers16th July, American
American actress
Randolph Churchill28th May, British
Journalist, Politician
Hubert Humphrey27th May, American
38th Vice President of the U.S
Konstantin Chernenko24th September, Ukrainian, Russian
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the
Danny Kaye18th January, American
Actor
Roy Rogers5th November, American
King of the Cowboys
Ellen Corby3rd June, American
Actress
Hume Cronyn18th July, Canadian
Actor
Joseph Joe Barbera24th March, American
Director
Marshall McLuhan21st July, Canadian
Philosopher
William Golding19th September, British
Novelist
Bill Bowerman19th February, American
Co-founder of Nike, Inc.
Jeanette Nolan30th December, American
Actress
Prince Aly Khan13th June, Italian, Pakistani, British
Father of Aga Khan IV
Cantinflas12th August, Mexican
Comic Film Actor
Broderick Crawford9th December, American
Actor
Klaus Fuchs29th December, German
Theoretical Physicist and Atomic Spy
Võ Nguyên Giáp25th August, Vietnamese
Officer
Emil Cioran8th April, Romanian
Philosopher
Ne Win14th May, Burmese
Burmese Politician
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Georges Pompidou5th July, French
Former Prime Minister & President of France
Josh Gibson21st December, American
Baseball Player
Babe Didrikson Zaharias26th June, American
American athlete
Wilhelm Mohnke15th March, German
Military Leader
Louise Bourgeois25th December, French, American
Artist
Thora Hird28th May, British
Actress
Elizabeth Bishop8th February, American
Poet
Naguib Mahfouz11th December, Egyptian
Novelist
Bill Monroe13th September, American
John Archibald Wheeler9th July, American
Physicist
Samuel Reshevsky26th November, American
Chess Player
Jules Dassin18th December, American
Film Director, Producer
Euell Gibbons8th September, American
Outdoorsman
David Ogilvy23rd June, French, British
Businessman
Luis Walter Alvarez13th June, American
Physicist
Czesław Miłosz30th June, Polish
Poet
Romare Bearden2nd September, American
Artist
Gian Carlo Menotti7th July, French, Italian, American
Composer and librettist
Fe del Mundo27th November, Filipino
Pediatrician
George Joseph Stigler17th January, American
Economist
Konstantin Kuzakov30th November, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Son
Alan Hovhaness8th March, American
Composer
Roberto Matta11th November, Chilean
Surrealist Painter
Melvin Calvin8th April, American
Biochemist
Charles Walters17th November, American
Film Director, Choreographer
Yang Jiang17th July, Chinese
Playwright
George Seaton17th April, American
Screenwriter, Film Director
Maurice Allais31st May, French
Economist
Renato Guttuso26th December, Italian
Painter
William Alfred Fowler9th August, American
Nuclear Physicist and Astrophysicist
Son Sann5th October, French, Cambodian
Politician
Alfonso García Robles20th March, Mexican
Diplomat
Sir Bernard Katz26th March, British
Biophysicist
Polykarp Kusch26th January, German, American
Physicist
Trygve Haavelmo13th December, Norwegian
Economist
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen6th April, German
Biochemist
William Howard Stein25th June, American
Biochemist
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark22nd June, Greek
Princess
Władysław Szpilman5th December, Polish
Pianist, Composer, Musician, Writer, Songwriter
Maureen O'Sullivan17th May, Irish, American
Actress
Ashok Kumar13th October, British Indian Ocean Territory
Actor
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr27th May, American
Gypsy Rose Lee8th January, American
Entertainer
Anthony Salerno15th August, American
Mobster
Lee J. Cobb8th December, American
Actor
Baba Vanga31st January, Bulgarian, Serbian
Mystic
Phil Silvers11th May, American
Actor, Stage actor, Television actor
Juan Manuel Fangio24th June, Argentinian
Entrepreneur, Formula One driver, Racecar driver
Terry-Thomas14th July, British
Actor
Lina Heydrich14th June, German
Writer
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld29th June, Dutch
Prince consort
Guy Burgess16th April, British
Spy, Journalist
Butterfly McQueen7th January, American
Actress
Bernard Herrmann29th June, American
Composer, Conductor, Film score composer
Nicholas Ray7th August, American
Director
Mikhail Botvinnik17th August, Russian
Chess player
Fauja Singh1st April, British
Marathon runner, Long-distance runner, Athletics
Ishirō Honda7th May, Japanese
Director
Léa Papin15th September, French
Maid Murderer
Spike Jones14th December, American
Musician
Hank Greenberg1st January, American
Famous Baseball Players
Nino Rota3rd December, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Pianist, Actor,
Qian Xuesen11th December
Astronautical engineer