Hedy Lamarr9th November, Austrian, American
Actress, Co-inventor of technology for spread
Joe DiMaggio25th November, American
American Baseball Star
Alec Guinness2nd April, British
Actor
Sam Manekshaw3rd April, Indian
Joe Louis13th May, American
Former Heavyweight Champion
Yuri Andropov15th June, Russian
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of
William S. Burroughs5th February, American
Novelist, Short Story Writer
George Reeves5th January, American
Actor
Jonas Salk28th October, American
Medical researcher
Dylan Thomas27th October, Welsh
Poet & Writer
Paul Vario9th July, American
Gangster
Tenzing Norgay29th May, Nepalese
Mountaineer
Norman Lloyd8th November, American
Actor
Thor Heyerdahl6th October, Norwegian
Adventurer
Harry Caray1st March, American
Norman Borlaug25th March, American
Father of the Green Revolution
Desmond Llewelyn12th September, Welsh
Actor
Jack LaLanne26th September, American
Fitness & Nutrition Expert
Ray Walston2nd November, American
Actor & Comedian
Aniello Dellacroce15th March, American
Gangster
Jonathan Harris6th November, American
Actor
Romain Gary21st May, French
Diplomat
Michael Wittmann22nd April, German
Military Officer
Lída Baarová7th September, Austrian, Czech
Actress
Viola Desmond6th July, Canadian, American
Businesswoman
Tove Jansson9th August, Finnish
Novelist
Bill Finger8th February, American
Screenwriter
Alan Cranston19th June, American
Former United States Senator
Mohammed Zahir Shah15th October, Afghan
Former King of Afghanistan
Robert Wise10th September, American
Film Director
Paul Rand15th August, American
Graphic Designer & Art Director
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E. G. Marshall18th June, American
Actor
John Hersey17th June, American
American writer
Creighton Abrams15th September, American
General
Jack Dunphy22nd August, American
Novelist
Octavio Paz31st March, Mexican
Writer, Poet, Diplomat and Noble Prize Laureate
Baba Amte26th December, Indian
Pierre Balmain18th May, French
Fashion Designer
Bernard Malamud26th April, American
American novelist
Allen Funt16th September, American
Television Host
Begum Akhtar7th October, Indian
Singer
Martin Ritt2nd March, American
Film Director
Jack Cardiff18th September, British
Cinematographer, Film Director
Max Perutz19th May, British
Molecular Biologist
Renato Dulbecco22nd February, Italian, American
Virologist
William Vickrey21st June, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
Frank Fenner21st December, Australian
Played a vital role in eradication of smallpox
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin5th February, British
Biophysicist & Physiologist
Marjorie Lee Browne9th September, American
Mathematics Educator
Ralph Waldo Ellison1st March, American
Novelist
Julio Cortazar26th August, Argentinian
Novelist
Richard Laurence Millington Synge28th October, British
Biochemist
Raymond Fernandez17th December, American
Serial Killer
Sarah Churchill7th October, British
Actress
Edmund S. Muskie28th March, American
Former United States Secretary of State
William Childs Westmoreland26th March, American
Military Leader
Fernando Alonso17th December, Cuban
Actor
Tyrone Power5th May, American
Actor
Jackie Coogan30th November, American
Film Actor, Television Actor
Richard Widmark26th December, American
film actor, stage actor, television actor
Noor Inayat Khan1st January, British
poet, writer, children's writer
Gino Bartali18th July, Italian
Cyclist
Woody Strode25th July, American
American athlete
Jiang Qing5th March, Chinese
Politician
Louis de Funès31st July, French
Actor, Film actor, Film director, Film producer,
Robert Alda23rd February, American
Actor
Sun Ra22nd May, American
American composer
Clayton Moore14th September, American
American actor
Dorothy Lamour10th December, American
Actress
Jyoti Basu8th July, Indian
Indian politician
Richard Basehart31st August, American
Actor
Edward F. Boyd27th June, American
Business Executive
María Félix8th April, Mexican
Actress
Kenneth More20th September, British
Actor
Marguerite Duras4th April, French, Vietnamese
Writer, Film director, Screenwriter, Publisher,
Edmund Muskie28th March, American
Politician
George Dantzig8th November, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Statistician
Santo Trafficante Jr.15th November, American
Organized Crime
Patrick O'Brian12th December, British
Novelist
Lilli Palmer24th May, German
Actress
Jerry Siegel17th October, American
Comics artist, Writer
Arthur Kennedy17th February, American
Actor
Thurl Ravenscroft6th February, American
Singer, Dub actor, Opera singer, Actor
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr1st July, Iraqi
Politician, Military personnel
Ernest Tubb30th November
Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, Disc Jockey
Jersey Joe Walcott31st January, American
Boxer
Aribert Heim28th June, Austrian, German
Military physician, Ice hockey player, Torturer,
Hank Snow9th May, Canadian, American
Musician
Joe Shuster10th July, American
Comics artist, Designer, Screenwriter
Juanita Moore19th October, American
Actress
Harold Russell14th January, Canadian, American
Actor
Lee Petty14th March, American
Race Car Driver
Billy Eckstine8th July, American
Singer, Bandleader, Conductor, Jazz musician, Jazz
Abd al-Karim Qasim21st November, Iraqi
Political leader