Hedy Lamarr9th November, Austrian, American
Actress, Co-inventor of technology for spread
Norman Lloyd8th November, American
Actor
Joe DiMaggio25th November, American
American Baseball Star
Alec Guinness2nd April, British
Actor
Yuri Andropov15th June, Russian
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of
William S. Burroughs5th February, American
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Joe Louis13th May, American
Former Heavyweight Champion
Tenzing Norgay29th May, Nepalese
Mountaineer
George Reeves5th January, American
Actor
Noor Inayat Khan1st January, British
Spy
Jonas Salk28th October, American
Medical researcher
Dylan Thomas27th October, Welsh
Poet & Writer
Sam Manekshaw3rd April, Indian
Viola Desmond6th July, Canadian, American
Businesswoman
Paul Vario9th July, American
Gangster
Norman Borlaug25th March, American
Father of the Green Revolution
Ray Walston2nd November, American
Actor & Comedian
Jack LaLanne26th September, American
Fitness & Nutrition Expert
Sarah Churchill7th October, British
Actress
Thor Heyerdahl6th October, Norwegian
Adventurer
Harry Caray1st March, American
Jonathan Harris6th November, American
Actor
William Childs Westmoreland26th March, American
Military Leader
Michael Wittmann22nd April, German
Military Officer
Desmond Llewelyn12th September, Welsh
Actor
Aniello Dellacroce15th March, American
Gangster
Ralph Waldo Ellison1st March, American
Novelist
Mohammed Zahir Shah15th October, Afghan
Former King of Afghanistan
Raymond Fernandez17th December, American
Serial Killer
Tove Jansson9th August, Finnish
Novelist
Lída Baarová7th September, Austrian, Czech
Actress
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Robert Wise10th September, American
Film Director
Bill Finger8th February, American
Screenwriter
Jack Dunphy22nd August, American
Novelist
E. G. Marshall18th June, American
Actor
Julio Cortazar26th August
Novelist & Translator
Romain Gary21st May, French
Diplomat
Paul Rand15th August, American
Graphic Designer & Art Director
Creighton Abrams15th September, American
General
Edmund S. Muskie28th March, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Octavio Paz31st March, Mexican
Writer, Poet, Diplomat and Noble Prize Laureate
Baba Amte26th December, Indian
Alan Cranston19th June, American
Former United States Senator
Allen Funt16th September, American
Television Host
Pierre Balmain18th May, French
Fashion Designer
Bernard Malamud26th April, American
American novelist
Martin Ritt2nd March, American
Film Director
John Hersey17th June, American
American writer
Begum Akhtar7th October, Indian
Singer
Jack Cardiff18th September, British
Cinematographer, Film Director
Renato Dulbecco22nd February, Italian, American
Virologist
Max Perutz19th May, British
Molecular Biologist
Marjorie Lee Browne9th September, American
Mathematics Educator
Frank Fenner21st December, Australian
Played a vital role in eradication of smallpox
William Vickrey21st June, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin5th February, British
Biophysicist & Physiologist
Richard Laurence Millington Synge28th October, British
Biochemist
Peter Townsend22nd November, British
aviator, writer
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark26th June, Greek
Princess
Jackie Coogan26th October, American
Actor
Tyrone Power5th May, American
Actor
Jyoti Basu8th July, Indian
Indian politician
Vincent J. McMahon6th July, American
Entrepreneur
Richard Widmark26th December, American
film actor, stage actor, television actor
Jiang Qing5th March, Chinese
Politician
Jack Parsons2nd October, American
Researcher
George Dantzig8th November, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Statistician
Sun Ra22nd May, American
American composer
Woody Strode25th July, American
Athlete
Robert Alda23rd February, American
Actor
Unity Mitford8th August, British
Socialite
Dorothy Lamour10th December, American
Actress
Louis de Funès31st July, French
Actor, Film actor, Film director, Film producer,
Akira Ifukube31st May, Japanese
Composer
Bill Owen14th March, British
Actor
Kevin McCarthy15th February, American
Actor
Clayton Moore14th September, American
American actor
Jerry Siegel17th October, American
Comics artist, Writer
B.R. Chopra22nd April, Indian
Director
Richard Basehart31st August, American
Actor
Lilli Palmer24th May, German
Actress
Kenneth More20th September, British
Actor
María Félix8th April, Mexican
Actress
Teji Bachchan12th August, Indian
Human rights activist
Aḥmad Ḥasan al-Bakr1st July, Iraqi
Politician
Marguerite Duras4th April, French, Vietnamese
Writer, Film director, Screenwriter, Publisher,
Joe Shuster10th July, American
Comics artist, Designer, Screenwriter
Patrick O'Brian12th December, British
Novelist
Thurl Ravenscroft6th February, American
Singer, Dub actor, Opera singer, Actor
Louis, Prince Napoleon23rd January, German, French
Prince
Santo Trafficante Jr.15th November, American
Organized Crime
Maria Franziska von Trapp28th September, Austrian, American
Singer
Ernest Tubb9th February, American
Singer-songwriter
Harold Russell14th January, Canadian, American
Actor