Roald Dahl13th September, British
Novelist
Harold Wilson11th March, British
Former British Prime Minister
Beverly Cleary12th April, American
Writer
Kirk Douglas9th December, American
Actor
Gregory Peck5th April, American
Actor
James Herriot3rd October, British
Writer
Olivia de Havilland1st July, French, British, American
Actress
Edward Heath9th July, British
Former British Prime Minister
Jackie Gleason26th February, American
Comedian
John Basilone4th November, Italian, American
Armed Force Officer
Glenn Ford1st May, Canadian
Actor
Dinah Shore29th February, American
Singer
Walter Cronkite4th November, American
Broadcaster
Shirley Jackson14th December, American
Author
Robert McNamara9th June, American
Former United States Secretary of Defense
Betty Grable18th December, American
American actress
Sterling Hayden26th March, American
Actor
François Mitterrand26th October, French
Former President of France
Van Johnson25th August, American
Actor
Peter Finch28th September, Australian
Actor
Virginia Hill26th August, Austrian, American
Criminal
Keenan Wynn27th July, American
Actor
Lyudmila Pavlichenko12th July, Russian
Sniper
Richard Proenneke4th May, American
Naturalist
Hans-Ulrich Rudel2nd July, German
Pilot
Francis Crick8th June, British
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Claude Shannon30th April, American
Mathematician, Cryptographer
James B. Donovan29th February, American
Negotiator
Shelby Foote17th November, American
Writer
Eugene McCarthy29th March, American
Politician
P. W. Botha12th January, South African
Former Prime Minister of South Africa
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Ferruccio Lamborghini28th April, Italian
Founder of Automobili Lamborghini
Movita Castaneda12th April, American
Actress
Sirimavo Bandaranaike17th April, Sri Lankan
Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
M. S. Subbulakshmi16th September, Indian
Carnatic Musician
Dorothy McGuire14th June, American
Actress
Gough Whitlam11th July, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Archie Moore13th December, American
Boxer
Tsutomu Yamaguchi16th March, Japanese
Survivor of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Adriana Caselotti6th May, American
Voice Actor
Zail Singh5th May, Indian
President of India
Herbert Simon15th June, American
Economist, Political scientist, sociologist,
Mercedes McCambridge16th March, American
Actress
Jane Jacobs4th May, Canadian
Journalist, Author, Activist
Maria Altmann18th February, Austrian, American
Art Collector
Sid Luckman21st November, American
American Football Player
Tokyo Rose4th July, American
Radio Broadcaster
Hans Eysenck4th March, German
Vladimir Demikhov18th July, Russian
Organ Transplant Pioneer
Maurice Wilkins15th December, British
Biophysicist
John Dann MacDonald24th July, American
Novelist, Short Story Writer
Ahmed Ben Bella25th December, Algerian
First President of Algeria
Virginia Satir26th June, American
American author
Rafael Caldera24th January, Venezuelan
Former President of Venezuela
Camilo José Cela11th May, Spanish
Writer
Christian Anfinsen26th March, American
Biochemist
Aleksandr Prokhorov11th July, Russian
Physicist
Robert F. Furchgott4th June, American
Biochemist
Frederick Chapman Robbins25th August, American
Virologist and Paediatrician
Vernon Presley10th April, American
Elvis Presley's Father
Sune Bergström16th January, Swedish
Biochemist
Jean Dausset19th October, French
Immunologist
Ken Curtis2nd July, American
Singer
Maxene Andrews3rd January, American
Soprano
Hal Smith24th August, American
actor, dub actor, screenwriter, disc jockey,
Martha Raye27th August, American
Actress
Michael Gough23rd November, Malaysian, British
Actor
John L. Nelson29th June, American
Musician
Biju Patnaik5th March, Indian
Politician
George Montgomery29th August, American
Film actor
Fernando Lamas9th January, Argentinian
Actor
Aldo Moro23rd September, Italian
Politician, Diplomat, University teacher
Evelyn Keyes20th November, American
Actress
Yehudi Menuhin22nd April, Swiss, British, American
Volinist
Sherwood Schwartz14th November, American
Television producer
Daws Butler16th November, American
Actor, Dub actor
Elena Ceauşescu7th January, Romanian
Romanian politician
Moondog26th May, American
Musician
Harry James15th March, American
American musician
Shobhna Samarth17th November, Indian, British Indian Ocean Territory
Actress
Vittorio Mussolini27th September, Italian
Screenwriter, Film producer, Film critic,
Ruth Handler4th November, American
Businesswoman
C. Wright Mills28th August, American
Sociologist
Rossano Brazzi18th September, Italian
Actor, Film director, Singer
Kermit Roosevelt16th February, American
Critic
Duong Van Minh16th February, Vietnamese
Politician
Jacque Fresco13th March, American
Futurist, Designer, Writer, Architect
Marcel Cerdan22nd July, French
Boxer
Anton Diffring20th October, German
actor
Leonard Siffleet14th January, Australian
C. Everett Koop14th October, American
Surgeon
Harold Robbins21st May, American
Author
John H. Wood, Jr.31st March, American
Chiang Wei-kuo6th October
Politician