David Attenborough8th May, British
Broadcaster
Marilyn Monroe1st June, American
Actress
Queen Elizabeth II21st April, British
Queen of the United Kingdom
Fidel Castro13th August, Cuban
Former Prime Minister of Cuba
Mel Brooks28th June, American
Director
Hugh Hefner9th April, American
Founder of Playboy Magazine
Andy Griffith1st June, American
Actor
Miles Davis26th May, American
Jazz Trumpeter
Kenneth Williams22nd February, British
Comedian
Jimmy Savile31st October, British
DJ, Television & Radio Personality
Michel Foucault15th October, French
French philosopher
Leslie Nielsen11th February, Canadian, American
Cloris Leachman30th April, American
Comedian, Actress
Gus Grissom3rd April, American
Astronaut
Chuck Berry18th October, American
Guitarist
Jerry Lewis16th March, American
Comedian, Actor, Singer, Film Director
Don Rickles8th May, American
Stand-up Comedian
Allen Ginsberg3rd June, American
Poet
Tony Bennett3rd August, American
Pop Singer
John Coltrane23rd September, American
Saxophonist, Composer
Harry Dean Stanton14th July, American
Aactor
Bing Russell5th May, American
Actor
Harper Lee28th April, American
Novelist
Alan Greenspan6th March, American
American economist
Paul Lynde13th June, American
Peter Graves18th March, American
Actor
Svetlana Alliluyeva28th February, Russian
Joseph Stalin's Daughter
John Derek12th August, American
Actor
Sathya Sai Baba23rd November, Indian
Spiritual Guru
Mickey Hargitay6th January, Hungarian, American
Actor
Jiang Zemin17th August, Chinese
Politician
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Georgia Holt9th June, American
Singer
Joe Paterno21st December, American
American Football Player
George Martin3rd January, British
Record Producer, Musician, Composer
Richard Crenna30th November, American
Actor
James Best26th July, American
Actor
Haji Mastan1st March, Indian
Gangster, Smuggler
Noor Jehan21st September, Pakistani
Singer and Actress
Aldo Ray25th September, American
Actor
Conrad Hilton Jr.6th July, American
Socialite, Entrepreneur
Ann B. Davis3rd May, American
Actress
Lenny Montana13th March, American
Actor
John Dingell8th July, American
Former Member of the US House of Representatives
Ingvar Kamprad30th March, Swedish
Business magnate
Abdus Salam29th January, Pakistani
Theoretical Physicist
Charlotte Rae22nd April, American
Actress
Whitney Blake26th February, American
Actress
Murray Rothbard2nd March, American
Economist
Neal Cassady8th February, American
Soupy Sales8th January, American
Comedian
Ian Paisley6th April, Irish
Politician
Bhupen Hazarika8th September, Indian
Musician, Singer, Poet, Filmmaker, Lyricist
Richard M. DeVos4th March, American
Co-Founder of Amway
Louise Hay8th October, American
Writer
Henry Molaison26th February, American
Memory Disorder Patient
Hosea Williams5th January, American
Civil Rights Leader
John Schlesinger16th February, British
Film Director
Benjamin Ruggiero19th April, American
Mobster
John Berger5th November, British
Novelist
John Gokongwei11th August, Chinese, Filipino
Businessperson
Joan Sutherland7th November, Australian
Opera Singer
John Fowles31st March, British
Writer & Teacher
O. P. Nayyar16th January, Indian
Music Composer
Efraín Ríos Montt16th June, Guatemalan
Politician
Dario Fo24th March, Italian
Playwright
Nuon Chea7th July, Cambodian
Chief Ideologist of the Khmer Rouge
George Habash2nd August, Israeli, Jordanian
Founder of The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Frederick Buechner11th July, American
Author, Presbyterian Minister
Valdas Adamkus3rd November, Lithuanian
Former President of Lithuania
Tsung-Dao Lee24th November, Chinese, American
Physicist
Abdoulaye Wade29th May, Senegalese
Politician
Don Dunstan21st September, Australian, Fijian
Former Premier of South Australia
Paul Berg30th June, American
Biochemist
Robert Fogel1st July, American
Economist
Aaron Klug11th August, British
Chemist & Biophysicist
John Gardner26th November, British
Writer
David H. Hubel27th February, American
Neurophysiologist
Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger17th September, French
French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Claude Akins25th May, American
Actor
Salvador Jorge Blanco5th July, Dominican
Former President of the Dominican Republic
A. R. Ammons18th February, American
Poet
Vasili Arkhipov30th January, Russian
Naval Officer
Donald A. Glaser21st September, American
Physicist & Molecular Biologist
Henry Way Kendall9th December, American
Physicist
Andrew Schally30th November, Canadian, Polish, American
Endocrinologist
Ben Roy Mottelson9th July, Danish, American
Physicist
David Wagoner5th June, American
Poet, Novelist, Professor
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing2nd February, French
Former President of the French Republic
Geoffrey Howe20th December, British
Jurist, Politician, Diplomat
Fred Gwynne30th June, American
Actor
Patricia Neal20th January, American
actor, television actor, film actor
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah29th May, Kuwaiti, British
Monarch
Bal Thackeray23rd January, Indian
Politician, Journalist, Painter
Jeffrey Hunter25th November, American
Actor