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and 1918: Oral Roberts (evangelist) b. 24 Jan John Forsythe (actor) b. 29 Jan Muriel Spark (writer) b. 01 Feb (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) Joey Bishop (actor) b. 03 Feb Hank Locklin (country musician) b. 15 Feb Patty Andrews (singer / sister) b. 16 Feb Peter O'Sullevan (racing commentator) b. 03 Mar Mickey Spillane (writer) b. 09 Mar Betty Ford (former "first lady") b. 08 Apr Birgit Nilsson (soprano) b. 17 May Barry Morse (actor) b. 10 Jun Ingmar Bergman (director) b. 14 Jul Nelson Mandela (activist / politician) b. 18 Jul Richard Pearson (actor) b. 01 Aug Geoffrey Keen (actor) b. 21 Aug Billy Graham (evangelist) b. 07 Nov Efrem Zimbalist Jr (actor) b. 30 Nov Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (activist) b. 11 Dec Kurt Waldheim (politician) b. 21 Dec Helmut Schmidt (politician) b. 23 Dec by the way, I'm relying on good ol' IMDB for info on dates of birth and (lack of) dates of death. It tends to be reliable in the main, but I nearly put the conductor Norman del Mar down, but checked on another site and found (as I suspected) that he's been waving a celestial baton since 1994, so not 100% reliable. I'm open to any corrections!

And here's a list from 1919: Sheila Mercier (actress) b. 01 Jan ("Emmerdale") J. D. Salinger (writer) b. 01 Jan Lisa della Casa (soprano) b. 02 Feb Red Buttons (actor) b. 05 Feb Jack Palance (actor) b. 18 Feb Jennifer Jones (actress) b. 02 Mar Frank Campanella (actor) b. 12 Mar Celeste Holm (actress) b. 29 Apr Pete Seeger (musician) b. 03 May Frank Middlemass (actor) b. 28 May ("The Archers") Lord Carrington (politician) b. 06 Jun Richard Todd (actor) b. 11 Jun Louis Jourdan (actor) b. 19 Jun Al Molinaro (actor) b. 24 Jun ("Happy Days") Ward Costello (actor) b. 05 Jul Ernst Haefliger (tenor) b. 06 Jul Sir Edmund Hilary (mountaineer) b. 20 Jul Nehemiah Persoff (actor) b. 02 Aug Dino De Laurentiis (producer) b. 08 Aug Doris Lessing (writer) b. 22 Oct Sir Ludovic Kennedy (writer / broadcaster) b. 03 Nov Lisa Otto (soprano) b. 14 Nov Gillo Pontecorvo (writer / director) b. 19 Nov ("Battle of Algiers") Alan Young (actor) b. 19 Nov (played Wilbur Post in "Mr. Ed") Dulcie Gray (actress) b. 20 Nov Cliff Michelmore (braodcaster) b. 11 Dec

At a loose end this weekend. Here is a list of people (some of whom I know have already featured) who were born in 1920 and are still kicking around: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (former UN secretary general) b. 19 Jan Ronald Searle (cartoonist) b. 03 Mar James Doohan (actor) b. 03 Mar Lewis Gilbert (director) b. 06 Mar Eric Rohmer (director) b. 04 Apr Ravi Shankar (musician) b. 07 Apr Ronald Magill (actor) b. 21 Apr Renée Asherson (actress) b. 19 May Betty Driver (actress) b. 20 May Jan Rubes (actor) b. 06 Jun Ian Carmichael (actor) b. 18 Jun Ray Harryhausen (special effects) b. 29 Jun Juan Antonio Samaranch (sports administrator) b. 17 Jun P D James (Writer) b. 03 Aug Maureen O'Hara (actress) b. 17 Aug Shelley Winters (actress) b. 18 Aug Ray Bradbury (writer) b. 22 Aug G D Spradlin (actor) b. 31 Aug Dinah Sheridan (actress) b. 17 Sep Jack Warden (actor) b. 18 Sep Mickey Rooney (actor) b. 23 Sep Dick Francis (jockey / writer) b. 31 Oct Ricardo Montalban (actor) b. 25 Nov Dave Brubeck (musician) b. 06 Dec George Shultz (politician) b. 13 Dec

The Grauniad site has just done his obit today. For a moment, I thought I was on to a scoop! Esp. with it being a drummer Late obit

Another obit "still doing push-ups and shooting baskets in his driveway until last month" - quite a guy, let's hear it for him. Although we may revel rather ghoulishly on this site when another one goes to meet his maker, that is not to say we can't also appreciate and applaud someone like this who made the most of a very long life and got personally involved in many worthy causes.

Update Fair play that he can take all this sh*t and keep his sense of humour, but it would appear that it's getting to him now, and his long-suffering wife

Keith Miller Worked with Rod Stewart, Steve Gibbons, Robert Plant, Viv Stanshall, Culture Club, Ultravox, Paul McCartney, Pete Townsend, Rick Wakeman etc.

I got "told off" for a double posting the first time this came up, so this makes 3! Oh for those halcyon days when that search engine worked perfectly!

Surely Mr. Souness must be a better candidate after the season he's had (Bowyer, Dyer, Bellamy, Robert, etc)! He certainly has some history on the dodgy ticker front. He may be due for another visit to the Alex Hospital (or its North Eastern equivalent) very soon! My favourite quote regarding Mr. S. was Manchester local radio reporter James H Reeve who on hearing that Graeme had been sent off yet again commented "I can just picture him walking off the pitch with someone's leg under his arm". Wouldn't want to wish him ill really, as what would we do without his entertaining purple-faced rants at the ref in post match interviews! Football would be much the poorer.

June MacCloy ... wouldn't have passed the "famousness test" I guess, but anyone who appeared in a Marx Brothers film deserves a mention IMDB entry

Stan Orme (Lord Orme of Salford)

Good shout! That was a terrible loss. Even so, think I can top that. How could anyone have predicted Rod Hull falling off that roof?! Rod Hull

D C Cook ... wonder what he was driving?

I see her IMDB entry (Kay Walsh) has her down as Sometimes Credited As: Grace Stansfield which is surely an error as this was the real name of! Gracie Fields!

Yeah, sorry about that! The search thing would be worth getting working again. Also, didn't realise anyone else would deem him to be famous enough!

Robert Farnon, light music composer see also: Robert Farnon Society

Actress Ruth Hussey IMDB entry One of her biggest roles was in "The Philadelphia Story". Also in "The Great Gatsby" (1949 version with Alan Ladd), "Northwest Passage" and many others

Phyllis Diller, anyone? ... if she can last 2005 out, that is!

I think the evidence is quite clear!

Tick-Tock - it's gone very quiet in here!

Note the use of the word "possibly"

Cliff Allison No, I've never heard of him, but he fits well into this thread More info

Norbert Brainin, founder of Amadeus String Quartet ... reasonably famous if you're into string quartets. Otherwise, just feel free to come up with puns on his name. I'm sure there must be some!

That was my line!

Max Faulkner British golfing great