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1917:

 

Ernest Borgnine (actor) b. 24 Jan

Zsa Zsa Gabor (actress) b. 06 Feb

Sidney Sheldon (writer) b. 11 Feb

Googie Withers (actress) b. 12 Mar

Dame Vera Lynn (singer) b. 20 Mar

Dabbs Greer (actor) b. 02 Apr

Sven Hassel (writer) b. 19 Apr

Danielle Darrieux (actress) b. 01 May

George Gaynes (actor) b. 16 May (Police Academy)

Leslie Gilliat (producer) b. 29 May

Lena Horne (singer) b. 30 Jun

Phyllis Diller (actress) b. 17 Jul

Caspar Weinberger (politician) b. 18 Aug

Mel Ferrer (actor) b. 25 Aug

Lord Denis Healey (politician) b. 30 Aug

Herbert Lom (actor) b. 11 Sep

June Allyson (actress) b. 07 Oct

Joan Fontaine (actress) b. 22 Oct

Michael Gough (actor) b. 23 Nov

Arthur C. Clarke (writer) b. 16 Dec

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Sir Freddie Laker, of 1970s Skytrain fame, will be 83 this year. Famous enough, I would suggest, though I can't vouch for his state of health.

 

Apologies if he's been mentioned before, but I did try the search engine, for what it's worth.

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Sir Freddie Laker, of 1970s Skytrain fame, will be 83 this year. Famous enough, I would suggest, though I can't vouch for his state of health.

 

Apologies if he's been mentioned before, but I did try the search engine, for what it's worth.

Last I heard Freddie was running an airline in the Bahamas or somewhere similar. Doing OK and making a living. Great guy, I wish him well.

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Born in 1916:

 

Henri Dutilleux (composer) b. 22 Jan

Harry Rabinowitz (conductor) b. 26 Mar

Eugene McCarthy (senator) b. 29 Mar

Glenn Ford (actor) b. 01 May

Olivia de Havilland (actress) b. 01 Jul

Sir Edward Heath (politician) b. 09 Jul

Reg Varney (actor) b. 11 Jul

Gough Whitlam (politician) b. 11 Jul (former Aussie PM)

Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor) b. 05 Oct

Pearl Hackney (actress) b. 28 Oct

Walter Cronkite (presenter) b. 04 Nov

June Havoc (actress) b. 08 Nov

Sherwood Schwartz (writer) b. 14 Nov (Gilligan's Island. The Brady Bunch)

Kirk Douglas (actor) b. 09 Dec

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Born in 1915:

 

Norman Wisdom (comedian / actor) b. 04 Feb

Harry Morgan (actor) b. 10 Apr (M*A*S*H)

Peter Copley (actor) b. 20 May

Herman Wouk (writer) b. 27 May

Les Paul (guitarist) b. 09 Jun

Meinhardt Raabe (actor) b. 02 Sep (Wizard of Oz)

Augusto Pinochet (dictator) b. 25 Nov

Eli Wallach (actor) b. 07 Dec

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) b. 09 Dec

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Jimmy Savill must checking in soon. Not heard about him for a while?? :banghead:

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Jimmy Savill must checking in soon.  Not heard about him for a while?? :banghead:

If you check the Jimmy Savile thread, you will probably find that we have heard more than enough about him... ;)

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For some reason, I was almost certain that Cliff Michelmore was deceased, but a quick google has failed to uncover evidence of that - maybe I was thinking of someone else.

 

And I was at school with a nephew of Harry Rabinowitz - Jason I think his name was.

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For some reason, I was almost certain that Cliff Michelmore was deceased

Yes, as I hinted, some of these names make you think to yourself "I'm sure he popped it ages ago!". Good ol' Cliff, eh!

 

Karl Malden (b. 1912) is also giving us a fine run for our money!

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For some reason, I was almost certain that Cliff Michelmore was deceased, but a quick google has failed to uncover evidence of that - maybe I was thinking of someone else.

 

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You are probably thinking of Cliff Mitchelmore's wife Jean Metcalfe , ( radio and tv star ) who died in 2000

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Comedian Eric Sykes is "deaf, has failing eyesight, has suffered a stroke and undergone a heart bypass operation" according to the BBC. I'm not sure if he is famous enough internationally but he was the highest-paid scriptwriter of 1950s Britain and did the voiceover for the Teletubbies!

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Thats famous enough for me, get him on next years list!

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Comedian Eric Sykes is "deaf, has failing eyesight, has suffered a stroke and undergone a heart bypass operation" according to the BBC. I'm not sure if he is famous enough internationally but he was the highest-paid scriptwriter of 1950s Britain and did the voiceover for the Teletubbies!

The man is a genius. He would probably be much more famous than he is, except that he has tended to save his best efforts for work for which others would get the plaudits. He seems far too humble to accept well-deserved credit. Spike Milligan owed a huge debt to him, not only for all the work they did together, but also for his unbending support during Spike's many periods of doubt, depression and illness.

 

I salute him and wish him good health for many years to come.

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Barry Morse was mentioned a little while back. He played Prof Victor Bergman in "Space: 1999." 87 today!

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My final contribution in terms of these list is the following, all of whom were born in the year 1914 or before:

 

1905

Charles Lane (actor) b. 26 Jan

 

1907

Oscar Niemeyer (architect) b. 15 Dec

 

1908

John Kenneth Galbraith (economist) b. 15 Oct

Claude Lévi-Strauss (anthroplogist) b. 28 Nov

Simon Wiesenthal (Nazi Hunter) b. 31 Dec

 

1909

Sir Nicholas Winton (stockbroker / war hero) b. 19 May (the British Schindler)

Dolores Hope (wife) b. 27 May

 

1910

Al Lewis (actor) b. 30 Apr (Grandpa Munster)

Constance Cummings (actress) b. 15 May

Gloria Stuart (actress) b. 04 Jul

Kitty Carlisle (actress) b. 03 Sep

Edmundo Ros (band leader) b. 07 Dec

 

1911

Mary Hayley Bell (actress/ wife) b. 22 Jan (Mrs. John Mills)

Joseph Barbera (animator) b. 24 Mar

Ronald Neame (cinematographer / director) b. 23 Apr

Mitch Miller (musician) b 04 Jul

Gretchen Franklin (actress) b 07 Jul (Ethel from Eastenders)

Gian Carlo Menotti (composer) b 07 Jul

Val Guest (writer / director) b. 11 Dec

 

1912

Karl Malden (actor) b. 22 Mar

Milton Friedman (economist) b. 31 Jul

Michelangelo Antonioni (director) b. 29 Sep

Carlo Ponti (producer) b. 11 Dec

Lady Bird Johnson (former first lady) b. 22 Dec

 

1913

Steve Plytas (actor) b. 09 Jan (Kurt the chef in Fawlty Towers)

Rosa Parks (civil rights figure) b 04. Feb

Harold Stone (actor) b. 13 Mar

Frankie Laine (singer) b. 30 Mar

Bill Deedes (journalist) b. 01 Jun (former editor, Daily Telegraph)

Gerald Ford (politician) b. 14 Jul

Michael Foot (politician / star footballer) b. 23 Jul

Lou Jacobi (actor) b. 28 Dec

 

1914

Jane Wyman (actress) b. 04 Jan

Kevin McCarthy (actor) b. 15 Feb

Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) b. 09 May UPDATE

Robert Wise (director) b. 10 sep

Jack Cardiff (cinematographer) b. 18 sep

Anna Wing (actress) 30 Oct (Eastenders)

 

... I would imagine 1905 is far enough to go back, though if anyone knows of anyone born before then and still with us (and hasn't been mentioned before), I suggest you get them posted on here right away.

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Jimmy Savill must checking in soon.  Not heard about him for a while?? :o

If you check the Jimmy Savile thread, you will probably find that we have heard more than enough about him... :D

Thanks Teddy, Still must be a contender for next year. People will be able to afford to buy a house in Glen Coe when he pegs it. I think owns about half of them :D

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Surely George Best's number has got to be up soon?

 

[i know some people have problems with the search facility, but the George Best topic is only on the second page - not too far to look - Teddy]

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I know some people have problems with the search facility...

You know those machines they have outside the bank where you put a card in the little slot and you are supposed to be able to withdraw money from your account?

 

And you know quite a lot of the time they come up with a message like "your card is unreadable" or somesuch?

 

But you know perfectly well (in spite of the bank's insidious attempts to sow seeds of doubt in your mind) that your card works perfectly well and it is in fact the machine that is malfunctioning?

 

Don't you just hate that?

 

I know I do.

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I know some people have problems with the search facility...

You know those machines they have outside the bank where you put a card in the little slot and you are supposed to be able to withdraw money from your account?

 

And you know quite a lot of the time they come up with a message like "your card is unreadable" or somesuch?

 

But you know perfectly well (in spite of the bank's insidious attempts to sow seeds of doubt in your mind) that your card works perfectly well and it is in fact the machine that is malfunctioning?

 

Don't you just hate that?

 

I know I do.

I'll tell you what i hate. "And in this example there are no credit cards"

 

Let's say you are in a supermarket. You get your usual

groceries and your about to pay the cashier. You estimate

in your mind how much your groceries may cost. Let's

say you take out fifty dollars. Now the cashier asks for

the amount of money to pay for the groceries. You give

fifty but the cashier says fifty isen't enough and that

the correct cost for that amount of groceries is

{50.27}. That would break a dollar in which you

may have needed.

 

"They really needed that 27 cents" :lol:

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Don't you just hate that?

I'll tell you what i hate.

Hey, do we need a "pet peeve" thread? :lol:

 

regards,

Hein

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