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Edmund Hillary
New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist (1919–2008)
Doris Lessing
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
J. D. Salinger
American author (1919–2010)
Eva Perón
Argentine actress and politician (1919–1952)
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Pierre Trudeau
Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 (1919–2000)
Pete Seeger
American folk singer (1919–2014)
Giulio Andreotti
Italian politician and statesman (1919–2013)
Nat King Cole
American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)
Donald Pleasence
British actor (1919–1995)
Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Walter Scheel
President of West Germany (1974-1979)
Jennifer Jones
American actress (1919–2009)
Margot Fonteyn
British ballerina
James M. Buchanan
American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)
Zhao Ziyang
former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
William Lipscomb
Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist
Siad Barre
Head of State of Somalia (1919–1995)
Jack Palance
American actor (1919–2006)
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
Godfrey Hounsfield
English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
Amrita Pritam
Punjabi poet (1919–2005)
Joseph Murray
US surgeon (1919–2012)
Fausto Coppi
Italian cyclist
Jackie Robinson
American baseball player (1919–1972)
Ian Douglas Smith
Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1919–2007)
Matilde Camus
Spanish poet (1919–2012)
Kiichi Miyazawa
78th Prime Minister of Japan (1919–2007)
Andreas Papandreou
Greek economist and politician (1919–1996)
Inder Kumar Gujral
Prime Minister of India (1997-1998)
Donald J. Cram
American chemist (1919–2001)
Georgios Papadopoulos
Greek military dictator from 1967 to 1973
Peter Abrahams
South African novelist, journalist and political commentator (1919–2017)
Dino De Laurentiis
Italian film producer (1919–2010)
Choi Kyu-hah
4th President of South Korea (1919–2006)
Martin Balsam
American actor (1919–1996)
Lino Ventura
Italian-French actor
Eva Gabor
Hungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)
Frederik Pohl
American science fiction writer and editor (1919–2013)
George Wallace
45th Governor of Alabama (1919–1998)
Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
Red Buttons
American comedian and actor (1919–2006)
Leon Festinger
American psychologist
G. E. M. Anscombe
British analytic philosopher
Bob Paisley
English footballer and manager (1919–1996)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)
Chavela Vargas
Mexican singer (1919–2012)
Ryszard Kaczorowski
Polish statesman, Last President of Poland in Exile (1919–2010)
Tshombé Moïse
Congolese politician and secessionist leader (1919–1969)
Daniel Bell
American sociologist (1919–2011)
Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990)
Osvaldo Dorticós
President of Cuba (1919–1983)
Eileen Heckart
American actress (1919–2001)
Liberace
Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule.
Glafcos Clerides
4th President of the Republic of Cyprus (1993-2003)
Joop den Uyl
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1919–1987)
Mohamed Boudiaf
Algerian politician (1919–1992)
Pierre Soulages
French painter and engraver (1919–2022)
Mario Bunge
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919-2020)