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Henry Kissinger
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
Shimon Peres
Israeli politician (1923–2016) –Former President of Israel (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996)
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer (1923–2014)
Wisława Szymborska
Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner (1923–2012)
Lee Kuan Yew
1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
Charlton Heston
American actor (1923–2008)
Maria Meneghini Callas
American-Greek operatic soprano (1923–1977)
Heydar Aliyev
3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1923–2003)
Italo Calvino
Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Polish military and political official, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 to 1989
Norman Mailer
American writer (1923–2007)
Conrad Bain
Canadian-American actor, personality, entertainer, and activist (1923–2013)
Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist (1923-2020)
Alan Shepard
American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)
Anne Baxter
American actress (1923–1985)
Hank Williams
American singer-songwriter (1923–1953)
Joseph Heller
American writer
Mauno Koivisto
President of Finland (1923–2017)
Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005
Marcel Marceau
French actor and mime artist (1923–2007)
Bob Dole
American politician (1923–2021)
Rocky Marciano
American heavyweight boxing champion (1923-1969)
Glynis Johns
British actress (1923–2024)
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
president of South Vietnam from 1965–75
Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)
Franco Zeffirelli
Italian director and politician (1923-2019)
Lee Teng-hui
7-9th President of Republic of China(Taiwan) (1923-2020)
Chuck Yeager
American World War II flying ace and test pilot; first pilot to fly faster than sound (1923–2020)
Roy Lichtenstein
American pop artist (1923–1997)
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian chemist
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
American medical researcher
György Ligeti
Hungarian composer (1923-2006)
Agatha Barbara
Maltese politician (1923-2002)
Arvid Carlsson
Swedish neuroscientist
Rasul Gamzatov
Avar poet (1923-2003)
Gloria Grahame
American actress (1923–1981)
Cliff Robertson
American actor (1923–2011)
Yaşar Kemal
Kurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
Peter II of Yugoslavia
last King of Yugoslavia from 1934 to 1945 (1923-1970)
Nizar Qabbani
Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher (1923-1998)
Stephanie L. Kwolek
American chemist, inventor of Kevlar (1923–2014)
Lloyd Shapley
American economist and mathematician
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
117th pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church (1923–2012)
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Soviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
Shūsaku Endō
author from Japan (1923–1996)
Clark Gregg
American economist (1923–2000)
Brendan Behan
Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright (1923-1964)
Edgar F. Codd
English computer scientist (1923–2003)
Yelena Bonner
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
René Thom
French mathematician (1923–2002)
Jorge Semprún
Spanish-French writer (1923-2011)
Charles Durning
American actor (1923-2012)
Wally Schirra
American astronaut (1923–2007)
Bob Barker
American game show host (1923–2023)
Dev Anand
Indian actor, producer, director
Rose Marie
American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer (1923–2017)
Diane Arbus
American photographer (1923–1971)