Jean Stapleton	American Actress	January 19
Mort Walker	American Artist	September 3
Murray Walker	English Entertainer	October 10
Nadine Gordimer	South African Novelist	November 20
Ned Rorem	American Composer	October 23
Nguyen Van Thieu	Vietnamese Statesman	April 5
Nicholas Mosley	British Novelist	June 25
Nizar Qabbani	Syrian Diplomat	March 21
Norman Mailer	American Novelist	January 31
Og Mandino	American Author	December 12
Paddy Chayefsky	American Dramatist	January 23
Percy Heath	American Musician	April 30
Merton Miller	American Economist	May 16
Markus Wolf	German Public Servant	January 19
Maria Callas	American Musician	December 2
John Mortimer	English Novelist	April 21
Joseph Heller	American Novelist	May 1
Larry Buchanan	American Director	January 31
Larry Doby	American Athlete	December 13
Larry Rivers	American Musician	August 17
Lee Kuan Yew	Singaporean Statesman	September 16
Lindsay Anderson	English Director	April 17
Liz Smith	American Journalist	February 2
Malcolm Boyd	American Clergyman	June 8
Marcel Marceau	French Actor	March 22
Mari Evans	American Poet	July 16
Peter Gay	American Historian	June 20
Philip J. Davis	American Mathematician
Philip Warren Anderson	American Scientist	January 13
Sumner Redstone	American Businesman	May 27
Ted Knight	American Actor	December 7
Ted Stevens	American Politician	November 18
Theodore Isaac Rubin	American Psychologist	April 11
Victoria de los Angeles	Spanish Musician	November 1
Virginia C. Andrews	American Author	June 6
Wally Schirra	American Astronaut	March 12
Walter Kohn	Austrian Physicist	March 9
William Kraft	American Musician
William Weaver	English Author	July 24
Wislawa Szymborska	Polish Poet	July 2
Shusaku Endo	Japanese Author	March 27
Shimon Peres	Israeli Statesman	August 21
Sam Sheppard	American Scientist	December 29
Richard Attenborough	English Actor	August 29
Richard Avedon	American Photographer	May 15
Robert J. Dole	American Politician	July 22
Robert Maxwell	British Soldier	June 10
Robin Day	British Journalist	October 23
Rocky Marciano	American Athlete	September 1
Roy Lichtenstein	American Artist	October 27
Rudolph A. Marcus	Canadian Scientist	July 21
Ruth Park	New Zealander Author	August 24
Sam Francis	American Artist	June 25
Sam Rivers	American Musician	September 25
Wojciech Jaruzelski	Polish Leader	July 6
Jean Nidetch	American Businessman	October 12
Aaron Spelling	American Producer	April 22
Brendan Behan	Irish Dramatist	February 9
Bum Phillips	American Coach	September 29
Carol Channing	American Actress	January 31
Carroll Shelby	American Designer	January 11
Charles Keating	American Lawyer	December 4
Charlton Heston	American Actor	October 4
Chuck Yeager	American Aviator	February 13
Cyril Ponnamperuma	Scientist	October 16
Dexter Gordon	American Musician	February 27
Diane Arbus	American Photographer	March 14
Doc Watson	American Musician	March 3
Bobby Thomson	American Athlete	October 25
Bob Dole	American Politician	July 22
Bob Barker	American Actor	December 12
Alan Shepard	American Astronaut	November 18
Albert King	American Musician	April 25
Alice Miller	Swiss Psychologist	January 12
Ann Miller	American Dancer	April 12
Anne Baxter	American Actress	May 7
Anthony Hecht	American Poet	January 16
Arthur Hiller	Canadian Director	November 22
Arvid Carlsson	Swedish Scientist	January 25
Basil Hume	English Clergyman	March 2
Bea Arthur	American Actress	May 13
Bettie Page	American Model	April 22
Donald Sinden	English Actor	October 9
Dorothy Dunnett	Scottish Novelist	August 25
Dorothy Gilman	American Novelist	June 25
Harry Reasoner	American Journalist	April 17
Harry Seidler	Australian Architect	June 25
Henry A. Kissinger	German Statesman	May 27
Ira Hayes	American Soldier	January 12
Italo Calvino	Italian Journalist	October 15
Jack Kilby	American Scientist	November 8
James Dickey	American Novelist	February 2
James Gunn	American Writer
James L. Buckley	American Politician	March 9
James Schuyler	American Poet	November 9
James Stockdale	American Soldier	December 23
Harold H. Greene	American Judge	February 6
Hank Williams	American Musician	September 17
Hank Stram	American Athlete	January 3
Ed McMahon	American Entertainer	March 6
Edward Mulhare	Irish Actor	April 8
Ernest Mandel	Belgian Author	April 5
Estelle Getty	American Actress	July 25
Franco Zeffirelli	Italian Director	February 12
Frank Reynolds	American Journalist	November 29
Freeman Dyson	American Physicist	December 15
Gloria Grahame	American Actress	November 28
Glynis Johns	British Actress	October 5
Gordon R. Dickson	Canadian Author	November 1
Gyorgy Ligeti	Hungarian Composer	May 28
Jean Kerr	American Playwright	July 10