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• 1917–2010Lena HorneAmerican singer, actress, dancer and activistJune 30
• 1917–2012Phyllis DillerAmerican comedian and actressJuly 17
• 1917–1975Susan HaywardAmerican actressJune 30
• 1917–2019I. M. PeiChinese-American architectApril 26
• 1917–1980Yahya KhanPresident of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971February 4
• 1917–1993Anthony BurgessEnglish writer and composerFebruary 25
• 1917–1982Thelonious MonkAmerican jazz pianist and composerOctober 10
• 1917–1993Dizzy GillespieAmerican jazz trumpeterOctober 21
• 1917–1993Raymond BurrCanadian actorMay 21
• 1917–1987M. G. RamachandranIndian actor and politicianJanuary 17
• 1917–2001John Lee HookerAmerican blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)August 22
• 1917–1980Óscar RomeroArchbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980August 15
• 1917–2008Mel FerrerAmerican actor, director and producerAugust 25
• 1917–2006June AllysonAmerican actressOctober 7
• 1917–2010Robert ByrdAmerican politicianNovember 20
• 1917–2012Eric HobsbawmBritish academic historian and Marxist historiographerJune 9
• 1917–1994Dinah ShoreAmerican singer and actressMarch 1
• 1917–1986Desi ArnazCuban-American musician, actor, producer and television studio headMarch 2
• 1917–2007Sidney SheldonAmerican writerFebruary 11
• 1917–1987Buddy RichAmerican jazz drummer and bandleaderSeptember 30
• 1917–2020Vera LynnEnglish singer and entertainerMarch 20
• 1917–2001Katharine GrahamAmerican newspaper publisherJune 16
• 1917–2012Celeste HolmAmerican stage, film and television actressApril 29
• 1917–1979Nur Muhammad TarakiAfghan politicianJuly 15
• 1917–2009Andrew WyethAmerican visual artistJuly 12
• 1917–1967Carson McCullersAmerican writerFebruary 19
• 1917–1987Henry Ford IIAmerican businessmanSeptember 4
• 1917–1985Heinrich BöllGerman writerDecember 21
• 1917–2022Marsha HuntAmerican actressOctober 17
• 1917–2015Kenan Evren7th President of Turkey from 1982 to 1989July 17
• 1917–2012Herbert LomCzech-British actorSeptember 11
• 1917–1993John ConnallyAmerican politicianFebruary 27
• 1917–2002Cyrus VanceAmerican lawyer and diplomatMarch 27
• 1917–1992David BohmAmerican-Brazilian-British scientistDecember 20
• 1917–2016George GaynesAmerican actorMay 3
• 1917–2014Louis ZamperiniAmerican athlete and army officerJanuary 26
• 1917–2005Ossie DavisAmerican actor, director, writer, and activistDecember 18
• 1917–1994Robert BlochAmerican fiction writerApril 5
• 1917–1996Joan ClarkeEnglish cryptanalystJune 24
• 1917–2006Red AuerbachAmerican basketball coach and executiveSeptember 20
• 1917–1993Oliver TamboSouth African anti-apartheid activist and politicianOctober 27
• 1917–1973Jean-Pierre MelvilleFrench filmmaker and actorOctober 20
• 1917–2017June ForayAmerican voice actressSeptember 18
• 1917–2003Ilya PrigogineBelgian physical chemistJanuary 25
• 1917–2013Rochus MischGerman SS non-commissioned officerJuly 29
• 1917–1986Juan RulfoMexican writerMay 16
• 1917–1981Richard BooneAmerican actorJune 18
• 1917–2015Kirk KerkorianAmerican businessman, investor, and philanthropistJune 6
• 1917–2012Ann RutherfordCanadian-born American actressNovember 2
• 1917–2006Caspar WeinbergerAmerican politician and businessmanAugust 18
• 1917–1994Fernando ReySpanish actorSeptember 20
• 1917–2005Will EisnerAmerican cartoonist, writer and entrepreneurMarch 6
• 1917–2000David TomlinsonEnglish actorMay 7
• 1917–2017Danielle DarrieuxFrench actress and singerMay 1
• 1917–2007Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.American intellectualOctober 15
• 1917–2000Gwendolyn BrooksAmerican writerJune 7
• 1917–1967Violeta ParraChilean musician and folkloristOctober 4
• 1917–1957Pedro InfanteMexican actor and singerNovember 18
• 1917–2015Robert ConquestBritish-American historian and poetJuly 15
• 1917–1992Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of RussiaHead of the House of Romanov from 1938 to 1992August 30