Famous 97 Years Old
Ethan Hayes
Updated on January 16, 2026
The list of famous 97 years old includes David Attenborough, Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett, Georgia Holt, Alan Greenspan. Famous personalities featured on this list, include actors, political leaders, educators and poets and from other domains of life. This list of 97 years old includes people from United States, Germany, England & France and many more countries.
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Birthdate: May 8, 1926
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Isleworth, England
Widely regarded as a national treasure in the United Kingdom, Sir David Attenborough is the only person to have received BAFTAs for TV shows meant for different television sets, such as black and white, color, 3D, HD, and 4K. In 2002, he was mentioned in BBC's 100 Greatest Britons list.
Birthdate: June 28, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Mel Brooks is the director of iconic comedy films and spoofs like The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety and Spaceballs. He is also an actor and a writer and has written for many films. He has received many awards and accolades and won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the film. The Producers, in 1969.
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Tony Bennett(American Popular Retired Singer Best Known for His Album ‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco')
Birthdate: August 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Tony Bennett is an American painter and singer. He is credited with founding the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, popular performing arts high school. A famous and critically praised concert performer and recording artist, Tony Bennett has sold more than 50 million records worldwide.
Birthdate: June 9, 1926
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Kensett, Arkansas, United States
Georgia Holt is a retired American actress, singer-songwriter, and former model. After beginning her career as a child singer, Holt started appearing on popular TV shows which increased her popularity. In 2013, Georgia Holt became the subject of a documentary titled Dear Mom, Love Cher, which also featured her famous daughter Cher.
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Robert Clary(Best Known for His Role in the Sitcom 'Hogan's Heroes')
Birthdate: March 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris, France
Robert Clary is a French-American actor, artist, singer, author, and lecturer. He is known for his portrayal of Corporal Louis LeBeau in the American television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes. A Holocaust survivor, Clary often speaks about the perils faced by him during the Second World War. Robert Clary has also released a memoir titled From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes.
Birthdate: March 6, 1926
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Washington Heights, New York, United States
Economist Alan Greenspan chaired the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. It is believed that his easy money policies had caused the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. He now works as a consultant through his organization Greenspan Associates LLC. He was also trained in clarinet at the Juilliard School.
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James Lipton(actor, screenwriter, poet, television presenter)
Birthdate: September 19, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Detroit
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Barbara Rush(Actress)
Birthdate: January 4, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, USA
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Norman Jewison(Canadian Film and Television Director, Producer and Founder of the 'Canadian Film Centre')
Birthdate: July 21, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
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Peter Marshall (Entertainer)
Birthdate: March 30, 1926
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Huntington
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
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Roger Corman(American film producer)
Birthdate: April 5, 1926
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Birthdate: November 24, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Shanghai, China
Tsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese-American physicist renowned for his work on particle physics, parity violation, soliton stars, nontopological solitons, and the Lee Model. In 1957, he became the third-youngest person to be awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in the science fields; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also the first Chinese Nobel laureate.
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Paul Berg(American Biochemist and Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Birthdate: June 30, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Paul Berg is best known for his research on recombinant DNA techniques. The Stanford professor was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York and is a Penn State alumnus. He has also won the National Medal of Science, among other awards.
Birthdate: May 29, 1926
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Kébémer Department
Former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade and the current Senegalese Democratic Party secretary-general Abdoulaye Wade had practiced as a lawyer in France for a while after completing his PhD. Following his return to Senegal, he became an academic. His presidency was plagued by charges of corruption and nepotism.
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Carl Erskine(Baseball pitcher)
Birthdate: December 13, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Anderson, Indiana, United States
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César Pelli(Architect, Entrepreneur)
Birthdate: October 12, 1926
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: San Miguel de Tucumán
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Thich Nhat Hanh(Buddhist monk and peace activist who has founded dozens of schools and universities and has published over 100 books.)
Birthdate: October 11, 1926
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Huế, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, French Indochina
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Gyorgy Kurtag(Composer)
Birthdate: February 19, 1926
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Lugoj, Romania
Born to Hungarian parents in Romania, Gyorgy Kurtag grew up to become one of the greatest classical composers and pianists of his country. He has been part of many orchestras and ensembles, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, and has taught at the Liszt Academy. His numerous awards include the Kossuth Prize.
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Vernon L. Smith(American Economist, Professor and Winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences)
Birthdate: January 1, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Wichita, Kansas, United States
Birthdate: November 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Kaunas, Lithuania
Former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus had fought against the Soviet army during World War II. After fleeing to Germany, he studied in Munich and then migrated to the U.S., where he earned a civil engineering degree. Among his many accolades are honorary doctorates from countless foreign universities.
Birthdate: August 11, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Lithuania
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Rupert Neve(Engineer, Audio engineer)
Birthdate: July 31, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Newton Abbot
A pioneer in the design of audio recording equipments, Arthur Rupert Neve began his career designing public address systems, recording speakers and singers on lacquer discs. He later started his own business, designing analog recording and audio mixing equipments, .establishing Neve Electronics, Focusrite, AMS Neve, and finally Rupert Neve Designs. Many of his long-discontinued products are now considered collectors' items.
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Arnaldo Pomodoro(Sculptor)
Birthdate: June 23, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Morciano di Romagna, Italy
Known for his singular artistic language, underpinned by his extraordinary craftsmanship, Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro developed an interest in art and scenography while working for the Public Works Department. However, it was not until he attended an exhibition of Picasso in 1953 that he decided to devote his life to art, eventually creating many masterpieces including the Sfera con Sfera
Birthdate: June 16, 1926
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Huehuetenango
Efraín Ríos Montt was a Guatemalan politician and military officer. From 1982 to 1983, he served as the 26th president of Guatemala. His brief tenure as the de facto president was one of the bloodiest periods during the then-ongoing Guatemalan Civil War. In 2013, he was sentenced to 80 years in prison for crimes against humanity and genocide.
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Mathilde Krim(Geneticist, Physician)
Birthdate: July 9, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Como
Mathilde Krim was an Israeli medical researcher best known for her association with amfAR, an international nonprofit organization that aims at supporting AIDS research; she was the founding chairman of the organization. For her immense contribution to the field of AIDS research, Mathilde Krim was honored with the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000.
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Bob Richards(American Athlete and Politician)
Birthdate: February 20, 1926
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Champaign, Illinois, United States
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi(Egyptian Islamic Scholar)
Birthdate: September 9, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Saft Turab, Egypt
Yusuf al-Qaradawi was an Egyptian scholar based in Qatar. An important influencer in the Muslim world, Al-Qaradawi is best remembered for his program, Sharia and Life. In addition to authoring over 120 books, Yusuf al-Qaradawi also helped found a website known as IslamOnline. Al-Qaradawi is often counted among the most influential Islamic scholars of his generation.
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David Steindl-Rast(Monk)
Birthdate: July 12, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
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Robert Bly(American Poet & Essayist Best Know for his Prose Book 'Iron John: A Book About Men')
Birthdate: December 23, 1926
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States
Robert Bly was an American poet, activist, and essayist. He is best remembered for leading the mythopoetic men's movement. He is also remembered for his book Iron John: A Book About Men. Robert Bly is also well-known for his work The Light Around the Body, which earned him the National Book Award for Poetry in 1968.
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René Depestre(Poet)
Birthdate: August 29, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Jacmel, Haiti
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
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Jean-Pierre Serre(Mathematician, Topologist, Professor)
Birthdate: September 15, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Pyrénées-Orientales
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Eugene Iglesias(Actor)
Birthdate: December 3, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Betye Saar(Artist)
Birthdate: July 30, 1926
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
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Yury Grigorovich(Russian Dancer and Choreographer)
Birthdate: January 2, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: St. Petersburg, Russia
Yury Grigorovich is a Soviet and Russian choreographer and dancer. One of the most popular and successful ballet dancers of his generation, Grigorovich dominated the Russian ballet scene for over three decades. Grigorovich has also headed the juries of several international competitions in classical ballet. He has also received several awards, such as the Lenin Prize and Ludvig Nobel Prize.
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Stanley Cavell(Philosopher, University teacher)
Birthdate: September 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Atlanta
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Kitty Hart-Moxon(Survivor)
Birthdate: December 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Bielsko, Poland
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Giotto Bizzarrini(Italian engineer)
Birthdate: June 6, 1926
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Livorno, Italy
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Peter Lax(Mathematician, University teacher)
Birthdate: May 1, 1926
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Budapest
Abel Prize-winning Hungarian-American mathematician Peter Lax is remembered for his pathbreaking research on the partial differential equation and its application. He initilly worked for the US’s Manhattan Project and then taught at the New York University and even became the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Elihu Katz(Sociologist)
Birthdate: May 31, 1926
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
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Yehuda Bauer(Israeli Historian and Scholar)
Birthdate: April 6, 1926
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Prague, Czech Republic
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Carlett A. Brown(Navy Veteran)
Birthdate: 1927 AD
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Laurence Rosenthal(Composer, Musician, Film score composer)
Birthdate: November 4, 1926
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Detroit
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Murray Schisgal(Playwright, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor, Writer)
Birthdate: November 25, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: New York City
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Andrew Schally(American Endocrinologist and Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine)
Birthdate: November 30, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vilnius, Lithuania
Andrew Schally escaped Poland and went to Romania and the UK with his family following the Nazi invasion, eventually settling in Canada. He grew up to be a renowned endocrinologist and won the Nobel Prize for his research on the hypothalamus and how it controls the hormones in the body.
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E. Mavis Hetherington(Former Canadian Psychology Professor)
Birthdate: November 27, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: British Columbia, Canada
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Tamara Imeretinsky(Princess)
Birthdate: December 5, 1926
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Unknown
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Jürgen Moltmann(German Reformed Theologian)
Birthdate: April 8, 1926
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
Currently Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, German Reformed theologian, Jürgen Moltmann, is especially known for developing a form of social trinitarianism. Describing his views as Post-Barthian, he has penned down numerous works including Theology of Hope, The Crucified God, God in Creation etc. He is of the view that God suffers with humanity, while also promising a better future through the hope of the Resurrection
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Heinz Schutz(Field hockey player)
Birthdate: February 25, 1926
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Germany
Birthdate: June 5, 1926
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Massillon, Ohio
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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Sunderlal Bahuguna(Environmentalist, Political activist)
Birthdate: January 9, 1927
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tehri
Sunderlal Bahuguna was an Indian environmentalist best remembered for his involvement in the Chipko movement. The movement, which aims at conserving forests, received a major boost after Bahuguna created the slogan ecology is the permanent economy. The movement inspired similar movements across India. Sunderlal Bahuguna is also remembered for leading the anti-Tehri Dam movement.
