List of centenarian personalities

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This list contains personalities who could reach at least their hundredth year of life .

Living centenarian personalities

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

  • Karl Dunz (born February 2, 1917), German homeland researcher
  • Ruth Dajan (born March 7, 1917), Israeli fashion designer and political and social activist
  • Gerhard Finke (born March 31, 1917), German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
  • Song Ping (born April 24, 1917), Chinese politician
  • Lise Nørgaard (born June 14, 1917), Danish journalist and writer
  • Art Rupe (born September 5, 1917), American label founder, music producer and music publisher
  • Peter Pauly (born September 20, 1917), German-Namibian theologian
  • Francis Jackson (born October 2, 1917), British organist and composer
  • Marsha Hunt (born October 17, 1917), American actress
  • Julien-François Zbinden (born November 11, 1917), Swiss composer
  • Helmut Matheis (born November 21, 1917), German calligrapher and graphic artist
  • Karl-Günther von Hase (born December 15, 1917), German diplomat and former ZDF director

1918

1919

1920

Personalities who died over the age of 100

A.

  • Erwin van Aaken (May 9, 1904 - January 28, 2008), German architect
  • Hilja Aaltonen (September 27, 1907 - February 13, 2013), Finnish poet and evangelist
  • Daniel Aaron (August 4, 1912 - April 30, 2016), American historian and Americanist
  • Claude Abadie (January 16, 1920 - March 29, 2020), French jazz musician and band leader
  • Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 - December 17, 1973), American astronomer
  • George Abbott (June 25, 1887 - January 31, 1995), American screenwriter, director, and actor
  • MH Abrams (July 23, 1912 - April 21, 2015), American literary critic
  • Janina Adamczyk (March 3, 1911 - July 30, 2013), Polish chemist
  • Frances Adaskin (August 23, 1900 - March 8, 2001), Canadian pianist
  • Helene Adolf (December 31, 1895 - December 13, 1998), Austrian-American German studies specialist
  • Leoncio Afonso (September 12, 1916 - March 27, 2017), Spanish geographer and explorer of the Canary Islands
  • Elke Ahlf (March 2, 1905 - July 21, 2008), German actress and director
  • Manohar Aich (March 17, 1914 - June 5, 2016), Indian bodybuilder
  • Lucette Almanzor-Destouches (July 20, 1912 - November 8, 2019), French dancer
  • Irène Aïtoff (July 30, 1904 - June 5, 2006), French pianist
  • Lewis Ellsworth Akeley (February 22, 1861 - September 5, 1961) American scientist and university professor
  • Said Akl (July 4, 1912 - November 28, 2014), Lebanese poet
  • Hassan Alavikia (December 1, 1912 - April 20, 2013), Iranian general
  • Rosa Albach-Retty (December 26, 1874 - August 26, 1980), Austrian actress and grandmother of Romy Schneider
  • Licia Albanese (July 22, 1909 - August 15, 2014), Italian-American soprano
  • Ellen Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 - May 4, 2015), American film and stage actress
  • Carlos Aldunate Lyon (May 16, 1916 - July 18, 2018), Chilean Roman Catholic priest, university professor and author
  • Fedora Alemán (October 11, 1912 - February 6, 2018), Venezuelan singer
  • Giuseppe Alessi (October 29, 1905 - July 13, 2009), Italian politician
  • Horace Alexander (July 30, 1889 - September 30, 1989), English ornithologist and pacifist
  • Van Alexander (May 2, 1915 - July 19, 2015), American composer, arranger and band leader
  • Caesar Alexopoulos (November 10, 1909 - March 27, 2010), Greek physicist, President of the Academy of Athens
  • Pierre Aliker (February 9, 1907 - December 5, 2013), doctor and politician from Martinique
  • Émile Allais (February 25, 1912 - October 17, 2012), French ski racer
  • Edward Allcard (October 31, 1914 - July 28, 2017), British naval architect
  • Doris Allen (October 8, 1901 - March 7, 2002), American psychologist
  • Topazia Alliata (September 5, 1913 - November 23, 2015), Italian painter, writer and gallery owner
  • Jenny Alpha (April 22, 1910 - September 8, 2010), French actress and singer from Martinique
  • Franz Alt (November 30, 1910 - July 21, 2011), Austrian-American mathematician
  • Alexandre Altberg (June 29, 1908 - August 15, 2009), Brazilian architect
  • Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 - October 19, 2002), Mexican photographer
  • Albert Jean Amateau (April 20, 1889 - February 9, 1996), Turkish-American rabbi, businessman, lawyer, and social activist
  • Kazys Ambrozaitis (July 24, 1911 - January 2, 2017), Lithuanian radiologist
  • Charles Amer (September 16, 1911 - February 23, 2012), British entrepreneur and football club president
  • Lukas Ammann (September 29, 1912 - May 3, 2017), Swiss actor
  • Kurt Georg Heinrich Andersen (October 2, 1898 - January 9, 2003), German general in the Wehrmacht and commander of the Federal Border Guard
  • Leonidas Andrianopoulos (August 10, 1911 - October 25, 2011), Greek football player
  • Nina Andrycz (November 11, 1912 - January 31, 2014), Polish actress and writer
  • Katja Andy (May 23, 1907 - December 30, 2013), German-American pianist
  • Jean Anglade (March 18, 1915 - November 22, 2017), French writer
  • Nikolai Alexandrovich Annenkov (September 21, 1899 - September 30, 1999), Russian actor
  • Vera Ansbach (January 29, 1920 - February 1, 2020), German anti-fascist and deputy director of the Deutsche Handelsbank of the GDR
  • Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher (October 21, 1904 - June 22, 2006), German-American psychologist and representative of individual psychology
  • Sigrid von Antropoff-Hoerschelmann (April 1, 1886 - April 9, 1987), German-Baltic pianist
  • Hendrik Apetz (March 26, 1910 - February 26, 2011), German entrepreneur
  • Karl Appelmann (January 24, 1915 - May 9, 2015), German politician (SPD)
  • Appelschnut (March 19, 1897 - October 30, 1998), daughter of the poet Otto Ernst
  • Constance MK Applebee (February 24, 1873 - January 26, 1981), American sports journalist and founder of the American Field Hockey Association
  • Frank Pierpoint Appleby (December 23, 1913 - May 18, 2015), Canadian politician
  • Melchora Aquino (January 6, 1812 - March 2, 1919), Filipino revolutionary ("mother of the Katipunan")
  • Stuart Archer (February 3, 1915 - May 2, 2015), British Army Officer and World War II veteran
  • Neal Arden (December 27, 1909 - June 4, 2014), British actor
  • Giorgina Arian Levi (August 15, 1910 - September 3, 2011), Italian politician
  • Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 - June 9, 2007), German-American art psychologist
  • Rosa Arnsberg (June 2, 1908 - June 1, 2010), promoter of understanding between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans
  • Émile Aron (November 2, 1907 - January 22, 2011), French medic
  • Carl Aschan (May 6, 1906 - July 27, 2008), Swedish-British secret service agent
  • Reinhard Aschenbrenner (June 15, 1906 - January 25, 2008), German physician
  • James Earle Ash (September 8, 1884 - March 24, 1986), American pathologist and officer
  • Viktoras Ašmenskas (February 19, 1912 - February 25, 2016), Lithuanian engineer and pilot
  • Svend Asmussen (February 28, 1916 - February 7, 2017), Danish jazz musician
  • Gerhard Aßfahl (April 10, 1904 - July 27, 2007), German archivist, pedagogue and historian
  • David Bernard Ast (September 30, 1902 - February 3, 2007), American dentist and officer in the New York State Department of Health
  • Brooke Astor (March 30, 1902 - August 13, 2007), American benefactress and wife of Vincent Astor
  • Diana Athill (December 21, 1917 - January 23, 2019), British author, memoir writer and literary critic
  • Germaine Auger (June 13, 1889 - August 24, 2001), French actress
  • Karl Augustin (August 30, 1884 - October 23, 1988), Swiss printer and publisher of Austrian origin
  • Clara Auteri Pepe (May 19, 1918 - June 16, 2018), Italian actress
  • Smilja Avramov (February 15, 1918 - October 2, 2018), Yugoslav legal scholar
  • Babiker Awadalla (March 2, 1917 - January 17, 2019), Sudanese politician and Prime Minister
  • Francisco Ayala (March 16, 1906 - November 3, 2009) Spanish writer and sociologist

B.

  • Ba Jin (November 25, 1904 - October 17, 2005), Chinese writer
  • John Haden Badley (February 21, 1865 - March 6, 1967), English educator (Bedales School)
  • Corrado Bafile (July 4, 1903 - February 3, 2005), Italian Roman Catholic theologian, diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
  • Maj-Britt Bæhrendtz (May 23, 1916 - July 15, 2018), Swedish author and radio presenter
  • William Louis Bailey (August 15, 1882 - October 17, 1982), Canadian sociologist and university professor
  • Wilson Baker (January 24, 1900 - June 3, 2002), American chemist
  • Woolford Bales Baker (December 30, 1892 - December 27, 1993), American biologist
  • Errie Ball (November 14, 1910 - July 2, 2014), Welsh-American golfer
  • Lucio Ballesteros Jaime (April 12, 1906 - June 30, 2008), Spanish journalist and poet
  • Stefan Bałuk (January 15, 1914 - January 30, 2014), Polish photographer and military man
  • Jonas Balys (July 2, 1909 - September 9, 2011), Lithuanian ethnologist, folklorist and professor
  • Ruth Bancroft (September 2, 1908 - November 26, 2017), American landscape architect
  • Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902 - April 1, 2004), American officer, founder of the Green Berets
  • Eulalie M. Banks (June 12, 1895 - November 12, 1999), American children's book illustrator
  • Jesse Bankston (October 7, 1907 - November 25, 2010), American politician
  • José Miguel de Barandiarán (December 31, 1889 - December 21, 1991), Spanish anthropologist and ethnologist
  • Marta Baranowska (November 29, 1903 - January 7, 2009), Polish social worker, resistance fighter against National Socialism and prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
  • Carey W. Barber (July 4, 1905 - April 8, 2007), member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Alexandre José Barbosa Lima Sobrinho (January 22, 1897 - July 16, 2000), Brazilian journalist and politician
  • Richard L. Bare (August 12, 1913 - March 28, 2015), American television director
  • Felicitas Barg (June 4, 1900 - October 7, 2002), German reciter
  • Leonilla Ivanovna Baryatinskaya (May 9, 1816 - February 1, 1918), Russian nobleman
  • Abraham Bar Menachem (May 16, 1912 - March 24, 2017), Israeli lawyer and politician
  • Joseph Barnes (November 14, 1914 - May 4, 2017), Northern Irish medic
  • Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 - November 13, 2012), American painter
  • James Rennie Barnett (September 6, 1864 - January 3, 1965) British naval engineer
  • Alexander Johnston Barron (July 16, 1880 - July 23, 1982), American lawyer
  • Dave Bartholomew (December 24, 1918 - June 23, 2019), American rhythm and blues and jazz musician
  • Henri Baruk (August 15, 1897 - June 14, 1999), French psychiatrist
  • Erica de Bary (January 4, 1907 - April 17, 2007), German writer
  • Jacques Barzun (November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012), French-American scholar of education, literature and culture
  • Peter Bassett-Smith (January 25, 1911 - August 4, 2011), Australian cameraman
  • Raymond Bastin (July 9, 1914 - July 14, 2018), French medic
  • Roland Batchelor (October 16, 1889 - October 6, 1990) British painter
  • Ralph Bates (November 3, 1899 - November 26, 2000), British novelist
  • Georgina Battiscombe (November 21, 1905 - February 26, 2006), British biographer
  • Lucien Baumann (April 9, 1910 - September 10, 2012), French lawyer and poet
  • Oskar Baumgarten (October 25, 1907 - December 1, 2008), German agricultural scientist
  • Michel Bavastro (December 28, 1906 - March 1, 2008), French journalist
  • Celâl Bayar (May 16, 1883 - August 22, 1986), Turkish politician and President
  • Évelyne Baylet (June 14, 1913 - November 6, 2014), French politician
  • Henry Beachell (September 21, 1906 - December 13, 2006), American plant breeder
  • Pierre Béarn (June 15, 1902 - October 27, 2004), French writer and literary critic
  • Wilfried de Beauclair (April 4, 1912 - April 22, 2020), German-Swiss engineer and computer scientist
  • Sam Beazley (March 29, 1916 - June 12, 2017), British actor
  • Dwight Marion Beck (July 2, 1893 - August 30, 1993), American Methodist clergyman, educator, and biblical scholar
  • Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 - May 18, 2004), American chemist (pH meter)
  • Arsène Becuwe (November 27, 1891 - February 28, 1992), Belgian composer and conductor
  • William Beery (April 8, 1852 - January 29, 1956), American composer
  • Marga Behrends (October 9, 1907 - May 20, 2010), German dancer and singer
  • Bei Shizhang (October 10, 1903 - October 29, 2009), Chinese biologist
  • Alfons Beil (September 3, 1896 - March 1, 1997), German Roman Catholic clergyman and papal secret chamberlain
  • Martha Beindorff (February 21, 1903 - November 9, 2007), German motor sports enthusiast
  • Elly Beinhorn (May 30, 1907 - November 28, 2007), German sports pilot
  • Javier de Belaúnde Ruiz de Somocurcio (May 18, 1909 - June 24, 2013), Peruvian historian, lawyer and politician
  • Julia Bell (January 28, 1879 - April 26, 1979), English human geneticist and discoverer of Martin Bell Syndrome
  • José Bello (May 13, 1904 - January 11, 2008), Spanish writer
  • Franz Belting (April 17, 1908 - June 26, 2010), German painter and graphic artist
  • Amelia Bence (November 13, 1914 - February 8, 2016), Argentine actress
  • Pauline Benda (April 3, 1877 - October 17, 1985), French actress and writer (pseudonym Madame Simone)
  • Giovanni Benedetti (March 12, 1917 - August 3, 2017) Italian Roman Catholic Bishop
  • Helena Benitez (June 27, 1914 - July 14, 2016), Filipino politician
  • Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 - August 24, 1986), German-American psychologist and sex researcher
  • Garibaldo Benifei (January 31, 1912 - April 24, 2015), Italian political activist
  • Bruce Bennett (May 19, 1906 - February 24, 2007), American shot putter and actor
  • Irving Benson (January 31, 1914 - May 19, 2016), American actor
  • Eric Bentley (September 14, 1916 - August 5, 2020), American writer, translator, and singer
  • Alexander Otto Benz (July 17, 1880 - August 10, 1980), American insurance manager and politician
  • Leo Beranek (September 15, 1914 - October 11, 2016), American specialist in acoustics
  • Delmer Berg (December 20, 1915 - February 28, 2016), American soldier and activist, the last known surviving veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
  • Jean François Berges (December 9, 1717 - December 10, 1819), Belgian ornament and prospect painter
  • Gretel Bergmann (April 12, 1914 - July 25, 2017), German-American athlete
  • Martin S. Bergmann (February 15, 1913 - January 22, 2014), American psychologist
  • Theodor Bergmann (March 7, 1916 - June 12, 2017), German agricultural scientist
  • Ralph Berkowitz (September 5, 1910 - August 2, 2011), American musician, composer, and painter
  • Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989), Russian-American composer
  • Sina Berlinski (August 27, 1910 - February 21, 2011), American pianist
  • Yitzhak Berman (June 3, 1913 - August 4, 2013), Israeli politician
  • Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 - March 9, 1995), Austrian-American public relations expert
  • Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 - December 18, 2006), German-American photographer
  • Eugen Bernoulli (January 31, 1882 - February 25, 1983), Swiss pharmacologist, general practitioner and university professor
  • Harry Bernstein (May 30, 1910 - June 3, 2011), British novelist
  • Theresa Bernstein (March 1, 1890 - February 13, 2002), American artist
  • Isa von Bernus (January 21, 1898 - May 12, 2001), German actress, reciter and wife of Alexander von Bernus
  • Bob Berry (June 11, 1916 - August 2, 2018), New Zealand dendrologist
  • Giovanni Bersani (July 22, 1914 - December 24, 2014), Italian politician
  • Lloyd M. Bertholf (December 15, 1899 - January 20, 2003), American entomologist and President of Illinois Wesleyan University
  • Tony Bertrand (August 31, 1912 - June 29, 2018), French athlete and sports manager
  • Earl Hanley Beshlin (April 28, 1870 - July 12, 1971), American politician
  • Georg Jakob Best (October 21, 1903 - October 28, 2003), German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
  • Lotte Betke (November 5, 1905 - July 25, 2008), German theater actress and writer
  • Käthe Beutler (October 11, 1896 - February 7, 1999), German pediatrician
  • Erich Beyer (July 18, 1911 - March 25, 2012), German sports scientist
  • Pappukutty Bhagavathar (March 29, 1913 - June 22, 2020), Indian actor and singer
  • Emilio Bianchi (October 22, 1912 - August 15, 2015), Italian military
  • Katharina Bickerich-Stoll (June 24, 1915 - October 16, 2015), German mycologist
  • Adam Bielański (December 14, 1912 - September 4, 2016), Polish chemist
  • Bernard Bierman (August 26, 1908 - November 5, 2012), American composer
  • Sidney William Bijou (November 12, 1908 - June 11, 2009), American developmental psychologist
  • Lydia Bilbrook (May 6, 1888 - January 4, 1990), English actress
  • Heinz Billing (April 7, 1914 - January 4, 2017), German physicist and computer pioneer
  • Richard Bing (October 12, 1909 - November 8, 2010), German-American cardiologist
  • Leonhard Birkofer (July 5, 1911 - December 29, 2015), German chemist
  • Efraín Bischoff (September 30, 1912 - August 8, 2013), Argentine historian
  • Walther Björkman (June 19, 1896 - November 24, 1996), German orientalist
  • Manfred Björkquist (June 22, 1884 - November 23, 1985), Swedish Lutheran bishop and leader of the Ungkyrkorörelsen movement
  • Harold John Blackham (March 31, 1903 - January 23, 2009) British humanist and philosopher
  • Harry Blamires (November 6, 1916 - November 21, 2017) British Anglican theologian, literary critic and writer
  • Lesley Blanch (June 6, 1904 - May 6, 2007) English author
  • Wanda Błeńska (October 30, 1911 - November 27, 2014), Polish physician
  • Stella Bloch (December 17, 1897 - January 10, 1999), American journalist, author, illustrator and dance historian
  • Adele Bloesch-Stöcker (June 21, 1875 - September 10, 1978), German-Swiss composer and violinist
  • Sampson Salter Blowers (March 10, 1742 - October 25, 1842), Canadian lawyer
  • Rose Blumkin (December 15, 1893 - August 9, 1998), American businesswoman of Russian descent
  • Gertrud Bobek (November 15, 1898 - June 25, 2000), German resistance fighter and communist
  • Gaetano Bocchetti (August 10, 1888 - January 19, 1990), Italian artist
  • Hans Erhard Bock (December 31, 1903 - July 12, 2004), German sports doctor
  • Mag Bodard (January 3, 1916 - February 26, 2019), French film producer
  • Henry Boehm (June 8, 1775 - December 28, 1875), American Methodist preacher
  • Ruth Boehringer (March 24, 1906 - November 11, 2007), German entrepreneur
  • Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 - October 5, 2015), American writer and civil rights activist
  • Pere Bohigas (February 20, 1901 - February 27, 2003), Spanish librarian, Romanist and Catalan scholar
  • Juanita Boisseau (July 22, 1911 - May 22, 2012), American dancer
  • Mathias Bollinger (October 20, 1858 - June 20, 1961), German forester and master custodian
  • Theodor von Bomhard (January 12, 1841 - March 17, 1945), Bavarian general of the artillery
  • Elisabeth Bomhoff (March 8, 1912 - May 28, 2014), Danish resistance fighter
  • Giuliano Bonfante (August 6, 1904 - September 7, 2005), Italian linguist
  • Alex Bonn (June 18, 1908 - June 27, 2008), Luxembourg lawyer
  • Victor A. Bonomo (October 24, 1898 - June 24, 1999), American confectionery manufacturer (Bonomo's Turkish Taffy)
  • Charlie Booth (October 1, 1903 - May 20, 2008), Australian athlete and inventor of the starting block
  • Margaret Booth (January 16, 1898 - October 28, 2002), American film editor
  • William Augustus Bootle (August 19, 1902 - January 25, 2005), American lawyer
  • Brigitte Borchert (November 15, 1910 - August 7, 2011), German actress
  • Esther Borja (December 5, 1913 - December 28, 2013), Cuban singer
  • Roger Borniche (June 7, 1919 - June 16, 2020), French writer
  • Osmond Borradaile (July 16, 1898 - March 23, 1999), Canadian cinematographer
  • Salvador Borrego (April 24, 1915 - January 8, 2018), Mexican journalist, negationist and neo-Nazi author
  • Alida van den Bos (January 18, 1902 - July 16, 2003), Dutch gymnast
  • Gilberto Bosques (July 20, 1892 - July 4, 1995), Mexican diplomat ("The Schindler of Mexico")
  • Alexei Nikolayevich Botjan (February 10, 1917 - February 13, 2020), Soviet intelligence officer
  • Anna Maria Bottini (March 24, 1916 - August 9, 2020), Italian actress
  • Rosa Bouglione (December 21, 1910 - August 26, 2018), French circus performer
  • Paul Bouman (August 26, 1918 - April 28, 2019), American church musician and composer
  • Maurice Bourgeois (November 27, 1896 - January 2, 2003), French general
  • Marguette Bouvier (August 25, 1908 - December 20, 2008), French skier and journalist
  • Gretta Bowen (January 1, 1880 - April 8, 1981) Irish painter
  • Joseph Oliver Bowers (March 28, 1910 - November 5, 2012) Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop (Saint John's-Basseterre)
  • Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (August 4, 1900 - March 30, 2002), British Queen Mother ("Queen Mum")
  • Robert R. Bowie (August 24, 1909 - November 2, 2013), American diplomat
  • Robert F. Boyle (October 10, 1909 - August 1, 2010), American art director and production designer
  • Amelia Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1911 - August 26, 2015), American civil rights activist
  • Mile Braach (March 3, 1898 - August 23, 1998), German chronicler and entrepreneur
  • Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (July 8, 1894 - January 4, 1998), Italian film director
  • Maria Adelaide of Braganza (January 31, 1912 - February 24, 2012), Portuguese noblewoman
  • José Bragato (October 12, 1915 - July 18, 2017), Italian-Argentine cellist, composer and conductor
  • ER Braithwaite (June 27, 1912 - December 12, 2016), Guyanese writer and diplomat
  • Catherine Bramwell-Booth (July 20, 1883 - October 3, 1987), Salvation Army Commissioner
  • Elza Brandeisz (September 18, 1907 - January 6, 2018), Hungarian dancer and Righteous Among the Nations
  • Maximilian Brandeisz (July 3, 1894 - November 19, 1996), Austrian politician
  • Werner Braun (June 12, 1918 - December 25, 2018), Israeli photojournalist
  • Artur Brauner (August 1, 1918 - July 7, 2019), German film producer
  • Alice Braunlich (February 1, 1888 - August 9, 1989), American classical philologist
  • Joseph Braunstein (February 9, 1892 - March 10, 1996), Austrian-American musician, writer and mountaineer
  • Renate Brausewetter (October 1, 1905 - August 20, 2006), German actress
  • Samuel Brawand (May 18, 1898 - July 11, 2001), Swiss mountaineer and SP politician
  • Fritz Brenne (May 15, 1901 - May 6, 2003), German tennis official
  • Albert Brenet (June 25, 1903 - July 4, 2005) French painter
  • Orville Gilbert Brim (August 18, 1883 - May 24, 1987), American educator and university professor
  • Edgar Britt (October 30, 1913 - January 28, 2017), Australian equestrian
  • Harry Brittain (December 24, 1873 - July 9, 1974) British journalist and politician
  • Colin Fraser Brockington (January 8, 1903 - November 25, 2004), British medic
  • Helen Brockman (September 24, 1902 - July 22, 2008), American fashion designer
  • Quita Brodhead (March 5, 1901 - September 4, 2002), American artist
  • Don Brodi (May 29, 1899 - January 8, 2001), American actor
  • Oscar Brodney (February 18, 1907 - February 12, 2008), American screenwriter
  • Moisès Broggi (May 18, 1908 - December 31, 2012), Spanish doctor and pacifist
  • George Doswell Brooke (September 15, 1878 - August 23, 1982), American railroad manager
  • Frank Leonard Brooks (November 7, 1911 - November 20, 2011), Canadian painter
  • Arthur Judson Brown (December 3, 1856 - January 11, 1963), American Reformed missionary and writer
  • Wesley Ernest Brown (June 22, 1907 - January 23, 2012), American lawyer
  • Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne (October 21, 1901 - August 7, 2002), British politician
  • Virgil Browne (November 21, 1877 - December 31, 1979), American entrepreneur and inventor
  • Helen Louise Brownson (May 1, 1917 - August 5, 2017), American documentary writer
  • Eva Brummer (March 13, 1901 - June 28, 2007), Finnish textile artist
  • Liselotte Brüne (January 28, 1916 - September 11, 2016), German physiotherapist
  • Clarence Vernon Bruner (November 16, 1893 - December 5, 1996), American historian
  • Jerome Bruner (October 1, 1915 - June 5, 2016), American psychologist
  • Elfriede Brüning (November 8, 1910 - August 5, 2014), German writer
  • Erik Finnemann Bruun (October 4, 1898 - April 10, 2002), Danish politician and editor
  • Sverre Bruun (May 15, 1886 - March 6, 1987), Norwegian lecturer and textbook author
  • Slim Bryant (December 7, 1908 - May 28, 2010), American country musician
  • Duane Bryers (July 2, 1911 - May 30, 2012), American painter and illustrator
  • Filippo Buccola (August 6, 1886 - June 15, 1987), La Cosa Nostra Sicilian-American mobster
  • Dorothea Buck (April 5, 1917 - October 9, 2019), German author and human rights activist
  • Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia (November 21, 1881 - December 7, 1985) French musician, art critic, and writer
  • Georges Bugnet (February 23, 1879 - January 11, 1981), French-Canadian writer
  • Borys Bukreev (September 5, 1859 - October 2, 1962), Ukrainian mathematician
  • Anneliese Bulling (April 21, 1900 - February 9, 2004), German-American sinologist
  • Mario Bunge (September 21, 1919 - February 24, 2020), Argentine philosopher and physicist
  • Margaret Burbidge (August 12, 1919 - April 5, 2020), British astrophysicist
  • Johann Jakob Burckhardt (July 13, 1903 - November 5, 2006), Swiss mathematician and crystallographer
  • Maria Burgi (December 12, 1912 - March 14, 2017), German trade unionist
  • Otto Burkard (November 24, 1908 - January 13, 2015), Austrian geophysicist and meteorologist
  • Samuel Martin Burke (July 3, 1906 - October 9, 2010), Pakistani diplomat and author
  • Bolesław Burkowski (October 31, 1913 - March 6, 2019), Polish administrator and politician
  • George Burns (January 20, 1896 - March 9, 1996), American actor
  • Andrew George Burry (February 2, 1873 - January 22, 1975), Swiss-American businessman and philanthropist
  • Harold Ernest Burtt (April 26, 1890 - August 15, 1991), American psychologist
  • Henri Büsser (January 16, 1872 - December 30, 1973), French composer
  • Marcel Busson (April 22, 1913 - September 30, 2015), French painter
  • Guy Thomas Buswell (January 21, 1891 - May 27, 1994), American psychologist
  • Eugene Butler (June 11, 1894 - June 5, 1995), American editor and publisher
  • Percy M. Butler (July 19, 1912 - February 7, 2015), British paleontologist and zoologist

C.

  • Cecilia Caballero Blanco (September 30, 1913 - August 13, 2019), Colombian politician
  • Rose Cabat (June 27, 1914 - January 25, 2015), American potter
  • Godfrey Lowell Cabot (February 26, 1861 - November 2, 1962), American industrialist and philanthropist
  • Luigi Caccia Dominioni (December 7, 1913 - November 13, 2016), Italian architect, designer and city planner
  • Irving Caesar (July 4, 1895 - December 18, 1996), American songwriter
  • Robert de Caix de Saint-Aymour (February 5, 1869 - March 12, 1970), French diplomat
  • Josef Callenberg (September 8, 1854 - November 19, 1960), German master builder
  • John Calvert (August 5, 1911 - September 27, 2013), American magician and film actor
  • Earl Cameron (August 8, 1917 - July 3, 2020), British actor
  • Carmelo Camet (October 29, 1904 - July 22, 2007), Argentine fencer
  • Lloyd Campbell (January 4, 1915 - May 25, 2016), Canadian curler
  • Anna Campori (September 22, 1917 - January 19, 2018), Italian actress
  • Melville Henry Cane (April 15, 1879 - March 10, 1980), American lawyer and writer
  • Paco Cano (December 18, 1912 - July 27, 2016), Spanish photojournalist
  • Mortimer Caplin (July 11, 1916 - July 15, 2019), American tax lawyer and director of the Internal Revenue Service
  • Loris Francesco Capovilla (October 14, 1915 - May 26, 2016), Italian cardinal and prelate of Loreto
  • Matilde Capuis (January 1, 1913 - January 31, 2017), Italian composer and music teacher
  • Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 - May 17, 2009), French businessman (Danone)
  • Frederick Carder (September 18, 1863 - December 10, 1963), American glass artist
  • Alfonso Carinci (January 9, 1862 - November 6, 1963) Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop and Secretary of the Congregation for Sacred Rites of the Curia
  • Mary Carlisle (February 3, 1914 - August 1, 2018), American singer and actress
  • Eddie Carnett (October 21, 1916 - November 4, 2016), American baseball player
  • Geneviève Carrez (September 27, 1909 - February 13, 2014), French translator
  • Henri Cartan (July 8, 1904 - August 13, 2008) French mathematician
  • Elliott Carter (December 11, 1908 - November 5, 2012), American composer
  • Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa (December 5, 1908 - March 3, 2011), Brazilian diplomat
  • Marie-Louise Carven (August 31, 1909 - June 8, 2015), French fashion designer
  • Diana Serra Cary (October 29, 1918 - February 24, 2020), American film actress
  • Christian Casadesus (December 26, 1912 - March 6, 2014), French actor and theater director
  • Gisèle Casadesus (June 14, 1914 - September 24, 2017), French actress
  • Wally Cassell (March 3, 1912 - April 2, 2015), American actor
  • Riccardo Cassin (January 2, 1909 - August 6, 2009), Italian mountaineer
  • Emma Castelnuovo (December 12, 1913 - April 13, 2014), Italian mathematician
  • María Teresa Castillo (October 15, 1908 - June 22, 2012), Venezuelan journalist and politician
  • Neus Català i Pallejà (October 6, 1915 - April 13, 2019), Spanish communist and resistance fighter
  • John Cavell (November 4, 1916 - May 19, 2017) British Anglican Bishop
  • Mathieu Ceccaldi (October 22, 1893 - December 9, 1993), French Romance philologist, lexicographer and researcher of the Corsican language
  • Maria Cedro-Biskupowa (October 21, 1912 - January 15, 2013), Polish poet
  • Zdeňka Černý (August 26, 1895 - January 11, 1998), American cellist
  • Gitta von Cetto (February 6, 1908 - April 26, 2010), German writer for young people and screenwriters
  • Jean Chabot (February 4, 1914 - February 18, 2015) French painter
  • Albin Chalandon (June 11, 1920 - July 29, 2020), French politician
  • Alice Chalifoux (January 22, 1908 - July 31, 2008), American harpist
  • Cynthia Chalk (December 9, 1913 - April 5, 2018), Canadian photographer
  • Anne Cox Chambers (December 1, 1919 - January 31, 2020), US diplomat, heir to Cox Enterprises and US ambassador (1977–81 in Belgium)
  • Gilbert de Chambrun (November 2, 1909 - December 22, 2009), French politician
  • Chang Ch'ün (May 9, 1889 - December 14, 1990), Chinese politician
  • Chang Ch'ung-ho (May 17, 1914 - June 17, 2015), Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, teacher, and opera singer
  • Homer Dwight Chapman (October 4, 1898 - April 4, 2005), American agronomist and soil scientist
  • Harry Chapman Pincher (March 29, 1914 - August 5, 2014), British journalist and historian
  • James E. Charlton (July 26, 1911 - September 20, 2013), Canadian numismatist and publicist
  • Guy Charmot (October 9, 1914 - January 7, 2019), French resistance fighter
  • Fulgence Charpentier (June 29, 1897 - February 6, 2001), French-Canadian journalist, editor and publisher
  • Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (September 1, 1905 - January 22, 2009), Cambodian politician
  • Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (November 23, 1897 - August 1, 1999), Indo-English writer
  • Malvina Cheek (July 8, 1915 - May 22, 2016), British artist
  • Chen Hansheng (February 5, 1897 - March 13, 2004), Chinese social scientist
  • Cheng Kaijia (August 3, 1918 - November 17, 2018), Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer
  • Saul Cherniack (January 10, 1917 - March 30, 2018), Canadian lawyer and politician
  • Eugène Chevreul (August 31, 1786 - April 9, 1889) French chemist
  • Harriette Chick (January 6, 1875 - July 9, 1977), British nutritionist
  • Francesco Chiesa (July 5, 1871 - June 13, 1973), Italian-speaking Swiss writer
  • Gabriel Chiramel (December 11, 1914 - May 11, 2017), Indian Roman Catholic clergyman
  • Saloua Raouda Choucair (June 24, 1916 - January 27, 2017), Lebanese painter and sculptor
  • Philip Christison (November 17, 1893 - December 21, 1993), Commander of British Southeast Asia Forces in World War II
  • Rickard Christophers (November 27, 1873 - February 19, 1978), British protozoologist
  • Gina Cigna (March 6, 1900 - June 26, 2001), French soprano
  • Anne Clancier (November 23, 1913 - December 19, 2014), French psychoanalyst and author
  • Georges-Emmanuel Clancier (May 3, 1914 - July 4, 2018), French writer and poet
  • Homer Pierce Clark (July 6, 1868 - October 27, 1970), American publisher
  • Huguette M. Clark (June 9, 1906 - May 24, 2011), American millionaire
  • Mary T. Clark (October 23, 1913 - September 1, 2014), American civil rights activist and philosopher
  • Paul Franklin Clark (May 9, 1882 - August 23, 1983), American bacteriologist and university professor
  • Thomas H. Clark (December 3, 1893 - April 28, 1996), Canadian geologist
  • Thomas D. Clark (July 14, 1903 - June 28, 2005), American historian
  • William Keir Clark (May 30, 1910 - November 28, 2010), Canadian politician
  • Hermann Claudius (October 19, 1878 - September 8, 1980), German poet
  • Bitten Clausen (October 20, 1912 - March 7, 2016), Danish industrialist
  • Georg W. Claussen (June 5, 1912 - March 21, 2013), German entrepreneur and patron
  • Julia Clements (April 10, 1906 - November 1, 2010), British floral decorator and author
  • Jean Clerfeuille (December 27, 1909 - January 27, 2015), French sports manager
  • Ronald Coase (December 29, 1910 - September 2, 2013), British economist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Jimmy Coffey (October 26, 1909 - December 29, 2010), Irish hurler
  • Seymour S. Cohen (April 30, 1917 - December 30, 2018), American biochemist
  • Teresa Cohen (February 14, 1892 - August 10, 1992), American mathematician
  • Yardena Cohen (July 1, 1910 - January 23, 2012), Israeli dancer and choreographer
  • Fryderyka Cohensius (June 13, 1914 - December 8, 2016), Polish-Israeli social activist
  • Edmund Cokayne, 3rd Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (May 18, 1916 - December 5, 2016), British nobleman
  • Martin Čokl (October 12, 1907 - November 13, 2014), Yugoslav forest scientist
  • Roswell K. Colcord (April 25, 1839 - October 30, 1939), American politician, Governor of Nevada
  • Alphaeus Philemon Cole (July 12, 1876 - November 25, 1988) American artist and engraver
  • Cornelius Cole (September 17, 1822 - November 3, 1924), American politician and senator
  • Orlando Cole (August 16, 1908 - January 25, 2010), American cellist
  • Abe Coleman (September 20, 1905 - March 28, 2007), American wrestler
  • Denise Colomb (April 1, 1902 - January 1, 2004), French photographer
  • Chris Columbus (June 17, 1902 - August 20, 2002), American jazz drummer
  • Mac Conner (November 12, 1913 - September 26, 2019), American illustrator
  • Jacinto Convit (September 11, 1913 - May 12, 2014), Venezuelan medic
  • Alice Cooke (July 12, 1882 - June 6, 1985) American film actress
  • William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873 - February 3, 1975), American engineer and physicist (including electron tubes)
  • Anna J. Cooper (August 10, 1858 - February 27, 1964), American writer and educator
  • Anton Coppola (March 21, 1917 - March 9, 2020), American composer and conductor
  • Horacio Coppola (July 31, 1906 - June 18, 2012), Argentine photographer
  • Irwin Corey (July 29, 1914 - February 6, 2017), American comedian and actor
  • Willy Corsari (December 26, 1897 - May 11, 1998), Dutch writer
  • Norman Corwin (May 3, 1910 - October 18, 2011), American screenwriter and journalist
  • Teodor Cosma (August 7, 1910 - October 9, 2011), Romanian pianist and conductor
  • Monica Cöster-Molbeck (March 27, 1914 - July 10, 2015), Swedish-Spanish painter
  • Elizabeth Couchman (April 19, 1876 - November 18, 1982), Australian politician
  • Ernest Courant (March 26, 1920 - April 21, 2020), American physicist
  • Louis-Martin de Courten (November 11, 1835 - March 4, 1937), Swiss colonel, commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard
  • Robert Couturier (May 2, 1905 - October 1, 2008), French sculptor
  • Arnold Wilson Cowen (December 20, 1905 - October 28, 2007), American lawyer
  • Fleur Fenton Cowles (January 20, 1908 - June 5, 2009), American author and artist
  • Raymond Coxon (August 18, 1896 - January 31, 1997) British painter
  • James Coyne (July 17, 1910 - October 12, 2012), Canadian economist
  • Victoriano Crémer (December 18, 1907 - June 27, 2009), Spanish writer and journalist
  • Ray Crist (March 8, 1900 - July 23, 2005), American chemist
  • Eric Cross (May 31, 1902 - March 1, 2004), British cinematographer
  • Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 - April 3, 2016), American anthropologist and historian
  • Héctor Croxatto Rezzio (July 3, 1908 - September 28, 2010), Chilean scientist
  • John Crutcher (December 19, 1916 - March 13, 2017), American politician
  • Susan Ahn Cuddy (January 16, 1915 - June 24, 2015), Korean-American officer
  • Hugues Cuénod (June 26, 1902 - December 6, 2010), Swiss tenor
  • Maxwell Cummings (April 19, 1898 - May 23, 2001), Canadian contractor and philanthropist
  • George Baker Cummins (August 29, 1904 - March 30, 2007), American mycologist
  • Raymond Lee Cunningham (January 17, 1905 - July 30, 2005), American baseball player
  • Ève Curie (December 6, 1904 - October 22, 2007), French journalist
  • Richard Current (October 5, 1912 - October 26, 2012), American historian
  • Louise Currie (April 7, 1913 - September 8, 2013), American actress
  • Winifred Mary Curtis (June 15, 1905 - October 14, 2005), Anglo-Australian botanist
  • Dorothy Custer (May 30, 1911 - April 22, 2015), American comedian and harmonica player
  • Josef Czikel (February 7, 1873 - April 7, 1973), officer in the Joint Army, Polish general

D.

  • Bernard Binlin Dadié (January 10, 1916 - March 9, 2019), Ivorian writer
  • Sam Dana (August 7, 1903 - October 29, 2007), American football player
  • Leila Danette (August 23, 1909 - September 4, 2012), American actress
  • Mary Daniel (July 20, 1911 - June 21, 2012), Argentine actress
  • Maria Dank (March 21, 1907 - November 7, 2009), German politician (SED)
  • Signe Danning (August 25, 1878 - February 10, 1980), Norwegian actress
  • Sylvia Daoust (May 24, 1902 - July 19, 2004), Canadian sculptor
  • Robert Darène (January 10, 1914 - January 15, 2016), French actor, director and screenwriter
  • Danielle Darrieux (May 1, 1917 - October 17, 2017), French actress
  • Roger David (May 16, 1911 - January 10, 2012), French biologist
  • Alexandra David-Néel (October 24, 1868 - September 8, 1969), French explorer and writer
  • Hope Hale Davis (November 2, 1903 - October 2, 2004), American feminist and writer
  • Jim Davis (March 23, 1896 - February 6, 2000), American motorcyclist
  • Jimmie Davis (September 11, 1899 - November 5, 2000), American governor and singer
  • Kathryn Wasserman Davis (February 25, 1907 - April 23, 2013), American philanthropist
  • Sylvia Davis (April 10, 1910 - November 3, 2010), American actress
  • Glen Dawson (June 3, 1912 - March 22, 2016), American mountaineer and publisher
  • Geoffrey Dearmer (March 21, 1893 - August 18, 1996), British poet
  • Quirino De Ascaniis (August 5, 1908 - January 11, 2009), Italian priest
  • Frans De Blaes (September 17, 1909 - February 27, 2010), Belgian canoeist
  • Beatrice de Cardi (June 5, 1914 - July 5, 2016), British archaeologist
  • Suzy Delair (January 1, 1918 - March 15, 2020), French actress and singer
  • Rosine Delamare (June 11, 1911 - March 17, 2013), French costume designer
  • Jean Delannoy (January 12, 1908 - June 18, 2008), French film director
  • Bessie Delany (September 3, 1891 - September 25, 1995), American civil rights activist, writer, and sister of Sadie Delany
  • Sadie Delany (September 19, 1889 - January 25, 1999), American civil rights activist, writer and sister of Bessie Delany
  • Rosa Del Conte (April 10, 1907 - August 3, 2011), Italian Romanist, Romanist and translator
  • Mario Delitala (September 16, 1887 - August 28, 1990), Italian artist and art historian
  • Ellen Delp (February 9, 1890 - February 25, 1990), German writer and actress
  • Lucien Démanet (December 6, 1874 - March 16, 1979), French gymnast
  • Peter J. De Muth (January 1, 1892 - April 3, 1993), American politician and Member of the House of Representatives
  • Zsófia Dénes (January 14, 1885 - January 23, 1987), Hungarian journalist and writer
  • Leila Denmark (February 1, 1898 - April 1, 2012), American doctor (whooping cough vaccination)
  • Alfred Denning (January 23, 1899 - March 5, 1999), English judge and Master of the Rolls
  • A. Wallace Denny (December 19, 1906 - June 17, 2008), Canadian Boy Scout
  • Albert Denvers (February 21, 1905 - December 31, 2006), French politician
  • Dinkar Balwant Deodhar (January 14, 1892 - August 24, 1993), Indian cricketer and Sanskritist
  • Anthony DePalma (October 12, 1904 - April 6, 2005), American medic
  • Dorothy Dermody (April 26, 1909 - April 10, 2012), Irish fencer
  • Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (November 22, 1721 - October 27, 1824), Swiss-Canadian politician and cartographer
  • Max Desfor (November 8, 1913 - February 19, 2018), American photographer
  • Ardito Desio (April 18, 1897 - December 12, 2001), Italian explorer, mountaineer, geologist and cartographer
  • Konstantinos Despotopoulos (February 8, 1913 - February 7, 2016), Greek resistance fighter and philosopher, President of the Academy of Athens
  • Leon Mathis Despres (February 2, 1908 - May 6, 2009), American lawyer and politician
  • Georges-Casimir Dessaulles (September 27, 1827 - April 19, 1930), Canadian senator and businessman
  • Marcelle Devaud (January 7, 1908 - September 4, 2008), French politician
  • Indra Devi (May 12, 1899 - April 25, 2002), Russian-American yoga teacher
  • Charles S. Dewey (November 10, 1880 - December 27, 1980), American politician
  • Frances Dewey Wormser (June 23, 1903 - January 28, 2008), American actress
  • Dora Dick (February 5, 1911 - January 23, 2012), German-Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Gerhard Dickel (October 28, 1913 - November 3, 2017), German chemist
  • Tom Dickinson (July 20, 1897 - October 29, 1999), American football player
  • Harro Dicks (October 3, 1911 - January 24, 2013), German opera director
  • Dorothy Dickson (July 25, 1893 - September 25, 1995) English actress
  • Karl Diehl (May 4, 1907 - January 19, 2008), German entrepreneur (Diehl Foundation)
  • Albert Dietrich (November 2, 1912 - December 25, 2015), German Arabist
  • Gérard Dionne (June 19, 1919 - May 13, 2020) Canadian clergyman, Catholic Bishop of Edmundston
  • Vittorio Di Pace (June 13, 1907 - May 21, 2013), Italian architect
  • Aaron Director (September 21, 1901 - September 11, 2004), Russian-American economist from the Chicago School
  • Fritz Discher (September 8, 1880 - February 23, 1983), German painter
  • John Ditlev-Simonsen (October 18, 1898 - January 10, 2001), Norwegian sailor
  • Neagu Djuvara (August 18, 1916 - January 25, 2018), Romanian historian
  • Đỗ Mười (February 2, 1917 - October 1, 2018), Vietnamese politician and general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
  • Dobri Dobrew (July 20, 1914 - February 13, 2018), Bulgarian beggar
  • Antoni Dobrowolski (October 8, 1904 - October 21, 2012), Polish resistance fighter and survivor of the Holocaust
  • Ralph Edward Dodge (January 25, 1907 - August 8, 2008), American Bishop of the Methodist Church
  • Evdokija Dolja (March 1, 1885 - November 15, 1988), Ukrainian actress and mezzo-soprano
  • Nikolai Antonowitsch Dolleschal (October 27, 1899 - November 20, 2000), Soviet nuclear engineer
  • Kurt Domke (June 22, 1914 - March 20, 2018), German gymnast
  • Sergio Donadoni (October 13, 1914 - October 31, 2015), Italian Egyptologist
  • Haddon Donald (March 20, 1917 - April 23, 2018), New Zealand politician
  • Hans von Donat (July 6, 1891 - June 12, 1992), German lieutenant general
  • Lloyd H. Donnell (May 20, 1895 - November 7, 1997), American engineering scientist
  • Horace James Donnelly (October 24, 1879 - March 24, 1981), American lawyer
  • Jelena Alexandrovna Donskaya (October 28, 1915 - March 29, 2016), Soviet sports shooter
  • Fred J. Doocy (May 5, 1913 - December 7, 2017), American politician
  • Gillo Dorfles (April 12, 1910 - March 2, 2018), Italian art critic, painter and philosopher
  • Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa (October 11, 1904 - July 28, 2007), Sikkimese and Indian politician, Chief Minister of Sikkim
  • Rudolf Dörrier (September 18, 1899 - December 7, 2002), German librarian and chronicler
  • Friedrich Dörries (July 10, 1852 - February 21, 1953), German explorer and zoo keeper
  • Kirk Douglas (December 9, 1916 - February 5, 2020), American actor
  • Roy Douglas (December 12, 1907 - March 23, 2015), British composer
  • William Gould Dow (September 30, 1895 - October 17, 1999), American inventor and physicist
  • Marion Downs (January 26, 1914 - November 13, 2014), American audiologist
  • Willem Drees (July 5, 1886 - May 14, 1988), Dutch politician and Prime Minister
  • Liselotte Dross (October 3, 1887 - February 15, 1996), German painter and illustrator
  • Mohammad Ali Jamalzade (January 13, 1892 - November 8, 1997), Iranian writer
  • Ernst Dubach (January 20, 1881 - January 14, 1982), Swiss racing cyclist
  • Cornelis Dubbink (January 12, 1914 - July 8, 2014), Dutch lawyer
  • Sophia Dubnow-Erlich (March 9, 1885 - May 4, 1986), Russian-American writer
  • Paulette Dubost (October 8, 1910 - September 21, 2011), French actress
  • Claire Du Brey (August 31, 1892 - August 1, 1993), American actress
  • Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin (April 21, 1910 - February 8, 2012), Belgian Iranist
  • Muriel Duckworth (October 31, 1908 - August 22, 2009) Canadian pacifist and feminist
  • Jacques Duclaux (May 14, 1877 - July 13, 1978), French biologist
  • Henri Dufaux (September 18, 1879 - December 25, 1980), Swiss aviator and aircraft manufacturer
  • Al Duffy (September 20, 1906 - December 22, 2006), American jazz violinist
  • Charles Duguid (April 6, 1884 - December 5, 1986), British physician, fighter for Aboriginal rights and co-founder of the Ernabella Mission
  • Eleanor Lansing Dulles (June 1, 1895 - October 30, 1996), American diplomat and economist
  • David Douglas Duncan (January 23, 1916 - June 7, 2018), American photojournalist
  • Milt Dunnell (December 24, 1905 - January 3, 2008), Canadian sports journalist
  • Margaret Isabel Dunning (June 26, 1910 - May 17, 2015), American philanthropist
  • Georges-Hilaire Dupont (November 16, 1919 - January 29, 2020), French religious, Bishop of Pala
  • Armand Dupuis (August 16, 1891 - October 30, 1993), French politician
  • Oscar Dystel (October 31, 1912 - May 28, 2014), American publisher
  • Lech Działoszyński (December 21, 1912 - March 3, 2014), Polish biochemist and World War II veteran

E.

  • Samuel Broadus Earle (March 11, 1878 - May 10, 1978), American mechanical engineer
  • Doris Eaton Travis (March 14, 1904 - May 11, 2010), American actress
  • Richard Eberhart (April 5, 1904 - June 9, 2005), American writer
  • Fanny Edelman (February 27, 1911 - November 1, 2011), Argentine politician
  • Ilse Edelmann (May 17, 1905 - June 4, 2009), German social democratic politician
  • Hermann Edtbauer (May 29, 1911 - December 15, 2012), Austrian pedagogue, choir director and dialect author
  • Don Edwards (January 6, 1915 - October 1, 2015), American politician and Member of the House of Representatives
  • Marta Eggerth (April 17, 1912 - December 26, 2013), Hungarian-American operetta singer and actress
  • Alfred Ehrentreich (June 18, 1896 - April 11, 1998), German reform pedagogue
  • Sidney Myer Ehrman (August 23, 1873 - April 26, 1975), American lawyer
  • Willy Eichberger (June 14, 1902 - December 4, 2004), Austrian-American actor
  • Judah David Eisenstein (November 21, 1855 - May 17, 1956), Russian-American writer
  • Jan Ekier (August 29, 1913 - August 15, 2014), Polish composer and pianist
  • Aleksander Elango (February 21, 1902 - March 17, 2004), Estonian educator
  • Dan Eley (October 1, 1914 - September 3, 2015), British chemist
  • Joel Elkes (November 12, 1913 - October 30, 2015), American psychopharmacologist
  • Jules Ellenberger (January 16, 1871 - August 20, 1973), South African Resident Commissioner of Bechuanaland
  • Mary Ellis (February 2, 1917 - July 24, 2018), English pilot
  • Mary Ellis (June 15, 1897 - January 30, 2003), American-English singer and actress
  • Manuel Conrad Elmer (December 5, 1886 - April 1, 1988), American sociologist and university professor
  • Nils Elowsson (October 23, 1890 - October 27, 1999), Swedish journalist and politician
  • William J. Ely (December 29, 1911 - September 20, 2017), U.S. Lieutenant General
  • Joseph Schalom Elyashiv (April 10, 1910 - July 18, 2012), Israeli rabbi and Jewish legal scholar
  • Murray B. Emeneau (February 28, 1904 - August 29, 2005), Canadian-American linguist (non-literary Dravidian languages)
  • Peter Endrich (March 6, 1886 - June 26, 1986), German historian
  • Fritz Engel (November 4, 1904 - November 30, 2004), Austrian classical guitarist and head of the "Engelfamilie from Tyrol"
  • Ernst Engelberg (April 5, 1909 - December 18, 2010), German historian
  • Leopold Engleitner (July 23, 1905 - April 21, 2013), Austrian victim of Nazi persecution
  • Ephraim Engleman (March 24, 1911 - September 2, 2015), American rheumatologist
  • Abram B. Enns (April 23, 1887 - February 25, 1993), Black Sea German writer, art critic and educator
  • Charles Reginald Enock (November 23, 1868 - April 7, 1970), British engineer, Latin American researcher and author
  • Georg Eppen (March 13, 1874 - April 4, 1974), German paper manufacturer
  • Hildegard Eppler (April 25, 1898 - May 10, 1998), German teacher and local politician
  • Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 - May 4, 2020), American dancer and choreographer
  • Rica Erickson (August 10, 1908 - September 8, 2009), Australian biologist
  • Hans Erni (February 21, 1909 - March 21, 2015), Swiss painter, graphic artist and sculptor
  • Hubertus Ernst (April 8, 1917 - May 19, 2017), Dutch Roman Catholic Bishop
  • Juliette Ernst (January 12, 1900 - March 28, 2001), French classical philologist
  • Kurt Eulenburg (February 22, 1879 - April 10, 1982), German music publisher
  • Christopher Evans (November 7, 1909 - July 30, 2012), British theologian
  • Griffith Evans (August 7, 1835 - December 7, 1935) British bacteriologist
  • Jeannette Eyerly (June 7, 1908 - August 18, 2008), American columnist and novelist
  • Ralph Lee Eyman (August 5, 1885 - April 28, 1986), American educationalist

F.

  • Erwin Fabian (November 5, 1915 - January 19, 2020), Australian sculptor of German origin
  • Ferdinand Fabra (October 8, 1906 - December 22, 2007), German football coach
  • Henri Fabre (June 29, 1882 - July 1, 1984), French aviation pioneer (first flight in a seaplane)
  • Emile Fabry (December 30, 1865 - February 27, 1966) Belgian painter
  • Helmut Fahrion (August 16, 1912 - April 6, 2013), German geologist and paleontologist
  • Gordon S. Fahrni (April 13, 1887 - November 3, 1995), Canadian medic
  • Carl Falck (May 27, 1907 - July 23, 2016), Norwegian manager
  • Eduard Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein (September 14, 1912 - November 17, 2018), Liechtenstein nobleman, entrepreneur, journalist and sports official
  • Fan Xuji (January 5, 1914 - November 21, 2015), Chinese engineer and President of Shanghai University
  • Rosalie Fänger (September 4, 1900 - December 19, 2000), German KPD politician and member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Otto Färber (February 22, 1892 - March 15, 1993), German journalist, writer and publisher
  • Klara Farkas (December 2, 1910 - October 21, 2014), American photographer of Hungarian descent
  • Edgar Fay (October 8, 1908 - November 14, 2009) British author, judge and reviewer
  • Hellmut Federhofer (August 6, 1911 - May 1, 2014), Austrian musicologist
  • Klaus Federn (December 21, 1910 - June 26, 2014), German mechanical engineer
  • Magda Fedor (January 14, 1914 - December 8, 2017), Hungarian sports shooter
  • Gertrude Fehr (March 5, 1895 - August 16, 1996), German photographer
  • Moisey Feigin (October 23, 1904 - April 26, 2008), Russian artist
  • Irving Fein (June 21, 1911 - August 10, 2012), American film and television producer
  • Marko Feingold (May 28, 1913 - September 19, 2019), Austrian Jewish activist and President of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Salzburg
  • Theodore Lux Feininger (June 11, 1910 - July 7, 2011), German-American painter and photographer
  • Josef Felder (August 24, 1900 - October 28, 2000), German SPD politician
  • Walter Felicetti-Liebenfels (February 17, 1899 - December 17, 2000), Austrian art historian
  • Edward Fenlon (October 7, 1903 - September 19, 2010), American politician
  • Lionel Ferbos (July 17, 1911 - July 19, 2014), American trumpeter of New Orleans Jazz
  • Donald N. Ferguson (June 30, 1882 - May 11, 1985), American musicologist
  • Braulio Fernández Aguirre (November 21, 1912 - December 3, 2013), Mexican politician
  • Gerardo Fernández Albor (September 7, 1917 - July 12, 2018), Spanish politician and President of Galicia
  • Anne-Marie Ferrières (February 7, 1888 - August 30, 1992), Belgian comedian and cartoonist (real name: Jeanne Hovine)
  • Henri Ferru (May 13, 1905 - May 4, 2006) French politician
  • Antonio Ferrua (March 31, 1901 - May 25, 2003), Italian archaeologist
  • François Fertiault (June 25, 1814 - October 5, 1915), French writer
  • Gwen Ffrangcon Davies (January 25, 1891 - January 27, 1992), British actress
  • Julien Ficher (August 7, 1888 - November 2, 1989), Belgian painter
  • Irving Fields (August 4, 1915 - August 20, 2016), American pianist and songwriter
  • Adele Filene (June 14, 1909 - August 8, 2010), German fashion designer
  • Eddie Filgate (September 16, 1915 - January 19, 2017), Irish politician and MP for Fianna Fáil
  • Gjorgji Filipovski (May 6, 1919 - December 21, 2019), Yugoslav or North Macedonian soil scientist
  • Juan Filloy (August 1, 1894 - July 15, 2000), Argentine writer
  • John William Finn (July 23, 1909 - May 27, 2010), American naval officer and war hero
  • Raymond Firth (March 25, 1901 - February 22, 2002), New Zealand anthropologist (Oceania)
  • Alois Fischer (October 21, 1902 - August 19, 2003), German educator, philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian
  • Gunnar Fischer (November 18, 1910 - June 11, 2011), Swedish cameraman
  • Margarete Fischer (August 31, 1900 - December 27, 2004), German writer
  • Paul Fischer (February 14, 1898 - September 14, 2003), French zoologist
  • Hamilton Fish III (December 7, 1888 - January 18, 1991), American Congressman (Republican)
  • Bernard Fisher (August 23, 1918 - October 16, 2019), American medical professional and pioneer in the study and treatment of breast cancer
  • Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald (August 3, 1872 - August 24, 1973), British physiologist and clinical pathologist
  • Joaquim Fiúza (February 8, 1908 - March 4, 2010), Portuguese sailor
  • Billie Fleming (April 13, 1914 - May 12, 2014) British cyclist
  • Wilhelm Flitner (August 20, 1889 - January 21, 1990), German educator
  • Hans Hinrich Flöter (August 3, 1910 - July 3, 2011), German Reformed theologian and educator
  • Werner Flume (September 12, 1908 - January 28, 2009), German legal scholar
  • James N. Folks (October 19, 1897 - January 20, 2001), American politician
  • Maurice Fontaine (October 28, 1904 - July 14, 2009), French biologist
  • Micol Fontana (November 8, 1913 - June 12, 2015), Italian fashion designer
  • Eduard Fontserè i Riba (March 1, 1870 - September 18, 1970), Spanish meteorologist
  • Robert Humphrey Forbes (May 15, 1867 - April 26, 1968), American agricultural scientist
  • Thelma Forbes (September 26, 1910 - January 5, 2012), Canadian politician
  • Traute Foresti (March 15, 1915 - April 3, 2015), Austrian actress, poet and reconsider
  • Yves Fortier (August 17, 1914 - August 19, 2014), Canadian geologist
  • Ronald Martin Foster (October 3, 1896 - February 2, 1998), American engineer
  • Yann Fouéré (July 26, 1910 - October 21, 2011), French nationalist politician
  • Pierre Fourcaud (March 27, 1898 - May 2, 1998), French military officer
  • Jean Fourquet (June 23, 1899 - September 18, 2001), French German studies specialist
  • Fred Fox (July 14, 1914 - May 21, 2019), American musician
  • Vincent Foy (August 14, 1915 - March 13, 2017) Canadian Catholic cleric and theologian
  • John Franzese (February 6, 1917 - February 24, 2020), Italian-American mafioso
  • Rina Franchetti (December 23, 1907 - August 18, 2010), Italian actress
  • Arden N. Frandsen (February 4, 1902 - February 13, 2002), American psychologist
  • Marcel Frange (November 3, 1910 - October 1, 2016), French entrepreneur and co-founder of Polydor
  • Arnold Frank (March 6, 1859 - March 20, 1965), British theologian of Hungarian origin in the mission to the Jews
  • Eugene Maxwell Frank (December 11, 1907 - October 13, 2009), American Methodist Bishop
  • Hannah Frank (23 August 1908 - 18 December 2008), Scottish sculptress
  • Margarete Franke (January 27, 1909 - June 24, 2011), German interior designer and artist
  • Paul Franke (October 21, 1881 - July 25, 1984), German publisher
  • Wolfgang Fränkel (January 4, 1905 - November 29, 2010), German lawyer and Attorney General
  • William Frankland (March 19, 1912 - April 2, 2020), British immunologist
  • Lidija Franklin (May 17, 1917 - December 5, 2019), Russian dancer, dance teacher and choreographer
  • Renzo Franzo (December 16, 1914 - March 3, 2018), Italian politician
  • Frankie Muse Freeman (November 24, 1916 - January 12, 2018), American civil rights activist
  • Jim Freeman (January 23, 1914 - August 11, 2015), American football player and coach
  • Ulrich Freimuth (October 16, 1914 - November 11, 2014), German food chemist
  • Harold French (April 23, 1897 - October 10, 1997), British director and actor
  • Mariana Frenk-Westheim (June 4, 1898 - June 24, 2004), Spanish-Mexican writer and translator
  • Jacque Fresco (March 13, 1916 - May 18, 2017), American author, inventor, and industrial designer
  • Max Freund (February 27, 1879 - June 16, 1980), American German studies scholar and university professor of German origin
  • Karl Frey (September 3, 1886 - August 4, 1987), German teacher, businessman, Senator of the Union of South Africa
  • Margarete Fries (June 14, 1911 - January 18, 2012), Austrian actress
  • Jean Fritz (November 16, 1915 - May 14, 2017), American children's author
  • Curt Froboese (May 3, 1891 - July 16, 1994), German pathologist and university professor
  • Günter Fronius (November 11, 1907 - July 21, 2015), Romanian-Austrian entrepreneur
  • Dorothy Frooks (February 12, 1896 - April 13, 1997), American writer and actress
  • Katherine Fryer (August 26, 1910 - January 11, 2017) British wood engraving artist
  • Marianne Fuchs (November 4, 1908 - March 11, 2010), German founder of body psychotherapy (functional relaxation)
  • Gregorio Fuentes (July 11, 1897 - January 13, 2002), Cuban captain, probably a role model for the fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea
  • Yoshio Fujita (September 28, 1908 - January 9, 2013), Japanese astronomer
  • Ida May Fuller (September 6, 1874 - January 27, 1975), first person in the United States to receive benefits from the social security scheme established in 1935
  • Reginald C. Fuller (September 12, 1908 - April 21, 2011), English priest and Roman Catholic theologian
  • Yuan-Cheng Fung (September 15, 1919 - December 15, 2019), American engineer
  • Hilde Fürstenberg (February 1, 1902 - January 30, 2005), German writer and publisher
  • Evelyn Furtsch (April 17, 1914 - March 5, 2015), American 100m runner
  • Elisabeth Furtwängler (December 20, 1910 - March 5, 2013), German writer, wife of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler

G

H

  • Lina Haag (January 18, 1907 - June 18, 2012), German resistance fighter
  • William E. Haast (December 30, 1910 - June 15, 2011), American snake researcher
  • Rose Hacker (March 3, 1906 - February 4, 2008) British social activist and politician
  • Sami Hadawi (March 6, 1904 - April 22, 2004), Palestinian scholar and author
  • Doris Haddock (January 24, 1910 - March 9, 2010), American political activist
  • Martin Hadelich (November 21, 1903 - August 6, 2004), German sculptor and graphic artist
  • Walter Haefner (September 13, 1910 - June 19, 2012), Swiss entrepreneur
  • Oscar Hagen (April 4, 1895 - September 1, 1996), German CDU politician and member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament
  • Earl Hager (April 10, 1909 - December 19, 2011), American politician
  • Otto Haibach (June 24, 1897 - May 5, 1999), German cartographer and explorer
  • Liane Haid (August 16, 1895 - November 28, 2000), Austrian actress
  • Kathleen Hale (May 24, 1898 - January 26, 2000), British writer
  • Margarete Haller (August 1, 1893 - July 22, 1995), German author for children and young people
  • Ebby Halliday (March 9, 1911 - September 8, 2015) American businesswoman
  • Stein Grieg Halvorsen (October 19, 1909 - November 11, 2013), Norwegian actor
  • Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 - June 12, 2001), German-American neuroembryologist
  • Alice Hamilton (February 27, 1869 - September 22, 1970), American medical doctor and toxicologist
  • Clarence Herbert Hamilton (January 8, 1886 - July 6, 1986), American religious scholar and sinologist
  • Bram Hammacher (November 12, 1897 - April 19, 2002), Dutch art historian and art critic
  • Renilde Hammacher-van den Brande (March 31, 1913 - December 10, 2014), Belgian art historian
  • Shimetarō Hara (October 4, 1882 - June 18, 1991), Japanese physician
  • Reinhard Hardegen (March 18, 1913 - June 9, 2018), German submarine commander and member of the Bremen Parliament
  • Ruth Inge Hardison (February 3, 1914 - March 23, 2016), American sculptor and artist
  • Judith Hare, Countess of Listowel (July 12, 1903 - July 15, 2003), British-Hungarian journalist and writer
  • Charles Hargens (April 30, 1893 - January 30, 1997), American painter
  • Arthur Alonzo Hargrave (August 15, 1856 - September 13, 1957), American journalist and newspaper editor
  • Alice Seeley Harris (May 24, 1870 - November 24, 1970) British missionary and photographer
  • Elwin Elmer Harris (November 11, 1897 - June 8, 2000), American chemist
  • Errol Harris (February 19, 1908 - June 21, 2009), South African philosopher and author
  • Jack Harris (July 23, 1906 - August 26, 2009) New Zealand entrepreneur and nobleman
  • Kathleen Harrison (February 23, 1892 - December 7, 1995), British actress
  • Philip D'Arcy Hart (June 25, 1900 - July 30, 2006), British medic
  • Ilse Härter (January 12, 1912 - December 28, 2012), German Protestant theologian
  • Philip Hartman (May 16, 1915 - August 28, 2015), American mathematician
  • Erich Hartmann (January 26, 1920 - July 6, 2020), German double bass player and composer
  • Elisabeth Hartnagel (February 27, 1920 - February 28, 2020), German contemporary witness, sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl
  • Charles Hartshorne (June 5, 1897 - October 9, 2000), American philosopher
  • Johann Caspar Hartung (June 18, 1622 - January 9, 1725), German builder
  • Walter Hase (November 6, 1905 - June 9, 2007), German forester
  • Shinobu Hashimoto (April 18, 1918 - July 19, 2018), Japanese screenwriter, film director and producer
  • Cosmo Haskard (November 25, 1916 - February 21, 2017), British politician
  • Erich Häßler (April 22, 1899 - December 2, 2005), German pediatrician
  • Marcel Hastir (March 22, 1906 - July 2, 2011), Belgian painter
  • Tadashi Hattori (March 17, 1908 - August 2, 2008), Japanese composer
  • Hau Pei-tsun (August 8, 1919 - March 30, 2020), Taiwanese officer, politician, and Prime Minister
  • Ralph Hauenstein (March 20, 1912 - January 10, 2016), American philanthropist
  • Otto Haupt (March 5, 1887 - November 10, 1988), German mathematician
  • Wilhelm Hauser (August 10, 1883 - September 8, 1983), German mathematician and university professor
  • Jaap Havekotte (March 16, 1912 - April 23, 2014), Dutch speed skater
  • João Havelange (May 8, 1916 - August 16, 2016), Brazilian football official and lawyer
  • Olivia de Havilland (July 1, 1916 - July 25, 2020), British-American film actress
  • Leopold Hawelka (April 11, 1911 - December 29, 2011), Austrian founder and operator of Café Hawelka
  • Augustus F. Hawkins (August 31, 1907 - November 10, 2007), American civil rights activist and politician
  • Bert Hazell (April 18, 1907 - January 11, 2009) British Labor Party politician and Member of the House of Commons
  • Gilbert Simon Heathcote (September 21, 1913 - April 15, 2014), British nobleman
  • Clyde Alexander Heatly (October 12, 1897 - January 17, 2001), American physician
  • Ken Hechler (September 20, 1914 - December 10, 2016), American politician
  • Friedrich Hecht (August 29, 1918 - December 16, 2019), German party official and politician (SED)
  • Karl Heck (November 18, 1896 - June 2, 1997), German lawyer and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
  • Johannes Heesters (December 5, 1903 - December 24, 2011), Dutch-Austrian actor and operetta star
  • Albrecht Hege (May 9, 1917 - August 16, 2017), German Protestant theologian
  • Michael Heidelberger (April 29, 1888 - June 25, 1991), American immunologist
  • Heinrich Heidersberger (June 10, 1906 - July 14, 2006), German photographer
  • Albin Heimann (March 16, 1914 - December 19, 2015), Swiss politician
  • Bobbie Heine (December 5, 1909 - July 31, 2016), South African tennis player
  • Richard Heine (May 30, 1890 - September 8, 1991), German doctor and local politician
  • John Netherland Heiskell (November 2, 1872 - December 28, 1972), American Senator
  • Rudolf Heiss (September 27, 1903 - September 13, 2009), German engineer and university professor
  • Ernst Held (March 28, 1901 - August 9, 2005), Swiss physician
  • Gerard Helders (March 9, 1905 - January 6, 2013), Dutch politician
  • Adolf Helke (September 14, 1902 - November 23, 2006), German geologist and mineral explorer
  • Rudolf Hell (December 19, 1901 - March 11, 2002), German inventor (including fax machine and scanner)
  • Åke Hellman (July 19, 1915 - December 18, 2017), Finnish painter
  • Ivar Hellman (January 21, 1891 - February 19, 1994), Swedish conductor and composer
  • Fritz Hellwig (August 3, 1912 - July 22, 2017), German politician and EC commissioner
  • Olaf Helmer (June 4, 1910 - April 14, 2011), German-American mathematician and futurologist
  • Eugen Hemberg (November 9, 1845 - March 14, 1946), Swedish forester and writer
  • James McLaren Henderson (May 1, 1907 - March 5, 2009) Scottish rugby player
  • Roy Henderson (July 4, 1899 - March 16, 2000), British baritone
  • Andrés Henestrosa (November 30, 1906 - January 10, 2008), Mexican writer and historian
  • Ernst Jakob Henne (February 22, 1904 - May 22, 2005), German motorcycle world record holder
  • Kilian Hennessy (February 19, 1907 - October 2, 2010) French businessman
  • Paul Rudolf Henning (August 15, 1886 - October 11, 1986), German architect and sculptor
  • Federico Henríquez y Carvajal (September 16, 1848 - February 4, 1952), Dominican writer
  • Trevor Henry (May 9, 1902 - June 20, 2007), New Zealand lawyer
  • Felix Herriger (June 21, 1908 - November 29, 2009), German electrical engineer and manager
  • Paul Herrmann (December 16, 1913 - October 19, 2015), German politician (CDU)
  • Erik Herseth (July 9, 1892 - January 28, 1993), Norwegian sailor
  • Alice Herz-Sommer (November 26, 1903 - February 23, 2014), Austrian-Czech-Israeli-British pianist ("The Pianist of Theresienstadt")
  • Emmy Herzog (April 13, 1903 - August 30, 2009), German author
  • Milan Herzog (August 23, 1908 - April 20, 2010), American documentary filmmaker
  • Kurt Luis Hess (October 3, 1908 - February 9, 2010), German-Dominican farmer and headmaster
  • Christian Heurich (September 12, 1842 - March 7, 1945), American brewery owner and philanthropist
  • Pál Hevesy (April 9, 1883 - March 15, 1988), Hungarian diplomat
  • Lenox Hewitt (May 7, 1917 - February 28, 2020), Australian politician
  • Irmgard Heydorn (March 24, 1916 - May 17, 2017), German socialist and resistance fighter
  • Shuntarō Hida (January 1, 1917 - March 20, 2017), Japanese doctor
  • Ernst Hierl (August 8, 1880 - February 24, 1981), German writer
  • Naruhiko Higashikuni (December 3, 1887 - January 26, 1990), Japanese Prime Minister
  • George Higginson (June 21, 1826 - February 1, 1927), British general
  • Joel Henry Hildebrand (November 16, 1881 - April 30, 1983), American chemist
  • Johann Christoph Hilf (November 1, 1783 - July 7, 1885), German musician
  • Oliver Hill (May 1, 1907 - August 5, 2007), American civil rights activist
  • Wilhelm von Hillern-Flinsch (March 26, 1884 - April 11, 1986), German painter and graphic artist
  • Roc Hillman (July 13, 1910 - May 31, 2011), American guitarist and composer
  • Otto Hiltbrunner (December 29, 1913 - January 19, 2017), Swiss classical philologist
  • John L. Hines (May 21, 1868 - October 13, 1968), American general
  • Shigeaki Hinohara (October 4, 1911 - July 18, 2017), Japanese medic
  • Arthur R. von Hippel (November 19, 1898 - December 31, 2003), German-American materials scientist and physicist (Radar)
  • Hirakushi Denchū (January 15, 1872 - December 30, 1979), Japanese sculptor
  • Unichi Hiratsuka (September 17, 1895 - November 18, 1997) Japanese artist
  • Helmut Hirsch (September 2, 1907 - January 21, 2009), German historian
  • Mike Hoare (March 17, 1919 - February 2, 2020), Irish officer, mercenary and author
  • Asher Hobson (November 26, 1889 - February 29, 1992), American agricultural economist
  • Chet Hoff (May 8, 1891 - September 17, 1998), American baseball player
  • Ilse Ester Hoffe (May 8, 1906 - September 2, 2007), secretary to the writer and Kafka editor Max Brod
  • Dorrit Hoffleit (March 12, 1907 - April 9, 2007), American astronomer
  • Elisabeth Hoffmeier (August 19, 1878 - January 15, 1979), German local politician in Hanover
  • Paul C. Hodges (January 6, 1893 - December 27, 1996), American radiologist
  • Hermann Hoepke (May 13, 1889 - December 22, 1993), German anatomist
  • Gottfried Eduard Hofer (October 20, 1891 - October 20, 1993), Swiss entrepreneur
  • Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 - April 29, 2008), Swiss chemist and discoverer of LSD
  • Randolph Hokanson (June 22, 1915 - October 18, 2018), American pianist
  • William Holland (December 28, 1907 - May 8, 2008), New Zealand-American economist and Asian researcher
  • Clare Hollingworth (October 10, 1911 - January 10, 2017), British journalist
  • Philip Hollom (June 9, 1912 - June 20, 2014), British ornithologist
  • Helen F. Holt (August 16, 1913 - July 12, 2015), American politician
  • Helma Holthausen-Krüll (October 21, 1916 - January 20, 2020), German painter
  • Edward Augustus Holyoke (August 1, 1728 - March 31, 1829), American medic
  • Karl Holzamer (October 13, 1906 - April 22, 2007), German philosopher, educator and director of the ZDF
  • Karl Lukas Honegger (August 14, 1902 - January 27, 2003), Swiss painter and sculptor
  • Blanche Honegger (September 23, 1909 - February 10, 2011), Swiss-American violinist and conductor
  • Olivia Hooker (February 12, 1915 - November 21, 2018), American civil rights activist
  • Bob Hope (May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003), American actor, comedian, and husband of Dolores Hope
  • Dolores Hope (May 27, 1909 - September 19, 2011), American singer and wife of Bob Hope
  • Wilhelm Horkel (December 3, 1909 - July 29, 2012), German Protestant pastor and writer
  • Marjorie G. Horning (August 23, 1917 - June 11, 2020), American biochemist and pharmacologist
  • Christopher Hornsrud (November 15, 1859 - December 12, 1960), Prime Minister of Norway
  • Mieczysław Horszowski (June 23, 1892 - May 22, 1993), Polish pianist
  • Ralph Horween (August 3, 1896 - May 26, 1997), American football player
  • Shep Houghton (June 4, 1914 - December 15, 2016), American actor
  • Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow (March 9, 1912 - March 24, 2013), British nobleman and diplomat
  • Klaus Howaldt (December 22, 1914 - January 18, 2015), German shipowner
  • Edward Daniel Howard (November 5, 1877 - January 2, 1983), American clergyman, oldest recorded Roman Catholic archbishop
  • Yvonne Howell (July 31, 1905 - May 27, 2010), American actress
  • Emily Howland (November 20, 1827 - January 29, 1929), American philanthropist and feminist
  • Juraj Hrženjak (March 10, 1917 - June 15, 2020), Yugoslav or Croatian politician, judge, publicist and association official
  • Ellis Herndon Hudson (June 17, 1890 - January 6, 1992), American medical doctor and university professor
  • H. Claude Hudson (June 12, 1887 - January 26, 1989), American businessman and civil rights activist (Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
  • Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (November 3, 1873 - January 11, 1974), English philologist
  • Stanley J. Hughes (September 17, 1918 - November 7, 2019), British-Canadian mycologist
  • Ramón Huidobro Domínguez (August 9, 1916 - January 19, 2019), Chilean diplomat
  • Johan van Hulst (January 28, 1911 - March 22, 2018), Dutch educator and politician
  • Jenny Humbert-Droz (August 27, 1892 - January 4, 2000), Swiss women's rights activist and politician
  • Edith Humphrey (September 11, 1875 - February 25, 1978), British inorganic chemist
  • Friedrich Hund (February 4, 1896 - March 31, 1997), German physicist (Hund's rules)
  • Heinrich Hunziker (December 9, 1879 - April 26, 1982), Swiss physician
  • Margaret Hurley (September 10, 1909 - August 29, 2015), American politician
  • Ralph Gibney Hurlin (September 30, 1888 - November 14, 1992), American statistician
  • Józef Hurwic (May 23, 1911 - July 27, 2016), Polish physicist
  • Harry Huskey (January 19, 1916 - April 9, 2017), American mathematician and computer engineer
  • James Metcalf Hutchinson (November 29, 1896 - November 7, 2000), English cricketer and oldest recorded first-class player
  • Jeremy Hutchinson (March 28, 1915 - November 13, 2017) British lawyer, politician and Member of the House of Lords
  • Arnold Hutschnecker (May 13, 1898 - December 28, 2000), Austrian-American psychotherapist (including Richard Nixon )
  • Esther Hymer (July 20, 1898 - April 4, 2001), American suffragette and peace activist
  • Hyun Seung-jong (January 26, 1919 - May 25, 2020), South Korean politician

I.

  • Vladimir Ibler (June 25, 1913 - April 30, 2015), Yugoslav legal scholar
  • Alexander Imich (February 4, 1903 - June 8, 2014), Polish-American chemist and parapsychologist
  • Aloys Immenkamp (September 8, 1906 - November 2, 2007), German dentist
  • Halil İnalcık (May 26, 1916 - July 25, 2016), Turkish historian
  • Ulrich Inderbinen (December 3, 1900 - June 14, 2004), Swiss alpinist and mountain guide
  • Terence Ingold (July 3, 1905 - May 31, 2010), British mycologist
  • Collingwood Ingram (October 28, 1880 - May 19, 1981) English botanist and ornithologist
  • Pietro Ingrao (March 30, 1915 - September 27, 2015), Italian journalist and politician
  • Helge Ingstad (December 30, 1899 - March 28, 2001), Norwegian explorer
  • Karl Innerebner (April 6, 1870 - September 5, 1970), Austrian building contractor
  • Johann Innerhofer (September 27, 1837 - December 5, 1937), Austrian tourism pioneer
  • Minoru Inuzuka (February 15, 1901 - September 17, 2007), Japanese screenwriter and film director
  • Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (March 18, 1917 - September 15, 2017), Romanian politician
  • Ion Irimescu (February 27, 1903 - October 28, 2005), Romanian sculptor
  • Josef Isenschmid (June 21, 1908 - September 17, 2009), Swiss politician
  • Momoko Ishii (March 10, 1907 - April 2, 2008), Japanese author
  • Jane Ising (February 2, 1902 - February 2, 2012), German-American economist
  • Shokichi Iyanaga (April 2, 1906 - June 1, 2006), Japanese mathematician

J

K

  • Karl Käfer (January 10, 1898 - July 30, 1999), Swiss business economist
  • Irving Kahn (December 19, 1905 - February 24, 2015), American financial analyst
  • Naum Lwowitsch Kaidanowski (October 26, 1907 - November 11, 2010), Soviet or Russian radio astronomer
  • Berthe Kal (November 10, 1913 - April 25, 2015), French singer and teacher
  • Konstantinos Kallias (July 9, 1901 - April 7, 2004), Greek politician
  • Ata Kandó (September 17, 1913 - September 14, 2017), Dutch photographer
  • Jasper H. Kane (July 15, 1903 - November 16, 2004), American biochemist
  • Joseph Nathan Kane (January 23, 1899 - September 22, 2002), American non-fiction author
  • Augustinos Andreas Kantiotis (April 20, 1907 - August 28, 2010), Greek clergyman, bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church
  • Mordechai M. Kaplan (June 11, 1881 - November 8, 1983), American Jewish theologian and founder of reconstructionism
  • Stavros Karamaniolas (May 13, 1911 - April 18, 2014), Greek poet and composer
  • Alexander George Karczmar (May 9, 1917 - August 17, 2017), Polish-American neuroscientist
  • Roger Karl (April 29, 1882 - May 4, 1984), French actor
  • Wacław Karłowicz (September 15, 1907 - December 8, 2007), Polish Roman Catholic clergyman
  • Paula Karpinski (November 6, 1897 - March 8, 2005), German SPD politician and Senator from Hamburg
  • Tatiana Mikhailovna Karpova (January 17, 1916 - February 26, 2018), Russian actress
  • Martin Karsten (December 21, 1890 - December 19, 1995), German politician (DDP, CDU)
  • Dhondo Keshav Karve (April 18, 1858 - November 9, 1962), Indian social reformer
  • Wally Karveno (October 14, 1914 - July 15, 2015), French-German composer and pianist
  • Toshikazu Kase (January 12, 1903 - May 21, 2004), Japanese diplomat
  • Piet Kasteel (November 4, 1901 - December 12, 2003), Dutch diplomat and Governor of Curaçao
  • Salme Katajavuori (May 2, 1912 - September 8, 2016), Finnish politician
  • Tamako Kataoka (January 5, 1905 - January 16, 2008), Japanese painter
  • Yutaka Katayama (September 15, 1909 - February 19, 2015), Japanese manager
  • Miyozō Katō (January 25, 1912 - May 10, 2012), Japanese painter
  • Shizue Katō (March 2, 1897 - December 22, 2001), Japanese suffragette and politician
  • Yekaterina Sergejewna Katukowa (January 13, 1914 - February 5, 2015), Russian stenographer, field shearer and writer
  • Bel Kaufman (May 10, 1911 - July 25, 2014) Russian-American writer
  • Hans Kaufmann (December 22, 1910 - March 20, 2012), German computer scientist
  • Sheila Kaul (February 7, 1915 - June 13, 2015), Indian politician
  • Herbert von Kaven (February 8, 1908 - July 25, 2009), German mathematician
  • F. Ray Kayer Sr. (September 29, 1898 - March 7, 2001), American lawyer and politician (member of the Vermont Supreme Court)
  • Jan Kazimierczak (May 16, 1910 - July 5, 2011), Polish educator and politician
  • Dan Keating (February 2, 1902 - October 2, 2007), Irish politician (Sinn Féin)
  • Ed Keats (January 30, 1915 - March 2, 2019), American Rear Admiral
  • Hans Keilson (December 12, 1909 - May 31, 2011), Dutch doctor, psychoanalyst and writer
  • Josef Keindl (November 20, 1903 - December 16, 2007), Austrian high school teacher and geographer
  • Vilho Kekkonen (February 21, 1909 - October 20, 2014), Finnish singer
  • René Keller (June 29, 1900 - December 15, 2003), Swiss lawyer
  • Walter Keller (March 13, 1900 - March 23, 2001), American geologist
  • Willis Kelly (December 2, 1909 - September 14, 2012), American jazz trumpeter
  • Frances Oldham Kelsey (July 24, 1914 - August 7, 2015), American pharmacologist
  • Beatrix Kempf (November 1, 1908 - August 19, 2009), Austrian editor, peace activist and biographer Bertha von Suttners
  • Lothar Kempter (May 1, 1900 - February 12, 2001), Swiss writer and Germanist
  • Rezső Kende (December 31, 1908 - June 19, 2011), Hungarian gymnast
  • John Kenley (February 20, 1906 - October 23, 2009), American theater director
  • George F. Kennan (February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005), American diplomat
  • Rose Kennedy (July 22, 1890 - January 22, 1995), mother of John F. Kennedy
  • Barbara Kent (December 16, 1907 - October 13, 2011), Canadian actress
  • Lou Kenton (September 1, 1908 - September 17, 2012) British political activist and artist
  • Hermann Kerger (March 3, 1906 - April 12, 2009), German general practitioner and medical professional politician
  • Hans Alwin Ketels (October 19, 1913 - April 12, 2017), German politician and member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament
  • Ancel Keys (January 26, 1904 - November 20, 2004), American nutritionist
  • Abdul Rashid Khan (August 19, 1908 - February 18, 2016), Indian musician and composer
  • Feroze Khan (September 9, 1904 - April 21, 2005), Pakistani hockey player
  • Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak (April 5, 1908 - October 10, 2008), Pakistani politician and diplomat
  • Erik Kinell (September 15, 1912 - February 9, 2013), Swedish painter
  • Inge King (November 26, 1915 - April 24, 2016), German-Australian sculptor
  • Phyllis King (23 August 1905 - 27 January 2006), British tennis player and Wimbledon champion
  • Ronold WP King (September 19, 1905 - April 10, 2006), American applied physicist
  • William Donald Aelian King (June 23, 1910 - September 21, 2012) British naval officer
  • Hilda Kingslake (February 16, 1902 - February 14, 2003), British optics expert and wife of Rudolf Kingslake
  • Robert Kinoshita (February 24, 1914 - December 9, 2014), American film designer
  • H. David Kirk (March 5, 1918 - December 14, 2019), Canadian sociologist
  • Wilhelm Kirschey (March 27, 1906 - May 13, 2006), German anti-fascist resistance fighter
  • Barys Kit (April 6, 1910 - February 1, 2018), Belarusian mathematician, physicist, chemist and philosopher
  • Seibo Kitamura (December 16, 1884 - March 4, 1987), Japanese sculptor
  • Charles Kittel (July 18, 1916 - May 15, 2019), American physicist
  • Jalmari Kivenheimo (September 25, 1889 - October 29, 1994), Finnish gymnast
  • Gerhard Klages (September 11, 1915 - September 7, 2017), German physicist
  • Kurt Klaudy (April 12, 1905 - December 3, 2009), Austrian architect
  • Fritz Klee (August 24, 1876 - December 12, 1976), German architect and porcelain designer
  • Emil Klein (December 3, 1905 - February 22, 2010), German politician of the NSDAP and member of the Reichstag
  • Wilhelm Klein (March 24, 1889 - January 7, 1996), German Roman Catholic theologian and spiritual
  • Erich Kleineidam (January 3, 1905 - April 21, 2005), German philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian
  • Edward E. Kleinschmidt (September 9, 1876 - August 22, 1977), German-American inventor
  • Nathaniel Kleitman (April 26, 1895 - August 13, 1999), Russian-American sleep researcher (REM sleep)
  • Alfred Klemm (February 15, 1913 - February 23, 2013), German chemist
  • Hans Kleppen (March 16, 1907 - April 12, 2009), Norwegian ski jumper
  • Walter Klestadt (February 26, 1883 - January 20, 1985), German-American ENT doctor
  • Lotte Kliebert (October 15, 1887 - November 27, 1991), German musician
  • Erich Kliefert (June 20, 1893 - January 30, 1994), German painter
  • Bertha Klingberg (October 21, 1898 - November 7, 2005), German flower maker and honorary citizen of the city of Schwerin
  • Paul E. Klopsteg (May 30, 1889 - April 28, 1991), American physicist
  • Herbert Kneifel (March 17, 1908 - June 29, 2010), Austrian archivist and politician
  • Florence Knoll (May 24, 1917 - January 25, 2019), American architect and furniture designer
  • Dorothy Knowles (March 28, 1906 - November 10, 2010), British Romance studies and theater scholar
  • Durward Knowles (November 2, 1917 - February 24, 2018), Bahamian sailor
  • Alfred Koch (June 23, 1907 - August 18, 2013), German sports doctor
  • Elly Koch (July 24, 1916 - July 27, 2017), Swiss embroiderer and author
  • Lotte Koch (March 9, 1913 - May 7, 2013), German actress
  • Hans F. Koenekamp (December 3, 1891 - September 12, 1992), American cameraman and special effects designer
  • Wilhelm Kohl (December 9, 1913 - October 2, 2014), German historian and archivist
  • Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge (April 8, 1914 - December 13, 2016), Dutch resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and reformed (autodidactic) theologian
  • Ingeborg Koehler-Rieckenberg (December 4, 1914 - June 10, 2015), German economist
  • Vera Kohn (March 24, 1912 - June 29, 2012), actress, psychologist and therapist
  • Mykola Kolessa (December 6, 1903 - June 8, 2006), Ukrainian composer and conductor
  • Walter Martin Kollmorgen (February 10, 1907 - July 22, 2008), American geographer
  • Keizō Komura (June 25, 1896 - May 14, 2000), Japanese admiral
  • Juliana Koo (September 26, 1905 - May 24, 2017), Sino-American diplomat
  • Steve Kordek (December 26, 1911 - February 19, 2012), American businessman and designer
  • Boris Alexejewitsch Korolev (December 7, 1909 - February 26, 2010), Soviet medic
  • Bolesław Kostkiewicz (July 25, 1908 - March 23, 2011), Polish military man
  • Joseph Kowalewski (December 31, 1899 - March 30, 2000), American pharmaceutical researcher and physical chemist
  • Zofia Kozarynowa (November 20, 1890 - April 17, 1992), Polish writer
  • Jaroslav Kozlík (May 22, 1907 - October 21, 2012), Czech educator
  • Mara Kralj (September 9, 1909 - October 22, 2010), Slovenian painter and doll designer
  • Helmut Kramer (July 7, 1910 - May 6, 2011), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
  • Hans Krasensky (July 2, 1903 - November 15, 2006), Austrian business educator
  • Edith Kraus (May 16, 1913 - September 3, 2013), Israeli pianist
  • Martha Krause-Lang (March 26, 1912 - December 14, 2016), German social worker
  • William Krehm (December 23, 1913 - April 19, 2019), Canadian author, journalist, and political activist
  • Herbert Kreibich (March 24, 1910 - January 7, 2019), German-Swiss industrial manager
  • Trude Kreibich (June 9, 1910 - August 21, 2012), German-Swiss painter
  • Emmanuel Kriaras (November 28, 1906 - August 22, 2014), Greek classical philologist and lexicographer
  • T. Krishnamacharya (November 18, 1888 - February 28, 1989), Indian yoga teacher
  • Hans Kristiansen (August 14, 1913 - August 9, 2015), Norwegian poet, playwright and librettist
  • Heinrich Reinhard Kröh (May 7, 1841 - December 14, 1941), German landscape painter
  • Elisabeth Kronseder (February 14, 1890 - November 29, 1990), German sculptor and painter
  • Juta Krulc (April 18, 1913 - June 22, 2015), Slovenian landscape architect
  • Ernst Krupka (October 15, 1890 - February 25, 1991), German evangelist of the German Tent Mission
  • Harald Krusche (March 21, 1909 - January 27, 2014), Polish chemist
  • Phyllis Krystal (May 11, 1914 - December 10, 2016), British psychotherapist
  • Josef Štefan Kubín (October 7, 1864 - November 25, 1965), Czech ethnographer and writer
  • Joachim P. Kuettner (September 21, 1909 - February 24, 2011), German-American physicist and glider pilot
  • Hermann von Kuhl (November 2, 1856 - November 4, 1958), German general and military historian
  • Motoichi Kumagai (July 12, 1909 - November 6, 2010), Japanese photographer
  • Fred Kummerow (October 4, 1914 - May 31, 2017), American chemist
  • John Kundla (July 3, 1916 - July 23, 2017), American basketball coach
  • Stanley Kunitz (July 29, 1905 - May 14, 2006), American poet
  • Artur Kunz (April 26, 1916 - August 6, 2018), German entrepreneur
  • Magdalena Kupfer (October 9, 1910 - February 25, 2011), German educator and politician
  • Hans Kurath (December 13, 1891 - January 2, 1992), American linguist
  • Sári Kürthy (September 12, 1874 - May 1, 1978), Hungarian actress
  • Alfred Kusche (April 21, 1884 - July 9, 1984), German artist and craftsman
  • Fuki Kushida (February 17, 1899 - February 5, 2001), Japanese suffragette
  • Helmut Kuß (March 26, 1906 - December 9, 2006), German administrative lawyer
  • Martha Kyrle (April 17, 1917 - July 15, 2017), Austrian philanthropist and first lady

L.

  • Mae Laborde (May 13, 1909 - January 9, 2012), American actress
  • Suzanne Lacore (May 30, 1875 - November 6, 1975), French politician and first female member of the government (Undersecretary for the Protection of Young People from 1936 to 1937)
  • Marcelle de Lacour (November 6, 1896 - March 24, 1997), French harpsichordist
  • Léon Lacroix (November 23, 1909 - August 1, 2016), Belgian numismatist and classical archaeologist
  • Carla Laemmle (October 20, 1909 - June 12, 2014), American actress
  • Aimo Laiho (January 6, 1914 - September 29, 2014), Finnish politician
  • Eleanor Lambert (August 10, 1903 - October 7, 2003), American fashion journalist
  • Karolina Lanckorońska (August 11, 1898 - August 25, 2002), Polish art historian and writer
  • Alf Landon (September 9, 1887 - October 12, 1987), American governor and presidential candidate
  • Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis (March 10, 1893 - May 21, 1993), Lithuanian architect
  • Charles Lane (January 26, 1905 - July 9, 2007), American actor
  • Anna Lang (May 5, 1911 - September 27, 2019), German weaver
  • Ernst Michael Lang (October 16, 1913 - October 21, 2014), Swiss veterinarian
  • Margaret Ruthven Lang (November 27, 1867 - May 29, 1972), American composer
  • Johnny Lange (August 15, 1905 - January 6, 2006), American composer
  • Gustav Lantschner (August 12, 1910 - March 19, 2011), Austrian-German ski racer
  • Erik Sture Larre (March 31, 1914 - November 11, 2014), Norwegian lawyer and conservationist
  • Max Lattmann (August 25, 1910 - May 10, 2011), Swiss engineer
  • Walther Lauersen (March 14, 1906 - September 7, 2007), German economist
  • Hugues Laurent (June 24, 1885 - September 16, 1990), French film architect and short film director
  • Olga Lauristin (April 28, 1903 - June 25, 2005), Estonian communist politician
  • André Lavagne (July 12, 1913 - March 21, 2014), French composer
  • Sidney Laverents (August 5, 1908 - May 6, 2009), American film producer
  • Anthony Lawrence (August 12, 1912 - September 24, 2013), British journalist
  • Harold Lawton (July 27, 1899 - December 24, 2005), British French-speaking novelist
  • Lucile Layton (July 22, 1903 - December 21, 2004), American actress (Ziegfeld Follies)
  • Erna Lazarus (June 16, 1903 - February 19, 2006), American screenwriter
  • Guy Lazorthes (July 4, 1910 - March 26, 2014), French medic
  • Renée Le Calm (September 18, 1918 - June 8, 2019), French actress
  • Paul Le Flem (March 18, 1881 - July 31, 1984) French composer
  • René Le Hénaff (April 26, 1901 - January 5, 2005), French director and film editor
  • Guillermo Leaden (July 20, 1913 - July 14, 2014), Argentine Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop (Buenos Aires)
  • Yvette Lebon (August 14, 1910 - July 28, 2014), French actress
  • Wolf Leder (January 13, 1906 - August 24, 2009), German costume and set designer
  • Francis Lederer (November 6, 1899 - May 25, 2000), Czech actor
  • Jerome F. Lederer (September 26, 1902 - February 6, 2004), American pioneer of aviation safety ("Mr. Aviation Safety")
  • Shih-Ying Lee (April 30, 1918 - July 2, 2018), American inventor and engineer
  • Adrianus Cornelis van Leeuwen (October 30, 1887 - June 30, 1991), Dutch composer and conductor
  • Wilhelm Lefèbre (December 6, 1873 - May 26, 1974), German painter, etcher and lithographer
  • Heinz Leferenz (July 15, 1913 - April 29, 2015), German psychiatrist and criminologist
  • Sydney Leff (November 18, 1901 - December 10, 2005), American artist (sheet music)
  • Denise Legrix (May 16, 1910 - August 25, 2010), French writer and painter
  • Gladys Lehman (January 24, 1892 - April 7, 1993), American screenwriter
  • Inge Lehmann (May 13, 1888 - February 21, 1993), Danish seismologist
  • Maxime Lehmann (December 17, 1906 - April 24, 2009), French football player of Swiss origin
  • Emma Lehmer (November 6, 1906 - May 7, 2007), Russian-American mathematician
  • Joseph Lehner (October 29, 1912 - August 5, 2013), American mathematician
  • Arthur Lehning (October 23, 1899 - January 1, 2000), Dutch historian and philosopher
  • Lei Jieqiong (December 12, 1905 - January 9, 2011), Chinese sociologist and politician
  • George N. Leighton (October 22, 1912 - June 6, 2018), American lawyer
  • Anton Leischner (May 22, 1908 - September 17, 2010), German neurologist and linguist
  • Rita Lejeune (November 22, 1906 - March 18, 2009), Belgian philologist and university professor
  • Ulrich Leman (October 15, 1885 - April 22, 1988), German painter
  • Frances Lennon (September 12, 1912 - January 24, 2015) British artist
  • Conrad Leonard (October 24, 1898 - April 19, 2003), British musician
  • Samuel L. Leonard (November 26, 1905 - November 11, 2007), American zoologist
  • Felice Leonardo (March 9, 1915 - April 15, 2015) Italian Roman Catholic Bishop
  • August Leopolder (July 6, 1905 - August 31, 2006), German pianist and piano teacher
  • Galo Leoz (April 22, 1879 - January 23, 1990), Spanish ophthalmologist
  • Wolf Leslau (November 14, 1906 - November 18, 2006), Polish-American linguist (Semitic languages)
  • Aleen Leslie (February 5, 1908 - February 2, 2010), American playwright
  • Arthur Lessac (September 9, 1909 - April 7, 2011), American inventor of Kinesensic Training
  • Walter Leßner (January 5, 1909 - November 6, 2010), German politician, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
  • Evelyn Lett (October 17, 1896 - March 26, 1999), Canadian suffragette
  • Géry Leuliet (January 12, 1910 - January 1, 2015), French Roman Catholic Bishop (Amiens)
  • Elsy Leuzinger (February 7, 1910 - April 27, 2010), Swiss art ethnologist
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini (April 22, 1909 - December 30, 2012), Italian-American neurologist and Nobel Prize winner
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss (November 28, 1908 - October 30, 2009), French ethnologist and anthropologist
  • Alfred Levitt (August 15, 1894 - May 29, 2000), Belarusian-American painter
  • Waldemar Levy Cardoso (December 4, 1900 - May 13, 2009), Brazilian Field Marshal
  • Bernard Lewis (May 31, 1916 - May 19, 2018), British-American historian and publicist
  • Stanley Cornwell Lewis (December 18, 1905 - September 9, 2009) Welsh painter and illustrator
  • Maria Ley (August 1, 1898 - October 14, 1999), Austrian-American dancer, dance teacher and wife of Erwin Piscator
  • William Jefferson Lhamon (September 16, 1855 - October 21, 1955), American clergyman in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  • Li Rui (April 13, 1917 - February 16, 2019), Chinese politician
  • Eduards Līcis (March 25, 1884 - November 25, 1987), Latvian writer
  • Eric Lidow (December 22, 1912 - January 18, 2013), American entrepreneur
  • Haakon Lie (September 22, 1905 - May 25, 2009), Norwegian politician and General Secretary of the Arbeiderpartiet
  • Wolfgang Liebe (June 17, 1917 - August 1, 2017), German pharmacist
  • Jack Liebowitz (October 10, 1900 - December 11, 2000), American founder of DC Comics
  • Sven Liljeblad (May 30, 1899 - March 17, 2000), Swedish anthropologist and fairy tale researcher
  • Paul Moyer Limbert (May 27, 1897 - December 24, 1998), General Secretary of the Christian Association of Young People
  • Peter Limbourg (April 18, 1915 - December 28, 2015), German diplomat
  • Levi Robert Lind (July 29, 1906 - September 22, 2008), American classical philologist
  • Charles E. Lindblom (March 21, 1917 - January 30, 2018), American political and economist
  • Horst Linde (April 6, 1912 - September 10, 2016), German architect and urban planner
  • Ernst Linderoth (February 1, 1916 - February 3, 2016), German documentary photographer
  • Herbert Lindlar (March 15, 1909 - June 27, 2009), British-Swiss chemist
  • Erwin Lindner (April 7, 1888 - November 30, 1988), German entomologist
  • Randi Lindtner Næss (May 11, 1905 - May 20, 2009), Norwegian singer and actress
  • Paula Linhart (March 22, 1906 - August 7, 2012), German social worker and film critic
  • Robert Lippl (December 7, 1908 - May 6, 2009), German sculptor and painter
  • Germán List Arzubide (May 31, 1898 - October 17, 1998), Mexican writer
  • Hans List (April 30, 1896 - September 10, 1996), Austrian entrepreneur
  • Heinrich List (March 15, 1915 - July 18, 2018), German judge and President of the Federal Fiscal Court
  • Leonard Litwin (October 16, 1914 - April 2, 2017), American real estate developer
  • Stanislav Lyudkewytsch (January 24, 1879 - September 10, 1979), Ukrainian composer
  • René Llense (July 14, 1913 - March 12, 2014), French football player
  • Georg Loewenstein (April 18, 1890 - May 27, 1998), German dermatologist, sexologist and social hygienist
  • Edward Lofgren (January 18, 1914 - September 5, 2016), American physicist
  • Georges Loinger (August 29, 1910 - December 28, 2018), French historian and member of the Resistance
  • Huey Long (April 25, 1904 - June 10, 2009), American musician and member of the vocal group The Ink Spots
  • Leonard Long (April 25, 1911 - November 3, 2013), Australian painter
  • Trento Longaretti (September 27, 1916 - June 7, 2017), Italian painter
  • Tamás Lossonczy (August 12, 1904 - November 3, 2009), Hungarian painter
  • Hubertus Lossow (January 2, 1911 - August 16, 2011), German art historian and non-fiction author
  • Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (May 17, 1908 - January 15, 2011), French shipowner and banker
  • Adolph Lowe (March 4, 1893 - June 3, 1995), German sociologist and economist
  • Megan Lowe (November 17, 1915 - May 16, 2017) British cricketer
  • Lü Zhengcao (January 4, 1905 - October 13, 2009), Chinese general
  • Seymour Lubetzky (April 28, 1898 - April 5, 2003), American librarian and catalog theorist
  • Bill Lucas (January 16, 1917 - March 24, 2018), British long-distance runner
  • Elena Lucena (September 25, 1914 - October 7, 2015), Argentine actress
  • Lawrence Lucie (December 18, 1907 - August 14, 2009), American jazz guitarist
  • Alice Ludes (December 20, 1912 - February 12, 2017), American singer
  • John Walter Guerrier Lund (November 27, 1912 - March 21, 2015), British biologist
  • Yvette Lundy (April 22, 1916 - November 3, 2019), French resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor
  • Luo Hong (November 19, 1910 - February 27, 2017), Chinese writer
  • Don Lusk (October 28, 1913 - December 30, 2018), American animator and director
  • Ingrid Luterkort (June 28, 1910 - August 3, 2011), Swedish actress
  • Martin Lutter (October 14, 1874 - April 13, 1978), German officer, landowner and politician
  • Lidija Pavlovna Lykowa (March 23, 1913 - November 16, 2016), Russian politician
  • Vera Lynn (March 20, 1917 - June 18, 2020), British singer

M.

  • Onni Määttänen (February 10, 1908 - June 13, 2010), Finnish fighter in World War II and holder of the Mannerheim Cross
  • Lincoln Maazel (February 12, 1903 - September 15, 2009), American actor
  • Eleanor Maccoby (May 15, 1917 - December 11, 2018), American psychologist
  • Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (March 4, 1906 - July 27, 2007), American epidemiologist
  • Amaro Macedo (May 10, 1914 - June 27, 2014), Brazilian botanist
  • Wilmer Worthington MacElree (December 17, 1859 - January 16, 1960), American lawyer, historian, and writer
  • Maciej Maciejewski (October 1, 1914 - May 17, 2018), Polish actor
  • Garnet Hercules Mackley (December 9, 1883 - April 24, 1986) New Zealand politician and businessman
  • Jean S. MacLeod (January 20, 1908 - April 20, 2011), British writer
  • Stanisław Maczek (March 31, 1892 - December 11, 1994), Polish army leader in World War II
  • József Madarász (August 27, 1814 - January 31, 1915), Hungarian playwright and politician
  • Karl Mädler (December 9, 1902 - October 22, 2003), German paleobotanist and paleynologist
  • Michio Mado (November 16, 1909 - February 28, 2014), Japanese poet
  • Kurt Maetzig (January 25, 1911 - August 8, 2012), German film director
  • Martin Magner (March 5, 1900 - January 25, 2002), German-American theater, radio and television director
  • Denis Mahon (November 8, 1910 - April 24, 2011), British art collector
  • Hans Maier (July 11, 1916 - November 29, 2018), Dutch water polo player and swimmer
  • Hedwig Maier (January 20, 1905 - July 4, 2006), German lawyer
  • Pierre Maillard (June 24, 1916 - July 22, 2018), French diplomat and advisor to Charles de Gaulle
  • Wade Mainer (April 21, 1907 - September 12, 2011), American musician
  • Ananda Maitreya (August 24, 1896 - July 18, 1998), Sri Lankan Theravada scholar
  • Mohammed Saleh Makiya (January 14, 1914 - July 19, 2015), Iraqi architect and city planner
  • Don Malarkey (April 3, 1905 - July 28, 2006), American golfer
  • Albert Malbois (November 17, 1915 - February 12, 2017), French Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Corbeil
  • Henri Maldiney (August 4, 1912 - December 6, 2013), French philosopher
  • Tony Malinosky (October 5, 1909 - February 8, 2011), American baseball player
  • Fritz Manasse (November 3, 1904 - October 14, 2006), German lawyer
  • René Manaut (September 23, 1891 - September 6, 1992), French politician
  • Ernest Manheim (January 27, 1900 - July 28, 2002), Hungarian sociologist, anthropologist and composer
  • Stella Mann (January 24, 1912 - January 5, 2013), Austrian dancer and choreographer
  • John Manners (September 25, 1914 - March 7, 2020), British cricketer
  • Ruth Manning-Sanders (August 21, 1886 - October 12, 1988), British writer
  • Karl Maramorosch (January 16, 1915 - May 9, 2016), Polish-American entomologist and microbiologist
  • Carla Marangoni (November 13, 1915 - January 18, 2018), Italian gymnast
  • Clément Marchand (September 12, 1912 - April 22, 2013), Canadian poet and journalist
  • Charles Le Maresquier (October 16, 1870 - January 6, 1972), French architect
  • Joe Marhefka (February 16, 1902 - June 30, 2003), American football player
  • Andrée Marik (May 22, 1914 - August 3, 2016), French poet
  • Léo Marjane (August 27, 1912 - December 18, 2016), French singer
  • Rosa Markmann (July 30, 1907 - June 12, 2009), Chilean civil rights activist and first lady
  • Annemarie Marks-Rocke (December 7, 1901 - August 8, 2004), German actress and drama teacher
  • Conrado Marrero (April 25, 1911 - April 23, 2014), Cuban baseball player
  • Arthur Marshall (December 4, 1903 - March 16, 2007), British aviation pioneer
  • Lorna Marshall (September 14, 1898 - July 8, 2002), American anthropologist
  • Elizabeth Holloway Marston (February 20, 1893 - March 27, 1993), American psychologist
  • Mario Marti (May 19, 1914 - February 4, 2015), Italian literary scholar
  • Claire Martin (April 18, 1914 - June 18, 2014), Canadian writer
  • Ludwig Martin (April 25, 1909 - March 31, 2010), German lawyer and Attorney General
  • Monroe Harnish Martin (February 7, 1907 - March 12, 2007), American mathematician
  • Cecilia Martínez (November 22, 1913 - September 23, 2015), Venezuelan presenter
  • Carmen Martínez Sierra (May 3, 1904 - November 6, 2012), Spanish actress and singer
  • Leslie H. Martinson (January 16, 1915 - September 3, 2016), American television and film director
  • Kojima Masajirō (January 31, 1894 - March 24, 1994), Japanese writer
  • Guido Masanetz (May 17, 1914 - November 5, 2015), German composer and Kapellmeister
  • Margery Mason (September 27, 1913 - January 26, 2014), English actress
  • Richard B. Mather (November 11, 1913 - November 28, 2014), American sinologist
  • Draga Matković (November 4, 1907 - July 29, 2013), German pianist
  • Roy Matsumoto (May 1, 1913 - April 21, 2014), American Army member
  • Henry Evans Maude (October 1, 1906 - November 4, 2006) British colonial administrator, ethnologist and historian of the South Pacific
  • Louis Maurer (February 21, 1832 - July 19, 1932), German-American lithographer
  • Sherman Leander Maxwell (December 18, 1907 - July 16, 2008), American sports reporter
  • Isaac Henry Mayer (July 6, 1864 - September 24, 1967), American lawyer
  • Robert Mayer (June 5, 1879 - January 9, 1985), German-British businessman and music patron
  • Ernst Mayr (July 5, 1904 - February 3, 2005), German-American natural scientist and evolutionary theorist
  • Camille Mayran (January 29, 1889 - April 26, 1989), French writer
  • Joseph Ma Zhongmu (November 1, 1919 - March 25, 2020), Mongolian-Chinese bishop
  • Jerônimo Mazzarotto (April 11, 1898 - May 23, 1999), Brazilian Roman Catholic titular and auxiliary bishop
  • Doris McCarthy (July 7, 1910 - November 25, 2010), American painter
  • Neil McCorkell (March 23, 1912 - February 28, 2013), British cricketer
  • Walton Brooks McDaniel (March 4, 1871 - September 16, 1978), American classical philologist
  • Joseph McDivitt (July 23, 1917 - January 20, 2019), American officer
  • Millicent Carey McIntosh (November 30, 1898 - January 3, 2001), American suffragette and dean of Barnard College
  • Seth J. McKee (November 6, 1916 - December 26, 2016), American general
  • Fay McKenzie (February 19, 1918 - April 16, 2019), American actress
  • Parker McKenzie (November 15, 1897 - March 5, 1999), American historian and linguist (Kiowa)
  • Bernard Joseph McLaughlin (November 19, 1912 - January 5, 2015) American Roman Catholic Bishop
  • Donal McLaughlin (July 26, 1907 - September 27, 2009), American architect, creator of the UN symbol
  • Samuel McLaughlin (September 8, 1871 - January 6, 1972) Canadian businessman (McLaughlin Motor Car Co.) and philanthropist
  • Enolia McMillan (October 20, 1904 - October 24, 2006), American civil rights activist, first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Leland McPhie (March 10, 1914 - September 3, 2015), American track and field athlete
  • Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 - September 24, 2009), American botanist
  • Mariuccia Medici (February 18, 1910 - February 23, 2012), Swiss-Italian actress
  • Harold R. Medina (February 16, 1888 - March 14, 1990), American lawyer
  • James Megellas (March 11, 1917 - April 2, 2020), American officer
  • José Osvaldo de Meira Penna (March 14, 1917 - July 29, 2017), Brazilian diplomat
  • Wilhelm Meise (September 12, 1901 - August 24, 2002), German ornithologist
  • Adelmo Melecci (May 18, 1899 - August 31, 2004), Canadian music teacher, composer and organist of Italian origin
  • Rachel Lambert Mellon (August 9, 1910 - March 17, 2014), American horticultural specialist
  • Armand Melly (June 20, 1882 - January 18, 1986), Swiss politician (FDP), member of the National Council
  • Joseph Meng Ziwen (March 19, 1903 - January 7, 2007), Chinese Roman Catholic clergyman
  • Antonio Rosario Mennonna (May 27, 1906 - November 6, 2009), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop (Muro Lucano and Nardò)
  • Toni Menzinger (March 17, 1905 - December 27, 2007), German politician
  • Lee Meriwether (December 25, 1862 - March 12, 1966), American writer, lawyer, and diplomat
  • Doris Merrick (June 6, 1919 - November 30, 2019), American actress and model
  • Erik Mesterton (October 4, 1903 - January 10, 2004), Swedish literary critic and translator
  • Curt Meyer-Clason (September 19, 1910 - January 13, 2012), German writer
  • Hans Meyers (July 10, 1912 - January 13, 2013), German artist and art didactic
  • Karl Michaelis (December 21, 1900 - August 14, 2001), German legal scholar
  • Mieczysław Michalski (July 2, 1908 - April 13, 2011), Polish entrepreneur
  • Michel Michelet (June 14, 1894 - December 28, 1995), Russian film composer
  • Giorgio Michetti (December 7, 1912 - June 17, 2019), Italian painter
  • Mikasa (December 2, 1915 - October 27, 2016), Japanese prince
  • Madeleine Milhaud (March 22, 1902 - January 17, 2008), French librettist, actress and wife of Darius Milhaud
  • Richard Millard (October 2, 1914 - June 15, 2018), American clergyman with the Episcopal Church
  • John M. Miller (December 15, 1905 - June 23, 2008), American test pilot
  • William McElwee Miller (December 12, 1892 - July 7, 1993), American Reformed missionary and Orientalist
  • William F. Milliken (April 18, 1911 - July 28, 2012), American engineer and racing driver
  • Victor Mills (March 28, 1897 - November 1, 1997), American chemical engineer (including Pampers)
  • Abby Crawford Milton (February 6, 1881 - May 2, 1991), American suffragette and politician
  • Francesco Minerva (January 31, 1904 - August 23, 2004) Italian Roman Catholic Bishop
  • Arseni Dmitrievich Mironov (December 25, 1917 - July 3, 2019), Soviet test pilot, aerodynamicist and university professor
  • Harold L. Mitchell (July 28, 1897 - October 21, 1997), American neurologist and psychiatrist
  • William Mitchell (March 27, 1861 - June 24, 1962), British-Australian Anglicist and philosopher
  • Naomi Mitchison (November 1, 1897 - January 11, 1999), Scottish novelist and poet
  • Antony Mitradas (November 3, 1913 - February 20, 2017), Indian film director
  • Keizo Miura (February 15, 1904 - January 5, 2006), Japanese ski athlete and instructor
  • Richard Moderhack (October 14, 1907 - July 14, 2010), German historian
  • Mohammed bin Mohammed al-Mansur (June 21, 1915 - September 9, 2016), Imam of the Zaidis
  • Joseph Moingt (November 19, 1915 - July 28, 2020), French Roman Catholic theologian
  • Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (January 21, 1906 - November 2, 2007), Soviet choreographer
  • Paul Moll (August 7, 1905 - September 27, 2009), German textile entrepreneur, conductor, collector and founder of the art foundation
  • Ursula Frances Elinor Mommens (August 20, 1908 - January 30, 2010), British artist
  • Aldo Mongiano (November 1, 1919 - April 15, 2020), Italian religious, Bishop of Roraima
  • Moses Montefiore (October 24, 1784 - July 28, 1885) British entrepreneur and Jewish philanthropist
  • Clem Moorman (March 20, 1916 - July 21, 2017), American jazz singer, pianist, arranger, and actor
  • Evaristo de Moraes Filho (July 5, 1914 - July 22, 2016), Brazilian writer
  • Eduardo Morales Miranda (November 14, 1910 - November 17, 2012), Chilean physicist
  • Zofia Morawska (November 13, 1904 - October 15, 2010), Polish social activist
  • Miguel Morayta (August 15, 1907 - June 19, 2013), Spanish director and screenwriter
  • Alicia Moreau de Justo (October 11, 1885 - May 12, 1986), Argentine politician and human rights activist
  • Buddy Moreno (July 14, 1912 - November 29, 2015), American singer, guitarist, big band leader and radio presenter
  • Walter Morgan (October 5, 1900 - February 10, 2003), British biochemist
  • Margaret Morgan Lawrence (August 19, 1914 - December 4, 2019), American psychoanalyst
  • Patricia Morison (March 19, 1915 - May 20, 2018), American actress
  • John G. Morris (December 7, 1916 - July 28, 2017), American picture editor
  • El Duque del Morteruelo (March 3, 1904 - November 6, 2004), Spanish poet
  • John Morton-Finney (June 25, 1889 - January 28, 1998), American lawyer, civil rights activist, and educator
  • Gerhard Mostler (June 4, 1911 - October 22, 2011), German biology teacher
  • Etta Moten Barnett (November 5, 1901 - January 2, 2004), American singer and actress
  • Gabriele Mucchi (June 25, 1899 - May 10, 2002), Italian artist
  • Ruby Muhammad (March 20, 1907 - March 2, 2011), "Mother of the Nation of Islam"
  • Mikhail Isaakowitsch Mukassei (August 13, 1907 - August 19, 2008), Soviet secret service worker
  • Wynona Mulcaster (April 10, 1915 - August 25, 2016), Canadian painter
  • Marcel Mule (June 24, 1901 - December 18, 2001), French saxophonist
  • Charles Muller (September 22, 1909 - March 2, 2015), French Romance studies and language tutor
  • Gustl Müller-Dechent (June 4, 1915 - October 29, 2016), German journalist
  • Herbert W. Müller (November 22, 1914 - April 21, 2017), German mechanical engineer
  • Kurt Müller-Graf (August 9, 1913 - August 10, 2013), German actor
  • Otto von Müller (October 17, 1875 - April 2, 1976), German tennis player
  • Ursula Müller (December 23, 1911 - September 28, 2014), German athlete and handball player
  • Gardnar Mulloy (November 22, 1913 - November 14, 2016), American tennis player
  • William Mulock (January 19, 1844 - October 1, 1944), Canadian politician and minister
  • Oku Mumeo (October 24, 1895 - July 7, 1997), Japanese suffragette and politician
  • Rudolf Mumprecht (January 1, 1918 - July 25, 2019), Swiss draftsman and painter
  • Meg Mundy (January 4, 1915 - January 12, 2016), British-American actress
  • Walter Munk (October 19, 1917 - February 8, 2019), Austrian-American oceanographer and geophysicist
  • Audrey Munson (June 8, 1891 - February 20, 1996), American actress and model
  • Elisabeth Murdoch (February 8, 1909 - December 5, 2012), Australian philanthropist
  • Margaret Murie (August 18, 1902 - October 19, 2003), American environmental activist
  • Margaret Alice Murray (July 13, 1863 - November 13, 1963), British anthropologist and Egyptologist
  • Henryk Musiałowicz (January 5, 1914 - February 24, 2015), Polish painter
  • Franz Mußner (January 31, 1916 - March 3, 2016), German Roman Catholic theologian
  • Feo Mustakowa-Genadiewa (June 14, 1909 - December 30, 2011), Bulgarian ballet dancer
  • Florentine Mütherich (January 26, 1915 - June 12, 2015), German art historian

N

  • Maurice Nadeau (May 21, 1911 - June 16, 2013), French writer and literary critic
  • Teruko Nagaoka (January 5, 1908 - October 18, 2010), Japanese actress
  • K. Koyakunhi Naha (October 11, 1909 - August 3, 2011), Indian freedom fighter and politician
  • Nakasone Yasuhiro (May 27, 1918 - November 29, 2019), Japanese politician
  • Myron Natwick (August 16, 1890 - October 7, 1990), American animator
  • Emilio Navarro (September 26, 1905 - April 30, 2011), Puerto Rican baseball player
  • Scott Nearing (August 6, 1883 - August 24, 1983), American peace and environmental activist, writer, organic farmer
  • George Neikrug (March 7, 1919 - March 8, 2019), American cellist and string teacher
  • Oswald von Nell-Breuning (March 8, 1890 - August 21, 1991), German Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher (Catholic social teaching)
  • John A. Nerud (February 9, 1913 - August 13, 2015), American horse trainer
  • Benzion Netanyahu (March 25, 1910 - April 30, 2012), Israeli historian and Zionist
  • Albert Netter (June 8, 1910 - June 26, 2012), French gynecologist
  • Roy Neuberger (July 21, 1903 - December 24, 2010), American art patron
  • Josef Neuner (August 19, 1908 - December 3, 2009), Austrian Jesuit and Roman Catholic theologian
  • Helmut Neuss (March 12, 1908 - July 21, 2009), German rear admiral
  • Arnulf Neuwirth (January 4, 1912 - February 6, 2012), Austrian painter
  • Sterling Newberry (August 10, 1915 - January 28, 2017), American inventor and microscopist
  • Hazel Newhook (December 24, 1914 - June 26, 2016), Canadian politician
  • Eric P. Newman (May 25, 1911 - November 15, 2017), American numismatist
  • Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu (February 2, 1909 - June 10, 2009), Vietnamese bishop (Long Xuyên), oldest recorded Roman Catholic bishop
  • Antoine Nguyên Van Thien (March 13, 1906 - May 13, 2012), Vietnamese Roman Catholic Bishop (Vĩnh Long)
  • Oscar Niemeyer (December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012), Brazilian architect
  • Stella Niemierko (May 8, 1906 - May 20, 2006), Polish biologist
  • Renate Niethammer (March 13, 1913 - January 17, 2017), German graphic artist and painter
  • Masaichi Niimi (February 4, 1887 - April 2, 1993), Japanese general
  • Sergei Mikhailovich Nikolski (April 30, 1905 - November 9, 2012), Russian mathematician
  • Anton Nilson (November 11, 1887 - August 16, 1989), Swedish socialist
  • Louise Nippert (August 27, 1911 - July 23, 2012), American sports official and philanthropist
  • Nirodbaran (November 17, 1903 - July 17, 2006), Indian physician and scribe for Sri Aurobindo
  • Fumio Niwa (November 22, 1904 - April 20, 2005), Japanese writer
  • François de Noailles (November 20, 1905 - January 11, 2009), French nobleman
  • Georg Nöbeling (November 12, 1907 - February 16, 2008), German mathematician
  • Jakob Nobs (November 11, 1883 - April 9, 1986), Swiss entrepreneur
  • Herbert Nootbaar (November 8, 1908 - December 18, 2016), American businessman and philanthropist
  • Petras Norkūnas (October 19, 1912 - November 26, 2016), Lithuanian surgeon
  • Elliot Norton (May 17, 1903 - July 20, 2003), American theater critic
  • Sanzō Nosaka (March 30, 1892 - November 14, 1993), Japanese politician (Communist Party)
  • Josef Novak (February 28, 1879 - December 29, 1983), Austrian-American gynecologist
  • Tommaso Novelli (April 4, 1911 - September 26, 2014), Italian lawyer
  • Ivan Novikoff (August 26, 1899 - March 20, 2002), Russian-American ballet teacher
  • Estuardo Núñez Hague (September 5, 1908 - August 29, 2013), Peruvian historian and literary critic

O

  • Carl Obenland (January 21, 1908 - March 24, 2008), German landscape and portrait painter
  • Mohan Singh Oberoi (August 15, 1898 - May 3, 2002), Indian hotelier
  • Józef Obrębski (March 19, 1906 - June 7, 2011), Polish priest of the Roman Catholic Church
  • Gladys O'Connor (November 28, 1903 - February 21, 2012), Canadian actress
  • Jan Oderfeld (February 19, 1908 - March 17, 2010), Polish mathematician
  • Heinz Maria Oeftering (August 31, 1903 - May 18, 2004), German financial expert, President of the German Federal Railways and the Federal Audit Office
  • Heidi Oetinger (November 19, 1908 - October 5, 2009), German publisher
  • Tomie Ohtake (November 21, 1913 - February 12, 2015), Japanese-Brazilian artist
  • Ōi Saidan (February 26, 1915 - February 27, 2018), Japanese Zen master
  • Teodor Ilyich Oiserman (May 14, 1914 - March 25, 2017), Russian historian and philosopher
  • Marjorie Okell (April 1, 1908 - October 3, 2009), British high jumper
  • Togyu ​​Okumura (February 18, 1889 - September 25, 1990), Japanese painter
  • Maria Alexejewna Olenina-d'Alheim (October 1, 1869 - August 26, 1970), Russian mezzo-soprano
  • Adriana Olguín (November 18, 1911 - December 24, 2015), Chilean politician
  • Luis Oliva (June 21, 1908 - June 30, 2009), Argentine long-distance runner
  • Edgar William Olive (April 1, 1870 - January 3, 1971) American botanist
  • Manoel de Oliveira (December 11, 1908 - April 2, 2015), Portuguese film director
  • Henry Oliver (January 22, 1865 - October 15, 1965) British Admiral
  • Magda Olivero (March 25, 1910 - September 8, 2014), Italian opera singer
  • Gunnar Ollén (November 22, 1913 - July 14, 2014), Swedish literary scholar
  • Kathleen Ollerenshaw (October 1, 1912 - August 10, 2014), British mathematician and politician
  • Spyros Olympios (April 3, 1913 - July 29, 2015), Greek actor
  • Nelly Omar (September 10, 1911 - December 20, 2013), Argentine tango singer and actress
  • Kazuo Ōno (October 27, 1906 - June 1, 2010), Japanese dancer (Butoh)
  • Antoni Opolski (June 11, 1913 - March 17, 2014), Polish astrophysicist
  • Dezső Orbán (November 26, 1884 - October 8, 1986), Hungarian-Australian painter
  • Risto Orko (September 15, 1899 - September 29, 2001), Finnish film producer and director
  • Leo Ornstein (December 11, 1892 - February 24, 2002), Ukrainian-American composer (Futurism)
  • Rodolfo Oroz (July 8, 1895 - April 13, 1997), Chilean Latinist, Romanist and Hispanist
  • Juan Orrego-Salas (January 18, 1919 - November 24, 2019), Chilean composer and music teacher
  • Uncle Charlie Osborne (December 26, 1890 - May 27, 1992), American musician
  • Anna Öst (May 15, 1910 - March 5, 2011), Swedish singer and musician
  • Gertrud Osterloh (May 18, 1910 - October 25, 2012), German theologian
  • Emma Ott (November 20, 1907 - May 15, 2011), Swiss nurse
  • Werner Otto (August 13, 1909 - December 21, 2011), German entrepreneur
  • Charles Oulmont (November 1, 1883 - February 16, 1984), French writer
  • Lucy Ozarin (August 8, 1914 - September 17, 2017), American psychiatrist

P

  • William Pachner (April 17, 1915 - November 17, 2017), Austrian-American painter
  • Ellery Burton Paine (October 9, 1875 - February 28, 1976), American electrical engineer and university professor
  • Poornima Pakvasa (October 5, 1913 - April 25, 2016), Indian social activist
  • Sally Palmblad (December 23, 1908 - August 8, 2010), Swedish actress
  • Bazilije Pandžić (January 30, 1918 - April 16, 2019), Yugoslav or Croatian author, historian, archivist and orientalist
  • Jean Panhard (June 12, 1913 - July 16, 2014), French industrial manager
  • Arturo Paoli (November 30, 1912 - July 13, 2015), Italian religious activist
  • Giannis Papadimitriou (March 29, 1912 - December 25, 2019), Greek trade unionist, lawyer and politician
  • Hermann Pardun (April 14, 1908 - August 5, 2009), German fat researcher
  • Roger Parent (August 21, 1881 - January 21, 1986), French-Belgian painter
  • Ace Parker (May 17, 1912 - November 6, 2013) American baseball and football player
  • Isadore Nathaniel Parker (January 20, 1908 - February 4, 2011), American jazz trumpeter
  • George Alexander Parks (May 29, 1883 - May 11, 1984), American politician and Governor of Alaska
  • Nicanor Parra (September 5, 1914 - January 23, 2018), Chilean poet
  • Frances Partridge (March 15, 1900 - February 5, 2004), British writer and member of the Bloomsbury Group
  • Päivö Parviainen (June 19, 1912 - April 19, 2015), Finnish Evangelical Lutheran minister
  • John Linus Paschang (October 5, 1895 - March 21, 1999) American Roman Catholic Bishop (Grand Island, Nebraska)
  • Norman McLeod Paterson (August 3, 1883 - August 10, 1983) Canadian businessman and Senator
  • Borys Paton (November 27, 1918 - August 19, 2020), Ukrainian scientist
  • Patoum (May 26, 1911 - April 5, 2012), French jazz musician
  • Ruth Patrick (November 26, 1907 - September 23, 2013), American limnologist
  • Stylianos Pattakos (November 8, 1912 - October 8, 2016), Greek politician and military officer
  • Amy Patterson (July 16, 1912 - December 28, 2019), Argentine composer, singer and poet
  • Walter Pauk (May 1, 1914 - December 7, 2019), American educational psychologist
  • Eira Paunu (May 22, 1908 - May 7, 2013), Finnish theologian
  • Attilio Pavesi (October 1, 1910 - August 3, 2011), Italian racing cyclist
  • Nikolai Ivanovich Pavlenko (February 15, 1916 - June 9, 2016), Russian historian
  • Frederick R. Payne Jr. (July 31, 1911 - August 6, 2015), American brigadier general and flying ace in World War II
  • Ruth Stafford Peale (September 10, 1906 - February 6, 2008), American author
  • Alf Pearson (June 15, 1910 - July 7, 2012) British singer and entertainer
  • Thomas Pearson (July 1, 1914 - December 15, 2019), British general
  • Andrée Peel (February 3, 1905 - March 5, 2010), French resistance fighter
  • Ieoh Ming Pei (April 26, 1917 - May 16, 2019), Chinese-American architect
  • Virgilio Peña (January 2, 1914 - July 6, 2016), veteran of the Spanish Civil War
  • Eugène Pépin (June 27, 1887 - April 28, 1988), French air and space lawyer
  • Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (January 19, 1920 - March 4, 2020), Peruvian diplomat and politician, Secretary General of the United Nations (1982–1991)
  • Cyril Perkins (June 4, 1911 - November 20, 2013), English cricketer
  • Richard Perlia (April 6, 1905 - February 14, 2012), German test pilot, editor and photographer
  • George Perlman (May 15, 1897 - June 23, 2000), American violinist, music educator, and composer
  • Emily Perry (June 28, 1907 - February 19, 2008) British actress and dance teacher
  • Fern Persons (July 27, 1910 - July 22, 2012), American actress
  • Fernando Pessa (April 15, 1902 - April 29, 2002), Portuguese journalist and reporter
  • Phạm Thị Trinh (March 8, 1914 - April 10, 2019), Vietnamese politician
  • Eugène Philipps (July 6, 1918 - July 26, 2018), Alsatian teacher and publicist
  • Frits Philips (April 16, 1905 - December 5, 2005), Dutch industrialist (Philips)
  • Jacqueline Piatigorsky (November 6, 1911 - July 15, 2012), American chess and tennis player
  • Jean Piaubert (January 27, 1900 - January 28, 2002), French painter and printmaker
  • Siegfried Pickert (June 3, 1898 - March 12, 2002), German anthroposophist and educator, co-founder of anthroposophical curative education
  • Olga Pierri (June 3, 1914 - September 28, 2016), Uruguayan classical guitarist
  • Paul Pietsch (June 20, 1911 - May 31, 2012), German racing driver and publisher
  • José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez (February 18, 1919 - September 3, 2019), Colombian clergyman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manizales and Cardinal
  • Antoine Pinay (December 30, 1891 - December 13, 1994), French Prime Minister
  • Tullio Pinelli (June 24, 1908 - March 7, 2009), Italian screenwriter
  • Bernardino Piñera Carvallo (September 22, 1915 - June 21, 2020), Chilean Roman Catholic Bishop of Temuco and Archbishop of La Serena
  • Edward Pinkowski (August 12, 1916 - January 11, 2020), Polish-American journalist and historian
  • Antoine Piñol (May 5, 1915 - September 2, 2016), volunteer of the XII. International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
  • Nilawan Pintong (December 6, 1915 - February 7, 2017), Thai writer and feminist
  • Vincenzo Maria Pintorno (January 31, 1862 - March 14, 1968), Italian conductor and composer
  • Hans Pischner (February 20, 1914 - October 15, 2016), German harpsichordist and musicologist
  • Marc Platt (December 2, 1913 - March 29, 2014), American dancer, choreographer, and film actor
  • Gertrude Poe (September 21, 1915 - July 13, 2017), American journalist and broadcaster
  • Lloyd Welch Pogue (October 21, 1899 - May 10, 2003), American aviation lawyer and Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board
  • Ilse Pohl (May 7, 1907 - May 13, 2010), German writer
  • Luigi Poletti (December 31, 1864 - March 10, 1967), Italian mathematician
  • Ida Pollock (April 12, 1908 - December 3, 2013), English writer
  • Pelageja Jakowlewna Polubarinowa-Kotschina (May 13, 1899 - July 3, 1999), Russian mathematician
  • Antoine Pompe (December 9, 1873 - February 9, 1980), Belgian architect and designer
  • Brunhilde Pomsel (January 11, 1911 - January 27, 2017), German secretary to Joseph Goebbels
  • Olaf Pooley (March 13, 1914 - July 14, 2015), British actor
  • Jack Pope (April 18, 1913 - February 25, 2017), American lawyer
  • Adrien Porchet (October 14, 1907 - June 2, 2008), Swiss film producer, filmmaker and cameraman
  • Carla Porta Musa (March 15, 1902 - October 10, 2012), Italian writer, essayist and poet
  • Norman Walker Porteous (September 9, 1898 - September 12, 2003), Scottish Presbyterian theologian and Bible translator
  • Edeltrud Posiles (June 4, 1916 - July 23, 2016), Austrian Righteous Among the Nations
  • Don Potter (April 21, 1902 - June 7, 2004) English sculptor, wood carver, and potter
  • Richard Pöttschacher (December 25, 1904 - February 25, 2008), Austrian musician
  • Léon Povel (December 23, 1911 - January 8, 2013), Dutch director
  • Walter Późny (February 22, 1910 - September 20, 2012), Polish politician
  • Francisco Prada Carrera (July 27, 1893 - June 17, 1995) Spanish-Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop
  • Adolf Presber (November 8, 1896 - October 26, 1997), German painter and graphic artist
  • Giuseppe Prezzolini (January 27, 1882 - July 14, 1982), Italian journalist
  • Erich Priebke (July 29, 1913 - October 11, 2013), German SS leader and war criminal
  • Harry Prieste (November 23, 1896 - April 15, 2001), Armenian-American high diver
  • Jean Prieur (November 10, 1914 - December 23, 2016), French historian
  • Agnes Primocic (January 30, 1905 - April 14, 2007), Austrian politician and resistance fighter
  • Alfred Proksch (December 11, 1908 - January 3, 2011), Austrian graphic artist, illustrator, painter and athlete
  • Yitzhak Pundak (June 13, 1913 - August 27, 2017), Israeli general, diplomat and politician
  • Yuri Michailowitsch Pushcharowski (December 31, 1916 - May 3, 2018), Russian geologist
  • Willis Pyle (September 4, 1914 - June 2, 2016), American animator

Q

  • Qin Hanzhang (February 15, 1908 - August 15, 2019), Chinese engineer and nutritionist
  • Adolf Quast (September 6, 1910 - July 21, 2014), German Lutheran theologian and cathedral preacher at the Braunschweig Cathedral of St. Blasii
  • Milton Quon (August 22, 1913 - June 18, 2019), American animator and actor
  • Just Knud Qvigstad (April 4, 1853 - March 15, 1957), Norwegian philologist and politician

R.

  • Willy Raatz (January 11, 1910 - January 11, 2010), German artist
  • Harry Rabinowitz (March 26, 1916 - June 22, 2016), British conductor and arranger
  • Paul Racine (September 22, 1914 - February 24, 2016), French private secretary to Philippe Pétain
  • Mirko Rački (October 13, 1879 - July 21, 1982), Yugoslav painter
  • Edward Raczyński (December 19, 1891 - July 30, 1993), Polish politician and diplomat
  • Ted Radcliffe (July 7, 1902 - August 11, 2005), American baseball player ("Double Duty")
  • Eugène Raguin (June 13, 1900 - November 10, 2001), French geologist
  • Hans Rahner (March 28, 1905 - December 1, 2008), Austrian composer and pianist
  • Vasant Raiji (January 26, 1920 - June 13, 2020) Indian cricketer
  • Theressa Railsback (November 19, 1913 - February 27, 2016), American actress
  • Luise Rainer (January 12, 1910 - December 30, 2014), German actress
  • Carl Rakosi (November 6, 1903 - June 24, 2004), American poet
  • Sid Ramin (January 22, 1919 - July 1, 2019), American orchestrator
  • Simon Ramo (May 7, 1913 - June 27, 2016), American physicist and businessman
  • Godfrey Rampling (May 14, 1909 - June 20, 2009), British sprinter
  • Arthur Rando (January 23, 1910 - April 27, 2013), American jazz musician
  • Ingeborg Rapoport (September 2, 1912 - March 23, 2017), German doctor
  • Irma Rapuzzi (April 12, 1910 - April 3, 2018), French politician
  • Irving Rapper (January 16, 1898 - December 20, 1999) British film director
  • Johannes Rascher (October 6, 1904 - January 24, 2006), German architect
  • Franco Rasetti (August 10, 1901 - December 5, 2001), Italian physicist
  • Mary Louise Rasmuson (April 11, 1911 - July 30, 2012), American military employee (Director of the US Women's Army Corps ) and philanthropist
  • Carl Christian Rasmussen (September 21, 1890 - December 17, 1992), American Lutheran minister and theologian
  • Joana Raspall i Juanola (July 1, 1913 - December 4, 2013), Spanish poet and writer
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauchhaupt (August 13, 1881 - January 28, 1989), German lawyer
  • Lauri Rauhala (September 13, 1914 - April 5, 2016), Finnish psychologist and philosopher
  • Karl Rawer (April 19, 1913 - April 17, 2018), German physicist
  • Margaret Byrd Rawson (June 30, 1899 - November 25, 2001), American psychologist and sociologist (dyslexia)
  • Eleanor Raymond (March 24, 1887 - July 4, 1989), American architect
  • Norman H. Read (January 17, 1891 - January 23, 1992), American geologist and mountaineer
  • Juan Reccius (April 9, 1911 - June 29, 2012), Chilean triple jumper
  • Harry Redmond Jr. (October 15, 1909 - May 23, 2011), American film technician
  • H. Owen Reed (June 17, 1910 - January 6, 2014), American composer
  • Lisa Rees-Stier (November 9, 1872 - September 17, 1976), German social activist
  • Connie Reeves (September 26, 1901 - August 17, 2003), American cowgirl
  • Eva Gabriele Reichmann (January 16, 1897 - September 15, 1998), German historian and sociologist
  • E. Emmet Reid (June 27, 1872 - December 21, 1973), American chemist
  • Richard Gavin Reid (January 17, 1879 - October 17, 1980), Canadian politician and Prime Minister of Alberta
  • Albert Reimann (November 9, 1874 - June 5, 1976), German sculptor
  • Günter Reimann (November 13, 1904 - February 5, 2005), German Marxist-oriented economist
  • Ludwig Reindl (May 16, 1893 - February 12, 1994), Austrian inventor (TIXO)
  • Heinz Reinhold (September 27, 1910 - November 15, 2012), German Anglicist
  • Georgette Rejewski (February 12, 1910 - February 21, 2014), Belgian actress and speech therapist
  • Stanislav Rembski (October 9, 1896 - September 14, 1998), Polish-American painter
  • Ren Xinmin (December 5, 1915 - February 12, 2017), Chinese aerospace engineer
  • Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew (October 12, 1910 - October 12, 2013), American chemist
  • Elsa Respighi (March 24, 1894 - March 17, 1996), Italian composer, singer and wife of Ottorino Respighi
  • Woizlawa-Feodora Princess Reuss (December 17, 1918 - June 3, 2019), German member of the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Lívia Rév (July 5, 1916 - March 28, 2018), Hungarian pianist
  • Costantino Reyer-Castagna (February 1, 1828 - March 25, 1931), Italian-Austrian gymnastics specialist and linguist
  • Barbara Reynolds (June 13, 1914 - April 29, 2015), English lexicographer and translator
  • Fazlollah Reza (January 1, 1915 - November 19, 2019), Iranian engineer, university professor and ambassador
  • David C. Richardson (April 8, 1914 - June 13, 2015), American Navy Admiral
  • Mabel Richardson (July 27, 1890 - March 2, 2001), British-American film actress
  • Ted Richmond (June 10, 1910 - December 23, 2013), American film producer
  • Karl Richter (July 15, 1904 - September 19, 2005), German SPD politician and trade unionist
  • Henry Nicholas Ridley (December 10, 1855 - October 24, 1956), English botanist
  • Käthe Rieck (February 17, 1902 - August 23, 2004), German museum director and art historian
  • Hans-Herman Rief (March 11, 1909 - August 17, 2009), German archivist and art historian
  • Leni Riefenstahl (August 22, 1902 - September 8, 2003), German film director
  • Hermann Riefstahl (May 3, 1912 - August 27, 2012), German philosopher
  • Gerda Ring (May 11, 1891 - January 12, 1999), Norwegian actress and theater director
  • Chatral Rinpoche (June 18, 1913 - January 5, 2016), Tibetan Buddhist philosopher
  • Rosa Rio (June 2, 1902 - May 13, 2010), American organist and composer
  • Jens Risom (May 8, 1916 - December 10, 2016), Danish furniture designer
  • Christiane Ritter (July 13, 1897 - December 29, 2000), Austrian adventurer and writer
  • Josef Rittsteuer (September 3, 1914 - December 12, 2015), Austrian Roman Catholic priest and pastor
  • Guido Rivoir (May 4, 1901 - February 7, 2005), Swiss Reformed pastor of Italian origin
  • Hal Roach (January 14, 1892 - November 2, 1992) American producer and director (Hal Roach Studios)
  • Déodat Roché (December 13, 1877 - January 12, 1978), French historian (Cathar)
  • David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 - March 20, 2017), American banker and statesman
  • James Stillman Rockefeller (June 8, 1902 - August 10, 2004), American banker and rower
  • Manuel Rodriguez Sr. (January 1, 1912 - May 6, 2017), Filipino artist (printing technique)
  • Roman Rodziewicz (January 18, 1913 - October 24, 2014), Polish military man
  • Milton Rogovin (December 30, 1909 - January 18, 2011), American documentary photographer
  • Zvonimir Rogoz (October 10, 1887 - February 6, 1988), Yugoslav actor
  • Paul Rohmer (November 1, 1876 - March 2, 1977), French pediatrician
  • Jack Rollins (March 23, 1915 - June 18, 2015), American producer
  • Cécile Rol-Tanguy (April 10, 1919 - May 8, 2020), French resistance fighter
  • Jos Romersa (November 1, 1915 - November 5, 2016), gymnast from Luxembourg
  • Edward Rondthaler (June 9, 1905 - August 19, 2009), American typographer and historian
  • Catharina Roodzant (October 21, 1896 - February 24, 1999), Dutch chess player
  • Clemens CJ Roothaan (August 29, 1918 - June 17, 2019), Dutch physicist, chemist and computer architect
  • Edmundo Ros (December 7, 1910 - October 22, 2011), musician from Trinidad and Tobago
  • Thomas Round (October 18, 1915 - October 2, 2016), British opera singer
  • Isabel Rosado (November 5, 1907 - January 13, 2015), Puerto Rican political activist
  • Albert Rosellini (January 21, 1910 - October 10, 2011), American politician and Governor of Washington
  • Hans-Ulrich Rosemann (March 14, 1904 - April 16, 2006), German physician
  • José Calasanz Rosenhammer (January 1, 1900 - April 26, 2003), Bolivian-Austrian Roman Catholic Titular Bishop and Apostolic Vicar
  • George Rosenkranz (August 20, 1916 - June 23, 2019), Hungarian-Mexican biochemist and bridge player
  • Antoni Rosikoń (June 10, 1907 - August 17, 2013), Polish engineer
  • Edwin Rosner (September 21, 1910 - June 26, 2011), Austrian doctor
  • Nellie Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 - December 19, 1977), American politician, first female governor of a US state (Wyoming)
  • María Rostworowski (August 8, 1915 - March 6, 2016), Peruvian historian
  • Cecylia Roszak (March 25, 1908 - November 16, 2018), Polish nun and Righteous Among the Nations
  • Anny Roth-Dalbert (October 12, 1900 - May 16, 2004), Swiss composer
  • Dovey Johnson Roundtree (April 17, 1914 - May 21, 2018), American civil rights activist
  • Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 - March 24, 2017), American actress and screenwriter
  • Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford (March 8, 1912 - November 12, 2017) British nobleman
  • Edward Rowny (April 3, 1917 - December 17, 2017), U.S. Lieutenant General and Military Advisor to the President
  • Berta Ruck (August 2, 1878 - August 11, 1978), Welsh writer
  • Olga Rudge (April 13, 1895 - March 15, 1996), American violinist and lover of Ezra Pound
  • Andrée Ruellan (April 6, 1905 - July 15, 2006), American painter
  • Heinrich Ruhl (August 31, 1915 - December 1, 2015), German author
  • Helga Rühle von Lilienstern (October 14, 1912 - April 7, 2013), German graphic artist and historian
  • Dorothy Rungeling (May 12, 1911 - February 17, 2018), Canadian aviator
  • Marie M. Runyon (March 20, 1915 - October 7, 2018), American politician and activist
  • Arvo Ruonaniemi (January 22, 1912 - June 16, 2014), Finnish writer
  • Günther Ruprecht (February 17, 1898 - March 17, 2001), German publisher

S.

  • Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig (November 9, 1910 - November 27, 2011), Italian doctor
  • Dmitri Fyodorovich Safonov (October 12, 1909 - January 3, 2015), Soviet diplomat
  • Frederica Sagor Maas (July 6, 1900 - January 5, 2012), American screenwriter
  • Odorico Sáiz (February 6, 1912 - October 14, 2012), Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop
  • Michail Sakellariou (February 14, 1912 - August 16, 2014), Greek historian
  • Sol Saks (December 13, 1910 - April 16, 2011), American screenwriter
  • Joseph Salemi (September 15, 1902 - January 17, 2003), Italian-American jazz musician
  • Zélia Salgado (October 9, 1904 - August 26, 2009), Brazilian artist
  • Horacio Salgán (June 15, 1916 - August 19, 2016), Argentine pianist, composer and orchestra leader
  • Salim (September 3, 1908 - October 13, 2008), Indonesian painter
  • Paula Salomon-Lindberg (December 21, 1897 - April 17, 2000), German singer
  • Max Salpeter (April 16, 1908 - January 1, 2010), British violinist
  • Susanna M. Salter (March 2, 1860 - March 17, 1961), American politician and first woman mayor of the United States (Argonia)
  • Marc Salts (April 11, 1906 - March 8, 2008), French architect
  • Frida Salzberg-Heins (September 26, 1893 - September 28, 1993), German teacher
  • Charles Samaran (October 28, 1879 - October 15, 1982), French historian
  • Serge Sandberg (November 27, 1879 - January 5, 1981), French film manager and producer
  • Mike Sandlock (October 17, 1915 - April 4, 2016), American baseball player
  • Ángeles Santos Torroella (November 7, 1911 - October 3, 2013), Spanish painter
  • Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal (April 22, 1901 - January 8, 2003), Indian artist
  • Jacob Sapirstein (October 30, 1884 - June 24, 1987), Polish-American entrepreneur, founder of American Greetings
  • Zoltán Sárosy (August 23, 1906 - June 19, 2017), Hungarian-Canadian chess player
  • Kyozan Joshu Sasaki (April 1, 1907 - July 27, 2014), Japanese Rinzai Zen master
  • Raymond J. Saulnier (September 20, 1908 - April 30, 2009), American economist
  • Connie Sawyer (November 27, 1912 - January 21, 2018), American actress
  • Ivy Sawyer (February 13, 1898 - November 16, 1999), American singer, actress, and dancer
  • Alan Sayers (December 6, 1915 - August 19, 2017), New Zealand journalist, photographer, and athlete
  • Carlo Scaglia (July 20, 1863 - December 25, 1965), Italian composer
  • Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (November 13, 1879 - June 12, 1990), American educator, Dean of Smith College
  • Elasar Menachem Schach (January 13, 1898 - November 2, 2001), Israeli rabbi (founder of the Degel haTora party)
  • Franz Schad (February 1, 1907 - November 1, 2007), German lawyer
  • James Schaffer (February 14, 1910 - March 9, 2014), American religious activist
  • Georg Schaible (February 22, 1907 - June 22, 2007), German painter and graphic artist
  • Simone Schaller (August 22, 1912 - October 20, 2016), American hurdler
  • Akaki Gavrilowitsch Shanidze (February 26, 1887 - March 29, 1987), Georgian philologist
  • Luise Schapp (April 11, 1912 - April 7, 2016), German CDU politician and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament
  • Gerta Scharffenorth (January 8, 1912 - December 4, 2014), German political scientist and theologian
  • Sigrid Schauman (December 24, 1877 - February 22, 1979), Finnish painter and art critic
  • Victor Blanchard Scheffer (November 27, 1906 - September 20, 2011), American zoologist
  • Max Schefold (October 1, 1896 - January 1, 1997), German art historian
  • William H. Scheide (January 6, 1914 - November 14, 2014), American musicologist and patron
  • Alexander Jefimowitsch Scheindlin (September 4, 1916 - January 13, 2017), Russian physicist
  • Hermann Scheipers (July 24, 1913 - June 2, 2016), German Roman Catholic clergyman and survivor of the Dachau concentration camp
  • Christian Schiefer (23 August 1896 - 19 October 1998), Swiss photographer
  • Hannes Schiel (May 31, 1914 - December 2, 2017), Austrian actor
  • Rudolf Schiffmann (December 4, 1909 - May 1, 2013), German resistance fighter
  • Thekla Schild (March 8, 1890 - November 13, 1991), German architect
  • Dora Schindel (November 16, 1915 - January 11, 2018), German emigrant and contemporary witness
  • Wilhelmine Schirmer-Pröscher (July 9, 1889 - March 2, 1992), German LDPD politician
  • Beniamino Schivo (June 28, 1910 - January 30, 2012), Italian Roman Catholic clergyman and "Righteous Among the Nations"
  • Hagbarth Schjøtt (May 9, 1894 - September 9, 1994), Norwegian businessman
  • Peter Schleiff (November 19, 1910 - June 1, 2011), German dermatologist and venereologist
  • Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 - October 14, 2017), American painter and author
  • Erwin Schliephake (August 18, 1894 - January 26, 1995), German physician (short-wave treatment)
  • Frederick J. Schlink (October 26, 1891 - January 15, 1995), American consumer advocate, co-founder of Consumers Research
  • Helmuth Schlömer (May 20, 1893 - August 18, 1995), German Lieutenant General in World War II
  • Fritz Schmid (June 28, 1916 - November 12, 2018), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Floyd Schmoe (September 21, 1895 - April 20, 2001), American peace activist and naturalist
  • Ingeborg Schnack (July 9, 1896 - November 3, 1997), German librarian and Rilke researcher
  • Jean Schneider (November 3, 1903 - May 14, 2004), French medievalist
  • Eduard Schneider-Davids (February 16, 1869 - January 2, 1970), German engineer, master builder and writer
  • Robert C. Schnitzer (September 8, 1906 - January 2, 2008), American actor, producer and cultural manager
  • Otto Schoenrich (July 9, 1876 - February 9, 1977), American lawyer
  • Günther Scholz (December 8, 1911 - October 24, 2014), German pilot and aviation author
  • Aldo Schön (July 29, 1912 - February 15, 2014), German pianist, university professor and rector of the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz
  • Ernst Schön (August 6, 1907 - August 6, 2010), Austrian musician (vocals, trumpet and violin)
  • Anton Schöndorf (September 30, 1904 - October 14, 2007), German lawyer
  • Mien Schopman-Klaver (February 26, 1911 - July 10, 2018), Dutch athlete
  • Erwin Schopper (June 26, 1909 - June 29, 2009), German physicist
  • Carl E. Schorske (March 15, 1915 - September 13, 2015), American cultural historian
  • Vladimir Stepanovich Shpak (February 20, 1909 - February 23, 2009), Soviet chemist
  • Viktor Schreckengost (June 26, 1906 - January 26, 2008), American industrial designer
  • Willi Schrot (January 12, 1915 - February 27, 2016), German politician (CDU)
  • Richard Schüller (May 27, 1870 - May 14, 1972), Austrian-American economist
  • Erich Schulze (February 1, 1913 - December 8, 2017), German association official, General Director of GEMA
  • Werner Schulze (September 13, 1890 - January 17, 1993), German agricultural scientist
  • Rudolf Schumacher (April 12, 1908 - May 22, 2011), German gymnast
  • George Ernest Schuster (April 25, 1881 - June 5, 1982) British financial expert and politician
  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897 - January 18, 2000), Austrian architect and resistance fighter
  • Günther Schwab (October 7, 1904 - April 12, 2006), Austrian writer
  • Otto Schwab (March 20, 1915 - September 29, 2015), German football goalkeeper
  • Morris Schwartz (April 3, 1901 - October 22, 2004), Russian-American photographer, inventor, and businessman (Kalart Company)
  • Aaron Schwartzman (December 9, 1908 - January 15, 2013), Argentine chess master
  • Josef Schweighofer (October 4, 1910 - December 29, 2010), Austrian trade unionist and politician
  • Johann Schwert (September 17, 1907 - May 21, 2013), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski (March 10, 1917 - August 3, 2018), Polish resistance fighter
  • Hannibal P. Scicluna (February 15, 1880 - December 21, 1981), Maltese historian and lawyer
  • Murray Seasongood (October 27, 1878 - February 21, 1983), American politician and legal scholar
  • Donald R. Seawell (August 1, 1912 - September 30, 2015), American theater producer
  • Wilhelm Seedorf (October 11, 1881 - March 10, 1984), German agricultural economist
  • Miriam Seegar (September 1, 1907 - January 2, 2011), American actress
  • Marcelle Ségal (May 15, 1896 - December 28, 1998), French journalist
  • Zohra Segal (April 27, 1912 - July 10, 2014), Indian film actress
  • Hans von Seggern (April 24, 1914 - May 23, 2020), German Lutheran pastor, author and officer
  • Cecilia Seghizzi (September 5, 1908 - November 22, 2019), Italian composer and painter
  • George Seldes (November 16, 1890 - July 2, 1995), American investigative journalist and media critic
  • Vladimir Mikhailovich Seldin (February 10, 1915 - October 31, 2016), Russian actor
  • Josef Selmayr (July 7, 1905 - November 11, 2005), German brigadier general and head of the military counterintelligence service
  • Charlotte Selver (April 4, 1901 - August 22, 2003), German-American psychologist
  • Tonio Selwart (June 9, 1896 - November 2, 2002), German actor
  • Peter Selz (March 27, 1919 - June 21, 2019), German-American art historian, museum director, exhibition curator and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Marina Timofejewna Semyonova (June 12, 1908 - June 9, 2010), Russian ballet dancer
  • Waldo Semon (September 10, 1898 - May 26, 1999), American inventor (vinyl)
  • Hermann Senf (August 4, 1878 - May 1, 1979), German architect
  • Ramananda Sengupta (May 8, 1916 - August 23, 2017), Indian cameraman
  • Señor Wences (April 17, 1896 - April 20, 1999), Spanish ventriloquist
  • Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber (April 11, 1918 - April 11, 2018), French journalist and politician
  • Kaikhosru Dadhaboy Sethna (November 26, 1904 - June 29, 2011), Indian writer and philosopher
  • Athene Seyler (May 31, 1889 - September 12, 1990) English actress
  • Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 7, 1903 - December 13, 2004), American painter and illustrator
  • Amala Shankar (June 27, 1919 - July 22, 2020), Indian dancer
  • Brian Duncan Shaw (February 10, 1898 - November 7, 1999), English chemist
  • Margaret Fay Shaw (November 9, 1903 - December 11, 2004), American-Scottish folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker
  • Run Run Shaw (November 23, 1907 - January 7, 2014), Chinese film producer, co-founder of Shaw Brothers
  • Hartley Shawcross (February 4, 1902 - July 10, 2003), British politician and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
  • George Beverly Shea (February 1, 1909 - April 16, 2013), Canadian-American gospel singer
  • Wilmon Henry Sheldon (April 4, 1875 - February 26, 1980), American philosopher
  • Shep Shepherd (January 19, 1917 - November 25, 2018), American jazz musician
  • Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 - November 1, 2013), American photographer
  • Shōji Shibata (October 23, 1915 - July 12, 2016), Japanese chemist
  • Toyo Shibata (June 26, 1911 - January 20, 2013), Japanese poet
  • Umeko Shimomura (May 7, 1912 - May 10, 2012), Japanese haiku poet
  • Kaneto Shindō (April 22, 1912 - May 29, 2012), Japanese film director and screenwriter
  • Emanuel Shinwell (October 18, 1884 - May 8, 1986) British politician and minister
  • Saburo Shochi (August 16, 1906 - November 27, 2013), Japanese educator
  • Henry Edward Shortt (April 5, 1887 - November 9, 1987), British protozoologist and malaria researcher
  • Aharon Jehuda Leib Shteinman (November 14, 1913 - December 12, 2017), Israeli rabbi and Posek
  • David Shugar (September 10, 1915 - October 31, 2015), Polish biophysicist
  • Elisabeth Siegel (February 7, 1901 - March 9, 2002), German social worker
  • Hermann von Siemens (August 9, 1885 - October 13, 1986), German industrialist
  • Maria Sigri (August 25, 1908 - June 22, 2012), Swiss opera singer (soprano)
  • Lewis K. Sillcox (April 30, 1886 - March 3, 1989), American mechanical engineer
  • José María Silva (September 29, 1897 - January 2, 2000), Spanish photographer
  • Alejandro Silva Bascuñán (December 30, 1910 - September 11, 2013), Chilean lawyer
  • Robert E. Simon (April 10, 1914 - September 21, 2015), American building contractor
  • Robert Simpson (November 19, 1912 - December 18, 2014), American meteorologist
  • Hal Singer (October 8, 1919 - August 18, 2020), American jazz saxophonist
  • Bill Sinkin (May 19, 1913 - February 3, 2014), American political activist and industry manager
  • Helmut Sinn (September 3, 1916 - February 14, 2018), German aviator and watch manufacturer
  • Elisabeth Sittig (April 8, 1899 - September 18, 2001), German painter, honorary citizen of Barth
  • Ingeborg Sjöqvist (April 19, 1912 - November 22, 2015), Swedish diver
  • Douglas Slocombe (February 10, 1913 - February 22, 2016), British cinematographer
  • Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27, 1894 - December 25, 1995), Russian-American musicologist
  • Clark S. Smith (May 30, 1912 - October 28, 2014), American politician
  • Eldred Gee Smith (January 9, 1907 - April 4, 2013), Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • George Edson Philip Smith (December 29, 1873 - March 12, 1975), American civil engineer and professor
  • Hobart Muir Smith (September 26, 1912 - March 4, 2013), American herpetologist
  • Walter Campbell Smith (November 30, 1887 - December 6, 1988), British geologist and mineralogist
  • Herman Smith-Johannsen (June 15, 1875 - January 5, 1987), Norwegian cross-country skier
  • Morton Sobell (April 11, 1917 - December 26, 2018), American agent of the Soviet Union
  • Hans Söding (June 1, 1898 - September 4, 2001), German botanist and university professor
  • Koloman Sokol (December 12, 1902 - January 13, 2003) Slovak painter and printmaker
  • Eleanor Sokoloff (born June 16, 1914 - July 12, 2020), American pianist and piano teacher
  • Sergei Leonidowitsch Sokolow (July 1, 1911 - August 31, 2012), Russian military and Defense Minister of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union
  • Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol (October 19, 1915 - March 26, 2016), Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Amboina
  • Leif Solberg (November 8, 1914 - January 25, 2016), Norwegian organist and composer
  • Alejandra Soler (July 8, 1913 - March 1, 2017), Spanish politician and university professor
  • Helge Solvang (June 4, 1913 - September 26, 2013), Norwegian World War II veteran and politician
  • Ichinen Somiya (September 9, 1893 - December 21, 1994), Japanese landscape painter and essayist
  • Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind (July 2, 1901 - November 13, 2002), American neurologist
  • Willy Sommerfeld (May 11, 1904 - December 19, 2007), German silent film pianist
  • Józef Sondej (March 1, 1914 - February 28, 2015), Polish Roman Catholic clergyman
  • Erna Sondheim (April 17, 1904 - January 9, 2008), German foil fencer
  • Song Meiling (March 5, 1897 - October 23, 2003), Chinese first lady, wife of Chiang Kai-shek
  • Thomas Sopwith (January 18, 1888 - January 27, 1989), British aviation pioneer and sailor
  • Rudolf Spang (April 25, 1913 - April 2, 2017), German lawyer and diplomat
  • Louis Sparre (August 3, 1863 - October 26, 1964) Swedish painter
  • Marga Spiegel (June 21, 1912 - March 11, 2014), German Holocaust survivor and author
  • Arnold Spielberg (February 6, 1917 - August 25, 2020), American electrical engineer
  • Robert Spielvogel (December 3, 1911 - June 12, 2013), American avant-garde cameraman, film director and documentary filmmaker
  • Gerty Spies (January 13, 1897 - October 10, 1997), German writer
  • Irmgard Spiess (August 31, 1898 - January 28, 1999), German entrepreneur
  • Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus (December 1, 1845 - October 11, 1946), South African businessman and bryologist of German origin
  • Ljerko Spiller (July 21, 1908 - November 9, 2008), Argentine musician
  • Raffaele Spongano (October 2, 1904 - November 26, 2004), Italian Romanist and Italianist
  • Rudolf Springer (April 9, 1909 - June 2, 2009), German gallery owner
  • Edna Staebler (January 15, 1906 - September 12, 2006), Canadian writer
  • Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 - March 17, 1965), American college football player and coach
  • Arthur Staggs (November 17, 1912 - August 22, 2013), British secret service agent
  • John B. Stanbury (May 15, 1915 - July 6, 2015), American medic
  • Margarita Stāraste (February 2, 1914 - February 18, 2014), Soviet-Latvian children's author and illustrator
  • Freya Madeline Stark (January 31, 1893 - May 9, 1993), English explorer
  • Hendrik Leendert Starre (September 13, 1914 - October 25, 2016), Dutch painter
  • Kaarina Staudinger-Loppukaarre (October 10, 1911 - March 1, 2013), Finnish artist
  • Elsa Stauffer (January 3, 1905 - November 10, 2006), Swiss sculptor
  • Paul Stecken (June 29, 1916 - September 15, 2016), German equestrian trainer
  • Börje Steenberg (August 6, 1912 - January 17, 2015), Swedish engineer
  • Harrison Ross Steeves (April 8, 1881 - August 1, 1981), American English scholar and university professor
  • Helli Stehle (December 6, 1907 - August 27, 2017), Swiss radio presenter
  • Andrew Steiner (August 22, 1908 - April 2, 2009), Czechoslovak and American architect
  • Gerolf Steiner (March 22, 1908 - August 14, 2009), German zoologist
  • Harry Steinhauer (June 11, 1905 - January 12, 2006), German-Canadian-American German studies specialist
  • Karl Steinhoff (June 25, 1893 - June 2, 1996), German pedagogue and administrative lawyer
  • Erika Steinke (August 31, 1905 - December 13, 2005), German CDU politician and member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Olin Stephens (April 13, 1908 - September 13, 2008), American yacht designer
  • Otto Steppes (November 11, 1882 - June 12, 1984), German navigator and director of the nautical school
  • Gerta Stern (October 24, 1915 - May 28, 2018), Austrian actress and beautician
  • Theodore Stern (December 25, 1912 - January 18, 2013), American College President
  • Hedda Sterne (August 4, 1910 - April 8, 2011), Romanian-American painter
  • Thomas Stevens Stevens (October 8, 1900 - November 13, 2000), British chemist
  • Hugh Stewart (December 14, 1910 - May 31, 2011), British film editor and film producer
  • Georg Sticker (April 18, 1860 - August 28, 1960), German physician and medical historian
  • Dorothy Stickney (June 21, 1896 - June 2, 1998), American actress
  • Rollie Stiles (November 17, 1906 - July 22, 2007), American baseball player
  • Karl Stingl (September 1, 1896 - May 14, 1997), Austrian politician
  • Clare Stinnes (November 26, 1872 - January 17, 1973), German entrepreneur and wife of Hugo Stinnes
  • Robert St. John (March 9, 1902 - February 6, 2003), American journalist and writer
  • Carl Friedrich Stober (September 25, 1910 - December 18, 2010), German sports official
  • Grace Zaring Stone (January 9, 1891 - September 29, 1991), American writer (pseudonym Ethel Vance)
  • Peggy Stone (March 19, 1907 - October 16, 2009), German jazz pianist and diseuse
  • W. Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 - September 3, 2002), American insurance entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Abraham Stone Freedberg (May 30, 1908 - August 18, 2009), American cardiologist
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 - May 14, 1998), American environmentalist and writer
  • John Dashiell Stoops (January 26, 1873 - November 18, 1973), American philosopher
  • Henri van Straelen (November 12, 1903 - January 1, 2004), German missionary and Roman Catholic theologian
  • Dorothy C. Stratton (March 24, 1899 - September 17, 2006), US military employee and director of SPARS
  • Roland Straumann (October 3, 1899 - November 24, 1999), Swiss doctor, entrepreneur and politician
  • Stanley Ernest Strauzenberg (November 25, 1914 - March 6, 2015), German doctor, university professor and sports medicine specialist
  • Paul Streeten (July 18, 1917 - January 6, 2019), British development economist
  • Erika Streit (March 1, 1910 - June 2, 2011), Swiss painter
  • Käthe Stricker (November 22, 1878 - November 23, 1979), German educator, women's rights activist and literary historian
  • Erich Ströh (July 15, 1915 - September 8, 2015), German politician
  • Dirk Struik (September 30, 1894 - October 21, 2000), Dutch-American mathematician and Marxist theorist
  • Franciszek Strynkiewicz (September 15, 1893 - November 20, 1996), Polish sculptor
  • Gloria Stuart (July 4, 1910 - September 26, 2010) American actress
  • John Ward Studebaker (June 10, 1887 - July 26, 1989), American Education Commissioner
  • Leon Štukelj (November 12, 1898 - November 8, 1999), Yugoslavian gymnast
  • Horace Wesley Stunkard (August 23, 1889 - September 10, 1989), American parasitologist
  • Peter Stursberg (August 31, 1913 - August 31, 2014), Canadian reporter
  • Cleonymos Stylianides (October 24, 1864 - February 15, 1970), Greek civil engineer
  • Su Buqing (September 23, 1902 - March 17, 2003), Chinese mathematician
  • Su Juxian (January 1, 1883 - December 30, 1991), Chinese calligrapher and mandarin
  • Su Xuelin (February 24, 1897 - April 21, 1999), Chinese writer
  • Antanas Sučila (February 20, 1917 - June 12, 2017), Lithuanian surgeon and professor
  • Johannes Theodor Suhr (January 24, 1896 - March 10, 1997), Danish Roman Catholic Bishop (Copenhagen)
  • Reginald H. Sullivan (March 10, 1876 - January 30, 1980), American politician and Mayor of Indianapolis
  • Sun Mofo (September 14, 1884 - September 5, 1987), Chinese calligrapher
  • Egon Sundberg (February 27, 1911 - September 4, 2015), Swedish football player and musician
  • F. William Sunderman (October 23, 1898 - March 9, 2003), American medic
  • James L. Sundquist (October 16, 1915 - February 17, 2016), American political scientist
  • Ramón Serrano Súñer (September 12, 1901 - September 1, 2003), Spanish politician and minister under Franco
  • Al Suomi (October 29, 1913 - September 23, 2014), American ice hockey player
  • Emmy Surén (August 14, 1873 - January 3, 1974), German nurse and midwife in German South West Africa
  • Wolfgang Suschitzky (August 29, 1912 - October 7, 2016), Austro-British cameraman and photographer
  • Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana (October 3, 1913 - October 24, 2013), Thai Buddhist monk
  • Sally Sweetland (September 23, 1911 - February 8, 2015), American soprano
  • James Swinburne (February 28, 1858 - March 30, 1958), British electrical engineer and plastics producer ("Father of British Plastics")
  • Zygmunt Jerzy Syrokomski (February 23, 1908 - May 10, 2010), Polish educator
  • Czesław Szachnitowski (June 16, 1914 - November 15, 2015), Polish painter and educator
  • Danuta Szaflarska (February 6, 1915 - February 19, 2017), Polish actress

T

  • Lajos Tabák (February 28, 1904 - November 20, 2007), Hungarian photographer
  • Dragutin Tadijanović (November 4, 1905 - June 27, 2007), Croatian writer
  • Jenő Takács (September 25, 1902 - November 14, 2005), Austro-Hungarian composer and pianist
  • Toroku Takagi (June 7, 1904 - August 25, 2006), Japanese composer
  • Wassil Talasch (January 6, 1845 - August 23, 1946), Soviet partisan
  • Sadayoshi Tanabe (October 20, 1888 - January 18, 2000), Japanese bibliographer
  • Tang Xiaodan (February 22, 1910 - January 21, 2012), Chinese director
  • Wilmer Tanner (December 17, 1909 - October 28, 2011), American zoologist
  • Dorothea Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012), American painter
  • Ali Tanrıyar (March 14, 1914 - May 25, 2017), Turkish politician and sports official
  • Gladys Tantaquidgeon (June 15, 1899 - November 1, 2005), American anthropologist, matriarch, and medicine woman
  • Bill Tapia (January 1, 1908 - December 2, 2011), American musician
  • Kordian Tarasiewicz (November 19, 1910 - December 16, 2013), Polish industrial manager
  • Sándor Tarics (September 23, 1913 - May 21, 2016), Hungarian-American water polo player and architect
  • Ellen Tarry (September 26, 1906 - September 23, 2008), American children's author
  • Juan Manuel Tato (July 18, 1902 - March 28, 2004), Argentine physician (ear, nose and throat medicine)
  • Lenore Tawney (May 10, 1907 - September 24, 2007), American textile artist
  • Lars Erik Taxell (April 6, 1913 - October 7, 2013), Finnish politician, chairman of the Swedish People's Party and legal scholar
  • Joseph Henry Tayler (February 7, 1859 - May 25, 1959) American banker and Republican politician
  • Frank Augustus Taylor (March 25, 1903 - June 14, 2007), American museum director
  • Lauriston S. Taylor (June 1, 1902 - November 26, 2004), American physicist (radiation)
  • Arsène Tchakarian (December 21, 1916 - August 4, 2018), Armenian-French resistance fighter
  • Tillit Sidney Teddlie (June 3, 1885 - August 17, 1987), American composer and Minister of the Church of Christ
  • Anna Teluren (May 22, 1916 - August 22, 2018), German actress and theater director
  • Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley (March 4, 1915 - March 27, 2017), British theoretical physicist and applied mathematician
  • Ellaline Terriss (April 13, 1871 - June 16, 1971) British actress and singer
  • Antonio Teutonico (August 28, 1874 - May 31, 1978), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop (Aversa)
  • Ravi Varma Kochaniyan Thampuran (June 9, 1912 - February 5, 2014), Indian nobleman
  • Thanat Khoman (May 9, 1914 - March 3, 2016), Thai politician and Foreign Minister
  • Maurice Thatcher (August 15, 1870 - January 6, 1973), American politician and Congressman
  • Hedda Theen-Pontoppidan (April 23, 1912 - October 11, 2013), German painter and restorer
  • Nini Theilade (June 15, 1915 - February 13, 2018), Danish dancer
  • Elias Thomas (January 14, 1772 - August 5, 1872) American businessman and politician
  • Frank M. Thomas (July 13, 1889 - November 25, 1989), American actor
  • Dorothy Burr Thompson (August 19, 1900 - May 10, 2001), American archaeologist
  • Frits Thors (September 13, 1909 - April 19, 2014), Dutch journalist and news presenter
  • Benno Thorsch (January 6, 1898 - September 2, 2003), entrepreneur
  • Randolph W. Thrower (September 5, 1913 - March 8, 2014), American lawyer and Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  • Arthur L. Thurlow (May 5, 1913 - May 27, 2020), Canadian politician and lawyer
  • Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 - June 26, 2003), American politician and senator
  • Philippe de Thysebaert (August 11, 1908 - February 21, 2009), Belgian journalist and newspaper publisher
  • Carl von Tiedemann (June 28, 1878 - March 10, 1979), German lieutenant general
  • Patrick Lennox Tierney (January 28, 1914 - June 12, 2015), American Japanologist
  • Georg von Tiesenhausen (May 18, 1914 - June 3, 2018), American aerospace engineer
  • Germaine Tillion (May 30, 1907 - April 19, 2008), French anthropologist
  • Raymonde Tillon (October 22, 1915 - July 17, 2016), French politician (Parti communiste français), Member of the National Assembly
  • Neil Tillotson (December 16, 1898 - October 17, 2001) American chemist (latex balloon) and businessman
  • Sakari Timonen (March 17, 1915 - December 14, 2016), Finnish gynecologist
  • Macario Tinti (April 30, 1900 - November 30, 2000), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop (Fabriano e Matelica)
  • Constance Tipper (February 6, 1894 - December 14, 1995), British metallurgist and crystallographer
  • László Tisza (July 7, 1907 - April 15, 2009), Hungarian-American physicist
  • Roman Toi (June 18, 1916 - May 7, 2018), Estonian composer
  • Eduard von Toll (December 7, 1904 - November 20, 2005), German naturalist
  • Elisabeth Tomaschoff (November 15, 1913 - November 21, 2014), German physician and microbiologist
  • Per Tønder (April 6, 1911 - July 18, 2015), Norwegian politician
  • Eugen Topolnik (January 9, 1912 - September 15, 2014), Yugoslav veterinarian
  • Marie Torhorst (December 28, 1888 - May 7, 1989), German politician and educator
  • Olga Törös (August 4, 1914 - February 16, 2015), Hungarian gymnast
  • Juan Vicente Torrealba (February 20, 1917 - May 2, 2019), Venezuelan harpist and composer
  • Roman Totenberg (January 1, 1911 - May 8, 2012), Polish-American violinist
  • Lupita Tovar (July 27, 1910 - November 12, 2016), Mexican actress
  • A. Hays Town (June 17, 1903 - January 6, 2005), American architect
  • Eiji Toyoda (September 12, 1913 - September 17, 2013), Japanese industrial manager
  • Heinrich Treichl (July 31, 1913 - November 2, 2014), Austrian banker
  • Ignacio Trelles (July 30, 1916 - March 24, 2020), Mexican football player and coach
  • Gérard Tremblay (October 27, 1918 - September 28, 2019), Canadian religious, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Montréal
  • Roger Tréville (November 17, 1902 - September 27, 2005), French actor
  • Wolfgang Triebel (September 30, 1900 - March 15, 2002), German building researcher
  • Landelle Trivette (January 12, 1879 - June 30, 1981), American concert harpsichordist and teacher
  • Walter Trohan (July 4, 1903 - October 30, 2003), American journalist
  • Tassilo Tröscher (December 25, 1902 - July 9, 2003), German SPD politician, Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests
  • Jane Margaret Truesdell (April 29, 1911 - August 23, 2011), American journalist
  • Henny Trundt (August 29, 1897 - June 29, 1998), German soprano
  • Mabel Trunnelle (November 8, 1879 - April 20, 1981), American actress
  • Hellmut Trute (March 23, 1907 - August 8, 2007), German business lawyer
  • Leonid Dmitrijewitsch Tschulkov (July 18, 1913 - December 28, 2016), Russian Vice Admiral
  • Bunmei Tsuchiya (September 18, 1890 - December 10, 1990), Japanese writer
  • Elsie Tu (June 2, 1913 - December 8, 2015) British social activist, politician and writer from Hong Kong
  • Carrie Tubb (May 17, 1876 - September 20, 1976), British soprano
  • Orrin Tucker (February 17, 1911 - April 9, 2011), American band leader and saxophonist
  • Orin Tugman (May 26, 1880 - June 30, 1987), American physicist and university professor
  • Marian Tumler (October 21, 1887 - November 18, 1987), Austrian Roman Catholic theologian, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
  • Evan Graham Turbott (May 27, 1914 - December 12, 2014), New Zealand zoologist
  • Jack Turner (September 24, 1889 - October 6, 1989), Canadian photographer
  • Thomas B. Turner (January 28, 1902 - September 22, 2002), American medic
  • Thomas Wyatt Turner (March 16, 1877 - April 21, 1978) American biologist, civil rights activist, and educator

U

V

  • Victor Vacquier (October 13, 1907 - January 11, 2009), Russian-American geophysicist and oceanographer
  • Len Vale-Onslow (May 2, 1900 - April 23, 2004) British motorcycle manufacturer
  • Franca Valeri (July 31, 1920 - August 9, 2020), Italian actress and screenwriter
  • Agnès Valois (June 30, 1914 - April 19, 2018), French nun
  • Ninette de Valois (June 6, 1898 - March 8, 2001), British ballet dancer and teacher
  • Jan Van Cauwelaert (April 12, 1914 - August 18, 2016), Belgian religious, Roman Catholic bishop of the Inongo diocese in the Congo
  • James Van Fleet (March 19, 1892 - September 29, 1992), American general
  • Neil D. Van Sickle (July 8, 1915 - September 29, 2019), American Air Force major general
  • Francisco Varallo (February 5, 1910 - August 30, 2010), Argentinian football player
  • Telmo Vargas (October 9, 1912 - August 9, 2013), Ecuadorian general and chief of staff
  • Adomas Varnas (January 2, 1879 - July 19, 1979), Lithuanian artist
  • Josefina de Vasconcellos (October 26, 1904 - July 20, 2005), English sculptor
  • Alfred Vaucher (March 18, 1887 - May 22, 1993), French Protestant theologian, church historian and bibliographer
  • Jacqueline Vaudecrane (November 22, 1913 - February 27, 2018), French figure skater and coach
  • Norman Vaughan (December 19, 1905 - December 23, 2005), American polar explorer and dog sled handler
  • Otakar Vávra (February 28, 1911 - September 15, 2011), Czech film director
  • Gražbylė Venclauskaitė (May 31, 1912 - February 1, 2017), Lithuanian lawyer
  • Robert de Vernejoul (March 20, 1890 - October 14, 1992), French medic and resistance fighter
  • Jan Verroken (January 30, 1917 - July 24, 2020), Belgian politician
  • Jules Eugène Vidal (June 1, 1914 - March 9, 2020), French botanist
  • Leopold Vietoris (June 4, 1891 - April 9, 2002), Austrian mathematician
  • Franz Villinger (September 15, 1907 - February 5, 2009), German aircraft designer
  • Pierre Vincent (April 11, 1914 - November 11, 2015), French general
  • Walter G. Vincenti (April 20, 1917 - October 11, 2019), American engineering scientist
  • M. Visvesvaraya (September 15, 1861 - April 14, 1962), Indian inventor
  • Võ Nguyên Giáp (August 25, 1911 - October 4, 2013), Vietnamese politician and military man
  • Žiga Vodušek (September 7, 1913 - June 28, 2014), Yugoslav diplomat, ambassador to Iran and Hungary
  • Käthe Vogeler-Seelig (April 18, 1915 - March 13, 2018), German theater scholar
  • Marthe Louise Vogt (September 8, 1903 - September 9, 2003), German brain researcher
  • Francesco Volpi (October 13, 1914 - November 19, 2019), Italian aviator
  • Elisabeth Vomstein (September 14, 1916 - February 15, 2017), German doctor
  • Anton Vratuša (February 21, 1915 - July 30, 2017), Yugoslav political scientist, politician and diplomat
  • Max De Vries (January 8, 1914 - October 9, 2014), Belgian communist resistance fighter

W.

  • Maria Wachter (April 21, 1910 - August 18, 2010), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Marie L. Wadley (December 16, 1906 - September 23, 2009), American museum founder
  • Edward Wagenknecht (March 28, 1900 - May 24, 2004), American writer and historian
  • Pauline Wagner (August 18, 1910 - May 2, 2014), American actress
  • Viola Wahlen (March 15, 1917 - January 4, 2018), German actress and voice actress
  • George Handy Wailes (August 22, 1866 - July 12, 1967) American Presbyterian theologian
  • Bea Wain (April 30, 1917 - August 19, 2017), American singer
  • Charles R. Walgreen Jr. (March 4, 1906 - February 11, 2007), American entrepreneur (Walgreens)
  • John Charles Walker (July 6, 1893 - November 25, 1994), American botanist
  • Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen (April 6, 1912 - November 26, 2012), Norwegian businessman
  • Sydney Walling (July 12, 1907 - October 8, 2009), Antiguan cricketer
  • Provo Wallis (April 12, 1791 - February 13, 1892) Canadian naval officer and Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal Navy
  • Lawrence E. Walsh (January 8, 1912 - March 19, 2014), American lawyer
  • Walter Walsh (May 4, 1907 - April 29, 2014), American marksman and FBI agent
  • Rachel Mellon Walton (January 8, 1899 - March 2, 2006), American philanthropist
  • Arthur Walworth (July 9, 1903 - January 10, 2005), American writer (biographer of Woodrow Wilson )
  • Wang Pi-Cheng (September 14, 1900 - February 27, 2003), Chinese general and military attaché of the Republic of China in the Soviet Union
  • Eugeniusz Waniek (October 28, 1906 - April 19, 2009), Polish artist
  • Mary Whelan Prue Warburg (December 6, 1905 - March 8, 2009), American philanthropist
  • Sydney William Ward (August 5, 1907 - December 31, 2010), Australian-New Zealand cricketer
  • David Wark (February 19, 1804 - August 20, 1905), Canadian Senator
  • Frederick Warner (March 31, 1910 - July 3, 2010) British chemist
  • Takeshi Watanabe (February 15, 1906 - August 23, 2010), Japanese Treasurer (Asian Development Bank)
  • Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht (September 11, 1912 - May 28, 2013), Dutch painter and publisher
  • Floyd Rowe Watson (April 23, 1872 - January 18, 1974) American acoustician
  • Eliza von Wattenwyl-de Portes (October 14, 1812 - February 18, 1914), Swiss pioneer of the protection of girls
  • Edgar Wayburn (September 17, 1906 - March 5, 2010), American environmentalist
  • Seema Weatherwax (August 25, 1905 - June 25, 2006), Ukrainian-American photographer
  • Clemens Weber (June 28, 1905 - April 6, 2008), German architect
  • Else Weber (March 31, 1893 - February 25, 1994), German painter
  • Frederick Clarence Weber (October 1, 1878 - July 31, 1980), American chemist
  • Johanna Weber (August 8, 1910 - October 24, 2014), German-British mathematician
  • Margareta Wechsler Dinu (December 22, 1908 July / January 4, 1909 greg. - July 18, 2016), Romanian painter
  • Gunter Wechterstein (November 13, 1910 - October 8, 2013), German-Baltic landscape and portrait painter
  • Rudolf Weckerling (May 3, 1911 - January 31, 2014), German Protestant pastor, publicist and peace activist
  • Curt Weibull (August 19, 1886 - November 10, 1991), Swedish historian
  • Helmut Weigel (February 3, 1917 - March 11, 2020), German composer and conductor
  • Karl Weigl (October 15, 1879 - March 27, 1982), Austrian politician
  • Jack Weil (March 28, 1901 - August 13, 2008) American businessman (Rockmount Ranch Wear)
  • Paul-Louis Weiller (September 29, 1893 - December 3, 1993), French aviator and industrialist
  • Paul Weiss (May 19, 1901 - July 5, 2002), American philosopher
  • Herbert George Welch (November 7, 1862 - April 4, 1969) American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Roger Hewes Wells (June 1, 1894 - June 16, 1994), American political scientist
  • Niklaus Wenk (January 28, 1913 - August 12, 2013), Swiss painter
  • Billy Werber (June 20, 1908 - January 22, 2009), American baseball player
  • Elsa Werner (February 15, 1911 - March 30, 2012), Jewish communist resistance fighter
  • Gösta Werner (May 15, 1908 - July 23, 2009), Swedish director
  • Stefan Wesołowski (August 16, 1908 - December 26, 2009), Polish surgeon and scientist
  • Dagmar Westberg (December 8, 1914 - January 21, 2017), German patron
  • Murray Westgate (April 16, 1918 - August 27, 2018), Canadian actor
  • Irvin F. Westheimer (September 17, 1879 - December 31, 1980), American businessman and social reformer, founder of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
  • Hilde Weström (October 31, 1912 - February 10, 2013), German architect
  • Joe Russell Whitaker (January 30, 1900 - February 24, 2000), American geographer
  • TK Whitaker (December 8, 1916 - January 9, 2017) Irish economist and politician
  • Martin White (July 31, 1909 - October 12, 2011), Irish hurler
  • Phyllis Whitney (September 9, 1903 - February 8, 2008), American writer
  • Edvin Wide (February 22, 1896 - June 19, 1996), Swedish long distance runner
  • Cornelius Wiebe (February 18, 1893 - July 12, 1999), Canadian medic and politician
  • Noemi Wigdorowicz-Makowerowa (November 24, 1912 - February 7, 2015), Polish doctor
  • Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram (August 2, 1915 - May 23, 2017), British nobleman
  • Hendrik Wijdeveld (October 4, 1885 - February 20, 1987), Dutch architect and publicist
  • DBH Wildish (December 24, 1914 - April 2, 2017), American Vice Admiral in the Navy
  • John Frederick Wilkinson (June 10, 1897 - August 13, 1998), British hematologist
  • Walter Francis Willcox (March 22, 1861 - October 12, 1964), American statistician
  • Bucky Williams (December 15, 1906 - November 16, 2009), American baseball player
  • Chuck Williams (October 2, 1915 - December 5, 2015), American businessman and cookbook author
  • Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 - November 25, 2015), American film editor, film producer, and film director
  • Emory Williams (October 26, 1911 - February 11, 2014), American bank manager
  • John Henry Willis (October 9, 1887 - October 17, 1989) British painter
  • Samuel Williston (September 24, 1861 - February 18, 1963), American jurist
  • Elder Roma Wilson (December 22, 1910 - October 25, 2018), American gospel musician and Pentecostal minister
  • Jock Wilson (September 7, 1903 - September 29, 2008), Scottish war hero
  • Louis Round Wilson (December 27, 1876 - December 10, 1979), American library scholar
  • Mac Wilson (July 9, 1914 - August 9, 2017), Australian football player
  • Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (January 12, 1916 - June 6, 2018) British poet
  • Eleutherius Winance (July 10, 1909 - August 13, 2009), Belgian-American Benedictine monk and philosopher
  • Gus Winckel (November 3, 1912 - August 17, 2013), Dutch fighter pilot
  • Max Winders (April 23, 1882 - September 10, 1982), Belgian architect
  • Wilhelm Winkler (June 29, 1884 - September 3, 1984), Austrian mathematician
  • Woldemar Winkler (June 17, 1902 - September 30, 2004), German painter, draftsman and sculptor
  • Katharina Winter (February 4, 1901 - May 16, 2005), German entrepreneur, supporter of the resistance fighters from July 20, 1944
  • Ted Winter (January 25, 1909 - June 2, 2009), Australian pole vaulter
  • Karl Winterhalter (November 24, 1911 - January 16, 2012), German entrepreneur and engineer
  • Hermann Winterling (March 26, 1906 - August 11, 2008), German entrepreneur
  • Nicholas Winton (May 19, 1909 - July 1, 2015), British philanthropist and organizer of Czech children's transport before World War II
  • Estelle Winwood (January 24, 1883 - June 20, 1984) British actress
  • Rachel Wischnitzer (April 14, 1885 - November 20, 1989), Russian-American art historian
  • Tadeusz Wiśniewski (July 20, 1913 - September 3, 2014), Polish scholar and politician
  • Hermann Wohlgethan (February 13, 1907 - January 31, 2009), German resistance fighter against National Socialism and GDR judge
  • John S. Wold (August 31, 1916 - February 19, 2017), American politician and member of the House of Representatives
  • Hazel Wolf (March 10, 1898 - January 19, 2000), American environmental activist and civil rights activist
  • Ella Goldberg Wolfe (May 10, 1896 - January 8, 2000), co-founder of the United States Communist Party and wife of Bertram Wolfe
  • Camille Wolff (May 23, 1912 - September 4, 2014), British bookseller and author
  • Romuald Wolikowski (December 21, 1891 - February 14, 1992), Polish general
  • Walter Wolman (January 20, 1901 - November 3, 2003), German electrical and telecommunications engineer
  • Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 - December 30, 2016), Chinese-American animator
  • Beatrice Wood (March 3, 1893 - March 12, 1998), American artist ("Mama of Dada")
  • Norrie Woodhall (December 18, 1905 - October 25, 2011), British actress
  • Joseph William Woodrough (August 29, 1873 - October 3, 1977), American lawyer and federal judge
  • Catherine Woolley (August 11, 1904 - July 23, 2005), American children's author
  • Ralph Woolsey (January 1, 1914 - March 23, 2018), American cinematographer
  • Shmuel Wosner (September 4, 1913 - April 3, 2015), Israeli rabbi
  • Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 - May 17, 2019), American writer
  • Beatrice Ann Wright (December 16, 1917 - July 31, 2018), American gestalt psychologist
  • Michael Wright (September 19, 1912 - January 26, 2018), Hong Kong architect
  • Wu Tunan (February 24, 1885 - January 10, 1989), Chinese Tai Chi master
  • René Wurmser (September 24, 1890 - November 9, 1993), French biophysicist

X

  • Xiao Ke (July 14, 1907 - October 24, 2008), Chinese general
  • Xie Zhengnong (January 31, 1904 - October 4, 2008), Chinese revolutionary and humanist
  • Xue Muqiao (October 25, 1904 - July 22, 2005), Chinese economist
  • Xue Yue (December 26, 1896 - May 3, 1998), Chinese general

Y

Z

  • Abdul Majid Zabuli (August 14, 1896 - November 23, 1998), Afghan politician and businessman
  • Miguel Zacarías (March 19, 1905 - April 20, 2006), Mexican film director
  • Władysław Zachariasiewicz (November 7, 1911 - September 21, 2016), Polish-American political activist
  • Hilde Zadek (December 15, 1917 - February 21, 2019), German-Austrian opera, operetta, lied and concert singer
  • Eberhard Zahn (January 2, 1910 - February 7, 2010), German soldier and manager
  • Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse (January 2, 1918 - December 13, 2019), German typographer and bookbinder
  • Filippo Zappata (July 6, 1894 - August 30, 1994), Italian engineer and aircraft designer
  • Silvio Zavala (February 7, 1909 - December 5, 2014), Mexican historian
  • Eva Zeisel (November 13, 1906 - December 30, 2011), Hungarian-American industrial designer
  • Władysław Żeleński (July 11, 1903 - June 25, 2006), Polish lawyer, publicist and historian
  • Hermann Zeller (October 3, 1914 - December 4, 2014), German Roman Catholic theologian
  • Zhang Jingfu (June 6, 1914 - July 31, 2015), Chinese politician
  • Zhang Kebiao (July 26, 1900 - January 23, 2007), Chinese author and editor
  • Zhang Tianfu (September 21, 1910 - June 4, 2017), Chinese agronomist and tea expert
  • Zhang Xueliang (June 3, 1901 - October 14, 2001), Chinese warlord
  • Zhang Zhen (October 5, 1914 - September 3, 2015), Chinese general
  • Zheng Ji (May 6, 1900 - July 29, 2010), Chinese biochemist and nutritionist
  • Zhou Youguang (January 13, 1906 - January 14, 2017), Chinese linguist
  • Zhu Qizhan (May 27, 1892 - April 20, 1996), Chinese painter
  • Richard Ziegler (May 3, 1891 - February 23, 1992), German painter and printmaker
  • Izabella Zielińska (December 10, 1910 - November 20, 2017), Polish music teacher and pianist
  • Grete von Zieritz (March 10, 1899 - November 26, 2001), Austrian composer and pianist
  • Martin Zindler (April 28, 1920 - June 14, 2020), German physician
  • Rudolf Zipkes (April 28, 1911 - April 3, 2013), Swiss lawyer and writer
  • Zenta Zizler (July 16, 1909 - December 13, 2010), German sculptor
  • Xenophon Zolotas (March 26, 1904 - June 11, 2004), Greek economist and Prime Minister
  • George Zongolopoulos (March 1, 1901 - May 11, 2004), Greek sculptor
  • Milford Zornes (January 25, 1908 - February 24, 2008) American watercolor artist
  • Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 - June 10, 1976), American film producer
  • Juan Eduardo Zúñiga (January 24, 1919 - February 24, 2020), Spanish writer and translator

People who became known mainly because of their old age

  • Henry Allingham (June 6, 1896 - July 18, 2009), combatant in the British Forces in World War I.
  • Alfred Anderson (June 25, 1896 - November 21, 2005), British war veteran of World War I
  • Geert Adriaans Boomgaard (September 21, 1788 - February 3, 1899), Dutch age record holder, first supercentenarian and oldest person until 1902, oldest man until 1966
  • Connie Brown (August 6, 1907 - January 21, 2010), UK's oldest small business owner
  • Violet Brown (March 10, 1900 - September 15, 2017), Jamaican age record holder
  • Frank Buckles (February 1, 1901 - February 27, 2011), American war veteran of World War I
  • Jeanne Calment (February 21, 1875 - August 4, 1997), French age record holder, oldest person since 1990
  • María Capovilla (September 14, 1889 - August 27, 2006), Ecuadorian age record holder
  • Dagny Carlsson (born May 8, 1912), Swedish blogger
  • Louis de Cazenave (October 16, 1897 - January 20, 2008), last surviving WWI veteran who participated in the fighting as a French
  • Claude Stanley Choules (March 3, 1901 - May 5, 2011), British soldier, last veteran to fight in World War I.
  • Henriette Cohen (August 17, 1917 - June 24, 2019), last French survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Pleasant Crump (December 23, 1847 - December 31, 1951), last survivor with a proven record of serving in the American Civil War as a Confederate soldier
  • Dorothy De Low (October 5, 1910 - January 24, 2014), Australian senior table tennis player
  • Adelina Domingues (February 19, 1888 - August 21, 2002), Cape Verdean American age record holder
  • Delina Filkins (May 4, 1815 - December 4, 1928), American age record holder, oldest person from 1926 to 1980
  • Gustav Gerneth (October 15, 1905 - October 21, 2019), oldest resident of Germany
  • Florence Green (February 19, 1901 - February 4, 2012), British World War I veteran
  • Jean Grelaud (October 26, 1898 - February 25, 2007), one of the last surviving French World War I veterans
  • James Hard (July 15, 1841 - March 12, 1953), last survivor with a proven record of participating in the American Civil War as a Union soldier
  • Augusta Holtz (August 3, 1871 - October 21, 1986), American age record holder, oldest person from 1985 to 1990
  • Everett Hosack (February 28, 1902 - July 29, 2004), American senior athlete
  • Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff (December 7, 1905 - April 9, 2018), German age record holder
  • Izumi Shigechiyo (June 29, 1865 / around 1880 - February 21, 1986) was the oldest man in the world in the Guinness Book of Records until 2011
  • Erwin Jaskulski (September 24, 1902 - March 10, 2006), Austrian senior athlete
  • Eleonore Kastner (January 7, 1910 - January 27, 2015), German hairdresser, oldest visitor to the Oktoberfest
  • Erich Kästner (March 10, 1900 - January 1, 2008), last surviving German veteran of the First World War
  • Jiroemon Kimura (April 19, 1897 - June 12, 2013), Japanese age record holder, oldest man since 2012
  • Sarah Knauss (September 24, 1880 - December 30, 1999), American age record holder
  • Israel Kristal (September 15, 1903 - August 11, 2017), Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor, oldest survivor of the Holocaust, oldest living man as of 2016
  • Charles Kuentz (February 18, 1897 - April 7, 2005), Alsatian war veteran of the First World War
  • Franz Künstler (July 24, 1900 - May 27, 2008), last surviving veteran of the Austro-Hungarian Army who served in World War I, and also the last veteran of the Central Powers
  • Robert Marchand (born November 26, 1911), French senior cyclist
  • Marie-Louise Meilleur (August 29, 1880 - April 16, 1998), Canadian age record holder
  • Hidekichi Miyazaki (September 22, 1910 - January 23, 2019), Japanese senior athlete
  • Emma Morano (November 29, 1899 - April 15, 2017), Italian age record holder
  • Christian Mortensen (August 16, 1882 - April 25, 1998), Danish-American age record holder, oldest man from 1996 to 2012
  • Susannah Mushatt Jones (July 6, 1899 - May 12, 2016), American age record holder
  • Margaret Ann Neve (May 18, 1792 - April 4, 1903), British age record holder, oldest person from 1902 to 1925
  • Misao Ōkawa (March 5, 1898 - April 1, 2015), Japanese age record holder
  • Harry Patch (June 17, 1898 - July 25, 2009), British war veteran, last member of the British Army during World War I ( The last fighting Tommy )
  • Lazare Ponticelli (December 7, 1897 - March 12, 2008), last surviving French veteran of the First World War
  • Philip Rabinowitz (February 16, 1904 - February 29, 2008), South African senior athlete
  • René Riffaud (December 19, 1898 - January 16, 2007), one of the last French World War I veterans
  • Nabi Tajima (August 4, 1900 - April 21, 2018), Japanese age record holder, last living person born in the 19th century
  • Jeralean Talley (May 23, 1899 - June 17, 2015), American age record holder
  • Louisa Thiers (October 2, 1814 - February 17, 1926), American age record holder, oldest person from 1925 to 1926
  • Chitetsu Watanabe (March 5, 1907 - February 23, 2020), Japanese age record holder
  • Gertrude Weaver (July 4, 1898 - April 6, 2015), American age record holder
  • Stanisław Wycech (June 27, 1902 - January 12, 2008), last Polish veteran of the First World War

See also