List of centenarian personalities
This list contains personalities who could reach at least their hundredth year of life .
Living centenarian personalities
1910
- Ruthie Tompson (born July 22, 1910), American animator
1911
- Renée Simonot (born September 10, 1911), French actress
- Eileen Whelan (born October 30, 1911), British cricketer
1912
- Jessie Lichauco (born January 10, 1912), Filipino philanthropist
- Viola Smith (born November 29, 1912), American drummer
- John Henderson (born December 24, 1912), American football player
1913
- Carl J. Shapiro (born February 15, 1913), American philanthropist and entrepreneur
- Toko Shinoda (born March 28, 1913), Japanese artist
- Vance Trimble (born July 16, 1913), American journalist
- G. Venkatasubbaiah (born August 23, 1913), Indian lexicographer
- Boris Pahor (born August 26, 1913), Slovenian-Italian writer
1914
- Kazimierz Klimczak (born February 15, 1914), Polish officer of the 2nd World War
- Harry E. Goldsworthy (born April 3, 1914), American general in the Air Force
- Aiyappan Pillai (born May 4, 1914), Indian lawyer, politician and author
- Anne Baker (born May 14, 1914), British historian and author
- Hubert Faure (born May 28, 1914), French Resistance fighter
- Colette Maze (born June 16, 1914), French pianist
- Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born June 20, 1914), Turkish sumerologist
- John Lysak (born August 16, 1914), American canoeist
- Tsuneko Sasamoto (born September 1, 1914), Japanese photographer
- Lambert Mascarenhas (born September 17, 1914), Indian journalist and political activist
- Marian Fuks (born September 28, 1914), Polish historian
- James C. Floyd (born October 20, 1914), Canadian aeronautical engineer
- Terry Randall (born October 30, 1914), British actress
- Eileen Kramer (born November 8, 1914), Australian dancer and choreographer
- Norman Lloyd (born November 8, 1914), American director, producer and actor
- S. Prestley Blake (born November 26, 1914), American businessman
- Pál Patay (born December 8, 1914), Hungarian archaeologist and museum curator
1915
- Mary Ward (born March 6, 1915), Australian actress
- Carmen Herrera (born May 31, 1915), Cuban-American painter
- Frances Hesselbein (born November 1, 1915), American author and scout functionary
1916
- Milton Thiago de Mello (born February 5, 1916), Brazilian veterinarian and primatologist
- Damián Iguacén Borau (born February 12, 1916), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
- Beverly Cleary (born April 12, 1916), American children's author
- Geneviève Callerot (born May 6, 1916), French farmer and writer
- Leopold Wiel (born May 14, 1916), German architect and university professor
- Ronald Atkins (born June 13, 1916), British politician
- Cleonice Berardinelli (born August 28, 1916), Brazilian literary scholar
- Käthe Menzel-Jordan (born September 7, 1916), German architect and preservationist
- Frank Handlen (born September 27, 1916), American painter
- Fanita English (born October 22, 1916), American psychoanalyst
- Eric Bransby (born October 25, 1916), American painter
- Mihai Șora (born November 7, 1916), Romanian philosopher
- Sophie Templer-Kuh (born November 23, 1916), honorary chairwoman of the International Otto Gross Society
- Heinz Maria Lins (born November 25, 1916), German singer with a baritone voice
- Mykolas Lasinskas (born December 1, 1916), Lithuanian hydrotechnician and river researcher, professor
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
- Eva Ponto (born March 2, 1918), German film editor
- Gertrud Zetterholm (born April 1, 1918), Swedish author and journalist
- Brenda Milner (born July 15, 1918), British psychologist
- Maria Dorothea Simon (born August 6, 1918), Austrian social scientist
- Ursula Traun (born August 17, 1918), German voice actress and actress
- Martin Pope (born August 22, 1918), American chemist
- Henri Vernes (born October 16, 1918), Belgian novelist and comic book author
- René de Obaldia (born October 22, 1918), French author and playwright
- Silvana Lattmann (born November 8, 1918), Swiss writer
- Vittore Bocchetta (born November 15, 1918), Italian sculptor, painter and scientist
- Jerzy Tomziński (born November 24, 1918), Polish religious and prior general of the Paulines
1919
- Tatjana Gamerith (born January 4, 1919), German-Austrian environmental activist, painter and graphic artist
- Lester L. Wolff (born January 4, 1919), American politician
- Miroslav Zikmund (born February 14, 1919), Czech world traveler, writer and photographer
- Luis Bedoya Reyes (born February 20, 1919), Peruvian politician, mayor of Lima
- Peter Florjančič (born March 5, 1919), Slovenian inventor
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919), American writer and poet of the Beat Generation
- Caren Marsh-Doll (born April 6, 1919), American actress and dancer
- Emyr Humphreys (born April 15, 1919), Welsh writer
- Anne Buydens (born April 23, 1919), American film actress and film producer
- Jules Coupier (born April 30, 1919), French Romanist, Occitanist and lexicographer
- Traute Lafrenz (born May 3, 1919), German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- James Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), British chemist, physician, biophysicist and inventor
- Nehemiah Persoff (born August 2, 1919), American actor and painter
- Walter Bernstein (born August 20, 1919), American screenwriter
- Marge Champion (born September 2, 1919), American dancer, dance teacher, actress and choreographer
- Helmuth Ashley (born September 17, 1919), Austrian film director and cameraman
- Joshua Blau (born September 22, 1919), Israeli Arabist and Semitist
- Hella Brock (born October 3, 1919), German musicologist
- Isaak Markowitsch Chalatnikow (born October 17, 1919), Russian theoretical physicist
- Klaus Obermeyer (born December 2, 1919), German-American textile entrepreneur
- Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (born December 9, 1919), Austrian photographer
- Pierre Soulages (born December 24, 1919), French painter and printmaker
- Folke Alnevik (born December 31, 1919), Swedish sprinter
1920
- Andreana Družina (born January 6, 1920), Yugoslav national heroine , partisan in World War II
- Hanna Heidt (born January 12, 1920), German author
- Theodore Geballe (born January 20, 1920), American physicist
- Gottfried Böhm (born January 23, 1920), German architect and sculptor
- Jacqueline Diffring (born February 7, 1920), German-British sculptor
- Erwin Schild (born March 9, 1920), Canadian Judaist, rabbi and university professor
- Benjamin Ferencz (born March 11, 1920), American lawyer
- Laurent Noël (born March 19, 1920), Canadian clergyman, Bishop of Trois Rivières
- Josip Manolić (born March 22, 1920), Croatian politician and Prime Minister
- Helmut Winschermann (born March 22, 1920), German oboist, university professor and conductor
- Neal Edward Smith (born March 23, 1920), American politician
- Marga Minco (born March 31, 1920), Dutch writer and journalist
- Edmond Henri Fischer (born April 6, 1920), Swiss-American biochemist
- Marthe Cohn (born April 13, 1920), French author and former spy
- Antônio Afonso de Miranda (born April 14, 1920), Brazilian clergyman, emeritus Roman Catholic bishop
- Tom Moore (born April 30, 1920), British officer and fundraiser
- Alois Pindl (born June 17, 1920), German businessman and school founder
- Armin Hofmann (born June 29, 1920), Swiss graphic artist, set designer, book designer and sculptor
- Petar Matić Dule (born July 7, 1920), Yugoslav general and politician
- Gerhard Müller (born July 9, 1920), German politician
- Anna Halprin (born July 13, 1920), American dancer and choreographer
- Walter Arlen (born July 31, 1920), Austrian-American music critic and composer
- Daniel Cordier (born August 10, 1920), French resistance fighter, art dealer and historian
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
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- Gabre Gabric (October 17, 1914 - December 16, 2015), Italian athlete
- Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 - March 13, 2002), German philosopher
- Henry Jacques Gaisman (December 5, 1869 - August 6, 1974), American inventor
- Irineos Galanakis (November 10, 1911 - April 30, 2013), Greek Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Germany
- Princess Alexandra Galitzyn (May 7, 1905 - December 5, 2006), Russian princess
- Anthony Galla-Rini (January 18, 1904 - July 30, 2006), Italian-American accordionist
- Fridolin Gallati (March 17, 1885 - August 19, 1987), Swiss entrepreneur
- Reg Gammon (January 9, 1894 - April 22, 1997) British painter
- Maurice de Gandillac (February 14, 1906 - April 20, 2006), French philosopher
- Mohammad Hassan Ganji (June 11, 1912 - July 19, 2012), Iranian meteorologist
- Augusto Gansser (October 28, 1910 - January 9, 2012), Swiss geologist
- Victor Garaygordóbil Berrizbeitia (October 17, 1915 - April 24, 2018), Spanish Roman Catholic clergyman, Prelate of Babahoyo
- José de Jesús García Ayala (May 30, 1910 - January 15, 2014), Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop (Campeche)
- Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García (March 17, 1805 - July 1, 1906), Spanish music teacher and inventor of the laryngoscope
- Margaret Gardiner (April 22, 1904 - January 2, 2005), British patron of the arts
- Arthur Gardner (June 7, 1910 - December 19, 2014), American film producer and actor
- Marie de Garis (June 15, 1910 - August 10, 2010), lexicographer from Guernsey
- Gabriella Garland (November 15, 1912 - November 23, 2016), Swedish journalist
- Milton Garland (August 23, 1895 - July 27, 2000), American inventor of refrigeration systems ("Mr. Refrigeration")
- Elizabeth Hawley Gasque (February 26, 1886 - November 2, 1989), American politician
- AG Gaston (July 4, 1892 - January 19, 1996), American businessman
- Margot Gayle (May 14, 1908 - September 28, 2008), American conservationist and author
- Edward K. Gaylord (March 5, 1873 - May 30, 1974) American entrepreneur and publisher
- Ruth Geede (February 13, 1916 - April 17, 2018), German writer and journalist
- Ferdinand Gehr (January 6, 1896 - July 10, 1996), Swiss painter
- Rupprecht Geiger (January 26, 1908 - December 6, 2009), German painter
- Léonie Geisendorf (April 8, 1914 - March 17, 2016), Swedish architect
- Johanne von Gemmingen (June 10, 1901 - September 13, 2001), German writer
- Oreste Genta (November 2, 1911 - November 13, 2018), Italian general
- James George (September 14, 1918 - February 7, 2020), Canadian diplomat
- Thanassis Georgiu (January 7, 1914 - March 3, 2014), Greek journalist and author
- Pierre Gérald (May 26, 1906 - March 24, 2012), French actor
- Rolf Gérard (August 9, 1909 - November 19, 2011), British stage and costume designer, painter
- Peter Leo Gerety (July 19, 1912 - September 20, 2016) American Roman Catholic Bishop (Portland and Newark)
- Dietrich Gerhardt (February 11, 1911 - November 20, 2011), German Slavist
- Hans Gericke (July 27, 1912 - February 15, 2014), German architect, chief architect of East Berlin
- John Gerrish (August 14, 1910 - November 29, 2010), American composer
- Jacques Gerschwiler (September 10, 1898 - May 4, 2000), Swiss figure skating coach
- Hans Gerstmayr (April 14, 1882 - October 28, 1987), Austrian steel cutter
- Erwin Geschonneck (December 27, 1906 - March 12, 2008), German actor
- Temima Gezari (December 21, 1905 - March 5, 2009), American artist
- Andrew Ghareeb (March 20, 1898 - March 12, 2000), Lebanese-American writer and translator Khalil Gibrans
- Bruno Giacometti (August 24, 1907 - March 21, 2012), Swiss architect
- Pietro Giampaoli (February 13, 1898 - February 27, 1998), Italian medalist and engraver
- Henry R. Gibson (December 24, 1837 - May 25, 1938), American politician
- Johnny Gibson (July 3, 1905 - December 29, 2006), American 400 meter hurdles world record holder
- Julie Gibson (September 6, 1913 - October 2, 2019), American actress and singer
- Charlotte Giebelmann (October 13, 1899 - February 28, 2002), German figure skating coach
- Miep Gies (February 15, 1909 - January 11, 2010), Dutch helper to Anne Frank and "Righteous Among the Nations"
- Richard Giese (August 11, 1876 - January 15, 1978), German lawyer in financial management
- Peggy Gilbert (January 17, 1905 - February 12, 2007), American jazz musician, saxophonist and band leader
- Mollie Gillen (November 1, 1908 - January 3, 2009), Australian historian and writer
- Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (July 12, 1910 - March 7, 2011), American lawyer
- Erich Gimpel (March 25, 1910 - September 3, 2010), German spy in the USA
- Alfred Gisel (June 5, 1911 - February 29, 2012), Austrian physician and politician
- Bernard de Give (born May 8, 1913 - January 27, 2020), Belgian monk and author
- Wolfgang Glaesemer (March 14, 1899 - April 10, 1999), German colonel in World War II
- Erich Glagau (July 17, 1914 - June 6, 2017), German author and Holocaust denier
- Marija Alfredovna Glazovskaya (January 26, 1912 - November 20, 2016), Russian geochemist
- Bill Glassford (March 8, 1914 - September 19, 2016) American football player
- Kay Glasson Taylor (July 8, 1893 - May 14, 1998), Australian writer
- Hans Glathe (December 21, 1899 - May 23, 2000), German microbiologist
- Archibald Glenn (May 24, 1911 - January 4, 2012), Australian industrial manager and Chancellor of La Trobe University Melbourne
- Marie Glory (March 3, 1905 - January 24, 2009), French actress
- Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (December 25, 1901 - October 29, 2004), British nobleman
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (October 6, 1907 - November 7, 2007), German-American geneticist
- Go Seigen (June 12, 1914 - November 30, 2014), Sino-Japanese Go player
- George Godber (August 4, 1908 - February 7, 2009) British medic and politician
- Joseph Goedert (July 27, 1908 - August 9, 2012), Luxembourgish historian
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters (December 21, 1900 - February 12, 2005), Dutch politician
- Auguste Goffin (April 23, 1914 - November 2, 2014), Belgian motorcycle racer
- Itche Goldberg (March 22, 1904 - December 27, 2006), Yiddish writer and cultural scientist
- Cécile Goldet (March 15, 1914 - October 27, 2019), French politician
- Esther Goldfrank (May 5, 1896 - April 23, 1997), American anthropologist
- Maurice Goldhaber (April 18, 1911 - May 11, 2011), Austrian-American physicist
- Manuel Gómez-Moreno (February 21, 1870 - June 7, 1970) Spanish art historian, archaeologist and epigraphist
- Dercy Gonçalves (June 23, 1907 - July 19, 2008), Brazilian actress
- Bernardino González Ruíz (January 11, 1911 - March 15, 2012), Panamanian politician and President
- David William Goodall (April 4, 1914 - May 10, 2018), Australian botanist and ecologist
- Coleridge Goode (November 29, 1914 - October 2, 2015), British jazz bassist
- Sidonie Goossens (October 19, 1899 - December 15, 2004), British harpist
- Albert Hamilton Gordon (July 21, 1901 - May 1, 2009), American businessman (Kidder, Peabody & Co.)
- Norman Gordon (August 6, 1911 - September 2, 2014), South African cricketer
- Karl Otto Götz (February 22, 1914 - August 19, 2017), German painter
- Alfred Goullet (April 8, 1891 - March 11, 1995), Australian racing cyclist
- Achilleas Grammatikopoulos (September 28, 1908 - December 30, 2008), Greek football player
- Grandma Moses (September 7, 1860 - December 13, 1961) American artist
- George F. Grant (September 18, 1906 - November 2, 2008), American author
- Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye (February 12, 1898 - February 14, 1998) British politician
- Martin Graßnick (May 5, 1917 - July 4, 2020), German architect and architectural historian
- Dieter Grau (April 24, 1913 - December 17, 2014), German-American rocket engineer
- Cecil H. Green (August 6, 1900 - April 12, 2003), American co-founder of Texas Instruments
- Elsie Green (January 27, 1908 - September 4, 2009), British hurdler
- Concordia A. Gregorieff (December 28, 1903 - June 27, 2007), Russian nobleman
- Friedrich Greil (December 8, 1902 - January 8, 2003), German teacher and radio announcer
- Maxine Grimm (May 18, 1914 - February 10, 2017), American philanthropist and community activist
- Giuseppe Grioli (April 10, 1912 - March 4, 2015), Italian mathematician
- Klaus von der Groeben (January 7, 1902 - January 23, 2002), German administrative lawyer
- Howard Groskloss (April 10, 1906 - July 15, 2006), American baseball player
- Feliks Gross (June 17, 1906 - November 9, 2006), Polish sociologist
- Franzi Groszmann (December 27, 1904 - September 20, 2005), German actress
- Rodolfo Groth (January 2, 1881 - February 7, 1985), German patron (Lübeck)
- Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 - November 17, 2016), American journalist and photographer
- Béla Grunberger (February 22, 1903 - February 25, 2005), French psychoanalyst of Hungarian origin
- Antonio Guarino (May 16, 1914 - October 2, 2014), Italian lawyer
- Boris Ignatievich Guds (August 19, 1902 - December 27, 2006), Russian secret agent and writer
- Alexandre Guéniot (November 8, 1832 - July 15, 1935), French surgeon, gynecologist and obstetrician
- Emídio Guerreiro (September 6, 1899 - June 29, 2005), Portuguese freedom fighter and politician
- Jean-Michel Guilcher (September 24, 1914 - March 27, 2017), French ethnologist
- Amedeo Guillet (February 7, 1909 - June 16, 2010), Italian diplomat
- Hermann Gundersheimer (April 25, 1903 - May 14, 2004), German-American art historian
- Anselm Günthör (March 16, 1911 - February 1, 2015), German Benedictine and Roman Catholic moral theologian
- Nico Gunzburg (September 2, 1882 - March 5, 1984), Belgian criminologist
- Guo Jie (January 16, 1912 - November 15, 2015), Chinese athlete
- Emil von Guttenberg (January 4, 1841 - January 30, 1941), Austrian military and railway minister
- Richard Kenneth Guy (September 30, 1916 - March 9, 2020), British mathematician
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- 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
- Fernand Jaccard (October 8, 1907 - April 15, 2008), Swiss football player
- Richard H. Jackson (May 10, 1866 - October 2, 1971), American admiral
- Florence S. Jacobsen (April 7, 1913 - March 5, 2017), American missionary, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
- Theodor Jacobsen (February 6, 1901 - July 17, 2003), Danish-American astronomer
- Elisabeth Jäger (August 30, 1912 - September 16, 2012), German archivist, chronicler and local history researcher
- Anton Jakobsen (December 13, 1874 - January 26, 1983), Norwegian politician
- Arthur Walter James (June 30, 1912 - August 5, 2015) British politician
- Vilma Jamnická (November 13, 1906 - August 12, 2008), Slovak actress
- Dorothy Janis (February 19, 1910 - March 10, 2010), American actress
- Dirk Janssen (July 11, 1881 - November 12, 1986), Dutch gymnast
- Jao Tsung-I (August 9, 1917 - February 6, 2018), Chinese poet, painter and sinologist
- Lucy Jarvis (June 24, 1917 - January 26, 2020), American television producer
- Stefan Mustafa Jasiński (February 18, 1911 - September 4, 2015), Polish imam
- Joli Jászai (May 21, 1907 - September 26, 2008), Hungarian actress
- Gertrude Jeannette (November 28, 1914 - April 4, 2018), American actress
- Wacław Jędrzejewicz (January 29, 1893 - November 30, 1993), Polish diplomat and politician
- Herb Jeffries (September 24, 1913 - May 25, 2014), American jazz musician and actor
- Boris Efimovich Efimov (September 28, 1900 - October 1, 2008), Russian cartoonist
- Elizabeth Jenkins (October 31, 1905 - September 5, 2010), British writer, storyteller and biographer
- Ronald Jervis, 7th Viscount St. Vincent (May 3, 1905 - September 4, 2006), British nobleman and politician
- Alexander Alexandrovich Jeschewski (November 3, 1915 - January 15, 2017), Soviet politician
- Mizzi Jezel (July 19, 1883 - June 27, 1984), Austrian operetta singer (soprano)
- Paul Johansen (May 28, 1910 - January 5, 2012), Danish actuary and manager
- Signe Johansson-Engdahl (May 27, 1905 - May 9, 2010), Swedish swimmer
- Bruno Johnke (June 19, 1906 - August 3, 2007), German gymnast
- Evelyn Johnson (November 4, 1909 - May 10, 2012), American pilot ("Mama Bird")
- Isaac Johnson (January 28, 1811 - November 29, 1911), British inventor of clinker
- Katherine Johnson (August 26, 1918 - February 24, 2020), American mathematician
- Charles Wycliffe Joiner (February 14, 1916 - March 10, 2017), American judge
- Paul Jonas (October 15, 1904 - January 30, 2010), German fluid mechanic
- Alun Jones, Baron Chalfont (December 5, 1919 - January 10, 2020) British peer and politician
- Denny Jones (September 21, 1910 - April 25, 2012), American politician
- Howard W. Jones (December 30, 1910 - July 31, 2015), American gynecologist
- Keith Jones (July 7, 1911 - March 2, 2012), Australian medic
- Piet de Jong (April 3, 1915 - July 27, 2016), Dutch politician and Prime Minister
- Marien de Jonge (September 21, 1911 - July 17, 2012), Dutch military
- Walter Jonigkeit (April 24, 1907 - December 25, 2009), German cinema operator
- Erwin Jöris (October 5, 1912 - November 17, 2013), German resistance fighter and writer
- Franz Jörissen (August 31, 1895 - October 14, 1996), German master builder
- Maurice Journeau (November 17, 1898 - June 9, 1999), French composer
- Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (August 12, 1915 - November 9, 2017), Pakistani writer
- Elsbeth Juda (May 2, 1911 - July 5, 2014) British photographer
- Raymond Julien (September 12, 1913 - April 24, 2016), French politician
- Russell Jump (March 16, 1895 - April 18, 2000), American politician and Mayor of Wichita
- Manich Jumsai (October 5, 1908 - January 3, 2009), Thai scholar and educator
- Ernst Jünger (March 29, 1895 - February 17, 1998), German writer
- Joseph M. Juran (December 24, 1904 - February 28, 2008), Romanian-American economist and quality management pioneer
- Irena Jurgielewiczowa (January 13, 1903 - May 25, 2003), Polish writer
- Isabella Danilowna Jurjewa (September 7, 1899 - January 20, 2000), Russian folk music singer
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Irmgard Uhlig (October 29, 1910 - August 17, 2011), German painter and mountaineer
- Olga von Ungern-Sternberg (November 24, 1895 - November 22, 1997), German astrologer and physician
- Edward Upward (September 9, 1903 - February 13, 2009) British novelist
- Bazoline Estelle Usher (September 26, 1885 - February 8, 1992), American educator and headmistress
- Mellie Uyldert (May 31, 1908 - May 10, 2009), Dutch astrologer and esotericist
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
- Yan Jiyuan (July 11, 1901 - February 10, 2011), Chinese painter
- Yang Jiang (July 17, 1911 - May 25, 2016), Chinese playwright
- Yang Jingnian (October 17, 1908 - September 4, 2016), Chinese economist
- Ye Qianji (June 25, 1909 - February 28, 2017), Chinese agronomist
- Arvo Ylppö (October 27, 1887 - January 28, 1992), Finnish neonatologist
- Marion Yorck von Wartenburg (June 14, 1904 - April 13, 2007), German lawyer and resistance fighter
- Paul Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (January 26, 1902 - June 9, 2002), German resistance fighter
- Donnell Young (April 25, 1888 - July 28, 1989), American sprinter
- Dorothy Young (May 3, 1907 - March 20, 2011), American assistant to Harry Houdini
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
- Category: Centennial
- List of the oldest deceased celebrities (sortable table)