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January 24 - January 30
Albert Wolsky
(Costume designer) -- Alive. Born November 24, 1930. Won Oscars for designing costumes for
All that Jazz and Bugsy, longtime partner of James Mitchell.
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December 6 - December 12
Dolores Hope
(singer) -- Alive. Born May 27, 1909. Sometimes performed with her husband, started recording albums in her 70s, made it past 100!
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Louis Jourdan (actor) -- Alive. Born June 19, 1919. Gigi, Octopussy, read the Babar books for Caedmon recordings, part of the French resistance during World War II. IBDB IMDb
November 29 - December 5
Christo
(artist) -- Alive. Born June 13, 1935. Collaborator with his wife Jeanne-Claude on large-scale, frequently temporary art projects including "The Gates" (Central Park) and "The Umbrellas" (Japan).
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October 25 - October 31
Diane Baker
(actress) -- Alive. Born February 25, 1938. Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank, Journey to the Center of the Earth, lots of TV, played House's mother on House.
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Millie Perkins (actress) -- Alive. Born May 12, 1938. Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank, briefly married to Dean Stockwell. IMDb
September 20 - September 26
E. L. Doctorow
(writer) -- Alive. Born January 6, 1931. Writes great historical fiction, in particular Ragtime
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September 13 - September 19
Bill Anders
(astronaut) -- Alive. Born October 17, 1933. Flew on the Apollo 8 Christmas flight around the moon in 1968, later worked for many companies including General Electric and General Dynamics.
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Fred Haise
(astronaut) -- Alive. Born November 14, 1933. Served on Apollo 13; worked for Grumman for many years.
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Bel Kaufman
(teacher/writer) -- Alive. Born May 10, 1911. Wrote the classic book on teaching high school Up the Down Staircase, was the grandaughter of Sholem Aleichem.
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Jim Lovell
(astronaut) -- Alive. Born March 25, 1928. Flew on four space missions, including the Apollo 8 Christmas flight around the moon in 1968, and helped bring the crippled Apollo 13 home (played the Navy man who greeted the astronauts on their return home in the movie Apollo 13)
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Jack Swigert
(astronaut) -- Dead. Bone cancer. Died December 28, 1982. Born August 30, 1931. One of the three astronauts on Apollo 13, elected to Congress from Colorado just before his death.
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August 30 - September 5
David Pal
(photography expert/animator) -- Alive. Born January 30, 1937. Did some animation for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and The Power, later was an expert in high speed photography for Disney and Wonderful World of Sports.
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Ann Robinson
(actress) -- Alive. Born May 25, 1935. Appeared in all three versions of The War of the Worlds
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Julee Rosso
(food writer/cooking teacher) -- Alive. Born circa 1942. Co-writer of the Silver Palate cookbooks (with Sheila Lukins) .
August 23 - August 29
Jeff Barry (songwriter) -- Alive. Born April 3, 1938. With his ex-wife Ellie Greenwich, he co-wrote classic songs like "Leader of the Pack", "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Chapel of Love".
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