Knockin' On Heavens Door
The following 192 living people are all at least 80
years old:
(*) indicates 90 or over
(*) Eddie Albert - actor
Patty Andrews - singer, the Andrews Sisters
Arnold "Red" Auerbach - basketball coach
Saul Bellow - novelist
Ingmar Bergman - film director
(*) Milton Berle - actor and comedian
Joey Bishop - TV host
Ernest Borgnine - actor
Ray Bradbury - science fiction author
David Brinkley - TV news anchor
Charles Bronson - actor
Red Buttons - actor
Robert Byrd - U.S. senator
Frank Cady - actor; "Green Acres"
(*) Kitty Carlisle - game show panelist
Art Carney - actor
(*) Henri Cartier-Bresson - photographer
Julia Child - "The French Chef"
Arthur C. Clarke - author
Ray Conniff - bandleader
(*) Alistair Cooke - TV host
Denton Cooley - heart surgeon
Jackie Cooper - actor
Archibald Cox - Watergate special prosecutor
Francis Crick - DNA co-discoverer
Walter Cronkite - TV news anchor
(*) Hume Cronyn - actor
Rodney Dangerfield - comedian
(*) Michael DeBakey - heart surgeon
Olivia De Havilland - actress
Dino De Laurentiis - film producer
Phyllis Diller - actress
James Doohan - actor, "Star Trek"
Kirk Douglas - actor
Hugh Downs - TV host
(*) Buddy Ebsen - actor
Ralph Edwards - game show host & creator
Nanette Fabray - actress
Bob Feller - baseball player
Kam Fong - actor, "Hawaii 5-O"
Betty Ford - U.S. first lady
Gerald Ford - U.S. president
Glenn Ford - actor
John Forsythe - actor
Betty Friedan - feminist author
Zsa Zsa Gabor - actress
(*) John Kenneth Galbraith - economist
John Glenn - U.S. astronaut & senator
Curt Gowdy - sportscaster
Billy Graham - evangelist
(*) Lionel Hampton - jazz musician
Jonathan Harris - actor, "Lost in Space"
Paul Harvey - radio news announcer/commentator
Jesse Helms - U.S. senator
Leona Helmsley - real estate mogul
Skitch Henderson - bandleader
(*) Katharine Hepburn - actress
Thor Heyerdahl - anthropologist
Edmund Hillary - mountaineer
(*) Bob Hope - actor and comedian
Lena Horne - singer
E. Howard Hunt - Watergate conspirator
Lady Bird Johnson - U.S. first lady
(*) Philip Johnson - architect
Van Johnson - actor
(*) Elia Kazan - film director
C. Everett Koop - surgeon general
Frankie Laine - singer
Jack LaLanne - fitness guru
Ann Landers - advice columnist
(*) Estée Lauder - cosmetics producer
(*) Claude Levi-Strauss - anthropologist
Art Linkletter - TV host and pitchman
Herbert Lom - actor, "The Pink Panther"
Lee MacPhail - baseball executive
(*) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - spiritual guru
Karl Malden - actor
Nelson Mandela - South African politician
Dick Martin - TV host, "Laugh-In"
Eugene McCarthy - U.S. senator
Jim McKay - sportscaster
Robert McNamara - U.S. secretary of defense
Arthur Miller - playwright
Marvin Miller - baseball players negotiator
(*) Mitch Miller - bandleader
Al Molinaro - actor, "Happy Days"
Ricardo Montalban - actor
Harry Morgan - actor
Stan Musial - basball player
Edwin Newman - newscaster
Helmut Newton - photographer
Maureen O'Hara - actress
Jack Paar - TV host, "The Tonight Show"
LaWanda Page - actress, "Sanford and Son"
Jack Palance - actor
John Paul II - Roman Catholic pope
Don Pardo - TV announcer, "Saturday Night Live"
Rosa Parks - civil rights pioneer
Les Paul - guitarist
Gregory Peck - actor
Augusto Pinochet (Ugarte) - Chilean president
Tony Randall - actor
Thurl Ravenscroft - voice, Tony the Tiger
Nancy Reagan - U.S. first lady
(*) Ronald Reagan - U.S. president
Donald Regan - U.S. cabinet member; chief of staff
(*) Leni Riefenstahl - filmmaker and photographer
Phil Rizzuto - baseball player
Tom Poston - actor
Oral Roberts - preacher
Andy Rooney - TV news commentator
Mickey Rooney - actor
Jane Russell - actress
J. D. Salinger - author
Isabel Sanford - actress, "The Jeffersons"
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - historian
(*) Max Schmeling - heavyweight champion boxer
Tex Schramm - football team owner
Pete Seeger - folk musician
Ravi Shankar - sitar player
(*) Artie Shaw - clarinetist and bandleader
Sidney Sheldon - screenwriter
Sargent Shriver - U.S. political candidate
George Shultz - U.S. cabinet secretary
Enos Slaughter - baseball player
Sam Snead - golfer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Soviet dissident and author
Warren Spahn - baseball player
Mickey Spillane - author
Robert Stack - actor and TV host
(*) Edward Teller - physicist
(*) Strom Thurmond - U.S. senator
Peter Ustinov - actor
Abigail Van Buren - advice columnist
Abe Vigoda - actor, "Barney Miller"
Mike Wallace - TV journalist
Eli Wallach - actor
Joseph Wapner - television judge
William Westmoreland - U.S. army commander
Betty White - actress
James Whitmore - actor
Richard Widmark - actor
(*) Simon Wiesenthal - hunter of Nazi criminals
(*) Billy Wilder - film director
Ted Williams - baseball player
(*) Fay Wray - actress
(*) Jane Wyatt - actress
Jane Wyman - actress
Alan Young - actor, "Mister Ed"
Edited by HP