Nonagenarian - Definition and Overview

A nonagenarian is a person in the age group from 90 to 99 years old. A nonagenarian of today is born between November 9, 1905 and November 9, 1915.

A few U.S. Presidents lived or are living to be nonagenarians, including John Adams, Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford.

List of Nonagenarians

• 1907 Leon Askin
• 1908 Simon Wiesenthal
• 1908 Claude Lévi-Strauss
• 1908 John Mills, actor
• 1909 Miep Gies
• 1910 György Faludy, Hungarian-Jewish poet, writer and translator
• 1910 Anita Page, actress
• 1910 Luise Rainer, actress
• 1910 Gloria Stuart, actress
• 1911 Joseph Barbera, founder of Hanna-Barbera cartoon studios
• 1911 Teddy Kollek
• 1911 Mitch Miller
• 1911 Naguib Mahfouz, novelist
• 1912 Irving Layton
• 1912 Karl Malden, actor
• 1912 Studs Terkel
• 1912 Art Linkletter
• 1912 Nancy Wake
• 1912 Kurt Sanderling, conductor
• 1912 Carlo Ponti
• 1913 Geraldine Fitzgerald, actress
• 1913 Rosa Parks
• 1913 Frankie Laine, singer
• 1913 Gerald Ford, US President
• 1913 Tikhon Khrennikov, Soviet composer
• 1913 Robert Mondavi, leading American wine maker
• 1913 Franz Antel, Austrian filmmaker
• 1913 Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist politician
• 1914 Frances Reid, actress
• 1914 Thurl Ravenscroft, actor and singer
• 1914 Jane Wyman, actress
• 1914 Sammy Baugh, American football star
• 1914 Sonny Boy Williamson, musician
• 1914 Go Seigen, Go player
• 1914 Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan
• 1914 Martin Gardner, writer on mathematics and games
• 1914 Herbert Reinecker, German writer
• 1914 Richard Widmark, actor
• 1915 Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan
• 1915 John Profumo, British politician involved in sex scandal
• 1915 Norman Wisdom, The great British clown