Septuagenarian - Definition and Overview

A septuagenarian is a person in the age group of 70 to 79 years old. A septuagenarian of today is born between November 23, 1925 and November 23, 1935.

List of septuagenarians

• 1925 B. B. King, blues guitarist, songwriter
• 1925 Angela Lansbury, actress
• 1925 William F. Buckley, political commentator
• 1925 Dick Van Dyke, actor
• 1926 Alan Greenspan, stock market guru
• 1926 Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy
• 1926 Leslie Nielsen, actor
• 1926 Mel Brooks, actor, screenwriter, director
• 1926 Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor, producer, director
• 1926 Jiang Zemin
• 1926 Don Rickles, actor, comedian
• 1926 Norman Jewison, film director
• 1926 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• 1926 Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator
• 1926 Chuck Berry, rock-and-roll musician
• 1926 Sathya Sai Baba, guru
• 1927 Harry Belafonte, calypso musician
• 1927 Sidney Poitier, actor
• 1927 Bal Thackeray, politician
• 1927 Peter Falk, actor
• 1927 Andy Williams, singer
• 1927 Tom Bosley, actor
• 1928 Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
• 1928 James Garner, actor
• 1928 Maya Angelou, poet laureate
• 1928 Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia assistant
• 1928 Jean Le Pen, French right-wing politician
• 1928 Shirley Temple, child actress
• 1928 Vic Damone, singer
• 1928 Dr. Joyce Brothers, popular psychologist
• 1928 Marion Ross, actress
• 1928 Noam Chomsky, linguist and anti-war activist
• 1929 Dick Clark, rock-and-roll icon
• 1929 Bob Newhart, actor
• 1930 Stephen Sondheim, composer
• 1930 Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
• 1930 Rod Taylor, actor
• 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1930 Gene Hackman, actor
• 1930 Robert Wagner, actor
• 1930 Clint Eastwood, (actor, director, producer)
• 1930 Ross Perot, U.S. politician, businessman
• 1930 Helmut Kohl, German chancellor
• 1930 Sean Connery, Scottish actor, famous for playing "James Bond"
• 1930 Warren Buffett, American billionaire
• 1930 Neil Armstrong, astronaut
• 1931 James Earl Jones, voice actor
• 1931 Abdul Kalam, President of India
• 1931 Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
• 1931 Robert Duvall, actor
• 1931 Mikhail Gorbachev
• 1931 Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia
• 1931 Tom Wolfe, author
• 1931 Tippi Hedren, actress
• 1931 Dean Jones, actor
• 1931 Barbara Walters, news anchor
• 1931 Martin Landau, actor
• 1931 Regis Philbin, host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
• 1931 Anne Bancroft, actress
• 1931 Rip Torn, actor
• 1931 Rupert Murdoch
• 1931 William Shatner, American actor
• 1931 Desmond Tutu, bishop, Nobel peace laureate and icon of African freedom
• 1932 Piper Laurie, actress
• 1932 Ted Kennedy, American politician
• 1932 Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defence since 2001
• 1932 John Williams, composer
• 1932 Elizabeth Taylor, U.S. actress
• 1932 Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer
• 1932 Jacques Chirac, President of France
• 1932 Omar Sharif, actor
• 1932 Petula Clark, popular musician ("Downtown")
• 1932 Peter O'Toole, Irish actor, star of Lawrence of Arabia
• 1932 Roy Scheider, actor
• 1932 Little Richard, rock-and-roll singer
• 1933 Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon
• 1933 Joan Rivers, comedian
• 1933 Willie Nelson, country singer, guitarist
• 1933 Joan Collins, British actress
• 1933 Gene Wilder, actor
• 1933 Jerry Falwell, leader of the religious right
• 1933 Michael Caine, British actor
• 1933 Dom DeLuise, actor
• 1933 Robert Blake, actor
• 1933 Carol Burnett, comedian
• 1933 Larry King, talk show host
• 1934 Hank Aaron, baseball player
• 1934 Ralph Nader, consumer advocate
• 1934 Eugene Cernan, astronaut
• 1934 Shirley Jones, actress
• 1934 Sydney Pollack, actor, producer, director
• 1934 Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., military leader and strategist
• 1934 Brigitte Bardot, actress, model
• 1934 Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco
• 1934 Barbara Eden, actress
• 1934 Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
• 1934 Judi Dench, British actress
• 1934 Orrin Hatch, U.S. senator
• 1934 Sophia Loren, actress
• 1934 Charles Manson, serial killer
• 1934 Gloria Steinem, feminist
• 1934 Shirley MacLaine, actress
• 1934 Pat Boone, 1950s popular musician
• 1934 Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter
• 1935 Bob Denver, actor who played Maynard G. Krebs
• Kim Un-yong, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee
• Michele Ferrero, Italian billionaire

See also: Senescence