Sexagenarian - Definition and Overview

A sexagenarian is a person in the age group of 60 to 69 years old. A sexagenarian of today is born between November 14, 1935 and November 14, 1945.

Sometimes all sexagenarians are considered to be senior citizens, and at the very least those in the second half of the decade (those over 65) are fit into this category. In some places, 60 or 65 is deemed as the age for retirement. Senior discounts are good for people in their sixties or older, although in some businesses senior discounts go all the way down to 55. The sixties is also the decade of life in which health problems related to an aging body may begin to appear.

List of sexagenarians

• 1935 Charles Grodin, actor
• 1935 Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
• 1935 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
• 1935 Henry Gibson, actor
• 1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, rock and roll singer, piano player
• 1935 Julie Andrews, singer, actress
• 1935 Donald Sutherland, actor
• 1935 Luciano Benetton, fashion man
• 1935 Woody Allen, humorist
• 1936 Alan Alda, actor, writer, director, political activist
• 1936 Burt Reynolds, actor
• 1936 Albert Finney, British actor
• 1936 Dennis Hopper, actor, film-maker
• 1936 Frederik Willem de Klerk, former President of South Africa
• 1936 Kris Kristofferson, country singer, actor
• 1936 Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator
• 1936 Joe Don Baker, actor
• 1936 James C. Dobson, head of Focus on the Family
• 1936 Garfield Sobers, cricketer
• 1936 Mary Tyler Moore, groundbreaking career woman actress
• 1936 Dick Cavett, talk show host
• 1936 David Carradine, actor
• 1937 Dyan Cannon, actress
• 1937 Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
• 1937 Suzanne Pleshette, actress
• 1937 Warren Beatty, actor, screenwriter, producer, director
• 1937 Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
• 1937 Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq
• 1937 Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
• 1937 Frankie Valli, lead singer for The Four Seasons
• 1937 Morgan Freeman, actor
• 1937 Jack Nicholson, actor
• 1937 Kerry Packer, Australian billionaire
• 1937 Bill Cosby, TV father
• 1937 Dustin Hoffman, American actor
• 1937 Robert Redford, actor
• 1937 George Carlin, hippie comedian
• 1937 Ridley Scott, British film director, producer
• 1937 Jane Fonda, workout video hostess and protestor
• 1937 Ratan Tata, industrialist
• 1937 Anthony Hopkins, British actor
• 1938 Judy Blume, children's book author
• 1938 Ali MacGraw, actress
• 1938 Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
• 1938 Philip Knight, CEO of Nike
• 1938 Kenny Rogers, country singer
• 1938 Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
• 1938 Pat Buchanan, U.S. politician
• 1938 Christopher Lloyd, actor
• 1938 Ted Turner, media multimillionaire
• 1938 Elliott Gould, actor
• 1938 Joseph Bologna, actor
• 1938 Jon Voight, actor
• 1939 Peter Fonda, actor
• 1939 James Caan, actor
• 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, film director
• 1939 Harvey Keitel, actor
• 1939 John Cleese, British comedian, actor
• 1939 Lily Tomlin, actress
• 1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
• 1939 Richard Donner, film director
• 1939 Frankie Avalon, actor
• 1939 Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane singer
• 1939 George Hamilton, American actor
• 1939 Tina Turner, actress, singer
• 1939 Paul Hogan, Australian actor, star of Crocodile Dundee
• 1940 Katharine Ross, actress
• 1940 George A. Romero, director, screenwriter, editor, actor, composer
• 1940 Smokey Robinson, R&B and soul singer
• 1940 Tom Brokaw, news anchor and author of series about the "Greatest Generation"
• 1940 Chuck Norris, actor, martial artist
• 1940 Al Pacino, actor
• 1940 Nancy Sinatra, singer, actress, daughter of Frank Sinatra
• 1940 Martin Sheen, actor
• 1940 Ringo Starr, Beatle
• 1940 Lainie Kazan, actress, singer
• 1940 Patrick Stewart, British actor
• 1940 Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy!
• 1940 Raquel Welch, actress
• 1940 Brian De Palma, film director
• 1940 Sir Cliff Richard, singer and philanthropist
• 1940 Dan Hedaya, actor
• 1940 Richard Pryor, actor, comedian
• 1940 Dionne Warwick, singer
• 1940 Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
• 1941 Plácido Domingo, Spanish tenor
• 1941 Faye Dunaway, actress
• 1941 Joan Baez, folk singer
• 1941 Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
• 1941 Nick Nolte, actor
• 1941 Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
• 1941 Julie Christie, British actress
• 1941 Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress, singer
• 1941 Joe Flaherty, comedian
• 1941 Anne Rice, author of vampire novels
• 1941 Bob Dylan, U.S. poet and musician
• 1941 Martha Stewart, interior design and cooking expert
• 1941 Beau Bridges, actor
• 1941 David Crosby, guitarist, singer, songwriter
• 1941 Paul Simon, folk-rocker
• 1941 Archie Andrews, comic book character (Age in strip not in 60s)
• 1941 Art Garfunkel, singer
• 1941 Tommy Kirk, actor
• 1942 Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist
• 1942 Muhammad Ali, boxer
• 1942 Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
• 1942 Yvette Mimieux, actress
• 1942 Graham Nash, singer, songwriter
• 1942 Carole King, singer
• 1942 Michael Eisner, head of The Walt Disney Company
• 1942 Barry Levinson, filmmaker
• 1942 Michael York, British actor
• 1942 Aretha Franklin, soul singer ("Respect")
• 1942 Kenneth Lay, founder and CEO of Enron
• 1942 Barbra Streisand, singer
• 1942 Genevieve Bujold, actress
• 1942 Harrison Ford, actor
• 1942 Brian Wilson, singer, member of The Beach Boys
• 1942 Fred Thompson, lawyer, actor, U.S. Senator
• 1942 John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
• 1942 Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber
• 1942 Chris Sarandon, actor
• 1942 Paul McCartney, Beatle
• 1942 Roger Ebert, movie critic
• 1942 Amitabh Bachchan, actor
• 1942 Annette Funicello, beach movie actress
• 1942 Michael Crichton, author
• 1942 Bob Hoskins, British actor
• 1942 Linda Evans, actress
• 1942 Martin Scorsese, film director
• 1942 Calvin Klein, fashion and cologne/perfume designer
• 1942 Peter Tomarken, game show host
• 1943 Blythe Danner, actress
• 1943 Subhash Ghai, Indian movie director
• 1943 Eric Idle, British actor
• 1943 Joe Namath, ex-quarterback for the New York Jets
• 1943 John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1943 Michael Palin, British comedian
• 1943 Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House
• 1943 William Bennett, virtue-focused author
• 1943 John Kerry, U.S. senator, Democratic Presidential nominee in 2004
• 1943 Geraldo Rivera, talk show host
• 1943 Mick Jagger, member of the Rolling Stones
• 1943 Chevy Chase, comedian, writer, actor
• 1943 Steve Miller, rock and roll guitarist, singer
• 1943 Joe Pesci, actor
• 1943 Robert De Niro, actor
• 1943 Randy Newman, musician
• 1943 Christopher Walken, actor
• 1943 Ben Kingsley, English actor
• 1944 Jimmy Page, British musician, member of Led Zeppelin
• 1944 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
• 1944 Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
• 1944 Stockard Channing, actress
• 1944 Jerry Springer, talk show host
• 1944 Jonathan Demme, film director, producer, screenwriter
• 1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, singer
• 1944 Diana Ross, member of the Supremes
• 1944 Roger Daltrey, singer, member of The Who
• 1944 Joe Cocker, singer
• 1944 Paul Gleason, actor
• 1944 John Kay, singer for Steppenwolf
• 1944 Lurlene McDaniel, author of teen-age fiction about girls with terminal illnesses
• 1944 Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York
• 1944 Gladys Knight, pop and soul singer
• 1944 Jeff Beck, British guitarist, member of The Yardbirds
• 1944 Jackie DeShannon, singer/songwriter
• 1944 Michael Douglas, actor, producer
• 1944 George Lucas, Star Wars visionary
• 1944 Anne Robinson, journalist, game show host, The Weakest Link
• 1944 Sam Elliott, actor
• 1944 Frank Oz, Sesame Street voice actor
• 1944 Danny DeVito, actor, producer, director
• 1944 Harold Ramis, actor, director, screenwriter
• 1944 Ben Stein, host of Win Ben Stein's Money
• 1945 Stephen Stills, American musician
• 1945 Rod Stewart, English singer
• 1945 Tom Selleck, actor
• Adi Godrej, Indian billionaire
• Ananda Krishnan, Malaysian billionaire
• Rahul Bajaj, industrialist

See also: Senescence