Famous People Born in 1932

• Arinze, Francis (November 1)

  The African cardinal who was a potential successor to Pope John Paul II

• Ashby, Dorothy (August 6)

  The jazz harpist who recorded 'Afro-Harping' in 1968

• Burstyn, Ellen (December 7)

  The mom in the movie The Exorcist

• Cash, Johnny (February 26)

  The singer of "Folsom Prison Blues"

• Chirac, Jacques (November 29)

  President of France, 1995-2007

• Clark, Petula (November 15)

  The singer of "Downtown"

• Cline, Patsy (September 8)

  Country and pop sensation who sang "Crazy"

• Dawson, Richard (November 20)

  The host of the game show Family Feud

• de Branges, Louis

  The deep thinker who proved the Bieberbach Conjecture in 1984

• Eco, Umberto (January 5)

  The author of The Name of the Rose

• Forman, Milos (February 18)

  The director of 'Amadeus' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

• Fossey, Dian (January 16)

  The author of Gorillas in the Mist

• Kasem, Casey (April 27)

  The host of the radio show American Top 40

• Kennedy, Edward (Ted) (February 22)

  U.S. senator from Massachusetts, 1962-2009

• Legrand, Michel (February 24)

  The French film composer who scored The Thomas Crown Affair

• Little Richard (December 5)

  The flamboyant singer of "Tutti Frutti"

• Lynn, Loretta (April 14)

  The country music legend who sang "Coal Miner's Daughter"

• Naipaul, V.S. (August 17)

  Nobel-winning author of A House for Mr. Biswas

• Nichols, Nichelle (December 28)

  Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek TV series

• O'Toole, Peter (August 2)

  Star of the epic film Lawrence of Arabia

• Plath, Sylvia (October 27)

  Poet and author of The Bell Jar

• Porter, Bill (September 9)

  The plucky salesman with cerebral palsy who inspired the film Door to Door

• Puig, Manuel (December 28)

  The author of Kiss of the Spider Woman

• Reynolds, Debbie (April 1)

  Star of the 1952 musical "Singin' in the Rain"

• Rumsfeld, Donald (July 9)

  U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2001-2006

• Scheider, Roy (November 10)

  The star of the movies Jaws and All That Jazz

• Tarkovsky, Andrei (April 4)

  The director of 'Stalker' and 'Solaris'

• Taylor, Elizabeth (February 27)

  The much-married star of Cleopatra

• Trigger

  Roy Rogers's faithful movie steed

• Truffaut, François (February 6)

  The French filmmaker who did 'The 400 Blows'

• Updike, John (March 18)

  The author of the 1960 novel Rabbit, Run

• Williams, John (February 8)

  Composer of the themes from Jaws and Star Wars

• Wilson, Robert Anton (January 18)

  Co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy

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