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Celebrities by birth year

Celebrities born in 1936

49 famous people born in 1936. Those still living turn 90 this year.

Robert RedfordActor · August 18Roy OrbisonMusician · April 23Dennis HopperActor · May 17Burt ReynoldsActor · February 11Alan AldaActor · January 28Buddy HollySinger · September 7Wilt ChamberlainBasketball player · August 21Ursula AndressActor · March 19Mary Tyler MooreActor · December 29Kris KristoffersonSinger · June 22Albert FinneyActor · May 9David CarradineActor · December 8Virna LisiActor · November 8Ken LoachFilm director · June 17Uwe SeelerSoccer player · November 5Bruce DernActor · June 4Bobby DarinSinger · May 14Louis Gossett Jr.Actor · May 27Engelbert HumperdinckSinger · May 2Jim BrownAmerican football player · February 17Paul L. SmithActor · June 24Glen CampbellMusician · April 22Steve ReichMusician · October 3Dean StockwellActor · March 5Ruth BuzziActor · July 24VyjayanthimalaActor · August 13NutanActor · June 4Buddy GuyMusician · July 30Shirley KnightActor · July 5Roy EmersonTennis player · November 3Michael LandonActor · October 31John SaxonActor · August 5Wolf BiermannSinger · November 15Norma AleandroActor · May 2Anna GermanSinger · February 14Frederic ForrestActor · December 23Brian BlessedActor · October 9Héctor ElizondoActor · December 22Alex RoccoActor · February 29Leonid KuravlyovActor · October 8Stanislav GovorukhinFilm director · March 29Walter KoenigActor · September 14Lee "Scratch" PerryMusician · March 20Joe Don BakerActor · February 12Mary TraversSinger · November 9Susan KohnerActor · November 11Charles NapierActor · April 12Robert Downey Sr.Film director · June 24Keir DulleaActor · May 30

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Born in 1936, by the numbers

Celebrities4916 still living, 33 no longer with us
Oldest livingAlan Aldaborn January 28, 1936
YoungestHéctor Elizondoborn December 22, 1936
Most common roleActor61% of stars born in 1936, then singers
Top countryUnited States33 people, then United Kingdom and India
Top birthplaceBrooklyn3 celebrities born there
GenerationBorn before 1946
Living stars turn90 this year
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