A septuagenarian is a person in the age group of 70 to 79 years old. A septuagenarian of today is born between February 13, 1925 and February 13, 1935.

List of septuagenarians

1925

• William F. Buckley, political commentator
• B. B. King, blues guitarist, songwriter
• Angela Lansbury, actress
• Dick Van Dyke, actor

1926

• Chuck Berry, rock-and-roll musician
• Mel Brooks, actor, screenwriter, director
• Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator
• Alan Greenspan, stock market guru
• Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy
• Norman Jewison, film director
• Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor, producer, director
• Leslie Nielsen, actor
• Don Rickles, actor, comedian
• Sathya Sai Baba, guru
• Jiang Zemin

1927

• Harry Belafonte, calypso musician
• Tom Bosley, actor
• Peter Falk, actor
• Michele Ferrero, Italian billionaire
• Sidney Poitier, actor
• Bal Thackeray, politician
• Andy Williams, singer

1928

• Maya Angelou, poet laureate
• Dr. Joyce Brothers, popular psychologist
• Noam Chomsky, linguist and anti-war activist
• Vic Damone, singer
• James Garner, actor
• Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia assistant
• Jean Le Pen, French right-wing politician
• Marion Ross, actress
• Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
• Shirley Temple, child actress

1929

• Dick Clark, rock-and-roll icon
• Bob Newhart, actor

1930

• Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
• Neil Armstrong, astronaut
• Warren Buffett, American billionaire
• Sean Connery, Scottish actor, famous for playing "James Bond"
• Sandra Day O'Connor, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Clint Eastwood, actor, director, producer
• Gene Hackman, actor
• Helmut Kohl, German chancellor
• Ross Perot, U.S. politician, businessman
• Stephen Sondheim, composer
• Rod Taylor, actor
• Robert Wagner, actor

1931

• Anne Bancroft, actress
• Robert Duvall, actor
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Tippi Hedren, actress
• Dean Jones, actor
• James Earl Jones, voice actor
• Abdul Kalam, President of India
• Martin Landau, actor
• Rupert Murdoch
• Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
• Regis Philbin, host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
• William Shatner, American actor
• Rip Torn, actor
• Ike Turner, musician
• Desmond Tutu, bishop, Nobel peace laureate and icon of African freedom
• Barbara Walters, news anchor
• Tom Wolfe, author
• Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia

1932

• Jacques Chirac, President of France
• Petula Clark, popular musician ("Downtown")
• Ted Kennedy, American politician
• Piper Laurie, actress
• Little Richard, rock-and-roll singer
• Peter O'Toole, Irish actor, star of Lawrence of Arabia
• Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer
• Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defence since 2001
• Omar Sharif, actor
• Roy Scheider, actor
• Elizabeth Taylor, U.S. actress
• John Williams, composer

1933

• Robert Blake, actor
• Carol Burnett, comedian
• Michael Caine, British actor
• Joan Collins, British actress
• Dom DeLuise, actor
• Jerry Falwell, leader of the religious right
• Larry King, talk show host
• Willie Nelson, country singer, guitarist
• Kim Novak, actress
• Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon
• Joan Rivers, comedian
• Gene Wilder, actor

1934

• Hank Aaron, baseball player
• Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
• Brigitte Bardot, actress, model
• Pat Boone, 1950s popular musician
• Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco
• Eugene Cernan, astronaut
• Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter
• Judi Dench, British actress
• Barbara Eden, actress
• Orrin Hatch, U.S. senator
• Shirley Jones, actress
• Sophia Loren, actress
• Shirley MacLaine, actress
• Charles Manson, serial killer
• Ralph Nader, consumer advocate
• Sydney Pollack, actor, producer, director
• Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., military leader and strategist
• Gloria Steinem, feminist

1935

• Bob Denver, actor who played Maynard G. Krebs

See also: Senescence