Sexagenarian

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A sexagenarian is a person in the age group of 60 to 69 years old. A sexagenarian of today is born between July 24, 1934 and July 24, 1944.

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

(Incomplete)

1934 Giorgio Armani, fashion designer
1934 Norman Schwarzkopf, military leader and strategist
1934 Regis Philbin, host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
1934 Sofia Loren, actress
1934 Brigitte Bardot, actress
1934 Charles Manson, serial killer
1935 Bob Denver, actor who played Maynard G. Krebs
1935 Luciano Benetton, fashion man
1935 Woody Allen, humorist
1936 James C. Dobson, head of Focus on the Family
1936 Garfield Sobers, cricketer
1936 Mary Tyler Moore, groundbreaking career woman actress
1937 Madeleine Albright, US secretary of state
1937 Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
1937 Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq
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 Jane Fonda, workout video hostess and protestor
1937 Ratan Tata, industrialist
1938 Judy Blume, children's book author
1938 Philip Knight, CEO of Nike
1938 Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
1938 Ted Turner, media multimillionaire
1939 Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
1939 Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane singer
1940 Tom Brokaw, news anchor and author of series about the "Greatest Generation
1940 Al Pacino, actor
1940 Martin Sheen, actor
1940 Sir Cliff Richard, singer and philanthropist
1940 Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
1941 Joan Baez, folk singer
1941 Anne Rice, author of vampire novels
1941 Bob Dylan, US poet and musician
1941 Martha Stewart, interior design and cooking expert
1941 Paul Simon, folk-rocker
1941 Archie Andrews, comic book character (Age in strip not in 60s)
1942 Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist
1942 Muhammad Ali, boxer
1942 Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1942 Aretha Franklin, soul singer ("Respect")
1942 Kenneth Lay, founder and CEO of Enron
1942 Barbara Streisand, singer
1942 John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
1942 Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber
1942 Paul McCartney, Beatle
1942 Roger Ebert, movie critic
1942 Amitabh Bachchan, actor
1942 Annette Funicello, beach movie actress
1942 Calvin Klein, fashion and cologne/perfume designer
1943 Subhash Ghai, Indian movie director
1943 John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1943 Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House
1943 William Bennett, virtue-focused author
1943 Geraldo Rivera, talk show host
1943 Mick Jagger, member of the Rolling Stones
1943 Christopher Walken, actor
1944 Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
1944 Jerry Springer, talk show host
1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, singer
1944 Diana Ross, member of the Supremes
1944 Lurlene McDaniel, author of teen-age fiction about girls with terminal illnesses
1944 George Lucas, Star Wars visionary
1944 Frank Oz, Sesame Street voice actor
1944 Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York
Adi Godrej, Indian billionaire
Ananda Krishnan, Malaysian billionaire
Rahul Bajaj, industrialist
Shankaracharya of Kanchi

See also: Senescence