We are at the end of 2020 – good riddance! Looking forward, this list of women turning 60 in 2021 paints a positive and inspiring picture of where we’re at! Our list includes women in politics, entertainment, business, science, education, sports and more.
Women Turning 60 in 2021 Who Are Killin’ It!
Entertainment/Arts
- Julie Louise-Dreyfus 1/13
- Nastassja Kinski 1/24
- Camryn Manheim 3/8
- Susan Boyle 4/1
- Heather Locklear 9/25
- Ann Cusack 5/22
- Melissa Etheridge 5/29
- Elizabeth McGovern 7/18
- Dana Sparks 8/1
- Catherine Oxenberg 9/22
- Bonnie Hunt 9/22
- Jodi Benson 10/10
- Stacy Madeleine Schiff, 10/26
- Meg Ryan 11/19
- Mariel Hemingway 11/22
- Ann Coulter 12/8
Politics
- Dee Dee Myers – 9/1 – political analyst who served as the 19th White House Press Secretary during the first two years of the Clinton administration. She was the first woman and the second-youngest person to hold that position.
- Julia Gillard – 9/29 -served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013
- Mary Bono Mach 10/24 – served Palm Springs and most of central and eastern Riverside County, California in the United States House of Representatives from 1998 to 2013
- Susan Bysiewicz – 9/29 – 109th lieutenant governor of Connecticut, serving since January 9, 2019
- Victoria Jane Nuland, US Ambassador to NATO
Business/Sports/Education
- Alex Witt – 4/9 – Television news journalist and hosts the television news program Weekends with Alex Witt (MSNBC).
- Carol Baskin – 6/6 – Animal activist and owner of the non-profit animal sanctuary Big Cat Rescue. In 2020, she was featured in the Netflix documentary Tiger King
- Janet Gretzky – 1/10 – Actress and wife of all now retired renowned hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky
- Maia Chiburdanidze – 1/17 Kutaisi USSR, sixth Women’s World Chess Champion from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2010
- Carol Widney Greider 4/15 Co-Discoverer of telomerase; currelntly at University of California, Santa Cruz as a Distinguished Professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology
- Nadia Comaneci 11/12 – Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist. She and her husband own the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, the Perfect 10 Production Company, and are the editors of International Gymnast Magazine.
- Abigail Pierrepont Johnson, 12/19 – Billionaire US businesswoman; and chief executive officer of American investment firm Fidelity Investments
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