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…hard to believe Lady Diana would turn 60 in 2021.

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).
  • 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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  • Dana Reeve – 2/19
  • Mary Kay Bergman 6/5
  • Lady Diana 7/1

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