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January 1
José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (d. 2019)
Blanca Rodríguez, First Lady of Venezuela
Claudio Villa, Italian singer (d. 1987)
January 2 – Toshirō Daigo, Japanese judoka
January 3
W. Michael Blumenthal, German-American economist and politician
Murray Dowey, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian children's illustrator
Mohamed Yaacob, Malaysian lawyer, judge and Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. 2009)
Sir George Martin, English record producer (d. 2016)
January 6 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor, bodybuilder (d. 2006)
January 7 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
January 8
Evelyn Lear, American soprano (d. 2012)
Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
January 10 – Júlio Pomar, Portuguese painter (d. 2018)[13]
January 11
Lev Dyomin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1998)
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1984)
January 12
Ray Price, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
January 13 – Michael Bond, English fiction writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
January 14 – Tom Tryon, American actor, novelist (d. 1991)
January 15 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005)
January 16 – Walter Maslow, American actor
January 17
Antonio Domingo Bussi, Argentine Army general, former Governor of Tucuman (d. 2011)
Newton N. Minow, American attorney
Moira Shearer, Scottish actress, dancer (d. 2006)
January 18 – Hannie van Leeuwen, Dutch politician (d. 2018)
January 19 – Fritz Weaver, American actor (d. 2016)
January 20
Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
David Tudor, American pianist, composer (d. 1996)
January 21
Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
Roger Taillibert, French architect (d. 2019)
January 23 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
January 25 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
January 26 – Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980)
January 27
Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
January 28 – Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2009)
January 29
Bob Falkenburg, American tennis player and entrepreneur
Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
January 31 – Chuck Willis, American singer, songwriter (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1928)
February[edit]

Nancy Gates

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Garret FitzGerald

Leslie Nielsen

Bob Richards
February 1 – Nancy Gates, American actress (d. 2019)
February 2
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France
Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate (archbishop of Managua, cardinal) (d. 2018)
February 3 – Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician
February 4 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
February 7
Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
Estanislao Esteban Karlic, Argentine cardinal
Keiko Tsushima, Japanese actress (d. 2012)
February 8
Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
Birgitte Reimer, Danish actress
Sonja Ziemann, German actress (d. 2020)
February 9 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish lawyer, politician, and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2011)
February 10
Carmen Romano, First Lady of Mexico (d. 2000)
Mimi Sheraton, American food critic
Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer, football manager (d. 1993)
February 11
Paul Bocuse, French chef (d. 2018)
Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (d. 2010)
February 12 – Charles Van Doren, American professor, subject of film Quiz Show (d. 2019)
February 13 – Bill Mercer, American sportscaster
February 14
Moneta Sleet Jr., American press photographer (d. 1996)
Alfred Körner, Austrian footballer (d. 2020)
February 15 – Muhammad al-Badr, King of Yemen (d. 1996)
February 16
Margot Frank, German sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
John Schlesinger, British film director (d. 2003)
February 17
Peter T. Flawn, American geologist, educator (d. 2017)
John Meyendorff, French-born American Orthodox scholar, protopresbyter and educator (d. 1992)
February 18 – Jeanne Wilson, American swimmer (d. 2018)
February 19 – György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic
February 20
Whitney Blake, American actress (d. 2002)
Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
Bob Richards, American track and field athlete
Gillian Lynne, English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director (d. 2018)
Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun, saint (d. 1998)
February 22
Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (d. 2019)
February 23
Luigi De Magistris, Italian cardinal
Claire Shulman, American politician
February 24 – Knut Kleve, Norwegian philologist (d. 2017)
February 26
Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (d. 2015)
Henry Molaison, American memory disorder patient (d. 2008)
Doris Belack, American actress (d. 2011)
Efraín Sánchez, Colombian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
February 27 – David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2013)
February 28 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian author (d. 2011)
March[edit]

Andrzej Wajda

Ralph Abernathy

Jerry Lewis

Siegfried Lenz

Dario Fo

Ingvar Kamprad
March 1
Robert Clary, French-American actor, author and lecturer
Pete Rozelle, American National Football League commissioner (d. 1996)
March 2 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (d. 1995)
March 3
Craig Dixon, American athlete
James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)
March 4
Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, French royal, businessman (d. 2018)
Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway (d. 2018)
Fran Warren, American popular singer (d. 2013)
March 5 – Joan Shawlee, American actress (d. 1987)
March 6
Alan Greenspan, American economist, Federal Reserve Chairman
Yoshimi Osawa, Japanese judoka
Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (d. 2016)
March 7 – Chemmanam Chacko, Indian poet (d. 2018)
March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor (d. 2001)
March 10 – Aleksandr Zatsepin, Soviet and Russian composer
March 11
Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
Thomas Starzl, American physician (d. 2017)
March 12 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, lawyer
March 13 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
March 14 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist, writer (d. 2018)
March 16
Edwar al-Kharrat, Egyptian novelist, writer and critic (d. 2015)
Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (d. 2017)
March 17
Jaynne Bittner, American female baseball player (d. 2017)
Siegfried Lenz, German writer (d. 2014)
March 18
Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
Tan Chin Nam, Malaysian businessman and racehorse owner (d. 2018)
March 19 – Tony Collins, English football player and manager
March 21
Carlos Almenar Otero, Venezuelan singer, songwriter (d. 2018)
Heikki Hasu, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier
March 23 – Berta Loran, Brazilian-Polish actress
March 24
Dario Fo, Italian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
Ventsislav Yankov, Bulgarian pianist
March 25
László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
Gene Shalit, American film and book critic and television personality
March 26 – Aldo Tarlao, Italian Olympic rower (d. 2018)
March 27 – Harry Connick Sr., American attorney
March 28 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2014)
March 30
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (d. 2018)
Peter Marshall, American singer, television host (Hollywood Squares)
Sydney Chaplin, American actor (d. 2009)
March 31 – John Fowles, English writer (d. 2005)
April[edit]

Gus Grissom

Roger Corman

Ian Paisley

Hugh Hefner

Elizabeth II

Charlotte Rae

Harper Lee
April 1
Charles Bressler, American tenor (d. 1996)
Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish author (d. 2011)
April 2
Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (d. 2014)
Omar Graffigna, Argentine Air Force officer (d. 2019)
April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
April 5
Roger Corman, American filmmaker, producer, actor and businessman
Ri Kun-mo, North Korean politician (d. 2001)
April 6
Randy Weston, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2018)
Jeanne Martin Cissé, Guinean teacher, nationalist politician (d. 2017)
Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor, actor (d. 1990)
Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician (d. 2014)
April 9 – Hugh Hefner, American magazine editor (Playboy) (d. 2017)
April 10 – Gustav Metzger, German-born stateless auto-destructive artist (d. 2017)
April 12
Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, Chechen ethnographer (d. 2018)
Jane Withers, American actress
April 13
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer (d. 2014)
Maximilian Raub, Austrian Olympic canoeist (d. 2019)
Egon Wolff, Chilean playwright, author (d. 2016)
April 14
Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, producer, director, and teacher (d. 1996)
Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (d. 1989)
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish politician (d. 2008)
April 19 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian politician, first female parliamentarian in the Arab world (d. 1997)
April 21
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Arthur Rowley, English footballer (d. 2002)
Alexander Lyudskanov, Bulgarian translator, semiotician and mathematician (d. 1976)
April 22
Ted Hibberd, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
Charlotte Rae, American actress, singer (d. 2018)
James Stirling, Scottish architect (d. 1992)
April 24 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, 2-time Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016)
April 25
Patricia Castell, Argentine actress (d. 2013)
Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
April 27
Tim LaHaye, American evangelist, speaker and author (d. 2016)
Vladimír Černý, Czechoslovakian modern pentathlete (d. 2016)
April 28
James Bama, American artist
Greg Gates, American rower
Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
April 29
Paul Baran, American internet pioneer (d. 2011)
Leonard Fenton, English actor and director
April 30
Edmund Cooper, British author, poet (d. 1982)
Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, Santomean poet (d. 2010)
Cloris Leachman, American actress
Christian Mohn, Norwegian ski jumper and sports official (d. 2019)
May[edit]

David Attenborough

Don Rickles

Hugo Banzer

Miles Davis

Abdoulaye Wade

Katie Boyle
May 1 – Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician, academic
May 3
Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler
Ema Derossi-Bjelajac, Croatian politician
May 4 – David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon, English politician
May 5
Ann B. Davis, American actress (d. 2014)
Bing Russell, American actor (d. 2003)
May 8
Sir David Attenborough, British broadcaster, naturalist and producer
David Hurst, German actor
Don Rickles, American stand-up comedian, actor (d. 2017)
May 10
Hugo Banzer, 62nd and 75th President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
Pasquale Panìco, Italian politician (d. 2018)
May 12 – Earl Hutto, American politician
May 14 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian, author (d. 1984)
May 15
Anthony Shaffer, English novelist, playwright (d. 2001)
Sir Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)
May 17
Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist and author (d. 2016)
Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist (d. 1981)
Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian film actor (d. 2014)
May 18 – Niranjan Bhagat, Indian poet (d. 2018)
May 19
Mark Andrews, American politician
Edward Parkes, English engineer and academic
May 21 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
May 23 – Aileen Hernandez, African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
May 25
Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
Bill Sharman, American basketball player, coach (d. 2013)
May 26 – Miles Davis, African-American Jazz musician (d. 1991)
May 27
Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
Kees Rijvers, Dutch football player and manager
May 29
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (d. 2017)
Abdoulaye Wade, 3rd President of Senegal
Katie Boyle, Italian-British actress, television personality, and game-show panelist (d. 2018)
May 30
Tony Terran, American trumpet player, session musician (d. 2017)
Johnny Gimble, American country musician, fiddler (d. 2015)
Tsuneo Watanabe, Japanese businessman
June[edit]

Andy Griffith

Marilyn Monroe

Allen Ginsberg

Efraín Ríos Montt

Johanna Quandt

Tadeusz Konwicki

Mel Brooks

Peter Alexander
June 1
Andy Griffith, American actor, comedian, singer (d. 2012)
Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962)
June 3
Flora MacDonald, Canadian politician and humanitarian (d. 2015)
Roscoe Bartlett, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
Roxcy Bolton, American feminist and civil and women's rights activist (d. 2017)
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Howl) (d. 1997)
June 4
Robert Earl Hughes, American who was the heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d. 1958)
Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright and critic
June 5
Emile Capgras, Martinican politician (d. 2014)
Paul Soros, Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
Peter Peterson, American banker and businessman, American Secretary of Commerce (d. 2018)
June 6
Sholom Rivkin, American rabbi (d. 2011)
Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
June 7 – Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian politician
June 9
Georgia Holt, American singer and actress
Happy Rockefeller, American socialite (d. 2015)
June 10
June Haver, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
Lionel Jeffries, British film director and actor (d. 2010)
June 11
Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator
Frank Plicka, Czech-born photographer (d. 2010)
June 12
Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper
Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (d. 2001)
June 13
Satoru Abe, Japanese-American sculptor and painter
Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
June Krauser, American swimmer (d. 2014)
June 15 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
June 16
Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan career military officer and politician (d. 2018)
William F. Roemer, Jr., United States FBI agent (d. 1996)
Taketoshi Naito, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
June 18
Avshalom Haviv, (d. 1947)
Allan Sandage, American astronomer (d. 2010)
June 19
Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
Arno Mayer, American historian and writer
June 21
Fred Cone, former professional American football fullback
Washington Malianga, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2014)
Johanna Quandt, German business woman (d. 2015)
June 22
George Englund, American film editor, director, producer and actor (d. 2017)
Elyakim Haetzni, Israeli lawyer
Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish filmmaker (d. 2015)
Rachid Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2014)
June 23
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2011)
Magda Herzberger, Romanian author, poet and composer, survivor of the Holocaust
Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, Senegalese writer
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Italian sculptor
June 24
Muslim Arogundade, Nigerian sprinter
Blackie Gejeian, American race car driver, race car builder, and hot rod enthusiast (d. 2016)
Barbara Scofield, American tennis player
June 25
Ján Eugen Kočiš, Czech bishop (d. 2019)
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
Gordon Robertson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
Stig Sollander, Swedish alpine skier (d. 2019)
June 26
Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet
Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
Luis Molné, Andorran alpine skier
André Monnier, French ski jumper
Fritz Zwazl, Austrian swimmer
June 27
Giambattista Bonis, Italian professional football player
Len Ceglarski, American hockey player (d. 2017)
Geza de Kaplany, Hungarian-born physician
Don Raleigh, American ice hockey player (d. 2012)
Bruce Tozer, Australian cricketer
Galina Vecherkovskaya, Russian rower
June 28
Elisabeta Abrudeanu, Romanian artistic gymnast
George Booth, American cartoonist
Mel Brooks, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
June 29
Roger Stuart Bacon, American politician
Bobby Morgan, American professional baseball player
June 30
Peter Alexander, Austrian actor and singer (d. 2011)
Paul Berg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Božena Moserová, Czech alpine skier
July[edit]

Carl Hahn

Alfredo Di Stéfano

Nuon Chea

David Malet Armstrong

Harry Dean Stanton

Leopoldo Galtieri

Stef Wertheimer

Maunu Kurkvaara

Norman Jewison

James Best
July 1
Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (d. 2019)
Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
Carl Hahn, German automotive executive, chairman of Volkswagen
Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
July 2
Liu Dajun, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and an academician (d. 2016)
Alfons Oehy, Swiss swimmer
Carlo Rolandi, Italian sailor
July 3
Rae Allen, American actress, director, and singer
María Lorenza Barreneche, former First Lady of Argentina (d. 2016)
July 4
Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-born footballer (d. 2014)
Amos Elon, Israeli writer (d. 2009)
Lopön Tenzin Namdak, Tibetan religious leader
Mary Stuart, American soap actress (d. 2002)
July 5
Roy Hawes, American first baseman in Major League Baseball (d. 2017)
Viola Harris, American actress (d. 2017)
Salvador Jorge Blanco, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2010)
Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971)
Mario Picone. American pitcher (d. 2013)
Anthony Purssell, English brewing executive and rower
July 6 – Serge Roullet, French film director and screenwriter
July 7
Yvonne Ciannella, American coloratura soprano in opera and concert
Armand Lemieux, Canadian professional hockey player (d. 2015)
Thorkild Simonsen, Danish politician
Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 2019)
Mel Clark, American Major League Baseball outfielder (d. 2014)
July 8
David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher (d. 2014)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004)
July 9
Jens Juul Eriksen, Danish cyclist
Mathilde Krim, founding chairman of amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research (d. 2018)
Ben Roy Mottelson, American-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 10
Carleton Carpenter, American actor and dancer
Donald Geary, American ice hockey player (d. 2015)
Fred Gwynne, American actor and author (d. 1993)
Harry MacPherson, American pitcher (d. 2017)
Tony Settember, American racing driver (d. 2014)
Aldo Tortorella, Italian journalist, former politician and partisan
July 11
Frederick Buechner, American author and theologian
Joe Houston, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
July 12
Abe Addams, American soccer player (d. 2017)
Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, spouse of Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
July 13
Cheng Chi-sen, Taiwanese sports shooter
T. Loren Christianson, American politician (d. 2019)
Thomas Clark, American politician
July 14
Wallace Jones, American professional basketball player (d. 2014)
Harry Dean Stanton, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
July 15
Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
Raymond Gosling, English physicist (d. 2015)
July 16
Emile Degelin, Belgian film director and novelist (d. 2017)
Paul M. Ellwood Jr., prominent figure in American health care
Michael Otedola, Nigerian politician (d. 2014)
Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
Stef Wertheimer, German-born Israeli industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician
July 17
Édouard Carpentier, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010)
William Pierson, American television, motion picture and stage actor (d. 2004)
Charles Zwick, American civil servant (d. 2018)
July 18
Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor
Nita Bieber, American actress (d. 2019)
July 19
Terry Cavanagh, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
Helen Gallagher, American actress, dancer, and singer
Robert E. Lavender, American Justice
July 20
Charles David Ganao, Congolese politician (d. 2012)
Odd Kallerud, Norwegian politician
July 21
Otto Beyeler, Swiss cross country skier
Norman Jewison, Canadian film director
July 22 – Bryan Forbes, English film director (d. 2013)
July 24 – Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (d. 2018)
July 25
Whitey Lockman, American player, coach, manager (d. 2009)
Beatriz Segall, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
Ray Solomonoff, American inventor (d. 2009)
July 26
James Best, American actor and acting coach (d. 2015)
Moacir Santos, Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and music educator (d. 2006)
July 27 – Doris Satterfield, American professional baseball player (d. 1993)
July 28 – Walt Brown, American presidential candidate
July 29 – Franco Sensi, Italian businessman (d. 2008)
July 31
Bernard Nathanson, American medical doctor and activist (d. 2011)
Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2016)
August[edit]

Tony Bennett

Stan Freberg

Aaron Klug

Claus von Bülow

Fidel Castro

Agostino Cacciavillan

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos

Jiang Zemin
August 1 – Meg Randall, American actress (d. 2018)
August 2
Sy Mah, Canadian marathoner (d. 1988)
George Habash, Palestinian Christian politician (d. 2008)
W. Carter Merbreier, American television host (Captain Noah) (d. 2016)
Igor Spassky, Russian scientist, engineer and entrepreneur
Hang Thun Hak, Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. 1975)
August 3
Rona Anderson, Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. 2013)
Loris Campana, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2015)
Tony Bennett, American singer
Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer
August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017)
August 6
Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019)
János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012)
Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016)
Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010)
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
August 7
John Otho Marsh Jr., American politician, 14th United States Secretary of the Army (d. 2019)
Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015)
Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (d. 2019)
August 8
Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006)
Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004)
August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014)
August 10
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013)[14]
Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972)[15]
Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013)
August 11
Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017)
Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019)
John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
August 12
John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998)
Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016)
Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015)
Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016)
August 13
Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016)
Roy Heath, Guyanese writer (d. 2008)
Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018)
Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991)
August 14
Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989)
Agostino Cacciavillan, Italian cardinal
René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977)
Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017)
August 15
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947)
Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist
Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969)
Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016)
August 16
Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013)
Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017)
Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (d. 2019)
August 17
Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China
August 18
Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011)
Franca Marzi, Italian film actress (d. 1989)
August 19 – Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006)
August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015)
August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal
August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist
August 23 –Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006)
August 29
Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and academic
Ramakrishna Hegde, Indian politician (d. 2004)
Betty Lynn, American actress
September[edit]

Elias Hrawi

Prince Claus

Masatoshi Koshiba

James Lipton

Donald A. Glaser

John Coltrane

Julie London
September 1
Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (d. 2018)
Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (d. 2017)
September 2
Armando Cossutta, Italian communist politician (d. 2015)
Ibrahim Nasir Rannabanderyi Kilegefan, Maldivian president (d. 2008)
September 3
Joseph P. Kolter, American politician
Uttam Kumar, Bengali actor (d. 1980)
Alison Lurie, American author and academic
September 4
Elias Hrawi, 14th President of Lebanon (d. 2006)
Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher and Catholic priest who founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca, Mexico (d. 2002)[16]
Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician
September 5 – Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2017)
September 6
Claus van Amsberg, German born Prince Consort of the Netherlands (d. 2002)
Maurice Prather, American photographer (d. 2001)
September 7
Ronnie Gilbert, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2015)
Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
Ivone Ramos, Cape Verdean writer (d. 2018)
September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (d. 2012)
September 9
Charles Duncan Jr., American entrepreneur and politician
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Egyptian Islamic theologian
September 11 – Gerrit Viljoen, South African government minister (d. 2009)
September 13 – Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
September 14
Dick Dale, American singer and musician (d. 2014)
Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, Spanish noble (d. 2017)
John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist (d. 2015)
September 15 – Jean-Pierre Serre, French mathematician
September 16
John Knowles, American author (d. 2001)
Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist, motivational speaker and author (d. 2015)
September 17
Bill Black, American rock and roll musician and bandleader (d. 1965)
Andrea Kékesy, Hungarian figure skater
September 18 – Bob Toski, American golfer
September 19
Masatoshi Koshiba, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
James Lipton, American television personality and writer (d. 2020)
Duke Snider, American baseball player (d. 2011)
September 21
Carla Calò, Italian actress (d. 2019)
Donald A. Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
Noor Jehan, Pakistani singer and actress (d. 2000)
September 22 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer
September 23
Aage Birch, Danish competitive sailor and Olympic medalist (d. 2017)
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1967)
Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgian wrestler (d. 2017)
September 25
Carlos Chasseing, Argentine politician (d. 2018)
Charles J. Colgan, American politician and businessman (d. 2017)
John Ericson, German-American actor
September 26
Tulsi Giri, former Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2018)
Julie London, American actress and singer (d. 2000)
September 28
Jerry Clower, American country comedian (d. 1998)
Ozzie Van Brabant, Canadian baseball player (d. 2018)
September 29
Chuck Cooper, American basketball player (d. 1984)
Philip Ruppe, American politician
September 30
Dave Hunt, American apologist, speaker, radio commentator and author (d. 2013)
Frank O'Neill, Australian swimmer
October[edit]

Jean Peters

Julie Adams

Chuck Berry

Jimmy Heath

Necmettin Erbakan
October 1 – Max Morath, American musician
October 2
Jan Morris, born James Morris, British travel writer
John Ross, Austrian-born American chemist (d. 2017)
October 4
Phar Lap, New Zealand-foaled racehorse (d. 1932)
Senaida Wirth, American female professional baseball player (d. 1967)
October 7
Marcello Abbado, Italian composer and pianist
Uri Lubrani, Israeli diplomat and military official (d. 2018)
Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, Polish mathematician (d. 2015)
October 8 – Carmencita Lara, Peruvian singer (d. 2018)
October 9 – Ruth Ellis, British murderess (d. 1955)
October 10 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
October 11
Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
Zohurul Hoque, Indian Islamic scholar (d. 2017)
Earle Hyman, American film and television actor (d. 2017)
Shin Sang-ok, South Korean film producer and director (d. 2006)
October 12 – César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (d. 2019)
October 13
Jesse L. Brown, first African-American aviator in the United States Navy (d. 1950)
Kazuo Nakamura, Japanese-Canadian painter, part of the Painters Eleven (d. 2002)
October 15
Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
Jeffrey Hayden, American television director and producer (d. 2016)
Jean Peters, American actress (d. 2000)
Karl Richter, German conductor (d. 1981)
October 16 – Charles Dolan, American billionaire
October 17
Julie Adams, American actress (d. 2019)
Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (d. 2008)
October 18
Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
Pauline Pirok, American female professional baseball player
October 19 – Marjorie Tallchief, American ballerina
October 20 – Vsevolod Murakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian politician (d. 2017)
October 21
Waldir Pires, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
Bob Rosburg, American golfer (d. 2009)
October 22 – Chan Sui-kau, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist (d. 2018)
October 25
María Concepción César, Argentine actress, singer and vedette (d. 2018)
Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020)
Biff McGuire, American actor
Walter Mengden, American attorney and politician (d. 2018)
Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (d. 2012)
October 27
Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943).[17]
October 28 – Bowie Kuhn, American Commissioner of Baseball (d. 2007)
October 29
Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2011)
Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 2015)
November[edit]

Betsy Palmer

Valdas Adamkus

Joan Sutherland

Jeffrey Hunter

Beji Caid Essebsi
November 1 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (d. 2015)
November 2
Myer Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019)
Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
November 3 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
November 4 – Carmen A. Orechio, American politician (d. 2018)
November 5
John Berger, English art critic, novelist and painter (d. 2017)
Kim Jong-gil, South Korean poet (d. 2017)
November 7 – Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian soprano (d. 2010)
November 8
Sonja Bata, Swiss businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist
Jack Mendelsohn, American writer-artist (d. 2017)
November 9 – Stu Griffing, American Olympic rower
November 11
Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian automobile racing driver (d. 2016)
Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, Cardinal of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1987-1993 (assassinated May 24, 1993).[18]
November 15 – Helmut Fischer, German actor (d. 1997)
November 16
Amy Applegren, American professional baseball player (d. 2011)
Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer (d. 1996)
November 17 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan lawyer (d. 2017)
November 19 –Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (d. 2006)
November 20
Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (d. 2018)
John Gardner, English spy novelist (d. 2007)
Judith Magre, French actress
November 23
Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2011)
R. L. Burnside, American musician (d. 2005)
Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (d. 2017)
November 24 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 25
Ivano Fontana, Italian boxer
Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (d. 1969)
Terry Kilburn, American actor
Peter Wright, English ballet teacher, director and choreographer
Poul Anderson, American science fiction author (d. 2001)
November 26
Peter van Pels, German-Dutch love interest of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
Rabi Ray, Indian politician (d. 2017)
November 28 – Umberto Veronesi, Italian oncologist and politician (d. 2016)
November 29 – Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisian politician, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2019)
November 30
Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (d. 2018)
Andrew Schally, Polish-born American endocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December[edit]

Raif Dizdarević

Joe Paterno

Alcides Ghiggia
December 1
Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2018)
Kitty Hart-Moxon, Polish-English nurse and Holocaust survivor
December 5 – Adetowun Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic and educator
December 7 – William John McNaughton, American bishop
December 9
Raif Dizdarević, Bosnian politician
Erhard Eppler, German politician (d. 2019)
Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
December 10
Leon Kossoff, English painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
Guitar Slim, American New Orleans blues guitarist (d. 1959)
Giorgos Ioannou, Greek artist (d. 2017)
December 13
Carl Erskine, American baseball player
George Rhoden, Jamaican athlete
December 14 – María Elena Marqués, Mexican actress (d. 2008)
December 15
Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director (d. 2017)
Emmanuel Wamala, Ugandan cardinal
December 16
James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President and 3rd Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
December 17 – Patrice Wymore, American actress (d. 2014)
December 19 – Herbert Stempel, American game show contestant
December 20
Geoffrey Howe, British politician (d. 2015)
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (d. 2009)
David Levine, U.S. caricaturist (d. 2009)
December 21
Elisabeth Elliot, American Christian author and speaker (d. 2015)
Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
December 22 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2015)
December 23
Robert Bly, American poet
Jorge Medina Estévez, Chilean cardinal
Metakse, Armenian poet, writer, translator and public activist (d. 2014)
December 24
Ronald Draper, South African cricketer
Maria Janion, Polish scholar, critic and politician
December 26 – Gina Pellón, Cuban painter (d. 2014)
December 31 – Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)

January-February[edit]

Barbara Rush

Eartha Kitt

Olof Palme

Sidney Poitier

Hubert de Givenchy

Emmanuelle Riva

Juliette Gréco
January 1
Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer and director (d. 2007)[11]
Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel laureate[12]
January 2 – Robert Alt, Swiss bobsledder (d. 2017)
January 4 – Barbara Rush, American actress
January 10
Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
Otto Stich, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2012)
January 13 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
January 15 – Kirti Nidhi Bista, Nepali politician, three times prime minister (d. 2017)
January 17 – Eartha Kitt, African-American singer, actress, activist and author (d. 2008)
January 20 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian journalist and academic (d. 2007)
January 23 – Fred Williams, Australian painter and printmaker (d. 1982)
January 25 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (d. 1994)
January 26 – José Azcona del Hoyo, 26th President of Honduras (d. 2005)
January 28
Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
Ronnie Scott, English jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
January 29
Edward Abbey, American environmentalist (d. 1989)
Lewis Urry, Canadian inventor (d. 2004)
January 30 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
February 1 – Galway Kinnell, American poet (d. 2014)
February 2 – Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)
February 3
Kenneth Anger, American actor, director and screenwriter
Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
February 7 – Juliette Gréco, French singer, actress
February 8 – George Taliaferro, American football player (d. 2018)
February 10 – Leontyne Price, African-American soprano
February 15 – Harvey Korman, American actor, comedian (d. 2008)
February 17 – John Selfridge, American mathematician (d. 2010)
February 18 – John Warner, American politician
February 20
Roy Cohn, American lawyer, anti-Communist (d. 1986)
Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, film director
February 21 – Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (d. 2018)
February 22
Emil Bobu, Romanian Communist activist, politician (d. 2014)
Guy Mitchell, American singer and actor (d. 1999)
February 24 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (d. 2017)
February 25
Dick Jones, American actor, singer (d. 2014)
Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass banjo player, vocalist (d. 2016)
February 27 – Peter Whittle, New Zealand mathematician
March-April[edit]

Harry Belafonte

Gabriel García Márquez

Raúl Alfonsín

Sudharmono

Cesar Chavez

Ferenc Puskás

Pope Benedict XVI

Margot Honecker

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Coretta Scott King
March 1
George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (d. 1983)
Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American musician, actor, and civil rights activist
March 2 – Roger Walkowiak, French road bicycle racer (d. 2017)
March 3 – Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2016)
March 4 – Dick Savitt, American tennis player[13]
March 5 – Jack Cassidy, American stage, screen and television actor (d. 1976)
March 6
Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (d. 2004)
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)[14]
March 8 – Stanisław Kania, Polish communist politician (d. 2020)
March 10 – Jupp Derwall, German football player and manager (d. 2007)
March 12
Raúl Alfonsín, former President of Argentina (d. 2009)[15]
Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2006)[16]
March 15 – Carl Smith, American country music singer (d. 2010)
March 16
Vladimir Komarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1967)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American author, politician, and statesman (d. 2003)
March 17 – Roberto Suazo Córdova, President of Honduras (d. 2018)
March 18 – John Kander, American composer
March 21 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (d. 2016)[17]
March 24 – Martin Walser, German author
March 25 – Tina Anselmi, Italian politician (d. 2016)[18]
March 27
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
Karl Stotz, Austrian football player (d. 2017)
March 29 – John Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
March 31
César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder (d. 1993)
William Daniels, American actor
Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Spanish cardinal
April 3 – Éva Székely, Hungarian swimmer (d. 2020)
April 4 – Othman Saat, Malaysian sultan (d. 2007)
April 5 – Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician, Prime Minister 1976-77
April 6
Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
Fethia Mzali, Tunisian teacher, politician (d. 2018)
April 9 – Tiny Hill, New Zealand rugby union player and selector (d. 2019)
April 10 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
April 11 – Abd al-Majid al-Rafei, Lebanese politician (d. 2017)
April 12 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (d. 2019)
April 14 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
April 15 – Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
April 16 – Pope Benedict XVI[19]
April 17 – Margot Honecker, East German politician (d. 2016)
April 18
Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (d. 2008)
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
Charles Pasqua, French businessman, politician (d. 2015)[20]
April 20
Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 24 – Josy Barthel, Luxembourgish athlete (d. 1992)[21]
April 25 – Albert Uderzo, French author, illustrator
April 26 – Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
April 27
Coretta Scott King, African-American civil rights leader, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 2006)
Yao Xian, Chinese general (d. 2018)
April 29
Dorothy Manley, English athlete
Big Jay McNeely, American R&B saxophonist (d. 2018)
May-June[edit]

Albert Zafy

Marella Agnelli

Pat Carroll

Manfred Eigen

László Kubala

Franco Maria Malfatti

Martin Lewis Perl
May 1
Greta Andersen, Danish Olympic swimmer
Rusli Noor, 8th Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2017)
May 4 – Marella Agnelli, Italian art collector and socialite (d. 2019)
May 5 – Pat Carroll, American actress
May 9
Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2019)
Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine footballer and manager (d. 2020)
May 10 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
May 11
Mort Sahl, Canadian-born comedian, political commentator[22]
Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2009)
May 13 – Herbert Ross, American film director (d. 2001)[23]
May 14
Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist, author
Frank Miller, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario 1985 (d. 2018)
May 20
Bud Grant, Canadian and American football coach
David Hedison, American actor (d. 2019)
May 22 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
May 23 – Dieter Hildebrandt, German comedian (d. 2013)
May 25 – Robert Ludlum, American author (d. 2001)
May 26
Jacques Bergerac, French actor (d. 2014)[24]
Endel Tulving, Estonian-Canadian psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist[25]
May 28 – Ralph Carmichael, American composer and arranger
May 30 – Clint Walker, American actor (d. 2018)
June 3
Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (d. 2007)
Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (d. 1961)
June 6 – Elijah Mudenda, Zambian politician (d. 2008)
June 8
Pavel Kharin, Soviet Olympic canoeist
Jerry Stiller, American comedian, actor
June 9 – George Nigh, American politician
June 10
László Kubala, Hungarian football player, manager (d. 2002)
Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist
June 13
Slim Dusty, Australian country singer (d. 2003)
Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese politician (d. 2017)
Franco Maria Malfatti, Italian politician (d. 1991)
June 16 – Ariano Suassuna, Brazilian playwright, author (d. 2014)
June 17
Martin Böttcher, German composer, conductor (d. 2019)
Wally Wood, American cartoonist (d. 1981)
June 19 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general (d. 2018)
June 20 – Bernard Cahier, French photojournalist (d. 2008)
June 23 – Bob Fosse, American choreographer, director (d. 1987)
June 24 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
June 26 – Ben Turok, South African anti-apartheid activist, professor and politician (d. 2019)
June 27
Gracia Barrios, Chilean painter
Cino Tortorella, Italian television presenter (d. 2017)
June 28
Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
Boris Shilkov, Soviet speed skater (d. 2015)
June 29 – Kenneth Snelson, American contemporary sculptor, photographer (d. 2016)
June 30 – Shirley Fry Irvin, American tennis player
July-August[edit]

Gina Lollobrigida

Neil Simon

Janet Leigh

David Dinkins

Kurt Masur

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Marvin Minsky

Althea Gibson
July 1
Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (d. 2007)[26]
Mirghani Alnasri, Sudanese politician
Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (d. 2019)[27]
July 3 – Salome Þorkelsdóttir, Icelandic politician[28]
July 4
Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress
Neil Simon, American playwright, screenwriter and author (d. 2018)
July 6
Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster, disc jockey (d. 2006)
Janet Leigh, American actress (d. 2004)
Pat Paulsen, American comedian, political satirist (d. 1997)
July 7
Henri Dirickx, Belgian international footballer played (d. 2018)
Doc Severinsen, American jazz trumpeter
July 8
Lisa Lu, Chinese-born American actress, singer
Khensur Lungri Namgyel, Tibetan religious leader
July 9 – Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
July 10
Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician (d. 2018)
David Dinkins, African-American Mayor of New York City (1989-93)[29]
Park Seong-tae, South Korean sports shooter
July 11
Theodore H. Maiman, American inventor, physicist who developed the laser (d. 2007)
Gregorio Salvador Caja, Spanish linguist
July 12 – Abune Antonios, 3rd Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church
July 13
Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower
Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (d. 2017)[30]
July 14 – John Chancellor, American journalist (d. 1996)
July 15
Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier
Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)[31]
Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
July 18
Don Bagley, American jazz bassist (d. 2012)
Antonio García-Trevijano, Spanish republican, political activist, and author (d. 2018)
Kurt Masur, German conductor (d. 2015)
July 20
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian historian and human rights activist (d. 2018)
Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (d. 2019)
July 22
Dagoberto Moll, Uruguayan footballer and manager
Hsing Yun, Chinese Buddhist monk
July 24 – Robert Boutigny, French Olympic canoeist
July 28
John Ashbery, American poet (d. 2017)[32]
Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (d. 1986)
July 30 – Victor Wong, American actor (d. 2001)
August 2
Fredrik Bull-Hansen, Norwegian military officer (d. 2018)
Andreas Dückstein, Austrian chess player
August 5 – Rolf Wütherich, German automotive engineer, racer (d. 1981)
August 6
Arturo Armando Molina, President of El Salvador
Theodor Wagner, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2020)[33]
August 7
Rocky Bridges, American middle infielder, third baseman (d. 2015)
Dušan Čkrebić, Serbian politician
Edwin Edwards, American politician
August 8
Giuseppe Moioli, Italian rower
Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
August 9
Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist, Turing Award winner (Artificial intelligence) (d. 2016)
Robert Shaw, British actor (d. 1978)
August 10 – Eivind Eckbo, Norwegian politician, lawyer and farmer (d. 2017)
August 11
Giancarlo Astrua, Italian road bicycle racer (d. 2010)
Raymond Leppard, English conductor (d. 2019)
Stuart Rosenberg, American director (d. 2007)
August 12 – Elgen Long, American aviator, world record holder and researcher
August 13 – David Padilla, 64th President of Bolivia (d. 2016)[citation needed]
August 15 – Carmela Marie Cristiano, American Roman Catholic nun (d. 2011)
August 17
F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer, politician (d. 2015)
Ye Zhengda, Chinese politician and engineer (d. 2017)
August 18 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady of the United States
August 21 – Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018)
August 23
Dick Bruna, Dutch artist, graphic designer (d. 2017)[34]
Philippe Mestre, French high-ranking civil servant, media executive and politician (d. 2017)
August 24
David Ireland, Australian novelist
Harry Markowitz, American economist
August 25 – Althea Gibson, African-American tennis player (d. 2003)
August 26
Jill Amos, New Zealand politician and community leader (d. 2017)
Ma Jir Bo, Chinese Realism oil painter (d. 1985)
B. V. Doshi, Indian architect
August 30
William G. Curlin, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
Bill Daily, American actor (d. 2018)
Buford A. Johnson, African-American World War II pilot (d. 2017)
September-October[edit]

Paul Volcker

Peter Falk

Sadako Ogata

Turgut Özal

Günter Grass
September 2 – Trude Beiser, Austrian alpine skier
September 4 – Antônio Carlos Magalhães, Brazilian politician (d. 2007)
September 5 – Paul Volcker, American economist, academic (d. 2019)
September 7 – Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Canadian lawyer, jurist
September 8 – Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician
September 10 – Sachiko, Princess Hisa, Japanese princess (d. 1928)
September 12
Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
Freddie Jones, English actor (d. 2019)
Franco Latini, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 1991)
September 13 – Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress
September 16
Peter Falk, American actor (Columbo) (d. 2011)
Sadako Ogata, Japanese diplomat, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2019)
Bhichai Rattakul, Thai politician
September 19
Harold Brown, American nuclear physicist, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2019)
Rosemary Harris, English actress
William Hickey, American actor (d. 1997)
September 21 – Joan Hotchkis, American actress
September 22 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
September 23 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese politician (d. 1971)
September 25
Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)[35]
Sir Colin Davis, English conductor (d. 2013)
Val Jellay, Australian actress (d. 2017)
September 29
Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress, model and journalist
Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazilian athlete (d. 2001)
September 30 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (d. 2019)
October 1
Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
Andrzej Krzesiński, Polish pole vaulter
Márta Kurtág, Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2019)
Ya'akov Ben-Yezri, Moroccan-Israeli politician (d. 2018)
October 4 – Wolf Kahn, German-American painter
October 6 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (d. 2019)
October 7 – Al Martino, American singer, actor (d. 2009)
October 8 – César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient (d. 2002)
October 9 – John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat
October 10 – Dana Elcar, American actor, director (d. 2005)
October 11
Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 2005)
William Perry, American mathematician, engineer and businessman
October 13
Lee Konitz, American jazz composer, alto saxophonist
Turgut Özal, 8th President, 26th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1993)
October 14
Juan Hidalgo Codorniu, Spanish composer, poet, action and visual artist (d. 2018)
Roger Moore, English actor (d. 2017)
October 15 – Peter Pollen, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
October 16 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
October 18 – George C. Scott, American actor (Patton) (d. 1999)
October 19
Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter
Red McCombs, American billionaire
October 22 – Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player, and tennis player and coach (d. 2018)
October 23
Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman (d. 2019)
Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (d. 2009)
October 25
Jorge Batlle, President of Uruguay (d. 2016)
Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
October 27
Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (d. 2019)
Silvia Laidla, Estonian actress (d. 2012)
Júlio Duarte Langa, Mozambique cardinal
October 28
Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
Roza Makagonova, Russian actress (d. 1995)
October 29 – Frank Sedgman, Australian tennis player
November-December[edit]

Odvar Nordli

L. K. Advani

Patti Page

Andy Williams

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Stein Eriksen

Kim Young-sam

Hamed Karoui
November 1
Marcel Ophüls, German documentary filmmaker
Herbert Wiedermann, Austrian Olympic canoeist
November 2 – Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer, artist (d. 2018)
November 3
Marius Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (d. 2014)
Odvar Nordli, Norwegian politician and 10th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2018)
Jan Stoeckart, Dutch composer, conductor, trombonist and former radio producer (d. 2017)
November 5 – Ellie Mannette, Trinidadian steel pan musician (d. 2018)
November 7 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman, president of Nintendo (d. 2013)
November 8
L. K. Advani, Indian lawyer and politician
Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
Patti Page, American pop singer (d. 2013)
November 10
Richard Connolly, Australian hymnodist
Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (d. 2014)
November 15 – Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1995)
November 17
Fenella Fielding, English actress (d. 2018)
Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, politician and Senator
November 18 – Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
November 20 – Estelle Parsons, American actress
November 21
Georgia Frontiere, American co-owner of the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams (d. 2008)
Gordon Christian, American ice hockey player (d. 2017)
November 23
Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005)
Angelo Sodano, Italian Catholic cardinal, Dean of the College of Cardinals
November 24
Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (d. 2003)
Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
November 27
Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman (d. 2017)
Eppie Gibson, English rugby league player, coach (d. 2018)
José de Jesús Madera Uribe, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
November 28 – Abdul Halim of Kedah, Malaysian sultan, 5th & 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (d. 2017)
November 29 – Vin Scully, American baseball broadcaster[36]
November 30
Michael Fitchett, Australian cricketer
Tod Sloan, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2017)
Robert Guillaume, African-American actor and singer (d. 2017)
December 1 – Micheline Bernardini, French dancer and model
December 2 – Prabhakar Thokal, Indian cartoonist (d. 1999)
December 3 – Andy Williams, American singer (d. 2012)
December 4 – Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (d. 2019)
December 5
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of Thailand (d. 2016)[37]** Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of Thailand (d. 2016)[38]
Joseph Keke, Beninese politician (d. 2017)
Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan football player (d. 2006)
Erich Probst, Austrian football player (d. 1988)
December 6 – Marcel Pelletier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
December 7 – Helen Watts, Welsh contralto (d. 2009)
December 8 – Vladimir Shatalov, Russian cosmonaut
December 9 – Pierre Henry, French composer (d. 2017)
December 11 – Stein Eriksen, Norwegian Olympic skier (d. 2015)
December 12 – Robert Noyce, American co-founder of Intel (d. 1990)
December 18
Ramsey Clark, American politician and lawyer
Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
Jesus Varela, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
December 20
Charlie Callas, American comedian and actor (d. 2011)
Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, 7th President of the Republic of Korea (d. 2015)
December 23 – Alexander Vedernikov, Russian singer, teacher (d. 2018)
December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (d. 2020)
December 25
Nellie Fox, American baseball player (d. 1975)
Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
December 26
Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor (d. 1984)
Alan King, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
Lin Hu, Chinese general (d. 2018)
December 27 – Luciano Frosini, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2017)
December 28 – Edward Babiuch, Polish Communist politician
December 29
Amelita Ramos, former First Lady of the Philippines
Andy Stanfield, American athlete (d. 1985)
Bùi Tín, Vietnamese military officer, dissident (d. 2018)
December 30
Hamed Karoui, 16th Prime Minister of Tunisia
Jan Kubíček, Czech constructivist painter, sculptor (d. 2013)

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