1921-1932

January

John Russell

Marija Gimbutas

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Donna Reed

Carol Channing
January 1
César Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998)[7]
Cliff Bourland, American athlete (d. 2018)[8]
Helen Yate, English swimmer
January 3
John Russell, American actor (d. 1991)
Jean-Louis Koszul, French mathematician (d. 2018)
Cecil Souders, American football player
Claude Vigée, French poet
January 4
Leo Sarkisian, American musicologist, broadcaster (d. 2018)
Pedro Richter Prada, 115th Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2017)
January 5
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 2019)[9]
January 6 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
January 9
Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (d. 1944)
Ágnes Keleti, Hungarian artistic gymnast
Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster, playwright (d. 2006)
January 10 – Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
January 11
Gory Guerrero, American wrestler, father of Eddie Guerrero (d. 1990)
Judith Leiber, Hungarian-American fashion designer, businesswoman (d. 2018)
Juanita M. Kreps, American government official and businesswoman (d. 2010)
January 14 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
January 16
Henry Sayler, American politician
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, British politician, journalist (d. 2008)
January 17
Herb Ellis, American actor (d. 2018)
Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician, military officer (d. 2018)
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos, Greek astrophysicist
Dan Tolkowsky, Israeli Air Force commander
January 18 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel physicist (d. 2015)
January 19 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
January 21
Jaswant Singh Marwah, Indian journalist and author
William Pulgram, Austrian-American architect
Howard Unruh, American spree killer (d. 2009)
January 23
Hermann Baumann, Swiss Olympic freestyle wrestler
Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian archaeologist (d.1994)
January 24 – Beatrice Mintz, American biologist
January 26 – Elisabeth Kirkby, English-Australian actress, writer and politician
January 27
Raymond E. Peet, American admiral
Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
January 29
A. Hunter Dupree, American historian (d. 2019)
Mustafa Ben Halim, Former Prime Minister of Libya
January 31
Carol Channing, American actress (d. 2019)
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (d. 1987)
Mario Lanza, American tenor, actor (d. 1959)
Anthony Lazzaro, American academic
February

Betty Friedan

Kocheril R. Narayanan

Lana Turner

Jean-Bédel Bokassa

Abe Vigoda

Betty Hutton
February 1 – Peter Sallis, English actor (d. 2017)
February 3 – George E. Felton, English computer scientist (d. 2019)
February 4
Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
Kocheril R. Narayanan, Indian politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
February 5 – Zbigniew Czajkowski, Polish fencer (d. 2019)
February 7
Jesse Freitas Sr., American football player
Guy Natusch, New Zealand architect
February 8
Hans Albert, German philosopher
Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha (d. 2020)
Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)[10]
February 11 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (d. 2006)
February 14
Hugh Downs, American game show host, journalist
Hazel McCallion, Canadian politician and businesswoman
John Henry Waddell, American artist (d. 2019)
February 15
Jefferson J. DeBlanc, World War II United States Marine Corps fighter ace (d. 2007)
Martha Farkas Glaser, Hungarian-American civil rights activist, manager of jazz musician Erroll Garner (d. 2014)
February 16
Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Premier of China (d. 2008)[11]
Vera-Ellen, American actress, dancer (d. 1981)
February 17
Muriel Coben, Canadian professional baseball, curling player (d. 1979)
Herbert Köfer, German actor
February 18
Ken Casanega, American football player
Brian Faulkner, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1977)
February 20 – "Nature Boy" Rogers, American professional wrestler (d. 1992)
February 21
Leroy J. Manor, American Air Force general
John Rawls, American liberal moral and political philosopher (d. 2002)
February 22
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (1966-1976), Emperor of Central Africa (1976-1979) (d. 1996)[12]
Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
February 24
Dick Van Orden, American admiral (d. 2018)
Abe Vigoda, American actor (d. 2016)
February 25 – Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (d. 1970)
February 26
Jacob W. Gruber, American anthropologist, archaeologist, historian and educator (d. 2019)
Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
Louis Roney, American opera singer (d. 2017)
February 27
Michael Fox, American actor (d. 1996)
Eka Tjipta Widjaja, Chinese-Indonesian billionaire and businessman (d. 2019)
February 28 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)
March

Tommy Cooper

Gordon MacRae

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia

Dirk Bogarde
March 1
Jack Clayton, British film director (d. 1995)
Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1983)
Richard Wilbur, American poet (d. 2017)
March 2 – Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician (d. 2018)
March 3
Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960)
Paul Guimard, French writer (d. 2004)
March 4
Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born U.S. composer, performer, ethnomusicologist and educator (d. 2017)
Robert F. Ruth, American politician (d. 2018)
March 5
Elmer Valo, Czechoslovakia-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1998)
Berkley Bedell, American politician and businessman (d. 2019)
March 7 – Syed Nasir Ismail, Malaysian politician (d. 1982)
March 8 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (Gilligan's Island) (d. 1990)
March 10 – Cec Linder, Polish-born Canadian actor (d. 1992)
March 11
Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
Astor Piazzolla, Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger (d. 1992)
March 12
Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003)
Gordon MacRae, American singer, actor (d. 1986)
March 13 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist (MAD Magazine)
March 16
Jens Bjerre, Danish author, filmmaker and explorer (d. 2020)
King Faud of Saudi Arabia (d. 2005)
Donald M. Kendall, American businessman
March 14 – Lis Hartel, Danish equestrian athlete (d. 2009)
March 17 – Meir Amit, Israeli politician, general (d. 2009)
March 20
Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegalese educator
Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1970)
March 21
Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986)
Xu Zuyao, Chinese expert in materials science (d. 2017)
Vasily Stalin, Soviet general (d. 1962)
Abdul Salam Arif, President of Iraq (d. 1966)
March 22 – Jean Bruce, French writer (d. 1963)
March 24
Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer (d. 2018)
Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player (d. 2010)
March 25
Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985)
Alexandra of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
March 27 – Hélène Berr, French writer (d. 1945)
March 28 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (d. 1999)
March 30
Clemens Kalischer, American photojournalist, art photographer (d. 2018)
Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland, Scottish noblewoman (d. 2019)
April

Mary Jackson

Yitzhak Navon

Chuck Connors

Thomas Schelling

Peter Ustinov
April 1
Beau Jack, American boxer (d. 2000)
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American musician and songwriter (d. 2014)
Arieh Elias, Israeli actor (d. 2015)
April 3 – Darío Moreno, Turkish singer (d. 1968)
April 6 – Wilbur Thompson, American Olympic champion shot putter (d. 2013)
April 8
Franco Corelli, Italian opera singer (d. 2003)
Phyllis Latour, English-French Legion of Honour recipient
April 9
Roger Bocquet, Swiss footballer (d. 1994)
William G. Callow, American judge (d. 2018)
Mary Jackson, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 2005)
Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
April 10
Chuck Connors, American basketball and baseball player turned actor (d. 1992)
Sheb Wooley, American actor, singer (d. 2003)
April 11 – Maura McNiel, American feminist
April 13
Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer, composer (d. 2018)
Leo Mogus, American basketball player (d. 1971)
Louis Witten, American theoretical physicist
April 14 – Thomas Schelling, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
April 15 – Georgy Beregovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1995)
April 16 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director (d. 2004)
April 17 – Sergio Sollima, Italian director (d. 2015)
April 19
Robert Maxwell, American songwriter and harpist (d. 2012)
Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal, theologian (d. 2015)
April 20 – Kenneth O. Chilstrom, American Air Force officer
April 22 – Vivian Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1991)
April 23
Judy Agnew, Second Lady of the United States (d. 2012)
Janet Blair, American actress (d. 2007)
Warren Spahn, American baseball player (d. 2003)
April 25 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
April 26
Nelson Dalzell, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 1989)
Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz musician (d. 2008)
April 27
Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Algerian politician (d. 2018)
Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, German television host, entertainer (d. 1998)
April 29
Bert Lundin, Swedish union leader (d. 2018)
Pavel Vranský, Czech brigadier general and RAF radio operator (d. 2018)
April 30
Dottie Green, American professional baseball player (d. 1992)
Tove Maës, Danish actress (d. 2010)
May

Satyajit Ray

Sugar Ray Robinson

Andrei Sakharov
May 2
B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist
Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
May 3 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
May 4 – Harry Daghlian, American physicist (d. 1945)
May 5
Jim Conacher, Canadian ice hockey player
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
May 6
Erich Fried, Austrian author (d. 1988)
Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress (d. 2019)
May 9 – Sophie Scholl, German student, anti-Nazi resistance fighter (executed) (d. 1943)
May 11 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician (d. 2016)
May 12
Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
Farley Mowat, Canadian writer, naturalist (d. 2014)
May 14 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
May 15 – Baron Vaea, Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 2009)
May 16 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (d. 2012)
May 17 – Dennis Brain, English musician (d. 1957)
May 18 – Michael A. Epstein, English pathologist and academic
May 19
Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999)
Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese-American civil rights activist (d. 2014)
May 20
Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (d. 1998)
Wolfgang Borchert, German writer (d. 1947)
May 21
Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, human rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (which he declined) (d. 1989)
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher, author of the socio-economic Progressive Utilization Theory (d. 1990)
May 23
James Blish, American science fiction author (d. 1975)
Laurin L. Henry, American researcher
Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, radio personality (d. 2008)
Georgy Natanson, Russian director, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2017)
May 25
Hal David, American songwriter, lyricist (d. 2012)
Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (d. 2000)
Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 26
Inge Borkh, German soprano (some sources say she was born 1917) (d. 2018)
Stan Mortensen, English footballer (d. 1991)
Anatoly Chernyaev, Russian historian, writer (d. 2017)
May 27
Harry G. Haskell Jr., American politician (d. 2020)
Cyril Tamplin, Welsh cricketer
May 28
Tom Uren, Australian soldier, politician (d. 2015)
Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999)
May 29
Norman Hetherington, Australian puppeteer, artist (d. 2010)
May 30
Branko Mamula, Yugoslav politician
Jamie Uys, South African actor, film director (d. 1996)
June

Alexis Smith

Suharto

Johan Witteveen

Jane Russell

P. V. Narasimha Rao
June 1 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (d. 1985)[13]
June 3
Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete (d. 2016)
John Shelton Wilder, American politician, former Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (d. 2010)
June 4 – Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
June 6 – Mikheil Tumanishvili, Georgian theater director, teacher (d. 1996)
June 7
Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer, softball player (d. 2010)
Bernard Lown, American medical innovator, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Brian Talboys, New Zealand politician, 7th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2012)
June 8
Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (d. 1993)
Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)[14]
June 9 – Margaret Danhauser, American female professional baseball player (d. 1987)
June 10
Oskar Gröning, German SS officer, war criminal (d. 2018)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Elizabeth II
Sergio Arellano Stark, Chilean military officer (d. 2016)
June 12
Johan Witteveen, Dutch politician, economist and 5th Managing Director of the IMF (d. 2019)[15]
Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
June 13 – Nancy Warren, American female professional baseball player (d. 2001)
June 17 – Aydın Boysan, Turkish architect (d. 2018)
June 19
Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician (d. 1983)
Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)
June 21
Gebhard Büchel, Liechtenstein decathlete
Fernando Hoyos, Colombian sports shooter
Thomas Morrow Reavley, American judge
Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
June 22
José Agdamag, Filipino sports shooter (d. 2011)
Ralph K. Hofer, American fighter pilot (d. 1942)
Barbara Perry, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
June 23
Paul Findley, American politician (d. 2019)
Marius Mora, French cross-country skier
Colin Pinch, Australian cricketer (d. 2006)
June 24 – Gerhard Sommer, German soldier
June 26
Robert Everett, American computer scientist (d. 2018)
Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (d. 1945)
June 27
Muriel Pavlow, English actress (d. 2019)
Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand (d. 2009)
June 28 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
June 29
Bob Kennedy, American football player (d. 2010)
Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
June 30
Washington SyCip, Filipino accountant (d. 2017)
Oswaldo López Arellano, 42nd and 44th President of Honduras (d. 2010)
Jules Amez-Droz, Swiss fencer (d. 2012)
Unknown – Dennis Wilson, English poet
July

Nancy Reagan

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Sixto Durán Ballén

Aaron Beck

John Glenn

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Billy Taylor

Richard Egan

Whitney Young
July 1 – Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (d. 1980)
July 2 – William Proctor Wilson, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 2010)
July 3
Flor María Chalbaud, former First Lady of Venezuela (d. 2013)
Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, American-born Hasidic rebbe (d. 2009)
July 4
Gérard Debreu, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist, conductor (d. 2003)
July 5
Nanos Valaoritis, Greek writer (d. 2019)
Vito Ortelli, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2017)
Al Kozar, American second baseman (d. 2007)
July 6
Billy and Bobby Mauch, American actors (d. 2006) and (d. 2007)
Ed Erban, American professional basketball player (d. 2008)
Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
July 7
Johnny Van Cuyk, American relief pitcher (d. 2010)
Dragomir Felba, Serbian actor (d. 2006)
July 8
Frank Prihoda, Australian alpine skier
Edgar Morin, French philosopher, sociologist
Don Ray, American basketball player (d. 1998)
John Money, New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author (d. 2006)
July 9 – David C. Jones, U.S General (d. 2013)
July 10
John K. Singlaub, U.S Army Major General
Harvey Ball, American designer (d. 2001)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, daughter of American politician Joseph P. Kennedy (d. 2009)
July 11
Claude Bonin-Pissarro, French painter, graphic designer
Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2000)
Ilse Werner, German actress (d. 2005)
July 12 – Brother Blue, African-American educator, storyteller, actor, musician and street performer (d. 2009)
July 13 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (d. 2005)
July 14
Leon Garfield, English writer (d. 1996)
Armand Gaudreault, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
Sixto Durán Ballén, President of Ecuador (d. 2016)
July 15
Jordan Cekov, Macedonian journalist (d. 2019)
Barrie Dexter, Australian senior diplomat (d. 2018)
Jean Heywood, English actress (d. 2019)
Madge Meredith, American actress (d. 2017)
Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
Carl Richardson, American football coach
Patricia Wright, American actress
July 16
Nilo Floody, Chilean modern pentathlete (d. 2013)
Bernard W. Rogers, United States Army general (d. 2008)
Boscoe Holder, Trinidadian artist (d. 2007)
July 17
Richard Jeranian, Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer (d. 2019)
Acquanetta, American actress (d. 2004)
Pío Corcuera, Argentine football striker (d. 2011)
Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
František Zvarík, Slovakian actor (d. 2008)
July 18
Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist
John Glenn, American astronaut, U.S. Senator (d. 2016)
Heinz Bennent, German actor (d. 2011)
Gerry Mays, Scottish football player, manager (d. 2006)
Richard Leacock, British-born documentary filmmaker, pioneer of Cinéma Vérité (d. 2011)
July 19
Elizabeth Spencer, American writer (d. 2019)
Bertil Antonsson, Swedish heavyweight wrestler (d. 2006)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
July 21 – Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, Zulu sangoma, author
July 22
Jim Rivera, American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder (d. 2017)
Tandy Little, American politician (d. 2015)
Al LaMacchia, American professional baseball player, scout (d. 2010)
William Roth, U.S. Senator (d. 2003)
July 24 – Billy Taylor, American jazz musician (d. 2010)
July 25 – Marv Rackley, American baseball player (d. 2018)
July 26 – Jean Shepherd, American storyteller, radio and television personality (d. 1999)
July 28 – Melba Hernández, Cuban politician, diplomat (d. 2014)
July 29
Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, German-British pharmacologist (d. 2018)
July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005)
July 31
Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (d. 1971)
Mel Hirsch, American basketball player (d. 1968)
August

Esther Williams

Alex Haley

Gene Roddenberry
August 1 – George Büchi, American chemist (d. 1998)
August 2 – Mable Lee, American tap dancer, singer, and entertainer (d. 2019)
August 3
Richard Adler, American Broadway composer (d. 2012)
Edward Tipper, American World War II veteran (d. 2017)
August 4
Charles H. Coolidge, American Medal of Honour recipient
Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
August 8 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress (d. 2013)
August 9
Ernest Angley, American evangelist, author and station owner
Patricia Marmont, English actress
August 10
Ion Negoițescu, Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1993)
Jack B. Weinstein, American federal judge
August 11
Henry Graff, American historian
Alex Haley, American author (d. 1992)
August 14
Julia Hartwig, Polish author (d. 2017)
Sidney Rittenberg, American journalist, consultant and author (d. 2019)
August 15
K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (d. 2000)
Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1989)
August 17 – Betty Cody, Canadian-born country music singer (d. 2014)
August 18
Frédéric Jacques Temple, French poet and writer
Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., Polish art historian (d. 2015)
August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991)
August 21
Babbis Friis-Baastad, Norwegian children's writer (d. 1970)
Lawrence Lindemer, American politician
John Osteen, American televangelist (d. 1999)
Victor Szebehely, Hungarian-American astronomer (d. 1997)
August 22 – Lee Loy Seng, Malaysian businessman (d. 1993)
August 23
Franco Ossola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
August 24 – George W. Blair, American politician
August 25
Henry Abraham, American academic (d. 2020)
Monty Hall, Canadian-born American game show host (d. 2017)
Brian Moore, Northern Irish-born Canadian writer (d. 1999)
August 26
Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize recipient (d. 1994)
Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist, executive editor of The Washington Post (d. 2014)
August 27
Leo Penn, American actor and director (d. 1998)
Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996)
August 28
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
August 29 – Wendell Scott, American race car driver (d. 1990)
Iris Apfel, American interior designer, fashion designer
August 31 – Raymond Williams, Welsh academic, novelist and critic (d. 1988)
September

Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo

Virgilio Barco Vargas

Kamal Hassan Aly

Robert Muldoon

Deborah Kerr
September 2
Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, 34th President of El Salvador (d. 1973)
Josephine Lenard, American professional baseball player (d. 2007)
September 3 – Harry Landers, American actor (d. 2017)
September 5 – Queen Consort Farida of Egypt (d. 1988)
September 6 – Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, member of the Comité de Défense des Juifs
September 7
Antonio Gelabert, Spanish road bicycle racer (d. 1956)
Arthur Ferrante, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2009)
Linus Nirmal Gomes, Indian Roman Catholic bishop
September 8
Mosie Lister, American singer (d. 2015)
Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001)
Dinko Šakić, Croatian concentration camp commander (d. 2008)
September 11
George Joseph, American businessman
Francis Quinn, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019)
September 12
Stanisław Lem, Polish science fiction writer (d. 2006)
Frank McGee, American television personality (d. 1974)
September 13
Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1982)
Cyrille Adoula, Congolese trade unionist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Zaire (d. 1978)
Odore Joseph Gendron, American Roman Catholic, bishop
Sergey Nepobedimy, Soviet rocket weaponry designer (d. 2014)
September 14
A. Jean de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and businessman
Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (d. 2001)
September 15
Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1994)
Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (d. 2001)
Nils Rydström, Swedish fencer (d. 2018)
September 16 – Mohamed Talbi, Tunisian historian (d. 2017)
September 17
Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (d. 1997)
Roger H. Zion, American politician (d. 2019)
September 18 – Kamal Hassan Aly, Egyptian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 1993)
September 19
Conway Berners-Lee, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2019)
Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, philosopher (d. 1997)
September 20 – Leon Comber, English author and military officer
September 24
Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
Charlene Pryer, American professional baseball player (d. 1999)
September 25 – Robert Muldoon, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
September 27
Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (d. 2014)
John Malcolm Patterson, American politician
September 29
James Cross, Irish-English diplomat
Grigory Svirsky, Russian-Canadian writer
September 30
Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
Jorge Loring Miró, Spanish Jesuit priest, public speaker and author (d. 2013)
October

James Whitmore

Francisco Morales-Bermúdez

Joseph Lowery

Michael I
October 1 – James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
October 2 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
October 3 – Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer (d. 1996)
October 4
Francisco Morales-Bermúdez, President of Peru
Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman (d. 2020)
October 5 – Bill Willis, American football player (d. 2007)
October 6 – Joseph Lowery, American minister and civil rights activist
October 7 – Richard L. Duchossois, American businessman
October 8 – Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2010)
October 10 – James Clavell, British novelist (d. 1994)
October 12 – Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish journalist and rugby player
October 13
Enrico Cocozza, Scottish filmmaker (d. 2009)
Yves Montand, French singer, actor (d. 1991)
October 14
Zizinho, Brazilian football player (d. 2002)
José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean historian (d. 2009)
Jeffrey G. Smith, American general
October 16 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and author (d. 2003)
October 17 – Maria Gorokhovskaya, Soviet gymnast (d. 2001)
October 18
Jerry Cooke, American photographer (d. 2005)
Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator from North Carolina (d. 2008)
October 19 – Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1995)
October 21
Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, Angolan bishop (d. 2010)
Malcolm Arnold, British music composer (d. 2006)
Mohammad Mohammadullah, 3rd President of Bangladesh (d. 1999)
Zorawar Chand Bakhshi, Indian Army General (d. 2018)
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (d. 2015)
October 22 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
October 23
Archie Lamb, English ambassador and writer
André Turcat, French aviator, first pilot of Concorde (d. 2016)
October 24 – Sena Jurinac, Bosnian operatic soprano (d. 2011)
October 25 – King Michael I of Romania (d. 2017)
October 26
Frances Scott Fitzgerald, American writer, daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (d. 1986)
Joe Fulks, American basketball player (d. 1976)
October 27
Eugene Chelyshev, Russian indologist and academician
Warren Allen Smith, American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist (d. 2017)
October 31 – Wendell Nedderman, American engineering educator (d. 2019)
November

Charles Bronson

Princess Fawzia

Brian Keith

Roy Campanella

Rodney Dangerfield
November 2 – Wanda Półtawska, Polish physician and author
November 3 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
November 5 – Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
November 6 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
November 7 – János Horváth, Hungarian politician (d. 2019)
November 8
Walter Mirisch, American film producer
Gene Saks, American actor, film director (d. 2015)
Peter Spoden, German night fighter ace
November 10 – Owen Bush, American actor (d. 2001)
November 11
Molly Dodd, American actress (d. 1981)
Ron Greenwood, English football manager (d. 2006)
November 12 – Gerson Leiber, American painter, lithographer and sculptor (d. 2018)
November 13 – Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (d. 1996)
November 14 – Brian Keith, American actor (d. 1997)
November 15
Jimmy Fitzmorris, American politician
Alexander Jefferson, American Air Force officer
November 17 – Albert Bertelsen, Danish artist (d. 2019)
November 19
Michel Bonnevie, French Olympic basketball player (d. 2018)
Roy Campanella, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), member of the MLB Hall of Fame (d. 1993)
November 20 – Allen Dines, American politician
November 21 – Billie Mae Richards, Canadian actress, singer (d. 2010)
November 22
Rodney Dangerfield, American actor, comedian (d. 2004)
Max Ward, Canadian aviator
November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer, actor (d. 1960)
November 24
John Lindsay, American lawyer, politician and Mayor of New York City (d. 2000)
John P. Yates, American politician (d. 2017)
November 25 – Johnny Johnson, English RAF officer
November 26 – Françoise Gilot, French painter, critic and author
November 27 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 1992)
November 29 – Jackie Stallone, American astrologer, mother of Sylvester Stallone
November 30 – Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
December

Deanna Durbin

Steve Allen
December 2 – Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (d. 2015)
December 3
Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (d. 2016)
Madiha Yousri, Egyptian actress (d. 2018)
December 4
Deanna Durbin, Canadian singer (d. 2013)
Sanford K. Moats, American Air Force general
December 5
Alvy Moore, American actor (d. 1997)
Peter Hansen, American actor (d. 2017)
December 6 – Otto Graham, American football player (d. 2003)
December 7 – Eric Blackwood, Canadian-English aviator
December 8
Carl Corley, American author and illustrator (d. 2016)
Eddie Platt, American saxophonist (d. 2010)
Valeria Valeri, Italian actress and voice actress (d. 2019)
December 10
James Foort, Canadian inventor and artist
John P. Fullam, American judge (d. 2018)
December 11
Yang Side, Chinese general (d. 2018)
Liz Smith, English actress (d. 2016)
Seymour Topping, American writer and professor
December 12
Ira Neimark, American businessman and author (d. 2019)
John Papworth, English clergyman, writer and activist
December 14
Mike McCormack, American politician
Simon Towneley, English author and politician
Charley Trippi, American football player
December 15
Alan Freed, American disc jockey, known for introducing rock and roll to mainstream radio (d. 1965)
Nikolai Lebedev, Soviet-Russian actor
December 17 – Anne Golon, French writer (d. 2017)
December 18
Yuri Nikulin, Soviet/Russian actor, clown (d. 1997)
Renato Baldini, Italian actor (d. 1995)
December 19 – Blaže Koneski, Macedonian poet, linguist (d. 1993)
December 20
Ali Kandil, Egyptian football referee
Gayraud Wilmore, American historian, theologian and educator
December 21 – Luigi Creatore, American songwriter, record producer (d. 2015)
December 22 – Maurice Girardot, French Olympic basketball player (d. 2016)
December 23 – Marge Callaghan, Canadian female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
December 24 – Allan Edwards, Australian cricketer (d. 2019)
December 26
Steve Allen, American actor, composer, comedian, and author (d. 2000)
John Severin, American comics artist (d. 2012)
December 28
E. S. Campbell, American marine and author
Philippe de Gaulle, French admiral and senator
December 30 – Rashid Karami, 8-time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1987)
December 31 – Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta (d. 1993)


January

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Luis Echeverría

Betty White

Guy Madison

Telly Savalas

Paul Scofield
January 1 – Fritz Hollings, American politician (d. 2019)
January 2 – Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet and politician (d. 2003)
January 3 – John R. Schmidhauser, American politician (d. 2018)
January 4
Haven J. Barlow, American politician
Karl-Erik Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (d. 2017)
January 5 – Helen Smith, American female baseball player (d. 2019)
January 6 – Hugo Broch, German lieutenant and pilot
January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
January 9
Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, President of Guinea (1958-1984) (d. 1984)
January 10 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist, translator (d. 1991)
January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994)
January 13
Bud Anderson, American fighter pilot
Albert Lamorisse, French film director (d. 1970)
January 14 – Guy Stern, German literary scholar
January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
January 17
Miodrag Jovanović, Serbian footballer (d. 2009)
Luis Echeverría, 50th President of Mexico
Nicholas Katzenbach, United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
Bell M. Shimada, American fisheries scientist (d. 1958)
Betty White, American actress, television personality and animal welfare activist
January 19
Lila Cockrell, former Mayor of San Antonio (d. 2019)
Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
January 20
Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader and actor
Bhisadej Rajani, Taiwanese prince
Ed Westcott, American photographer (d. 2019)
January 21
Lincoln Alexander, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
Sam Mele, American baseball player, manager (d. 2017)
Telly Savalas, American actor, singer (d. 1994)
Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
January 22,
Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (d. 2004)
Annabelle Lee, American female professional baseball player (d. 2008)
Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
Bill Waterhouse, Australian bookmaker, businessman and barrister (d. 2019)
January 24 – Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
January 26
Bob Thomas, American Hollywood biographer, reporter (d. 2014)
Ellen Vogel, Dutch film, television actress (d. 2015)
January 28 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
January 30
Rosemary Kuhlmann, American soprano and actress (d. 2019)
Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)
January 31 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
February

Renata Tebaldi

Witold Kieżun

Audrey Meadows

Kathryn Grayson

Árpád Göncz

Steven Hill
February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
February 2
Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete
Juan Marichal, Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist (d. 2010)
Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2019)
James L. Usry, American politician, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002)
February 4
Bernard Kalb, American journalist
William Edward Phipps, American actor, producer (d. 2018)
February 6
Witold Kieżun, Polish economist
Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015)
Denis Norden, British television, radio scriptwriter and personality (d. 2018)
Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer (d. 2015)
February 7
Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
Antonio Nardini, Italian historian and author
February 8
Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player and author
Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
February 9
Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
Jim Laker, British cricketer (d. 1986)
February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015)
February 12 – Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
February 13
David O. Moberg, American sociologist
Hal Moore, American Lieutenant general, non-fiction writer (d. 2017)
Gordon Tullock, American economist (d. 2014)
February 15
John Bayard Anderson, American Congressman, presidential candidate (d. 2017)
Poul Thomsen, Danish actor (d. 1988)
February 16 – Frédéric Rossif, French film, television director (d. 1991)
February 17
Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
Tommy Edwards, American singer, songwriter (d. 1969)
February 18
Helen Gurley Brown, American editor, publisher (d. 2012)
J. Keith Fraser, Canadian physical geographer
Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
Connie Wisniewski, American female professional baseball player (d. 1995)
February 19 – Margherita Marchione, American Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologeticist
February 22
Esperanza Magaz, Cuban-born Venezuelan actress (d. 2013)
Mohd Hamdan Abdullah, Malaysian politician (d. 1977)
February 23 – James L. Holloway III, American naval officer (d. 2019)
February 24
Ruth Godfrey, American film actress (d. 1985)
Richard Hamilton, British painter (d. 2011)
Steven Hill, American actor (d. 2016)
February 25 – Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (d. 1980)
February 26
William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017)
Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
Paatje Phefferkorn, Dutch martial artist
Karl Aage Præst, Danish football player (d. 2011)
March

Yitzhak Rabin

Cyd Charisse

Arch Johnson

Fred Shuttlesworth

Egon Bahr

Carl Reiner

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria
March 1
Michael Flanders, English actor, songwriter (d. 1975)
William Gaines, American magazine publisher (MAD) (d. 1992)
Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
March 2 – Hilarion Capucci, Syrian Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
March 3 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
March 4
Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer, film director (d. 2005)
Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre, film actress (d. 2002)
March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
March 6 – Wanda Klaff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
March 7 – Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (d. 2001)
March 8
Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor (d. 2014)
Cyd Charisse, American actress, dancer (d. 2008)
Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor, film director (d. 2003)
Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author (d. 2015)
March 9
Bill Bainbridge, English footballer (d. 1966)
Herb Douglas, American athlete
Flemming Valdemar, Count of Rosenborg (d. 2002)
Floyd McKissick, American lawyer and civil rights activist (d. 1991)
March 11 – Abdul Razak Hussein, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
March 12
Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969)
Lane Kirkland, American union leader (d. 1999)
March 13 – Jim Wiggins, English actor (d. 1999)
March 14
Arch Johnson, American actor (d. 1997)
China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director and producer (d. 2014)
March 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (d. 2017)
March 16 – Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter, playwright (d. 2018)
March 17 – Patrick Suppes, American philosopher (d. 2014)
March 18
Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights leader (d. 2011)
Egon Bahr, German politician (d. 2015)
Karl Kordesch, Austrian-American inventor (d. 2011)
March 19 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese officer, WWII holdout (d. 2014)
March 20
Arnold Burgen, English physicist, pharmacologist, academic and administrator
Carl Reiner, American film director, producer, actor, and comedian
March 21 – Russ Meyer, American film director, producer (d. 2004)
March 22
Ghazali Shafie, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
Alex Xydias, American racing driver
March 23
Marty Allen, American actor, comedian (d. 2018)
Robert Simons, English cricketer, cricket administrator (d. 2011)
March 26 – William Milliken, American politician (d. 2019)
March 27
Josephine Kabick, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1978)
Stefan Wul, French writer (d. 2003)
March 28
Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician
Prince Heinrich of Bavaria (d. 1958)
March 29 – March Fong Eu, American politician (d. 2017)
March 31
Richard Kiley, American actor, singer (d. 1999)
Art Shay, American photographer, writer (d. 2018)
April

Doris Day

Julius Nyerere

Leo Tindemans

Charles Mingus

Jack Klugman
April 1
William Manchester, American writer (d. 2004)
Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)
April 3
Doris Day, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
Maurice Riel, Canadian senator (d. 2007)
April 4
Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
Irwin Belk, American businessman, politician (d. 2018)
April 5
Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014)
Gale Storm, American singer, actress (d. 2009)
April 6 – Nancy Mackay, Canadian athlete
April 7
Margia Dean, American actress
Mongo Santamaría, Cuban jazz musician (d. 2003)
April 8 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994)
April 9 – Johnny Thomson, American racecar driver (d. 1960)
April 13 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009)
April 15 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-born American actor (d. 2013)
April 16
Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
April 18
Barbara Hale, American actress (d. 2017)
Paulo Nogueira Neto, Brazilian environmentalist (d. 2019)
April 19
Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate (d. 2017)
Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history (d. 1993)
Rose Marie McCoy, African-American songwriter (d. 2015)
April 21 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
April 22 – Charles Mingus, African-American musician (d. 1979)
April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
April 24
Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009)
Antun Bogetić, Croatian Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
April 26
Keith McKenzie, Australian rules footballer, coach (d. 2018)
Margaret Scott, South African ballerina, choreographer (d. 2019)
April 27
Martin Gray, Polish writer (d. 2016)
Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
April 28 – William Broomfield, American politician (d. 2019)
April 29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (d. 2016)
May

Roscoe Lee Browne

Vladimir Etush

Bea Arthur

Franjo Tuđman

Enrico Berlinguer

Christopher Lee
May 1
Alastair Gillespie, Canadian scholar, politician (d. 2018)
Vitaly Popkov, Russian fighter ace (d. 2010)
May 2 – Roscoe Lee Browne, African-American actor (d. 2007)
May 4 – Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist (d. 2015)
May 6
Anna Elizabeth Botha, first wife of South African State President P. W. Botha (d. 1997)
Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (d. 2019)
May 7
Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)
Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000)
May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer and director (d. 1992)
May 11 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
May 12
Paul Milstein, American real estate developer (d. 2010)
Wilburn K. Ross, American WWII veteran (d. 2017)
Murray Gershenz, American character actor, entrepreneur (d. 2013)
May 13
Otl Aicher, German graphic artist (d. 1991)
Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
Billy Gabor, American basketball player (d. 2019)
Bea Arthur, American actress, comedian (d. 2009)
May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (d. 1999)
May 15
Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer, Buddhist nun
Selma Engel-Wijnberg, Dutch Holocaust survivor (d. 2018)
May 18
Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
Bill Macy, American actor (Maude) (d. 2019)
Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
May 19
Joe Gilmore, Irish barman (Savoy Hotel's American Bar) (d. 2015)
Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor (d. 1992)
May 21 – James Lopez Watson, American judge (d. 2001)
May 22 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
May 25 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
May 27
Otto Carius, German tank commander (d. 2015)
Sir Christopher Lee, English actor, singer (d. 2015)
May 28
Lou Duva, American boxing trainer (d. 2017)
Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross
Pompeyo Márquez, Venezuelan politician (d. 2017)
May 29
Eleanor Coerr, American writer (d. 2010)
Reginald Rodrigues, Indian field hockey player (d. 1995)
Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
May 30 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
June

Judy Garland

Tibor Baranski

Kevin Roche

Donald Keene

Aage Bohr

Vasko Popa
June 1
Joan Copeland, American actress
Bibi Ferreira, Brazilian actress (d. 2019)
Povel Ramel, Swedish musician (d. 2007)
June 2 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer (d. 2015)
June 3 – Alain Resnais, French film director (d. 2014)
June 5 – Sheila Sim, English actress (d. 2016)
June 10
Robert Alan Aurthur, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
Judy Garland, American singer, actress (d. 1969)
June 11 – Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (d. 2019)
June 12 – Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013)
June 13 – Edward Shames, American army officer
June 14 – Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect (d. 2019)
June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician
June 18
Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator (d. 2019)
June 19
Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator, diplomat
June 21 – Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkinabé historian, politician and writer (d. 2006)
June 22
Mona Lisa, Filipino actress (d. 2019)
Armando Tre Re, Italian football player (d. 2003)
William L. Stearman, American government official, aviator and author
Osvaldo Fattori, Italian football (soccer) player (d. 2017)
June 23
James Cumes, Australian author, economist, public servant and diplomat
Wu Yingyin, Chinese singer (d. 2009)
Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant, physicist (d. 2010)
Francis Thorne, American composer (d. 2017)
June 24
Abou Rejaile Bechara, Lebanese wrestler
Jack Carter, American comedian (d. 2015)
Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer, lyricist (d. 1988)
June 25
Alex Garbowski, American professional baseball player (d. 2008)
Sita bint Fahd Al Damir, Saudi princess (d. 2012)
June 26
Enzo Apicella, London-based artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur (d. 2018)
Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
June 27
Milton Clark, Australian rules footballer (d. 2018)
George Walker, African-American composer (d. 2018)
June 28
Hans Frauenfelder, Swiss-born American physicist, biophysicist
John Nicholson Black, English educator (d. 2018)
June 29
John William Vessey Jr., American military officer (d. 2016)
Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)
June 30 – Al Besselink, American professional golfer
July

Pierre Cardin

William Schallert

Herb McKenley

Jake LaMotta

Anker Jørgensen

Leon M. Lederman

Rachel Robinson

Ja’afar of Negeri Sembilan

Gilberto Agustoni

Blake Edwards

Jason Robards
July 1
Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician
Derek Riley, Canadian rower (d. 2018)
Warren Winkelstein, American epidemiologist (d. 2012)
July 2
Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
Paula Valenska, Czech actress
Howard Wesley Johnson, U.S. educator (d. 2009)
July 3
Theo Brokmann Jr., Dutch football player (d. 2003)
Howie Schultz, American baseball, basketball player (d. 2009)
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo (Corneille), Dutch painter (d. 2010)
Viggo Rivad, Danish photographer (d. 2016)
July 4
R. James Harvey, American politician, jurist (d. 2019)
Charles Csuri, American artist
Noble Frankland, British historian (d. 2019)
July 5
Zeynep Korkmaz, Turkish scholar, dialectologist
Doris Margaret Anderson, Canadian nutritionist, former senator
Hélio Bicudo, Brazilian jurist, politician (d. 2018)
July 6
William Schallert, American actor (d. 2016)
Toni Seven, American cover girl, actress (d. 1991)
July 7
Reidar Torp, Norwegian military officer (d. 2017)
P. Gopinathan Nair, Indian social worker
James D. Hughes, American Air Force lieutenant general
Francis Jeanson, French philosopher (d. 2009)
July 8 – Eugenio Martínez (alias Musculito), Cuban-born American real estate agent, former anti-Castro activist and Watergate burglar
July 9
Angelines Fernández, Spanish-born Mexican actress (d. 1994)
Jim Pollard, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
July 10
Jack Arthurs, American politician
Petar Nikolov, Bulgarian cross country skier
Petar Kovachev, Bulgarian cross country skier
Fred Furniss, English footballer (d. 2017)
Herb McKenley, Jamaican Olympic athlete (d. 2007)
Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017)
July 11
John J. Maurer, American politician, airline pilot (d. 2019)
Jerald terHorst, American journalist, former White House press secretary (d. 2010)
July 12 – Mark Hatfield, American politician, educator (d. 2011)
July 13
Fran Hopper, American comic book artist (d. 2017)
Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander (d. 2011)
Fred Fiedler, American psychologist (d. 2017)
Leslie Brooks, American actress, dancer (d. 2011)
Louis R. Harlan, American academic historian (d. 2010)
Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician (d. 2016)
Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006)
July 14
Bernie Agrons, American politician (d. 2015)
Elfriede Rinkel, German SS officer (d. 2018)
Gerald Myrden, American businessman (d. 2016)
Bill Millin, English personal piper (d. 2010)
Julio Cozzi, Argentine football goalkeeper (d. 2011)
Käbi Laretei, Estonian and Swedish concert pianist (d. 2014)
Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 2007)
July 15
Ghulam Nabi Firaq, Kashmiri poet, writer and educationist (d. 2016)
B. Rajam Iyer, Carnatic singer from South India (d. 2009)
Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
July 16
Anatoli Levitin, Soviet, Russian painter, art educator (d. 2018)
Samuel Conti, American politician (d. 2018)
July 17
Jane Cronin Scanlon, American mathematician (d. 2018)
Tetsurō Tamba, Japanese actor (d. 2006)
July 18
Harry Kermode, Canadian basketball player (d. 2009)
Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d. 1996)
Ray Lambert, Welsh footballer (d. 2009)
Hedy Stenuf, Austrian figure skater (d. 2010)
July 19
Rachel Robinson, American nurse, and professor
George McGovern, American politician, historian and author (d. 2012)
Stig Sundqvist, Swedish professional footballer (d. 2011)
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia (d. 2008)
July 20
Ruth Bidgood, Welsh poet, local historian
Alan Stephenson Boyd, American attorney, 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
Wolfgang Klausewitz, German zoologist, ichthyologist, marine biologist and biohistorian (d. 2018)
July 21
Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian film actor (d. 2018)
Kay Starr, American jazz and pop singer (d. 2016)
Mollie Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
July 22 – Julia Farron, English ballerina (d. 2019)
July 25 – John B. Goodenough, German-American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
July 26
Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss prelate (d. 2017)
Anna Berger, American actress (d. 2014)
Blake Edwards, American director (d. 2010)
Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
Hoyt Wilhelm, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 2002)
July 27 – Norman Lear, American television writer, producer
July 29 – Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 1996)
July 31
Hank Bauer, American right fielder, manager (d. 2007)
Mario Boyé, Argentine footballer (d. 1992)
Bill Kaysing, American writer (d. 2005)
August

Rory Calhoun

Miloš Jakeš

René Lévesque

Sōsuke Uno
August 1 – Paul Fitzgerald, Australian painter (d. 2017)
August 2
Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite and philanthropist (d. 2016)
Paul Laxalt, American politician (d. 2018)
Tupua Leupena, Tuvaluan politician (d. 1996)
August 3
Robert Sumner, American evangelist, author (d. 2016)
Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist (d. 2018)
August 4
Janez Stanovnik, Slovenian economist, politician (d. 2020)
Charles Winick, American anthropologist, sociologist and author (d. 2015)
August 5 – Sandy Kenyon, American actor (d. 2010)
August 6 – James Wong, Malaysian politician (d. 2011)
August 8
Rory Calhoun, American television, film actor (d. 1999)
Alberto Granado, Cuban writer, scientist (d. 2011)
August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
August 11 – Sara Luzita, Spanish actress and dancer
August 12
Wu Nansheng, Chinese politician (d. 2018)
Miloš Jakeš, Czech politician
August 14 – Leslie Marr, English racing driver
August 15 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009)
August 17
Frederick B. Dent, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
Khaled Mohieddin, Egyptian military officer, politician (d. 2018)
August 21 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter, founder of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998)
August 22 – Micheline Presle, French actress
August 23
Tônia Carrero, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
Inge Deutschkron, German-Israeli journalist and author
George Kell, American baseball player (d. 2009)
August 24
René Lévesque, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
Howard Zinn, American social activist, historian (d. 2010)
August 25 – Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist
August 27 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1998)
August 31 – André Baudry, French magazine editor (d. 2018)
September

Yvonne De Carlo

Vittorio Gassman

Sid Caesar

Janis Paige

Agostinho Neto

Lizabeth Scott
September 1
Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress, dancer (d. 2007)
Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor, director (d. 2000)
September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
September 3
Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d. 1976)
Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (d. 1996)
September 7
Paulo Autran, Brazilian actor (d. 2007)
David Croft, British writer, producer and actor (d. 2011)
Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant, politician (d. 1998)
September 8 – Sid Caesar, American actor, comedian (d. 2014)
September 9
Bernard Bailyn, American historian and author
Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
Manolis Glezos, Greek Resistance fighter
Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist (d. 2018)
September 11 – Charles Evers, American politician and civil rights activist
September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (d. 2004)
September 13 – Tony Sumpter, American football player (d. 2017)
September 15
Jackie Cooper, American actor, director (d. 2011)
Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (d. 2001)
Phyllis Koehn, American female professional baseball player (d. 2007)
Mary Soames, Baroness Soames of England (d. 2014)
September 16
Guy Hamilton, French-English director, screenwriter (d. 2016)
Janis Paige, American actress
September 17
Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)
Vance Bourjaily, American writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010)
Thomas Finlay, Irish judge, politician and barrister (d. 2017)
September 18 – John S. Foster Jr., American physicist
September 19
Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian athlete (d. 2000)
Dana Zátopková, Czech Olympic javelin thrower
September 21 – Lee Hee-ho, First Lady of South Korea (d. 2019)
September 22 – Rosa Nell Speer, American southern gospel singer (d. 2017)
September 23 – Louise Latham, American actress (d. 2018)
September 24
Meche Barba, American-Mexican film actress and dancer (d. 2000)
Bert I. Gordon, American film director
Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist (d. 2007)
Asit Sen, Bengali Indian film director (d. 2001)
September 25
Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (d. 2019)
September 28 – Jules Sedney, Prime Minister of Suriname
September 29
Noémi Ban, Hungarian-American lecturer, public speaker and Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
Karl-Heinz Köpcke, German television presenter, news speaker (d. 1991)
Lizabeth Scott, American actress (d. 2015)
October

Fyvush Finkel

Ruby Dee

Ralph Kiner

Barbara Bel Geddes
October 1
Burke Marshall, American lawyer, politician (d. 2003)
Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 4 – Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician, saint (d. 1962)
October 5 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver (d. 2013)
October 6 – George R. Price, American population geneticist (d. 1975)
October 7 – Martha Stewart, American actress
October 8 – Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman
October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, American comedian (d. 2016)
October 10 – Edna Child, English diver
October 11 – Wolfgang Zuckermann, German-American harpsichord maker and sustainability activist (d. 2018)
October 13 – Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball and baseball player (d. 1990)
October 14 – Yumeji Tsukioka, Japanese actress (d. 2017)
October 15 – Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest (d. 2005)
October 19
Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
Ibrahim Ismail, Malaysian soldier (d. 2010)
October 20 – John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
October 21 – Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman, philanthropist (d. 2017)
October 22 – John Chafee, American politician (d. 1999)
October 23
Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician (d. 2018)
Coleen Gray, American actress (d. 2015)
October 26 – Madelyn Dunham, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (d. 2008)
October 27
Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor, singer (d. 1998)
Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, activist, journalist and second wife of Ossie Davis (d. 2014)
Michel Galabru, French actor (d. 2016)
Ralph Kiner, American Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 2014)
Del Rice, American professional baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1983)
October 28
Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (d. 2019)
Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
October 31
Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, children's book author (d. 2005)
András Hegedüs, 45th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1999)
Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia (d. 2012)
November

Dorothy Dandridge

Abdullahi Issa

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

José Saramago

Charles M. Schulz
November 1 – Ezio Barbieri, Italian criminal (d. 2018)
November 2 – Stan Perron, Australian businessman (d. 2018)
November 3 – Townsend Cromwell, American oceanographer (d. 1958)
November 4 – Eddie Basinski, American baseball player
November 5
Sydney Kentridge, South African lawyer
Yitzchok Scheiner, American-born rabbi
November 6 – Vivian Kellogg, American professional baseball player (d. 2013)
November 8 – Chris Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon, heart transplant pioneer (d. 2001)
November 9
Dorothy Dandridge, African-American actress (d. 1965)
Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
November 11
Abdullahi Issa, Somalian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 1988)
Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
November 12
Ichiro Abe, Japanese judoka
Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
November 13 – Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (d. 1984)
November 14
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2016)
Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
November 15 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist (d. 2019)
November 16
Royal Dano, American actor (d. 1994)
Patricia Barry, American actress (d. 2016)
Hoàng Minh Chính, Vietnamese politician, dissident (d. 2008)
Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist (d. 2015)
José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
November 17 – Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2020)
November 18 – Luis Somoza Debayle, 26th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967)
November 19 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist, epigrapher (d. 1999)
November 22 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (d. 2015)
November 23
Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese politician, statesman (d. 2008)
November 24
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, American inventor and scientist (d. 2012)
Song Sin-do, Korean former comfort woman (d. 2017)
November 25 – Shelagh Fraser, British actress (d. 2000)
November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
November 27
Nicholas Magallanes, Mexican-American principal dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (d. 1977)
Jacqueline White, American actress
November 29 – Michael Howard, English historian, author and academic (d. 2019)
December

Redd Foxx

Dilip Kumar

Nikolay Basov

Ava Gardner

Willem Drees Jr.

Jonas Mekas

Lionel Bowen

Stan Lee
December 1
William James Lanyon Smith, New Zealand naval officer (d. 2018)
Charles Gérard, French actor (d. 2019)
December 2
Charles Diggs, American politician (d. 1998)
Leo Gordon, American actor (d. 2000)
December 4
Densey Clyne, Australian naturalist, photographer and writer (d. 2019)
Gérard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959)
December 5
William Davidson, American sports owner (d. 2009)
Don Robertson, American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015)
December 6 – Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician (d. 2016)
December 8
Lucian Freud, German born painter (d. 2011)
Jean Porter, American actress (d. 2018)
Gerhard Löwenthal, German journalist (d. 2002)
Sol Yaged, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2019)
December 9 – Redd Foxx, African-American comedian, actor (d. 1991)
December 10 – Lucía Hiriart, former First Lady of Chile
December 11
Frank Blaichman, Polish author (d. 2018)
Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, television personality (d. 2008)
Noah Hutchings, American president of Southwest Radio Ministries (d. 2015)
December 12
Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter, writer (d. 1979)
Edythe Perlick, American female baseball player (d. 2003)
December 14
Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
Antonio Larreta, Uruguayan theatre actor, critic and writer (d. 2015)
December 17 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
December 18
Ivor Broadis, English footballer (d. 2019)
Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and socialist politician (d. 2019)
Jack Brooks, American politician (d. 2012)
December 20
Charita Bauer, American actress, soap opera star (d. 1985)
Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter (d. 2020)
Tony Vaccaro, American photographer
December 21
Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor, politician (d. 1989)
Paul Winchell, American actor (d. 2005)
December 22 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2011)
December 23 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
December 24
Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (d. 1998)
Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker and poet (d. 2019)
December 25
Neal Watlington, American Major League Baseball player
Steve Wochy, Canadian ice hockey player
December 26
Chuck Cecil, American radio broadcaster (d. 2019)
Harry Choates, American fiddler (d. 1951)
December 27
Miller Anderson, American diver (d. 1965)
Derek Piggott, English aviator and flight instructor (d. 2019)
December 28
Lionel Bowen, Australian politician (d. 2012)
Ivan Desny, Swiss actor (d. 2002)
Stan Lee, American comics creator (d. 2018)
Ramapada Chowdhury, Indian novelist and writer (d. 2018)
December 29 – William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
December 30
Boes Boestami, Indonesian actor (d. 1970)
Magín Díaz, Colombian musician, composer (d. 2017)
Jane Langton, American author, illustrator (d. 2018)
Unknown
Hiroshi Abe, Japanese soldier and war criminal


January

Norman Kirk

Jean Stapleton

Slim Whitman

Arvid Carlsson

Sante Spessotto

Norman Mailer
January 1
Domenico Tripodo, Italian criminal (d. 1976)
Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (d. 2019)
Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director (d. 2001)
Wahiduddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic (d. 2018)
Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy (d. 1944)
January 2
Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy, 38th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
January 3
Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster (d. 2005)
Renato Guatelli, Italian partisan (d. 1944)
January 4
Ricardo C. Puno, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2018)
Wilfred Waters, English Olympic cyclist (d. 2006)
January 5
Sam Phillips, American record producer (d. 2003)
Nat Neujean, Belgian sculptor (d. 2018)
January 6
Norman Kirk, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
Leah Chase, African-American chef, author and television personality (d. 2019)
January 7
Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic (d. 2003)
Jean Lucienbonnet, French racing driver (d. 1962)
January 8
Larry Storch, American actor
Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
January 11
Wright King, American actor (d. 2018)
Paavo Lonkila, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2017)
Ernst Nolte, German historian (d. 2016)
January 12 – Ira Hayes, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)
January 15 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician, 4th President of the Republic of China
January 16
Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
Walther Wever, German fighter ace (d. 1945)
Antonio Riboldi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
January 18 – Jan Ruff O'Herne, Dutch-Australian human rights activist (d. 2019)
January 19 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (All In the Family) (d. 2013)
January 20
Slim Whitman, American country western musician (d. 2013)
Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (d. 2015)
January 21 – Prince Andrew Romanov, Russian-American artist and author
January 22 – Diana Douglas, British-born American actress, mother of actor/producer Michael Douglas (d. 2015)
January 23
Cot Deal, American major league baseball player, coach (d. 2013)
Horace Ashenfelter, American athlete (d. 2018)
Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer (d. 2018)
January 24 – Geneviève Asse, French painter
January 25
Arvid Carlsson, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2018)
Rusty Draper, American singer (d. 2003)
Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten, Dutch economist (d. 2018)
January 26 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress, singer (d. 2017)
January 27 – Enrico Braggiotti, Monegasque banker (d. 2019)
January 28
Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian shipowner and industrialist
Sante Spessotto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (d. 1980)
January 29
Khir Johari, Malaysian politician (d. 2006)
Jack Burke Jr, American golfer
Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
January 31 – Norman Mailer, American writer, journalist (d. 2007)
February

Belisario Betancur

Fatmawati

Gyula Lóránt

Brendan Behan

Franco Zeffirelli

Chuck Yeager

Charles Durning
February 1
Stig Mårtensson, Swedish racing cyclist (d. 2010)
Gena Turgel, Polish author, Holocaust survivor and educator (d. 2018)
February 2
James Dickey, American poet, author (Deliverance) (d. 1997)
Red Schoendienst, American baseball player (d. 2018)
Liz Smith, American gossip columnist (d. 2017)
Clem Windsor, Australian rugby union player, surgeon (d. 2007)
February 3 – Edith Barney, American female professional baseball player (d. 2010)
February 4
Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
Bonar Bain, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, 26th President of Colombia (d. 2018)
February 5
Dora Bryan, English actress (d. 2014)
Fatmawati, 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980)
Claude King, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
February 6
Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1981)
Georges Pouliot, Canadian fencer (d. 2019)
February 7 – George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, first grandchild of King George V (d. 2011)
February 8 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2009)
February 9 – Brendan Behan, Irish author (d. 1964)
February 10
Allie Sherman, American professional football coach (d. 2015)
Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
February 11 – Pamela Sharples, Baroness Sharples, English politician
February 12 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film, opera director (d. 2019)
February 13
Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
Chuck Yeager, American test pilot, NASA official
February 16 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-born Israeli sculptor, painter and last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination camp revolt (d. 2016)
February 17 – Jun Fukuda, Japanese film director (d. 2000)
February 18 – Allan Melvin, American actor (d. 2008)
February 20
Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (d. 1985)
Robert Lucy, Swiss gymnast (d. 2009)
Victor Atiyeh, American politician (d. 2014)
February 21
Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr., American architect (d. 1997)
William Winter, American politician
February 22 – Norman Smith, English singer, record producer (d. 2008)
February 23
Mary Francis Shura, American writer (d. 1991)
Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge, politician and 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
John van Hengel, American "Father of Food Banking" (d. 2005)
February 24 – David Soyer, American cellist (d. 2010)
February 25 – Harry Leslie Smith, English writer and political commentator (d. 2018)
February 27 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophone player, actor (d. 1990)
February 28
Jean Carson, American actress (d. 2005)
Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012)
March

Doc Watson

Wally Schirra

Mae Young

Marcel Marceau

Baba Hari Dass

Bob Elliot
March 2
Harriet Frank Jr., American film writer and producer (d. 2020)
Orrin Keepnews, American record producer (d. 2015)
Robert H. Michel, American Republican Party politician (d. 2017)
March 3 – Doc Watson, American folk guitarist, songwriter (d. 2012)
March 4
Russell Freeburg, American journalist and author
Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider (d. 2014)
Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer, broadcaster (d. 2012)
March 6
Ed McMahon, American television personality (d. 2009)
Wes Montgomery, African-American jazz musician (d. 1968)
March 7
Mahlon Clark, American musician (d. 2007)
Thomas Keating, American monk (d. 2018)
March 8 – Louk Hulsman, Dutch criminologist (d. 2009)
March 9
James L. Buckley, American politician, United States Senator (1971–77)
Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2016)
March 10 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
March 11
Paul Muller, Swiss actor
Agatha Barbara, Maltese politician (d. 2002)
March 12
Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed-skater (d. 2013)
Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007)
Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
March 14
Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
Joe M. Jackson, American Medal of Honour recipient (d. 2019)
Celeste Rodrigues, Portuguese singer (d. 2018)
March 15
Willy Semmelrogge, German actor (d. 1984)
Lou Richards, Australian footballer (d. 2017)
March 19 – Oskar Fischer, East German politician
March 21
Rezső Nyers, Hungarian politician (d. 2018)
Olive Nicol, Baroness Nicol, British politician, life peer (d. 2018)
Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Canadian geographer, author and academic (d. 2020)
Merle Keagle, American female professional baseball player (d. 1960)
Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga (d. 2011)
March 22 – Marcel Marceau, world-renowned French mime (d. 2007)
March 24
Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
Michael Legat, English writer (d. 2011)
March 25
Stefano Vetrano, Italian politician (d. 2018)
Lewis Elton, German-English physicist and researcher (d. 2018)
Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
March 26
Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator (d. 2018)
Romolo Catasta, Italian Olympic rower (d. 1985)
Bob Elliott, American comedian (d. 2016)
March 27
Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born poet (d. 2012)
Ulla Sallert, Swedish actress, singer (d. 2018)
March 28
Thad Jones, American jazz musician (d. 1986)
Ine Schäffer, Austrian athlete (d. 2009)
René Vuaillat, French engineer, inventor
March 29 – Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
March 30 – Milton Acorn, Canadian writer (d. 1986)
March 31
Don Barksdale, American basketball player (d. 1993)
Shoshana Damari, Yemenite-Israeli singer (d. 2006)
April

Ann Miller

Don Adams

Bettie Page

Aaron Spelling

Albert King
April 2
Alice Haylett, American professional baseball player (d. 2004)
G. Spencer-Brown, British mathematician (d. 2016)
Gloria Henry, American actress
Johnny Paton, Scottish football player, coach and manager (d. 2015)
April 4
Maximiano Tuazon Cruz, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2013)
Gene Reynolds, American actor (d. 2020)
Peter Vaughan, English actor (d. 2016)
April 5 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
April 8
George Fisher, American political cartoonist (d. 2003)
Edward Mulhare, Irish-born American actor (d. 1997)
April 10 – John Watkins, South African cricketer
April 12 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
April 13 – Don Adams, American actor, comedian (Get Smart) (d. 2005)
April 14
Lydia Clarke, American actress, photographer (d. 2018)
Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine professional golfer, winner of the 1967 Open Championship (d. 2017)
April 15 – Douglas Wass, British civil servant (d. 2017)
April 17 – Étienne Bally, French sprinter (d. 2018)
April 19 – Stuart H. Walker, American Olympic yachtsman and writer (d. 2018)
April 20
Mother Angelica, American nun, founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) (d. 2016)
Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter (d. 2008)
April 22
Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, English/Canadian geologist and glaciologist (d. 2012)
Bettie Page, American model (d. 2008)
Paula Fox, American writer (d. 2017)
Aaron Spelling, American television producer, writer (d. 2006)
April 23 – Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas (d. 2010)
April 24 – Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
April 25
Francis Graham-Smith, English astronomer, academic
Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
Grant Munro, Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor (d. 2017)
April 30
Al Lewis, American actor (The Munsters) (d. 2006)
Francis Tucker, South African rally driver (d. 2008)
May

Ralph Hall

Sergey Akhromeyev

Anne Baxter

Heydar Aliyev

Roy Dotrice

Horst Tappert

Henry Kissinger

Rainier III
May 1
Frank Brian, American basketball player (d. 2017)
Fernando Cabrita, Portuguese football forward, manager (d. 2014)
Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22) (d. 1999)
Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (d. 1982)
May 2 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
May 3
Francesco Paolo Bonifacio, Italian politician and jurist (d. 1989)
Ralph Hall, American politician (d. 2019)
Alexander Harvey II, American judge (d. 2017)
May 4
Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor, poet and author (d. 1986)
Eric Sykes, English actor (d. 2012)
Gillis William Long, American politician (d. 1985)
May 5
Konrad Repgen, German historian (d. 2017)
Edit Perényi-Weckinger, Hungarian gymnast (d. 2019)
Richard Wollheim, English philosopher (d. 2003)
Sergey Akhromeyev, Soviet marshall, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces (d. 1991)
May 6 – Josep Seguer, Spanish football defender, manager (d. 2014)
May 7
Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985)
Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
J. Mack Robinson, American businessman (d. 2014)
May 8 – Yusof Rawa, Malaysian politician (d. 2000)
May 10 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (1993–2003) (d. 2003)
May 11 – Louise Arnold, American baseball player (d. 2010)
May 12 – Kavu Iloilo, First Lady of Fiji
May 13 – Ruth Adler Schnee, German-American textile, interior designer
May 14
Willis Blair, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi Foreign Minister (d. 2019)
Mrinal Sen, Indian filmmaker (d. 2018)
May 15
Doris Dowling, American actress (d. 2004)
John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
Gholamreza Pahlavi, Persian prince (d. 2017)
May 16 – Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
May 17
Anthony Eyton, English painter, educator
Peter Mennin, American composer, teacher and administrator (d. 1983)
David Wasawo, Kenyan zoologist, conservationist, and university administrator (d. 2014)
May 18 – Hugh Shearer, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
May 19 – Peter Lo Sui Yin, Malaysian politician (d. 2020)
May 20 – Israel Gutman, Israeli historian (d. 2013)
May 21
Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
Dorothy Hewett, Australian writer (d. 2002)
Ara Parseghian, American football coach (d. 2017)
Evelyn Ward, American actress (d. 2012)
May 22 – Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones, Spanish-American cipher clerk, aristocrat, socialite and writer (d. 2017)
May 23 – Kalidas Shrestha, Nepalese artist (d. 2016)
May 24
Knut Ahnlund, Swedish literary historian, writer (d. 2012)
Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker, actor and screenwriter (d. 2017)
May 25 – Bernard Koura, French painter (d. 2018)
May 26
James Arness, American actor (Gunsmoke) (d. 2011)
Roy Dotrice, English actor (d. 2017)
Horst Tappert, German television actor (d. 2008)
May 27
Henry Kissinger, German-born United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Sumner Redstone, American businessman
Alfonso Wong, Hong Kong cartoonist (d. 2017)
May 28
György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (d. 2006)
N. T. Rama Rao, Indian (Telugu) film actor, politician (d. 1996)
T. M. Thiagarajan, Carnatic musicologist from Tamil Nadu in Southern India (d. 2007)
May 29 – Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist
May 30 – Jimmy Lydon, American actor, producer
May 31
Robert O. Becker, American orthopedic surgeon (d. 2008)
Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (d. 2015)
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005)
June

Lloyd Shapley

Yuriko

Peggy Stewart

Robert Maxwell

Judith Kerr

Ninian Stephen

Jamshid Amouzegar

Doug Everingham

Gad Beck
June 2
Ted Leehane, Australian rules footballer (d. 2014)
Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
June 3 – Peter Thorne, British Royal Air Force pilot (d. 2014)
June 4
Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Japanese princess
June 5 – Peggy Stewart, American actress (d. 2019)
June 6
V. C. Andrews, American novelist (d. 1996)
Jeff Dwire, American small businessman (d. 1974)
June 7
Jean Baratte, French international footballer, striker and manager (d. 1986)
Giorgio Belladonna, Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time (d. 1995)
June 8 – Tang Hsiang Chien, Hong Kong industrialist (d. 2018)
June 9
Gerald Götting, German politician (d. 2015)
I. H. Latif, Indian military officer (d. 2018)
June 10
Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (d. 1991)
Madeleine Lebeau, French actress (d. 2016)
Françoise Sullivan, Canadian painter, sculptor, dancer and choreographer.
June 11 – Bernard F. Grabowski, American politician (d. 2019)
June 12
Herta Elviste, Estonian actress (d. 2015)
Juan Arza, Spanish football forward, manager (d. 2011)
June 13 – Lloyd Conover, American scientist (d. 2017)
June 14
Jack Hayward, English businessman (d. 2014)
Judith Kerr, English writer, illustrator (d. 2019)
Donald Smith, English cricketer
June 15
Herbert Chitepo, Zimbabwe African National Union leader (d. 1975)
Johnny Most, American basketball radio announcer (d. 1993)
Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia (d. 2017)
June 17
Arnold S. Relman, American internist (d. 2014)
Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (d. 1976)
W. M. Gorman, Irish economist, academic (d. 2003)
William G. Adams, 9th mayor of St. John's, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly (d. 2005)
Anthony Bevilacqua, American Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2012)
Jan Veselý, Czech cyclist (d. 2003)
June 18 – Szymon Szurmiej, Polish-Jewish actor, director, and general manager (d. 2014)
June 19 – Andrés Rodríguez, 47th President of Paraguay (d. 1997)
June 20 – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Danish actor (d. 1998)
June 21 – Johann Eyfells, Icelandic artist (d. 2019)
June 22
John Oldham, American college player, athletic director and basketball coach
Felo Ramírez, Cuban-American Spanish-language radio voice of the Miami Marlins (d. 2017)
June 23
Silkirtis Nichols, Native American Indian actor
André Antunes, Portuguese sports shooter
Doris Johnson, American politician
Makhmut Gareev, Russian general (d. 2019)
Jerry Rullo, American professional basketball player (d. 2016)
Mario Milita, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2017)
Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lanka statesman, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (d. 1993)
John E. Sarno, American medical writer (d. 2017)
June 24
Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, art historian (d. 2016)
Cesare Romiti, Italian economist
T-Model Ford, African-American blues musician (d. 2013)
June 25
Stan Clements, English footballer (d. 2018)
Vatroslav Mimica, Croatian film director, screenwriter
Jamshid Amouzegar, 43rd Prime Minister of Iran (d. 2016)
Doug Everingham, Australian politician, minister (d. 2017)
Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
June 26
Ed Bearss, American World War II veteran
Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince (d. 2013)
June 27
Beth Chatto, British plantswoman, garden designer and author (d. 2018)
Mitchell Flint, American lawyer, veteran aviator (d. 2017)
Gus Zernial, American baseball player, sports commentator (d. 2011)
June 28
Giff Roux, American basketball player (d. 2011)
Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey forward (d. 2010)
Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (d. 1980)
June 29
Alfred Goodwin, senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer, educator
Olav Thon, Norwegian real estate magnate
June 30
Andy Jack, English footballer
Ivo Orlandi, Venezuelan sports shooter
Gad Beck, Israeli-German educator, author, activist and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012)
July

Constantin Dăscălescu

Wisława Szymborska

Wojciech Jaruzelski

Harrison Dillard

Richard Pipes

Dale Robertson

Bob Dole

Estelle Getty

H. S. S. Lawrence
July 1
Scotty Bowers, American Marine, author (d. 2019)
Herman Chernoff, American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
July 2
Constantin Dăscălescu, 52nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2003)
Wisława Szymborska, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
July 3
Hugo Machado, Uruguayan cyclist
Felipe Zetter, Mexican football defender (d. 2013)
July 4
Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2013)
George Mostow, American mathematician, renowned for his contributions to Lie theory (d. 2017)
July 5
Mitsuye Yamada, Japanese-American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and former English professor
Hermann Gummel, German semiconductor industry pioneer
July 6 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish Communist politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland and President of Poland (d. 2014)
July 7
Chandrashekhar, Indian film actor
Whitney North Seymour, Jr., American administrator (d. 2019)
Leonardo Ferrel, Bolivian football player (d. unknown)
Kitty White, American jazz singer (d. 2009)
Os-Gates (d. 1925)
July 8
Harrison Dillard, African-American track and field athlete (d. 2019)
Ivor Germain, Barbadian professional light/welterweight boxer
Eric Hill, English cricketer (d. 2010)
July 9 – Jill Knight, British politician
July 10
Mátyás Tímár, Hungarian politician, economist
Rudolf Kehrer, Soviet, Russian classical pianist (d. 2013)
John Bradley, U.S. Navy flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1994)
July 11
Roy Neighbors, American politician (d. 2017)
Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic who specialized in Russian history (d. 2018)
Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian football player (d. 2010)
Gilbert Morand, French non-commissioned officer, skier (d. 2008)
July 12
Eve Branson, British philanthropist, child welfare advocate, and mother of Richard Branson
James E. Gunn, American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist
Francisco Castro, Puerto Rican long jumper, triple jumper
Freddie Fields, American theatrical agent, film producer (d. 2007)
July 13
Erich Lessing, Austrian photographer (d. 2018)
Shmuel Laviv-Lubin, Israeli sports shooter
Alexandre Astruc, French film critic, director (d. 2016)
Norma Zimmer, American singer (d. 2011)
July 14
María Martín, Spanish actress
Dale Robertson, American actor (d. 2013)
July 15 – Francisco de Andrade, Portuguese competitive sailor, Olympic medalist
July 16
Mari Evans, African-American poet (d. 2017)
Len Okrie, American catcher (d. 2018)
Chris Argyris, American business theorist (d. 2013)
Giuseppe Madini, Italian professional football player
July 18
Michael Medwin, English actor
Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
July 19 – Alex Hannum, American basketball player (d. 2002)
July 20
James Bree, British actor (d. 2008)
Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist, journalist (d. 2005)
Elisabeth Becker, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
July 21
Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Walter Brenner, American professor
July 22
Anthony Enahoro, Nigerian politician (d. 2010)
Bob Dole, American Republican politician, Presidential candidate
The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
July 23
Witto Aloma, Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1997)
Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist (d. 2018)
July 24 – Albert Vanhoye, French cardinal
July 25 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
July 28
H. S. S. Lawrence, Indian educator (d. 2009)
Ian McDonald, Australian cricketer (d. 2019)
July 29
Jim Marshall, British founder of Marshall Amplification (d. 2012)
Edgar Cortright, American scientist, engineer (d. 2014)
July 31
Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist noted for inventing Kevlar (d. 2014)
Jean-Jacques Moreau, French mathematician, mechanician (d. 2014)
William Joseph Nealon Jr., American judge (d. 2018)
August

Shimon Peres

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

Rhonda Fleming

Rose Marie

Richard Attenborough
August 1 – Val Bettin, American actor
August 2 – Shimon Peres, 8th Prime Minister of Israel, 9th President of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2016)
August 3
Jean Hagen, American actress (d. 1977)
Anne Klein, American fashion designer (d. 1974)
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (d. 2012)
August 4
Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy, American judge (d. 2014)
Santiago Riveros, Argentine general
August 5
Sir Michael Kerry, QC, British civil servant, Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor (d. 2012)
Devan Nair, third President of Singapore (d. 2005)
August 6
Paul Hellyer, Canadian engineer, politician
Moira Lister, Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress (d. 2007)
Jack Parnell, English producer, bandleader and musician (d. 2010)
August 8
Eve Miller, American actress (d. 1973)
Latifa al-Zayyat, Egyptian activist, writer (d. 1996)
August 10
David H. Rodgers, American politician (d. 2017)
Rhonda Fleming, American actress
Iosif Fabian, Romanian football striker, coach (d. 2008)
Fred Ridgway, English cricketer (d. 2015)
August 14 – Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist, human rights activist and politician (d. 2018)
August 15 – Rose Marie, American actress, comedian, and singer (d. 2017)
August 16 – Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian cartoonist, playwright (d. 2012)
August 17 – Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (d. 2019)
August 19
Dill Jones, Welsh jazz stride pianist (d. 1984)
Esmeralda Agoglia, Argentinian ballerina (d. 2014)
August 20 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (d. 1964)
August 21 – Larry Grayson, English comedian, game show host (d. 1995)
August 22 – Carolina Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist (d. 1953)
August 23
Henry F. Warner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
Siti Hartinah, 2nd First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Suharto (d. 1996)
August 24 – Arthur Jensen, American educational psychologist (d. 2012)
August 25 – Luis Abanto Morales, Peruvian singer, composer (d. 2017)
August 26 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor, pianist (d. 2013)
August 27
Inge Egger, Austrian actress (d. 1976)
Hun Neang, father of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (d. 2013)
August 28 – Andrea Veggio, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
August 29
Sir Richard Attenborough, English actor, film director (d. 2014)
Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley, chairman of the BBC (d. 2006)
August 30
Joseph Lawson Howze, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019)
Giacomo Rondinella, Italian singer, actor (d. 2015)
Vic Seixas, American tennis player
September

Ramón Valdés

Peter Lawford

Lee Kuan Yew

Hank Williams

Queen Anne of Romania

Dev Anand
September 1
Rocky Marciano, American boxer (d. 1969)
Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman, art collector (d. 2006)
September 2 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor, Don Ramón in El Chavo del Ocho (d. 1988)
September 3
Glen Bell, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell (d. 2010)
Mort Walker, American cartoonist, creator of Beetle Bailey (d. 2018)
September 4
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani banker, writer and humorist (d. 2018)
Ram Kishore Shukla, Indian politician (d. 2003)
Mirko Ellis, Swiss-Italian actor (d. 2014)
September 6
Eloy Tato Losada, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop
King Peter II of Yugoslavia (d. 1970)
September 7
Madeleine Dring, British composer, actress (d. 1977)
Peter Lawford, English actor (d. 1984)
September 8 – Joy Laville, English-Mexican sculptor, potter and painter (d. 2018)
September 9
Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
September 10 – Uri Avnery, Israeli writer (d. 2018)
September 11 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (d. 1984)
September 12 – Joe Shulman, American jazz bassist (d. 1957)
September 13 – Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Soviet partisan (d. 1941)
September 16 – Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore (d. 2015)
September 17 – Hank Williams, American country musician (d. 1953)
September 18
Al Quie, American politician
Queen Anne of Romania, born Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, French-born queen consort (d. 2016)
September 20 – Geraldine Clinton Little, Northern Ireland-born poet (d. 1997)
September 21
Luba Skořepová, Czech actress (d. 2016)
Linwood Holton, American politician
September 22 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet (d. 2014)
September 23 – Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, English politician
September 24
Li Yuan-tsu, Taiwanese politician (d. 2017)
Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
September 26
Dev Anand, Indian actor, film producer, writer and director (d. 2011)
Aleksandr Alov, Soviet film director, screenwriter (d. 1983)
James Hennessy, English businessman and diplomat
September 27 – James Condon, Australian actor (d. 2014)
September 28 – Giuseppe Casale, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
September 29 – Nicholas Amer, English actor (d. 2019)
September 30 – Donald Swann, Welsh composer (d. 1994)
October

Charlton Heston

Glynis Johns

Italo Calvino

Linda Darnell

Roy Lichtenstein
October 1 – Babe McCarthy, American professional and collegiate basketball coach (d. 1975)
October 2
Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet, painter (d. 2014)
Absalón Castellanos Domínguez, Mexican politician (d. 2017)
Shih Chun-jen, Taiwanese neurosurgeon (d. 2017)
Hershel W. Williams, American Medal of Honour recipient
October 3
Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Polish-born orchestral conductor (d. 2017)
October 4
Charlton Heston, American actor (The Ten Commandments) (d. 2008)
Charles Lazarus, American businessman, founder of Toys "R" Us (d. 2018)
October 5
Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player, politician (d. 1994)
Glynis Johns, South African-born Welsh actress
Ricardo Lavié, Argentine actor (d. 2010)
October 6
Robert Kuok, Malaysian-Chinese business magnate, investor
Emmett Hulcy Tidd, American military officer (d. 2018)
Yasar Kemal, Turkish writer (d. 2015)
October 7 – Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard, war criminal (executed 1945)
October 9 – Haim Gouri, Israeli poet (d. 2018)
October 10
James "Jabby" Jabara, American aviator, first American jet fighter ace (d. 1966)
Nicholas Parsons, English television and radio presenter (d. 2020)
Murray Walker, British motor racing commentator
Asri Muda, Malaysian politician (d. 1992)
October 13
Les Pearce, Welsh rugby league player, coach (d. 2018)
Faas Wilkes, Dutch football (soccer) player (d. 2006)
October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (d. 1985)
October 16 – Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)
October 17
Henryk Gulbinowicz, Polish cardinal
Charles McClendon, American Hall of Fame college football coach (d. 2001)
October 19 – Beatrix Hamburg, American psychiatrist (d. 2018)
October 20 – Otfried Preußler, German children's books author (d. 2013)
October 23
Ned Rorem, American composer and author
Frank Sutton, American actor (d. 1974)
October 24
Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (d. 2000)
Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
October 25
J. Esmonde Barry, Canadian healthcare activist, political commentator (d. 2007)
Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (d. 2019)
October 27 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (d. 1997)
October 29
Carl Djerassi, American chemist (d. 2015)
Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (d. 2015)
Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, Ghanaian judge (d. 2018)
November

Loriot

Alan Shepard

Nadine Gordimer

Arthur Hiller

Gloria Grahame
November 1
Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (d. 2005)
Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian author (d. 2001)
James Ramsden, English politician
Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor (d. 2019)
November 2 – Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player, coach (d. 2011)
November 3 – Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1990)
November 4
John Herbers, American journalist, author, editor, World War II veteran, and Pulitzer Prize finalist (d. 2017)
Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
November 5
Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, founder and part-owner of German magazine Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
Kay Lionikas, Greek-American female professional baseball player (d. 1978)
November 8
Yisrael Friedman, Romanian-born Israeli rabbi (d. 2017)
Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2005)
November 9 – Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist (d. 2018)
November 11
P. K. van der Byl, Rhodesian politician (d. 1999)
William P. Murphy Jr., American medical doctor and inventor
November 12 – Loriot, German actor (d. 2011)
November 13 – Linda Christian, Mexican film actress (d. 2011)
November 14
Cleyde Yáconis, Brazilian actress (d. 2013)
Misael Pastrana Borrero, 23rd President of Colombia (d. 1997)
November 15
Michael Lapage, English rower (d. 2018)
Fred Richmond, American politician (d. 2019)
November 17 – Aristides Maria Pereira, President of Cape Verde (d. 2011)
November 18 – Alan Shepard, first American astronaut, fifth person to walk on the moon (d. 1998)
November 20 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
November 22
Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (d. 2016)
Tu An, Chinese poet, translator (d. 2017)
November 23
Billy Haughton, American harness driver, trainer (d. 1986)
Julien J. LeBourgeois, American vice admiral (d. 2012)
Gloria Whelan, American poet, short story writer, and novelist
Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese actor (d. 2010)
November 24 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (d. 2017)
November 25 – Mauno Koivisto, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland and 9th President of Finland (d. 2017)
November 26 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (d. 1986)
November 28
Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981)
James Karen, American actor (d. 2018)
December

Stansfield Turner

Ted Knight

Bob Barker

Larry Doby

Freeman Dyson

James Stockdale

René Girard

Dina Merrill
December 1
Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
William F. House, American otologist, inventor of the Cochlear implant (d. 2012)
Stansfield Turner, American admiral, Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)
December 2 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)
December 3
Dede Allen, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde) (d. 2010)
Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (d. 2010)
Moyra Fraser, British actress (d. 2009)
Abe Pollin, American sports owner (d. 2009)
December 4 – Vincent Ball, Australian actor
December 5
Eleanor Dapkus, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)
Johnny Pate, American jazz musician
Philip Slier, Dutch Jewish typesetter (d. 1943)
December 6
Emile Hemmen, Luxembourg poet and writer
Maury Laws, American composer (d. 2019)
December 7 – Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986)
December 8
Dewey Martin, American actor (d. 2018)
Rudolph Pariser, American physicist and polymer chemist
December 10 – Harold Gould, American character actor (d. 2010)
December 11
Betsy Blair, American film actress (d. 2009)
Denis Brian, Welsh journalist and author
Farhang Mehr, Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar, writer (d. 2018)
December 12
Bob Barker, American game show host (The Price Is Right)
Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer (d. 2019)
December 13
Alfonso Osorio, Spanish politician (d. 2018)
Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Larry Doby, African-American baseball player (d. 2003)
Antoni Tàpies, Catalan painter (d. 2012)
December 14
Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
Sully Boyar, American actor (d. 2001)
December 15
Aishah Ghani, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist (d. 2020)
December 16
Jo-Carroll Dennison, American actress, Miss America
Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
December 17 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
December 18
Edwin Bramall, senior British Army officer (d. 2019)
Émile Knecht, Swiss Olympic rower (d. 2019)
December 19 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
December 20 – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Sri Lankan novelist (d. 2018)
December 21 – Wataru Misaka, American baseball player (d. 2019)
December 22 – Peregrine Worsthorne, English journalist, writer and broadcaster
December 23
TL Osborn, American televangelist, singer and author (d. 2013)
José Serra Gil, Spanish racing cyclist (d. 2002)
James Stockdale, U.S. Navy admiral, vice presidential candidate (d. 2005)
Earl P. Yates, American admiral
December 24
George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
Simon Perchik, American poet
December 25
Luis Álamos, Chilean football manager (d. 1983)
Sonya Olschanezky, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
Satyananda Saraswati, Indian founder of Satyananda Yoga and Bihar Yoga (d. 2009)
René Girard, French-American historian (d. 2015)
Billy Watson, American child actor
Jack Zunz, South African-English engineer (d. 2018)
December 26
Richard A. Teague, American industrial designer (d. 1991)
Richard Artschwager, American painter, illustrator and sculptor (d. 2013)
December 27 – Lucas Mangope, President of Bophuthatswana Bantustan (d. 2018)
December 28 – Louis Lansana Beavogui, Guinean politician (d. 1984)
December 29
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist
Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist (d. 2017)
Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician (d. 1986).


January

Kim Dae-jung

Earl Scruggs

Max Roach

Katy Jurado

Benny Hill

Luigi Nono

Dorothy Malone
January 1
Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979)
Charlie Munger, American businessman and philanthropist
Pino Rucher, Italian guitarist (d. 1996)
Lennart Magnusson, Swedish fencer (d. 2011)
January 4
Walter Ris, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1989)
Charles Thone, American politician (d. 2018)
Marianne Werner, German shot putter
January 5
Gerry Plamondon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Crown Prince (d. 2011)
Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician and athlete (d. 2012)
January 6
Ali Shariatmadari, Iranian academic and educationist (d. 2017)
Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009)
Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
January 7
Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (d. 2017)
Anne Vernon, French actress
January 8 – Ron Moody, English actor (d. 2015)
January 9 – Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian film director (d. 1990)
January 10
Pierre Plateau, French Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Earl Bakken, American engineer and businessman, inventor of the modern Artificial pacemaker (d. 2018)
Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro, Spanish scuba diver (d. 2019)
Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer and composer (d. 2007)
January 11
Don Cherry, American pop singer (d. 2018)
Roger Guillemin, French neuroendocrinologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sam B. Hall, American politician (d. 1994)
Slim Harpo, American musician (d. 1970)
January 12
Chris Chase (also known as Irene Kane), American model, film actress, writer and journalist (d. 2013)
Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (d. 1998)
January 13
Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
Roland Petit, French choreographer/dancer (d. 2011)
January 14
Carole Cook, American actress and singer
Guy Williams, American actor (d. 1989)
January 16 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
January 19
Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and television director (d. 1985)
January 21 – Benny Hill, English comedian and singer (d. 1992)
January 22 – J. J. Johnson, African-American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (d. 2001)
January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
January 24 – John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, British peer and nobleman (d. 1992)
January 25
Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish Olympic wrestler (d. 2014)
Speedy West, American musician (d. 2003)
January 26
Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
Armand Gatti, French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter (d. 2017)
Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)
January 27 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
January 29 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
January 30
Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
Dorothy Malone, American actress (d. 2018)
January 31 – John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (d. 2019)
February

Lee Marvin

Gloria Vanderbilt

Robert Mugabe

Noboru Takeshita
February 2 – Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-born U.S. musician/producer (d. 2007)
February 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (d. 2010)
February 4 – Dorothy Harrell, American female professional baseball player (d. 2011)
February 6 – Jin Yong, Chinese novelist and essayist (d. 2018)
February 7 – Catherine Small Long, American politician (d. 2019)
February 8
Charles Coste, French Olympic cyclist
Khamtai Siphandon, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of Laos
February 9 – George Guest, Welsh choral conductor (d. 2002)
February 11 – Budge Patty, American tennis player
February 14
Juan Ponce Enrile, Filipino politician, President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2008 to 2013.
Gabe Pressman, American journalist (d. 2017)
February 15 – Toni Arden, American singer (d. 2012)
February 16 – Frank Saul, American basketball player (d. 2019)
February 17
Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and 34th President of FC Barcelona
Margaret Truman, American novelist and only child of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman (d. 2008)
Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence officer (d. 2012)
February 18 – Nicolo Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (d. 2010)
February 19 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
February 20
Donald M. Fraser, American politician (d. 2019)
Gerson Goldhaber, American particle physicist and astrophysicist (d. 2010)
Gloria Vanderbilt, American heiress and entrepreneur (d. 2019)
Moshe Wertman, Israeli politician (d. 2011)
February 21
William Hathaway, American politician and lawyer (d. 2013)
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)
Silvano Piovanelli, Italian prelate (d. 2016)
February 23 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist and 1979 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
February 24 – Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr and blessed (d. 1944)
February 26
Freda Betti, French opera singer (d. 1979)
Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
February 28
Bettye Ackerman, American actress (d. 2006)
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (d. 2019)
February 29
Carlos Humberto Romero, Salvadorian politician, 37th President of El Salvador (d. 2017)
Al Rosen, American baseball player (d. 2015)
March

Deke Slayton

Lys Assia

Tomiichi Murayama

Philip Abbott

Norman Fell

Machiko Kyō
March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut (d. 1993)
March 2
William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, English politician (d. 2018)
Co Westerik, Dutch visual artist (d. 2018)
March 3
Lys Assia, Swiss singer, first winner of Eurovision Song Contest (1956) (d. 2018)
Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian military officer (d. 1966)
Lilian Velez, Filipino actress (d. 1948)
John Woodnutt, British actor (d. 2006)
March 4 – Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
March 6
Ed Mierkowicz, American baseball player (d. 2017)
William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist
Gert Boyle, German-born American businesswoman (d. 2019)
March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993)
March 8
Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
Walter Chiari, Italian actor (d. 1991)
Abderrahmane Youssoufi, 12th Prime Minister of Morocco
March 9
Herbert Gold, American novelist
Hanna Mina, Syrian writer (d. 2018)
Peter Scholl-Latour, German professor, journalist and author (d. 2014)
March 10
Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (d. 2018)
Ludwig W. Adamec, Austrian historian (d. 2019)
March 11 – Jozef Tomko, Slovakian cardinal
March 13 – Pierre Arpaillange, French author, senior judge and Government Minister (d. 2017)
March 15 – Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
March 17 – Edith Savage-Jennings, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
March 18
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Mozambique cardinal
Johnny Papalia, Canadian mobster (d. 1997)
March 20 – Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998)
March 22
Al Neuharth, American businessman and journalist (d. 2013)
Ivan Minatti, Slovenian poet, translator and editor (d. 2012)
Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot (d. 1960)
Lionel Wilson, American voice actor (d. 2003)
March 23 – Olga Kennard, English crystallographer
March 24 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
March 25
Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (d. 2011)
Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (d. 2019)
József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1971)
March 26 – K. B. Asante, Ghanaian diplomat, writer and politician (d. 2018)
March 27
Sarah Vaughan, African-American jazz singer (d. 1990)
Herbert Zangs, German artist (d. 2003)
March 28
Freddie Bartholomew, English-American actor (d. 1992)
Byrd Baylor, American novelist, essayist and author
Birte Christoffersen, Danish Olympic diver
March 29 – Jimmy Work, American singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
March 30 – Alan Davidson, British author (d. 2003)
March 31 – Kathleen O'Malley, American actress (d. 2019)
April

Marlon Brando

Raymond Barre

Stanley Donen

Nina Foch

Kenneth Kaunda

Shintaro Abe
April 1 – Brendan Byrne, Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)
April 2 – Delwin Jones, American politician (d. 2018)
April 3
Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (d. 2005)
Jacky June, Belgian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2012)
Josephine Pullein-Thompson, British author (d. 2014)
April 4
Gil Hodges, American baseball player (d. 1972)
Noreen Nash, American actress
April 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (d. 1999)
April 7 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009)
April 8 – Bob Mann, American football player (d. 2006)
April 9 – Milburn G. Apt, American test pilot (d. 1956)
April 11
Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player (d. 2017)
Libuše Havelková, Czech actress (d. 2017)
April 12 – Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
April 13
Jack Chick, American fundamentalist Christian illustrator and publisher (d. 2016)
Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019)
April 14
Philip Stone, English actor (d. 2003)
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher and writer (d. 2019)
April 15
Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor and violinist (d. 2016)
Rikki Fulton, Scottish comedian and actor (d. 2004)
April 16
Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (d. 1994)
Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
April 17 – Kenneth Norman Jones, Australian public servant
April 18
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician (d. 2005)
Henry Hyde, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois (d. 2007)
April 20
Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008)
Miroslav Komárek, Czech historical linguist (d. 2013)
Leslie Phillips, English actor
Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic
April 23
Chuck Harmon, American baseball player and scout (d. 2019)
Ruth Leuwerik, German film actress (d. 2016)
Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (d. 2007)
April 24
Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality and politician (d. 2009)
Vicente Sota, Chilean politician (d. 2017)
Eric Pleskow, Austrian film producer (d. 2019)
Nahuel Moreno, Argentine Trotskyist leader (d. 1987)
April 25 – Peter Abeles, Australian transportation magnate (d. 1999)
April 28
Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia
Alakbar Taghiyev, Azerbaijani composer and author (d. 1981)
Emily W. Sunstein, American campaigner, political activist and biographer (d. 2007)
April 29
Al Balding, Canadian golfer (d. 2006)
Shintaro Abe, Japanese politician (d. 1991)
Zizi Jeanmaire, French ballerina and actress
May

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

Patricia Kennedy Lawford

Dawda Jawara

Charles Aznavour
May 1
Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist and academic
Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Egyptian composer (d. 1988)
Grégoire Kayibanda, 2nd President of Rwanda (d. 1976)
May 2 – Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor, folk singer and musician (d. 2015)
May 3
Isadore Singer, American mathematician
Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver (d. 2001)
May 6 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (d. 2006)
May 10 – Zahrad, Western Armenian poet (d. 2007)
May 11 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
May 12
Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968)
Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet (d. 2018)
May 13 – Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist (d. 2017)
May 16 – Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (d. 2019)
May 17 – Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre, French historian and professor of philosophy (d. 2020)
May 18 – Priscilla Pointer, American actress
May 22 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
May 27
Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 2009)
Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan politician, 42nd President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
May 31 – Patricia Roberts Harris, American administrator (d. 1985)
June

Torsten Wiesel

George H. W. Bush

Rainer Barzel

Sidney Lumet
June 3
Ken Armstrong, English association football player (d. 1984)
Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (d. 1991)
Karunanidhi, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, referred to as Kalaignar (d. 2018)
Jimmy Rogers, American musician (d. 1997)
Torsten Wiesel, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 4
Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician (d. 1999)
Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)
June 6 – Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (d. 2019)
June 7 – Edward Field, American poet and author
June 9 – Tony Britton, English actor (d. 2019)
June 10 – Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (d. 2015)
June 12 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)
June 13 – Bronisław Baczko, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas (d. 2016)
June 14 – James W. Black, British doctor (d. 2010)
June 15 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (d. 2005)
June 18 – George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
June 19 – Anneliese Rothenberger, German operatic soprano (d. 2010)
June 20
Chet Atkins, American guitarist, record producer (d. 2001)
Rainer Barzel, German politician (d. 2006)
June 21
Marga López, Argentine-born Mexican actress (d. 2005)
Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (d. 2018)
Alojz Rebula, Slovene writer, playwright, essayist and translator (d. 2018)
Ricardo Infante, Argentine footballer and manager (d. 2008)
June 23
Bayezid Osman, 44th Head of the Turkish House of Osman (d. 2017)
Ranasinghe Premadasa, 3rd President, 8th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1993)
June 24
Kurt Furgler, 3-time President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2008)
David Rubinger, Israeli photographer (d. 2017)
June 25 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)
June 26 – Richard Bull, American actor (d. 2014)
June 27 – Paul Conrad, American cartoonist (d. 2010)
June 30 – Maino Neri, Italian footballer and manager (d. 1995)
July

S. R. Nathan

Eva Marie Saint

Delia Fiallo

Edward Cassidy

Maria Koterbska

Marianne Bernadotte

Pat Hingle

Lola Albright

Don Knotts

C. T. Vivian

Lloyd Bochner
July 1
Ralph Parr, American double-flying ace (d. 2012)
Wang Huo, Chinese novelist, screenwriter
Georges Rivière, French actor
Richard Longaker, American political scientist (d. 2018)
Jan Azam, Pakistani sports shooter
Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer, manager (d. 2013)
July 2
Charley Winner, American football player
Francis Wyndham, English author, literary editor and journalist (d. 2017)
July 3
Amalia Aguilar, Cuban-born Mexican film actress, dancer
Arjun Naidu, Indian first-class cricketer (d. 2000)
Gwen Moffat, British climber, writer
Michael Barrington, British actor (d. 1988)
S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (d. 2016)
July 4
Eva Marie Saint, American actress
Delia Fiallo, Cuban author and screenwriter
Roy Gibson, British Director General of ESRO
Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician; Head of State of Nepal (d. 2010)
July 5
Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal, priest
Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian, museum curator (d. 2001)
Osman Lins, Brazilian novelist (d. 1978)
János Starker, Hungarian cellist (d. 2013)
July 6
Draga Ahačič, Slovene actress, film director, translator and journalist
Ernest Graves Jr., United States Army officer (d. 2019)
Mahim Bora, Indian writer, educationist (d. 2016)
Robert Michael White, American military aircraft test pilot, fighter pilot, electrical engineer and major general in the United States Air Force (d. 2010)
July 7
Sam Cathcart, American football halfback, defensive back (d. 2015)
Graham Dunscombe, Australian rules footballer
Amir Murtono, Indonesian general during Suharto's New Order regime
Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter, long jumper (d. 2019)
Lennart Samuelsson, Swedish association football player (d. 2012)
July 8 – Charles C. Droz, American politician
July 9 – Domenico Pace, Italian fencer
July 10
Ip Chun, Chinese martial artist specialising in Wing Chun
Gloria Stroock, American actress
Gianfranco Bellini, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2006)
July 11
F. James Rutherford, American science professor
Ilie Tudor, Romanian fencer
Ragnar Rommetveit, Norwegian psychologist (d. 2017)
Oscar Wyatt, American businessman, self-made millionaire
René Jeandel, French cross-country and Nordic combined skier
Brett Somers, Canadian actress (d. 2007)
Al Federoff, American professional baseball infielder, manager (d. 2011)
Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1971)
July 12
Faidon Matthaiou, Greek basketball coach, player (d. 2011)
Shirley Neil Pettis, U.S. Representative from California, wife of her predecessor, Jerry Pettis (d. 2016)
July 13
Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor (d. 2014)
Eric Barnard, Australian politician (d. 2017)
Johnny Gilbert, American game show announcer
Maria Koterbska, Polish singer
Alejandro Roces, Filipino author, essayist and dramatist (d. 2011)
Piero Trapanelli, Italian football player, coach
July 14
Val Avery, American character actor (d. 2010)
David Evans, senior commander of the Royal Air Force
Warren Giese, American football player, coach and politician (d. 2013)
July 15
Peter Armitage, English statistician specialising in medical statistics
Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress
David Cox, British statistician
Makhmud Esambayev, Russian actor (d. 2000)
Hugh Stretton, Australian historian (d. 2015)
July 16
Claude Abravanel, Swiss pianist, classical music composer (d. 2012)
Mariam Jack-Denton, Gambian lawyer, politician
James L. Greenfield, American administrator
Bess Myerson, American politician, model and television actress (d. 2014)
Mohamed Selim Zaki, Egyptian equestrian
July 17 – Li Li-Hua, Chinese Hong-Kong actress (d. 2017)
July 18
Tullio Altamura, Italian film actor
Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011)
July 19
Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (d. 2019)
Bob Johnston, Australian economist
Arthur Rankin Jr., American film director, producer and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions (d. 2014)
Sergio Sorrentino, Italian sailor (d. 2017)
July 20
Lola Albright, American singer, actress (d. 2017)
Vivean Gray, Australian television, film actress (d. 2016)
Tatyana Lioznova, Soviet film director (d. 2011)
Robert D. Maurer, American industrial physicist
Elias Sarkis, 11th President of Lebanon (d. 1985)
July 21
Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistan Army four-star general
Don Knotts, American comedic actor (d. 2006)
Morando Morandini, Italian film critic, author, journalist and actor (d. 2015)
July 22 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
July 23 – Avern Cohn, American judge
July 24
Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby, British peer, Army officer (d. 2018)
Paul Meier, American statistician (d. 2011)
Aris Poulianos, Greek anthropologist and archaeologist
July 25 – Leonardo Villar, Brazilian actor
July 28
Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (d. 2006)
C. T. Vivian, American civil rights activist, minister and author
July 29
Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
Lillian Faralla, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
Robert Horton, American actor, singer (d. 2016)
July 30 – William H. Gass, American novelist (d. 2017)
August

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

James Baldwin

Carroll O'Connor

Josefina Villalobos

Phyllis Schlafly

Wang Danfeng

Ahmadou Ahidjo

Dinah Washington
August 1
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (d. 2015)
Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
Frank Havens, French Olympic canoeist (d. 2018)
Michael Stewart, American playwright, stage librettist (d. 1987)
Frank Worrell, West Indies cricketer (d. 1967)
August 2
James Baldwin, African-American author, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 1987)
Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
August 3
Max Oldmeadow, Australian politician (d. 2013)
Leon Uris, American writer (d. 2003)
August 4 – Antonio Maccanico, Italian constitutional specialist, social liberal politician (d. 2013)
August 5
Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2005)
Josefina Villalobos, First Lady of Ecuador
August 6
Ella Jenkins, American folk singer of children's music
Erich Schriever, Swiss Olympic rower
August 7
Cecil Abbott, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police in Australia (d. 2014)
Kenneth Kendall, British newsreader, presenter (d. 2012)
August 8 – Gene Deitch, American illustrator, animator and film director
August 9 – Marta Becket, American dancer (d. 2017)
August 10
Martha Hyer, American actress (d. 2014)
Nancy Buckingham, British romance novelist
August 12
Derek Shackleton, English cricketer (d. 2007)
Idris Shah II of Perak, 33rd Sultan of Perak (d. 1984)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
August 13
Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2019)
Josette Arène, French swimmer (d. 2019)
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (d. 2016)
Pierre Lardinois, Belgian politician (d. 1987)
August 14
Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (d. 2019)
Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
Georges Prêtre, French orchestral, opera conductor (d. 2017)
August 15
Werner Abrolat, German actor (d. 1997)
Robert Bolt, English writer (d. 1995)
Phyllis Schlafly, American activist (d. 2016)
Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician, writer (d. 2013)
August 16
Ralf Bendix, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter (d. 2014)
Fess Parker, American television actor, businessman (wine maker, resort operator) (d. 2010)
Tankmar Horn, Finnish diplomat, business executive (d. 2018)
Inez Voyce, American female baseball player
Benny Bartlett, American child actor, musician (d. 1999)
August 17
Jean-Paul Alata, French political prisoner in Camp Boiro, Guinea (January 1971-July 1975) (d. 1978)
Evan S. Connell, Jr., American fiction writer and poet (d. 2013)
Charles Simmons, American author (d. 2017)
August 18 – Frank Logue, 25th mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
August 19 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011)
August 20 – Frank Joseph Guarini, American politician
August 21 – Dalia Wood, Canadian politician (d. 2013)
August 22 – Orlando Ramón Agosti, Argentine general (d. 1997)
August 23
Elaine Sturtevant, American artist (d. 2014)
Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (d. 2018)
August 24
Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of Cameroon (d. 1989)
Alyn Ainsworth, British musician, singer and conductor (d. 1990)
Jimmy Gardner, British actor (d. 2010)
Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) (d. 2008)
August 25 – Sergio Bergonzelli, Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor (d. 2002)
August 26
John Peake, English field hockey player
Barbara Staff, American political activist (d. 2019)
August 28
Berislav Klobučar, Croatian opera conductor (d. 2014)
Peggy Ryan, American dancer (d. 2004)
August 29
María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2018)
Clyde Scott, American athlete (d. 2018)
Dinah Washington, African-American singer, pianist (d. 1963)
August 31
Buddy Hackett, American actor, comedian (d. 2003)
Thomas J. Hudner Jr., American naval aviator (d. 2017)
September

Daniel arap Moi

Daniel Inouye

Jane Greer

Lauren Bacall

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Marcello Mastroianni

Truman Capote
September 1 – Diana Decker, American-English actress and singer (d. 2019)
September 2
Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (d. 2020)
Sidney Phillips, American physician, WW2 Marine documentary consultant (d. 2015)
Knud Leif Thomsen, Danish film director, screenwriter (d. 2003)
September 3 – Mary Grace Canfield, American actress (d. 2014)
September 4
Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)
Anita Snellman, Finnish painter (d. 2006)
September 5
Paul Dietzel, American college football coach (d. 2013)
Roy Andrew Miller, American linguist (d. 2014)
September 6
John Melcher, American politician (d. 2018)
Dale E. Wolf, American businessman, politician
September 7 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (d. 2012)
September 8
Hazel Brooks, American actress (d. 2002)
Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005)
September 9
Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)
Sylvia Miles, American actress (d. 2019)
Russell M. Nelson, 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)
September 11
Daniel Akaka, American soldier, engineer and politician (d. 2018)
Tom Landry, American football player, coach (d. 2000)
Rudolf Vrba, Slovak-Jewish Holocaust survivor, escapee from Auschwitz (d. 2006)
September 12 – Howard C. Nielson, American politician
September 13
Scott Brady, American actor (d. 1985)
Maurice Jarre, French composer (d. 2009)
September 14
Jerry Coleman, American Major League Baseball player, owner (d. 2014)
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat, author (d. 1994)
September 15
György Lázár, 50th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2014)
Bobby Short, American entertainer (d. 2005)
September 16 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
September 18
Alma W. Byrd, American politician (d. 2017)
Eloísa Mafalda, Brazilian actress (d. 2018)
Antonin Rolland, French road cycling racer
September 19
Don Harron, Canadian entertainer (d. 2015)
Rosario Mazzola, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer, composer (d. 2011)
September 20
Gogi Grant, American singer (d. 2016)
Helen Grayco, American singer, actress
Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (d. 2014)
September 21 – Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1957)
September 22
Bernard Gauthier, French racing cyclist (d. 2018)
Charles Keeping, English illustrator (d. 1988)
J. William Middendorf, American soldier and politician
Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist (d. 2019)
Gerald Schoenfeld, American chairman (d. 2008)
September 23 – Heinrich Schultz, Estonian cultural functionary (d. 2012)
September 24
Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (d. 1996)
September 27
Wendell Bell, American futurist (d. 2019)
Fred Singer, Austrian-American physicist and academic
September 28 – Merwin Coad, American politician
September 29 – Lloyd L. Burke, United States Army soldier (d. 1999)
September 30
Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
Georgiana Young, American actress (d. 2007)
October

Jimmy Carter

William Rehnquist

Umar Wirahadikusumah

Henry Sy

Lubomír Štrougal
October 1
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
Roger Williams, American pianist (d. 2011)
October 2 – Ruby Stephens, American female baseball player (d. 1996)
October 3 – Harvey Kurtzman, American editor, cartoonist and creator of Mad (d. 1993)
October 4 – Samuel Lamb, Chinese Christian pastor (d. 2013)
October 5 – Bill Dana, American comedian, actor, screenwriter (d. 2017)
October 6 – Margaret Fulton, Australian food writer (d. 2019)
October 7 – Joyce Reynolds, American actress
October 8
John Nelder, British statistician (d. 2010)
Othman Wok, Singaporean politician (d. 2017)
October 9
Alfonso Oiterong, 2nd President of Palau (d. 1994)
Arnie Risen, American basketball player (d. 2012)
October 10
Buddy MacMaster, American artist (d. 2014)
David Shepherd, American producer, director and actor (d. 2018)
Balbir Singh Sr., Indian field hockey player
Umar Wirahadikusumah, 4th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2003)
Ed Wood, American B-movie producer (d. 1978)
October 11 – Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015)
October 12
Erich Gruenberg, Austrian-British violinist
Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011)
October 13
Terry Gibbs, American vibraphone player and bandleader
Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (d. 2002)
October 14
Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
Ramón Castro Ruz, Cuban revolutionary (d. 2016)
October 15
Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (d. 2019)
Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator
Warren Miller, American ski and snowboarding filmmaker (d. 2018)
Lee Iacocca, American industrialist (d. 2019)
Mark Lenard, American actor (d. 1996)
October 16 – Prince Makonnen, member of the Ethiopian royal family (d. 1957)
October 17 – Fredd Wayne, American actor (d. 2018)
October 18 – Arthur J. Jackson, American military officer (d. 2017)
October 19 – Lubomír Štrougal, Czech politician
October 21 – Joyce Randolph, American actress
October 24
Christine Glanville, English puppeteer (d. 1999)
Earl Palmer, American R&B Drummer (d. 2008)
Aji Muhammad Salehuddin II, Indonesian royal (d. 2018)
October 25
Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
Weston E. Vivian, American politician
October 27 – Bonnie Lou, American singer (d. 2015)
November

Süleyman Demirel

Guillermo Rodríguez

Russell Johnson

Joseph Campanella

Geraldine Page

Shirley Chisholm
November 1 – Süleyman Demirel, President of Turkey (d. 2015)
November 3
Violetta Elvin, Russian ballerina
Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (d. 2019)
November 4 – Guillermo Rodríguez, 31st President of Ecuador
November 5 – Alice Colonieu, French artist (d. 2000)
November 6
Harlon Block, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
Ted Hartley, American fighter pilot, actor and film producer
Jeanette Schmid, famous German whistler (d. 2005)
November 7 – Anđelko Habazin, Yugoslav philosopher (d. 1978)
November 8
Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
Dmitry Yazov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 2020)[5]
November 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (d. 2019)
November 10
Tsai Wan-lin, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2004)
Klaus Baess, Danish Olympic sailor (d. 2018)
Russell Johnson, American actor (d. 2014)
November 11
Sunder Lal Patwa, Indian politician (d. 2016)
Evelyn Wawryshyn, Canadian professional baseball player
Leonard D. Wexler, American judge (d. 2018)
November 13
Motoo Kimura, Japanese population geneticist (d. 1994)
Edward F. Welch, Jr., American admiral (d. 2008)
Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician, politician (d. 2018)
November 15 – Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes, First Lady of Colombia (d. 1998)
November 16
Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier (d. 2018)
Mel Patton, American athlete (d. 2014)
November 19
William Russell, British actor
J. D. Sumner, American gospel singer (d. 1998)
November 20
Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born mathematician (d. 2010)
Mark Miller, American actor
November 21
Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018)
Víctor Hipólito Martínez, Argentine lawyer, politician (d. 2017)
Christopher Tolkien, English author and academic (d. 2020)
November 22
Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
Robert M. Young, American film director and producer
November 23 – Anita Linda, Filipino actress
November 24
James M. Burns, American attorney and judge (d. 2001)
Lorne Munroe, Canadian-American cellist and educator
Joanne Winter, American female professional baseball pitcher, LPGA player (d. 1996)
November 25
Paul Desmond, American jazz alto saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic and philosopher (d. 2012)
A. Hamid Arief, Indonesian actor (d. 1992)
November 26 – Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 1999)
November 28
Calvin J. Spann, African-American Tuskegee Airman, fighter pilot (d. 2015)
Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2009)
November 29 – Irv Noren, American baseball and basketball player (d. 2019)
November 30
Shirley Chisholm, African-American politician (d. 2005)
Otto Kaiser, German biblical scholar (d. 2017)
Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (d. 1973)
December

Alexander Haig

Mário Soares

Michael Manley

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai

Atal Bihari Vajpayee
December 1 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman (d. 2015)
December 2 – Alexander Haig, American politician, U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2010)
December 3 – Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
December 4 – John C. Portman Jr., American architect (d. 2017)
December 5
Vladimir Dolgikh, Russian politician
John Keston, English actor, singer and masters athlete
December 6 – Wally Cox, American television, motion picture actor (d. 1973)
December 7
John Love, Zimbabwean racing driver (d. 2005)
Bent Fabric, Danish pianist, composer
Mário Soares, 105th Prime Minister of Portugal, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2017)
December 9 – Frank Sturgis, one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the Presidency of Richard Nixon (d. 1993)
December 10 – Michael Manley, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
December 11 – Heinz Schenk, German television moderator, actor (d. 2014)
December 12 – Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City (1978-1989) (d. 2013)
December 13
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 29th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2011)
Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978)
Maria Riva, American actress
December 14 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, producer and director (d. 1988)
December 15 – Esther Béjarano, German member of Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
December 16 – Nissim Ezekiel, Indian Jewish poet, actor, playwright, editor and art critic (d. 2004)
December 17
Béla Zsitnik, Hungarian Olympic rower (d. 2019)
Margaret Wigiser, American female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
December 18 – Alberto Ablondi, Italian bishop (d. 2010)
December 19
Michel Tournier, French writer (d. 2016)
Cicely Tyson, American actress
December 23 – Bob Kurland, American basketball player (d. 2013)
December 24
Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali diplomat, politician and 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2014)
Roy Miller, West Indian cricketer (d. 2014)
Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (d. 1980)
December 25
Moktar Ould Daddah, 1st President of Mauritania (d. 2003)
Rod Serling, American television screenwriter (The Twilight Zone) (d. 1975)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (d. 2018)
Abba Siddick, Chadian politician (d. 2017)
Fatimah Hashim, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
December 26 – Frank Broyles, American college football coach, athletic director (d. 2017)
December 27 – Frank North, American football coach (d. 2017)
December 28 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia (d. 2018)
December 29 – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (d. 2014)
December 30 – Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American engineer (d. 2013)
December 31
Frank J. Kelley, 50th Michigan Attorney General
Taylor Mead, American actor (d. 2013)
J. Donald Monan, American academic administrator (d. 2017)
Lawrence W. Pierce, American judge
Robert Ravenstahl, American politician (d. 2015)

January

Veikko Hakulinen

Ignacio López Tarso

Shafik Wazzan

Paul Newman

Douglas Engelbart
January 1
Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005)
Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro, Ugandan educator and activist (d. 2018)
January 2 – Eraño de Guzman Manalo, 2nd Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) (d. 2009)
January 4
Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2003)
Enrico Perucconi, Italian athlete
January 6
John DeLorean, American car maker (d. 2005)
Joseph-André Motte, French furniture designer (d. 2013)
January 7
Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (d. 1995)
Harry Stradling Jr., American cinematographer (d. 2017)
January 8
Helmuth Hübener, German youth political activist against the Hitler regime (d. 1942)
Bernardo Ruiz, Spanish road cycling racer
January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
January 10
Peter Colotka, Slovak academic, lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan, American judge (d. 2004)
January 12 – Katherine MacGregor, American actress (d. 2018)
January 13
Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014)
Nat Peck, American jazz trombonist (d. 2015)
C. O. Simpkins Sr., American dentist, civil rights activist and politician (d. 2019)
Ron Tauranac, English-Australian engineer and businessman
Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (d. 1961)
January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
January 15
August Englas, Estonian wrestler (d. 2017)
Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist
Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor
January 16
Peter Hirsch, German-English materials scientist
Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1999)
January 17 – Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996)
January 19 – Anthony Eisley, American actor (d. 2003)
January 20 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet and politician (d. 2020)
January 21 – Charles Aidman, American actor (d. 1993)
January 22 – Katherine MacLean, American science fiction author (d. 2019)
January 24 – Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (d. 2013)
January 25
Barbara Carroll, American jazz pianist (d. 2017)
Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
January 26
Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015)
Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2008)
January 27 – Sufi Abu Taleb, President of Egypt (d. 2008)
January 29
Dub Garrett, American football guard (d. 1976)
Robert W. McCollum, American epidemiologist, (d. 2010)
January 30
Bump Elliott, American football player (d. 2019)
Douglas Engelbart, American inventor (d. 2013)
January 31
Bernardino Rivera Álvarez, Bolivian bishop (d. 2010)
Micheline Lannoy, Belgian figure skater
February

Elaine Stritch

Jack Lemmon

Hal Holbrook

Krishna Sobti

Robert Altman

Shehu Shagari
February 1
Lucille Eichengreen, German writer and Holocaust survivor (d. 2020)
Mary Nesbitt, American female professional baseball player (d. 2013)
February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (d. 2014)
February 3
Shelley Berman, American comedian and actor (d. 2017)
Harry Byrd, American Major League Baseball player (d. 1985)
John Fiedler, American actor (d. 2005)
Leon Schlumpf, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2012)
February 4
Arne Åhman, Swedish athlete
Jutta Hipp, German born American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2003)
February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
February 9 – John B. Cobb, American theologian and philosopher
February 10 – Pierre Mondy, French film and theatre actor and director (d. 2012)
February 11
Virginia E. Johnson, American sexologist (d. 2013)
Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (d. 2013)
Kim Stanley, American actress (d. 2001)
February 12 – Sir Anthony Berry, British Conservative politician murdered by IRA terrorists in the Brighton hotel bombing (d. 1984)
February 15
John Burton, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2010)
Angella D. Ferguson, American pediatrician
February 16 – Romolo Bizzotto, Italian professional football player and coach (d. 2017)
February 17
Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
Hal Holbrook, American actor
February 18
Abdelsalam al-Majali, 60th and 63rd Prime Minister of Jordan
Ghafar Baba, Malaysian politician (d. 2006)
George Kennedy, American actor (d. 2016)
Halit Kıvanç, Turkish presenter, journalist and writer
Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (d. 2019)
February 20 – Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
February 21
Sam Peckinpah, American film director (d. 1984)
Štefan Vrablec, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
Aleksei Paramonov, Soviet football player and manager (d. 2018)
February 22 – Gerald Stern, American poet essayist and educator
February 23 – Eric Prabhakar, Indian sprinter (d. 2011)
February 24 – Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet and artist
February 25
Maddy English, American female baseball player (d. 2004)
Lisa Kirk, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
Eduardo Risso, Uruguayan rower
Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria (1979–83) (d. 2018)
February 26
Miroslava, Czechoslovakian-Mexican actress (d. 1955)
Everton Weekes, West Indian cricketer
February 28 – Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (d. 2020)
March

Alan R. Battersby

Leo Esaki

Peter Brook

Pierre Boulez

Corrado Gaipa
March 1
Keith Harvey Miller, American politician (d. 2019)
Alexandre do Nascimento, Angolan prelate
March 4
Inezita Barroso, Brazilian singer, guitarist, actress, TV presenter (d. 2015)
Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (d. 2018)
Paul Mauriat, French musician (Love is Blue) (d. 2006)
March 7 – Josef Ertl, German politician (d. 2000)
March 8
John Harland Bryant, American physician (d. 2017)
Dennis Lotis, South African-English singer and actor
Marta Lynch, Argentinian writer (d. 1985)
March 9
G. William Miller, American politician (d. 2018)
Alejandro Orfila, Argentine diplomat
March 11 – İlhan Selçuk, Turkish lawyer, journalist, author, novelist and editor (d. 2010)
March 12
Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
G. William Whitehurst, American journalist and politician
March 13
Corrado Gaipa, Italian actor (d. 1989)
Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer
John Tate, American mathematician (d. 2019)
March 15 – Art Murakowski, American football player (d. 1985)
March 16
Mary Hinkson, African-American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004)
March 17 – Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (d. 2015)
March 18 – Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician and composer (d. 2017)
March 19 – Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat
March 21
Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican actress (d. 2019)
Peter Brook, English theatre director
March 22 – Gerard Hoffnung, German-born English humorist (d. 1959)
March 23
Robie Lester, American Grammy-nominated voice artist and singer (d. 2005)
David Watkin, British cinematographer (d. 2008)
March 25
Flannery O'Connor, American writer (d. 1964)
Kishori Sinha, Indian politician (d. 2016)
March 26
Pierre Boulez, French composer (d. 2016)
Ted Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, English politician
March 27 – Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, English farmer and politician
March 28 – Raja Perempuan Budriah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2008)
March 29 – David Tsimakuridze, Georgian freestyle wrestler (d. 2006)
April

Hans Rosenthal

Rod Steiger

Hugh O'Brian

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

Solomon Perel
April 1 – Piero Livi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2015)
April 2 – Hans Rosenthal, German radio editor, director, one of the most popular German radio and TV hosts of the 1970s and 1980s (d. 1987)
April 3
Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014)
Jan Merlin, American actor, screenwriter and author (d. 2019)
April 4 – Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (d. 2018)
April 7 – Chaturanan Mishra, Indian politician (d. 2011)
April 9 – Virginia Gibson, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2013)
April 10 – Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
April 11
Viola Liuzzo, American Unitarian Universalist and civil rights activist (d. 1965)
Erik Söderlund, Swedish race walker (d. 2009)
Gordy Giovanelli, American Olympic rower
Zha Quanxing, Chinese electrochemist (d. 2019)
April 12 – Evelyn Berezin, American computer engineer (d. 2018)
April 13 – Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (d. 2018)
April 14
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1974)
Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (d. 2010)
Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
April 15
Beryl Te Wiata, New Zealand actor, author, and scriptwriter (d. 2017)
Milton J. Rosenberg, American psychology professor (d. 2018)
April 17 – René Moawad, 13th President of Lebanon (d. 1989)
April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014)
April 19
Hugh O'Brian, American soldier and actor (d. 2016)
John Kraaijkamp Sr., Dutch actor and comedian (d. 2011)
April 20
Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017)
Bob Will, American rower (d. 2019)
April 21
Anthony Mason, Australian judge
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Former acting President of Afghanistan (d. 2019)
Solomon Perel, Israeli motivational speaker
April 22 – George Cole, English actor (d. 2015)
April 24 – Eugen Weber, Romanian-born historian (d. 2007)
April 25
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, English businessman
Janete Clair, Brazilian television, radio play, and novel writer (d. 1983)
Louis O'Neill, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
April 26
Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (d. 2019)
Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (d. 2015)
Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (d. 2015)
April 28
Chuck Heberling, American basketball and football referee and administrator (d. 2019)
John Thorn, English headmaster, author and educational consultant
April 29
John Compton, Saint Lucian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2007)
Iwao Takamoto, Japanese-American animator (d. 2007)
May

Maria Barroso

Ali Hassan Mwinyi

Ilie Verdeț

Yogi Berra

Pol Pot

Malcolm X

Bülent Ecevit
May 1
Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d. 2013)
Anna May Hutchison, American professional baseball player (d. 1998)
May 2
Maria Barroso, Portuguese politician and actress (d. 2015)
Inga Gill, Swedish actress (d. 2000)
John Neville, English actor (d. 2011)
Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, Brazilian Ialorixá and writer (d. 2018)
May 3 – Ngiratkel Etpison, 5th President of Palau (d. 1997)
May 4
Syed Ahmad Syed Mahmud Shahabuddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2008)
Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
Maurice R. Greenberg, American business executive
May 5 – Vladimir Vavilov, Russian guitarist, lutenist and composer (d. 1973)
May 8 – Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania
May 9 – Vladimir Tadej, Croatian production designer, screenwriter and film director (d. 2017)
May 10
Pete Babando, American ice hockey player (d. 2020)
Ilie Verdeț, 51st Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2001)
Sugako Hashida, Japanese screenwriter
May 12 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d. 2015)
May 14
Yuval Ne'eman, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, science minister, and President of Tel Aviv University (d. 2006)
Oona O'Neill, American actress (d. 1991)
May 15 – Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (d. 2015)
May 16
Nancy Roman, American astronomer (d. 2018)
Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur (d. 2010)
Ola Vincent, Nigerian economist and banker (d. 2012)
May 17 – Veselin Đuranović, Yugoslav politician (d. 1997)
May 18 – Gérard Corboud, Swiss entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist (d. 2017)
May 19
Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1965)
Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (d. 1998)
May 20 – Gregory Yong, Archbishop of Singapore (d. 2008)
May 21 – Olof Thunberg, Swedish actor and director
May 22
Julio Garrett Ayllón, Vice President of Bolivia (d. 2018)
James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
May 23 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
May 24 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director (d. 1994)
May 25
Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (d. 1963)
Rudolf Scheurer, Swiss football referee (d. 2015)
May 26
Alec McCowen, English actor (d. 2017)
Carmen Montejo, Cuban-born Mexican actress (d. 2013)
May 28
Bülent Ecevit, 3-time Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (d. 2012)
Lucien Nedzi, American politician
Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (d. 1998)
May 30 – John Marks, English doctor and author
May 31
Julian Beck, American actor, director, poet, and painter (d. 1985)
Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015)
Donn A. Starry, American army officer (d. 2011)
June

Tony Curtis

Barbara Bush

Audie Murphy

Virginia Patton

June Lockhart

Richard X. Slattery

Giorgio Napolitano
June 1 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher (d. 2017)
June 2
Julius Blank, semiconductor pioneer (d. 2011)
Buddy Elias, Swiss actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds (d. 2015)
June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)
June 4 – Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d. 2013)
June 5 – Bill Hayes, American actor
June 6 – Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
June 7 – Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (d. 2017)
June 8 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
June 10
Fortunato Abat, Filipino army general and politician (d. 2018)
Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist (d. 2017)
June 11 – William Styron, American writer (d. 2006)
June 12 – Raphaël Géminiani, French road cycling racer
June 13 – Dušan Trbojević, Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor (d. 2011)
June 14
Hideyuki Fujisawa, Japanese professional Go player (d. 2009)
Pierre Salinger, White House Press Secretary (d. 2004)
June 15
Richard Baker, English broadcast journalist and author (d. 2018)
Vasily Golubev, Soviet, Russian painter (d. 1985)
Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and reviewer (d. 2005)
June 16 – Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist (d. 2017)
June 17
Luce d'Eramo, Italian writer and literary critic (d. 2001)
Mervyn Finlay, Australian former member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Queen's Counsel (d. 2014)
Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (d. 2014)
June 19 – Robert Fyfe, Scottish actor
June 20
András Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker (d. 2017)
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (d. 1971)
June 21
Larisa Avdeyeva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)
Jean-Gabriel Castel, French-Canadian law professor
Stanley Moss, American poet, publisher, and art dealer
Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
Maureen Stapleton, American actress (d. 2006)
June 23
Clay Evans, American pastor (d. 2019)
Art Modell, American businessman (d. 2012)
Oliver Smithies, British-American geneticist (d. 2017)
June 24 – Ogden R. Reid, United States Representative from New York (d. 2019)
June 25
John Briley, American writer (d. 2019)
Virginia Patton, American actress
June Lockhart, American actress
William Stoddart, Scottish physician and author
Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)
P. Viswambharan, Indian politician, socialist, trade unionist and journalist (d. 2016)
June 26
Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman
Richard X. Slattery, American character actor in film, theater and television (d. 1997)
June 27 – Wayne Terwilliger, American baseball player and coach
June 28 – Ray Boyle, American actor
June 29
Francis S. Currey, American Medal of Honour recipient (d. 2019)
John Fujioka, American actor of Japanese descent (d. 2018)
Shirley Brannock Jones, American judge (d. 2019)
Giorgio Napolitano, Italian politician and 11th President of Italy
Arthur Storch, American actor and stage director (d. 2013)
Cara Williams, American actress
June 30
Ebrahim Amini, Iranian politician
Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator
Ros Mey, Cambodian-born American Buddhist monk and survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime (d. 2010)
Fred Schaus, American basketball player, head coach and athletic director (d. 2010)
July

Patrice Lumumba

Jean Raspail

Merv Griffin

Bill Haley

Mahathir Mohamad

Francisco Álvarez Martínez

Rosita Quintana

Otto Arosemena

Gloria DeHaven

Quett Masire

Ana María Matute

Ted Lindsay

Mikis Theodorakis
July 1
Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
Art McNally, American football referee
July 2
Marvin Rainwater, American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights activist (d. 1963)
Patrice Lumumba, Congolese independence leader (d. 1961)
July 3
Roger Chesneau, French steeplechaser
Keiji Hase, Japanese swimmer
July 4
Dorothy Head Knode, American tennis player (d. 2015)
Max Pievsky, American politician
Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician (d. 2018)
July 5
Jean Raspail, French author, traveler and explorer
Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker, and teacher (d. 2017)
Unto Wiitala, Finnish ice hockey player (d. 2019)
July 6
Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress and author (d. 2002)
Merv Griffin, American game show host and producer, talk show host, singer (d. 2007)
Bill Haley, American musician (d. 1981)
Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish scientist and neurosurgeon
July 7
Fernand Decanali, French cyclist (d. 2017)
Erich Hartstein, German journalist and contributing editor
July 8
Lies Bonnier, Dutch swimmer
Nicholas Brathwaite, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2016)
Arthur Imperatore Sr., Italian-American businessman
July 9
Mary de Rachewiltz, Italian-American poet and translator
Borislav Stanković, Serbian former basketball player and coach
Marion Gay Wofford, American politician
July 10
Ernest Bertrand Boland, American Roman Catholic bishop
Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian politician; Prime Minister of Malaysia
July 11
Mattiwilda Dobbs, African-American coloratura soprano (d. 2015)
Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (d. 2017)
Fernando Matthei, Chilean Air Force General (d. 2017)
July 12
Don Campbell, Canadian ice hockey (d. 2012)
William Benner Enright, American judge
Rosie Harris, Welsh author
July 13
Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer
Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist
July 14
Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Roman Catholic prelate
Elmo Bovio, Argentine professional football player (d. 2017)
Bruce L. Douglas, American politician
Carlos Velázquez, Argentine modern pentathlete
July 15
Evan Hultman, American politician and attorney
D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
Badal Sarkar, Indian dramatist and theatre director (d. 2011)
July 16 – Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress
July 17
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, German cellist and Holocaust survivor
Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Afghan politician
Ted Vogel, American marathon runner (d. 2019)
July 18
Allan Elsom, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2010)
Raymond Jones, Australian architect
Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2004)
Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician (d. 2012)
July 19
Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador (d. 1984)
Henri Beaujean, French politician
John Dossetor, Canadian physician and bioethicist
Jean-Pierre Faye, French philosopher, poet, and writer
Jack Petchey, English businessman and philanthropist
Michael Pfeiffer, German former professional football player (d. 2018)
Sue Thompson, American singer
July 20
Jacques Delors, French politician
Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1961)
Stan Hovdebo, New Democratic Party member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 2018)
Eric Watson, New Zealand former cricketer (d. 2017)
July 21
Hans Meyer, South African actor
Johnny Peirson, Canadian ice hockey player
July 22
Irving Sandler, American art critic, art historian, and educator (d. 2018)
Joseph Sargent, American film director (d. 2014)
July 23
Tajuddin Ahmad, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
Gloria DeHaven, American actress (d. 2016)
Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (d. 2017)
Govind Talwalkar, Indian journalist (d. 2017)
July 24 – Stephen Porter, American stage director (d. 2013)
July 25
Benny Benjamin, American musician, known as the main drummer used by Motown for studio recordings (d. 1969)
Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, Indonesian military leader (d. 1989)
Jutta Zilliacus, Finnish journalist and politician
Ana González de Recabarren, Chilean human rights activist (d. 2018)
July 26
Robert Hirsch, French actor (d. 2017)
Ana María Matute, Spanish writer (d. 2014)
July 28
Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
Ali Bozer, Turkish politician
July 29
Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, Indian cartoonist
Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
Carmen Stănescu, Romanian actress (d. 2018)
Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
July 31 – Carmel Quinn, Irish-American singer
August

Jorge Rafael Videla

Alija Izetbegović

Mike Connors

Oscar Peterson

Kirke Mechem

Honor Blackman

Juanita Reina

Laurent de Brunhoff

Katyna Ranieri
August 1
Cor Edskes, Dutch organ builder and restorer (d. 2015)
Pam Gems, English playwright (d. 2011)
Roy Mackal, American biologist (d. 2013)
August 2
Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg, Princess of Luxembourg
Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of Argentina (d. 2013)
Alan Whicker, British television presenter (d. 2013)
August 3 – Dom Um Romão, Brazilian jazz drummer (d. 2005)
August 4 – Betty Trezza, Italian-American female professional baseball player (d. 2007)
August 6
Eddie Baily, England international footballer (d. 2010)
Barbara Bates, American actress and singer (d. 1969)
Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress (d. 2008)
Olavi Rokka, American gardener and horticulturist (d. 2011)
August 7 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
August 8
Alija Izetbegović, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
Frank Lauterbur, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
Aziz Sattar, Malaysian actor, comedian, singer and director (d. 2014)
August 9
David A. Huffman, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
Valentín Pimstein, Chilean-Mexican producer of telenovelas (d. 2017)
Olavi Rokka, Finnish modern pentathlete (d. 2011)
Ginny Tyler, American voice actress (d. 2012)
August 10 – Stanislav Brebera, Czech chemist (d. 2012)
August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress
August 12
Thor Vilhjálmsson, Icelandic writer (d. 2011)
Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
Leopold Barschandt, Austrian footballer (d. 2000)
Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
George Wetherill, geophysicist (d. 2006)
Dale Bumpers, American politician (d. 2016)
August 13
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentine executive and policy maker (d. 2013)
Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect based in Christchurch (d. 2012)
August 14 – Russell Baker, American writer (d. 2019)
August 15
Mike Connors, American actor (d. 2017)
Ruth Lessing, American female professional baseball player (d. 2000)
Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d. 2007)
Bill Pinkney, American performer and singer (d. 2007)
Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (d. 2015)
Leonie Ossowski, German writer (d. 2019)
August 16
Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami, Moroccan poet and translator (d. 2007)
Mal Waldron, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (d. 2002)
William G. Hundley, American criminal defense attorney (d. 2006)
Kirke Mechem, American composer
August 18 – Pegeen Vail Guggenheim, Swiss-American painter (d. 1967)
August 19 – Madhav Dalvi, Indian cricketer (d. 2012)
August 20 – Henning Larsen, Danish architect (d. 2013)
August 21 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian theatre, television and film actor (d. 1977)
August 22
Honor Blackman, English actress
Terry Donahue, Canadian female professional baseball player (d. 2019)
August 25
Thea Astley, Australian writer (d. 2004)
Hilmar Hoffmann, German film and culture academic (d. 2018)
Hasan Tiro, Indonesian politician (d. 2010)
Juanita Reina, Spanish actress and copla singer (d. 1999)
August 26
Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)
Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018)
August 27
Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Vatican diplomat (d. 2017)
Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (d. 2011)
Jaswant Singh Neki, Indian academic and poet (d. 2015)
August 28
Antônio Agostinho Marochi, Brazilian bishop (d. 2018)
Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003)
José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (d. 2016)
Philip Purser, English television critic and novelist
August 29
Dick Cusack, American actor, filmmaker and humorist (d. 2003)
Demetrio Basilio Lakas Bahas, former President of Panama (d. 1999)
August 30
Chris Anderson, Scottish footballer, educator and football administrator (d. 1986)
Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
August 31
Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
Katyna Ranieri, Italian actress and singer (d. 2018)
Ted Schwinden, American politician
September

Hank Thompson

Andrea Camilleri

Peter Sellers

B. B. King

Morgan Woodward

Marty Robbins
September 1
Michael J. Cleary, Irish Roman Catholic bishop
Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights activist (d. 2018)
September 3
Shoista Mullojonova, Tajik-born Shashmakom singer (d. 2010)
Hank Thompson, American country musician (d. 2007)
September 5 – Patrick Leo McCartie, English Roman Catholic bishop
September 6
Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer and director (d. 2019)
Chedli Klibi, Tunisian politician
September 7 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (d. 1985)
September 8
Jacqueline Ceballos, American feminist
Bat-Sheva Dagan, Polish-Israeli author, educator and Holocaust survivor
Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (d. 1980)
September 10
Dick Lucas, American minister and cleric
Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1996)
September 11 – Armando Monteiro Filho, Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician (d. 2018)
September 13 – Mel Tormé, American musician (d. 1999)
September 14 – Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (d. 2004)
September 15
John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton, English politician
Helle Virkner, Danish actress (d. 2009)
Peggy Webber, American actress
September 16
Martha Firestone Ford, American businesswoman
Eugene Garfield, American linguist and businessman (d. 2017)
Charles Haughey, sixth Taoiseach (head of government of the Republic of Ireland) (d. 2006)
B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
Morgan Woodward, American actor (d. 2019)
September 19
Pete Murray, English radio and television presenter
Franklin Sousley, U.S. Marine flag raiser on Iwo Jima (d. 1945)
September 20
Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Siam (d. 1946)
Džemma Skulme, Latvian artist and painter (d. 2019)
September 23
Angelo Acerbi, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar and Chinese historian (d. 2006)
September 24 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
September 25
Edwin N. Lightfoot, American chemical engineer (d. 2017)
Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (d. 2016)
September 26 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and racing driver (d. 1982)
September 27 – Robert G. Edwards, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (d. 2013)
September 28
Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
Carolyn Morris, American female professional baseball player (d. 1996)
September 29 – John Tower, American politician (d. 1991)
September 30
Joseph Hitti, Lebanese Roman Catholic bishop
Arkady Ostashev, Russian scientist and rocket engineer (d. 1998)
October

Marlen Khutsiev

Antoine Gizenga

Margaret Thatcher

Angela Lansbury

Hiromu Nonaka

Johnny Carson

Warren Christopher
October 1 – Yang Hyong-sop, North Korean politician
October 2
Paul Goldsmith, American NASCAR driver
José A. Martínez Suárez, Argentine film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
October 3
Gore Vidal, American author (d. 2012)
George Wein, American pianist and producer
October 4
Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-born Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2019)
Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 1963)
October 5
Gail Davis, American actress (d. 1997)
Antoine Gizenga, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2019)
Herbert Kretzmer, South African-English journalist and songwriter
Murray Riley, Australian rower
October 6 – Hiroshi H. Miyamura, American Medal of Honour recipient
October 7 – Mildred Earp, American female professional baseball player (d. 2017)
October 8 – Álvaro Magaña, 38th President of El Salvador (d. 2001)
October 9 – Isyaku Rabiu, Nigerian businessman (d. 2018)
October 11 – Elmore Leonard, American novelist (d. 2013)
October 13
Lenny Bruce, American comic (d. 1966)
Carlos Robles Piquer, Spanish diplomat and politician (d. 2018)
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 (d. 2013)
October 14 – Phillip V. Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist (d. 2012)
October 15 – Bob Rowland Smith, Australian politician (d. 2012)
October 16
Daniel J. Evans, American politician
Angela Lansbury, English-born U.S. actress
October 18
Ramiz Alia, 13th President of Albania (d. 2011)
N. D. Tiwari, Indian politician (d. 2018)
October 19 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine Naval military officer (d. 2010)
October 20
Art Buchwald, American humorist and columnist (d. 2007)
Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (d. 2018)
Gene Wood, American game show announcer (d. 2004)
October 21
Surjit Singh Barnala, Indian politician (d. 2017)
Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer (d. 2003)
Virginia Zeani, Romanian soprano
October 22
Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Hawaiian genealogist, author and hula expert (d. 2014)
Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008)
October 23
Johnny Carson, American comedian and television host (d. 2005)
José Freire Falcão, Brazilian cardinal
October 24
Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
Al Feldstein, American artist and comic book creator (d. 2014)
Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician (d. 2013)
October 25
Cora Etter, Canadian politician
Aliya Moldagulova, Soviet soldier and sniper (d. 1944)
John J. Snyder, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2019)
October 27
Warren Christopher, American diplomat (d. 2011)
Paul Fox, English television executive
Jiro Ono, Japanese chef
October 29
Dominick Dunne, American writer, investigative journalist, and producer (d. 2009)
Robert Hardy, English actor (d. 2017)
Klaus Roth, German-born British mathematician (d. 2015)
October 31
Ngaire Lane, New Zealand swimmer
John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
November

Richard Burton

Jonathan Winters

Rock Hudson

Robert F. Kennedy

José Napoleón Duarte
November 1 – Arturo Lona Reyes, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
November 2 – Leif Hermansen, Danish rower (d. 2005)
November 4
Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer (d. 2018)
Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
November 6
Michel Bouquet, French actor
Fred B. Rooney, American politician (d. 2019)
November 8 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019)
November 9 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor, better known for his role in Cleopatra (d. 1984)
November 11
June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018)
Jonathan Winters, American actor and comedian (d. 2013)
November 12 – Heinz Schubert, German actor (d. 1999)
November 14
Roy Medvedev, Russian writer
Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist and historian (d. 2018)
November 17
Jean Faut, American baseball player
Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
November 19 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish military officer, sociologist and philosopher (d. 2017)
November 20
Kaye Ballard, American actress, comedian, and singer (d. 2019)
Lise Bourdin, French actress
Robert F. Kennedy, American politician and Attorney General of the United States (d. 1968)
Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina (d. 2015)
November 22
Carla Balenda, American actress
Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (d. 2018)
Gunther Schuller, American musician (d. 2015)
November 23
José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, 39th President of El Salvador (d. 1990)
Johnny Mandel, American composer and conductor
November 24
William F. Buckley, Jr., American journalist, author, and commentator (d. 2008)
Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
November 26
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Uruguayan general and former dictator (d. 2016)
Eugene Istomin, American pianist (d. 2003)
November 27
Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (d. 2018)
Ernie Wise, English comedian (d. 1999)
November 29 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban baseball player (d. 2015)
November 30
Maryon Pittman Allen, American politician and journalist (d. 2018)
Bill Gates Sr., American attorney, philanthropist and author
Hayashiya Sanpei I, Japanese comedian (d. 1980)
December

Martin Rodbell

Julie Harris

Albert Bandura

Sammy Davis Jr.

Dick Van Dyke

Pierre Bérégovoy
December 1 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
December 2
Julie Harris, American actress (d. 2013)
Carla Del Poggio, Italian actress (d. 2010)
December 3 – Erik Mørk, Danish actor (d. 1993)
December 4
Albert Bandura, Canadian-American psychologist and academic
Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
Sauro Tomà, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
December 5
Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier (d. 1962)
Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
December 6 – Shigeko Higashikuni, Japanese princess (d. 1961)
December 7 – Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian racing driver
December 8
Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician, and actor (d. 1990)
Arnaldo Forlani, 43rd Prime Minister of Italy
December 11
Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist
John R. Gorman, American Roman Catholic bishop
Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2019)
December 12
Anne V. Coates, British film editor (d. 2018)
Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer (d. 2017)
December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and dancer
December 15
Trần Thiện Khiêm, Vietnamise politician
Jacques Marinelli, French road cycling racer
Hiroshi Motoyama, Japanese scientist (d. 2015)
Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)
December 16 – Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (d. 2019)
December 19
Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician, interim President of Algeria (d. 2000)
Tankred Dorst, German playwright (d. 2017)
Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (d. 2012)
December 20 – Béla Goldoványi, Hungarian athlete (d. 1972)
December 22 – Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, military doctor and war heroine (d. 2019)
December 23
Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
Harry Guardino, American actor (d. 1995)
December 24 – Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (d. 2019)
December 25
Geulah Cohen, Israeli politician (d. 2019)
Carlos Castaneda, American author (d. 1998)
December 27
Moshe Arens, Israeli diplomat and politician (d. 2019)
Michel Piccoli, French actor, singer, director, and producer
December 28
Willy Kemp, Luxembourgian road cycling racer
Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (d. 2002)
Milton Obote, President of Uganda (d. 2005)
December 29
Keshav Dutt, Indian field hockey player
Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (d. 2016)
December 30 – Frank Meisler, Israeli architect and sculptor (d. 2018)





January

George Martin

Kim Jong-pil

Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin

Patricia Neal

Steve Reeves

Abdus Salam
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)
Deaths


January

Barbara Rush

Eartha Kitt
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

Sidney Poitier

Hubert de Givenchy

Emmanuelle Riva

Juliette Gréco
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

Harry Belafonte

Gabriel García Márquez

Sudharmono

Cesar Chavez

Ferenc Puskás

Pope Benedict XVI

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 2 – Ken Sansom, American actor, singer, and voice actor (d. 2012)
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

Albert Zafy

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

Gina Lollobrigida

Neil Simon

Janet Leigh

David Dinkins

Kurt Masur

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Marvin Minsky

Rosalynn Carter

Thomas S. Monson

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

Paul Volcker

Peter Falk

Sadako Ogata

Turgut Özal

Roger Moore

Günter Grass

George C. Scott
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

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)

January

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Walter Mondale

Reynaldo Bignone

Jeanne Moreau

Desmond Morris

Eduard Shevardnadze

Roger Vadim
January 1
William Henry Draper III, American venture capitalist
Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (d. 2016)
Gerhard Weinberg, German-American diplomatic, military historian
January 2
Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor, musicologist (d. 2017)
Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese religious leader, 3rd President of Soka Gakkai
Prince Karl of Leiningen, (d. 1990)
Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1980)
January 3
Michael Barratt, English television presenter
Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician (d. 2015)
January 5
Denise Bryer, English actress
Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat, politician (d. 2017)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1979)
Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States and Presidential candidate
January 6
İsmet Sezgin, Turkish politician (d. 2016)
Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (d. 2008)
January 7
William Peter Blatty, American writer (The Exorcist) (d. 2017)
Emilio Pericoli, Italian singer (d. 2013)
January 8
Bab Christensen, Norwegian actress (d. 2017)
Slade Gorton, American Republican politician
January 9
Judith Krantz, American novelist (d. 2019)
Domenico Modugno, Italian singer, songwriter, actor and politician (d. 1994)
January 10 – Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015)
January 11
Alan Bowness, English art historian
David L. Wolper, American television producer (d. 2010)
January 13 – Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer, manager (d. 2017)
January 14
Hans Kornberg, German-English biochemist (d. 2019)
Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
January 15 – Joanne Linville, American actress
January 16
William Kennedy, American author
Sidney Kimmel, American businessman, philanthropist and film producer
Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
January 17
Ken Archer, Australian cricketer
Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
Matt McGinn, Scottish folk musician and writer (d. 1977)
Vidal Sassoon, English hairdresser (d. 2012)
January 18 – Terence Higgins, Baron Higgins, English politician and athlete
January 20 – Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (d. 2018)
January 21
Gene Sharp, American political theorist of nonviolent action (d. 2018)
Reynaldo Bignone, 45th President of Argentina (d. 2018)
January 22 – Birch Bayh, American politician (d. 2019)
January 23 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
January 24
Desmond Morris, English anthropologist and writer
Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
January 25
Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer (d. 2006)
Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian politician, 2nd President of Georgia (d. 2014)
January 26 – Roger Vadim, French film director (d. 2000)
January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier
January 28 – Jorge Zorreguieta, Argentine businessman, politician (d. 2017)
January 30 – Harold Prince, American stage producer, director (d. 2019)
January 31 – Miltinho, Brazilian singer (d. 2014)
February

Ciriaco De Mita

Jean Kennedy Smith

Fats Domino

Ariel Sharon
February 1
Sam Edwards, Welsh physicist (d. 2015)
Tom Lantos, American politician (d. 2008)
Stuart Whitman, American film, television actor
February 2 – Ciriaco De Mita, Italian politician
February 3 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (d. 1999)
February 4 – Kim Yong-nam, North Korean politician
February 5 – William J. Larkin Jr., American politician (d. 2019)
February 9
George Brady, Czech-Canadian businessman and Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
Frank Frazetta, American illustrator (d. 2010)
Rinus Michels, Dutch association football player, coach (d. 2005)
Roger Mudd, American journalist
February 10
Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian-American philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania
Sissel Sellæg, Norwegian actress (d. 2014)
February 13
Refik Erduran, Turkish playwright, columnist and writer (d. 2017)
Gerald Regan, Canadian politician (d. 2019)
February 14 – Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist, demographer (d. 2012)
February 15 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban militant (d. 2018)
February 17 – Tom Jones, American lyricist
February 18 – John Ostrom, American paleontologist (d. 2005)
February 19 – Onuora Nzekwu, Nigerian writer (d. 2017)
February 20
Roy Face, American baseball player
Jean Kennedy Smith, American diplomat
Friedrich Wetter, German Catholic cardinal
February 21 – Cecil Sandford, English motorcycle racer
February 22
Paul Dooley, American actor
Sir Bruce Forsyth, English entertainer (d. 2017)
Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, Indian scientist, writer, and administrator (d. 2017)
February 23
Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
Vasily Lazarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1990)
February 24 – Naqsh Lyallpuri, Indian ghazal (d. 2017)
February 25 – Paul Elvstrøm, Danish yachtsman (d. 2016)
February 26
Fats Domino, African-American musician (d. 2017)
Anatoly Filipchenko, Russian cosmonaut
Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2014)
February 27 – René Clemencic, Austrian composer, record player and conductor
February 29
Joss Ackland, English actor
Jean Adamson, English writer and illustrator
Vance Haynes, American archaeologist, geologist and author
March

Frank Borman

Fidel Valdez Ramos

Fred Rogers

Surya Bahadur Thapa

Alexander Grothendieck

Jim Lovell

Gordie Howe
March 1 – Jacques Rivette, French filmmaker (d. 2016)
March 3
Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (d. 2019)
Diane Foster, Canadian athlete
Gudrun Pausewang, German young fiction writer (d. 2020)
March 4
Samuel Adler, American composer
Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010)
March 5 – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, Soviet Olympic canoeist
March 6 – Zoe Ducós, Argentine actress (d. 2002)
March 7 – Arthur Dion Hanna, Bahamian politician
March 8 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)
March 9
Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, Nigerian politician and military officer (d. 2017)
Keely Smith, American singer (d. 2017)
March 10
Sara Montiel, Spanish singer, actress (d. 2013)
Kiyoshi Atsumi, Japanese actor (d. 1996)
James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
March 12
Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016)
Werner Krolikowski, East German politician
Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
March 13 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor and narrator (d. 2018)
March 14
Frank Borman, American astronaut
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist, broadcaster (d. 1980)
March 16
Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (d. 2014)
Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2010)
Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
March 18
Lennart Carleson, Swedish mathematician
Julia Mullock, American-Korean royal (d. 2017)
Fidel Valdez Ramos, 12th President of the Philippines
Mirka Mora, French-Australian artist, cultural figure (d. 2018)
March 19
Arthur Cook, American sport shooter
Dequinha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1997)
Sutanto Djuhar, Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur (d. 2018)
Hans Küng, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, French writer, film director and Holocaust survivor (d. 2018)
Patrick McGoohan, American-born British-based actor of Irish descent (d. 2009)
March 20 –Fred Rogers, American children's television host (d. 2003)
March 21 –Surya Bahadur Thapa, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (d. 2015)
March 22 – Ed Macauley, American basketball player (d. 2011)
March 23 – Mark Rydell, American actor, director and producer
March 24
Ivar Aronsson, Swedish rower (d. 2017)
Byron Janis, American pianist
March 25 – Jim Lovell, American astronaut
March 28
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born American National Security Advisor (d. 2017)
Alexander Grothendieck, German-born mathematician (d. 2014)
March 30
Lilia Prado, Mexican actress, dancer (d. 2006)
Robert Badinter, French lawyer and politician
March 31
Lefty Frizzell, American country music performer (d. 1975)
Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player (d. 2016)
April

Serge Gainsbourg

Estelle Harris

Maya Angelou

James D. Watson

James Garner

Ethel Kennedy

Shirley Temple
April 1 – George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007)
April 2 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (d. 1991)
April 3
Don Gibson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
Earl Lloyd, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
April 4
Estelle Harris, American actress
Maya Angelou, African-American poet, novelist (d. 2014)
April 6
Joi Lansing, American actress (d. 1972)
James D. Watson, American geneticist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 7
James Garner, American actor, producer (d. 2014)
Alan J. Pakula, American producer, director (d. 1998)
James White, Irish writer (d. 1999)
Valeria Sabel, Italian actress (d. 2009)
April 8
Eric Porter, English actor (d. 1995)
Algimantas Nasvytis, Lithuanian architect (d. 2018)
April 9
Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006)
Tom Lehrer, American songwriter, satirist
April 10 – Ashok Mitra, Indian economist, politician (d. 2018)
April 11 – Ethel Kennedy, American human-rights campaigner, wife of Robert F. Kennedy
April 12 – Hardy Krüger, German actor
April 14 – Egil Monn-Iversen, Norwegian composer, pianist (d. 2017)
April 15 – Vida Alves, Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
April 17
Cynthia Ozick, American writer
Victor Lownes, American businessman (d. 2017)
April 18
Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (d. 2015)
Mikio Sato, Japanese mathematician
April 19
Richard Garwin, American physicist
Alexis Korner, British musician (d. 1984)
Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, King of Malaysia (d. 2014)
April 20
Robert Byrne, American chess player (d. 2013)
Margo Woode, American actress (d. 2018)
April 23
Olga Harmony, Mexican playwright (d. 2018)
Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (d. 2014)
Sergio Tedesco, Italian actor, voice actor and tenor (d. 2012)
April 24 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer, manager
April 25 – Cy Twombly, American artist (d. 2011)
April 27 – Brigitte Auber, French actress
April 28 – Yves Klein, French artist (d. 1962)
May

Sonny James

Hosni Mubarak

Billy Martin

Pernell Roberts

Rosemary Clooney

Jack Kevorkian

Agnès Varda
May 1
Sonny James, American country singer (d. 2016)
Sisavath Keobounphanh, 13th Prime Minister of Laos
Delfim Netto, Brazilian economist, Minister of Finance, Agriculture and Planning of Brazil, professor and congressman
Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2017)
May 2 – Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer and translator
May 3
Dave Dudley, American singer (d. 2003)
Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
May 4
Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (d. 2006)
Elemér Hankiss, Hungarian sociologist, philosopher (d. 2015)
Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet
Hosni Mubarak, 4th President of Egypt (d. 2020)
Betsy Rawls, American golfer
Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961)
Joseph Tydings, American lawyer and politician (d. 2018)
May 5 – Marshall Grant, American musician (d. 2011)
May 7 – John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
May 8 – Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer, speechwriter (d. 2010)
May 9
Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
May 10
Mel Lewis, American jazz drummer, band leader (d. 1990)
Arnold Rüütel, President of Estonia
Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013)
May 11
Dulce Figueiredo, First Lady of Brazil (d. 2011)
Arthur Foulkes, Governor-General of the Bahamas
May 12
Burt Bacharach, American composer, songwriter, pianist, and singer
Manuel Lujan Jr., American politician (d. 2019)
May 13
Enrique Bolaños, 61st President of Nicaragua
Édouard Molinaro, French film director, screenwriter (d. 2013)
Eugène Van Roosbroeck, Belgian racing cyclist (d. 2018)
May 14 – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian amateur heavyweight boxer (d. 2012)
May 16 – Billy Martin, American baseball player, manager (d. 1989)
May 18 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010)
May 19
Klara Berkovich, Soviet-American violinist
Dolph Schayes, American basketball player (d. 2015)
Dragutin Zelenović, Serbian politician and professor
May 23 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer, actress (d. 2002)
May 24
Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer, cutter (d. 2015)
William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer (d. 2016)
Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (d. 2015)
May 25 – Mary Wells Lawrence, American advertising executive
May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American right-to-die advocate (d. 2011)
May 28 – Ivan Kizimov, Soviet and Russian equestrian (d. 2019)
May 29 – Felix Rohatyn, American investment banker and diplomat (d. 2019)
May 30 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2019)
June

Queen Fabiola of Belgium

Richard M. Sherman

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Che Guevara

Annie Cordy

Martin Landau

Peyo
June 1
Georgy Dobrovolski, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, game show host (d. 2003)
June 3
Donald Judd, American artist (d. 1994)
John Richard Reid, New Zealand cricketer
June 4 – Ruth Westheimer, German-American sex therapist, film and television personality, and author
June 5 – Tony Richardson, English film, theater director (d. 1991)
June 6
George Deukmejian, American Republican politician (d. 2018)
Ed Fury, American actor, bodybuilder and model
Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (d. 2019)
June 7
James Ivory, American director, screenwriter and producer
Charles Strouse, American composer and lyricist
June 10 – Maurice Sendak, American children's author, illustrator (d. 2012)
June 11 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Spanish Queen Consort of King Baudouin of Belgium (d. 2014)
June 12
Vic Damone, American singer (d. 2018)
Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician, diplomat
Paul Ronty, Canadian ice hockey player
Richard M. Sherman, American songwriter
June 13
Giacomo Biffi, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 2015)
John Forbes Nash Jr., American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics (d. 2015)
June 14
José Bonaparte, Argentine Palaeontologist (d. 2020)
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (aka Che Guevara), Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary (d. 1967)
June 16 – Annie Cordy, Belgian actress and singer
June 17 – Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguayan dictator (d. 2011)
June 18 – Michael Blakemore, Australian actor
June 19
Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer
Jacques Dupont, French Olympic cyclist (d. 2019)
Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
June 20
Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964)
Martin Landau, American actor (d. 2017)
Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer, far-right politician
June 21
Charles D. Baker, American businessman and politician
Margit Bara, Hungarian actress (d. 2016)
Avraham Bendori, Israeli footballer (d. 2019)
Wolfgang Haken, German mathematician
Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress
Al Mengert, American golfer
June 22
Alfred M. Gray Jr., American general
Ralph Waite, American actor, political activist (The Waltons) (d. 2014)
June 23
Aída Judith León, First Lady of Ecuador
Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
Leon Fleischer, American concert pianist
Ray Hyman, American Professor Emeritus of Psychology
June 24
Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
Lester Grinspoon, American physician
Ivan Štraus, Bosnian architect (d. 2018)
June 25
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
Michel Brault, Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2013)
Robert Dean Hunter, American politician
Edwin Mills, American economist
Peyo, Belgian comics artist (d. 1992)
John A. Wickham Jr., American general
June 26
Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
Bill Sheffield, 5th Governor of Alaska
June 27
Edward B. Cottingham, American politician
Lin Ho-ming, Taiwanese former sports shooter
Antoinette Spaak, Belgian politician
June 28
Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat, politician
Harold Evans, British newspaper editor
Patrick Hemingway, second son of Ernest Hemingway
June 29
Bill Bagley, American politician
Alfredo Biondi, Italian politician, lawyer
Hans Cavalli-Björkman, Swedish lawyer
James Lincoln Collier, American journalist, musician and author
Uri Gallin, Israeli Olympic discus thrower
Jean-Louis Pesch, French comic book writer
Nick Testa, American professional baseball catcher, coach (d. 2018)
Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
June 30 – Nathaniel Tarn, American poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator
July

Gunnar Möller

Pierre Mauroy

Vince Edwards

Marcos Calderon

Elias James Corey

Bob Crane

Leon Fleisher

Dolphy

Francesco Cossiga

Joe Jackson

Stanley Kubrick

Joseph Kittinger

Li Ka-shing
July 1
Karim Allawi Homaidi, Iraqi football player
Andreas Aarflot, Norwegian theologian, bishop emeritus in the Church of Norway
Birgitta Ulfsson, Finnish actress (d. 2017)
Gunnar Möller, German television, film actor (d. 2017)
Robert Wemyss, Australian football player
Ram Naresh Yadav, Indian politician (d. 2016)
July 2
Tatyana Piletskaya, Soviet, Russian film, stage actress
Line Renaud, French actress
July 3
Georges-Jean Arnaud, French author
Pierrette Bloch, Swiss painter, textile artist (d. 2017)
Roger Horchow, American broadway producer
Raymond Setlakwe, Canadian lawyer and politician
July 4
Eugenia Viteri, Ecuadorian novelist, anthologist and teacher
Giampiero Boniperti, Italian football player
Constantin Enache, Romanian cross country skier (d. 2017)
Teofisto Guingona, Jr., 13th Vice President of the Philippines
Patrick Tilley, English science fiction author
July 5
Juris Hartmanis, Latvian-born American computer scientist, computational theorist
Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (d. 2013)
July 6
Richard R. Larson, American politician
Bernard Malgrange, French mathematician
July 7
Pat Hitchcock, English actress
Charles James McDonnell, American catholic bishop
Henry Sommerville, Australian fencer
Paul Wyss, Swiss politician
July 8
Pat Adams, American painter, printmaker
Balakh Sher Mazari, Pakistani politician, former Prime Minister
Alekos Spanoudakis, Greek basketball player (d. 2019)
Ángel Tulio Zof, Argentine footballer, coach (d. 2014)
July 9
Federico Bahamontes, Spanish road bicycle racer
Vince Edwards, American actor (Ben Casey) (d. 1996)
Nikos Milas, Greek basketball player, basketball coach (d. 2019)
Juan Rodríguez, Uruguayan rower
July 10
John Glenn, American baseball player
Herb Johnson, American football player
Jack Nel, South African cricketer (d. 2018)
July 11
Dor Bahadur Bista, Nepalese anthropologist, social scientist and activist (dis. 1995)
Carmelita González, Mexican actress (d. 2010)
Greville Janner, British politician, barrister, and writer (d. 2015)
Marcos Calderón, Peruvian football coach (d. 1987)
July 12
Muhammad Naqi Mallick, Pakistani cyclist
Elias James Corey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Hayden White, American historian (d. 2018)
S. R. Janakiraman, Indian Carnatic vocalist, musicologist
Alastair Burnet, British journalist, broadcaster (d. 2012)
July 13
Bob Crane, American actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 1978)
Edgar Espinoza, Venezuelan sport shooter
July 14
Bedabrata Barua, Indian politician
Ion Ioniță, Romanian cyclist
Haydn Morris, Welsh rugby player
Nancy Olson, American actress
July 15
Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian (d. 1967)
Pal Benko, French chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems (d. 2019)
Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher
Tom Troupe, American actor, writer
Hans Andersson-Tvilling, Swedish ice hockey player
Stig Andersson-Tvilling, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1989)
Aleksandr Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 2012)
July 16
Bella Davidovich, Soviet-born Jewish-American pianist
Anita Brookner, English novelist, art historian (d. 2016)
Concha Valdés Miranda, Cuban songwriter (d. 2017)
Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (d. 2011)
July 17
Chris Giles, Irish footballer (d. 2006)
Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
David Leach, Australian admiral
Robert Nixon, Canadian politician
July 18
Baddiewinkle, (b. Helen Ruth Elam Van Winkle), American internet personality
Manuel Guerra, Spanish swimmer
Stig Grybe, Swedish actor, comedian, writer and film director (d. 2017)
Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch poet, writer (d. 2009)
July 19
Choi Yun-chil, South Korean long-distance runner
Lal Chand, Indian long-distance runner
Samuel John Hazo, American author
July 20
Belaid Abdessalam, Algerian politician
Peter Ind, English jazz double bassist and record producer
Pavel Kohout, Czech-Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet
Sheldon Solow, American real estate developer
July 21
Josefina Echánove, Mexican actress, model and journalist
Anne Harris, Canadian sculptor
Jervis Percy, English modern pentathlete
Hirofumi Uzawa, Japanese economist (d. 2014)
July 22
Orson Bean, American film, television, and stage actor (d. 2020)
Nick Galifianakis, American politician
Jimmy Hill, English football professional, personality (d. 2015)
July 23
Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor
Vera Rubin, American astronomer (d. 2016)
July 24
Jardel Filho, Brazilian actor (d. 1983)
Keshubhai Patel, Indian politician
July 25 – Dolphy, Filipino actor, comedian (d. 2012)
July 26
Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician, 8th President of Italy (d. 2010)
Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer, director
Joe Jackson, African-American manager, father of Michael Jackson (d. 2018)
Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001: A Space Odyssey) (d. 1999)
Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, English politician
Bernice Rubens, British novelist (d. 2004)
July 27 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel, U.S. Air Force pilot
July 28 – Ann Sloat, Canadian politician (d. 2017)
July 29
T. H. P. Chentharasseri, Indian historian (d. 2018)
Philippe Bär, Dutch Roman Catholic bishop
Li Ka-shing, Asia's & Hong Kong's richest person, major philanthropist
August

Andy Warhol

James Randi

Eddie Fisher

Nicolas Roeg

Art Farmer

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Marian Seldes

James Coburn

Jaime Sin
August 1 – Shen Daren, Chinese politician (d. 2017)
August 2
Yoko Tani, French-born Japanese actress, nightclub entertainer (d. 1999)
Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (d. 2019)
August 3 – Cécile Aubry, French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director (d. 2010)
August 4
Udham Singh, Indian Hockey team player, winner of three gold and one silver medals (d. 2000)
Flóra Kádár, Hungarian actress (d. 2002)
Gerard Damiano, American adult film director (d. 2008)
August 5
Albrecht Dold, German mathematician (d. 2011)
Chung Won-shik, South Korean politician, educator, soldier, and author
Dinesh Chandra Joarder, Indian politician (d. 2018)
August 6
Mary Grant, Ghanaian politician (d. 2016)
Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
August 7
Helen Vita, Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian (d. 2001)
James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic
August 8
Lubor Bárta, Czech composer (d. 1972)
Simón Díaz, Venezuelan folk composer, singer (d. 2014)
August 9
Bob Cousy, American basketball player
Martin Greenfield, American tailor
Gerd Ruge, German journalist, author and filmmaker
Camilla Wicks, American violinist
August 10
Peter Barry, Irish Fine Gael politician, businessman (d. 2016)
Jimmy Dean, American country musician, entrepreneur (d. 2010)
Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (d. 2010)
August 11 – Beniamino Andreatta, Italian economist, politician (d. 2007)
August 12 – Maureen Colquhoun, English politician
August 13 – Pedro Pedrossian, Brazilian politician (d. 2017)
August 14
Gunnar Andersson, Swedish football player (d. 1969)
Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director and screenwriter
August 15
Manfredo do Carmo, Brazilian mathematician (d. 2018)
Carl Joachim Classen, German classical scholar (d. 2013)
Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, 2-time Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2002)
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Indian sitar player (d. 2017)
Nicolas Roeg, English film director (d. 2018)
Simone Silva, Egyptian-born French film actress (d. 1957)
August 16
Ara Güler, Armenian-Turkish photojournalist (d. 2018)
Shōji Yasui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)
Ann Blyth, American actress, singer
August 17 – Willem Duys, Dutch radio and television presenter, tennis player and music producer (d. 2011)
August 19 – Queen Ratna of Nepal
August 21
Wu Chuanyu, Indonesian-born Chinese swimmer who competed in the Olympic Games in 1948 and 1952 (d. 1954)
Chris Brasher, British track and field athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon (d. 2003)
Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. 1999)
Gillian Sheen, English Olympic fencer
August 22
Ray Marshall, American politician
Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
August 23 – Marian Seldes, American actress (d. 2014)
August 24 – Levko Lukyanenko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
August 25
Kayo Dottley, American football player (d. 2018)
Karl Korte, American composer
Herbert Kroemer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 26
Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist (d. 2006)
Saliu Adetunji, Nigerian monarch of Ibadan
August 27
Péter Boross, Hungarian politician
Piet Bleeker, Dutch long-distance runner (d. 2018)
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party
Francesco Saverio Salerno, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
August 28 — Ed Salem, American football quarterback, defensive back (d. 2001)
August 29 – Herbert Meier, Swiss author, translator (d. 2018)
August 30
Shirley Huffman, American politician (d. 2018)
Johnny Mann, American composer, arranger, and singer (d. 2014)
August 31
James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002)
Jaime Sin, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2005)
September

Horace Silver

Gaston Thorn

Jean Vanier

Roddy McDowall

Adam West

Koko Taylor

Elie Wiesel
September 1 – George Maharis, American actor
September 2
Muhammad Dandamayev, Russian Babylonia historian (d. 2017)
Horace Silver, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2014)
September 3
A. M. Azahari, Brunei politician (d. 2002)
Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress
Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg Prime Minister (d. 2007)
September 4
José Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball pitcher (d. 2018)
Dick York, American actor (Bewitched) (d. 1992)
September 5
Damayanti Joshi, Indian classical dancer of Kathak (d. 2004)
Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz musician (d. 2005)
September 6
Mirosława Litmanowicz, Polish chess player (d. 2017)
Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect
Robert M. Pirsig, American philosopher, author (d. 2017)
Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor, composer (d. 2002)
Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon (d. 2012)
September 7
Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist (d. 2016)
Al McGuire, American basketball player, coach, and commentator (d. 2001)
September 9 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (d. 2007)
September 10
Roch Bolduc, Canadian politician and civil servant
Dencio Padilla, Filipino actor and comedian (d. 1997)
Jean Vanier, Swiss-born Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian and humanitarian (d. 2019)
September 11
Earl Holliman, American actor
William X. Kienzle, American author (d. 2000)
September 12
Robert Irwin, American painter
M. V. Rajasekharan, Indian member of Rajya Sabha
Violeta Vidaurre, Chilean actress
September 13
Robert Indiana, American contemporary artist (d. 2018)
Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)
September 14 – Dick Clark, American politician
September 15
Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
Henry Silva, American actor
September 16
Hironoshin Furuhashi, Japanese swimmer (d. 2009)
Patricia Wald, American judge (d. 2019)
September 17 – Roddy McDowall, British actor (d. 1998)
September 18 – Sigrid Kahle, Swedish journalist, writer (d. 2013)
September 19 – Adam West, American actor (Batman) (d. 2017)
September 20
Jacqueline Desmarais, Canadian billionaire philanthropist (d. 2018)
Jack Edwards, American politician
Donald Hall, American poet, United States Poet Laureate (d. 2018)
Shiro Hashizume, Japanese Olympic swimmer
Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (d. 2000)
September 22
Justin Marie Bomboko, Congolese civil servant (d. 2014)
James Lawson, American civil rights activist and professor
September 23 –Santiago Vernazza, Argentine footballer (d. 2017)
September 25 – Victor Gold, American journalist, press secretary (d. 2017)
September 26 – Robert D. Ray, American lawyer, politician (d. 2018)
September 27 – Garry Watson, American child actor
September 28 – Koko Taylor, African-American singer (d. 2009)
September 30
Mirta Díaz-Balart, Fidel Castro's first wife
Elie Wiesel, Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor, writer, lecturer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 2016)
October

Kåre Willoch

Einojuhani Rautavaara

María Cristina Arango Vega

Borisav Jović

Li Peng

Zhu Rongji

Anthony Franciosa
October 1
Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born South African actor (d. 1973)
Sivaji Ganesan, Indian stage, film actor (d. 2001)
George Peppard, American film, television actor (d. 1994)
October 2
George "Spanky" McFarland, American child actor (d. 1993)
Zora Tavčar, Slovenian writer and translator
Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (d. 2020)
October 3
Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese academic and politician
Kåre Willoch, Norwegian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Norway
Erik Bruhn, Danish danseur, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author (d. 1986)
October 4 – Torben Ulrich, Danish tennis player
October 7
Muriel Bevis, American female professional baseball player (d. 2002)
Ali Kafi, Pakistani politician (d. 2013)
José Messias, Brazilian musician, composer, and writer (d. 2015)
Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet, painter (d. 1980)
Abraham Woods, American civil rights leader (d. 2008)
October 8
M. Russell Ballard, American businessman and religious leader
Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer
Bill Maynard, English comic actor (d. 2018)
October 9
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (d. 2016)
Clare Drake, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2018)
October 11 – Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, English businessman, politician (d. 2019)
October 12 – Dilbagh Singh Athwal, Indian geneticist, agriculturist (d. 2017)
October 14
Gary Graffman, American concert pianist
Arnfinn Bergmann, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (d. 2011)
October 15
Paul Giambarba, American graphic designer, cartoonist, writer and illustrator
María Cristina Arango Vega, First Lady of Colombia (d. 2017)
October 16
Eileen Ryan, American actress
Nando Gazzolo, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2015)
October 17 – Alejandro Végh Villegas, Uruguayan political figure (d. 2017)
October 18
Ernest Simoni, Albanian Catholic cardinal
Dick Taverne, English politician
October 19 – Borisav Jović, 13th President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
October 20 – Li Peng, former Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2019)
October 21
Vern Mikkelsen, American professional basketball player (d. 2013)
Whitey Ford, American baseball player
Yu Guangzhong, Taiwanese poet (d. 2017)
October 22 – Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian film director (d. 2018)
October 23
Marthe Mercadier, French actress
Zhu Rongji, former Premier of the People's Republic of China
October 24 – Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (d. 1981)
October 25
Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013)
Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect
Marion Ross, American actress
October 26 – Erich Kukk, Estonian phycologist, conservationist (d. 2017)
October 27
Datta Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
Shulamit Aloni, Israeli politician (d. 2014)
Waldo Holmes, American musician and songwriter
Thomas Perrin, Australian cricketer
Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer and poet
October 28
Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
Bill Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician
October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1999)
October 31 – Roy Romer, American politician
November

Ennio Morricone

Carlos Fuentes

Vitaliy Masol

Rance Howard

Dara Singh

Karin Söder
November 2 – Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian and author
November 3
Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
George Yardley, American basketball player (d. 2004)
Nick Holonyak, American electrical engineer, inventor
November 4
Mihai Chițac, Romanian general (d. 2010)
George Stanich, American high jumper
November 6 – Zara Steiner, American-English historian and academic
November 7 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (d. 1980)
November 8 – Ursula Haverbeck, German historian
November 9
Anne Sexton, American poet (d. 1974)
Werner Veigel, German journalist, news presenter (d. 1995)
November 10 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer
November 11
Ernestine Anderson, American jazz and blues singer (d. 2016)
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012)
November 12 – Bobby Baker, American political adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson (d. 2017)
November 14
Kathleen Hughes, American actress
Bernabé Martí, Spanish operatic tenor
Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 2018)
November 15 – C. W. McCall, American country singer, politician
November 16 – Clu Gulager, American actor, director
November 17
Betty Kaunda, former first lady of Zambia (d. 2012)
Arman, French artist (d. 2005)
Rance Howard, American actor (d. 2017)
Amata Kabua, 1st President of the Marshall Islands (d. 1996)
Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer
Anna Meyer, American female professional baseball player
November 18
Inge Bandekow, wife of German industrialist Harald Quandt (d. 1978)
Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer (d. 1994)
Sheila Jordan, American singer and pianist
Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., American air force lieutenant general (d. 2016)
Norman Baker, American explorer (d. 2017)
Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2004)
November 19
Ina van Faassen, Dutch actress, comedian (d. 2011)
Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
November 20
Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (d. 2017)
Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach
Pete Rademacher, American boxer
November 21 – Augustin Bubník, Czech ice hockey player, coach and politician (d. 2017)
November 23 – Elmarie Wendel, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
November 28
Toaripi Lauti, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2014)
Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (d. 1980)
Piet Steenbergen, Dutch footballer (d. 2010)
Bano Qudsia, Pakistani writer (d. 2017)
November 29
Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (d. 2003)
Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and educator
November 30
Takako Doi, Japanese politician (d. 2014)
Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
Steele Hall, Australian politician
Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 2016)
Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
December

Noam Chomsky

Dick Van Patten

Dan Blocker

Barbara Nichols

Martin Cooper

Bo Diddley
December 2 – Guy Bourdin, French fashion photographer (d. 1991)
December 3
Karin Bang, Norwegian writer (d. 2017)
Michel Adama-Tamboux, Central African politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
Barbara Probst Solomon, American author, essayist and journalist (d. 2019)
December 4
Lajos Somodi Sr., Hungarian fencer (d. 2012)
Hebe de Bonafini, Argentine activist
December 6 – Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, English politician and solicitor
December 7
Zdeněk Mahler, Czech writer, musicologist, pedagogue and screenwriter (d. 2018)
Noam Chomsky, American linguist
December 9
André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015)
December 10
Dan Blocker, American actor (Bonanza) (d. 1972)
Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976)
December 11 – Paul Bircher, English rower (d. 2019)
December 12
Lionel Blair, English actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (d. 1998)
December 13 – Nati Mistral, Spanish actress (d. 2017)
December 15
Ida Haendel, Polish-British violinist
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
December 16
Terry Carter, American actor and filmmaker
Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author (d. 1982)
Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner, politician (CDU), manager and businessman (d. 2011)
Bruce Ames, American biochemist
December 17
George Lindsey, American actor (d. 2012)
Francis George Adeodatus Micallef, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
December 18 – Galt MacDermot, Canadian-American composer, pianist (d. 2018)
December 19
Eve Bunting, Irish-American author
Guy Razanamasy, 2-time Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2011)
December 20 – Donald Adams, British actor and opera singer (d. 1996)
December 21
Ed Nelson, American actor (d. 2014)
Colleen Townsend, American actress and author
December 22 – Piero Angela, Italian writer, journalist and television presenter
December 23 – Roger Jepsen, American politician
December 25
Dick Miller, American actor (d. 2019)
John Njenga, Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
December 26 – Martin Cooper, American inventor, "Father of the mobile phone"
December 28 – Bill Gradison, American politician
December 29
Bernard Cribbins, English actor, comedian and singer
June Preston, American child actress and singer
December 30
Bo Diddley, African-American musician (d. 2008)
Janez Zemljarič, Slovenian politician
December 31
Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (d. 2015)
Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
Tatyana Shmyga, Soviet-Russian operetta/musical theatre performer (d. 2011)
Unknown
John Challis, Australian gay rights activist



January

Haruo Nakajima

Sergio Leone

Martin Luther King Jr.

Jacques Plante

Patriarch Filaret

Rudolf Mössbauer

Jean Simmons
January 1
Joseph Lombardo, American mobster (d. 2019)
Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (d. 2017)
January 2 – Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician and First Lady of Finland
January 3
Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer
Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur, benefactor
January 4 – Günter Schabowski, official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (d. 2015)
January 5
Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal
Robert K. Massie, American journalist and historian (d. 2019)
January 7 – Terry Moore, American actress
January 8
Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor (d. 2015)
Erich Jantsch, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 1980)
January 9 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist (d. 2015)
January 10 – Tony Soper, English naturalist, author and broadcaster
January 11
Nureddin al-Atassi, Syrian philatelist, 54th Prime Minister of Syria and 17th President of Syria (d. 1992)
Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect
Nicoletta Orsomando, Italian actress and television personality
Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist, teacher (d. 2018)
January 12
Irena Homola-Skąpska, Polish historian (d. 2017)
Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish philosopher
Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher, logician (d. 2015)
January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
January 16 – Son Myung-soon, Former First Lady of South Korea
January 17
Tan Boon Teik, Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012)
Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)
January 20
Prince Antoine of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 2019)
Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese zoologist
January 23
Patriarch Filaret, former Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate
John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
January 25
Benny Golson, American jazz musician
Michael Michai Kitbunchu, Thai cardinal
January 26
Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and author
Sumiteru Taniguchi, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
January 27
Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate
Richard Ottinger, American politician
January 28
Acker Bilk, British clarinetist (d. 2014)
Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist
Claes Oldenburg, American artist Clothespin (Oldenburg)
January 29
Lila T. Abaunza, First Lady of Nicaragua (d. 2008)
George Ross Anderson Jr., American judge
January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate
January 31
Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010)
February

Vic Morrow

Alejandro Jodorowsky

James Hong

Alexy II

Frank Gehry
February 1 – Basilio Lami Dozo, Argentine dictator (d. 2017)
February 2
Věra Chytilová, Czech director (d. 2014)
John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (d. 2015)
February 4 – Jerry Adler, American actor
February 5
Hal Blaine, American drummer and session musician (d. 2019)
Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
Fred Sinowatz, 18th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
February 6
Sixten Jernberg, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2012)
Pierre Brice, French actor (d. 2015)
Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author (d. 2020)
February 10
Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2007)
Jerry Goldsmith, American composer, conductor (d. 2004)
Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
February 14
Vic Morrow, American actor, director (Combat) (d. 1982)
James Nelligan, American politician
February 15
Graham Hill, English racing driver (d. 1975)
Kauko Armas Nieminen, Finnish physicist (d. 2010)
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Palestinian academic (d. 2001)
James Schlesinger, American politician (d. 2014)
February 16 – Kazimierz Kutz, Polish film director and politician (d. 2018)
February 17
Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French director and screenwriter
Patricia Routledge, English actress, singer
February 18
Roland Minson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
Len Deighton, British author
February 21 – Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños), Mexican actor, comedian (d. 2014)
February 22
James Hong, Chinese American actor, director
Miloš Radulović, President of Yugoslavia (d. 2017)
Rebecca Schull, American actress
February 23 – Patriarch Alexy II of Russia (d. 2008)
February 24
Nils Petter Sundgren, Swedish film critic and television presenter (d. 2019)
Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish surrealist painter (d. 2005)
Modesta Lavana, Mexican healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan (d. 2010)
February 25 – Issa J. Boullata, Palestinian scholar and writer (d. 2019)
February 26
Ina'am Al-Mufti, Jordanian politician (d. 2018)
Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (d. 2018)
February 28
Hayden Fry, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
Frank Gehry, Canadian-born American architect
Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Indian-American physical chemist and inventor
March

Joseph Mascolo

Cecil Taylor

Christa Wolf

Lennart Meri
March 1 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
March 4
Cyril Robinson, English footballer (d. 2019)
Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
March 6
Gale McArthur, American basketball player (d. 2020)
Fazil Iskander, Abkhaz writer (d. 2016)
Ho Dam, North Korean politician (d. 1991)
Günter Kunert, German writer (d. 2019)
March 7 – Marion Marlowe, American singer and actress (d. 2012)
March 8
Hebe Camargo, Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer (d. 2012)
Elaine Edwards, American politician (d. 2018)
March 9
Desmond Hoyte, 3rd Prime Minister of Guyana, 4th President of Guyana (d. 2002)
Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
March 10 – Lolita Rodrigues, Brazilian actress and presenter
March 13
Peter Breck, American actor, drama teacher (d. 2012)
Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator (d. 2018)
Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2007)
Joseph Mascolo, American musician, actor (d. 2016)
March 14
Michael D. Coe, American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher and author (d. 2019)
Bob Goalby, American golfer
March 15 – Cecil Taylor, African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018)
March 16
Gennady Bukharin, Soviet Olympic canoeist
Betty Johnson, American singer
Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
March 17 – Howie Winter, American mob boss
March 18 – Christa Wolf, German literary critic, novelist, and essayist (d. 2011)
March 20 – Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican film, theater, television, and voice actor (d. 2015)
March 22
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese contemporary artist
P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (d. 1973)
March 23 – Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete (d. 2018)
March 25
Harris W. Fawell, American politician
Abdul Hamid Omar, 1st Chief Justice of Malaysia (d. 2009)
March 26 – Edward Sorel, American illustrator and caricaturist
March 29
Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist and academic
Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
March 31 – Bert Fields, American lawyer
April

Jane Powell

André Previn

Jacques Brel

Max von Sydow
April 1
Barbara Bryne, English actress
Milan Kundera, Czech writer
Jane Powell, American actress, dancer
April 3 – Poul Schlüter, Danish politician
April 4 – William F. Clinger Jr., American politician
April 5
Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, Dutch Antillean politician (d. 2017)
Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (d. 2001)
Joe Meek, English record producer, sound engineer, and songwriter (d. 1967)
April 6
André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2019)
Christos Sartzetakis, Greek politician
April 7 – Madavoor Vasudevan Nair, Indian Kathakali dancer (d. 2018)
April 8
Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (d. 1978)
Morton B. Panish, American physical chemist
April 9 – Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (d. 1993)
April 10
Mike Hawthorn, British racing driver (d. 1959)
Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (d. 2020)
Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (d. 2020)
April 13 – Yvonne Clark, American engineer (d. 2019)
April 14
Gerry Anderson, English television, film producer, director and writer, (Thunderbirds) (d. 2012)
Paavo Berglund, Finnish conductor, violinist (d. 2012)
April 14 – Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (d. 2012)
April 17 – James Last, German composer and bandleader (d. 2015)
April 21
Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician, First Lady (d. 2019)
Bevin Hough, New Zealand sportsman (d. 2019)
April 22
Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (d. 2019)
John Nicks, English figure skater and skating coach
April 23 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (d. 2020)
April 24
Shammi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)
April 25 – Abderrahmane Mahjoub, French and Moroccan international football (soccer) midfielder (d. 2011)
April 26
Alexandre Lamfalussy, Hungarian-Belgian economist and central banker (d. 2015)
Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (d. 2019)
April 27 – Michael Harner, American anthropologist, author (d. 2018)
April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress (d. 2017)
April 30 – Klausjürgen Wussow, German theatre, television actor (d. 2007)
May

Audrey Hepburn

Sam Nujoma

Betty Carter

John Conyers

Peter Higgs
May 1 – Ralf Dahrendorf, Anglo-German sociologist (d. 2009)
May 2
Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor and director (d. 2019)
Link Wray, American rock and roll musician (d. 2005)
Édouard Balladur, 91st Prime Minister of France
May 3 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish physician, "father of modern dental implantology" (d. 2014)
May 4
Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian, actor (d. 2005)
Audrey Hepburn, British actress, activist (d. 1993)
May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
May 6 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
May 8
Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (d. 2017)
Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese singer, actress (d. 2007)
Jane Roberts, American writer (d. 1984)
John C. Bogle, American investor (d. 2019)
May 10 – Sándor Kányádi, Hungarian poet, translator (d. 2018)
May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress
May 12
Don Gibson, English footballer
Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (d. 2019)
Sam Nujoma, 1st President of Namibia
May 13 – Ângela Maria, Brazilian singer and actress (d. 2018)
May 15 – Otar Patsatsia, Georgian politician
May 16
Betty Carter, African-American jazz singer (d. 1998)
John Conyers, African-American politician (d. 2019)
Zhang Zong, Chinese crystallographer (d. 2019)
Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist (d. 2012)
May 20 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier (d. 1973)
May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007)
May 26
Ernie Carroll, Australian television personality and producer
John Jackson, English businessman
Alfred Kunz, German-Canadian composer (d. 2019)
May 29
Dwijen Sharma, Bangladeshi naturalist (d. 2017)
Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
May 30 – Doina Cornea, Romanian human rights activist, professor (d. 2018)
May 31
Joseph Bernardo, French Olympic swimmer
Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (d. 2014)
June

Karolos Papoulias

John Turner

James McDivitt

Anne Frank

Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
June 1 – James H. Billington, American academic and author (d. 2018)
June 3 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and Nobel laureate
June 4
Rolf Leeser, Dutch footballer and fashion designer (d. 2018)
Karolos Papoulias, President of Greece
June 6
Sunil Dutt, Hindi film actor (d. 2005)
Albert Kalonji, Congolese politician (d. 2015)
June 7 – John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
June 8 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor (d. 2017)
June 9 – Johnny Ace, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954)
June 10
Ian Sinclair, Australian politician
E. O. Wilson, American biologist
James McDivitt, American astronaut
June 12 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist, Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
June 16 – Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
June 18 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist, philosopher
June 20
Larry Collins, American novelist (d. 2005
Bonnie Bartlett, American actress
June 21 – Ramón Luis Rivera, Puerto Rican politician
June 23
Bart Carlier, Dutch football player (d. 2017)
June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
Mario Ghella, Italian racing cyclist
Claude Goretta, Swiss internationally successful television producer, film director (d. 2019)[48]
Gail Peters, American swimmer
June 24
Vic Carrabotta, American comic-book artist and advertising art director
Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
Yaakov Agmon, Israeli theatre producer, manager, and director
June 25
Eric Carle, American designer, illustrator, and writer
Benny Schmidt, Danish modern pentathlete
June 26 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher
June 27
J. C. Duncan, American politician
H. Ian Macdonald, Canadian economist and civil servant
Gennady Osipov, Russian scientist, sociologist and philosopher
June 28 – Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician
June 29
Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (d. 2019)
Pete George, American weightlifter
Lalla Fatima Zohra, Moroccan aristocrat (d. 2014)
Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist, author (d. 2006)
June 30
Othmar Mága, German conductor
Ron Phoenix, English footballer
Yang Ti-liang, Hong Kong judge
July

Gerald Edelman

Imelda Marcos

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Hassan II of Morocco

Jean Baudrillard

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
July 1
Gerald Edelman, American biologist and Nobel laureate (d. 2014)
Jack Storey, Australian rules footballer
July 2
Daphne Hasenjäger, South African athlete
Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
July 3
Joanne Herring, American socialite, businesswoman, political activist, philanthropist, diplomat, and former television talk show host
Lavelle White, American Texas blues and soul blues singer, songwriter
July 4
Peter Angelos, American lawyer
Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian Catholic cardinal (d. 2018)
July 5
Chikao Ōtsuka, Japanese actor, voice actor and father of Akio Ōtsuka (d. 2015)
Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019)
Thérèse Quentin, French actress (d. 2015)
July 6
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, secretary of the Académie française, historian specializing in Russian history
Angelo LiPetri, American former professional baseball player (d. 2016)
Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
July 7
Sergio Romano, Italian writer, journalist, and historian
Colin Walker, English footballer
July 8
Shirley Ann Grau, American writer
Milena Greppi, Italian hurdler
Héctor López, Panamanian baseball player
July 9
Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician (d. 2017)
Jesse McReynolds, American bluegrass musician
King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
Chi Haotian, Chinese general
July 10
Franco Graziosi, Italian actor
Winnie Ewing, Scottish nationalist
José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan leftist politician
July 11
Sandy Frank, American television producer
David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
July 12 – Brian Woodward, English footballer
July 13
Svein Ellingsen, Norwegian visual artist, hymnist
Sofia Muratova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2006)
July 14
Jean Konan Banny, Ivorian politician (d. 2018)
Sonja Kastl, Croatian film and stage actress, teacher, dancer and choreographer
Kailash Chandra Joshi, Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (d. 2019)
Syed Rahim, Indian cricketer (d. 2014)
July 17
Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician, academic
Arthur Frommer, American writer, publisher and consumer advocate
Vasco Modena, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2016)
July 18
Dick Button, American figure skater
Roy Killin, Canadian footballer
A V Swamy, Indian politician
July 19
Gaston Glock, Austrian inventor, businessman
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
Ronald Melzack, Canadian physiologist and professor (d. 2019)
Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician
July 20
Hosbet Suresh, American judge
Irving Wardle, English writer and theatre critic
July 21
Birger Asplund, Swedish hammer thrower
Idrissa Dione, French boxer
Albert Kwesi Ocran, Ghanaian soldier, politician (d. 2019)
John Woodvine, English actor
July 22 – Midhat J. Gazalé, French international telecommunications, space consultant
July 24
Peter Yates, English film director and producer (d. 2011)
Paolo Paoloni, Italian actor (d. 2019)
July 25
Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
Manuel Olivencia, Spanish economist, diplomat (d. 2018)
Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician (d. 2018)
July 27
Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist and political commentator (d. 2007)
Jack Higgins, British novelist
July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
July 29 – Mikel Sicluna, Maltese professional wrestler (d. 2010)
July 31 – Don Murray, American actor
August

Hafizullah Amin

Buck Owens

Francis Gary Powers

Yasser Arafat
August 1
Samuel Charters, American writer, music historian and record producer (d. 2015)
Flerida Ruth Pineda-Romero, Filipino judge (d. 2017)
Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician and statesman (d. 1979)
August 2 – Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (d. 2019)
August 4 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2012)
- Kohei Miyauchi, Japanese actor from Kagoshima, Japan (d. 1995)
August 5
Ottó Boros, Hungarian water polo player (d. 1988)
Nathalia Timberg, Brazilian actress
August 7
Arrigo Petacco, Italian journalist, writer (d. 2018)
Richard T. Schulze, American politician
Don Larsen, American baseball player (d. 2020)
August 8
Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (d. 2013)
Luis García Meza, 68th President of Bolivia (d. 2018)
August 12 – Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
August 14 – Louise Slaughter, American politician (d. 2018)
August 15
Louise Shivers, American author, writer (d. 2014)
Marcia Hafif, American painter (d. 2018)
Carlo Ripa di Meana, Italian politician (d. 2018)
August 16 – Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
August 17 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot (d. 1977)
August 20 – Carlos Ancira, Mexican film actor (d. 1987)
August 21
Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician, political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2017)
Marie Severin, American comics artist, colorist (d. 2018)
August 23
Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)
Vera Miles, American actress
Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (d. 2018)
August 24
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
Alix, Princess of Ligne, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2019)
Alberto Zalamea Costa, Colombian journalist, politician and diplomat (d. 2011)
Betty Dodson, American sex educator
August 25 – Dominique Fernandez, French writer
September

Bob Newhart

Arnold Palmer

Murray Gell-Mann

Anne Meara

Sándor Kocsis

Lata Mangeshkar
September 1
"Mad Dog" Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2013)
Květa Fialová, Czech actress (d. 2017)
September 3
Whitey Bulger, incarcerated Irish-American organized crime boss (Winter Hill Gang) (d. 2018)
Irene Papas, Greek actress
Armand Vaillancourt, Québécois Canadian sculptor, painter, and performance artist
September 4 – Thomas Eagleton, United States Senator for Missouri (1969–87) (d. 2007)
September 5 – Bob Newhart, American comedian, actor
September 7 – Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (d. 2016)
September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer (d. 2016)
September 11
Eve Brent, American actress (d. 2011)
Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Lesothan cardinal
September 14 – Hans Clarin, German actor (d. 2005)
September 15
John Julius Norwich, British historian, travel writer and television personality (d. 2018)
Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2019)
September 16
Margarita Carrera, Guatemalan philosopher, professor and writer (d. 2018)
Dale Kildee, American politician
Maxine Kline, American female professional baseball player
Jamshid bin Abdullah, last Sultan of Zanzibar
September 17 – Stirling Moss, British former Formula One racing driver
September 18 – Armando, Dutch artist (d. 2018)
September 19 – Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle road racer (d. 2018)
September 20 – Anne Meara, American actress, comedian (d. 2015)
September 21
Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian football player (d. 1979)
Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
September 22
William E. Dannemeyer, American politician (d. 2019)
Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress (d. 1987)
September 23 – Johan Claassen, South African rugby player (d. 2019)
September 24 – Tunku Abdul Malik, Raja Muda of Kedah (d. 2015)
September 25
Barbara Walters, American journalist
Ronnie Barker, English actor, comedian and writer (d. 2005)
September 28
Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer
Nikolai Ryzhkov, Soviet and Russian politician
September 29 – Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Italian academic, poet (d. 2017)
September 30
Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Leticia Ramos-Shahani, Filipino senator, writer (d. 2017)
October

Fernanda Montenegro

Violeta Chamorro

Ursula K. Le Guin

Yevgeny Primakov

Bud Spencer
October 1 – Maitama Sule, Nigerian politician (d. 2017)
October 2
Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993)
Hong Song-nam, 8th Premier of North Korea (d. 2009)
October 5
Yuri Artsutanov, Russian engineer (d. 2019)
Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (d. 2017)
October 8 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer (d. 2017)
October 9 – Ana Luisa Peluffo, Mexican actress
October 11 – Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
October 15
Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (d. 2017)
Antonino Zichichi, Italian physicist
October 16 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
October 18 – Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
October 20 – Colin Jeavons, English actor
October 21
Ursula K. Le Guin, American science-fiction, fantasy author (d. 2018)
Pierre Bellemare, French writer, radio personality (d. 2018)
October 22
Patsy Elsener, American diver (d. 2019)
Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)
October 24
George Crumb, American composer
Ronald E. Rosser, American Medal of Honour recipient
October 25
David McReynolds, American political activist (d. 2018)
Claude Rouer, French Olympic road cyclist
LaDell Andersen, American college and basketball coach (d. 2019)
October 28 – Joan Plowright, English actress
October 29 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician, diplomat (d. 2015)
October 30 – Jean Chapman, English author
October 31
Bud Spencer, Italian actor (d. 2016)
Muktha Srinivasan, Indian film director, producer (d. 2018)
November

Grace Kelly

Ed Asner

Dick Clark

Joan Ganz Cooney
November 2
Rachel Ames, American actress
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, 9th President of Pakistan
Richard E. Taylor, Canadian-born physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
November 5 – Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official and 5th president of UEFA (d. 2019)
November 6 – June Squibb, American actress
November 7
Benny Andersen, Danish author, poet and pianist (d. 2018)
Eric R. Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
November 8
Bert Berns, American songwriter, record producer (d. 1967)
Jona Senilagakali, Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2011)
November 9 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2016)
November 10 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-born Mexican film actress, dancer (d. 2015)
November 11 – LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
November 12
Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
Michael Ende, German fantasy writer (d. 1995)
Hind Rostom, Egyptian actress (d. 2011)
November 13 – Fred Phelps, American pastor, activist (Westboro Baptist Church) (d. 2014)
November 15
Ed Asner, American actor and voice actor
Gombojavyn Ochirbat, Mongolian politician
November 17 – Gorō Naya, Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director, older brother of Rokurō Naya (d. 2013)
November 18
John McMartin, American actor (d. 2016)
Francisco Savín, Mexican conductor, composer (d. 2018)
November 20 – Raymond Lefèvre, French conductor, arranger, composer (d. 2008)
November 23 – Hal Lindsey, American evangelist and Christian writer
November 24
Franciszek Kokot, Polish nephrologist
George Moscone, American attorney, politician and 37th Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1978)
November 26 – Betta St. John, American actress, singer and dancer
November 28
Berry Gordy, African-American record producer, songwriter
Thomas Remengesau Sr., 4th President of Palau (d. 2019)
November 30
Dick Clark, American television entertainer (d. 2012)
Joan Ganz Cooney, American television producer
December

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Bob Hawke

Christopher Plummer

Fernando Sebastián Aguilar
December 1
David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
Alfred Moisiu, 7th President of Albania
December 2 – Leon Litwack, American historian
December 6
Philippe Bouvard, French television and radio presenter
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (d. 2016)
Alain Tanner, Swiss film director
December 9
Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese pianist and composer
December 13 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
December 14 – Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (d. 2019)
December 15 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, former Queen of Jordan (d. 2019)
December 16
Nicholas Courtney, British actor (d. 2011)
Arthur Fitzsimons, Irish football player, manager (d. 2018)
December 17 – William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter (d. 2009)
December 18 – Yeoh Tiong Lay, Malaysian businessman (d. 2017)
December 19 – David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish potter and aristocrat
December 20
David H. Gambrell, American attorney
Selim Hoss, 3-time Prime Minister of Lebanon
Lee Hyun-jae, South Korean politician
Milan Panić, Serbian politician
December 22 – Wazir Mohammad Indian-Pakistani cricketer
December 23 – Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d. 1988)
December 24 – Philip Ziegler, English biographer and historian
December 26
Kathleen Crowley, American actress (d. 2017)
Régine, Belgian-French singer
Rene Espina, Filipino lawyer, legislator, and politician (d. 2019)
Taarak Mehta, Indian playwright, humorist (d. 2017)
December 27 – Tommy Rall, American actor and dancer
December 28 – Efraín Goldenberg, Peruvian politician, finance minister and foreign relations minister
December 29
Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues musician (d. 2018)
Susie Garrett, American actress (d. 2002)
December 30 – Lucien Xavier Michel-Andrianarahinjaka, Malagasy writer, politician (d. 1997)
December 31 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter (d. 2018)
Unknown
June Leaf, American artist
Tina Ramirez, Puerto Rican-born American dancer and choreographer

January

Robert Loggia

Rod Taylor

Tippi Hedren

Buzz Aldrin

Derek Walcott

Gene Hackman
January 1
Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of Sudan (d. 2009)
Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Yemeni military officer, politician
Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti (d. 2018)
Ty Hardin, American actor (d. 2017)
Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer
January 2
Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
Donato Piazza, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1997)
January 3
Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
Ahmed Osman, Prime Minister of Morocco
Ruth Dowman, New Zealand long jumper, sprinter (d. 2018)
Barbara Stuart, American actress (d. 2011)
January 4
Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
Don Shula, American football coach
Abderrazak Rassaa, Tunisian politician (d. 2020)
January 5
Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet (d. 2001)
M.R. Srinivasan, Indian nuclear scientist
Edward Givens, United States Air Force officer, test pilot and NASA astronaut (d. 1967)
Dorothy Cotton, American civil rights activist (d. 2018)
Don Rondo, American singer (d. 2011)
January 6
Charles Kalani, Jr., American wrestler and actor (d. 2000)
Oscar Camilión, Argentine lawyer and diplomat (d. 2016)
Vic Tayback, American actor (Alice) (d. 1990)
January 7 – Jack Greene, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
January 9 – Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2010)
January 10 – Roy E. Disney, Disney executive (d. 2009)
January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
January 12
Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player, co-founder of Tim Hortons fast food chain (d. 1974)
Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist
Glenn Yarbrough, American singer (d. 2016)
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020)
January 19
Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon
January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician, diplomat (d. 2001)
January 23
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016)
January 26 – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino artist (d. 2018)
January 27
Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
Usko Meriläinen, Finnish composer (d. 2004)
Carlos Cecconato, Argentinian footballer (d. 2018)
January 30
Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist
Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence in the 1980s (d. 2011)
January 31 – Al De Lory, American record producer, arranger, musician (d. 2012)
February

Hussain Muhammad Ershad

Robert Wagner

Joanne Woodward
February 1
Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh (d. 2019)
February 3 – Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist of Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2002)
February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
February 6
Allan King, Canadian director (d. 2009)
Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer, entrepreneur (d. 2017)
February 8
Erich Bohme, German journalist, television host (d. 2009)
Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987)
February 9 – Rafiq Subaie, Syrian actor, writer and director (d. 2017)
February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
February 13
Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
Israel Kirzner, English-born American economist, author and academic
February 15
Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
Sara Jane Moore, American prison activist, convicted of the attempted murder of President Gerald Ford
February 17 – Ruth Rendell, British author (d. 2015)
February 19
John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter
February 22
James McGarrell, American painter (d. 2020)
Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
February 23
Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d. 2019)
Fanie du Plessis, South African athlete (d. 2001)
February 24
Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
Joan Diener, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March

Tom Wolfe

Zhores Alferov

James Irwin

James Coco

Stephen Sondheim

Steve McQueen

John Astin
March 1 – Gagik Hovunts, Armenian composer (d. 2019)
March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018)
March 3
Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017)
Washington Benavides, Uruguayan poet, musician (d. 2017)
Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania
K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d. 2010)
March 4 – Nina Iliescu, 2-time First Lady of Romania
March 5 – István Konkoly, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
March 6
Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014)
Amos Cardarelli, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
March 7
Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (d. 1992)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017)
March 8 – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
March 9 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
March 12 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist, politician (d. 2014)
March 13 – Liz Anderson, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2011)
March 14 – Helga Feddersen, German actress (d. 1990)
March 15
Alba Arnova, Italian-Argentine ballerina, actress (d. 2018)
Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian film director, screenwriter and costume and set designer (d. 1986)
March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
March 18 – Adam Cardinal Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate; Archbishop of Detroit (1990–2009)
March 19
Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef, restaurateur (d. 2017)
Wayne Fitzgerald, American film title designer (d. 2019)
March 20
Willie Thrower, American football player (d. 2002)
Thomas Stafford Williams, New Zealand cardinal
March 21
James Coco, American actor (Only When I Laugh), (Man of La Mancha) (d. 1987)
Lynden Pindling, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
March 22
Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist
Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host
March 24
David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
March 28
Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Joe Fortunato, American football player (d. 2017)
March 29
John Marshall, Australian swimmer (d. 1957)
Lima Duarte, Brazilian actor
Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director (d. 2018)
Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th President of Mauritius
March 30
Petter Fauchald, Norwegian footballer (d. 2013)
John Astin, American actor
Estella Blain, French actress (d. 1982)
Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
March 31
Julián Herranz Casado, Spanish cardinal
Alfréd Jindra, Czechoslovak sprint canoer (d. 2006)
April

Helmut Kohl

Bradford Dillman

Dick Sargent

James Baker

Carolyn Jones
April 1
Betsy Jones-Moreland, American actress (d. 2006)
Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)
April 2 – Don Hall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
April 3
Lawton Chiles, American politician, U.S. Senator (Florida), 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
April 4 – Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (d. 1989)
April 5
Dov Lando, Israeli rabbi
Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (d. 2019)
April 6 – Pampero Firpo, Argentinian/American professional wrestler (d. 2020)
April 7
Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (d. 2007)
Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (d. 2016)
April 8 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
April 10
Vladimir Yerokhin, Russian footballer (d. 1996)
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist, composer
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
Frank Lary, American baseball player (d. 2017)
Dolores Huerta, American labor leader and civil rights activist
April 11 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (d. 1997)
April 12 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish Professor of Engineering (d. 2006)
April 14
Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
Arnold Burns, American lawyer (d. 2013)
April 15
Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (d. 2018)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16
Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (d. 2007)
Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist and important (d. 2003)
April 19
Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
Curtis Roosevelt, American writer (d. 2016)
April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 23 – Shun Akiyama, Japanese literary critic (d. 2013)
April 24
Richard Donner, American film director, producer
José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil
April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
April 28
James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
April 29
Jean Rochefort, French actor (d. 2017)
Henri Coppens, Belgian football player (d. 2015)
Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster, television news anchor (d. 2017)
Mahmud of Terengganu, 16th Sultan of Terengganu (d. 1998)
April 30 – Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist (d. 1992)
May

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Malcolm Fraser

Sonia Rykiel

Clint Eastwood
May 1
Ethel Ayler, American actress (d. 2018)
Probosutedjo, Indonesian businessman (d. 2018)
Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
Ollie Matson, American sprinter (d. 2011)
May 2 – Vesna Bugarski, Bosnia-Herzegovina's first female architect (d. 1992)
May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
May 4
Katherine Jackson, Jackson Family matriarch
Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
May 6 – David Carpenter, American serial killer
May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017)
May 8 – Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)
May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
May 10
Adam Darius, American dancer, choreographer (d. 2017)
Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster (d. 2013)
May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
May 13
Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (d. 2013)
Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate
May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (d. 2018)
May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
May 17 – María Luisa Mendoza, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician (d. 2018)
May 18 – Shyqyri Rreli, Albanian football player (d. 2019)
May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
May 22
Kenny Ball, British jazz trumpeter, singer (d. 2013)
John Barth, American writer
Harvey Milk, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)
Agustín Tosco, Argentine union leader (d. 1975)
May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
May 28
Frank Drake, American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI
Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2019)
May 30 – Kingunge Ngombale–Mwiru, Tanzanian politician (d. 2018)
May 31
Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist, engineer (d. 1997)
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June

Pete Conrad

George Fernandes

Jim Nabors

Vilmos Zsigmond

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Rashid Bakr

Ross Perot

Itamar Franco

Horacio Gómez Bolaños
June 1
Pat Corley, American actor (d. 2006)
Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (d. 2009)
June 2
Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
Stewart and Cyril Marcus, American gynecologists (d. 1975)
June 3
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
George Fernandes, Indian politician (d. 2019)
June 4
Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d. 2018)
Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
June 5 – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
June 7 – Dolores Duran, Brazilian singer, songwriter (d. 1959)
June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
June 9
Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
Jordi Pujol, 126th President of the Government of Catalonia
June 10
Gianluigi Porelli, Italian basketball executive (d. 2009)
Grace Mirabella, American editor of Vogue
Satya Priya Mahathero, Bangladeshi Buddhist pundit, religious leader and social worker (d. 2019)
June 11
Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (d. 2019)
Charles Rangel, African-American politician
Ellen Schwiers, German actress (d. 2019)
June 12
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
Son Sen, Cambodian politician, criminal (d. 1997)
June 13 – Armando Hart, Cuban politician (d. 2017)
June 14
Charles McCarry, American novelist (d. 2019)
Bora Kostić, Serbian footballer (d. 2011)
June 15 – Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
June 19
Victoriano Ríos Pérez, Spanish physician, politician (d. 2018)
Gena Rowlands, American actress
Diana Sowle, American actress (d. 2018)
June 20
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (d. 1987)
June 21 – Gerald Kaufman, British Labour politician (d. 2017)
June 22
Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 2007)
June 23
Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, First Lady of Ivory Coast
John Elliott, British historian
June 24
Donald Gordon, South African businessman, philanthropist (d. 2019)
Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1988)
Herb Klein, American businessman, attorney and politician
Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
June 25
James Sedin, American ice hockey player
Memo Luna, Mexican professional baseball player
László Antal, Hungarian linguist (d. 1993)
June 26
Wolfgang Schwanitz, German Leader of the Office for National Security, Head of the Stasi
Tan Ling Houw, Indonesian footballer
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
Jackie Fargo, American wrestler, trainer (d. 2013)
June 27
Ross Perot, American computer billionaire, politician (d. 2019)
Ryszard Ronczewski, Polish actor
June 28
William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Ernesto Domingo, National Scientist of the Philippines
Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturer
Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d. 2011)
Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (d. 1999)
June 29
Hans Däscher, Swiss ski jumper
Robert Evans, American producer (d. 2019)
Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress, Canadian Senator
Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (d. 1998)
June 30
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d. 2018)
Charles Wooler, Zimbabwean cricketer
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician
July

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

Carlos Menem

George Armstrong

Françoise Mallet-Joris

M. Balamuralikrishna

Theodore Edgar McCarrick

Biljana Plavšić

Polly Bergen

Sally Ann Howes
July 1 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician, businessman
July 2
Sylve Bengtsson, Swedish association football forward (d. 2005)
Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer
Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
Vojislav Stanovčić, Serbian political scientist, theorist (d. 2017)
July 3
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
José Luis Lamadrid, Mexican football forward
Ferdinando Riva, Swiss football forward (d. 2014)
N. Venkatachala, Indian judge (d. 2019)
July 4
Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
George Steinbrenner, American businessman, baseball team owner (d. 2010)
Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018)
July 6
Michael Baume, Australian former Liberal Party politician
George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player
Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d. 2016)
M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d. 2016)
July 7
Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese football player, manager
Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
July 9
Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player, manager
Juan Carlos Frecia, Argentine fencer
Hugh Morrow, Irish footballer, manager
Yu So-chow, Chinese actress (d. 2017)
July 10
Pete Carril, American former basketball coach
Tom Jones, Australian rules footballer (d. 2018)
Josephine Veasey, British mezzo-soprano
July 11
Jack Alabaster, New Zealand 21 Tests player
Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Indian politician
Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (d. 2019)
Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
July 12
Orlando Nannini, Argentine fencer
María Teresa Sosa, Guatemalan politician, activist (d. 2018)
July 14
Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
Benoît Sinzogan, Beninese military officer, politician
July 15
Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
Alberto Michelotti, Italian football player, referee
Stephen Smale, American mathematician
Betty Wagoner, American professional baseball player (d. 2006)
Lee Wallace, American actor
July 16 – Horst Rittner, German correspondence chess Grandmaster
July 17
Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d. 2018)
William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
July 19
David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist ( d. 2018)
Vincent Lumsden, Jamaican cricketer
July 20
Alex Sánchez Cruz, Costa Rican football player
Sally Ann Howes, English actress, singer
Ronnie MacGilvray, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018[8])
Bryan Conquest, Australian politician (d. 2018)
July 21
Gene Littler, American professional golfer (d. 2019)
Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
Anand Bakshi, Indian poet/lyricist (d. 2002)
July 22
Dinny Flanagan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (d. 2015)
July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d. 2013)
July 25
Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (d. 2018)
July 28
Firoza Begum, Bengali singer (d. 2014)
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
July 29 – Jek Yeun Thong, Singaporean politician (d. 2018)
July 30 – A. D. King, American Baptist minister and civil rights activist (d. 1969)
August

Neil Armstrong

Robert Culp

Jan Olszewski

Princess Margaret

Sir Sean Connery

Georgiy Daneliya
August 1
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
Lawrence Eagleburger, United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 2014)
August 4
Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d. 2017)
Ali al-Sistani, Shia Ayatollah
August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11 (d. 2012)
August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010)
August 7 – Felicia Kentridge, South African lawyer (d. 2015)
August 9 – Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
August 10
Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018)
Jorma Panula, Finnish conductor, composer
Fakir Musafar, American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d. 2018)
August 12
Vali Myers, Australian visionary artist, dancer, bohemian and muse (d. 2003)
George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
Peter Weck, Austrian film director, actor
August 13 – Don Ho, American singer, musician (d. 2007)
August 14
Earl Weaver, American professional baseball player, manager (d. 2013)
Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
August 15
Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (d. 1969)
Selma James, American-born feminist writer
August 16
Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne
Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
Leslie Manigat, 34th President of Haiti (d. 2014)
Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d. 2018)
August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 18
Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran educator, politician (d. 2014)
Denis McLean, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant (d. 2011)
August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009)
August 20 – Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2019)
August 21
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (d. 1943)
August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
August 23
Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (d. 2020)
August 24
Sultanah Bahiyah, Sultanah of Kedah (d. 2003)
Sidique Ali Merican, Malaysian sprinter, sports administrator (d. 2009)
August 25
Peter Trower, Canadian poet, novelist (d. 2017)
Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (James Bond)
Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
August 28
Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (d. 2019)
Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (d. 2013)
Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
August 30
Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
Xernona Clayton, American civil rights activist and broadcasting executive
Paul Poupard, French cardinal
August 31 – Tengku Ampuan Besar Bariah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2011)
September

Baudouin I of Belgium

Mario Adorf

Akira Suzuki

Ray Charles

John Young
September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
September 2 – Rita Riggs, American costume designer (d. 2017)
September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 4 – Norman Dorsen, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
September 6 – Salvatore De Giorgi, Italian cardinal
September 7
King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist
September 8 – Mario Adorf, German actor
September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
September 11
Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 13
Mary Baumgartner, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018)
Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (d. 2001)
September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
September 17
David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski) (d. 2016)
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut
September 20 – Kenneth Mopeli, Chief Minister of QwaQwa bantustan (d. 2014)
September 22 – T. S. Sinnathuray, judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
September 23
Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (d. 1987)
Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
September 24
Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
September 26
Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018)
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor singer (d. 1966)
September 28 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (d. 2019)
September 29
Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (d. 2017)
Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
September 30 – Gilbert Albert, Swiss jeweler (d. 2019)
October

Richard Harris

Hafez al-Assad

Mobutu Sese Seko

The Big Bopper

Michael Collins
October 1
Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d. 2002)
Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, American Episcopal priest, and activist
October 2 – Dave Barrett, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
October 4 – Andrej Marinc, Slovenian politician
October 5
Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
October 6
Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer, commentator (d. 2015)
October 8
Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
Cosetta Greco, Italian actress (d. 2002)
October 10
Yves Chauvin, Belgian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
Doris Payne, American jewel thief
Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
October 11
Bill Fischer, American baseball player (d. 2018)
Sam Johnson, American politician
October 14
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1997)
October 15
Ingemar Mundebo, Swedish politician (d. 2018)
Christian Tumi, Cameroonian cardinal
October 17
Nick Chickillo, American football player (d. 2000)
Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 18
Trevor Bell, British artist (d. 2017)
Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
October 19
Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman (d. 2019)
Jody Lawrance, American actress (d. 1986)
October 20 – Leila Seth, Indian judge (d. 2017)
October 24
Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2019)
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d. 1959)
Jack Angel, American voice actor
October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
October 29
Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer, dancer
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (d. 2002)
October 30
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
October 31 – Michael Collins, American astronaut
November

Mildred Dresselhaus

Richard A. Falk

Ed White

Bob Mathias
November 3 – D. James Kennedy, American evangelist (d. 2007)
November 4
Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
Harris Salleh, Malaysian politician
November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
November 6
Derrick Bell, American law professor (d. 2011)
Wilma Briggs, American female baseball player
November 11
Stuart Briscoe, British-American pastor, motivational speaker and author
Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist, educator (d. 2017)
Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd Prime Minister of Swaziland
Alevtina Kolchina, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier
November 12 – Bob Crewe, American singer, songwriter, manager, and producer (d. 2014)
November 13 – Richard A. Falk, American professor emeritus
November 14
Shirley Crabtree ("Big Daddy"), British professional wrestler (d. 1997)
Jānis Pujats, Latvian cardinal
Ed White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
November 16
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
Salvatore Riina, Italian multiple murderer (d. 2017)
November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
November 18 – Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, Indian politician (d. 2018)
November 19 – Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-German politician and philanthropist
November 20
Bernard Horsfall, British actor (d. 2013)
Curly Putman, American songwriter (d. 2016)
Choe Yong-rim, North Korean politician
November 22 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
November 24 – Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher, photographer (d. 2018)
November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
November 26 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2018)
November 27 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries
December

Jean-Luc Godard

Maximilian Schell

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Odetta
December 1 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2
Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
Vlatko Pavletić, Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist (d. 2007)
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
December 4
Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (d. 2013)
Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (d. 2016)
December 6
Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
Carlo Reali, Italian actor, voice actor and film editor
December 7 – Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer
December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
December 9
Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 2020)
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur
December 15
Günter Siebert, German football player, executive (d. 2017)
Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
December 17
Gerard Kerkum, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)
Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
Makoto Moroi, Japanese composer (d. 2013)
December 21
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d. 2018)
Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d. 1986)
December 28
Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d. 2010)
Franzl Lang, German yodeler (d. 2015)
December 30
Alvin Peterson, Jamaican percussionist
Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 31
Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
Jaime Escalante, American high school math teacher (d. 2010)
Deaths


January

Toshiki Kaifu

Robert Duvall

Caterina Valente

James Earl Jones
January 1 – Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016)
January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan
January 4
Guido Messina, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2020)
William Deane, 22nd Governor-General of Australia
Cleopa Msuya, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania
José Triana, Cuban poet (d. 2018)
January 5
Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
Robert Duvall, American actor, director
January 6
E. L. Doctorow, American author (d. 2015)
Kaoru Yachigusa, Japanese actress (d. 2019)
January 8 – Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
January 10 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. 2015)
January 12 – Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (d. 1998)
January 13 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
January 14 – Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
January 16
Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2018)
Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
January 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
January 19 – Pat Hunt, New Zealand National Party politician
January 20
Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer, novelist (d. 1984)
David Lee, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
January 24 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
January 25 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
January 26 – Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist, music teacher (d. 2013)
January 27 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
January 28 – Lucia Bosè, Italian actress
January 29 – Ferenc Mádl, President of Hungary (d. 2011)
January 31 – Ernie Banks, African-American baseball player (d. 2015)
February

Boris Yeltsin

Dries van Agt

Isabel Martínez de Perón

James Dean
February 1
Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
Oswald Oberhuber, Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2020)
February 2
Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, 46th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Walter Burkert, German writer (d. 2015)
February 4 – Isabel Martínez de Perón, 41st President of Argentina
February 6
Rip Torn, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Mamie Van Doren, American actress, author
Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal (d. 2017)
February 8
James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
Shadia, Egyptian actress, singer (d. 2017)
February 9
Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
Josef Masopust, Czech football player and coach (d. 2015)
February 12 – Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Spanish cardinal (d. 2011)
February 14 – Gerrit Jan Hejin, Dutch businessman (d. 1987)
February 15 – Claire Bloom, English actress
February 16 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
February 18
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
Toni Morrison, African-American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2019)[9]
February 24 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
February 28
Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Mayor of Pacific Palisades
Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
March

Mikhail Gorbachev

León Febres Cordero

William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy
March 1 – Lamberto Dini, Italian politician, economist and 51st Prime Minister of Italy
March 2 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
March 3 – John Smith, American actor (d. 1995)
March 4
William H. Keeler, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
Alice Rivlin, American economist (d. 2019)
March 5 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player (d. 2020)
March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic (d. 2003)
March 9 – León Febres Cordero, President of Ecuador (d. 2008)
March 10 – Kovambo Nujoma, First Lady of Namibia
March 11
Janosch, German writer
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher
March 12 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (d. 2019)
March 14 – Lisbet Palme, Swedish child psychologist (d. 2018)
March 15 – D. J. Fontana, American drummer (d. 2018)
March 18 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey and football player (d. 2015)
March 20
James Mollison, Australian arts administrator (d. 2020)
Hal Linden, American actor, singer (Barney Miller)
Karen Steele, American actress (d. 1988)
March 22
Paul G. Hewitt, American physicist, boxer, uranium prospector, author and cartoonist
Burton Richter, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
William Shatner, Canadian actor, science fiction novelist (Star Trek)
March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor, film director (Star Trek), and singer (d. 2015)
March 27 – David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive) (d. 1980)
March 28 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. 2018)
March 29
Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015)
Norman Tebbit, British politician
April

Suchitra Sen

Luís Cabral
April 1
Ita Ever, Estonian actress
Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (d. 2018)
April 5
Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter, record producer (d. 2013)
Héctor Olivera, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
April 6
Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), Bengali actress (d. 2014)
Radomil Eliška, Czech conductor (d. 2019)
April 8 – John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (d. 2018)
April 11
Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Turkish free-style wrestler
Johnny Sheffield, American child actor (d. 2010)
April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
April 13 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver (d. 2018)
April 15
Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. 2009)
Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2015)
April 17 – Esteban Siller, Mexican voice actor (d. 2013)
April 19 – Kobie Coetsee, South African politician (d. 2000)
April 26 – John Cain, Australian politician (d. 2019)
April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
April 29
Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
May

Willie Mays

Natwar Singh

Faten Hamama

Carroll Baker
May 1 – Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool, Pakistani educationist (d. 1991)
May 3
Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (d. 2019)
May 6
Magda al-Sabahi, Egyptian actress (d. 2020)
Willie Mays, African-American baseball player
May 7
Teresa Brewer, American pop, jazz singer (d. 2007)
Marta Terry González, Cuban librarian (d. 2018)
Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2019)
May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
May 10
M. Chidananda Murthy, Indian historian (d. 2020)
Ichirō Nagai, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
May 13
András Hajnal, Hungarian mathematician (d. 2016)
Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978)
Jiří Petr, Czech university president (d. 2014)
May 16
Magda Guzmán, Mexican actress (d. 2015)
Natwar Singh, Indian politician
May 17 – Marshall Applewhite, American Heaven's Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997)
May 18
Don Martin, American artist (MAD Magazine) (d. 2000)
Robert Morse, American actor
Clément Vincent, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
May 19 – Éric Tappy, Swiss tenor
May 21 – Bombolo, Italian character actor and comedian (d. 1987)
May 23 – Barbara Barrie, American actress and writer
May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
May 28 – Carroll Baker, American actress
May 31
John Schrieffer, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
June

Raúl Castro

Dana Wynter

Marla Gibbs

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Olympia Dukakis
June 2 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
June 3
Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (d. 2018)
June 4 – D. M. Jayaratne, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2019)
June 6 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (d. 2020)
June 7 – Andrea Gemma, Italian bishop (d. 2019)
June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
June 9 – Jackie Mason, American comedian
June 10 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova (d. 2019)
June 14
Marla Gibbs, African-American actress, comedian and singer
Junior Walker, American saxophonist, singer (d. 1995)
June 16 – Ivo Petrić, Slovenian composer (d. 2018)
June 17
Kawther Ramzi, Egyptian actress (d. 2018)
John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (d. 2020)
June 18 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil
June 20
Mary L. Good, American inorganic chemist (d. 2019)
Olympia Dukakis, American actress
Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer (d. 2010)
June 21 – Margaret Heckler, American Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2018)
June 22 – Ian Browne, Australian track cyclist
June 23 – Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
June 24
Árpád Bárány, Hungarian fencer
Billy Casper, American golfer (d. 2015)
Gaston Flosse, French politician
June 25 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
June 26 – Colin Wilson, British writer (d. 2013)
June 27
Graziella Galvani, Italian stage, television and film actress
Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
June 28
Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. 2017)
Jenny Glusker, British biochemist and crystallographer
Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s (d. 2019)
June 29 – Alina Obidniak, Polish actress and theatre director
June 30 – Gerda Herrmann, German composer and poet
July

Leslie Caron

Seyni Kountché

Della Reese

Thorvald Stoltenberg
July 1
Leslie Caron, French actress
Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist
Seyni Kountché, former President of Niger (d. 1987)
July 2
Oddur Pétursson, Icelandic cross country skier (d. 2018)
Mohammad Yazdi, Iranian cleric
July 4 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (Ben-Hur) (d. 1977)
July 5 – Ismail Mahomed, South African, Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
July 6
Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress, singer
Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer, women's rights activist (d. 2018)
Della Reese, African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d. 2017)
July 8 – Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
July 10
Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
Morris Chang, Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in 1987
Jerry Herman, American composer, lyricist (d. 2019)
Julian May, American science fiction, fantasy, horror, and science writer (d. 2017)
Alice Munro, Canadian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
July 11 – Tab Hunter, American actor, singer (d. 2018)
July 13 – Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018)
July 14
Mirella Ricciardi, Kenyan photographer, author
Robert Stephens, English actor (d. 1995)
July 15
Clive Cussler, American thriller writer and underwater explorer (d. 2020)
Gene Louw, South African politician
July 17 – Caroline Graham, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist
July 22 – Guido de Marco, Maltese politician, 6th President of Malta (d. 2010)
July 23 – Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)
July 25 – Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera director, administrator and journalist (d. 2018)
July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor (d. 2018)
August

Don King

Barbara Eden

Sri Chinmoy
August 1 – Hal Connolly, American athlete (d. 2010)
August 2
Ruth Maria Kubitschek, German actress
Sha'ari Tadin, Malaysian politician (d. 2009)
August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov, Russian discus thrower (d. 2001)
August 6 – Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. 2014)
August 9 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football player, manager
August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (Billy Jack) (d. 2013)
August 12 – William Goldman, American author (d. 2018)
August 15
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince and politician (d. 2018)
Richard F. Heck, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
Janice Rule, American actress (d. 2003)
August 16
Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2004)
William Luce, American writer (d. 2019)
August 18 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010)
August 19 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
August 20 – Don King, American boxing promoter
August 23
Barbara Eden, American actress, singer (I Dream of Jeannie)
Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 24 - Ciputra, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
August 25 – Regis Philbin, American television personality
August 27
Sri Chinmoy, Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in 1964 (d. 2007)
Clarence James, Bermudian surgeon, politician (d. 2016)
August 28 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player, manager (d. 2017)
August 30
Jacques Braunstein, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. 2009)
Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
August 31
Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player (d. 2014)
Kenny Burrell, American jazz musician
Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
September

Ian Holm

Barbara Bain

Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco

Larry Hagman
September 2 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor (d. 1976)
September 3 – Paulo Maluf, Brazilian politician
September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
September 5 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (d. 2018)
September 7 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman and football club president (d. 2018)
September 10
Idelisa Bonnelly, Dominican marine biologist
Philip Baker Hall, American actor
September 12
Ian Holm, British actor
George Jones, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
Bill McKinney, American character actor (d. 2011)
September 13 – Barbara Bain, American actress (Mission: Impossible)
September 16 – E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018)
September 17
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011)
Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
September 19
Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
Ray Danton, American actor (d. 1992)
September 21
Shmuel Auerbach, Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 2018)
Larry Hagman, American actor, director (Dallas) (d. 2012)
September 22 – Fay Weldon, British author
September 24 – Tom Adams, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985)
September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor
September 29
James Cronin, American nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2016)
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (d. 2015)
September 30 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
October

Desmond Tutu

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Dan Rather
October 2 – Jakob Schönenberger, Swiss banker, politician (d. 2018)
October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, American architect
October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
October 7
Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 13
Raymond Kopa, French footballer (d. 2017)
Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
October 15 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India (d. 2015)
October 16
Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012)
Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress, humanitarian
October 17 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (d. 2011)
October 19
John le Carré, English novelist
Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2013)
October 20
Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (d. 2019)
October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor, director (d. 2011)
October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (d. 2015)
October 23
Jim Bunning, American baseball player, U.S. Senator (d. 2017)
Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984)
October 24 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
October 25 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager
October 26 – Suhaila Noah, spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 2014)
October 28 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
October 29 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (d. 2015)
October 30 – Dick Gautier, American actor (d. 2017)
October 31
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist campaigner
Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2019)[10]
Dan Rather, American television news reporter (CBS Evening News)
November

Ike Turner

Mwai Kibaki

Tomi Ungerer
November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
November 3
Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. 2007)
Monica Vitti, Italian actress
November 4 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (d. 2017)
November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
November 6
Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
Mike Nichols, German-American television actor, writer and director (d. 2014)
November 8
Darla Hood, American child actress, voice actress and singer (Our Gang) (d. 1979)
Morley Safer, Canadian journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2016)
November 12
Majida Boulila, Tunisian militant (d. 1952)
Mary Louise Wilson, American actress, singer
November 15
John Kerr, American actor (d. 2013)
Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya
Pascal Lissouba, President of the Republic of Congo
November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician (d. 2011)
November 21 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
November 26 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
November 28
Dervla Murphy, Irish author
Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (d. 2019)
November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
December

George Maxwell Richards

Rita Moreno

Carlos Graça
December 1
George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, Bangladeshi barrister and politician
December 2
Nigel Calder, British science writer (d. 2014)
Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1971)
Edwin Meese, American attorney, law professor, and author
December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer, chanteuse
December 5 – Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni, Indian Navy admiral (d. 2018)
December 7 – Carmela Rey, Mexican singer, actress (d. 2018)
December 9 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech film, theater director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
December 11 – Rita Moreno, Puerto-Rican actress (West Side Story)
December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (d. 2015)
December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian, American actor (The Partridge Family) (d. 2014)
December 21
Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2017)
Georgi Naydenov, Bulgarian footballer and manager (d. 1970)
December 22 – Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2013)
December 23 – Ronnie Schell, American actor
December 24
Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2011)
Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008)
December 26 – Roger Piantoni, French footballer (d. 2018)
December 27
John Charles, Welsh international footballer (d. 2004)
Scotty Moore, American guitarist (d. 2016)
Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician
December 28 – Martin Milner, American actor (Adam-12) (d. 2015)
December 30
Charles Bassett, American electrical engineer, astronaut (d. 1966)
Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)

January

Umberto Eco

Raisa Gorbacheva

Piper Laurie
January 3
Teodoro Petkoff, Venezuelan politician (d. 2018)
Dabney Coleman, American actor
January 5
Johnny Adams, American singer (d. 1998)
Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and novelist (d. 2016)
Raisa Gorbacheva, Wife of the President of the Soviet Union (d. 1999)
Chuck Noll, American football coach (d. 2014)
Javier Valle Riestra, Peruvian politician
January 6 – Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
January 10
József Szécsényi, Hungarian track and field athlete (d. 2017)
David Ejoor, Nigerian Army officer (d. 2019)
January 11 – Takkō Ishimori, Japanese voice actor (d. 2013)
January 13 – Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
January 16 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
January 17 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
January 22 – Piper Laurie, American actress
January 25 – Nikolay Anikin, Soviet cross-country skier (d. 2009)
January 26 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d. 2004)
January 27 – Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2008)
January 28 – Ellen Griffin Dunne, American actress and activist (d. 1997)
January 29 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
January 30
Kazuo Inamori, Japanese businessman
Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
January 31 – Rick Hall, American record producer, songwriter and recording studio owner (d. 2018)
February

John Williams

Miloš Forman

Ted Kennedy

Johnny Cash

Elizabeth Taylor
February 1 – Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (d. 2016)
February 3
Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy diplomat (d. 2000)
February 5 – Cesare Maldini, Italian football player and manager (d. 2016)
February 6
François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary leader (d. 1959)
February 7
Gay Talese, American author
Alfred Worden, American astronaut
February 8 – John Williams, American composer and conductor
February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
February 11 – Margit Carlqvist, Swedish actress
February 13 – Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
February 14 – Alexander Kluge, German author and film director
February 16
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
Aharon Appelfeld, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer (d. 2018)
February 18 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American film director (d. 2018)
February 19 – Alberto Dines, Brazilian journalist and writer (d. 2018)
February 20 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
February 22
Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
Robert Opron, French automotive designer
February 23
Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
Irene Jai Narayan, Fiji politician (d. 2011)
February 24
John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
Michel Legrand, French composer (d. 2019)
Zell Miller, American politician (d. 2018)
M. S. Rajeswari, Indian singer (d. 2018)
February 25
Augusto Polo Campos, Peruvian composer (d. 2018)
Faron Young, American country singer (d. 1996)
February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer (d. 2003)
February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)
February 28 – Don Francks, Canadian actor, musician and singer (d. 2016)
March

Ryszard Kapuściński

Miriam Makeba

Alan Bean

John Updike
March 4
Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (d. 2008)
Efrén Echeverría, Paraguayan musician guitarist, composer, and compiler (d. 2018)
March 5 – Earl Woods, African-American army officer (d. 2006)
March 6
Marc Bazin, 4th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2010)
Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
March 7
Lola Beltrán, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (d. 1996)
Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (d. 1998)
Silvia Derbez, Mexican film and television actress (d. 2002)
March 9
Simon Heere Heeresma, Dutch author and poet (d. 2011)
Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer, actor, dancer, and writer (d. 2019)
March 11 – Leroy Jenkins, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 2007)
March 12
Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d. 2014)
Andrew Young, African-American politician, diplomat and activist
March 14 – Mark Murphy, American jazz singer (d. 2015)
March 15 – Alan Bean, American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (d. 2018)
March 16 – Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
March 17 – Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist and professor (d. 2019)
March 18
John Updike, American author (d. 2009)
Rafael Calventi, Dominican architect and diplomat (d. 2018)
March 21 – Walter Gilbert, American chemist and Nobel laureate
March 22 – Els Borst, Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1998–2002) (d. 2014)
March 27
Junior Parker, African-American blues musician (d. 1971)
Patrick Newell, British actor (d. 1988)
March 28 – Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (d. 2019)
March 30 – Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist
March 31 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (d. 2013)
April

Debbie Reynolds

Omar Sharif

Jean-Pierre Marielle

Loretta Lynn

Casey Kasem
April 1 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2016)
April 2 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (d. 2015)
April 4
Richard Lugar, American politician (d. 2019)
Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet and Russian film director (d. 1986)
April 8
József Antall, Hungarian historian, librarian, political figure and teacher, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1993)
Sultan Iskandar of Johor, 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2010)
April 9
Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
April 10
Kishori Amonkar, Indian vocalist (d. 2017)
Delphine Seyrig, Lebanese-born French actress (d. 1990)
Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
April 11 – Joel Grey, American actor, singer and dancer
April 12
Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019)
Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
April 13 – Barney Simon, South African writer, playwright and director (d. 1995)
April 14
António dos Santos, Portuguese bishop (d. 2018)
Loretta Lynn, American country singer
April 16
Qahhor Mahkamov, Tajik politician, 1st President of Tajikistan (d. 2016)
Pierre Milza, French historian (d. 2018)
April 21 – Elaine May, American movie director
April 24 – Vladimir Yengibaryan, Armenian amateur light-welterweight boxer (d. 2013)
April 25 – Nikolai Kardashev, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (d. 2019)
April 26
Agildo Ribeiro, Brazilian actor and humorist (d. 2018)
Michael Smith, English-born chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018)
April 27
Anouk Aimée, French actress
Pik Botha, South African politician (d. 2018)
Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor (d. 2014)
Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
April 29 – Wilson Ndolo Ayah, Kenyan politician (d. 2016)
May

Phyllida Law

Arnold Wesker

K. C. Jones
May 6
Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist (d. 1994)
José Maria Marin, Brazilian politician and sports administrator
Antal Bolvári, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019)
May 7 – Fufi Santori, Puerto Rican basketball player and writer (d. 2018)
May 8
Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
May 9 – Geraldine McEwan, Scottish actress (d. 2015)
May 11
Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Valentino, Italian fashion designer
May 18 – Dean Tavoularis, Greek-American motion picture production designer
May 19 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
May 21 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)
May 24 – Arnold Wesker, British playwright (d. 2016)
May 25
K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach
John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic (d. 2003)
May 27 – José Varacka, Argentine footballer and coach (d. 2018)
May 29
Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist
Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
June

Mario Cuomo

Dudley R. Herschbach

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

Amrish Puri

Pat Morita
June 1 – Kenneth Matiba, Kenyan politician (d. 2018)
June 4
John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (d. 1981)
June 6 – David Scott, American astronaut
June 9 – Dave McKigney, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1988)
June 10
Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (d. 2019)
John R. Broxson, American politician (d. 2019)
June 11 – Athol Fugard, South African author and dramatist
June 12
Mimi Coertse, South African opera soprano
Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (d. 2002)
June 13 – Rainer K. Sachs, German-American physicist and biologist
June 15 – Mario Cuomo, American politician (d. 2015)
June 17 – Vesna Krmpotić, Croatian writer and translator (d. 2018)
June 18 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and Nobel laureate
June 20 - Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Poet (d. 1994)
June 21
Eloisa Cianni, Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
Ilka Soares, Brazilian actress
Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor
June 22
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran; wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001)
Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
Prunella Scales, English actress
June 23 – Jim Granberry, American politician
June 24
Margit Korondi, Hungarian gymnast
David McTaggart, Canadian environmental campaigner (d. 2001)
Hirohisa Fujii, Japanese politician
June 25
Julian Robertson, American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist
Peter Blake, English artist
Tim Parnell, British racing driver
June 26
Marguerite Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas
Harry Bromfield, South African cricketer
June 27 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
June 28
Jack H. McDonald, American politician
Pat Morita, Asian-American actor (d. 2005)
June 29
Evrard Godefroid, Belgian cyclist (d. 2013)
Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor (d. 2018)
June 30 – Ingrid Allen, British neuroscientist
July

Gyula Horn

Donald Rumsfeld

Otis Davis

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Gladys Olebile Masire

John Searle
July 1 – Sonny Caldinez, Trinidadian actor and former professional wrestler
July 2
Gustavo Martínez, Guatemalan cyclist
Waldemar Matuška, Czech singer (d. 2009)
July 4 – Otis Young, African-American actor (d. 2001)
July 5
Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
July 6 – Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and professor
July 7
Carlos de Cárdenas Jr., Cuban yachtsman
Eileen Lemass, Irish politician
July 9 – Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
July 10
Carlo Maria Abate, Italian auto racing driver
Neile Adams, Filipino-American actress
George Black, British Royal Air Force officer
János Bódy, Hungarian modern pentathlete
July 11
Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach
Hans van Manen, Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
July 12
Monte Hellman, American film director, producer, writer and editor
Rene Goulet, Canadian professional wrestler
Otis Davis, American athlete
July 13 – Per Nørgård, Danish composer
July 14 – Helga Liné, German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat
July 15
Giovanna Pala, Italian actress
Nina van Pallandt, Danish singer and actress
July 16
Bill Byrge, American character actor and comedian
Dick Thornburgh, American lawyer, author and politician
July 17
Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician and comedian (d. 2006)
Joanne Gilbert, American actress
Red Kerr, American basketball player (d. 2009)
Slick Leonard, American basketball player and coach
Quino, Argentine cartoonist
July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
July 20
Dick Giordano, American comic book artist and editor (d. 2010)
Ronan Keane, Irish judge
Nam June Paik, Korean-born American artist (d. 2006)
Michael Papps, Australian sports shooter
Otto Schily, German politician
July 22
Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player (d. 2017)
Tom Robbins, American novelist
July 23
Jorge Arvizu, Mexican voice actor (d. 2014)
Oswaldo Loureiro, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
July 25 – Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut (d. 2017)
July 26 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (d. 1985)
July 28 – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (d. 2015)
July 29 – Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
July 30
Bo Erias, American basketball player (d. 2007)
Gladys Olebile Masire, First Lady of Botswana (d. 2013)
Edd Byrnes, American actor (d. 2020)
July 31 – John Searle, American philosopher
August

Peter O'Toole

Sirikit, Queen mother of Thailand

V. S. Naipaul

Banharn Silpa-archa
August 1
Meir Kahane, American-born Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist (d. 1990)
Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
August 2
Lamar Hunt, American sportsman (d. 2006)
Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (d. 2013)
August 4 – Jim Coates, American baseball player (d. 2019)
August 5 – Jameson Mbilini Dlamini, 7th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2008)
August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
August 7 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 1973)
August 8 – Mel Tillis, American country singer (d. 2017)
August 9 – Anand Panyarachun, 18th Prime Minister of Thailand
August 11 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
August 12 – Sirikit, Queen mother of Thailand (from 1950 to present)
August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
August 18
William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
August 19
Banharn Silpa-archa, 32nd Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2016)
Fil Fraser, Canadian broadcaster, producer, author and educator (d. 2017)
August 20
Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
Bill Hudson, American civil rights photojournalist (d. 2010)
August 21 – Melvin Van Peebles, African-American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer
August 23 – Houari Boumediene, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
August 24 – W. Morgan Sheppard, English actor (d. 2019)
August 25
Luis Félix López, Ecuadorian doctor, writer and politician (d. 2008)
Birgit Arrhenius, Swedish archaeologist
August 27
Mohamed Hamri, Moroccan artist (d. 2000)
Saye Zerbo, 3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2013)
August 28 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (d. 2006)
August 29 – Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (d. 2018)
September

Ingemar Johansson

Adolfo Suárez

Manmohan Singh

Rainer Weiss

Shintaro Ishihara
September 1
Sunny von Bülow, American socialite (d. 2008)
Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru (d. 2008)
September 3
Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
Acácio Pereira Magro, Portuguese academic, economist and politician (d. 2018)
September 5 – Carol Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
September 6 – Marguerite Pearson, American professional baseball player (d. 2005)
September 7
John Paul Getty Jr., American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
Mary Previte, American politician (d. 2019)
September 8 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
September 11
Mustapha Akanbi, Nigerian lawyer and judge (d. 2018)
Rinaldo Fidel Brédice, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Art Spoelstra, American basketball player (d. 2008)
September 12 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
September 13 – Fernando González Pacheco, Colombian television host, announcer, journalist and actor (d. 2014)
September 15 – Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian theatre, television director and actor (d. 2015)
September 17
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatari Emir (d. 2016)
Doyle Corman, American politician (d. 2019)
September 18 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2002)
September 21 – Mickey Kuhn, American child actor
September 22
Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
September 24
Anthony Michael Milone, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Jackie Moore, American basketball player
September 25
Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
Adolfo Suárez, 1st Spanish Prime Minister after the dictatorship of Franco (d. 2014)
September 26
Donna Douglas, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 2015)
Richard Herd, American actor
Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer (d. 2018)
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
September 27
Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
Yash Chopra, Indian film director and producer (d. 2012)
September 28 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
September 29
Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
Rainer Weiss, German-born American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 30 – Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
October

Liliane Montevecchi

Dick Gregory

Robert Reed

Robert Mundell
October 1 – Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist (d. 2017)
October 3
Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (d. 1999)
Hugh Curtis, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
Ángel Roberto Seifart, Paraguayan politician (d. 2018)
October 4
Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director (d. 2018)
Stan Dragoti, American film director (d. 2018)
October 8 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
October 11 – Dottie West, American singer and songwriter (d. 1991)
October 12
Dick Gregory, African-American comedian and activist (d. 2017)
Yuichiro Miura, Japanese alpinist
October 13
Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
Jean Edward Smith, American biographer (d. 2019)
October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist (d. 1998)
October 18
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
George Ty, Filipino banker and business magnate (d. 2018)
October 19 – Robert Reed, American actor (The Brady Bunch) (d. 1992)
October 20
William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2016)
Rokurō Naya, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
October 24
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 26 – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (d. 2019)
October 27
Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
Harry Gregg, Northern Irish football goalkeeper and manager (d. 2020)
Sylvia Plath, American poet and author (d. 1963)
October 28
Spyros Kyprianou, President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
Suzy Parker, American fashion model and actress (d. 2003)
October 29 – Dick Garmaker, American basketball player
October 31 – Iemasa Kayumi, Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator (d. 2014)
November

Roy Scheider

Benigno Aquino Jr.

Jacques Chirac
November 1 – A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
November 2 – Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (d. 2018)
November 3 – Albert Reynolds, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2014)
November 4 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
November 8
Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018)
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Maltese politician, 5th President of Malta
November 9 – Frank Selvy, American basketball player
November 10
Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (d. 2016)
Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
November 11 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
November 13 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
November 15
Petula Clark, British singer, actress and songwriter
Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
November 18
Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2007)
November 20 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian, and game show host (d. 2012)
November 21 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d. 2016)
November 22 – Robert Vaughn, American actor (d. 2016)
November 24 – Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (d. 2019)
November 27 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician and senator (d. 1983)
November 28
Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist (d. 2016)
Ethel Ennis, African American jazz singer (d. 2019)
November 29
Jacques Chirac, President of France (d. 2019)
Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz musician (d. 2019)
December

Roh Tae-woo

Little Richard

Nichelle Nichols
December 1
Dame Heather Begg, New Zealand mezzo-soprano (d. 2009)
Jean-Jacques Guyon, French equestrian (d. 2017)
December 2 – Sergio Bonelli, Italian comic book author and publisher (d. 2011)
December 3 – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner (d. 2016)
December 4
Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Tengku Ampuan of Pahang (d. 1988)
Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea
December 5
Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
Little Richard, African-American singer and actor
December 7
Ellen Burstyn, American actress
J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesian economist and a former Minister of Finance
December 9 – Donald Byrd, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
December 10 – Howard McCurdy, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
December 11 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contra leader (d. 1991)
December 12 – Bob Pettit, American basketball player
December 13 – Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor
December 15 – Jesse Belvin, American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, and songwriter (d. 1960)
December 16 – Rodion Shchedrin, Russian composer and pianist
December 18 – Roger Smith, American actor (d. 2017)
December 23 – Kanapathy Moorthy, Malaysian judoka (d. 2010)
December 25 – Mabel King, African-American actress and singer (d. 1999)
December 28
Nichelle Nichols, African-American actress
Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
Titien Sumarni, Indonesian actress (d. 1966)
December 29 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer
December 31 – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist, editor and author (d. 1992)