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January[edit]

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[edit]

Gloria Vanderbilt

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[edit]

Tomiichi Murayama

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[edit]

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[edit]

Gamal Abdel-Rahim

Patricia Kennedy Lawford

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[edit]

George H. W. Bush

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[edit]

Eva Marie Saint

Maria Koterbska

Marianne Bernadotte

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[edit]

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Carroll O'Connor

Josefina Villalobos

Phyllis Schlafly

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[edit]

Daniel arap Moi

Akkineni Nageswara Rao

Marcello Mastroianni

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[edit]

William Rehnquist

Umar Wirahadikusumah

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[edit]

Süleyman Demirel

Guillermo Rodríguez

Russell Johnson

Joseph Campanella

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[edit]

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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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[edit]
  
  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)

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