1933 1936

January[edit]

Dalida

Corazon Aquino
January 1 – Joe Orton, British playwright (k. 1967)
January 2 – On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist (d. 2014)
January 6 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
January 7 – Diane Leather, English athlete (d. 2018)
January 8 – Supriya Devi, Indian Bengali actress (d. 2018)
January 12 – Liliana Cavani, Italian film director and screenwriter
January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014)
January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
January 15 – Ernest J. Gaines, American author (d. 2019)
January 16 – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
January 17
Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (d. 1998)
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
January 18
David Bellamy, English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist (d. 2019)
John Boorman, English film director
January 21 – Habib Thiam, Senegal politician (d. 2017)
January 23
Bill Hayden, Australian politician, 21st Governor-General of Australia
Chita Rivera, American actress, dancer
January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
February[edit]

Paul Biya

Yoko Ono

Nina Simone
February 2 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (d. 2006)
February 5
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest (d. 2017)
Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director and politician (d. 2020)
February 8
Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria, Austro-Hungarian royal (d. 2017)
Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
February 12 – Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director, writer
February 13
Paul Biya, 2nd President of Cameroon
Kim Novak, American actress
Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (d. 2019)
February 14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
February 16 – Tom Hickey, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
February 17
Craig L. Thomas, American Senator (d. 2007)
Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, 13th Chief Justice of Pakistan (d. 2017)
February 18
Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer, artist and widow of John Lennon
Sir Bobby Robson, English soccer player, manager (d. 2009)
Frank Moores, second Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador (d. 2005)
February 21 – Nina Simone, African-American singer (d. 2003)
February 22 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, British royal, musician and patron of the arts
February 23 – Lee Calhoun, American athlete (d. 1989)
February 26
Godfrey Cambridge, American actor and comedian (d. 1976)
Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. 2017)
February 28 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018)
March[edit]

Michael Caine

Quincy Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Philip Roth
March 3
Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (d. 2013)
Tomas Milian, Cuban-American-Italian actor (d. 2017)
Lee Radziwiłł, American socialite, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (d. 2019)
March 5 – Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess grandmaster (d. 2018)
March 6 – Augusto Odone, Italian creator of Lorenzo's Oil (d. 2013)
March 7 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
March 9 – Lloyd Price, African-American R&B singer and vocalist
March 12
Barbara Feldon, American actress, model (Get Smart)
Jesús Gil, Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman, and football team owner (d. 2004)
March 13 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter
March 14
Sir Michael Caine, English actor and author
René Felber, Swiss Federal Councillor
Quincy Jones, African-American music producer, composer
March 15
Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
March 17 – Penelope Lively, English writer
March 18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019)
March 19
Philip Roth, American author (d. 2018)
Michel Sabbah, Israeli patriarch
Renée Taylor, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (d. 2019)
March 22
Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran
Buddy MacKay, American politician, diplomat, 42nd Governor of Florida
March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford University
March 24 – William Smith, American actor
March 27 – Lê Văn Hưng, South Vietnam army general (d. 1975)
March 28
Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
Frank Murkowski, American politician
March 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
March 31 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1983)
April[edit]

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Elizabeth Montgomery

Jayne Mansfield

Willie Nelson
April 1
Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist and Nobel laureate
April 4
Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician
Brian Hewson, English athlete
April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005)
April 6 – Henryk Niedźwiedzki, Polish boxer (d. 2018)
April 7 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2015)
April 9
Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (d. 1994)
April 12
Montserrat Caballé, Catalan operatic soprano (d. 2018)
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician
April 14
Yuri Oganessian, Russian nuclear physicist
Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (d. 2012)
April 15
Roy Clark, American country musician (d. 2018)
Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (Bewitched) (d. 1995)
April 16 – Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
April 21 – Ian Carr, Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (d. 2009)
April 23 – Frederic Pryor, American economist (d. 2019)
April 25 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011)
April 26
Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian
Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
April 29
Mark Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium
Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
Willie Nelson, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
April 30 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2016)
May[edit]

James Brown

Joan Collins
May 3
James Brown, African-American soul musician (I Feel Good) (d. 2006)
Steven Weinberg, American physicist and Nobel laureate
May 5 – Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2016)
May 7
Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)
Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer, actress (d. 2020)
May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
May 11 – Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader
May 14 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
May 18 – H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
May 21 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (d. 2012)
May 22 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (d. 1996)
May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress (Dynasty)
May 29 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
June[edit]

Joan Rivers

Gene Wilder

Henri, Count of Paris

James Meredith
June 1
Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
June 3 – Celso Torrelio, 69th President of Bolivia (d. 1999)
June 4 – Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (d. 2019)
June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
June 7 – Beverly Wills, American actress (d. 1963)
June 8 – Joan Rivers, American actress, comedian, television host (d. 2014)
June 10 – F. Lee Bailey, American lawyer
June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
June 12 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 2004)
June 13 – Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Swedish sprint canoeist (d. 2018)
June 14
Svetlin Rusev, Bulgarian artist (d. 2018)
Vladislav Rastorotsky, Soviet gymnastics coach
Henri, Count of Paris, French noble (d. 2019)
June 15 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, 2nd President of Iran, 47th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1981)
June 17 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (d. 1970)
June 19 – Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
June 20
Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019)
Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist (d. 2020)
June 21 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian
June 22 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician, Senator, and former mayor of San Francisco
June 23 – Abel Alier, South Sudanese politician and judge
June 24
Ngina Kenyatta, former First Lady of Kenya
Sam Jones, American professional basketball player
June 25
Hong Sook-ja, South Korean politician, feminist
James Meredith, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran
Álvaro Siza, Portuguese architect
June 26 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)[18]
June 28 – V. Sasisekharan, Indian molecular biologist
June 29 – Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater
June 30 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
July[edit]

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden

David McCullough

Oliver Sacks

M. T. Vasudevan Nair
July 3
Carmen Barbará, Spanish comics artist, illustrator
Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, German prince
Lidy Stoppelman, Dutch figure skater
July 4 – La Prieta Linda, Mexican singer, actress
July 6
Reza Davari Ardakani, Iranian philosopher
June Kenney, American actress
July 7
Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
David McCullough, American historian and author
July 9 – Oliver Sacks, English-born neurologist (d. 2015)
July 11
Joyce Piliso-Seroke, South-African educator, activist, feminist and community organizer
György Czakó, Hungarian figure skater
Robert Spence, British engineer
July 14
Franz, Duke of Bavaria, German royal
Dumaagiin Sodnom, 13th Prime Minister of Mongolia
July 15
Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian writer
July 16
Julian Klymkiw, Canadian retired ice hockey player
Julian A. Brodsky, American businessman
Gheorghe Cozorici, Romanian actor (d. 1993)
July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
July 18
Gaston Orellana, Spanish painter
Syd Mead, American industrial and conceptual designer (d. 2019)
Jean Yanne, French film actorand director (d. 2003)
July 19 – Michel Lévêque, French diplomat and politician
July 20 – Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
July 21 – Herman Timme, Dutch decathlete
July 23 – Richard Rogers, Italian-born British architect
July 24 – John Aniston, American actor
July 25 – Jukka Virtanen, Finnish entertainer and author (d. 2019)
July 26 – Kathryn Hays, American television, soap opera actress
July 29 – Lou Albano, Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (d. 2009)
August[edit]

Dom DeLuise

Julie Newmar

Stuart Roosa

Roman Polanski
August 1 – Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
August 2 – Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)
August 4 – Anthony Anenih, Nigerian politician (d. 2018)
August 6 – Suchinda Kraprayoon, 19th Prime Minister of Thailand
August 7
Elinor Ostrom, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (d. 2017)
August 9 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress, Goodwill Ambassdor for UNICEF
August 10
Silvia Caos, Cuban-Mexican actress (d. 2006)
Doyle Brunson, American poker player
Lynn Cohen, American actress (d. 2020)
August 11 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist, conservative political activist (d. 2007)
August 14
Robert Harold Porter, Canadian businessman, farmer and politician (d. 2018)
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 16
Julie Newmar, American actress (Batman)
Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
Ricardo Blume, Peruvian-Mexican actor, theater director
August 17 – Gene Kranz, American NASA Flight Director
August 18
Roman Polanski, Polish film director
Fiachra Ó Ceallaigh, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
August 20 – George J. Mitchell, American lawyer, businessman, author, and politician
August 21 – Dame Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
August 23 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 24
Guillermo Bredeston, Argentine actor (d. 2018)
Ham Richardson, American tennis player (d. 2006)
August 25
Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer
Tom Skerritt, American actor
August 26 – Robert Chartoff, American film producer (d. 2015)
August 27 – Kerstin Ekman, Swedish novelist
August 28 – Jean Weaver, American female professional baseball player (d. 2008)
August 29
Dickie Hemric, American basketball player (d. 2017)
Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
August 31 – Claudio Rodríguez, Spanish voice actor (d. 2019)
September[edit]

Conway Twitty

Karl Lagerfeld

David McCallum

Samora Machel
September 1
Ann Richards, Governor of Texas (d. 2006)
T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 1982)
Conway Twitty, American country music artist (d. 1993)
September 2
Ed Conlin, American basketball player (d. 2012)
Mathieu Kérékou, 5th President of Benin (d. 2015)
September 3 – Tompall Glaser, American singer (d. 2013)
September 8 – Asha Bhosle, Indian musician
September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher, author (d. 2017)
September 10
Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000)
Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer, artist (d. 2019)
September 11 – William Luther Pierce, American author, activist (d. 2002)
September 13
Eileen Fulton, American stage, soap opera actress
Mahant Swami Maharaj (b. Vinu Patel), Indian Hindu guru
September 14 – Hillevi Rombin, Swedish athlete, model and Miss Universe 1955 (d. 1996)
September 15
Henry Darrow, Puerto-Rican American actor
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor (d. 2014)
September 17
Arsenio Corsellas, Spanish actor (d. 2019)
Evelyn Kawamoto, American competition swimmer (d. 2017)
Dorothy Loudon, American actress, singer (d. 2003)
September 18
Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
Robert Blake, American actor
September 19 – David McCallum, Scottish actor
September 21 – Anatoly Krutikov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2019)
September 24 – Raffaele Farina, Italian cardinal, archivist of the Holy Roman Church
September 25 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach, broadcaster
September 27
Greg Morris, African-American actor (Mission: Impossible) (d. 1996)
Kathleen Nolan, American actress, first female president of the Screen Actors Guild
Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
September 29 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
September 30
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, Indian actor, playwright and director (d. 1983)
Cissy Houston, African-American singer
October[edit]

Peter Mansfield

Garrincha
October 2
John Gurdon, British developmental biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (The Diamonds) (d. 2015)
Waldo Von Erich, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2009)
October 3 – Abdon Pamich, Italian Olympic athlete
October 9 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2017)
October 10 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (d. 1969)
October 13 – Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (d. 2019)
October 17
William Anders, American astronaut
Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, known as "The Singing Nun" (d. 1985)
October 18 – Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician (d. 2018)
October 19 – Dom Geraldo Majella, Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal
October 24
Reginald Kray, British gangster (d. 2000)
Ronald Kray, British gangster (d. 1995)
October 28 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
November[edit]

Charles K. Kao

Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda

Larry King
November 1 – Samir Roychoudhury, Indian Bengali poet, philosopher of the Hungry generation (d. 2016)
November 3
John Barry, British film score composer (d. 2011)
Ken Berry, American actor, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
Jeremy Brett, British actor (d. 1995)
Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
Michael Dukakis, American politician, 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate
C. K. Jaffer Sharief, Indian politician (d. 2018)
Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
November 6
Knut Johannesen, Norwegian speed-skater
Else Ackermann, German physician, pharmacologist
November 9 – Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director, screenwriter (d. 2018)
November 10
Don Clarke, New Zealand rugby football player (d. 2002)
Seymour Nurse, Barbadian cricketer (d. 2019)
November 11 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese artistic gymnast
November 14 – Fred Haise, American astronaut who flew in Apollo 13
November 19 – Larry King, American talk show host
November 21 – T. Rasalingam, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
November 23 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer
November 25 – Kathryn Grant, American actress
November 26 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007)
November 28 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
November 29
John Mayall, English blues musician
Francisco Cuoco, Brazilian actor
December[edit]

Lou Rawls

Tim Conway

Abel Pacheco

Emperor Akihito
December 1
Lou Rawls, African-American singer (d. 2006)
Jamal Nebez, Kurdish linguist, mathematician and writer (d. 2018)
December 2 – Mike Larrabee, American Olympic athlete (d. 2003)
December 3 – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 4
Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Queen of Malaysia (d. 1988)
Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)
Wink Martindale, American game show host and disc jockey
December 6 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
December 8 – Johnny Green, American basketball player
December 10 – Mako, Japanese-born actor (d. 2006)
December 11 – Aquilino Pimentel Jr., Filipino politician (d. 2019)
December 13 – Lou Adler, American film and record producer
December 14
Justin Rakotoniaina, 3rd Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2001)
Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress
December 15
Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (d. 2019)
December 17 – Shirley Abrahamson, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
December 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017)
December 19 – Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (d. 2019)
December 20 – Jean Carnahan, American politician
December 22 – Abel Pacheco, 44th President of Costa Rica
December 23 – Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan
December 25 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
December 26
Emmanuel Dabbaghian, Syrian Armenian Catholic patriarch (d. 2018)
Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer (d. 2019)
December 30 – Andy Stewart, Scottish singer, entertainer (d. 1993)
Date unknown[edit]
Jalal Talabani, Kurdish President of Iraq (d. 2017)

January[edit]

Leonid Kravchuk

Jean Chrétien

Bill Bixby
January 1 – Mona Fong, Hong Kong film producer, manager (d. 2017)
January 4
Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, and novelist (d. 2015)
Rudolf Schuster, 2nd President of Slovakia
January 5 – Eddy Pieters Graafland, Dutch football goalkeeper
January 7
Charles Jenkins, American sprinter
Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
January 8 – Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (d. 2003)
January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
January 10 – Leonid Kravchuk, President of Ukraine
January 11 – Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
January 12 – Ebrahim Nafae, Egyptian journalist (d. 2018)
January 14 – Richard Briers, English actor (d. 2013)
January 16 – Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
January 17 – Cedar Walton, American jazz pianist (d. 2013)
January 18 – Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator
January 20 – Tom Baker, British actor
January 21 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017)
January 22 – Bill Bixby, American actor, director (d. 1993)
January 23 – Lou Antonio, American actor, director
January 24
Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet, dramatist (d. 1976)
Leonard Goldberg, American film and television producer (d. 2019)
January 26 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian and actor
January 27 – Édith Cresson, 89th Prime Minister of France
January 29 – Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and Olympic skier (d. 2013)
January 30 – Tammy Grimes, American actress (d. 2016)
January 31 – Eva Mozes Kor, Romanian Holocaust survivor and author (d. 2019)
February[edit]

Hank Aaron

Manuel Noriega

Bill Russell

Florence Henderson
February 5 – Hank Aaron, African-American baseball player
February 7
Eddie Fenech Adami, 10th Prime Minister of Malta and 7th President of Malta
Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer (d. 2019)
King Curtis, African-American saxophonist (d. 1971)
February 10 – Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
February 11
Tina Louise, American actress (Gilligan's Island)
Manuel Noriega, Panamanian military dictator (d. 2017)
Mary Quant, British fashion designer
John Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2017)
February 12
Anne Krueger, American economist
Bill Russell, African-American basketball player and coach
February 13 – George Segal, American actor
February 14 – Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (d. 2016)
February 15 – Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist
February 17
Sir Alan Bates, British actor (d. 2003)
Barry Humphries, Australian actor, comedian
February 18
Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (d. 2018)
Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer
February 20 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver
February 21 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
February 24
Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
Renata Scotto, Italian soprano
Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian President, economist (d. 2012)
February 27
Ralph Nader, American consumer activist, presidential candidate
Van Williams, American actor (d. 2016)
March[edit]

Yuri Gagarin

Charley Pride

Alan Arkin

Shirley Jones
March 1 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
March 4
Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
Barbara McNair, African-American singer and actress (d. 2007)
Gia Scala, British actress (d. 1972)
March 5 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist and Nobel laureate
March 7 – Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (The Today Show)
March 9
Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, first human in space (d. 1968)
Joyce Van Patten, American actress
March 14
Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d. 2017)
Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
Jake Godbold, American politician (d. 2020)
March 16 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman, 24th Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
March 18 – Charley Pride, African-American country musician
March 20 – David Malouf, Australian writer
March 21 – Al Freeman Jr., African-American actor (d. 2012)
March 22
May Britt, Swedish actress
Orrin Hatch, U.S. Senator from Utah
March 23 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
March 25
Johnny Burnette, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1964)
Gloria Steinem, American feminist
March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor
March 27 – Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
March 28 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist
March 30 – Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer
March 31
Richard Chamberlain, American actor
Shirley Jones, American singer, actress and first wife of Jack Cassidy
John D. Loudermilk, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
Kamala Surayya, Indian English poet (d. 2009)
April[edit]

Roman Herzog

Shirley MacLaine
April 1
Jim Ed Brown, American country singer (d. 2015)
Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
Pascal Rakotomavo, 10th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2010)
April 2 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
April 3
Pamela Allen, New Zealand writer and illustrator
Jane Goodall, British zoologist
April 5 – Roman Herzog, 9th President of Germany (d. 2017)
April 6 – Anton Geesink, Dutch 10th-dan judoka (d. 2010)
April 7 – Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, historian and screenwriter (d. 2019)
April 11 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet (d. 2014)
April 18 – James Drury, American actor
April 19 – John Malecela, 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania
April 24
Jayakanthan, Tamil writer (d. 2015)
Shirley MacLaine, American actress, dancer, writer
April 29
Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, President of Cape Verde
Otis Rush, African-American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
May[edit]

Frankie Valli

Harlan Ellison
May 3
Henry Cooper, British boxer (d. 2011)
Frankie Valli, American musician (The Four Seasons)
May 4 – Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
May 6 – Richard Shelby, American politician
May 9
Alan Bennett, British playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author
Lee Hong-koo, South Korean politician, 26th Prime Minister of South Korea
May 10 – Gary Owens, American disc jockey, actor, and radio announcer (d. 2015)
May 11 – Jack Twyman, American basketball player (d. 2012)
May 19 – Jim Lehrer, American journalist and novelist (d. 2020)
May 21
Diana Der Hovanessian, Armenian-American poet, author (d. 2018)
Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 23 – Robert Moog, American inventor of the synthesizer (d. 2005)
May 24 - Charlie Dick, American Record Promotor. (d. 2015)
May 27 – Harlan Ellison, American writer (d. 2018)
May 28 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (d. 1997)
May 30 – Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
May 31 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian author, journalist (d. 2018)
June[edit]

Pat Boone

Albert II of Belgium

Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
June 1
Pat Boone, American actor and singer
Mohan Kumar, Indian director (d. 2017)
June 4 – Dame Daphne Sheldrick, Kenyan conservationist and author (d. 2018)
June 5 – Chennupati Vidya, Indian politician, social worker (d. 2018)
June 6 – King Albert II of Belgium
June 7 – Koloa Talake, 7th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2008)
June 9 – Jackie Wilson, African-American singer (d. 1984)
June 11 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born consort of the Danish monarch (d. 2018)
June 15
Rubén Aguirre, Mexican actor (d. 2016)
Stefan Kwoczała, Polish motorcycle speedway rider (d. 2019)
June 16
Dame Eileen Atkins, British actress
Bill Cobbs, African-American actor
William F. Sharpe, American economist and Nobel laureate
June 19 – Désiré Rakotoarijaona, 4th Prime Minister of Madagascar
June 22 – Ray Mantilla, American jazz drummer
June 23
Virbhadra Singh, Indian politician
Jesse White, American educator, politician and former athlete
June 26 – Dave Grusin, American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
June 27 – Ed Hobaugh, American Major League Baseball player
June 28
Asker Abiyev, Azerbaijani mathematician
Bette Greene, American author
Carl Levin, United States Senator from Michigan
Michael Artin, American mathematician
June 29 – Susan George, American and French political, social scientist, activist and writer
June 30 – C. N. R. Rao, Indian chemist
July[edit]

Jamie Farr

Sydney Pollack

Giorgio Armani

Wole Soyinka

Louise Fletcher
July 1
Alicia Terzian, Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer
Jamie Farr, American actor (M*A*S*H)
Ilselil Larsen, Danish actress
Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
July 2
Tom Springfield, English musician and songwriter
Gordan Irović, Yugoslav football goalkeeper
July 3 – Stefan Abadzhiev, Bulgarian football player
July 4 – Abdul Aziz, Pakistani first-class cricketer
July 5 – Adriana Roel, Mexican actress
July 6 – Tony Burreket, Australian politician
July 7
Richard Taylor, English medical doctor, politician and Royal Air Force officer
Raphael Owor, Ugandan physician, pathologist, academic and medical researcher
Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (d. 2018)
July 8
Fred Stewart, Canadian politician
Ole Lund, Norwegian barrister and industrial leader
Marty Feldman, English comedy writer, comedian and actor (d. 1982)
July 9
Pierre Perret, French singer and composer
Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (d. 2012)
July 11
Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
William Hale, American film and television director
July 12
Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
Ulf Schmidt, Swedish tennis player
July 13
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate
Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian cosmonaut
July 14 – Ángel del Pozo, Spanish actor
July 15
Harrison Birtwistle, British composer
Frank Vargas Pazzos, commander of the Ecuadorian Air Force
July 16
Albert Aguayo, Canadian neurologist
Bill Gunter, American politician
George Hilton, Uruguayan-Italian actor (d. 2019)
July 17 – Horst Steinmann, German economist
July 18 – Jean-Michel Sanejouand, French painter and sculptor
July 19 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
July 22
Louise Fletcher, American actress (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Leon Rotman, Romanian sprint canoeist
Oluyemi Adeniji, Nigerian career diplomat, politician (d. 2017)
July 24 – P. S. Soosaithasan, Sri Lankan Tamil politician (d. 2017)
July 28 – Bud Luckey, American voice actor, Pixar animator (d. 2018)
July 30 – Bud Selig, American Major League Baseball commissioner
August[edit]

Jonas Savimbi

Norman Schwarzkopf

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
August 2 – Valery Bykovsky, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
August 3 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political, rebel leader (d. 2002)
August 5
Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (d. 2019)
Vern Gosdin, American country music singer (d. 2009)
August 6 – Edmond Simeoni, Corsican politician and nationalist (d. 2018)
August 11 – Viktor Tolmachev, Russian engineer (d. 2018)
August 13
Betty Lou Bredemus, American actress and acting coach (d. 2015)
Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2019)
August 15
Nino Ferrer, French singer (d. 1998)
André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, Congolese politician (d. 2018)
August 16 – Ed van Thijn, Dutch politician
August 17 – Ben Humphreys, Australian politician (d. 2019)
August 18
Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer (d. 2015)
Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (d. 1972)
Gulzar, Indian film director, lyricist and poet
August 20 – Armi Kuusela, Miss Universe 1952 from Finland
August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general (d. 2012)
August 24 – Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)
August 25
Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician, aid worker (d. 2010)
Hsiao Teng-tzang, Taiwanese politician (d. 2017)
Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (d. 2017)
August 26 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and broadcaster
August 28 – Zeng Shiqiang, Taiwanese sinologist, scholar, and writer (d. 2018)
August 30 – Anatoly Solonitsyn, Russian actor (d. 1982)
September[edit]

Brian Epstein

Sophia Loren

Leonard Cohen

David J. Thouless

Brigitte Bardot
September 1 – Léon Mébiame, Gabonese politician (d. 2015)
September 2 – Chuck McCann, American actor (d. 2018)
September 4
Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
Juraj Herz, Slovak film director, actor, and scenic designer (d. 2018)
Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer ("Trololo") (d. 2012)
Zaid ibn Shaker, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 2002)
Jan Švankmajer, Czech filmmaker, artist
Otto Brandenburg, Danish singer, actor (d. 2007)
September 5 – Bira, Brazilian musician and guitarist (d. 2019)
September 6 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (d. 2015)
September 7
Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (d. 2012)
Omar Karami, 29th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2015)
September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer (d. 2016)
September 9
Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer, politician, and 6th President of Dominica (d. 2015)
Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (d. 2019)
September 11 – Ian Abercrombie, English-American actor (d. 2012)
September 13 – Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (d. 2009)
September 16
Elgin Baylor, American basketball player, executive
Ronnie Drew, Irish singer with The Dubliners band (d. 2008)
September 17 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
September 19
Brian Epstein, British manager of the Beatles, co-founder of Northern Songs (d. 1967)
Lloyd Haynes, American actor and television writer (d. 1987)
September 20
Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, veteran columnist and political activist (d. 2015)
Sophia Loren, Italian actress
Takayuki Kubota, Japanese martial artist, founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate
September 21
Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
David J. Thouless, Scottish-born condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2019)
María Rubio, Mexican actress (d. 2018)
September 23 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
September 24 – Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (d. 2018)
September 27 – Wilford Brimley, American actor
September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress, animal rights activist
September 29 – Idowu Sofola, Nigerian jurist (d. 2018)
September 30 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss composer, popular music singer (d. 2014)
October[edit]

Nana Mouskouri

Empress Michiko
October 1 – Emilio Botín, Spanish banker (d. 2014)
October 7
Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
Willie Naulls, American basketball player (d. 2018)
October 9
Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1996)
Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross-country skier (d. 2016)
Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
October 12 – Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen (d. 2015)
October 13 – Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer
October 17 – Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (d. 2015)
October 18 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
October 19 – Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian politician
October 20
Eddie Harris, African-American jazz musician (d. 1996)
Empress Michiko, Empress consort of Japan
Timothy West, English actor
October 28 – Martin van der Borgh, Dutch cyclist (d. 2018)
October 29 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (d. 2017)
October 30 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician (d. 2014)
October 31 – Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, Princess of Sweden
November[edit]

Carl Sagan

Charles Manson
November 1 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
November 2 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis champion
November 5 – Kira Muratova, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (d. 2018)
November 7 – Sunanda Patnaik, Indian classical singer (d. 2020)
November 9
Ingvar Carlsson, Two time Prime Minister of Sweden
Hamilton Green, 4th Prime Minister of Guyana
Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer, and television host (Cosmos) (d. 1996)
Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2020)
November 11 – Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (d. 2015)
November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader, criminal (d. 2017)
November 13 – Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d. 2016)
November 15 – Try Sutrisno, 6th Vice President of Indonesia
November 17 – Jim Inhofe, American politician
November 23
Lew Hoad, Australian tennis champion (d. 1994)
Michael Wayne, American film producer and actor (d. 2003)
November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (d. 1998)
November 30 – Lansana Conté, President of Guinea (d. 2008)
December[edit]

Judi Dench

Pratibha Patil

Stjepan Mesić

Maggie Smith
December 1 – Billy Paul, African-American singer (d. 2016)
December 3 – Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
December 4 – Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)
December 5 – Joan Didion, American novelist
December 7 – Joey Powers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
December 8 – Alisa Freindlich, Soviet and Russian actress
December 9
Judi Dench, English actress
Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998)
December 10 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
December 11 – Radha Viswanathan, Indian vocalist, classical dancer (d. 2018)
December 12 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (d. 2012)
December 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American producer (d. 2012)
December 14 – Shyam Benegal, Indian film director and screenwriter
December 15 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 6th President of Somalia (d. 2012)
December 16 – Meng Zhizhong, Chinese engineer (d. 2019)
December 17 – Shan Tianfang, Chinese pingshu performer (d. 2018)
December 18 – Boris Volynov, Russian cosmonaut
December 19
Aki Aleong, Trinidad and Tobago-born American actor
Pratibha Patil, President of India
December 22 – David Pearson, American race car driver (d. 2018)
December 24 – Stjepan Mesić, 2nd President of Croatia
December 25
Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
Bob Martinez, American politician, 40th Governor of Florida
December 28
Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d. 2019)
Maggie Smith, English actress
Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
December 30
John Norris Bahcall, American astrophysicist (d. 2005)
Del Shannon, American singer (Runaway) (d. 1990)
Russ Tamblyn, American film and television actor


January[edit]

Elvis Presley

Elsa Martinelli
January 2 – Ray Byrom, English footballer (d. 2020)
January 4 – Floyd Patterson, African-American boxer (d. 2006)[15]
January 7 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock & roll singer, guitarist and film actor (d. 1977)
January 9 – Manlio De Angelis, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2017)
January 10 – Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
January 14 – Lucile Wheeler, Canadian skier
January 15 – Luigi Radice, Italian football player and manager (d. 2018)
January 16
A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
Udo Lattek, German football coach (d. 2015)[16]
January 19 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
January 20 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (d. 2019)
January 25 – António Ramalho Eanes, 16th President of Portugal
January 30
Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
Elsa Martinelli, Italian film actress (d. 2017)
January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
February[edit]

Roger B. Chaffee

Sonny Bono
February 1 – Vladimir Aksyonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
February 2 – Juliusz Paetz, Polish bishop (d. 2019)
February 3 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, African-American singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1996)
February 4 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
February 7 – Herb Kohl, American businessman, philanthropist and politician
February 11 – Gene Vincent, American guitarist, vocalist (d. 1971)
February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967)
February 16 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (d. 1998)
February 18
Michel Aoun, Lebanese politician, 26th President of Lebanon
Gennady Gladkov, Soviet and Russian composer
February 26 – Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani politician, 6th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
February 27 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (d. 2020)
March[edit]

Brian Clough
March 1
Ajoy Roy, Bangladeshi professor (d. 2019)
Robert Conrad, American actor (The Wild Wild West) (d. 2020)
March 3 – Zhelyu Zhelev, President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
March 4 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor (Taxi)
March 16 – Sergei Yursky, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2019)
March 21 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
March 24 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
March 28 – Józef Szmidt, Polish athlete
March 30 – Giuseppe Frigo, Italian judge (d. 2019)
March 31
Ruth Escobar, Portuguese-Brazilian actress, businesswoman and politician (d. 2017)
Herb Alpert, American trumpeter
April[edit]

Theo Angelopoulos
April 6
K. S. S. Nambooripad, Indian mathematician (d. 2020)
Fred Bongusto, Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer (d. 2019)
April 10 – P. J. Patterson, Jamaican politician, 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
April 13 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor
April 17 – Eilleen Roberts, American queen of hearts
April 19 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, pianist and composer (d. 2002)
April 21 – Charles Grodin, American actor, journalist
April 22
Paul Chambers, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
Jerry Fodor, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (d. 2017)
April 25
Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician (d. 2018)
Jim Peebles, Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
April 27 – Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (d. 2012)
May[edit]

Jack Charlton

Lee Meriwether
May 2
Faisal II of Iraq, (d. 1958)
Luis Suárez, Spanish footballer
May 3 – Ron Popeil, American inventor and marketing personality
May 8
Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Danish princess (d. 2018)
Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager
May 13 – Luciano Benetton, Italian entrepreneur, owner of Benetton Group
May 14 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
May 15 – Don Bragg, American athlete (d. 2019)
May 16 – Milan Pančevski, Macedonian politician (d. 2019)
May 20 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay
May 27 – Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen, actress
May 29 – André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)
May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
May 31 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
June[edit]

Lee Hoi-chang

Samak Sundaravej

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos
June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect
June 2
Lee Hoi-chang, South Korean politician, 26th Prime Minister of South Korea
Carol Shields, American-born writer (d. 2003)
June 13
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Bulgarian & Moroccan-born American installation artists (Jeanne-Claude d. 2009)
Javier Aguirre, Spanish film director, writer and producer (d. 2019)
Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (2008) (d. 2009)
June 17 – Peggy Seeger, American folk singer
June 19 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, President of Ecuador
June 21 – John Abbey, American actor
June 22 – Floyd Norman, American animator, writer, and comic book artist
June 23 – Günter Lörke, German cyclist
June 24
Robert Downey Sr., American actor, filmmaker and father of actor Robert Downey Jr.
Terry Riley, American composer
June 25
Don Demeter, American baseball outfielder
Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, and activist
Corinne Chevallier, Algerian historian and novelist
June 26
Pete Peterson, American politician and diplomat
Sandro Riminucci, Italian basketball player
June 27 – Larry Krutko, American football player
June 28
Bob Blaylock, American baseball player
Nicola Tempesta, Italian judoka
June 29
Jill Briscoe, British American author, editor, and speaker
Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
June 30
Valentino Gasparella, Italian track cyclist
Les Savill, English cricketer
Peter Achinstein, American philosopher
July[edit]

14th Dalai Lama

Mercedes Sosa

Diahann Carroll

Donald Sutherland
July 1
James Cotton, African-American harmonica player, singer and songwriter (d. 2017)
David Prowse, English actor
July 3
Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, NASA astronaut, professor and former senator
John Swan, Bermudian political figure; 4th Premier of Bermuda
July 5
Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist and politician
Christian Doermer, German actor and director
July 6 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and spiritual leader of Tibet
July 7 – H Franklin Bunn, American physician, hematologist and biochemist
July 8
Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor
Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2010)
July 9
Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist, politician (d. 2005)
Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)
July 11 – Günther von Lojewski, German journalist, television presenter and author
July 12
Hans Tilkowski, German footballer (d. 2020)
Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Barry Mason, English songwriter
July 13
Jack Kemp, American football player, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2009)
Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist
July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate
July 15
Andra Martin, American actress
Ken Kercheval, American actor (d. 2019)
July 16 – Lynn Wyatt, American socialite and philanthropist
July 17
Diahann Carroll, African-American actress and singer (d. 2019)
Mohamed Mehrez, Egyptian sports shooter
Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
July 21 – Jeanne Arth, American Wimbledon and US Championships doubles tennis title holder
July 25
Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian international arms dealer (d. 2017)
Barbara Harris, American actress (d. 2018)
July 30 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, Moroccan prince (d. 1983)
August[edit]

Ron Paul

Tsutomu Hata

John Phillips
August 1 – Mohinder Pratap Chand, Urdu poet, language advocate
August 3
Omero Antonutti, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2019)
Georgy Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1997)
August 10
Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer (d. 2019)
Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2017)
August 12
Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (d. 2011)
John Cazale, American actor (d. 1978)
August 17 – Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
August 18 – Rafer Johnson, African-American athlete
August 20 – Ron Paul, American author, physician, and politician
August 21
Bernhard Eckstein, German cyclist (d. 2017)
Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Yemeni general, 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) (d. 1978)
August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
August 26 – Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Congresswoman, Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2011)
August 29 – William Friedkin, American film director
August 30
Felipe Fernández García, Spanish Catholic bishop (d. 2012)
John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
August 31 – Eldridge Cleaver, African-American political activist and writer (d. 1998)
September[edit]

Abdou Diouf

Chaim Topol

Jerry Lee Lewis
September 1
Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
Guy Rodgers, American basketball player (d. 2001)
Chow Yei-ching, Hong Kong executive (d. 2018)
September 5 – Ward Just, American writer (d. 2019)
September 7 – Abdou Diouf, 2nd President of Senegal
September 8 – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
September 9 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor and singer (Fiddler on the Roof)
September 10 - Mary Oliver, American poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner (d. 2019)
September 11
Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
Gherman Titov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000)
September 14
Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga, Ecuadorian musical artist (d. 2018)
Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
September 15 – Dinkha, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)
September 16 – Carl Andre, American artist
September 17 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
September 20 – László Aradszky, Hungarian singer (d. 2017)
September 21
Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (d. 2009)
Sigrid Valdis, American actress (d. 2007)
Jimmy Armfield, English footballer (d. 2018)
September 22 – Virgilijus Noreika, Lithuanian tenor (d. 2018)
September 29 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American rock & roll musician
September 30 – Johnny Mathis, African-American singer
October[edit]

Julie Andrews

Luciano Pavarotti

Isao Takahata
October 1
Julie Andrews, English singer and actress (The Sound of Music)
Teruyoshi Nakano, Japanese special effects director
October 3
Charles Duke, American astronaut
Sinikka Kurkinen, Finnish painter
October 4 – Law Hieng Ding, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
October 5 – Khayyam Mirzazade, Azerbaijani composer, professor (d. 2018)
October 6
Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (d. 2018)
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian politician (d. 2018)
October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
October 14 – La Monte Young, American composer
October 15
Barry McGuire, American musician (Eve of Destruction)
Bobby Morrow, American athlete
October 17 – Michael Eavis, English dairy farmer, founder of the Glastonbury Festival
October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
October 20 – Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order) (d. 2004)
October 21 – Derek Bell, Irish musician (d. 2002)
October 24 – Rosamaria Murtinho, Brazilian actress
October 25 – Rusty Schweickart, American astronaut
October 27
Ali Asghar Khodadoust, Iranian eye surgeon (d. 2018)
Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist
October 29 – Isao Takahata, Japanese film director (d. 2018)
October 30
Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)
Michael Winner, British film director.
October 31 – Ronald Graham, American mathematician
November[edit]

Bibi Andersson

Hussein of Jordan

Mahmoud Abbas
November 1
Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
Charles Koch, American businessman
Gary Player, South-African professional golfer
November 3 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian patriarch (d. 2012)
November 4 – Laila Sari, Indonesian comedian and singer (d. 2017)
November 6 – Archduchess Maria of Austria, German-Austrian royal (d. 2018)
November 8
Alain Delon, French actor
Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal (d. 2008)
November 9 – Jerry Hopkins, American journalist, author (d. 2018)
November 11 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
November 13 – P. Susheela, Indian musician
November 14 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
November 15
Bill Graham, Canadian football player (d. 2020)
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
Try Sutrisno, sixth vice president of Indonesia
November 16 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician (d. 2019)
November 17 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
November 18 – Alain Barrière, French singer (d. 2019)
November 20 – Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician (d. 2018)
November 23 – Vladislav Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
November 24 – Salim Khan, Indian Bollywood screenwriter
November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
November 30
Kim Chong-hoh, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
Usha Mangeshkar, Indian musician
December[edit]

Woody Allen

Lee Remick
December 1 – Woody Allen, American actor and film director
December 5 – Basabi Nandi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
December 8 – Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician
December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d. 2001)
December 11
Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, 13th President of India
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German car designer (d. 2012)
December 14
Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
December 15 – Adnan Badran, Prime Minister of Jordan
December 19 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
December 25 – Sadiq al-Mahdi, Prime Minister of Sudan (1966–67, 1986–89)
December 26 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, President of Togo (d. 2005)
December 30
Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (d. 2009)
Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
December 31 – King Salman of Saudi Arabia


January[edit]

Julio María Sanguinetti

Émile Lahoud

Alan Alda
January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
January 6
Darlene Hard, American tennis player
Alejandro Maldonado, Guatemalan politician
Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay
January 8 – Robert May, Australian scientist
January 10
Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (d. 2002)
Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, author and actor (d. 1997)
Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, and Nobel laureate
January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon
January 13 – Renato Bruson, Italian baritone
January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
January 19 – Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
January 22
Alan J. Heeger, American physicist
Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
January 27
Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
January 28
Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018)
Alan Alda, American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author
Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
February[edit]

Burt Reynolds
February 3 – Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer
February 4 – David Brenner, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
February 6
Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player, coach (d. 2009)
Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
February 9 – Clive Swift, British actor
February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (d. 2018)
February 14 – Anna German, Polish singer (d. 1982)
February 16 – Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist
February 17 – Jim Brown, African-American football player and actor
February 20 – Sharpe James, American politician
February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, educator, politician and civil rights activist (d. 1996)
February 26 – Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician, writer (d. 2018)
February 29
Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
Jack Lousma, American astronaut and politician
Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player
March[edit]

F. W. De Klerk

Ursula Andress

Mario Vargas Llosa
March 4
Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier, politician (d. 2018)
Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
Aribert Reimann, German composer
March 5
Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
Dean Stockwell, American actor
March 6
Marion Barry, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2014)
Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos
March 7
Antonio Mercero, Spanish director (d. 2018)
Loren Acton, American astronaut
Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (d. 2015)
March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American country singer
March 10 – Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA
March 11
Harald zur Hausen, German virologist
Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2016)
March 17 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
March 18 – F. W. de Klerk, 10th President of South Africa (1989–94)
March 19
Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
Uri Aviram, Israeli university professor
March 20 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician
March 21 – Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
March 27 – Banwari Lal Joshi, Indian politician (d. 2017)
March 28
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and Nobel Prize laureate
Amancio Ortega Gaona, Spanish business tycoon
Bill Gaither, American musician
April[edit]

Glen Campbell

Roy Orbison
April 1 – Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 1998)
April 7 – Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav princess, Serbian princess, Serbian presidential candidate
April 9
Valerie Solanas, American feminist writer who attempted to kill Andy Warhol (d. 1988)
Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge (d. 2018)
April 10 – John Madden, American football player, coach and sportscaster
April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
April 13 – Choi In-hun, South Korean writer (d. 2018)
April 14 – Dilbagh Singh Kler, Malaysian Olympic athlete (d. 2012)
April 15
Pen Sovan, Cambodian politician (d. 2016)
Raymond Poulidor, French road-bicycle racer （d. 2019）
April 17 – Jiří Grygar, Czech astronomer
April 20 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (d. 1989)
April 22 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer, songwriter (Pretty Woman) (d. 1988)
April 24
Akwasi Afrifa, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (d. 1979)
Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)
April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
April 29 – Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, British Baron
May[edit]

Albert Finney

Bobby Darin

Dennis Hopper
May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)
May 2
Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress
Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey), British singer
May 4 – El Cordobés, Spanish matador
May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, 5th President of Vietnam
May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d. 2014)
May 9
Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
May 12
Klaus Doldinger, German musician
Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (1989–1994) (d. 2009)
May 13 – Rafael Campos, Dominican actor (d. 1985)
May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
May 16
Philippe de Montebello, art exhibitionist
Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal (d. 2018)
May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)
May 20
Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (d. 2019)
Antanas Vaupšas, Lithuanian athlete (d. 2017)
May 21 – Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor
May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer
May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor
June[edit]

Bruce Dern

Kris Kristofferson

B. J. Habibie

Kigeli V of Rwanda
June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete
June 3 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2017)
June 4
Bruce Dern, American actor
Nutan Samarth, Indian actress (d. 1991)
June 8
James Darren, American actor and singer
Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (d. 2013)
June 15 – William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
June 17 – Ken Loach, British film director
June 18
Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
June 22
Kris Kristofferson, American actor, singer and songwriter
Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer
Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist
June 23 – Costas Simitis, Greek politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece
June 25 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (d. 2019)
June 26
Hal Greer, African-American professional basketball player (d. 2018)
Lee Ming-liang, Taiwanese geneticist
Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
June 27
Geneviève Fontanel, French stage, film actress (d. 2018)
Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d. 2009)
June 28 – Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist
June 29
David Jenkins, American figure skater
Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights activist (d. 1992)
Kigeli V of Rwanda, last king of Rwanda (d. 2016)
June 30 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d. 2015)
July[edit]

Shirley Knight

Yasuo Fukuda

Elizabeth Dole
July 1
Mihir Rakshit, Indian economist
E. Ponnuswamy, Indian politician
Antonio Salines, Italian actor, director
July 5
Sir Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Shirley Knight, American actress
Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish-born economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d. 2018)
July 7
Hammoudi Al-Harithi, Iraqi actor
Anatoly Kirov, Soviet wrestler
July 8 – Johan Du Preez, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean sprinter
July 14 – Marisa Allasio, Italian actress
July 16
Miria Obote, former First Lady of Uganda
Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer
Leo Sterckx, Belgian cyclist
Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
July 18 – Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
July 20 – Barbara Mikulski, American politician, U.S. Senate (D-Md.)
July 23 – Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
July 26 – R. Neelakantan, Indian actor (d. 2018)
July 29 – Elizabeth Dole, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-NC)
July 30
Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Spanish royal (d. 2020)
Buddy Guy, African-American blues singer and guitarist
August[edit]

Robert Redford

John McCain
August 1
Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d. 2008)
Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi ,Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (d. 2019)
August 4 – Joaquim Roriz, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
August 12
Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d. 2017)
André Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d. 2010)
August 17 – Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner
August 18
Hifikepunye Pohamba, 2nd President of Namibia
Robert Redford, American actor and film director
August 21
Wilt Chamberlain, African-American basketball player (d. 1999)
Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, (d. 2008)
August 23 – Rudy Lewis, American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1964)
August 25 – Giridharilal Kedia, Indian former Working President of KVK (d. 2009)
August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. 2015)
August 27 – Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician
August 28 – Bert Schneider, Austrian road racer (d. 2009)
August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) (d. 2018)
August 31 – Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author (d. 2008)
September[edit]

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Jim Henson

Silvio Berlusconi
September 1 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988)
September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d. 2016)
September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
September 4
Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (d. 2019)
September 7
Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican/Canadian actor (d. 2017)
Buddy Holly, American rock-and-roll singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1959)
Jorge Porcel, Argentine-American actor (d. 2006)
September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor (Star Trek: The Original Series)
September 15 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player
September 19 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (d. 2007)
September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Perú (d. 2006)
September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (The Muppets) (d. 1990)
September 25
Pierre Carniti, Italian politician and trade unionist (d. 2018)
Moussa Traoré, President of Mali
September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)
September 27
Don Cornelius, American host of Soul Train (d. 2012)
Joselo, Venezuelan actor, comedian (d. 2013)
September 28
Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (d. 2019)
Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (d. 2018)
September 29 – Silvio Berlusconi, 50th Prime Minister of Italy, media entrepreneur
October[edit]

Brian Blessed

Bill Wyman

Michael Landon
October 1 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
October 3 – Steve Reich, American composer
October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, writer and politician, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
October 6 – Lin Yu-lin, Taiwanese billionaire real estate developer (d. 2018)
October 7 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (d. 1992)
October 8 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d. 2018)
October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel laureate
October 13 – Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer
October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
October 22 – Bobby Seale, American political activist
October 24 – Bill Wyman, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
October 25 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and voice actress
October 26
Etelka Kenéz Heka, Hungarian writer, poet, singer
Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country singer, and songwriter
October 30 – Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005)
October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991)
November[edit]

Dick Cavett
November 2 – Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
November 5
Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (d. 2000)
Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager
November 8 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
November 9 –
Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 1989)
Stephanie Rothman, American film director
November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress
November 15 – Wolf Biermann, German singer, songwriter and former East German dissident
November 17
Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
November 19 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host, television personality
November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author
November 22 – John Bird, British satirist, actor and comedian
November 23 – Robert Barnard, English writer (d. 2013)
Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
Steve Landesberg, actor and comedian (d. 2010)
November 24 – Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 1st Prime Minister of Bahrain
November 29 – Bill Jenkins, American politician
November 30 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist
December[edit]

David Carradine

Pope Francis

Héctor Elizondo

Mary Tyler Moore
December 4 – Freddy Cannon, American singer
December 5 – James Lee Burke, American author
December 7 – Martha Layne Collins, American businesswoman and politician[9]
December 8 – David Carradine, American actor, director and martial artist (d. 2009)
December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer
December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat
December 12
Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d. 2016)
Reggie Young, American musician and guitarist (d. 2019)
December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer, and astronaut
December 17
Pope Francis, Argentine-born Catholic Pontiff[10]
Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d. 2019)
Tommy Steele, British entertainer
December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)
December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician
December 22 – Héctor Elizondo, American actor
December 23 – Frederic Forrest, American actor
December 25
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
Ismail Merchant, Indian film director and producer (d. 2005)
December 27 – Alex Miller, Australian novelist
December 29
Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d. 2017)
Peep Janes, Estonian architect
Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
December 31 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer[11]