1937 - 1940

January[edit]

Shirley Bassey

Vanessa Redgrave

Suzanne Pleshette
January 1 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (d. 2004)
January 2 – Martin Lauer, German athlete (d. 2019)
January 3
Glen A. Larson, American television producer and writer (d. 2014)
Nadia Lutfi, Egyptian actress (d. 2020)
January 4
Grace Bumbry, American opera singer
Dyan Cannon, American actress, film director and screenwriter
January 6
Paolo Conte, Italian singer, pianist and composer
Harri Holkeri, 36th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2011)
January 8 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer ("Goldfinger")
January 13 – Ati George Sokomanu, President of Vanuatu
January 14
Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015)
Billie Jo Spears, American country music singer (d. 2011)
January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American child actress
January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
January 18
Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (d. 2009)
John Hume, Northern Irish politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
January 19 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
January 20 – Bailey Howell, American basketball player
January 21 – Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian Royal House
January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh, American author
January 25 – Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of Central African Republic (d. 2011)
January 29 – Hassan Habibi, 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013)
January 30
Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster
January 31
Philip Glass, American composer
Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
February[edit]

Rupiah Banda

Harald V of Norway

Nancy Wilson
February 1 – Don Everly, American rock and roll musician (The Everly Brothers)
February 2
Tom Smothers, American musician, comedian (The Smothers Brothers)
Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015)
February 3 – Jacques Barrot, French politician (d. 2014)
February 4 – Magnar Solberg, Norwegian biathlete
February 5 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian Olympic athlete
February 8 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (d. 2016)
February 10 – Roberta Flack, African-American singer
February 11 – Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
February 12 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
February 13
Rupiah Banda, 4th President of Zambia
Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut (d. 2019)
February 17
Benjamin Whitrow, English actor (d. 2017)
Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (d. 2014)
February 19 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (d. 2016)
February 20
Robert Huber, German chemist and Nobel laureate
Nancy Wilson, African-American singer and actress (d. 2018)
February 21
Ron Clarke, Australian runner (d. 2015)
King Harald V of Norway
February 25 – Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
February 26 – Eduardo Arroyo, Spanish painter and graphic artist (d. 2018)
March[edit]

Olusegun Obasanjo

Benny Paret

Warren Beatty
March 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
March 3
Bobby Driscoll, American child actor and voice actor (d. 1968)
Tsukasa Hosaka, Japanese footballer (d. 2018)
March 4
Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
March 5 – Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria
March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
March 8 – Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
March 10 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
March 13 – Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (d. 2017)
March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (d. 1962)
March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (d. 2015)
March 16 – Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
March 18
Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 1996)
Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (d. 2016)
March 20 – Jerry Reed, American singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist (d. 2008)
March 22
Armin Hary, German athlete
Peter Vogel, German film actor (d. 1978)
March 23 – Tony Burton, American actor (d. 2016)
March 24 – Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados
March 26 – Wayne Embry, American basketball player and team executive
March 27 – Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (d. 2019)
March 29
Billy Carter, American farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician (d. 1988)
Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director
April[edit]

Colin Powell

Billy Dee Williams

Joseph Estrada

Saddam Hussein
April 1 – Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Indian politician, 12th Vice President of India
April 4 – Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
April 5
Colin Powell, African-American politician, 65th U.S. Secretary of State
Guido Vildoso, 70th President of Bolivia
April 6
Merle Haggard, American country musician (d. 2016)
Billy Dee Williams, African-American actor
April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
April 12 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
April 15 – Frank Vincent, American actor (d. 2017)
April 16 – George Steele, professional wrestler and actor (d. 2017)
April 17 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian engineer, business magnate (d. 2019)
April 19
Antonio Carluccio, Italian-born restaurateur (d. 2017)
Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
April 20 – George Takei, Japanese-American actor, director and author (Star Trek)
April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American film actor and director
April 24
Viktor Zubkov, Russian basketball player (d. 2016)
Joe Henderson, American jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 2001)
April 26 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (d. 2015)
April 27 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
April 28
Diane Hoh American author
Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
May[edit]

Lorenzo Music

George Carlin

Yvonne Craig

Mengistu Haile Mariam
May 2
Lorenzo Music, American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician (d. 2001)
Ted Dabney, American engineer (d. 2018)
May 4 – Dick Dale, American guitarist (d. 2019)
May 6 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, African-American boxer (d. 2014)
May 8
Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian justice, politician
Thomas Pynchon, American writer
May 9 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
May 11 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
May 12 – George Carlin, American stand-up comedian (d. 2008)
May 13
Roger Zelazny, American writer (d. 1995)
Trevor Baylis, English inventor (d. 2018)
May 15
Madeleine Albright, American politician and diplomat, 64th U.S. Secretary of State
Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor
May 16 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (Batman) (d. 2015)
May 18 – Jacques Santer, Luxembourg politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
May 21
Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (d. 2008)
Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia
May 22 – Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (d. 2011)
May 27 – Andrei Bitov, Russian writer (d. 2018)
May 30 – Aleksandr Demyanenko, Russian film and theater actor (d. 1999)
Date unknown – Abu Nidal, Palestinian militant (d. 2002)
June[edit]

Morgan Freeman

Simeon II

Martti Ahtisaari
June 1
Morgan Freeman, African-American actor
Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
June 4 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler, announcer (d. 1999)
June 7 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
June 8 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
June 11
Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Chad Everett, American actor (d. 2012)
June 12 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
June 13 – Raj Reddy, Indian computer scientist
June 15 – Waylon Jennings, American country singer (d. 2002)
June 16
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria (1943-1946), 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001-2005)
Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (d. 2010)
June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (d. 2009)
June 18
Ronald Venetiaan, 6th and 8th President of Suriname
Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
June 19 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher, author (d. 2015)
June 21 – Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th President of Finland
June 25
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of Kuwait
Keizō Obuchi, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
June 26
Grady Stiles, American freak show performer (d. 1992)
Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
July[edit]

Queen Sonja of Norway

Lionel Jospin

Ryutaro Hashimoto
July 2 – Richard Petty, American stock car racer, 7-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion
July 3 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
July 4 – Queen Sonja of Norway
July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
July 6
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
Ned Beatty, American actor
Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
July 7
Valery Anisimov, Soviet wrestler
Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish rowing coxswain
Nanami Shiono, Japanese author, novelist
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician
Giovanni Arrighi, Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst (d. 2009)
July 9 – David Hockney, English-born artist
July 12
Bill Cosby, African-American actor, comedian, educator and convicted sex offender
Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
July 14 – Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
July 17 – Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, Ugandan politician, businessman
July 18
Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist and Nobel laureate
Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (d. 2005)
July 19 – George Hamilton IV, American country singer (d. 2014)
July 24 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor and director
July 27
Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
Mirko Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2006)
July 29
Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2006)
Daniel McFadden, American economist and Nobel laureate
August[edit]

Manuel Pinto da Costa

Dustin Hoffman
August 3 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (d. 2019)
August 5 – Manuel Pinto da Costa, Santoméan politician, 1st President of São Tomé and Príncipe
August 6 – Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (d. 2014)
August 8 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor, director (The Graduate)
August 11
Hasri Ainun Habibie, Indonesian physician (d. 2010)
Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (d. 2018)
Hasri Ainun, 3rd First Lady of Indonesia (d. 2010)
August 15 – Bounnhang Vorachith, 14th Prime Minister, 6th President of Laos
August 18 – Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician, former Prime Minister
August 19 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish football player and coach (d. 2014)
August 21
Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
Gustavo Noboa, President of Ecuador
Chuck Traynor, American pornographer (d. 2002)
August 22 – Francesco Musso, Italian Olympic boxer
August 26 – Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader (d. 2010)
August 27 – Alice Coltrane, African-American jazz harpist, organist, pianist and composer (d. 2007)
August 30 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand founder of McLaren Racing (d. 1970)
September[edit]

Francisco Pinto Balsemão

Fernando de la Rúa
September 1 – Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal
September 4 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
September 5 – Antonio Angelillo, Italian-Argentine footballer (d. 2018)
September 7
Brenda Bufalino, American tap dancer
John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
September 9 – Alí Rodríguez Araque, Venezuelan politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2018)
September 10 – Jared Diamond, American geographer, anthropologist, and author
September 11
Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian-born Queen of the Belgians
Joseph Kobzon, Soviet and Russian singer (d. 2018)
September 13 – Fred Silverman, American TV producer and executive (d. 2020)
September 15
Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist and Nobel laureate
Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2019)
September 20 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2005)
September 23 – Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (d. 2015)
September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and talent agent (d. 2015)
September 28
Bob Schul, American Olympic athlete
Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
October[edit]

Jackie Collins

Bobby Charlton
October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, African-American attorney (d. 2005)
October 4
Jackie Collins, English author (d. 2015)
Franz Vranitzky, 19th Chancellor of Austria
October 11 –
Bobby Charlton, English footballer
Ron Leibman, American actor (d. 2019)
October 19 – Teresa Ciepły, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 2006)
October 20 – Wanda Jackson, American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
October 21 – Édith Scob, French film and theatre actress (d. 2019)
October 22 – Kader Khan, Afghan-born Indian-Canadian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director (d. 2018)
October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
October 30 – Ashaari Mohammad, Malaysian spiritual leader (d. 2010)
October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer, songwriter
November[edit]

Ridley Scott
November 4 – Loretta Swit, American actress (M*A*S*H)
November 5 – Chan Sek Keong, third Chief Justice of Singapore
November 8 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2019)
November 15 – Little Willie John, African-American R&B singer (d. 1968)
November 16 – Lothar Späth, German politician (d. 2016)
November 17 – Peter Cook, English comedian, writer and actor (d. 1995)
November 20 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013)
November 21
Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer and social activist (That Girl)
Ferenc Kósa, Hungarian film director (d. 2018)
November 25 – Serikbolsyn Abdildin, Kazakh economist and politician (d. 2020)
November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994)
November 30 – Ridley Scott, British film director, producer
December[edit]

Jane Fonda

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Anthony Hopkins
December 1 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
December 3 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (d. 2012)
December 4
Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
William Lombardy, American chess grandmaster (d. 2017)
December 6 – Ramon Torrents, Spanish artist
December 7 – Thad Cochran, American politician (d. 2019)
December 8
James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian mountaineer, businessman (d. 2004)
December 17 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (d. 2007)
December 18 – Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani cleric, politician (d. 2018)
December 21
Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
Lawrence Roberts, American computer scientist (d. 2018)
December 22 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and screenwriter (d. 2018)
December 24 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
December 26 – John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician
December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
December 29 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives (1978–2008)
December 30 – Gordon Banks, English footballer (d. 2019)
December 31
Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
Unknown[edit]
Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (d. 2016)


January–February[edit]

King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Etta James

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

István Szabó
January 1
Frank Langella, American actor
Fuad Masum, 9th President of Iraq
January 2
Goh Kun, Korean politician, Mayor of Seoul and 31st Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
Bohumil Nemecek, Czechoslovakian Olympic boxer (d. 2010)
January 4 – Mohamed Rahmat ("Tok Mat"), Malaysian politician (d. 2010)[12]
January 5 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain[13]
January 7 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
January 10 – Donald Knuth, American mathematician, computer scientist
January 13 – Shivkumar Sharma, Indian musician
January 14
Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese politician, 50th Prime Minister of Japan
Jack Jones, American singer
Allen Toussaint, American musician, composer (d. 2015)
January 23 – Georg Baselitz, German painter, sculptor
January 25
Etta James, African-American singer (d. 2012)
Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist, father of "Henshin Heroes" (d. 1998)
Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor (d. 1980)
January 28 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 29 – Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese men's artistic gymnast
January 30 – Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
January 31 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
February 1 – Sherman Hemsley, African-American comedian, actor (d. 2012)
February 3 – Emile Griffith, American welterweight boxer (d. 2013)
February 11 – Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian Olympic athlete
February 12 – Judy Blume, American author
February 13 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
February 18 – István Szabó, Hungarian film director
February 24
James Farentino, American actor (d. 2012)
Phil Knight, American sportswear entrepreneur
February 25 – Herb Elliott, Australian runner
February 27 – Pascale Petit, French actress
March–April[edit]

Ricardo Lagos Escobar

Alpha Condé

Kofi Annan

Claudia Cardinale
March 1
Aart Staartjes, Dutch actor and television presenter (d. 2020)
Tufuga Efi, Samoa political figure, 3rd Prime Minister of Samoa and O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa
March 2 – Ricardo Lagos Escobar, President of Chile
March 4
Alpha Condé, 4th President of Guinea[14]
Paula Prentiss, American actress
March 5 – Fred Williamson, African-American football player and actor[15]
March 7 – David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
March 12 – Dumitru Fărcaș, Romanian tárogató player (d. 2018)
March 17
Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer, choreographer (d. 1993)
Keith O'Brien, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Edinburgh (d. 2018)
March 18
Timo Mäkinen, Finnish racing driver (d. 2017)
Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2017)[16]
March 21 – Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
March 24 – David Irving, English author and Holocaust denier
March 25 – Hoyt Axton, American country music singer, songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
March 26 – Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30 – Klaus Schwab, German economist, founder of the World Economic Forum
March 31 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (d. 2019)
April 7
Jerry Brown, American politician, lawyer and Governor of California
Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2008)
April 8 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian Secretary-General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2018)
April 10 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
April 11 – Kurt Moll, German bass
April 15 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born Italian actress
April 16 – Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 1993)
April 20 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian track athlete (d. 2017)
April 22 – Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer
April 26
Giovanni Benvenuti, Italian Olympic boxer
Duane Eddy, American rock guitarist
April 28 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
April 29 – Bernard Madoff, American financial fraudster
April 30 – Larry Niven, American author
May–June[edit]

King Moshoeshoe II

Giuliano Amato

Princess Désirée
May 2 – King Moshoeshoe II (d. 1996)
May 13
Dumitru Fărcaș, Romanian tárogató player (d. 2018)
Francine Pascal, American novelist, playwright
Giuliano Amato, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
May 16 – Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist (d. 2018).
May 19 – Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2019)
May 22
Richard Benjamin, American actor
Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
May 24 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
May 26
William Bolcom, American composer and arranger
Teresa Stratas, Canadian operatic soprano
May 28 – Jerry West, American basketball player and executive[17]
June 2 – Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, Princess of Sweden
June 5 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (d. 2019)
June 24 – Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani political figure, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2000)
June 26 – Maria Velho da Costa, Portuguese writer
June 30 – Billy Mills, American Olympic athlete
July–August[edit]

Bill Withers

Diana Rigg

Natalie Wood

Luis Aragonés

Leonid Kuchma

Kenny Rogers
July 1 – Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian classical flutist
July 3 – Bolo Yeung, Hong Kong actor
July 4 – Bill Withers, African-American singer, songwriter
July 7 – Ponatshego Kedikilwe, Botswana politician
July 9 – Brian Dennehy, American actor
July 15 – Enrique Figuerola, Cuban sprinter
July 18 – Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
July 19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
July 20
Diana Rigg, English actress (The Avengers)
Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
July 21 – Janet Reno, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General under Bill Clinton (d. 2016)
July 23
Ronny Cox, American actor and singer
Götz George, German actor (d. 2016)
July 27 – Gary Gygax, American author, game designer (d. 2008)
July 28
Luis Aragonés, Spanish football player, manager (d. 2014)
Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand
July 29 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2005)
August 1 – Edward Sokoine, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 1984)
August 3 – Sir Terry Wogan, Irish-British radio broadcaster, television presenter/personality (d. 2016)
August 4 – Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond, Zairian politician (d. 2003)
August 7 – Verna Bloom, American actress (d. 2019)
August 8
Otto Rehhagel, German football player, manager
Connie Stevens, American actress, singer and businesswoman
August 9
Michèle Girardon, French actress (d. 1975)
Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine
Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
August 16 – Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, 8th Prime Minister of Madagascar
August 19
Diana Muldaur, American actress
Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian Soviet sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (d. 2014)
August 20
Jacqueline Andere, Mexican actress
Alain Vivien, French politician
August 21 – Kenny Rogers, American country singer
August 24 – Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
August 25 – Iris Falcam, American-Micronesian librarian, researcher and public servant (d. 2010)
August 28 – Paul Martin, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
August 29
Elliott Gould, American actor
Robert Rubin, American banker, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
September–October[edit]

Wim Kok

Farah Diba

Christopher Lloyd
September 1 – Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and academic
September 2 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (d. 2013)
September 3 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate
September 6 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)[18]
September 10 – Tomasi Puapua, Tuvaluan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Tuvalu and 6th Governor-General of Tuvalu
September 23 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (d. 1982)[19]
September 25
Celestino Rocha da Costa, 2nd Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2010)
Jonathan Motzfeldt, Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
September 28 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
September 29 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, 48th Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1994 until 2002 (d. 2018)
October 1 – Stella Stevens, American actress and model
October 3
Eddie Cochran, American rock and roll singer (d. 1960)
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peruvian entrepreneur and politician, 66th President of Peru
Joseph F. Timilty, American politician (d. 2017)
October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 8 – Bronislovas Lubys, 5th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2011)
October 14 – Farah Diba, Empress of Iran
October 15 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician, activist (d. 1997)
October 16 – Nico, German-American singer (d. 1988)
October 17 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007)
October 22 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
October 29
Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 24th President of Liberia[20]
October 30 – Ed Lauter, American actor (d. 2013)
November–December[edit]

Queen Sofía of Spain

Ted Turner

Jon Voight
November 2
Pat Buchanan, American conservative political operative, journalist, pundit and one-time presidential candidate
Queen Sofía of Spain
November 5
Joe Dassin, French singer (d. 1980)
Ionatana Ionatana, 5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2000)
César Luis Menotti, Argentine football coach
November 8 – Satch Sanders, American basketball player[21]
November 12 – Benjamin Mkapa, 3rd President of Tanzania
November 13 – Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
November 16 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
November 17 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer
November 18
Ahmad Obeidat, Prime Minister of Jordan
Norbert Ratsirahonana, 9th Prime Minister of Madagascar
November 19 – Ted Turner, American entrepreneur
November 21 – Helen, Indian actress and dancer
November 24 – Oscar Robertson, African-American basketball player
November 26 – Porter J. Goss, American politician, Central Intelligence Agency director
November 30 – Makio Inoue, Japanese actor and voice actor (d. 2019)
December 2 – Luis Artime, Argentine footballer
December 5 – J. J. Cale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
December 8 – John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, President of Ghana
December 12 – Connie Francis, American singer, actress
December 13
Heino, German singer
Gus Johnson, American basketball player (d. 1987)
December 15 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy, 48th President of Paraguay
December 16 – Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
December 17 – Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete (d. 2019)
December 23 – Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
December 28 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, President (d. 1999)
December 29 – Jon Voight, American actor


January–February[edit]

Ali Mahdi Muhammad

Abdullah Ensour

Alfredo Palacio
January 1 – Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Somali entrepreneur, politician and 4th President of Somalia
January 3
Arik Einstein, Israeli singer (d. 2013)[18]
Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
Vincent Siew, Taiwanese politician, 9th Vice President of the Republic of China
January 6
Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer, manager (d. 2002)
Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
January 9 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
January 10
Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
Bill Toomey, American athlete
January 11 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian skier
January 15 – Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician, writer (d. 2018)
January 17
Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (d. 2008)
Maury Povich, American talk show host
January 19 – Phil Everly, American rock 'n' roll musician (member of Rockabilly Hall of Fame) (d. 2014)
January 20
Abdullah Ensour, Jordanian economist, 75th Prime Minister of Jordan
Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer, poet
January 22
Alfredo Palacio, 42nd President of Ecuador
Ray Stevens, American musician (Everything is Beautiful)
January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer
February 1
Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
Joe Sample, American pianist, keyboardist, and composer (d. 2014)
February 3 – Michael Cimino, American film director (d. 2016)
February 7 – Francisco Mendez, Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (d. 1978)
February 8 – Egon Zimmermann, Austrian Olympic alpine skier (d. 2019)
February 10
Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2017)
February 12 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors) (d. 2013)
February 13 – Beate Klarsfeld, German-born Nazi hunter
February 16 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter, rock balladeer (d. 2004)
February 18 – Abdelraouf Al-Rawabdeh, Jordanian political figure, 65th Prime Minister of Jordan
February 19 – Erin Pizzey, British author, founder of the first domestic violence shelter in the modern world[19]
February 28 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate[20]
March–April[edit]

Brian Mulroney

Marvin Gaye

Francis Ford Coppola

Dusty Springfield

Ali Khamenei

Volker Schlöndorff
March 1
Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist
Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (d. 2017)
March 2 – Takako, Princess Suga
March 5
Samantha Eggar, English actress
Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1987)
March 8 – Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed-skater
March 10 – Lee Soo-sung, 27th Prime Minister of South Korea
March 13 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
March 14
William B. Lenoir, American astronaut (d. 2010)
Glauber Rocha, Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter (d. 1981)
March 17 – Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian footballer and manager[21]
March 20 – Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada[22]
March 25 – D. C. Fontana, American television writer (d. 2019)
March 29 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
March 31
Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (d. 1993)
Volker Schlöndorff, German film director[23]
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer[24]
April 1 – Ali MacGraw, American actress
April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
April 4
Alex George, Australian botanist
Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer (d. 2018)
Ernie Terrell, African-American professional boxer (d. 2014)
April 7
Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
Sir David Frost, English television personality (d. 2013)
April 8 – Lim Keng Yaik, Malaysian politician (d. 2012)
April 9 – Michael Learned, American actress
April 10 – Claudio Magris, Italian author
April 11 – Louise Lasser, American actress
April 12 – Alan Ayckbourn, English dramatist
April 13
Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
Paul Sorvino, American actor
April 15 – Jaime Paz Zamora, 73rd President of Bolivia
April 16 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (d. 1999)
April 19 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
April 20 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician, 1st female Prime Minister
April 21 – Helen Prejean, American writer
April 22 – Jason Miller, American playwright, actor (d. 2001)
April 23 – Lee Majors, American actor
April 24 – Ernst Zündel, German publisher and pamphleteer (d. 2017)
April 27
Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
May–June[edit]

Judy Collins

Ruud Lubbers

Harvey Keitel

Sir Ian McKellen

Jackie Stewart
May 1 – Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter
May 2
Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist and inventor
Taomati Iuta, Vice President of Kiribati (1991–94) (d. 2016)
May 4
Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (d. 2018)
May 7
José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan orchestral conductor, music educator (d. 2018)
Sidney Altman, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1982–94) (d. 2018)
May 9 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
May 13 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
May 14 – Veruschka von Lehndorff, German model, actress and artist
May 15 – Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (d. 2019)
May 18 – Peter Grünberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
May 19
Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
James Fox, English actor
Nancy Kwan, American actress
Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
May 20 – Roman Kartsev, Russian actor (d. 2018)
May 21 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer
May 22 – Paul Winfield, African-American actor (d. 2004)
May 25
Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
Sir Ian McKellen, English actor
May 27 – Don Williams, American musician (d. 2017)
May 28 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (d. 2012)
May 30 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor (d. 2019)
June 1 – Cleavon Little, African-American actor (d. 1992)
June 4 – Ottavio Cogliati, Italian cyclist (d. 2008)
June 5
Joe Clark, 16th Prime Minister of Canada
Margaret Drabble, English novelist
June 6
Marian Wright Edelman, American civil rights activist and lawyer
Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
June 9 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano
June 11 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
June 16 – Billy "Crash" Craddock, American country and rockabilly singer
June 21 – Charles Jencks, American cultural theorist (d. 2019)
June 22 – Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer
June 26 – Osvaldo Hurtado, 34th President of Ecuador
June 29 – Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist
June 30 – Renzo Rovatti, Italian footballer
July–August[edit]

Karel Gott

Elena Obraztsova

Milva

John Howard

John W. Snow

Princess Irene of the Netherlands

Romano Prodi
July 1
Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 2015)
Karen Black, American actress (d. 2013)
July 3 – Willy Vanden Berghen, Belgian road bicycle racer
July 4
Abdelmajid Chetali, Tunisian footballer, manager
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, 2nd Prime Minister of Yemen (d. 2011)
July 6
Mary Peters, British athlete
Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, sovereign ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah
July 7 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (d. 2015)[25]
July 8
Likulia Bolongo, Congolese politician, general and Prime Minister of Zaire
Abdelhamid Sharaf, Jordanian ambassador to the United States and Canada, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1980)
July 10 – Mavis Staples, African-American rhythm and blues, gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist
July 13 – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
July 14
Karel Gott, Czech singer (d. 2019)
Sid Haig, American actor (d. 2019)
July 15 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, 113th Prime Minister of Portugal, 19th President of Portugal
July 16 – Lido Vieri, Italian footballer and manager
July 17 – Milva, Italian singer, stage and film actress, and television personality
July 18
Dion DiMucci, American singer, songwriter (The Wanderer)
Eduard Mudrik, Soviet Russian footballer of Jewish ethnicity (d. 2017)
July 21 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (d. 2012)
July 22 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress and author
July 24 – Walt Bellamy, African-American basketball player (d. 2013)
July 26 – John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
July 27 – William Eggleston, American photographer
July 28 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor, comedian, and director (d. 2017)
July 31 – Susan Flannery, American soap opera actress
August 1 – Robert James Waller, American novelist (d. 2017)
August 2
Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (d. 2019)
John W. Snow, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
Wes Craven, American film director, writer (d. 2015
August 5
Princess Irene of the Netherlands
Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress and politician (PRI)[26]
August 8 – Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romanian athlete
August 9
Bulle Ogier, French actress
Romano Prodi, Italian politician, economist and 52nd Prime Minister of Italy
August 11 – James Mancham, Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (d. 2017)
August 12 – George Hamilton, American actor
August 16
Seán Brady, Irish cardinal
Valery Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut
August 19
Alan Baker, English mathematician (d. 2018)
Ginger Baker, English drummer (d. 2019)
August 20 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor (d. 2004)
August 22 – Valerie Harper, American actress (d. 2019)
August 23 – Fernando Luján, Mexican actor (d. 2019)
August 27 – Bill Mulliken, American swimmer (d. 2014)
August 29
Kang Sok-ju, North Korean diplomat, politician (d. 2016)
Joel Schumacher, American film producer and director
August 30
John Peel, English disc jockey (d. 2004)
Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
September-October[edit]

Lily Tomlin

Guntis Ulmanis

Ralph Lauren

Lee Harvey Oswald

John Cleese
September 1 – Lily Tomlin, American actress (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
September 5
George Lazenby, Australian actor
Claudette Colvin, American civil rights activist and nurse
William Devane, American actor
Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (d. 2006)
September 6 – Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
September 7 – Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Defence Forces official
September 8 – Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
September 9 – Reuven Rivlin, 10th President of Israel
September 11 – Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman
September 13
Richard Kiel, American actor (d. 2014)
Guntis Ulmanis, 5th President of Latvia
September 15 – Ron Walker, Australian businessman, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne (d. 2018)
September 16 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, painter
September 18
Jorge Sampaio, 17th President of Portugal[27]
Fred Willard, American actor, comedian, and writer
September 22 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (d. 2016)
September 25 – Leon Brittan, British politician (d. 2015)
September 27 – Kathy Whitworth, American professional golfer
September 30 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 4 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider, 6 times World Speedway Champion (d. 2018)
October 7
John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
Clive James, Australian-born writer, humorist and television personality (d. 2019)
Harold Kroto, English organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
October 8 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor and comedian
October 9 – John Pilger, Australian-born journalist
October 11 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
October 14 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
October 16 - Suely Franco, Brazilian actress and entertainer
October 18
Flavio Cotti, Swiss Federal Councilor
Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
October 22
Joaquim Chissano, President of Mozambique
George Cohen, English footballer
October 24 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor (Amadeus)
October 27 – John Cleese, English actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
October 28
Giulio Angioni, Italian writer, anthropologist (d. 2017)
Jane Alexander, American actress
October 29 – Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet, novelist and creator of the Indian Hungry generation literary and cultural movement
October 30
Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Grace Slick, American rock singer (Jefferson Airplane)
October 31
Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer (d. 2006)
Ron Rifkin, American actor
November–December[edit]

Emil Constantinescu

Tina Turner

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Harry Reid

John Amos
November 1 – Barbara Bosson, American actress
November 5 – Cecilia Alvear, Ecuadorian-born American journalist (d. 2017)
November 6
Athanasios Angelopoulos, Greek academic
Carlos Emilio Morales, Cuban jazz guitarist (d. 2014)
November 8
Laila Kinnunen, Finnish singer (d. 2000)
Henning Christophersen, Danish politician (d. 2016)
November 10 – Russell Means, Native American activist (d. 2012)
November 14 – Wendy Carlos, American electronic composer
November 15
Yaphet Kotto, African-American actor
Thalmus Rasulala, American actor (d. 1991)
November 18
Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist
Amanda Lear, French model, singer
Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
November 19 – Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania
November 20 – Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian
November 21 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
November 25 – Rais Khan, Pakistani sitarist (d. 2017)[28]
November 26
Tina Turner, African-American singer and actress
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
November 27
Dudley Storey, New Zealand rower (d. 2017)
Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 3rd President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress (d. 1986)
November 30 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (d. 2015)
December 1 – Lee Trevino, American professional golfer
December 2 – Harry Reid, American politician
December 8
Jerry Butler, African-American singer-songwriter and politician
James Galway, Irish flautist
Fahrudin Jusufi, Kosovar-Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2019)
December 11 – Tom Hayden, American academic, activist and politician (d. 2016)
December 14 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
December 15 – Cindy Birdsong, American singer
December 16 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (d. 2012)
December 17 – Eddie Kendricks, African-American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
December 18
Michael Moorcock, English science fiction writer
Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December 20 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
December 23 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)
December 24 – Dean Corll, American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and torturer (d. 1973)
December 25 – Bob James, American musician
December 26 – Phil Spector, American record producer
December 27 – John Amos, African-American actor (Good Times)

January[edit]

Brian Josephson

Jack Nicklaus

John Hurt

James Cromwell

Carlos Slim
January 2
Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor, director (d. 2018)
Jim Bakker, American televangelist, ex-husband of Tammy Faye
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
January 3
Leo de Berardinis, Italian stage actor, theatre director (d. 2008)
Thelma Schoonmaker, Algerian-born American film editor
January 4
Helmut Jahn, German-American architect
Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 6 – Penny Lernoux, American nun, author (d. 1989)
January 9 – Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and businessman
January 13 – Edmund White, American author
January 14 – Julian Bond, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015)
January 16 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
January 17
Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete
Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay
Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (d. 2015)
January 18
Tony Holland, British actor, television screenwriter (d. 2007)
Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
January 19
Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge and magistrate (d. 1992)
Mike Reid, English actor (d. 2007)
Linda Sorenson, Canadian actress
January 20
Carol Heiss, American figure skater
Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
January 21
Jeremy Jacobs, American businessman
Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
January 22 – John Hurt, English actor (d. 2017)
January 23 – Jimmy Castor, African-American funk, R&B, and soul saxophonist (d. 2012)
January 24 – Joachim Gauck, German politician, 11th President of Germany
January 27
Brian O'Leary, American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut (d. 2011)
James Cromwell, American actor
Petru Lucinschi, Moldovan politician, 2nd President of Moldova
January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
January 29
Katharine Ross, American actress
Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
January 31 – Stuart Margolin, American actor
February[edit]

George A. Romero

H. R. Giger

Willi Holdorf

Smokey Robinson

Peter Fonda

Mario Andretti
February 1 – Ajmer Singh, Indian athlete, educator (d. 2010)
February 2
Odell Brown, American jazz organist (d. 2011)
Sir David Jason, English actor
February 3 – Fran Tarkenton, American football player
February 4 – George A. Romero, American film writer, director (d. 2017)
February 5 – H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014)
February 6
Tom Brokaw, American television journalist and author
Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian
February 7 – Tony Tan, 7th President of Singapore
February 8
Thomas Rickman, American film director, screenwriter (d. 2018)
Ted Koppel, American journalist
February 9
Brian Bennett, British drummer, songwriter (The Shadows)
J. M. Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate
Seamus Deane, Irish poet, novelist
February 12
Ralph Bates, English film and television actor (d. 1991)
Richard Lynch, American actor (d. 2012)
Robert Saladrigas, Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic (d. 2018)
February 15 – Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
February 17
Matija Barl, Slovenian actor, producer and translator (d. 2018)
Willi Holdorf, German Olympic decathlete
Chris Newman, American sound mixer, director
Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
February 18 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 1999)
February 19 – Smokey Robinson, African-American musician
February 20 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
February 21
Peter Gethin, British racing driver (d. 2011)
Akihiko Kumashiro, Japanese politician
John Lewis, African-American politician, civil rights activist
February 22
Aracy Balabanian, Brazilian actress
Judy Cornwell, English actress
Johnson Mlambo, South African politician
Billy Name (William G. Linich), American photographer, Warhol archivist (d. 2016)
Chet Walker, American basketball player
February 23 – Peter Fonda, American actor (Easy Rider) (d. 2019)
February 24
Pete Duel, American actor (Alias Smith and Jones) (d. 1971)
Jimmy Ellis, African-American professional boxer (d. 2014)
Denis Law, Scottish football player
February 25
Jesús López Cobos, Spanish-born conductor (d. 2018)
Ron Santo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
February 27
Howard Hesseman, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati)
Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
February 28
Mario Andretti, American race car driver
Joe South, American singer, songwriter (Games People Play) (d. 2012)
March[edit]

Raul Julia

Chuck Norris

Al Jarreau

James Caan

Nancy Pelosi
March 1
David Broome, Welsh Show Jumper
Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist, author (d. 2008)
March 2 – Billy McNeill, Scottish football player and manager (d. 2019)
March 3
Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer, journalist
March 4 – Vladimir Morosov, Soviet athlete
March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
March 7
Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader (d. 1979)
Viktor Savinykh, Soviet cosmonaut
Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
March 9 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
March 10
Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist
Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)
March 12 – Al Jarreau, African-American singer (d. 2017)
March 13 – Candi Staton, American singer
March 15 – Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
March 16
Jan Pronk, Dutch politician, diplomat
James Wong Jim, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
March 17 – Mark White, Governor of Texas (d. 2017)
March 21 – Solomon Burke, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2010)
March 20 – Paul Neville, Australian politician (d. 2019)
March 22 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (The Killing Fields) (d. 1996)
March 25
Anita Bryant, American entertainer
Mina, Italian singer
March 26
James Caan, American actor
Nancy Pelosi, American politician; Speaker and Minority Leader (alternately) of the United States House of Representatives
March 27 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, playwright, theatre director and instructor
March 29
Ray Davis, African-American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005)
Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer
March 30 – Jerry Lucas, American professional basketball player
March 31
Barney Frank, American politician
Patrick Leahy, American politician
April[edit]

Wangari Maathai

Julie Christie

Margrethe II of Denmark

Al Pacino
April 1 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011)
April 2
Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer (d. 1981)
Dame Penelope Keith, English actress
April 4 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (d. 2018)
April 6 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (d. 2011)
April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (d. 2019)
April 12
John Hagee, American televangelist
Herbie Hancock, African-American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
April 13
Max Mosley, British motorsport boss
José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (d. 2019)
April 14 – Julie Christie, English actress
April 15
Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2005)
Robert Walker Jr., American actor (d. 2019)
April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
April 18
Ira von Furstenberg, European socialite and actress
Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ken Shellito, English footballer, manager (d. 2018)
April 19 – Reinhard Bonnke, German Pentecostal evangelist (d. 2019)
April 20
James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director (d. 1997)
April 22 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (d. 2019)
April 23 – Danilo Astori, Uruguayan politician, 15th Vice President of Uruguay
April 24
Sue Grafton, American detective novelist (d. 2017)
Michael Parks, American actor, singer (d. 2017)
April 25
Al Pacino, American actor, film director
Tristram Powell, English television director, film director, writer and producer
April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
April 30
Burt Young, American actor, author and painter
Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer (d. 1979)
May[edit]

David Koch

Lance Henriksen

Ricky Nelson

Toni Tennille
May 1 – Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
May 2
Manuel Esquivel, Belizean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Belize
Hariton Pushwagner, Norwegian artist (d. 2018)
May 3 – David Koch, American businessman (d. 2019)
May 5 – Lance Henriksen, American actor
May 7
Angela Carter, English author, editor (d. 1992)
Jim Connors, American radio personality (d. 1987)
May 8
Peter Benchley, American author (Jaws) (d. 2006)
Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985)
Toni Tennille, American pop singer
May 9 – James L. Brooks, American film producer, writer
May 11 – Juan Downey, Chilean-born video artist (d. 1993)
May 13
Bruce Chatwin, British author (d. 1989)
Oliver Lozano, Filipino lawyer, politician (d. 2018)
May 14 – 'H'. Jones, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
May 15
Lainie Kazan, American actress, singer
Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach
May 16 – Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
May 17
Alan Kay, American computer scientist
Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
May 18 – Lenny Lipton, American inventor
May 19 – Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
May 20
Shorty Long, African-American soul music singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer (Here Comes The Judge) (d. 1969)
Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born Canadian hockey player (d. 2018)
Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
May 21 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 2013)
May 22 – Bernard Shaw, African-American journalist and television news reporter
May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
May 26 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
May 27 – Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
May 29 – Farooq Leghari, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
June[edit]

René Auberjonois

Constantine II of Greece

Tom Jones

Nancy Sinatra

John Mahoney

Wilma Rudolph
June 1
René Auberjonois, American screen actor (d. 2019)[16]
Kip Thorne, American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 2 – Constantine II of Greece
June 4 – Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian prelate
June 7
Monica Evans, British actress
Samuel Little, American serial killer
Tom Jones, Welsh singer
June 8 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
June 9 – Barry McDonald, Papua New Guinea-Australian rugby union player (d. 2020)
June 11 – Wayne Kemp, American country music singer (d. 2015)
June 13 – Bobby Freeman, American singer, songwriter (d. 2017)
June 14 – Jack Bannon, American actor (d. 2017)
June 16
Neil Goldschmidt, American politician, Governor of Oregon
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, Chinese-American astronaut
Thea White, American voice actress
June 17
George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Alan Murray, Australian golfer
Ali Saibou, 3rd President of Niger (d. 2011)
June 18 – Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (d. 2019)
June 19 – Paul Shane, English-born actor (d. 2013)
June 20
Eugen Drewermann, German theologian, activist and priest
John Mahoney, English-born American actor (d. 2018)
June 21
Mariette Hartley, American actress
Michael Ruse, British-Canadian philosopher
June 22
Egon Henninger, German swimmer
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2016)
Dame Esther Rantzen, British broadcaster
June 23
Adam Faith, English singer, actor (d. 2003)
Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Lord Chancellor of England
Willie Wallace, Scottish football player, coach
Wilma Rudolph, American Olympic athlete (d. 1994)
Stuart Sutcliffe, English rock musician, painter (d. 1962)
June 24
Hope Cooke, American socialite, Queen Consort of Sikkim
Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer, tax expert, academic, businessman and politician
Murali Mohan, Indian film actor, producer, politician and business executive
Walter Ofonagoro, Nigerian scholar, politician and businessman
Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (d. 2014)
Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
June 25
Thomas Köhler, East German luger
Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer
A. J. Quinnell, English writer (d. 2005)
June 26
Lucinda Childs, American actress, postmodern dancer and choreographer
Jerry Fujio, Japanese singer, actor, and tarento
June 27
Eric Richard, English actor, presenter
Anil Karanjai, Indian painter of the Hungry generation movement (d. 2001)
June 28
Karpal Singh, Malaysian politician, lawyer (d. 2014)
Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize laureate
June 29 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
June 30 – Neelo, Indian actress
July[edit]

Jerzy Buzek

Nursultan Nazarbayev

Jeannie Seely

Ringo Starr

Patrick Stewart

James Brolin

Joe Torre

Hanako, Princess Hitachi

Alex Trebek
July 1
Fukunohana Koichi, Japanese sumo wrestler
Craig Brown, Scottish former professional football player, manager
Abdul Razzak Ahmed, Iraqi football player
Wathiq Naji, Iraqi football manager
July 2
Joshua Bryant, American actor, director, author and speaker
Ruriko Asaoka, Japanese actress
July 3
Lamar Alexander, American politician
Fontella Bass, African-American soul singer ("Rescue Me") (d. 2012)
Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland
Jose Alberto Laboy, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
Lance Larson, American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events
Chuck Sieminski, American football player
César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
Mario Zanin, Italian cyclist
July 4
Deidre Catt, English tennis player
Nasser Madani, Iranian fencer
Gene McDowell, American college football coach
Pat Stapleton, Canadian ice hockey player
July 5 – Reiko Kusamura, Japanese actress
July 6
Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
Jeannie Seely, American singer, songwriter
July 7
Lee Keun-hak, North Korean football player
Irène Sweyd, Belgian former swimmer
Ringo Starr, English musician, The Beatles' drummer
July 9 – Herminia Roman, Filipino politician
July 10
Gene Alley, American baseball player
Jim Cadile, American professional football offensive guard
Helen Donath, American soprano
Lofty Drews, Kenyan rally co-driver
Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
Julie Payne, American actress (d. 2019)
David C. Schutter, American attorney (d. 2005)
Tommy Troelsen, Danish former football player, manager and television presenter
July 11
Rufus Ada George, Nigerian politician
Anita Wall, Swedish actress
July 13
Paul Prudhomme, American celebrity chef, cookbook author (d. 2015)
Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
July 15 – Johnny Seay, American country music singer (d. 2016)
July 16
Lofty Drews, Kenyan rally co-driver
Tom Metcalf, American baseball pitcher
July 17
Verne Lundquist, American sportscaster
Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian
Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2019)
July 18
James Brolin, American actor, director
Peter Mutharika, 5th President of Malawi
Joe Torre, American baseball player, manager
July 19
Hanako, Princess Hitachi
Anzor Kavazashvili, Soviet former football goalkeeper
July 22
Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma
Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host (Jeopardy!)
July 23 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (d. 2019)
July 24
Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
Dan Hedaya, American actor
July 26
Dobie Gray, African-American singer-songwriter (Drift Away) (d. 2011)
Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Ted Kennedy (d. 1969)
July 27
Gary Kurtz, American filmmaker (d. 2018)
Pina Bausch, German choreographer (d. 2009)
Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born novelist (d. 2017)
July 28 – Philip Proctor, American actor
July 29 – Bernard Lafayette, African-American civil rights activist
July 30 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor
July 31 – Roy Walker, Northern Irish comedian
August[edit]

Martin Sheen

Jean-Luc Dehaene

Stanley Johnson

Jack Thompson
August 1 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter, director
August 3 – Martin Sheen, American actor, father of Charlie Sheen
August 7
Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
Thomas Barlow, American politician (d. 2017)
August 8 – Dilip Sardesai, former Indian cricketer (d. 2007)
August 10 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
August 13
Dirk Sager, German journalist (d. 2014)
Tony Cloninger, American baseball player (d. 2018)
August 14
Galen Hall, American football coach
Max Schautzer, Austrian-born German radio, television presenter
August 18 – Stanley Johnson, British politician, author
August 19 – Jill St. John, American actress
August 20
Musa Geshaev, Chechen poet, historian (d. 2014)
Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Indian scientist (d. 2020)
August 23
Tom Baker, American actor (d. 1982)
Maria Teresa Fontela Goulart, First Lady of Brazil
Thomas A. Steitz, American biochemist (d. 2018)
August 25 – José van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone
August 26
Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
Michel Micombero, 1st President of Burundi (d. 1983)
August 27
Fernest Arceneaux, American musician (d. 2008)
Sonny Sharrock, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
August 29
Bennie Maupin, American musician
Johnny Paris, American musician (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (d. 2006)
Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler, martial artist (d. 2015)
August 31
Wilton Felder, American saxophonist, bassist (d. 2015)
Jack Thompson, Australian actor
September[edit]

Pauline Collins

Raquel Welch

Linda Gray

Óscar Arias

Michel Temer
September 1 – Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (d. 2019)
September 3
Pauline Collins, English actress
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (d. 2015)
Joseph C. Strasser, American admiral
Joseph Warioba, 5th Prime Minister of Tanzania
September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress
September 6
Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (d. 2019)
Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter, actress (d. 2015)
September 7
Dario Argento, Italian filmmaker
Abdurrahman Wahid, former President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
September 10
Roy Ayers, African-American musician, songwriter
David Mann, American artist (d. 2004)
September 11
Brian De Palma, American film director
Ajit Singh, Indian-born economist (d. 2015)
September 12
Joachim Frank, German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Linda Gray, American model, actress (Dallas)
Skip Hinnant, American actor
Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
September 13 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, twice President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
September 14
Larry Brown, American basketball player, coach
Barbara Greenwood, Canadian educator, children's books author
Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer, translator (d. 2019)
September 15
Abu Hassan Omar, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
Merlin Olsen, American football player, announcer, and actor (d. 2010)
September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer, actor
September 20 – Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of Japan
September 22 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress (d. 2019)
September 23
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian traditional singer
Michel Temer, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil between 2016 and 2018.
September 24 – Michiko Suganuma, Urushi Japanese lacquer artist
September 25 – Roberto Del Giudice, Italian voice actor (d. 2007)
October[edit]

John Lennon

Cliff Richard

Michael Gambon

Pelé
October 1
Chris Pattikawa, Indonesian film director and producer (d. 2020)
Jean-Luc Bideau, Swiss actor
October 3 –
Alan O'Day, American singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
Mike Troy, American swimmer (d. 2019)
October 4 – Ian Kiernan, Australian yachtsman (d. 2018)
October 5 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (d. 2018)
October 9 – John Lennon, English musician, singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
October 11 – David McFadden, Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer (d. 2018)
October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
October 14 – Cliff Richard, British pop musician, actor and philanthropist
October 15 – Peter C. Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 16
Barry Corbin, American actor
Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach, baseball player (d.2003)
Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
October 17 – Peter Stringfellow, English businessman, nightclub owner (d. 2018)
October 18 – Győző Kulcsár, Hungarian fencer (d. 2018)
October 19 – Sir Michael Gambon, Irish actor
October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator United States Poet Laureate
October 21
Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer
Manfred Mann, South African rock musician
Marita Petersen, 8th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2001)
October 23 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer
October 24 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
October 25
Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach
Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (d. 2019)
October 27
John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
Shahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess
October 28 – Jack Shepherd, English actor
October 29 – Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
October 30 – Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Japanese sculptor, architect (d. 2018)
November[edit]

Sam Waterston

Qaboos bin Said al Said

Bruce Lee
November 1
Rudolf Deng Majak, South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
November 2 – Carolin Reiber, German television presenter
November 4 – Václav Halama, Czech footballer, coach (d. 2017)
November 5 – Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 33rd President of Ecuador (1979-1981) (d. 1981)
November 12 – Donald Wuerl, American archbishop
November 15
Roberto Cavalli, Italian designer
Sam Waterston, American actor
November 17 – Luke Kelly, Irish ballad singer (d. 1984)
November 18 – Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman (d. 2020)
November 20 – Helma Sanders-Brahms, German film director (d. 2014)
November 21
Gino Santercole, Italian singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2018)
Richard Marcinko, U.S. Navy SEAL team member, author
November 22
Alberto Fouilloux, Chilean footballer (d. 2018)
Terry Gilliam, American-born British screenwriter, director and animator (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, Indian military officer (d. 2018)
Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director, writer (d. 2016)
November 23 – Rockin' Robin Roberts, American rock and roll singer (d. 1967)
November 25 – Joe Gibbs, American football coach
November 26 – Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (d. 2019)
November 27 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist, actor (d. 1973)
November 29
Chuck Mangione, American flugelhorn player
Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, Afro-Peruvian singer (d. 2009)
December[edit]

Richard Pryor

Dionne Warwick

Frank Zappa
December 1
Richard Pryor, African-American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
Nora Schimming-Chase, Namibian politician (d. 2018)
Mário da Graça Machungo, 1st Prime Minister of Mozambique (d. 2020)
December 4 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
December 5 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
December 7 – David Bamigboye, Nigerian military officer, politician (d. 2018)
December 11
David Gates, American singer-songwriter (Bread)
Donna Mills, American actress
December 12
Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
Dionne Warwick, African-American singer and actress
December 18 – Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager
December 19 – Phil Ochs, American protest singer (d. 1976)
December 20 – Pat Chapman, English author
December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d. 1993)
December 22 – Noel Jones, British ambassador to Kazakhstan (d. 1995)
December 23
Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan
Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
December 24
Janet Carroll, American actress, singer (d. 2012)
Jan Stráský, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 2019)
December 25 – Alija Behmen, Bosnian politician (d. 2018)
December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 29
Fred Hansen, American Olympic athlete
Brigitte Kronauer, German novelist (d. 2019)