1941-1950

January[edit]

Abdiqasim Salad Hassan

Hayao Miyazaki

Joan Baez

Faye Dunaway

Plácido Domingo

Neil Diamond

Aaron Neville

Dick Cheney
January 1
Asrani, Indian actor and director
Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist, activist (d. 1977)
Martin Evans, British biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Somali politician, 5th President of Somalia
January 3 – Shima Iwashita, Japanese actress
January 4
Maureen Reagan, American political activist (d. 2001)
John Bennett Perry, American actor, singer and former model
January 5
Harvey Hall, American businessman, politician (d. 2018)
Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film director, screenwriter
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
January 7
Iona Brown, British violinist, conductor (d. 2004)
Frederick D. Gregory, African-American astronaut
John E. Walker, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 8
Graham Chapman, British comedian (Monty Python's Flying Circus) (d. 1989)
Boris Vallejo, Peruvian painter
January 9
Joan Baez, American singer, songwriter and activist
Reza Sheikholeslami, Professor of Persian Studies (d. 2018)
January 10 – José Greci, Italian actress (d. 2017)
January 11
Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
Gérson, Brazilian footballer
Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
January 12 – Long John Baldry, English singer (d. 2005)
January 13 – Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician
January 14
Faye Dunaway, American actress
Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician, 1st President of Slovenia
January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
January 17 – Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova
January 18 – David Ruffin, African-American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
January 19 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
January 20
Clift Tsuji, American politician (d. 2016)
Allan Young, English footballer (d. 2009)
January 21
Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer, conductor and arts administrator
Richie Havens, African-American musician (d. 2013)
Ivan Putski, Polish-American professional wrestler and bodybuilder
January 22 – Rintaro, Japanese anime director
January 24
Neil Diamond, American singer, songwriter
Aaron Neville, African-American singer
Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 27
Bobby Hutcherson, African-American jazz musician (d. 2016)
Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (d. 1981)
January 28 – Fernando Serena, Spanish footballer (d. 2018)
January 29 – Robin Morgan, Poet, author, political theorist, activist, journalist, lecturer, and editor
January 30
Gregory Benford, American author and astrophysicist
Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States, 17th US Secretary of Defense
Delbert Mann, American television, film director (d. 2007)
Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
January 31
Dick Gephardt, American politician
Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African farmer, pro-apartheid activist (d. in 2010)
Jessica Walter, American actress
February[edit]

Nick Nolte

Sergio Mendes

Kim Jong-il

Paddy Ashdown
February 1
Karl Dall, German comedian, singer and television presenter
Jerry Spinelli, American author
February 3
Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
Howard Phillips, American politician (d. 2013)
February 4 – John Steel, English drummer
February 5
Stephen J. Cannell, American director, producer (d. 2010)
Henson Cargill, American country music singer (d. 2007)
David Selby, American actor
Kaspar Villiger, Swiss politician
Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015)
February 6 – Stephen Albert, American composer (d. 1992)
February 8
Nick Nolte, American actor
Jagjit Singh, Indian singer, composer and musician (d. 2011)
February 9 — Kermit Gosnell, American abortionist and serial killer [29]
February 10
John Hampshire, English cricketer (d. 2017)
Michael Apted, British film director
February 11
Sergio Mendes, Brazilian jazz musician
Sonny Landham, American actor (d. 2017)
February 12 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (d. 1984)
February 13
David Jeremiah, American televangelist
Sigmar Polke, German painter
Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor
February 14 – Sylvester Carmel Magro, Maltese bishop (d. 2018)
February 15 – Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress and model
February 16 – Kim Jong-il, Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (d. 2011)
February 17 – Ron Meyer, American football coach (d. 2017)
February 18 – Irma Thomas, African-American singer
February 19 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer
February 22
Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic (2000-2004)
Yau Leung, Hong Kong photographer (d. 1997)
February 25
Sandy Bull, American folk musician, composer (d. 2001)
David Puttnam, British film producer and educator
February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician, diplomat (d. 2018)
March[edit]

Mike Love

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bruno Ganz

Richard Dawkins
March 4
Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman, reality TV star (d. 2018)
Adrian Lyne, English film director
March 7 – Andrei Mironov, Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor (d. 1987)
March 9 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (d. 1976)
March 10 – George P. Smith, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 12 – Erkki Salmenhaara, Finnish composer (d. 2002)
March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author (d. 2008)
March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
March 15 – Mike Love, American musician (Beach Boys)
March 16
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (d. 2018)
Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
Chuck Woolery, American game show host
March 17 – Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2016)
March 18 – Wilson Pickett, African-American singer (d. 2006)
March 20
Paul Junger Witt, American film & television producer (d. 2018)
Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
March 21 – Dirk Frimout, Belgian cosmonaut and astrophysicist
March 22 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (d. 2019)
March 23 – Jim Trelease, American educator, author
March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist
March 27
Ivan Gašparovič, 3rd President of Slovakia
Bunny Sigler, American singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
March 28
Alf Clausen, American composer
Philip Fang, Hong Kong simultaneous interpretation specialist, United Nations official (d. 2013)
Jim Turner, American football player
Rolf Zacher, German actor (d. 2018)
Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (d. 1987)
March 29 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 30
Graeme Edge, British rock drummer, songwriter (The Moody Blues)
Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
March 31 – Rosario Green, Mexican economist, diplomat and politician (d. 2017)
April[edit]

Eric Braeden

Bobby Moore

Ryan O'Neal

Ann-Margret
April 2 – Dr. Demento (Barret Eugene Hansen), American radio disc jockey, novelty music collector
April 3
Jan Berry, American singer (Jan & Dean) (d. 2004)
Eric Braeden, German-born American actor
Jorma Hynninen, Finnish baritone
Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
April 5
Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor
Dave Swarbrick, English folk musician (d. 2016)
April 6 – Phil Austin, American comedian (The Firesign Theater) (d. 2015)
April 7
Mussum, Brazilian actor and musician (d. 1994)
Cornelia Frances, Australian actress (d. 2018)
Gorden Kaye, British actor ('Allo 'Allo!) (d. 2017)
ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (d. 2019)
April 8 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
April 9 – Kay Adams, American country singer
April 10
John Kurila, Scottish footballer (d. 2018)
Paul Theroux, American travel writer and novelist
April 11
Frederick Hauck, American astronaut
Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)
April 12 – Bobby Moore, English football player, World Cup winning captain (d. 1993)
April 13 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 14 – Pete Rose, American baseball player
April 18 – Michael D. Higgins, 9th President of Ireland
April 19 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter
April 20 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor (Love Story)
April 21 – Eduardo Guedes, U.S., Portuguese film-maker (d. 2000)
April 22 – Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (d. 2009)
April 23
Arie den Hartog, Dutch road bicycle racer (d. 2018)
Paavo Lipponen, 59th Prime Minister of Finland
Ed Stewart, British disc jockey (d. 2016)
Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (d. 2016)
April 24
Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (d. 2010)
John Williams, Australian guitarist
April 25
Princess Muna al-Hussein, Princess consort of Jordan
Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter, actor and producer
April 26 – Claudine Auger, French actress (d. 2019)
April 27
Pat Choate, American economist, politician
H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., American philosopher (d. 2018)
Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
April 28
Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
Ann-Margret, Swedish-born American actress, singer and dancer
K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 2013)
May[edit]

Eric Burdon

Goh Chok Tong

Bob Dylan

William Nordhaus
May 3
Paul Ferris, English film composer, actor (d. 1995)
Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (d. 2019)
May 5
Anatoly Levchenko, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1988)
Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)
May 6
Peter Corrigan, Australian architect (d. 2016)
Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player, manager
May 8
James Mitchum, American actor
Yuri Voronov, Abkhazian politician, academic (murdered) (d. 1995)
May 9 – Howard Komives, American professional basketball player (d. 2009)
May 10
Chris Denning, English radio presenter and convicted sex offender[30]
Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academic, politician (d. 2006)
May 11 – Eric Burdon, British singer
May 13
Senta Berger, Austrian actress
Ritchie Valens, American singer (La Bamba) (d. 1959)
May 14 – Jesús Gómez, Mexican equestrian (d. 2017)
May 16
Aldrich Ames, American CIA analyst and KGB agent
Eric Berntson, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
May 18 – Miriam Margolyes, British-Australian actress
May 19
Peter C. Bjarkman, American baseball historian, author (d. 2018)
Bobby Burgess, American dancer, singer
Nora Ephron, American film producer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
May 20 – Goh Chok Tong, 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
May 21 – Bobby Cox, American baseball manager
May 22 – Menzies Campbell, British politician
May 23
K. Raghavendra Rao, Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and choreographer
Rod Thorn, American basketball player, coach, and executive
May 24
Andrés García, Dominican-Mexican actor
Bob Dylan, American poet, musician and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
May 25 – Vladimir Voronin, 3rd President of Moldova
May 26 – John Kaufman, British sculptor
May 27
Ira Berlin, American historian (d. 2018)
Teppo Hauta-aho, Finnish double bassist, composer
May 29 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
May 31
Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
William Nordhaus, American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
June[edit]

Stacy Keach

Charlie Watts

George Pell

Mickey Jones

Václav Klaus

Liz Mohn

Eduardo Suplicy

Ed Bradley

Charles Whitman

Stokely Carmichael

Otto Sander
June 1
Wayne Kemp, American country music singer (d. 2015)
Alexander Zakharov, Soviet (later Russian) deputy scientist, astronomer
Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, Mongolian wrestler (d. 2018)
June 2
Stacy Keach, American actor
Charlie Watts, English musician
June 5
Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter (d. 2004)
Robert Kraft, American businessman
June 6 – Alexander Cockburn, Irish-American political journalist and writer (d. 2012)
June 7
Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
Jaime Laredo, Bolivian-American violinist and conductor
June 8
Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (murdered in 1981)
Fuzzy Haskins, American musician
George Pell, Australian cardinal
June 9 – Jon Lord, English composer, pianist, and organist (d. 2012)
June 10
Mickey Jones, American rock drummer, character actor (d. 2018)
Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
June 12
Chick Corea, American jazz pianist
Marv Albert, American sports announcer
Reg Presley, English musician (d. 2013)
June 13 – Esther Ofarim, Israeli singer
June 14
Roy Harper, English guitarist
John Edgar Wideman, African-American novelist, author, and professor
June 15
Neal Adams, American comic book artist
Harry Nilsson, American musician (d. 1994)
June 16 – Rosalind Baker, Australian author
June 17 – Roberta Maxwell, Canadian actress
June 19
Gilberto Benetton, Italian billionaire businessman (d. 2018)
Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
Václav Klaus, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
June 20
Ulf Merbold, German astronaut and Physicist
Albert Shesternyov, Soviet footballer (d. 1994)
June 21
Mitty Collier, American church pastor, gospel singer and former rhythm and blues singer
Aloysius Paul D'Souza, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore
Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor, comedian (Second City Television)
Totto Osvold, Norwegian radio entertainer
Liz Mohn, widow of Reinhard Mohn, owner of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann
Jimmy Rayl, American professional basketball player (d. 2019)
Eduardo Suplicy, Brazilian left-wing politician, economist and professor
Valeri Zolotukhin, Soviet/Russian actor (d. 2013)
June 22
Ed Bradley, African-American journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2006)
Howard Kindig, American football player
Michael Lerner, American actor
Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
June 23
Robert Hunter, American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator and poet (d. 2019)
Madampu Kunjukuttan, Malayalam author
Tsai Hsun-hsiung, Taiwanese politician
June 24
Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist
Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer
Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
Nelson López, Argentine football defender
Bill Reardon, American politician, educator
Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (d. 1966)
June 25
Denys Arcand, French-Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer
Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans
Prince Michel, Count of Évreux
Miles Feinstein, American criminal law defense attorney, legal commentator
Kenneth Walker, Australian cricketer
Eddie Large, British comedian
Mike Stoker, American firefighter, engineer and captain
June 26
Tamara Moskvina, Russian pair skating coach, former competitive skater
Gil Garrido, Panamanian baseball player
Nick Macarchuk, American basketball head coach
Thomas Yeh Sheng-nan, Taiwanese prelate
June 27
Jerry Allen, American football running back
Ian Black, British competitive swimmer
John Goold, Australian rules footballer
James P. Hogan, British author (d. 2010)
Mike Honda, American politician and educator
Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
Pavel Schenk, Czech former volleyball player
John Smyth, British barrister
June 28
Ilana Adir, Israeli Olympic runner and long jumper
César Bejarano, Paraguayan fencer
Len Boehmer, American Major League Baseball player
Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
David Johnston, 28th Governor General of Canada
Barbara Stolz, German gymnast
June 29
Chieko Baisho, Japanese actress, singer
John Boccabella, American professional baseball player
David A. Bramlett, United States Army four-star general
Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture), Trinidadian-American civil rights activist (d. 1998)
Margitta Gummel, German former Olympic gold medalist
Larry Stahl, American baseball player
June 30
Cyril Atanassoff, Bulgarian dancer originally from France
Roberto Castrillo, Cuban sports shooter
Mike Leander, English arranger, songwriter and record producer (d. 1996)
Otto Sander, German actor (d. 2013)
Nigel Walley, English golfer, tea-chest bass player
July[edit]

Alfred G. Gilman

Epeli Nailatikau

Bill Oddie

Jim Rodford

Robert Forster

Lonnie Mack

Neelie Kroes

Diogo Freitas do Amaral

George Clinton

Sergio Mattarella

Darlene Love

Peter Cullen

David Warner

Paul Anka
July 1
Alf Duval, Australian rower
Rod Gilbert, Canadian professional ice hockey forward
Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2015)
Ursula Koch, Swiss politician
Jaakko Kailajärvi, Finnish weightlifter
Twyla Tharp, American dancer, choreographer, and author
Zimani Kadzamira, Malawian academic, civil servant and diplomat
Denis Michael Rohan, Australian citizen who, on August 21, 1969, set fire to the pulpit of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem (d. 1995)
Myron Scholes, Canadian-American financial economist
July 2
Mogens Frey, Danish amateur cyclist
Chris Noel, American actress
Stéphane Venne, French-Canadian songwriter, composer
July 3
Gloria Allred, American lawyer
Casey Cox, American baseball player
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer
Hertha Haase, German swimmer
Liamine Zéroual, 4th President of Algeria
July 4
Jay Carty, American basketball player (d. 2017)
Sergio Oliva, Cuban bodybuilder (d. 2012)
Digger Phelps, American former college basketball coach
July 5
Lynley Dodd, New Zealand writer and illustrator
Peggy Miley, American actress, writer
Epeli Nailatikau, Fijian chief, 4th President of Fiji
July 6
John DeCamp, American politician (d. 2017)
Randall Robinson, African-American lawyer, author and activist
Harold Leighton Weller, American conductor
July 7
Vivian Barbot, Canadian-Haitian teacher, activist, and politician
Marco Bollesan, Italian former rugby union player, coach and manager
Alan Durban, Welsh international footballer, manager
Louis Friedman, American astronautics engineer, space spokesperson
Michael Howard, Welsh politician
Bill Oddie, English writer, composer, musician and comedian
John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician
Jim Rodford, English musician (d. 2018)
July 8
Dario Gradi, Italia amateur football player, coach and manager
Thunderbolt Patterson, American professional wrestler
Ken Sanders, American Major League Baseball relief pitcher
July 9
Cirilo Bautista, Filipino poet, fictionist, critic and writer of nonfiction
Tom Black, American professional basketball player
Jan Lehane, Australian female tennis player
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, Swedish modern pentathlete
Takehide Nakatani Japanese lightweight judoka
July 10
Jackie Lane, British actress
Robert Pine, American actor
July 11
John Kaputin, Papua New Guinean politician
Clive Puzey, Southern Rhodesian racing driver
Jürgen Schmidt, German speed skater
Tommy Vance, British disc jockey (d. 2005)
Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (d. 2019)
July 12
John Lahr, American drama critic
Juha Väätäinen, Finnish athlete
Wu Bangguo, Chinese politician
Dick Rusteck, American left-handed pitcher
Benny Parsons, American race car driver (d. 2007)
July 13
Affonso Beato, Brazilian cinematographer
Robert Forster, American actor (d. 2019)
Zoila Martínez, Dominican lawyer, prosecutor and diplomat
Jacques Perrin, French actor and filmmaker
July 14
Maulana Karenga, African-American author, activist; founder of Kwanzaa
Dennis Kassian, Canadian professional ice hockey player
Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
July 15
Archie Clark, American professional basketball player
Vicente Guillot, Spanish footballer
Nikhil Kumar, Indian politician
July 16
Valeri Butenko, Soviet midfielder, football referee
Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
Ken Herock, American college, professional football player
Seijirō Kōyama, Japanese film director
Kálmán Mészöly, Hungarian football (soccer) player, coach
Lloyd Sisco, American football coach
Hans Wiegel, Dutch politician
July 17
Namirembe Bitamazire, Ugandan academic, politician
Marina Oswald Porter, Russian-born widow of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
Morimichi Takagi, Japanese baseball player
Rob van Empel, Dutch breaststroke swimmer
July 18
Winston Choo, Singaporean diplomat, civil servant and former general
Frank Farian, German record producer, songwriter
Marcia Jones-Smoke, American sprint canoer
Lonnie Mack, American singer, guitarist (d. 2016)
Martha Reeves, African-American singer
Duncan Worsley, British cricketer
July 19
Carlos Alberto Álvarez, Argentine cyclist
Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (d. 2008)
Vikki Carr, American singer
Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician
Vittorio Di Prima, Italian actor and voice actor (d. 2016)
July 20
Vladimir Lyakhov, Ukrainian-Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2018)
Frank Natterer, German mathematician
Vladimir Veber, Moldovan footballer
July 21
Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, 110th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 2019)
Ron Corry, Australian football (soccer) player, coach
Gary Waslewski, American baseball player
July 22
George Clinton, African-American musician
Rich Jackson, American football player
Susie Berning, American professional golfer
July 23 – Sergio Mattarella, Italian lawyer, judge and politician, 12th President of Italy
July 25
Margarita Isabel, Mexican actress (d. 2017)
Nate Thurmond, African-American basketball player (d. 2016)
Emmett Till, African-American civil rights icon (d. 1955)
July 26 – Darlene Love, African-American singer, actress
July 27 – Bill Baxley, Alabama politician
July 28
Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
July 29
Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
David Warner, British actor
July 30 – Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer, songwriter
August[edit]

Martha Stewart

Hage Geingob

David Crosby

Ibrahim Babangida

Slobodan Milošević
August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
August 3
Martha Stewart, American television personality, media entrepreneur
Hage Geingob, 1st Prime Minister of Namibia, 3rd President of Namibia
August 4 – Ted Strickland, American politician
August 5 – Gil Garcetti, American politician
August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
August 8
Earl Boen, American actor and voice actor
George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (d. 2020)
August 9 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist
August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
August 14
Lynne Cheney, Second Lady of the United States, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
David Crosby, American musician (Crosby, Stills and Nash)
Connie Smith, American singer
August 16
Théoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer, alleged planner of the Rwandan genocide
David Dickinson, British antiques expert, television presenter
August 17
Ibrahim Babangida, President of Nigeria
Lothar Bisky, German politician (d. 2013)
Fritz Wepper, German actor
August 20 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Serbia (d. 2006)
August 21
Howard Lew Lewis, English comedian, actor (d. 2018)
Jackie DeShannon, American singer, songwriter ("What the World Needs Now")
August 26 – Ayşe Kulin, Turkish writer
August 27
Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (d. 2011)
Yury Malyshev, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1999)
August 28
A. I. Katsina-Alu, Nigerian judge (d. 2018)
Joseph Shabalala, South African choral director (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (d. 2020)
August 29 – Robin Leach, English television personality (d. 2018)
September[edit]

Bernie Sanders

Christopher Connelly

Otis Redding

Ahmet Necdet Sezer
September 2
Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league player (d. 2018)
Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge, Member of the European Parliament (d. 2003)
John Thompson, American basketball coach
September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer, novelist (d. 1990)
September 4 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
September 8
Ito Giani, Italian sprinter (d. 2018)
Bernie Sanders, American politician, U.S. Senator (D-Vt.), and 2016 presidential candidate
Christopher Connelly, American actor (d. 1988)
September 9
Otis Redding, African-American singer, musician (Dock of the Bay) (d. 1967)
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, creator of the C programming language (d. 2011)
September 10
Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, harpsichordist (d. 2014)
Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer (d. 1997)
September 13
Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
Ahmet Necdet Sezer, 10th President of Turkey
September 14 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician (d. 2020)
September 15
Signe Toly Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
Etelka Barsi-Pataky, Hungarian politician (d. 2018)
September 17 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d. 2005)
September 18 – Priscilla Mitchell, American country music singer (d. 2014)
September 19 – Cass Elliot, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 1974)
September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor
September 21 – R. James Woolsey Jr., American lawyer and diplomat
September 23 – George Jackson, American author (d. 1971)
September 24
Jesús Mosterín, Spanish philosopher (d. 2017)
Guy Hovis, American singer
Linda McCartney, American activist, musician and photographer (d. 1998)
September 26 – Martine Beswick, British actress, model
September 27
Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
Sam Zell, American publisher, investor
September 28 – Edmund Stoiber, German politician
September 29 – Fred West, British serial killer (d. 1995)
September 30 – Angela Pleasence, British actress
October[edit]

Chubby Checker

Eduardo Duhalde

Jesse Jackson

Paul Simon

Helen Reddy
October 1 – Vyacheslav Vedenin, Soviet cross-country skier
October 3 – Chubby Checker, African-American singer (The Twist)
October 4
Mighty Shadow, Trinidadian calypsonian (d. 2018)
Roy Blount, Jr., American writer, comedian
Elizabeth Eckford, African-American activist (Little Rock Nine)
Anne Rice, American writer
October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde, 50th President of Argentina
October 8 – Jesse Jackson, African-American clergyman, civil rights activist and presidential candidate
October 9 – Trent Lott, American politician and author
October 10
Peter Coyote, American actor
Hanan Goldblatt, Israeli actor
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer, television producer, and environmental activist (d. 1995)
October 11 – Valerii Postoyanov, Soviet Olympic sport shooter (d. 2018)
October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer, composer (Simon and Garfunkel)
October 15
Rosie Douglas, 4th Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2000)
Joan Antoni Solans Huguet, Spanish urban planner (d. 2019)
October 16 – Tim McCarver, American baseball commentator
October 17 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country music singer (d. 2019)
October 20 – Anneke Wills, British actress
October 21 – Dickie Pride, British rock and roll singer (d. 1969)
October 23 – Mel Winkler, American actor
October 24 – Frank Aendenboom, Belgian actor (d. 2018)
October 25
Helen Reddy, Australian singer, actress (I Am Woman)
Anne Tyler, American novelist
October 27
Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author, gay rights activist
Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
October 28
John Hallam, Irish actor
Hank Marvin, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
October 30 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
October 31 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
November[edit]

Art Garfunkel

Franco Nero

Pete Best

Percy Sledge
November 1
Marina Baura, Spanish actress
Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (d. 2007)
Robert Foxworth, American actor
November 2 – Bruce Welch, British guitarist, singer and songwriter
November 2 – Arun Shourie, Indian author and economist
November 5 – Art Garfunkel, American singer (Simon and Garfunkel)
November 6
Guy Clark, American singer, songwriter (d. 2016)
Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999)
November 7 – Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal
November 9 – Tom Fogerty, American guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
November 12 – Mae-Wan Ho, geneticist known for her critical views on genetic engineering and neo-Darwinism (d. 2016)
November 13
Joseph L. Galloway, American newspaper columnist, Vietnam War historian
Dack Rambo, American actor (d. 1994)
Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player and coach (d. 2019)
November 17 – Tova Traesnaes, Norwegian-American cosmetician and businesswoman; widow of actor Ernest Borgnine
November 18 – David Hemmings, English actor (d. 2003)
November 19 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams) (d. 2016)
November 20
Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
Oliver Sipple, decorated US Marine, Vietnam War veteran (d. 1989)
November 21 – İdil Biret, Turkish pianist
November 22 – Tom Conti, British actor, theatre director
November 23
Derek Mahon, Irish poet
Franco Nero, Italian actor
November 24 – Pete Best, English drummer
November 25
Ralph Haben, American politician, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
Percy Sledge, African-American singer (d. 2015)
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Pakistani Sufi author, poet
November 26 – G. Alan Marlatt, Canadian-born American psychologist
November 27
Tom Morga, American stuntman, stunt coordinator, and actor.
Henry Carr, American Olympic athlete (d. 2015)
Aime Jacquet, French football player, manager
Eddie Rabbitt, American country musician (d. 1998)
November 28 – Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (d. 2015)
November 29
Lothar Emmerich, German footballer (d. 2003)
Bill Freehan, American baseball player
December[edit]

Kyu Sakamoto

Lee Myung-bak

Maurice White

Alex Ferguson
December 1
Nigel Rodley, English international human rights lawyer (d. 2017)
Sean S. Cunningham, American filmmaker, director, producer, and writer
December 4
David Johnston, Australian newsreader
Leila Säälik, Estonian actress
December 6
Wende Wagner, American actress (d. 1997)
Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (d. 1994)
Richard Speck, American mass murderer (d. 1991)
December 8 – Geoff Hurst, English footballer
December 9
Beau Bridges, American actor
Dan Hicks, American singer, songwriter (d. 2016)
December 10
Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
Peter Sarstedt, English singer, songwriter (d. 2017)
Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer, actor ("Sukiyaki") (d. 1985)
December 11
J. Frank Wilson, American singer (d. 1991)
Max Baucus, American politician and diplomat
December 12 – Vitaly Solomin, Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
December 13 – John Davidson, American singer, actor
December 16 – Poldy Bird, Argentine writer (d. 2018)
December 19
Lee Myung-bak, 17th President of the Republic of Korea
Maurice White, African-American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer (d. 2016)
December 21
Lo Hoi-pang, Hong Kong-born Chinese actor
Jared Martin, American actor (d. 2017)
December 23
Ron Bushy, American rock musician
Tim Hardin, American folk musician (d. 1980)
Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan
December 24
Hans Eichel, German politician
Lex Hixon, American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher (d. 1995)
December 27 – Miles Aiken, American basketball player and coach
December 29 – Ray Thomas, English flautist, singer and songwriter (The Moody Blues) (d. 2018)
December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player
December 31 – Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager (Manchester United)


January[edit]

Charlie Rose

Stephen Hawking

Junichiro Koizumi

Muhammad Ali

Michael Crawford

Eusébio

Tasuku Honjo
January 1
Adil Abdul-Mahdi, 49th Prime Minister of Iraq
Country Joe McDonald, American musician (The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag)
Alassane Ouattara, 5th President of the Ivory Coast
Gennadi Sarafanov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2005)
January 2
Dennis Hastert, American politician
Hugh Shelton, American military leader, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
January 3
Donna Axum, American beauty pageant winner and model (d. 2018)
László Sólyom, President of Hungary
John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
January 4
Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigerian professor of political science
Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait
Dame Marcela Contreras, Chilean-British immunologist and educator
John McLaughlin, English guitarist, bandleader and composer
January 5
Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)
Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
Charlie Rose, American television anchor and talk show host
January 7 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet weightlifter (d. 2011)
January 8
Stephen Hawking, British physicist (d. 2018)
Junichiro Koizumi, 56th Prime Minister of Japan
Yvette Mimieux, American actress
January 9 – Lee Kun-hee, South Korean businessman
January 10 – Walter Hill, American film director, screenwriter, and producer
January 11 – Clarence Clemons, African-American saxophonist (d. 2011)
January 12
Ramiro de León Carpio, 31st President of Guatemala (d. 2002)
Michel Mayor, Swiss astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
January 14 – Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, Chief Justice of India
January 16
René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
Richard Bohringer, French actor
Nicole Fontaine, French politician (d. 2018)
Zhao Zhongxiang, Chinese television host (d. 2020)
January 17
Muhammad Ali, African-American boxer, activist, and philanthropist (d. 2016)
Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist
Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, Spanish graphic humorist (d. 2018)
January 18 – Ruby Winters, American singer (d. 2016)
January 19 – Michael Crawford, English actor, singer and entertainer
January 22
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Mexican film director (d. 2020)
Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
Amine Gemayel, 12th President of Lebanon
January 23
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, 1st President of Mongolia
Salim Ahmed Salim, 4th Prime Minister of Tanzania
January 25
Carl Eller, American football player
Eusébio, Mozambican Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
January 26 – Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
January 27
Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine
John Witherspoon, African-American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Steve Wynn, American businessman and art collector
January 28
Hans Jürgen Bäumler, German figure skater, actor, pop singer and television host
Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater
Erkki Pohjanheimo, Finnish TV-producer and director
January 29 – Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, Cuban military officer, legislator, and cosmonaut
January 30 – Marty Balin, American singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 2018)
January 31
Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
Derek Jarman, English director and writer (d. 1994)
February[edit]

Terry Jones

Graham Nash

Carole King

Ehud Barak

Peter Tork

Michael Bloomberg

Brian Jones
February 1
Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress (d. 1996)
Terry Jones, Welsh actor and writer (d. 2020)
Masa Saito, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2018)
February 2 – Graham Nash, English rock musician
February 5 – Roger Staubach, American football player
February 6 – Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov Ismail oghlu, Azeri professor and academic
February 7 – Bernard Lietaer, Belgian engineer and economist (d. 2019)
February 8 – Gordon Morritt, English footballer (d. 2018)
February 9 – Carole King, American singer and composer
February 10 – Howard Mudd, American offensive lineman & offensive line coach
February 11
Otis Clay, African-American R&B and soul singer (d. 2016)
Leon Haywood, American funk and soul singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2016)
February 12
Ehud Barak, 10th Prime Minister of Israel
Lionel Grigson, British jazz pianist, composer, writer, educator (d. 1994)
February 13
Carol Lynley, American actress (d. 2019)
Peter Tork, American musician and actor (d. 2019)
Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (d. 2016)
February 14 – Michael Bloomberg, American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., 108th Mayor of New York City
February 15
Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (d. 2019)
Sherry Jackson, American actress
February 19 – Paul Krause, American football player
February 20
Phil Esposito, Canadian hockey player
Mitch McConnell, American politician
February 21 – Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, film director, and writer
February 22 – Christine Keeler, English model (d. 2017)
February 24 – Joe Lieberman, American politician
February 25 – Karen Grassle, American actress
February 26
Jozef Adamec, Slovak football player and manager (d. 2018)
Johnny Freeman (John Ferdinand), Dancer, Singer, Actor (d. 2002)
February 27 – Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 28
Brian Jones, English musician (d. 1969)
Dino Zoff, Italian footballer and manager
March[edit]

Lou Reed

John Cale

Aretha Franklin

Scott Wilson
March 2
John Irving, American author
Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
March 5
Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
Mike Resnick, American science fiction author (d. 2020)
March 7
Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist, singer and television personality (d. 2007)
Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
March 9 – John Cale, Welsh composer and musician
March 12 – Ratko Mladić, former Bosnian Serb military leader
March 13
Dave Cutler, American software engineer
Scatman John, American musician (d. 1999)
March 15 – The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler
March 16 – James Soong, Taiwan politician
March 17 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (d. 1994)
March 19 – José Serra, Brazilian politician
March 23
Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure
Michael Haneke, Austrian director and screenwriter
March 25
Aretha Franklin, African-American singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist (d. 2018)
Richard O'Brien, English-New Zealand actor
March 26 – Erica Jong, American author
March 27
John E. Sulston, British chemist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2018)
Michael York, English actor
March 28
Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
Neil Kinnock, British Labour leader
Mike Newell, British film director
Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998)
Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
March 29
Kenichi Ogata, Japanese voice actor
Scott Wilson, American actor (d. 2018)
March 30 – Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru
April[edit]

Leon Russell

Jeetendra

Jacob Zuma

Geoffrey Palmer

Sandra Dee

Barbra Streisand
April 1 – Samuel R. Delany, American science fiction author
April 2
Leon Russell, American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist (d. 2016)
Roshan Seth, British actor
April 3
Marsha Mason, American actress
Wayne Newton, American entertainer and singer
Billy Joe Royal, American singer (d. 2015)
April 5
Allan Clarke, English musician
Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker
April 6
Barry Levinson, American film producer and director
Anita Pallenberg, German-Italian actress, artist, and model (d. 2017)
April 7 – Jeetendra, Indian actor
April 8
Roger Chapman, British rock singer
Douglas Trumbull, American film director and special effects artist
April 9 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (d. 1972)
April 10 – Hayedeh, Iranian singer (d. 1990)
April 12
Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician
Jacob Zuma, 4th President of South Africa
April 14
Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (d. 2003)
Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut
April 15
Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
Julie Sommars, American actress
April 17
Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (d. 1991)
David Bradley, English actor
Buster Williams, American jazz bassist
April 18
Jeff Kimpel, American atmospheric scientist (d. 2020)
Jochen Rindt, German-born racing driver (d. 1970)
April 19 – Alan Price, English musician and keyboardist
April 20 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish author (d. 2018)
April 21 – Geoffrey Palmer, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
April 22 – Rudolf Jaenisch, German-American biologist
April 23
Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
Christian Frémont, French politician (d. 2014)
April 24 – Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, composer, and film director
April 25 – Jon Kyl, American politician
April 26 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
April 27
Ruth Glick, American writer
Jim Keltner, American drummer
Valeri Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut
April 29 – Galina Kulakova, Soviet athlete
May[edit]

Jacques Rogge

Ian Dury

Jusuf Kalla

Taj Mahal
May 1 – Jean Saubert, American alpine ski racer (d. 2007)
May 2 – Jacques Rogge, 8th President of the International Olympic Committee
May 3 – Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast (d. 2016)
May 5
Marc Alaimo, American actor
Tammy Wynette, American country singer (d. 1998)
May 8
Peter Corris, Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist (d. 2018)
Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
May 9
Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter
John Ashcroft, 79th United States Attorney General
May 12 – Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
May 13 – Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut
May 14
Byron Dorgan, American author, businessman, attorney and politician
Tony Pérez, Cuban-American professional baseball player and manager
May 15
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 2-Time Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2018)
Anthony W. England, American astronaut
Jusuf Kalla, 10th and 12th Vice President of Indonesia
May 17
Philippe Gondet, French footballer (d. 2018)
Taj Mahal, African-American singer and guitarist
May 19 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur (d. 1994)
May 20
Lynn Davies, Welsh track and field athlete
Carlos Hathcock, American Marine sniper (d. 1999)
May 21 – Robert C. Springer, American astronaut and test pilot
May 22
Roger Brown, American basketball player (d. 1997)
Ted Kaczynski, American domestic terrorist, mathematics professor, and anarchist author
Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
May 24
Ichirō Ozawa, Japanese politician
Fraser Stoddart, Scottish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
May 25 – José Mário Branco, Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer (d. 2019)
May 28 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
May 29 – Kevin Conway, American actor and director
June[edit]

Curtis Mayfield

Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo

Muammar Gaddafi

Paul McCartney

Brian Wilson
June 2
Tony Buzan, English author and educational consultant (d. 2019)
Eduard Malofeyev, Russian footballer and coach
June 3 – Curtis Mayfield, African-American musician (d. 1999)
June 5 – Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union
June 6 – Sandra Morgan, Australian swimmer
June 7
Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist (d. 2011)
Anneke Grönloh, Dutch singer (d. 2018)
June 8 – Jacques Dubochet, Swiss biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
June 10 – Preston Manning, Canadian politician
June 12 – Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 13 – Abdulsalami Abubakar, President of Nigeria
June 16
Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcycle racer
John Rostill, English bassist, musician and composer (d. 1973)
June 17 – Mohamed El Baradei, Egyptian International Atomic Energy Agency director, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
June 18
Roger Ebert, American film critic and television personality (d. 2013)
Thabo Mbeki, South African politician and 12th President of South Africa
Paul McCartney, English musician and composer
Nick Tate, Australian actor
Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
June 20 – Brian Wilson, American singer, composer and producer (The Beach Boys)
June 22
Toyohiro Akiyama, Japanese cosmonaut
Eumir Deodato, Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and producer
Laila Freivalds, Swedish politician
June 23 – Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist
June 24
Michele Lee, American actress and singer
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician and 33rd President of Chile
June 25
Willis Reed, African-American basketball player, coach and general manager
Michel Tremblay, French-Canadian novelist and playwright
June 26
Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer, politician
Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (Canned Heat) (d. 2019)
June 27 – Bruce Johnston, American singer and songwriter (The Beach Boys)
June 28
Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993)
Rupert Sheldrake, British biochemist
Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder and author
June 30
Robert Ballard, American explorer, Navy officer and professor
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, 4th President of Burkina Faso
Friedrich von Thun, Austrian actor
July[edit]

Vicente Fox

Richard Roundtree

Harrison Ford

Roger McGuinn

Javier Solana

David A. Granger
July 1
Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
Andraé Crouch, American gospel singer (d. 2015)
Wim T. Schippers, Dutch artist, comedian, television director, and voice actor
Timothy Yang, Taiwanese diplomat and politician
July 2
Vicente Fox, Mexican businessman, politician, and 55th President of Mexico (2000–2006)[28]
Mukhtar Shakhanov, Kazakh writer and lawmaker
Ahmet Türk, Kurdish nationalist
Juan Cutillas, footballer and Spanish soccer coach
July 3
Kevin Johnson, Australian singer-songwriter
Eddy Mitchell, French singer and actor
July 4 – Prince Michael of Kent
July 5
Louise Shaffer, American actress, script writer, and author
Hannes Löhr, German footballer (d. 2016)
July 6 – Raymond Depardon, French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker
July 7
Carmen Duncan, Australian actress and activist (d. 2019)
Abdul Hamid II, Pakistani field hockey player
Thomas D. Pollard, American educator, cell biologist and biophysicist
July 8 – Phil Gramm, American economist and politician
July 9 – Richard Roundtree, African-American actor
July 10
Ronnie James Dio, American musician (d. 2010)
Pyotr Klimuk, Russian cosmonaut
Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician, 3rd First Lady of Yugoslavia (d. 2019)
Lopo do Nascimento, 1st Prime Minister of Angola
Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter
July 11
Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter, composer and improviser (d. 2018)
Jean Jourden, French cyclist
Vitorino, Portuguese singer-songwriter
July 13
Harrison Ford, American actor
Roger McGuinn, American musician (The Byrds)
July 14 – Javier Solana, Spanish politician and diplomat
July 15
David A. Granger, President of Guyana
Mil Máscaras, Mexican professional wrestler
July 16 – Margaret Court, Australian tennis player
July 17
Connie Hawkins, American basketball player (d. 2017)
Zoot Money, English vocalist, keyboardist and bandleader
July 18
Prince Alexandre of Belgium (d. 2009)
Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
Adolf Ogi, member of the Swiss Federal Council
July 19 – Frederick Kantor, American physicist
July 20 – Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Italian mafioso
July 21
Alfred Gomolka, German politician
Véronique Vendell, French actress
July 22 – Toyohiro Akiyama, Japanese TV journalist and astronaut
July 23 – Myra Hindley, English multiple murderer (d. 2002)
July 24 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
July 26 – Hannelore Elsner, German actress (d. 2019)
July 27 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
July 29 – Tony Sirico, American actor
August[edit]

Jerry Garcia

Isabel Allende

Fred Thompson

Isaac Hayes
August 1
Jerry Garcia, American musician (d. 1995)
Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor
August 2 – Isabel Allende, Chilean writer
August 4
Don S. Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
August 6 – Evelyn Hamann, German actress (d. 2007)
August 7
Tobin Bell, American actor
Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host
Carlos Monzón, Argentine professional boxer (d. 1995)
Caetano Veloso, Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
August 9
Miguel Littín, Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist
David Steinberg, Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author
August 10 – Agepê, Brazilian singer/composer (d. 1995)
August 13 – Robert L. Stewart, American astronaut
August 19 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor (d. 2015)
August 20 – Isaac Hayes, African-American singer and actor (d. 2008)
August 22 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993)
August 23
Nancy Richey, American tennis player
Susana Vieira, Brazilian actress
August 24
Hans Peter Korff, German actor
Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician
August 25
Nathan Deal, American politician, 82nd Governor of Georgia
Imogen Hassall, English actress (d. 1980)
Howard Jacobson, British novelist and journalist
August 26 – John E. Blaha, American astronaut
August 27
Daryl Dragon, American musician (d. 2019)
Tom Belsø, Danish motor racing driver (d. 2020)
August 28 – José Eduardo dos Santos, 2nd President of Angola
August 29 – Sterling Morrison, American musician (d. 1995)
August 30 – John Kani, South African actor, director and playwright
September[edit]

Al Jardine

Werner Herzog

Emmerson Mnangagwa

Wolfgang Schäuble

Ian McShane
September 1 – C. J. Cherryh, American writer
September 2 – Robert Shapiro, American lawyer and entrepreneur
September 3
Michael Hui, Hong Kong film comedian
Al Jardine, American musician
September 4 – Raymond Floyd, American golfer
September 5
Denise Fabre, French television personality
Werner Herzog, German filmmaker
Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (d. 1995)
September 6
Mel McDaniel, American country singer (d. 2011)
Carol Wayne, American television and film actress (d. 1985)
September 7 – Alan Oakes, English footballer
September 8 – Želimir Žilnik, Serbian film director
September 11 – Lola Falana, American singer, dancer, model and actress
September 13 – Hissène Habré, 7th President of Chad
September 14
Arturo Macapagal, Filipino shooter (d. 2015)
Bernard MacLaverty, Irish writer
September 15
Robert Lau Hoi Chew, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People's Republic of China
Emmerson Mnangagwa, 3rd President of Zimbabwe
September 17 – Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012)
September 18 – Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician
September 19 – Freda Payne, American singer and actress
September 20 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
September 22
Wu Ma, Chinese film actor, director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
Marlena Shaw, American jazz singer
David Stern, American commissioner of the National Basketball Association (d. 2020)
September 25 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
September 26 – Ingrid Becker, German athlete
September 28
Marshall Bell, American actor
Pierre Clémenti, French actor (d. 1999)
Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman (d. 1998)
September 29
Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2019)
Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
Ian McShane, English actor
Bill Nelson, American politician and astronaut
Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
September 30
Gus Dudgeon, English record producer (d. 2002)
Frankie Lymon, American singer (d. 1968)
Sture Pettersson, Swedish cyclist (d. 1983)
October[edit]

Britt Ekland

Joy Behar

Amitabh Bachchan

Michael Crichton

Bob Hoskins
October 1 – Günter Wallraff, German investigative journalist
October 2 – Asha Parekh, Indian actress, film director and producer
October 3
Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer and sports commentator (d. 2016)
October 6 – Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
October 7
Ronald Baecker, American computer scientist
Joy Behar, American comedian and television personality
October 8 – Stanley Bates, British actor and screenwriter
October 9 – Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician (d. 2012)
October 10
Janis Hansen, American singer and author (d. 2017)
Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 2013)
October 11 – Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor, film producer, and television host
October 12 – Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress and singer (d. 2017)
October 13
Rutanya Alda, Latvian-American actress
Jerry Jones, American football team owner
October 14 – Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (d. 1986)
October 19 – Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
October 20
Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (d. 2018)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 21 – Judy Sheindlin, American retired judge turned television personality (Judge Judy)
October 22
Bobby Fuller, American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (d. 1966)
Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler (d. 2019)
October 23
Michael Crichton, American author (d. 2008)
Anita Roddick, British businesswoman, human rights activist and campaigner (d. 2007)
October 24 – Frank Delaney, Irish-born novelist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2017)
October 25 – Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and film producer (d. 2018)
October 26 – Bob Hoskins, British actor (d. 2014)
October 27
Philip Catherine, Belgian jazz guitarist
Lee Greenwood, American country singer and songwriter
October 28 – Kees Verkerk, Dutch speed skater
October 29 – Bob Ross, American painter and television presenter (d. 1995)
October 31
George Brizan, 8th Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 2012)
David Ogden Stiers, American actor and voice-over artist (d. 2018)
November[edit]

Martin Scorsese

Joe Biden

Bob Einstein

Billy Connolly

Jimi Hendrix
November 1
Larry Flynt, American publisher (Hustler)
Ralph Klein, Canadian politician (d. 2013)
Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (d. 2013)
November 2
Shere Hite, American-born German sexologist
Stefanie Powers, American actress
November 5 – Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
November 6 – Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
November 7 – Tom Peters, American writer
November 8
Angel Cordero, Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer
Fernando Sorrentino, Argentine writer
November 10
Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Hans-Rudolf Merz, Swiss federal councillor
November 15 – Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born pianist and conductor
November 16 – Joanna Pettet, British-born Canadian actress
November 17
Derek Clayton, Australian long-distance runner
Bob Gaudio, American musician
Kang Kek Iew, Cambodian politician and criminal
István Rosztóczy, Hungarian microbiologist (d. 1993)
Martin Scorsese, American film director
November 18
Linda Evans, American actress
Susan Sullivan, American actress
November 19 – Calvin Klein, American fashion designer
November 20
Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States
Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
November 21 – Al Matthews, African-American actor and singer (d. 2018)
November 22
Francis K. Butagira, Ugandan ambassador
Dick Stockton, American sports announcer
Guion Bluford, African-American astronaut
November 23 – Susan Anspach, American actress (d. 2018)
November 24 – Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian and singer
November 25 – Rosa von Praunheim, German film director, author and painter
November 26 – Olivia Cole, African-American actress (d. 2018)
November 27
Manolo Blahnik, Spanish shoe designer
Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
November 28 – Eric Shinseki, American U.S. Army General
November 29
Michael Craze, British actor (d. 1998)
Philippe Huttenlocher, Swiss baritone
November 30 – André Brahic, French astrophysicist (d. 2016)
December[edit]

Muhammadu Buhari

Paul Butterfield

Hu Jintao

Michael Nesmith
December 2 – Francisque Ravony, 7th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2003)
December 3 – Alice Schwarzer, German feminist, founder and publisher of the German feminist journal EMMA
December 4
Al Hunt, American columnist
Gemma Jones, British actress
December 6
Chelsea Brown, American actress (d. 2017)
Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
December 7
Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
Reginald Lewis, American businessman (d. 1993)
Peter Tomarken, American game-show host (d. 2006)
December 9
Dick Butkus, American football player
Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
December 15 – Kathleen Blanco, American politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana (d. 2019)
December 17
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian army general and 15th President of Nigeria
Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
December 19
Milan Milutinovic, President of Serbia
Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (d. 2019)
December 20 – Bob Hayes, African-American athlete (d. 2002)
December 21
Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, 6th President of the People's Republic of China
Carla Thomas, American singer
December 27
Muruga Booker, American drummer, composer, inventor, artist, and recording artist
Charmian Carr, American actress (d. 2016)
Thomas Menino, 53rd Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2014)
December 29 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012)
December 30
Betty Aberlin, American actress
Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (d. 2019)
Anne Charleston, Australian actress
Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher (d. 2013)
Michael Nesmith, American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, businessman and philanthropist
Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian
December 31 – Taufiq Kiemas, 5th First Gentleman of Indonesia (d. 2013)


January[edit]

Scott Walker

René Préval

Janis Joplin

Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

Sharon Tate
January 1
Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager
Stanley Kamel, American actor (d. 2008)
Don Novello (aka "Father Guido Sarducci"), American comedian
Ronald Perelman, American banker, businessman, investor and philanthropist
January 2 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer, television personality (d. 1999)
January 4 – Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
January 5 – James Goldstein, LA businessman, NBA basketball aficionado
January 6 – Terry Venables, English footballer and manager
January 7 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (d. 1955)
January 8 – Jimmy Elledge, American country musician (d. 2012)
January 9
Freddie Starr, British comedian, singer (d. 2019)
Scott Walker, American-born singer, composer and record producer (d. 2019)
January 10 – Jim Croce, American surburbia musician (d. 1973)
January 11 – Jim Hightower, American radio host, author
January 13 – Richard Moll, American actor
January 14
Charles W. Daniels, American judge (d. 2019)
Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (d. 2019)
José Luis Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer
Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist, cell biologist and Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
Holland Taylor, American actress
January 15
Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (d. 2018)
Dame Margaret Beckett, British politician
January 16 – Peter T. Snowe, American politician, businessman (d. 1973)
January 17 – René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister of Haiti, 38th and 40th President of Haiti (d. 2017)
January 18 – Kay Granger, American politician
January 19
Janis Joplin, American rock singer (d. 1970)
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
Haruo Yasuda, Japanese golfer
January 20 – Mel Hague, English singer, author
January 22
Tamás Cseh, Hungarian composer, singer and actor (d. 2009)
Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress (d. 2015)
January 24
Janice Raymond, American second-wave feminist activist
Sharon Tate, American actress, model murdered by the "Manson Family" (d. 1969)
January 25
Dagmar Berghoff, German radio, television presenter
Roy Black, German singer (d. 1991)
Tobe Hooper, American film director (d. 2017)
January 26 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 2005)
January 28 – John Beck, American actor
January 29
Tony Blackburn, British radio disc jockey
Rudy Regalado, Venezuelan musician (d. 2010)
February[edit]

Blythe Danner

Joe Pesci

Antonio Inoki

Horst Köhler

George Harrison
February 2 – Erkan Geniş, Turkish artist
February 3
Blythe Danner, American actress
Dennis Edwards, American soul, R&B singer (d. 2018)
Eric Haydock, British musician (d. 2019)
February 4 – Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese politician
February 5
Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer
Michael Mann, American film director, writer and producer
Craig Morton, American football player
February 7 – Gareth Hunt, English actor (d. 2007)
February 8 – Creed Bratton, American actor, musician
February 9
Joe Pesci, American actor (Goodfellas)
Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 10 – Walter B. Jones Jr., American politician (d. 2019)
February 11 – Mohammad Rafiquzzaman, Bangladeshi lyricist
February 12 – Wacław Kisielewski, Polish pianist (d. 1986)
February 14 – Maceo Parker, American musician (James Brown, P-Funk)
February 15 – Elke Heidenreich, German author, TV presenter and journalist
February 18 – Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian and actor
February 19
Homer Hickam, American author, retired NASA engineer
Tim Hunt, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
February 20
Moshe Cotel, American composer, pianist (d. 2008)
Antonio Inoki, Japanese professional wrestler
Mike Leigh, British film director
February 21 – David Geffen, American record executive, film producer
February 22 – Horst Köhler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
February 23 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player, coach
February 24 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
February 25
Boediono, Indonesian economist, 11th Vice President of Indonesia
George Harrison, English singer, guitarist (The Beatles) (d. 2001)
February 26
Bill Duke, American actor, director
Darcus Howe, Trinidadian-born British civil rights activist (d. 2017)
Bob Hite, American singer, musician (Canned Heat) (d. 1981)
February 27 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer
February 28 – Donnie Iris, American rock singer, guitarist (The Jaggerz, Wild Cherry, Donnie Iris and the Cruisers)
March[edit]

Lynn Redgrave

David Cronenberg

Ratko Mladić

Mario Monti

George Benson

Eric Idle

John Major

Christopher Walken
March 1
Gil Amelio, American entrepreneur
Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
Richard H. Price, American physicist
March 2
Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
Tony Meehan, British drummer (The Shadows) (d. 2005)
Peter Straub, American author
March 3 – Trond Mohn, Norwegian billionaire
March 4
Lucio Dalla, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 2012)
Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian composer
March 5
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian Army major general (d. 1997)
Lucio Battisti, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 1998)
March 8
Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress (d. 2010)
Susan Clark, Canadian actress (Webster)
March 9
Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008)
Charles Gibson, American television journalist
March 11 - Ma'ruf Amin, Indonesian Islamic cleric and 13th Vice President of Indonesia
March 12 – Ratko Mladic, Serbia military leader
March 13 – André Téchiné, French film director
March 14
Anita Morris, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1994)
Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, American guitarist (Ohio Players) (d. 2013)
March 15
David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
Sly Stone, African-American singer (Sly and the Family Stone)
March 16
Helen Armstrong, American violinist (d. 2006)
Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005)
March 18
Kevin Dobson, American actor
Lowrell Simon, American singer (d. 2018)
March 19
Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mario Monti, 54th Prime Minister of Italy
March 20
Gerard Malanga, American poet, photographer
Douglas Tompkins, American conservationist, businessman (d. 2015)
March 21
Luigi Agnolin, Italian football referee (d. 2018)
István Gyulai, Hungarian sports official (d. 2006)
Vivian Stanshall, British comedy writer, artist, broadcaster and musician (d. 1995)
Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
March 22
George Benson, African American guitarist, singer and songwriter
Keith Relf, British rock musician (d. 1976)
March 23 – Lee May, American baseball player (d. 2017)
March 24 – Kate Webb, New Zealand-born Australian war correspondent (d. 2007)
March 25 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
March 26 – Bob Woodward, American journalist
March 28
Dharmasena Pathiraja, Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter (d. 2018)
Jean-Claude Boulard, French politician (d. 2018)
March 29
Eric Idle, British comedy actor, writer and composer (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
John Major, British politician, 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Vangelis, Greek musician, composer (Chariots of Fire, Cosmos)
March 30
Jay Traynor, American singer (Jay and the Americans) (d. 2014)
Dennis Etchison, American author and editor (d. 2019)
March 31
Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladeshi politician, convicted war criminal (d. 2016)
Christopher Walken, American actor
April[edit]

Jean-Louis Tauran

Harley Race

John Eliot Gardiner

Gary Wright
April 2 – Caterina Bueno, Italian singer (d. 2007)
April 3 – Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female star officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
April 4 – Isabel-Clara Simó, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 2020)
April 5
Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (d. 2018)
Max Gail, American actor (Barney Miller)
April 6 − Susan Tolsky, American actress and voice actress
April 8
Miller Farr, American football player
Jack O'Halloran, American boxer and actor
April 10
Andrzej Badeński, Polish athlete (d. 2008)
Margaret Pemberton, English writer
April 11 – Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer (d. 2019)
April 13 – Doreen Tracey, British-born American actress (d. 2018)
April 15 – Mighty Sam McClain, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
April 16 – Petro Tyschtschenko, German businessman
April 17 – Bobby Curtola, Canadian singer (d. 2016)
April 19 – Claus Theo Gärtner, German actor
April 20 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
April 21 – Napsiah Omar, Malaysian educator, politician (d. 2018)
April 22
Gabriel López Zapiain, Mexican footballer (d. 2018)
Louise Glück, American poet, 12th US Poet Laureate
April 23
Dominik Duka, Czech Roman Catholic bishop, theologian
Gail Goodrich, American basketball player
Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer
Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (Fantasy Island) (d. 1993)
April 24 – Richard Sterban, American singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
April 25
Alan Feduccia, American paleornithologist
James G. Mitchell, Canadian computer scientist
April 26 – Gary Wright, American singer, songwriter, musician and composer
April 28 – John O. Creighton, American astronaut
April 29 – Sir Ian Kershaw, English historian
April 30
Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (d. 2011)
Paul Jennings, Australian writer
Bobby Vee, American singer (d. 2016)
May[edit]

Michael Palin

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

Gary Burghoff
May 1 – Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (d. 2004)
May 3 – Jim Risch, American politician
May 5 – Michael Palin, English comedian, television presenter (Monty Python's Flying Circus)
May 6 – Grange Calveley, British writer, artist
May 7 – Orlando Ramírez, Chilean footballer (d. 2018)
May 8 – Danny Whitten, American musician (d. 1972)
May 10 – Richard Darman, American federal government official, businessman (d. 2008)
May 13 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist (d. 2013)
May 14
Jack Bruce, British musician, songwriter (d. 2014)
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
May 16 – Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat
May 17
Mark W. Olson, American economist, politician (d. 2018)
Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, King of Malaysia
May 20 – Imata Kabua, Marshallese politician, 2nd President of the Marshall Islands (d. 2019)
May 22 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
May 24 – Gary Burghoff, American actor (M*A*S*H)
May 25 – Jessi Colter, American singer, composer
May 26 – Erica Terpstra, Dutch swimmer, politician and president of the Dutch Olympic Committee
May 27
Bruce Weitz, American actor
Cilla Black, English singer, entertainer (d. 2015)
May 29 – Ion Ciubuc, Moldovan politician (d. 2018)
May 30 – James Chaney, African-American civil rights worker (d. 1964)
May 31
Sharon Gless, American actress
Joe Namath, American football player
June[edit]

Malcolm McDowell

Newt Gingrich

Barry Manilow

Klaus von Klitzing

Florence Ballard
June 1
Kuki Gallmann, Kenyan writer, poet
Richard Goode, American pianist
Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (d. 2004)
June 2 – Ilayaraaja, Indian composer
June 3
John Burgess, Australian game show host, actor
Billy Cunningham, American basketball player and coach
June 4 – Joyce Meyer, Christian author, speaker
June 6 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
June 7
Chan Hung-lit, Hong Kong actor (d. 2009)
Nikki Giovanni, African-American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator
June 8 – Colin Baker, British actor
Şahan Arzruni, Armenian pianist
June 11 – Henry Hill, American gangster (d. 2012)
June 13 – Malcolm McDowell, English actor
June 14 – Jim Sensenbrenner, American politician
June 15
Johnny Hallyday, French pop singer, actor (d. 2017)
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
June 16
Raymond Ramazani Baya, Congolese politician (d. 2019)
Joan Van Ark, American actress
June 17
Newt Gingrich, American politician, author and historian
Barry Manilow, American pop musician
June 18 – Barry Evans, English actor (d. 1997)
June 21 – Marika Green, French-Swedish actress
June 22
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
J. Michael Kosterlitz, Scottish-born condensed matter physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 23
Princess Maria Isabella of Savoy-Genoa
Patrick Bokanowski, French filmmaker
James Levine, American conductor
Vint Cerf, American internet pioneer
June 26
John Beasley, American actor
Warren Farrell, American educator, activist and author on gender issues
June 27 – Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
June 28
Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 29
Maureen O'Brien, British actress
Leopold Grausam, Austrian footballer
Frank Zweerts, Dutch field hockey player
June 30
Cees Kurpershoek, Dutch sailor
Daniel Kablan Duncan, Ivorian politician
Florence Ballard, African-American singer, founder of The Supremes (d. 1976)
Dieter Kottysch, West German Olympic boxer (d. 2017)
Dani Litani, Israeli musician and actor
July[edit]

Kurtwood Smith

Geraldo Rivera

Robbie Robertson

Arthur Ashe

Christine McVie

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Mick Jagger

Richard Wright

Giovanni Goria
July 1
Freddie Lewis, American basketball player
Hassan Mohamed Ali Wariiri, Somali judge
Jeff Wayne, American musician
July 2
Kenny Cameron, Scottish footballer
Lauri Peters, American actress, dancer, singer, drama teacher and author
July 3
Judith Durham, Australian singer
Kurtwood Smith, American actor (That '70s Show)
July 4
Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German trombonist
Geraldo Rivera, American reporter, talk show host
July 5
István Gáli, Hungarian boxer
Curt Blefary, American baseball player (d. 2001)
Robbie Robertson, Canadian musician (The Band)
July 6
Kim Kye-gwan, North Korean diplomat
Tamara Sinyavskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano
Rosemary Forsyth, Canadian-American actress, model
Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar, Pakistani politician
July 7
Jürgen Geschke, German track cyclist
M. Karathu, Malaysian football player, manager
Robert East, Welsh theatre, TV actor
Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)
Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican architect, painter (d. 2005)
July 8
Guido Marzulli, Italian painter
Carmine Preziosi, Italian road bicycle racer
July 9
Suzanne Rogers, American actress
Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (d. 1970)
July 10
Arthur Ashe, African-American tennis player (d. 1993)
Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Zambian politician
July 11
Edna Madzongwe, Zimbabwean politician
Tom Holland, American screenwriter, actor and filmmaker
Luciano Onder, Italian journalist
July 12
Christine McVie, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
Walter Murch, American film editor, sound designer
July 14
George Thomas Coker, United States Navy commander
Harold Wheeler, American orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer and music director
David Burden, British Army officer
July 15 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, British astrophysicist
July 16
Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (d. 1990)
Jimmy Johnson, American football coach, television analyst
Lim Zoong-sun, North Korean football player
July 17
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat, politician and historian
Alfredo Mantica, Italian politician
July 18 – Jerry Chambers, American basketball player
July 19
David Griffin, British actor
Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor
July 20
Christopher Murney, American actor, vocal artist
Wendy Richard, British actress (d. 2009)
July 21
Edward Herrmann, American actor (d. 2014)
Henry McCullough, Northern Irish musician (Paul McCartney & Wings) (d. 2016)
Bob Shrum, American political consultant
July 22
Kay Bailey Hutchison, American attorney, television correspondent, politician and diplomat
Barka Sy, Senegalese sprinter
Nils Utsi, Norwegian actor, stage and film director (d. 2019)
July 23
Dr. Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (d. 2007)
Bob Hilton, American game show announcer, host
Tony Joe White, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018)
Larry Manetti, American actor
Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian amateur boxer (d. 2019)
July 25 – Erika Steinbach, German politician
July 26 – Mick Jagger, English rock singer (The Rolling Stones)
July 27 – Mary Love, African-American soul, gospel singer (d. 2013)
July 28
Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and composer (d. 1981)
Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
Richard Wright, British musician (d. 2008)
July 29 – Bob Brunning, British musician (d. 2011)
July 30 – Giovanni Goria, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1994)
August[edit]

Princess Christina of Sweden

Pervez Musharraf

Robert De Niro

Pino Presti

Surayud Chulanont
August 2 – Max Wright, American actor (d. 2019)
August 3
Princess Christina of Sweden
Clarence Wijewardena, Sri Lankan musician (d. 1996)
August 4
Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician (d. 2019)
Barbara Saß-Viehweger, German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
August 5 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player (d. 2005)
August 6 – Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (d. 1991)
August 8 – Luc Rosenzweig, French journalist (d. 2018)
August 9 – Ken Norton, African-American boxer, actor (d. 2013)
August 10 – Frédéric Kyburz, Swiss judoka (d. 2018)
August 11
Abigail Folger, American heiress, murder victim (d. 1969)
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani general, leader and 10th President of Pakistan
August 13 – Roberto Micheletti, President of Honduras
August 15 – Glória Maria, Brazilian journalist, reporter and television host
August 17
Robert De Niro, American actor
Yukio Kasaya, Japanese ski jumper
August 18
Martin Mull, American actor and comedian
Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer
August 19 – Edwin Hawkins, African-American gospel musician, pianist (d. 2018)
August 20 – Sylvester McCoy, British actor
August 21 – Clydie King, American musician (d. 2019)
August 22 – Nahas Angula, Prime Minister of Namibia
August 23
Bobby Diamond, American actor (d. 2019)
Pino Presti, Italian bassist, arranger, composer, conductor, record producer
August 27 – Tuesday Weld, American actress
August 28
Surayud Chulanont, Thai politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
Lou Piniella, American baseball player, manager
Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor, voice actor
August 29 – Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 30
Tal Brody, American-born Israeli basketball player
R. Crumb, American artist, illustrator
Altovise Davis, American entertainer (d. 2009)
Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
August 31 – Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
September[edit]

Roger Waters

Jerry Bruckheimer

Julio Iglesias

Lech Wałęsa
September 5 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician, former DSWD Secretary (d. 2007)
September 6
Harris Hines, American judge (d. 2018)
Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist, molecular biologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Roger Waters, English musician (Pink Floyd)
September 7 – Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
September 9 – Art LaFleur, American actor
September 10
Daniel Truhitte, American actor
Neale Donald Walsch, American author (Conversations with God)
September 11
Mickey Hart, American percussionist and musicologist (Grateful Dead)
Jaime Thorne Leon, Peruvian politician (d. 2018)
Gilbert Proesch, Italian-born artist (Gilbert and George)
Raymond Villeneuve, Canadian terrorist
September 13 – Mildred D. Taylor, American writer
September 14
Irwin Goodman, Finnish singer (d. 1991)
Tunde Idiagbon, Nigerian Army major general (d. 1999)
September 16
Tadamasa Goto, Japanese yakuza boss
Oskar Lafontaine, German politician
September 18 – Nina Wayne, American actress
September 19 – Joe Morgan, American baseball player
September 20 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian Army officer and dictator (d. 1998)
September 21 – Jerry Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
September 22 – Toni Basil, American musician, video artist (Mickey)
September 23
Ernie Ackerley, British footballer (d. 2017)
Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer, songwriter
September 28 – J. T. Walsh, American actor (d. 1998)
September 29 – Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
September 30
Johann Deisenhofer, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Ian Ogilvy, British-American actor
October[edit]

Chevy Chase

R.L. Stine

Penny Marshall

Catherine Deneuve

Carmen Argenziano
October 1
Jerry Martini, American musician
Naushad Ali, Pakistani cricketer
Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
October 2
Franklin Rosemont, American poet (d. 2009)
Henri Szeps, Australian actor
October 3 – Jeff Bingaman, American politician
October 4 – Buddy Roemer, American politician, investor and banker
October 5
Bonnie Bryant, American golfer
Ben Cardin, American politician
October 6 – Michael Durrell, American actor
October 7 – Oliver North, American military officer, military historian, political commentator, author and television host
October 8
Chevy Chase, American comedian, actor (Saturday Night Live)
R. L. Stine, American novelist (Goosebumps)
October 11
John Nettles, English actor, writer
Gene Watson, American country singer
October 12
Jeffrey R. MacDonald, American physician and United States Army Officer
Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and manager (d. 2019)
October 14
Lois Hamilton, American model, actress and artist (d. 1999)
Mohammad Khatami, 5th President of Iran
Lance Rentzel, American football player
October 15 – Penny Marshall, American actress, director and producer (d. 2018)
October 16 – Paul Rose, Canadian terrorist
October 18
Herschel Sparber, American actor
Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
Christine Charbonneau, Canadian francophone singer, songwriter (d. 2014)
October 19 – Robin Holloway, English composer
October 20 – Noreen Corcoran, American child actress, director (d. 2016)
October 22 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
October 24
Theodor Stolojan, 54th Prime Minister of Romania
José E. Serrano, American politician
October 25 – Roy Lynes, English keyboardist
October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor (d. 2019)
October 28 – Cornelia Froboess, German actress
October 29 – Don Simpson, American film producer, screenwriter and actor (d. 1996)
October 31 – Paul Frampton, English physicist
November[edit]

Joni Mitchell

Michael Spence

Wallace Shawn

Denis Sassou Nguesso

Randy Newman
November 1 – Jacques Attali, French economist
November 3 – Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (d. 2011)
November 4
Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (d. 2000)
Chuck Scarborough, American news anchor
November 5
Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American pioneering television chef (d. 2007)
Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor (d. 2017)
November 7
Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
Nasirdin Isanov, 1st Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. 1991)
Joni Mitchell, Canadian musician (Big Yellow Taxi)
Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 8 – Martin Peters, English footballer (d. 2019)
November 11 – Doug Frost, Australian swimming coach
November 12 – Wallace Shawn, American actor
November 13
Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
Jay Sigel, American golfer
November 14
Peter Norton, American software engineer, businessman
Rafael Leonardo Callejas, President of Honduras
November 17 – Lauren Hutton, American actress, model
November 19 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
November 20
Mie Hama, Japanese actress
Marek Tomaszewski, Polish pianist
November 21 – Larry Mahan, American rodeo cowboy
November 22
Peter Adair, American filmmaker (d. 1996)
Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player
Billie Jean King, American tennis player
William Kotzwinkle, American novelist, screenwriter
Fouad Siniora, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon
November 23 – Denis Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of the Congo
November 24
Dave Bing, American mayor, longtime NBA player
Kuniwo Nakamura, 6th President of Palau
November 25 – Dante Caputo, Argentine diplomat, politician (d. 2018)
November 26 – Marilynne Robinson, American writer
November 28 – Randy Newman, American musician
November 30 – Terrence Malick, American film director
December[edit]

Jim Morrison

John Kerry

Keith Richards

Harry Shearer

Queen Silvia of Sweden

John Denver
December 2
Wayne Allard, American politician
William Wegman, American photographer
December 5
Eva Joly, Norwegian-born French magistrate
Nicolae Văcăroiu, 55th Prime Minister of Romania
December 8
José Carbajal, Uruguayan singer, composer and guitarist (d. 2010)
Larry Martin, American paleontologist (d. 2013)
Jim Morrison, American rock musician (The Doors) (d. 1971)
Bodo Tümmler, German Olympic middle-distance runner
December 11 – John Kerry, American politician, 68th U.S. Secretary of State
December 12
Dickey Betts, American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer (The Allman Brothers Band)
Gianni Russo, American actor
Grover Washington, Jr., African-American saxophonist (d. 1999)
December 13
David W. Huff, American rock singer, guitarist of (David and the Giants)
Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
December 14
Britt Allcroft, British television producer, creator of Thomas & Friends
António Simões, Portuguese footballer
December 15 – Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor
December 16 – Steven Bochco, American television producer (d. 2018)
December 17
Ron Geesin, British musician, songwriter (Pink Floyd)
Rick Nolan, American politician
December 18 – Keith Richards, English rock guitarist, songwriter (The Rolling Stones)
December 19
Sam Kelly, English actor (d. 2014)
Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)
Jimmy Mackay, Australian football player (d. 1998)
December 20 – Jacqueline Pearce, English screen actress (d. 2018)
December 21 – Jack Nance, American actor (d. 1996)
December 22 – Paul Wolfowitz, American political scientist
December 23
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (d. 1987)
Harry Shearer, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
Queen Silvia of Sweden, Queen consort of Sweden
December 24
Tarja Halonen, 11th President of Finland
James A. Johnson, American business leader, philanthropist
December 25 – Hanna Schygulla, German actress
December 27 – Sam Hinds, 3-Time Prime Minister of Guyana
December 28
Keith Floyd, British chef (d. 2009)
Chas Hodges, English musician and singer (d. 2018)
Craig MacIntosh, American illustrator
Richard Whiteley, English television presenter (d. 2005)
December 31
John Denver, American musician (d. 1997)
Sir Ben Kingsley, British actor (Gandhi)
Pete Quaife, English musician, artist and author (The Kinks) (d. 2010)


January[edit]

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir

Jimmy Page

Joe Frazier

Paul Keating

Rutger Hauer

Angela Davis
January 1
Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, 7th President of Sudan
Abdul Hamid, 16th President of Bangladesh
Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. 1999)
Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
Bob Minor, American actor, stunt performer
January 2 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
January 3 – Chris von Saltza, American swimmer
January 6
Bonnie Franklin, American actress, singer, dancer and television director (d. 2013)
Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 7 – Mike Hebert, American volleyball coach (d. 2019)
January 8 – Terry Brooks, American writer
January 9
Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, author, and lecturer (d. 2014)
Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
Jimmy Page, English rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
January 10
Rory Byrne, South African engineer and car designer
William Sanderson, American actor
Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
January 12
Joe Frazier, African-American boxer (d. 2011)
Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster
Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor and comedian
Klaus Wedemeier, German politician
January 17
Jan Guillou, Swedish author
Françoise Hardy, French singer
January 18
Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
Alexander Van der Bellen, 12th President of Austria
January 19 – Shelley Fabares, American actress, singer
January 20 – Isao Okano, Japanese judoka
January 23
Sergei Belov, Soviet basketball player (d. 2013)
Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist (d. 2019)
January 24
David Gerrold, American screenwriter and novelist
Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
January 25
Sally Beauman, English writer (d. 2016)
Evan Chandler, American screenwriter, dentist (suicide 2009)
January 26
Angela Davis, African-American political activist, academic, and author
Jerry Sandusky, American child molester, Penn State coach
January 27
Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Nick Mason, English rock drummer
January 28
Susan Howard, American actress
Rosalía Mera, Spanish fashion retailer (Zara) (d. 2018)
John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
January 29 – Susana Giménez, Argentinian television presenter
January 31 – Connie Booth, American writer, actress
February[edit]

Jerry Springer

Alan Parker

Dzhokhar Dudayev

Jonathan Demme

Johnny Winter

Dennis Farina
February 2
Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
Oqil Oqilov, Tajikistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Tajikistan
February 4
Punch Gunalan, Malaysian badminton star (d. 2012)
Maruja Carrasco, Spanish botanist and academic (d. 2018)
February 5
Al Kooper, American rock musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
Thekla Carola Wied, German actress
February 8
Bunky Henry, American professional golfer (d. 2018)
Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist, writer, poet, and activist
February 10
Peter Allen, Australian-born Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist (d. 1992)
Jean-Daniel Cadinot, French photographer, director and producer (d. 2008)
February 11 – Michael G. Oxley, American politician (d. 2016)
February 12 – Moe Bandy, American country music singer
February 13
Stockard Channing, American actress
Michael Ensign, American actor
Jerry Springer, English-born American politician and television personality
February 14
Carl Bernstein, American journalist
Sir Alan Parker, English film director, producer, actor and writer
February 15
Mick Avory, English musician (The Kinks)
Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen leader, first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 1996)
February 16
Richard Ford, American writer
António Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde (d. 2016)
February 17
Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
Bernie Grant, British Labour Party MP (d. 2000)
February 19 – Donald F. Glut, American writer, film director, and screenwriter
February 20
Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin, Malaysian politician and diplomat (d. 2014)
Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
February 22
Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2017)
Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
Robert Kardashian, American attorney and businessman (d. 2003)
February 23 – Johnny Winter, American rock musician (d. 2014)
February 24 – Ivica Račan, Croatian politician (d. 2007)
February 25 – François Cevert, French racing driver (d. 1973)
February 27
Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (d. 2020)
February 28
Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (d. 1983)
Sepp Maier, German footballer
February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor (d. 2013)
March[edit]

Roger Daltrey

Uschi Glas

R. Lee Ermey

Diana Ross

Nana Akufo-Addo
March 1
John Breaux, American politician
Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter (The Who), actor
March 2
Uschi Glas, German actress
Leif Segerstam, Finnish conductor and composer
March 3 – Odessa Cleveland, American actress (M*A*S*H)
March 4
Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (d. 1999)
Bobby Womack, African-American singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
March 5 – Peter Brandes, Danish artist
March 6
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
Mary Wilson, African-American singer (The Supremes)
March 7
Michael Rosbash, American geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Townes Van Zandt, American country singer (d. 1997)
March 8 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
March 11
Graham Lyle, Grammy-winning Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for writing several international hits for Tina Turner
Don Maclean, English comedian and broadcaster
March 14 – Steve Daskewisz, American actor (d. 2018)
March 15
Emmerich Danzer, Austrian figure skater
Ralph MacDonald, American percussionist, songwriter (d. 2011)
March 17
Pattie Boyd, English model and first wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton
John Sebastian, American singer-songwriter (The Lovin' Spoonful)
March 18 – Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur
March 19
Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
March 21 – Hilary Minster, English actor (d. 1999)
March 23 – Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (The Cars) (d. 2019)
March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, U.S. Marine and actor (d. 2018)
March 26 – Diana Ross, African-American actress and singer
March 27 – Ann Sidney, Miss World
March 28
Rick Barry, American basketball player
Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016)
March 29
Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
Denny McLain, American baseball player
April[edit]

Craig T. Nelson

Gerhard Schröder

Thein Sein

Princess Benedikte of Denmark

Jill Clayburgh
April 3 – Tony Orlando, American musician
April 4
Faisal bin Musaid, assassin and nephew of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (d. 1975)
Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
Craig T. Nelson, American actor
April 5 – Peter T. King, American politician
April 6
Judith McConnell, American actress
Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born model and actress (d. 2017)
Dame Felicity Palmer, English soprano
April 7
Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (d. 2012)
Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor
April 8
Burny Bos, Dutch producer, scenarist and children's book writer.
Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
Jimmy Walker, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
April 10 – Abubakar Habu Hashidu, Nigerian politician (d. 2018)
April 11 – John Milius, American film director, producer and screenwriter
April 13 – Jack Casady, American rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
April 14 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and President
April 15 – Kunishige Kamamoto, Japanese footballer, manager and politician
April 18 – Charlie Tuna, American disc jockey and game show announcer (d. 2016)
April 19
Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist, composer (Parliament-Funkadelic) (d. 2016)
James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 20 – Thein Sein, Burmese politician, 8th President of Myanmar
April 22 – Steve Fossett, American aviator, sailor and millionaire adventurer (d. 2007)
April 24 – Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer
April 25 – Len Goodman, British ballroom dancer and television personality
April 26
Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
Larry H. Miller, American sports owner (Utah Jazz; d. 2009)
April 27
Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
Cuba Gooding Sr., American actor and singer (d. 2017)
April 28 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
April 29
Princess Benedikte of Denmark
Richard Kline, American actor and television director
April 30
Rudi Assauer, German footballer and manager (d. 2019)
Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010)
May[edit]

John Rhys-Davies

George Lucas

Danny Trejo

Peter Mayhew

Joe Cocker

Mary Robinson

Rudy Giuliani

Gladys Knight
May 1
Costa Cordalis, German singer (d. 2019)
Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
Marva Whitney, American singer (d. 2012)
May 3 – Rusty Wier, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
May 4 – Russi Taylor, American actress (d. 2019)
May 5
Roger Rees, Welsh actor (d. 2015)
John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
May 8 – Gary Glitter, English singer
May 9
Richie Furay, American musician (Poco, Buffalo Springfield)
Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
May 10
Jim Abrahams, American film director
Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
May 12 – Sara Kestelman, English actress
May 13
Armistead Maupin, American author
Carolyn Franklin, American singer (d. 1988)
May 14
Connie Lawn, American journalist (d. 2018)
George Lucas, American film director and producer
May 15
Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (d. 2015)
Gunilla Hutton, Swedish-born American actress and singer
May 16 – Danny Trejo, Hispanic-American actor
May 17
Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verdean diplomat and civil servant
Jesse Winchester, American-Canadian musician and songwriter (d. 2014)
May 19 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d. 2019)
May 20
Joe Cocker, English rock singer (d. 2014)
Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
May 21 – Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
May 23
John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
Avraham Oz, Israeli theater professor, translator, and political activist
May 24
David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter, murdered at the Munich Olympics (d. 1972)
Patti LaBelle, American singer, actress and entrepreneur
May 25 – Frank Oz, English puppeteer and film director
May 27 – Chris Dodd, American politician
May 28
Rudy Giuliani, American politician, former Mayor of New York City
Gladys Knight, American singer
Sondra Locke, American actress and director (d. 2018)
Rita MacNeil, Canadian folk singer (d. 2013)
Patricia, Lady Stephens (née Quinn), retired Northern Irish actress
May 29 – Helmut Berger, Austrian actor
May 30 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
May 31 – Ayad Allawi, 38th Prime Minister of Iraq
June[edit]

Michelle Phillips

Tommie Smith

Ban Ki-moon

Salvador Sánchez Cerén

Ray Davies

Jeff Beck

Patrick Sercu

Gary Busey
June 1 – Robert Powell, English actor
June 2
Garo Yepremian, American football player (d. 2015)
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer, conductor (d. 2012)
June 3 – Edith McGuire, American sprinter
June 4 – Michelle Phillips, American singer and actress
June 5
Colm Wilkinson, Irish actor and singer
Whitfield Diffie, American cryptographer
June 6
Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Edgar Froese, German musician (d. 2015)
Tommie Smith, American athlete
June 7 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
June 8
Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
Don Grady, American actor and singer (d. 2012)
Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
Boz Scaggs, American singer and guitarist
June 13 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
June 15 – Malaysia Vasudevan, Tamil playback singer and actor (d. 2011)
June 16 – Henri Richelet, French painter
June 17 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and impressionist (d. 2012)
June 18
Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 45th President of El Salvador
Sandy Posey, American musician
Rick Griffin, American artist (d. 1991)
June 19 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
June 21
Carmen Cardinali Paoa, Chilean professor
Franco Cordova, Italian international football player
Corinna Tsopei, Greek actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1964
Ray Davies, English rock-singer and songwriter, co-founder of The Kinks
Kenny O'Dell, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
Tony Scott, English film director (d. 2012)
Luigi Sgarbozza, Italian former cyclist
Chris Wood, English musician (Traffic) (d. 1983)
June 22
Ercole Gualazzini, Italian professional road bicycle racer
Gérard Mourou, French electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
June 23
Silvestre Bello III, Filipino businessman and lawyer
Gan Ee Kiang, Malaysian pharmacologist
June 24
Dennis Butler, English former footballer and football manager
John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist
Jeff Beck, English rock musician
June 25 – Ricardo Salgado, Portuguese economist and banker
June 27
Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (d. 2019)
Zezé Motta, Brazilian actress and singer
Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (d. (2019)
June 28 – Luis Nicolao, Argentine butterfly swimmer
June 29
Gary Busey, American actor
Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
June 30
Daniel Kablan Duncan, Ivorian politician
Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
Alan C. Fox, American author, philanthropist and entrepreneur
Glenn Shorrock, English musician
July[edit]

Mercedes Bresso

Jeffrey Tambor

Jaimoe

Aad Mansveld

David Hemery

John Atta Mills

Geraldine Chaplin
July 1
Mercedes Bresso, Italian politician
Mike Horan, Australian politician
Diron Talbert, American football player
Syd Jackson, Australian rules footballer
July 2
Billy Campbell, Northern Irish professional footballer
Vicente de la Mata, Argentine former football midfielder
Paul Schudel, American football player and coach
July 3 – Michel Polnareff, French singer
July 4
Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman, investor, and art collector
Joe Critchlow, Canadian football player
Albert Kapengut, Soviet chess master
July 5
Mick Andrews, English international motorcycle trials rider
Hendrik Born, German vice admiral
Enrique Irazoqui, Spanish movie actor
July 6
Tim Brown, Australian darts player
Gunhild Hoffmeister, East German middle-distance runner
Max Timisela, Indonesian footballer
July 7
Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (d. 1983)
Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro
Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer
Tony Jacklin, English golfer
Feleti Sevele, former Prime Minister of Tonga
Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham, British Army officer
July 8
Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson, American drummer
Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
July 10 – Carlos Ruckauf, Argentine politician
July 11
Keith Doncon, Australian rules footballer
Neil Vant, Anglican clergyman, prospector, businessman and former political figure
Valdeir Vieira, Brazilian football manager
July 12
Terry Cooper, English former football player and manager
Clarence Parfitt, Bermudian-Scottish cricketer
July 13 – Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
July 14 – Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer (d. 1991)
July 16
Clarence Parfitt, Bermudian and Scottish cricketer
Jose L. Cuisia Jr., Philippine diplomat and banker
Angharad Rees, Welsh actress (d. 2012)
July 17
Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricket captain
Catherine Schell, Hungarian actress
Charles Lapointe, Canadian businessman, politician and public servant
Tom Kalinske, American businessman
Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
July 18 – David Hemery, British Olympic athlete
July 20
Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
W. Cary Edwards, American politician (d. 2010)
July 21
John Atta Mills, 13th President of Ghana (d. 2012)
Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
July 23 – Alex Buzo, of Sydney, Australian playwright and author (d. 2006)
July 26
Celeste Yarnall, American actress (d. 2018)
Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
July 28 – Jozo Križanović, Bosnian politician (d. 2009)
July 31
Geraldine Chaplin, English-American actress
Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and author
Robert C. Merton, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August[edit]

Richard Belzer

Robert Mueller

Sam Elliott

Ian McDiarmid

Rajiv Gandhi
August 1
Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (d. 2019)
Yury Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut
August 2
Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussionist and vocalist (d. 2016)
August 3 – Jonas Falk, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
August 4
Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
William Frankfather, American actor (d. 1998)
Orhan Gencebay, Turkish musician, composer, singer and actor
August 7
John Glover, American actor
Robert Mueller, American lawyer and former FBI director
August 8
Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
Hasyim Muzadi, Indonesian Islamic scholar (d. 2017)
August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
August 11
Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
Frederick W. Smith, American founder of FedEx
August 12 – Larry Troutman, American musician (d. 1999)
August 13 – Kevin Tighe, American actor
August 15 – Sylvie Vartan, French singer
August 18
Robert Hitchcock, Australian sculptor
Volker Lechtenbrink, German television actor and singer
Helena Rojo, Mexican actress and model
August 19
Charles Wang, Chinese-born American businessman, philanthropist and sports team owner (d. 2018)
Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer (d. 2016)
August 20 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
August 21
Kari S. Tikka, Finnish Professor of Finance (d. 2006)
Peter Weir, Australian film director
August 22 – Ayşen Gruda, Turkish actress and comedian (d. 2019)
August 23 – Saira Banu, Indian actress
August 24 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2020)
August 25 – Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (d. 1974)
August 26 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
August 27 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
August 30 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
August 31
Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Earnie Shavers, African-American professional wrestler
September[edit]

Barry White

Peter Cetera

Yoweri Museveni

Michael Douglas
September 1 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
September 2 – Gilles Marchal, French musician
September 3
Ty Warner, American Businessman, Inventor: Beanie Babies
September 4 – Tony Atkinson, British economist (d. 2017)
September 6
Christian Boltanski, French artist
Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
September 7
Abul Hayat, Bangladeshi actor
Earl Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
Bora Milutinović, Serbian footballer and coach
September 12
Leonard Peltier, Native American activist and convicted murderer
Barry White, African-American singer (d. 2003)
September 13
Carol Barnes, British newsreader (d. 2008)
Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
Peter Cetera, lead singer and guitarist of American rock group Chicago
September 15
Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan politician, 9th President of Uganda
Graham Taylor, English footballer and football manager (d. 2017)
September 17 – Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
September 18
Veronica Carlson, English actress and model
Satan's Angel, American exotic dancer
September 19 – İsmet Özel, Turkish poet
September 21
Caleb Deschanel, American cinematographer and film director
Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's first White House Chief of Staff (d. 2008)
September 22 – Frazer Hines, British actor
September 25 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
September 26 – Anne Robinson, British television host
September 27 – Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress[46]
September 28 – Miloš Zeman, 3rd President of the Czech Republic
September 30 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
October[edit]

Arnhim Eustace

Peter Tosh

Elizabeth Loftus

Kati Kovács
October 2 – Vernor Vinge, American science fiction writer
October 4
Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
October 5 – Arnhim Eustace, Vincentian politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
October 6
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, pioneering female Thai Buddhist monk, previously academic
Mylon LeFevre, American singer and evangelist
October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
October 9
John Entwistle, English rock bass guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Who) (d. 2002)
Nona Hendryx, American R&B singer (Labelle)
Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1987)
October 12 – Augustine Paul, Malaysian federal court judge (d. 2010)
October 15
Mac Collins, American politician (d. 2018)
Şerif Gören, Turkish film director
David Trimble, Northern Irish Unionist political leader; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1998
October 16 – Elizabeth Loftus, American cognitive psychologist and memory specialist
October 20 – Clive Hornby, English actor (d. 2008)
October 21 – Jean-Pierre Sauvage, French scientist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
October 25
Jon Anderson, English rock singer-songwriter and musician
Ron Coote, Australian rugby league player
Kati Kovács, Hungarian jazz, pop and rock musician
Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
October 27 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
October 28
Dennis Franz, American actor
Ian Marter, English actor and writer (d. 1986)
Marián Labuda, Slovak actor (d. 2018)
October 30 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (d. 2015)
October 31 – Hal Wick, American politician (d. 2018)
November[edit]

Askar Akayevich Akayev

Danny DeVito

Lorne Michaels

Harold Ramis

Ben Stein
November 1
Florindo Fabrizio, American politician (d. 2018)
Kinky Friedman, American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and columnist
Rafic Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2005)
Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and commentator (d. 2017)
Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
November 2
Michael Buffer, American Ring announcer, and actor
Keith Emerson, English keyboardist (d. 2016)
November 4 – Linda Gary, American actress (d. 1995)
November 6 – Wild Man Fischer, Outsider musician (d. 2011)
November 7 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
November 9 – Chitresh Das, Indian dancer (d. 2015)
November 10
Askar Akayev, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan
Silvestre Reyes, American politician
Tim Rice, English lyricist, writer and broadcaster
November 11 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish comedian
November 12
Booker T. Jones, American musician, singer and songwriter
Al Michaels, American sportscaster
November 17
Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach
Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
Danny DeVito, American actor, film producer and director
Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
Lorne Michaels, Canadian television and film producer
Tom Seaver, American baseball player
Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1966)
November 18
Wolfgang Joop, German artist, fashion designer, and art collector
Edwin C. Krupp, American astronomer author, and Director of the Griffith Observatory
November 20
Louie Dampier, American basketball player
Donald DiFrancesco, American lawyer and politician, 51st Governor of New Jersey
November 21
Richard Durbin, American politician
Earl Monroe, American basketball player
Harold Ramis, American actor, director and comedy writer (d. 2014)
November 23 – Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer, and film director (d. 2019)
November 24
Candy Darling, American actress (d. 1974)
Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar and diplomat
November 25
Ben Stein, American law professor, actor and author
Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya
November 27 – Mickey Leland, American politician (d. 1989)
November 30 – George Graham, Scottish football player and manager
December[edit]

John Densmore

Dennis Wilson

Andris Bērziņš

Brenda Lee

Bernard Hill

Tim Reid
December 1 – John Densmore, drummer, member of The Doors.
December 2
Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (That's Incredible!)
Ibrahim Rugova, 1st President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
December 3 – Ralph McTell English singer songwriter
December 4 – Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (d. 1983)
December 5 – Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor and film director
December 6
Kit Culkin, American stage actor
Ron Kenoly, American Christian leader
Sutiyoso, Indonesian politician, former general and former governor of Jakarta
Jonathan King, British music producer
December 7
Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
Georges Coste, French Rugby player and coach
December 8 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress and model
December 9
Tadashi Irie, Japanese yakuza boss
Ki Longfellow, American novelist
Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (d. 2019)
December 10 – Andris Bērziņš, 8th President of Latvia
December 11
Brenda Lee, American singer
Lynda Day George, American actress
Teri Garr, American actress
December 12
Diana Bracho, Mexican actress
Kenneth Cranham, Scottish born actor
Cara Duff-MacCormick, Canadian stage actress
December 17 – Bernard Hill, British actor
December 18 – Lene Krøyer, Danish rheumatologist
December 19
Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (d. 2019)
María Martha Serra Lima, Argentine singer (d. 2017)
Tim Reid, African-American actor and film director
Terry Underwood, Australian author
December 20 – Ray Martin, Australian journalist and television presenter
December 21
Bill Atkinson, English footballer
Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
December 22 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player
December 23
Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
Ingar Knudtsen, Norwegian writer
December 24 – Erhard Keller, German speed skater
December 25
Sam Strahan, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2019)
Jairzinho, Brazilian football player
December 26
Bill Ayers, American education theorist and former radical anti-war activist
Jane Lapotaire, British actress
Aleksey Mikhalyov, Russian translator
December 28
Edgar Vivar, Mexican actor, Señor Barriga and Ñoño in El Chavo del Ocho
Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
December 29 – King Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
December 30 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author
December 31
Jan Widströmer, Swedish artist
Neil Ross, British-American voice actor


January[edit]

Stephen Stills

Rod Stewart

Javed Akhtar

Dave Walker

Tom Selleck
January 1
Pietro Grasso, Italian politician
Jacky Ickx, Belgian racing driver
Martin Schanche, Norwegian racing driver, politician
Diahnne Abbott, American actress and singer
January 3 – Stephen Stills, American rock singer, songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
January 4
Sima Bina, Iranian vocalist
Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 7
Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
Yrsa Stenius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, newspaper editor (d. 2018)
Shulamith Firestone, Canadian American feminist, writer (d. 2012)
January 10
Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist, inventor
Jennifer Moss, British actress (d. 2006)
Steven P. Perskie, American politician, judge
Rod Stewart, British rock singer
January 11 – Christine Kaufmann, German actress (d. 2017)
January 12 – André Bicaba, Burkinabé sprinter
January 14 – Einar Hákonarson, Icelandic painter
January 15
Vince Foster, American deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton (d. 1993)
Princess Michael of Kent, German-born member of the British Royal Family
January 17 – Javed Akhtar, Indian political activist, poet, lyricist and screenwriter
January 20 – Robert Olen Butler, American writer
January 21
Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2011)
Martin Shaw, British TV, film actor
January 24 – Subhash Ghai, Indian film director, producer and screenwriter
January 25
Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
Dave Walker, British musician
January 26
Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
Graham Williams, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2018)
January 27 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (d. 2005)
January 28
Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress (Saturday Night Fever)
Chuck Pyle, American country-folk singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
January 29
Jim Nicholson, Northern Irish politician
Tom Selleck, American actor (Magnum, P.I.)
January 30 – Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
January 31 – Joseph Kosuth, American artist
February[edit]

Bob Marley

Mia Farrow

Maud Adams

Barry Bostwick
February 1 – Yasuhiro Takai, Spanish political scientist and politician (d. 2019)
February 3
Roy 'Chubby' Brown, British stand-up comedian
Bob Griese, American football player
Philip Waruinge, Kenyan boxer
February 5 – Sarah Weddington, American attorney
February 6 – Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1981)
February 7 – Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
February 9 – Mia Farrow, American actress
February 10 – Koo Bon-moo, South Korean business executive (d. 2018)
February 12
Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure (d. 2009)
Maud Adams, Swedish actress
David D. Friedman, American economist
February 13 – Simon Schama, English academician, historian
February 14
Adiss Harmandian, Lebanese-Armenian pop singer (d. 2019)
Carl Bernstein, American investigative journalist and author
Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein
February 15 – Douglas Hofstadter, American cognitive scientist
February 16 – Jeremy Bulloch, English actor
February 17 – Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
February 18
Hashem Mahameed, Israeli politician (d. 2018)
Edir Macedo, Brazilian evangelical leader, media mogul
February 20 – Henry Polic II, American actor (d. 2013)
February 22 – Oliver, American singer (Good Morning Starshine) (d. 2000)
February 24 – Barry Bostwick, American actor
February 25
Elkie Brooks, English singer
Roy Saari, American swimmer (d. 2008)
February 26 – Marta Kristen, Norwegian actress (Lost In Space)
February 27 – Carl Anderson, American singer, actor (Jesus Christ Superstar) (d. 2004)
February 28 – Bubba Smith, American football player, actor (d. 2011)
March[edit]

George Miller

Micky Dolenz

Charles Greene

Rodrigo Duterte

Eric Clapton
March 1 – Dirk Benedict, American actor
March 2 – Hamza Abdullahi, Nigerian politician, military officer (d. 2019)
March 3
George Miller, Australian film director
Hattie Winston, American actress
March 4
Dieter Meier, Swiss singer, writer
Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager, player
Gary Williams, American basketball coach
March 7
Arthur Lee, American musician (d. 2006)
March 8
Jim Chapman, American politician
Micky Dolenz, American actor, director and rock musician (The Monkees)
Anselm Kiefer, German painter
March 9
Katja Ebstein, German singer
Dennis Rader, American serial killer
March 10 – Nobuhiko Higashikuni, Japanese Imperial prince (d. 2019)
March 12 – Sammy Gravano, American mobster
March 13
Othman Abdullah, Malaysian footballer (d. 2015)
Anatoly Fomenko, Russian mathematician
March 14 – Michael Martin Murphey, American country singer-songwriter
March 15 – A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer, politician (d. 2007)
March 17
Katri Helena, Finnish singer
Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
March 18
Marta Suplicy, Brazilian politician and psychologist
Michael Reagan, American television personality, political commentator and Republican strategist
March 20
Jay Ingram, Canadian television host, author and journalist
Bobby Jameson, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
Pat Riley, American basketball coach
March 21 – Charles Greene, American Olympic athlete
March 24 – Curtis Hanson, American film director, screenwriter (d. 2016)
March 26 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (d. 2004)
March 27 – Władysław Stachurski, Polish football player, manager (d. 2013)
March 28
Rodrigo Duterte, 16th President of the Philippines
Raine Loo, Estonian actress
March 29
Walt Frazier, African-American basketball player
Willem Ruis, Dutch game show host (d. 1986)
March 30 – Eric Clapton, English rock guitarist (Layla)
March 31
Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist
Gabe Kaplan, American actor, comedian, and professional poker player (Welcome Back, Kotter)
April[edit]

Tommy Smith

Tuilaepa Malielegaoi

Naftali Temu

Björn Ulvaeus
April 2
Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, British politician (d. 2018)
Jürgen Drews, German singer
Linda Hunt, American actress
April 4
Robert Lam, Malaysian newscaster (d. 2010)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activist
April 5
Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (d. 2004)
Tommy Smith, English footballer (d. 2019)
April 7 – Werner Schroeter, German film director (d. 2010)
April 9 – Peter Gammons, American baseball sportswriter
April 11
Christian Quadflieg, German actor
Seeborn, British musician
April 12 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization (d. 2006)
April 13
Tony Dow, American actor, producer, and director (Leave It to Beaver)
Lowell George, American rock musician (Little Feat) (d. 1979)
Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
April 14
Ritchie Blackmore, English rock guitarist
Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa
April 16 – John Andrew Barnes III, American soldier (d. 1967)
April 20 – Naftali Temu, Kenyan Olympic athlete (d. 2003)
April 21 – Ana Lúcia Torre, Brazilian actress
April 24
Doug Clifford, American drummer
Larry Tesler, American computer scientist (d. 2020)
April 25
Stu Cook, American bassist
Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish rock songwriter (ABBA)
April 27 – August Wilson, American playwright (d. 2005)
April 29
Hugh Hopper, British musician (d. 2009)
Tammi Terrell, African-American soul singer (d. 1970)
April 30 – Lara Saint Paul, Eritrean-born Italian singer (d. 2018)
May[edit]

Bob Seger

Pete Townshend

Priscilla Presley

John Fogerty

Laurent Gbagbo
May 1 – Rita Coolidge, American pop singer
May 3 – Jeffrey C. Hall, American geneticist, chronobiologist, and Nobel Prize laureate
May 4 – Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist
May 5
Chuck Holmes, American adult film producer (d. 2000)
Kurt Loder, American film critic, author and television personality
May 6
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, American musician
Bob Seger, American rock singer (Old Time Rock and Roll)
May 8 – Keith Jarrett, American musician
May 9 – Jupp Heynckes, German football manager, former footballer
May 13 – Tammam Salam, 34th Prime Minister of Lebanon
May 14 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa, CEO
May 15 – Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
May 16 – Nicky Chinn, English rock songwriter (The Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
May 17 – Tony Roche, Australian tennis player
May 19 – Pete Townshend, English rock guitarist, lyricist (The Who)
May 21
Richard Hatch, American actor (Battlestar Galactica) (d. 2017)
Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist, astronaut
May 22 – Victoria Wyndham, American actress (Another World)
May 23
Lauren Chapin, American child actress, evangelist
Doris Mae Oulton, Canadian community developer
May 24 – Priscilla Presley, American actress, businesswoman
May 28
Patch Adams, American physician, comedian, social activist, clown and author
John Fogerty, American rock singer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
May 29
Gary Brooker, English pianist, singer (Procol Harum)
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian businessman, fraudster and politician (d. 2018)
May 30
Andrea Bronfman, American philanthropist (d. 2006)
Gladys Horton, American singer (The Marvelettes) (d. 2011)
May 31
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982)
Laurent Gbagbo, President of Côte d'Ivoire
June[edit]

Wolfgang Schüssel

Ken Livingstone

Aung San Suu Kyi

Anne Murray

Radovan Karadžić

Carly Simon

Jose Miguel Arroyo

Chandrika Kumaratunga
June 1 – Frederica von Stade, American mezzo-soprano
June 2
Lord David Dundas, English musician and actor
Jon Peters, American film producer
June 3 – Hale Irwin, American professional golfer
June 4
Anthony Braxton, American composer, musical instrumentalist
Gordon Waller, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Peter and Gordon) (d. 2009)
June 5
John Carlos, American athlete
Théophile Georges Kassab, Catholic prelate (d. 2013)
Don Reid, American country singer (The Statler Brothers)
Nechama Rivlin, Israeli socialite, 10th First lady of Israel (d. 2019)
June 6 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
June 7
Billy Butler, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
June 8 – Steven Fromholz, American singer, songwriter (d. 2014)
June 9 – Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
June 10 – Benny Gallagher, Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, half of the duo Gallagher and Lyle
June 11 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress, television personality and author (Maude)
June 12 – Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer
June 13 – Rodney P. Rempt, American admiral
June 14
Jörg Immendorff, German painter
Rod Argent, English singer, keyboardist (The Zombies, Argent)
June 15
Françoise Chandernagor, French writer
Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino politician (b. 2016)
June 16
Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player
Chip Damiani, American drummer (The Remains) (d. 2014)
Ivan Lins, Latin Grammy-winning Brazilian musician
June 17
P. D. T. Acharya, Secretary General, Indian Lok Sabha
Frank Ashmore, American actor
Art Bell, American radio talk show host (Coast to Coast AM) (d. 2018)
Ken Livingstone, British politician
Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist
June 19
Radovan Karadžić, Serbian politician
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar poet, politician, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Greil Marcus, American music journalist, cultural critic
June 20 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer (Love Song)
June 21
Roberto D'Angelo, Italian slalom canoeist
Luis Castañeda Lossio, Peruvian politician
Thiagarajan, Indian actor, director and producer
Nirmalendu Goon, Bangladeshi poet
Marijana Lubej, Slovenian sprinter
June 22
Juma Kapuya, Tanzanian politician
Dieter Versen, German football defender
June 23
Kim Småge, Norwegian novelist, crime fiction writer, writer of short stories, and children's writer
Ana Chumachenco, Italian violinist
Michael Sze, Hong Kong government official
Jim Fouratt, American gay activist, entertainer
June 24
George Pataki, Governor of New York
Ali Akbar Velayati, Iranian physician, politician
June 25
Baba Gana Kingibe, Nigerian politician
Mohammed Bakar, Malaysian footballer
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, American politician
Chaiyasit Shinawatra, commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army
Guillermo Mendoza, Mexican cyclist
Carly Simon, American singer, songwriter (You're So Vain)
June 26
Dwight York, American musician, fashion consultant, cult leader, and child molester
Paul Chun, Hong Kong actor
June 27
Ami Ayalon, Israeli politician
Catherine Lacoste, French amateur golfer
Lu Sheng-yen, Taiwanese leader of the True Buddha School
Norma Kamali, American fashion designer
Jose Miguel Arroyo, First Gentleman of the Philippines
June 28
David Knights, British bassist (Procol Harum)
Raul Seixas, Brazilian rock singer (d. 1989)
June 29 – Chandrika Kumaratunga, 5th President of Sri Lanka
June 30
Kevin Jackman, Australian rules footballer
Jerry Kenney, American Major League Baseball infielder
Sean Scully, Irish-American-based painter, printmaker
James Snyder Jr., American author, attorney and politician
July[edit]

Debbie Harry

Burt Ward

Moncef Marzouki

Ron Glass

Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

Helen Mirren

Jim Davis

Patrick Modiano
July 1
Jane Cederqvist, Swedish freestyle swimmer
Visu, Indian writer, director, stage, actor and talk-show host
Billy Rohr, American Major League Baseball player
Debbie Harry, American rock singer (Blondie)
July 2 – Linda Warren, American author
July 3 – Thomas Mapfumo, Zimbabwean musician
July 4
Tiong Thai King, Malaysian politician
Steinar Amundsen, Norwegian sprint canoeist
July 5
Nurul Islam Nahid, Bangladeshi politician
Miroslav Mišković, Serbian business magnate, investor
July 6 – Burt Ward, American actor (Batman)
July 7
Heloísa Pinheiro, Brazilian model, businesswoman
Moncef Marzouki, Tunisian politician; 4th President of Tunisia
Li Chi-an, North Korean football striker
Matti Salminen, Finnish bass singer
July 8 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss Federal Councilor
July 9
Dean Koontz, American writer
Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Iranian politician, engineer
July 10
Zlatko Tomčić, Croatian politician
Daniel Ona Ondo, Gabonese politician
Virginia Wade, English professional tennis player
Ron Glass, African-American actor (Barney Miller) (d. 2016)
July 11 – Richard Wesley, American playwright, screenwriter
July 12
Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor, comedian and singer
Edwin Neal, American actor
Larry Zierlein, American football coach
Thor Martinsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
July 13
Robert H. Foglesong, U.S. general
Danny Abramowicz, American football player, coach
July 14 – Antun Vujić, Croatian politician, philosopher, political analyst, lexicographer and author
July 15
Hong Ra-hee, South Korean billionaire businesswoman, philanthropist
Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019)
July 16
Victor Sloan, Irish artist
Çetin Tekindor, Turkish actor
Roy Ho Ten Soeng, Dutch politician
Jos Stelling, Dutch film director, screenwriter
Barry Dudleston, English first-class cricketer, umpire
July 17
Eduardo Olivera, Mexican modern pentathlete
Kim Won-hong, North Korean politician, military leader
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
July 18
Boomer Castleman, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
Pat Doherty, American politician
July 19
Oleg Fotin, Russian swimmer
Richard Henderson, Scottish molecular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Uri Rosenthal, Dutch politician
July 20
Kim Carnes, American singer, songwriter (Bette Davis Eyes)
Larry Craig, U.S. politician
Lothar Koepsel, German sailor
Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Zimbabwean politician, diplomat
July 21
John Lowe, English darts player
Barry Richards, South African batsman
Ziona, Indian religious, known for fathering the largest living family
July 24 – Azim Premji, Indian businessman
July 26 – Helen Mirren, British actress
July 28 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
July 30
Lloyd Carr, American football coach
Roger Dobkowitz, American game show producer
Patrick Modiano, French novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
August[edit]

Steve Martin

Vince McMahon

Wyomia Tyus

Van Morrison

Bob Welch
August 1 – Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 2 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress
August 4 – Alan Mulally, American businessman, former CEO of the Ford Motor Company
August 5
Loni Anderson, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati)
Ja'net Dubois, American actress, singer (Good Times) (d. 2020)
August 6 – Ron Jones, British director (d. 1993)
August 7 – Alan Page, American football player
August 9 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
August 12 – J. D. McClatchy, American poet, literary critic (d. 2018)
August 13 – Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler, author (d. 2016)
August 14
Steve Martin, American actor, comedian (The Jerk)
Valeriy Shmarov, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
Eliana Pittman, Brazilian singer, actress
Wim Wenders, German film director, producer
August 15
Bobby Treviño, Mexican baseball player (d. 2018)
Miyuki Matsuhisa, Japanese artistic gymnast
Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Bangladesh
August 19 – Ian Gillan, English rock singer (Deep Purple)
August 20 – Jonathan Goodson, American television game show producer, son of Mark Goodson
August 22
David Chase, American writer, director, and television producer
Ron Dante, American rock singer, songwriter, and record producer (The Archies)
Steve Kroft, American journalist, correspondent (60 Minutes)
August 24
Ken Hensley, English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep)
Vincent K. "Vince" McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter, chairman and CEO of WWE
August 25 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2011)
August 26
Tom Ridge, American politician
Mel Watt, African-American politician and lawyer
August 27 – Marianne Sägebrecht, German film actress
August 29
Alyosha Abrahamyan, Armenian football player (d. 2018)
Wyomia Tyus, American Olympic athlete
August 31
Van Morrison, Irish rock musician ("Domino")
Itzhak Perlman, Israeli-born American violinist, conductor
Bob Welch, American musician (d. 2012)
September[edit]

Jessye Norman

Franz Beckenbauer

Bryan Ferry

Ehud Olmert
September 1 – Mustafa Balel, Turkish writer
September 4 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (d. 1994)
September 5
K. N. T. Sastry, Indian film critic, director and writer (d. 2018)
Al Stewart, Scottish singer, songwriter (Year of the Cat)
September 6 – Victor Ramahatra, 5th Prime Minister of Madagascar
September 7 – Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey coach
September 8
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973)
Rogatien Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player
September 9 – Doug Ingle, American singer, songwriter
September 10 – José Feliciano, Puerto Rican-American singer ("Feliz Navidad")
September 11 – Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer, coach
September 12
Russell "Jungle Jim" Liberman, American drag racer (d. 1977)
Richard Thaler, American economist
September 14
Martin Tyler, British sports broadcaster
Benjamin Harjo Jr., Native American artist
September 15 – Jessye Norman, American soprano (d. 2019)
September 16 – Pat Stevens, American voice actress (d. 2010)
September 17
Phil Jackson, American basketball coach
Bruce Spence, Australian actor
September 18 – P. F. Sloan, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
September 19 – Randolph Mantooth, American actor, motivational speaker (Emergency!)
September 20
Candy Spelling, American socialite, writer
Laurie Spiegel, American electronic composer
September 21
Shaw Clifton, Northern Ireland-born General of the Salvation Army
Kay Ryan, American poet
September 22 – Gonzaguinha, Brazilian singer, composer (d. 1991)
September 23 – Paul Petersen, American child actor, advocate for other child actors
September 24 – John Rutter, English choral composer, conductor
September 26 – Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter and musician (Roxy Music)
September 27 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian artist (d. 2003)
September 29 – Nadezhda Chizhova, Russian athlete
September 30
Ehud Olmert, 12th Prime Minister of Israel
Ralph Siegel, German record producer, songwriter
October[edit]

Rod Carew

Don McLean

Viktor Saneyev

John Lithgow

Jaclyn Smith

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Henry Winkler
October 1
Rod Carew, Panamanian-American baseball player
Donny Hathaway, African-American soul singer, songwriter (d. 1979)
Ram Nath Kovind, 14th President of India
October 2 – Don McLean, American rock singer, songwriter (American Pie)
October 3
Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)
Viktor Saneyev, Soviet athlete
October 4 – Clifton Davis, African-American actor, minister (Amen)
October 5 – Brian Connolly, Scottish musician (d. 1997)
October 6 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 1997)
October 9
Vijaya Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan actor and politician (d. 1988)
Archbishop Nikon of Boston, Albanian bishop (d. 2019)
October 12
Aurore Clément, French actress
Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (d. 2015)
October 13 – Susan Stafford, American television presenter
October 15 – Jim Palmer, American baseball player
October 18
Huell Howser, American television personality, host of California's Gold (d. 2013)
Norio Wakamoto, Japanese voice actor
Yıldo, Turkish showman, footballer
October 19
Angus Deaton, Scottish-born economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
John Lithgow, American actor (Third Rock from the Sun)
October 20 – George Wyner, American actor
October 22
Buzz Potamkin, American television producer (d. 2012)
Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor, sportscaster
October 23
Kim Larsen, Danish rock musician (d. 2018)
Hugh Fraser, English actor
October 24
Eugenie Scott, American Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education
Sean Solomon, American Principal Investigator of NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury and director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science
October 25
Peter Ledger, Australian artist (d. 1994)
David Schramm, American astrophysicist and educator (d. 1997)
Keaton Yamada, Japanese voice actor
October 26
Pat Conroy, American author (d. 2016)
Jaclyn Smith, American actress, businesswoman (Charlie's Angels)
October 27
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
October 29
Ching Li, Taiwanese actress (d. 2017)
Melba Moore, African-American singer, actress (Hair)
Daniel Albright, American literary critic and musicologist
October 30 – Henry Winkler, American actor, producer and director (Happy Days)
October 31 – Brian Doyle-Murray, American actor (Saturday Night Live)
November[edit]

Neil Young

Goldie Hawn

John McVie

James Avery
November 3 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
November 5 – Jacques Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist
November 7
Bob Englehart, American editorial cartoonist
Waljinah, Javanese singer
November 9 – Charlie Robinson, African-American actor
November 11 – Daniel Ortega, 58th and 62nd President of Nicaragua
November 12
Michael Bishop, American author
Tracy Kidder, American journalist, author
Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician (Heart of Gold)
November 15 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian rock singer (ABBA)
November 17
Elvin Hayes, American basketball player
Gordon Phillips, English football player, manager (d. 2018)
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President of Algeria
November 18
Wilma Mankiller, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 2010)
Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan politician, 6th President of Sri Lanka
November 21 – Goldie Hawn, American actress (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
November 22
Robert Ben Rhoades, American serial killer, rapist known as "The Truck Stop Killer"
La Tigresa del Oriente, Peruvian singer
Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (d. 2010)
November 23
Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (d. 2018)
Jerry Harris, American sculptor
November 24 – Nuruddin Farah, Somali novelist
November 25 – Mary Jo Deschanel, American actress
November 26
Daniel Davis, American actor
John McVie, English rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)
November 27
Barbara Anderson, American actress
James Avery, African-American actor (d. 2013)
November 30
Linda Bove, American actress
Billy Drago, American actor (d. 2019)
Roger Glover, English musician (Deep Purple)
Mary Millington, British porn star (d. 1979)
December[edit]

Bette Midler

Portia Simpson-Miller

Ernie Hudson

Diane Sawyer

Lemmy

Davy Jones
December 1 – Bette Midler, American actress, comedian and singer (Beaches)
December 2 – Charles "Tex" Watson, American prisoner, 'Manson Family' member
December 3 – Bozhidar Dimitrov, Bulgarian historian, politician, and polemicist (d. 2018)
December 4 – Geoff Emerick, English recording engineer (d. 2018)
December 6 – Larry Bowa, American baseball player, manager
December 7 – Clive Russell, English actor
December 9 – Michael Nouri, American actor
December 11 – Sharafuddin of Selangor, Sultan of Selangor
December 12
René Pétillon, French satirical, political cartoonist (d. 2018)
Portia Simpson-Miller, 2-time Prime Minister of Jamaica
December 13
Herman Cain, African-American politician, author, business executive, radio host, syndicated columnist, and Tea Party activist
Kathy Garver, American actress, author and online radio hostess
Heather North, American actress (d. 2017)
December 15
Michael King, New Zealand popular historian, author, and biographer (d. 2004)
Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor
December 16
Patti Deutsch, American voice actress (d. 2017)
Tony Hicks, English guitarist and singer (The Hollies)
December 17
Ernie Hudson, African-American actor
David Mallet, British director
Chris Matthews, American news anchor
December 18 – Carolyn Wood, American professional swimmer
December 19
Ron Hunt, English footballer (d. 2018)
Elaine Joyce, American actress, game show panelist
December 20
Bruce Baker, American geneticist (d. 2018)
Peter Criss, American rock drummer (KISS)
Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (d. 2010)
December 21 – Mari Lill, Estonian actress
December 22
Diane Sawyer, American news journalist
T. K. Wetherell, American politician, educator (d. 2018)
December 23 – Donald A. Ritchie, American historian
December 24
Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motörhead) (d. 2015)
Nicholas Meyer, American screenwriter, producer, director and novelist
Sharafuddin of Selangor, Sultan of Selangor
Steve Smith, Canadian actor, comedian and writer
December 25
Noel Redding, English musician (d. 2003)
Gary Sandy, American actor
December 26 – John Walsh, American media personality (America's Most Wanted)
December 30 – Davy Jones, English-born pop singer, actor (The Monkees) (d. 2012)
December 31
Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan-American actress
Vernon Wells, Australian film, television actor


January[edit]

John Paul Jones

Diane Keaton

Dolly Parton

David Lynch

Arnoldo Alemán

Gene Siskel
January 1
Alfonso Caruana, Italian mobster
Roberto Rivelino, Brazilian football player
Alain Voss, Brazilian-French comics artist (d. 2011)
January 3
John Paul Jones, English rock bassist (Led Zeppelin, Them Crooked Vultures)
Cissy King, American dancer, singer
January 5 – Diane Keaton, American actress, film director (Annie Hall)
January 6 – Syd Barrett, English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
January 8
Robby Krieger, American rock musician (The Doors)
Stanton Peele, American psychologist
January 9
Levon Ter-Petrosyan, President of Armenia
Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician
January 10 – Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist
January 11
Naomi Judd, American country singer
John Piper, American theologian
Ha Yu, Hong Kong actor
January 12 – George Duke, African-American musician (d. 2013)
January 14
Feró Nagy, Hungarian singer
Harold Shipman, British serial killer (d. 2004)
January 16
Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
Michael Coats, American astronaut
Katia Ricciarelli, Italian singer
January 18
Paul Shmyr, Canadian former National Hockey League player (d. 2004)
Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councillor
January 19
Julian Barnes, English novelist
Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist
January 20 – David Lynch, American film director
January 21 – Johnny Oates, American baseball player, manager (d. 2004)
January 22
Malcolm McLaren, English singer, songwriter, musician and music manager (d. 2010)
Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player, executive
January 23 – Arnoldo Alemán, President of Nicaragua
January 24 – Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor (The Rookies)
January 25
Géza Bereményi, Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film director
Pete Price, Merseyside radio disc jockey
January 26
Gene Siskel, American film critic (Sneak Previews) (d. 1999)
Michel Delpech, French singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
January 27 – Nedra Talley, African-American singer (The Ronettes)
January 29 – Bettye LaVette, African-American soul singer, songwriter
January 31 – Terry Kath, American rock musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
February[edit]

Blake Clark

Charlotte Rampling

Tyne Daly

Anthony Daniels

Alan Rickman
February 1 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (d. 2011)
February 2
Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea
Blake Clark, American actor, comedian
February 5 – Charlotte Rampling, British actress
February 6
Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer, songwriter (d. 2010)
Jim Turner, American politician
February 7
Sammy Johns, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
Pete Postlethwaite, English character actor (d. 2011)
February 9 – Seán Neeson, Northern Irish politician
February 13
Joe Estevez, American actor
Colin Matthews, British composer
February 14
Bernard Dowiyogo, 7-time President of Nauru (d. 2003)
Gregory Hines, African-American dancer, actor (d. 2003)
February 16 – Marvin Sease, American blues, and soul singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
February 19 – Karen Silkwood, American activist (d. 1974)
February 20
Brenda Blethyn, British actress
Sandy Duncan, American singer, dancer, comedian and actress
J. Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band) (d. 2017)
February 21
Monica Johnson, American screenwriter (d. 2010)
Tyne Daly, American actress (Cagney & Lacey)
Anthony Daniels, English actor
Alan Rickman, English actor, film director (d. 2016)
Vito Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mobster (d. 2013)
February 26 – Jiří Bělohlávek, Czech orchestral conductor (d. 2017)
February 25
Andrew Ang, judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore
Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist
Jean Todt, French motorsport manager
February 26 – Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
February 27 – Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, British aristocrat (d. 2018)
February 28
Don Ciccone, American singer, songwriter (The Critters) (d. 2016)
Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)
Don Francisco, American Christian musician
Syreeta Wright, African-American singer, songwriter ("With You I'm Born Again") (d. 2004)
March[edit]

David Gilmour

Frank Welker

Liza Minnelli

Timothy Dalton

Alejandro Toledo
March 1
Jan Kodeš, Czech tennis player
Lana Wood, American actress, producer
March 4
Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
March 5
Murray Head, English singer, actor
Lova Moor, French singer, dancer
March 6
Larry Huber, American television producer, animator
David Gilmour, English rock musician (Pink Floyd)
March 7
John Heard, American actor (d. 2017)
Okko Kamu, Finnish conductor, violinist
Leandro Mendoza, Filipino politician (d. 2013)
Peter Wolf, American rock musician (The J. Geils Band)
March 10 – Mike Hollands, Australian animator
March 12
Frank Welker, American voice actor, singer
Liza Minnelli, American singer, actress
March 13 – Yonatan Netanyahu, American-born Israeli Army officer (d. in Operation Entebbe) (d. 1976)
March 14
Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala (d. 2018)
Wes Unseld, American basketball player
March 15 – Bobby Bonds, American baseball player, manager (d. 2003)
March 17
Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1995)
Larry Langford, American politician (d. 2019)
March 21
Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor
Steve Halliwell, English actor
March 25 – Cliff Balsom, English footballer
March 26
Johnny Crawford, American child actor, musician (The Rifleman)
Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, Spanish judge (d. 2019)
March 27
Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
Mike Jackson, American former MLB pitcher
March 28 – Alejandro Toledo, 63rd President of Peru
March 29
Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician, journalist (d. 2017)
Billy Thorpe, English-born Australian singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
March 30 – Carolyn Simpson, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
March 31
Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1984)
F'Murr, French comics artist (d. 2018)
April[edit]

Hanna Suchocka

Ed O'Neill

Tim Curry

Ricardo Maduro

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

Bill Plympton
April 1 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (Small Faces, Faces) (d. 1997)
April 2 – Hamengkubuwono X, Sultan of the historic Yogyakarta Sultanate in Indonesia, the current Governor of Yogyakarta Special Region
April 3 – Hanna Suchocka, Prime Minister of Poland
April 4 – Dave Hill, English guitarist (Slade)
April 5
Jane Asher, English actress
János Bródy, Hungarian singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter
Björn Granath, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
April 7
Colette Besson, French track and field athlete (d. 2005)
Léon Krier, Luxembourgian architect
April 8
Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
Tim Thomerson, American actor, comedian
April 10 – David Angell, American television producer (d. 2001)
April 11 – Chris Burden, American artist (d. 2015)
April 12 – Ed O'Neill, American actor (Married... with Children)
April 13 – Al Green, African-American singer, songwriter and record producer
April 15 – Marsha Hunt, American actress, singer and novelist
April 16 – Margot Adler, American journalist
April 18 – Hayley Mills, English actress
April 19 – Tim Curry, British actor, singer and composer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
April 20
Julien Poulin, Canadian actor
Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras
April 22
John Waters, American film director
Paul Davies, English physicist
April 24 – Phil Robertson, American businessman and reality television personality
April 25
John Fox, British statistician
Talia Shire, American actress (Rocky)
Strobe Talbott, American journalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
April 26
Jennie Stoller, British actress (d. 2018)
Richard S. Fuld Jr., American banker
April 28 – Larissa Grunig, American public relations theorist, feminist
April 29 – Franc Roddam, English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher
April 30
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
Bill Plympton, American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker
May[edit]

Joanna Lumley

André the Giant

Candice Bergen

Donovan

Udo Lindenberg

George Best
May 1 – Joanna Lumley, English actress, author
May 2
Lesley Gore, American rock singer ("It's My Party") (d. 2015)
Ralf Gothóni, Finnish pianist, conductor and composer
May 3 – Mohammed Ibrahim, businessman and philanthropist
May 4 – John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver
May 5
Jim Kelly, African-American actor, martial artist and tennis player (d. 2013)
Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 1996)
Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2019)
May 6 – Daouda Malam Wanké, 6th President of Niger (d. 2004)
May 7
Thelma Houston, African-American singer ("Don't Leave Me This Way")
Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (Grateful Dead)
Michael Rosen, British novelist, poet
May 9
Candice Bergen, American actress (Murphy Brown)
Drafi Deutscher, German singer, songwriter (d. 2006)
May 10
Donovan, Scottish rock musician ("Sunshine Superman")
Birutė Galdikas, Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist and author
Graham Gouldman, English songwriter, musician (10cc, Wax)
Dave Mason, English rock musician (Traffic)
Murade Isaac Murargy, Mozambican diplomat, politician
May 11 – Robert Jarvik, American physicist, artificial heart inventor
May 12 – Richard Bruce Silverman, John Evans Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University
May 13 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor, author (d. 2017)
May 14 – Elmar Brok, German politician
May 15 – Klaus-Peter Siegloch, German journalist
May 16 – Robert Fripp, British musician
May 17 – Udo Lindenberg, German musician
May 18
Reggie Jackson, African-American baseball player
Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
May 19
André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (d. 1993)
Claude Lelièvre, Belgian Commissioner for Children Rights
Roger Sloman, English actor
May 20
Craig Patrick, American-Canadian hockey player, coach and manager
Cher, American actress, rock singer
May 22
George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
Howard Kendall, English footballer (d. 2015)
May 23 – Frederik de Groot, Dutch actor
May 24 – Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, East Timorese politician, acting President of East Timor (d. 1978)
May 26 – Mick Ronson, English guitarist (d. 1993)
May 28
Bruce Alexander, English actor
K. Satchidanandan, Malayalam poet
May 29 – Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (d. 2000)
May 30
Dragan Džajić, Serbian footballer
Candy Lightner, American founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
May 31 – Adriana Bittel, Romanian writer
June[edit]

Donald Trump

Noddy Holder

Ted Shackelford

Ellison Onizuka

Ricky Jay
June 1 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor
June 2
Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
Tomomichi Nishimura, Japanese voice actor
June 3 – Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993)
June 4 – Suzanne Ciani, American pianist, electronic composer
June 5 – Stefania Sandrelli, Italian actress
June 7
Jenny Jones, Palestinian-Canadian comedian, talk show hostess
Robert Tilton, American televangelist, author
June 8 – Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of St. Lucia
June 10 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
June 13 – Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
June 14 – Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States, American television personality and real estate magnate
June 15
Noddy Holder, English rock singer (Slade)
Janet Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
Demis Roussos, Greek singer (d. 2015)
June 17 – Marcy Kaptur, U.S. Representative for the Ninth Congressional District of Ohio
June 18
Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (d. 1988)
Russell Ash, British author (d. 2010)
Fabio Capello, Italian football player, manager
June 21
Vincenzo Camporini, Italian Chief of the Defence General Staff
Kiril Ivkov, Bulgarian football defender
June 22
Kay Redfield Jamison, American psychiatrist
Fabio Enzo, Italian football player
Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2015)
June 23 – Ted Shackelford, American actor
June 24
Nguyễn Đức Soát, Vietnamese general
Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
Robert Reich, 22nd United States Secretary of Labor
June 25
Pete Vanderwaal, Dutch engineer
Henk van Kessel, Dutch road racer
June 26
Maria von Welser, German TV journalist, President of UNICEF Germany
Anthony John Valentine Obinna, Nigerian priest
Leo Rossi, American actor
Ricky Jay, American actor, author, and magician (d. 2018)
June 27 – Russ Critchfield, American basketball player
June 28
David Duckham, English rugby union player
Gilda Radner, American comedian, actress (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1989)
June 29
Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
Gitte Hænning, Danish singer
Ram Gopal Yadav, Indian politician
Ernesto Pérez Balladares, President of Panama
June 30 – Allan Hunter, Irish footballer, manager
July[edit]

Mireya Moscoso

Leszek Miller

George W. Bush

Sylvester Stallone

Bon Scott

Cheech Marin

Hassanal Bolkiah

Linda Ronstadt

Danny Glover
July 1
Alceu Valença, Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor, and poet
Stefan Aust, German journalist, editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel (1994–2008)
Mireya Moscoso, President of Panama
July 2 – Richard Axel, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
July 3 – Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland
July 4
Sam Hunt, New Zealand poet
Michael Milken, American financier
Ed O'Ross, American actor
Roy Cimatu, Filipino general
July 5
Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Ram Vilas Paswan, Indian politician
July 6
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, 46th Governor of Texas
Sylvester Stallone, American actor, screenwriter and film director (Rocky)
Fred Dryer, American football defensive end, actor (Hunter)
Tiemen Groen, Dutch cyclist
July 7 – Tadeusz Nowicki, Polish tennis player
July 8
Massimo Vanni, Italian actor
Daniela Beneck, Italian freestyle swimmer
July 9
Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (d. 2008)
Bon Scott, Australian rock singer (AC/DC) (d. 1980)
July 10
Oliver Martin, American cyclist
Sue Lyon, American actress (d. 2019)
July 11
Jean-Pierre Coopman, Belgian boxer
Jack Wrangler, American porn star (d. 2009)
July 12 – Ernesto Mahieux, Italian actor
July 13
João Bosco, Brazilian singer, songwriter
Cheech Marin, Mexican-American actor, comedian (Cheech and Chong)
July 14
Vincent Pastore, American actor
John Wood, Australian actor
July 15
Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
Linda Ronstadt, American singer, songwriter ("You're No Good")
July 16
Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor
Dave Goelz, American puppeteer
Monica Aspelund, Finnish singer
Ron Yary, American football player
July 17
Claudia Islas, Mexican actress
Alun Armstrong, English actor
July 18 – Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstani politician
July 19 – Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
July 20 – Htin Kyaw, 9th President of Myanmar
July 21 – Domingo Cavallo, Argentine economist, politician
July 22
Danny Glover, African-American actor, film director and political activist
Mireille Mathieu, French singer
Petre Roman, 53rd Prime Minister of Romania
Johnson Toribiong, 8th President of Palau
July 23 – Sally Flynn, American singer
July 25 – Rita Marley, Cuban-Jamaican singer
July 27
Gwynne Gilford, American actress
Jacques Sylla, 12th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2009)
July 28 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
July 29 – Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
July 30
Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
A. Rahman Hassan, Malaysian singer (d. 2019)
August[edit]

Ralph Gonsalves

Óscar Berger

Lesley Ann Warren

Masoud Barzani

Bill Clinton

Keith Moon

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
August 1
Mike Emrick, American sportscaster
Sandi Griffiths, American singer
August 3 – Jack Straw, English politician
August 5
Reinhard Tritscher, Austrian alpine skier (d. 2018)
Ron Silliman, American poet
Loni Anderson, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati)
Shirley Ann Jackson, African-American President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
August 6 – Allan Holdsworth, British musician (d. 2017)
August 8 – Ralph Gonsalves, 4th Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
August 9 – Jim Kiick, American football player
August 11 – Óscar Berger, 34th President of Guatemala
August 12 – Terry Nutkins, English naturalist (d. 2012)
August 13 – Janet Yellen, American Chair of the Federal Reserve
August 14 – Dennis Hof, American brothel owner (d. 2018)
August 16
Masoud Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdish politican, President of Iraqi Kurdistan
Lesley Ann Warren, American actress, singer
August 17 – Drake Levin, American rock guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders) (d. 2009)
August 19
Charles Bolden, African-American astronaut
Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
August 20
Connie Chung, Asian-American reporter
Ralf Hütter, German techno singer, musician (Kraftwerk)
N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
August 23
Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
Raza Murad, Indian actor
August 24 – John Grahl, British economist
August 25
Nancy Blomberg, American art curator (d. 2018)
Rollie Fingers, American baseball player
Charles Ghigna, American poet, children's author
August 26
Valerie Simpson, African-American singer
Mark Snow, American composer
Zhou Ji, education minister of the People's Republic of China
Swede Savage, American race car driver (d. 1973)
August 29
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 2nd President of Burundi (d. 2016)
Bob Beamon, American athlete
Demetris Christofias, 6th President of Cyprus (d. 2019)
Leona Gom, Canadian novelist and poet
August 30
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (d. 2019)
August 31
Ann Coffey, Scottish politician
Jerome Corsi, American political commentator and conspiracy theorist
Tom Coughlin, American football player, coach, and executive
September[edit]

Barry Gibb

Roh Moo-hyun

Billy Preston

Freddie Mercury

Jim Hines

Tommy Lee Jones

Oliver Stone

Mart Siimann

María Teresa Ruiz
September 1
Barry Gibb, English-born Australian singer (Bee Gees)
Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea (d. 2009)
September 2
Luis Ávalos, Cuban-born American character actor (d. 2014)
Billy Preston, African-American soul musician ("Nothing from Nothing") (d. 2006)
Dan White, American politician, murderer (d. 1985)
September 3
John N. Abrams, American military officer (d. 2018)
Francisco Trois, Brazilian chess player
September 4
Gary Duncan, American rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
Greg Elmore, American rock drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
September 5
Dennis Dugan, American actor, director
Freddie Mercury, British-Indian singer, songwriter, pianist, frontman of the rock band Queen (d. 1991)
Loudon Wainwright III, American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor
September 7
Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist (d. 2001)
September 8 – Aziz Sancar, Turkish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
September 9
Doug Ingle, American rock vocalist (Iron Butterfly)
Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
September 10
Jim Hines, American athlete
Don Powell, English rock drummer (Slade)
September 12 – Neil Lyndon, British journalist, writer[10]
September 13 – Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer
September 15
Tommy Lee Jones, American actor (Men in Black)
Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese-Afghan physician (d. 2019)
Oliver Stone, American film director, producer (JFK)
September 16 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter music producer and composer (d. 2019)
September 18
Peter Alsop, American musician
Akira Kamiya, Japanese voice actor
September 19 – Connie Kreski, American model (d. 1995)
September 20 – Dorothy Hukill, American politician (d. 2018)
September 21
Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian physicist, official
Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss Federal Councilor
Richard St. Clair, American musician, composer
Mart Siimann, Prime Minister of Estonia
September 23 – Franz Fischler, Austrian politician
September 24
Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
María Teresa Ruiz, Chilean astronomer
September 25
Morari Bapu, Hindu Kathakaar
Felicity Kendal, British actress
Jerry Penrod, American bass player
September 26
Andrea Dworkin, American feminist, writer (d. 2005)
Topo Igawa, Japanese actor
Radha Krishna Mainali, Nepalese politician
Christine Todd Whitman, American politician
September 28 – Jeffrey Jones, American actor
September 29
Shafie Salleh, Malaysian politician (d. 2019)
Celso Pitta, Brazilian economist and politician (d. 2009)
September 30
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993)
Claude Vorilhon, French-born 'messenger' of Raëlism
October[edit]

Susan Sarandon

Vinod Khanna

Naoto Kan

Charles Dance

Chris Tarrant

Daryl Hall

Richard Carpenter

John Hewson

Peter Green
October 1 – Tim O'Brien, American author
October 2
General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of the Council for National Security, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army
Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress
October 3 – P. P. Arnold, American singer
October 4
Susan Sarandon, American actress (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Rhie Won-bok, South Korean artist
Chuck Hagel, American politician, 24 United States Secretary of Defense
October 6
Lloyd Doggett, American politician
Renate Holub, German philosopher
Vinod Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (d. 2017)
October 7
Nader Al-Dahabi, Prime Minister of Jordan
Catharine MacKinnon, American feminist
Xue Jinghua, Chinese ballerina
October 8
Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian scholar, legislator
John T. Walton, American son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (d. 2005)
October 9 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician
October 10
Anne Boyd, Australian musician
Mildred Grieveson, British writer
Naoto Kan, 61st Prime Minister of Japan
Charles Dance, English actor, screenwriter and film director
Chris Tarrant, British radio, TV personality
October 11
Daryl Hall, American rock musician (Hall & Oates)
Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
October 12 – Drew Edmondson, American politician
October 13
Edwina Currie, English politician
Dorothy Moore, American singer
Demond Wilson, African-American actor, minister (Sanford and Son)
October 14
Craig Venter, American biotechnologist
François Bozizé, President of the Central African Republic
Joey de Leon, Filipino actor, host
Justin Hayward, English rock singer, songwriter (The Moody Blues)
October 15
Richard Carpenter, American pop musician, composer (The Carpenters)
John Getz, American actor
October 16
Suzanne Somers, American actress, singer (Three's Company)
Elizabeth Witmer, Dutch-born politician
October 17
Vicki Hodge, English actress, model
Bob Seagren, American athlete, actor
October 18
James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
Howard Shore, Canadian film composer
Andrea Zsadon, Hungarian soprano
October 19 – Philip Pullman, English author
October 20
Marty Gervais, Canadian writer
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
October 21 – Lyn Allison, Australian politician
October 22
Eileen Gordon, British politician
Richard McGonagle, American actor
October 25 – Edith Leyrer, Austrian actress
October 26 – Pat Sajak, American game-show host (Wheel of Fortune)
October 27
Leslie L. Byrne, American politician
Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut (d. 2014)
Ivan Reitman, Slovakian-born film director, producer
October 28
John Hewson, Australian politician, economist
Sharon Thesen, Canadian poet
October 29
Peter Green, British musician
Kathryn J. Whitmire, Texas politician; Mayor of Houston, Texas
October 30
Lynne Marta, American actress
Andrea Mitchell, American journalist
October 31 – Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
November[edit]

Laura Bush

Sally Field

Terence McKenna

Petra Burka

Duane Allman

Ted Bundy

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh

Marina Abramović
November 1
Ric Grech, British rock bassist (d. 1990)
Lynne Russell, American newsreader
November 2
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (d. 2001)
Marieta Severo, Brazilian actress
November 4
Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States
Les Lannom, American actor, musician
Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
November 5
Herman Brood, Dutch artist (d. 2001)
Loleatta Holloway, American singer (d. 2011)
Gram Parsons, American musician (d. 1973)
November 6 – Sally Field, American actress, singer (The Flying Nun)
November 7 – Diane Francis, Canadian journalist
November 8
Stefan Weber, Austrian singer (d. 2018)
Stella Chiweshe, Zimbabwean musician
John Farrar, Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows; Marvin, Welch & Farrar)
Guus Hiddink, Dutch football player, manager
November 10 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (d. 2009)
November 11 – Corrine Brown, American politician, fraudster
November 12 – P. P. Arnold, English singer
November 13 – Ohara Reiko, Japanese actress
November 14 – Carola Dunn, English writer
November 15
Gwyneth Powell, British actress
Sandy Skoglund, American photographer
November 16
Mahasti, Iranian singer (d. 2007)
Terence McKenna, American writer, philosopher, ethnobotanist and shaman (d. 2000)
Jo Jo White, American basketball player (d. 2018)
November 17 – Petra Burka, Canadian figure skater
November 18
Andrea Allan, Scottish actress
Alan Dean Foster, American novelist
November 20
J. Blackfoot, American singer (The Soul Children) (d. 2011)
Greg Cook, American football player (d, 2012)
Judy Woodruff, American television reporter
Duane Allman, American rock guitarist, co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band (d. 1971)
November 21
Emma Cohen, Spanish actress
Chaviva Hošek, Czech-born feminist
Ulla Jessen, Danish actress
Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
Marina Warner, English writer
November 22
Anne Wheeler, Canadian television, film director
Aston Barrett, Jamaican reggae musician
November 23
Diana Quick, English actress
Bobby Rush, African-American politician, activist and pastor
November 24 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (d. 1989)
November 25 – Marika Lindström, Swedish actress
November 26 – Ottilia Borbáth, Romanian-born Hungarian actress
November 27
Richard Codey, American politician, 53rd Governor of New Jersey
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, 2nd President of Djibouti
Nina Maslova, Russian actress
November 28 – Regina Braga, Brazilian actress
November 29
Brian Cadd, Australian singer, songwriter
Suzy Chaffee, American singer, actress
November 30
Marina Abramović, Yugoslavian performance artist
Barbara Cubin, U.S. Congresswoman from Wyoming
December[edit]

José Carreras

Rhoma Irama

Patty Duke

Benny Andersson

Eugene Levy

Steven Spielberg

Carl Wilson

Jeff Sessions

Jimmy Buffett

Mike Beebe

Patti Smith

Diane von Fürstenberg
December 1 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian, actor and voice actor
December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)
December 3
Marjana Lipovšek, Slovenian singer, actress
Joop Zoetemelk, Dutch cyclist
December 4
Sherry Alberoni, American actress, voice artist
Yō Inoue, Japanese voice actress (d. 2003)
Karina, Spanish singer/actress
December 5
José Carreras, Spanish tenor
Eva-Britt Svensson, Swedish politician
December 6
Roger Hoy, English footballer (d. 2018)
Nancy Brinker, American health activist, diplomat
December 8
Jacques Bourboulon, French photographer
John Rubinstein, American actor
Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress
December 9 – Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician
December 10
Chrystos, American poet
Thomas Lux, American poet
December 11
Rhoma Irama, Indonesian dangdut musician, actor and politician
Susan Kyle, American writer
Ellen Meloy, American writer (d. 2004)
December 12
Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing car driver
Gloria Loring, American singer
Don Gummer, American sculptor
December 13
Nicholas Kollerstrom, British writer
Heather North, American television, voice actress (d. 2017)
December 14
Antony Beevor, English historian
Jane Birkin, English actress, singer
Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)
Lynne Marie Stewart, American actress
December 16
Benny Andersson, Swedish rock singer, songwriter (ABBA)
Alice Aycock, American sculptor
Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichordist, conductor
December 17
Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, comedian and director (Second City Television)
Bel Mooney, English broadcast journalist
Jayne Eastwood, Canadian actress, voice actress
Suresh Oberoi, Indian actor
December 18
Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1977)
Nina Škottová, Czech politician, member of the European Parliament
Steven Spielberg, American film director (Jaws)
December 19
Candace Pert, American neuroscientist
Robert Urich, American actor (Vega$) (d. 2002)
December 20
Uri Geller, Israeli illusionist
Lesley Judd, English television presenter
Sonny Perdue, American politician, 81st Governor of Georgia, 31st U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005)
Dick Wolf, American television producer
December 21
Brian Davison, Rhodesian cricketer, Tasmanian politician
Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1998)
December 23
Edita Gruberová, Slovakian soprano
Susan Lucci, American actress (General Hospital)
John Sullivan, English television scriptwriter (d. 2011)
December 24
Jan Akkerman, Dutch rock guitarist (Focus)
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, French politician, member of the European Parliament
Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005)
Jeff Sessions, American politician, United States Attorney General
December 25
Jimmy Buffett, American rock singer, songwriter ("Margaritaville")
Larry Csonka, American football player
Gene Lamont, American baseball player, manager
December 27
Lenny Kaye, American guitarist
Janet Street-Porter, English broadcast journalist
December 28
Mike Beebe, American politician, attorney
Edgar Winter, American rock musician ("Frankenstein")
December 29
Marianne Faithfull, English singer, actress
Ruth Shady, Peruvian archaeologist
December 30
Patti Smith, American poet, singer
Berti Vogts, German football player, manager
December 31 – Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
Date Unknown[edit]
Ali Abu Al-Ragheb, Prime Minister of Jordan
Jang Song-thaek, North Korean politician (d. 2013)
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Iranian historian, gender theorist
Raul Bragança Neto, 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2014)


January[edit]

David Bowie

Andrea Martin

Megawati Sukarnoputri

Steve Marriott

Jonathan Banks

Glynn Turman
January 1
F. R. David, Tunisian-born French singer
Leon Patillo, American Christian musician
Vladimir Titov, Russian cosmonaut
Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer
January 4 – Chris Cutler, English percussionist
January 5 – Mike DeWine, American politician, U.S. Senator (Ohio), 70th Governor of Ohio
January 6
Sandy Denny, British singer (d. 1978)
Ian Millar, Canadian dressage rider
January 8
William Bonin, American serial killer (d. 1996)
David Bowie, English singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2016)
Petrus Iilonga, Namibian politician (d. 2018)
Igor Ivanov, Russian-born Canadian grandmaster (d. 2005)
Samuel Schmid, Swiss Federal Councilor
Terry Sylvester, English singer, musician
Laurie Walters, American actress
January 10
George Alec Effinger, American science fiction author (d. 2002)
Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman (d. 2016)
Peer Steinbrück, German politician
January 13 – Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
January 15 – Andrea Martin, Canadian-American actress (Second City Television)
January 16
Juliet Berto, French actress, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)
Apasra Hongsakula, Thai model, Miss Universe 1965
Harvey Proctor, British Conservative politician[27]
Laura Schlessinger, American radio, TV talk show host
January 17 – Jane Elliot, American actress
January 18 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese film director, actor
January 19 – Paula Deen, American Food Channel television personality
January 20 – Cyrille Guimard, French road racing cyclist
January 21 – Jill Eikenberry, American actress
January 23
Tom Carper, American politician
Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
January 24
Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist
Warren Zevon, American rock musician (Werewolves of London) (d. 2003)
January 25 – Tostão (Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade), Brazilian footballer
January 26 – Michel Sardou, French singer and actor
January 27 – Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist (Hoola Bandoola Band) (d. 1999)
January 29
Linda B. Buck, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ernie Lively, American actor
January 30 – Steve Marriott, British rock musician (d. 1991)
January 31
Jonathan Banks, American actor
Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
Glynn Turman, African-American actor
February[edit]

Farrah Fawcett

Dan Quayle

Yukio Hatoyama

Princess Christina of the Netherlands

Edward James Olmos

Lee Evans
February 1 – Jessica Savitch, American journalist (d. 1983)
February 2 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Charlie's Angels) (d. 2009)
February 3
Paul Auster, American novelist
Dave Davies, English musician (The Kinks)
Melanie Safka, American rock singer (Candles in the Rain)
February 4
Halina Aszkiełowicz-Wojno, Polish volleyball player (d. 2018)
Dennis C. Blair, American admiral, Director of National Intelligence
Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States
John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (d. 2019)
February 5
Regina Duarte, Brazilian actress
Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver, broadcaster
February 7 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (d. 2009)
February 9 – Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist (d. 2019)
February 10
Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
Nicholas Owen, English newsreader (ITN)
February 11
Yukio Hatoyama, 60th Prime Minister of Japan
Roy Moore, American politician
Derek Shulman, Scottish musician (Gentle Giant)
February 13 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
February 15
John Adams, American composer
Wenche Myhre, Norwegian actress, singer
Ádám Nádasdy, Hungarian linguist, poet
Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990)
February 16 – Veríssimo Correia Seabra, Bissau-Guinean military commander (d. 2004)
February 18
Princess Christina of the Netherlands (d. 2019)
Dennis DeYoung, American rock musician (Styx)
José Luis Cuerda, Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer (d. 2020)
February 19 – Gustavo Rodríguez, Venezuelan actor (d. 2014)
February 20
Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
Peter Strauss, American actor
February 21
Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (d. 2006)
Renata Sorrah, Brazilian actress
February 24
Rupert Holmes, British-born American singer-songwriter (The Pina Colada Song)
Edward James Olmos, Hispanic-American actor, director, producer and activist
February 25
Lee Evans, American Olympic athlete
Doug Yule, American rock singer (The Velvet Underground)
February 26 – Sandie Shaw, British singer
February 27 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist
February 28 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
March[edit]

Rob Reiner

Kim Campbell

Mitt Romney

Glenn Close

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Elton John

César Gaviria
March 1 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor, television host (d. 2016)
March 2 – Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (d. 1989)
March 4
David Franzoni, American screenwriter
Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor (d. 2015)
March 6
Kiki Dee, English pop singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
Dick Fosbury, American athlete
Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, producer, director and activist (All in the Family)
March 7 – Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
March 8
Carole Bayer Sager, American singer, songwriter
Michael S. Hart, American author, inventor (d. 2011)
March 9 – Ryszard Peryt, Polish conductor, librettist (d. 2019)
March 10
Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
Tom Scholz, American musician, songwriter and inventor
March 11
David Ferguson, American music producer, activist
Geoff Hunt, Australian squash player
March 12
Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist
Mitt Romney, American businessman, politician, Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 presidential candidate
March 13 – Beat Richner, Swiss pediatrician, cellist (d. 2018)
March 14
Pam Ayres, English comic verse writer and performer
Peter Skellern, English singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
March 15 – Ry Cooder, American guitarist
March 16
Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor
Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist
March 17 – Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer, producer
March 18
Tamara Griesser Pečar, Slovenian historian
Susan Sheridan, English actress (d. 2015)
March 19 – Glenn Close, American actress
March 20
John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994)
Chip Zien, American actor
March 21 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen (d. 2017)
March 22
Babz Chula, American-born Canadian actress (d. 2010)
James Patterson, American author
Florence Warner, American singer, voice actress (Once Upon a Forest)
March 24
Mike Kellie, English rock musician (d. 2017)
Louise Lanctôt, Canadian terrorist, writer
Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur
March 25 – Elton John, English rock musician (Rocket Man)
March 26 – Subhash Kak, Indian-American author
March 27 – Walt Mossberg, American newspaper columnist
March 31
Wong Choon Wah, Malaysian footballer (d. 2014)
César Gaviria, Colombian economist, politician and 28th President of Colombia
April[edit]

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

John Ratzenberger

Tom Clancy

David Letterman

Gerry Rafferty

James Woods

Iggy Pop

Johan Cruijff
April 1
Alain Connes, French mathematician
Ingrid Steeger, German actress, comedian
Tzipi Shavit, actress
April 2
Paquita la del Barrio, Mexican singer, actress
Emmylou Harris, American singer, songwriter
Camille Paglia, American literary critic
April 4 – Eliseo Soriano, Philippine preacher
April 5 – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines, daughter of former president Diosdado Macapagal
April 6 – John Ratzenberger, American actor (Cheers)
April 8
Tom DeLay, American conservative politician
Robert Kiyosaki, American investor, businessman and self-help author
April 9 – Ken Lewis, American former CEO, president, and chairman of Bank of America
April 10 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae musician
April 11
Meshach Taylor, African-American actor (d. 2014)
Lucian Truscott IV, American writer, journalist
April 12
Tom Clancy, American author (d. 2013)
David Letterman, American talk show host
April 13 – Mike Chapman, Australian-born songwriter, record producer
April 15
Lois Chiles, American actress
Roy Raymond, American entrepreneur (Victoria's Secret) (d. 1993)
April 16
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, African-American pro basketball player, actor (Airplane!)
Frank Hamblen, American basketball coach (d. 2017)
Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer, songwriter (Baker Street) (d. 2011)
April 18
Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997)
Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director
James Woods, American actor
April 19 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
April 20
Daud Ibrahim, Malaysian cyclist (d. 2010)
Hector, Finnish rock musician
April 21 – Iggy Pop, American rock musician
April 24 – Josep Borrell, Spanish minister, MEP and EU High Representative
April 25
Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer, coach (d. 2016)
Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
April 27 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
April 28 – Ken St. Andre, American game designer, author
April 29
Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian journalist, essayist and professor of philosophy
Tommy James, American rock singer, producer
April 30 – Leslie Grantham, English actor (d. 2018)
May[edit]

Richard Jenkins

Ken Westerfield
May 1 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexico-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist (d. 2015)
May 2 – Kodela Siva Prasada Rao, Indian politician (d. 2019)
May 3 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
May 4 – Theda Skocpol, American sociologist
May 5 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, Guinea-Bissau politician (d. 2012)
May 6
Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist (d. 2013)
Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
May 8
H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jamie Donnelly, American film, stage actress
May 9
Yukiya Amano, Japanese international civil servant (d. 2019)
Andy Sutcliffe, British racing driver (d. 2015)
May 10 - Caroline B. Cooney, American author
May 11
Walter Selke, German physicist
Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 2017)
May 12 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician, philosopher and historian
May 13 – Stephen R. Donaldson, American novelist
May 14
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord (d. 1989)
Tamara Dobson, African-American actress, fashion model (d. 2006)
Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963)[28]
May 15 – Graeham Goble, Australian musician
May 16 – Buddy Roberts, American professional wrestler (d. 2012)
May 18 – John Bruton, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
May 19 – Paul Brady, Northern Irish singer, songwriter
May 21 – Lolit Solis, Filipina talent manager (host of Startalk, CelebriTV)
May 23 – Ken Westerfield, American disc sports (Frisbee) pioneer, athlete, showman and promoter
May 24 – Maude Barlow, Canadian author, activist and National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians
May 26 – Glenn Turner, New Zealand cricket captain
May 27
Peter DeFazio, American politician
Branko Oblak, Slovenian football player and coach
May 28 – Pedro Giachino, Argentine Navy officer (d. 1982)
May 29 – Stan Zemanek, Australian radio broadcaster (d. 2007)
June[edit]

Jonathan Pryce

Ronnie Wood

Viktor Klima

David Blunkett

Robert Englund

Jerry Rawlings

Mick Fleetwood

Jimmie Walker
June 1
Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor
Ronnie Wood, English rock musician (The Faces, The Rolling Stones)
June 2 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Punjabi saint, Sikh theologian, military leader (d. 1984)
June 3 – Dave Alexander, American musician (d. 1975)
June 4 – Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
June 5
Laurie Anderson, American experimental performance artist, composer and musician
Tom Evans, English musician, songwriter (d. 1983)
Jojon, Indonesian comedian, actor (d. 2014)
June 6
David Blunkett, British politician
Robert Englund, American actor (V, A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
June 7 – Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher (d. 1979)
June 8 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 9
Françoise Demulder, French war photographer (d. 2008)
Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter, sculptor
June 10 – Ken Singleton, American baseball player
June 14 – Barry Melton, American rock musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
June 15 – John Hoagland, American war photographer (d. 1984)
June 16 – -minu, Swiss columnist, writer
June 17 – Paul Young, English singer, songwriter (Mike and the Mechanics) (d. 2000)
June 19
Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British author (The Satanic Verses)
June 20 – Candy Clark, American actress
June 21
Meredith Baxter, American actress (Family Ties)
Rachel Adato, Israeli gynaecologist, lawyer and politician
Jim Benzelock, American professional ice hockey right winger
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Michael Gross, American actor (Family Ties)
Duane Thomas, American football running back
Fernando Savater, Spanish philosopher, author
June 22
Bobby Douglass, American football quarterback
Natalya Varley, Soviet, Russian film, theater actress
Murray Webb, New Zealand caricature artist, test cricketer
David Jones, Northern Irish European Tour golfer
Octavia E. Butler, American author (d. 2006)
David Lander, American actor (Laverne and Shirley)
Trevor Blades, English cricketer
Pete Maravich, American basketball player (d. 1988)
Jerry John Rawlings, 2-time President of Ghana
June 23
Zvi Rosen, Israeli international footballer
Bryan Brown, Australian actor
Thor Hansen, Norwegian-born professional poker player
Ed Werenich, Canadian curler
June 24
Mick Fleetwood, British musician and actor (Fleetwood Mac)
Helena Vondráčková, Czech singer
Peter Weller, American actor, director
June 25
Jimmie Walker, African-American actor (Good Times)
Robert Percy, Australian rules footballer
John Powell, American track and field athlete
June 26 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan politician
June 27
Hans Ooft, Dutch football player, manager
Abdel Djaadaoui, Algerian footballer
June 29
David Chiang, Hong Kong actor
Brian Herbert, American author
Richard Lewis, American comedian, actor (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
June 30 – Jean-Yves Le Drian, French minister
July[edit]

Larry David

O. J. Simpson

Brian May

Albert Brooks

Don Henley

Su Tseng-chang

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Richard Griffiths
July 1
Marc Benno, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Basque writer, screenwriter and actress
Sharad Yadav, Indian politician
July 2 – Larry David, American actor, writer, producer and director (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
July 3
Dave Barry, American writer
Betty Buckley, American actress, singer
Mike Burton, American swimmer
Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch football player (d. 2020)
Jana Švandová, Czech actress
July 4
Francisco Fernández de Cevallos, Mexican politician
Eva Goës, Swedish politician
Carla Panerai, Italian sprinter
July 5
Toos Beumer, Dutch swimmer
Joe Brown, African-American television judge
Dan Hewitt Owens, American actor
July 6
Shelley Hack, American model, actress, producer, political and media advisor
Larnelle Harris, African-American Christian musician
July 7
Richard Beckinsale, English actor (d. 1979)
Randy Goodrum, American songwriter, pianist and producer
King Gyanendra of Nepal
David Hodo, American singer
Carl Mauck, American football player
Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
July 8 – Bobby Sowell, American pianist, composer
July 9
Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
Mitch Mitchell, English rock drummer (d. 2008)
O. J. Simpson, African-American football player, actor
July 10
Michel Étiévent, French journalist, historian and writer
Allen Fong, Hong Kong film director
Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer (Alice's Restaurant)
July 11 – Riad Ismat, Syrian writer, critic and theatre director
July 12
Loren Coleman, American cryptozoologist, author
Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby union player
Lenka Termerová, Czech actress
July 14
John Blackman, Australian radio, television presenter
Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius
July 15
Bertus Borgers, Dutch saxophone player
Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
July 16
Don Burke, Australian television presenter, television producer, author and horticulturalist
Alexis Herman, American politician
Roelf Meyer, South African politician, businessman
Valnice Milhomens, Brazilian pastor, apostle, author and televangelist
Assata Shakur, American convicted murder
July 17 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, British Princess, second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
July 18 – Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
July 19
Bernie Leadon, American musician, songwriter
Brian May, English rock guitarist (Queen)
July 20
Gerd Binnig, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Carlos Santana, Mexican-born rock guitarist (Evil Ways)
July 21 – Co Adriaanse, Dutch football manager
July 22
Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director and novelist
Erica Gavin, American actress
Don Henley, American singer, songwriter and musician
July 23 – Spencer Christian, American television personality
July 24 – Peter Serkin, American classical pianist (d. 2020)
July 27
Bob Klein, American football player
Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
July 28 – Su Tseng-chang, Taiwanese politician, 41st and 50th Premier of the Republic of China
July 30
William Atherton, American actor
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American actor, bodybuilder and 38th Governor of California
July 31
Richard Griffiths, English actor (d. 2013)
Joe Wilson, American politician
August[edit]

Angry Anderson

Ian Anderson

Cindy Williams

Barbara Bach

James Hunt

Temple Grandin

Somchai Wongsawat
August 1
Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
Leoluca Orlando, Italian politician
August 3 – Colleen Corby, American fashion model
August 4 – Hubert Ingraham, Bahamian politician
August 5
Angry Anderson, Australian singer & actor
Graham Lovett, English footballer (d. 2018)
August 7 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-born Australian children's entertainer, composer and artist
August 8
Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician
George Costigan, British actor, screenwriter
Ken Dryden, Canadian NHL goaltender, author and politician
August 9 – John Varley, American science-fiction author
August 10
Ian Anderson, British rock musician (Jethro Tull)
Drupi, Italian singer
Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysian politician
August 11 – Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian (d. 2000)
August 12 – William Hartston, British chess player
August 13 – John Stocker, Canadian voice actor
August 14
Maddy Prior, English folk singer
Danielle Steel, American romance novelist
August 15 – Raakhee, Indian actress
August 16
Carol Moseley Braun, African-American politician
Marc Messier, Canadian actor
August 17 – Mohamed Abdelaziz, Sahrawi politician
August 19
Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
Gerald McRaney, American television, movie actor (Major Dad)
August 20 – José Wilker, Brazilian actor (d. 2014)
August 22
Cindy Williams, American actress (Laverne and Shirley)
Peter Irniq, Canadian Commissioner of Nunavut
August 23 – Willy Russell, British playwright
August 24 – Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
August 26 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (d. 2007)
August 27
Harry Reems, American pornographic actor (d. 2013)
Barbara Bach, American actress
August 28
Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004)
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
Alice Playten, American actress (d. 2011)
August 29
James Hunt, British 1976 Formula 1 world champion (d. 1993)
Temple Grandin, American animal welfare, autism expert
Jah Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer, deejay and producer (d. 1999)
August 30 – Allan Rock, Canadian politician, diplomat
August 31
Ramón Castellano de Torres, Spanish painter
Somchai Wongsawat, 26th Prime Minister of Thailand
September[edit]

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Keone Young

Sam Neill

Stephen King

Meat Loaf

Marc Bolan
September 1 – Al Green, American politician
September 3 – Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
September 5
Danny Florencio, Filipino basketball player (d. 2018)
Buddy Miles, African-American drummer, singer and composer (d. 2008)
Kiyoshi Takayama, Japanese yakuza boss
September 6
Jane Curtin, American actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Bruce Rioch, Scottish footballer, coach
Jacob Rubinovitz, Israeli scientist
Keone Young, American actor and voice actor
September 8
Amos Biwott, Kenyan Olympic athlete
Benjamin Orr, American singer, songwriter (d. 2000)
September 9 – Freddy Weller, American singer, songwriter
September 13 – Ajib Ahmad, Malaysian politician (d. 2011)
September 14
Sam Neill, British-born New Zealand actor
Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (d. 1984)
September 16 – Russ Abbot, British comedian, actor
September 17 – Dame Tessa Jowell, British politician (d. 2018)
September 19
Steve Bartlett, American businessman, lobbyist and politician (U.S. congressman from Texas's 3rd congressional district; mayor of Dallas, Texas; member of the Dallas City Council)
Tanith Lee, British author (d. 2015)
September 21
Don Felder, American musician, songwriter
Rupert Hine, English musician, songwriter, and record producer
Stephen King, American writer and novelist, specializing in the horror genre
September 22
Vanusa, Brazilian singer
Jo Beverley, Anglo-Canadian writer (d. 2016)
Norma McCorvey, American abortion plaintiff (Roe v. Wade) (d. 2017)
September 23
Jerry Corbetta, American singer, songwriter and keyboardist (Sugarloaf) (d. 2016)
Mary Kay Place, American actress
September 25
Cheryl Tiegs, American model, actress
Cecil Womack, African-American singer, songwriter (Womack & Womack) (d. 2013)
September 26 – Lynn Anderson, American country music singer (d. 2015)
September 27
Dick Advocaat, Dutch football manager
Meat Loaf, American rock singer, actor
Denis Lawson, Scottish actor and director
September 28
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesian politician and former military officer
Marcelo Guinle, Argentine politician (d. 2017)
Sheikh Hasina, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
September 30
Marc Bolan, English rock musician (d. 1977)
Rula Lenska, English actress
October[edit]

Stephen Collins

Brian Johnson

France Gall

Sammy Hagar

Michael McKean

Kevin Kline

Hillary Clinton

Richard Dreyfuss

Herman Van Rompuy
Keith Bremner, Australian Paralympic Shooter
October 1
Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
Stephen Collins, American actor
Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (d. 2006)
October 2 – Ward Churchill, American author, activist
October 3
Alain Mucchielli, French physician
Fred DeLuca, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Subway (d. 2015)
John Perry Barlow, American internet activist, writer, and lyricist (d. 2018)
October 4 – Ann Widdecombe, British politician
October 5 – Brian Johnson, English rock singer (AC/DC)
October 6 – Gail Farrell, American singer
October 7 – Pip Williams, British record producer
October 8 – Stephen Shore, American photographer
October 9 – France Gall, French singer (d. 2018)
October 10 – Larry Lamb, British actor
October 12 – George Lam, Hong Kong singer. actor
October 13 – Sammy Hagar, American rock musician (Van Halen)
October 14 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-Russian professional wrestler (d. 2018)
October 16
Nicholas Day, British actor
Bob Weir, American rock guitarist (Grateful Dead)
October 17
Simi Garewal, Indian actress, producer, director, and talk show host
Gene Green, American politician
Michael McKean, American actor, comedian (Laverne and Shirley)
October 18
James H. Fallon, American neuroscientist
Job Cohen, Dutch politician
October 19
Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comics artist, illustrator
Gunnar Staalesen, Norwegian author
October 22 – Ed Welch, English TV music composer
October 24 – Kevin Kline, American actor
October 25 – Glenn Tipton, English rock guitarist
October 26
Hillary Clinton, American politician, First Lady, US Senator (D-Ny.), Secretary of State, and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate
Ene Järvis, Estonian actress
Trevor Joyce, Irish poet
October 28 – Henri Michel, French football player and coach (d. 2018)
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
October 30 – Timothy B. Schmit, American musician
October 31
Carmen Alborch, Spanish feminist, writer and politician (d. 2018)
Herman Van Rompuy, Belgian politician, 66th Prime Minister of Belgium
November[edit]

Joe Mantegna

Dwight Schultz

John Larroquette
November 1
Taizo Ichinose, Japanese war photographer (d. 1973)
Bob Weston, British musician (d. 2012)
November 2
Dave Pegg, British folk musician, bass player (Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull)
November 5 – Rubén Juárez, Argentine bandoneonist, singer and songwriter of tango (d. 2010)
November 6
Jim Rosenthal, English ITV sport presenter
E. Lee Spence, German-born American pioneer underwater archaeologist, treasure hunter
November 7
Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
Bernhard Goetz, American shooter in 1984 subway shooting
Usha Uthup, Indian singer
Sondhi Limthongkul, Thai journalist, writer and founder of Manager Daily
Sefi Rivlin, Israeli actor, footballer and comedian (d. 2013)
November 8
Minnie Riperton, African-American singer (d. 1979)
Lewis Yocum, American orthopedic surgeon (d. 2013)
November 9 – Phil Driscoll, American Christian musician, trumpet player
November 10
Glen Buxton, American rock guitarist (d. 1997)
Greg Lake, English musician, producer (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer) (d. 2016)
November 12 – Carlos Ezquerra, Spanish comics artist (d. 2018)
November 13 – Joe Mantegna, American actor
November 14
Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordionist (d. 2016)
P. J. O'Rourke, American journalist, satirist
November 15 – Steven G. Kellman, American author, critic
November 17
Will Vinton, American animator, filmmaker (d. 2018)
Inky Mark, Canadian politician
November 18 – Ali Bakar, Malaysian football player (d. 2003)
November 19
Bob Boone, American baseball player, manager
Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese Prime Minister
Lamar S. Smith, American politician
Ira David Wood III, American actor
November 20
Joe Walsh, American rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocky Mountain Way)
Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician (d. 2015)
November 21
Alcione, Brazilian singer
Nickolas Grace, British actor
Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (d. 2008)
November 24 – Dwight Schultz, American actor (The A-Team)
November 25 – John Larroquette, American actor (Night Court)
November 29 – Mirza Khazar, Azerbaijani author
November 30
Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
Stuart Baird, English film editor, producer and director
Jude Ciccolella, American actor
Véronique Le Flaguais, Canadian actress
David Mamet, American playwright
Moses Nagamootoo, 8th Prime Minister of Guyana
December[edit]

Gregg Allman

Vincent Matthews

Porfirio Lobo

Jeff Lynne
December 1 – Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league player
December 2 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer
December 6 – RR Soares, Brazilian televangelist, missionary, author, singer, businessman and composer
December 7
Oliver Dragojević, Croatian singer (d. 2018)
Johnny Bench, American baseball player
Wendy Padbury, British actress
Jeff Maxwell, American actor (M*A*S*H)
December 8
Gregg Allman, American singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2017)
Gérard Blanc, French singer
Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 9 – Tom Daschle, U.S. Senator
December 10 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
December 11 – David E. Stone, American sound editor
December 12 – Will Alsop, English architect
December 14
Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazil
December 16
Ben Cross, English actor
Vincent Matthews, American athlete
December 17 – Marilyn Hassett, American actress
December 18 – Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian crime fiction writer
December 21 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist (d. 2014)
December 22
Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
Porfirio Lobo, 54th President of Honduras
December 25 – Pepe Smith, Filipino rock musician (d. 2019)
December 26 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player
December 27 – Bob Conti, American musician
December 28 – Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (d. 2000)
December 29
Ted Danson, American actor (Cheers)
Cozy Powell, English drummer (d. 1998)
December 30 – Jeff Lynne, British musician (Electric Light Orchestra)
December 31
Rita Lee, Brazilian rock singer, composer
Burton Cummings, Canadian rock musician (The Guess Who)
Tim Matheson, American actor, film director and producer
Date Unknown[edit]
Marouf al-Bakhit, twice Prime Minister of Jordan
Deaths[edit]
January[edit]

Blessed Hryhoriy Khomyshyn

Blessed Maria Giovanna Fasce

Al Capone

Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
January 3 – Al Herpin, French-born American insomniac, "The Man Who Never Slept" (b. 1862)
January 9
Herman Bing, German actor (b. 1889)
Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (b. 1893)
January 10
Arthur E. Andersen, American accountant (b. 1885)
Hanns Sachs, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1881)
January 11 – Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born vaudeville performer (b. 1878)
January 12
Zdenko Blažeković, Yugoslavian politician (b. 1915)
Júlio Afrânio Peixoto, Brazilian physician, writer, politician and historian (b. 1876)
January 13
Sixto María Durán Cárdenas, Ecuadorian pianist, composer and lawyer (b. 1875)
Ignazio Lupo, Italian-born American gangster (b. 1877)
January 14 – Bill Hewitt, American football player (Chicago Bears), Pro Football Hall of Fame member (b. 1909)
January 15 – The "Black Dahlia" (Elizabeth Short), American murder victim (b. 1924)
January 17 – Hryhoriy Khomyshyn, Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1867)
January 18 – Maria Giovanna Fasce, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed, Augustinian nun and blessed (b. 1881)
January 19 – Manuel Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1874)
January 20
Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1911)
Andrew Volstead, American politician (b. 1860)
January 22 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, British writer (b. 1888)
January 23
Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
Roy Geiger, American general (b. 1885)
January 24 – August Meyszner, Austrian-born SS officer (executed) (b. 1886)
January 25 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
January 26
Grace Moore, American opera singer, actress (b. 1898)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (b. 1906)
January 27 – Vassily Balabanov, Soviet administrator, Provincial Governor of Imperial Russia (b. 1873)
January 28 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-born French composer (b. 1874)
January 30 – Frederick Blackman, British plant physiologist (b.1866)
February[edit]

Petar Zivkovic

Luigi Russolo

Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt
February 3 – Petar Zivkovic, Yugoslavian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1879)
February 4 – Luigi Russolo, Italian painter, composer (b. 1885)
February 6
O. Max Gardner, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1882)
Luigi Russolo, Italian Futurist painter, composer (b. 1885)
February 11 – Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler (b.1884)
February 12
Kurt Lewin, German-born American psychologist (b. 1890)
Sidney Toler, American actor (b. 1874)
February 14 – Celestina Boninsegna, Italian soprano (b. 1877)
February 15 – Mustafa Abdel-Razek, Egyptian Islamic philosopher (b. 1885)
February 16
Pedro de Répide Gallegos, Spanish journalist, writer (b. 1853)
Bertha Schwarz, German soprano (b. 1855)
February 18
Valentina Dmitryeva, Soviet writer, teacher and doctor (b. 1859)
Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt (b. 1901)
February 20 – Henry Herbert, British actor (b. 1879)
February 22 – Willie Franklin Pruit, American poet (b. 1865)
February 23 – Hakim Habibur Rahman, Indian physician, writer, journalist and politician (b. 1881)
February 24
Morinosuke Chiwaki, Japanese dentist (b. 1870)
Pierre Janet, French psychologist (b. 1859)
February 26
Antonino D'Agata, Italian politician (b. 1882)
Ben Webster, British-born American actor (b. 1864)
February 27 – Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1868)
March[edit]

Carrie Chapman Catt
March 2 – Whately Carington, British parapsychologist (b. 1892)
March 5 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
March 9
Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffrage leader (b. 1859)
Jhaverchand Meghani, Indian poet, writer (b. 1897)
March 10 – Harukichi Hyakutake, Japanese general (b. 1888)
March 11
Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
Wilhelm Heye, German general (b. 1869)
March 12 – Walter Samuel Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1862)
March 15
Arthur Machen, British-born author (b. 1863)
Jean-Richard Bloch, French critic, novelist and playwright (b. 1884)
March 18 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
March 19 – Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
March 20 – Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
March 21 – Homer Lusk Collyer, American hermit brother (Collyer brothers) (b. 1881)
March 23
Archduchess Louise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
Ferdinand Zecca, French actor, producer, director and screenwriter (b. 1864)
March 25 – Chen Cheng-po, Taiwanese painter (b. 1895)
March 28
Johnny Evers, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1881)
Karol Świerczewski, Polish military leader (b. 1897)
March 29 – Manuel de Adalid y Gamero, Honduran composer (b. 1872)
April[edit]

King George II of Greece

Henry Ford

King Christian X of Denmark

Gheorghe Ciuhandu
April 1 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
April 5 – Petro Trad, Lebanese lawyer, politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lebanon and 5th President of Lebanon (b. 1876)
April 7
Henry Ford, American industrialist, automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
Savvas the New of Kalymnos, Greek Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1862)
April 8 – Langley Collyer, American hermit brother (b. 1885)
April 9 – William Foden, American composer (b. 1860)
April 10
Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (b. 1865)
John Ince, American actor (b. 1878)
April 12 – Duke Robert of Württemberg (b. 1873)
April 14 – Salvador Toscano, Mexican director, producer and filmmaker (b. 1872)
April 15 – Georg Friederici, German ethnologist (b. 1866)
April 16
Guido Donegani, Italian engineer, businessman and politician (b. 1877)
Rudolf Höss, German commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (executed) (b. 1900)
April 18 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician, Roman Catholic priest, 1st Prime Minister of Slovakia and President of Slovakia (b. 1887)
April 20 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
April 21 – Heitor da Silva Costa, Brazilian engineer, designer and constructor (b. 1873)
April 23 – Gyula Károlyi, Hungarian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
April 24 – Willa Siebert Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
April 25
José María Reina Andrade, acting President of Guatemala (b. 1860)
Ana Cumpănaș, Austro-Hungarian prostitute (b. 1889)
April 26 – Francesco Paolo Finocchiaro, Italian painter (b. 1868)
April 29
Gheorghie Ciuhandu, Romanian Orthodox priest, theologian, historian and advocate (b. 1875)
Irving Fisher, American economist (b. 1867)
April 30
Francesc Cambó, Andorran politician (b. 1876)
Sir Almroth Wright, British bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1861)
May[edit]

Miguel Abadía Méndez

George William Forbes
May 8 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
May 13 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet (b. 1926)
May 14 – John R. Sinnock, 8th Chief Engraver of the United States Mint (b. 1888)
May 15 – Miguel Abadía Méndez, Colombian politician, 12th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
May 16
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
Michael Joseph Curley, American Roman Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1879)
May 17
George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1869)
Seabiscuit, thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1933)
May 18 – Lucile Gleason, American actress (b. 1888)
May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
May 24 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
May 28 – August Eigruber, Nazi war criminal (executed) (b. 1907)
May 30 – Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian sailor, patriarch of the Von Trapp Family of The Sound of Music fame (b. 1880)
May 31 – Adrienne Ames, American actress (b. 1907)
June[edit]

Władysław Raczkiewicz

Richard Bedford Bennett
June 6
S. H. Dudley, American urban singer (b. 1864)
Władysław Raczkiewicz, Polish politician, lawyer, diplomat and 5th President of Poland (b. 1885)
José Marques da Silva, Portuguese architect (b. 1869)
June 9
Augusto Giacometti, Italian painter (b. 1877)
J. Warren Kerrigan, American actor (b. 1879)
June 11 – Richard Hönigswald, Hungarian-born American philosopher (b. 1875)
June 14 – Albert Marquet, French painter (b. 1875)
June 17 – Maxwell Perkins, American literary editor (b. 1884)
June 18
Alfred Allen, American actor (b. 1866)
Richard Cooper, British actor (b. 1893)
Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese rear admiral, convicted war criminal (executed) (b. 1898)
June 19 – Kōsō Abe, Japanese admiral, convicted war criminal (executed) (b. 1892)
June 20 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (assassinated) (b. 1906)
June 22 – Jim Tully, American vagabond, pugilist and writer (b. 1891)
June 24 – Bartolome Pagano, Italian actor (b. 1878)
June 26 – Richard Bedford Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1870)
June 28 – Franciszek Mączyński, Polish architect (b. 1874)
July[edit]

Raoul Wallenberg

Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas

Joseph Cook
July 7 – José Luis Tamayo, 20th President of Ecuador (b. 1858)
July 12 – Jimmie Lunceford, American jazz musician (b. 1902)
July 15
Brandon Hurst, American stage, screen veteran (b. 1866)
Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
July 17 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat, humanitarian (presumed dead on this date) (b. 1912)
July 18 – Fumio Hayashi, Japanese physician (b. 1900)
July 19 – Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
July 21 – Patriarch Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas (b. 1852)
July 23
Alice Fischer, American actress (b. 1869)
Ángel Roffo, Argentine doctor (b. 1882)
July 26 – Archbishop Leontios of Cyprus (b. 1896)
July 27 – Ivan Regen, Slovenian biologist (b. 1868)
July 29
Leo Stein, American art collector, critic (b. 1872)
George Bausewine, American baseball player, umpire (b. 1869)
July 30
Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
Fedir Krychevsky, Ukrainian painter (b. 1879)
August[edit]

Blessed Claudio Granzotto

Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
August – Teresa Magbanua, Filipino general (b. 1868)
August 3
José Pardo y Barreda, Peruvian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Peru and 2-time President of Peru (b. 1864)
Vic Willis, American baseball player (Boston Braves), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1876)
August 8 – Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian military leader (b. 1872)
August 9 – Carlo Romanelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1872)
August 10 – Antonio Sciortino, Maltese sculptor (b. 1879)
August 11 – Prince Sisowath Youtevong, 4th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1913)
August 15 – Claudio Granzotto, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1900)
August 17 – Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (b. 1865)
August 20 – Franz Cumont, Belgian archaeologist, historian (b. 1868)
August 23 – Hasmik, Soviet actress (b. 1878)
August 29
Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (gored) (b. 1917)
Kōtarō Nakamura, General of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1881)
September[edit]
September 1 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American Scout, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
September 8 – Victor Horta, Belgian Art Nouveau architect (b. 1861)
September 9 – Ananda Coomaraswamy, American philosopher (b. 1877)
September 10 – Hatazō Adachi, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1890)
September 11 – Alice Keppel, mistress of Edward VII (b. 1868)
September 20
Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor of New York (b. 1882)
Jantina Tammes, Dutch plant biologist (b. 1871)
September 21
Harry Carey, American film actor (b. 1878)
Vasily Glagolev, Soviet general (b. 1896)
September 26 – Hugh Lofting, British-born writer (b. 1886)
September 27 – Luigi Barlassina, Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1872)
October[edit]

Max Planck
October 1
Olive Borden, American actress (b. 1906)
Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Spanish writer, poet, dramatist and director (b. 1881)
October 2 – P. D. Ouspensky, Soviet mathematician (b. 1878)
October 3 – Ernest L. Riebau, American politician (1895)
October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
October 6 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
October 10 – Jo Mora, Uruguayan-born American cartoonist (b. 1876)
October 12
James Farley, American actor (b. 1882)
Sir Ian Hamilton, British general (b. 1853)
October 13 – Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, British economist, social reformer (b. 1859)
October 16 – Anna B. Eckstein, German peace campaigner (b. 1868)
October 17 – John Halliday, American actor (b. 1880)
October 18
Harry C. Bradley, American actor (b. 1869)
Massimo Terzano, Italian cinematographer (b. 1892)
October 20 – Sir Albert Howard, English botanist and organic farming pioneer (b. 1873)
October 23 – Carl Shelton, American gangster (b. 1888)
October 24 – Dudley Digges, Irish actor (b. 1879)
October 27 – María Teresalina Sánchez, Spanish Franciscan religious sister, missionary and martyr (b. 1918)
October 28 – Earl Snell, Governor of Oregon (plane crash) (b. 1895)
October 29 – Frances Cleveland, First Lady of the United States (b. 1864)
November[edit]

Constantin Sănătescu

Blessed Josaphat Kotsylovsky

Ernst Lubitsch
November 1 – Man o' War, champion thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1917)
November 3 – Nelson McDowell, American actor (b. 1870)
November 7 – Sándor Garbai, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
November 8
Mariano Benlliure, Spanish sculptor (b. 1862)
Constantin Sănătescu, Romanian general, statesman and 44th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1885)
November 15 – Eduard Ritter von Schleich, German fighter ace, air force general (b. 1888)
November 16 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman, politician (b. 1877)
November 17 – Josaphat Kotsylovsky, Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1876)
November 20 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (b. 1877)
November 25 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
November 28
W. E. Lawrence, American actor (b. 1896)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902)
November 29 – Ernie Adams, American actor (b. 1885)
November 30 – Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (b. 1892)
December[edit]

Stanley Baldwin

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
December 1
Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
December 2 – Franz Xaver Schwarz, German Nazi politician (executed) (b. 1875)
December 3 – Heinrich Hetsch, German physician, microbiologist (b. 1873)
December 4
Margaret Butler, New Zealand sculptor (b. 1883)
Walter Walker, American actor (b. 1864)
December 7
Tristan Bernard, French writer, lawyer (b. 1866)
Nicholas Murray Butler, American president of Columbia University, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1862)
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft, British politician (b. 1881)
December 9 – John Kelly, American actor (b. 1901)
December 10 – Pierre Petit de Julleville, French Roman Catholic priest, bishop and eminence (b. 1876)
December 13
Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874)
Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola, Mexican general during Mexican Revolution (b. 1890)
December 14
Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative politician, 3-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
December 15 – Arthur Machen, British writer (b. 1863)
December 17
J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)
December 20
Benigno Aquino Sr., Filipino politician (b. 1894)
Luigi Chiarelli, Italian playwright (b. 1880)
December 23 – Ziauddin Ahmad, Indian educationalist and politician (b. 1878)
December 25 – Gaspar G. Bacon, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
December 27 – Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer (b. 1897)
December 28 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
December 29 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, forger (b. 1889)
December 30 – Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician, philosopher (b. 1861)Date Unknown[edit]
Ayoub Tabet, 6th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1884)


January[edit]

Ichirou Mizuki

John Carpenter

Carl Weathers

Davíð Oddsson

Charles Taylor

Paul Jabara

Cristina Saralegui
January 2
Judith Miller, American journalist
Joyce Wadler, American writer, memoirist
Deborah Watling, English actress (d. 2017)
January 5
Wally Foreman, Australian media icon (d. 2006)
Ted Lange, African-American actor, director (The Love Boat)
January 7
Kenny Loggins, American rock singer (Footloose)
Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese voice actor
January 10
Donald Fagen, American rock keyboardist (Steely Dan)
Teresa Graves, African-American actress and comedian (Get Christie Love) (d. 2002)
Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
January 11
Hiroshi Wajima, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2018)
Larry Harvey, American co-founder of Burning Man (d. 2018)
January 12
Kenny Allen, English footballer
Anthony Andrews, English actor
January 14
T Bone Burnett, American record producer, musician
Muhriz of Negeri Sembilan, Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
Carl Weathers, African-American actor, football player (Rocky IV, Action Jackson)
January 15 – Ronnie Van Zant, American rock musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
January 16
John Carpenter, American film director, producer, screenwriter and composer
Gregor Gysi, German politician
Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
Tsuneo Horiuchi, Japanese baseball pitcher, manager
January 17 – Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
January 18 – M. C. Gainey, American actor
January 19
Frank McKenna, Premier of New Brunswick, Canadian Ambassador
Michael J. Jackson, English actor
January 23
Katharine Holabird, American writer
Mitoji Yabunaka, Japanese politician
January 27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian politician, 22nd President of Liberia
January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor (V)
Cristina Saralegui, American-Cuban actress, talk show hostess, producer, and publisher
January 30
Akira Yoshino, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
January 31
Paul Jabara, American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 1992)
Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
February[edit]

Rick James

Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo

Alice Cooper

Christopher Guest

Barbara Hershey

Teller

Bernadette Peters

Ken Foree
February 1 – Rick James, African-American urban singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (d. 2004)
February 2
Ina Garten, American cooking author
Roger Williamson, British race car driver (d. 1973)
February 3
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorean Catholic bishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Henning Mankell, Swedish crime novelist (d. 2015)
February 4
Alice Cooper, American hard rock singer and musician (School's Out)
Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal
February 5
Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
Christopher Guest, American actor, screenwriter, director and composer (National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live)
Barbara Hershey, American actress (Beaches)
Tom Wilkinson, English actor
February 7 – Jimmy Greenspoon, American keyboardist, composer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015)
February 8 – Dan Seals, American musician (d. 2009)
February 9
Greg Stafford, American game designer, publisher (d. 2018)
David Hayman, Scottish film, television, and stage actor, director
February 10
Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ, Greenlandic Inuit politician, human rights activist (d. 2018)
John Magnier, Irish businessman, thoroughbred racehorse breeder
February 11 – Chris Rush, American stand-up comedian
February 12 – Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor, author
February 13 – Kitten Natividad, Mexican-American film actress
February 14
Jackie Martling, American comedian, radio personality
Wally Tax, Dutch musician (d. 2005)
Raymond Teller, American illusionist and magician, one half of the duo Penn & Teller
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israeli physician, autoimmunity researcher
February 15 – Larry DiTillio, American film and TV series writer (d. 2019)
February 17
György Cserhalmi, Hungarian actor
José José, Mexican singer, actor (d. 2019)
February 18 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress
February 19
Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician, author (d. 2002)
Tony Iommi, English heavy metal guitarist
February 20 – Jennifer O'Neill, American model, actress
February 22
John Ashton, American actor
Leslie H. Sabo Jr., American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1970)
February 24
Jayalalithaa, Indian politician, film actress (d. 2016)
Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
February 25 – Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
February 28
Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Mike Figgis, American director, screenwriter and composer
Kjell Isaksson, Swedish pole vaulter
Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer
Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
Alfred Sant, Leader of Malta Labour Party (1992–), Prime Minister of Malta (1996–1998)
February 29
Khalid Salleh, Malaysian actor, poet (d. 2018)
Ken Foree, American actor
Henry Small, American-born Canadian singer
March[edit]

Shakin' Stevens

Eddy Grant

James Taylor

Billy Crystal

Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Steven Tyler

Al Gore

Rhea Perlman
March 2
R. T. Crowley, American pioneer of electronic commerce
Rory Gallagher, Irish musician (d. 1995)
Jeff Kennett, Australian politician
March 4
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, Australian author (A Cry in the Dark)
James Ellroy, American writer
Tom Grieve, American baseball player
Leron Lee, American baseball player
Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes) (d. 2015)
Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
Brian Cummings, American voice actor
March 5
Eddy Grant, Guyanese British singer, musician (Electric Avenue)
Elaine Paige, English singer, actress
March 6 – Anna Maria Horsford, African-American actress (Amen)
March 8 – Sinta Nuriyah, 4th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Abdurrahman Wahid
March 9
László Lovász, Hungarian mathematician
Jeffrey Osborne, African-American singer (On the Wings of Love)
March 11
Roy Barnes, American politician, 80th Governor of Georgia
Dominique Sanda, French actress
March 12 – James Taylor, American singer, songwriter (Fire and Rain)
March 14 – Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
March 15 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
March 17 – William Gibson, American/Canadian writer
March 20
John de Lancie, American actor
Bobby Orr, Canadian hockey player
Helene Vannari, Estonian actress
March 22
Inri Cristo, Brazilian educator who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated
Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist (CNN)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer (Jesus Christ Superstar)
March 25 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
March 26
Nash the Slash (b. James Jeffrey Plewman), Canadian musician (d. 2014)
Steven Tyler, American rock singer, songwriter (Aerosmith)
March 28
Jayne Ann Krentz, American novelist
Dennis Unkovic, American author
Dianne Wiest, American actress
March 29
Mike Heideman, American basketball coach (d. 2018)
Bud Cort, American actor (Harold and Maude)
March 30 – Eddie Jordan, Irish founder of Jordan Grand Prix
March 31
Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, 2000 Democratic nominee for president, environmentalist
Rhea Perlman, American actress (Cheers)
April[edit]

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Frank Abagnale

Terry Pratchett
April 1 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer, actor
April 2
Bob Lienhard, American basketball player (d. 2018)
Roald Als, Danish cartoonist
April 3 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist, politician and 53rd President of Mexico (1988-1994)[12]
April 4
Squire Parsons, American gospel singer, songwriter
Dan Simmons, American fantasy, science fiction author
Berry Oakley, American musician (d. 1972)
April 5 – Neil Portnow, American President of The Recording Academy (NARAS)
April 7
John Oates, American rock singer, guitarist (Hall & Oates)
Pietro Anastasi, Italian football player (d. 2020)
April 9 – Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress and politician
April 10 – Fauzi Bowo, Indonesian politician, diplomat and former governor of Jakarta
April 12
Jeremy Beadle, English TV presenter (d. 2008)
Don Fernando, American pornographic film actor, director
Joschka Fischer, German politician
Marcello Lippi, Italian football player, manager
April 13
Nam Hae-il, 25th Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Korea Navy
Mikhail Shufutinsky, Soviet, Russian singer, actor and TV presenter
April 15 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
April 16
Ammar El Sherei, Egyptian music icon, celebrity (d. 2012)
Kazuyuki Sogabe, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006)
April 17
Jan Hammer, Czechoslovakian composer, pianist and keyboardist
Peter Jenni, Swiss experimental particle physicist
April 18
Avi Arad, Israeli-American film producer
April 21
Paul Davis, American singer, songwriter (Cool Night) (d. 2008)
Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist (after whom Flammer syndrome is named)
April 24 – István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019)
April 27
Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
Frank Abagnale, American con man, imposter
Si Robertson, American reality star, preacher, hunter, outdoorsman, and U.S. Army veteran
April 28
Terry Pratchett, English comic fantasy, science fiction author (d. 2015)
Marcia Strassman, American actress, singer (Welcome Back, Kotter) (d. 2014)
April 29 – Michael Karoli, German musician (d. 2001)
April 30 – Jocelyne Saab, Lebanese journalist, film director (d. 2019)
May[edit]

George Tupou V

Steve Winwood

Bob Woolmer

Brian Eno

Grace Jones

Leo Sayer

Klaus Meine

Stevie Nicks

Svetlana Alexievich

John Bonham
May 2
Vladimir Matorin, Russian opera singer
Larry Gatlin, American singer, songwriter
May 3
William H. Miller, American maritime historian
Chris Mulkey, American actor
May 4
Jan Kantůrek, Czech translator (d. 2018)
Tanya Falan, American singer
King George Tupou V of Tongo (d. 2012)
May 5
Joe Esposito, American singer, songwriter
Richard Pacheco, American pornographic actor
Bill Ward, English rock drummer
May 7
Susan Atkins, convicted murderer and ex-follower of Charles Manson (d. 2009)
May 8
Dame Felicity Lott, English soprano
Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer
May 9
Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist, author
Calvin Murphy, American basketball player, analyst
May 11
Pam Ferris, Welsh actress
Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese musician
May 12
Steve Winwood, English rock singer (Higher Love)
Lindsay Crouse, American actress
May 14 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-born English cricket coach (d. 2007)
May 15
Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
Brian Eno, English musician, record producer
May 16 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
May 17 – Penny DeHaven, American country singer (d. 2014)
May 18
Olivia Harrison, American author and film producer
Mikko Heiniö, Finnish composer
May 19 – Grace Jones, Jamaican singer, actress
May 20 – Tesshō Genda, Japanese voice actor
May 21
D'Jamin Bartlett, American musical theatre actress
Elizabeth Buchan, English writer
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born English actor
Carol Potter, American actress
Leo Sayer, English rock musician (When I Need You)
May 25 – Klaus Meine, German singer (Scorpions)
May 26
Dayle Haddon, Canadian model, actress
Stevie Nicks, American rock singer, songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
May 27 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
May 29 – Michael Berkeley, English composer
May 31
Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer of literary reportage, Nobel Prize laureate
John Bonham, English rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980)
June[edit]

Powers Boothe

Phylicia Rashad

Andrzej Sapkowski

Clarence Thomas

Kathy Bates

Ian Paice
June 1
Powers Boothe, American actor (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones) (d. 2017)
Tom Sneva, American race car driver, Indianapolis 500 winner
June 2 – Jerry Mathers, American actor (Leave it to Beaver)
June 4
Bob Champion, English jump jockey
David Haskell, American actor (d. 2000)
June 6 – Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
June 8
Jürgen von der Lippe, German television presenter, actor and comedian
Jad Azkoul, Lebanese-American classical guitarist
June 9
Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
Gary Thorne, American play-by-play announcer
June 11 – Dave Cash, American baseball player
June 13 – Garnet Bailey, Canadian hockey player, scout (d. 2001)
June 14 – Laurence Yep, American author
June 15 – Paul Michiels, Belgian singer, songwriter
June 17 – Dave Concepción, Venezuelan baseball player
June 19
Nick Drake, English musician (d. 1974)
Lea Laven, Finnish singer
Phylicia Rashad, African-American actress (The Cosby Show)
June 20
Alan Longmuir, Scottish musician (d. 2018)
Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
Tina Sinatra, American former singer, actress, film producer, and memoirist
June 21
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (d. 2011)
Jovan Aćimović, Serbian football player
Raffaello Martinelli, Italian prelate
Philippe Sarde, French film composer
Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer
Wolfgang Seel, German football player
Greg Hyder, American professional basketball player
June 22
Madeleine Meilleur, Canadian politician
Takashi Sasano, Japanese actor
Shōhaku Okumura, Japanese Soto Zen
Peter Prijdekker, Dutch swimmer
Sue Roberts, American professional golfer
Todd Rundgren, American rock singer, record producer (Hello It's Me)
Curtis Johnson, American football cornerback
Franciszek Smuda, Polish football coach
Panagiotis Xanthakos, Greek sports shoote
Colin Waldron, English football defender
June 23
Larry Coker, American football player, coach
Jim Heacock, American defensive coordinator
Luther Kent, American blues singer
Clarence Thomas, African-American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
June 24
Stephen Martin, Australian politician, senior academic and rugby league referee
Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player
Janet Museveni, First Lady of Uganda
Dave Orchard, South African cricketer
Eigil Sørensen, Danish cyclist
Jürgen Stars, German footballer
Jenny Wood, Zimbabwean swimmer
June 25
Kenn George, American businessman
Michael Lembeck, American actor, television and film director
Tom Rideout, Canadian politician
June 26
David Vaughan, Welsh professional golfer
John Pratt, English professional footballer
Pablo Anaya Rivera, Mexican politician
June 27
Vennira Aadai Nirmala, Tamil actress
Michael J. Barrett, Guamanian politician
Camile Baudoin, American rock guitarist
June 28
Deborah Moggach, English writer
Kathy Bates, American actress (Misery)
Jimmy Thomson, Scottish professional footballer
Brian Rowan, Scottish professional footballer
June 29
Danny Adcock, Australian actor
Vic Brooks, English cricketer
Leo Burke, Canadian professional wrestler
Fred Grandy, American actor, politician (The Love Boat)
Helge Karlsen, Norwegian football player
Ian Paice, English musician (Deep Purple)
Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, crossbench member of the House of Lords
June 30
Alice Wong, Canadian politician
Dag Fornæss, Norwegian speed skater
Peter Rossborough, English rugby union international
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Australian Indigenous community leader
Vladimir Yakunin, Russian official, head of state-run Russian Railways Company
Raymond Leo Burke, American cardinal, prelate
July[edit]

Jeremy Spencer

Jay Thomas

Richard Simmons

Daphne Maxwell Reid

Rubén Blades

Cat Stevens

Peggy Fleming

Sally Struthers

Georgia Engel

Jean Reno
July 1
Ever Hugo Almeida, Paraguayan footballer
John Ford, English-born rock musician (Strawbs), writer of Part of the Union
Michael McGimpsey, Northern Ireland politician
July 2
Mario Villanueva, Mexican politician
Saul Rubinek, German-Canadian character actor, director, producer and playwright
July 3 – Tarmo Koivisto, Finnish comics artist
July 4
René Arnoux, French racing driver
Louis Raphaël I Sako, Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church
Ed Armbrister, Bahamian Major League Baseball outfielder
Nazmul Hussain, Indian first-class cricketer
Jeremy Spencer, British musician
July 5
Tony DeMeo, American football coach, player
Dave Lemonds, American baseball player
Salomon Juan Marcos Issa, Mexican politician
Lojze Peterle, Slovenian politician
July 6
Nathalie Baye, French film, television and stage actress
Jeff Webb, American professional basketball player
Arnaldo Baptista, Brazilian rock musician, composer
Brad Park, Canadian NHL Defenseman
Sid Smith, American football offensive lineman
Eiko Segawa, Japanese female enka singer, actress
Jan van der Veen, Dutch professional association football player
July 7
Jerry Sherk, American football defensive tackle
Jean LeClerc, Québécois actor
Jean-Marie Colombani, French journalist
Tan Lee Meng, Singaporean jurist
Stuart Varney, British-American economic consultant
Luis Estrada, Mexican football league forward, Olympic athlete
July 8 – Raffi, Egyptian-born children's entertainer
July 10
Theo Bücker, German football manager, player
Rich Hand, American professional baseball player
Mick Coop, English professional football right back
July 12
Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
Richard Simmons, American television personality, fitness expert
July 13
Don Sweet, Canadian star football kicker
Alf Hansen, Norwegian rower
Robert A. Underwood, Guamanian politician, educator
Daphne Maxwell Reid, African-American actress
July 14 – Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king
July 15
Richard Franklin, Australian film director (d. 2007)
Twinkle, English singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (d.2019)
July 16
Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer, actor and musician
Rita Barberá, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (d. 2016)
Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
Jeff Van Wagenen, American professional golfer
Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish football manager, player
July 17
Alan Sieler, Australian cricketer
Doug Berry, American Canadian football coach
July 18 – Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 20
Muse Watson, American actor
Maroun Elias Nimeh Lahham, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis
July 21
Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor
Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
Cat Stevens (b. Steven Georgiou, later known as Yusuf Islam), British singer, musician
Garry Trudeau, American cartoonist (Doonesbury)
Teruzane Utada, Japanese music executive producer, attendant
Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian, writer
Snooty, male Florida manatee (d. 2017)
July 22
Susan Eloise Hinton, American author
Otto Waalkes, German comedian, actor
July 23 – John Cushnahan, Northern Irish politician
July 25
Steve Goodman, American Grammy Award-winning folk music singer, songwriter (d. 1984)
Tony Cline, American football player (d. 2018)
July 27 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
July 28
Gerald Casale, American director, singer (Devo)\
Georgia Engel, American actress (d. 2019)
Sally Struthers, American actress, spokeswoman (All in the Family)
July 30
Jean Reno, French actor
Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian composer, musician (d. 2010)
July 31 – Jonathan Dollimore, English academic sociologist, cultural theorist
August[edit]

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Tipper Gore

Deana Martin

John Noble

Robert Plant

Sgt. Slaughter

Lewis Black
August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (d. 2009)
August 2
Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host, author
Bob Rae, Canadian politician
August 3 – Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister of France
August 7 – James P. Allison, American immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 12 – Mizengo Pinda, 9th Prime Minister of Tanzania
August 13 – Kathleen Battle, African-American soprano
August 14 – Joseph Marcell, English actor
August 15
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric, politician (d. 2018)
George Ryton, Singapore-born English Formula One engineer
August 18 – Sean Scanlan, Scottish actor (d. 2017)
August 19 – Loredana Lopez, Spanish singer (d. 1996)
Robert Hughes, Australian actor
Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
Deana Martin, American singer and actress
August 20
John Noble, Australian actor
Robert Plant, English singer (Led Zeppelin)
Barbara Allen Rainey (b. Barbara Ann Allen), American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces (d. 1982)
August 22 – David Marks, American guitarist (The Beach Boys)
August 23 – Lev Zeleny, Soviet, Russian physicist
August 24
Jean Michel Jarre, French electronic musician
Sauli Niinisto, Finnish politician, 12th President of Finland
Kim Sung-il, Chief of Staff of the Republic of Korea Air Force
Vicente Sotto III, Filipino actor, host and politician
August 25 – Tony Ramos, Brazilian actor
August 27 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
August 30
Lewis Black, American comedian
Fred Hampton, African-American activist (d. 1969)
Victor Skumin, Russian scientist, professor
August 31
Cyril Jordan, American musician
Holger Osieck, German football manager
September[edit]

Terry Bradshaw

Christa McAuliffe

John Ritter

Jeremy Irons

George R. R. Martin

Phil Hartman

Olivia Newton-John
September 1 – James Rebhorn, American actor (d. 2014)
September 2
Nate Archibald, American basketball player
Terry Bradshaw, American football player, sportscaster
Christa McAuliffe, American teacher and astronaut (d. in Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986)
September 3
Don Brewer, American drummer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian president (d. 2008)
September 4
Michael Berryman, American actor
Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer
September 5 – Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Austrian diplomat, politician
September 7 – Susan Blakely, American actress
September 8 – Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler
September 10
Judy Geeson, English actress
Bob Lanier, American basketball player
Margaret Trudeau (b. Margaret Sinclair), wife and mother of Prime Ministers of Canada
Charlie Waters, American football player
September 11 – John Martyn (b. Iain McGeachy), British folk-rock guitarist (d. 2009)
September 13
Nell Carter, African-American singer, actress (Gimme a Break!) (d. 2003)
Sitiveni Rabuka, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji
September 16 – Ron Blair, American rock bassist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
September 17
Aidan Nichols, English Dominican priest and academic
John Ritter, American actor (Three's Company) (d. 2003)
September 19
Jeremy Irons, English actor
Nadezhda Tkachenko, Soviet pentathlete
September 20
Rey Langit, Filipino journalist, radio host
George R. R. Martin, American speculative fiction author
September 22
Denis Burke, Australian politician
Jim Byrnes, American voice actor, blues musician and actor
Mark Phillips, British army captain, equestrian and first husband of Anne, Princess Royal
September 23 – José Lavat, Mexican voice actor (d. 2018)
September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1998)
September 25
Cäcilia Rentmeister, German art historian, gender researcher
Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian oligarch
September 26
Maurizio Gucci, Italian businessman, murder victim (d. 1995)
Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer, actress
Vladimír Remek, Czech politician and cosmonaut
September 27
Michele Dotrice, English actress
A Martinez, American actor, singer
September 29
Mark Farner, American rock guitarist, singer (Grand Funk Railroad)
Bryant Gumbel, African-American television broadcaster (The Today Show)
Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
Burton Richardson, American game show announcer
October[edit]

Johnny Ramone

Hema Malini

Robert Jordan

Margot Kidder

Akira Kushida

Kate Jackson
October 1
Mark Landon, American actor (d. 2009)
Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman (k. 2001)
October 2
Avery Brooks, American actor, musician
Persis Khambatta, Indian actress, model (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) (d. 1998)
Chris LeDoux, American singer, rodeo star (d. 2005)
Donna Karan, American fashion designer
October 4
Meg Bennett, American soap opera writer
Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
October 6 – Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
October 7 – Diane Ackerman, American poet, essayist
October 8
Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (Ramones) (d. 2004)
Baldwin Spencer, 3rd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
October 9
Jackson Browne, American rock musician (Running on Empty)
Ciarán Carson, Northern Irish poet, novelist
Oliver Hart, English-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 11
Margie Alexander, American gospel, soul singer (d. 2013)
Cynthia Clawson, American gospel singer
October 12 – Rick Parfitt, English musician (Status Quo) (d. 2016)
October 13
John Ford Coley, American rock musician (I'd Really Love to See You Tonight)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (d. 1997)
Ted Poe, American politician
October 14
Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007)
David Ruprecht, American actor, writer (Supermarket Sweep)
October 15
Renato Corona, Filipino jurist, lawyer (d. 2016)
Chris de Burgh, born Christopher Davison, Argentine-born Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter
October 16
Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
Hema Malini, Indian actress, writer, director, producer, dancer and politician
October 17
Robert Jordan, American novelist (d. 2007)
Margot Kidder, Canadian actress (Superman) (d. 2018)
Akira Kushida, Japanese singer
Ng Jui Ping, Singaporean entrepreneur and former army general (d. 2020)
George Wendt, American actor (Cheers)
October 18
Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
Ntozake Shange, African-American playwright and poet (d. 2018)
October 19 – Patrick Simmons, American musician (The Doobie Brothers)
October 21
Tom Everett, American actor
Allen Vigneron, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit
October 22
Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
Debbie Macomber, American author
October 23 – Sir Gerry Robinson, Irish-born British businessman
October 25
Dave Cowens, American basketball player, coach
Dan Gable, American wrestler, coach
Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach
October 26 – Toby Harrah, American baseball player
October 28 – Telma Hopkins, African-American actress, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
October 29 – Kate Jackson, American actress (Charlie's Angels)
October 30 – Garry McDonald, Australian actor, satirist, and comedian
November[edit]

Lulu

Glenn Frey

Amadou Toumani Touré

Hassan Rouhani

Charles, Prince of Wales

Michel Suleiman
November 1 – Anna Stuart, American actress
November 3 – Lulu (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer, actress (To Sir, With Love)
November 4
Delia Casanova, Mexican actress
Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
November 5
Charles Bradley, African-American singer (d. 2017)
Bob Barr, American politician
Dallas Holm, American Christian musician
Zacharias Jimenez, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2018)
Khalid Ibrahim Khan, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
William Daniel Phillips, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 6 – Glenn Frey, American guitarist, singer (The Eagles) (d. 2016)
November 7 – Jim Houghton, American actor, director
November 9
Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer, coach (d. 2018)
Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian football player, manager
Kelly Harmon, American actress and model
November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
November 12
Skip Campbell, American politician (d. 2018)
Hassan Rouhani, 7th President of Iran
Richard Roberts, American evangelist, son of Oral Roberts
November 13
Humayun Ahmed, Bengali-language writer
Lockwood Smith, New Zealand politician
November 14
Charles, Prince of Wales (b. Prince Charles of Edinburgh), heir apparent to the British throne and son of Elizabeth II (at this time Duchess of Edinburgh) and The Duke of Edinburgh
Robert Ginty, American actor, director (d. 2009)
Dee Wallace, American actress
November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist, actor (d. 2007)
November 16
Chi Coltrane, American musician (Thunder and Lightning)
Ken James, Australian actor
Mutt Lange, Rhodesian-born record producer
Mate Parlov, Yugoslav Olympic boxer (d. 2008)
November 17
Howard Dean, American politician, 79th Governor of Vermont
Tom Wolf, American politician, 47th Governor of Pennsylvania
November 19 – Rance Allen, African-American gospel singer, preacher
November 20
Harlee McBride, American actress
John R. Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., National Security Advisor
Barbara Hendricks, American singer
Richard Masur, American actor, director and president of the Screen Actors Guild
November 21
Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz drummer (d. 2016)
Michel Suleiman, President of Lebanon
November 22 – Saroj Khan, Indian dance choreographer
November 23
Dominique-France Picard (aka Princess Fadila of Egypt), wife of King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan
Ron Bouchard, American NASCAR driver (d. 2015)
Gabriele Seyfert, East German figure skater
November 24
Joe Howard, American actor
John Alvin, American cinematic artist and painter (d. 2008)
November 25 – Antoine Sfeir, Franco-Lebanese journalist, professor (d. 2018)
November 26
Elizabeth Blackburn, Australian-American biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Gayle McCormick, American singer (Smith) (d. 2016)
Marianne Muellerleile, American actress
November 28 – Agnieszka Holland, Polish director, screenwriter
December[edit]

Ozzy Osbourne

JoBeth Williams

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

Kim Beazley

Samuel L. Jackson

Gérard Depardieu
December 2
T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer
Rajat Gupta, Indian-American businessman
Patricia Hewitt, British Labour Party politician[13]
Toninho Horta, Brazilian singer, musician
Christine Westermann, German television, radio host, journalist and author
December 3
Rick Cua, American singer, evangelist
Ozzy Osbourne, English singer (Black Sabbath)
December 6
Keke Rosberg, Finnish Formula One champion
Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor, musician
JoBeth Williams, American actress, director
December 7
Gary Morris, American country singer, actor
Tony Thomas, American television and film producer
Mads Vinding, Danish bassist
December 10 – Abu Abbas, Palestine Liberation Front founder (d. 2004)
December 11 – Chester Thompson, American rock drummer
December 12 – Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, 20th President of Portugal
December 13
Lillian Board, South African-born English Olympic athlete (d. 1970)
Ted Nugent, American rock guitarist, singer, conservative political commentator (Cat Scratch Fever)
David O'List, English rock guitarist
December 14
Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
Kim Beazley, Australian politician
December 15
Melanie Chartoff, American actress and singer (Rugrats)
Charlie Scott, American basketball player
December 18 – Edmund Kemper, American serial killer
December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
December 20 – Alan Parsons, English songwriter, musician and record producer
December 21
Samuel L. Jackson, African-American actor, film producer
Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician, cabaret artist
December 22
Noel Edmonds, English TV presenter, DJ
Steve Garvey, American baseball player
Flip Mark, American child actor
Lynne Thigpen, African-American actress (Godspell) (d. 2003)
December 23 – Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, composer, educator, author and music journalist
December 25
Alia Al-Hussein, born Alia Toukan, queen consort of Jordan (d. 1977)
Barbara Mandrell, American country singer, musician and actress
December 27
Ronnie Caldwell, American soul music, rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967)
Gérard Depardieu, French actor
December 28 – Mary Weiss, American singer (The Shangri-Las)
December 29 – Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland First Minister
December 31
Stephen Cleobury, English choral conductor (d. 2019)
Joe Dallesandro, American model, actor
Sandy Jardine, Scottish professional footballer, playing for Rangers and Hearts and representing Scotland (d. 2014)
Donna Summer, African-American singer, actress (Love to Love You Baby) (d. 2012)
Date unknown[edit]
Archana Bhattacharyya, Indian physicist
Miguel Cabrera Cabrera, Spanish architect, politician
Vicatan, born Vicente Doria Catan Jr., Filipino comic book artist (d. 2004)
Gudo Hoegel, German actor, voice actor
Phalon Jones, American soul music, rhythm and blues musician (d. 1967)
John Blair Moore, American comic book artist
Johnny Nicholas, American blues musician
Judy Nylon, American artist, musician
Edward Rutherfurd (b. Francis Edward Wintle), English novelist


January[edit]

George Foreman

Brandon Tartikoff

Mick Taylor

Robert Palmer

Göran Persson

John Belushi

David Strathairn
January 1
Ali Kadhim, Iraqi football striker (d. 2018)
Vehbi Akdağ, Turkish wrestler
Max Azria, French fashion designer
January 2
Nikolai Pankin, Russian breaststroke swimmer, swimming coach (d. 2018)
Christopher Durang, American playwright
January 3 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (d. 1965)
January 7 – Chavo Guerrero Sr., American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
January 9 – Mary Roos, German singer
January 10
George Foreman, African-American boxer
Linda Lovelace, American porn actress, later anti-porn activist (Deep Throat) (d. 2002)
January 11 – Daryl Braithwaite, Australian singer
January 12
Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football player, coach
Haruki Murakami, Japanese author
Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
January 13 – Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)
January 14 – Lawrence Kasdan, American director, screenwriter
January 15 – Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
January 16 – Caroline Munro, English actress, model
January 17
Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (d. 2014)
Andy Kaufman, American comedian, actor (Taxi) (d. 1984)
Mick Taylor, English musician
January 18 – Philippe Starck, French designer
January 19
Robert Palmer, British rock singer (Addicted to Love) (d. 2003)
Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
January 20 – Göran Persson, 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
January 22 – Steve Perry, American rock singer (Journey)
January 23 – Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, Indonesian politician and former Minister of Social Affairs
January 24
John Belushi, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live) (d. 1982)
Nikolaus Brender, German television journalist
January 26 – David Strathairn, American actor (Good Night, and Good Luck)
January 27 – Djavan, Brazilian singer, songwriter
January 28
Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach
Mike Moore, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2020)
January 29
Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer (Ramones) (d. 2014)
Tommi Salmelainen, Finnish hockey player
January 30 – Peter Agre, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
January 31
Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer, sports journalist
Ken Wilber, American philosopher
February[edit]

Brent Spiner

Ivana Trump

Niki Lauda
February 1 – Joan Burton, Irish politician
February 2
Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish entrepreneur
Brent Spiner, American actor, comedian and singer (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
February 3 – Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
February 4 – Rasim Delić, Bosnian military chief of staff, war criminal (d. 2010)
February 6 – Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
February 7
Joe English, American drummer
Alan Lancaster, English bassist
February 8
Brooke Adams, American actress
Florinda Meza, Mexican actress, television producer, and screenwriter (best known as Doña Florinda in El Chavo del Ocho)
February 9 – Judith Light, American actress
February 10 – Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
February 15 – Ken Anderson, American NFL player
February 16 – Lyn Paul, English singer
February 17 – Dennis Green, American football coach (d. 2016)
February 18
Pat Fraley, American voice actor, voice-over teacher
Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
February 19 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American computer game designer (d. 1998)
February 20 – Ivana Trump, Czech businesswoman, first wife of Donald Trump
February 21 – Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
February 22 – Niki Lauda, Austrian triple Formula 1 world champion (d. 2019)
February 25 – Ric Flair, American professional wrestler
February 26 – Simon Crean, Australian politician
February 28 – Ilene Graff, American actress, singer
March[edit]

Shaukat Aziz

Patrick Duffy

Eddie Money

Slavoj Žižek

Margareta of Romania

Michael W. Young
March 2
Gates McFadden, American actress, choreographer
J.P.R. Williams, Welsh rugby player
March 3
Elijah Harper, Canadian Aboriginal activist (d. 2013)
Gloria Hendry, African-American actress
Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player (d. 2011)
March 4 – Helen Frost, American writer
March 5 – Franz Josef Jung, German politician
March 6
Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
March 7
Rex Hunt, Australian television and radio personality
Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
March 8 – Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (d. 2019)
March 9
Kalevi Aho, Finnish composer
Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
March 10
Barbara Corcoran, American businesswoman, investor, and television personality
Nobu Matsuhisa, Japanese chef
March 11 – Georg Schramm, German psychologist, Kabarett artist
March 12
Rob Cohen, American film director, producer and writer
Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
March 13 – Julia Migenes, American soprano
March 16
Erik Estrada, American actor, police officer (CHiPs)
Victor Garber, Canadian actor (Godspell, Alias)
Elliott Murphy, American singer, songwriter
March 17
Patrick Duffy, American actor (Dallas)
Pat Rice, Irish footballer, football manager
March 18 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (d. 2010)
March 19
Hirofumi Hirano, Japanese politician, Chief Cabinet Secretary
Valery Leontiev, Soviet and Russian actor and singer
March 20 – Marcia Ball, American blues musician
March 21
Eddie Money, American rock guitarist, singer (Two Tickets to Paradise) (d. 2019)
Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher
March 22 – Fanny Ardant, French actress
March 24 – Nick Lowe, English pop singer
March 25 – Sue Klebold, American activist
March 26
Jon English, English-born Australian singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
Vicki Lawrence, American comedian, game show hostess (The Carol Burnett Show)
Margareta of Romania, Romanian princess and diplomat
Patrick Süskind, German writer
March 28
Ronnie Ray Smith, American Olympic athlete (d. 2013)
Michael W. Young, American geneticist, chronobiologist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
March 29 – Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
March 30 – Lene Lovich, American singer
April[edit]

Paul Manafort

Gil Scott-Heron

Judith Resnik

Zygmunt Zimowski

John Shea

Massimo D'Alema

Veronica Cartwright

Jessica Lange

György Gedó

António Guterres
April 1
Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, political consultant, and convicted felon
Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer
Gil Scott-Heron, African-American musician, composer and activist (d. 2011)
April 2 – Pamela Reed, American actress
April 3 – Richard Thompson, English musician, songwriter
April 4 – Parveen Babi, Bollywood actress (d. 2005)
April 5 – Judith Resnik, American Astronaut (Challenger Disaster) (d. 1986)
April 6 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 7
Mitch Daniels, American academic administrator, businessman, author, and politician
Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish bishop (d. 2016)
April 8
Alex Fergusson, Scottish politician (d. 2018)
Brenda Russell, American-Canadian singer, songwriter and keyboardist
Fanie de Jager, South African operatic tenor
April 10 – Daniel Mangeas, French bicycle commentator
April 11 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer, director (d. 2011)
April 13 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American writer (d. 2011)
April 14 – John Shea, American actor
April 15
Alla Pugacheva, Russian musical performer
Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm, Polish-born writer
April 16 – Sandy Hawley, Canadian jockey
April 18
Antônio Fagundes, Brazilian actor
Geoff Bodine, American race car driver
Bengt Holmström, Finnish-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 19 – Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1990)
April 20
Massimo D'Alema, 53rd Prime Minister of Italy
Veronica Cartwright, English-born American actress
Jessica Lange, American actress
April 21 – Patti LuPone, American actress
April 22 – Spencer Haywood , American basketball player
April 23
Joyce DeWitt, American actress
György Gedó, Hungarian Olympic boxer
April 24 – Véronique Sanson, French singer, songwriter
April 26 – Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (d. 1995)
April 28 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (d. 2006)
April 30 – António Guterres, Prime Minister of Portugal, 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
May[edit]

Billy Joel

Alan García

Jim Broadbent

Arlene Klasky

Jeremy Corbyn

Tom Berenger
May 1 – Gavin Christopher, American singer (d. 2016)
May 2 – Alan Titchmarsh, English gardener
May 3 – Leopoldo Luque, Argentine soccer player
May 4 – John Force, American race car driver
May 9
Billy Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, military President of Niger (d. 1999)
May 10 – Mahfuzur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi cinematographer (d. 2019)
May 13 – Zoë Wanamaker, American-British actress
May 14 – Sverre Årnes, Norwegian writer
May 18
Joseph R. Cistone, American Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Rick Wakeman, English rock musician, songwriter
Bill Wallace, Canadian rock musician (The Guess Who)
May 19
Dusty Hill, American bassist (ZZ Top)
Archie Manning, former American football player, father of Peyton and Eli Manning
May 20 – Dave Thomas, Canadian actor, comedian (Second City Television)
May 22 – Chris Butler, American musician, songwriter (The Waitresses)
May 23 – Alan García, President of Peru (d. 2019)
May 24
Jim Broadbent, English actor
Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
May 26
Arlene Klasky, American animator
Jeremy Corbyn, British politician
Pam Grier, African-American actress
Philip Michael Thomas, African-American actor (Miami Vice)
Hank Williams, Jr., American country singer
May 27
Jo Ann Harris, American actress
Alma Guillermoprieto, Mexican journalist
May 28
Shelley Hamlin, American professional golfer (d. 2018)
Martin Kelner, British journalist, author, comedian, singer, actor and radio presenter
May 29
Francis Rossi, English rock guitarist, singer (Status Quo)
Robert Axelrod, American voice actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) (d. 2019)
May 30 – Bob Willis, English cricketer (d. 2019)
May 31 – Tom Berenger, American actor (Platoon)
June[edit]

Jarosław Kaczyński

Lech Kaczyński

Lionel Richie

Meryl Streep

Elizabeth Warren
June 1 – Mu Tiezhu, Chinese basketball player, coach (d. 2008)
June 2
Alan Brinkley, American historian (d. 2019)
Heather Couper, British astronomer (d. 2020)
June 4 – Mark B. Cohen, Pennsylvania legislative leader
June 8 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
June 10
Kevin Corcoran, American child actor, television director, film producer (d. 2015)
Bora Dugić, Serbian musician, flautist
Daniele Formica, Irish-Italian actor, director and playwright (d. 2011)
June 11 – Frank Beard, American drummer (ZZ Top)
June 13
Ann Druyan, American popular science writer, wife of Carl Sagan
Red Symons, English-Australian musician, television, and radio personality
June 14
Carlos María Abascal, Mexican lawyer (d. 2008)
Harry Turtledove, American historian, novelist
Papa Wemba, Congolese soukous musician (d. 2016)
June 15
Russell Hitchcock, English singer, musician (Air Supply)
Jim Varney, American actor (Ernest Goes to Camp) (d. 2000)
June 16 – Robbin Thompson, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
June 18
Jarosław Kaczyński, Prime Minister of Poland
Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (d. 2010)
Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
June 19 – Hassan Shehata, Egyptian footballer and coach
June 20
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th President of Sri Lanka
Lionel Richie, African-American urban musician (Commodores)
June 21
John Agard, Guyanese poet, playwright and children's writer
Clifford Brooks, American Football defensive back
Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth, Scottish judge
Shane Molloy, Australian rules footballer
Stuart Pearson, English football player
Jane Urquhart, Canadian author
June 22
Aytaç Arman, Turkish actor (d. 2019)
Larry Junstrom, American rock bassist (d. 2019)
Alan Osmond, American pop singer
Meryl Streep, American actress
Elizabeth Warren, American academic, politician, and U.S. Senator (D-Mass.) since 2013
June 23
Dave Goltz, American professional baseball player
Gail Harris, United States Navy officer
Charles Ho, Hong Kong pro-Beijing[3] businessman
Jon McLachlan, New Zealand rugby union player
June 24
Billy Moeller, Australian professional feather/super feather/light/light welter/welterweight boxer
Agenor Muniz, Brazilian-born footballer
Hector Thompson, Australian professional light/light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer
June 25
Dan Barker, American atheist activist
Phyllis George, American businesswoman, actress and sportscaster
Kene Holliday, American actor
Lalith Kaluperuma, Sri Lankan test cricketer and ODI cricketer
Brenda Sykes, American actress
Patrick Tambay, French racing driver
John Taylor, English professional footballer
Yoon Joo-sang, South Korean actor
June 26
Adrian Gurvitz, English singer, songwriter, and musician
Graco Ramírez, governor of Morelos, Mexico 2012-2018
Avtar Singh Kang, Punjabi singer and folk contributor
Arturo Vázquez Ayala, Mexican footballer
June 27
Brent Berk, American competition swimmer, Olympic athlete
Stephen Rucker, American composer
Vera Wang, American fashion designer
June 28
Don Baylor, American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach and manager (d. 2017)
Clarence Davis, American football running back
Kevin McLeod, Australian rules footballer
Tom Owens, American professional basketball player
June 29
Dan Dierdorf, American football offensive lineman, current sportscaster
Joe Moore, American football running back
Henri Proglio, French businessman
A. Anwhar Raajhaa, Indian politician
Lisette Sevens, Dutch field hockey defender
June 30
Silvio Aquino, Salvadoran football player
Uwe Kliemann, German football player and coach
Norm Mitchell, Australian rules footballer
Andy Scott, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist
Philippe Toussaint, Belgium's most successful golfers
Bogdan Turudija, Serbian football player
July[edit]

Noli de Castro

Shelley Duvall

Carl Bildt

Kgalema Motlanthe

Alan Menken

Michael Richards

Thaksin Shinawatra

Roger Taylor

Jamil Mahuad
July 1
Rosa Elena Galván Valles, Mexican politician
Yoshihide Fukao, Japanese volleyball player
Seninho, Portuguese-Angolan footballer
Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian screenwriter, director
John Farnham, Australian singer, recording artist and entertainer
July 2
David Eaton, American composer, conductor and producer
Abderrahmane Benkhalfa, Algerian financial expert
José Manuel Díaz Medina, Mexican politician
Ben Verbong, Dutch film director, screenwriter
July 3
Jan Smithers, American actress
Alfred Vierling, Dutch politician
Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American vocalist (d. 2006)
July 4 – Horst Seehofer, German conservative politician
July 5 – Susan P. Graber, American attorney, jurist
July 6
Noli de Castro, Filipino broadcast journalist, radio commentator and Vice President of the Philippines
Phyllis Hyman, American singer, actress (d. 1995)
Grant McAuley, New Zealand rower
July 7
Shelley Duvall, American actress
John Lippiett, British senior Royal Navy officer
Monte Cater, American football coach
July 8
Jan Elvheim, Norwegian politician
Jaroslav Jurka, Czech fencer
Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and occasional actor
Carmel Cryan, English actress
Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player
July 9
Raoul Cédras, former President of Haiti
Jesse Duplantis, American televangelist
Nigel Lythgoe, English television producer, personality
Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi, Iranian intellectual, journalist, writer, traveler, translator, and university lecturer
July 11
Liona Boyd, English classical guitarist
Émerson Leão, Brazilian footballer
Ingrid Newkirk, English-born American-based animal rights activist
Phil Braidwood, Manx politician
July 13 – Helena Fibingerová, Czech athlete
July 15
Carl Bildt, 28th Prime Minister of Sweden, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Trevor Horn, English pop singer, producer
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 3rd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
July 17
Geezer Butler, English heavy metal bassist (Black Sabbath)
William C. Faure, South African film director
Andrei Fursenko, Russian politician, scientist and businessman
Charley Steiner, American sportscaster
July 19
Kgalema Motlanthe, South African politician, President of South Africa
Daniel Vaillant, French Socialist politician
July 20 – Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor and environmentalist
July 21 – Tengku Azlan, Malaysian politician
July 22
Alan Menken, American composer
Lasse Virén, Finnish long-distance runner
July 24
Michael Richards, American actor, comedian (Seinfeld)
Joan Enric Vives Sicília, Spanish archbishop
July 25 – Francis Smerecki, French football player, manager (d. 2018)
July 26
Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand and businessman
Roger Taylor, English rock musician (Queen)
July 29 – Jamil Mahuad, President of Ecuador
July 31
Mike Jackson, American basketball player
Susan Bennett, American voice-over artist
August[edit]

Keith Carradine

Mark Knopfler

Fernando Collor de Mello

Beverly Burns

Phil Lynott

Rick Springfield

Gene Simmons

Richard Gere
August 1 – Mugur Isărescu, 58th Prime Minister of Romania
August 4 – John Riggins, American football player
August 6 – Alan Campbell, Northern Irish cleric
August 7 – Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze
August 8 – Keith Carradine, American actor
August 9 – Slavko Ćuruvija, Serbian journalist, newspaper publisher (d. 1999)
August 11
Ian Charleson, British actor (d. 1990)
Sandra Lee Scheuer, Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970)
August 12
Fernando Collor de Mello, 32nd President of Brazil
Mark Essex, American mass murderer (d. 1973)
Mark Knopfler, British rock guitarist (Dire Straits)
August 13 – Philippe Petit, French high-wire artist
August 14 – Morten Olsen, Danish football player, manager
August 15
Beverly Burns, American pilot, first woman in the world to captain the Boeing 747
Phyllis Smith, American actress
August 16 – Barbara Goodson, American voice actress
August 17 – Sue Draheim, American fiddler (d. 2013)
August 20 – Phil Lynott, Irish rock musician (d. 1986)
August 21
Loretta Devine, African-American actress
Daniel Sivan, Israeli professor
August 23
Shelley Long, American actress (Cheers)
Rick Springfield, Australian rock singer, actor
Leslie Van Houten, American criminal, Manson Family member
August 24
Anna Lee Fisher, American astronaut, chemist and physician
Charles Rocket, American actor (Saturday Night Live) (d. 2005)
August 25
Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (d. 1973)
Martin Amis, English novelist
Gene Simmons, Israeli-American rock musician (Kiss)
August 26 – Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and guitarist (d. 2019)
August 28
Martin Lamble, British folk rock musician (d. 1969)
Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player, coach
August 29 – Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler
August 30 – Peter Maffay, German singer
August 31
Richard Gere, American actor (American Gigolo)
H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September[edit]

Gloria Gaynor

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Bill O'Reilly

Ed Begley Jr.

Bruce Springsteen
September 1
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear physicist, government official (d. 2018)
Leslie Feinberg, American transgender activist
September 7
Lee McGeorge Durrell, American author, television presenter, and zookeeper
Gloria Gaynor, American singer (I Will Survive)
September 9
John Curry, British figure skater (d. 1994)
Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder
Daniel Pipes, American historian, writer, and commentator
Joe Theismann, American football player
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of Indonesia
September 10 – Bill O'Reilly, American conservative radio and television commentator
September 13 – John W. Henry, American foreign exchange advisor, Boston Red Sox owner
September 14
Ed King, American musician (d. 2018)
Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
September 15 – Joe Barton, American politician
September 16
Ed Begley Jr., American actor, environmentalist (St. Elsewhere)
Chrisye, Indonesian singer (d. 2007)
September 17 – Didith Reyes, Filipina singer (d. 2008)
September 18
Mo Mowlam, British politician (d. 2005)
Peter Shilton, English goalkeeper
September 19
Twiggy, English model
Ernie Sabella, American actor
Barry Scheck, American attorney and author
Richard Rogler, German Kabarett artist, professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin
September 21 – Artis Gilmore, American basketball player
September 22 – Dean Goss, American game show announcer, disc jockey
September 23 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer, songwriter (Born in the USA)
September 25
Inshan Ali, West Indian cricketer (d. 1995)
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker, director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
Ronaldo Caiado, Brazilian politician
September 26 – Jane Smiley, American novelist
September 27
Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (d. 2020)
September 29 – Wenceslao Selga Padilla, Filipino scheut priest (d. 2018)
October[edit]

Lindsey Buckingham

Sigourney Weaver

Benjamin Netanyahu

Arsène Wenger

Caitlyn Jenner
October 1
Isaac Bonewits, American author, occultist
Su Chi, Taiwanese politician
October 2
Richard Hell, American musician, writer
Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
October 3 – Svika Pick, Israeli musician
October 4
Lindsey Buckingham, American musician
Armand Assante, American actor (Gotti)
October 6 – Bobby Farrell, West Indian-born Dutch dancer (Boney M.) (d. 2010)
October 7 – Ronnie Mund, American television personality
October 8
Chris Dobson, British chemist (d. 2019)
Jerry Bittle, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
Sigourney Weaver, American actress (Alien)
Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer (d. 1992)
October 9 – Rod Temperton, English songwriter, record producer and musician (d. 2016)
October 10
Michel Létourneau, Canadian politician (d. 2019)
Jessica Harper, American actress, producer
October 12 – Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan-born international terrorist
October 13 – Rick Vito, American musician
October 14 – Katha Pollitt, American writer
October 17
Owen Arthur, 5th Prime Minister of Barbados
Bill Hudson, American musician and actor
October 20 – Valeriy Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
October 21
LaTanya Richardson, African-American actress, producer
Benjamin Netanyahu, 2-time Prime Minister of Israel
October 22
Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
Arsène Wenger, French football (soccer) manager
October 26 – Antonio Carpio, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
October 27
Cheryl Keeton, American murder victim (d. 1986)
Emanuel Barbara, Maltese bishop (d. 2018)
October 28 – Caitlyn Jenner, American transgender track and field athlete, reality star
October 30 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician, strategist (d. 2006)
November[edit]

Pierre Buyoya

Bonnie Raitt

Paul Shaffer
November 1
Jeannie Berlin, American film actress
David Foster, Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and arranger
Belita Moreno, American film actress
November 2
Marc Elrich, American politician
November 3
Mike Evans, African-American actor (d. 2006)
Larry Holmes, African-American boxer
Anna Wintour, British-American fashion journalist, editor in-chief of the magazine Vogue
November 5
Armin Shimerman, American actor
Jimmie Spheeris, American singer, songwriter (d. 1984)
November 6 – Joseph C. Wilson, former United States diplomat
November 7
Aiswarya, Queen of Nepal (d. 2001)
Judi Bari, American environmental activist (d. 1997)
Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (d. 2019)
November 8 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer, guitarist
November 11 – Ismail Petra of Kelantan, sultan of Kelantan (d. 2019)
November 14 – Paola Balducci, Italian politician, lawyer
November 15 – David Rubinstein, American pianist, composer
November 17 – John Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
November 18 – Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2005)
November 19 – Ahmad Rashād, American sportscaster, television personality
November 22 – Shaun Garnett, English footballer, coach
November 23
Pat Condell, English comedian, internet personality
Marcia Griffiths, Jamaican singer
November 24
Nick Ainger, British politician
Pierre Buyoya, former President of Burundi
November 25
Mike Joy, NASCAR commentator
Kerry O'Keeffe, Australian cricketer, commentator
GT Devegowda, Indian politician
November 26
Shlomo Artzi, Israeli singer
Juanin Clay, American actress (d. 1995)
November 28
Alexander Godunov, Russian-born dancer, actor (d. 1995)
Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician
Siringan Gubat, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
November 29
Jerry Lawler, American professional wrestler and commentator
Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (d. 1983)
Garry Shandling, American comedian (d. 2016)
November 30 – Nicholas Woodeson, English actor
December[edit]

Pablo Escobar

Sebastián Piñera

Jeff Bridges

Bill Nighy

Don Johnson

Maurice Gibb

Robin Gibb
December 1
Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman, politician and 36th and 38th President of Chile
Kurt Schmoke, African-American Dean, Howard Law School, Mayor of Baltimore
December 3
John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (d. 1997)
Heather Menzies, Canadian-American actress (The Sound of Music, Logan's Run) (d. 2017)
December 4
Jeff Bridges, American actor
Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born comedian, actress, and singer
December 5
Bruce E. Melnick, American astronaut
Lanny Wadkins, American professional golfer
December 6
Doug Marlette, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2007)
Peter Willey, English cricketer
December 7
James Rivière, Italian jeweler, designer
Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
Cathy Wayne, Australian pop entertainer (d. 1969)
December 8 – Mary Gordon, American writer
December 12 – Bill Nighy, English actor
December 13
Robert Lindsay, English actor
Randy Owen, American country lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player
Tom Verlaine, American rock singer, guitarist
December 14 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player (d. 2019)
December 15
Don Johnson, American actor (Miami Vice)
Abdul Karim Al-Kabariti, Prime Minister of Jordan
December 16 – Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
December 17
Dušan Mitošević, Serbian football player, manager (d. 2018)
Paul Rodgers, British rock singer
December 18 – David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (d. 1980)
December 19
Carlos Gomes Júnior, Bissau-Guinean politician
Sebastian, Danish musician
December 20
Pauline Robinson Bush, eldest daughter of President of the United States George H. W. Bush and his wife First Lady Barbara Bush (d. 1953)
Claudia Jennings, American model (d. 1979)
December 21 – Thomas Sankara, 2-Time President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
December 22
Maurice Gibb, British rock musician (Bee Gees) (d. 2003)
Robin Gibb, British rock musician (Bee Gees) (d. 2012)
December 24 – Randy Neugebauer, American politician
December 25
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
Sissy Spacek, American actress (Carrie)
Manny Mori, Former President of Micronesia
Joe Louis Walker, American musician
Nawaz Sharif, current Pakistani Prime Minister
December 26 – José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
December 27 – Klaus Fischer, German footballer
December 28 – Barbara De Fina, American film producer
Date Unknown[edit]
Bakri Hassan Saleh, 12th Prime Minister of SudanJanuary[edit]

Victoria Principal

Juan Gabriel

Alec Jeffreys

Debbie Allen

Billy Ocean

Richard Dean Anderson
January 1
Wanye Bennett, Australian rugby league player and coach
Steve Ripley, American country singer (d. 2019)
January 2
Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress
David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist
Grant Adcox, American race car driver (d. 1989)
January 3
Victoria Principal, American actress (Dallas)
Vesna Vulović, Serbian plane crash survivor and Guinness World Record holder
January 5
John Manley, Canadian politician
Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor
January 6
Louis Freeh, American Director of the FBI
Thomas J. Pickard, American Acting Director of the FBI
January 7
Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer, songwriter and philanthropist (d. 2016)
Erin Gray, American actress (Dallas)
January 9 – Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling
January 10 – Ernie Wasson, American gardener, writer
January 12
Sheila Jackson Lee, African-American politician
Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-born British businesswoman; First Lady of Iceland
January 14 – Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Hindu religious leader
January 16
Kalle Könkkölä, Finnish politician, human rights activist (d. 2018)
Debbie Allen, African-American actress, dancer, and choreographer
January 17
Steve Cuozzo, American writer, columnist
Cristina Galbó, Spanish actress
Honey Irani, Indian film actress, screenwriter
Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican writer
January 18 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
January 20 – Edward Hirsch, American poet
January 21 – Billy Ocean, West Indian-born musician (Caribbean Queen)
January 22 – Pamela Salem, British actress
January 23 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor (MacGyver)
January 24
Daniel Auteuil, French actor
Gennifer Flowers, American actress, connected to Bill Clinton
Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American author, scholar
January 26
Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
Janet Lupo, American model
January 27
Derek Acorah, British spiritualist, medium (d. 2020)
Ulrich Deppendorf, German journalist, television presenter
January 29
Ann Jillian, American actress
Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
Miklós Vámos, Hungarian writer, screenwriter
January 30 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
February[edit]

Morgan Fairchild

Natalie Cole

Peter Gabriel

Cybill Shepherd

Julie Walters

Néstor Kirchner
February 1
John Bowe, English actor
Mike Campbell, American musician
Kazimierz Nycz, Polish clergyman
February 3 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress (Flamingo Road)
February 6
Natalie Cole, African-American singer (d. 2015)
Timothy Michael Dolan, Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of New York
February 8
Jonathan Freeman, American actor, voice actor
Peter Wells, New Zealand writer, filmmaker (d. 2019)
February 10
Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician and economist, assassinated while campaigning for President of Mexico (d. 1994)[14]
Mark Spitz, American Olympic swimmer
February 12
Steve Hackett, English songwriter, guitarist
Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (V)
João W. Nery, Brazilian writer and LGBT activist
February 13 – Peter Gabriel, English rock musician, original lead singer of Genesis
February 14
Verónika con K, Mexican actress, singer and TV hostess
Daniel Borel, Swiss businessman, co-founder of Logitech
February 15
Tsui Hark, Hong Kong film director
Donna Hanover, American journalist
February 16
Peter Hain, British politician
Roman Tam, Chinese Cantopop singer (d. 2002)
February 18
Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate
John Hughes, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2009)
Cybill Shepherd, American actress (The Last Picture Show)
February 20
Ken Shimura, Japanese television performer, actor
Tony Wilson, English impresario (d. 2007)
February 21
Larry Drake, American actor, voice artist, and comedian (d. 2016)
Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia
February 22
Julius Erving, African-American basketball player
Awn Al-Khasawneh, Prime Minister of Jordan
Miou-Miou, French actress
Julie Walters, English actress
February 25
Neil Jordan, Irish film director, writer and producer
Néstor Kirchner, 49th President of Argentina (d. 2010)
February 26
Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Bill Ritter, American news anchor
February 27 – Azean Irdawaty, Malaysian actress, singer (d. 2013)
March[edit]

Karen Carpenter

Rick Perry

William H. Macy

Charles Krauthammer

Brad Dourif

William Hurt

Martin Short
March 2
Helmut Köllen, German bass and guitar player (d. 1977)
Karen Carpenter, American singer, drummer (d. 1983)
March 4 – Rick Perry, American politician, 14th U.S. Secretary of Energy, 47th Governor of Texas
March 9 – Danny Sullivan, American race car driver
March 10
Carlos Roberto Flores, President of Honduras
Catherine Pugh, Democrat politician, 50th mayor of Baltimore and criminal[15]
March 11
Bobby McFerrin, African-American singer (Don't Worry, Be Happy)
Jerry Zucker, American film producer, director, and writer
March 12 – Javier Clemente, Spanish football player, manager
March 13
William H. Macy, American actor
Charles Krauthammer, American conservative political commentator (d. 2018)
March 18
Brad Dourif, American actor
Rod Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
March 20 – William Hurt, American actor
March 21 – Sergey Lavrov, current Foreign Minister of Russia
March 22
Hugo Egon Balder, German actor, television presenter
Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (d. 2012)
March 26
Teddy Pendergrass, African-American singer (d. 2010)
Martin Short, Canadian-born comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Alan Silvestri, American composer, conductor
March 28
Claudio Lolli, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 2018)
Jeffrey Miller, Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970)
March 29
Kulsoom Nawaz, Pakistani politician (d. 2018)
Mory Kanté, Guinean musician
March 30
Dave Ball, English guitarist (Procol Harum) (d. 2015)
Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian
David Janson, British actor
March 31 – Ed Marinaro, American football player, actor (Hill Street Blues)
April[edit]

Agnetha Fältskog

David Cassidy

Ron Perlman

Kenny Ortega

Jay Leno
April 1 – Samuel Alito, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
April 3 – Sally Thomsett, English actress
April 4 – Christine Lahti, American actress
April 5
Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish pop singer, songwriter (ABBA)
Harpo, Swedish pop musician
April 7 – Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva, former First Lady of Brazil (d. 2017)
April 8
Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer
Carmen Twillie, American actress, singer
April 10 – Ken Griffey, Sr., American baseball player
April 12
Joyce Banda, née Mtila, 4th President of Malawi
David Cassidy, American actor, singer (The Partridge Family) (d. 2017)
April 13
Ron Perlman, American actor
Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach
April 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (d. 2016)
April 15
Josiane Balasko, French actress, writer and director
Amy Wright, American actress
April 17 – Bruce McNall, American businessman
April 18 − Kenny Ortega, American producer, director and choreographer
April 20
Steve Erickson, American novelist
N. Chandrababu Naidu, Indian politician
April 21 – Shivaji Satam, Indian television, film actor
April 22
Peter Frampton, English rock musician (Do You Feel Like We Do)
Thierry Zéno, Belgian filmmaker
April 25
Lenora Fulani, African-American presidential candidate
Apollo C. Quiboloy, Filipino televangelist, religious leader
April 26 – Liz Chase, Zimbabwean field hockey player (d. 2018)
April 28 – Jay Leno, American comedian, talk show host (The Tonight Show)
April 29 – Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio, television broadcaster (d. 2013)
May[edit]

Googoosh

Jeremy Paxman

Danny Kirwan

Stevie Wonder

Mark Mothersbaugh
May 1 – Yang Jiechi, Chinese politician
May 2 – Moondog Rex, American professional wrestler (d. 2019)
May 3 – Fausto Silva, Brazilian television presenter
May 5 – Googoosh, Iranian singer, actress
May 7 – Tim Russert, American journalist (Meet the Press) (d. 2008)
May 10 – Dale Wilson, Canadian voice actor
May 11
Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (d. 2014)
Jeremy Paxman, English journalist
May 12
Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
Ching Hai, Vietnamese-born Taiwanese author, spiritual leader and jewelry designer
Billy Squier, American musician
May 13
Joe Johnston, American film director
Danny Kirwan, British musician (d. 2018)
Bobby Valentine, American baseball manager
Stevie Wonder, African-American musician
May 14 – Jill Stein, American politician, activist, and 2016 Green Party presidential candidate
May 15 – Renate Stecher, German athlete
May 16 – Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 17 – Janez Drnovsek, Slovenian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Slovenia, 2nd President of Slovenia (d. 2008)
May 18
Thomas Gottschalk, German radio, television host, entertainer and actor
Mark Mothersbaugh, American composer, artist, and singer (Devo)
May 22 – Bernie Taupin, English lyricist, collaborator with Elton John
May 23 – Bill Barr, United States Attorney General
May 24 – Thomas DeSimone, American gangster
May 29
Rebbie Jackson, African-American singer
Frederick Sumaye, 7th Prime Minister of Tanzania
May 31 – Gregory Harrison, American actor, director
June[edit]

Nouri al-Maliki
June 1
Michael McDowell, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 1999)
Gennadi Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
June 3
Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (d. 2015)
Ann Pennington, American model
Suzi Quatro, American singer, songwriter
Deniece Williams, African-American singer
June 5 – Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist, political activist (d. 1977)
June 7 – Howard Finkel, American ring announcer
June 8 – Kathy Baker, American actress
June 11 – Graham Russell, English singer, musician (Air Supply)
June 13 – Belinda Bauer, Australian actress
June 14 – Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
June 15 – Lakshmi Mittal, Indian industrialist
June 16
Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor, singer, producer, writer, social worker, entrepreneur
Jerry Petrowski, American politician, farmer
June 19 – Ann Wilson, American singer, musician ((Heart))
June 20 – Nouri al-Maliki, 74th Prime Minister of Iraq
June 21
Joey Kramer, American musician
Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer, musician
June 22
Adrian Năstase, 59th Prime Minister of Romania
Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian lawyer, politician (d. 2009)
June 24 – Nancy Allen, American actress
June 25
Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
Marcello Toninelli, Italian writer
June 26 – Jaak Joala, Estonian singer, musician (d. 2010)
June 29
Simone Gbagbo, ICC criminal, former Ivorian politician and First Lady
Don Moen, American Christian singer, musician
June 30 – Leonard Whiting, British actor
July[edit]

Philip Craven

Viktor Yanukovych

Richard Branson

Jack Layton
July 1 – Fakahau Valu, Tongan rugby union player
July 3 – Yisrael Aharoni, Israeli Chef and actor
July 4 – Philip Craven, 2nd President of the International Paralympic Committee
July 5 – Huey Lewis, American rock singer (The Power of Love)
July 7 – Riki Gal, Israeli singer
July 9
Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine
July 11 – Pervez Hoodbhoy, Pakistani Nuclear physicist, social activist
July 12 – Eric Carr, American rock drummer, musician (Kiss) (d. 1991)
July 13
Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Jurelang Zedkaia, 5th President of the Marshall Islands (d. 2015)
July 14 – Chungsen Leung, Taiwanese-Canadian businessman, politician
July 17
Derek de Lint, Dutch actor
Tengku Sulaiman Shah, Malaysian corporate figure
Phoebe Snow, African-American singer, songwriter (Poetry Man) (d. 2011)
Peter Neufeld, American lawyer and author
July 18
Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur (Virgin Airlines)
Glenn Hughes, American vocalist (The Village People) (d. 2001)
Jack Layton, Canadian politician (d. 2011)
July 19
Simon Cadell, English actor (d. 1996)
Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
Freddy Moore, American musician
July 20 – William Knox Schroeder, Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970)
July 26 – Susan George, British actress
July 27 – Simon Jones, English actor
July 28
Soh Chin Aun, Malaysian footballer
Sir Tapley Seaton, Kittitian politician, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis
July 29 – Jenny Holzer, American conceptual artist
July 30 – Frank Stallone, American actor
August[edit]

Roy Williams

Ernesto Samper

Anémone

Jim Beaver

Anne, Princess Royal
August 1
Bunkhouse Buck, American professional wrestler
Roy Williams, American basketball coach
Frances Fitzgerald, 24th Tánaiste of Ireland
August 2 – Lance Ito, American judge
August 3
John Landis, American film director
Jo Marie Payton, American actress
Ernesto Samper, 29th President of Colombia
August 4 – Gidi Gov, Israeli singer and artist
August 5 – Rosi Mittermaier, German ski racer
August 7 – Alan Keyes, African-American conservative political activist
August 8
Lucjan Lis, Polish-German cyclist (d. 2015)
Ken Kutaragi, Japanese ex-C.E.O of Sony Computer Entertainment
August 9
Anémone, French actress, filmmaker and political activist (d. 2019)
Nicole Tourneur, French novelist (d. 2011)
August 10 – Patti Austin, African-American singer
August 11
Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)
Gennadiy Nikonov, Russian weapon designer (d. 2003)
Steve Wozniak, American inventor, engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur
August 12
Jim Beaver, American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian
Iris Berben, German actress
George McGinnis, American basketball player
August 13 – Jane Carr, English actress
August 15
Anne, Princess Royal, British Princess, daughter of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh
Neil J. Gunther, Australian/American physicist, computer scientist
Tom Kelly, American baseball manager
Andres Serrano, American photographer
August 16
Hasely Crawford, West Indian athlete
Marshall Manesh, Persian actor
August 17 – Jose Apolinario Lozada Jr., Filipino diplomat, politician (d. 2018)
August 19 – Sudha Murthy, Indian social worker, author
August 21 – Arthur Bremer, American convicted attempted assassin of George Wallace
August 22 – ** Yuri Suri, Bollywood Actor
Scooter Libby, American conservative political adviser

August 26
Carl Deuker, American author
Annette Badland, English actress
Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)
August 27 – Charles Fleischer, American actor, stand-up comedian and voice artist
September[edit]

Phil McGraw

Julie Kavner

Joe Perry

Bill Murray
September 1
Mikhail Fradkov, Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russia (2004–2007)
Phil McGraw, American TV psychologist
September 2
Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
Yuen Wah, Hong Kong actor
September 7
Johann Friedrich, German-Australian engineer, con man
Julie Kavner, American actress and the voice of Marge Simpson
September 8
Mark Gable, Australian singer, songwriter (The Choirboys)
Jim Mattis, American veteran, 26th United States Secretary of Defense
September 10 – Joe Perry, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith)
September 11 – Yigal Bashan, Israeli singer, composer (d. 2018)
September 14
Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
September 15 – Rajiv Malhotra, Indian-American author
September 16
Henry Louis Gates, African-American literary critic
Loyd Grossman, American television presenter, chef
September 17 – Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
September 18 – Shabana Azmi, Indian actress
September 19 – Joan Lunden, American television broadcaster, journalist (Good Morning America)
September 21
Charles Clarke, British politician
Bill Murray, American actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
David Frawley, American author
September 22 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
September 24
Feng Ting-kuo, Taiwanese politician (d. 2018)
Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
September 27 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese actor
September 28 – John Sayles, American director, screenwriter
October[edit]

Randy Quaid

Jeff Conaway

Jakaya Kikwete

Angry Grandpa

Tom Petty

Rino Gaetano

John Candy
October 1
Boris Morukov, Russian astronaut (d. 2015)
Randy Quaid, American actor, comedian (Parents)
October 3
Pamela Hensley, American actress
Phyllis Nelson, American singer (d. 1998)
October 5
Eddie Clarke, English guitarist (Motörhead) (d. 2018)
Jeff Conaway, American actor (Taxi) (d. 2011)
October 7 – Jakaya Kikwete, 4th President of Tanzania
October 9
Everett Peck, American illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and animator
Jody Williams, American teacher, aid worker and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 10 – Nora Roberts, American novelist
October 12
Edward Bloor, American novelist
Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
Pilar Pilapil, Filipina actress
October 14 – Joey Travolta, American actor
October 16
Cecil Bothwell. American atheist writer, politician
Angry Grandpa. American internet personality (d. 2017)
October 17
Dean Shek, Hong Kong actor
Howard Rollins, African-American actor (d. 1996)
October 18 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
October 19 – Bishop Bill Ray, 10th Bishop of North Queensland
October 20 – Tom Petty, American rock singer (d. 2017)
October 22
Bill Owens, American politician, 40th Governor of Colorado
Donald Ramotar, 8th President of Guyana
Patricia Parris, American actress and voice actress
October 25
Walter Kwok, Hong Kong entrepreneur (d. 2018)
Chris Norman, English singer (Smokie)
Mark L. Taylor, American actress and voice actress
October 28
Annette Humpe, German singer (Ideal, Ich + Ich)
Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights activist
October 29
Rino Gaetano, Italian musician and singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
Abdullah Gül, 11th President of Turkey
October 30 – Louise DuArt, American comedian, impersonator
October 31
John Candy, Canadian comedian, actor (Second City Television) (d. 1994)
Jane Pauley, American television broadcaster, journalist (The Today Show)
November[edit]

Chuck Schumer

Ed Harris
November 1
Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Dan Peek, American musician (America) (d. 2011)
November 3 – Massimo Mongai, Italian author
November 4 – Charles Frazier, American novelist
November 6 – Kenny Marks, American Christian musician
November 8 – Mary Hart, American television personality
November 9 – Maravillas Rojo, Catalan politician
November 10
Debra Hill, American producer (d. 2005)
Bob Orton, Jr., American professional wrestler
November 12 – Barbara Fairchild, American country, gospel singer
November 13 – Mary Lou Metzger, American singer, dancer
November 16 – David Leisure, American actor
November 17 – Roland Matthes, German swimmer
November 21
Alberto Juantorena, Cuban athlete
David Williams, American singer, songwriter, musician and producer (d. 2009)
November 22
Jim Lang, American composer
Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
November 23
Raza Murad, Indian actor
Chuck Schumer, American politician
November 24 – Stanley Livingston, American actor
November 28
Ed Harris, American actor, film director (The Right Stuff)
Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Kenneth Fisher, American financial manager, journalist
November 29 – Olavi Mäenpää, Finnish politician (d. 2018)
November 30
Danny Sanderson, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
Paul Westphal, American basketball player and coach
December[edit]

Joan Armatrading

Leonard Maltin

Wendie Malick

María Antonieta de las Nieves
December 1
Manju Bansal, Indian molecular biologist
Themba Dlamini, 9th Prime Minister of Swaziland
Richard Keith (b. Keith Thibodeaux), American child actor
December 2
Amin Saikal, Australian academic professor
Benjamin Stora, French historian
Paul Watson, Canadian-American founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
December 5 – Camarón de la Isla, Spanish singer (d. 1992)
December 7 – Hasanaga Sadigov, Azerbaijani ashik musician (d. 2018)
December 8
Dan Hartman, American pop singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 1994)
Wah Wah Watson, American guitarist (d. 2018)
December 9 – Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer, songwriter
December 10
Tom Towles, American actor (d. 2015)
Kellye Nakahara, American actress (M*A*S*H)
December 12
Darleen Carr, American actress
Heiner Flassbeck, German economist, professor, publicist, political counselor and State secretary
Rajinikanth, Indian actor
December 13 – Wendie Malick, American actress
December 15 – Sylvester James Gates, American theoretical physicist
December 16 – Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006)
December 17 – Laurence F. Johnson, American futurist, educator
December 18 – Leonard Maltin, American film critic
December 19 – Manny Trillo, Venezuelan-born American baseball player
December 22 – María Antonieta de las Nieves, Mexican actress, comedian, and singer (La Chilindrina in El Chavo del Ocho)
December 23
Vicente del Bosque, Spanish footballer, manager
Michael C. Burgess, American politician
December 24 – Deborah J. Glick, American democratic member
December 25 – Ed Hochuli, American football official
December 28 – Alex Chilton, American rock musician (The Box Tops) (d. 2010)
December 29 – Jon Polito, American actor (d. 2016)
December 30 – Safiya Henderson-Holmes, African-American poet (d. 2001)
Date unknown[edit]
Koibla Djimasta, 7th Prime Minister of Chad (d. 2007)
Joseph Yodoyman, 4th Prime Minister of Chad (d. 1993)