January 1
Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of Sudan (d. 2009)
Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Yemeni military officer, politician
Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti (d. 2018)
Ty Hardin, American actor (d. 2017)
Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer
January 2
Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
Donato Piazza, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1997)
January 3
Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
Ahmed Osman, Prime Minister of Morocco
Ruth Dowman, New Zealand long jumper, sprinter (d. 2018)
Barbara Stuart, American actress (d. 2011)
January 4
Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
Don Shula, American football coach
Abderrazak Rassaa, Tunisian politician (d. 2020)
January 5
Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet (d. 2001)
M.R. Srinivasan, Indian nuclear scientist
Edward Givens, United States Air Force officer, test pilot and NASA astronaut (d. 1967)
Dorothy Cotton, American civil rights activist (d. 2018)
Don Rondo, American singer (d. 2011)
January 6
Charles Kalani, Jr., American wrestler and actor (d. 2000)
Oscar Camilión, Argentine lawyer and diplomat (d. 2016)
Vic Tayback, American actor (Alice) (d. 1990)
January 7 – Jack Greene, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
January 9 – Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2010)
January 10 – Roy E. Disney, Disney executive (d. 2009)
January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
January 12
Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player, co-founder of Tim Hortons fast food chain (d. 1974)
Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist
Glenn Yarbrough, American singer (d. 2016)
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020)
January 19
Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon
January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician, diplomat (d. 2001)
January 23
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016)
January 26 – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino artist (d. 2018)
January 27
Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
Usko Meriläinen, Finnish composer (d. 2004)
Carlos Cecconato, Argentinian footballer (d. 2018)
January 30
Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist
Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence in the 1980s (d. 2011)
January 31 – Al De Lory, American record producer, arranger, musician (d. 2012)
February[edit]
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
February 1
Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh (d. 2019)
February 3 – Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist of Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2002)
February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
February 6
Allan King, Canadian director (d. 2009)
Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer, entrepreneur (d. 2017)
February 8
Erich Bohme, German journalist, television host (d. 2009)
Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987)
February 9 – Rafiq Subaie, Syrian actor, writer and director (d. 2017)
February 10
Anne Wexler, American political consultant and public policy advisor (d. 2009)
Robert Wagner, American actor
February 13
Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
Israel Kirzner, English-born American economist, author and academic
February 15
Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
Sara Jane Moore, American prison activist, convicted of the attempted murder of President Gerald Ford
February 16 – Noah Weinberg, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (d. 2009)
February 17
Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach and manager
Ruth Rendell, British author (d. 2015)
February 18 – Gahan Wilson, American author, cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2019)
February 19
John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter
February 21
Rasul Bux Palejo, Pakistani politician, scholar and writer (d. 2018)
Dr. Dame Joan Metge, New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer
February 22
James McGarrell, American painter (d. 2020)
Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
February 23
Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d. 2019)
Fanie du Plessis, South African athlete (d. 2001)
February 24
Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
Joan Diener, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March[edit]
Tom Wolfe
Zhores Alferov
James Irwin
James Coco
Stephen Sondheim
Steve McQueen
John Astin
March 1 – Gagik Hovunts, Armenian composer (d. 2019)
March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018)
March 3
Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017)
Washington Benavides, Uruguayan poet, musician (d. 2017)
Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania
K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d. 2010)
March 4 – Nina Iliescu, 2-time First Lady of Romania
March 5 – István Konkoly, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
March 6
Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014)
Amos Cardarelli, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
March 7
Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (d. 1992)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017)
March 8 – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
March 9 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
March 12 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist, politician (d. 2014)
March 13 – Liz Anderson, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2011)
March 14 – Helga Feddersen, German actress (d. 1990)
March 15
Alba Arnova, Italian-Argentine ballerina, actress (d. 2018)
Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian film director, screenwriter and costume and set designer (d. 1986)
March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
March 18 – Adam Cardinal Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate; Archbishop of Detroit (1990–2009)
March 19
Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef, restaurateur (d. 2017)
Wayne Fitzgerald, American film title designer (d. 2019)
March 20
Willie Thrower, American football player (d. 2002)
Thomas Stafford Williams, New Zealand cardinal
March 21
James Coco, American actor (Only When I Laugh), (Man of La Mancha) (d. 1987)
Lynden Pindling, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
March 22
Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist
Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host
March 24
David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
March 28
Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Joe Fortunato, American football player (d. 2017)
March 29
John Marshall, Australian swimmer (d. 1957)
Lima Duarte, Brazilian actor
Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director (d. 2018)
Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th President of Mauritius
March 30
Petter Fauchald, Norwegian footballer (d. 2013)
John Astin, American actor
Estella Blain, French actress (d. 1982)
Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
March 31
Julián Herranz Casado, Spanish cardinal
Alfréd Jindra, Czechoslovak sprint canoer (d. 2006)
April[edit]
Helmut Kohl
Bradford Dillman
Dick Sargent
James Baker
Carolyn Jones
April 1
Betsy Jones-Moreland, American actress (d. 2006)
Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)
April 2 – Don Hall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
April 3
Lawton Chiles, American politician, U.S. Senator (Florida), 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
April 4 – Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (d. 1989)
April 5
Dov Lando, Israeli rabbi
Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (d. 2019)
April 6 – Pampero Firpo, Argentinian/American professional wrestler (d. 2020)
April 7
Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (d. 2007)
Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (d. 2016)
April 8 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
April 10
Vladimir Yerokhin, Russian footballer (d. 1996)
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist, composer
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
Frank Lary, American baseball player (d. 2017)
April 11 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (d. 1997)
April 12 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish Professor of Engineering (d. 2006)
April 14
Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
Arnold Burns, American lawyer (d. 2013)
April 15
Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (d. 2018)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16
Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (d. 2007)
Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist and important (d. 2003)
April 19
Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
Curtis Roosevelt, American writer (d. 2016)
April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 23 – Shun Akiyama, Japanese literary critic (d. 2013)
April 24
Richard Donner, American film director, producer
José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil
April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
April 28
James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
April 29
Jean Rochefort, French actor (d. 2017)
Henri Coppens, Belgian football player (d. 2015)
Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster, television news anchor (d. 2017)
Mahmud of Terengganu, 16th Sultan of Terengganu (d. 1998)
April 30 – Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist (d. 1992)
May[edit]
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Malcolm Fraser
Sonia Rykiel
Clint Eastwood
May 1
Ethel Ayler, American actress (d. 2018)
Probosutedjo, Indonesian businessman (d. 2018)
Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
Ollie Matson, American sprinter (d. 2011)
May 2 – Vesna Bugarski, Bosnia-Herzegovina's first female architect (d. 1992)
May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
May 4
Katherine Jackson, Jackson Family matriarch
Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
May 6 – David Carpenter, American serial killer
May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017)
May 8 – Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)
May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
May 10
Adam Darius, American dancer, choreographer (d. 2017)
Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster (d. 2013)
May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
May 13
Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (d. 2013)
Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate
May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (d. 2018)
May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
May 17 – María Luisa Mendoza, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician (d. 2018)
May 18 – Shyqyri Rreli, Albanian football player (d. 2019)
May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
May 22
Kenny Ball, British jazz trumpeter, singer (d. 2013)
John Barth, American writer
Harvey Milk, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)
Agustín Tosco, Argentine union leader (d. 1975)
May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
May 28
Frank Drake, American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI
Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2019)
May 30 – Kingunge Ngombale–Mwiru, Tanzanian politician (d. 2018)
May 31
Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist, engineer (d. 1997)
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June[edit]
Pete Conrad
George Fernandes
Jim Nabors
Vilmos Zsigmond
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Rashid Bakr
Ross Perot
Itamar Franco
Horacio Gómez Bolaños
June 1
Pat Corley, American actor (d. 2006)
Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (d. 2009)
June 2
Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
Stewart and Cyril Marcus, American gynecologists (d. 1975)
June 3
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
George Fernandes, Indian politician (d. 2019)
June 4
Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d. 2018)
Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
June 5 – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
June 7 – Dolores Duran, Brazilian singer, songwriter (d. 1959)
June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
June 9
Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
Jordi Pujol, 126th President of the Government of Catalonia
June 10
Gianluigi Porelli, Italian basketball executive (d. 2009)
Grace Mirabella, American editor of Vogue
Satya Priya Mahathero, Bangladeshi Buddhist pundit, religious leader and social worker (d. 2019)
June 11
Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (d. 2019)
Charles Rangel, African-American politician
Ellen Schwiers, German actress (d. 2019)
June 12
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
Son Sen, Cambodian politician, criminal (d. 1997)
June 13 – Armando Hart, Cuban politician (d. 2017)
June 14
Charles McCarry, American novelist (d. 2019)
Bora Kostić, Serbian footballer (d. 2011)
June 15 – Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
June 19
Victoriano Ríos Pérez, Spanish physician, politician (d. 2018)
Gena Rowlands, American actress
Diana Sowle, American actress (d. 2018)
June 20
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (d. 1987)
June 21 – Gerald Kaufman, British Labour politician (d. 2017)
June 22
Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 2007)
June 23
Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, First Lady of Ivory Coast
John Elliott, British historian
June 24
Donald Gordon, South African businessman, philanthropist (d. 2019)
Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1988)
Herb Klein, American businessman, attorney and politician
Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
June 25
James Sedin, American ice hockey player
Memo Luna, Mexican professional baseball player
László Antal, Hungarian linguist (d. 1993)
June 26
Wolfgang Schwanitz, German Leader of the Office for National Security, Head of the Stasi
Tan Ling Houw, Indonesian footballer
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
Jackie Fargo, American wrestler, trainer (d. 2013)
June 27
Ross Perot, American computer billionaire, politician (d. 2019)
Ryszard Ronczewski, Polish actor
June 28
William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Ernesto Domingo, National Scientist of the Philippines
Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturer
Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d. 2011)
Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (d. 1999)
June 29
Hans Däscher, Swiss ski jumper
Robert Evans, American producer (d. 2019)
Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress, Canadian Senator
Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (d. 1998)
June 30
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d. 2018)
Charles Wooler, Zimbabwean cricketer
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician
July[edit]
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Carlos Menem
George Armstrong
Françoise Mallet-Joris
M. Balamuralikrishna
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Biljana Plavšić
Polly Bergen
Sally Ann Howes
July 1 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician, businessman
July 2
Sylve Bengtsson, Swedish association football forward (d. 2005)
Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer
Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
Vojislav Stanovčić, Serbian political scientist, theorist (d. 2017)
July 3
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
José Luis Lamadrid, Mexican football forward
Ferdinando Riva, Swiss football forward (d. 2014)
N. Venkatachala, Indian judge (d. 2019)
July 4
Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
George Steinbrenner, American businessman, baseball team owner (d. 2010)
Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018)
July 6
Michael Baume, Australian former Liberal Party politician
George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player
Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d. 2016)
M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d. 2016)
July 7
Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese football player, manager
Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
July 9
Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player, manager
Juan Carlos Frecia, Argentine fencer
Hugh Morrow, Irish footballer, manager
Yu So-chow, Chinese actress (d. 2017)
July 10
Pete Carril, American former basketball coach
Tom Jones, Australian rules footballer (d. 2018)
Josephine Veasey, British mezzo-soprano
July 11
Jack Alabaster, New Zealand 21 Tests player
Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Indian politician
Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (d. 2019)
Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
July 12
Orlando Nannini, Argentine fencer
María Teresa Sosa, Guatemalan politician, activist (d. 2018)
July 14
Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
Benoît Sinzogan, Beninese military officer, politician
July 15
Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
Alberto Michelotti, Italian football player, referee
Stephen Smale, American mathematician
Betty Wagoner, American professional baseball player (d. 2006)
Lee Wallace, American actor
July 16 – Horst Rittner, German correspondence chess Grandmaster
July 17
Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d. 2018)
William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
July 19
David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist ( d. 2018)
Vincent Lumsden, Jamaican cricketer
July 20
Alex Sánchez Cruz, Costa Rican football player
Sally Ann Howes, English actress, singer
Ronnie MacGilvray, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018[8])
Bryan Conquest, Australian politician (d. 2018)
July 21
Gene Littler, American professional golfer (d. 2019)
Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
Anand Bakshi, Indian poet/lyricist (d. 2002)
July 22
Dinny Flanagan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (d. 2015)
July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d. 2013)
July 25
Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (d. 2018)
July 28
Firoza Begum, Bengali singer (d. 2014)
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
July 29 – Jek Yeun Thong, Singaporean politician (d. 2018)
July 30 – A. D. King, American Baptist minister and civil rights activist (d. 1969)
August[edit]
Neil Armstrong
Robert Culp
Jan Olszewski
Princess Margaret
Sir Sean Connery
Georgiy Daneliya
August 1
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
Lawrence Eagleburger, United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 2014)
August 4
Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d. 2017)
Ali al-Sistani, Shia Ayatollah
August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11 (d. 2012)
August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010)
August 7 – Felicia Kentridge, South African lawyer (d. 2015)
August 9 – Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
August 10
Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018)
Jorma Panula, Finnish conductor, composer
Fakir Musafar, American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d. 2018)
August 12
Vali Myers, Australian visionary artist, dancer, bohemian and muse (d. 2003)
George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
Peter Weck, Austrian film director, actor
August 13 – Don Ho, American singer, musician (d. 2007)
August 14
Earl Weaver, American professional baseball player, manager (d. 2013)
Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
August 15
Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (d. 1969)
Selma James, American-born feminist writer
August 16
Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne
Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
Leslie Manigat, 34th President of Haiti (d. 2014)
Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d. 2018)
August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 18
Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran educator, politician (d. 2014)
Denis McLean, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant (d. 2011)
August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009)
August 20 – Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2019)
August 21
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (d. 1943)
August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
August 23
Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (d. 2020)
August 24
Sultanah Bahiyah, Sultanah of Kedah (d. 2003)
Sidique Ali Merican, Malaysian sprinter, sports administrator (d. 2009)
August 25
Peter Trower, Canadian poet, novelist (d. 2017)
Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (James Bond)
Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
August 28
Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (d. 2019)
Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (d. 2013)
Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
August 30
Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
Xernona Clayton, American civil rights activist and broadcasting executive
Paul Poupard, French cardinal
August 31 – Tengku Ampuan Besar Bariah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2011)
September[edit]
Baudouin I of Belgium
Mario Adorf
Akira Suzuki
Ray Charles
John Young
September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
September 2 – Rita Riggs, American costume designer (d. 2017)
September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 4 – Norman Dorsen, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
September 6 – Salvatore De Giorgi, Italian cardinal
September 7
King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist
September 8 – Mario Adorf, German actor
September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
September 11
Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 13
Mary Baumgartner, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018)
Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (d. 2001)
September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
September 17
David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski) (d. 2016)
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut
September 20 – Kenneth Mopeli, Chief Minister of QwaQwa bantustan (d. 2014)
September 22 – T. S. Sinnathuray, judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
September 23
Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (d. 1987)
Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
September 24
Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
September 26
Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018)
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor singer (d. 1966)
September 28 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (d. 2019)
September 29
Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (d. 2017)
Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
September 30 – Gilbert Albert, Swiss jeweler (d. 2019)
October[edit]
Richard Harris
Hafez al-Assad
Mobutu Sese Seko
The Big Bopper
Michael Collins
October 1
Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d. 2002)
Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, American Episcopal priest, and activist
October 2 – Dave Barrett, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
October 4 – Andrej Marinc, Slovenian politician
October 5
Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
October 6
Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer, commentator (d. 2015)
October 8
Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
Cosetta Greco, Italian actress (d. 2002)
October 10
Yves Chauvin, Belgian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
Doris Payne, American jewel thief
Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
October 11
Bill Fischer, American baseball player (d. 2018)
Sam Johnson, American politician
October 14
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1997)
October 15
Ingemar Mundebo, Swedish politician (d. 2018)
Christian Tumi, Cameroonian cardinal
October 17
Nick Chickillo, American football player (d. 2000)
Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 18
Trevor Bell, British artist (d. 2017)
Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
October 19
Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman (d. 2019)
Jody Lawrance, American actress (d. 1986)
October 20 – Leila Seth, Indian judge (d. 2017)
October 24
Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2019)
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d. 1959)
Jack Angel, American voice actor
October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
October 29
Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer, dancer
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (d. 2002)
October 30
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
October 31 – Michael Collins, American astronaut
November[edit]
Mildred Dresselhaus
Richard A. Falk
Ed White
Bob Mathias
November 3 – D. James Kennedy, American evangelist (d. 2007)
November 4
Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
Harris Salleh, Malaysian politician
November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
November 6
Derrick Bell, American law professor (d. 2011)
Wilma Briggs, American female baseball player
November 11
Stuart Briscoe, British-American pastor, motivational speaker and author
Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist, educator (d. 2017)
Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd Prime Minister of Swaziland
Alevtina Kolchina, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier
November 12 – Bob Crewe, American singer, songwriter, manager, and producer (d. 2014)
November 13 – Richard A. Falk, American professor emeritus
November 14
Shirley Crabtree ("Big Daddy"), British professional wrestler (d. 1997)
Jānis Pujats, Latvian cardinal
Ed White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
November 16
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
Salvatore Riina, Italian multiple murderer (d. 2017)
November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
November 18 – Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, Indian politician (d. 2018)
November 19 – Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-German politician and philanthropist
November 20
Bernard Horsfall, British actor (d. 2013)
Curly Putman, American songwriter (d. 2016)
Choe Yong-rim, North Korean politician
November 22 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
November 24 – Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher, photographer (d. 2018)
November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
November 26 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2018)
November 27 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries
December[edit]
Jean-Luc Godard
Maximilian Schell
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Odetta
December 1 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2
Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
Vlatko Pavletić, Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist (d. 2007)
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
December 4
Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (d. 2013)
Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (d. 2016)
December 6
Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
Carlo Reali, Italian actor, voice actor and film editor
December 7 – Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer
December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
December 9
Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 2020)
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur
December 15
Günter Siebert, German football player, executive (d. 2017)
Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
December 17
Gerard Kerkum, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)
Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
Makoto Moroi, Japanese composer (d. 2013)
December 21
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d. 2018)
Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d. 1986)
December 28
Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d. 2010)
Franzl Lang, German yodeler (d. 2015)
December 30
Alvin Peterson, Jamaican percussionist
Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 31
Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
Jaime Escalante, American high school math teacher (d. 2010)
January[edit]
Toshiki Kaifu
Robert Duvall
Caterina Valente
James Earl Jones
January 1 – Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016)
January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan
January 4
Guido Messina, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2020)
William Deane, 22nd Governor-General of Australia
Cleopa Msuya, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania
José Triana, Cuban poet (d. 2018)
January 5
Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
Robert Duvall, American actor, director
January 6
E. L. Doctorow, American author (d. 2015)
Kaoru Yachigusa, Japanese actress (d. 2019)
January 8 – Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
January 10 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. 2015)
January 12 – Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (d. 1998)
January 13 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
January 14 – Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
January 16
Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2018)
Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
January 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
January 19 – Pat Hunt, New Zealand National Party politician
January 20
Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer, novelist (d. 1984)
David Lee, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
January 24 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
January 25 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
January 26 – Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist, music teacher (d. 2013)
January 27 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
January 28 – Lucia Bosè, Italian actress
January 29 – Ferenc Mádl, President of Hungary (d. 2011)
January 31 – Ernie Banks, African-American baseball player (d. 2015)
February[edit]
Boris Yeltsin
Dries van Agt
Isabel Martínez de Perón
James Dean
February 1
Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
Oswald Oberhuber, Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2020)
February 2
Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, 46th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Walter Burkert, German writer (d. 2015)
February 4 – Isabel Martínez de Perón, 41st President of Argentina
February 6
Rip Torn, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Mamie Van Doren, American actress, author
Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal (d. 2017)
February 8
James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
Shadia, Egyptian actress, singer (d. 2017)
February 9
Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
Josef Masopust, Czech football player and coach (d. 2015)
February 12 – Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Spanish cardinal (d. 2011)
February 14 – Gerrit Jan Hejin, Dutch businessman (d. 1987)
February 15 – Claire Bloom, English actress
February 16 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
February 18
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
Toni Morrison, African-American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2019)[9]
February 24 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
February 28
Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Mayor of Pacific Palisades
Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
March[edit]
Mikhail Gorbachev
León Febres Cordero
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
March 1 – Lamberto Dini, Italian politician, economist and 51st Prime Minister of Italy
March 2 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
March 3 – John Smith, American actor (d. 1995)
March 4
William H. Keeler, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
Alice Rivlin, American economist (d. 2019)
March 5 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player (d. 2020)
March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic (d. 2003)
March 9 – León Febres Cordero, President of Ecuador (d. 2008)
March 10 – Kovambo Nujoma, First Lady of Namibia
March 11
Janosch, German writer
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher
March 12 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (d. 2019)
March 14 – Lisbet Palme, Swedish child psychologist (d. 2018)
March 15 – D. J. Fontana, American drummer (d. 2018)
March 18 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey and football player (d. 2015)
March 20
James Mollison, Australian arts administrator (d. 2020)
Hal Linden, American actor, singer (Barney Miller)
Karen Steele, American actress (d. 1988)
March 22
Paul G. Hewitt, American physicist, boxer, uranium prospector, author and cartoonist
Burton Richter, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
William Shatner, Canadian actor, science fiction novelist (Star Trek)
March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor, film director (Star Trek), and singer (d. 2015)
March 27 – David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive) (d. 1980)
March 28 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. 2018)
March 29
Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015)
Norman Tebbit, British politician
April[edit]
Suchitra Sen
Luís Cabral
April 1
Ita Ever, Estonian actress
Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (d. 2018)
April 5
Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter, record producer (d. 2013)
Héctor Olivera, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
April 6
Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), Bengali actress (d. 2014)
Radomil Eliška, Czech conductor (d. 2019)
April 8 – John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (d. 2018)
April 11
Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Turkish free-style wrestler
Johnny Sheffield, American child actor (d. 2010)
April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
April 13 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver (d. 2018)
April 15
Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. 2009)
Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2015)
April 17 – Esteban Siller, Mexican voice actor (d. 2013)
April 19 – Kobie Coetsee, South African politician (d. 2000)
April 26 – John Cain, Australian politician (d. 2019)
April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
April 29
Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
May[edit]
Willie Mays
Natwar Singh
Faten Hamama
Carroll Baker
May 1 – Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool, Pakistani educationist (d. 1991)
May 3
Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (d. 2019)
May 6
Magda al-Sabahi, Egyptian actress (d. 2020)
Willie Mays, African-American baseball player
May 7
Teresa Brewer, American pop, jazz singer (d. 2007)
Marta Terry González, Cuban librarian (d. 2018)
Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2019)
May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
May 10
M. Chidananda Murthy, Indian historian (d. 2020)
Ichirō Nagai, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
May 13
András Hajnal, Hungarian mathematician (d. 2016)
Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978)
Jiří Petr, Czech university president (d. 2014)
May 16
Magda Guzmán, Mexican actress (d. 2015)
Natwar Singh, Indian politician
May 17 – Marshall Applewhite, American Heaven's Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997)
May 18
Don Martin, American artist (MAD Magazine) (d. 2000)
Robert Morse, American actor
Clément Vincent, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
May 19 – Éric Tappy, Swiss tenor
May 21 – Bombolo, Italian character actor and comedian (d. 1987)
May 23 – Barbara Barrie, American actress and writer
May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
May 28 – Carroll Baker, American actress
May 31
John Schrieffer, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
June[edit]
Raúl Castro
Dana Wynter
Marla Gibbs
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Olympia Dukakis
June 2 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
June 3
Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (d. 2018)
June 4 – D. M. Jayaratne, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2019)
June 6 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (d. 2020)
June 7 – Andrea Gemma, Italian bishop (d. 2019)
June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
June 9 – Jackie Mason, American comedian
June 10 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova (d. 2019)
June 14
Marla Gibbs, African-American actress, comedian and singer
Junior Walker, American saxophonist, singer (d. 1995)
June 16 – Ivo Petrić, Slovenian composer (d. 2018)
June 17
Kawther Ramzi, Egyptian actress (d. 2018)
John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (d. 2020)
June 18 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil
June 20
Mary L. Good, American inorganic chemist (d. 2019)
Olympia Dukakis, American actress
Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer (d. 2010)
June 21 – Margaret Heckler, American Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2018)
June 22 – Ian Browne, Australian track cyclist
June 23 – Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
June 24
Árpád Bárány, Hungarian fencer
Billy Casper, American golfer (d. 2015)
Gaston Flosse, French politician
June 25 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
June 26 – Colin Wilson, British writer (d. 2013)
June 27
Graziella Galvani, Italian stage, television and film actress
Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
June 28
Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. 2017)
Jenny Glusker, British biochemist and crystallographer
Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s (d. 2019)
June 29 – Alina Obidniak, Polish actress and theatre director
June 30 – Gerda Herrmann, German composer and poet
July[edit]
Leslie Caron
Seyni Kountché
Della Reese
Thorvald Stoltenberg
July 1
Leslie Caron, French actress
Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist
Seyni Kountché, former President of Niger (d. 1987)
July 2
Oddur Pétursson, Icelandic cross country skier (d. 2018)
Mohammad Yazdi, Iranian cleric
July 4 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (Ben-Hur) (d. 1977)
July 5 – Ismail Mahomed, South African, Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
July 6
Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress, singer
Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer, women's rights activist (d. 2018)
Della Reese, African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d. 2017)
July 8 – Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
July 10
Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
Morris Chang, Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in 1987
Jerry Herman, American composer, lyricist (d. 2019)
Julian May, American science fiction, fantasy, horror, and science writer (d. 2017)
Alice Munro, Canadian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
July 11 – Tab Hunter, American actor, singer (d. 2018)
July 13 – Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018)
July 14
Mirella Ricciardi, Kenyan photographer, author
Robert Stephens, English actor (d. 1995)
July 15
Clive Cussler, American thriller writer and underwater explorer (d. 2020)
Gene Louw, South African politician
July 17 – Caroline Graham, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist
July 22 – Guido de Marco, Maltese politician, 6th President of Malta (d. 2010)
July 23 – Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)
July 25 – Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera director, administrator and journalist (d. 2018)
July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor (d. 2018)
August[edit]
Don King
Barbara Eden
Sri Chinmoy
August 1 – Hal Connolly, American athlete (d. 2010)
August 2
Ruth Maria Kubitschek, German actress
Sha'ari Tadin, Malaysian politician (d. 2009)
August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov, Russian discus thrower (d. 2001)
August 6 – Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. 2014)
August 9 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football player, manager
August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (Billy Jack) (d. 2013)
August 12 – William Goldman, American author (d. 2018)
August 15
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince and politician (d. 2018)
Richard F. Heck, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
Janice Rule, American actress (d. 2003)
August 16
Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2004)
William Luce, American writer (d. 2019)
August 18 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010)
August 19 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
August 20 – Don King, American boxing promoter
August 23
Barbara Eden, American actress, singer (I Dream of Jeannie)
Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 24 - Ciputra, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
August 25 – Regis Philbin, American television personality
August 27
Sri Chinmoy, Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in 1964 (d. 2007)
Clarence James, Bermudian surgeon, politician (d. 2016)
August 28 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player, manager (d. 2017)
August 30
Jacques Braunstein, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. 2009)
Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
August 31
Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player (d. 2014)
Kenny Burrell, American jazz musician
Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
September[edit]
Ian Holm
Barbara Bain
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco
Larry Hagman
September 2 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor (d. 1976)
September 3 – Paulo Maluf, Brazilian politician
September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
September 5 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (d. 2018)
September 7 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman and football club president (d. 2018)
September 10
Idelisa Bonnelly, Dominican marine biologist
Philip Baker Hall, American actor
September 12
Ian Holm, British actor
George Jones, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
Bill McKinney, American character actor (d. 2011)
September 13 – Barbara Bain, American actress (Mission: Impossible)
September 16 – E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018)
September 17
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011)
Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
September 19
Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
Ray Danton, American actor (d. 1992)
September 21
Shmuel Auerbach, Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 2018)
Larry Hagman, American actor, director (Dallas) (d. 2012)
September 22 – Fay Weldon, British author
September 24 – Tom Adams, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985)
September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor
September 29
James Cronin, American nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2016)
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (d. 2015)
September 30 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
October[edit]
Desmond Tutu
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Dan Rather
October 2 – Jakob Schönenberger, Swiss banker, politician (d. 2018)
October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, American architect
October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
October 7
Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 13
Raymond Kopa, French footballer (d. 2017)
Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
October 15 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India (d. 2015)
October 16
Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012)
Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress, humanitarian
October 17 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (d. 2011)
October 19
John le Carré, English novelist
Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2013)
October 20
Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (d. 2019)
October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor, director (d. 2011)
October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (d. 2015)
October 23
Jim Bunning, American baseball player, U.S. Senator (d. 2017)
Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984)
October 24 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
October 25 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager
October 26 – Suhaila Noah, spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 2014)
October 28 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
October 29 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (d. 2015)
October 30 – Dick Gautier, American actor (d. 2017)
October 31
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist campaigner
Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2019)[10]
Dan Rather, American television news reporter (CBS Evening News)
November[edit]
Ike Turner
Mwai Kibaki
Tomi Ungerer
November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
November 3
Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. 2007)
Monica Vitti, Italian actress
November 4 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (d. 2017)
November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
November 6
Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
Mike Nichols, German-American television actor, writer and director (d. 2014)
November 8
Darla Hood, American child actress, voice actress and singer (Our Gang) (d. 1979)
Morley Safer, Canadian journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2016)
November 12
Majida Boulila, Tunisian militant (d. 1952)
Mary Louise Wilson, American actress, singer
November 15
John Kerr, American actor (d. 2013)
Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya
Pascal Lissouba, President of the Republic of Congo
November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician (d. 2011)
November 21 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
November 26 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
November 28
Dervla Murphy, Irish author
Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (d. 2019)
November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
December[edit]
George Maxwell Richards
Rita Moreno
Carlos Graça
December 1
George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, Bangladeshi barrister and politician
December 2
Nigel Calder, British science writer (d. 2014)
Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1971)
Edwin Meese, American attorney, law professor, and author
December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer, chanteuse
December 5 – Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni, Indian Navy admiral (d. 2018)
December 7 – Carmela Rey, Mexican singer, actress (d. 2018)
December 9 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech film, theater director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
December 11 – Rita Moreno, Puerto-Rican actress (West Side Story)
December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (d. 2015)
December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian, American actor (The Partridge Family) (d. 2014)
December 21
Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2017)
Georgi Naydenov, Bulgarian footballer and manager (d. 1970)
December 22 – Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2013)
December 23 – Ronnie Schell, American actor
December 24
Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2011)
Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008)
December 26 – Roger Piantoni, French footballer (d. 2018)
December 27
John Charles, Welsh international footballer (d. 2004)
Scotty Moore, American guitarist (d. 2016)
Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician
December 28 – Martin Milner, American actor (Adam-12) (d. 2015)
December 30
Charles Bassett, American electrical engineer, astronaut (d. 1966)
Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)
Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of Sudan (d. 2009)
Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Yemeni military officer, politician
Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti (d. 2018)
Ty Hardin, American actor (d. 2017)
Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer
January 2
Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
Donato Piazza, Italian racing cyclist (d. 1997)
January 3
Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
Ahmed Osman, Prime Minister of Morocco
Ruth Dowman, New Zealand long jumper, sprinter (d. 2018)
Barbara Stuart, American actress (d. 2011)
January 4
Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
Don Shula, American football coach
Abderrazak Rassaa, Tunisian politician (d. 2020)
January 5
Jesús Rosas Marcano, Venezuelan poet (d. 2001)
M.R. Srinivasan, Indian nuclear scientist
Edward Givens, United States Air Force officer, test pilot and NASA astronaut (d. 1967)
Dorothy Cotton, American civil rights activist (d. 2018)
Don Rondo, American singer (d. 2011)
January 6
Charles Kalani, Jr., American wrestler and actor (d. 2000)
Oscar Camilión, Argentine lawyer and diplomat (d. 2016)
Vic Tayback, American actor (Alice) (d. 1990)
January 7 – Jack Greene, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
January 9 – Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2010)
January 10 – Roy E. Disney, Disney executive (d. 2009)
January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
January 12
Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player, co-founder of Tim Hortons fast food chain (d. 1974)
Jennifer Johnston, Irish novelist
Glenn Yarbrough, American singer (d. 2016)
January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020)
January 19
Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
Tippi Hedren, American actress
January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11), second person to set foot on the Moon
January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician, diplomat (d. 2001)
January 23
Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
William R. Pogue, American astronaut (d. 2014)
January 24 – Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016)
January 26 – Napoleon Abueva, Filipino artist (d. 2018)
January 27
Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
Usko Meriläinen, Finnish composer (d. 2004)
Carlos Cecconato, Argentinian footballer (d. 2018)
January 30
Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist
Magnus Malan, South African soldier, Minister of Defence in the 1980s (d. 2011)
January 31 – Al De Lory, American record producer, arranger, musician (d. 2012)
February[edit]
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Robert Wagner
Joanne Woodward
February 1
Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh
Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh (d. 2019)
February 3 – Mani Krishnaswami, Carnatic music vocalist of Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2002)
February 4 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
February 6
Allan King, Canadian director (d. 2009)
Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
February 7 – Ikutaro Kakehashi, Japanese engineer, entrepreneur (d. 2017)
February 8
Erich Bohme, German journalist, television host (d. 2009)
Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987)
February 9 – Rafiq Subaie, Syrian actor, writer and director (d. 2017)
February 10
Anne Wexler, American political consultant and public policy advisor (d. 2009)
Robert Wagner, American actor
February 13
Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
Israel Kirzner, English-born American economist, author and academic
February 15
Bruce Dawe, Australian poet
Sara Jane Moore, American prison activist, convicted of the attempted murder of President Gerald Ford
February 16 – Noah Weinberg, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah (d. 2009)
February 17
Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach and manager
Ruth Rendell, British author (d. 2015)
February 18 – Gahan Wilson, American author, cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2019)
February 19
John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter
February 21
Rasul Bux Palejo, Pakistani politician, scholar and writer (d. 2018)
Dr. Dame Joan Metge, New Zealand social anthropologist, educator, lecturer and writer
February 22
James McGarrell, American painter (d. 2020)
Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
February 23
Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d. 2019)
Fanie du Plessis, South African athlete (d. 2001)
February 24
Anita Steckel, American feminist artist (d. 2012)
Joan Diener, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
February 28 – Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
March[edit]
Tom Wolfe
Zhores Alferov
James Irwin
James Coco
Stephen Sondheim
Steve McQueen
John Astin
March 1 – Gagik Hovunts, Armenian composer (d. 2019)
March 2 – Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018)
March 3
Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017)
Washington Benavides, Uruguayan poet, musician (d. 2017)
Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania
K. S. Rajah, Singaporean Senior Counsel, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court (d. 2010)
March 4 – Nina Iliescu, 2-time First Lady of Romania
March 5 – István Konkoly, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
March 6
Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014)
Amos Cardarelli, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
March 7
Chitrananda Abeysekera, Sri Lankan veteran broadcaster (d. 1992)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017)
March 8 – Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (d. 2008)
March 9 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
March 12 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist, politician (d. 2014)
March 13 – Liz Anderson, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2011)
March 14 – Helga Feddersen, German actress (d. 1990)
March 15
Alba Arnova, Italian-Argentine ballerina, actress (d. 2018)
Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian film director, screenwriter and costume and set designer (d. 1986)
March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
March 18 – Adam Cardinal Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate; Archbishop of Detroit (1990–2009)
March 19
Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef, restaurateur (d. 2017)
Wayne Fitzgerald, American film title designer (d. 2019)
March 20
Willie Thrower, American football player (d. 2002)
Thomas Stafford Williams, New Zealand cardinal
March 21
James Coco, American actor (Only When I Laugh), (Man of La Mancha) (d. 1987)
Lynden Pindling, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
March 22
Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist
Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host
March 24
David Dacko, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
March 28
Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Joe Fortunato, American football player (d. 2017)
March 29
John Marshall, Australian swimmer (d. 1957)
Lima Duarte, Brazilian actor
Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director (d. 2018)
Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th President of Mauritius
March 30
Petter Fauchald, Norwegian footballer (d. 2013)
John Astin, American actor
Estella Blain, French actress (d. 1982)
Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer
March 31
Julián Herranz Casado, Spanish cardinal
Alfréd Jindra, Czechoslovak sprint canoer (d. 2006)
April[edit]
Helmut Kohl
Bradford Dillman
Dick Sargent
James Baker
Carolyn Jones
April 1
Betsy Jones-Moreland, American actress (d. 2006)
Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2015)
April 2 – Don Hall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
April 3
Lawton Chiles, American politician, U.S. Senator (Florida), 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
April 4 – Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (d. 1989)
April 5
Dov Lando, Israeli rabbi
Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (d. 2019)
April 6 – Pampero Firpo, Argentinian/American professional wrestler (d. 2020)
April 7
Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (d. 2007)
Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (d. 2016)
April 8 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
April 10
Vladimir Yerokhin, Russian footballer (d. 1996)
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist, composer
Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
Frank Lary, American baseball player (d. 2017)
April 11 – Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (d. 1997)
April 12 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish Professor of Engineering (d. 2006)
April 14
Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
Arnold Burns, American lawyer (d. 2013)
April 15
Zhu Xu, Chinese actor (d. 2018)
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
April 16
Carol Bly, American teacher, author of short stories, essays and nonfiction (d. 2007)
Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist and important (d. 2003)
April 19
Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
Curtis Roosevelt, American writer (d. 2016)
April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
April 23 – Shun Akiyama, Japanese literary critic (d. 2013)
April 24
Richard Donner, American film director, producer
José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil
April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
April 28
James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
April 29
Jean Rochefort, French actor (d. 2017)
Henri Coppens, Belgian football player (d. 2015)
Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster, television news anchor (d. 2017)
Mahmud of Terengganu, 16th Sultan of Terengganu (d. 1998)
April 30 – Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist (d. 1992)
May[edit]
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Malcolm Fraser
Sonia Rykiel
Clint Eastwood
May 1
Ethel Ayler, American actress (d. 2018)
Probosutedjo, Indonesian businessman (d. 2018)
Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
Ollie Matson, American sprinter (d. 2011)
May 2 – Vesna Bugarski, Bosnia-Herzegovina's first female architect (d. 1992)
May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
May 4
Katherine Jackson, Jackson Family matriarch
Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
May 6 – David Carpenter, American serial killer
May 7 – Babe Parilli, American football player (d. 2017)
May 8 – Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)
May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
May 10
Adam Darius, American dancer, choreographer (d. 2017)
Pat Summerall, American football player, broadcaster (d. 2013)
May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
May 13
Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (d. 2013)
Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate
May 14 – María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (d. 2018)
May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
May 17 – María Luisa Mendoza, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician (d. 2018)
May 18 – Shyqyri Rreli, Albanian football player (d. 2019)
May 19 – Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)
May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
May 22
Kenny Ball, British jazz trumpeter, singer (d. 2013)
John Barth, American writer
Harvey Milk, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)
Agustín Tosco, Argentine union leader (d. 1975)
May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
May 28
Frank Drake, American radio astronomer, pioneer in SETI
Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2019)
May 30 – Kingunge Ngombale–Mwiru, Tanzanian politician (d. 2018)
May 31
Ruslan Stratonovich, Russian physicist, engineer (d. 1997)
Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June[edit]
Pete Conrad
George Fernandes
Jim Nabors
Vilmos Zsigmond
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Rashid Bakr
Ross Perot
Itamar Franco
Horacio Gómez Bolaños
June 1
Pat Corley, American actor (d. 2006)
Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (d. 2009)
June 2
Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
Stewart and Cyril Marcus, American gynecologists (d. 1975)
June 3
Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
George Fernandes, Indian politician (d. 2019)
June 4
Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d. 2018)
Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
June 5 – Vladimir Popov, Soviet animator, animation and art director (d. 1987)
June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
June 7 – Dolores Duran, Brazilian singer, songwriter (d. 1959)
June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
June 9
Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
Jordi Pujol, 126th President of the Government of Catalonia
June 10
Gianluigi Porelli, Italian basketball executive (d. 2009)
Grace Mirabella, American editor of Vogue
Satya Priya Mahathero, Bangladeshi Buddhist pundit, religious leader and social worker (d. 2019)
June 11
Neale Lavis, Australian equestrian (d. 2019)
Charles Rangel, African-American politician
Ellen Schwiers, German actress (d. 2019)
June 12
Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
Son Sen, Cambodian politician, criminal (d. 1997)
June 13 – Armando Hart, Cuban politician (d. 2017)
June 14
Charles McCarry, American novelist (d. 2019)
Bora Kostić, Serbian footballer (d. 2011)
June 15 – Odile Versois, French actress (d. 1980)
June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
June 19
Victoriano Ríos Pérez, Spanish physician, politician (d. 2018)
Gena Rowlands, American actress
Diana Sowle, American actress (d. 2018)
June 20
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (d. 1987)
June 21 – Gerald Kaufman, British Labour politician (d. 2017)
June 22
Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 2007)
June 23
Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, First Lady of Ivory Coast
John Elliott, British historian
June 24
Donald Gordon, South African businessman, philanthropist (d. 2019)
Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1988)
Herb Klein, American businessman, attorney and politician
Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
June 25
James Sedin, American ice hockey player
Memo Luna, Mexican professional baseball player
László Antal, Hungarian linguist (d. 1993)
June 26
Wolfgang Schwanitz, German Leader of the Office for National Security, Head of the Stasi
Tan Ling Houw, Indonesian footballer
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
Jackie Fargo, American wrestler, trainer (d. 2013)
June 27
Ross Perot, American computer billionaire, politician (d. 2019)
Ryszard Ronczewski, Polish actor
June 28
William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Ernesto Domingo, National Scientist of the Philippines
Maureen Howard, American writer, editor and lecturer
Itamar Franco, President of Brazil (d. 2011)
Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (d. 1999)
June 29
Hans Däscher, Swiss ski jumper
Robert Evans, American producer (d. 2019)
Viola Léger, Acadian-Canadian actress, Canadian Senator
Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (d. 1998)
June 30
Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d. 2018)
Charles Wooler, Zimbabwean cricketer
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician
July[edit]
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Carlos Menem
George Armstrong
Françoise Mallet-Joris
M. Balamuralikrishna
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Biljana Plavšić
Polly Bergen
Sally Ann Howes
July 1 – Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician, businessman
July 2
Sylve Bengtsson, Swedish association football forward (d. 2005)
Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer
Carlos Menem, President of Argentina
Vojislav Stanovčić, Serbian political scientist, theorist (d. 2017)
July 3
Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
Ku Feng, Hong Kong actor
José Luis Lamadrid, Mexican football forward
Ferdinando Riva, Swiss football forward (d. 2014)
N. Venkatachala, Indian judge (d. 2019)
July 4
Mohamed Demagh, Algerian sculptor (d. 2018)
George Steinbrenner, American businessman, baseball team owner (d. 2010)
Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018)
July 6
Michael Baume, Australian former Liberal Party politician
George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player
Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (d. 2016)
M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian Carnatic vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer and actor (d. 2016)
July 7
Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese football player, manager
Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
July 9
Slavko Dacevski, Macedonian football player, manager
Juan Carlos Frecia, Argentine fencer
Hugh Morrow, Irish footballer, manager
Yu So-chow, Chinese actress (d. 2017)
July 10
Pete Carril, American former basketball coach
Tom Jones, Australian rules footballer (d. 2018)
Josephine Veasey, British mezzo-soprano
July 11
Jack Alabaster, New Zealand 21 Tests player
Shafiqur Rahman Barq, Indian politician
Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (d. 2019)
Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
July 12
Orlando Nannini, Argentine fencer
María Teresa Sosa, Guatemalan politician, activist (d. 2018)
July 14
Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
Benoît Sinzogan, Beninese military officer, politician
July 15
Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
Alberto Michelotti, Italian football player, referee
Stephen Smale, American mathematician
Betty Wagoner, American professional baseball player (d. 2006)
Lee Wallace, American actor
July 16 – Horst Rittner, German correspondence chess Grandmaster
July 17
Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
Ray Galton, English scriptwriter (d. 2018)
William Heseltine, Australian Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
July 19
David Rubadiri, Malawian diplomat, academic, poet, playwright and novelist ( d. 2018)
Vincent Lumsden, Jamaican cricketer
July 20
Alex Sánchez Cruz, Costa Rican football player
Sally Ann Howes, English actress, singer
Ronnie MacGilvray, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018[8])
Bryan Conquest, Australian politician (d. 2018)
July 21
Gene Littler, American professional golfer (d. 2019)
Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
Anand Bakshi, Indian poet/lyricist (d. 2002)
July 22
Dinny Flanagan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (d. 2015)
July 24 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (d. 2013)
July 25
Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1985)
Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
Mitzi Shore, American comedy club owner (d. 2018)
July 28
Firoza Begum, Bengali singer (d. 2014)
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
July 29 – Jek Yeun Thong, Singaporean politician (d. 2018)
July 30 – A. D. King, American Baptist minister and civil rights activist (d. 1969)
August[edit]
Neil Armstrong
Robert Culp
Jan Olszewski
Princess Margaret
Sir Sean Connery
Georgiy Daneliya
August 1
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
Lawrence Eagleburger, United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
Károly Grósz, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer and actor (d. 2014)
August 4
Enrico Castellani, Italian painter (d. 2017)
Ali al-Sistani, Shia Ayatollah
August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, commander of Apollo 11 (d. 2012)
August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (d. 2010)
August 7 – Felicia Kentridge, South African lawyer (d. 2015)
August 9 – Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
August 10
Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018)
Jorma Panula, Finnish conductor, composer
Fakir Musafar, American performance artist, body modification pioneer (d. 2018)
August 12
Vali Myers, Australian visionary artist, dancer, bohemian and muse (d. 2003)
George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
Peter Weck, Austrian film director, actor
August 13 – Don Ho, American singer, musician (d. 2007)
August 14
Earl Weaver, American professional baseball player, manager (d. 2013)
Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
August 15
Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (d. 1969)
Selma James, American-born feminist writer
August 16
Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne
Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
Leslie Manigat, 34th President of Haiti (d. 2014)
Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d. 2018)
August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
August 18
Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran educator, politician (d. 2014)
Denis McLean, New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant (d. 2011)
August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (d. 2009)
August 20 – Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2019)
August 21
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (d. 1943)
August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
August 23
Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (d. 2016)
Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (d. 2020)
August 24
Sultanah Bahiyah, Sultanah of Kedah (d. 2003)
Sidique Ali Merican, Malaysian sprinter, sports administrator (d. 2009)
August 25
Peter Trower, Canadian poet, novelist (d. 2017)
Sir Sean Connery, Scottish actor (James Bond)
Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
August 28
Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (d. 2019)
Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (d. 2013)
Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
August 30
Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
Xernona Clayton, American civil rights activist and broadcasting executive
Paul Poupard, French cardinal
August 31 – Tengku Ampuan Besar Bariah, Malaysian royal consort (d. 2011)
September[edit]
Baudouin I of Belgium
Mario Adorf
Akira Suzuki
Ray Charles
John Young
September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
September 2 – Rita Riggs, American costume designer (d. 2017)
September 3 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author (d. 2002)
September 4 – Norman Dorsen, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
September 6 – Salvatore De Giorgi, Italian cardinal
September 7
King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist
September 8 – Mario Adorf, German actor
September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
September 11
Cathryn Damon, American actress (d. 1987)
Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (d. 1997)
September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 13
Mary Baumgartner, American female professional baseball player (d. 2018)
Bola Ige, Nigerian politician (d. 2001)
September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
September 17
David Huddleston, American actor (The Big Lebowski) (d. 2016)
Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut
September 20 – Kenneth Mopeli, Chief Minister of QwaQwa bantustan (d. 2014)
September 22 – T. S. Sinnathuray, judge of the High Court of Singapore (d. 2016)
September 23
Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (d. 1987)
Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
September 24
Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
Benjamin Romualdez, Filipino politician (d. 2012)
John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
September 26
Philip Bosco, American actor (d. 2018)
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor singer (d. 1966)
September 28 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (d. 2019)
September 29
Colin Dexter, English detective fiction writer (d. 2017)
Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
September 30 – Gilbert Albert, Swiss jeweler (d. 2019)
October[edit]
Richard Harris
Hafez al-Assad
Mobutu Sese Seko
The Big Bopper
Michael Collins
October 1
Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d. 2002)
Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, American Episcopal priest, and activist
October 2 – Dave Barrett, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
October 4 – Andrej Marinc, Slovenian politician
October 5
Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
October 6
Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
Richie Benaud, Australian cricketer, commentator (d. 2015)
October 8
Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996)
Cosetta Greco, Italian actress (d. 2002)
October 10
Yves Chauvin, Belgian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
Doris Payne, American jewel thief
Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
October 11
Bill Fischer, American baseball player (d. 2018)
Sam Johnson, American politician
October 14
Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1997)
October 15
Ingemar Mundebo, Swedish politician (d. 2018)
Christian Tumi, Cameroonian cardinal
October 17
Nick Chickillo, American football player (d. 2000)
Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
October 18
Trevor Bell, British artist (d. 2017)
Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
October 19
Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman (d. 2019)
Jody Lawrance, American actress (d. 1986)
October 20 – Leila Seth, Indian judge (d. 2017)
October 24
Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2019)
The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d. 1959)
Jack Angel, American voice actor
October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
October 29
Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
Natalie Sleeth, American composer (d. 1992)
Omara Portuondo, Cuban singer, dancer
Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (d. 2002)
October 30
Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
Timothy Findley, Canadian author (d. 2002)
October 31 – Michael Collins, American astronaut
November[edit]
Mildred Dresselhaus
Richard A. Falk
Ed White
Bob Mathias
November 3 – D. James Kennedy, American evangelist (d. 2007)
November 4
Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
Harris Salleh, Malaysian politician
November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
November 6
Derrick Bell, American law professor (d. 2011)
Wilma Briggs, American female baseball player
November 11
Stuart Briscoe, British-American pastor, motivational speaker and author
Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist, educator (d. 2017)
Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd Prime Minister of Swaziland
Alevtina Kolchina, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier
November 12 – Bob Crewe, American singer, songwriter, manager, and producer (d. 2014)
November 13 – Richard A. Falk, American professor emeritus
November 14
Shirley Crabtree ("Big Daddy"), British professional wrestler (d. 1997)
Jānis Pujats, Latvian cardinal
Ed White, American astronaut (d. 1967)
November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
November 16
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
Salvatore Riina, Italian multiple murderer (d. 2017)
November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
November 18 – Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, Indian politician (d. 2018)
November 19 – Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Austrian-German politician and philanthropist
November 20
Bernard Horsfall, British actor (d. 2013)
Curly Putman, American songwriter (d. 2016)
Choe Yong-rim, North Korean politician
November 22 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
November 24 – Inge Feltrinelli, German-Italian publisher, photographer (d. 2018)
November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
November 26 – Berthold Leibinger, German engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 2018)
November 27 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009)
November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries
December[edit]
Jean-Luc Godard
Maximilian Schell
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Odetta
December 1 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002)
December 2
Gary Becker, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
Vlatko Pavletić, Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist (d. 2007)
December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director
December 4
Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (d. 2013)
Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (d. 2016)
December 6
Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
Carlo Reali, Italian actor, voice actor and film editor
December 7 – Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-born British writer
December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
December 9
Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 2020)
December 11 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur
December 15
Günter Siebert, German football player, executive (d. 2017)
Edna O'Brien, Irish writer
December 17
Gerard Kerkum, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)
Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
Makoto Moroi, Japanese composer (d. 2013)
December 21
Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official (d. 2018)
Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
December 25 – Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist (d. 1986)
December 28
Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (d. 2010)
Franzl Lang, German yodeler (d. 2015)
December 30
Alvin Peterson, Jamaican percussionist
Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 31
Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
Jaime Escalante, American high school math teacher (d. 2010)
January[edit]
Toshiki Kaifu
Robert Duvall
Caterina Valente
James Earl Jones
January 1 – Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016)
January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan
January 4
Guido Messina, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2020)
William Deane, 22nd Governor-General of Australia
Cleopa Msuya, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania
José Triana, Cuban poet (d. 2018)
January 5
Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
Robert Duvall, American actor, director
January 6
E. L. Doctorow, American author (d. 2015)
Kaoru Yachigusa, Japanese actress (d. 2019)
January 8 – Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
January 10 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. 2015)
January 12 – Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (d. 1998)
January 13 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
January 14 – Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
January 16
Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2018)
Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
January 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
January 19 – Pat Hunt, New Zealand National Party politician
January 20
Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer, novelist (d. 1984)
David Lee, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
January 24 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
January 25 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
January 26 – Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist, music teacher (d. 2013)
January 27 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
January 28 – Lucia Bosè, Italian actress
January 29 – Ferenc Mádl, President of Hungary (d. 2011)
January 31 – Ernie Banks, African-American baseball player (d. 2015)
February[edit]
Boris Yeltsin
Dries van Agt
Isabel Martínez de Perón
James Dean
February 1
Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
Oswald Oberhuber, Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2020)
February 2
Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, 46th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Walter Burkert, German writer (d. 2015)
February 4 – Isabel Martínez de Perón, 41st President of Argentina
February 6
Rip Torn, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
Mamie Van Doren, American actress, author
Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal (d. 2017)
February 8
James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
Shadia, Egyptian actress, singer (d. 2017)
February 9
Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
Josef Masopust, Czech football player and coach (d. 2015)
February 12 – Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Spanish cardinal (d. 2011)
February 14 – Gerrit Jan Hejin, Dutch businessman (d. 1987)
February 15 – Claire Bloom, English actress
February 16 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
February 18
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
Toni Morrison, African-American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2019)[9]
February 24 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
February 28
Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Mayor of Pacific Palisades
Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
March[edit]
Mikhail Gorbachev
León Febres Cordero
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
March 1 – Lamberto Dini, Italian politician, economist and 51st Prime Minister of Italy
March 2 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
March 3 – John Smith, American actor (d. 1995)
March 4
William H. Keeler, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017)
Alice Rivlin, American economist (d. 2019)
March 5 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player (d. 2020)
March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic (d. 2003)
March 9 – León Febres Cordero, President of Ecuador (d. 2008)
March 10 – Kovambo Nujoma, First Lady of Namibia
March 11
Janosch, German writer
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher
March 12 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (d. 2019)
March 14 – Lisbet Palme, Swedish child psychologist (d. 2018)
March 15 – D. J. Fontana, American drummer (d. 2018)
March 18 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey and football player (d. 2015)
March 20
James Mollison, Australian arts administrator (d. 2020)
Hal Linden, American actor, singer (Barney Miller)
Karen Steele, American actress (d. 1988)
March 22
Paul G. Hewitt, American physicist, boxer, uranium prospector, author and cartoonist
Burton Richter, American physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
William Shatner, Canadian actor, science fiction novelist (Star Trek)
March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor, film director (Star Trek), and singer (d. 2015)
March 27 – David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive) (d. 1980)
March 28 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. 2018)
March 29
Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015)
Norman Tebbit, British politician
April[edit]
Suchitra Sen
Luís Cabral
April 1
Ita Ever, Estonian actress
Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (d. 2018)
April 5
Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter, record producer (d. 2013)
Héctor Olivera, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
April 6
Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), Bengali actress (d. 2014)
Radomil Eliška, Czech conductor (d. 2019)
April 8 – John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (d. 2018)
April 11
Luis Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Turkish free-style wrestler
Johnny Sheffield, American child actor (d. 2010)
April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
April 13 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver (d. 2018)
April 15
Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. 2009)
Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2015)
April 17 – Esteban Siller, Mexican voice actor (d. 2013)
April 19 – Kobie Coetsee, South African politician (d. 2000)
April 26 – John Cain, Australian politician (d. 2019)
April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
April 29
Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)
May[edit]
Willie Mays
Natwar Singh
Faten Hamama
Carroll Baker
May 1 – Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool, Pakistani educationist (d. 1991)
May 3
Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (d. 2019)
May 6
Magda al-Sabahi, Egyptian actress (d. 2020)
Willie Mays, African-American baseball player
May 7
Teresa Brewer, American pop, jazz singer (d. 2007)
Marta Terry González, Cuban librarian (d. 2018)
Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2019)
May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
May 10
M. Chidananda Murthy, Indian historian (d. 2020)
Ichirō Nagai, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
May 13
András Hajnal, Hungarian mathematician (d. 2016)
Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978)
Jiří Petr, Czech university president (d. 2014)
May 16
Magda Guzmán, Mexican actress (d. 2015)
Natwar Singh, Indian politician
May 17 – Marshall Applewhite, American Heaven's Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997)
May 18
Don Martin, American artist (MAD Magazine) (d. 2000)
Robert Morse, American actor
Clément Vincent, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
May 19 – Éric Tappy, Swiss tenor
May 21 – Bombolo, Italian character actor and comedian (d. 1987)
May 23 – Barbara Barrie, American actress and writer
May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
May 28 – Carroll Baker, American actress
May 31
John Schrieffer, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
June[edit]
Raúl Castro
Dana Wynter
Marla Gibbs
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Olympia Dukakis
June 2 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
June 3
Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (d. 2018)
June 4 – D. M. Jayaratne, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2019)
June 6 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (d. 2020)
June 7 – Andrea Gemma, Italian bishop (d. 2019)
June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
June 9 – Jackie Mason, American comedian
June 10 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova (d. 2019)
June 14
Marla Gibbs, African-American actress, comedian and singer
Junior Walker, American saxophonist, singer (d. 1995)
June 16 – Ivo Petrić, Slovenian composer (d. 2018)
June 17
Kawther Ramzi, Egyptian actress (d. 2018)
John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (d. 2020)
June 18 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil
June 20
Mary L. Good, American inorganic chemist (d. 2019)
Olympia Dukakis, American actress
Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer (d. 2010)
June 21 – Margaret Heckler, American Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2018)
June 22 – Ian Browne, Australian track cyclist
June 23 – Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
June 24
Árpád Bárány, Hungarian fencer
Billy Casper, American golfer (d. 2015)
Gaston Flosse, French politician
June 25 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
June 26 – Colin Wilson, British writer (d. 2013)
June 27
Graziella Galvani, Italian stage, television and film actress
Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
June 28
Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. 2017)
Jenny Glusker, British biochemist and crystallographer
Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s (d. 2019)
June 29 – Alina Obidniak, Polish actress and theatre director
June 30 – Gerda Herrmann, German composer and poet
July[edit]
Leslie Caron
Seyni Kountché
Della Reese
Thorvald Stoltenberg
July 1
Leslie Caron, French actress
Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist
Seyni Kountché, former President of Niger (d. 1987)
July 2
Oddur Pétursson, Icelandic cross country skier (d. 2018)
Mohammad Yazdi, Iranian cleric
July 4 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (Ben-Hur) (d. 1977)
July 5 – Ismail Mahomed, South African, Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
July 6
Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress, singer
Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer, women's rights activist (d. 2018)
Della Reese, African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d. 2017)
July 8 – Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
July 10
Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
Morris Chang, Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in 1987
Jerry Herman, American composer, lyricist (d. 2019)
Julian May, American science fiction, fantasy, horror, and science writer (d. 2017)
Alice Munro, Canadian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
July 11 – Tab Hunter, American actor, singer (d. 2018)
July 13 – Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018)
July 14
Mirella Ricciardi, Kenyan photographer, author
Robert Stephens, English actor (d. 1995)
July 15
Clive Cussler, American thriller writer and underwater explorer (d. 2020)
Gene Louw, South African politician
July 17 – Caroline Graham, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist
July 22 – Guido de Marco, Maltese politician, 6th President of Malta (d. 2010)
July 23 – Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)
July 25 – Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera director, administrator and journalist (d. 2018)
July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor (d. 2018)
August[edit]
Don King
Barbara Eden
Sri Chinmoy
August 1 – Hal Connolly, American athlete (d. 2010)
August 2
Ruth Maria Kubitschek, German actress
Sha'ari Tadin, Malaysian politician (d. 2009)
August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov, Russian discus thrower (d. 2001)
August 6 – Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. 2014)
August 9 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football player, manager
August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (Billy Jack) (d. 2013)
August 12 – William Goldman, American author (d. 2018)
August 15
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince and politician (d. 2018)
Richard F. Heck, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2015)
Janice Rule, American actress (d. 2003)
August 16
Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2004)
William Luce, American writer (d. 2019)
August 18 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010)
August 19 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
August 20 – Don King, American boxing promoter
August 23
Barbara Eden, American actress, singer (I Dream of Jeannie)
Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 24 - Ciputra, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019)
August 25 – Regis Philbin, American television personality
August 27
Sri Chinmoy, Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in 1964 (d. 2007)
Clarence James, Bermudian surgeon, politician (d. 2016)
August 28 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player, manager (d. 2017)
August 30
Jacques Braunstein, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. 2009)
Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
August 31
Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player (d. 2014)
Kenny Burrell, American jazz musician
Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)
September[edit]
Ian Holm
Barbara Bain
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco
Larry Hagman
September 2 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor (d. 1976)
September 3 – Paulo Maluf, Brazilian politician
September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
September 5 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (d. 2018)
September 7 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman and football club president (d. 2018)
September 10
Idelisa Bonnelly, Dominican marine biologist
Philip Baker Hall, American actor
September 12
Ian Holm, British actor
George Jones, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
Bill McKinney, American character actor (d. 2011)
September 13 – Barbara Bain, American actress (Mission: Impossible)
September 16 – E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018)
September 17
Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011)
Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
September 19
Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
Ray Danton, American actor (d. 1992)
September 21
Shmuel Auerbach, Israeli Haredi rabbi (d. 2018)
Larry Hagman, American actor, director (Dallas) (d. 2012)
September 22 – Fay Weldon, British author
September 24 – Tom Adams, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985)
September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor
September 29
James Cronin, American nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2016)
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (d. 2015)
September 30 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
October[edit]
Desmond Tutu
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Dan Rather
October 2 – Jakob Schönenberger, Swiss banker, politician (d. 2018)
October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, American architect
October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
October 7
Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 13
Raymond Kopa, French footballer (d. 2017)
Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
October 15 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India (d. 2015)
October 16
Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012)
Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress, humanitarian
October 17 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (d. 2011)
October 19
John le Carré, English novelist
Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2013)
October 20
Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
Zeke Bratkowski, American football player (d. 2019)
October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor, director (d. 2011)
October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (d. 2015)
October 23
Jim Bunning, American baseball player, U.S. Senator (d. 2017)
Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984)
October 24 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
October 25 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager
October 26 – Suhaila Noah, spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 2014)
October 28 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
October 29 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (d. 2015)
October 30 – Dick Gautier, American actor (d. 2017)
October 31
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist campaigner
Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2019)[10]
Dan Rather, American television news reporter (CBS Evening News)
November[edit]
Ike Turner
Mwai Kibaki
Tomi Ungerer
November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
November 3
Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. 2007)
Monica Vitti, Italian actress
November 4 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (d. 2017)
November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
November 6
Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
Mike Nichols, German-American television actor, writer and director (d. 2014)
November 8
Darla Hood, American child actress, voice actress and singer (Our Gang) (d. 1979)
Morley Safer, Canadian journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2016)
November 12
Majida Boulila, Tunisian militant (d. 1952)
Mary Louise Wilson, American actress, singer
November 15
John Kerr, American actor (d. 2013)
Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya
Pascal Lissouba, President of the Republic of Congo
November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician (d. 2011)
November 21 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
November 26 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
November 28
Dervla Murphy, Irish author
Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (d. 2019)
November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
December[edit]
George Maxwell Richards
Rita Moreno
Carlos Graça
December 1
George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, Bangladeshi barrister and politician
December 2
Nigel Calder, British science writer (d. 2014)
Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1971)
Edwin Meese, American attorney, law professor, and author
December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer, chanteuse
December 5 – Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni, Indian Navy admiral (d. 2018)
December 7 – Carmela Rey, Mexican singer, actress (d. 2018)
December 9 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech film, theater director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2010)
December 11 – Rita Moreno, Puerto-Rican actress (West Side Story)
December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (d. 2015)
December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian, American actor (The Partridge Family) (d. 2014)
December 21
Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2017)
Georgi Naydenov, Bulgarian footballer and manager (d. 1970)
December 22 – Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2013)
December 23 – Ronnie Schell, American actor
December 24
Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist, composer, arranger (d. 2011)
Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008)
December 26 – Roger Piantoni, French footballer (d. 2018)
December 27
John Charles, Welsh international footballer (d. 2004)
Scotty Moore, American guitarist (d. 2016)
Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician
December 28 – Martin Milner, American actor (Adam-12) (d. 2015)
December 30
Charles Bassett, American electrical engineer, astronaut (d. 1966)
Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)
January[edit]
- January 3
- Teodoro Petkoff, Venezuelan politician (d. 2018)
- Dabney Coleman, American actor
- January 5
- Johnny Adams, American singer (d. 1998)
- Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and novelist (d. 2016)
- Raisa Gorbacheva, Wife of the President of the Soviet Union (d. 1999)
- Chuck Noll, American football coach (d. 2014)
- Javier Valle Riestra, Peruvian politician
- January 6 – Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
- January 10
- József Szécsényi, Hungarian track and field athlete (d. 2017)
- David Ejoor, Nigerian Army officer (d. 2019)
- January 11 – Takkō Ishimori, Japanese voice actor (d. 2013)
- January 13 – Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
- January 16 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
- January 17 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
- January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
- January 22 – Piper Laurie, American actress
- January 25 – Nikolay Anikin, Soviet cross-country skier (d. 2009)
- January 26 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d. 2004)
- January 27 – Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2008)
- January 28 – Ellen Griffin Dunne, American actress and activist (d. 1997)
- January 29 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
- January 30
- Kazuo Inamori, Japanese businessman
- Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
- January 31 – Rick Hall, American record producer, songwriter and recording studio owner (d. 2018)
February[edit]
- February 1 – Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (d. 2016)
- February 3
- Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
- Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy diplomat (d. 2000)
- February 5 – Cesare Maldini, Italian football player and manager (d. 2016)
- February 6
- François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary leader (d. 1959)
- February 7
- Gay Talese, American author
- Alfred Worden, American astronaut
- February 8 – John Williams, American composer and conductor
- February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
- February 11 – Margit Carlqvist, Swedish actress
- February 13 – Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- February 14 – Alexander Kluge, German author and film director
- February 16
- Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
- Aharon Appelfeld, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer (d. 2018)
- February 18 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American film director (d. 2018)
- February 19 – Alberto Dines, Brazilian journalist and writer (d. 2018)
- February 20 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
- February 22
- Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
- Robert Opron, French automotive designer
- February 23
- Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
- Irene Jai Narayan, Fiji politician (d. 2011)
- February 24
- John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
- Michel Legrand, French composer (d. 2019)
- Zell Miller, American politician (d. 2018)
- M. S. Rajeswari, Indian singer (d. 2018)
- February 25
- Augusto Polo Campos, Peruvian composer (d. 2018)
- Faron Young, American country singer (d. 1996)
- February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer (d. 2003)
- February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)
- February 28 – Don Francks, Canadian actor, musician and singer (d. 2016)
March[edit]
- March 4
- Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
- Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (d. 2008)
- Efrén Echeverría, Paraguayan musician guitarist, composer, and compiler (d. 2018)
- March 5 – Earl Woods, African-American army officer (d. 2006)
- March 6
- Marc Bazin, 4th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2010)
- Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
- March 7
- Lola Beltrán, Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (d. 1996)
- Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (d. 1998)
- Silvia Derbez, Mexican film and television actress (d. 2002)
- March 9
- Simon Heere Heeresma, Dutch author and poet (d. 2011)
- Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer, actor, dancer, and writer (d. 2019)
- March 11 – Leroy Jenkins, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 2007)
- March 12
- Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d. 2014)
- Andrew Young, African-American politician, diplomat and activist
- March 14 – Mark Murphy, American jazz singer (d. 2015)
- March 15 – Alan Bean, American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (d. 2018)
- March 16 – Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
- March 17 – Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist and professor (d. 2019)
- March 18
- John Updike, American author (d. 2009)
- Rafael Calventi, Dominican architect and diplomat (d. 2018)
- March 21 – Walter Gilbert, American chemist and Nobel laureate
- March 22 – Els Borst, Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1998–2002) (d. 2014)
- March 27
- Junior Parker, African-American blues musician (d. 1971)
- Patrick Newell, British actor (d. 1988)
- March 28 – Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (d. 2019)
- March 30 – Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist
- March 31 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (d. 2013)
April[edit]
- April 1 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2016)
- April 2 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (d. 2015)
- April 4
- Richard Lugar, American politician (d. 2019)
- Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet and Russian film director (d. 1986)
- April 8
- József Antall, Hungarian historian, librarian, political figure and teacher, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1993)
- Sultan Iskandar of Johor, 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2010)
- April 9
- Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
- Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
- April 10
- Kishori Amonkar, Indian vocalist (d. 2017)
- Delphine Seyrig, Lebanese-born French actress (d. 1990)
- Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (d. 2015)
- April 11 – Joel Grey, American actor, singer and dancer
- April 12
- Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019)
- Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
- Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
- April 13 – Barney Simon, South African writer, playwright and director (d. 1995)
- April 14
- António dos Santos, Portuguese bishop (d. 2018)
- Loretta Lynn, American country singer
- April 16
- Qahhor Mahkamov, Tajik politician, 1st President of Tajikistan (d. 2016)
- Pierre Milza, French historian (d. 2018)
- April 21 – Elaine May, American movie director
- April 24 – Vladimir Yengibaryan, Armenian amateur light-welterweight boxer (d. 2013)
- April 25 – Nikolai Kardashev, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (d. 2019)
- April 26
- Agildo Ribeiro, Brazilian actor and humorist (d. 2018)
- Michael Smith, English-born chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
- Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018)
- April 27
- Anouk Aimée, French actress
- Pik Botha, South African politician (d. 2018)
- Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor (d. 2014)
- Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
- April 29 – Wilson Ndolo Ayah, Kenyan politician (d. 2016)
May[edit]
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- May 6
- Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist (d. 1994)
- José Maria Marin, Brazilian politician and sports administrator
- Antal Bolvári, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019)
- May 7 – Fufi Santori, Puerto Rican basketball player and writer (d. 2018)
- May 8
- Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
- Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
- May 9 – Geraldine McEwan, Scottish actress (d. 2015)
- May 11
- Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
- Valentino, Italian fashion designer
- May 18 – Dean Tavoularis, Greek-American motion picture production designer
- May 19 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
- May 21 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)
- May 24 – Arnold Wesker, British playwright (d. 2016)
- May 25
- K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach
- John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic (d. 2003)
- May 27 – José Varacka, Argentine footballer and coach (d. 2018)
- May 29
- Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist
- Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
June[edit]
- June 1 – Kenneth Matiba, Kenyan politician (d. 2018)
- June 4
- John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
- Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
- June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (d. 1981)
- June 6 – David Scott, American astronaut
- June 9 – Dave McKigney, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1988)
- June 10
- Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (d. 2019)
- John R. Broxson, American politician (d. 2019)
- June 11 – Athol Fugard, South African author and dramatist
- June 12
- Mimi Coertse, South African opera soprano
- Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (d. 2002)
- June 13 – Rainer K. Sachs, German-American physicist and biologist
- June 15 – Mario Cuomo, American politician (d. 2015)
- June 17 – Vesna Krmpotić, Croatian writer and translator (d. 2018)
- June 18 – Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and Nobel laureate
- June 20 - Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Poet (d. 1994)
- June 21
- Eloisa Cianni, Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Ilka Soares, Brazilian actress
- Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor
- June 22
- Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran; wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (d. 2001)
- Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
- Prunella Scales, English actress
- June 23 – Jim Granberry, American politician
- June 24
- Margit Korondi, Hungarian gymnast
- David McTaggart, Canadian environmental campaigner (d. 2001)
- Hirohisa Fujii, Japanese politician
- June 25
- Julian Robertson, American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist
- Peter Blake, English artist
- Tim Parnell, British racing driver
- June 26
- Marguerite Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas
- Harry Bromfield, South African cricketer
- June 27 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
- June 28
- Jack H. McDonald, American politician
- Pat Morita, Asian-American actor (d. 2005)
- June 29
- Evrard Godefroid, Belgian cyclist (d. 2013)
- Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor (d. 2018)
- June 30 – Ingrid Allen, British neuroscientist
July[edit]
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- July 1 – Sonny Caldinez, Trinidadian actor and former professional wrestler
- July 2
- Gustavo Martínez, Guatemalan cyclist
- Waldemar Matuška, Czech singer (d. 2009)
- July 4 – Otis Young, African-American actor (d. 2001)
- July 5
- Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
- Kazimiera Utrata, Polish actress (d. 2018)
- July 6 – Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and professor
- July 7
- Carlos de Cárdenas Jr., Cuban yachtsman
- Eileen Lemass, Irish politician
- July 9 – Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
- July 10
- Carlo Maria Abate, Italian auto racing driver
- Neile Adams, Filipino-American actress
- George Black, British Royal Air Force officer
- János Bódy, Hungarian modern pentathlete
- July 11
- Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey defenceman and coach
- Hans van Manen, Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
- July 12
- Monte Hellman, American film director, producer, writer and editor
- Rene Goulet, Canadian professional wrestler
- Otis Davis, American athlete
- July 13 – Per Nørgård, Danish composer
- July 14 – Helga Liné, German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat
- July 15
- Giovanna Pala, Italian actress
- Nina van Pallandt, Danish singer and actress
- July 16
- Bill Byrge, American character actor and comedian
- Dick Thornburgh, American lawyer, author and politician
- July 17
- Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician and comedian (d. 2006)
- Joanne Gilbert, American actress
- Red Kerr, American basketball player (d. 2009)
- Slick Leonard, American basketball player and coach
- Quino, Argentine cartoonist
- July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
- July 20
- Dick Giordano, American comic book artist and editor (d. 2010)
- Ronan Keane, Irish judge
- Nam June Paik, Korean-born American artist (d. 2006)
- Michael Papps, Australian sports shooter
- Otto Schily, German politician
- July 22
- Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player (d. 2017)
- Tom Robbins, American novelist
- July 23
- Jorge Arvizu, Mexican voice actor (d. 2014)
- Oswaldo Loureiro, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)
- July 25 – Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut (d. 2017)
- July 26 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (d. 1985)
- July 28 – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (d. 2015)
- July 29 – Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
- July 30
- Bo Erias, American basketball player (d. 2007)
- Gladys Olebile Masire, First Lady of Botswana (d. 2013)
- Edd Byrnes, American actor (d. 2020)
- July 31 – John Searle, American philosopher
August[edit]
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- August 1
- Meir Kahane, American-born Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist (d. 1990)
- Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- August 2
- Lamar Hunt, American sportsman (d. 2006)
- Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (d. 2013)
- August 4 – Jim Coates, American baseball player (d. 2019)
- August 5 – Jameson Mbilini Dlamini, 7th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2008)
- August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
- August 7 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 1973)
- August 8 – Mel Tillis, American country singer (d. 2017)
- August 9 – Anand Panyarachun, 18th Prime Minister of Thailand
- August 11 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
- August 12 – Sirikit, Queen mother of Thailand (from 1950 to present)
- August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
- August 18
- William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
- Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
- August 19
- Banharn Silpa-archa, 32nd Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2016)
- Fil Fraser, Canadian broadcaster, producer, author and educator (d. 2017)
- August 20
- Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
- Bill Hudson, American civil rights photojournalist (d. 2010)
- August 21 – Melvin Van Peebles, African-American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer
- August 23 – Houari Boumediene, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
- August 24 – W. Morgan Sheppard, English actor (d. 2019)
- August 25
- Luis Félix López, Ecuadorian doctor, writer and politician (d. 2008)
- Birgit Arrhenius, Swedish archaeologist
- August 27
- Mohamed Hamri, Moroccan artist (d. 2000)
- Saye Zerbo, 3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2013)
- August 28 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (d. 2006)
- August 29 – Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (d. 2018)
September[edit]
- September 1
- Sunny von Bülow, American socialite (d. 2008)
- Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru (d. 2008)
- September 3
- Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- Acácio Pereira Magro, Portuguese academic, economist and politician (d. 2018)
- September 5 – Carol Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
- September 6 – Marguerite Pearson, American professional baseball player (d. 2005)
- September 7
- John Paul Getty Jr., American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
- Mary Previte, American politician (d. 2019)
- September 8 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
- September 11
- Mustapha Akanbi, Nigerian lawyer and judge (d. 2018)
- Rinaldo Fidel Brédice, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
- Art Spoelstra, American basketball player (d. 2008)
- September 12 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
- September 13 – Fernando González Pacheco, Colombian television host, announcer, journalist and actor (d. 2014)
- September 15 – Antônio Abujamra, Brazilian theatre, television director and actor (d. 2015)
- September 17
- Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatari Emir (d. 2016)
- Doyle Corman, American politician (d. 2019)
- September 18 – Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2002)
- September 21 – Mickey Kuhn, American child actor
- September 22
- Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
- Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
- September 24
- Anthony Michael Milone, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018)
- Jackie Moore, American basketball player
- September 25
- Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
- Adolfo Suárez, 1st Spanish Prime Minister after the dictatorship of Franco (d. 2014)
- September 26
- Donna Douglas, American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 2015)
- Richard Herd, American actor
- Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer (d. 2018)
- Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
- September 27
- Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
- Yash Chopra, Indian film director and producer (d. 2012)
- September 28 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
- September 29
- Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
- Rainer Weiss, German-born American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 30 – Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
October[edit]
- October 1 – Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist (d. 2017)
- October 3
- Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (d. 1999)
- Hugh Curtis, Canadian politician (d. 2014)
- Ángel Roberto Seifart, Paraguayan politician (d. 2018)
- October 4
- Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director (d. 2018)
- Stan Dragoti, American film director (d. 2018)
- October 8 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
- October 11 – Dottie West, American singer and songwriter (d. 1991)
- October 12
- Dick Gregory, African-American comedian and activist (d. 2017)
- Yuichiro Miura, Japanese alpinist
- October 13
- Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
- Jean Edward Smith, American biographer (d. 2019)
- October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist (d. 1998)
- October 18
- Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
- George Ty, Filipino banker and business magnate (d. 2018)
- October 19 – Robert Reed, American actor (The Brady Bunch) (d. 1992)
- October 20
- William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2016)
- Rokurō Naya, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
- October 24
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
- Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 26 – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (d. 2019)
- October 27
- Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- Harry Gregg, Northern Irish football goalkeeper and manager (d. 2020)
- Sylvia Plath, American poet and author (d. 1963)
- October 28
- Spyros Kyprianou, President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
- Suzy Parker, American fashion model and actress (d. 2003)
- October 29 – Dick Garmaker, American basketball player
- October 31 – Iemasa Kayumi, Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator (d. 2014)
November[edit]
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- November 1 – A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
- November 2 – Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (d. 2018)
- November 3 – Albert Reynolds, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2014)
- November 4 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
- November 8
- Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018)
- Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Maltese politician, 5th President of Malta
- November 9 – Frank Selvy, American basketball player
- November 10
- Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (d. 2016)
- Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
- November 11 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
- November 13 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
- November 15
- Petula Clark, British singer, actress and songwriter
- Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
- November 18
- Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2007)
- November 20 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian, and game show host (d. 2012)
- November 21 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d. 2016)
- November 22 – Robert Vaughn, American actor (d. 2016)
- November 24 – Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (d. 2019)
- November 27 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician and senator (d. 1983)
- November 28
- Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist (d. 2016)
- Ethel Ennis, African American jazz singer (d. 2019)
- November 29
- Jacques Chirac, President of France (d. 2019)
- Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz musician (d. 2019)
December[edit]
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- December 1
- Dame Heather Begg, New Zealand mezzo-soprano (d. 2009)
- Jean-Jacques Guyon, French equestrian (d. 2017)
- December 2 – Sergio Bonelli, Italian comic book author and publisher (d. 2011)
- December 3 – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner (d. 2016)
- December 4
- Tengku Ampuan Afzan, Tengku Ampuan of Pahang (d. 1988)
- Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea
- December 5
- Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
- Little Richard, African-American singer and actor
- December 7
- Ellen Burstyn, American actress
- J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesian economist and a former Minister of Finance
- December 9 – Donald Byrd, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
- December 10 – Howard McCurdy, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
- December 11 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contra leader (d. 1991)
- December 12 – Bob Pettit, American basketball player
- December 13 – Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor
- December 15 – Jesse Belvin, American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, and songwriter (d. 1960)
- December 16 – Rodion Shchedrin, Russian composer and pianist
- December 18 – Roger Smith, American actor (d. 2017)
- December 23 – Kanapathy Moorthy, Malaysian judoka (d. 2010)
- December 25 – Mabel King, African-American actress and singer (d. 1999)
- December 28
- Nichelle Nichols, African-American actress
- Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
- Titien Sumarni, Indonesian actress (d. 1966)
- December 29 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer
- December 31 – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist, editor and author (d. 1992)
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