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==Births== {{BDToC|births}} ===January=== [[File:Robert Duvall 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Duvall]]]] [[File:Caterina Valente 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Caterina Valente]]]] [[File:James Earl Jones (8516667383).jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Earl Jones]]]] [[File:Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sam Cooke]]]] <!--[[File:Accadde al commissariato 16 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lucia Bosè]]]]--> * [[January 1]] ** [[Mona Hammond]], Jamaican-born British actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/05/mona-hammond-obituary|title=Mona Hammond obituary|date=July 5, 2022|website=the Guardian}}</ref> ** [[Mohammad Ali Samatar]], 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. [[2016]]) * [[January 2]] – [[Toshiki Kaifu]], Prime Minister of Japan (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Japan Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsUwAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP71|year=1989|publisher=Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan|pages=71}}</ref> * [[January 4]] ** [[Guido Messina]], Italian road and track cyclist (d. [[2020]]) ** [[William Deane]], 22nd Governor-General of Australia<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger East|title=Whitaker's Almanack World Heads of State, 1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mCFigy0N6MC|year=1998|publisher=Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-11-702204-1|page=12}}</ref> ** [[Cleopa Msuya]], 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raph Uwechue|title=Africa Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Africa Journal Limited|isbn=978-0-903274-17-3|page=1177}}</ref> * [[January 5]] ** [[Alvin Ailey]], American choreographer (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book | title = Chase's Calendar of Events 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Bernan Press | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=73}}</ref> ** [[Alfred Brendel]], Austrian pianist<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=80}}</ref> ** [[Robert Duvall]], American actor and director<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jerome|first=Jim|title=Dance Fever|date=April 14, 2003|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=59|issue=14|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139782,00.html|access-date=June 16, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053945/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139782,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** [[Dave Peterson (ice hockey)|Dave Peterson]], American ice hockey coach (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite news|title=A no-frills coach for Team USA|last=Verdi|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Verdi|date=January 5, 1988|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=D1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119549206/peterson-1988/}}; {{cite news|title=Verdi (Continued from Page 1)|last=Verdi|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Verdi|date=January 5, 1988|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=D5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119549337/peterson-1988/}}</ref> * [[January 6]] – [[E. L. Doctorow]], American author (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joel Shatzky|author2=Michael Taub|author3=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3HN2tYhR0cC&pg=PA54|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29462-4|pages=54}}</ref> * [[January 8]] – [[Bill Graham (promoter)|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 14]] – [[Caterina Valente]], French singer and actress (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Jancik | first = Wayne | title = The Billboard book of one-hit wonders | publisher = Billboard Books | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780823076222 | page=6}}</ref> * [[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 (d. [[2024]]) * [[January 20]] – [[David Lee (physicist)|David Lee]], American physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1996/lee/facts|title=David Lee|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref> * [[January 22]] – [[Sam Cooke]], African-American singer (d. [[1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bobby Womack|author2=Robert Ashton|title=Midnight Mover: My Autobiography: the True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voA3AQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=John Blake|isbn=978-1-84454-148-5|page=269}}</ref> * [[January 24]] – [[Lars Hörmander]], Swedish mathematician (d. [[2012]]) * [[January 25]] – [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]], American actor (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/movies/dean-jones-star-of-disneys-the-love-bug-dies-at-84.html?_r=0|title=Dean Jones, Affable Star in 'Love Bug' and a Disney Fixture, Dies at 84|first=Mike|last=Flaherty|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 2, 2015|page=B19}}</ref> * [[January 27]] – [[Mordecai Richler]], Canadian author (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Reinhold Kramer|title=Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEZAhyjZPQkC&pg=PA19|date=20 March 2008|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7477-9|pages=19}}</ref> * [[January 28]] – [[Lucia Bosè]], Italian actress (d. [[2020]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Ferenc Mádl]], [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[2011]]) ===February=== [[File:Борис Николаевич Ельцин-1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Boris Yeltsin]]]] [[File:Dries_van_Agt,_2011_(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dries van Agt]]]] [[File:Isabel peron banda presidencial y bastón.png|thumb|120x120px|[[Isabel Perón]]]]<!--[[File:Rip Torn at the 46th Emmy Awards headcrop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rip Torn]]]]--> [[File:James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Dean]]]] * [[February 1]] ** [[Boris Yeltsin]], 1st [[President of Russia]] (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Morrison|title=Boris Yeltsin: From Bolshevik to Democrat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxSk3QS7lT4C|year=1991|publisher=Dutton|isbn=978-0-452-26906-4|page=32}}</ref> ** [[Oswald Oberhuber]], Austrian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. [[2020]]) * [[February 2]] ** [[Dries van Agt]], Dutch politician, 46th [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (d. [[2024]]) ** [[Walter Burkert]], German writer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/walter-burkert-classical-scholar-whose-fascinating-books-greek-mythology-and-religion-were-packed-fresh-insight-10287963.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/walter-burkert-classical-scholar-whose-fascinating-books-greek-mythology-and-religion-were-packed-fresh-insight-10287963.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Walter Burkert: Classical scholar whose fascinating books on Greek mythology and religion were packed with fresh insight|date=31 May 2015|author=Robert Parker|website=The Independent|access-date=April 3, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * [[February 4]] – [[Isabel Perón]], 41st [[President of Argentina]] * [[February 6]] ** [[Rip Torn]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Mamie Van Doren]], American actress and writer<ref name=Census1940>{{cite census | title=1940 United States Census | year=1940 | location=Sioux City, Iowa | page=480 | line=13 | enumdist=97-61B | accessdate=February 13, 2014}}</ref> ** [[Ricardo Vidal]], Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal (d. [[2017]]) * [[February 8]] ** [[James Dean]], American actor (d. [[1955]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History: A Publication of the Indiana Historical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDASAQAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=The Society|page=7}}</ref> ** [[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 Heijn]], Dutch businessman (d. [[1987]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Claire Bloom]], English actress * [[February 18]] – [[Toni Morrison]], African-American writer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Toni Morrison |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27635463 |website=BBC News |access-date=August 6, 2019 |date=August 6, 2019}}</ref> * [[February 19]] – [[Camillo Ruini]], Italian cardinal * [[February 20]] – [[John Milnor]], American mathematician * [[February 23]] – [[Linda Cristal]], Argentine actress (d. [[2020]]) * [[February 26]] – [[Josephine Tewson]], British actress (d. [[2022]]) ===March=== <!--[[File:Lamberto dini pl.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lamberto Dini]]]]--> [[File:RIAN archive 850809 General Secretary of the CPSU CC M. Gorbachev (close-up).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mikhail Gorbachev]]]] [[File:Chun Doo-hwan 1983 (cropped).JPEG|thumb|100px|[[Chun Doo-hwan]]]] [[File:León Febres Cordero.jpg|thumb|100px|[[León Febres Cordero]]]] [[File:Rupert Murdoch - Flickr - Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rupert Murdoch]]]] [[File: William Shatner Photo Op GalaxyCon Richmond 2020.jpg|thumb|100px|[[William Shatner]]]] [[File:Leonard Nimoy by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leonard Nimoy]]]] <!--[[File:David Janssen Richard Kimble 1963.JPG|thumb|100px|[[David Janssen]]]]--> * [[March 1]] – [[Lamberto Dini]], Italian politician, economist and 51st [[Prime Minister of Italy]] * [[March 2]] – [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the 8th and final [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|leader]] of the [[Soviet Union]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2022]]) * [[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 6]] – [[Chun Doo-hwan]], 5th [[President of South Korea]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=165757|title=Former Pres. Chun Doo-hwan Dies at 90|website=world.kbs.co.kr}}</ref> * [[March 8]] – [[Neil Postman]], American media theorist and cultural critic (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite news|author=Wolfgang Saxon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/obituaries/09POST.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Neil Postman, 72, Mass Media Critic, Dies|date=October 9, 2003|accessdate=January 8, 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> * [[March 9]] – [[León Febres Cordero]], President of Ecuador (d. [[2008]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Kovambo Nujoma]], First Lady of Namibia * [[March 11]] ** [[Janosch]], German children's author and illustrator<ref>{{cite book | title = Contemporary authors. New Revision series | publisher = Gale Research | location = Detroit, Mich | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780810319929 | page=123}}</ref> ** [[Rupert Murdoch]], Australian-born publisher * [[March 14]] – [[Lisbet Palme]], Swedish child psychologist (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 15]] – [[D. J. Fontana]], American drummer (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Elliott Belgrave]], 7th [[Governor-General of Barbados]] * [[March 18]] – [[Vlastimil Bubník]], Czech ice hockey and football player (d. [[2015]]) * [[March 22]] ** [[Burton Richter]], American physicist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2018]]) ** [[William Shatner]], Canadian actor and science fiction novelist (''[[Star Trek]]'')<ref>{{cite book|author1=Allan T. Duffin|author2=Paul Matheis|title=The 12 O'Clock High Logbook: The Unofficial History of the Novel, Motion Picture, and TV Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQGNBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA271|year=2005|publisher=BearManor Media|isbn=978-1-59393-033-2|pages=271}}</ref> * [[March 26]] – [[Leonard Nimoy]], American actor, film director (''[[Star Trek]]''), and singer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book | title = CHASE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = BERNAN Press | location = Place of publication not identified | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=191}}</ref> * [[March 27]] – [[David Janssen]], American actor (''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'') (d. [[1980]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Anatoly Lein]], Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 29]] – [[Aleksei Gubarev]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2015]]) ===April=== <!--[[File:Suchitra Sen.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Suchitra Sen]]]]--> <!--[[File:John Gavin Destry 1964.JPG|100px|thumb|[[John Gavin]]]]--> <!--[[File:Luís Cabral 1973.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Luís Cabral]]]]--> <!--[[File:Transtroemer.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Tomas Tranströmer]]]]--> * [[April 1]] ** [[Ita Ever]], Estonian actress (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Rolf Hochhuth]], German dramatist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/25/rolf-hochhuth-obituary|title=Rolf Hochhuth Obituary |date=May 25, 2020|author=Michael Coveney|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> ** [[Jean-Jacques Honorat]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Haiti]] (d. [[2023]]) * [[April 2]] – [[Joseph Joffo]], French author (d. [[2018]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Catherine Tizard]], 16th [[Governor-General of New Zealand]] (d. [[2021]]) * [[April 5]] – [[Héctor Olivera (film director)|Héctor Olivera]], Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter * [[April 6]] ** [[Suchitra Sen]], [[Bengali people|Bengali]] actress (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Radomil Eliška]], Czech conductor (d. [[2019]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Daniel Ellsberg]], American whistleblower (d. [[2023]]) * [[April 8]] – [[John Gavin]], American actor and diplomat (d. [[2018]]) * [[April 11]] ** [[Luís Cabral|Luis Cabral]], 1st [[President of Guinea-Bissau]] (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Mustafa Dağıstanlı]], Turkish free-style wrestler (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Nelly Kaplan]], Argentine-born French movie director and screenwriter (d. [[2020]]) * [[April 13]] – [[Dan Gurney]], American race car driver (d. [[2018]]) * [[April 15]] ** [[Helen Maksagak]], Canadian, first [[Inuit|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]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Andrew|title=Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/27/swedish-poet-thomas-transtromer-dies-age-83|access-date=28 March 2015|work=The Guardian|date=26 March 2015}}</ref> * [[April 18]] – [[Klas Lestander]], Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (d. [[2023]]) * [[April 19]] – [[Kobie Coetsee]], South African politician (d. [[2000]]) * [[April 26]] – [[John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria)|John Cain]], Australian politician (d. [[2019]]) * [[April 27]] – [[Igor Oistrakh]], Soviet and Russian violinist (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite news |date=1 September 2021 |title=Igor Oistrakh, celebrated Soviet violinist who with his father David walked a political tightrope during the Cold War – obituary |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/01/igor-oistrakh-celebrated-soviet-violinist-father-david-walked/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/09/01/igor-oistrakh-celebrated-soviet-violinist-father-david-walked/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2 September 2021 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> * [[April 29]] ** [[Frank Auerbach]], German-born painter (d. [[2024]]) ** [[Lonnie Donegan]], Scottish musician (d. [[2002]]) ===May=== [[File:Willie Mays cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Willie Mays]]]] [[File:Faten Hamama 1962.jpg| thumb|100px|[[Faten Hamama]]]] [[File:Carroll Baker headshot for Station Six-Sahara 1962.png|thumb|100px|[[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 el-Sabahi]], Egyptian actress (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Willie Mays]], African-American baseball player (d. [[2024]]) * [[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]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/gene-wolfe-obituary|title=Gene Wolfe Obituary |date=April 29, 2019|author=John Clute|website=The Guardian|access-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> * [[May 10]] – [[M. Chidananda Murthy]], Indian historian (d. [[2020]]) * [[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 15]] – [[James Fitz-Allen Mitchell]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]] (d. [[2021]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Magda Guzmán]], Mexican actress (d. [[2015]]) * [[May 18]] – [[Victoria Quirino-Gonzalez]], First Lady of the Philippines (d. [[2006]]) * [[May 20]] – [[George Vassiliou]], 3rd [[President of Cyprus]] * [[May 21]] – [[Bombolo]], Italian character actor and comedian (d. [[1987]]) * [[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 Robert Schrieffer|John Schrieffer]], American physicist and [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Shirley Verrett]], American mezzo-soprano (d. [[2010]]) ===June=== [[File:Raul-castro-2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Raúl Castro]]]] <!--[[File:Dana Wynter - 1962.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dana Wynter]]]]--> [[File:João Gilberto.jpg|thumb|100px|[[João Gilberto]]]] [[File:Marla Gibbs.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marla Gibbs]]]] [[File:Fhc-color.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]]]] [[File:Olympia Dukakis 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Olympia Dukakis]]]] <!--[[File:Billy Casper (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billy Casper]]]]--> <!--[[File:V. P. Singh (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[V. P. Singh]]]]--> <!--[[File:Martinus Veltman.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Martinus J. G. Veltman]]]]--> * [[June 2]] – [[Viktor Tsaryov]], Russian footballer (d. [[2017]]) * [[June 3]] ** [[Raúl Castro]], [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Rafael Fermoselle|title=Cuban Leadership After Castro: Biographies of Cuba's Top Commanders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9UsYAAAAYAAJ|year=1992|publisher=North-South Center, University of Miami, Research Institute for Cuban Studies|isbn=978-0-935501-35-3|page=79}}</ref> ** [[Lindy Remigino]], American Olympic athlete (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/obituaries/lindy-remigino-olympic-champion-runner-is-dead-at-87.html|title=Lindy Remigino, Olympic Champion Runner, Is Dead at 87|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 12, 2018|access-date=July 14, 2020}}</ref> * [[June 4]] – [[D. M. Jayaratne]], Sri Lankan politician (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/directory-of-members/viewMember/92 |publisher=Parliament of Sri Lanka |title=MP profile}}</ref> * [[June 8]] – [[Dana Wynter]], German-born American actress (d. [[2011]]) * [[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]] – [[John Baldessari]], American conceptual artist (d. [[2020]]) * [[June 18]] – [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]], 34th [[President of Brazil]] * [[June 20]] ** [[Olympia Dukakis]], American actress (d. [[2021]]) ** [[Arne Nordheim]], Norwegian composer (d. [[2010]]) * [[June 22]] – [[Ian Browne (cyclist)|Ian Browne]], Australian track cyclist (d. [[2023]]) * [[June 23]] – [[Ola Ullsten]], Swedish politician and diplomat (d. [[2018]]) * [[June 24]] ** [[Billy Casper]], American golfer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Billy Casper: Golfer who won prolifically but who became unfairly |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billy-casper-golfer-who-won-prolifically-who-became-unfairly-overshadowed-big-three-his-generation-a173166.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billy-casper-golfer-who-won-prolifically-who-became-unfairly-overshadowed-big-three-his-generation-a173166.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |access-date=26 July 2021 |language=en |date=11 February 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** [[Gaston Flosse]], French Polynesian politician * [[June 25]] – [[V. P. Singh]], [[Prime Minister of India]] (d. [[2008]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Colin Wilson]], British novelist and philosopher (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite news | title=Colin Wilson: Author (Obituary) | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | newspaper=The Independent | author-link=Marcus Williamson | last=Williamson | first=Marcus | date=8 December 2013 | access-date=17 January 2014 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> * [[June 27]] ** [[Graziella Galvani]], Italian stage, television and film actress (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Martinus J. G. Veltman]], Dutch physicist and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2021]]) * [[June 28]] ** [[Hans Alfredson]], Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/d30wz/hans-alfredson-ar-dod |newspaper=[[Aftonbladet]] |title=Hans Alfredson är död |first=Torbjörn |last=Ek |date=10 September 2017 |access-date=10 September 2017 |language=sv}}</ref> ** [[Jenny Glusker]], British biochemist and crystallographer * [[June 29]] – [[Alina Obidniak]], Polish actress and theatre director (d. [[2021]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Gerda Herrmann]], German composer and poet (d. [[2021]]) ===July=== [[File:Leslie Caron-publicity.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Leslie Caron]]]] <!--[[File:Stanislav Grof by Anton Nossik crop.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Stanislav Grof]]]]--> [[File:Seyni Kountche 1983 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Seyni Kountché]]]] <!--[[File:Mohammad Yazdi (15).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mohammad Yazdi]]]]--> <!--[[File:Della Reese 1998.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Della Reese]]]]--> <!--[[File:Morris Chang 20171123.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Morris Chang]]]]--> * [[July 1]] ** [[Leslie Caron]], French actress ** [[Stanislav Grof]], Czech psychiatrist ** [[Seyni Kountché]], former [[President of Niger]] (d. [[1987]]) * [[July 4]] – [[Stephen Boyd]], Irish actor (''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'') (d. [[1977]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.antrimguardian.co.uk/news/2020/04/14/gallery/local-actor-s-fantastic-voyage-9150/|title=Local actor's 'Fantastic Voyage'|website=Antrim Guardian|date=18 April 2020|access-date=20 December 2020}}</ref> * [[July 5]] – [[Ismail Mahomed]], South African, Namibian [[Chief Justice]] (d. [[2000]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[Antonella Lualdi]], Italian actress and singer (d. [[2023]]) ** [[Della Reese]], African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d. [[2017]]) * [[July 10]] ** [[Morris Chang]], Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in [[1987]] ** [[Jerry Herman]], American composer, lyricist (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Alice Munro]], Canadian writer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hallvard Dahlie|title=Alice Munro and Her Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bbsfAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=ECW Press|page=1|isbn=9780920802694}}</ref> * [[July 14]] – [[Robert Stephens]], English actor (d. [[1995]]) * [[July 15]] ** [[Clive Cussler]], American thriller writer and underwater explorer (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cain |first1=Sian |title=Clive Cussler, bestselling adventure novelist, dies aged 88 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/26/clive-cussler-novelist-dies-88 |access-date=April 11, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=February 26, 2020}}</ref> ** [[Gene Louw]], South African politician (d. [[2015]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Guido de Marco]], Maltese politician, 6th [[President of Malta]] (d. [[2010]]) * [[July 23]] ** [[Te Atairangikaahu|Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu]], Māori queen (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Arata Isozaki]], Japanese [[architect]]er (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-24 |title=Arata Isozaki {{!}} Biography, Architecture, Projects, Pritzker, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arata-Isozaki |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> * [[July 25]] – [[Paul Danblon]], Belgian composer, opera director, administrator and journalist (d. [[2018]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Darryl Hickman]], American actor, screenwriter, television executive, and acting coach (d. [[2024]]) ===August=== <!--[[File:William Goldman 1976 (cropped).png|thumb|100px|[[William Goldman]]]]--> [[File:Don King by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]]]] [[File:Life Ball 2013 - magenta carpet Barbara Eden 01 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Barbara Eden]]]] * [[August 1]] ** [[Dino da Costa]], Italian footballer (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Hal Connolly]], American athlete (d. [[2010]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Ruth Maria Kubitschek]], German actress (d. [[2024]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Vladimir Trusenyov]], Russian discus thrower (d. [[2001]]) * [[August 6]] – [[Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani]], Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. [[2014]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Roger Penrose]], English mathematical physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite book | last = Abbott | first = Derek | title = Quantum aspects of life | publisher = Imperial College Press | location = London | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781848162532 | page=x}}</ref> * [[August 9]] – [[Mário Zagallo]], Brazilian football player, manager (d. [[2024]]) * [[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]]) * [[August 16]] – [[Harold Bernard St. John]], 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. [[2004]]) * [[August 18]] – [[Hans van Mierlo]], Dutch politician, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] and [[Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Deputy Prime Minister]] (d. [[2010]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Willie Shoemaker]], American jockey (d. [[2003]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]], American boxing promoter * [[August 23]] ** [[Barbara Eden]], American actress ** [[Hamilton O. Smith]], American microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1978/smith/facts/|title=Hamilton O. Smith|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=November 29, 2022}}</ref> * [[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 and manager (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{NFT|50097<!-- /Shunichiro_Okano -->}}</ref> * [[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 ice hockey player (d. [[2014]]) ===September=== [[File:Javier Solís in 1966 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Javier Solís]]]] <!--[[File:Ian Holm.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ian Holm]]]]--> [[File:Silvia Pinal in Maribel y la extraña familia (1960) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Silvia Pinal]]]] [[File:Larry Hagman 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Larry Hagman]]]] * [[September 2]] – [[Zoltán Latinovits]], Hungarian actor (d. [[1976]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Paulo Maluf]], Brazilian politician * [[September 4]] ** [[Javier Solís]], Mexican singer and actor (d. [[1966]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ancestors.familysearch.org/es/KL76-Q83/gabriel-%22-javier-solis%22-siria-levario-1931-1966|title=Gabriel "Javier Solis" Siria Levario|accessdate=9 August 2022|work=familysearch|language=es}}</ref> ** [[Mitzi Gaynor]], American actress, singer and dancer (d. [[2024]]) * [[September 5]] – [[Moshé Mizrahi]], Israeli film director (d. [[2018]]) * [[September 10]] – [[Idelisa Bonnelly]], Dominican marine biologist (d. [[2022]]) * [[September 12]] ** [[Ian Holm]], British actor (d. [[2020]]) ** [[George Jones]], American country music singer, songwriter (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Silvia Pinal]], Mexican actress and politician (d. [[2024]])<ref name="official">{{cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RKL-79J?i=2366&cc=1923424&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGH3-6LWM|title=Acta de registro oficial|accessdate=9 August 2022|work=familysearch|language=es}}</ref> * [[September 13]] – [[Barbara Bain]], American actress * [[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]]) * [[September 21]] ** [[Larry Hagman]], American actor and director (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Syukuro Manabe]], Japanese meteorologist, climatologist and Nobel Prize laureate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/manabe/facts/|title=Syukuro Manabe|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref> ** [[Paulias Matane]], 8th [[Governor-General of Papua New Guinea]] (d. [[2021]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Fay Weldon]], British author (d. [[2023]]) * [[September 24]] ** [[Tom Adams (politician)|Tom Adams]], 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. [[1985]]) ** [[Elizabeth Blackadder]], Scottish painter (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Elizabeth Blackadder obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/25/dame-elizabeth-blackadder-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 August 2021 |language=en |date=25 August 2021}}</ref> * [[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=== [[File:Desmond Tutu, 1986 Jan (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Desmond Tutu]]]] [[File:A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in 2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]]] <!--[[File:Mickey Mantle 1953.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mickey Mantle]]]]--> <!--[[File:Dan Rather Peabody.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dan Rather]]]]--> * [[October 3]] – [[Denise Scott Brown]], American architect * [[October 4]] – [[Richard Rorty]], American philosopher (d. [[2007]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Riccardo Giacconi]], Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=G. Ramamurthy|title=Biographical Dictionary of Great Astronomers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0igmn9fzaUYC&pg=PA81|year=2005|publisher=Sura Books|isbn=978-81-7478-697-5|pages=81}}</ref> * [[October 7]] ** [[Desmond Tutu]], South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2021]]) ** [[Jack Berry (journalist)|Jack Berry]], American sports journalist * [[October 13]] – [[Raymond Kopa]], French footballer (d. [[2017]]) * [[October 15]] – [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]], President of India (d. [[2015]]) * [[October 16]] – [[Charles Colson]], American politician, [[Watergate]] conspirator, later evangelist (d. [[2012]]) * [[October 17]] – [[José Alencar]], Brazilian politician (d. [[2011]]) * [[October 19]] ** [[Rubens de Falco]], Brazilian actor (d. [[2008]]) ** [[John le Carré]], English novelist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary|title=John le Carré obituary|last1=Homberger|first1=Eric|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 December 2020|access-date=14 December 2020|archive-date=14 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214022605/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary|url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[Manolo Escobar]], Spanish singer and actor (d. [[2013]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Mickey Mantle]], American baseball player (d. [[1995]]) * [[October 21]] – [[Shammi Kapoor]], Indian film actor, director (d. [[2011]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Diana Dors]], English actress (d. [[1984]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[Klaus Hasselmann]], German oceanographer, climate modeller and Nobel Prize laureate ** [[Jimmy McIlroy]], Northern Irish football player and manager (d. [[2018]]) * [[October 27]] – [[Nawal El Saadawi]], Egyptian feminist (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Nawal El Saadawi obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/22/nawal-el-saadawi-obituary |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 March 2021 |language=en |date=22 March 2021}}</ref> * [[October 28]] – [[Analía Gadé]], Argentine actress (d. [[2019]]) * [[October 31]] ** [[Sergio Obeso Rivera]], Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{citation|newspaper=El Diario de Morelos|location=Cuernavaca |date=August 11, 2019|access-date=August 11, 2019|title=Falleció el Arzobispo Emérito, Sergio Obeso Rivera|language=es|trans-title=Archbishop Emeritus, Sergio Obeso Rivera passes away|url=https://www.diariodemorelos.com/noticias/falleci-el-arzobispo-em-rito-sergio-obeso-rivera}}</ref> ** [[Dan Rather]], American television news reporter (''[[CBS Evening News]]'') ===November=== <!--[[File:Iketurner1997.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Ike Turner]]]]--> [[File:Mwai Kibaki, October 2003.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mwai Kibaki]]]] [[File:Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, premio Nobel de la Paz en 1980, Visitó al Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, Fernando Cordero. (5076794488).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[Shunsuke Kikuchi]], Japanese composer (d. [[2021]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Phil Woods]], American saxophonist (d. [[2015]]) * [[November 3]] ** [[Michael Fu Tieshan]], Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Monica Vitti]], Italian actress (d. [[2022]]) * [[November 5]] – [[Ike Turner]], American singer, songwriter (d. [[2007]]) * [[November 6]] ** [[Peter Collins (racing driver)|Peter Collins]], British racing driver (d. [[1958]]) ** [[Mike Nichols]], German-American television actor, writer and director (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Mike Nichols – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11243432/Mike-Nichols-obituary.html|access-date=November 21, 2014|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=November 20, 2014}}</ref> * [[November 12]] – [[Majida Boulila]], Tunisian militant (d. [[1952]]) * [[November 15]] ** [[Mwai Kibaki]], 3rd [[President of Kenya]] (d. [[2022]]) ** [[Pascal Lissouba]], [[President of the Republic of Congo]] (d. [[2020]]) * [[November 21]] – [[Malcolm Williamson]], Australian composer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book|author=James Murdoch|title=Australia's Contemporary Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sTqzAAAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-13913-4|page=205}}</ref> * [[November 26]] – [[Adolfo Pérez Esquivel]], Argentine activist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] * [[November 28]] – [[Tomi Ungerer]], French artist, illustrator and writer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/tomi-ungerer-obituary|title=Tomi Ungerer obituary|date=28 February 2019|author=Joanna Carey|website=The Guardian|access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref> * [[November 29]] – [[Shintaro Katsu]], Japanese actor (d. [[1997]]) ===December=== <!--[[File:Professor George Maxwell Richards 1 (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[George Maxwell Richards]]]]--> [[File:Rita Moreno face.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rita Moreno]]]] <!--[[File:Carlos Graça.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Carlos Graça]]]] [[File:Mr. Le Kha Phieu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lê Khả Phiêu]]]]--> * [[December 1]] ** [[Rajko Kuzmanović]], 7th [[President of Republika Srpska]] ** [[George Maxwell Richards]], [[President of Trinidad and Tobago]] (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar]], Bangladeshi barrister and politician * [[December 2]] – [[Wynton Kelly]], Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. [[1971]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Elizabeth Ramsey]], Filipina singer and actress (d. [[2015]]) * [[December 5]] – [[Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni]], Indian Navy admiral (d. [[2018]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Aurora Cornu]], Romanian writer and actress (d. [[2021]]) * [[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 13]] – [[Ida Vos]], Dutch Jewish author of books for children and adults (d. 2006){{citation needed|date=March 2025}} * [[December 15]] – [[Klaus Rifbjerg]], Danish writer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Gray | first = Charlotte | title = Klaus Rifbjerg | publisher = Greenwood Press | location = New York | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780313250989 | page=3}}</ref> * [[December 20]] – [[Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq]], African-American activist and Muslim (d. [[2014]]) * [[December 21]] ** [[Redha Malek]], 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Georgi Naydenov (footballer, born 1931)|Georgi Naydenov]], Bulgarian footballer and manager (d. [[1970]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Carlos Graça]], 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. [[2013]]) * [[December 24]] ** [[Walter Abish]], Austrian-born American writer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books/walter-abish-dead.html|title=Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90|first=Alan|last=Cowell|work=The New York Times |date=May 31, 2022|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> ** [[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 (d. [[2020]]) * [[December 30]] ** [[Charles Bassett]], American electrical engineer, astronaut (d. [[1966]]) ** [[Skeeter Davis]], American singer (d. [[2004]])
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