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== Births == {{BDToC|births}} === January === [[File:Figueiredo (colour).jpg|thumb|100px|[[João Figueiredo]]]] [[File:President Nasser, 1962.jpg|thumb|130x130px|[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]]] [[File:Gertrude Elion.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gertrude B. Elion]]]] [[File:Nicolae Ceaușescu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nicolae Ceaușescu]]]] * [[January 1]] – [[Patrick Anthony Porteous]], Scottish recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]] (d. [[2000]]) * [[January 2]] – [[Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse]], German typographer, calligrapher and book-binder (d. [[2019]]) * [[January 10]] – [[Arthur Chung]], 1st [[President of Guyana]] (d. [[2008]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Kassim Al-Rimawi]], Prime Minister of Jordan (d. [[1982]]) * [[January 15]] ** [[João Figueiredo]], 30th [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1999]]) ** [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], 2nd [[President of Egypt]] (d. [[1970]]) * [[January 16]] – [[Stirling Silliphant]], American writer, producer (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{cite news| author-link= Mel Gussow| last= Gussow| first= Mel| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/27/arts/stirling-silliphant-78-writer-won-heat-of-the-night-oscar.html |title= Stirling Silliphant, 78, Writer; Won 'Heat of the Night' Oscar| work= [[The New York Times]]| date= April 27, 1996}}</ref> * [[January 17]] ** [[Kamal Amrohi]], Indian director, screenwriter (d. [[1993]]) ** [[George M. Leader]], American politician (d. [[2013]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Juan García Esquivel]], Mexican bandleader (d. [[2002]]) * [[January 21]] ** [[Chicháy]], Filipino actress (d. [[1993]]) ** [[Richard Winters]], U.S. Army officer (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011006268.html |title=Obituary: Richard 'Dick' Winters, courageous WWII officer portrayed in 'Band of Brothers' |author=Shapiro, T. Rees |newspaper=Washington Post |date=January 10, 2011 |access-date=January 7, 2018}}</ref> * [[January 22]] – [[Elmer Lach]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2015]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Gertrude B. Elion]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite journal|last=Avery|first=Mary Ellen|author-link = Mary Ellen Avery| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0051 | title = Gertrude Belle Elion. 23 January 1918 – 21 February 1999 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 54 | pages = 161–168 | year = 2008| doi-access = }}</ref> * [[January 24]] – [[Oral Roberts]], American neo-Pentecostal televangelist (d. [[2009]]) * [[January 26]] ** [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]], Romanian communist politician and leader (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Philip José Farmer]], American writer (d. [[2009]]) * [[January 27]] ** [[Skitch Henderson]], English-born musician, bandleader (d. [[2005]]) ** [[Elmore James]], American musician (d. [[1963]]) * [[January 29]] ** [[Luis Aguilar (actor)|Luis Aguilar]], Mexican actor, and singer (d. [[1997]]) ** [[John Forsythe]], American actor (d. [[2010]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Millie Dunn Veasey]], African-American civil rights activist (d. [[2018]]) === February === [[File:Joey_Bishop_1967.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Joey Bishop]]]] [[File:Schwinger.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julian Schwinger]]]] * [[February 1]] ** [[Carlos Fayt]], Argentine lawyer, politician and academic (d. [[2016]]) ** Dame [[Muriel Spark]], Scottish author (d. [[2006]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Hella Haasse]], Dutch writer (d. [[2011]]) * [[February 3]] ** [[Joey Bishop]], American entertainer, member of the "[[Rat Pack]]" (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Helen Stephens]], American runner (d. [[1994]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Ida Lupino]], Anglo-American actress, screenwriter, director and producer (d. [[1995]]) * [[February 6]] – [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]], German author (d. [[2007]]) * [[February 7]] – [[Marguerite Narbel]], Swiss biologist and politician (d. [[2010]]) * [[February 8]] – [[Fred Blassie]], American professional wrestler, novelty singer (''Pencil Neck Geek'') (d. [[2003]]) * [[February 12]] – [[Julian Schwinger]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1994]]) * [[February 14]] – [[William L. Snyder]], American film producer (d. [[1998]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Smilja Avramov]], Serbian academic, authority and educator in international law (d. [[2018]]) * [[February 19]] – [[Fay McKenzie]], American silent film actress (d. [[2019]]) * [[February 22]] ** [[Don Pardo]], American television announcer (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'') (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Robert Pershing Wadlow]], American tallest man record-holder (d. [[1940]]) * [[February 25]] ** [[Barney Ewell]], American athlete (d. [[1996]]) ** [[Miguel Gallastegui]], Spanish pelotari (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Bobby Riggs]], American tennis player (d. [[1995]]) * [[February 26]] ** [[Herbert Blaize]], 6th [[Prime Minister of Grenada]] (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Lloyd Geering]], New Zealand theologian<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Traue |editor-first=J. E. |editor-link=Jim Traue |title=Who's Who in New Zealand |edition=11th |year=1978 |publisher=Reed |location=Wellington |isbn=0-589-01113-8|page=120}}</ref> ** [[Theodore Sturgeon]], American writer (d. [[1985]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Alfred Burke]], English actor (d. [[2011]]) === March === [[File:Jango.jpg|thumb|100px|[[João Goulart]]]] [[File:James Tobin.png|thumb|100px|[[James Tobin]]]] [[File:Marguerite Chapman 1953.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Marguerite Chapman]]]] [[File:Elaine_de_Kooning,_RIT_NandE_1974_Dec16_Complete.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elaine de Kooning]]]] [[File:Frederick Reines.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frederick Reines]]]] <!--[[File:Cheddi Jagan Anefo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cheddi Jagan]]]]--> [[File:Pearl Bailey - publicity.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pearl Bailey]]]] * [[March 1]] ** [[Roger Delgado]], British actor (d. [[1973]]) ** [[João Goulart]], 24th [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1976]]) * [[March 3]] ** [[Arthur Kornberg]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Fritz Thiedemann]], German equestrian (d. [[2000]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Margaret Osborne duPont]], American female tennis player (d. [[2012]]) * [[March 5]] – [[James Tobin]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Memorial Prize]] laureate (d. [[2002]])<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1981/tobin-autobio.html Tobin, James. "Autobiography"], published in ''Nobel Lectures. Economics 1981–1990'', Editor [[Karl-Göran Mäler]], World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992</ref> * [[March 9]] ** [[Marguerite Chapman]], American actress (d. [[1999]]) ** [[George Lincoln Rockwell]], American Nazi leader (d. [[1967]]) ** [[Mickey Spillane]], American writer (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/arts/18spillane.html|title=Mickey Spillane, 88, Critic-Proof Writer of Pulpy Mike Hammer Novels, Dies|date=18 July 2006|work=The New York Times}}</ref> * [[March 10]] ** [[Günther Rall]], German ace fighter pilot (d. [[2009]]) * [[March 12]] ** [[Elaine de Kooning]], American artist (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite news | title = Elaine de Kooning, Artist and Teacher, Dies at 68 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/02/obituaries/elaine-de-kooning-artist-and-teacher-dies-at-68.html | work = New York Times | first1 = Grace | last1 = Glueck |author-link = Grace Glueck | date = February 2, 1989}}</ref> ** [[William E. Nichol]], American politician from [[Nebraska]] (d. [[2006]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Frederick Reines]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilford |first1=John Noble |title=Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/us/frederick-reines-dies-at-80-nobelist-discovered-neutrino.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1998 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> * [[March 17]] – [[Viviane Gauthier]], Haitian dancer (d. [[2017]]) * [[March 22]] – [[Cheddi Jagan]], 4th [[President of Guyana]] (d. [[1997]]) * [[March 23]] ** [[Kazu Naoki]], Japanese soccer player (d. [[1940s]]) ** [[Émile Derlin Zinsou]], President of [[Benin]] (d. [[2016]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Gonzalo Facio Segreda]], Costa Rican lawyer, politician, and diplomat (d. [[2018]]) * [[March 29]] ** [[Pearl Bailey]], African-American singer, actress (d. [[1990]]) ** [[Sam Walton]], founder of [[Wal-Mart]] (d. [[1992]]) ===April=== [[File:WILLIAMHolden.jpg|thumb|100px|[[William Holden]]]] [[File:Kai_Manne_Börje_Siegbahn_2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kai Siegbahn]]]] [[File:Olympische dag in Amsterdam. Fanny Blankers-Koen, Bestanddeelnr 903-4520.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fanny Blankers-Koen]]]] * [[April 1]] – [[Diarmuid Larkin]], Irish artist and art educationist (d. [[1989]]) * [[April 6]] ** [[Alfredo Ovando Candía]], 48th [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[1982]]) ** [[George Corones]], Australian Masters swimmer (d. [[2020]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Bobby Doerr]], American baseball player (d. [[2017]]) * [[April 8]] – [[Betty Ford]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[2011]]) * [[April 9]] – [[Jørn Utzon]], Danish architect (d. [[2008]]) * [[April 10]] – [[H. S. Doreswamy]], Indian activist, journalist (d. [[2021]]) * [[April 11]] – [[Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber]], French journalist, politician (d. [[2018]]) * [[April 14]] – [[Mary Healy (entertainer)|Mary Healy]], American actress, variety entertainer and singer (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=February 4, 2015 |title=Mary Healy, Actress and Singer, Dies at 96|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/arts/television/mary-healy-actress-and-singer-dies-at-96.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 5, 2015}}</ref> * [[April 16]] – [[Spike Milligan]], Irish comedian (d. [[2002]]) * [[April 17]] ** [[William Holden]], American actor (d. [[1981]]) ** [[Anne Shirley (actress)|Anne Shirley]], American actress (d. [[1993]]) * [[April 18]] ** [[Gabriel Axel]], Danish film director (d. [[2014]]) ** [[Shinobu Hashimoto]], Japanese screenwriter (d. [[2018]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Kai Siegbahn]], Swedish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Kai Siegbahn, Swedish Physicist, Dies at 89|author=Jeremy Pearce |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/europe/07siegbahn.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 August 2007}}</ref> * [[April 26]] – [[Fanny Blankers-Koen]], Dutch athlete (d. [[2004]]) * [[April 28]] ** [[Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler]], East German journalist, host of the television show ''Der schwarze Kanal'' (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Rodger Young]], [[United States Army]] soldier, remembered in the song "[[The Ballad of Rodger Young]]" (d. [[1943]]) * [[April 29]] – [[Nils Östensson]], Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. [[1949]]) === May === <!--[[File:Kakuei Tanaka cropped 1 Kakuei Tanaka 19720707.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kakuei Tanaka]]]]--> [[File:Mike Wallace Interviews 1957 (4).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mike Wallace]]]] [[File:Richard Feynman Nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Richard Feynman]]]] [[File:Eddie Arnold 1969.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Eddy Arnold]]]] [[File:Birgit-Nilsson-standing-and-singing-on-the-stage-391837722733.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Birgit Nilsson]]]] [[File:Yasuhiro Nakasone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yasuhiro Nakasone]]]] [[File:Martin_Lundström_in_St_Moritz_1948.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Martin Lundstrom]]]] * [[May 1]] ** [[Jack Paar]], American television show host (''The Tonight Show'') (d. [[2004]])<ref>Wepman, Dennis. [http://www.anb.org/articles/18/18-03832.html "Paar, Jack"], ''American National Biography Online'', Oxford University Press (Oxford, England). Retrieved January 8, 2019.</ref> ** [[Li Yaowen]], Chinese politician, general and diplomat (d. [[2018]]) * [[May 4]] ** [[Kakuei Tanaka]], 40th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1993]]) ** [[Ana Enriqueta Terán]], Venezuelan poet (d. [[2017]]) * [[May 6]] ** [[Henrietta Boggs]], Costa Rican-American author, journalist and activist (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan]], 1st President of the United Arab Emirates (d. [[2004]]) * [[May 9]] ** [[Orville Freeman]], American politician (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Mike Wallace]], American journalist (d. [[2012]]) * [[May 11]] – [[Richard Feynman]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html |title=Richard P. Feynman – Biographical |publisher=The Nobel Foundation |access-date=April 23, 2013 |archive-date=July 1, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060701224503/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * [[May 12]] – [[Julius Rosenberg]], American-born Soviet spy (d. [[1953]]) * [[May 15]] ** [[Eddy Arnold]], American country music singer (d. [[2008]]) ** [[Joseph Wiseman]], Canadian actor (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/20/AR2009102003549.html|access-date=December 19, 2010|work=washingtonpost.com|title=Accomplished Broadway actor immortalized Bond's Dr. No|first=Adam|last=Bernstein|date=October 21, 2009}}</ref> * [[May 16]] – [[Wilf Mannion]], English footballer (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2000/apr/15/newsstory.sport11 |title=Wilf Mannion |author=Brian Glanville |author-link=Brian Glanville |date=15 April 2000 |department=Obituary |work=The Guardian|access-date=12 September 2014}}</ref> * [[May 17]] – [[Birgit Nilsson]], Swedish soprano (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite news|last1=Blyth|first1=Alan|author1-link=Alan Blyth|last2=Barker |first2=Frank Granville |title=Obituary: Birgit Nilsson|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=12 January 2006 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/12/guardianobituaries.arts |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025073534/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/12/guardianobituaries.arts |archive-date=25 October 2017 |url-status=live |access-date=29 April 2018}}</ref> * [[May 19]] – [[Abraham Pais]], Dutch-born American physicist (d. [[2000]]) * [[May 20]] – [[Edward B. Lewis]], American geneticist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2004]]) * [[May 23]] ** [[Frank Mancuso]], American major league baseball player, politician (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Naomi Replansky]], American poet (d. [[2023]]) * [[May 27]] – [[Yasuhiro Nakasone]], 45th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[2019]]) * [[May 28]] ** [[Norbert Franck]], Luxembourgish swimmer (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Johnny Wayne]], Canadian comedian (d. [[1990]]) * [[May 30]] – [[Martin Lundström]], Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (d. [[2016]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Margaret Todd (golfer)|Margaret Todd]], Canadian female golfer (d. [[2019]]) === June === <!--[[File:Robert Preston-publicity.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]]]]--> <!--[[File:Patachou (1961).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Patachou]]]]--> <!--[[File:François Tombalbaye 1959.jpg|thumb|100px|[[François Tombalbaye]]]]--> [[File:Franco Modigliani.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Franco Modigliani]]]] * [[June 2]] – [[Kathryn Tucker Windham]], American writer, storyteller (d. [[2011]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Edwin G. Krebs]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2009]]) * [[June 8]] – [[Robert Preston (actor)|Robert Preston]], American actor (''The Music Man'') (d. [[1987]]) * [[June 9]] – [[John Hospers]], American philosopher (d. [[2011]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Patachou]], French singer (d. [[2015]]) * [[June 11]] – [[Hugo Scheltema]], Dutch diplomat (d. [[1996]]) * [[June 15]] – [[François Tombalbaye]], 1st [[President of Chad]] (d. [[1975]]) * [[June 17]] ** [[Derek Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury]], British life peer (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Ajahn Chah]] Subaddho, Buddhist teacher (d. [[1992]]) ** [[Raúl Padilla]] (alias ''El Chato''), Mexican actor (d. [[1994]]) * [[June 18]] ** [[Jerome Karle]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Franco Modigliani]], Italian-born economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Memorial Prize]] laureate (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Ángel Martín Taboas]], Puerto Rican-American politician (d. [[2023]]) * [[June 21]] ** [[Allan Lindberg]], Swedish pole vaulter (d. [[2004]]) ** [[Tibor Szele]], Hungarian mathematician (d. [[1955]]) ** [[Josephine Webb]], American engineer (d. [[2017]]) * [[June 22]] ** [[Cicely Saunders]], English Anglican nurse, social worker, physician and writer (d. [[2005]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/obituaries/cicely-saunders-dies-at-87-reshaped-endoflife-care.html|title=Cicely Saunders Dies at 87; Reshaped End-of-Life Care|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=July 31, 2005|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 22, 2018}}</ref> ** [[Yeoh Ghim Seng]], Singaporean politician, acting [[President of Singapore]] (d. [[1993]]) * [[June 24]] ** [[Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky]], Ukrainian Catholic bishop (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Yong Nyuk Lin]], Singaporean politician (d. [[2012]]) * [[June 26]] ** [[Ellen Liiger]], Estonian actress (d. [[1987]]) ** [[Leo Rosner]], Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (d. [[2008]]) * [[June 27]] ** [[Willy Breinholst]], Danish humorist, writer (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Adolph Kiefer]], American Olympic swimmer (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/sports/olympics/adolph-kiefer-dead-olympic-swimming-champion.html|title=Adolph Kiefer, a Gold Medal Backstroker in the 1936 Olympics, Dies at 98|last=Litsky|first=Frank|date=May 5, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 8, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * [[June 29]] – [[Heini Lohrer]], Swiss ice hockey player (d. [[2011]]) * [[June 30]] – [[Jackie Roberts]], Welsh footballer (d. [[2001]]) === July === <!--[[File:Zakaria Mohiedin as Interior Minister.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Zakaria Mohieddin]]]]--> <!--[[File:Sebastian Cabot 1964.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]]]]--> <!--[[File:Portrait of Francisco Moncion, in Sebastian LCCN2004663346.tif|thumb|100px|[[Francisco Moncion]]]]--> [[File:Ingmar Bergman (1966).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ingmar Bergman]]]] [[File:Bertram Brockhouse.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bertram Brockhouse]]]] <!--[[File:Carlos Arana Osorio.png|thumb|100px|[[Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio]]]]--> [[File:Nelson Mandela-2008 (edit) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nelson Mandela]]]] <!--[[File:AntonioCandido (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Antonio Candido]]]]--> [[File:Paul D. Boyer.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul D. Boyer]]]] * [[July 1]] ** [[Ahmed Deedat]], South African writer, public speaker (d. [[2005]]) ** [[Pedro Yap]], Filipino lawyer (d. [[2003]]) * [[July 2]] ** [[Athos Bulcão]], Brazilian painter, sculptor (d. [[2008]]) ** [[Indumati Bhattacharya]], Indian politician (d. [[1990]]) * [[July 3]] – [[Lorenzo Robledo]], Spanish actor (d. [[2006]]) * [[July 4]] ** King [[Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV]] of Tonga (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Alec Bedser]], English cricketer (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Eric Bedser]], English cricketer (d. [[2006]]) * [[July 5]] ** [[Zakaria Mohieddin]], Egyptian general, politician (d. [[2012]]) ** [[Nikos Papatakis]], Greek Ethiopian-born naturalised French filmmaker (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos]], Spanish fighter pilot (d. [[2018]]) * [[July 6]] ** [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]], English actor (d. [[1977]]) ** [[Francisco Moncion]], Dominican-American dancer, charter member of [[New York City Ballet]] (d. [[1995]]) * [[July 7]] – [[Jing Shuping]], Chinese businessman (d. [[2009]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[Paul B. Fay]], American businessman, soldier, and diplomat, 12th [[United States Secretary of the Navy]] (d. [[2009]]) ** [[Oluf Reed-Olsen]], Norwegian resistance member, pilot (d. [[2002]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Jarl Wahlström]], Salvation Army general (d. [[1999]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Mary Glen-Haig]], British Olympic fencer (d. [[2014]]) * [[July 13]] ** [[Alberto Ascari]], Italian racing driver (d. [[1955]]) ** [[Ted Oldfield]], English footballer (d. [[2006]]) * [[July 14]] ** [[T. M. Aluko]], Nigerian writer (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=T.M. Aluko {{!}} Nigerian author|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/T-M-Aluko|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> ** [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (d. [[2007]]<ref>{{cite news|author=Rothstein, Mervyn|title=Ingmar Bergman, Master Director, Dies at 89|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/movies/30cnd-bergman.html|work=The New York Times|date=30 July 2007|access-date=31 July 2007|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>) ** [[Jay Wright Forrester]], American computer scientist (d. [[2016]])<ref name=NYT>Katie Hafner, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/technology/jay-forrester-dead.html "Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 17, 2016.</ref> * [[July 15]] ** [[Paddy Bassett]], New Zealand scientist (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Bertram Brockhouse]], Canadian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Brenda Milner]], Canadian neuropsychologist * [[July 16]] ** [[Bayani Casimiro]], Filipino dancer and actor (d. [[1989]]) ** [[Pituka de Foronda]], Spanish actress (d. [[1999]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio]], 35th [[President of Guatemala]] (d. [[2003]]) * [[July 18]] ** [[Lia Dorana]], Dutch comedian, actress (d. [[2010]]) ** [[Nelson Mandela]], 1st [[President of South Africa]] and recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mandela |first=Nelson |title=Long Walk to Freedom Volume II: 1962–1994 |edition=large print |year=2004 |orig-year=1994 |publisher=BBC AudioBooks and Time Warner Books Ltd |location=London |isbn=978-0-7540-8724-3 |page=3}}</ref> * [[July 20]] – [[Auður Laxness]], Icelandic writer, craftsperson (d. [[2012]]) * [[July 21]] – [[Elsa Kobberstad]], Norwegian schoolteacher, politician (d. [[2007]]) * [[July 22]] – [[Lila Zali]], Georgian-born American prima ballerina (d. [[2003]]) * [[July 24]] ** [[Antonio Candido]], Brazilian literary critic, sociologist (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Ruggiero Ricci]], Italian-born violinist (d. [[2012]]) * [[July 27]] – [[Leonard Rose]], American cellist (d. [[1984]]) * [[July 28]] – [[Penaia Ganilau]], 1st President of Fiji (d. [[1993]]) * [[July 29]] – [[Edwin O'Connor]], American novelist, [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] winner (d. [[1968]]) * [[July 31]] ** [[Vicente Almeida d'Eça]], Portuguese colonial administrator (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Paul D. Boyer]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Hank Jones]], American pianist (d. [[2010]])<ref>Keepnews, Peter (May 17, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/music/18jones.html "Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 91"], ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> === August === [[File:Bruria_Kaufman.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bruria Kaufman]]]] [[File:Frederick Sanger2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frederick Sanger]]]] [[File:Shankar Dayal Sharma 36.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]]] [[File:Leonard Bernstein by Jack Mitchell.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leonard Bernstein]]]] [[File:Katherine Johnson 1983.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Katherine Johnson]]]] [[File:Major Aslam Khan.png|thumb|100px|[[Aslam Khan (Pakistani brigadier)|Aslam Khan]]]] [[File:Alejandro Agust%C3%ADn Lanusse.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alejandro Agustín Lanusse]]]] * [[August 1]] ** [[Artur Brauner]], German film producer and entrepreneur (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Zhou Xuan]], Chinese singer, actress (d. [[1957]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Dada Vaswani]], Indian spiritual leader (d. [[2018]]) * [[August 3]] – [[Cheng Kaijia]], Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer (d. [[2018]]) * [[August 4]] – [[Noel Willman]], Irish actor (d. [[1988]]) * [[August 5]] ** [[Kondapalli Koteswaramma]], Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary and writer (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Betty Oliphant]], co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. [[2004]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Guy Gibson]], British bomber pilot, leader of the "Dam Busters" raid (d. [[1944]]) * [[August 13]] ** [[Noor Hassanali]], 2nd [[President of Trinidad and Tobago]] (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Frederick Sanger]], English biochemist, double [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]], 9th [[President of India]] (d. [[1999]]) * [[August 20]] – [[Crystal Bennett]], British archaeologist, pioneering researcher on [[Jordan]] (d. [[1987]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Bruria Kaufman]], American-born Israeli physicist (d. [[2010]]) * [[August 22]] ** [[Said Mohamed Djohar]], [[President of the Comoros]] (d. [[2006]]) ** [[Martin Pope]], American physical chemist (d. [[2022]]) * [[August 23]] – [[Bernard Fisher (scientist)|Bernard Fisher]], American surgeon (d. [[2019]]) * [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer, conductor (d. [[1990]]) * [[August 26]] ** [[Katherine Johnson]], African-American physicist, space scientist and mathematician (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fountain|first=Nigel|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/24/katherine-johnson-obituary|title=Katherine Johnson obituary| date=February 24, 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=February 26, 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226023231/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/24/katherine-johnson-obituary|archive-date=February 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz]], Brazilian sociologist (d. [[2018]]) * [[August 27]] ** [[Aslam Khan (Pakistani brigadier)|Aslam Khan]], British Indian-born military officer, led his troops during [[World War II]] in capturing [[Kennedy Peak (Myanmar)]], which the Americans had failed to conquer. For this achievement, he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] by [[Field Marshal Auchinleck]] (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psTeAAAAMAAJ&q=%22aslam%22|title=History of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, 1820-1956: The State Force Background|year=1990|first= K. Brahma|last=Singh|publisher=Lancer International |isbn=978-81-7062-091-4}}</ref> ** [[Chang Yun Chung]], Chinese-born billionaire shipping magnate (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Jelle Zijlstra]], Dutch politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] from 1966 to 1967 (d. [[2001]]) * [[August 28]] – [[Alejandro Agustín Lanusse]], 37th [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[1996]]) * [[August 29]] – [[Clemens C. J. Roothaan]], Dutch physicist (d. [[2019]]) * [[August 30]] – [[Ted Williams]], American baseball player (d. [[2002]]) * [[August 31]] – [[Alan Jay Lerner]], American lyricist, librettist (d. [[1986]]) === September === [[File:Chaim Herzog portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chaim Herzog]]]] * [[September 1]] – [[Phyllis Wallbank]], English educationalist (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Helen Wagner]], American soap opera actress (d. [[2010]]) * [[September 4]] – [[Gerald Wilson]], American jazz trumpeter (d. [[2014]]) * [[September 6]] – [[Ludwig Hörmann]], German cyclist (d. [[2001]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Derek Barton]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1998]]) * [[September 9]] – [[Oscar Luigi Scalfaro]], 9th [[President of Italy]] (d. [[2012]]) * [[September 13]] – [[Ray Charles (musician, born 1918)|Ray Charles]], American musician, singer and songwriter (d. [[2015]]) * [[September 14]] – [[James George (diplomat)|James George]], Canadian diplomat (d. [[2020]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Nipsey Russell]], American comedian, poet, and dancer (d. [[2005]]) * [[September 16]] – [[Ismail Mohamed Ali]], Malaysian politician (d. [[1998]]) * [[September 17]] – [[Chaim Herzog]], 6th [[President of Israel]] 1983–1993 (d. [[1997]]) * [[September 19]] – [[Joseph Zeller]], American politician (d. [[2018]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Henryk Szeryng]], Polish-born violinist (d. [[1988]]) * [[September 24]] – [[Emerante Morse]], Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist (d. [[2018]]) * [[September 26]] – [[Peng Chang-kuei]], Taiwanese chef (d. [[2016]]) * [[September 27]] – [[Martin Ryle]], English radio astronomer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (d. [[1984]]) * [[September 28]] ** [[Ángel Labruna]], Argentine soccer player, manager (d. [[1983]]) ** [[Ida Schuster]], Scottish actress (d. [[2020]]) ** [[Arnold Stang]], American comic actor (d. [[2009]]) * [[September 30]] ** [[Giovanni Canestri]], Italian cardinal (d. [[2015]]) ** [[Aldo Parisot]], Brazilian-American cellist and educator (d. [[2018]]) === October === [[File:Skou2008crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jens Christian Skou]]]] [[File:Press photo of Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train (front).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)|Robert Walker]]]] [[File:Hayworth-Gilda-1946-Color.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rita Hayworth]]]] [[File:Thelma_Coyne_1932.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Thelma Coyne Long]]]] <!--[[File:Baby-Peggy 2012-07-01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Diana Serra Cary]]]]--> <!--[[File:Constantine Mitsotakis.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]]]]--> * [[October 4]] – [[Kenichi Fukui]], Japanese chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1998]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Goh Keng Swee]], former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d. [[2010]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Jens Christian Skou]], Danish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2018]]) * [[October 9]] ** [[E. Howard Hunt]], American [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] break-in coordinator (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Bebo Valdés]], Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. [[2013]]) * [[October 10]] – [[Gaston Mialaret]], French pedagogist and professor (d. [[2016]]) * [[October 13]] ** [[Jack MacGowran]], Irish film actor (d. [[1973]]) ** [[Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)|Robert Walker]], American actor (d. [[1951]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Thelma Coyne Long]], Australian tennis player (d. [[2015]]) * [[October 16]] ** [[Louis Althusser]], French philosopher (d. [[1990]]) ** [[Géori Boué]], French operatic singer (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Henri Vernes]], Belgian author (d. [[2021]]) * [[October 17]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (d. [[1987]]) * [[October 18]] ** [[Konstantinos Mitsotakis]], former Greek Prime Minister (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Bobby Troup]], American singer-songwriter and actor, known for his role in ''[[Emergency!]]'' (d. [[1999]]) * [[October 19]] – [[Robert S. Strauss]], American politician, Democratic National Committee Chairman (d. [[2014]]) * [[October 22]] – [[René de Obaldia]], French playwright and poet (d. [[2022]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Augusta Dabney]], American actress (d. [[2008]]) * [[October 25]] ** [[Francisco Griéguez]], Spanish WWII soldier (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Milton Selzer]], American actor (d. [[2006]]) * [[October 26]] – [[Marc Hodler]], Swiss lawyer (d. [[2006]]) * [[October 27]] ** [[Mihkel Mathiesen]], Estonian statesman (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Teresa Wright]], American actress (d. [[2005]]) * [[October 29]] – [[Diana Serra Cary]], American actress (d. [[2020]]) * [[October 31]] – [[Ian Stevenson]], American parapsychologist (d. [[2007]]) === November === [[File:Billy Graham bw photo, April 11, 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billy Graham]]]] [[File:Spiro Agnew.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Spiro Agnew]]]] * [[November 1]] – [[Ken Miles]], British sports car racing engineer and driver (d. [[1966]]) * [[November 2]] – [[Raimon Panikkar]], Spanish theologian (d. [[2010]]) * [[November 3]] – [[Russell B. Long]], United States Senator from Louisiana (d. [[2003]]) * [[November 4]] ** [[Art Carney]], American actor, best known for his role in ''[[The Honeymooners]]'' (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Cameron Mitchell (actor)|Cameron Mitchell]], American actor (d. [[1994]]) * [[November 7]] ** [[Paul Aussaresses]], French general (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Billy Graham]], American evangelist, spiritual adviser to several U.S. Presidents (d. [[2018]]) * [[November 8]] ** [[Teoh Seng Khoon]], Malaysian badminton player (d. [[2018]]) ** [[Hermann Zapf]], German typeface designer (d. [[2015]]) * [[November 9]] ** [[Spiro Agnew]], Vice president of the United States (d. [[1996]]) ** [[Choi Hong Hi]], South Korean general, martial artist (d. [[2002]]) ** [[Su Beng]], Taiwanese dissident and political activist (d. [[2019]]) * [[November 10]] – [[Ernst Otto Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2007]]) * [[November 14]] – [[John Bromwich]], Australian tennis player (d. [[1999]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Vittore Bocchetta]], Italian sculptor, painter and academic (d. [[2021]]) * [[November 18]] – [[Nicolás Kingman Riofrío]], Ecuadorian journalist, writer and politician (d. [[2018]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Patricio Aylwin]], 32nd [[President of Chile]] (d. [[2016]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Borys Paton]], Ukrainian scientist (d. [[2020]]) * [[November 29]] – [[Madeleine L'Engle]], American author (d. [[2007]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Efrem Zimbalist Jr.]], American actor (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Star of '77 Sunset Strip' and 'The F.B.I.', Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/arts/television/efrem-zimbalist-jr-star-of-77-sunset-strip-and-the-fbi-is-dead-at-95.html |access-date=June 9, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=May 3, 2014}}</ref> ===December=== [[File:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]]] <!--[[File:BKS Iyengar.jpg|thumb|100px|[[B. K. S. Iyengar]]]]--> <!--[[File:Jeff Chandler - 1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jeff Chandler]]]]--> [[File:Kurt Waldheim 1971b.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kurt Waldheim]]]] [[File: Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Helmut Schmidt]]]] [[File:Anwar Sadat cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anwar Sadat]]]] * [[December 3]] – [[Abdul Haris Nasution]], Indonesian general (d. [[2000]]) * [[December 7]] ** [[Jórunn Viðar]], Icelandic pianist, composer (d. [[2017]]) ** [[Liu Yichang]], Hong Kong writer and novelist (d. [[2018]]) * [[December 8]] – [[Gérard Souzay]], French baritone (d. [[2004]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Anatoly Tarasov]], Russian ice-hockey player and coach (d. [[1995]]) ** [[Fergus Anckorn]] * [[December 11]] – [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2008]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]], American jazz singer (d. [[1999]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Rosalia Lombardo]], Italian child known as ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (d. [[1920]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Panzer |first1=Stephanie |last2=Gill-Frerking |first2=Heather |last3=Rosendahl |first3=Wilfried |last4=Zink |first4=Albert R. |last5=Piombino-Mascali |first5=Dario |title=Multidetector CT investigation of the mummy of Rosalia Lombardo (1918–1920) |journal=[[Annals of Anatomy]] |date=2013 |volume=195 |issue=5 |pages=401–408 |doi=10.1016/j.aanat.2013.03.009 |pmid=23725823 |url=https://www.academia.edu/4992159}}</ref> * [[December 14]] – [[B. K. S. Iyengar]], Indian [[yoga]] teacher (d. [[2014]]) * [[December 15]] – [[Jeff Chandler]], American actor (d. [[1961]]) * [[December 17]] ** [[Dusty Anderson]], American actress and model (d. [[2007]]) ** [[Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg]], German royal (d. [[2019]]) * [[December 18]] – [[Joyce Reynolds (classicist)|Joyce Reynolds]], English classicist and academic (d. [[2022]]) * [[December 21]] ** [[Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias]], Peruvian philosopher (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Fred Gloden]], American football player (d. [[2019]]) ** [[Donald Regan]], American [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Treasury Secretary]], [[White House Chief of Staff]] (d. [[2003]]) ** [[Kurt Waldheim]], [[President of Austria]], [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kandell |first1=Jonathan |title=Kurt Waldheim dies at 88; ex-UN chief hid Nazi past |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/world/europe/14iht-waldheim.3.6141106.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=18 October 2022 |date=14 June 2007}}</ref> * [[December 23]] ** [[José Greco]], Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. [[2000]]) ** [[Kumar Pallana]], Indian actor (d. [[2013]]) ** [[Helmut Schmidt]], [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[2015]]) * [[December 24]] – [[Dave Bartholomew]], American musician, songwriter and music producer (d. [[2019]]) * [[December 25]] ** [[Bertie Mee]], English football player, manager (d. [[2001]]) ** [[Anwar Sadat]], 3rd [[President of Egypt]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1981]]) * [[December 26]] – [[Georgios Rallis]], [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (d. [[2006]]) * [[December 30]] – [[W. Eugene Smith]], American photojournalist (d. [[1978]]) ===Date unknown=== * [[Abd an-Nabi Abd al-Qadir Mursal]], [[Sudan]]ese poet and politician (d. [[1962]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mansour Khalid|title=War & Peace In The Sudan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJuZ_3dFSNoC&pg=PA65|date=12 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-17924-2|page=65}}</ref>
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