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January

 * January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (d. 2017)
 * January 2 – Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician and First Lady of Finland
 * January 3
 * Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
 * Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur, benefactor (d. 2023)
 * January 4
 * Amitai Etzioni, German-born American sociologist
 * Günter Schabowski, official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (d. 2015)
 * January 5 – Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal
 * January 6 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
 * January 7 – Terry Moore, American actress
 * January 8 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor (d. 2015)
 * January 9
 * Brian Friel, Irish dramatist (d. 2015)
 * Heiner Müller, German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director (d. 1995)
 * January 11
 * Nureddin al-Atassi, 54th Prime Minister of Syria, and 17th President of Syria (d. 1992)
 * Rafael Eitan, Israeli politician (d. 2004)
 * Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist (d. 2018)
 * January 12
 * Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish philosopher
 * Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (d. 2015)
 * January 13 – Aureliano Chaves, Brazilian politician, 19th Vice President of Brazil (d. 2003)
 * January 14
 * Aleksandar Petrović, French-born Serbian & Yugloslav film director (d. 1994)
 * Kim Young-sam, 7th President of South Korea (d. 2015)
 * January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
 * January 17 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)
 * January 20
 * Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
 * Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (d. 2016)
 * January 23
 * Patriarch Filaret, former Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate
 * John Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
 * January 25 – Benny Golson, African-American jazz musician
 * January 26 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and author
 * January 27 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate (d. 2023)
 * January 28
 * Acker Bilk, British clarinetist (d. 2014)
 * Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist
 * Claes Oldenburg, American artist (d. 2022)
 * January 29 – Elio Petri, Italian political filmmaker (d. 1982)
 * January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)
 * January 31
 * Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
 * Jean Simmons, English-American actress (d. 2010)

February

 * February 2
 * Věra Chytilová, Czech director (d. 2014)
 * John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (d. 2015)
 * February 4 – Jerry Adler, American actor
 * February 5
 * Hal Blaine, American drummer and session musician (d. 2019)
 * Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
 * Fred Sinowatz, 18th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008)
 * February 6
 * Pierre Brice, French actor (d. 2015)
 * Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
 * February 8
 * Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958)
 * Claude Rich, French actor (d. 2017)
 * February 10
 * Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian athlete (d. 2007)
 * Jerry Goldsmith, American composer, conductor (d. 2004)
 * February 14 – Vic Morrow, American actor, director (Combat) (d. 1982)
 * February 15
 * Graham Hill, English racing driver (d. 1975)
 * James R. Schlesinger, American politician (d. 2014)
 * February 16 – Kazimierz Kutz, Polish film director and politician (d. 2018)
 * February 17
 * Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French director and screenwriter
 * Chaim Potok, American author and rabbi (d. 2002)
 * Patricia Routledge, English actress, singer
 * February 18 – Len Deighton, British author
 * February 19 – Jacques Deray, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
 * February 20
 * Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
 * Toshiro Mayuzumi, Japanese composer (d. 1997)
 * February 21
 * James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
 * Chespirito (Roberto Gómez Bolaños), Mexican actor, comedian (d. 2014)
 * February 22
 * James Hong, Chinese-American actor, director
 * Rebecca Schull, American actress
 * February 23 – Patriarch Alexy II of Russia (d. 2008)
 * February 24 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish surrealist painter (d. 2005)
 * February 26 – Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (d. 2018)
 * February 27 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
 * February 28 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-born American architect

March



 * March 1 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
 * March 3
 * Mithat Bayrak, Turkish sports wrestler and trainer (d. 2014)
 * Mordechai Eliyahu, Israeli rabbi, posek, and spiritual leader (d. 2010)
 * March 4 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (d. 2021)
 * March 5 – J. B. Lenoir, African-American blues guitarist (d. 1967)
 * March 6 – Fazil Iskander, Abkhaz writer (d. 2016)
 * March 8 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer (d. 2012)
 * March 9
 * Desmond Hoyte, 3rd Prime Minister of Guyana, 4th President of Guyana (d. 2002)
 * Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
 * March 13
 * Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator (d. 2018)
 * Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2007)
 * Joseph Mascolo, American musician, actor (d. 2016)
 * March 15 – Cecil Taylor, African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018)
 * March 16 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (d. 2023)
 * March 17 – Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist (d. 2017)
 * March 18 – Christa Wolf, German literary critic, novelist, and essayist (d. 2011)
 * March 22
 * Yayoi Kusama, Japanese contemporary artist
 * P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (d. 1973)
 * March 23
 * Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete (d. 2018)
 * Mark Rydell, American film director and producer
 * March 27 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
 * March 29
 * Utpal Dutt, Indian actor, director and writer (d. 1993)
 * Richard Lewontin, American biologist, geneticist and academic (d. 2021)
 * Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006)
 * March 30
 * Richard Dysart, American actor (d. 2015)
 * Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Soviet-born Israeli mathematician (d. 2009)

April



 * April 1
 * Milan Kundera, Czech writer (d. 2023)
 * Jane Powell, American actress, dancer (d. 2021)
 * April 2 – Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (d. 2019)
 * April 3 – Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2021)
 * April 5
 * Hugo Claus, Belgian author (d. 2008)
 * Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist
 * Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (d. 2001)
 * Joe Meek, English record producer, sound engineer, and songwriter (d. 1967)
 * April 6
 * André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2019)
 * Christos Sartzetakis, 4th President of Greece (d. 2022)
 * April 7 – Bob Denard, French soldier and mercenary (d. 2007)
 * April 8 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (d. 1978)
 * April 10
 * Yozo Aoki, Japanese footballer (d. 2014)
 * Mike Hawthorn, British racing driver (d. 1959)
 * Liz Sheridan, American actress (d. 2022)
 * Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (d. 2020)
 * April 11 – Jack Betts, American actor
 * April 14
 * Gerry Anderson, British puppeteer and TV producer (d. 2012)
 * Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (d. 2012)
 * Paavo Berglund, Finnish conductor, violinist (d. 2012)
 * William E. Thornton, American astronaut (d. 2021)
 * April 17
 * James Last, German composer (d. 2015)
 * Józef Pińkowski, Polish politician, 50th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2000)
 * April 21 – Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician, First Lady (d. 2019)
 * April 22 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (d. 2019)
 * April 23 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator (d. 2020)
 * April 24
 * Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)
 * Shammi, Indian actress (d. 2018)
 * April 25 – Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (d. 2019)
 * April 26 – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (d. 2019)
 * April 27
 * Michael Harner, American anthropologist, author (d. 2018)
 * Nina Ponomaryova, Russian Olympic discus thrower (d. 2016)
 * April 28
 * Bhanu Athaiya, Indian costume designer (d. 2020)
 * Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress (d. 2017)
 * April 29
 * Walter Kempowski, German writer (d. 2007)
 * Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer (d. 2014)
 * April 30 – Klausjürgen Wussow, German theatre, television actor (d. 2007)

May

 * May 1 – Ralf Dahrendorf, Anglo-German sociologist (d. 2009)
 * May 2
 * Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor and director (d. 2019)
 * Link Wray, American rock and roll musician (d. 2005)
 * Édouard Balladur, 91st Prime Minister of France
 * May 3 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish physician (d. 2014)
 * May 4
 * Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (d. 2015)
 * Ronald Golias, Brazilian comedian and actor (d. 2005)
 * Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress and humanitarian (d. 1993)
 * May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
 * May 6
 * Hans Beck, German inventor (d. 2009)
 * Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2007)
 * May 8
 * Girija Devi, Indian singer (d. 2017)
 * Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (d. 2007)
 * Jane Roberts, American writer (d. 1984)
 * John C. Bogle, American investor (d. 2019)
 * May 10
 * Audun Boysen, Norwegian athlete (d. 2000)
 * George Coe, Americana actor (d. 2015)
 * Sándor Kányádi, Hungarian poet, translator (d. 2018)
 * May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress
 * May 12
 * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (d. 2019)
 * Sam Nujoma, 1st President of Namibia
 * May 14
 * Henry McGee, English actor (d. 2006)
 * Gump Worsley, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2007)
 * May 15 – Otar Patsatsia, Georgian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia
 * May 16
 * Betty Carter, African-American jazz singer (d. 1998)
 * John Conyers, African-American politician (d. 2019)
 * Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist (d. 2012)
 * May 19 – Harvey Cox, American theologian
 * May 23 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
 * May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007)
 * May 29 – Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
 * May 30 – Doina Cornea, Romanian human rights activist, professor (d. 2018)
 * May 31 – Menahem Golan, Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director (d. 2014)

June





 * June 1
 * James H. Billington, American academic and author (d. 2018)
 * Nargis Dutt, Indian actress (d. 1981)
 * June 2 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
 * June 3 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and Nobel laureate
 * June 4 – Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (d. 2021)
 * June 6 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, producer, director and politician (d. 2005)
 * June 7 – John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
 * June 8 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor (d. 2017)
 * June 9 – Johnny Ace, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954)
 * June 10
 * James McDivitt, American astronaut (d. 2022)
 * E. O. Wilson, American biologist (d. 2021)
 * June 12 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist, Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
 * June 13 – Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer and illustrator (d. 2012)
 * June 14 – Cy Coleman, American composer, and songwriter (d. 2004)
 * June 15 – Suraiya, Indian actress and singer (d. 2004)
 * June 16 – Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2020)
 * June 17
 * Tigran Petrosian, Armenian-Soviet chess Grandmaster (d. 1984)
 * James Shigeta, Japanese-American actor (d. 2014)
 * June 18 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist, philosopher
 * June 20
 * Bonnie Bartlett, American actress
 * Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist (d. 2017)
 * June 21 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
 * June 23
 * June Carter Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
 * Claude Goretta, Swiss television producer, film director (d. 2019)
 * Henri Pousseur, Belgian composer, teacher, and music theorist (d. 2009)
 * June 24 – Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (d. 2021)
 * June 25
 * Eric Carle, American designer, illustrator, and writer (d. 2021)
 * Francesco Marchisano, Italian Cardinal (d. 2014)
 * June 26 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d. 2020)
 * June 29
 * Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (d. 2019)
 * Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist, author (d. 2006)
 * Pete George, American weightlifter (d. 2021)
 * Eberhard Jäckel, German historian (d. 2017)

July



 * July 1 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and Nobel laureate (d. 2014)
 * July 2 – Imelda Marcos, 10th First Lady of the Philippines
 * July 4
 * Al Davis, American football coach and executive (d. 2011)
 * Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian Catholic cardinal (d. 2018)
 * July 5
 * Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman (d. 1994)
 * Katherine Helmond, American actress (d. 2019)
 * Chikao Ōtsuka, Japanese actor, voice actor and father of Akio Ōtsuka (d. 2015)
 * July 6
 * Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, secretary of the Académie française, historian specializing in Russian history
 * Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer (d. 2019)
 * July 8 – Shirley Ann Grau, American writer (d. 2020)
 * July 9
 * King Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
 * Chi Haotian, Chinese general
 * Lee Hazlewood, American country and pop singer (d. 2007)
 * Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (d. 2019)
 * July 10 – José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan politician (d. 2020)
 * July 11
 * Sandy Frank, American television producer
 * David Kelly, Irish actor (d. 2012)
 * July 13 – Sofia Muratova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2006)
 * July 18
 * Dick Button, American figure skater
 * Adelaide Tambo, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician (d. 2007)
 * July 19
 * Gaston Glock, Austrian inventor, businessman (d. 2023)
 * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian
 * July 20
 * Mike Ilitch, American entrepreneur (d. 2017)
 * Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
 * July 22 – Vivien Merchant, English actress (d. 1982)
 * July 24 – Peter Yates, English film director and producer (d. 2011)
 * July 25
 * Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (d. 1974)
 * Manuel Olivencia, Spanish economist, diplomat (d. 2018)
 * Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician (d. 2018)
 * July 26 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist (d. 2012)
 * July 27
 * Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist and political commentator (d. 2007)
 * Harvey Fuqua, African-American singer, songwriter, and record producer (d. 2010)
 * Jack Higgins, British novelist
 * July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
 * July 29 – Remco Campert, Dutch author, poet and columnist (d. 2022)
 * July 31
 * Don Murray, American actor (d. 2024)
 * José Santamaría, Uruguayan footballer and manager

August



 * August 1
 * Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress, director and writer (d. 2018)
 * Hafizullah Amin, Afghan politician, statesman (d. 1979)
 * August 4 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (d. 1987)
 * August 7 – Don Larsen, American baseball player (d. 2020)
 * August 8
 * Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (d. 2013)
 * Gudrun Burwitz, German politician, activist (d. 2018)
 * Luis García Meza, 68th President of Bolivia (d. 2018)
 * Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 2011)
 * August 12
 * Charles Moore, American athlete (d. 2020)
 * Buck Owens, American singer, bandleader, and TV host (d. 2006)
 * August 14 – Louise Slaughter, American politician (d. 2018)
 * August 15 – Carlo Ripa di Meana, Italian politician (d. 2018)
 * August 16 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
 * August 17 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot (d. 1977)
 * August 18 – Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist (d. 2021)
 * August 21
 * Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philologist and semiotician (d. 2017)
 * Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician, political prisoner and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2017)
 * John McMartin, American actor (d. 2016)
 * Marie Severin, American comics artist, colorist (d. 2018)
 * August 23
 * Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (d. 1997)
 * Vera Miles, American actress
 * Peter Thomson, Australian professional golfer (d. 2018)
 * August 24
 * Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
 * Alix, Princess of Ligne, Princess of Luxembourg (d. 2019)
 * August 27 – Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (d. 2007)
 * August 28 – Roxie Roker, African-American actress (d. 1995)

September





 * September 1
 * "Mad Dog" Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2013)
 * Květa Fialová, Czech actress (d. 2017)
 * September 2 – Rex Hartwig, Australian tennis player
 * September 3 – Whitey Bulger, Irish-American organized crime boss (Winter Hill Gang) (d. 2018)
 * September 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)
 * September 5 – Bob Newhart, American comedian, actor
 * September 7 – Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (d. 2016)
 * September 9
 * Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
 * Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun and physician (d. 2017)
 * September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (d. 2016)
 * September 11 – Eve Brent, American actress (d. 2011)
 * September 15
 * John Julius Norwich, British historian, travel writer and television personality (d. 2018)
 * Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2019)
 * September 16 – Jamshid bin Abdullah, last Sultan of Zanzibar
 * September 17 – Stirling Moss, British race car driver (d. 2020)
 * September 19 – Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle road racer (d. 2018)
 * September 20 – Anne Meara, American actress, comedian (d. 2015)
 * September 21
 * Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (d. 1979)
 * Bernard Williams, English philosopher (d. 2003)
 * September 22 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2020)
 * September 25
 * Ronnie Barker, English actor, comedian and writer (d. 2005)
 * Barbara Walters, American journalist (d. 2022)
 * September 27 – Txillardegi, Spanish linguist, politician and writer (d. 2012)
 * September 28
 * Lata Mangeshkar, Indian singer (d. 2022)
 * Nikolai Ryzhkov, Soviet and Russian politician (d. 2024)
 * September 30
 * Kjell Askildsen, Norwegian writer (d. 2021)
 * Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2021)
 * Kazuko, Princess Taka, third daughter of Emperor Shōwa (d. 1989)

October





 * October 2
 * Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993)
 * Hong Song-nam, 8th Premier of North Korea (d. 2009)
 * October 5 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (d. 2017)
 * October 6
 * Bruno Cremer, French actor (d. 2010)
 * Karin Lindberg, Swedish gymnast (d. 2020)
 * October 8 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (d. 2017)
 * October 11 – Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
 * October 13 – Adalet Ağaoğlu, Turkish novelist and playwright (d. 2020)
 * October 15
 * Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (d. 2017)
 * Nikodim, Soviet Russian Orthodox metropolitan (d. 1978)
 * Milorad Pavić, Serbian writer (d. 2009)
 * October 16 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
 * October 18 – Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
 * October 21
 * Ursula K. Le Guin, American science-fiction, fantasy author (d. 2018)
 * George Stinney, African-American criminal (d. 1944)
 * October 22 – Lev Yashin, Soviet professional footballer (d. 1990)
 * October 24 – George Crumb, American composer (d. 2022)
 * October 28 – Joan Plowright, English actress
 * October 29 – Yevgeny Primakov, 29th Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015)
 * October 31 – Bud Spencer, Italian actor, swimmer, and water polo player (d. 2016)

November



 * November 2
 * Rachel Ames, American actress
 * Amar Bose, American engineer and entrepreneur (d. 2013)
 * Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, 9th President of Pakistan
 * Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist (d. 2018)
 * November 5 – Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official and 5th president of UEFA (d. 2019)
 * November 6 – June Squibb, American actress
 * November 7 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
 * November 8
 * Bert Berns, American songwriter, record producer (d. 1967)
 * Jona Senilagakali, Acting Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2011)
 * Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
 * November 9 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author (d. 2016)
 * November 10 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-born Mexican actress, dancer (d. 2015)
 * November 11
 * LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
 * Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author, poet, translator and editor (d. 2022)
 * November 12
 * Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess of Monaco (d. 1982)
 * Michael Ende, German fantasy writer (d. 1995)
 * Hind Rostom, Egyptian actress (d. 2011)
 * November 13 – Fred Phelps, American pastor and activist (d. 2014)
 * November 15 – Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)
 * November 17 – Gorō Naya, Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director, older brother of Rokurō Naya (d. 2013)
 * November 20
 * Raymond Lefèvre, French conductor, arranger, composer (d. 2008)
 * Milkha Singh, Indian athlete (d. 2021)
 * November 21 – Marilyn French, American author (d. 2009)
 * November 24 – George Moscone, American attorney and politician (d. 1978)
 * November 26 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovene composer and musician (d. 2015)
 * November 28
 * Berry Gordy, African-American record producer, songwriter
 * Thomas Remengesau Sr., 4th President of Palau (d. 2019)
 * November 30 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer (d. 2012)

December


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 * December 1
 * David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
 * Alfred Moisiu, 7th President of Albania
 * December 6
 * Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (d. 2016)
 * King Moody, Americana actor and comedian (d. 2001)
 * Alain Tanner, Swiss film director
 * December 9
 * Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2019)
 * John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
 * December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese pianist and composer
 * December 13 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
 * December 14
 * Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (d. 2019)
 * Shlomo Argov, Israeli diplomat (d. 2003)
 * December 15 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, former Queen of Jordan (d. 2019)
 * December 17 – William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter (d. 2009)
 * December 18 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013)
 * December 20
 * Selim Hoss, 3-time Prime Minister of Lebanon
 * Lee Hyun-jae, South Korean politician
 * Milan Panić, Serbian politician
 * December 23 – Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d. 1988)
 * December 28
 * Efraín Goldenberg, Peruvian politician, finance minister and foreign relations minister
 * Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues musician (d. 2018)
 * Terry Sawchuk, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 1970)
 * December 29 – Susie Garrett, African-American actress (d. 2002)
 * December 31 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter (d. 2018)

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January



 * January 1
 * Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Yemeni military officer, politician (d. 2019)
 * Ty Hardin, American actor (d. 2017)
 * Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Prime Minister of Djibouti (d. 2018)
 * Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of Sudan (d. 2009)
 * Frederick Wiseman, American filmmaker
 * January 2 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
 * January 3
 * Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
 * Ahmed Osman, 8th Prime Minister of Morocco
 * January 4
 * Sorrell Booke, American actor (d. 1994)
 * Don Shula, American professional football player and coach (d. 2020)
 * January 5 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (d. 1967)
 * January 6
 * Professor Tanaka, American professional wrestler and actor (d. 2000)
 * 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, American businessman (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)
 * January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress (d. 2023)
 * January 14 – Kenny Wheeler, Canadian composer (d. 2014)
 * January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020)
 * January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
 * January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11)
 * 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)
 * Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (d. 2017)
 * January 24
 * Terence Bayler, New Zealand actor (d. 2016)
 * John Romita Sr., American comic book artist (d. 2023)
 * January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
 * January 28
 * Jasraj, Indian musician (d. 2020)
 * Kurt Biedenkopf, German politician (d. 2021)
 * Luis de Pablo, Spanish composer (d. 2021)
 * January 29 – Norio Ohga, Japanese businessman (d. 2011)
 * January 30
 * Gene Hackman, American actor and novelist
 * Egon Klepsch, German politician (d. 2010)
 * January 31 – Jo Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)

February

 * February 1
 * Shahabuddin Ahmed, 12th President of Bangladesh (d. 2022)
 * Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 10th President of Bangladesh (d. 2019)
 * February 3 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician (d. 2016)
 * February 4
 * Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 * Tony Madigan, Australian boxer (d. 2017)
 * February 8
 * Catherine Hardy Lavender, American athlete (d. 2017)
 * Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (d. 1987)
 * February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
 * February 12 – Arlen Specter, American lawyer, author, and politician (d. 2012)
 * February 13 – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
 * February 15 – Sara Jane Moore, American prison activist, convicted of the attempted murder of President Gerald Ford
 * February 17 – Ruth Rendell, English author (d. 2015)
 * February 18 – Theodore Freeman, American astronaut (d. 1964)
 * February 19 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
 * February 22 – Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
 * February 23
 * Harry Boldt, German equestrian
 * Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (d. 2019)
 * February 24 – Barbara Lawrence, American model, actress, and real estate agent (d. 2013)
 * February 25 – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
 * February 26
 * Lazar Berman, Soviet pianist (d. 2005)
 * Robert Francis, American actor (d. 1955)
 * Vladimir Kesarev, Russian footballer (d. 2015)
 * February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
 * February 28
 * Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Lho Shin-yong, South Korean politician, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2019)

March





 * March 1 – Raymond St. Jacques, American actor (d. 1990)
 * March 2
 * Sergei Kovalev, Russian human rights activist and politician (d. 2021)
 * Tom Wolfe, American author, journalist (d. 2018)
 * March 3
 * Heiner Geißler, German politician (d. 2017)
 * Ion Iliescu, 2-time President of Romania
 * March 6
 * Allison Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
 * Lorin Maazel, French-born American orchestral conductor (d. 2014)
 * March 7
 * Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, royal spouse (d. 2017)
 * Stanley Miller, American chemist (d. 2007)
 * March 9
 * Ornette Coleman, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2015)
 * Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (d. 2007)
 * March 11 – Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2017)
 * March 12 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist, politician (d. 2014)
 * March 15 – Zhores Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
 * March 17 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)
 * March 18 – Adam Cardinal Maida, American Roman Catholic prelate
 * March 21
 * James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
 * Lynden Pindling, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas (d. 2000)
 * March 22
 * Stephen Sondheim, American composer, lyricist (d. 2021)
 * Pat Robertson, American televangelist, motivational speaker, author and television host (d. 2023)
 * 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 (d. 2023)
 * Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (d. 2016)
 * March 28
 * Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
 * Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * March 29
 * Lima Duarte, Brazilian actor
 * Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor, director (d. 2018)
 * Anerood Jugnauth, 3-time Prime Minister of Mauritius, and 4th President of Mauritius (d. 2021)
 * March 30
 * John Astin, American actor
 * Rolf Harris, Australian-born entertainer (d. 2023)

April

 * April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
 * April 3
 * Lawton Chiles, American politician (d. 1998)
 * Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
 * April 5
 * Mary Costa, American opera singer and actress
 * Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (d. 2019)
 * 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
 * Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer (d. 2020)
 * Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (d. 2001)
 * Dolores Huerta, American Labor leader and activist
 * April 11
 * Nicholas F. Brady, American politician
 * Anton LaVey, American author, musician, and occultist (d. 1997)
 * April 12 – John Landy, Australian athlete (d. 2022)
 * April 13 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (d. 2013)
 * April 14 – Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
 * April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
 * April 16 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
 * April 17 – Chris Barber, English jazz bandleader and trombonist (d. 2021)
 * April 18
 * Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (d. 2019)
 * Clive Revill, New Zealand actor
 * April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
 * April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
 * April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer, American actor
 * April 24
 * Richard Donner, American film director, producer (d. 2021)
 * José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil
 * April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
 * April 26 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete and sportscaster
 * April 28
 * James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
 * Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
 * April 29
 * Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
 * Claus Ogerman, German conductor and composer (d. 2016)
 * Jean Rochefort, French actor (d. 2017)

May



 * May 1 – Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
 * May 2
 * Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer, painter, and journalist (d. 2013)
 * Marco Pannella, Italian politician, journalist and activist (d. 2016)
 * May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
 * May 4
 * Katherine Jackson, Jackson Family matriarch
 * Miljan Miljanić, Yugoslavian-born footballer (d. 2012)
 * Roberta Peters, American soprano (d. 2017)
 * May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
 * May 8
 * Heather Harper, Northern Irish soprano (d. 2019)
 * Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist and translator
 * May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
 * May 10
 * Adam Darius, American dancer, choreographer (d. 2017)
 * George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer
 * May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
 * May 12
 * Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
 * Pat McCormick, American former diver (d. 2023)
 * May 13
 * Vernon Shaw, 5th President of Dominica (d. 2013)
 * Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator of Alaska and Presidential candidate (d. 2021)
 * May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
 * May 18 – Don L. Lind, American astronaut (d. 2022)
 * May 19
 * Lorraine Hansberry, African-American playwright (d. 1965)
 * Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (d. 2016)
 * May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
 * May 22
 * Kenny Ball, British jazz trumpeter, singer (d. 2013)
 * Marisol Escobar, French sculptor (d. 2016)
 * Harvey Milk, American politician, San Francisco gay rights activist (d. 1978)
 * May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
 * May 27 – John Barth, American writer (d. 2024)
 * May 28
 * Frank Drake, American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 2022)
 * Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2019)
 * May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer

June





 * 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)
 * June 3
 * Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (d. 1999)
 * George Fernandes, Indian politician (d. 2019)
 * Anthony Harvey, English filmmaker (d. 2017)
 * June 4
 * Morgana King, American jazz singer, actress (d. 2018)
 * Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
 * June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
 * June 7 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
 * June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
 * June 9
 * Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
 * Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway (d. 2012)
 * Jordi Pujol, 126th President of the Government of Catalonia
 * June 10 – Ilya Glazunov, Russian artist (d. 2017)
 * June 11
 * Charles Rangel, African-American politician
 * Ellen Schwiers, German actress (d. 2019)
 * June 12
 * Innes Ireland, British racing driver (d. 1993)
 * Jim Nabors, American actor, musician and comedian (d. 2017)
 * Son Sen, Cambodian politician, criminal (d. 1997)
 * June 14
 * Charles McCarry, American novelist (d. 2019)
 * Bora Kostić, Serbian footballer (d. 2011)
 * June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
 * June 19 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
 * June 20
 * Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (d. 2017)
 * Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (d. 1987)
 * June 22
 * Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1998)
 * Sa'dun Hammadi, 33rd Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 2007)
 * June 23
 * Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (d. 1987)
 * Elza Soares, Brazilian singer (d. 2022)
 * June 24
 * Rashid Bakr, 10th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 1988)
 * Claude Chabrol, French film director (d. 2010)
 * June 26 – Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
 * June 27
 * Tommy Kono, Japanese-American weightlifter (d. 2016)
 * Ross Perot, American billionaire, philanthropist and politician (d. 2019)
 * June 28
 * William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist, parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Itamar Franco, 33rd President of Brazil (d. 2011)
 * Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (d. 1999)
 * June 29
 * Ernst Albrecht, German politician (d. 2014)
 * Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive (d. 2019)
 * June 30
 * Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (d. 2018)
 * Thomas Sowell, African-American economist
 * Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (d. 2021)

July





 * July 1
 * Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer (d. 2005)
 * Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Bolivian politician, businessman
 * July 2
 * Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer (d. 2023)
 * Carlos Menem, President of Argentina (d. 2021)
 * July 3
 * Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
 * Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 2004)
 * July 4
 * George Steinbrenner, American businessman, baseball team owner (d. 2010)
 * Yuriy Tyukalov, Russian rower (d. 2018)
 * July 5 – John Wood, English actor (d. 2011)
 * July 6
 * George Armstrong, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2021)
 * M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (d. 2016)
 * Herbert Erhardt, German footballer (d. 2010)
 * Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian author (d. 2016)
 * July 7
 * Tadao Kobayashi, Japanese football player, manager
 * Theodore McCarrick, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
 * Hank Mobley, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 1986)
 * Biljana Plavšić, 2nd President of Republika Srpska
 * July 9 – Sim Iness, American athlete (d. 1996)
 * July 11 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
 * July 12 – Guy Ligier, French racing driver and team owner (d. 2015)
 * July 14 – Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
 * July 15
 * Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (d. 2004)
 * Stephen Smale, American mathematician
 * July 17 – Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
 * July 20
 * Oleg Anofriyev, Soviet-Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet (d. 2018)
 * Sally Ann Howes, English actress, singer (d. 2021)
 * Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (d. 1993)
 * July 21 – Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
 * July 22 – Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (d. 2015)
 * July 25 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
 * July 27 – Andy White, Scottish drummer (d. 2015)
 * July 31 – Oleg Popov, Soviet and Russian clown (d. 2016)

August





 * August 1
 * Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002)
 * Lawrence Eagleburger, 62nd 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 – 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)
 * Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (d. 2016)
 * August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, African-American singer and actress (d. 2010)
 * August 8 – Nita Talbot, American actress
 * August 9 – Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
 * August 10
 * Luigi De Filippo, Italian actor (d. 2018)
 * Jorma Panula, Finnish conductor, composer
 * August 12
 * George Soros, Hungarian-born investor
 * Jacques Tits, Belgian-born French mathematician (d. 2021)
 * Peter Weck, Austrian film director, actor
 * August 14 – Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
 * August 15 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (d. 1969)
 * August 16
 * Flor Silvestre, Mexican singer, actress, and equestrienne (d. 2020)
 * Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
 * Frank Gifford, American football player (d. 2015)
 * Leslie Manigat, 34th President of Haiti (d. 2014)
 * Tony Trabert, American tennis player (d. 2021)
 * Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d. 2018)
 * August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
 * August 18 – Liviu Librescu, Romanian–American scientist and engineer (d. 2007)
 * August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American teacher and writer (d. 2009)
 * August 20 – Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2019)
 * August 21
 * Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
 * Frank Perry, American stage director and filmmaker (d. 1995)
 * August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
 * August 23
 * Luís Morais, Brazilian footballer (d. 2020)
 * Michel Rocard, French politician (d. 2016)
 * August 25
 * Sean Connery, Scottish actor (d. 2020)
 * 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)
 * Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
 * Irinej, Serbian Patriarch (d. 2020)
 * August 29 – Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2005)
 * August 30 – Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur

September



 * September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
 * September 7
 * King Baudouin I of Belgium (d. 1993)
 * Sonny Rollins, African-American jazz saxophonist
 * September 8
 * Mario Adorf, German actor
 * Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (d. 2021)
 * Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 2011)
 * September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
 * September 10 – Liliana Segre, Italian politician and holocaust survivor
 * 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 – Jimmy McLane, American swimmer (d. 2020)
 * September 14
 * Pierre Bergé, French businessman (d. 2017)
 * Allan Bloom, American philosopher and author (d. 1992)
 * September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
 * September 17
 * David Huddleston, American actor (d. 2016)
 * Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (d. 2016)
 * Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut (d. 2024)
 * September 19
 * Muhal Richard Abrams, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 2017)
 * Antonio Margheriti, Italian filmmaker (d. 2002)
 * September 21 – Dawn Addams, English actress (d. 1985)
 * September 23
 * Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (d. 1987)
 * Ray Charles, African-American singer, musician and actor (d. 2004)
 * September 24 – 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 opera singer (d. 1966)
 * September 28 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (d. 2019)
 * September 29 – Colin Dexter, English author (d. 2017)

October



 * October 1
 * Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer (d. 2002)
 * Philippe Noiret, French actor (d. 2006)
 * October 5
 * Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2009)
 * Reinhard Selten, German Nobel economist (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)
 * October 10
 * Yves Chauvin, French Nobel chemist (d. 2015)
 * Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
 * October 11 – Sam Johnson, American politician (d. 2020)
 * October 14
 * Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (d. 2006)
 * Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1997)
 * October 15 – Christian Tumi, Cameroonian cardinal (d. 2021)
 * October 16
 * John Polkinghorne, English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest (d. 2021)
 * Carmen Sevilla, Spanish singer and actress
 * October 17
 * Robert Atkins, American nutritionist (d. 2003)
 * Freimut Börngen, German astronomer
 * October 18 – Frank Carlucci, American politician (d. 2018)
 * October 19 – Ron Joyce, Canadian businessman (d. 2019)
 * October 22 – Todor Veselinović, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2017)
 * October 24
 * The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), American singer (d. 1959)
 * Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician (d. 2024)
 * Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2019)
 * October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon
 * October 29
 * Bertha Brouwer, Dutch athlete (d. 2006)
 * 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 (d. 2021)

November



 * November 3 – Lois Smith, American actress
 * November 4
 * Kate Reid, English actress (d. 1993)
 * Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
 * November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
 * November 11
 * Mildred Dresselhaus, American scientist, educator (d. 2017)
 * Mabandla Dlamini, 3rd Prime Minister of Swaziland
 * Hugh Everett III, American physicist (d. 1982)
 * Alevtina Kolchina, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2022)
 * November 13 – Richard A. Falk, American professor emeritus
 * November 14
 * Pierre Bergé, French businessman (d. 2017)
 * 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 mobster (d. 2017)
 * November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
 * November 19 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
 * November 22
 * Owen Garriott, American astronaut (d. 2019)
 * Peter Hall, English film director (d. 2017)
 * November 23 – Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
 * November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
 * November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
 * November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries (d. 2021)

December




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 * 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 (d. 2022)
 * December 4
 * Ronnie Corbett, English comedian (d. 2016)
 * Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist (d. 2013)
 * December 6
 * Rolf Hoppe, German actor (d. 2018)
 * Daniel Lisulo, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
 * Wojciech Zabłocki, Polish architect and fencer (d. 2020)
 * December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
 * December 9
 * Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and director (d. 2020)
 * Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (d. 2010)
 * December 11
 * Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (d. 2016)
 * Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, South Vietnamese general (d. 1998)
 * Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor (d. 2022)
 * December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur
 * December 13 – Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008)
 * December 15 – Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, and poet
 * December 17
 * Bob Guccione, American photographer and publisher (d. 2010)
 * Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
 * December 18 – Sonja Edström, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2020)
 * December 21 – Kalevi Sorsa, 14th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
 * December 26 – Donald Moffat, English actor (d. 2018)
 * December 27 – Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist (d. 2021)
 * December 28 – Franzl Lang, German Yodeler (d. 2015)
 * December 30 – Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist
 * December 31 – Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)

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January

 * January 1 – Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016)
 * January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
 * January 4
 * William Deane, Australian politician
 * Guido Messina, Italian racing cyclist (d. 2020)
 * Cleopa Msuya, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania
 * January 5
 * Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
 * Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
 * Walt Davis, American athlete (d. 2020)
 * Robert Duvall, American actor, filmmaker
 * Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist (d. 2017)
 * January 6 – E. L. Doctorow, American author (d. 2015)
 * January 8 – Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
 * January 9 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American sci-fi author (d. 2008)
 * January 10 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. 2015)
 * January 12 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
 * January 13
 * Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
 * Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian (d. 2007)
 * Elias M. Stein, American mathematician (d. 2018)
 * January 14 – Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
 * January 16 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (d. 2006)
 * January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
 * January 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea
 * 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
 * Stig Anderson, Swedish music entrepreneur (d. 1997)
 * Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet, playwright, essayist and publisher (d. 2008)
 * Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
 * January 26 – Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (d. 2017)
 * January 27 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
 * January 28 – Lucia Bosè, Italian actress (d. 2020)
 * January 29 – Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (d. 2011)
 * January 31 – Ernie Banks, African-American baseball player (d. 2015)

February



 * February 1
 * Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh (d. 2012)
 * Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
 * February 2
 * Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, 46th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2024)
 * Walter Burkert, German academic and 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 footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 * Robert Morris, American sculptor (d. 2018)
 * February 12 – Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Spanish cardinal (d. 2011)
 * February 15 – Claire Bloom, English actress
 * February 16
 * Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer (d. 2014)
 * Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
 * February 17 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (d. 2013)
 * February 18
 * Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
 * Toni Morrison, African-American writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2019)
 * February 23 – Linda Cristal, Argentine actress (d. 2020)
 * February 24 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
 * February 25 – Christopher George, American actor (d. 1983)
 * February 28
 * Gavin MacLeod, American actor (d. 2021)
 * Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)

March



 * 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 (d. 2022)
 * March 4 – William H. Keeler, American cardinal (d. 2017)
 * March 6
 * Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea (d. 2021)
 * Hal Needham, American stuntman, film director, actor and writer (d. 2013)
 * John Smith, American actor (d. 1995)
 * March 7 – Atsuko, Princess Yori, fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa
 * March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic (d. 2003)
 * March 9 – León Febres Cordero, 35th President of Ecuador (d. 2008)
 * 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 16 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (d. 2009)
 * March 17 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (d. 2018)
 * March 18
 * Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (d. 2015)
 * John Mollo, British costume designer and book author (d. 2017)
 * March 20
 * Hal Linden, American actor, singer
 * Karen Steele, American actress (d. 1988)
 * March 22
 * Burton Richter, American physicist (d. 2018)
 * William Shatner, Canadian actor, science fiction novelist
 * March 23
 * Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speedskater (d. 2005)
 * Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-born Swiss chess grandmaster (d. 2016)
 * March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
 * March 25 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
 * March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015)
 * March 27 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
 * March 28 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. 2018)
 * March 29 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015)
 * March 31 – Alan Newton, English track cyclist

April



 * April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright (d. 2020)
 * April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (d. 2018)
 * April 5 – Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter, record producer (d. 2013)
 * April 6
 * Ivan Dixon, African-American actor, director and producer (d. 2008)
 * Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), Bengali actress (d. 2014)
 * April 7 – Daniel Ellsberg, American economist, and activist (d. 2023)
 * 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)
 * Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator (d. 2021)
 * April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
 * April 13 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver (d. 2018)
 * April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish Nobel poet and translator (d. 2015)
 * April 17 – David Axelrod, American musician (d. 2017)
 * April 18 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete
 * April 21 – Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 122nd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch (d. 2014)
 * April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 2021)
 * April 29
 * Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
 * Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)

May





 * May 3 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
 * May 6 – Willie Mays, African-American baseball player (d. 2024)
 * May 7
 * Teresa Brewer, American pop, jazz singer (d. 2007)
 * Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (d. 2019)
 * May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
 * May 9 – Vance D. Brand, American astronaut
 * May 10
 * Olja Ivanjicki, Serbian painter, sculptor, and poet (d. 2009)
 * Ichirō Nagai, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
 * Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (d. 2016)
 * May 13 – Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978)
 * May 15 – James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 2021)
 * May 16
 * Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
 * Natwar Singh, Indian politician
 * Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (d. 2015)
 * May 17 – Marshall Applewhite, American Heaven's Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997)
 * May 18 – Robert Morse, American actor (d. 2022)
 * May 20 – George Vassiliou, 3rd President of Cyprus
 * May 23 – Barbara Barrie, American actress and writer
 * May 24 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor (d. 2020)
 * May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
 * May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
 * May 28
 * Carroll Baker, American actress
 * Gordon Willis, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2014)
 * May 31
 * John Schrieffer, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
 * Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)

June





 * June 2 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
 * June 3
 * Françoise Arnoul, French actress (d. 2021)
 * Raúl Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
 * Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain (d. 1999)
 * Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (d. 2018)
 * June 4 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2019)
 * June 5 – Jacques Demy, French director, lyricist, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
 * June 6 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (d. 2020)
 * June 7 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
 * June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
 * June 9 – Joe Santos, Italian-American actor (d. 2016)
 * 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 – John Shelby Spong, American Episcopal prelate (d. 2021)
 * 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)
 * Mary L. Good, American chemist (d. 2019)
 * Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer (d. 2010)
 * James Tolkan, American actor
 * 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
 * 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, English writer, philosopher and novelist (d. 2013)
 * June 27
 * Magali Noël, French actress and singer (d. 2015)
 * Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist (d. 2021)
 * June 28 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. 2017)
 * June 30 – Allan Jay, British Olympian foil and épée fencer

July







 * July 1
 * Leslie Caron, French actress
 * Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist
 * Seyni Kountché, former President of Niger (d. 1987)
 * July 4
 * Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (d. 1977)
 * Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (d. 2003)
 * July 5 – James Burke, Irish-American mobster (d. 1996)
 * July 6
 * Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress, singer
 * Della Reese, African-American actress, singer and evangelist (d. 2017)
 * July 7 – David Eddings, American author (d. 2009)
 * 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)
 * Alice Munro, Canadian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2024)
 * July 11
 * Tab Hunter, American actor, singer (d. 2018)
 * Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (d. 2014)
 * July 13 – Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018)
 * July 14
 * Luis Pércovich Roca, 118th Prime Minister of Peru (d. 2017)
 * Robert Stephens, English actor (d. 1995)
 * July 15 – Clive Cussler, American author (d. 2020)
 * 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 26 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
 * July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor (d. 2018)
 * July 31 – Kenny Burrell, American jazz guitarist

August





 * August 1
 * Hal Connolly, American athlete (d. 2010)
 * Dino da Costa, Brazilian-born Italian footballer (d. 2020)
 * August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov, Russian discus thrower (d. 2001)
 * August 6
 * Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. 2014)
 * Umberto Lenzi, Italian film director, screenwriter and novelist (d. 2017)
 * August 8 – Roger Penrose, English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher
 * August 9 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2024)
 * August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (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 (d. 2015)
 * Janice Rule, American actress (d. 2003)
 * August 16 – Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2004)
 * August 18 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010)
 * August 19
 * Marianne Koch, German actress
 * 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 25 – Regis Philbin, American actor, singer and television personality (d. 2020)
 * August 27
 * Sri Chinmoy, Indian philosopher (d. 2007)
 * Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 * August 28 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer and manager (d. 2017)
 * August 30 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
 * August 31
 * Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
 * Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004)

September



 * September 1 – Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess grandmaster (d. 2016)
 * 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 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor (d. 2022)
 * September 12
 * Ian Holm, English actor (d. 2020)
 * George Jones, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
 * Bill McKinney, American actor (d. 2011)
 * September 13
 * Barbara Bain, American actress (Mission: Impossible)
 * Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Austrian politician and athlete
 * September 16 – E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018)
 * September 17
 * Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
 * Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
 * Princess Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011)
 * September 18 – Julio Grondona, Argentine football executive (d. 2014)
 * September 19
 * Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
 * Ray Danton, American actor (d. 1992)
 * September 20 – Haya Harareet, Israeli actress and screenwriter (d. 2021)
 * September 21
 * Larry Hagman, American actor (d. 2012)
 * Syukuro Manabe, Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist
 * September 22 – Fay Weldon, British author (d. 2023)
 * September 24
 * Tom Adams, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985)
 * Anthony Newley, English actor (d. 1999)
 * September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor
 * September 29
 * James Cronin, American Nobel physicist (d. 2016)
 * Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (d. 2015)
 * September 30 – Angie Dickinson, American actress

October



 * 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 (d. 2021)
 * October 13
 * Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (d. 2017)
 * Raymond Kopa, French footballer (d. 2017)
 * Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (d. 2001)
 * October 15
 * Freddy Cole, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 2020)
 * A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (d. 2015)
 * Ahmed Laraki, 6th Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2020)
 * October 16 – Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012)
 * October 17
 * José Alencar, Brazilian politician, 23rd Vice President of Brazil (d. 2011)
 * Nikolay Kamenskiy, Russian ski jumper (d. 2017)
 * October 19
 * John le Carré, English novelist (d. 2020)
 * Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer, actor (d. 2013)
 * October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
 * October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and film director (d. 2011)
 * October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (d. 2015)
 * October 23
 * Jim Bunning, American baseball player, and politician (d. 2017)
 * Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984)
 * October 25
 * Annie Girardot, French actress (d. 2011)
 * Klaus Hasselmann, German oceanographer
 * Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2018)
 * October 27 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist and writer (d. 2021)
 * 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 (d. 2021)
 * Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2019)
 * Dan Rather, American television news reporter (CBS Evening News)

November



 * 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 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 film director and producer (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 – Norman Mineta, American politician (d. 2022)
 * November 15
 * John Kerr, American actor (d. 2013)
 * Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya (d. 2022)
 * Pascal Lissouba, President of the Republic of Congo (d. 2020)
 * November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician (d. 2011)
 * November 17 – Yusuf Zuayyin, 51st and 53rd Prime Minister of Syria (d. 2016)
 * November 21 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
 * November 25 – Nat Adderley, African-American jazz musician (d. 2000)
 * November 26
 * Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
 * Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Dutch cardinal (d. 2020)
 * November 28 – Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (d. 2019)
 * November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)

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 * December 1
 * Rajko Kuzmanović, 7th President of Republika Srpska
 * George Maxwell Richards, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
 * December 2
 * Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1971)
 * Edwin Meese, American attorney, law professor, and author
 * December 7 – Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, South Korean cardinal (d. 2021)
 * December 11
 * Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (d. 2013)
 * Rita Moreno, Puerto-Rican actress
 * Rajneesh, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1990)
 * December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author (d. 2015)
 * December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (d. 2014)
 * December 18
 * Eva Bosáková, Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (d. 1991)
 * Allen Klein, American businessman (d. 2009)
 * Gunnel Lindblom, Swedish actress (d. 2021)
 * 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 footballer (d. 2004)
 * Scotty Moore, American guitarist (d. 2016)
 * Lê Khả Phiêu, 10th General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (d. 2020)
 * December 28
 * Guy Debord, French theorist, philosopher, and filmmaker (d. 1994)
 * Martin Milner, American actor (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)

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January



 * January 3
 * Dabney Coleman, American actor (d. 2024)
 * Eeles Landström, Finnish athlete (d. 2022)
 * January 4 – Carlos Saura, Spanish film director (d. 2023)
 * January 5
 * Johnny Adams, American singer (d. 1998)
 * Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and novelist (d. 2016)
 * Bill Foulkes, English footballer (d. 2013)
 * Raisa Gorbacheva, Wife of the President of the Soviet Union (d. 1999)
 * January 7 – Max Gallo, French writer, historian and politician (d. 2017)
 * January 11 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
 * January 13 – Joseph Zen, Chinese cardinal
 * 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 19 – Richard Lester, American film director
 * January 22 – Piper Laurie, American actress (d. 2023)
 * January 24 – Henri Nouwen, Dutch priest and author (d. 1996)
 * 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 29 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
 * January 30 – Kazuo Inamori, Japanese businessman (d. 2022)

February

 * February 1 – Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (d. 2016)
 * February 2 – Robert Mandan, American actor (d. 2018)
 * February 3
 * Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
 * Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist (d. 2014)
 * February 5 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
 * February 6
 * François Truffaut, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1984)
 * Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary leader (d. 1959)
 * February 7
 * Gay Talese, American author
 * Alfred Worden, American astronaut (d. 2020)
 * February 8
 * Horst Eckel, German footballer (d. 2021)
 * John Williams, American composer and conductor
 * February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
 * February 10 – Robert Taylor, American computer scientist (d. 2017)
 * February 12
 * Princess Astrid of Norway
 * Lincoln Kilpatrick, African-American actor (d. 2004)
 * February 13 – Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
 * February 14
 * Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress
 * Alexander Kluge, German author and film director
 * February 16
 * Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd 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)
 * Joseph P. Kerwin, American physician and astronaut
 * Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, French opera director (d. 1988)
 * February 20 – Enrique Múgica, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
 * February 22 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
 * February 23 – Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
 * February 24
 * John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
 * Michel Legrand, French composer (d. 2019)
 * Zell Miller, American politician (d. 2018)
 * February 25
 * Hans Apel, German politician (d. 2011)
 * Tony Brooks, English racing driver
 * Faron Young, American country singer (d. 1996)
 * February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer (d. 2003)
 * February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
 * February 28 – Don Francks, Canadian actor, singer and musician (d. 2016)

March



 * March 4
 * Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
 * Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (d. 2008)
 * 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)
 * March 10
 * Anatoly Roshchin, Russian heavyweight wrestler (d. 2016)
 * Ieng Thirith, Cambodian politician (d. 2015)
 * March 11 – Leroy Jenkins, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 2007)
 * March 12 – Andrew Young, African-American politician, diplomat and activist
 * March 14
 * Mark Murphy, American jazz singer (d. 2015)
 * Naina Yeltsina, First Lady of Russia
 * March 15
 * Alan Bean, American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (d. 2018)
 * Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (d. 2006)
 * March 16 – Walter Cunningham, American astronaut (d. 2023)
 * March 18 – John Updike, American author (d. 2009)
 * 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 26 – Luke Askew, American actor (d. 2012)
 * March 27 – Junior Parker, African-American blues musician (d. 1971)
 * March 28 – Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (d. 2019)
 * March 31 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (d. 2013)

April



 * April 1 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress, dancer, and singer (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, Russian film director, screenwriter (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
 * Mati Klarwein, German painter (d. 2002)
 * Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
 * April 10
 * Kishori Amonkar, Indian vocalist (d. 2017)
 * Mae Faggs, American athlete (d. 2000)
 * 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 14
 * Atef Ebeid, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
 * Loretta Lynn, American country singer (d. 2022)
 * April 16
 * Qahhor Mahkamov, 1st President of Tajikistan (d. 2016)
 * Imre Polyák, Hungarian featherweight (d. 2010)
 * April 19
 * Fernando Botero, Colombian artist and sculptor (d. 2023)
 * Andrea Mead Lawrence, American alpine ski racer (d. 2009)
 * April 21
 * Elaine May, American film director, actress
 * Angela Mortimer, British tennis player
 * April 22
 * Anthony Soter Fernandez, Malaysian cardinal (d. 2020)
 * Isao Tomita, Japanese composer (d. 2016)
 * April 24 – Vladimir Yengibaryan, Armenian amateur light-welterweight boxer (d. 2013)
 * April 25
 * Nikolai Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist (d. 2019)
 * Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower (d. 1998)
 * William Roache, English actor
 * April 26
 * Francis Lai, French composer (d. 2018)
 * Michael Smith, British-born Canadian biochemist (d. 2000)
 * April 27
 * Anouk Aimée, French actress (d. 2024)
 * 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 – King Hu, Chinese film director (d. 1997)

May

 * May 1 – Donald Kagan, Lithuanian-born American historian (d. 2021)
 * May 3
 * Maria Itkina, Soviet athlete (d. 2020)
 * Robert Osborne, American film historian and television host (d. 2017)
 * May 6 – Antal Bolvári, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019)
 * May 7 – Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
 * May 8
 * Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
 * Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
 * May 9 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)
 * May 11 – Valentino, Italian fashion designer
 * May 14 – Bob Johnston, American record producer (d. 2015)
 * May 15
 * Turgay Şeren, Turkish footballer (d. 2016)
 * Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, 22nd Prime Minister of Thailand
 * May 17 – Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (d. 2017)
 * May 19 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
 * May 21 – Jean Stablinski, French professional cyclist (d. 2007)
 * May 23 – Dino Sani, Brazilian footballer and coach
 * May 24 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright (d. 2016)
 * May 25 – K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
 * May 27 – José Varacka, Argentine footballer and coach (d. 2018)
 * May 29
 * Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist
 * Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
 * May 30
 * Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician (d. 2016)
 * Pauline Oliveros, American composer (d. 2016)

June

 * June 4
 * John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
 * Oliver Nelson, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 1975)
 * Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (d. 2016)
 * June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (d. 1981)
 * June 6
 * David Scott, American astronaut
 * Billie Whitelaw, English actress (d. 2014)
 * June 10
 * Marc Fumaroli, French historian and essayist (d. 2020)
 * Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (d. 2019)
 * June 11 – Athol Fugard, South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director
 * June 12
 * Mimi Coertse, South African soprano
 * Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (d. 2002)
 * June 13
 * Bob McGrath, American actor (d. 2022)
 * Oreco, Brazilian footballer (d. 1985)
 * June 14 – Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (d. 2016)
 * June 15
 * Mario Cuomo, American politician (d. 2015)
 * Asnoldo Devonish, Venezuelan athlete (d. 1997)
 * June 17
 * Derek Ibbotson, English athlete (d. 2017)
 * Peter Lupus, American actor and bodybuilder
 * June 18
 * Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and Nobel laureate
 * Geoffrey Hill, English poet (d. 2016)
 * June 19
 * Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
 * Marisa Pavan, Italian actress (d. 2023)
 * June 20 – Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Poet (d. 1994)
 * June 21 – 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 24 – Margit Korondi, Hungarian gymnast
 * June 25
 * Peter Blake, English artist
 * Ichiro Ogimura, Japanese table tennis player, and coach (d. 1994)
 * June 26 – Marguerite Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas
 * June 27 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
 * June 28 – Pat Morita, Japanese-American actor (d. 2005)
 * June 29 – Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor (d. 2018)

July

 * July 2 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (d. 1989)
 * July 3 – Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (d. 2017)
 * July 5 – Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
 * July 7 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
 * July 8 – Barbara Loden, American actress (d. 1980)
 * July 9 – Donald Rumsfeld, 13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense (d. 2021)
 * July 10 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian auto racing driver (d. 2019)
 * July 11 – Hans van Manen, Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
 * July 12
 * Otis Davis, American athlete
 * Monte Hellman, American film director, producer, writer and editor (d. 2021)
 * July 13
 * Per Nørgård, Danish composer
 * Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist (d. 2023)
 * Antonio Roma, Argentine footballer (d. 2013)
 * July 14
 * Princess Margarita of Baden (d. 2013)
 * Helga Liné, German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat
 * July 16
 * Bill Byrge, American actor and comedian
 * Oleg Protopopov, Russian pair skater (d. 2023)
 * Dick Thornburgh, American lawyer, author and politician (d. 2020)
 * July 17
 * Johnny Kerr, American basketball player (d. 2009)
 * Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (d. 2013)
 * Quino, Argentine cartoonist (d. 2020)
 * July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
 * July 20
 * Dick Giordano, American comic book artist and editor (d. 2010)
 * Nam June Paik, Korean-born American artist (d. 2006)
 * Otto Schily, German politician
 * July 22
 * Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
 * Tom Robbins, American novelist
 * July 25 – Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut (d. 2017)
 * July 26 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (d. 1985)
 * July 29 – Nancy Kassebaum, American politician
 * July 30 – Edd Byrnes, American actor (d. 2020)
 * July 31
 * Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
 * John Searle, American philosopher

August



 * 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 – Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist (d. 2020)
 * August 5 – Ja'Net DuBois, African-American actress (d. 2020)
 * August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
 * August 7 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian olympic athlete (d. 1973)
 * August 8
 * Mel Tillis, American country singer (d. 2017)
 * Zito, Brazilian footballer (d. 2015)
 * August 9 – Anand Panyarachun, 18th Prime Minister of Thailand
 * August 11
 * Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
 * Keiko Kishi, Japanese actress and writer
 * August 12 – Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand
 * August 15
 * Abby Dalton, American actress (d. 2020)
 * Robert L. Forward, American physicist (d. 2002)
 * August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
 * August 18 – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2022)
 * August 19 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2016)
 * August 20 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
 * August 21 – Melvin Van Peebles, African-American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer (d. 2021)
 * August 22 – Gerald Carr, American astronaut (d. 2020)
 * August 23 – Houari Boumediene, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
 * August 24
 * Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, British cardinal (d. 2017)
 * W. Morgan Sheppard, English actor (d. 2019)
 * August 26 – Joe Engle, American astronaut
 * August 27 – Saye Zerbo, 3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2013)
 * August 28 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (d. 2006)

September



 * 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)
 * September 5 – Carol Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
 * September 8 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
 * September 10 – Félix Malloum, 2nd President of Chad (d. 2009)
 * September 12 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
 * September 17 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (d. 2016)
 * September 18
 * Hisashi Owada, Japanese jurist, diplomat and law professor
 * Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2002)
 * September 21 – Mickey Kuhn, American child actor (d. 2022)
 * September 22
 * Algirdas Brazauskas, 10th President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
 * Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
 * September 25
 * Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
 * Adolfo Suárez, 138th Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
 * September 26
 * Donna Douglas, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
 * Richard Herd, American actor (d. 2020)
 * Joyce Jameson, American actress (d. 1987)
 * Manmohan Singh, 13th Prime Minister of India
 * Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer (d. 2018)
 * Clifton Williams, American astronaut (d. 1967)
 * September 27
 * Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
 * Yash Chopra, Indian film director and producer (d. 2012)
 * Oliver E. Williamson, American economist (d. 2020)
 * 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 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (d. 2022)

October



 * October 1 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 2013)
 * October 2 – Henri Namphy, 36th President of Haiti (d. 2018)
 * October 3
 * Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (d. 1999)
 * Ángel Roberto Seifart, Paraguayan politician (d. 2018)
 * October 7 – Predrag Matvejević, Bosnian Croat writer and scholar (d. 2017)
 * October 8 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
 * October 9 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
 * October 11 – Dottie West, American singer and songwriter (d. 1991)
 * October 12
 * Jake Garn, American astronaut and politician
 * Dick Gregory, African-American comedian and activist (d. 2017)
 * Yuichiro Miura, Japanese alpinist
 * October 13
 * Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director and screenwriter (d. 2019)
 * Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
 * October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist (d. 1998)
 * October 17 – Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
 * October 18 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
 * October 19 – Robert Reed, American actor (The Brady Bunch) (d. 1992)
 * October 20
 * William Christopher, American actor and comedian (M*A*S*H) (d. 2016)
 * Michael McClure, American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist (d. 2020)
 * October 21 – Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
 * October 23 – Vasily Belov, Soviet-Russian writer, poet and dramatist (d. 2012)
 * October 24
 * Stephen Covey, American educator, author, and businessman (d. 2012)
 * Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
 * Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
 * October 25 – Vitold Fokin, 1st Prime Minister of Ukraine
 * October 26 – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (d. 2019)
 * October 27
 * Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and football manager (d. 2020)
 * Sylvia Plath, American poet and author (d. 1963)
 * Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
 * October 28
 * Spyros Kyprianou, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
 * Suzy Parker, American fashion model and actress (d. 2003)
 * October 30 – Louis Malle, French film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1995)

November



 * November 1 – A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
 * November 2
 * Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (d. 2018)
 * Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (d. 2006)
 * November 3 – Albert Reynolds, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2014)
 * November 4 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
 * November 6 – Stonewall Jackson, American country singer, guitarist and musician
 * November 8
 * Stéphane Audran, French actress (d. 2018)
 * Ben Bova, American writer, author (d. 2020)
 * Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Maltese politician, 5th President of Malta
 * November 10
 * Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (d. 2016)
 * Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
 * November 13
 * Olga Fikotová, Czechoslovak-American discus thrower
 * Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
 * November 15
 * Petula Clark, British singer, actress and composer
 * Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
 * November 20 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian, and game show host (d. 2012)
 * November 21 – Beryl Bainbridge, English writer (d. 2010)
 * 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)
 * November 29 – Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (d. 2019)

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 * December 3 – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (d. 2016)
 * December 4 – Roh Tae-woo, 6th President of South Korea (d. 2021)
 * December 5
 * Fazu Aliyeva, Soviet-born Russian poet, novelist and journalist (d. 2016)
 * Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
 * Little Richard, African-American singer and actor (d. 2020)
 * December 7
 * Ellen Burstyn, American actress
 * Pentti Linkola, Finnish deep ecologist and writer (d. 2020)
 * December 9 – Donald Byrd, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
 * December 12 – Bob Pettit, American basketball player
 * December 13 – Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor
 * December 14
 * Abbe Lane, American actress and singer
 * Charlie Rich, American country music singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1995)
 * Étienne Tshisekedi, 3-time Prime Minister of Zaire (d. 2017)
 * December 15 – Curtis Fuller, American jazz trombonist (d. 2021)
 * December 16 – Rodion Shchedrin, Russian composer and pianist
 * December 18 – Roger Smith, American actor (d. 2017)
 * December 20 – John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
 * December 21 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer (d. 2014)
 * December 23 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (d. 2016)
 * December 24 – Colin Cowdrey, English cricketer (d. 2000)
 * December 28
 * Nichelle Nichols, African-American actress (d. 2022)
 * Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
 * December 29 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer (d. 2023)
 * December 30 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian writer and actor (d. 2017)

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January



 * January 1
 * Ford Konno, Japanese-American swimmer
 * Joe Orton, British playwright (d. 1967)
 * January 2 – On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist (d. 2014)
 * January 4 – Ilia II of Georgia, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church
 * January 6 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
 * January 9 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-born South African novelist (d. 2021)
 * January 12
 * Liliana Cavani, Italian film director and screenwriter
 * Kamal Ganzouri, 46th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2021)
 * January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014)
 * January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
 * January 16 – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
 * January 17
 * Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
 * Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
 * January 18
 * David Bellamy, English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist (d. 2019)
 * John Boorman, English film director
 * Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (d. 2013)
 * January 21 – Habib Thiam, Senegal politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2017)
 * January 23
 * Bill Hayden, Australian politician, 21st Governor-General of Australia (d. 2023)
 * Chita Rivera, American actress, dancer (d. 2024)
 * January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
 * January 29 – Sacha Distel, French singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2004)

February

 * February 1 – Wendell R. Anderson, American hockey player, and politician (d. 2016)
 * February 2
 * Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (d. 2006)
 * Than Shwe, 8th Prime Minister of Burma
 * February 3 – Paul Sarbanes, American politician (d. 2020)
 * February 5
 * Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest (d. 2017)
 * Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director, actor, producer, and politician (d. 2020)
 * February 8
 * Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria, Austro-Hungarian royal (d. 2017)
 * Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
 * February 9 – John Mitchell, English author (d. 2009)
 * February 12 – Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director, writer
 * February 13
 * Paul Biya, 2nd President of Cameroon
 * Kim Novak, American actress
 * Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (d. 2019)
 * February 14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
 * February 17 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
 * February 18
 * Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer, artist and widow of John Lennon
 * Bobby Robson, English soccer player, manager (d. 2009)
 * Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
 * February 21 – Nina Simone, African-American singer (d. 2003)
 * February 22 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, British royal, musician and patron of the arts
 * February 23 – Lee Calhoun, American athlete (d. 1989)
 * February 26
 * Godfrey Cambridge, American actor and comedian (d. 1976)
 * James Goldsmith, French, financier, tycoon, and politician (d. 1997)
 * Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2017)
 * February 28 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018)

March

 * March 3
 * Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (d. 2013)
 * Tomas Milian, Cuban-American-Italian actor (d. 2017)
 * Lee Radziwiłł, American socialite, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (d. 2019)
 * March 5 – Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess grandmaster (d. 2018)
 * March 7 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
 * March 9 – Lloyd Price, African-American R&B singer and vocalist (d. 2021)
 * March 12
 * Barbara Feldon, American actress, model (Get Smart)
 * Jesús Gil, Spanish right-wing politician, construction businessman, and football team owner (d. 2004)
 * March 13 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter
 * March 14
 * Michael Caine, English actor and author
 * René Felber, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 2020)
 * Quincy Jones, African-American music producer, composer
 * March 15
 * Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004)
 * Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2020)
 * March 17 – Penelope Lively, English writer
 * March 18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019)
 * March 19
 * Philip Roth, American author (d. 2018)
 * Michel Sabbah, Israeli patriarch
 * Renée Taylor, American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
 * Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator (d. 2019)
 * March 21 – Michael Heseltine, British politician and businessman
 * March 22
 * Abolhassan Banisadr, 1st President of Iran (d. 2021)
 * Buddy MacKay, American politician and diplomat
 * Michel Hidalgo, French footballer and manager (d. 2020)
 * March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford University
 * March 24 – William Smith, American actor (d. 2021)
 * March 28
 * Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist (d. 1997)
 * Frank Murkowski, American politician
 * March 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
 * March 31 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1983)

April

 * April 1
 * Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996)
 * Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist
 * April 4
 * Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician
 * Brian Hewson, English athlete
 * April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005)
 * April 7
 * Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2015)
 * Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Persian-American Islamic scholar
 * April 9
 * Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (d. 2021)
 * Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (d. 1994)
 * April 11 – Denis Goldberg, South African social campaigner (d. 2020)
 * April 12 – Montserrat Caballé, Catalan operatic soprano (d. 2018)
 * April 13 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Cheyenne-American politician
 * April 14
 * Yuri Oganessian, Russian nuclear physicist
 * Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction author (d. 2012)
 * April 15
 * Roy Clark, American country musician (d. 2018)
 * Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
 * April 16 – Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
 * April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
 * April 21 – Ian Carr, Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (d. 2009)
 * April 25 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011)
 * April 26
 * Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and comedian
 * Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2024)
 * Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
 * April 29
 * Mark Eyskens, 45th Prime Minister of Belgium
 * Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
 * Willie Nelson, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
 * April 30 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2016)

May

 * May 3
 * James Brown, African-American soul musician (d. 2006)
 * Alex Cord, American actor (d. 2021)
 * Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist (d. 2021)
 * May 5 – Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2016)
 * May 7
 * Johnny Unitas, American football player (d. 2002)
 * Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer, actress (d. 2020)
 * May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
 * May 11 – Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader
 * May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet and writer (d. 2010)
 * May 14
 * László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2007)
 * Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
 * May 15 – Peter Broadbent, English footballer (d. 2013)
 * May 18 – H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
 * May 19 – Edward de Bono, Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor, philosopher and consultant (d. 2021)
 * May 20 – Constance Towers, American actress
 * May 21 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (d. 2012)
 * May 22 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (d. 1996)
 * May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress
 * May 28 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (d. 2010)
 * May 29 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
 * May 30 – Stefano Rodotà, Italian jurist and politician (d. 2017)

June



 * June 1
 * Charles Wilson, American politician (d. 2010)
 * Haruo Remeliik, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985)
 * June 3 – Celso Torrelio, 69th President of Bolivia (d. 1999)
 * June 4 – Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (d. 2019)
 * June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 * June 7 – Beverly Wills, American actress (d. 1963)
 * June 8 – Joan Rivers, American actress, comedian, television host (d. 2014)
 * June 9 – Don Young, American politician (d. 2022)
 * June 10 – F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (d. 2021)
 * June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
 * June 12 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 2004)
 * June 13 – Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Swedish sprint canoeist (d. 2018)
 * June 14 – Henri, Count of Paris, French noble (d. 2019)
 * June 15 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, 2nd President of Iran, 47th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1981)
 * June 17 – Rod Paige, African-American politician
 * June 19 – Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
 * June 20 – Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019)
 * June 21 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian
 * June 22 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician (d. 2023)
 * June 24 – Sam Jones, African-American professional basketball player (d. 2021)
 * June 25
 * James Meredith, African-American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser
 * Álvaro Siza, Portuguese architect
 * June 26 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
 * June 27 – Gary Crosby, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
 * June 29 – Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater
 * June 30 – Lea Massari, Italian actress

July



 * July 1 – Rashied Ali, American jazz free drummer (d. 2009)
 * July 3 – Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, German prince (d. 2022)
 * July 7
 * Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
 * David McCullough, American historian, author (d. 2022)
 * July 9 – Oliver Sacks, English-born neurologist (d. 2015)
 * July 10 – Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete (d. 2007)
 * July 12 – Donald E. Westlake, American writer (d. 2008)
 * July 13 – David Storey, English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist (d. 2017)
 * July 14
 * Franz, Duke of Bavaria, German royal
 * Dumaagiin Sodnom, 13th Prime Minister of Mongolia
 * July 15
 * Julian Bream, English guitarist, lutenist (d. 2020)
 * Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
 * M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian writer
 * July 16 – Brad Harris, American actor and stunt performer (d. 2017)
 * July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
 * July 18
 * Syd Mead, American industrial and conceptual designer (d. 2019)
 * Jean Yanne, French actor, and film director (d. 2003)
 * July 20 – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (d. 2023)
 * July 23 – Richard Rogers, Italian-born British architect (d. 2021)
 * July 24 – John Aniston, American actor (d. 2022)
 * July 26 – Edmund Phelps, American economist
 * July 29
 * Lou Albano, Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (d. 2009)
 * Robert Fuller, American actor and rancher
 * July 31 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist

August





 * August 1
 * Dom DeLuise, American actor, comedian (d. 2009)
 * Meena Kumari, Indian actress, singer and poet (d. 1972)
 * Antonio Negri, Italian philosopher (d. 2023)
 * August 2 – Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)
 * August 4 – Sheldon Adelson, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d. 2021)
 * August 7
 * Elinor Ostrom, American economist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
 * Jerry Pournelle, American science fiction writer (d. 2017)
 * August 9
 * Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese actress
 * Albert Quixall, English footballer (d. 2020)
 * August 10
 * Doyle Brunson, American poker player (d. 2023)
 * Lynn Cohen, American actress (d. 2020)
 * August 11 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist, conservative political activist (d. 2007)
 * August 14 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
 * August 15
 * Bobby Helms, American country music singer (d. 1997)
 * Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (d. 1984)
 * Lori Nelson, American actress and model (d. 2020)
 * August 16
 * Julie Newmar, American actress (Batman)
 * Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
 * August 17
 * Glenn Corbett, American actor (d. 1993)
 * Gene Kranz, American NASA Flight Director
 * August 18
 * Just Fontaine, French footballer and manager (d. 2023)
 * Roman Polanski, Polish film director
 * August 20
 * Luis Bacalov, Argentine-born Italian composer (d. 2017)
 * George J. Mitchell, American lawyer, businessman, author, and politician
 * August 21 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
 * August 22 – Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (d. 1994)
 * August 23
 * Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
 * Pete Wilson, American politician
 * August 25
 * Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2023)
 * Tom Skerritt, American actor
 * August 26 – Robert Chartoff, American film producer (d. 2015)
 * August 27 – Kerstin Ekman, Swedish novelist
 * August 29
 * Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
 * Jehan Sadat, 3rd First Lady of Egypt (d. 2021)

September



 * September 1
 * Ann Richards, American politician (d. 2006)
 * Conway Twitty, American country music artist (d. 1993)
 * September 2 – Mathieu Kérékou, 5th President of Benin (d. 2015)
 * September 4 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (d. 1988)
 * September 5 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal
 * September 8
 * Asha Bhosle, Indian musician
 * Michael Frayn, English playwright and novelist
 * September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher, author (d. 2017)
 * September 10
 * Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000)
 * Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer, artist (d. 2019)
 * September 11
 * William Luther Pierce, American author, activist (d. 2002)
 * Rachid Sfar, 4th Prime Minister of Tunisia
 * September 14
 * Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
 * Hillevi Rombin, Swedish athlete, model and Miss Universe 1955 (d. 1996)
 * September 15
 * Henry Darrow, Puerto-Rican American actor (d. 2021)
 * Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor (d. 2014)
 * September 17
 * Chuck Grassley, American politician
 * Evelyn Kawamoto, American competition swimmer (d. 2017)
 * September 18
 * Bob Bennett, American politician and businessman (d. 2016)
 * Robert Blake, American actor (d. 2023)
 * Scotty Bowman, Canadian ice hockey coach
 * September 19 – David McCallum, Scottish actor (d. 2023)
 * September 20 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (d. 1999)
 * September 24 – Raffaele Farina, Italian cardinal, archivist of the Holy Roman Church
 * September 25 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach, broadcaster
 * September 27
 * Greg Morris, African-American actor (d. 1996)
 * Nagesh, Indian actor and comedian (d. 2009)
 * Will Sampson, American actor (d. 1987)
 * September 29 – Samora Machel, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
 * September 30 – Cissy Houston, African-American singer

October



 * October 2 – John Gurdon, British developmental biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * October 3 – Abdon Pamich, Italian Olympic athlete
 * October 5 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (d. 2011)
 * October 9 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2017)
 * October 10
 * Daniel Massey, English actor (d. 1998)
 * Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (d. 1969)
 * October 13 – Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (d. 2019)
 * October 17
 * William Anders, American astronaut (d. 2024)
 * Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun, known as "The Singing Nun" (d. 1985)
 * October 18 – Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician (d. 2018)
 * October 19 – Dom Geraldo Majella, Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal
 * October 24
 * Reginald Kray, British gangster (d. 2000)
 * Ronald Kray, British gangster (d. 1995)
 * October 28 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
 * October 30 – Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher and revivalist (d. 2008)
 * October 31 – Narriman Sadek, Queen of Egypt (d. 2005)

November



 * November 3
 * John Barry, British film score composer (d. 2011)
 * Ken Berry, American actor, dancer and singer (d. 2018)
 * Jeremy Brett, British actor (d. 1995)
 * Michael Dukakis, American politician, 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate
 * Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
 * November 5 – Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
 * November 6 – Knut Johannesen, Norwegian speed-skater
 * November 9 – Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director, screenwriter (d. 2018)
 * November 11 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese artistic gymnast
 * November 12 – Jalal Talabani, 8th President of Iraq (d. 2017)
 * November 13 – Peter Härtling, German writer and poet (d. 2017)
 * November 14 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
 * November 15 – Gloria Foster, African-American actress (d. 2001)
 * November 16 – Guy Stockwell, American actor (d. 2002)
 * November 19 – Larry King, American talk show host (d. 2021)
 * November 21 – Henry Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (d. 2014)
 * November 23 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (d. 2020)
 * November 25 – Kathryn Grant, American actress
 * November 26 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007)
 * November 28 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
 * November 29
 * John Mayall, English blues musician
 * Francisco Cuoco, Brazilian actor
 * James Rosenquist, American artist (d. 2017)

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 * December 1
 * Fujiko Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (d. 1996)
 * Lou Rawls, African-American singer (d. 2006)
 * December 2 – Mike Larrabee, American Olympic athlete (d. 2003)
 * December 3 – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
 * December 4 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)
 * December 6 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
 * December 8 – Flip Wilson, African-American actor and comedian (d. 1998)
 * December 9 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete (d. 2012)
 * December 10 – Mako, Japanese-American actor (d. 2006)
 * December 12 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (d. 2020)
 * December 13 – Lou Adler, American film and record producer
 * December 14 – Justin Rakotoniaina, 3rd Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2001)
 * December 15 – Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
 * December 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017)
 * December 20 – Jean Carnahan, American politician
 * December 22 – Abel Pacheco, 44th President of Costa Rica
 * December 23 – Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan
 * December 25
 * Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
 * Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (d. 2017)
 * December 26 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (d. 2019)

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January

 * January 1 – Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Ecuadorian cardinal (d. 2020)
 * January 4
 * Hellmuth Karasek, German journalist, literary critic, and novelist (d. 2015)
 * Rudolf Schuster, 2nd President of Slovakia
 * January 6 – Sylvia Syms, English actress
 * January 7
 * Charles Jenkins, American athlete
 * Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
 * January 8
 * Jacques Anquetil, French racing cyclist (d. 1987)
 * Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (d. 2003)
 * Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988)
 * January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
 * January 10 – Leonid Kravchuk, 1st President of Ukraine (d. 2022)
 * January 11
 * Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada
 * Mitchell Ryan, American actor (d. 2022)
 * Sven Wollter, Swedish actor (d. 2020)
 * January 14 – Richard Briers, English actor (d. 2013)
 * January 16
 * Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
 * Vasily Lanovoy, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2021)
 * January 17 – Cedar Walton, American jazz pianist (d. 2013)
 * January 18 – Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator (d. 2022)
 * January 20 – Tom Baker, British actor
 * January 21 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017)
 * January 22 – Bill Bixby, American actor, director (d. 1993)
 * January 23 – Lou Antonio, American actor, director
 * January 26 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian and actor
 * January 27 – Édith Cresson, 89th Prime Minister of France
 * January 28 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
 * January 29 – Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and Olympic skier (d. 2013)
 * January 30 – Tammy Grimes, American actress (d. 2016)
 * January 31
 * Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2020)
 * James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)
 * Eva Mozes Kor, Romanian Holocaust survivor and author (d. 2019)

February



 * February 5 – Hank Aaron, African-American baseball player (d. 2021)
 * February 7
 * Eddie Fenech Adami, 10th Prime Minister of Malta and 7th President of Malta
 * Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer (d. 2019)
 * King Curtis, African-American saxophonist (d. 1971)
 * February 8 – Galina Bystrova, Soviet athlete (d. 1999)
 * February 11
 * Maryse Condé, French novelist, critic, and playwright (d. 2024)
 * Tina Louise, American actress (Gilligan's Island)
 * Manuel Noriega, Panamanian military dictator (d. 2017)
 * Mary Quant, British fashion designer (d. 2023)
 * John Surtees, British racing driver (d. 2017)
 * February 12
 * Anne Krueger, American economist
 * Bill Russell, African-American basketball player and coach (d. 2022)
 * February 13 – George Segal, American actor (d. 2021)
 * February 14 – Florence Henderson, American actress, singer and television personality (d. 2016)
 * February 15 – Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist (d. 2024)
 * February 17
 * Sir Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
 * Barry Humphries, Australian actor, comedian (d. 2023)
 * February 18
 * Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (d. 2018)
 * Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer (d. 2023)
 * February 20 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021)
 * February 21 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
 * February 24
 * Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2000)
 * Renata Scotto, Italian soprano (d. 2023)
 * Bingu wa Mutharika, 3rd President of Malawi (d. 2012)
 * February 27
 * Ralph Nader, American consumer activist, presidential candidate
 * Van Williams, American actor (d. 2016)

March



 * March 1 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
 * March 4
 * Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
 * Barbara McNair, African-American singer and actress (d. 2007)
 * Gia Scala, British actress (d. 1972)
 * March 5
 * Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist and Nobel laureate (d. 2024)
 * James Sikking, American actor
 * March 6 – Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Ukrainian-Russian writer and satirist (d. 2020)
 * March 7 – Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (The Today Show) (d. 2021)
 * March 9
 * Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (d. 1999)
 * Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, first human in space (d. 1968)
 * Joyce Van Patten, American actress
 * March 14
 * Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (d. 2017)
 * Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
 * March 16 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman, 24th Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
 * March 18 – Charley Pride, African-American singer, musician and guitarist (d. 2020)
 * March 20
 * Willie Brown, African-American politician
 * David Malouf, Australian writer
 * March 21 – Al Freeman Jr., African-American actor (d. 2012)
 * March 22
 * May Britt, Swedish actress
 * Orrin Hatch, American politician (d. 2022)
 * March 23 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
 * March 25
 * Johnny Burnette, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1964)
 * Gloria Steinem, American feminist
 * March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor (d. 2023)
 * March 27 – Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
 * March 28 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist
 * March 30 – Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d. 2014)
 * March 31
 * Richard Chamberlain, American actor
 * Shirley Jones, American singer, actress and first wife of Jack Cassidy
 * Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
 * Kamala Surayya, Indian English poet (d. 2009)

April

 * April 1
 * Jim Ed Brown, American country singer (d. 2015)
 * Vladimir Pozner Jr., Russian journalist
 * Pascal Rakotomavo, 10th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2010)
 * April 2 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
 * April 3 – Jane Goodall, British zoologist
 * April 5 – Roman Herzog, 9th President of Germany (d. 2017)
 * April 6 – Anton Geesink, Dutch 10th-dan judoka (d. 2010)
 * April 7 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
 * April 8 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
 * April 10 – David Halberstam, American journalist and historian (d. 2007)
 * April 11 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet (d. 2014)
 * April 18 – James Drury, American actor (d. 2020)
 * April 19 – John Malecela, 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania
 * April 24
 * Jayakanthan, Tamil writer (d. 2015)
 * Shirley MacLaine, American actress, dancer, writer
 * April 29
 * Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, President of Cape Verde
 * Akira Takarada, Japanese actor (d. 2022)
 * Otis Rush, African-American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (d. 2018)

May



 * May 3
 * Henry Cooper, British boxer (d. 2011)
 * Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
 * Frankie Valli, American musician (The Four Seasons)
 * May 4 – Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
 * May 6 – Richard Shelby, American politician
 * May 9
 * Alan Bennett, British playwright, screenwriter, actor, and author
 * Lee Hong-koo, South Korean politician, 26th Prime Minister of South Korea
 * May 10 – Gary Owens, American disc jockey, actor, and radio announcer (d. 2015)
 * May 17 – Ronald Wayne, American businessman
 * May 18 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor (d. 2022)
 * May 21 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * May 23 – Robert Moog, American inventor of the synthesizer (d. 2005)
 * May 27 – Harlan Ellison, American writer (d. 2018)
 * May 28 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (d. 1997)
 * May 30 – Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
 * May 31 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1979)

June

 * June 1 – Pat Boone, American actor and singer
 * June 6 – King Albert II of Belgium
 * June 7 – Koloa Talake, 7th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2008)
 * June 9 – Jackie Wilson, African-American singer (d. 1984)
 * June 10 – Alois Mock, Austrian politician (d. 2017)
 * June 11 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born consort of the Danish monarch (d. 2018)
 * June 13 – June Foulds, British athlete (d. 2020)
 * June 16
 * Dame Eileen Atkins, British actress
 * Bill Cobbs, African-American actor (d. 2024)
 * William F. Sharpe, American economist and Nobel laureate
 * June 18
 * Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
 * Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
 * June 19 – Désiré Rakotoarijaona, 4th Prime Minister of Madagascar
 * June 20 – Rossana Podesta, Libyan-born Italian actress (d. 2013)
 * June 21 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (d. 2019)
 * June 26 – Dave Grusin, American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
 * June 28
 * Carl Levin, American politician (d. 2021)
 * Michael Artin, American mathematician
 * June 29 – Susan George, American and French political, social scientist, activist and writer
 * June 30 – C. N. R. Rao, Indian chemist

July





 * July 1
 * Claude Berri, French actor, film director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
 * Jamie Farr, American actor (M*A*S*H)
 * Jean Marsh, English actress and writer
 * Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
 * July 3 – Stefan Abadzhiev, Bulgarian football player
 * July 7 – Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (d. 2018)
 * July 8
 * Marty Feldman, English comedy writer, comedian and actor (d. 1982)
 * Rodney Stark, American sociologist
 * July 9 – Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
 * July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (d. 2012)
 * July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
 * July 12 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
 * July 13
 * Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate
 * Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian cosmonaut
 * July 14
 * Marisa Allasio, Italian actress
 * Gotlib, French comic artist (d. 2016)
 * July 15 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (d. 2022)
 * July 16 – George Hilton, Uruguayan-Italian actor (d. 2019)
 * July 17 – Lucio Tan, Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman, educator
 * July 18
 * Edward Bond, English playwright and director (d. 2024)
 * Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
 * Roger Reynolds, American composer
 * July 19 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
 * July 20 – Uwe Johnson, German writer, editor, and scholar (d. 1984)
 * July 21 – Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (d. 2019)
 * July 22
 * Eric del Castillo, Mexican actor
 * Louise Fletcher, American actress (d. 2022)
 * Leon Rotman, Romanian sprint canoeist
 * July 25 – Claude Zidi, French film director
 * July 28
 * Ron Flowers, English footballer (d. 2021)
 * Bud Luckey, American voice actor, Pixar animator (d. 2018)
 * July 29 – Albert Speer, German architect (d. 2017)

August





 * August 2 – Valery Bykovsky, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
 * August 3 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political, rebel leader (d. 2002)
 * August 5
 * Wendell Berry, American novelist, poet, essayist
 * Ronnie Clayton, English footballer (d. 2010)
 * Vern Gosdin, American country music singer (d. 2009)
 * August 6 – Chris Bonington, British mountaineer
 * August 9 – Cynthia Harris, American actress (d. 2021)
 * August 13 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2019)
 * August 15
 * Nino Ferrer, French singer (d. 1998)
 * André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, Congolese politician (d. 2018)
 * August 16
 * Diana Wynne Jones, British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic (d. 2011)
 * Pierre Richard, French actor, film director and screenwriter
 * August 18
 * Vincent Bugliosi, American prosecutor, author (d. 2015)
 * Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer (d. 2015)
 * Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player (d. 1972)
 * Gulzar, Indian film director, lyricist and poet
 * August 20
 * Armi Kuusela, Miss Universe 1952 from Finland
 * Sam Panopoulos, Greek-born Canadian cook and businessman (d. 2017)
 * August 21 – John L. Hall, American physicist
 * August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general (d. 2012)
 * August 24 – Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)
 * August 25
 * Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician, aid worker (d. 2010)
 * Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (d. 2017)
 * August 26 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (d. 2020)
 * August 29 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (d. 2009)
 * August 30 – Anatoly Solonitsyn, Russian actor (d. 1982)

September

 * September 1 – Léon Mébiame, Gabonese politician (d. 2015)
 * September 2 – Chuck McCann, American actor and comedian (d. 2018)
 * September 3 – Freddie King, African-American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1976)
 * September 4
 * Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
 * Juraj Herz, Slovak film director, actor, and scenic designer (d. 2018)
 * Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer ("Trololo") (d. 2012)
 * Zaid ibn Shaker, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 2002)
 * Jan Švankmajer, Czech filmmaker, artist
 * September 5 – Ricardo de la Espriella, President of Panama
 * September 6 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (d. 2015)
 * September 7
 * Sunil Gangopadhyay, Indian author and poet (d. 2012)
 * Omar Karami, 29th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2015)
 * September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer (d. 2016)
 * September 9
 * Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican lawyer, politician, and 6th President of Dominica (d. 2015)
 * Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (d. 2019)
 * September 10 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
 * September 11 – Ian Abercrombie, English-American actor (d. 2012)
 * September 12 – Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (d. 2019)
 * September 14 – Kate Millett, American feminist writer (d. 2017)
 * September 16
 * Elgin Baylor, African-American basketball player, coach and executive (d. 2021)
 * George Chakiris, American dancer, singer, and actor
 * Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (d. 2008)
 * Tamara Manina, Soviet artistic gymnast
 * September 17 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
 * September 18 – Fred Willard, American actor and comedian (d. 2020)
 * September 19 – Brian Epstein, British manager of the Beatles, co-founder of Northern Songs (d. 1967)
 * September 20
 * Sophia Loren, Italian actress
 * Hamit Kaplan, Turkish wrestler (d. 1976)
 * Takayuki Kubota, Japanese martial artist, founder of the Gosoku-ryu style of karate
 * September 21
 * Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist, singer and songwriter (d. 2016)
 * David J. Thouless, Scottish-born condensed-matter physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2019)
 * María Rubio, Mexican actress (d. 2018)
 * September 23 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
 * September 24 – Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (d. 2018)
 * September 25 – Jean Sorel, French actor
 * September 27 – Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (d. 2020)
 * September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress, animal rights activist
 * September 29 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist (d. 2021)
 * September 30 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss composer and singer (d. 2014)

October

 * October 1 – Emilio Botín, Spanish banker (d. 2014)
 * October 7
 * Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
 * Willie Naulls, American basketball player (d. 2018)
 * October 9
 * Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1996)
 * Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross-country skier (d. 2016)
 * Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
 * October 12 – Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen (d. 2015)
 * October 13 – Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer
 * October 17
 * Johnny Haynes, English footballer (d. 2005)
 * Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (d. 2015)
 * October 18
 * Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian–American actor (d. 2007)
 * Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
 * October 19 – Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian politician
 * October 20
 * Eddie Harris, African-American jazz musician (d. 1996)
 * Empress Michiko, Empress consort of Japan
 * Timothy West, English actor
 * October 29 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (d. 2017)
 * October 30 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician (d. 2014)
 * October 31 – Princess Margaretha, Princess of Sweden

November

 * November 1 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
 * November 2 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis champion
 * November 4 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (d. 2015)
 * November 5
 * Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
 * Kira Muratova, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actress (d. 2018)
 * November 9
 * Ingvar Carlsson, 2-time Prime Minister of Sweden
 * Hamilton Green, 4th Prime Minister of Guyana
 * Carl Sagan, American astronomer, writer, and television host (Cosmos) (d. 1996)
 * Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (d. 2020)
 * November 10 – Joanna Moore, American actress (d. 1997)
 * November 11
 * Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (d. 2015)
 * Nadine Trintignant, French film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, and novelist
 * November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader, criminal (d. 2017)
 * November 13 – Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d. 2016)
 * November 14 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2015)
 * November 17 – Jim Inhofe, American politician
 * November 19 – Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
 * November 20
 * Fairuz, Lebanese singer
 * Lev Polugaevsky, Soviet chess player (d. 1995)
 * November 23 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis champion (d. 1994)
 * November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (d. 1998)
 * November 26
 * Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (d. 2019)
 * Lyudmila Shevtsova, Soviet athlete
 * November 30 – Lansana Conté, 2nd President of Guinea (d. 2008)

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 * December 1 – Billy Paul, African-American singer (d. 2016)
 * December 3 – Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
 * December 4 – Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)
 * December 5 – Joan Didion, American novelist (d. 2021)
 * December 8 – Alisa Freindlich, Soviet and Russian actress
 * December 9
 * Judi Dench, English actress
 * Junior Wells, American harmonica player (d. 1998)
 * December 10 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
 * December 12 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (d. 2012)
 * December 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American producer (d. 2012)
 * December 14 – Shyam Benegal, Indian film director and screenwriter
 * December 15
 * Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 6th President of Somalia (d. 2012)
 * Stanislav Shushkevich, Belarusian politician and scientist (d. 2022)
 * December 18
 * Marc Rich, Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (d. 2013)
 * Boris Volynov, Russian cosmonaut
 * December 19 – Pratibha Patil, 12th President of India
 * December 22 – David Pearson, American race car driver (d. 2018)
 * December 24 – Stjepan Mesić, 2nd President of Croatia
 * December 25 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
 * December 27
 * Larisa Latynina, Ukrainian gymnast
 * Nikolai Slichenko, Russian singer (d. 2021)
 * December 28
 * Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (d. 2019)
 * Maggie Smith, English actress
 * Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
 * December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
 * December 30
 * John Norris Bahcall, American astrophysicist (d. 2005)
 * Joseph Bologna, American actor (d. 2017)
 * Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990)
 * Russ Tamblyn, American actor

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January

 * January 4 – Floyd Patterson, African-American boxer (d. 2006)
 * January 7 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
 * January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock & roll singer, guitarist and actor (d. 1977)
 * January 9 – Bob Denver, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
 * January 10
 * Ronnie Hawkins, American musician (d. 2022)
 * Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
 * January 14 – Lucile Wheeler, Canadian skier
 * January 15 – Luigi Radice, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
 * January 16
 * A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
 * Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 * January 19 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor (d. 2020)
 * January 20 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
 * January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (d. 2019)
 * January 25
 * Conrad Burns, American politician (d. 2016)
 * António Ramalho Eanes, 16th President of Portugal
 * January 30
 * Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
 * Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress and fashion model (d. 2017)
 * January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)

February

 * February 1 – Vladimir Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut
 * February 3 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, African-American singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1996)
 * February 4 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
 * February 7 – Herb Kohl, American businessman, philanthropist and politician (d. 2023)
 * February 11 – Gene Vincent, American guitarist, vocalist (d. 1971)
 * February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967)
 * February 16
 * Brian Bedford, English actor (d. 2016)
 * Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (d. 1998)
 * February 17
 * Christina Pickles, British-American actress
 * Hrvoje Šarinić, 4th Prime Minister of Croatia (d. 2017)
 * February 18
 * Michel Aoun, Lebanese politician, 26th President of Lebanon
 * Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (d. 2018)
 * February 25 – Pepe, Brazilian footballer and manager
 * February 26 – Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani politician, 6th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
 * February 27 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (d. 2020)

March

 * March 1 – Robert Conrad, American actor (d. 2020)
 * March 3 – Zhelyu Zhelev, 1st President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
 * March 4 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
 * March 6 – Ron Delany, Irish athlete
 * March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
 * March 16 – Sergei Yursky, Russian actor (d. 2019)
 * March 21 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
 * March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor (d. 2024)
 * March 24
 * Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
 * Peret, Spanish Romani musician (d. 2014)
 * March 25 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (d. 1985)
 * March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
 * March 28 – Józef Szmidt, Polish athlete
 * March 29 – Wolfgang Uhlmann, German chess grandmaster (d. 2020)
 * March 31 – Herb Alpert, American trumpeter

April

 * April 4 – Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
 * April 6
 * Fred Bongusto, Italian light music singer, songwriter and composer (d. 2019)
 * Luis del Sol, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2021)
 * April 7 – Bobby Bare, American country singer
 * April 10
 * Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (d. 2010)
 * P. J. Patterson, Jamaican politician, 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica
 * April 13 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor (d. 2020)
 * April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss author
 * April 16 – Bobby Vinton, American singer and songwriter
 * April 19 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, pianist and composer (d. 2002)
 * April 20 – Mario Camus, Spanish screenwriter and film director (d. 2021)
 * April 21
 * Charles Grodin, American actor and journalist (d. 2021)
 * Thomas Kean, American businessman, academic and politician
 * April 22
 * Paul Chambers, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
 * Jerry Fodor, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (d. 2017)
 * April 25
 * Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese writer, social commentator, historian and independent politician (d. 2018)
 * Roberto Ferreiro, Argentine professional footballer and manager (d. 2017)
 * Jim Peebles, Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
 * April 27 – Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (d. 2012)

May

 * May 2
 * Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
 * Luis Suárez, Spanish footballer (d. 2023)
 * May 8
 * Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Danish princess (d. 2018)
 * Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (d. 2020)
 * May 9 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
 * May 10 – Larry Williams, African-American musician (d. 1980)
 * May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)
 * May 12
 * Johnny Bucyk, Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * Gary Peacock, American jazz double-bassist (d. 2020)
 * May 14 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
 * May 15 – Don Bragg, American athlete (d. 2019)
 * May 16
 * Yvon Douis, French footballer (d. 2021)
 * Milan Pančevski, Macedonian politician (d. 2019)
 * May 20 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay
 * May 27 – Lee Meriwether, American actress
 * May 29 – André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)
 * May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
 * May 31 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand

June



 * June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect
 * June 2
 * Lee Hoi-chang, South Korean politician, 26th Prime Minister of South Korea
 * Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek Turkologist
 * Carol Shields, American-born writer (d. 2003)
 * June 3
 * Ted Curson, American jazz musician (d. 2012)
 * Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, actor and comedian (d. 2013)
 * June 5 – Misha Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist and composer (d. 2017)
 * June 6 – Grant Green, African-American jazz guitarist (d. 1979)
 * June 10 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
 * June 12 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
 * June 13
 * Christo, Bulgarian-American artist (d. 2020)
 * Jeanne-Claude, French-American artist (d. 2009)
 * Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2009)
 * June 15 – Belinda Lee, English actress (d. 1961)
 * June 16 – Jim Dine, American artist
 * June 19 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, 36th President of Ecuador
 * June 21
 * Monte Markham, American actor
 * Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
 * Agnes Simon, Hungarian tennis player (d. 2020)
 * June 23 – György Kárpáti, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2020)
 * June 24 – Terry Riley, American composer
 * June 25 – Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, and activist (d. 2020)
 * June 28 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
 * June 30 – Valentino Gasparella, Italian track cyclist

July







 * July 1
 * James Cotton, African-American harmonica player, singer and songwriter (d. 2017)
 * David Prowse, English bodybuilder, weightlifter and actor (d. 2020)
 * July 3
 * Harrison Schmitt, American geologist, NASA astronaut, professor and politician
 * John Swan, Bermudian political figure; 4th Premier of Bermuda
 * July 5 – Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist, politician
 * July 6 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and spiritual leader of Tibet
 * July 8
 * Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor (d. 2024)
 * Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2010)
 * July 9
 * Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist, politician (d. 2005)
 * Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (d. 2009)
 * July 12
 * Hans Tilkowski, German footballer and manager (d. 2020)
 * Satoshi Ōmura, Japanese biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * July 13
 * Jack Kemp, American football player, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate (d. 2009)
 * Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist (d. 2021)
 * July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)
 * July 15
 * Alex Karras, American football player, actor (d. 2012)
 * Ken Kercheval, American actor (d. 2019)
 * July 16 – Nicolae Rotaru, Romanian sport shooter
 * July 17
 * Diahann Carroll, African-American actress and singer (d. 2019)
 * Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor (d. 2024)
 * July 19 – George Breen, American swimmer
 * July 21 – Jeanne Arth, American Wimbledon and US Championships doubles tennis title holder
 * July 22 – Ron Springett, British footballer (d. 2015)
 * July 25
 * Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian international arms dealer (d. 2017)
 * Barbara Harris, American actress (d. 2018)
 * July 30 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, Moroccan prince (d. 1983)
 * July 31 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)

August



 * August 3
 * Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (d. 2019)
 * Georgy Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1997)
 * August 5 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (d. 2017)
 * August 6 – Mário Coluna, Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
 * August 10
 * Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer (d. 2019)
 * Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2017)
 * August 12
 * Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (d. 2011)
 * John Cazale, American actor (d. 1978)
 * August 17
 * Katalin Szőke, Hungarian swimmer (d. 2017)
 * Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
 * August 18
 * Gail Fisher, African-American actress (d. 2000)
 * Rafer Johnson, African-American athlete (d. 2020)
 * August 19 – Story Musgrave, American physician and astronaut
 * August 20 – Ron Paul, American author, physician, and politician
 * August 21
 * Bernhard Eckstein, German cyclist (d. 2017)
 * Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Yemeni general, 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) (d. 1978)
 * August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
 * August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
 * August 26 – Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (d. 2011)
 * August 29 – William Friedkin, American film director (d. 2023)
 * August 30
 * Felipe Fernández García, Spanish Catholic bishop (d. 2012)
 * John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
 * August 31
 * Eldridge Cleaver, African-American political activist and writer (d. 1998)
 * Frank Robinson, African-American professional player, coach, and manager (d. 2019)

September



 * September 1
 * Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
 * Chow Yei-ching, Hong Kong executive (d. 2018)
 * September 2
 * Yıldırım Akbulut, 20th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2021)
 * Valentin Gaft, Soviet and Russian actor (d. 2020)
 * September 7 – Abdou Diouf, 2nd President of Senegal
 * September 8 – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
 * September 9 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor and singer (d. 2023)
 * September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner (d. 2019)
 * September 11
 * Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
 * Gherman Titov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2000)
 * September 12
 * Harvey J. Alter, American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
 * Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (d. 2011)
 * September 14
 * Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga, Ecuadorian musical artist (d. 2018)
 * Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
 * September 15 – Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)
 * September 16 – Carl Andre, American artist
 * September 17 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
 * September 18 – John Spencer, English professional snooker player (d. 2006)
 * September 19 – Velasio de Paolis, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
 * September 20
 * Jim Taylor, American professional football player (d. 2018)
 * László Aradszky, Hungarian singer (d. 2017)
 * September 21
 * Jimmy Armfield, English footballer (d. 2018)
 * Henry Gibson, American actor and comedian (d. 2009)
 * September 22 – Virgilijus Noreika, Lithuanian tenor (d. 2018)
 * September 25 – Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer (d. 2020)
 * September 26 – Victor Chizhikov, Russian book illustrator (d. 2020)
 * September 28 – Simon Leys, Belgian-Australian diplomat and author (d. 2014)
 * September 29
 * Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (d. 2022)
 * Mylène Demongeot, French actress and model (d. 2022)
 * September 30 – Johnny Mathis, African-American singer and songwriter

October

 * October 1 – Julie Andrews, English singer and actress
 * October 2
 * Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., African-American astronaut (d. 1967)
 * Omar Sívori, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2005)
 * October 3
 * Charles Duke, American astronaut
 * Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Soviet Russian-Armenian actor (d. 2020)
 * October 5 – Tarcísio Meira, Brazilian actor (d. 2021)
 * October 6
 * Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (d. 2014)
 * Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, Egyptian politician (d. 2018)
 * Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (d. 2018)
 * October 9 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
 * October 12
 * Don Howe, English footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 * Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
 * October 14 – La Monte Young, American composer
 * October 15
 * Barry McGuire, American musician
 * Bobby Morrow, American athlete (d. 2020)
 * October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
 * October 19 – Agne Simonsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2020)
 * October 20
 * Fabio Cudicini, Italian footballer
 * Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
 * October 21 – Derek Bell, Irish musician (d. 2002)
 * October 25 – Rusty Schweickart, American astronaut
 * October 27 – Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist
 * October 29 – Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
 * October 30
 * Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (d. 2011)
 * Michael Winner, English film director and producer (d. 2013)
 * October 31
 * Ronald Graham, American mathematician (d. 2020)
 * Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Egyptian field marshal and politician (d. 2021)

November

 * November 1
 * Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
 * Charles Koch, American businessman
 * Gary Player, South-African professional golfer
 * November 3 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian patriarch (d. 2012)
 * November 4 – Laila Sari, Indonesian comedian, singer (d. 2017)
 * November 6 – Archduchess Maria of Austria, German-Austrian royal (d. 2018)
 * November 8
 * Alain Delon, French actor
 * Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal (d. 2008)
 * November 9 – Bob Gibson, African-American professional baseball player (d. 2020)
 * November 11 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
 * November 13
 * Tom Atkins, American actor
 * P. Susheela, Indian musician
 * November 14 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
 * November 15
 * Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
 * Try Sutrisno, Sixth vice president of Indonesia
 * November 16 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician (d. 2019)
 * November 17 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
 * November 18 – Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman, politician (d. 2018)
 * November 19 – Jack Welch, American businessman, engineer and writer (d. 2020)
 * November 20
 * Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 1st Prime Minister of Bahrain (d. 2020)
 * Leo Falcam, Micronesian politician (d. 2018)
 * Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011)
 * November 22 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian pair skater (d. 2017)
 * November 23
 * Mari Törőcsik, Hungarian actress (d. 2021)
 * Vladislav Volkov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
 * November 24
 * Ron Dellums, African-American politician (d. 2018)
 * Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, 1st Prime Minister of Bahrain (d. 2020)
 * Salim Khan, Indian screenwriter
 * November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
 * November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
 * November 30
 * Kim Chong-hoh, South Korean politician (d. 2018)
 * Usha Mangeshkar, Indian musician

December


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 * December 1
 * Woody Allen, American actor and film director
 * Roger Christian, American professional ice hockey player (d. 2011)
 * December 3 – Eddie Bernice Johnson, American politician (d. 2023)
 * December 4 – Paul H. O'Neill, American politician (d. 2020)
 * December 5 – Yury Vlasov, Russian writer and weightlifter (d. 2021)
 * December 7 – Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer, and composer (d. 2020)
 * December 8
 * Dharmendra, Indian film actor, producer and politician
 * Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (d. 2017)
 * December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d. 2001)
 * December 11
 * Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
 * Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, 13th President of India (d. 2020)
 * Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German car designer (d. 2012)
 * December 14
 * Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
 * Barbara Leigh-Hunt, British actress
 * Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
 * December 15 – Adnan Badran, Prime Minister of Jordan
 * December 17 – George Lindsey, American actor and comedian (d. 2012)
 * December 18 – Rosemary Leach, English actress (d. 2017)
 * December 19 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
 * December 21
 * John G. Avildsen, American film director (d. 2017)
 * Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (d. 1967)
 * Phil Donahue, American Television host
 * Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman
 * December 23 – Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
 * December 25 – Sadiq al-Mahdi, 7th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 2020)
 * December 26 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 5th President of Togo (d. 2005)
 * December 30
 * Omar Bongo, 2nd President of Gabon (d. 2009)
 * Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
 * Jack Riley, American actor (d. 2016)
 * December 31 – King Salman of Saudi Arabia

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January

 * January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
 * January 6
 * Darlene Hard, American tennis player (d. 2021)
 * Alejandro Maldonado, Guatemalan politician
 * Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay
 * January 8 – Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)
 * January 10
 * Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (d. 2002)
 * Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, author and actor (d. 1997)
 * Al Goldstein, American photographer (d. 2016)
 * Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, and Nobel laureate
 * January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
 * January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon
 * January 13 – Renato Bruson, Italian baritone
 * January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
 * January 19 – Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
 * January 22
 * Alan J. Heeger, American physicist
 * Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
 * January 23 – Arlene Golonka, American actress (d. 2021)
 * January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
 * January 27
 * Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
 * Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
 * Samuel C. C. Ting, Chinese-American physicist
 * January 28
 * Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018)
 * Alan Alda, American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author
 * Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer (d. 2024)

February

 * February 3 – Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer
 * February 4 – David Brenner, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
 * February 6 – Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player, coach (d. 2009)
 * February 9 – Clive Swift, English actor (d. 2019)
 * February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (d. 2018)
 * February 12 – Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist (d. 2012)
 * February 14
 * Anna German, Polish singer (d. 1982)
 * Andrew Prine, American actor (d. 2022)
 * February 16 – Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist
 * February 17 – Jim Brown, African-American football player and actor (d. 2023)
 * February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, educator, politician and civil rights activist (d. 1996)
 * February 22 – J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist
 * February 23 – Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (d. 2017)
 * February 26 – Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician, writer (d. 2018)
 * February 27 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
 * February 29
 * Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
 * Jack Lousma, American astronaut
 * Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020)

March

 * March 1 – Renato Corti, Italian cardinal (d. 2020)
 * March 4
 * Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier, politician (d. 2018)
 * Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
 * Aribert Reimann, German composer
 * March 5
 * Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
 * Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
 * March 6
 * Marion Barry, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2014)
 * Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos
 * March 7
 * Antonio Mercero, Spanish director (d. 2018)
 * Loren Acton, American astronaut
 * Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (d. 2015)
 * March 8 – Red West, American actor, film stuntman, and songwriter (d. 2017)
 * March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American country singer (d. 2022)
 * March 10 – Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA
 * March 11
 * Harald zur Hausen, German virologist (d. 2023)
 * Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2016)
 * March 16 – Raymond Damadian, American physician, medical practitioner and inventor (d. 2022)
 * March 17 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut (d. 2023)
 * March 18 – F. W. de Klerk, 10th President of South Africa (d. 2021)
 * March 19
 * Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
 * Uri Aviram, Israeli university professor
 * March 20 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician (d. 2021)
 * March 21 – Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
 * March 24 – David Suzuki, Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist
 * March 27 – Banwari Lal Joshi, Indian politician (d. 2017)
 * March 28 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * March 29 – Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, screenwriter, and politician (d. 2018)

April



 * April 1
 * Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 1998)
 * Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist (d. 2021)
 * April 2 – Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2021)
 * April 9
 * Valerie Solanas, American feminist writer who attempted to kill Andy Warhol (d. 1988)
 * Michael Somare, 1st Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (d. 2021)
 * April 10 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021)
 * April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
 * April 14
 * Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (d. 2017)
 * Frank Serpico, American detective
 * April 15
 * Raymond Poulidor, French professional racing cyclist (d. 2019)
 * Pen Sovan, Cambodian politician (d. 2016)
 * April 19 – Wilfried Martens, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
 * April 20
 * Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (d. 1989)
 * Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2012)
 * April 22 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
 * April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer, songwriter (d. 1988)
 * April 24
 * Akwasi Afrifa, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (d. 1979)
 * Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)
 * April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
 * April 29
 * Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor
 * Adolfo Nicolás, Spanish priest (d. 2020)
 * Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)

May



 * May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)
 * May 2
 * Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress
 * Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
 * May 3 – José Torres, Puerto Rican professional boxer (d. 2009)
 * May 4 – El Cordobés, Spanish matador
 * May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, 5th President of Vietnam
 * May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d. 2014)
 * May 9
 * Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
 * Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (d. 2023)
 * Ernest Shonekan, 9th Head of State of Nigeria (d. 2022)
 * May 12
 * Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (d. 2009)
 * Klaus Doldinger, German musician
 * May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor (d. 1973)
 * May 16 – Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal (d. 2018)
 * May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)
 * May 20 – Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (d. 2019)
 * May 21
 * Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
 * Abdul Taib Mahmud, Malaysian politician (d. 2024)
 * May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023)
 * May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer (d. 2021)
 * May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor (d. 2024)

June





 * June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
 * June 3
 * Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
 * Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2017)
 * June 4
 * Bruce Dern, American actor
 * Nutan Samarth, Indian actress (d. 1991)
 * June 8
 * James Darren, American actor and singer
 * Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (d. 2013)
 * June 15
 * Claude Brasseur, French actor (d. 2020)
 * William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
 * June 17 – Ken Loach, British film director
 * June 18 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
 * June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
 * June 22
 * Kris Kristofferson, American actor, singer and songwriter
 * Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
 * Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (d. 2023)
 * Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist
 * June 23 – Costas Simitis, Greek politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece
 * June 24 – Robert Downey Sr., American actor, film director and producer (d. 2021)
 * June 25 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (d. 2019)
 * June 26
 * Hal Greer, African-American professional basketball player (d. 2018)
 * Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
 * June 27
 * Geneviève Fontanel, French stage, film actress (d. 2018)
 * Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d. 2009)
 * June 28 – Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist
 * June 29
 * David Jenkins, American figure skater
 * Harmon Killebrew, American professional baseball player (d. 2011)
 * Kigeli V of Rwanda, last king of Rwanda (d. 2016)
 * June 30
 * Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d. 2015)
 * Tony Musante, American actor (d. 2013)

July



 * July 2 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat, and intelligence officer (d. 2012)
 * July 5
 * Sir Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 2020)
 * Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
 * Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish-born economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d. 2018)
 * July 14 – Robert F. Overmyer, American astronaut (d. 1996)
 * July 15
 * Larry Cohen, American film director (d. 2019)
 * George Voinovich, American politician (d. 2016)
 * July 16
 * Miria Obote, former First Lady of Uganda
 * Leo Sterckx, Belgian cyclist (d. 2023)
 * Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
 * July 20
 * Saginaw Grant, Native-American actor (d. 2021)
 * Barbara Mikulski, American politician
 * July 23 – Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
 * July 24
 * Ruth Buzzi, American actress, comedian, and singer
 * Dan Inosanto, American martial arts instructor
 * July 25
 * August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (d. 2013)
 * Dave Sime, American athlete (d. 2016)
 * July 29 – Elizabeth Dole, American politician
 * July 30
 * Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Spanish royal (d. 2020)
 * Buddy Guy, African-American blues singer and guitarist

August

 * August 1
 * Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d. 2008)
 * Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort (d. 2019)
 * August 5 – John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020)
 * August 6 – Dražan Jerković, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2008)
 * August 12
 * Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d. 2017)
 * André Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d. 2010)
 * John Poindexter, 13th United States National Security Advisor
 * August 13 – Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, dancer, singer, dance choreographer and parliamentarian
 * August 16 – Alan Hodgkinson, English professional footballer and coach (d. 2015)
 * August 17
 * Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner
 * Floyd Westerman, American actor, activist (d. 2007)
 * August 18
 * Hifikepunye Pohamba, 2nd President of Namibia
 * Robert Redford, American actor and film director
 * August 20
 * Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (d. 2017)
 * Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist
 * August 21
 * Wilt Chamberlain, African-American basketball player (d. 1999)
 * Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (d. 2017)
 * Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, (d. 2008)
 * August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. 2015)
 * August 27 – Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician
 * August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) (d. 2018)

September



 * September 1 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988)
 * September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d. 2016)
 * September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
 * September 4 – Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
 * September 5 – Alcee Hastings, African-American politician (d. 2021)
 * September 7
 * Buddy Holly, American rock-and-roll singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1959)
 * Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican-Canadian actor (d. 2017)
 * September 11 – Charles Dierkop, American actor (d. 2024)
 * September 13 – Joe E. Tata, American actor (d. 2022)
 * September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor (Star Trek: The Original Series)
 * September 15 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d. 2020)
 * September 19 – Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
 * September 20 – Salvador Reyes Monteon, Mexican footballer (d. 2012)
 * September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician (d. 2019)
 * September 22 – Art Metrano, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
 * September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Perú (d. 2006)
 * September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (The Muppets) (d. 1990)
 * September 25
 * Pierre Carniti, Italian politician and trade unionist (d. 2018)
 * Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (d. 2019)
 * Moussa Traoré, 2nd President of Mali (d. 2020)
 * September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)
 * September 27
 * Don Cornelius, American TV show host, and producer (d. 2012)
 * Joselo, Venezuelan actor, comedian (d. 2013)
 * September 28 – Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (d. 2018)
 * September 29 – Silvio Berlusconi, 50th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2023)

October

 * October 1 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
 * October 3 – Steve Reich, American composer
 * October 5 – Václav Havel, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
 * October 6 – Lin Yu-lin, Taiwanese billionaire real estate developer (d. 2018)
 * October 7 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (d. 1992)
 * October 8 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d. 2018)
 * October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
 * October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel laureate
 * October 11 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (d. 2013)
 * October 13
 * Cliff Gorman, American actor (d. 2002)
 * Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer (d. 2018)
 * October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
 * October 19 – Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (d. 2024)
 * October 22 – Bobby Seale, American political activist
 * October 24
 * David Nelson, American actor (d. 2011)
 * Bill Wyman, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
 * October 26 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
 * October 28
 * Charlie Daniels, American country singer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
 * Joe Spinell, American actor (d. 1988)
 * October 30 – Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005)
 * October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991)

November

 * November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
 * November 4 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2021)
 * November 5
 * Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (d. 2000)
 * Uwe Seeler, German footballer and manager (d. 2022)
 * November 8
 * Edward Gibson, American astronaut
 * Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
 * November 9
 * Mikhail Tal, Soviet-Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
 * Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
 * November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress
 * November 15 – Wolf Biermann, German singer, songwriter and former East German dissident
 * November 16 – Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Spanish-Vatican academic, journalist and physician (d. 2017)
 * November 17
 * Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
 * Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
 * November 18 – Don Cherry, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
 * November 19
 * Dick Cavett, American talk show host, television personality
 * Ljubiša Samardžić, Serbian actor and director (d. 2017)
 * November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author
 * November 23 – Steve Landesberg, American actor, director (d. 2010)
 * November 28 – Gary Hart, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer
 * November 30 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)

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 * December 4 – Freddy Cannon, American singer
 * December 5 – James Lee Burke, American author
 * December 6 – Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
 * December 7 – Martha Layne Collins, American businesswoman and politician
 * December 8 – David Carradine, American actor, director and martial artist (d. 2009)
 * December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (d. 2022)
 * December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat
 * December 12
 * Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d. 2016)
 * Reggie Young, American musician and guitarist (d. 2019)
 * December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer, and astronaut
 * December 15 – Joe D'Amato, Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
 * December 17
 * Pope Francis, Argentine-born Catholic Pontiff
 * Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d. 2019)
 * December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)
 * December 22
 * Héctor Elizondo, American actor
 * Fred Malek, American business executive, political adviser and philanthropist (d. 2019)
 * December 23
 * Frederic Forrest, American actor (d. 2023)
 * James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016)
 * December 25
 * Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
 * Ismail Merchant, Indian film director and producer (d. 2005)
 * December 28 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
 * December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d. 2017)
 * December 31 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer

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January



 * January 1 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian imam and politician (d. 2004)
 * January 2 – Martin Lauer, German athlete (d. 2019)
 * January 3 – Glen A. Larson, American TV producer and writer (d. 2014)
 * January 4
 * Grace Bumbry, American opera singer (d. 2023)
 * Dyan Cannon, American actress, film director and screenwriter
 * January 6
 * Paolo Conte, Italian singer, pianist and composer
 * Ludvík Daněk, Czechoslovak discus thrower (d. 1998)
 * Harri Holkeri, 36th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2011)
 * January 8 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer ("Goldfinger")
 * January 11 – Felix Silla, Italian actor (d. 2021)
 * January 12 – Marie Dubois, French actress (d. 2014)
 * January 13 – Ati George Sokomanu, 1st President of Vanuatu
 * January 14
 * Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015)
 * Billie Jo Spears, American country singer (d. 2011)
 * January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American actress
 * January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
 * January 18
 * Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (d. 2009)
 * John Hume, Northern Irish politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2020)
 * January 19 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
 * January 20 – Bailey Howell, American basketball player
 * January 21 – Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian Royal House
 * January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh, American author
 * January 25
 * Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of Central African Republic (d. 2011)
 * Gregory Sierra, American actor (d. 2021)
 * January 26 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, 2 President of Sierra Leone (d. 2003)
 * January 27 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (d. 1989)
 * January 29 – Hassan Habibi, 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013)
 * January 30
 * Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
 * Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster
 * January 31
 * Philip Glass, American composer
 * Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)

February

 * February 1
 * Don Everly, American rock and roll musician (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2021)
 * Garrett Morris, African-American actor and comedian
 * February 2 – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015)
 * February 3
 * Jacques Barrot, French politician (d. 2014)
 * Billy Meier, Swiss Cult Leader and author
 * February 4 – Magnar Solberg, Norwegian biathlete
 * February 5 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian Olympic athlete
 * February 7 – Svante Thuresson, Swedish jazz musician (d. 2021)
 * February 8 – Harry Wu, Chinese-American human rights activist (d. 2016)
 * February 10 – Roberta Flack, African-American singer
 * February 12 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
 * February 13
 * Rupiah Banda, 4th President of Zambia (d. 2022)
 * Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (d. 2019)
 * February 17
 * Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (d. 2014)
 * Benjamin Whitrow, English actor (d. 2017)
 * February 19 – David Margulies, American actor (d. 2016)
 * February 20
 * Robert Huber, German chemist and Nobel laureate
 * Nancy Wilson, African-American singer and actress (d. 2018)
 * February 21
 * Ron Clarke, Australian runner (d. 2015)
 * King Harald V of Norway
 * Georgy Prokopenko, Soviet athlete (d. 2021)
 * Gary Lockwood, American actor
 * February 25 – Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
 * February 27 – Barbara Babcock, American actress

March

 * March 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (d. 2021)
 * March 3
 * Bobby Driscoll, American child actor and voice actor (d. 1968)
 * Tsukasa Hosaka, Japanese footballer and manager (d. 2018)
 * March 4 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
 * March 5 – Olusegun Obasanjo, 5th and 12th President of Nigeria
 * March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
 * March 7 – Sidney Coleman, American theoretical physicist (d. 2007)
 * March 8 – Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
 * March 10 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
 * March 11 – Jovan Divjak, Bosnian army general (d. 2021)
 * March 13 – Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (d. 2017)
 * March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (d. 1962)
 * March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (d. 2015)
 * March 16
 * Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
 * Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
 * March 18 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist (d. 2016)
 * March 19 – Egon Krenz, German politician
 * March 20
 * Helmut Recknagel, German athlete
 * Jerry Reed, American singer, songwriter, actor, and guitarist (d. 2008)
 * March 22
 * Angelo Badalamenti, American composer (d. 2022)
 * Armin Hary, German athlete
 * Jon Hassell, American trumpeter and composer (d. 2021)
 * March 23
 * Tony Burton, African-American actor and boxer (d. 2016)
 * Robert Gallo, American biomedical researcher
 * March 24 – Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados
 * March 25 – Tom Monaghan, American entrepreneur
 * March 26 – Barbara Jones, American athlete
 * March 27 – Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (d. 2019)
 * March 29 – Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
 * March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director

April



 * April 1 – Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Indian politician, 12th Vice President of India
 * April 3 – Louis Satterfield, African-American musician (d. 2004)
 * April 4 – Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
 * April 5
 * Colin Powell, African-American politician, 65th U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2021)
 * Maryanne Trump Barry, American attorney (d. 2023)
 * Guido Vildoso, 59th President of Bolivia
 * April 6
 * Merle Haggard, American country musician (d. 2016)
 * Billy Dee Williams, African-American actor
 * April 8 – Seymour Hersh, American journalist and writer
 * April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
 * April 11 – Duane Jones, African-American actor (d. 1988)
 * April 12
 * Dennis Banks, Native-American activist, teacher, and author (d. 2017)
 * Igor Volk, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
 * April 13
 * José Augusto, Portuguese footballer
 * Edward Fox, English actor
 * April 15 – Frank Vincent, American actor (d. 2017)
 * April 16 – George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (d. 2017)
 * April 17 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian engineer, business magnate (d. 2019)
 * April 18
 * Robert Hooks, African-American actor, producer, and activist
 * Jan Kaplický, Czech architect (d. 2009)
 * Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian athlete (d. 2011)
 * April 19
 * Antonio Carluccio, Italian-born restaurateur (d. 2017)
 * Elinor Donahue, American actress
 * Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
 * April 20 – George Takei, Japanese-American actor, director and author (Star Trek)
 * April 22
 * Jack Nicholson, American actor, director
 * Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
 * April 24 – Joe Henderson, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
 * April 26
 * Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (d. 2015)
 * Bob Boozer, African-American basketball player (d. 2012)
 * Stan Swamy, Indian catholic priest and human rights activist (d. 2021)
 * April 27 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
 * April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)

May

 * May 1 – Una Stubbs, English actress (d. 2021)
 * May 2 – Lorenzo Music, American actor, writer, producer and musician (d. 2001)
 * May 4
 * Ron Carter, African-American jazz musician
 * Dick Dale, American guitarist (d. 2019)
 * May 6 – Rubin Carter, African-American boxer (d. 2014)
 * May 8 – Thomas Pynchon, American writer
 * May 9 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
 * May 10 – Tamara Press, Ukrainian athlete (d. 2021)
 * May 11 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
 * May 12 – George Carlin, American stand-up comedian (d. 2008)
 * May 13
 * Trevor Baylis, English Inventor (d. 2018)
 * Roger Zelazny, American writer (d. 1995)
 * May 15
 * Madeleine Albright, American politician and diplomat, 64th U.S. Secretary of State (d. 2022)
 * Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2020)
 * May 16
 * Yvonne Craig, American actress (Batman) (d. 2015)
 * Robert B. Wilson, American economist
 * May 18
 * Brooks Robinson, American professional baseball player (d. 2023)
 * Jacques Santer, Luxembourg politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
 * May 21
 * Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (d. 2008)
 * Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia
 * May 22
 * Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (d. 2011)
 * Viktor Ponedelnik, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
 * May 30 – Aleksandr Demyanenko, Russian actor (d. 1999)

June



 * June 1
 * Morgan Freeman, African-American actor
 * Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
 * Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
 * June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress (d. 2022)
 * June 4
 * Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (d. 2014)
 * Freddy Fender, American singer and guitarist (d. 2006)
 * Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler, announcer (d. 1999)
 * Mortimer Zuckerman, Canadian-American magazine editor and investor
 * June 7 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
 * June 8 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
 * June 10
 * Richard Foreman, American playwright
 * Luciana Paluzzi, Italian-American actress
 * June 11
 * Chad Everett, American actor (d. 2012)
 * Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * June 12 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
 * June 13
 * Eleanor Holmes Norton, African-American politician
 * Raj Reddy, Indian computer scientist
 * June 14 – Jorgen Leth, Danish poet and film director
 * June 15 – Waylon Jennings, American country singer (d. 2002)
 * June 16
 * Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria (1943-1946), 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001-2005)
 * Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter and educator (d. 2010)
 * June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer (d. 2009)
 * June 18
 * Gail Godwin, American novelist
 * Jay Rockefeller, American politician
 * Ronald Venetiaan, 6th and 8th President of Suriname
 * Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
 * June 19 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher, author (d. 2015)
 * June 21 – Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
 * June 22 – Chris Blackwell, English businessman
 * June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th President of Finland (d. 2023)
 * June 25
 * Eddie Floyd, African-American musician
 * Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of Kuwait (d. 2023)
 * Keizō Obuchi, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
 * June 26
 * Sombat Metanee, Thai actor, and film director (d. 2022)
 * Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 * June 27 – Joseph P. Allen, American astronaut
 * June 28 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)

July



 * July 2
 * Polly Holliday, American actress
 * Richard Petty, American stock car racer, 7-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion
 * July 3 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
 * July 4
 * Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
 * Queen Sonja of Norway
 * July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
 * July 6
 * Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
 * Ned Beatty, American actor (d. 2021)
 * Gene Chandler, African-American singer, songwriter and record producer
 * Bessie Head, South African writer (d. 1986)
 * Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
 * July 7
 * Giovanni Arrighi, Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst (d. 2009)
 * Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician
 * July 9 – David Hockney, English-born artist
 * July 11 – Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
 * July 12
 * Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian billiards player
 * Bill Cosby, African-American actor, comedian, educator and convicted sex offender
 * Lionel Jospin, French politician, 93rd Prime Minister of France
 * July 14 – Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
 * July 16 – Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician
 * July 18
 * Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist and Nobel laureate
 * Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (d. 2005)
 * July 19
 * George Hamilton IV, American country musician, singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
 * Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
 * July 20 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
 * July 22
 * Chuck Jackson, American R&B singer (d. 2023)
 * Hiro Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
 * July 24 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor and director
 * July 25 – Colin Renfrew, British archeologist
 * July 26 – Peter Fleischmann, German film director and screenwriter (d. 2021)
 * July 27
 * Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
 * Mirko Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2006)
 * July 28 – Francis Veber, French film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright
 * July 29
 * Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2006)
 * Daniel McFadden, American economist and Nobel laureate
 * July 30 – Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi diplomat and politician
 * July 31
 * Isabelle Daniels, American athlete (d. 2017)
 * Sab Shimono, Japanese–American actor

August

 * August 3
 * Steven Berkoff, British actor
 * Roland Burris, African-American politician and lawyer
 * Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (d. 2019)
 * August 5
 * Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
 * Manuel Pinto da Costa, Santoméan politician, 1st President of São Tomé and Príncipe
 * August 6
 * Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (d. 2014)
 * Barbara Windsor, English actress (d. 2020)
 * August 8
 * Dustin Hoffman, American actor, filmmaker
 * Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (d. 1987)
 * August 10 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (d. 2000)
 * August 11 – Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (d. 2018)
 * August 15 – Bounnhang Vorachith, 14th Prime Minister, 6th President of Laos
 * August 18 – Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician, former Prime Minister
 * August 19 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
 * August 21
 * Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
 * Gustavo Noboa, 42nd President of Ecuador (d. 2021)
 * August 22
 * Rifaat al-Assad, Syrian politician
 * Francesco Musso, Italian Olympic boxer
 * August 26 – Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader (d. 2010)
 * August 27 – Alice Coltrane, African-American jazz harpist, organist, pianist and composer (d. 2007)
 * August 30 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand founder of McLaren Racing (d. 1970)

September



 * September 1 – Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal
 * September 2 – Derek Fowlds, English actor (d. 2020)
 * September 4 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
 * September 5 – Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 2018)
 * September 6
 * Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-born illustrator
 * Irina Solovyova, Soviet cosmonaut
 * Jo Anne Worley, American actress
 * September 7 – John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
 * September 10 – Jared Diamond, American geographer, anthropologist, and author
 * September 11
 * Queen Paola of Belgium
 * Robert Crippen, American astronaut
 * Joseph Kobzon, Soviet-Russian singer and businessman (d. 2018)
 * September 12 – George Chuvalo, Canadian professional wrestler
 * September 13 – Don Bluth, American animator, film director, producer, writer and video game designer
 * September 14 – Renzo Piano, Italian architect
 * September 15
 * Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and Nobel laureate (d. 2023)
 * Pino Puglisi, Italian catholic priest (d. 1993)
 * Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2019)
 * September 16 – Aleksandr Medved, Soviet wrestler
 * September 17 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican professional baseball player
 * September 20 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2005)
 * September 22 – Richard Marquand, Welsh film director (d. 1987)
 * September 23 – Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (d. 2015)
 * September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and talent agent (d. 2015)
 * September 28
 * Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
 * Bob Schul, American Olympic athlete
 * September 30
 * Jurek Becker, Polish-born German writer (d. 1997)
 * Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian composer

October

 * October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, African-American attorney (d. 2005)
 * October 4
 * Jackie Collins, English author (d. 2015)
 * Franz Vranitzky, 19th Chancellor of Austria
 * October 11
 * Bobby Charlton, English footballer (d. 2023)
 * Ron Leibman, American actor (d. 2019)
 * October 12 – Robert Mangold, American artist
 * October 15 – Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
 * October 17 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor (d. 2023)
 * October 19 – Teresa Ciepły, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 2006)
 * October 20
 * Wanda Jackson, American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
 * Juan Marichal, Dominican professional baseball player
 * October 21 – Édith Scob, French actress (d. 2019)
 * October 22 – Kader Khan, Indian-Canadian actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director (d. 2018)
 * October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, African-American basketball player, coach
 * October 30
 * Claude Lelouch, French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer
 * Ashaari Mohammad, Malaysian spiritual leader (d. 2010)
 * October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer, songwriter

November



 * November 1 – Bill Anderson, American country singer and TV personality
 * November 4 – Loretta Swit, American actress (M*A*S*H)
 * November 5 – Harris Yulin, American actor
 * November 8 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2019)
 * November 9 – Roger McGough, English poet and playwright
 * November 10 – Albert Hall, American actor
 * November 12
 * Ina Balin, American actress (d. 1990)
 * Richard H. Truly, American astronaut and politician (d. 2024)
 * November 14 – Vittorio Adorni, Italian cyclist (d. 2022)
 * November 15 – Little Willie John, African-American R&B singer (d. 1968)
 * November 17 – Peter Cook, English comedian, writer and actor (d. 1995)
 * November 20 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013)
 * November 21
 * Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
 * Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer and social activist (That Girl)
 * November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994)
 * November 27 – Rodney Bewes, English actor (d. 2017)
 * November 29 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
 * November 30 – Ridley Scott, British film director, producer

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 * December 1 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
 * December 3
 * Bobby Allison, American race car driver
 * Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (d. 2012)
 * December 4
 * William Lombardy, American chess grandmaster (d. 2017)
 * Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
 * December 6 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer (d. 2006)
 * December 7 – Thad Cochran, American politician (d. 2019)
 * December 8 – James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
 * December 11 – Jim Harrison, American poet, novelist and essayist (d. 2016)
 * December 12 – Connie Francis, American singer and actress
 * December 17
 * Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (d. 2007)
 * Jaime Lerner, Brazilian architect (d. 2021)
 * December 18 – Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani cleric, politician (d. 2018)
 * December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
 * December 22
 * Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (d. 2016)
 * Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and screenwriter (d. 2018)
 * December 23 – Karol J. Bobko, American astronaut (d. 2023)
 * December 24 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
 * December 26 – John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician (d. 2020)
 * December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
 * December 29
 * Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, 3rd President of the Maldives
 * Barbara Steele, English actress
 * December 30
 * Gordon Banks, English footballer (d. 2019)
 * John Hartford, American composer and musician (d. 2001)
 * Raquel Olmedo, Cuban-born Mexican actress and singer
 * Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter
 * December 31
 * Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

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January



 * January 1
 * Frank Langella, American actor
 * Fuad Masum, 9th President of Iraq
 * January 2
 * Goh Kun, 28th and 32nd Prime Minister of South Korea
 * Bohumil Nemecek, Czechoslovakian Olympic boxer (d. 2010)
 * Robert Smithson, American artist (d. 1973)
 * January 3 – Jaswant Singh, Indian politician (d. 2020)
 * January 4 – Mohamed Rahmat, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
 * January 5 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain
 * January 6
 * Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, musician, actor and film director
 * Mario Rodriguez Cobos, Argentine writer (d. 2010)
 * January 7
 * Patrick John, 1st Prime Minister of Dominica (d. 2021)
 * Amfilohije Radović, Serbian Orthodox prelate (d. 2020)
 * Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
 * January 8 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian operatic singer (d. 2021)
 * January 10
 * Donald Knuth, American mathematician, computer scientist
 * Willie McCovey, African-American baseball player (d. 2018)
 * January 11 – Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
 * January 13
 * Daevid Allen, Australian guitarist, singer, and composer (d. 2015)
 * William B. Davis, Canadian actor
 * Nachi Nozawa, Japanese actor (d. 2010)
 * Shivkumar Sharma, Indian musician (d. 2022)
 * January 14
 * Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese politician, 50th Prime Minister of Japan
 * Jack Jones, American singer
 * Allen Toussaint, American musician, composer (d. 2015)
 * January 16
 * Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria (d. 2015)
 * Michael Pataki, American actor (d. 2010)
 * January 17 – David Theile, Australian swimmer
 * January 18 – Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
 * January 20 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
 * January 21 – Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (d. 1995)
 * January 23
 * Giant Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
 * Georg Baselitz, German painter, sculptor
 * January 25
 * Etta James, African-American singer (d. 2012)
 * Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist, father of "Henshin Heroes" (d. 1998)
 * Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor (d. 1980)
 * January 28
 * Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (d. 2016)
 * January 29 – Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese men's artistic gymnast
 * January 30 – Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
 * January 31 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

February

 * February 1 – Sherman Hemsley, African-American comedian, actor (d. 2012)
 * February 2 – Bo Hopkins, American actor (d. 2022)
 * February 3
 * Emile Griffith, American welterweight boxer (d. 2013)
 * Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
 * February 4 – Isao Inokuma, Japanese athlete (d. 2001)
 * February 10 – Judith Rich Harris, American author and researcher (d. 2018)
 * February 11 – Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian Olympic athlete
 * February 12
 * Judy Blume, American author
 * Félix Mourinho, Portuguese footballer and manager (d. 2017)
 * February 13 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
 * February 16 – Barry Primus, American actor, director, and writer
 * February 18
 * Louis-Marie Billé, French cardinal (d. 2002)
 * István Szabó, Hungarian film director
 * February 21 – Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 2021)
 * February 22
 * Barry Dennen, American actor (d. 2017)
 * Karin Dor, German actress (d. 2017)
 * Taha Yassin Ramadan, 7th Vice President of Iraq (d. 2007)
 * February 23
 * Jiří Menzel, Czech film director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2020)
 * Paul Morrissey, American film director
 * February 24
 * James Farentino, American actor (d. 2012)
 * Phil Knight, American sportswear entrepreneur
 * February 25 – Herb Elliott, Australian athlete

March



 * March 1 – Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi, Samoa political figure, 3rd Prime Minister of Samoa and O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa
 * March 2 – Ricardo Lagos, 32nd President of Chile
 * March 4
 * Alpha Condé, 4th President of Guinea
 * Paula Prentiss, American actress
 * March 5
 * Lynn Margulis, American biologist (d. 2011)
 * Fred Williamson, African-American football player and actor
 * March 7
 * David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Derviş Eroğlu, 3rd President of Northern Cyprus
 * March 9 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2018)
 * March 14
 * Eleanor Bron, English actress
 * Angus MacLise, American musician and poet (d. 1979)
 * March 16 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentine footballer and manager
 * March 17
 * Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer, choreographer (d. 1993)
 * Keith O'Brien, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Edinburgh (d. 2018)
 * March 18
 * Timo Mäkinen, Finnish racing driver (d. 2017)
 * Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2017)
 * March 20 – Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 2024)
 * March 21 – Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
 * March 24
 * Holger Czukay, German musician (d. 2017)
 * David Irving, English author and Holocaust denier
 * March 26
 * Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Spanish footballer (d. 2017)
 * March 30 – Klaus Schwab, German economist, founder of the World Economic Forum
 * March 31 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (d. 2019)

April

 * April 1 – John Quade, American actor (d. 2009)
 * April 3 – Jeff Barry, American singer and songwriter
 * April 6
 * Paul Daniels, English magician (d. 2016)
 * Roy Thinnes, American actor
 * April 7
 * Jerry Brown, American politician and lawyer
 * Spencer Dryden, American drummer (d. 2005)
 * Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2008)
 * April 8 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian Secretary-General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2018)
 * April 9 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
 * April 11 – Kurt Moll, German bass singer (d. 2017)
 * April 13 – Frederic Rzewski, American composer (d. 2021)
 * April 15 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born Italian actress
 * April 16 – Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 1993)
 * April 17 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American writer (d. 1998)
 * April 18 – Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
 * April 19
 * Stanley Fish, American author
 * Jonathan Tunick, American composer
 * April 20
 * Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete (d. 2017)
 * Johnny Tillotson, American singer
 * April 22 – Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (d. 2022)
 * April 26
 * Giovanni Benvenuti, Italian Olympic boxer
 * Duane Eddy, American rock guitarist (d. 2024)
 * April 28 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
 * April 29 – Bernie Madoff, American fraudster and financier (d. 2021)
 * April 30
 * Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (d. 2012)
 * Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak film director
 * Larry Niven, American author

May



 * May 2 – King Moshoeshoe II (d. 1996)
 * May 3 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist (d. 2017)
 * May 4 – Tyrone Davis, American blues musician (d. 2005)
 * May 5
 * Michael Murphy, American actor
 * Jerzy Skolimowski, Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor
 * May 8
 * Imre Földi, Hungarian weightlifter (d. 2017)
 * Jean Giraud, French artist (d. 2012)
 * May 9 – Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
 * May 10
 * Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (d. 2021)
 * Maxim Shostakovich, Russian conductor and pianist
 * Marina Vlady, French actress
 * May 12
 * Luana Anders, American actress (d. 1996)
 * Ayaz Mutallibov, 1st President of Azerbaijan (d. 2022)
 * May 13 – Giuliano Amato, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
 * May 15 – Mireille Darc, French actress and model (d. 2017)
 * May 16 – Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist
 * May 17 – Jason Bernard, African-American actor (d. 1996)
 * May 19 – Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2019)
 * May 20
 * Marinella, Greek singer and actress
 * Stien Kaiser, Dutch speed skater (d. 2022)
 * May 22
 * Richard Benjamin, American actor
 * Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
 * May 24
 * Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
 * Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor
 * May 26
 * William Bolcom, American composer and arranger
 * Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer (d. 2017)
 * Teresa Stratas, Canadian operatic soprano
 * May 28 – Jerry West, American basketball player and executive (d. 2024)
 * May 31
 * Johnny Paycheck, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
 * Peter Yarrow, American singer and songwriter

June



 * June 1 – Carlo Caffarra, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
 * June 2 – Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, Princess of Sweden
 * June 5 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (d. 2019)
 * June 6 – Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza
 * June 7 – Ian St John, Scottish footballer (d. 2021)
 * June 9 – Charles Wuorinen, American composer
 * June 10
 * Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman (d. 2022)
 * Violetta Villas, Polish singer and actress (d. 2011)
 * June 15 – Chus Pereda, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2011)
 * June 16
 * Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2017)
 * Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
 * June 24
 * Lawrence Block, American writer
 * Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani political figure, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2000)
 * June 28 – Leon Panetta, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
 * June 30 – Billy Mills, American Olympic athlete

July



 * July 1 – Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian classical flutist
 * July 2
 * Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (d. 2016)
 * David Owen, British politician and physician
 * July 4 – Bill Withers, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2020)
 * July 6 – Luana Patten, American actress (d. 1996)
 * July 7 – Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist
 * July 9
 * Liya Akhedzhakova, Russian actress
 * Brian Dennehy, American actor (d. 2020)
 * Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1985)
 * July 10
 * Lee Morgan, American jazz trumpeter and composer (d. 1972)
 * Tura Satana, Japanese-American actress (d. 2011)
 * July 12 – Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
 * July 14 – Moshe Safdie, Israeli-Canadian architect
 * July 15 – Enrique Figuerola, Cuban sprinter
 * July 18
 * John Connelly, English footballer (d. 2012)
 * Hampton Fancher, American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker
 * Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1985)
 * Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
 * July 19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
 * July 20
 * Roger Hunt, English footballer (d. 2021)
 * Diana Rigg, English actress (d. 2020)
 * Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
 * July 21 – Janet Reno, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (d. 2016)
 * July 22 – Terence Stamp, English actor
 * July 23
 * Juliet Anderson, American actress (d. 2010)
 * Ronny Cox, American actor and singer
 * Götz George, German actor (d. 2016)
 * July 24
 * José Altafini, Italian-Brazilian footballer
 * Eugene J. Martin, African-American artist (d. 2005)
 * July 27 – Gary Gygax, American author, game designer (d. 2008)
 * July 28
 * Luis Aragonés, Spanish professional footballer and coach (d. 2014)
 * Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
 * Robert Hughes, Australian art critic (d. 2012)
 * Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician, 20th Prime Minister of Thailand
 * July 29 – Peter Jennings, Canadian journalist (d. 2005)
 * July 30 – Michael Bell, American actor and activist

August



 * August 1
 * Paddy Moloney, Irish musician, composer, and producer (d. 2021)
 * Edward Sokoine, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. 1984)
 * August 3 – Sir Terry Wogan, Irish-British radio broadcaster, television presenter/personality (d. 2016)
 * August 4
 * Jean Nguza Karl-i-Bond, Zairian politician (d. 2003)
 * Hayes Jones, American athlete
 * August 6 – Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
 * August 7 – Verna Bloom, American actress (d. 2019)
 * August 8
 * Otto Rehhagel, German footballer and manager
 * Connie Stevens, American actress, singer and businesswoman
 * August 9
 * Michèle Girardon, French actress (d. 1975)
 * Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine
 * Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
 * Robert Zollitsch, German cardinal
 * August 15
 * Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
 * Maxine Waters, African-American politician
 * August 16 – Emmanuel Rakotovahiny, 8th Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2020)
 * August 19
 * Diana Muldaur, American actress
 * Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian Soviet sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (d. 2014)
 * August 21
 * Kenny Rogers, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2020)
 * Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino, president of Panama
 * August 25 – David Canary, American actor (d. 2015)
 * August 26 – Francine York, American actress (d. 2017)
 * August 28 – Paul Martin, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
 * August 29
 * Elliott Gould, American actor
 * Hermann Nitsch, Austrian artist (d. 2022)
 * Robert Rubin, American banker, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury

September



 * September 1
 * Alan Dershowitz, American lawyer and academic
 * Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (d. 2018)
 * September 2 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (d. 2013)
 * September 3 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese Chemist
 * September 4 – Leonard Frey, American actor (d. 1988)
 * September 6 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
 * September 8 – Sam Nunn, American politician
 * September 10 – Tomasi Puapua, Tuvaluan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Tuvalu and 6th Governor-General of Tuvalu
 * September 12 – Tatiana Troyanos, American mezzo-soprano (d. 1993)
 * September 13 – John Smith, Scottish politician (d. 1994)
 * September 17 – Paul Benedict, American actor (d. 2008)
 * September 20 – Eric Gale, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
 * September 23
 * Tom Lester, American actor and evangelist (d. 2020)
 * Romy Schneider, German actress (d. 1982)
 * September 25
 * Celestino Rocha da Costa, 2nd Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2010)
 * Jonathan Motzfeldt, Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
 * Kim Ji-young, South Korean actress (d. 2017)
 * September 26 – Andrey Lukanov, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1996)
 * September 28
 * Huang Ju, Chinese politician (d. 2007)
 * Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 * September 29 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, 48th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)

October



 * October 1 – Stella Stevens, American actress, model (d. 2023)
 * October 2 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor and film director (d. 1983)
 * October 3
 * Eddie Cochran, American rock and roll singer (d. 1960)
 * Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
 * Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Peruvian entrepreneur and politician, 66th President of Peru
 * October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * October 5 – Teresa Heinz, Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist
 * October 7
 * Carlos Contreras, Chilean footballer (d. 2020)
 * Ann Jones, English tennis player
 * October 8
 * Bronislovas Lubys, 5th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2011)
 * Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player
 * October 9 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
 * October 10 – Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
 * October 11 – Darrall Imhoff, American professional basketball player (d. 2017)
 * October 12 – Geoff Murphy, New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
 * October 14
 * John Dean, American attorney
 * Melba Montgomery, American country singer
 * Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran
 * October 15 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician, activist (d. 1997)
 * October 16 – Nico, German-American singer (d. 1988)
 * October 17
 * Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (d. 2007)
 * Les Murray, Australian poet (d. 2019)
 * October 18 – Dawn Wells, American actress (d. 2020)
 * October 22
 * Derek Jacobi, English actor
 * Christopher Lloyd, American actor
 * October 23 – John Heinz, American politician (d. 1991)
 * October 25 – Bob Webster, American diver
 * October 28
 * Bernadette Lafont, French actress (d. 2013)
 * Anne Perry, English-born novelist (d. 2023)
 * October 29
 * Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist, film director, and video producer
 * Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 24th President of Liberia
 * October 30
 * Ed Lauter, American actor (d. 2013)
 * Marina Ratner, Russian-American mathematician (d. 2017)

November



 * November 2
 * Pat Buchanan, American conservative political operative, journalist, pundit and one-time presidential candidate
 * David Lane, American white nationalist (d. 2007)
 * Richard Serra, American artist (d. 2024)
 * Queen Sofía of Spain
 * November 3
 * Frank McKinney, American competition swimmer (d. 1992)
 * Terrence McNally, American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
 * November 5
 * Joe Dassin, French singer (d. 1980)
 * Ionatana Ionatana, 5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2000)
 * César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and coach
 * November 8 – Satch Sanders, African-American basketball player
 * November 11 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (d. 2015)
 * November 12 – Benjamin Mkapa, 3rd President of Tanzania (d. 2020)
 * November 13 – Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
 * November 16 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
 * November 17 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer (d. 2023)
 * November 18
 * Ahmad Obeidat, Prime Minister of Jordan
 * Norbert Ratsirahonana, 9th Prime Minister of Madagascar
 * November 19 – Ted Turner, American entrepreneur
 * November 21 – Helen, Indian actress and dancer
 * November 22 – John du Pont, American philanthropist, and convicted murderer (d. 2010)
 * November 24
 * Oscar Robertson, African-American basketball player
 * Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (d. 1959)
 * November 26 – Porter J. Goss, American politician, Central Intelligence Agency director
 * November 28 – Tom Regan, American philosopher (d. 2017)
 * November 30
 * Jean Eustache, French filmmaker (d. 1981)
 * Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (d. 2019)

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 * December 2 – Luis Artime, Argentine footballer
 * December 5 – J. J. Cale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
 * December 6 – Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
 * December 8 – John Kufuor, President of Ghana
 * December 10 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian conductor (d. 2023)
 * December 11
 * Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer, songwriter and musician
 * McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist (d. 2020)
 * December 13 – Heino, German singer
 * December 15
 * Bob Foster, American professional boxer (d. 2015)
 * Juan Carlos Wasmosy, 48th President of Paraguay
 * December 16 – Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress and film director
 * December 17 – Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete (d. 2019)
 * December 18 – Roger E. Mosley, African-American actor (d. 2022)
 * December 21 – Shi Pei Pu, Chinese opera singer (d. 2009)
 * December 23 – Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
 * December 24 – Philippe Nahon, French actor (d. 2020)
 * December 28 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, President (d. 1999)
 * December 29 – Jon Voight, American actor
 * December 31
 * Rosalind Cash, African-American actress (d. 1995)
 * Marien Ngouabi, 3rd President of Republic of the Congo (d. 1977)

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January



 * January 1
 * Michèle Mercier, French actress
 * Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Somali entrepreneur, politician and 4th President of Somalia (d. 2021)
 * January 3
 * Arik Einstein, Israeli singer (d. 2013)
 * Bobby Hull, Canadian professional ice hockey player (d. 2023)
 * Vincent Siew, Taiwanese politician, 9th Vice President of the Republic of China
 * January 4 – Veniamin Soldatenko, Russian athlete (d. 2023)
 * January 6
 * Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer, manager (d. 2002)
 * Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
 * January 9 – Susannah York, English actress (d. 2011)
 * January 10
 * David Horowitz, American writer
 * Scott McKenzie, American singer and songwriter (d. 2012)
 * Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
 * Bill Toomey, American athlete
 * January 11 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian Canadian skier
 * January 15 – Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician, writer (d. 2018)
 * January 17
 * Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (d. 2008)
 * Maury Povich, American talk show host
 * January 18 – Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (d. 2017)
 * January 19 – Phil Everly, American rock 'n' roll musician (d. 2014)
 * January 20
 * Abdullah Ensour, Jordanian economist, 75th Prime Minister of Jordan
 * Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer, poet
 * January 22
 * Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (d. 2021)
 * Alfredo Palacio, 42nd President of Ecuador
 * January 24 – Ray Stevens, American musician
 * January 25 – Giorgio Gaber, Italian singer, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 2003)
 * January 28 – John M. Fabian, American astronaut
 * January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer
 * January 31 – Jerry Brudos, American serial killer (d. 2006)

February

 * February 1
 * Claude François, French singer, composer, songwriter, music producer, drummer and dancer (d. 1978)
 * Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
 * Joe Sample, American pianist, keyboardist, and composer (d. 2014)
 * February 2 – Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (d. 2014)
 * February 3 – Michael Cimino, American film director (d. 2016)
 * February 6 – Mike Farrell, American actor
 * February 8 – Egon Zimmermann, Austrian Olympic alpine skier (d. 2019)
 * February 9
 * Barry Mann, American songwriter
 * Janet Suzman, South African actress
 * February 10
 * Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
 * Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2017)
 * February 11
 * Gerry Goffin, American lyricist (d. 2014)
 * Jane Yolen, American writer and poet
 * February 12
 * Yael Dayan, Israeli politician and author
 * Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors) (d. 2013)
 * February 13
 * Beate Klarsfeld, German-born Nazi hunter
 * Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2011)
 * February 15
 * Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian cross-country skier
 * Robert Hansen, American serial killer (d. 2014)
 * February 16 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter, rock balladeer (d. 2004)
 * February 18 – Abdelraouf Al-Rawabdeh, Jordanian political figure, 65th Prime Minister of Jordan
 * February 24 – Marisa Mell, Austrian actress (d. 1992)
 * February 27
 * Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)
 * Kenzō Takada, Japanese-born French fashion designer (d. 2020)
 * February 28 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born American physicist

March

 * March 1
 * Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist
 * Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (d. 2017)
 * March 2 – Takako, Princess Suga
 * March 5
 * Samantha Eggar, English actress
 * Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1987)
 * March 6 – Kit Bond, American politician
 * March 8
 * Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed-skater
 * Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (d. 2015)
 * March 10 – Lee Soo-sung, 27th Prime Minister of South Korea
 * March 13 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
 * March 14
 * William B. Lenoir, American astronaut (d. 2010)
 * Glauber Rocha, Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter (d. 1981)
 * March 15 – Ted Kaufman, American politician
 * March 17 – Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian footballer and manager
 * March 20 – Brian Mulroney, Canadian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2024)
 * March 25 – D. C. Fontana, American television writer (d. 2019)
 * March 27 – Cale Yarborough, American racing driver (d. 2023)
 * March 29 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
 * March 31
 * Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (d. 1993)
 * Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
 * Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer

April



 * April 1
 * Vitali Davydov, Soviet ice hockey player
 * Ali MacGraw, American model, actress (Love Story)
 * Phil Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2020)
 * April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
 * April 4
 * Alex George, Australian botanist
 * Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer (d. 2018)
 * Ernie Terrell, African-American professional boxer (d. 2014)
 * April 5 – David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (d. 2019)
 * April 6 – John Sculley, American businessman, entrepreneur and investor
 * April 7
 * Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
 * Sir David Frost, English television personality (d. 2013)
 * April 9 – Michael Learned, American actress
 * April 10 – Claudio Magris, Italian author
 * April 11 – Louise Lasser, American actress
 * April 12 – Alan Ayckbourn, English dramatist
 * April 13
 * Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
 * Paul Sorvino, American actor (d. 2022)
 * April 15 – Jaime Paz Zamora, 73rd President of Bolivia
 * April 16 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (d. 1999)
 * April 19 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
 * April 20 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician, 1st female Prime Minister
 * April 21 – Helen Prejean, American writer
 * April 22 – Jason Miller, American playwright, actor (d. 2001)
 * April 23 – Lee Majors, American actor
 * April 24 – Ernst Zündel, German publisher and pamphleteer (d. 2017)
 * April 27
 * Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal
 * Erik Pevernagie, Belgian painter
 * João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
 * April 30 – Pieter van Vollenhoven, Dutch professor

May

 * May 1 – Judy Collins, American singer, songwriter
 * May 2
 * Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist and inventor
 * Taomati Iuta, Vice President of Kiribati (d. 2016)
 * May 4
 * Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
 * Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (d. 2018)
 * May 7
 * José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan orchestral conductor, music educator (d. 2018)
 * Sidney Altman, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
 * Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1982–94) (d. 2018)
 * May 8 – Paul Drayton, American Olympic athlete (d. 2010)
 * May 9
 * Ralph Boston, American athlete (d. 2023)
 * Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)
 * May 13 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
 * May 14 – Veruschka von Lehndorff, German model, actress and artist
 * May 15 – Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (d. 2019)
 * May 18
 * Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (d. 1992)
 * Peter Grünberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
 * May 19
 * Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
 * Sonny Fortune, American jazz musician (d. 2018)
 * James Fox, English actor
 * Nancy Kwan, American actress
 * Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
 * May 20 – Roman Kartsev, Russian actor (d. 2018)
 * May 21
 * David Groh, American actor (d. 2008)
 * Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer
 * May 22 – Paul Winfield, African-American actor (d. 2004)
 * May 23 – Reinhard Hauff, German film director
 * May 25
 * Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
 * Sir Ian McKellen, English actor
 * May 27 – Don Williams, American musician (d. 2017)
 * May 28
 * Maeve Binchy, Irish author (d. 2012)
 * Tom Thabane, 5th Prime Minister of Lesotho
 * May 29 – Al Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021)
 * May 30 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor (d. 2019)

June





 * June 1 – Cleavon Little, African-American actor (d. 1992)
 * June 3 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American writer (d. 2007)
 * June 5
 * Joe Clark, 16th Prime Minister of Canada
 * Margaret Drabble, English novelist
 * June 6 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (d. 2021)
 * June 8 – Bernie Casey, African-American football player and actor (d. 2017)
 * June 9 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano
 * June 11 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
 * June 13 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician (d. 2021)
 * June 14 – Steny Hoyer, American politician
 * June 15 – Brian Jacques, British writer (d. 2011)
 * June 18 – Lou Brock, African-American professional baseball player (d. 2020)
 * June 19 – John F. MacArthur, American pastor
 * June 21 – Charles Jencks, American cultural theorist (d. 2019)
 * June 22 – Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer
 * June 24
 * Brigitte Fontaine, French singer, writer and poet
 * Michael Gothard, English actor (d. 1992)
 * June 26 – Osvaldo Hurtado, 34th President of Ecuador
 * June 29 – Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist (d. 2023)
 * June 30
 * Tony Hatch, English composer
 * José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and writer (d. 2014)

July





 * July 1
 * Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 2015)
 * Karen Black, American actress (d. 2013)
 * July 2
 * John H. Sununu, American politician
 * Mike Castle, American attorney, politician
 * July 3 – Willy Vanden Berghen, Belgian road bicycle racer
 * July 4
 * Abdelmajid Chetali, Tunisian footballer, manager
 * Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, 2nd Prime Minister of Yemen (d. 2011)
 * July 6
 * Mary Peters, British athlete
 * Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, sovereign ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah
 * Jet Harris, British bassist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows) (d. 2011)
 * July 7 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (d. 2015)
 * July 8
 * Likulia Bolongo, Congolese politician, general and Prime Minister of Zaire
 * Abdelhamid Sharaf, Jordanian ambassador to the United States and Canada, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1980)
 * July 10 – Mavis Staples, African-American rhythm and blues, gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist
 * July 13 – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
 * July 14
 * Karel Gott, Czech singer (d. 2019)
 * Sid Haig, American actor (d. 2019)
 * July 15
 * Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwaiti actor (d. 2017)
 * Aníbal Cavaco Silva, 113th Prime Minister of Portugal, 19th President of Portugal
 * July 16
 * William Bell, American soul singer, songwriter
 * Corin Redgrave, English actor, political activist (d. 2010)
 * Lido Vieri, Italian footballer and manager
 * July 17
 * Spencer Davis, Welsh singer and musician (d. 2020)
 * Milva, Italian singer, actress, and television personality (d. 2021)
 * July 18
 * Dion DiMucci, American singer, songwriter
 * Eduard Mudrik, Soviet Russian footballer of Jewish ethnicity (d. 2017)
 * July 21
 * Helmut Haller, German footballer (d. 2012)
 * John Negroponte, American diplomat
 * July 22 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress and author
 * July 24 – Walt Bellamy, African-American basketball player (d. 2013)
 * July 26 – John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
 * July 27 – William Eggleston, American photographer
 * July 28 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor, comedian, and director (d. 2017)
 * July 29 – Amarildo, Brazilian footballer
 * July 30 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director, actor and writer (d. 2022)
 * July 31 – Susan Flannery, American actress

August



 * August 1
 * Terry Kiser, American actor
 * Robert James Waller, American novelist (d. 2017)
 * August 2
 * Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (d. 2019)
 * Benjamin Barber, American political theorist, author (d. 2017)
 * John W. Snow, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
 * Wes Craven, American film director, writer (d. 2015)
 * August 3 – Jimmie Nicol, English drummer and business entrepreneur
 * August 5
 * Princess Irene of the Netherlands
 * Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress and politician (d. 2021)
 * August 7 – Verna Bloom, American actress (d. 2019)
 * August 8 – Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romanian athlete
 * August 9
 * Odd Børre, Norwegian pop singer
 * Bulle Ogier, French actress
 * Romano Prodi, Italian politician, economist and 52nd Prime Minister of Italy
 * August 11 – James Mancham, Seychellois politician (d. 2017)
 * August 12 – George Hamilton, American actor
 * August 16
 * Seán Brady, Irish cardinal
 * Valery Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2022)
 * Carole Shelley, English actress (d. 2018)
 * August 19
 * Alan Baker, English mathematician (d. 2018)
 * Ginger Baker, English rock drummer (d. 2019)
 * August 20 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor (d. 2004)
 * August 21
 * Festus Mogae, 3rd President of Botswana
 * Clarence Williams III, African-American actor (d. 2021)
 * August 22
 * Valerie Harper, American actress (d. 2019)
 * Carl Yastrzemski, American professional baseball player
 * August 23 – Fernando Luján, Mexican actor (d. 2019)
 * August 27 – Bill Mulliken, American swimmer (d. 2014)
 * August 29
 * Kang Sok-ju, North Korean diplomat, politician (d. 2016)
 * Joel Schumacher, American film producer and director (d. 2020)
 * August 30
 * John Peel, English disc jockey (d. 2004)
 * Elizabeth Ashley, American actress

September



 * September 1 – Lily Tomlin, American actress
 * September 2 – Henry Mintzberg, Canadian academic and author
 * September 5
 * George Lazenby, Australian actor
 * Claudette Colvin, American civil rights activist and nurse
 * William Devane, American actor
 * Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (d. 2006)
 * John Stewart, American folk musician (d. 2008)
 * Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * September 6 – David Allan Coe, American country singer, songwriter and musician
 * September 7
 * S. David Griggs, American astronaut (d. 1989)
 * Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Defence Forces official (d. 2017)
 * September 9 – Reuven Rivlin, 10th President of Israel
 * September 10 – Cynthia Lennon, English writer, first wife of English musician (Beatle) John Lennon (d. 2015)
 * September 11 – Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman (d. 2021)
 * September 12 – Henry Waxman, American politician
 * September 13
 * Richard Kiel, American actor (d. 2014)
 * Guntis Ulmanis, 5th President of Latvia
 * September 16 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, painter
 * September 17
 * Vladimir Menshov, Russian actor and film director (d. 2021)
 * David Souter, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
 * September 18 – Jorge Sampaio, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2021)
 * September 19 – Babben Enger-Damon, Norwegian cross-country skier
 * September 20 – Michu Meszaros, Hungarian-born American actor (ALF) (d. 2016)
 * September 22 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (d. 2016)
 * September 23 – Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
 * September 24
 * Wayne Henderson, American trombonist, record producer (d. 2014)
 * Jacques Vallée, French ufologist
 * September 25 – Leon Brittan, British politician (d. 2015)
 * September 28 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian actor
 * September 29
 * Larry Linville, American actor (M*A*S*H) (d. 2000)
 * Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician (d. 2017)
 * September 30
 * Len Cariou, Canadian actor
 * Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

October



 * October 2 – Yuri Glazkov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2008)
 * October 4 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (d. 2018)
 * October 5
 * Marie-Claire Blais, Canadian writer and poet (d. 2021)
 * Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (d. 2019)
 * October 6 – Melvyn Bragg, English media arts presenter, critic and novelist
 * October 7
 * John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
 * Clive James, Australian-born writer, humorist and television personality (d. 2019)
 * Harold Kroto, English organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
 * Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal (d. 2021)
 * October 8 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor and comedian
 * October 9 – John Pilger, Australian-born journalist (d. 2023)
 * October 11 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
 * October 12 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (d. 2019)
 * October 13 – Melinda Dillon, American actress (d. 2023)
 * October 14 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
 * October 16
 * Amancio, Spanish footballer (d. 2023)
 * Joe Dolan, Irish entertainer, recording artist, and pop singer (d. 2007)
 * October 18
 * Flavio Cotti, 80th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2020)
 * Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
 * October 22
 * Joaquim Chissano, 2nd President of Mozambique
 * George Cohen, English footballer
 * October 24 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
 * October 25 – Dave Simmonds, British road racer (d. 1972)
 * October 26 – Karel Schoeman, South African novelist (d. 2017)
 * October 27
 * John Cleese, English actor
 * Marino Perani, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2017)
 * October 28
 * Giulio Angioni, Italian writer, anthropologist (d. 2017)
 * Jane Alexander, American actress
 * October 29 – Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet, and novelist (d. 2023)
 * October 30
 * Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Grace Slick, American rock singer (Jefferson Airplane)
 * October 31
 * Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer (d. 2006)
 * Ron Rifkin, American actor

November

 * November 1 – Barbara Bosson, American actress (d. 2023)
 * November 2 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
 * November 8
 * Elizabeth Dawn, British actress (d. 2017)
 * Laila Kinnunen, Finnish singer (d. 2000)
 * Henning Christophersen, Danish politician (d. 2016)
 * November 9 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
 * November 10 – Russell Means, Native-American actor and activist (d. 2012)
 * November 14 – Wendy Carlos, American electronic composer
 * November 15
 * Yaphet Kotto, African-American actor (d. 2021)
 * Thalmus Rasulala, American actor (d. 1991)
 * November 18
 * Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist
 * Amanda Lear, French model, singer
 * John O'Keefe, American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and professor
 * Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
 * November 19
 * Emil Constantinescu, 3rd President of Romania
 * Tom Harkin, American politician, lawyer and author
 * November 21
 * R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (d. 1987)
 * Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician (d. 2022)
 * November 23 – Betty Everett, African-American soul singer, pianist (d. 2001)
 * November 25 – Shelagh Delaney, English dramatist (d. 2011)
 * November 26
 * Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
 * Mark Margolis, American actor (d. 2023)
 * Tina Turner, African-American singer and actress (d. 2023)
 * November 27
 * Dudley Storey, New Zealand rower (d. 2017)
 * Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 3rd President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
 * November 30 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (d. 2015)

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 * December 1 – Lee Trevino, American professional golfer
 * December 2 – Harry Reid, American politician (d. 2021)
 * December 8
 * James Galway, Irish flautist
 * Jerry Butler, African-American singer-songwriter and politician
 * Fahrudin Jusufi, Kosovar-Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2019)
 * December 11 – Tom Hayden, American academic, activist and politician (d. 2016)
 * December 13 – Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
 * December 14 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
 * December 15 – Cindy Birdsong, American singer
 * December 16 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (d. 2012)
 * December 17 – Eddie Kendricks, African-American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
 * December 18
 * Michael Moorcock, English science fiction writer
 * Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * December 20 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
 * December 21 – Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese singer (d. 2021)
 * December 23 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)
 * December 24 – Dean Corll, American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and torturer (d. 1973)
 * December 25 – Bob James, American musician
 * December 26 – Phil Spector, American record producer (d. 2021)
 * December 27 – John Amos, African-American actor

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January



 * January 2
 * Jim Bakker, American televangelist, ex-husband of Tammy Faye
 * Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor, director (d. 2018)
 * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
 * January 3 – Thelma Schoonmaker, Algerian-born American film editor
 * January 4
 * Helmut Jahn, German-American architect (d. 2021)
 * Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
 * January 6 – Van McCoy, African-American musician and songwriter (d. 1979)
 * January 9 – Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and businessman
 * January 13 – Edmund White, American author
 * January 14 – Julian Bond, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015)
 * January 16 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
 * January 17
 * Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete
 * Tabaré Vázquez, 39th and 41st President of Uruguay (d. 2020)
 * Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (d. 2015)
 * January 18 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
 * January 19 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge and magistrate (d. 1992)
 * January 20
 * Carol Heiss, American figure skater
 * Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician (d. 2022)
 * January 21 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
 * January 22 – John Hurt, English actor (d. 2017)
 * January 23 – Jimmy Castor, African-American funk, R&B, and soul saxophonist (d. 2012)
 * January 24
 * Vito Acconci, American artist and architectural designer (d. 2017)
 * Joachim Gauck, German politician, 11th President of Germany
 * January 27
 * James Cromwell, American actor
 * Petru Lucinschi, Moldovan politician, 2nd President of Moldova
 * Brian O'Leary, American scientist, author, and astronaut (d. 2011)
 * January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
 * January 29
 * Katharine Ross, American actress
 * Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver (d. 2022)
 * January 31 – Stuart Margolin, American actor (d. 2022)

February





 * February 2 – David Jason, English actor
 * February 4 – George A. Romero, American film writer, director (d. 2017)
 * February 5 – H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014)
 * February 6 – Tom Brokaw, American television journalist and author
 * February 7
 * Toshihide Maskawa, Japanese theoretical physicist (d. 2021)
 * Tony Tan, 7th President of Singapore
 * February 8 – Ted Koppel, American journalist
 * February 9
 * Brian Bennett, British drummer, songwriter (The Shadows)
 * J. M. Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate
 * February 12 – Richard Lynch, American actor (d. 2012)
 * February 15 – Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
 * February 17
 * Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer and actor (d. 2021)
 * Willi Holdorf, German Olympic decathlete (d. 2020)
 * Chris Newman, American sound mixer, director
 * Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006)
 * February 18 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 1999)
 * February 19 – Smokey Robinson, African-American musician
 * February 20 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (d. 2021)
 * February 21
 * Peter Gethin, British racing driver (d. 2011)
 * John Lewis, African-American politician, civil rights activist (d. 2020)
 * February 22
 * Aracy Balabanian, Brazilian actress
 * Judy Cornwell, English actress
 * February 23 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)
 * February 24
 * Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971)
 * Jimmy Ellis, African-American professional boxer (d. 2014)
 * Denis Law, Scottish footballer
 * February 25
 * Jesús López Cobos, Spanish-born conductor (d. 2018)
 * Ron Santo, American baseball player (d. 2010)
 * February 27
 * Howard Hesseman, American actor (d. 2022)
 * Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
 * February 28
 * Mario Andretti, American race car driver
 * Joe South, American singer, songwriter (d. 2012)
 * February 29 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople

March



 * March 1 – David Broome, Welsh Show Jumper
 * March 2 – Billy McNeill, Scottish football player and manager (d. 2019)
 * March 4 – Vladimir Morosov, Soviet athlete
 * March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
 * March 7
 * Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader (d. 1979)
 * Viktor Savinykh, Soviet cosmonaut
 * Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
 * March 9 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
 * March 10 – Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist
 * March 11 – Alberto Cortez, Argentine singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
 * March 12 – Al Jarreau, African-American singer (d. 2017)
 * March 13 – Candi Staton, American singer
 * March 15 – Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
 * March 21 – Solomon Burke, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2010)
 * March 22 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)
 * March 25
 * Anita Bryant, American entertainer
 * Mina, Italian singer
 * March 26
 * James Caan, American actor (d. 2022)
 * Nancy Pelosi, American politician
 * March 27 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, playwright, theatre director and instructor
 * March 28 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)
 * March 29 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer (d. 2023)
 * March 30 – Jerry Lucas, American professional basketball player
 * March 31
 * Barney Frank, American politician
 * Patrick Leahy, American politician

April

 * April 1 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011)
 * April 2 – Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer (d. 1981)
 * April 4 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (d. 2018)
 * April 6 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (d. 2011)
 * April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (d. 2019)
 * April 12
 * John Hagee, American televangelist
 * Herbie Hancock, African-American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
 * April 13
 * J. M. G. Le Clézio, French writer and professor
 * Max Mosley, British motorsport boss (d. 2021)
 * José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (d. 2019)
 * April 14
 * Julie Christie, English actress
 * Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (d. 2021)
 * April 15
 * Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2005)
 * Robert Walker Jr., American actor (d. 2019)
 * April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
 * April 17 – Padma Sachdev, Indian poet and novelist (d. 2021)
 * April 18
 * Ira von Fürstenberg, European socialite and actress
 * Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Vladimir Vasiliev, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
 * April 19 – Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist (d. 2019)
 * April 20
 * James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
 * Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director (d. 1997)
 * April 22 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (d. 2019)
 * April 23 – Danilo Astori, Uruguayan politician, 15th Vice President of Uruguay (d. 2023)
 * April 24
 * Sue Grafton, American detective novelist (d. 2017)
 * Michael Parks, American actor, singer (d. 2017)
 * April 25 – Al Pacino, American actor, film director
 * April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
 * April 29 – Peter Diamond, American economist
 * April 30
 * Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer (d. 1979)
 * Burt Young, American actor, author and painter (d. 2023)

May

 * May 2 – Manuel Esquivel, 2nd Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2022)
 * May 3
 * David Koch, American businessman (d. 2019)
 * Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (d. 1987)
 * May 4 – Robin Cook, American physician and novelist
 * May 5 – Lance Henriksen, American actor
 * May 7 – Angela Carter, English author, editor (d. 1992)
 * May 8
 * Peter Benchley, American author (Jaws) (d. 2006)
 * Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985)
 * Toni Tennille, American pop singer
 * May 9 – James L. Brooks, American film producer, writer
 * May 10
 * Arthur Alexander, American singer, songwriter (d. 1993)
 * Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (d. 2015)
 * May 12 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
 * May 13
 * Bruce Chatwin, British author (d. 1989)
 * Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Japanese athlete (d. 1968)
 * May 14 – Tommy Lawrence, Scottish professional footballer (d. 2018)
 * May 15
 * Lainie Kazan, American actress, singer
 * Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach
 * May 16 – Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
 * May 17 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
 * May 19
 * Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
 * Frank Lorenzo, American businessman
 * May 20
 * Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born Canadian hockey player (d. 2018)
 * Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
 * May 21 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 2013)
 * May 22 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
 * May 24
 * Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 2021)
 * Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
 * May 26 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
 * May 27 – Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
 * May 29 – Farooq Leghari, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)

June



 * June 1
 * René Auberjonois, American actor (d. 2019)
 * Kip Thorne, American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * June 2 – Constantine II of Greece (d. 2023)
 * June 7 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer
 * June 8 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
 * June 13 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
 * June 14 – Jack Bannon, American actor (d. 2017)
 * June 16
 * Neil Goldschmidt, American businessman and politician
 * Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, Chinese-American astronaut
 * June 17
 * George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Ali Saibou, 3rd President of Niger (d. 2011)
 * June 18 – Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (d. 2019)
 * June 20
 * Eugen Drewermann, German theologian, activist and priest
 * John Mahoney, English-born American actor (d. 2018)
 * June 21
 * Mariette Hartley, American actress
 * Michael Ruse, British-Canadian philosopher
 * June 22 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2016)
 * June 23
 * Adam Faith, English singer, actor (d. 2003)
 * Willie Wallace, Scottish football player, coach
 * Wilma Rudolph, American Olympic athlete (d. 1994)
 * Stuart Sutcliffe, English rock musician, painter (d. 1962)
 * June 24
 * Hope Cooke, American socialite, Queen Consort of Sikkim
 * Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
 * June 25
 * Thomas Köhler, East German luger
 * Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer
 * June 28
 * Karpal Singh, Malaysian politician, lawyer (d. 2014)
 * Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize laureate
 * June 30 – Víctor Erice, Spanish film director

July





 * July 1 – Craig Brown, Scottish former professional football player, manager (d. 2023)
 * July 2 – Georgi Ivanov, Bulgarian cosmonaut
 * July 3
 * Lamar Alexander, American politician
 * Fontella Bass, African-American soul singer ("Rescue Me") (d. 2012)
 * Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland
 * Mario Zanin, Italian cyclist
 * July 5
 * Arthur Blythe, American jazz musician and composer (d. 2017)
 * Chuck Close, American painter (d. 2021)
 * July 6
 * Rex Cawley, American athlete (d. 2022)
 * Viktor Kuzkin, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 2008)
 * Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
 * Jeannie Seely, American singer, songwriter
 * July 7 – Ringo Starr, English musician and drummer
 * July 9 – Jair da Costa, Brazilian footballer
 * July 10 – Helen Donath, American soprano
 * July 13 – Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor
 * July 17 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2019)
 * July 18
 * James Brolin, American actor, director
 * Peter Mutharika, 5th President of Malawi
 * Joe Torre, American baseball player, manager
 * July 19
 * Hanako, Princess Hitachi
 * Anzor Kavazashvili, Soviet former football goalkeeper
 * July 20 – Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
 * July 21 – Jim Clyburn, African-American politician
 * July 22
 * Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma
 * Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host (Jeopardy!) (d. 2020)
 * July 24
 * Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
 * Dan Hedaya, American actor
 * July 26
 * Dobie Gray, African-American singer-songwriter (Drift Away) (d. 2011)
 * Jean-Luc Nancy, French philosopher (d. 2021)
 * July 27
 * Gary Kurtz, American filmmaker (d. 2018)
 * Pina Bausch, German choreographer (d. 2009)
 * Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born novelist (d. 2017)
 * July 28 – Philip Proctor, American actor
 * July 30 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor (d. 2021)

August



 * August 3 – Martin Sheen, American actor
 * August 7 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
 * August 13 – Dirk Sager, German journalist (d. 2014)
 * August 19 – Jill St. John, American actress
 * August 20 – Rajendra K. Pachauri, Indian scientist (d. 2020)
 * August 23 – Thomas A. Steitz, American biochemist (d. 2018)
 * August 25 – José van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone
 * August 26
 * Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)
 * Michel Micombero, 1st President of Burundi (d. 1983)
 * August 27 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
 * August 28
 * William Cohen, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
 * Ken Jenkins, American actor
 * Roger Pingeon, French road racing cyclist (d. 2017)
 * August 29
 * Bennie Maupin, American musician
 * Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler, martial artist (d. 2015)
 * August 31
 * Wilton Felder, American saxophonist, bassist (d. 2015)
 * Larry Hankin, American actor
 * Jack Thompson, Australian actor

September



 * September 1 – Annie Ernaux, French writer
 * September 3
 * Pauline Collins, English actress
 * Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (d. 2015)
 * Joseph Warioba, 5th Prime Minister of Tanzania
 * September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress (d. 2023)
 * September 6 – Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (d. 2019)
 * September 7
 * Dario Argento, Italian filmmaker
 * Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
 * September 10 – Roy Ayers, African-American musician, songwriter
 * September 11
 * Brian De Palma, American film director
 * Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician
 * September 12
 * Roger K. Crouch, American scientist and astronaut
 * Joachim Frank, German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Linda Gray, American model, actress (Dallas)
 * September 13 – Óscar Arias, 2-time President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
 * September 14 – Larry Brown, American basketball player, coach
 * September 15
 * Merlin Olsen, American football player, announcer, and actor (d. 2010)
 * Norman Spinrad, American science fiction author, essayist, and critic
 * September 17 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
 * September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer, actor
 * September 19
 * Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter
 * Paul Williams, American composer, singer, songwriter and actor
 * September 20
 * Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of Japan
 * Joe DioGuardi, American accountant and politician
 * September 22 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, writer, and singer (d. 2019)
 * September 23
 * Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian traditional singer (d. 2020)
 * Michel Temer, Brazilian politician, 37th President of Brazil
 * September 25 – Tim Severin, British explorer, historian and writer (d. 2020)
 * September 27 – Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
 * September 28 – Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Russian cosmonaut
 * September 29 – Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer and actor

October

 * October 1 – Jean-Luc Bideau, Swiss actor
 * October 2 – Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player (d. 2015)
 * October 3 – Mike Troy, American swimmer (d. 2019)
 * October 4 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentine professional footballer (d. 2020)
 * October 5 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (d. 2018)
 * October 9 – John Lennon, English musician, singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
 * October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist (d. 2022)
 * October 14 – Cliff Richard, British pop musician, actor and philanthropist
 * October 15 – Peter C. Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * October 16
 * Barry Corbin, American actor
 * Dave DeBusschere, American professional basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
 * October 18 – Győző Kulcsár, Hungarian fencer (d. 2018)
 * October 19
 * Sir Michael Gambon, Irish actor (d. 2023)
 * Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer (d. 2012)
 * October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator United States Poet Laureate
 * October 21
 * Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer
 * Manfred Mann, South African rock musician
 * Julie Parrish, American actress (d. 2003)
 * Marita Petersen, 8th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2001)
 * Osamu Watanabe, Japanese wrestler
 * October 23 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer (d. 2022)
 * October 24 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
 * October 25
 * Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach (d. 2023)
 * Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (d. 2019)
 * October 26 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2004)
 * October 27
 * John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
 * Maxine Hong Kingston, Chinese-American author and professor
 * Shahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess
 * October 29
 * Frida Boccara, French singer (d. 1996)
 * Melba Moore, African-American actress and singer

November



 * November 2 – Gigi Proietti, Italian actor and comedian (b. 2020)
 * November 3 – Mirlande Manigat, First Lady of Haiti
 * November 5
 * Jaime Roldós Aguilera, 33rd President of Ecuador (d. 1981)
 * Elke Sommer, German actress
 * November 11 – Barbara Boxer, American politician
 * November 12 – Donald Wuerl, American archbishop
 * November 13 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician (d. 2022)
 * November 15
 * Roberto Cavalli, Italian designer (d. 2024)
 * Sam Waterston, American actor
 * November 17 – Luke Kelly, Irish ballad singer (d. 1984)
 * November 18 – Qaboos bin Said Al Said, Sultan of Oman (d. 2020)
 * November 20 – Helma Sanders-Brahms, German film director (d. 2014)
 * November 21
 * Richard Marcinko, American military commander and author (d. 2021)
 * Natalia Makarova, Russian prima ballerina and choreographer
 * November 22
 * Alberto Fouilloux, Chilean footballer (d. 2018)
 * Terry Gilliam, American-born British screenwriter, director, animator, and actor
 * Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director, writer (d. 2016)
 * November 25
 * Joe Gibbs, American football coach and NASCAR Team Owner
 * Karl Offmann, 3rd President of Mauritius (d. 2022)
 * November 26 – Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (d. 2019)
 * November 27 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist, actor (d. 1973)
 * November 29
 * Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
 * Chuck Mangione, American flugelhorn player

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 * December 1 – Richard Pryor, African-American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
 * December 4 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
 * December 5 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
 * December 11
 * David Gates, American singer-songwriter
 * Donna Mills, American actress
 * December 12
 * Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
 * Dionne Warwick, African-American singer and actress
 * December 19 – Phil Ochs, American protest singer (d. 1976)
 * December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d. 1993)
 * December 23
 * Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan (d. 2021)
 * Jorma Kaukonen, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
 * December 24
 * Sharon Farrell, American actress (d. 2023)
 * Anthony Fauci, American physician and immunologist
 * Jan Stráský, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 2019)
 * December 25 – Alija Behmen, Bosnian politician (d. 2018)
 * December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
 * December 29
 * Fred Hansen, American Olympic athlete
 * Brigitte Kronauer, German novelist (d. 2019)

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January



 * January 3
 * Mary Garden, Scottish-American opera singer (b. 1874)
 * Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner and convicted criminal, best known as the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
 * January 4 – Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921)
 * January 9 – Waldo Frank, American novelist and historian (b. 1889)
 * January 12 – Holland Smith, American general (b. 1882)
 * January 14 – Miklós Kállay, 34th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1887)
 * January 17
 * Evelyn Nesbit, American actress and model (b. 1884)
 * Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909)
 * January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
 * January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (b. 1899)
 * January 23 – Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (b. 1878)
 * January 24 – Luigi Federzoni, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1878)
 * January 27
 * Crew of Apollo 1 (launch pad fire):
 * Ed White, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * Gus Grissom, American astronaut (b. 1926)
 * Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (b. 1935)
 * David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, British politician, lawyer, and judge (b. 1900)
 * Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
 * Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
 * January 28 – Leonhard Seppala, Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (b. 1877)
 * January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1909)

February

 * February 3 – Joe Meek, English record producer and sound engineer (b. 1929)
 * February 6
 * Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
 * Henry Morgenthau Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891)
 * February 7 – David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872)
 * February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
 * February 13 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889)
 * February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884)
 * February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887)
 * February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911)
 * February 17 – Ciro Alegría, Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist (b. 1909)
 * February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
 * February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
 * February 24 – Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b. 1906)
 * February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)

March

 * March 2
 * Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885)
 * José Martínez Ruiz, 'Azorín', Spanish writer (b. 1873)
 * March 5
 * Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905)
 * Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)
 * Georges Vanier, Canadian Governor General (b. 1888)
 * March 6
 * Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
 * Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
 * March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
 * March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
 * March 23 – Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist, songwriter (b. 1904)
 * March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
 * March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
 * March 31
 * Don Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904)
 * Rodion Malinovsky, Soviet military commander and Minister of Defence (b. 1898)

April

 * April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
 * April 13 – Luis Somoza Debayle, 26th President of Nicaragua (b. 1922)
 * April 15 – Totò, Italian actor (b. 1898)
 * April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
 * April 18 – Friedrich Heiler, German theologian and historian (b. 1892)
 * April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 27th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1876)
 * April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904)
 * April 23 – Edgar Neville, Spanish playwright and film director (b. 1899)
 * April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
 * April 25 – Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1884)
 * April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)

May

 * May 6 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
 * May 7 – Judith Evelyn, American actress (b. 1909)
 * May 8
 * Laverne Andrews, American singer (b. 1911)
 * Elmer Rice, American playwright (b. 1892)
 * May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
 * May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
 * May 15 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
 * May 18 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
 * May 21
 * Géza Lakatos, Hungarian general and politician, 36th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1890)
 * Rexhep Mitrovica, Albanian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1888)
 * May 22
 * Langston Hughes, American writer, novelist, playwright, and columnist (b. 1902)
 * Josip Plemelj, Slovene mathematician (b. 1873)
 * May 27
 * Tilly Edinger, German-born American scientist, founder of paleoneurology (b. 1897)
 * Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (b. 1888)
 * May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885)
 * May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889)
 * May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)

June

 * June 3 – Arthur Tedder, British air force general, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890)
 * June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
 * June 6 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
 * June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
 * June 11 – Wolfgang Köhler, German psychologist (b. 1887)
 * June 13
 * Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1895)
 * Edward Ellington, British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1877)
 * June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
 * June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
 * June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
 * June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
 * June 29
 * Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
 * Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)

July



 * July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
 * July 8
 * Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan's "Mother of the Nation" (b. 1893)
 * Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
 * July 9
 * Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine, anthropology and eugenics (b. 1874)
 * July 13 – Tommy Lucchese, Italian-American gangster (b. 1899)
 * July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
 * July 17
 * Cyril Ring, American film actor (b. 1892)
 * John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
 * July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, 26th President of Brazil (plane crash) (b. 1897)
 * July 20 – Lewis H. Brereton, American aviation pioneer and air force general (b. 1890)
 * July 21
 * Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907)
 * Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1898)
 * Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
 * July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)

August

 * August 1
 * Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
 * Adrien Arcand, Canadian politician (b. 1899)
 * August 9
 * Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933)
 * Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896)
 * August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879)
 * August 15
 * René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
 * Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 50th & 54th President of Peru (b. 1889)
 * August 19
 * Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907)
 * Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
 * August 22 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and researcher (b. 1903)
 * August 23 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American Olympic athlete (b. 1883)
 * August 24 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
 * August 25
 * Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
 * Paul Muni, American actor (b. 1895)
 * George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
 * August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934)
 * August 30
 * Samuel Mosberg, American boxer, Olympic champion (b. 1896)
 * Ad Reinhardt, American painter (b. 1913)
 * August 31
 * Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
 * Mikhail Kovalyov, Soviet general (b. 1897)

September



 * September 1
 * James Dunn, American actor (b. 1901)
 * Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal (b. 1906)
 * Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (b. 1886)
 * September 3 – Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer (b. 1893)
 * September 8 – Juliusz Rómmel, Polish general (b. 1881)
 * September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (b. 1903)
 * September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907)
 * September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
 * September 27 – Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
 * September 29 – Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917)

October



 * October 3
 * Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1911)
 * Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
 * Pinto Colvig, American actor, newspaper cartoonist, and circus performer (b. 1892)
 * October 5 – Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
 * October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
 * October 8 – Clement Attlee, British politician, 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
 * October 9
 * Gordon Allport, American psychologist (b. 1897)
 * Che Guevara, Argentine communist revolutionary (b. 1928)
 * Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
 * Joseph Pilates, German physical culturist and developer of Pilates (b. 1883)
 * Edith Storey, American actress (b. 1892)
 * October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic wrestler (b. 1895)
 * October 17 – Xuantong Emperor, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
 * October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
 * October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b. 1896)
 * October 30 – Charles Trowbridge, American actor (b. 1882)

November

 * November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
 * November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891)
 * November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
 * November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895)
 * November 19 – Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884)
 * November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1890)
 * November 26 – Albert Warner, American film producer (b. 1884)
 * November 28 – Léon M'ba, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902)
 * November 29 – Ferenc Münnich, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886)

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 * December 4
 * Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b. 1881)
 * Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895)
 * December 8 – Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., American astronaut (b. 1935)
 * December 10 – Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
 * December 11
 * Howard Freeman, American actor (b. 1899)
 * Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1892)
 * December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (body never found) (b. 1908)
 * December 21
 * Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
 * Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer (b. 1873)
 * December 27 – Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer, Spanish mathematician (b. 1912)
 * December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890)
 * December 30 – Vincent Massey, former Canadian Governor General (b. 1887)

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January

 * January 5 – Gottlob Berger, German Nazi senior official (b. 1896)
 * January 9 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
 * January 14 – Georgi Traykov, former head of State of Bulgaria as Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (b. 1898)
 * January 17 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (b. 1900)
 * January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)
 * January 23 – Prince Karl Franz of Prussia (b. 1916)
 * January 24
 * Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
 * Erich Kempka, German Chauffeur (b. 1910)
 * January 27 – Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer (b. 1913)
 * January 28 – Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak Communist leader and 7th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1904)

February



 * February 1 – Richard Wattis, English actor (b. 1912)
 * February 3
 * William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (b. 1873)
 * Umm Kulthum, Egyptian actress and singer (b. 1898)
 * February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
 * February 8
 * Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
 * Jan Mukařovský, Czech literary, linguistic and aesthetic theorist. (b. 1891)
 * February 10 – Dave Alexander, American musician (b. 1947)
 * February 11 – Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman (b. 1931)
 * February 12 – Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat and humanitarian (b. 1895)
 * February 14
 * Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
 * P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
 * February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
 * February 17 – George Marshall, American film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1891)
 * February 18 – Chivu Stoica, Romanian Communist politician, 48th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1908)
 * February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
 * February 20 – Robert Strauss, American actor (b. 1913)
 * February 22 – Lionel Tertis, English violist (b. 1876)
 * February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
 * February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, American Nation of Islam leader (b. 1897)

March

 * March 2 – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (b. 1876)
 * March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress (b. 1898)
 * March 6 – Glenn Hardin, American athlete (b. 1910)
 * March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
 * March 8
 * Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1887)
 * George Stevens, American director, producer and cinematographer (b. 1904)
 * March 9 – Shirley Ross, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
 * March 11 – Margarita Fischer, German silent film actress (b. 1886)
 * March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
 * March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
 * March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
 * March 16 – T-Bone Walker, American blues performer (b. 1910)
 * March 19 – Harry Lachman, American set designer and film director (b. 1886)
 * March 20 – Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (b. 1908)
 * March 25
 * King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
 * Michèle Girardon, French actress (b. 1938)
 * March 27 – Sir Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1891)

April

 * April 3 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
 * April 5
 * Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese nationalist general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
 * Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete (b. 1899)
 * Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician and jurist, 40th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1917)
 * April 10
 * Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
 * Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
 * April 12 – Josephine Baker, France entertainer, activist (b. 1906)
 * April 13
 * Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
 * François Tombalbaye, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
 * April 14 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
 * April 15 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
 * April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
 * April 19 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (b. 1899)
 * April 22 – Mary Philips, American actress (b. 1901)
 * April 23 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
 * April 24 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
 * April 27 – John B. McKay, American test pilot (b. 1922)

May

 * May 4 – Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)
 * May 8 – Avery Brundage, American administrator, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
 * May 9 – Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (b. 1901)
 * May 18
 * Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
 * Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician (b. 1914)
 * May 20 – Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (b. 1903)
 * May 22 – Torben Meyer, Danish actor (b. 1884)
 * May 23 – Moms Mabley, African-American comedian (b. 1894)
 * May 28
 * Ezzard Charles, American boxer, former World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1921)
 * Roy Roberts, American actor (b. 1906)
 * May 30
 * Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
 * Michel Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895)

June



 * June 3
 * Eisaku Satō, 39th Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
 * Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (b. 1906)
 * June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (b. 1895)
 * June 9 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat (b. 1892)
 * June 12 – Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer (b. 1884)
 * June 13 – José María Guido, 33rd President of Argentina (b. 1910)
 * June 15 – William Austin, English actor (b. 1884)
 * June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
 * June 19 – Sam Giancana, American mobster (b. 1908)
 * June 27 – G. I. Taylor, British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory (b. 1886)
 * June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter and narrator (b. 1924)
 * June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)

July

 * July 2 – James Robertson Justice, English actor (b. 1907)
 * July 4 – Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1893)
 * July 5 – Otto Skorzeny, Austrian-born German lieutenant colonel (b. 1908)
 * July 7 – Jacob Bjerknes, Norwegian-American meteorologist (b. 1897)
 * July 10 – Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1898)
 * July 14 – Madan Mohan, Indian music director (b. 1924)
 * July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
 * July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
 * July 21 – Billy West, American actor (b. 1892)
 * July 23 – Emlen Tunnell, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
 * July 25 – Eugen Fink, German philosopher (b. 1905)
 * July 30 – James Blish, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1921)

August





 * August 3 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet (b. 1901)
 * August 5 – Gustav von Wangenheim, German actor and director (b. 1895)
 * August 6 – Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, Spanish prince, military aviator (b. 1886)
 * August 8 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz alto saxophonist (b. 1929)
 * August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
 * August 10 – Anthony McAuliffe, American general (b. 1898)
 * August 11 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (b. 1885)
 * August 15 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
 * August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet athlete (b. 1927)
 * August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor (b. 1895)
 * August 19
 * Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)
 * Frank Shields, American tennis player (b. 1909)
 * August 25 – Joseph Kane, American film director and producer (b. 1894)
 * August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1896)
 * August 27 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
 * August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
 * August 29 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (b. 1882)

September

 * September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881)
 * September 9
 * Minta Durfee, American actress (b. 1889)
 * Ethel Griffies, British actress (b. 1878)
 * John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
 * September 10 – George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
 * September 15 – Pavel Sukhoi, Soviet aerospace engineer, twice Hero of Socialist Labour (b. 1895)
 * September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
 * September 20
 * Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor (b. 1908)
 * Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
 * September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900)
 * September 26 – C. H. Waddington, British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher (b. 1905)
 * September 27 – Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947)
 * September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)

October

 * October 3 – Guy Mollet, 94th Prime Minister of France (b. 1905)
 * October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886)
 * October 6 – Henry Calvin, American actor (b. 1918)
 * October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
 * October 18 – Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
 * October 21 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)
 * October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (b. 1889)
 * October 27
 * Peregrino Anselmo, Uruguyan football player (b. 1902)
 * Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886)
 * October 28
 * Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
 * Oliver Nelson, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader (b. 1932)
 * October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
 * October 31 – Joseph Calleia, Maltese-American actor (b. 1897)

November

 * November 1 – C. S. Wright, Canadian explorer (b. 1887)
 * November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
 * November 4
 * Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893)
 * Sheila Ryan, American actress (b. 1921)
 * November 5
 * Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
 * Lionel Trilling, American literary critic (b. 1905)
 * November 6
 * Vicente Feola, Brazilian football manager and coach (b. 1909)
 * Ernst Hanfstaengl, German-born American businessman and politician (b. 1887)
 * Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
 * November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English writer (b. 1896)
 * November 17 – Kay Johnson, American actress (b. 1904)
 * November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
 * November 29 – Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)

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 * December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
 * December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
 * December 8 – Plínio Salgado, Brazilian politician and writer (b. 1895)
 * December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b. 1896)
 * December 10 – Andrew "Boy" Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
 * December 12 – Saadi Al Munla, 4th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1890)
 * December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
 * December 15 – Shigeyoshi Inoue, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
 * December 17
 * Noble Sissle, American jazz composer (b. 1889)
 * Hound Dog Taylor, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1915)
 * December 18 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1900)
 * December 19 – René Maheu, French professor and administrator, 6th Director-General of UNESCO (b. 1905)
 * December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b. 1914)
 * December 21 – Rowland V. Lee, American film director (b. 1891)
 * December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911)
 * December 25 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
 * December 30 – Elene Akhvlediani, Soviet painter (b. 1901)

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 * January 1
 * Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and political leader (b. 1959)
 * Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (b. 1924)
 * Helen Suzman, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
 * January 3 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
 * January 8 – Don Galloway, American actor (b. 1937)
 * January 12
 * Claude Berri, French film director (b. 1934)
 * Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
 * January 13 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor (b. 1928)
 * January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 15 – Said Seyam, Palestinian politician (b. 1959)
 * January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
 * January 19 – José Torres, Puerto Rican professional boxer (b. 1936)
 * January 20 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1920)
 * January 22 – Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 21st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1905)
 * January 24 – Karl Koller, Austrian footballer (b. 1929)
 * January 25 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1910)
 * January 27
 * John Updike, American writer (b. 1932)
 * R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
 * January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)

February

 * February 6
 * Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)
 * James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
 * February 9 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (b. 1970)
 * February 12 – Giacomo Bulgarelli, Italian footballer (b. 1940)
 * February 18 – Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (b. 1982)
 * February 25 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (b. 1918)
 * February 26 – Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943)
 * February 27 – Manea Mănescu, 50th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1916)
 * February 28 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918)

March



 * March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, 2nd President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
 * March 3 – Sydney Chaplin, American actor (b. 1926)
 * March 4 – Horton Foote, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1916)
 * March 5 – Valeri Broshin, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1962)
 * March 7 – Tullio Pinelli, Italian screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * March 8 – Hank Locklin, American country music singer (b. 1918)
 * March 13
 * Betsy Blair, American actress (b. 1923)
 * James Purdy, American novelist, poet and playwright (b. 1914)
 * Test, Canadian-American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1975)
 * March 14
 * Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
 * Edith Lucie Bongo, First Lady of Gabon (b. 1964)
 * March 15 – Ron Silver, American actor and political activist (b. 1946)
 * March 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion stylist (b. 1937)
 * March 18 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
 * March 20 – Abdellatif Filali, 13th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1928)
 * March 22 – Jade Goody, British reality TV star (b. 1981)
 * March 25
 * Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (b. 1937)
 * Dan Seals, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
 * March 28 – Janet Jagan, 6th Prime Minister and 6th President of Guyana (b. 1920)
 * March 29 – Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (b. 1924)
 * March 31 – Raúl Alfonsín, 49th President of Argentina (b. 1927)

April

 * April 12
 * Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
 * Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American social theorist (b. 1950)
 * April 14 – Maurice Druon, French novelist (b. 1918)
 * April 19 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist (b. 1930)
 * April 22
 * Ken Annakin, English film director (b. 1914)
 * Jack Cardiff, English cinematographer (b. 1914)
 * April 25 – Bea Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 * April 26 – Pupuke Robati, 4th Prime Minister of Cook Islands (b. 1925)
 * April 28
 * Vern Gosdin, American country music singer (b. 1934)
 * Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939)

May

 * May 2
 * Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
 * Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
 * May 4 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * May 9 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
 * May 11 – Abel Goumba, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)
 * May 13 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (b. 1914)
 * May 17 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920)
 * May 18
 * Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (b. 1947)
 * Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant (b. 1954)
 * May 19 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (b. 1916)
 * May 20 – Lucy Gordon, English actress and model (b. 1980)
 * May 23 – Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea (b. 1946).
 * May 27 – Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
 * May 29 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
 * May 30
 * Luís Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1931)
 * Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
 * Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of the Sudan (b. 1930)
 * May 31
 * Millvina Dean, British civil servant, and cartographer (b. 1912)
 * Kamala Surayya, Indian poet (b. 1934)

June

 * June 1
 * Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer (b. 1959)
 * Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, Turkish harpist and university lecturer for piano and harp (b. 1972)
 * Prince Pedro Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, heir to the line of succession in Brazil (b. 1983)
 * June 2 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
 * June 3
 * David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
 * Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
 * June 6 – Jean Dausset, French Nobel immunologist (b. 1916)
 * June 8 – Omar Bongo, 2nd President of Gabon (b. 1935)
 * June 12 – Félix Malloum, 3rd President of Chad (b. 1932)
 * June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
 * June 16 – Peter Arundell, British racing driver (b. 1933)
 * June 17 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social theorist and politician (b. 1929)
 * June 18
 * Giovanni Arrighi, Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst (b. 1937)
 * Hortensia Bussi, 28th First Lady of Chile (b. 1914)
 * June 20 – Godfrey Rampling, English athlete and army officer (b. 1909)
 * June 23 – Ed McMahon, American announcer, game show host, comedian, police officer, actor and singer (b. 1923)
 * June 24 – Olja Ivanjicki, Serbian painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1931)
 * June 25
 * Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
 * Michael Jackson, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1958)
 * June 27 – Gale Storm, American actress (b. 1922)
 * June 28 – Billy Mays, American pitchman and television host (b. 1958)
 * June 30
 * Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)
 * Harve Presnell, American actor and singer (b. 1933)
 * Shi Pei Pu, Chinese opera singer (b. 1938)

July

 * July 1
 * Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
 * Marwa El-Sherbini, Egyptian pharmacist (b. 1978)
 * Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
 * July 3 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat (b. 1926)
 * July 4
 * Brenda Joyce, American actress (b. 1917)
 * Allen Klein, American businessman (b. 1931)
 * Steve McNair, American football player (b. 1973)
 * July 6
 * Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (b. 1932)
 * Robert McNamara, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
 * July 13 – Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
 * July 15 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian human rights activist (b. 1958)
 * July 17
 * Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (b. 1921)
 * Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (b. 1916)
 * Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)
 * July 18
 * Henry Allingham, English war veteran (b. 1896)
 * Yasmine Belmadi, French actor (b. 1976)
 * Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver (b. 1949)
 * July 19
 * Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (b. 1930)
 * Henry Surtees, British racing driver (b. 1991)
 * July 24 – José Carlos da Costa Araújo, Brazilian goalkeeper (b. 1962)
 * July 25 – Harry Patch, English war veteran (b. 1898)
 * July 26 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b. 1919)
 * July 31 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)

August

 * August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
 * August 4 – Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (b. 1927)
 * August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * August 6
 * John Hughes, American film director and writer (b. 1950)
 * Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1923)
 * Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
 * August 8 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
 * August 9 – John Quade, American actor (b. 1938)
 * August 10 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish olympic cross-country skier (b. 1923)
 * August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
 * August 12 – Rashied Ali, American free jazz drummer (b. 1933)
 * August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (b. 1915)
 * August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea (b. 1924)
 * August 23 – Anna-Maria Müller, German athlete (b. 1949)
 * August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (b. 1935)
 * August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
 * August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (b. 1953)
 * August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (b. 1913)
 * August 28 – DJ AM, American DJ (b. 1973)

September

 * September 8 – Aage Bohr, Danish Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
 * September 9 – Léon Glovacki, French footballer (b. 1928)
 * September 11
 * Juan Almeida, Cuban revolutionary and politician (b. 1927)
 * Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (b. 1949)
 * Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (b. 1958)
 * September 12
 * Norman Borlaug, American Nobel agronomist (b. 1914)
 * Jack Kramer, American tennis player and promoter (b. 1921)
 * September 13 – Paul Burke, American actor (b. 1926)
 * September 14
 * Keith Floyd, British cook and restaurateur (b. 1943)
 * Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
 * Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer (b. 1952)
 * September 16 – Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
 * September 17 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (b. 1968)
 * September 18 – Irving Kristol, American writer and political commentator (b. 1920)
 * September 23 – Ertuğrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (b. 1912)
 * September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
 * September 28 – Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
 * September 29 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)

October

 * October 2
 * Marek Edelman, Polish political and social activist (b. 1922)
 * Rolf Rüssmann, German footballer (b. 1950)
 * October 4
 * Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (b. 1953)
 * Günther Rall, German fighter pilot (b. 1918)
 * Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (b. 1935)
 * October 5 – Israel Gelfand, Soviet-American mathematician (b. 1913)
 * October 7 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
 * October 10 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (b. 1976)
 * October 11 – Joan Martí i Alanis, 64th Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1928)
 * October 12 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
 * October 13 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927)
 * October 14 – Lou Albano, Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (b. 1933)
 * October 17 – Carla Boni, Italian singer (b. 1925)
 * October 19 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
 * October 20 – Yuri Ryazanov, Russian artistic gymnast (b. 1987)
 * October 22 – Soupy Sales, American comedian, actor, radio/television personality (b. 1926)
 * October 28 – Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer (b. 1990)
 * October 30 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
 * October 31 – Hsue-Shen Tsien, Chinese scientist (b. 1911)

November

 * November 1 – Alda Merini, Italian writer and poet (b. 1931)
 * November 2 – Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (b. 1941)
 * November 3 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
 * November 8 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1916)
 * November 10
 * Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977)
 * John Allen Muhammad, African-American spree killer (b. 1960)
 * November 15
 * Pierre Harmel, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1911)
 * Pavle, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
 * Jocelyn Quivrin, French actor (b. 1979)
 * November 16
 * Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
 * Edward Woodward, English actor and singer (b. 1930)
 * November 18 – Jeanne-Claude, French-American artist (b. 1935)
 * November 20 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
 * November 21 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * November 24 – Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1935)
 * November 26 – Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, Romanian fencer (b. 1946)
 * November 29 – Robert Holdstock, English novelist (b. 1948)
 * November 30
 * Paul Naschy, Spanish actor (b. 1934)
 * Milorad Pavić, Serbian writer (b. 1929)

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 * December 2 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and keyboardist (b. 1945)
 * December 3 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (b. 1919)
 * December 4
 * Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Russian actor (b. 1928)
 * Umaga, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1973)
 * December 5
 * Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
 * Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (b. 1926)
 * December 9
 * Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
 * Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 38th President of Costa Rica (b. 1926)
 * December 12
 * Val Avery, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Soviet cross-country skier (b. 1939)
 * December 13 – Paul Samuelson, American Nobel Prize-winning economist (b. 1915)
 * December 14 – Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
 * December 15 – Oral Roberts, American Evangelist (b. 1918)
 * December 16
 * Roy E. Disney, American businessman (b. 1930)
 * Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (b. 1956)
 * December 17
 * Amin al-Hafiz, President and Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1921)
 * Alaina Reed Hall, American singer and actress (b. 1946)
 * Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
 * Michel Leblond, French footballer (b. 1932)
 * Dan O'Bannon, American screenwriter (b. 1946)
 * December 19
 * Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian scholar and human rights activist (b. 1922)
 * Kim Peek, American savant (b. 1951)
 * December 20
 * Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
 * Arnold Stang, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
 * December 21 – Edwin G. Krebs, American Nobel biologist (b. 1918)
 * December 23
 * Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (b. 1910)
 * Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian theologian (b. 1914)
 * December 24 – Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
 * December 25 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
 * December 26
 * Dennis Brutus, South African activist, educator, journalist and poet (b. 1924)
 * Yves Rocher, French businessman (b. 1930)
 * Jacques Sylla, 12th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1946)
 * December 27 – Takashi Takabayashi, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
 * December 28 – The Rev, American musician (b. 1981)
 * December 30
 * Rowland S. Howard, Australian musician (b. 1959)
 * Peter Shirayanagi, Japanese cardinal (b. 1928)
 * Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)
 * December 31 – Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1924)

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January



 * January 1 – Juanita Moore, American actress (b. 1914)
 * January 3 – Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)
 * January 5
 * Eusébio, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
 * Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
 * January 6 – Mónica Spear, Venezuelan actress, Miss Venezuela 2004 (b. 1984)
 * January 7 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong filmmaker and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
 * January 9
 * Amiri Baraka, American poet (b. 1934)
 * Lorella De Luca, Italian actress (b. 1940)
 * Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (b. 1939)
 * January 10 – Zbigniew Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
 * January 11
 * Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (b. 1986)
 * Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
 * January 13 – Anjali Devi, Indian actress (b. 1927)
 * January 14
 * Juan Gelman, Argentine poet (b. 1930)
 * Mae Young, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
 * January 15 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944)
 * January 16
 * Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Hiroo Onoda, Japanese army officer (b. 1922)
 * January 17 – Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (b. 1931)
 * January 18 – Dennis Frederiksen, American singer (b. 1951)
 * January 20 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
 * January 22 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and film producer (b. 1924)
 * January 23 – Riz Ortolani, Italian film composer (b. 1926)
 * January 25 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
 * January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and writer (b. 1939)
 * January 27 – Pete Seeger, American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist (b. 1919)
 * January 31
 * Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali diplomat and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924)
 * Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (b. 1921)

February



 * February 1
 * Luis Aragonés, Spanish football player and coach (b. 1938)
 * Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1930)
 * February 2
 * Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (b. 1967)
 * February 3
 * Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
 * Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Joan Mondale, American arts advocate (b. 1930)
 * February 4 – Wu Ma, Chinese actor and director (b. 1942)
 * February 5
 * Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist and educator (b. 1915)
 * Richard Hayman, American musician and conductor (b. 1920)
 * February 6 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1922)
 * February 8 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)
 * February 10
 * Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist (b. 1932)
 * Shirley Temple, American actress, dancer, and diplomat (b. 1928)
 * February 11 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1924)
 * February 12 – Sid Caesar, American actor (b. 1922)
 * February 13
 * Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish football player and coach (b. 1937)
 * Ralph Waite, American actor (b. 1928)
 * February 14 – Tom Finney, English footballer (b. 1922)
 * February 18 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
 * February 19 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 * February 23 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British pianist (b. 1903)
 * February 24 – Harold Ramis, American film director, writer, and actor (b. 1944)
 * February 25 – Mário Coluna, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1935)
 * February 26 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist (b. 1947)
 * February 27 – Huber Matos, Cuban political leader, activist and writer (b. 1918)

March

 * March 1 – Alain Resnais, French film director (b. 1922)
 * March 3
 * Robert Ashley, American composer (b. 1930)
 * William R. Pogue, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * March 9 – Mohammed Fahim, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. c. 1957)
 * March 12 – Věra Chytilová, Czech film director (b. 1929)
 * March 13 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
 * March 14 – Tony Benn, British politician and diarist (b. 1925)
 * March 15
 * David Brenner, American comedian (b. 1936)
 * Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef and television personality (b. 1947)
 * March 17 – L'Wren Scott, American stylist and fashion designer (b. 1964)
 * March 18 – Lucius Shepard, American writer (b. 1942)
 * March 19 – Fred Phelps, American pastor (b. 1929)
 * March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
 * March 21
 * Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 122nd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1933)
 * James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948)
 * March 23 – Adolfo Suárez, 138th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
 * March 25 – Nanda, Indian actress (b. 1939)
 * March 27 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician (b. 1929)
 * March 31 – Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (b. 1955)

April

 * April 1 – Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)
 * April 4 – Kumba Ialá, President of Guinea-Bissau (2000–2003) (b. 1953)
 * April 6 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1920)
 * April 8
 * The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
 * Karlheinz Deschner, German activist and writer (b. 1924)
 * April 9 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1926)
 * April 10 – Sue Townsend, British novelist and playwright (b. 1946)
 * April 13 – Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (b. 1935)
 * April 16 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (b. 1949)
 * April 17
 * Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel writer (b. 1927)
 * Raul Bragança Neto, 8th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1946)
 * April 18 – Ramon Malla Call, 63rd Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1922)
 * April 20 – Rubin Carter, American boxer (b. 1937)
 * April 24
 * Hans Hollein, Austrian architect (b. 1934)
 * Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1921)
 * April 25 – Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1968)
 * April 27 – Vujadin Boškov, Serbian football player and coach (b. 1931)
 * April 29 – Bob Hoskins, British actor (b. 1942)
 * April 30 – Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (b. 1940)

May

 * May 2 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
 * May 3 – Gary Becker, American Nobel economist (b. 1930)
 * May 4
 * Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948)
 * Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934)
 * May 6
 * Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940)
 * Farley Mowat, Canadian author (b. 1921)
 * May 11 – Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player (b. 1939)
 * May 12
 * Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
 * H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (b. 1940)
 * May 15 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
 * May 17 – Gerald Edelman, American Nobel biologist (b. 1929)
 * May 18
 * Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian writer and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
 * Wubbo Ockels, Dutch astronaut and physicist (b. 1946)
 * Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (b. 1931)
 * May 19 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (b. 1926)
 * May 21
 * Jaime Lusinchi, President of Venezuela (b. 1924)
 * Alireza Soleimani, Iranian heavyweight freestyle wrestler (b. 1956)
 * May 25
 * Wojciech Jaruzelski, Communist leader of Poland (b. 1923)
 * Toaripi Lauti, 1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1928)
 * May 28
 * Maya Angelou, American poet and author (b. 1928)
 * Malcolm Glazer, American businessman (b. 1928)
 * May 29 – Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (b. 1928)
 * May 31
 * Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
 * Martha Hyer, American actress (b. 1924)

June



 * June 1
 * Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (b. 1938)
 * June 2
 * Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925)
 * June 7 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)
 * June 9
 * Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
 * Rik Mayall, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1958)
 * June 11
 * Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, playwright and civil rights activist (b. 1922)
 * Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933)
 * June 13 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
 * June 15
 * Casey Kasem, American radio host and voice actor (b. 1932)
 * Daniel Keyes, American author (b. 1927)
 * June 16
 * Cándido Muatetema Rivas, 4th Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1960)
 * Tony Gwynn, American baseball player (b. 1960)
 * June 18
 * Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist (b. 1923)
 * Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1928)
 * June 24
 * Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)
 * Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan historian, journalist and politician (b. 1916)
 * June 25 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author (b. 1925)
 * June 26 – Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
 * June 27
 * Leslie Manigat, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
 * Rachid Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
 * Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
 * June 28 – Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947)
 * June 30
 * Paul Mazursky, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * Željko Šturanović, Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)

July

 * July 1 – Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, 1st Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1925)
 * July 2 – Louis Zamperini, American war veteran and Christian evangelist (b. 1917)
 * July 3 – Dave Legeno, English actor (b. 1963)
 * July 5 – Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
 * July 7
 * Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
 * Dick Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1927)
 * Eduard Shevardnadze, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928)
 * July 10 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and dancer (b. 1912)
 * July 11
 * Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (b. 1937)
 * Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
 * John Seigenthaler, American journalist (b. 1927)
 * July 13
 * Lorin Maazel, French-American conductor and violinist (b. 1930)
 * Nadine Gordimer, South African Nobel writer (b. 1923)
 * July 14 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
 * July 16 – Johnny Winter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1944)
 * July 17
 * Liam Davison, Australian author (b. 1957)
 * Henry Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (b. 1933)
 * Joep Lange, former president of the International AIDS Society (b. 1954)
 * Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
 * Willem Witteveen, Dutch senator (b. 1952)
 * July 19
 * David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist (b. 1917)
 * James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)
 * Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (b. 1992)
 * July 25 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)
 * July 27 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
 * July 28 – James Shigeta, American actor (b. 1929)
 * July 30 – Julio Grondona, Argentinian football authority (b. 1931)

August

 * August 1 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
 * August 3 – Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923)
 * August 5 – Harold J. Greene, American military officer (b. 1959)
 * August 6 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
 * August 8
 * Menahem Golan, Israeli filmmaker (b. 1929)
 * Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer (b. 1929)
 * August 9
 * Andriy Bal, Ukrainian football player and coach (b. 1958)
 * Ed Nelson, American actor (b. 1928)
 * August 11
 * Vladimir Beara, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1928)
 * Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian diplomat and author (b. 1935)
 * Robin Williams, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1951)
 * August 12 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (b. 1924)
 * August 13 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician (b. 1934)
 * August 15 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
 * August 18 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
 * August 19 – Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet (b. 1927)
 * August 20
 * B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and author (b. 1918)
 * Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927)
 * August 21
 * Steven R. Nagel, American astronaut (b. 1946)
 * Albert Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) (b. 1932)
 * August 22 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer (b. 1932)
 * August 24 – Richard Attenborough, British actor and film director (b. 1923)
 * August 27 – Peret, Spanish Romani musician (b. 1935)
 * August 28 – Glenn Cornick, British bass guitarist (b. 1947)
 * August 29 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (b. 1943)

September

 * September – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (b. 1924)
 * September 1 – Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
 * September 4
 * Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor (b. 1924)
 * Joan Rivers, American writer, comedian, actress, and television host (b. 1933)
 * Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer (b. 1959)
 * September 5
 * Simone Battle, American actress and singer (b. 1989)
 * Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian (b. 1928)
 * September 6 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player (b. 1919)
 * September 7 – Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (b. 1991)
 * September 8
 * Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
 * Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1918)
 * September 9 – Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (b. 1957)
 * September 10
 * Emilio Botín, Spanish banker (b. 1934)
 * Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
 * September 11 – Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager and record producer (b. 1930)
 * September 12
 * Atef Ebeid, Egyptian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
 * Ian Paisley, British politician and First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926)
 * Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939)
 * Sir Donald Sinden, English actor (b. 1923)
 * September 15
 * Yitzhak Hofi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
 * Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (b. 1922)
 * September 17
 * George Hamilton IV, American country singer (b. 1937)
 * Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
 * September 20
 * Anatoly Berezovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1942)
 * Polly Bergen, American actress (b. 1930)
 * September 24 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, writer, and musicologist (b. 1941)
 * September 25
 * Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian politician (b. 1951)
 * Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British athlete (b. 1920)
 * September 28 – Dannie Abse, British poet (b. 1923)
 * September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist (b. 1927)

October

 * October 2 – György Lázár, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (b. 1924)
 * October 4
 * Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
 * Jean-Claude Duvalier, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
 * October 5
 * Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (b. 1959)
 * Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, choreographer, singer, director and painter (b. 1930)
 * Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (b. 1917)
 * Misty Upham, Native-American actress (b. 1982)
 * October 6
 * Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
 * Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
 * October 7 – Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
 * October 9 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (b. 1957)
 * October 14 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
 * October 16 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer and educator (b. 1926)
 * October 17 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author (b. 1943)
 * October 20 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932)
 * October 21
 * Ben Bradlee, American journalist (b. 1921)
 * Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1916)
 * October 23 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
 * October 24
 * Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African middle-distance runner (b. 1980)
 * Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
 * October 25 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (b. 1943)
 * October 26 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican–Canadian professional baseball player (b. 1992)
 * October 28 – Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
 * October 29
 * Rainer Hasler, Liechtensteiner footballer (b. 1958)
 * Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (b. 1968)
 * October 30 – Thomas Menino, American politician (b. 1942)

November

 * November 1 – Edson Décimo Alves Araújo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986)
 * November 2
 * Acker Bilk, British jazz clarinetist (b. 1929)
 * Veljko Kadijević, Yugoslavian general (b. 1925)
 * November 3
 * Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (b. 1922)
 * Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (b. 1950)
 * November 10 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
 * November 11 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
 * November 12 – Warren Clarke, English actor (b. 1947)
 * November 13
 * María José Alvarado, Honduran model (b. 1995)
 * Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician (b. 1928)
 * November 14
 * Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
 * Glen A. Larson, American television producer and writer (b. 1937)
 * November 16 – Serge Moscovici, Romanian-French psychologist (b. 1925)
 * November 17 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (b. 1936)
 * November 18 – Ahmad Lozi, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925)
 * November 19 – Mike Nichols, German-born American film director (b. 1931)
 * November 20 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1926)
 * November 22 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
 * November 23
 * Marion Barry, American politician (b. 1936)
 * Pat Quinn, Canadian ice hockey coach and executive (b. 1943)
 * November 24 – Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
 * November 26 – Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
 * November 27
 * P. D. James, English writer and life peer (b. 1920)
 * Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (b. 1988)
 * November 28 – Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1929)
 * November 30 – Go Seigen, Chinese-born Japanese Go player (b. 1914)

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 * December 2 – Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 * December 3
 * Jacques Barrot, French politician (b. 1937)
 * Ian McLagan, British musician (b. 1945)
 * December 5 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium (b. 1928)
 * December 6 – Ralph H. Baer, American video game pioneer (b. 1922)
 * December 8 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
 * December 9
 * Jorge María Mejía, Argentine cardinal (b. 1923)
 * Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (b. 1937)
 * December 16 – Ernie Terrell, American boxer (b. 1939)
 * December 18 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (b. 1936)
 * December 21
 * Åke Johansson, Swedish footballer (b. 1928)
 * Udo Jürgens, Austrian composer and singer (b. 1934)
 * Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
 * December 22
 * Joe Cocker, English singer (b. 1944)
 * Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy, 38th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1923)
 * Joseph Sargent, American film director (b. 1925)
 * Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress (b. 1963)
 * December 26 – Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
 * December 27 – Tomaž Šalamun, Slovenian poet (b. 1941)
 * December 30 – Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (b. 1910)
 * December 31 – Edward Herrmann, American actor (b. 1943)

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January



 * January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
 * January 2 – Sheikh Nimr, Saudi Shia religious leader (b. 1959)
 * January 3
 * Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
 * Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
 * January 4 – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
 * January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925)
 * January 6 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (b. 1925)
 * January 7
 * André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
 * Princess Ashraf of Iran (b. 1919)
 * January 8
 * Otis Clay, American soul singer (b. 1942)
 * Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
 * January 10
 * David Bowie, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
 * Yusuf Zuayyin, 51st and 53rd Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1931)
 * January 11
 * Monte Irvin, American baseball player (b. 1919)
 * David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
 * January 14
 * René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (b. 1942)
 * Alan Rickman, English actor and director (b. 1946)
 * January 15 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941)
 * January 18
 * Glenn Frey, American musician (b. 1948)
 * Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
 * January 19 – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
 * January 23 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
 * January 24 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
 * January 26
 * Black, English singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
 * Abe Vigoda, American actor (b. 1922)
 * January 28 – Paul Kantner, American singer and musician (b. 1941)
 * January 29
 * Jean-Marie Doré, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938)
 * Jacques Rivette, French film director and critic (b. 1928)
 * January 30
 * Frank Finlay, English actor (b. 1926)
 * Francisco Flores Pérez, President of El Salvador (b. 1959)
 * January 31 – Terry Wogan, Irish-British broadcaster (b. 1938)

February

 * February 1 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
 * February 3 – Joe Alaskey, American actor and stand-up comedian (b. 1952)
 * February 4
 * Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * Maurice White, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 * February 8 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
 * February 9 – Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
 * February 13
 * Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
 * Slobodan Santrač, Serbian football player and manager (b. 1946)
 * Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1936)
 * February 15
 * Vanity, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1959)
 * George Gaynes, Finnish-born American actor (b. 1917)
 * February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
 * February 17
 * Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923)
 * Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director and writer (b. 1940)
 * February 19
 * Umberto Eco, Italian writer and philosopher (b. 1932)
 * Harper Lee, American writer (b. 1926)
 * February 22
 * Sonny James, American country singer (b. 1928)
 * Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (b. 1913)
 * February 23 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1942)
 * February 24 – Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943)
 * February 25 – Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
 * February 28
 * George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
 * Frank Kelly, Irish actor (b. 1938)
 * February 29 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (b. 1942)

March

 * March 2 – Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (b. 1932)
 * March 3 – Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader (b. 1971)
 * March 5
 * Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (b. 1932)
 * Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (b. 1929)
 * Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
 * March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
 * March 8
 * George Martin, English record producer, composer, arranger and engineer (b. 1926)
 * Claus Ogerman, German conductor and composer (b. 1930)
 * March 9
 * Jon English, English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor (b. 1949)
 * Clyde Lovellette, American professional basketball player (b. 1929)
 * Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist (b. 1944)
 * March 10
 * Anita Brookner, British novelist (b. 1928)
 * Keith Emerson, British musician (b. 1944)
 * Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer and sport commentator (b. 1942)
 * March 11 – Dragan Nikolić, Serbian actor (b. 1943)
 * March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American Nobel mathematician (b. 1923)
 * March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
 * March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
 * March 16 – Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
 * March 17
 * Meir Dagan, Israeli general and former Director of Mossad (b. 1945)
 * Larry Drake, American actor (b. 1950)
 * March 18 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
 * March 20 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
 * March 21 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American electronic executive (b. 1936)
 * March 22
 * Rob Ford, Canadian politician (b. 1969)
 * Rita Gam, American actress (b. 1927)
 * March 23 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
 * March 24
 * Roger Cicero, German jazz and pop musician (b. 1970)
 * Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1947)
 * Garry Shandling, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
 * March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928)
 * March 29 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
 * March 31
 * Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian (b. 1930)
 * Georges Cottier, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
 * Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1927)
 * Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-British architect (b. 1950)
 * Imre Kertész, Hungarian Nobel author (b. 1929)

April



 * April 1 – Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian television actress (b. 1991)
 * April 2 – Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist (b. 1932)
 * April 3
 * Don Francks, Canadian actor, musician and singer (b. 1932)
 * Cesare Maldini, Italian football player and manager (b. 1932)
 * April 4 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
 * April 6 – Merle Haggard, American country singer (b. 1937)
 * April 8 – Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace (b. 1917)
 * April 10 – Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner (b. 1945)
 * April 12
 * Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925)
 * Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
 * Arnold Wesker, British playwright (b. 1932)
 * April 16 – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
 * April 17 – Doris Roberts, American actress, author, and philanthropist (b. 1930)
 * April 19
 * Patricio Aylwin, 32nd President of Chile (b. 1918)
 * Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress and film director (b. 1964)
 * Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
 * April 20
 * Chyna, American professional wrestler (b. 1969)
 * Guy Hamilton, British film director (b. 1922)
 * Victoria Wood, British comedian (b. 1953)
 * April 21
 * Lonnie Mack, American singer-guitarist (b. 1941)
 * Prince, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1958)
 * April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932)
 * April 24
 * Tommy Kono, Japanese-American weightlifter (b. 1930)
 * Billy Paul, American soul singer (b. 1934)
 * Klaus Siebert, German Olympic biathlete (b. 1955)
 * Papa Wemba, Congolese singer and musician (b. 1949)
 * April 26 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
 * April 27 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957)
 * April 30 – Harry Kroto, English Nobel chemist (b. 1939)

May

 * May 1 – Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician (b. 1932)
 * May 2 – Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman (b. 1947)
 * May 4
 * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 2nd President of Burundi (b. 1946)
 * Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
 * May 5
 * Siné, French political cartoonist (b. 1928)
 * Isao Tomita, Japanese composer (b. 1932)
 * May 6 – Margot Honecker, East German politician (b. 1927)
 * May 8
 * Nick Lashaway, American actor (b. 1988)
 * William Schallert, American actor (b. 1922)
 * May 10 – Kang Young-hoon, 21st Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1922)


 * May 16 – Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
 * May 17
 * Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 * Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress (b. 1964)
 * May 19
 * Alexandre Astruc, French film critic and director (b. 1923)
 * Marco Pannella, Italian politician (b. 1930)
 * Alan Young, British-born Canadian-American actor (b. 1919)
 * May 21
 * Akhtar Mansour, Afghan militant, Supreme leader of the Taliban
 * Sándor Tarics, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b. 1913)
 * Nick Menza, German-born American drummer (b. 1964)
 * May 22 – Bata Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
 * May 25 – Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author, and translator (b. 1911)
 * May 26
 * Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
 * Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
 * May 28
 * Giorgio Albertazzi, Italian actor (b. 1923)
 * David Cañada, Spanish cyclist (b. 1975)
 * May 31
 * Mohamed Abdelaziz, 3rd Secretary-General of the Polisario Front (b. 1947)
 * Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
 * Antonio Imbert Barrera, Dominican politician (b. 1920)

June



 * June 2 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
 * June 3
 * Muhammad Ali, American Olympic and professional boxer (b. 1942)
 * Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (b. 1991)
 * June 4 – Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)
 * June 5 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
 * June 6
 * Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-born Swiss chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
 * Theresa Saldana, American actress and author (b. 1954)
 * Peter Shaffer, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist, boxer, wrestler and actor (b. 1974)
 * June 7 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
 * June 8 – Qahhor Mahkamov, 1st President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
 * June 9 – Hassan Muhammad Makki, 10th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1933)
 * June 10
 * Christina Grimmie, American singer (b. 1994)
 * Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
 * June 11 – Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
 * June 12
 * Omar Mateen, American mass murderer (b. 1986)
 * George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)
 * Janet Waldo, American actress (b. 1919)
 * June 14 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
 * June 16 – Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
 * June 18 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
 * June 19
 * Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
 * Victor Stănculescu, Romanian general and politician (b. 1928)
 * Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (b. 1989)
 * June 20 – Edgard Pisani, French politician (b. 1918)
 * June 23
 * Michael Herr, American writer, journalist and screenwriter (b. 1940)
 * Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass musician (b. 1927)
 * June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec, French writer (b. 1959)
 * June 27
 * Bud Spencer, Italian actor, swimmer, and water polo player (b. 1929)
 * Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist (b. 1928)
 * June 28
 * Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
 * Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (b. 1952)
 * June 30 – Martin Lundström, Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b. 1918)

July



 * July 1 – Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (b. 1923)
 * July 2
 * Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1939)
 * Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-born American electrical engineer (b. 1930)
 * Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1946)
 * Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
 * Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Nobel writer and political activist (b. 1928)
 * Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedian and writer (b. 1963)
 * July 3 – Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
 * July 4 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director (b. 1940)
 * July 6
 * John McMartin, American actor (b. 1929)
 * Turgay Şeren, Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
 * July 8
 * Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, and ascetic (b. 1928)
 * William H. McNeill, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1917)
 * July 9 – Silvano Piovanelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * July 12 – Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician and convicted war criminal (b. 1958)
 * July 13
 * Héctor Babenco, Argentine-Brazilian film director (b. 1946)
 * Bernardo Provenzano, Italian criminal (b. 1933)
 * Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish bishop (b. 1949)
 * July 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian writer (b. 1950)
 * July 16
 * Nate Thurmond, American basketball player (b. 1941)
 * Alan Vega, American vocalist and visual artist (b. 1938)
 * July 19
 * Garry Marshall, American film director, television producer and actor (b. 1934)
 * Anthony D. Smith, British historical sociologist (b. 1939)
 * July 22 – Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian scientist (b. 1921)
 * July 23 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, 2-Time Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
 * July 25
 * Halil İnalcık, Turkish historian (b. 1916)
 * Dwight Jones, American basketball player (b. 1952)
 * Tim LaHaye, American evangelist and author (b. 1926)
 * July 27
 * Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b. 1928)
 * Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915)
 * July 28
 * Mahasweta Devi, Indian social activist and writer (b. 1926)
 * Vladica Kovačević, Serbian footballer (b. 1940)
 * Émile Derlin Zinsou, 4th President of Dahomey (b. 1918)
 * July 30 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (b. 1925)
 * July 31
 * Fazil Iskander, Russian writer (b. 1929)
 * Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player (b. 1909)
 * Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)
 * Seymour Papert, South African-born American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928)

August



 * August 1 – Queen Anne of Romania, French-born consort of former King Michael of Romania (b. 1923)
 * August 2
 * David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (b. 1927)
 * Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1946)
 * August 3 – Chris Amon, New Zealand motor racing driver (b. 1943)
 * August 9 – Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster (b. 1951)
 * August 13
 * Kenny Baker, English actor (b. 1934)
 * Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian writer (b. 1930)
 * August 14
 * Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926)
 * Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
 * August 15
 * Dalian Atkinson, English footballer (b. 1968)
 * Stefan Henze, German canoeist and coach (b. 1981)
 * Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz musician (b. 1941)
 * August 16
 * Andrew Florent, Australian tennis player (b. 1970)
 * João Havelange, Brazilian athlete and football executive (b. 1916)
 * August 17 – Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director (b. 1923)
 * August 18 – Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923)
 * August 19
 * Lou Pearlman, American music manager and record producer (b. 1954)
 * Nina Ponomaryova, Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1929)
 * Jack Riley, American actor (b. 1935)
 * Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1931)
 * August 22
 * S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (b. 1924)
 * Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)
 * August 23
 * Steven Hill, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Berit Mørdre Lammedal, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1940)
 * Reinhard Selten, German Nobel economist (b. 1930)
 * August 24
 * Michel Butor, French writer (b. 1926)
 * Walter Scheel, 8th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1919)
 * Roger Y. Tsien, American Nobel biologist (b. 1952)
 * August 25
 * James Cronin, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
 * Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
 * Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (b. 1924)
 * August 26 – Harald Grønningen, Norwegian cross country skier (b. 1934)
 * August 28
 * Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician and former Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and wrestling manager (b. 1934)
 * Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
 * August 29 – Gene Wilder, American actor (b. 1933)
 * August 30
 * Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast (b. 1942)
 * Marc Riboud, French photographer (b. 1923)

September





 * September 1 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
 * September 2
 * Islam Karimov, 1st President of Uzbekistan (b. 1938)
 * Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist (b. 1956)
 * September 3
 * Johnny Rebel, American white supremacist singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
 * Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, French mathematician (b. 1957)
 * September 5
 * Hugh O'Brian, American actor (b. 1925)
 * Phyllis Schlafly, American writer and political activist (b. 1924)
 * September 7
 * Joseph Keller, American mathematician (b. 1923)
 * Norbert Schemansky, American weightlifter (b. 1924)
 * September 8
 * Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1938)
 * Dragiša Pešić, 5th Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro (b. 1954)
 * September 11 – Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (b. 1969)
 * September 12 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet (b. 1930)
 * September 13 – Jonathan Riley-Smith, English medieval historian (b. 1938)
 * September 16
 * Edward Albee, American playwright (b. 1928)
 * Gabriele Amorth, Italian Catholic priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
 * Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10th President and 49th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
 * António Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde (b. 1944)
 * September 17
 * Charmian Carr, American actress (b. 1942)
 * Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
 * September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
 * September 23 – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938)
 * September 24
 * Bill Mollison, Australian researcher, author and biologist (b. 1928)
 * Bill Nunn, American actor (b. 1953)
 * September 25
 * José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball pitcher (b. 1992)
 * David Padilla, 53rd President of Bolivia (b. 1927)
 * Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (b. 1929)
 * Jean Shepard, American honky-tonk singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
 * Rod Temperton, English songwriter, record producer and musician (b. 1949)
 * September 26 – Herschell Gordon Lewis, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
 * September 27 – Jamshid Amouzegar, 71st Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
 * September 28 – Shimon Peres, 9th President and 8th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
 * September 29 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino politician (b. 1945)
 * September 30 – Trịnh Thị Ngọ, Vietnamese radio personality (b. 1931)

October



 * October 1 – David Herd, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
 * October 2 – Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
 * October 4 – Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian and author (b. 1940)
 * October 5 – Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
 * October 8
 * Gary Dubin, American actor and voice actor (b. 1959)
 * Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (b. 1912)
 * October 9
 * Mamadou Dembelé, 3rd Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1934)
 * Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (b. 1926)
 * October 11 – Teatao Teannaki, 2nd President of Kiribati (b. 1936)
 * October 12 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
 * October 13
 * Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (b. 1927)
 * Dario Fo, Italian actor, Nobel playwright and comedian (b. 1926)
 * October 14 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
 * October 16
 * Kigeli V, King of Rwanda (b. 1936)
 * Viktor Zubkov, Russian basketball player (b. 1937)
 * October 20
 * Michael Massee, American actor (b. 1952)
 * Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1939)
 * October 23 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
 * October 24
 * Jorge Batlle, 38th President of Uruguay (b. 1927)
 * Benjamin Creme, Scottish artist, author and esotericist (b. 1922)
 * Reinhard Häfner, German footballer (b. 1952)
 * Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943)
 * October 25 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
 * October 27 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa (b. 1915)
 * October 28 – Nicholas Brathwaite, 3rd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1925)
 * October 29
 * Roland Dyens, French classical guitarist and composer (b. 1955)
 * Pen Sovan, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1936)
 * October 31 – Silvio Gazzaniga, Italian sculptor (b. 1921)

November



 * November 2 – Oleg Popov, Soviet and Russian clown (b. 1930)
 * November 3 – W. D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1927)
 * November 4 – Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (b. 1929)
 * November 5 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1982)
 * November 6 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952)
 * November 7
 * Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (b. 1934)
 * Janet Reno, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (b. 1938)
 * November 11
 * Ilse Aichinger, Austrian writer (b. 1921)
 * Željko Čajkovski, Croatian football player (b. 1925)
 * Robert Vaughn, American actor (b. 1932)
 * November 12 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b. 1910)
 * November 13
 * Enzo Maiorca, Italian free diver (b. 1931)
 * Leon Russell, American musician (b. 1942)
 * November 14
 * Gwen Ifill, American journalist (b. 1955)
 * Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (b. 1913)
 * November 15
 * Mose Allison, American jazz musician (b. 1927)
 * Sixto Durán Ballén, 37th President of Ecuador (b. 1921)
 * November 16
 * Jay Wright Forrester, American computer engineer (b. 1918)
 * Melvin Laird, American politician and writer (b. 1922)
 * Daniel Prodan, Romanian football player (b. 1972)
 * November 17 – Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (b. 1940)
 * November 18
 * Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (b. 1920)
 * Sharon Jones, American soul singer (b. 1956)
 * November 20
 * Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1984)
 * Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, 5th President of Greece (b. 1926)
 * William Trevor, Irish writer (b. 1928)
 * November 22 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (b. 1930)
 * November 23
 * Rita Barberá, Spanish politician (b. 1948)
 * Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (b. 1930)
 * November 24
 * Florence Henderson, American actress (b. 1934)
 * Pauline Oliveros, American composer (b. 1932)
 * November 25
 * Fidel Castro, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the State Council of Cuba (b. 1926)
 * Ron Glass, American actor (b. 1945)
 * David Hamilton, British photographer (b. 1933)
 * November 27 – Ioannis Grivas, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
 * November 28
 * Cléber Santana, Brazilian footballer (b. 1981)
 * Mark Taimanov, Russian chess Grandmaster and concert pianist (b. 1926)
 * November 29 – Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (b. 1925)

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 * December 2 – Sammy Lee, American Olympic diver (b. 1920)
 * December 4 – Gotlib, French comic artist (b. 1934)
 * December 5
 * Geydar Dzhemal, Russian Islamic philosopher (b. 1947)
 * Jayalalithaa Jayaram, Indian politician (b. 1948)
 * December 6 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b. 1923)
 * December 7
 * Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani recording artist (b. 1964)
 * Paul Elvstrøm, Danish Olympic yachtsman (b. 1928)
 * Greg Lake, British musician (b. 1947)
 * December 8
 * John Glenn, American aviator, astronaut and politician (b. 1921)
 * Joseph Mascolo, American actor (b. 1929)
 * December 10 – Esma Redžepova, Macedonian-Romani singer (b. 1943)
 * December 12
 * E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (b. 1912)
 * Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (b. 1932)
 * December 13
 * Thomas Schelling, American Nobel economist (b. 1921)
 * Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter (b. 1947)
 * December 14
 * Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian prelate (b. 1921)
 * Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (b. 1927)
 * December 16 – Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1945)
 * December 17 – Henry Heimlich, American physician (b. 1920)
 * December 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917)
 * December 19 – Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat (b. 1954)
 * December 20 – Michèle Morgan, French actress (b. 1920)
 * December 22 – Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian long-distance runner (b. 1944)
 * December 23
 * Heinrich Schiff, Austrian cellist (b. 1951)
 * Piers Sellers, British-American astronaut and meteorologist (b. 1955)
 * Vesna Vulović, Serbian air disaster survivor (b. 1950)
 * December 24
 * Richard Adams, English novelist (b. 1920)
 * Rick Parfitt, British musician (b. 1948)
 * Liz Smith, British actress (b. 1921)
 * December 25
 * George Michael, British singer (b. 1963)
 * Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928)
 * December 26 – Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
 * December 27
 * Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer (b. 1956)
 * Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 12th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1933)
 * December 28
 * Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, President of Uruguay (b. 1925)
 * Michel Déon, French writer (b. 1919)
 * Debbie Reynolds, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1932)
 * December 29
 * Néstor Gonçalves, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1936)
 * Ferdinand Kübler, Swiss racing cyclist (b. 1919)
 * December 30 – Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist (b. 1910)
 * December 31
 * William Christopher, American actor and comedian (b. 1932)
 * Henning Christophersen, Danish politician (b. 1939)

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January





 * January 2
 * Rick Hall, American record producer, songwriter, and music publisher (b. 1932)
 * Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and writer (b. 1927)
 * January 4
 * Aharon Appelfeld, Ukrainian-Israeli writer (b. 1932)
 * Ray Thomas, English musician (b. 1941)
 * January 5
 * Thomas Bopp, American astronomer (b. 1949)
 * Antonio Angelillo, Italian-Argentine footballer (b. 1937)
 * Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (b. 1931)
 * John Young, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * January 6 – Horace Ashenfelter, American Olympic athlete (b. 1923)
 * January 7
 * France Gall, French singer (b. 1947)
 * Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman and politician (b. 1946)
 * January 8
 * Juan Carlos García, Honduran footballer (b. 1988)
 * Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
 * George Maxwell Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1931)
 * January 9
 * Terence Marsh, British production designer (b. 1931)
 * Odvar Nordli, 21st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1927)
 * Mario Perniola, Italian philosopher (b. 1941)
 * January 10
 * Eddie Clarke, British musician (b. 1950)
 * Tommy Lawrence, English footballer (b. 1940)
 * January 11 – Edgar Ray Killen, American criminal (b. 1925)
 * January 14
 * Dan Gurney, American racing driver (b. 1931)
 * Cyrille Regis, English footballer (b. 1958)
 * Hugh Wilson, American film director and television producer (b. 1943)
 * January 15
 * Edwin Hawkins, American musician (b. 1943)
 * Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (b. 1971)
 * Peter Wyngarde, British actor (b. 1927?)
 * January 16
 * Bradford Dillman, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Oliver Ivanović, Serbian politician (b. 1953)
 * Jo Jo White, American basketball player (b. 1946)
 * January 17 – Simon Shelton, English actor (b. 1966)
 * January 18
 * Lucas Mangope, South African politician (b. 1923)
 * Clara Marangoni, Italian gymnast and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1915)
 * Peter Mayle, English author (b. 1939)
 * Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic (b. 1923)
 * January 19
 * Anna Campori, Italian actress (b. 1917)
 * Olivia Cole, American actress (b. 1942)
 * Dorothy Malone, American actress (b. 1924)
 * Fredo Santana, American rapper and singer-songwriter (b. 1990)
 * January 20
 * Paul Bocuse, French chef (b. 1926)
 * Naomi Parker Fraley, American naval machiner (b. 1921)
 * January 21
 * Yves Afonso, French actor (b. 1944)
 * Philippe Gondet, French footballer (b. 1942)
 * Tsukasa Hosaka, Japanese footballer (b. 1937)
 * Jens Okking, Danish actor and politician (b. 1939)
 * Connie Sawyer, American actress (b. 1912)
 * January 22
 * Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
 * Ursula K. Le Guin, American novelist (b. 1929)
 * January 23
 * Hugh Masekela, South African jazz musician (b. 1939)
 * Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914)
 * January 24
 * Jack Ketchum, American author (b. 1946)
 * Mark E. Smith, English singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
 * January 25
 * Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet (b. 1924)
 * Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1916)
 * January 26
 * Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist (b. 1923)
 * Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (b. 1925)
 * January 27
 * Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (b. 1926)
 * Mort Walker, American comic artist (b. 1923)
 * January 28 – Gene Sharp, American political scientist (b. 1928)
 * January 29 – Ion Ciubuc, 7th Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1943)
 * January 30
 * Mark Salling, American actor (b. 1982)
 * Azeglio Vicini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
 * January 31
 * Rasual Butler, American basketball player (b. 1979)
 * Ann Gillis, American actress (b. 1927)
 * Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1951)

February



 * February 1
 * Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, Cuban nuclear physicist (b. 1949)
 * Cliff Bourland, American athlete (b. 1921)
 * Dennis Edwards, American singer (b. 1943)
 * Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket scientist (b. 1910)
 * February 2
 * Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1937)
 * Joseph Polchinski, American theoretical physicist (b. 1954)
 * Ole Thestrup, Danish actor (b. 1948)
 * February 3
 * Michael Harner, American anthropologist and author (b. 1929)
 * Károly Palotai, Hungarian footballer and referee (b. 1935)
 * Rolf Zacher, German actor (b. 1941)
 * February 4
 * Alan Baker, English mathematician (b. 1939)
 * John Mahoney, English-American actor (b. 1940)
 * February 5 – Ladislav Kačáni, Slovak footballer and coach (b. 1931)
 * February 6 – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935)
 * February 7
 * John Perry Barlow, American internet activist, writer, and lyricist (b. 1947)
 * Mickey Jones, American musician (b. 1941)
 * Pat Torpey, American drummer (b. 1953)
 * February 8 – Jarrod Bannister, Australian athlete (b. 1984)
 * February 9
 * Reg E. Cathey, American actor (b. 1958)
 * John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (b. 1931)
 * István Hevesi, Hungarian Olympic water polo player (b. 1931)
 * Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic film composer (b. 1969)
 * Liam Miller, Irish footballer (b. 1981)
 * February 10 – Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (b. 1925)
 * February 11
 * Vic Damone, American singer and actor (b. 1928)
 * Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer (b. 1952)
 * February 12
 * Leo Falcam, 5th President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1935)
 * Louise Latham, American actress (b. 1922)
 * February 13
 * Joseph Bonnel, French footballer (b. 1939)
 * Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist (b. 1914)
 * Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (b. 1934)
 * February 14
 * Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1939)
 * Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
 * February 15 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (b. 1920)
 * February 18
 * Günter Blobel, Silesian-American Nobel biologist (b. 1936)
 * Didier Lockwood, French jazz violinist (b. 1956)
 * Idrissa Ouédraogo, Burkinabé film director (b. 1954)
 * February 19
 * Sergey Litvinov, Russian Olympic hammer thrower (b. 1958)
 * Yury Tyukalov, Russian Olympic rower (b. 1930)
 * February 20 – Jiichiro Date, Japanese wrestler (b. 1952)
 * February 21
 * Emma Chambers, English actress (b. 1964)
 * Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918)
 * Ren Osugi, Japanese actor (b. 1951)
 * February 22
 * Nanette Fabray, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942)
 * Richard E. Taylor, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
 * February 23 – Lewis Gilbert, British film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
 * February 24
 * Durward Knowles, Bahamian sailor (b. 1917)
 * Bud Luckey, American actor and animator (b. 1934)
 * Sridevi, Indian actress (b. 1963)
 * February 26 – João W. Nery, Brazilian writer and LGBT activist (b. 1950)
 * February 27 – Quini, Spanish football player (b. 1949)
 * February 28 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (b. 1936)

March



 * March 1
 * Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess grandmaster (b. 1931)
 * María Rubio, Mexican actress (b. 1934)
 * Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle racer (b. 1929)
 * March 2
 * Jesús López Cobos, Spanish conductor (b. 1940)
 * Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher (b. 1910)
 * Billy Herrington, American model and pornographic film actor (b. 1969)
 * March 3
 * Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete (b. 1929)
 * David Ogden Stiers, American actor (b. 1942)
 * March 4 – Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987)
 * March 5
 * Trevor Baylis, English inventor (b. 1937)
 * Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928)
 * March 6 – John Sulston, British Nobel biologist and academic (b. 1942)
 * March 7 – Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928)
 * March 9
 * Oskar Gröning, German war criminal (b. 1921)
 * Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (b. 1927)
 * Jung Jae-sung, South Korean badminton player (b. 1982)
 * Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer (b. 1966)
 * March 11
 * Ken Dodd, English comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor (b. 1927)
 * Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936)
 * March 12
 * Nokie Edwards, American musician (b. 1935)
 * Ken Flach, American tennis player (b. 1963)
 * Oleg Tabakov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1935)
 * March 14
 * Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian (b. 1937)
 * Alfred W. Crosby, American ecological historian (b. 1931)
 * Marielle Franco, Brazilian activist and politician (b. 1979)
 * Rubén Galván, Argentine footballer (b. 1952)
 * Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. 1942)
 * Adrian Lamo, Colombian-American computer hacker (b. 1981)
 * Liam O'Flynn, Irish uilleann piper (b. 1945)
 * March 16 – Louise Slaughter, American politician (b. 1929)
 * March 17 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1933)
 * March 18
 * Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 4th Prime Minister of Djibouti (b. 1930)
 * Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and politician (b. 1935)
 * Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, English politician (b. 1932)
 * March 19
 * Irina Beglyakova, Russian athlete (b. 1933)
 * Keith O'Brien, Scottish cardinal (b. 1938)
 * Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (b. 1934)
 * March 20
 * Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress (b. 1926)
 * Peter G. Peterson, American banker (b. 1926)
 * March 22
 * René Houseman, Argentine footballer (b. 1953)
 * Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, author, and academic (b. 1911)
 * Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (b. 1930)
 * March 23
 * DuShon Monique Brown, American actress (b. 1968)
 * Debbie Lee Carrington, American actress (b. 1959)
 * Philip Kerr, English author (b. 1956)
 * Zell Miller, American politician (b. 1932)
 * March 24
 * José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan conductor and politician (b. 1939)
 * Lys Assia, Swiss singer (b. 1924)
 * March 26 – Sergei Mavrodi, Russian criminal and politician (b. 1955)
 * March 27 – Stéphane Audran, French actress (b. 1932)
 * March 30
 * Aureliano Bolognesi, Italian Olympic boxer (b. 1930)
 * Sabahudin Kurt, Bosnian singer (b. 1935)
 * André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)
 * Bill Maynard, English comedian and actor (b. 1928)

April



 * April 1
 * Steven Bochco, American television producer (b. 1943)
 * Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala (b. 1926)
 * April 2
 * Susan Anspach, American actress (b. 1942)
 * Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist (b. 1923)
 * Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist and politician (b. 1936)
 * April 3 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1938)
 * April 4
 * Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian hierarch (b. 1930)
 * Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor (b. 1932)
 * Johnny Valiant, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1946)
 * Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (b. 1956)
 * April 5
 * Eric Bristow, English darts player (b. 1957)
 * Tim O'Connor, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Branislav Pokrajac, Serbian Olympic handball player (b. 1947)
 * Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
 * Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet (b. 1929)
 * April 6
 * Daniel Akaka, American educator and politician (b. 1924)
 * Jacques Higelin, French pop singer (b. 1940)
 * Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1961)
 * April 7 – Peter Grünberg, German Nobel physicist (b. 1939)
 * April 8
 * Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress, director, and writer (b. 1929)
 * Juraj Herz, Czech film director, actor, and scene designer (b. 1934)
 * André Lerond, French footballer (b. 1930)
 * Chuck McCann, American actor (b. 1934)
 * John Miles, English racing driver (b. 1943)
 * April 9 – Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff, German supercentenarian (b. 1905)
 * April 12 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican novelist and translator (b. 1933)
 * April 13
 * Art Bell, American broadcaster and author (b. 1945)
 * Miloš Forman, Czech-American film director (b. 1932)
 * April 14
 * Hal Greer, American basketball player (b. 1936)
 * Jean-Claude Malgoire, French conductor (b. 1940)
 * April 15
 * R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944)
 * Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (b. 1925)
 * Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director (b. 1929)
 * April 16
 * Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (b. 1952)
 * Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (b. 1926)
 * Pamela Gidley, American actress and model (b. 1965)
 * Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1921)
 * Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider (b. 1939)
 * April 17 – Barbara Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (b. 1925)
 * April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1935)
 * April 19
 * Vladimir Lyakhov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
 * Saleh Ali al-Sammad, Yemeni politician (b. 1979)
 * April 20
 * Avicii, Swedish DJ (b. 1989)
 * Roy Bentley, English footballer (b. 1924)
 * April 21
 * Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian film director (b. 1928)
 * Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969)
 * April 22
 * Demeter Bitenc, Slovenian actor (b. 1922)
 * Nino Khurtsidze, Georgian chess player (b. 1975)
 * April 24 – Henri Michel, French footballer and coach (b. 1947)
 * April 25
 * Abbas, Iranian photographer (b. 1944)
 * Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 * Michael Anderson, English film director (b. 1920)
 * April 26 – Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer (b. 1939)
 * April 27 – Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala (b. 1946)
 * April 28 – Tetsuro Miura, Japanese football player and manager (b. 1956)
 * April 29
 * Luis García Meza, 68th President of Bolivia (b. 1929)
 * Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
 * Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician (b. 1945)
 * Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan film director (b. 1919)

May

 * May 1
 * Elmar Altvater, German political scientist (b. 1938)
 * Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist and teacher (b. 1929)
 * May 2 – Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
 * May 3 – Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician (b. 1953)
 * May 4 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
 * May 5 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 * May 7 – Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (b. 1960)
 * May 8
 * Anne V. Coates, British film editor (b. 1925)
 * George Deukmejian, American politician (b. 1928)
 * May 9 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
 * May 10
 * David Goodall, English-Australian scientist (b. 1914)
 * Scott Hutchison, Scottish musician (b. 1981)
 * May 11 – Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
 * May 12
 * Tessa Jowell, British politician (b. 1947)
 * Antonio Mercero, Spanish film and television director (b. 1936)
 * Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (b. 1945)
 * May 13
 * Glenn Branca, American composer and musician (b. 1948)
 * Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist (b. 1948)
 * May 14
 * Elaine Edwards, American politician (b. 1929)
 * E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (b. 1931)
 * William Vance, Belgian comics artist (b. 1935)
 * Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist (b. 1930)
 * May 15
 * Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1981)
 * Ray Wilson, English footballer (b. 1934)
 * May 16
 * Joseph Campanella, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director (b. 1933)
 * May 17
 * Nicole Fontaine, French politician (b. 1942)
 * Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and historian (b. 1923)
 * May 18 – Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian cardinal (b. 1929)
 * May 19
 * Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928)
 * Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (b. 1916)
 * May 20 – Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
 * May 21
 * Anna Maria Ferrero, Italian actress (b. 1934)
 * Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1926)
 * Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927)
 * May 22
 * Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933)
 * Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (b. 1984)
 * May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist (b. 1928)
 * May 24
 * Gudrun Burwitz, German Neo-Nazi militant (b. 1929)
 * Jerry Maren, American actor (b. 1920)
 * TotalBiscuit, British gaming commentator and critic (b. 1984)
 * May 25 – Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
 * May 26
 * Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932)
 * Ted Dabney, American engineer (b. 1937)
 * Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931)
 * May 27
 * Gardner Dozois, American science fiction writer (b. 1947)
 * Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, 44th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1935)
 * Donald H. Peterson, American astronaut (b. 1933)
 * May 28
 * Serge Dassault, French businessman and politician (b. 1925)
 * Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress (b. 1941)
 * María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1924)
 * Dick Quax, Dutch-New Zealand Olympic athlete (b. 1948)
 * Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
 * Ola Ullsten, 28th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1931)

June





 * June 1
 * John Julius Norwich, English historian and writer (b. 1929)
 * Sinan Sakić, Serbian singer (b. 1956)
 * June 2
 * Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)
 * Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Austrian ethologist (b. 1928)
 * Emil Wolf, Czech-American physicist (b. 1922)
 * June 3
 * Frank Carlucci, American politician (b. 1930)
 * Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926)
 * June 5 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962)
 * June 6
 * Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet and writer (b. 1929)
 * Kira Muratova, Ukrainian director, screenwriter, and actress (b. 1934)
 * Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
 * June 7
 * David Douglas Duncan, American photojournalist (b. 1916)
 * Arie den Hartog, Dutch road bicycle racer (b. 1941)
 * June 8
 * Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer (b. 1939)
 * Anthony Bourdain, American chef, writer, and television personality (b. 1956)
 * Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939)
 * Eunice Gayson, English actress (b. 1928)
 * Danny Kirwan, British musician (b. 1950)
 * Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer and novelist (b. 1918)
 * June 9
 * Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander (b. 1913)
 * Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo-Albanian footballer (b. 1960)
 * June 10 – Stan Anderson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
 * June 11 – Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player (b. 1927)
 * June 12 – Jon Hiseman, English drummer (b. 1944)
 * June 13
 * Anne Donovan, American basketball player (b. 1961)
 * D. J. Fontana, American musician (b. 1931)
 * Charles Vinci, American Olympic weightlifter (b. 1933)
 * June 14
 * Fazlullah, Pakistani terrorist, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. 1974)
 * Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1936)
 * June 15
 * Matt "Guitar" Murphy, American blues guitarist (b. 1929)
 * Leslie Grantham, British actor (b. 1947)
 * June 16 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931)
 * June 18
 * Walter Bahr, American soccer player (b. 1927)
 * Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1955)
 * XXXTentacion, American singer and rapper (b. 1998)
 * June 19
 * Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926)
 * Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and political activist (b. 1936)
 * Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, Danish diplomat and cousin of Margarethe II of Denmark (b. 1935)
 * Sergio Gonella, Italian businessman and football referee (b. 1933)
 * Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (b. 1971)
 * June 20
 * Dante Caputo, Argentine diplomat (b. 1943)
 * Sándor Kányádi, Hungarian poet and translator (b. 1929)
 * Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (b. 1929)
 * June 21 – Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator (b. 1950)
 * June 22
 * Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician (b. 1927)
 * Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan musician (b. 1953)
 * Vinnie Paul, American drummer (b. 1964)
 * June 23
 * Alberto Fouilloux, Chilean footballer (b. 1940)
 * Kim Jong-pil, 9th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1926)
 * June 24 – Stanley Anderson, American actor (b. 1939)
 * June 25 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television personality (b. 1941)
 * June 26 – Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
 * June 27 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager (b. 1928)
 * June 28
 * Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)
 * Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer (b. 1936)
 * June 29
 * Arvid Carlsson, Swedish neuropharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
 * Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (b. 1927)
 * Irena Szewińska, Polish Olympic sprinter (b. 1946)
 * June 30 – José Antonio Zaldúa, Spanish footballer (b. 1941)

July



 * July 1 – Dame Gillian Lynne, British dancer and choreographer (b. 1926)
 * July 2
 * Henry Butler, American jazz pianist and photographer (b. 1948)
 * Antonio Halili, Filipino politician (b. 1946)
 * Bill Watrous, American jazz trombonist (b. 1939)
 * July 3 – Richard Swift, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and filmmaker (b. 1977)
 * July 4
 * Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet and novelist (b. 1914)
 * Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (b. 1927)
 * Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (b. 1940)
 * July 5
 * Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925)
 * Ed Schultz, American political commentator and television host (b. 1954)
 * Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (b. 1943)
 * July 6
 * Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader and terrorist (b. 1955)
 * Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor (b. 1985)
 * July 7 – Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
 * July 8
 * Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (b. 1931)
 * Frank Ramsey, American basketball player (b. 1931)
 * Carlo Vanzina, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1951)
 * July 9
 * Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former Secretary General of NATO (b. 1919)
 * Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (b. 1926)
 * July 10
 * Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (b. 1917)
 * Mien Schopman-Klaver, Dutch Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
 * July 11 – Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (b. 1931)
 * July 12
 * Roger Perry, American actor (b. 1933)
 * Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (b. 1936)
 * July 13
 * Claude Seignolle, French author (b. 1917)
 * Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
 * July 14 – Theo-Ben Gurirab, 2nd Prime Minister of Namibia (b. 1938)
 * July 15
 * Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
 * Dragutin Šurbek, Croatian table tennis player (b. 1946)
 * July 16 – Gabriel Caruana, Maltese artist (b. 1929)
 * July 17 – Yvonne Blake, British-Spanish costume designer (b. 1940)
 * July 18
 * Anne Olivier Bell, English literary editor and art scholar (b. 1916)
 * Adrian Cronauer, American radio personality (b. 1938)
 * John Banks Elliott, Ghanaian diplomat and statesman (b. 1917)
 * Carlos Aldunate Lyon, Chilean Jesuit priest, teacher, and writer (b. 1916)
 * Burton Richter, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
 * July 19
 * Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter (b. 1918)
 * Denis Ten, Kazakh figure skater (b. 1993)
 * July 22 – Frank Havens, French sprint canoeist (b. 1924)
 * July 23
 * Paul Madeley, English footballer (b. 1944)
 * Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian feminist (b. 1987)
 * July 24 – Mary Ellis, British ferry pilot (b. 1917)
 * July 25 – Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian automotive executive (b. 1952)
 * July 27 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer (b. 1932)
 * July 29
 * Brian Christopher, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
 * Oliver Dragojević, Croatian singer (b. 1947)
 * Vibeke Skofterud, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1980)
 * Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter and composer (b. 1942)
 * Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian professional wrestler (b. 1947)
 * July 30 – Ron Dellums, American politician (b. 1935)

August



 * August 1
 * Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914)
 * Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and artist (b. 1985)
 * Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (b. 1930)
 * August 2
 * Bob Berry, New Zealand dendrologist (b. 1916)
 * Winston Ntshona, South African playwright and actor (b. 1941)
 * August 3 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (b. 1931)
 * August 4 – Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor and director (b. 1940)
 * August 5
 * Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
 * Piotr Szulkin, Polish film director and writer (b. 1950)
 * August 6
 * Paul Laxalt, American politician (b. 1922)
 * Joël Robuchon, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1945)
 * August 7
 * M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician (b. 1924)
 * Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1940)
 * August 8 – Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (b. 1990)
 * August 10 – László Fábián, Hungarian sprint canoeist (b. 1936)
 * August 11
 * Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer (b. 1969)
 * V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-British Nobel writer (b. 1932)
 * August 12 – Samir Amin, Egyptian-French Marxian economist (b. 1931)
 * August 13
 * Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician (b. 1929)
 * Unshō Ishizuka, Japanese voice actor (b. 1951)
 * Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 * August 14 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
 * August 15 – Rita Borsellino, Italian anti-Mafia activist and politician (b. 1945)
 * August 16
 * Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
 * Kim Yong-chun, North Korean military officer and politician (b. 1936)
 * Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast (b. 1969)
 * Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (b. 1924)
 * August 17 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (b. 1924)
 * August 18 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel laureate (b. 1938)
 * August 20
 * Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist and politician (b. 1923)
 * Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1931)
 * Brian Murray, South African actor and director (b. 1937)
 * Eddie Willis, American musician (b. 1936)
 * August 21
 * Barbara Harris, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
 * Hanna Mina, Syrian novelist (b. 1924)
 * Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975)
 * August 22 – Ed King, American musician (b. 1949)
 * August 23
 * Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1923)
 * George Walker, American composer (b. 1922)
 * August 24 – Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, and politician (b. 1925)
 * August 25 – John McCain, American politician (b. 1936)
 * August 26 – Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927)
 * August 28 – Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1941)
 * August 29 – James Mirrlees, Scottish Nobel economist (b. 1936)
 * August 30
 * Joseph Kobzon, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1937)
 * Ray, Hong Kong professional wrestler (b. 1982)
 * Marie Severin, American comics artist and colorist (b. 1929)
 * August 31
 * Susan Brown, American actress (b. 1932)
 * Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Italian population geneticist (b. 1922)
 * Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
 * Carole Shelley, American actress (b. 1939)
 * Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (b. 1976)

September



 * September 1 – Randy Weston, American musician (b. 1926)
 * September 2 – Conway Savage, Australian pianist (b. 1960)
 * September 3
 * Lydia Clarke, American actress and photographer (b. 1923)
 * Jalaluddin Haqqani, Afghan Haqqani insurgent (b. 1939)
 * Jacqueline Pearce, British actress (b. 1943)
 * September 4
 * Bill Daily, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Christopher Lawford, American actor (b. 1955)
 * September 5 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934)
 * September 6
 * Richard DeVos, American businessman (b. 1926)
 * Liz Fraser, English actress (b. 1930)
 * Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936)
 * Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934)
 * September 7
 * Samuel Bodman, American politician (b. 1938)
 * Mac Miller, American rapper (b. 1992)
 * September 8
 * Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1948)
 * Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty pageant winner (b. 1973)
 * September 9 – Frank Andersson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1956)
 * September 10 – Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (b. 1928)
 * September 11
 * Fenella Fielding, English actress (b. 1927)
 * Kulsoom Nawaz, First Lady of Pakistan (b. 1950)
 * September 12 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer and activist (b. 1958)
 * September 14 – Anneke Grönloh, Dutch singer (b. 1942)
 * September 15
 * Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader (b. 1922)
 * Dudley Sutton, English actor (b. 1933)
 * September 16 – Kevin Beattie, English footballer (b. 1953)
 * September 18 – Robert Venturi, American architect (b. 1925)
 * September 19
 * Győző Kulcsár, Hungarian Olympic fencer (b. 1940)
 * Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1934)
 * September 20 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1919)
 * September 21
 * Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1928)
 * Trần Đại Quang, 8th President of Vietnam (b. 1956)
 * September 22 – Al Matthews, American actor and singer (b. 1942)
 * September 23
 * Charles K. Kao, Hong-Kong-born British-American Nobel electrical engineer (b. 1933)
 * Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940)
 * September 25 – Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator (b. 1923)
 * September 27 – Marty Balin, American singer and musician (b. 1942)
 * September 28 – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 8th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1942)
 * September 29 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1934)
 * September 30 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)

October





 * October 1
 * Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer (b. 1924)
 * Đỗ Mười, 3rd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1917)
 * October 2
 * Geoff Emerick, English recording engineer (b. 1945)
 * Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (b. 1958)
 * October 3 – Leon M. Lederman, American Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
 * October 4
 * Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1940)
 * Will Vinton, American animator (b. 1947)
 * Audrey Wells, American screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1960)
 * October 6
 * Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (b. 1933)
 * James Cowan, Australian author (b. 1942)
 * Scott Wilson, American actor (b. 1942)
 * October 7
 * Peggy McCay, American actress (b. 1927)
 * Celeste Yarnall, American actress (b. 1944)
 * October 8
 * Arnold Kopelson, American film producer (b. 1935)
 * George Taliaferro, American football player (b. 1927)
 * October 9
 * Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1940)
 * Venantino Venantini, Italian actor (b. 1930)
 * October 10
 * Mary Midgley, British philosopher (b. 1919)
 * Tex Winter, American football player and coach (b. 1922)
 * October 11
 * Paul Andreu, French architect (b. 1938)
 * Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish footballer (b. 1986)
 * Greg Stafford, American game designer (b. 1948)
 * October 12 – Pik Botha, South African politician (b. 1932)
 * October 13 – Jim Taylor, American football player (b. 1935)
 * October 14 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (b. 1940)
 * October 15
 * Paul Allen, American businessman, co-founder of Microsoft (b. 1953)
 * Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (b. 1942)
 * October 17 – Ara Güler, Turkish-Armenian photojournalist (b. 1928)
 * October 18
 * Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer and songwriter (b. 1962)
 * Anthea Bell, British literary translator (b. 1936)
 * Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931)
 * Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th President of the Sudan (b. 1934)
 * October 19 – Osamu Shimomura, Japanese Nobel chemist and marine biologist (b. 1928)
 * October 20 – Wim Kok, 48th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1938)
 * October 21 – Joachim Rønneberg, Norwegian military officer and anti-Nazi resistant (b. 1919)
 * October 22 – José Varacka, Argentine football player and coach (b. 1932)
 * October 23 – James Karen, American actor (b. 1923)
 * October 24 – Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 * October 25 – Sonny Fortune, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1939)
 * October 26 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1944)
 * October 27
 * Freddie Hart, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
 * Ntozake Shange, American playwright and poet (b. 1948)
 * Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman (b. 1958)
 * October 30
 * Whitey Bulger, American mobster (b. 1929)
 * Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1924)
 * Sangharakshita, English Buddhist teacher and writer (b. 1925)
 * Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (b. 1924)
 * October 31 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player (b. 1938)

November



 * November 1 – Yurik Vardanyan, Armenian weightlifter (b. 1956)
 * November 2
 * Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927)
 * Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1969)
 * Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman and racer (b. 1946)
 * November 3 – Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944)
 * November 4 – Serhiy Tkach, Russian-Ukrainian serial killer (b. 1952)
 * November 6 – Jonathan Cantwell, Australian racing cyclist (b. 1982)
 * November 7 – Francis Lai, French composer (b. 1932)
 * November 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist (d. 1927)
 * November 11 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
 * November 12
 * Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor and actor (b. 1922)
 * David Pearson, American race car driver (b. 1934)
 * November 13
 * Lucho Gatica, Chilean singer (b. 1928)
 * Katherine MacGregor, American actress (b. 1925)
 * November 14
 * Rolf Hoppe, German actor (b. 1930)
 * Fernando del Paso, Mexican writer (b. 1935)
 * November 15
 * John Bluthal, Polish-born radio, stage, actor, comedian, and voice artist (b. 1929)
 * Roy Clark, American country singer (b. 1933)
 * Takayuki Fujikawa, Japanese footballer (b. 1962)
 * Adolf Grünbaum, German-American philosopher (b. 1923)
 * Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist, and historian (b. 1925)
 * November 16 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
 * November 19 – Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1955)
 * November 20
 * James H. Billington, American academic (b. 1929)
 * Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English Nobel chemist (b. 1926)
 * Eimuntas Nekrošius, Lithuanian theatre director (b. 1952)
 * November 21
 * Meena Alexander, Indian-born American poet (b. 1951)
 * Olivia Hooker, American psychologist and civil rights figure (b. 1915)
 * November 22
 * Soslan Andiyev, Russian wrestler (b. 1952)
 * Andrzej Fischer, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
 * Willie Naulls, American basketball player (b. 1934)
 * November 23 – Nicolas Roeg, British film director (b. 1928)
 * November 24 – Ricky Jay, American magician and actor (b. 1946)
 * November 25
 * Giuliana Calandra, Italian actress (b. 1936)
 * Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1936)
 * November 26
 * Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
 * Stephen Hillenburg, American cartoonist, animator, and marine biology teacher (b. 1961)
 * November 28
 * Nicanor de Carvalho, Brazilian football manager (b. 1947)
 * Robert Morris, American sculptor (b. 1931)
 * Harry Leslie Smith, British writer and activist (b. 1923)
 * November 29 – Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1948)
 * November 30 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)

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 * December 1
 * Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933)
 * Ennio Fantastichini, Italian actor (b. 1955)
 * December 3
 * Markus Beyer, German boxer (b. 1971)
 * Andrei Bitov, Russian writer (b. 1937)
 * Philip Bosco, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Geoff Murphy, New Zealand film director (b. 1938)
 * Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman and 35th President of FC Barcelona (b. 1931)
 * December 5 – Dynamite Kid, English professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * December 6
 * Larry Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
 * Joseph Joffo, French author (b. 1931)
 * Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
 * December 7
 * Belisario Betancur, 26th President of Colombia (b. 1923)
 * Luigi Radice, Italian football player and manager (b. 1935)
 * December 8
 * Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian historian and human rights activist (b. 1927)
 * Evelyn Berezin, American computer designer (b. 1925)
 * December 9
 * William Blum, American author and historian (b. 1933)
 * Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born American Nobel astrophysicist (b. 1931)
 * December 12
 * Iraj Danaeifard, Iranian footballer (b. 1951)
 * Ferenc Kósa, Hungarian film director (b. 1937)
 * December 13 – Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress (b. 1937)
 * December 15 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
 * December 17
 * Penny Marshall, American actress and film director (b. 1943)
 * Andrey Shcharbakow, Belarusian footballer (b. 1991)
 * December 18
 * David C. H. Austin, English rose breeder (b. 1926)
 * Tulsi Giri, 23rd Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1926)
 * Kazimierz Kutz, Polish film director and politician (b. 1929)
 * Shinobu Sekine, Japanese Olympic judoka (b. 1943)
 * Bill Slater, English footballer (b. 1927)
 * December 20 – Donald Moffat, English-American actor (b. 1930)
 * December 22
 * Paddy Ashdown, British politician and diplomat (b. 1941)
 * Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi royal and politician (b. 1931)
 * Roberto Suazo Córdova, 29th President of Honduras (b. 1927)
 * December 23 – Elias M. Stein, American mathematician (b. 1931)
 * December 24
 * Jozef Adamec, Slovakian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
 * Stanko Poklepović, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1938)
 * Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Iranian cleric and politician (b. 1948)
 * December 25 – Nancy Roman, American astronomer (b. 1925)
 * December 26
 * Wendy Beckett, British religious sister and art historian (b. 1930)
 * Roy J. Glauber, American Nobel physicist (b. 1925)
 * Lawrence Roberts, American computer scientist (b. 1937)
 * Morton Sobell, American engineer and spy (b. 1917)
 * December 27
 * Juan Bautista Agüero, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1935)
 * Robert Kerman, American actor (b. 1947)
 * Richard Arvin Overton, American war veteran (b. 1906)
 * December 28
 * Abdelmalek Benhabyles, Acting President of Algeria (b. 1921)
 * Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress (b. 1950)
 * Peter Hill-Wood, English businessman and football executive (b. 1936)
 * Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter (b. 1910)
 * Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (b. 1939)
 * Shehu Shagari, 6th President of Nigeria (b. 1925)
 * June Whitfield, English actress (b. 1925)
 * December 29
 * Ringo Lam, Hong Kong film director (b. 1955)
 * Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (b. 1935)
 * December 30
 * Edgar Hilsenrath, German writer (b. 1926)
 * Don Lusk, American animator (b. 1913)
 * Mrinal Sen, Indian film director (b. 1923)
 * December 31 – Kader Khan, Indian actor (b. 1937)

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January



 * January 1 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1935)
 * January 2
 * Daryl Dragon, American musician (b. 1942)
 * Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
 * Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer (b. 1942)
 * January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
 * January 5 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
 * January 6
 * José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)
 * W. Morgan Sheppard, English actor (b. 1932)
 * January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
 * January 9
 * Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1939)
 * Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (b. 1944)
 * Anatoly Lukyanov, Russian politician (b. 1930)
 * January 11 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (b. 1929)
 * January 13 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
 * January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (b. 1965)
 * January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921)
 * January 16
 * John C. Bogle, American investor (b. 1929)
 * Mirjam Pressler, German novelist (b. 1940)
 * January 17
 * Babiker Awadalla, 8th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1917)
 * Windsor Davies, Welsh actor (b. 1930)
 * Mary Oliver, American poet (b. 1935)
 * January 18 – Ivan Vutsov, Bulgarian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
 * January 19 – Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (b. 1924)
 * January 20 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (b. 1944)
 * January 21
 * Kaye Ballard, American actress (b. 1925)
 * Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (b. 1933)
 * Pedro Manfredini, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
 * Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (b. 1990)
 * Shivakumara Swami, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1907)
 * Harris Wofford, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1926)
 * January 23
 * Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b. 1922)
 * Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1952)
 * Erik Olin Wright, American Marxist sociologist (b. 1947)
 * January 24 – Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
 * January 25
 * Florence Knoll, American architect and furniture designer (b. 1917)
 * Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director (b. 1932)
 * Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (b. 1925)
 * January 26
 * Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (b. 1930)
 * Michel Legrand, French composer (b. 1932)
 * January 29
 * George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
 * James Ingram, American R&B musician (b. 1952)
 * January 30 – Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)

February





 * February 1
 * Jeremy Hardy, English comedian, radio host and panelist (b. 1961)
 * Clive Swift, English actor (b. 1936)
 * February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (b. 1921)
 * February 3
 * Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Detsl, Russian musician (b. 1983)
 * Kristoff St. John, American actor (b. 1966)
 * February 4
 * Isacio Calleja, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
 * Bernard Lietaer, Belgian engineer and economist (b. 1942)
 * John Otho Marsh Jr., 14th United States Secretary of the Army (b. 1926)
 * Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer (b. 1963)
 * Leonie Ossowski, German writer (b. 1925)
 * February 5 – Václav Vorlíček, Czech film director (b. 1930)
 * February 6
 * Rudi Assauer, German footballer and manager (b. 1944)
 * Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927)
 * Rosamunde Pilcher, English author (b. 1924)
 * February 7
 * John Dingell, American politician (b. 1926)
 * Albert Finney, English actor (b. 1936)
 * Rocky Lockridge, American boxer (b. 1959)
 * Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1930)
 * Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1935)
 * February 8
 * Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer (b. 1917)
 * Sergei Yursky, Russian actor (b. 1935)
 * February 9
 * Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress (b. 1968)
 * Maximilian Reinelt, German rower and doctor (b. 1988)
 * Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (b. 1931)
 * February 10
 * Carmen Argenziano, American actor (b. 1943)
 * Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1945)
 * February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician (b. 1925)
 * February 12
 * Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1937)
 * Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922)
 * Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler (b. 1942)
 * February 14 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (b. 1956)
 * February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
 * February 16
 * Don Bragg, American pole vaulter (b. 1935)
 * Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
 * Li Rui, Chinese politician, historian. and dissident (b. 1917)
 * February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian singer (b. 1951)
 * February 18
 * Wallace Smith Broecker, American geophysicist (b. 1931)
 * Alessandro Mendini, Italian architect and designer (b. 1931)
 * February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
 * February 20
 * Dominick Argento, American composer (b. 1927)
 * Claude Goretta, Swiss film director (b. 1929)
 * February 21
 * Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924)
 * Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 * Hilde Zadek, German operatic soprano (b. 1917)
 * February 22
 * Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)
 * Morgan Woodward, American actor (b. 1925)
 * February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
 * February 24
 * Antoine Gizenga, 21st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
 * Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (b. 1922)
 * February 25
 * Janet Asimov, American science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst (b. 1926)
 * Mark Hollis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
 * Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
 * Lisa Sheridan, American actress (b. 1974)
 * February 26 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (b. 1959)
 * February 27 – France-Albert René, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)
 * February 28 – André Previn, German-American composer (b. 1929)

March







 * March 1
 * Zhores Alferov, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1930)
 * Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect (b. 1922)
 * March 2 – Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
 * March 4
 * King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 * Keith Flint, English musician, singer, and dancer (b. 1969)
 * Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
 * Ted Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1925)
 * Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
 * March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
 * March 6 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (b. 1939)
 * March 7
 * Kelly Catlin, American professional racing cyclist (b. 1995)
 * Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1949)
 * March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
 * March 9
 * Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist and playwright (b. 1916)
 * Vladimir Etush, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1922)
 * March 10 – İrsen Küçük, Cypriot politician, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1940)
 * March 11
 * Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
 * Coutinho, Brazilian football player and manager (b. 1943)
 * March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
 * March 14
 * Birch Bayh, American politician (b. 1928)
 * Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (b. 1933)
 * Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (b. 1952)
 * March 15
 * Okwui Enwezor, Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator (b. 1963)
 * Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 3rd Head of State of Mauritania (b. 1943)
 * W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
 * March 16
 * Dick Dale, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (b. 1937)
 * Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (b. 1939)
 * Alan Krueger, American economist (b. 1960)
 * March 17 – Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
 * March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-Russian filmaker (b. 1925)
 * March 20
 * Donald Kalpokas, Vanuatuan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1943)
 * Mary Warnock, English philosopher (b. 1924)
 * March 22
 * Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (b. 1929)
 * Scott Walker, American-English singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 * March 23
 * Larry Cohen, American film director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 * Rafi Eitan, Israeli intelligence officer and politician (b. 1926)
 * March 27 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 * March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-French film director (b. 1928)
 * March 30 – Tania Mallet, English model and actress (b. 1941)
 * March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper, activist, and entrepreneur (b. 1985)

April

 * April 1
 * Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
 * Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 * April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
 * April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * April 5
 * Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (b. 1927)
 * Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 * April 6
 * Fritz Hollings, American politician (b. 1922)
 * David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (b. 1934)
 * April 7 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
 * April 9
 * Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (b. 1940)
 * Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor (b. 1926)
 * April 10 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
 * April 12
 * Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1947)
 * Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
 * April 13
 * Tony Buzan, English author and educational consultant (b. 1942)
 * Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
 * Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1925)
 * Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
 * Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (b. 1929)
 * April 14
 * Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
 * Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician, 3rd First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1942)
 * Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1931)
 * April 15 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * April 16
 * Jörg Demus, Austrian pianist (b. 1928)
 * David Lama, Austrian sports climber and mountaineer (b. 1990)
 * Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
 * April 17 – Alan García, Peruvian politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
 * April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
 * April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
 * April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
 * April 21
 * Hannelore Elsner, German actress (b. 1942)
 * Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
 * April 22
 * Lê Đức Anh, 4th President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
 * Billy McNeill, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1940)
 * April 23
 * Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourgish royal (b. 1921)
 * David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (b. 1939)
 * April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
 * April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
 * April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
 * April 27 – Negasso Gidada, 4th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
 * April 28
 * Richard Lugar, American politician (b. 1932)
 * John Singleton, American film director (b. 1968)
 * April 29
 * Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
 * Josef Šural, Czech footballer (b. 1990)
 * April 30
 * Anémone, French actress, filmmaker and political activist (b. 1950)
 * Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer. (b. 1946)
 * Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)

May



 * May 1 – Dinko Dermendzhiev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1941)
 * May 2
 * Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1927)
 * Ali Mroudjaé, Comorian politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
 * May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)
 * May 6 – Gjermund Eggen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1941)
 * May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian and humanitarian (b. 1928)
 * May 8
 * Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician, 13th President of Nauru (b. 1972)
 * Yevgeny Krylatov, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1934)
 * May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
 * May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
 * May 11
 * Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (b. 1940)
 * Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
 * Pua Magasiva, New Zealand actor (b. 1980)
 * Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1968)
 * May 12
 * Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
 * Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (b. 1920)
 * May 13 – Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 * May 14
 * Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * Grumpy Cat, American internet celebrity cat (b. 2012)
 * Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
 * May 16
 * Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929)
 * Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and model (b. 1979)
 * I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917)
 * May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
 * May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
 * May 21 – Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer and journalist (b. 1971)
 * May 22
 * Judith Kerr, German-born British author and illustrator (b. 1923)
 * Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science popularizer (b. 1936)
 * Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal (b. 1930)
 * May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (b. 1929)
 * May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926)
 * May 26
 * Bart Starr, American football player and coach (b. 1934)
 * Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
 * May 27 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
 * May 28
 * Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1940)
 * Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1930)
 * May 30
 * Thad Cochran, American politician (b. 1937)
 * Frank Lucas, American drug trafficker (b. 1930)
 * Leon Redbone, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (b. 1949)
 * May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)

June

 * June 1
 * José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
 * Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
 * Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician, 6th First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1952)
 * June 2 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (b. 1934)
 * June 3
 * Atsushi Aoki, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1977)
 * Jurica Jerković, Croatian footballer (b. 1950)
 * June 4
 * Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official (b. 1929)
 * Nechama Rivlin, Israeli socialite, 10th First lady of Israel (b. 1945)
 * June 5 – Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
 * June 6 – Dr. John, American musician (b 1941)
 * June 8 – André Matos, Brazilian vocalist, pianist and composer (b. 1971)
 * June 9 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
 * June 10
 * Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1938)
 * Lee Hee-ho, South Korean peace activist, 15th First Lady of South Korea (b. 1922)
 * June 11 – Martin Feldstein, American economist (b. 1939)
 * June 12 – Sylvia Miles, American actress (b. 1924)
 * June 13 – Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
 * June 15 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director and politician (b. 1923)
 * June 16 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
 * June 17
 * Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian politician, 5th President of Egypt (b. 1951)
 * Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite, artist and fashion designer (b. 1924)
 * June 19 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
 * June 20 – Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (b. 1929)
 * June 21 – Demetris Christofias, Cypriot politician, 6th President of Cyprus (b. 1946)
 * June 22
 * Miguel Ángel Falasca, Argentine-Spanish volleyball player and coach (b. 1973)
 * Judith Krantz, American novelist (b. 1928)
 * Thalles, Brazilian footballer (b. 1995)
 * June 23
 * Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer (b. 1918)
 * George Rosenkranz, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b. 1916)
 * June 24 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)
 * June 25 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
 * June 26
 * Édith Scob, French actress (b. 1937)
 * Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)
 * June 29
 * Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
 * Guillermo Mordillo, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1932)
 * June 30
 * Momir Bulatović, Montenegrin politician, 1st President of Montenegro (b. 1956)
 * Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (b. 1944)

July

 * July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (b. 1924)
 * July 3 – Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (b. 1929)
 * July 4
 * Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
 * Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
 * Eva Mozes Kor, Romanian Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1934)
 * Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (b. 1930)
 * July 6
 * Cameron Boyce, American actor (b. 1999)
 * João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
 * July 7 – Artur Brauner, Polish-German film producer and entrepreneur (b. 1918)
 * July 9
 * Freddie Jones, English actor (b. 1927)
 * Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
 * Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)
 * Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
 * July 10
 * Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (b. 1923)
 * Denise Nickerson, American actress (b. 1957)
 * July 12
 * Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
 * Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
 * July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
 * July 14
 * Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 11th President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
 * Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (b. 1964)
 * July 16
 * Johnny Clegg, South African musician and anthropologist (b. 1953)
 * John Paul Stevens, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1920)
 * July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
 * July 18
 * Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (b. 1947)
 * David Hedison, American actor (b. 1927)
 * July 19
 * Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist (b. 1944)
 * Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1929)
 * César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (b. 1926)
 * July 20 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
 * July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
 * July 22
 * Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (b. 1924)
 * Li Peng, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
 * July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
 * July 26
 * Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
 * Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b. 1944)
 * July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist (b. 1931)
 * July 28 – George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (b. 1934)
 * July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1933)
 * July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (b. 1928)

August

 * August 1
 * Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
 * D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
 * Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (b. 1943)
 * August 3
 * Nikolai Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist (b. 1932)
 * Thomas Remengesau Sr., Palauan politician, 2nd Vice President of Palau (b. 1929)
 * Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
 * August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1926)
 * August 5 – Toni Morrison, American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor (b. 1931)
 * August 6 – Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)
 * August 7 – Kary Mullis, American biochemist (b. 1944)
 * August 8
 * Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
 * Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
 * August 9
 * Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1938)
 * Fahrudin Jusufi, Kosovar-born Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
 * August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
 * August 11
 * Walter Martínez, Honduran footballer (b. 1982)
 * Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1931)
 * August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1956)
 * August 16
 * Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Dutch royal (b. 1947)
 * Peter Fonda, American actor (b. 1940)
 * Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1942)
 * José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (b. 1940)
 * Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and writer (b. 1933)
 * August 17
 * Cedric Benson, American professional football player (b. 1982)
 * Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
 * August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
 * August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Jordanian princess, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
 * August 22 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
 * August 23
 * David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist (b. 1940)
 * Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer (b. 1939)
 * August 24
 * Arun Jaitley, Indian politician and attorney (b. 1952)
 * Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (b. 1963)
 * August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (b. 1937)
 * August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
 * August 27 – Dawda Jawara, Gambian politician, 1st President of the Gambia (b. 1924)
 * August 28
 * Michel Aumont, French actor (b. 1936)
 * Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (b. 1947)
 * August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
 * August 30
 * Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1941)
 * Valerie Harper, American actress (b. 1939)
 * August 31
 * Anthoine Hubert, French professional racing driver (b. 1996)
 * Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (b. 1930)

September

 * September 2 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1934)
 * September 3
 * Halvard Hanevold, Norwegian biathlete (b. 1969)
 * Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and film director (b. 1944)
 * Carol Lynley, American actress (b. 1942)
 * José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Colombian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1919)
 * September 4 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (b. 1922)
 * September 5 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940)
 * September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
 * September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer (b. 1946)
 * September 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (b. 1924)
 * September 11
 * B. J. Habibie, Indonesian politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (b. 1936)
 * Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter, and visual artist (b. 1961)
 * September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
 * September 13
 * Bruno Grandi, Italian sports executive (b. 1934)
 * Rudi Gutendorf, German footballer and manager (b. 1926)
 * György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and essayist (b. 1933)
 * Eddie Money, American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1949)
 * September 15
 * Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
 * Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 * Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1944)
 * September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (b. 1928)
 * September 17
 * Jessica Jaymes, American pornographic actress (b. 1979)
 * Imata Kabua, Marshallese politician, 2nd President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1943)
 * September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (b. 1976)
 * September 19
 * Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 14th Prime Minister and 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 * Charles Gérard, French actor (b. 1922)
 * Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (b. 1925)
 * Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman (b. 1927)
 * September 21
 * Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
 * Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut and pilot (b. 1937)
 * Günter Kunert, German writer (b. 1929)
 * September 22 – Ivan Kizimov, Russian equestrian (b. 1928)
 * September 23 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician (b. 1941)
 * September 25 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (b. 1927)
 * September 26
 * Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (b. 1932)
 * William Levada, American cardinal (b. 1936)
 * Gennady Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
 * September 28
 * José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
 * Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (b. 1933)
 * September 30
 * Kornel Morawiecki, Polish politician and theoretical physicist (b. 1941)
 * Jessye Norman, American opera singer and recitalist (b. 1945)

October



 * October 1
 * Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter (b. 1939)
 * Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
 * October 2
 * Giya Kancheli, Georgian composer (b. 1935)
 * Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (b. 1987)
 * October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
 * October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
 * October 6
 * Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)
 * Martin Lauer, German athlete (b. 1937)
 * Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
 * October 8 – Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (b. 1937)
 * October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
 * October 11
 * Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
 * Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 * October 12
 * Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (b. 1962)
 * Hevrin Khalaf, Syrian politician and activist (b. 1984)
 * Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (b. 1936)
 * October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (b. 1939)
 * October 14
 * Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (b. 1930)
 * Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (b. 1994)
 * October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (b. 1929)
 * October 16 – John Tate, American mathematician (b. 1925)
 * October 17
 * Alicia Alonso, Cuban prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1920)
 * Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)
 * Bill Macy, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (b. 1924)
 * October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
 * October 19 – Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)
 * October 21 – Lho Shin-yong, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1930)
 * October 22
 * Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor (b. 1927)
 * Marieke Vervoort, Belgian wheelchair racer (b. 1979)
 * October 26
 * Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (b. 1948)
 * Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive (b. 1930)
 * October 27
 * Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIL (b. 1971)
 * Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (b. 1942)
 * John Conyers, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1929)
 * October 28 – Kay Hagan, American lawyer, banking executive, and politician (b. 1953)
 * October 29 – John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (b. 1943)

November





 * November 2
 * Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
 * Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
 * Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (b. 1940)
 * Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
 * November 4 – Jacques Dupont, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1928)
 * November 5 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
 * November 6 – Jan Stráský, Czech politician, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1940)
 * November 7
 * Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
 * Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (b. 1927)
 * Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
 * November 8 – Anatoly Krutikov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
 * November 10 – István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1948)
 * November 11 – Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
 * November 12 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
 * November 13
 * Kieran Modra, Australian swimmer and cyclist (b. 1972)
 * Raymond Poulidor, French professional racing cyclist (b. 1936)
 * November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)
 * November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete (b. 1923)
 * November 16 – John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947)
 * November 17 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician and diplomat, Acting Prime Minister (b. 1923)
 * November 18 – Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian royal and prima ballerina (b. 1943)
 * November 19 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1931)
 * November 20 – Mary L. Good, American chemist (b. 1931)
 * November 21
 * Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (b. 1940)
 * Jean Douchet, French film director, historian, and film critic (b. 1929)
 * Michael J. Pollard, American actor (b. 1939)
 * November 22
 * Eugène Camara, 7th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1942)
 * Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (b. 1926)
 * November 23 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
 * November 24 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991)
 * November 26
 * Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
 * Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1943)
 * November 27
 * Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (b. 1984)
 * Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (b. 1934)
 * Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (b. 1934)
 * November 28 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1956)
 * November 29 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
 * November 30 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)

December




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 * December 1 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
 * December 2
 * D. C. Fontana, American television writer (b. 1939)
 * Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
 * December 4
 * Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (b. 1941)
 * Tetsu Nakamura, Japanese-Afghan physician (b. 1946)
 * Bob Willis, English cricketer (b. 1949)
 * December 5 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
 * December 6
 * Ron Leibman, American actor (b. 1937)
 * Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (b. 1922)
 * December 7
 * Reinhard Bonnke, German Pentecostal evangelist (b. 1940)
 * Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1965)
 * December 8
 * René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
 * Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
 * Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (b. 1933)
 * Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
 * Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian amateur boxer (b. 1943)
 * Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer, and songwriter (b. 1998)
 * December 9
 * Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1923)
 * December 10
 * Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (b. 1922)
 * Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician (b. 1936)
 * December 11 – David Bellamy, English naturalist and author (b. 1933)
 * December 12
 * Danny Aiello, American actor (b. 1933)
 * Jorge Hernández, Cuban boxer (b. 1954)
 * Peter Snell, New Zealand middle-distance runner (b. 1938)
 * December 14 – Anna Karina, Danish-French film actress, director, writer, and singer (b. 1940)
 * December 15 – Chuck Peddle, American engineer (b. 1937)
 * December 17 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (b. 1938)
 * December 18 – Claudine Auger, French actress (b. 1941)
 * December 20
 * Roland Matthes, German swimmer (b. 1950)
 * Marko Orlandić, 10th President of Montenegro (b. 1930)
 * December 21 – Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (b. 1943)
 * December 22
 * Tony Britton, English actor (b. 1924)
 * Ram Dass, American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (b. 1931)
 * Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
 * December 23 – Mustafa Mujezinović, 7th Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1954)
 * December 25
 * Ari Behn, Norwegian author (b. 1972)
 * Peter Schreier, German operatic tenor and conductor (b. 1935)
 * December 26
 * Jerry Herman, American composer (b. 1931)
 * Sue Lyon, American actress (b. 1946)
 * Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1933)
 * December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (b. 1940)
 * December 29
 * Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (b. 1934)
 * Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (b. 1944)
 * Manfred Stolpe, German politician (b. 1936)
 * December 30
 * Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (b. 1925)
 * Syd Mead, American concept artist (b. 1933)
 * December 31
 * Serikbolsyn Abdildin, Kazakh politician and economist (b. 1937)
 * Djimrangar Dadnadji, 16th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1954)

Popular Television Shows:

 * A Million Little Things (2018-2023)
 * All American
 * All in the Family (1971-1979)
 * American Dad!
 * Archer (2009-2023)
 * Arrow (2012-2020)
 * Arrested Development (2003-2006) (2013-2019)
 * Barney Miller (1975-1982)
 * Benson (1979-1986)
 * Better Call Saul (2015-2022)
 * Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000)
 * Big Mouth
 * Black-ish (2014-2022)
 * Black Summer (2019-2021)
 * Blue Bloods (2010-2024)
 * Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)
 * Bob's Burgers
 * BoJack Horseman (2014-2020)
 * Bones (2005-2017)
 * Bonanza (1959-1973)
 * Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
 * Broad City (2014-2019)
 * Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021)
 * 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017)
 * Burn Notice (2007-2013)
 * Charlie's Angels (1976-1981)
 * Cheers (1982-1993)
 * Charmed (1998-2006)
 * Chicago Fire
 * Chicago Med
 * Chicago P.D.
 * Coach (1989-1997)
 * Community (2009-2015)
 * Cougar Town (2009-2015)
 * Criminal Minds (2005-2020)
 * CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000-2015)
 * CSI: Miami (2002-2012)
 * CSI: NY (2004-2013)
 * Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-2024)
 * Dallas (1978-1991)
 * Dave's World (1993-1997)
 * Deadwood (2004-2006)
 * Desperate Housewives (2004-2012)
 * A Different World (1987-1993)
 * Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986)
 * Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989-1993)
 * Downton Abbey (2010-2015)
 * Drake & Josh (2004-2007)
 * Duck Dynasty (2012-2017)
 * Dynasty (1981-1989)
 * Empire (2015-2020)
 * Everybody Hates Chris (2005-2009)
 * Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)
 * Family Guy
 * Family Matters (1989-1998)
 * Fantasy Island (1977-1984)
 * Fear the Walking Dead (2015-2023)
 * Frasier (1993-2004)
 * Friends (1994-2004)
 * Fringe (2008-2013)
 * Full House (1987-1995)
 * Fuller House (2016-2020)
 * Futurama (1999-2013)
 * Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
 * Get Smart (1965-1970)
 * Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014-2018)
 * Glee (2009-2015)
 * Good Times (1974-1979)
 * Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
 * Gotham (2014-2019)
 * Grace Under Fire (1993-1998)
 * Grace and Frankie (2015-2022)
 * Greek (2007-2011)
 * Grey's Anatomy
 * Growing Pains (1985-1992)
 * Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
 * Halt and Catch Fire (2014-2017)
 * Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980)
 * Hawaii Five-O (2010-2020)
 * Haven (2010-2015)
 * Heartland
 * Hell's Kitchen
 * Highway to Heaven (1984-1989)
 * Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
 * Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999)
 * Home Improvement (1991-1999)
 * Homeland (2011-2020)
 * Hot in Cleveland (2010-2015)
 * House of Cards (2013-2018)
 * How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020)
 * Hunter (1984-1991)
 * I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970)
 * Ice Road Truckers (2007-2017)
 * iCarly (2007-2012)
 * iZombie (2015-2019)
 * JAG (1995-2005)
 * King of the Hill (1997-2010)
 * Kitchen Nightmares
 * Last Man Standing (2011-2021)
 * Laverne & Shirley (1976-1983)
 * L.A. Law (1986-1994)
 * Law & Order (1990-2010) (2022-present)
 * Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001-2011)
 * Law & Order: Organized Crime
 * Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
 * Letterkenny (2016-2023)
 * Lost (2004-2010)
 * Lost Girl (2010-2015)
 * Lou Grant (1977-1982)
 * Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983)
 * Mad Men (2007-2015)
 * Madame Secretary (2014-2019)
 * Manifest (2018-2023)
 * Martin (1992-1997)
 * Matlock (1986-1992)
 * M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
 * Maude (1972-1978)
 * McHale's Navy (1962-1966)
 * Mike & Molly (2010-2016)
 * Mission: Impossible (1966-1973)
 * Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001)
 * Modern Family (2009-2020)
 * Mom (2013-2021)
 * Monk (2002-2010)
 * Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996)
 * Murphy Brown (1988-1998, 2018)
 * My Name Is Earl (2005-2009)
 * Nashville (2012-2018)
 * NCIS
 * NCIS: Los Angeles (2009-2023)
 * NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2021)
 * New Girl (2011-2018)
 * Newhart (1982-1990)
 * New Amsterdam (2018-2023)
 * Night Court (1984-1992)
 * NYPD Blue (1993-2005)
 * Once Upon a Time (2011-2018)
 * One Tree Hill (2003-2012)
 * Only Murders in the Building
 * Oz (1997-2003)
 * Ozark (2017-2022)
 * Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)
 * Pawn Stars
 * Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)
 * Peyton Place (1964-1969)
 * Preacher (2016-2019)
 * Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017)
 * Private Practice (2007-2013)
 * Prison Break (2005-2009, 2017)
 * Psych (2006-2014)
 * Ray Donovan (2013-2020)
 * Rescue Me (2004-2011)
 * Rhoda (1974-1978)
 * Riverdale (2017-2023)
 * Robot Chicken
 * Roseanne (1988-1997, 2018)
 * Roswell (1999-2002)zz
 * Royal Pains (2009-2016)
 * Rugrats (1991-2004)
 * Sanford and Son (1972-1977)
 * Santa Clarita Diet (2017-2019)
 * Scandal (2012-2018)
 * Seinfeld (1989-1998)
 * Sesame Street
 * Sex and the City (1998-2004)
 * Shameless (2011-2021)
 * Silicon Valley (2014-2019)
 * Soap (1977-1981)
 * Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014)
 * SpongeBob SquarePants
 * South Park
 * Station 19 (2018-2024)
 * Star Trek (1966-1969)
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
 * Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
 * Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001)
 * Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005)
 * Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021-2024)
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2014, 2020)
 * Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018)
 * Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)
 * Step by Step (1991-1998)
 * Stranger Things
 * Succession (2018-2023)
 * Suits (2011-2019)
 * Supernatural (2005-2020)
 * Superstore (2015-2021)
 * Ted Lasso (2020-2023)
 * That '70s Show (1998-2006)
 * The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968)
 * The Bear
 * The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019)
 * The Blacklist (2013-2023)
 * The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978)
 * The Brady Bunch (1969-1974)
 * The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978)
 * The Cleveland Show (2009-2013)
 * The Conners
 * The Cosby Show (1984-1992)
 * The Crown (2016-2023)
 * The Dean Martin Show (1965-1974)
 * The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1965)
 * The Doris Day Show (1968-1973)
 * The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985)
 * The Expanse (2015-2022)
 * The F.B.I. (1965-1974)
 * The Flintstones (1960-1966)
 * The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996)
 * The Goldbergs (2013-2023)
 * The Golden Girls (1985-1992)
 * The Good Doctor (2017-2024)
 * The Good Place (2016-2020)
 * The Good Wife (2009-2016)
 * The Hogan Family (1986-1991)
 * The Jamie Foxx Show (1996-2001)
 * The Jeffersons (1975-1985)
 * The King of Queens (1998-2007)
 * The Last O.G. (2018-2021)
 * The Last of Us
 * The Love Boat (1977-1986)
 * The Mandalorian
 * The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
 * The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2023)
 * The Masked Singer
 * The Mentalist (2008-2015)
 * The Middle (2009-2018)
 * The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
 * The Monkees (1966-1968)
 * The Morning Show
 * The Neighborhood
 * The Odd Couple (1970-1975)
 * The Office (2005-2013)
 * The Originals (2013-2018)
 * The Partridge Family (1970-1974)
 * The Ranch (2016-2020)
 * The Resident (2018-2023)
 * The Rockford Files (1974-1980)
 * The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008-2013)
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sopranos (1999-2007)
 * The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017)
 * The Walking Dead (2010-2022)
 * The West Wing (1999-2006)
 * The Wire (2002-2008)
 * The X-Files (1993-2002)
 * This Is Us (2016-2022)
 * Three's Company (1977-1984)
 * True Blood (2008-2014)
 * True Detective
 * Two and a Half Men (2003-3015)
 * 24 (2001-2010)
 * 30 Rock (2006-2013)
 * 90210 (2008-2013)
 * Under the Dome (2013-2015)
 * Veep (2012-2019)
 * Veronica Mars (2004-2007, 2019)
 * Victorious (2010-2013)
 * Vikings (2013-2020)
 * Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-2001)
 * Wentworth (2013-2021)
 * Westworld (2016-2022)
 * White Collar (2009-2014)
 * Who's the Boss? (1984-1992)
 * Will & Grace (1998-2006) (2017-2020)
 * Yellowstone
 * Young Sheldon (2017-2024)
 * You
 * Z Nation (2014-2018)

Popular in the 1970's:

 * Mario Adorf
 * Jack Albertson (1907-1981)
 * Dan Aykroyd
 * Alan Alda
 * Nancy Allen
 * Woody Allen
 * John Amos
 * Ursula Andress
 * Julie Andrews
 * Anne Archer
 * Alan Arkin (1934-2023)
 * Bea Arthur (1922-2009)
 * Elizabeth Ashley
 * Ed Asner (1929-2021)
 * Richard Attenborough (1923-2014)
 * René Auberjonois (1940-2019)
 * Margaret Avery
 * Amitabh Bachchan
 * Conrad Bain (1923-2013)
 * Martin Balsam (1919-1996)
 * Anne Bancroft (1931-2005)
 * Adrienne Barbeau
 * Ned Beatty (1937-2021)
 * Warren Beatty
 * Ed Begley Jr.
 * Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021)
 * John Belushi (1949-1982)
 * Robby Benson
 * Candice Bergen
 * Jane Birkin (1946-2023)
 * Jacqueline Bisset
 * Bill Bixby (1934-1993)
 * Karen Black (1939-2013)
 * Linda Blair
 * Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999)
 * Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012)
 * Tom Bosley (1927-2010)
 * Timothy Bottoms
 * Peter Boyle (1935-2006)
 * Marlon Brando (1924-2004)
 * Eric Braeden
 * Eileen Brennan (1932-2013)
 * Beau Bridges
 * Jeff Bridges
 * James Brolin
 * Mel Brooks
 * Charles Bronson (1921-2003)
 * Jim Brown (1936-2023)
 * Roscoe Lee Browne (1922-2007)
 * Yul Brynner (1920-1985)
 * Geneviève Bujold
 * Carol Burnett
 * Ellen Burstyn
 * Richard Burton (1925-1984)
 * Raymond Burr (1917-1993)
 * Gary Busey
 * James Caan (1940-2022)
 * Sid Caesar (1922-2014)
 * Michael Caine
 * Godfrey Cambridge (1933-1976)
 * Colleen Camp
 * John Candy (1950-1994)
 * Dyan Cannon
 * Claudia Cardinale
 * George Carlin (1937-2008)
 * David Carradine (1936-2009)
 * Keith Carradine
 * Diahann Carroll (1935-2019)
 * Johnny Carson (1925-2005)
 * Lynda Carter
 * David Cassidy (1950-2017)
 * John Cassavetes (1929-1989)
 * John Cazale (1935-1978)
 * Richard Chamberlain
 * Geraldine Chaplin
 * Stockard Channing
 * Jackie Chan
 * Chevy Chase
 * Sonny Chiba (1939-2021)
 * Tommy Chong
 * Julie Christie
 * Susan Clark
 * Jill Clayburgh (1944-2010)
 * John Cleese
 * Lee J. Cobb (1911-1976)
 * James Coburn (1928-2002)
 * James Coco (1930-1987)
 * Dabney Coleman (1932-2024)
 * Joan Collins
 * Sean Connery (1930-2020)
 * Mike Connors (1925-2017)
 * William Conrad (1920-1994)
 * Tim Conway (1933-2019)
 * Bill Cosby
 * Ronny Cox
 * Richard Crenna (1926-2003)
 * Billy Crystal
 * Jane Curtin
 * Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
 * Peter Cushing (1913-1994)
 * Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)
 * Blythe Danner
 * Bruce Davison
 * Dom DeLuise (1933-2009)
 * Alain Delon
 * Catherine Deneuve
 * Brian Dennehy (1938-2020)
 * Robert De Niro
 * Gérard Depardieu
 * Bruce Dern
 * William Devane
 * Danny DeVito
 * Joyce DeWitt
 * Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)
 * Michael Douglas
 * Brad Dourif
 * David Doyle (1929-1997)
 * Richard Dreyfuss
 * Faye Dunaway
 * Charles Durning (1923-2012)
 * Robert Duvall
 * Shelly Duvall (1949-2024)
 * Clint Eastwood
 * Barbara Eden
 * Britt Ekland
 * Sam Elliott
 * Robert Englund
 * Erik Estrada
 * Peter Falk (1927-2011)
 * Antonio Fargas
 * Mia Farrow
 * Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009)
 * José Ferrer
 * Sally Field
 * Albert Finney (1936-2019)
 * Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)
 * Louise Fletcher (1934-2022)
 * Jane Fonda
 * Peter Fonda (1940-2019)
 * Harrison Ford
 * Frederic Forrest (1936-2023)
 * Robert Forster (1941-2019)
 * Jodie Foster
 * Redd Foxx (1922-1991)
 * Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006)
 * Morgan Freeman
 * Vincent Gardenia (1920-1992)
 * James Garner (1928-2014)
 * Teri Garr
 * Ben Gazzara (1930-2012)
 * Richard Gere
 * Henry Gibson (1935-2009)
 * Terry Gilliam
 * Paul Michael Glaser
 * Jeff Goldblum
 * Louis Gossett Jr. (1936-2024)
 * Elliott Gould
 * Lee Grant
 * Pam Grier
 * Merv Griffin (1925-2007)
 * Charles Grodin (1935-2021)
 * Robert Guillaume (1927-2017)
 * Alec Guinness (1914-2000)
 * Gene Hackman
 * Larry Hagman (1931-2012)
 * Mark Hamill
 * Valerie Harper (1939-2019)
 * Richard Harris (1930-2002)
 * Goldie Hawn
 * Katherine Helmond (1929-2019)
 * Sherman Hemsley (1938-2012)
 * Florence Henderson (1934-2016)
 * Jim Henson (1936-1990)
 * Barbara Hershey
 * Charlton Heston (1923-2008)
 * John Hillerman (1932-2017)
 * Judd Hirsch
 * Dustin Hoffman
 * Paul Hogan
 * Hal Holbrook (1925-2021)
 * William Holden (1918-1981)
 * Ian Holm (1931-2020)
 * James Hong
 * Anthony Hopkins
 * Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
 * Ron Howard
 * Susan Howard
 * Rock Hudson (1925-1985)
 * Sammo Hung
 * John Hurt (1940-2017)
 * Eric Idle
 * Glenda Jackson (1936-2023)
 * Kate Jackson
 * Don Johnson
 * James Earl Jones
 * Shirley Jones
 * Terry Jones (1942-2020)
 * Madeline Kahn (1942-1999)
 * Carol Kane
 * Casey Kasem (1932-2014)
 * Julie Kavner
 * Stacy Keach
 * Diane Keaton
 * Harvey Keitel
 * Sally Kellerman (1937-2022)
 * George Kennedy (1925-2016)
 * Richard Kiel (1939-2014)
 * Margot Kidder (1948-2018)
 * Sally Kirkland
 * Jack Klugman (1922-2012)
 * Don Knotts (1924-2006)
 * Yaphet Kotto (1939-2021)
 * Kris Kristofferson
 * Cheryl Ladd
 * Diane Ladd
 * Burt Lancaster (1913-1994)
 * Michael Landon (1936-1991)
 * Martin Landau (1928-2017)
 * Vicki Lawrence
 * George Lazenby
 * Cloris Leachman (1926-2021)
 * Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
 * Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
 * Jack Lemmon (1925-2001)
 * Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
 * Hal Linden
 * Christopher Lloyd
 * Jack Lord (1920-1998)
 * Sophia Loren
 * Shirley MacLaine
 * Gavin MacLeod (1931-2021)
 * Lee Majors
 * Karl Malden (1912-2009)
 * Ann-Margret
 * Penny Marshall (1943-2018)
 * Cheech Marin
 * Dean Martin (1917-1995)
 * Steve Martin
 * Lee Marvin (1924-1987)
 * James Mason (1909-1984)
 * Marsha Mason
 * Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996)
 * Walter Matthau (1920-2000)
 * Elaine May
 * Rue McClanahan (1934-2010)
 * Roddy McDowall (1928-1998)
 * Malcolm McDowell
 * Steve McQueen (1930-1980)
 * Ian McShane
 * Anne Meara (1929-2015)
 * Burgess Meredith (1907-1997)
 * Lee Meriwether
 * Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997)
 * Liza Minnelli
 * Al Molinaro (1919-2015)
 * Ricardo Montalbán (1920-2009)
 * Yves Montand (1921-1991)
 * Roger Moore (1927-2017)
 * Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017)
 * Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017)
 * Rita Moreno
 * Harry Morgan (1915-2011)
 * Garrett Morris
 * Pat Morita (1932-2005)
 * Michael Murphy
 * Bill Murray
 * Bob Newhart (1929-2024)
 * Paul Newman (1925-2008)
 * Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022)
 * Denise Nicholas
 * Jack Nicholson
 * Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)
 * Nick Nolte
 * Chuck Norris
 * Warren Oates (1928-1982)
 * Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001)
 * Ryan O'Neal (1941-2023)
 * Jennifer O'Neill
 * Peter O'Toole (1932-2013)
 * Al Pacino
 * Michael Palin
 * Jack Palance (1919-2006)
 * Gregory Peck (1916-2003)
 * Anthony Perkins (1932-1992)
 * Jon Pertwee (1919-1996)
 * Mackenzie Phillips
 * Michelle Phillips
 * Donald Pleasence (1919-1995)
 * Suzanne Pleshette (1937-2008)
 * Christopher Plummer (1929-2021)
 * Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
 * Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
 * Randy Quaid
 * Kathleen Quinlan
 * Anthony Quinn (1915-2001)
 * Gilda Radner (1946-1989)
 * Charlotte Rampling
 * Tony Randall (1920-2004)
 * Robert Redford
 * Vanessa Redgrave
 * Oliver Reed (1938-1999)
 * Robert Reed (1932-1992)
 * Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
 * Rob Reiner
 * Burt Reynolds (1936-2018)
 * Don Rickles (1926-2017)
 * John Ritter (1948-2003)
 * Joan Rivers (1933-2014)
 * Jason Robards (1922-2000)
 * Rachel Roberts (1927-1980)
 * Cliff Robertson (1923-2011)
 * Richard Roundtree (1942-2023)
 * Katharine Ross
 * Marion Ross
 * Gena Rowlands
 * Kurt Russell
 * Isabel Sanford (1917-2004)
 * Susan Sarandon
 * John Savage
 * Telly Savalas (1922-1994)
 * Roy Scheider (1932-2008)
 * Romy Schneider (1938-1982)
 * Maximilian Schell (1930-2014)
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * George C. Scott (1927-1999)
 * Jean Seberg (1938-1978)
 * George Segal (1934-2021)
 * Peter Sellers (1925-1980)
 * Jane Seymour
 * William Shatner
 * Omar Sharif (1932-2015)
 * Robert Shaw (1927-1978)
 * Martin Sheen
 * Cybill Shepherd
 * Talia Shire
 * Tom Skerritt
 * Jaclyn Smith
 * Suzanne Somers (1946-2023)
 * Paul Sorvino (1939-2022)
 * David Soul (1943-2024)
 * Sissy Spacek
 * Joe Spinell (1936-1989)
 * Robert Stack (1919-2003)
 * Sylvester Stallone
 * Terence Stamp
 * Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017)
 * Jean Stapleton (1923-2013)
 * Rod Steiger (1925-2002)
 * Jerry Stiller (1927-2020)
 * Dean Stockwell (1936-2021)
 * Meryl Streep
 * Barbra Streisand
 * Susan Strasberg (1938-1999)
 * Sally Struthers
 * Donald Sutherland (1935-2024)
 * Loretta Swit
 * Max von Sydow (1929-2020)
 * Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
 * Richard Thomas
 * Lily Tomlin
 * Rip Torn (1931-2019)
 * John Travolta
 * Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022)
 * Cicely Tyson (1924-2021)
 * Liv Ullmann
 * Robert Urich (1946-2002)
 * Dick Van Dyke
 * Robert Vaughn (1932-2016)
 * Hervé Villechaize (1943-1993)
 * Jon Voight
 * Lindsay Wagner
 * Robert Wagner
 * Ralph Waite (1928-2014)
 * Christopher Walken
 * Jimmie Walker
 * Eli Wallach (1915-2014)
 * M. Emmet Walsh (1935-2024)
 * Jack Warden (1920-2006)
 * David Warner (1941-2022)
 * Sam Waterston
 * John Wayne (1907-1979)
 * Carl Weathers (1948-2024)
 * Raquel Welch (1940-2023)
 * Betty White (1922-2021)
 * James Whitmore (1921-2009)
 * Richard Widmark (1914-2008)
 * Gene Wilder (1933-2016)
 * Billy Dee Williams
 * Cindy Williams (1947-2023)
 * Robin Williams (1951-2014)
 * Treat Williams (1951-2023)
 * Fred Williamson
 * Demond Wilson
 * Flip Wilson (1933-1998)
 * Paul Winfield (1939-2004)
 * Henry Winkler
 * Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)
 * Shelley Winters (1920-2006)
 * Joanne Woodward
 * James Woods
 * Michael York
 * Burt Young (1940-2023)

Popular in the 1990's:

 * Jason Alexander
 * Tim Allen
 * Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)
 * Gillian Anderson
 * Harry Anderson (1952-2018)
 * Pamela Anderson
 * Jennifer Aniston
 * Christina Applegate
 * Patricia Arquette
 * Alan Arkin
 * Sean Astin
 * James Avery (1945-2013)
 * Dan Aykroyd
 * Kevin Bacon
 * Alec Baldwin
 * Christian Bale
 * Antonio Banderas
 * Roseanne Barr
 * Drew Barrymore
 * Kim Basinger
 * Angela Bassett
 * Jason Bateman
 * Kathy Bates
 * Sean Bean
 * Candice Bergen
 * Halle Berry
 * Roberto Benigni
 * Tom Berenger
 * Mayim Bialik
 * Benjamin Bratt
 * Andre Braugher (1962-2023)
 * Jeff Bridges
 * Matthew Broderick
 * Josh Brolin
 * Pierce Brosnan
 * Clancy Brown
 * Sandra Bullock
 * Steve Buscemi
 * James Caan (1940-2022)
 * Nicolas Cage
 * Michael Caine
 * Bruce Campbell
 * Neve Campbell
 * John Candy (1950-1994)
 * Drew Carey
 * Jim Carrey
 * Helena Bonham Carter
 * Gabrielle Carteris
 * Jim Caviezel
 * Lacey Chabert
 * Jackie Chan
 * Chevy Chase
 * Don Cheadle
 * Michael Chiklis
 * Thomas Haden Church
 * John Cleese
 * George Clooney
 * Glenn Close
 * Sean Connery (1930-2020)
 * Bill Cosby
 * Kevin Costner
 * Dave Coulier
 * Courteney Cox
 * Bryan Cranston
 * Russell Crowe
 * Tom Cruise
 * Billy Crystal
 * Penélope Cruz
 * Ice Cube
 * Jamie Lee Curtis
 * John Cusack
 * Willem Dafoe
 * Tim Daly
 * Matt Damon
 * Jeff Daniels
 * Ted Danson
 * Tony Danza
 * Robert Davi
 * Geena Davis
 * Daniel Day-Lewis
 * Ellen DeGeneres
 * Benicio del Toro
 * Robert De Niro
 * Johnny Depp
 * Laura Dern
 * Danny DeVito
 * Cameron Diaz
 * Leonardo DiCaprio
 * Matt Dillon
 * Shannen Doherty
 * Michael Douglas
 * Robert Downey Jr.
 * Fran Drescher
 * Richard Dreyfuss
 * David Duchovny
 * Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012)
 * Kirsten Dunst
 * Robert Duvall
 * Clint Eastwood
 * Jenna Elfman
 * Sam Elliott
 * R. Lee Ermey (1944-2018)
 * Emilio Estevez
 * Dennis Farina (1944-2013)
 * Chris Farley (1964-1997)
 * Corey Feldman
 * Will Ferrell
 * Sally Field
 * Ralph Fiennes
 * Laurence Fishburne
 * Calista Flockhart
 * Dave Foley
 * Bridget Fonda
 * Peter Fonda (1940-2019)
 * Harrison Ford
 * Robert Forster (1941-2019)
 * Jodie Foster
 * Michael J. Fox
 * Jamie Foxx
 * Brendan Fraser
 * Morgan Freeman
 * James Gandolfini (1961-2013)
 * Andy García
 * Jennie Garth
 * Sarah Michelle Gellar
 * Richard Gere
 * Mel Gibson
 * Danny Glover
 * Whoopi Goldberg
 * Jeff Goldblum
 * Cuba Gooding Jr.
 * John Goodman
 * Kelsey Grammer
 * Hugh Grant
 * Seth Green
 * Brian Austin Green
 * Bruce Greenwood
 * Pam Grier
 * Melanie Griffith
 * Gene Hackman
 * Corey Haim (1971-2010)
 * Tom Hanks
 * Woody Harrelson
 * Ed Harris
 * Phil Hartman (1948-1998)
 * Steve Harvey
 * David Hasselhoff
 * Teri Hatcher
 * Ethan Hawke
 * Lance Henriksen
 * Jennifer Love Hewitt
 * Dustin Hoffman
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)
 * Ian Holm (1931-2020)
 * Anthony Hopkins
 * Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
 * Ernie Hudson
 * Helen Hunt
 * William Hurt (1950-2022)
 * Jeremy Irons
 * Kevin James
 * Samuel L. Jackson
 * James Earl Jones
 * Tommy Lee Jones
 * Scarlett Johansson
 * Angelina Jolie
 * Ashley Judd
 * Michael Keaton
 * Harvey Keitel
 * Nicole Kidman
 * Val Kilmer
 * Ben Kingsley
 * Lisa Kudrow
 * Jessica Lange
 * Hugh Laurie
 * Jude Law
 * Martin Lawrence
 * John Larroquette
 * Denis Leary
 * Matt LeBlanc
 * John Leguizamo
 * Jay Leno
 * David Letterman
 * Eugene Levy
 * Jet Li
 * Ray Liotta (1954-2022)
 * John Lithgow
 * Lucy Liu
 * Lori Loughlin
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 * Jon Lovitz
 * Rob Lowe
 * Dolph Lundgren
 * Matthew McConaughey
 * Bernie Mac (1957-2008)
 * William H. Macy
 * Michael Madsen
 * John Malkovich
 * Joe Mantegna
 * Steve Martin
 * Dylan McDermott
 * Ewan McGregor
 * Ian McKellen
 * Laurie Metcalf
 * Helen Mirren
 * Demi Moore
 * Julianne Moore
 * Tracy Morgan
 * Viggo Mortensen
 * Brittany Murphy (1977-2009)
 * Eddie Murphy
 * Bill Murray
 * Mike Myers
 * Liam Neeson
 * Sam Neill
 * Craig T. Nelson
 * Jack Nicholson
 * Nick Nolte
 * Chuck Norris
 * Edward Norton
 * Conan O'Brien
 * Rosie O'Donnell
 * Gary Oldman
 * Edward James Olmos
 * Ed O'Neill
 * Al Pacino
 * Gwyneth Paltrow
 * Sarah Jessica Parker
 * Bill Paxton (1955-2017)
 * Sean Penn
 * Luke Perry (1966-2019)
 * Matthew Perry (1969-2023)
 * Joe Pesci
 * Michelle Pfeiffer
 * River Phoenix
 * David Hyde Pierce
 * Brad Pitt
 * Natalie Portman
 * Kelly Preston (1962-2020)
 * Jason Priestley
 * Jonathan Pryce
 * Dennis Quaid
 * Queen Latifah
 * James Rebhorn (1948-2014)
 * Robert Redford
 * Keanu Reeves
 * Paul Reiser
 * Burt Reynolds (1936-2018)
 * Ving Rhames
 * Michael Richards
 * Alan Rickman (1946-2016)
 * Eric Roberts
 * Julia Roberts
 * Chris Rock
 * Tim Robbins
 * Ray Romano
 * Tim Roth
 * Kurt Russell
 * Rene Russo
 * Meg Ryan
 * Winona Ryder
 * Katey Sagal
 * Bob Saget (1956-2022)
 * Adam Sandler
 * Susan Sarandon
 * Fred Savage
 * Rob Schneider
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * David Schwimmer
 * Steven Seagal
 * Jerry Seinfeld
 * Tom Selleck
 * Tony Shalhoub
 * Garry Shandling (1949-2016)
 * Wallace Shawn
 * Charlie Sheen
 * Martin Sheen
 * Martin Short
 * Alicia Silverstone
 * J. K. Simmons
 * Gary Sinise
 * Christian Slater
 * Will Smith
 * Jimmy Smits
 * Wesley Snipes
 * Kevin Spacey
 * David Spade
 * Tori Spelling
 * John Stamos
 * Sylvester Stallone
 * Mary Steenburgen
 * Patrick Stewart
 * Sharon Stone
 * Meryl Streep
 * Donald Sutherland
 * Kiefer Sutherland
 * Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)
 * Jeffrey Tambor
 * Alan Thicke (1947-2016)
 * Emma Thompson
 * Billy Bob Thornton
 * Uma Thurman
 * Marisa Tomei
 * Rip Torn (1931-2019)
 * John Travolta
 * Danny Trejo
 * Chris Tucker
 * John Turturro
 * Jean-Claude Van Damme
 * Dick Van Dyke
 * Jim Varney (1949-2000)
 * Reginald VelJohnson
 * Jon Voight
 * Mark Wahlberg
 * Christopher Walken
 * Paul Walker (1973-2013)
 * Denzel Washington
 * Sam Waterston
 * Sigourney Weaver
 * Steven Weber
 * Forest Whitaker
 * Jaleel White
 * Robin Williams (1951-2014)
 * Bruce Willis
 * Oprah Winfrey
 * Henry Winkler
 * Kate Winslet
 * Reese Witherspoon
 * James Woods
 * Robin Wright
 * Sean Young
 * Renée Zellweger
 * Ian Ziering

Popular Comedians:

 * Dan Aykroyd
 * Jason Alexander
 * Tim Allen
 * Woody Allen
 * Anthony Anderson
 * Louie Anderson (1953-2022)
 * Roseanne Barr
 * W. Kamau Bell
 * Bill Bellamy
 * Jim Belushi
 * John Belushi (1949-1982)
 * Richard Belzer (1944-2023)
 * Lewis Black
 * Alex Borstein
 * David Brenner (1936-2014)
 * Mel Brooks
 * Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)
 * Carol Burnett
 * Bill Burr
 * Cedric the Entertainer
 * Luenell Campbell
 * George Carlin (1937-2008)
 * Drew Carey
 * Jim Carrey
 * Johnny Carson (1925-2005)
 * Dana Carvey
 * Dave Chappelle
 * Chevy Chase
 * Margaret Cho
 * Tommy Chong
 * Andrew Dice Clay
 * Tim Conway (1933-2019)
 * Bill Cosby
 * Dave Coulier
 * Lavell Crawford
 * David Cross
 * Billy Crystal
 * Jane Curtin
 * Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)
 * Larry David
 * Ellen DeGeneres
 * Phyllis Diller (1917-2012)
 * Fran Drescher
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 * Dick Van Dyke
 * Mike Epps
 * Jimmy Fallon
 * Chris Farley (1964-1997)
 * Tina Fey
 * Jim Gaffigan
 * Leo Gallagher (1946-2022)
 * Jeff Garlin
 * Brad Garrett
 * Greg Giraldo (1965-2010)
 * Whoopi Goldberg
 * Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)
 * Shecky Greene (1926-2023)
 * Dick Gregory (1932-2017)
 * David Alan Grier
 * Eddie Griffin
 * Kathy Griffin
 * Tiffany Haddish
 * Arsenio Hall
 * Kevin Hart
 * Phil Hartman (1948-1998)
 * Steve Harvey
 * Bill Hicks (1961-1994)
 * D. L. Hughley
 * Gabriel Iglesias
 * Kevin James
 * Leslie Jones
 * Mario Joyner
 * Mindy Kaling
 * Andy Kaufman (1949-1984)
 * Keegan-Michael Key
 * Jimmy Kimmel
 * Sam Kinison (1953-1992)
 * Ted Knight (1923-1987)
 * Don Knotts (1924-2006)
 * Artie Lange
 * Martin Lawrence
 * Denis Leary
 * Jay Leno
 * David Letterman
 * Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
 * Richard Lewis (1947-2024)
 * George Lopez
 * Faizon Love
 * Jon Lovitz
 * Mo'Nique
 * Bernie Mac (1957-2008)
 * Norm Macdonald (1959-2021)
 * Seth MacFarlane
 * Howie Mandel
 * Cheech Marin
 * Steve Martin
 * Jackie Mason (1928-2021)
 * Kate McKinnon
 * Tim Meadows
 * Kel Mitchell
 * Paul Mooney (1941-2021)
 * Tracy Morgan
 * Garrett Morris
 * Charlie Murphy (1959-2017)
 * Eddie Murphy
 * Mike Myers
 * Seth Meyers
 * Kevin Nealon
 * Bob Newhart (1929-2024)
 * Laraine Newman
 * Conan O'Brien
 * Jordan Peele
 * Amy Poehler
 * Colin Quinn
 * Gilda Radner (1946-1989)
 * Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
 * Carl Reiner (1922-2020)
 * Rob Reiner
 * Andy Richter
 * Don Rickles (1926-2017)
 * Joan Rivers (1933-2014)
 * Craig Robinson
 * Keith Robinson
 * Chris Rock
 * Seth Rogen
 * Ray Romano
 * Jeff Ross
 * Maya Rudolph
 * Sinbad
 * Bob Saget (1956-2022)
 * Adam Sandler
 * Andy Samberg
 * Garry Shandling (1949-2016)
 * Harry Shearer
 * Martin Short
 * Rob Schneider
 * Amy Schumer
 * Jerry Seinfeld
 * Sarah Silverman
 * Rickey Smiley
 * J. B. Smoove
 * David Spade
 * Aries Spears
 * Jon Stewart
 * Ryan Stiles
 * Ben Stiller
 * Jerry Stiller (1927-2020)
 * Nick Swardson
 * Wanda Sykes
 * Kenan Thompson
 * Lily Tomlin
 * George Wallace
 * Damon Wayans
 * Damon Wayans Jr.
 * Keenen Ivory Wayans
 * Kim Wayans
 * Marlon Wayans
 * Shawn Wayans
 * Kristen Wiig
 * Robin Williams (1951-2014)
 * Katt Williams
 * Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)
 * Henry Winkler

Popular Country musicians and singers:

 * Jason Aldean
 * Bill Anderson
 * Lynn Anderson (1947-2015)
 * Eddy Arnold (1918-2008)
 * Chet Atkins (1924-2001)
 * Joan Baez
 * Bobby Bare
 * Pat Boone
 * Garth Brooks
 * Ed Bruce (1939-2021)
 * Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023)
 * Glen Campbell (1936-2017)
 * Johnny Cash (1932-2003)
 * Ray Charles (1930-2004)
 * Kenny Chesney
 * Roy Clark (1933-2018)
 * Patsy Cline (1932-1963)
 * David Allan Coe
 * Rita Coolidge
 * Charlie Daniels (1936-2020)
 * Mac Davis (1942-2020)
 * Neil Diamond
 * Little Jimmy Dickens (1920-2015)
 * Joe Diffie (1958-2020)
 * John Denver (1943-1997)
 * Bob Dylan
 * Crystal Gayle
 * Don Gibson (1928-2003)
 * Vince Gill
 * Mickey Gilley (1936-2022)
 * Lee Greenwood
 * Merle Haggard (1937-2016)
 * Tom T. Hall (1936-2021)
 * Emmylou Harris
 * Lee Hazlewood (1929-2007)
 * Buddy Holly (1936-1959)
 * Alan Jackson
 * Wanda Jackson
 * Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)
 * George Jones (1931-2013)
 * Tom Jones
 * Toby Keith (1961-2024)
 * Kris Kristofferson
 * Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022)
 * Brenda Lee
 * Johnny Lee
 * Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023)
 * Kenny Loggins
 * Loretta Lynn (1932-2022)
 * Reba McEntire
 * Tim McGraw
 * Roger Miller (1936-1992)
 * Ronnie Milsap
 * Anne Murray
 * Ricky Nelson (1940-1985)
 * Willie Nelson
 * Roy Orbison (1936-1988)
 * Buck Owens (1929-2006)
 * Brad Paisley
 * Patti Page (1927-2013)
 * Johnny Paycheck (1938-2003)
 * Dolly Parton
 * Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
 * Ray Price (1926-2013)
 * Charley Pride (1934-2020)
 * Eddie Rabbitt (1941-1998)
 * Charlie Rich (1932-1995)
 * Jerry Reed (1937-2008)
 * Jim Reeves (1923-1964)
 * Marty Robbins (1925-1982)
 * Kenny Rogers (1938-2020)
 * Linda Ronstadt
 * Blake Shelton
 * Ricky Van Shelton
 * Jean Shepard (1933-2016)
 * Nancy Sinatra
 * Connie Smith
 * Hank Snow (1914-1999)
 * George Strait
 * Marty Stuart
 * Hank Thompson (1925-2007)
 * Mel Tillis (1932-2017)
 * Randy Travis
 * Ernest Tubb (1914-1984)
 * Conway Twitty (1933-1993)
 * Keith Urban
 * Porter Wagoner (1927-2007)
 * Kitty Wells (1919-2012)
 * Dottie West (1932-1991)
 * Hank Williams (1923-1953)
 * Don Williams (1939-2017)
 * Tammy Wynette (1942-1998)
 * Dwight Yoakam
 * Faron Young (1932-1996)
 * Neil Young

List of Famous Criminals:

 * Frank Abagnale
 * David Berkowitz
 * Whitey Bulger (1929-2018)
 * Ted Bundy (1946-1989)
 * Al Capone (1899-1947)
 * Mark David Chapman
 * Andrei Chikatilo (1936-1994)
 * Andrew Cunanan (1969-1997)
 * Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994)
 * Joseph James DeAngelo
 * Pablo Escobar (1949-1993)
 * John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994)
 * Robert Hansen (1939-2014)
 * John Hinckley Jr.
 * Henry Hill (1943-2012)
 * Leslie Van Houten
 * Ted Kaczynski (1942-2023)
 * Frank Lucas (1930-2019)
 * Charles Manson (1934-2017)
 * Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001)
 * John Allen Muhammad (1960-2009)
 * Terry Nichols
 * Dennis Nilsen (1945-2018)
 * Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963)
 * Scott Peterson
 * Richard Ramirez (1960-2013)
 * James Earl Ray (1928-1998)
 * Gary Ridgway
 * Jack Ruby (1911-1967)
 * Assata Shakur
 * Frank Sheeran (1920-2003)
 * Sirhan Sirhan
 * Richard Speck (1941-1991)
 * Peter Sutcliffe (1946-2020)

Actors from film Franchise's Who Passed Away:
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Alien

 * John Hurt (1940-2017)
 * Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017)
 * Ian Holm (1931-2020)
 * Yaphet Kotto (1939-2021)

Harry Potter

 * Richard Harris (1930-2002)
 * Richard Griffiths (1947-2013)
 * Alan Rickman (1946-2016)
 * John Hurt (1940-2017)
 * Verne Troyer (1969-2018)
 * Helen McCrory (1968-2021)
 * Robbie Coltrane (1950-2022)
 * Michael Gambon (1940-2023)

Marvel Cinematic Universe

 * Garry Shandling (1949-2016)
 * Stan Lee (1922-2018)
 * Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)
 * William Hurt (1950-2022)
 * Ray Stevenson (1964-2023)

Star Wars

 * Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
 * Kenny Baker (1934-2016)
 * Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)
 * Peter Mayhew (1944-2019)
 * David Prowse (1935-2020)
 * Jeremy Bulloch (1945-2020)

Toy Story
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 * Jim Varney (1949-2000)
 * Joe Ranft (1960-2005)
 * Don Rickles (1926-2017)
 * R. Lee Ermey (1944-2018)
 * Ned Beatty (1937-2021)
 * Estelle Harris (1928-2022)