User:Matt Campbell/sandbox

1929:

List

• January

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  

  Jacques Plante

  

  Patriarch Filaret

  

  Rudolf Mössbauer

  

  Jean Simmons

  • 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

  

  Vic Morrow

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  

  James Hong

  

  Alexy II

  

  Frank Gehry

  • 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

  

  Fazil Iskander

  

  Christa Wolf

  

  Lennart Meri

  • 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

  

  Jane Powell

  

  Poul Schlüter

  

  André Previn

  

  Jacques Brel

  

  Max von Sydow

  • 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

  

  Audrey Hepburn

  

  Sam Nujoma

  

  Betty Carter

  

  John Conyers

  

  Peter Higgs

  • 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

  

  Karolos Papoulias

  

  John Turner

  

  Anne Frank

  

  Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

  • 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

  

  Gerald Edelman

  

  Imelda Marcos

  

  Hassan II of Morocco

  

  Jean Baudrillard

  

  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

  • 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

  

  Francis Gary Powers

  

  Yasser Arafat

  • 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

  

  Bob Newhart

  

  Murray Gell-Mann

  

  Stirling Moss

  

  Lata Mangeshkar

  • 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

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  

  Yevgeny Primakov

  • 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

  

  Imre Kertész

  

  Grace Kelly

  

  Ed Asner

  

  Milkha Singh

  • 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

  

  Bob Hawke

  

  John Cassavetes

  

  Christopher Plummer

  • 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)

1930:

List

• January

  

  Robert Loggia

  

  Tippi Hedren

  

  Buzz Aldrin

  

  Derek Walcott

  

  Gene Hackman

  • 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

  

  Hussain Muhammad Ershad

  

  Robert Wagner

  

  Joanne Woodward

  • 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

  

  Tom Wolfe

  

  Zhores Alferov

  

  James Irwin

  

  Steve McQueen

  

  Anerood Jugnauth

  • 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

  

  Helmut Kohl

  

  Dolores Huerta

  

  Dick Sargent

  

  James Baker

  

  Carolyn Jones

  • 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

  

  Edsger W. Dijkstra

  

  Malcolm Fraser

  

  Sonia Rykiel

  

  Clint Eastwood

  • 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

  

  Pete Conrad

  

  George Fernandes

  

  Jim Nabors

  

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  

  Claude Chabrol

  • 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

  

  Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

  

  Carlos Menem

  

  Françoise Mallet-Joris

  

  Biljana Plavšić

  • 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

  

  Neil Armstrong

  

  Jan Olszewski

  

  Princess Margaret

  

  Sean Connery

  

  Irinej

  • 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

  

  Baudouin of Belgium

  

  Mario Adorf

  

  Akira Suzuki

  

  Ray Charles

  • 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

  

  Richard Harris

  

  Hafez al-Assad

  

  Mobutu Sese Seko

  

  Michael Collins

  • 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

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus

  

  Ed White

  

  Bob Mathias

  • 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

  

  Jean-Luc Godard

  

  Jean-Louis Trintignant

  

  Armin Mueller-Stahl

  • 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)

1931:

List

• January

  

  Toshiki Kaifu

  

  Robert Duvall

  

  Caterina Valente

  

  James Earl Jones

  • January 1 – Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016)
  • January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan (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

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  

  Dries van Agt

  

  Isabel Martínez de Perón

  

  James Dean

  • 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

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  

  Rupert Murdoch

  

  William Shatner

  

  Leonard Nimoy

  • March 1 – Lamberto Dini, Italian politician, economist and 51st Prime Minister of Italy
  • March 2 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (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

  

  Daniel Ellsberg

  

  Tomas Tranströmer

  • 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

  

  Willie Mays

  

  Robert Morse

  

  Carroll Baker

  • May 3 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
  • May 6 – Willie Mays, African-American baseball player
  • 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

  

  Raúl Castro

  

  Marla Gibbs

  

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  

  Olympia Dukakis

  • 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

  

  Leslie Caron

  

  Seyni Kountché

  

  Thorvald Stoltenberg

  • 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
  • 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

  

  Don King

  

  Barbara Eden

  

  Sri Chinmoy

  • 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

  

  Ian Holm

  

  Barbara Bain

  

  Larry Hagman

  • 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

  

  Desmond Tutu

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  

  John le Carré

  

  Dan Rather

  • 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

  

  Ike Turner

  

  Mwai Kibaki

  

  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

  • November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (d. 2021)
  • November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
  • November 3
    • Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. 2007)
    • Monica Vitti, Italian actress (d. 2022)
  • November 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)

  December

  

  George Maxwell Richards

  

  Rita Moreno

  

  Carlos Graça

  

  Lê Khả Phiêu

  • 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)

1932:

List

• January

  

  Umberto Eco

  

  Piper Laurie

  • January 3
    • Dabney Coleman, American actor
    • 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

  

  John Williams

  

  Miloš Forman

  

  Ted Kennedy

  

  Johnny Cash

  

  Elizabeth Taylor

  • 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

  

  Ryszard Kapuściński

  

  Alan Bean

  

  John Updike

  • 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

  

  Debbie Reynolds

  

  Omar Sharif

  

  Jean-Pierre Marielle

  

  Loretta Lynn

  

  Casey Kasem

  • 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
    • 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

  

  Phyllida Law

  

  Arnold Wesker

  

  K. C. Jones

  • 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

  

  Dudley R. Herschbach

  

  Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

  

  Amrish Puri

  

  Pat Morita

  • 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

  

  Gyula Horn

  

  Donald Rumsfeld

  

  Otis Davis

  

  John Searle

  • 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

  

  Peter O'Toole

  

  V. S. Naipaul

  

  Luc Montagnier

  

  Banharn Silpa-archa

  • 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

  

  Adolfo Suárez

  

  Manmohan Singh

  

  Oliver E. Williamson

  • 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

  

  Dottie West

  

  Dick Gregory

  

  Robert Reed

  

  Robert Mundell

  • 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

  

  Roy Scheider

  

  Benigno Aquino Jr.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  • 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)

  December

  

  Roh Tae-woo

  

  Little Richard

  

  Nichelle Nichols

  • 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)

1933:

List

• January

  

  Dalida

  

  Corazon Aquino

  • 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

  

  Paul Biya

  

  kim Novak

  

  Yoko Ono

  

  Nina Simone

  • 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

  

  Michael Caine

  

  Quincy Jones

  

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  

  Philip Roth

  • 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

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo

  

  Elizabeth Montgomery

  

  Jayne Mansfield

  

  Willie Nelson

  • 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

  

  James Brown

  

  Steven Weinberg

  

  Joan Collins

  • 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

  

  Godfried Danneels

  

  Joan Rivers

  

  Gene Wilder

  • 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

  

  Maximilian, Margrave of Baden

  

  David McCullough

  

  Oliver Sacks

  • 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

  

  Dom DeLuise

  

  Julie Newmar

  

  Stuart Roosa

  

  Roman Polanski

  

  Tom Skerritt

  • 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

  

  Conway Twitty

  

  Karl Lagerfeld

  

  David McCallum

  

  Samora Machel

  • 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

  

  John Gurdon

  

  Garrincha

  • 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
    • 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

  

  Amartya Sen

  

  Jalal Talabani

  

  Larry King

  • 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)

  December

  

  Abel Pacheco

  

  Emperor Akihito

  • 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)

1934:

List

• January

  

  Leonid Kravchuk

  

  Jean Chrétien

  

  Bill Bixby

  

  Édith Cresson

  • 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

  

  Hank Aaron

  

  Manuel Noriega

  

  Bill Russell

  

  Bettino Craxi

  • 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

  

  Yuri Gagarin

  

  Alan Arkin

  

  Richard Chamberlain

  

  Shirley Jones

  • 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

  

  Roman Herzog

  

  Shirley MacLaine

  • 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

  

  Frankie Valli

  

  Harlan Ellison

  • 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

  

  Albert II of Belgium

  

  Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark

  • 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
    • 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

  

  Sydney Pollack

  

  Giorgio Armani

  

  Wole Soyinka

  

  Louise Fletcher

  • 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

  

  Jonas Savimbi

  

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  • 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

  

  Brian Epstein

  

  Sophia Loren

  

  Leonard Cohen

  

  David J. Thouless

  

  Brigitte Bardot

  • 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

  

  Nana Mouskouri

  

  Empress Michiko

  • 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

  

  Ingvar Carlsson

  

  Carl Sagan

  

  Charles Manson

  • 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)

  December

  

  Judi Dench

  

  Pratibha Patil

  

  Stjepan Mesić

  

  Maggie Smith

  • 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

1935:

List

• January

  

  Elvis Presley

  

  Elsa Martinelli

  • 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

  

  Roger B. Chaffee

  

  Sonny Bono

  • 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

  

  Brian Clough

  • 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

  

  Dudley Moore

  

  Theo Angelopoulos

  • 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

  

  Jack Charlton

  

  Lee Meriwether

  • 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

  

  Lee Hoi-chang

  

  Samak Sundaravej

  

  Rodrigo Borja Cevallos

  • 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

  

  14th Dalai Lama

  

  Ei-ichi Negishi

  

  Diahann Carroll

  

  Donald Sutherland

  • 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
  • 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

  

  Ron Paul

  

  Tsutomu Hata

  

  William Friedkin

  

  John Phillips

  • 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

  

  Abdou Diouf

  

  Chaim Topol

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  

  Johnny Mathis

  • 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

  

  Julie Andrews

  

  Luciano Pavarotti

  

  Isao Takahata

  

  Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

  • 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

  

  Charles Koch

  

  Bibi Andersson

  

  Hussein of Jordan

  

  Mahmoud Abbas

  • 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

  

  Woody Allen

  

  Pranab Mukherjee

  

  Lee Remick

  

  Salman of Saudi Arabia

  • 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

1936:

List

• January

  

  Julio María Sanguinetti

  

  Émile Lahoud

  

  Alan Alda

  • 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

  February

  

  Burt Reynolds

  

  Jim Brown

  • 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

  

  F. W. De Klerk

  

  Ursula Andress

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  • 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

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  

  Glen Campbell

  

  Roy Orbison

  • 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

  

  Glenda Jackson

  

  Albert Finney

  

  Louis Gossett Jr.

  • 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

  

  Bruce Dern

  

  Kris Kristofferson

  

  B. J. Habibie

  

  Kigeli V of Rwanda

  • 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

  

  Shirley Knight

  

  Yasuo Fukuda

  

  Elizabeth Dole

  • 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

  

  Robert Redford

  

  Wilt Chamberlain

  

  John McCain

  • 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

  

  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

  

  Jim Henson

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  • 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

  

  Bill Wyman

  

  Michael Landon

  • 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
  • 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

  

  Don Cherry

  

  Dick Cavett

  • 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)

  December

  

  David Carradine

  

  Pope Francis

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

  • 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

1937:

List

• January

  

  Shirley Bassey

  

  John Hume

  

  Vanessa Redgrave

  

  Suzanne Pleshette

  • 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

  

  Rupiah Banda

  

  Nancy Wilson

  

  Harald V of Norway

  • 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

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika

  

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  

  Benny Paret

  

  Warren Beatty

  • 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

  

  Colin Powell

  

  Billy Dee Williams

  

  Jack Nicholson

  

  Saddam Hussein

  • 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

  

  George Carlin

  

  Madeleine Albright

  

  Yvonne Craig

  • 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

  

  Morgan Freeman

  

  Simeon II

  

  Ronald Venetiaan

  

  Martti Ahtisaari

  

  Robert Coleman Richardson

  • 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

  

  Queen Sonja of Norway

  

  Bill Cosby

  

  Lionel Jospin

  

  Yoshirō Mori

  

  Ryutaro Hashimoto

  • 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

  

  Manuel Pinto da Costa

  

  Dustin Hoffman

  • 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

  

  Francisco Pinto Balsemão

  

  Jared Diamond

  

  Fernando de la Rúa

  • 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

  

  Jackie Collins

  

  Bobby Charlton

  • 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

  

  Loretta Swit

  

  Ridley Scott

  • 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

  December

  

  Jane Fonda

  

  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

  

  Anthony Hopkins

  • 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

1938:

List

• January

  

  King Juan Carlos I of Spain

  

  Morihiro Hosokawa

  

  Etta James

  

  Vladimir Vysotsky

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands

  • 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

  

  Oliver Reed

  

  István Szabó

  • 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

  

  Tufuga Efi

  

  Ricardo Lagos Escobar

  

  Alpha Condé

  • 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
  • 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

  

  Kofi Annan

  

  Claudia Cardinale

  

  Giovanni Benvenuti

  • 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
  • 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

  

  King Moshoeshoe II

  

  Giuliano Amato

  

  Susan Strasberg

  

  Tommy Chong

  • 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
  • May 31
    • Johnny Paycheck, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
    • Peter Yarrow, American singer and songwriter

  June

  

  Princess Désirée

  • 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

  

  Brian Dennehy

  

  Diana Rigg

  

  Natalie Wood

  

  Terence Stamp

  • 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

  

  Leonid Kuchma

  

  Kenny Rogers

  

  Paul Martin

  • 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

  

  Alan Dershowitz

  

  Wim Kok

  • 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

  

  Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

  

  Farah Diba

  

  Christopher Lloyd

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  • 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

  

  Queen Sofía of Spain

  

  Jean Seberg

  

  Ted Turner

  • 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
  • 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)

  December

  

  Liv Ullmann

  

  Jon Voight

  • 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)

1939:

List

• January

  

  Sal Mineo

  

  Abdullah Ensour

  

  Sonny Chiba

  

  Alfredo Palacio

  • 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

  

  Mike Farrell

  

  Adrienne Clarkson

  

  Ray Manzarek

  • 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

  

  Brian Mulroney

  

  Volker Schlöndorff

  • 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

  

  Marvin Gaye

  

  Francis Ford Coppola

  

  Dusty Springfield

  

  Ali Khamenei

  • 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

  

  Judy Collins

  

  Ruud Lubbers

  

  Harvey Keitel

  

  Sir Ian McKellen

  • 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

  

  Joe Clark

  

  Jackie Stewart

  • 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

  

  Mavis Staples

  

  Karel Gott

  

  Elena Obraztsova

  

  John Howard

  

  Peter Bogdanovich

  • 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

  

  Princess Irene of the Netherlands

  

  Romano Prodi

  

  George Hamilton

  • 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

  

  Lily Tomlin

  

  George Lazenby

  

  Guntis Ulmanis

  

  Jorge Sampaio

  • 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

  

  Ralph Lauren

  

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  

  Joaquim Chissano

  

  John Cleese

  • 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

  

  Emil Constantinescu

  

  Tina Turner

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  • 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)

  December

  

  Harry Reid

  

  John Amos

  • 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

1940:

List

• January

  

  Brian Josephson

  

  John Hurt

  

  James Cromwell

  

  Carlos Slim

  • 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

  

  George A. Romero

  

  H. R. Giger

  

  Smokey Robinson

  

  Peter Fonda

  • 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

  

  Chuck Norris

  

  James Caan

  

  Nancy Pelosi

  • 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

  

  Wangari Maathai

  

  Julie Christie

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  

  Al Pacino

  • 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

  

  David Koch

  

  Lance Henriksen

  

  Ricky Nelson

  

  Toni Tennille

  • 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

  

  Constantine II of Greece

  

  Tom Jones

  

  Nancy Sinatra

  

  Wilma Rudolph

  • 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

  

  Jerzy Buzek

  

  Ringo Starr

  

  Patrick Stewart

  

  James Brolin

  

  Alex Trebek

  • 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

  

  Martin Sheen

  

  Jean-Luc Dehaene

  • 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

  

  Raquel Welch

  

  Linda Gray

  

  Óscar Arias

  

  Michel Temer

  • 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

  

  John Lennon

  

  Cliff Richard

  

  Michael Gambon

  

  Pelé

  • 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

  

  Sam Waterson

  

  Qaboos bin Said Al Said

  

  Bruce Lee

  • 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

  December

  

  Richard Pryor

  

  Dionne Warwick

  • 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)

1967:

List

• January

  

  Miklós Kállay

  

  Apollo 1 crew

  

  Eddie Tolan

  • 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

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • 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

  

  Mohammad Mosaddegh

  

  Zoltán Kodály

  • 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

  

  Konrad Adenauer

  • 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

  

  John Masefield

  

  Langston Hughes

  • 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

  

  Spencer Tracy

  

  Jayne Mansfield

  • 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

  

  Vivien Leigh

  

  John Coltrane

  • 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

  

  Manuel Prado Ugarteche

  

  Stanley Bruce

  

  Brian Epstein

  • 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

  

  James Dunn

  • 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

  

  Che Guevara

  

  Shigeru Yoshida

  • 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

  

  Léon M'ba

  • 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)

  December

  

  Otis Redding

  

  Harold Holt

  • 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)

1975:

List

• January

  

  Antonín Novotný

  • 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

  

  Julian Huxley

  

  Chivu Stoica

  • 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

  

  Ivo Andrić

  

  Susan Hayward

  • 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

  

  Chiang Kai-shek

  

  Josephine Baker

  • 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

  

  Avery Brundage

  • 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

  

  Eisaku Satō

  • 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

  

  Otto Skorzeny

  • 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

  

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  

  Haile Selassie I

  • 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

  

  Sir George Paget Thomson

  

  Saint-John Perse

  • 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

  

  Gustav Ludwig Hertz

  • 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

  

  Francisco Franco

  • 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)

  December

  

  Hannah Arendt

  

  Bernard Herrmann

  • 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)

2009:

List

• 

  John Updike

  

  Ingemar Johansson

  • 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

  

  James Whitmore

  • 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

  

  João Bernardo Vieira

  

  Natasha Richardson

  • 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

  

  Bea Arthur

  • 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

  

  Dom DeLuise

  

  Roh Moo-hyun

  • 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

  

  David Carradine

  

  Farrah Fawcett

  

  Michael Jackson

  • 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

  

  Karl Malden

  

  Walter Cronkite

  

  Bobby Robson

  • 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

  

  Corazon Aquino

  

  Ted Kennedy

  • 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

  

  Henry Gibson

  

  Patrick Swayze

  • 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

  

  Mercedes Sosa

  

  Al Martino

  • 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

  

  Vitaly Ginzburg

  

  Samak Sundaravej

  • 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)

  December

  

  Paul Samuelson

  

  Jennifer Jones

  

  Brittany Murphy

  

  Rafael Caldera

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  • 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)

2014:

List

• January

  

  Eusébio

  

  Ariel Sharon

  

  Pete Seeger

  • 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

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  

  Shirley Temple

  

  Sid Caesar

  • 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

  

  James Rebhorn

  

  Adolfo Suárez

  • 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

  

  Mickey Rooney

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  • 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

  

  H. R. Giger

  

  Wojciech Jaruzelski

  

  Maya Angelou

  • 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

  

  Casey Kasem

  

  Ramón José Velásquez

  

  Ana María Matute

  • 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

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  

  Nadine Gordimer

  

  James Garner

  • 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

  

  Robin Williams

  

  Lauren Bacall

  

  Richard Attenborough

  • 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

  

  Joan Rivers

  

  Gustavo Cerati

  

  Ian Paisley

  

  Martin Lewis Perl

  • 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

  

  Siegfried Lenz

  

  Gough Whitlam

  

  Jack Bruce

  • 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

  

  Alexander Grothendieck

  

  Marion Barry

  

  P. D. James

  • 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)

  December

  

  Fabiola of Belgium

  

  Joe Cocker

  • 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)

2016:

List

• January

  

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  

  Princess Ashraf Pahlavi

  

  David Bowie

  

  Alan Rickman

  • 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

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  

  Umberto Eco

  

  Harper Lee

  • 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

  

  Nancy Reagan

  

  George Martin

  

  Anker Jørgensen

  

  Johan Cruyff

  

  Patty Duke

  • 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

  

  Merle Haggard

  

  Prince

  

  Banharn Silpa-archa

  • 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

  

  Marco Pannella

  

  Bata Živojinović

  

  Loris Francesco Capovilla

  

  Mohamed Abdelaziz

  • 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

  

  Muhammad Ali

  

  Gordie Howe

  

  Anton Yelchin

  

  Bud Spencer

  • 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

  

  Elie Wiesel

  

  Zygmunt Zimowski

  

  Ursula Franklin

  

  Piet de Jong

  

  Fazil Iskander

  • 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

  

  Queen Anne of Romania

  

  Mohammad Ali Samatar

  

  Walter Scheel

  

  Juan Gabriel

  

  Gene Wilder

  • 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

  

  Islam Karimov

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  

  Shimon Peres

  • 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

  

  Andrzej Wajda

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  

  Kigeli V of Rwanda

  • 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

  

  Leonard Cohen

  

  Sixto Durán Ballén

  

  Konstantinos Stephanopoulos

  

  Fidel Castro

  

  Luis Alberto Monge

  • 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)

  December

  

  John Glenn

  

  Thomas Schelling

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  

  Andrei Karlov

  

  George Michael

  

  Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

  • 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)

2018:

List

• January

  

  Thomas S. Monson

  

  John Young

  

  France Gall

  

  Peter Sutherland

  

  Odvar Nordli

  

  Dolores O'Riordan

  

  Dorothy Malone

  

  Ingvar Kamprad

  

  Ion Ciubuc

  • 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

  

  John Mahoney

  

  Prince Henrik

  

  Ruud Lubbers

  

  Morgan Tsvangirai

  

  Billy Graham

  

  Sridevi

  

  Quini

  • 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

  

  Davide Astori

  

  Reynaldo Bignone

  

  Hubert de Givenchy

  

  Stephen Hawking

  

  Katie Boyle

  

  Johan van Hulst

  

  Lys Assia

  • 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

  

  Efraín Ríos Montt

  

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

  

  Isao Takahata

  

  Miloš Forman

  

  R. Lee Ermey

  

  Barbara Bush

  

  Avicii

  

  Verne Troyer

  • 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

  

  Tessa Jowell

  

  Margot Kidder

  

  Tom Wolfe

  

  Philip Roth

  

  Alan Bean

  

  Dick Quax

  

  Jens Christian Skou

  • 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

  

  Paul D. Boyer

  

  Anthony Bourdain

  

  Stanislav Govorukhin

  

  Big Van Vader

  

  XXXTentacion

  

  Joe Jackson

  

  Harlan Ellison

  

  Arvid Carlsson

  • 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

  

  Dame Gillian Lynne

  

  Jean-Louis Tauran

  

  Tab Hunter

  

  Peter Carington

  

  Thorvald Stoltenberg

  

  Sergio Marchionne

  

  Nikolai Volkoff

  • 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

  

  V. S. Naipaul

  

  Eduard Uspensky

  

  Aretha Franklin

  

  Kofi Annan

  

  Uri Avnery

  

  John McCain

  

  Alexander Zakharchenko

  • 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

  

  Burt Reynolds

  

  Mac Miller

  

  Gennadi Gagulia

  

  Trần Đại Quang

  

  Charles K. Kao

  • 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

  

  Charles Aznavour

  

  Đỗ Mười

  

  Leon M. Lederman

  

  Montserrat Caballé

  

  Paul Allen

  

  Wim Kok

  • 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

  

  Stan Lee

  

  Nicolas Roeg

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  

  Stephen Hillenburg

  

  George H. W. Bush

  • 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)

  December

  

  Belisario Betancur

  

  Dynamite Kid

  

  Lyudmila Alexeyeva

  

  Penny Marshall

  

  Paddy Ashdown

  

  Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

  

  June Whitfield

  • 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)

2019:

List

• January

  

  Bob Einstein

  

  Carol Channing

  

  Henry Sy

  

  Emiliano Sala

  

  George Fernandes

  • 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

  

  Julie Adams

  

  Albert Finney

  

  Jan Olszewski

  

  Frank Robinson

  

  Bruno Ganz

  

  Karl Lagerfeld

  

  Peter Tork

  

  André Previn

  • 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

  

  Zhores Alferov

  

  Keith Flint

  

  Luke Perry

  

  Scott Walker

  

  Agnès Varda

  • 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

  

  David J. Thouless

  

  Bibi Andersson

  

  Alan García

  

  Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

  

  Jean-Pierre Marielle

  

  Peter Mayhew

  • 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

  

  Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba

  

  Doris Day

  

  Bob Hawke

  

  Niki Lauda

  

  Murray Gell-Mann

  • 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

  

  José Antonio Reyes

  

  Dr. John

  

  Franco Zeffirelli

  

  Mohamed Morsi

  

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  • 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

  

  Ross Perot

  

  Fernando de la Rúa

  

  Hussain Muhammad Ershad

  

  Rutger Hauer

  

  Beji Caid Essebsi

  • 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

  

  Nuon Chea

  

  Toni Morrison

  

  Jean-Pierre Mocky

  

  Peter Fonda

  

  Dawda Jawara

  • 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

  

  Robert Mugabe

  

  B. J. Habibie

  

  Eddie Money

  

  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

  

  Jacques Chirac

  • 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

  

  Karel Gott

  

  Diahann Carroll

  

  Ginger Baker

  

  Alexei Leonov

  

  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

  • 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

  

  Jan Stráský

  

  Raymond Poulidor

  

  Harrison Dillard

  

  Goo Hara

  

  Yasuhiro Nakasone

  • 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

  

  Bob Willis

  

  René Auberjonois

  

  Caroll Spinney

  

  Marie Fredriksson

  

  Anna Karina

  

  Ari Behn

  

  Prosper Grech

  • 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)

2024:

List

• January

  

  Niklaus Wirth

  

  Saleh al-Arouri

  

  Glynis Johns

  

  David Soul

  

  Franz Beckenbauer

  

  Norman Jewison

  

  Arno Allan Penzias

  

  Chita Rivera

  • January 1
    • James Herbert Brennan, Irish author (b. 1940)
    • Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of the of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1933)
    • Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist (b. 1934)
  • January 2
    • Saleh al-Arouri, Palestinian militant (b. 1966)
    • Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani economist and strategist (b. 1929)
    • Alberto Festa, Portuguese footballer (b. 1939)
    • Brian Lumley, English author (b. 1937)
    • Zvi Zamir, Polish-born Israeli military officer (b. 1925)
  • January 3 – Daniel Revenu, French fencer (b. 1942)
  • January 4
    • Glynis Johns, South African-born British actress, dancer, musician and singer (b. 1923)
    • Christian Oliver, German actor (b. 1972)
    • Kishin Shinoyama, Japanese photographer (b. 1940)
    • David Soul, American actor (b. 1943)
    • Tomonobu Yokoyama, Japanese footballer (b. 1985)
  • January 5
    • Nicholas Rescher, German-American philosopher (b. 1928)
    • Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
  • January 7
    • Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
    • Alberto Colombo, Italian racing driver (b. 1946)
  • January 8
    • Carl-Erik Asplund, Swedish speed skater and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1923)
    • Guy Bonnet, French author, composer and singer (b. 1945)
    • Adan Canto, Mexican actor (b. 1981)
    • Frans Janssens, Belgian footballer (b. 1945)
    • Ventura Pons, Spanish film director (b. 1945)
  • January 9
    • Rashid Khan, Indian musician (b. 1968)
    • James Kottak, American drummer (b. 1962)
  • January 10
    • Terry Bisson, American science-fiction author (b. 1942)
    • Jennell Jaquays, American game designer and video game designer (b. 1956)
    • Janusz Majewski, Polish film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • January 11 – Yury Solomin, Russian actor (b. 1935)
  • January 12 – Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist (b. 1968)
  • January 13 – Stephen Laybutt, Australian footballer (b. 1977)
  • January 14
    • Lev Rubinstein, Russian poet, essayist, and social activist (b. 1947)
    • Howard Waldrop, American writer (b. 1946)
    • Klaus Wunder, German footballer (b. 1950)
  • January 16
    • Sergio Sebastiani, Italian cardinal (b. 1931)
    • Peter Schickele, American composer (b. 1935)
    • Vaino Väljas, Estonian diplomat and politician (b. 1931)
  • January 17
    • Shawn Barber, Canadian track and field athlete (b. 1994)
    • Dejan Milojević, Serbian professional basketball player and coach (b. 1977)
  • January 18 – Donald Adamson, British literary scholar, philosopher and historian (b. 1939)
  • January 19
    • Toru Kawashima, Japanese footballer (b. 1970)
    • Lance Larson, American swimmer (b. 1940)
  • January 20 – Norman Jewison, Canadian film director (b. 1926)
  • January 22
    • Gary Graham, American actor (b. 1950)
    • Dexter Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1961)
    • Arno Allan Penzias, American physicist and radio astronomer (b. 1933)
    • Anatoli Polivoda, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1947)
    • Gigi Riva, Italian footballer (b. 1944)
  • January 23
    • Frank Farian, German singer and record producer (b. 1941)
    • David Kahn, American historian, journalist, and writer (b. 1930)
    • Melanie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
    • Jean Petit, French footballer (b. 1949)
  • January 24
    • Carl Andre, American sculptor (b. 1935)
    • Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress and host (b. 1980)
    • N. Scott Momaday, American author (b. 1934)
  • January 25 – Bat-Sheva Dagan, Polish-Israeli orator, psychologist, and writer (b. 1925)
  • January 26 – Goran Petrović, Serbian writer (b. 1961)
  • January 28 – Luis Tejada, Panamanian footballer (b. 1982)
  • January 29 – Sandra Milo, Italian actress (b. 1933)
  • January 30 – Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1933)

  February

  

  Carl Weathers

  

  Dries van Agt

  

  Sebastián Piñera

  

  Alexei Navalny

  

  Brian Mulroney

  • February 1 – Carl Weathers, American actor (b. 1948)
  • February 2
    • Wayne Kramer, American guitarist (b. 1948)
    • Don Murray, American actor (b. 1929)
    • Oskar Negt, German philosopher (b. 1934)
    • Lorenzo Olarte Cullen, 3rd President of the Canary Islands (b. 1932)
    • Poonam Pandey, Indian model and actress (b. 1991)
    • Christopher Priest, English novelist (b. 1943)
  • February 3
    • Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Jamaican musician (b. 1946)
    • Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (b. 1937)
  • February 4
    • Hage Geingob, 3rd President of Namibia and 2-time Prime Minister of Namibia (b. 1941)
    • Giacomo Losi, Italian footballer (b. 1935)
  • February 5
    • Dries van Agt, 46th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1931)
    • Toby Keith, American singer (b. 1961)
    • Jean Malaurie, French anthropologist and explorer (b. 1922)
  • February 6
    • John Bruton, Irish politician (b. 1947)
    • Anthony Epstein, British pathologist and academic (b. 1921)
    • Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor (b. 1935)
    • Sebastián Piñera, 2-time President of Chile (b. 1949)
  • February 9
    • Robert Badinter, French lawyer, politician and author (b. 1928)
    • Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
  • February 10 – Edward Lowassa, 8th Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1953)
  • February 11 – Kelvin Kiptum, Kenyan long-distance runner (b. 1999)
  • February 15 – Kagney Linn Karter, American pornographic actress (b. 1987)
  • February 16 – Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer, opposition leader and political prisoner (b. 1976)
  • February 17 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist (b. 1930)
  • February 19
    • Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist (b. 1938)
    • Ira von Fürstenberg, Italian socialite and actress (b. 1940)
  • February 20
    • Andreas Brehme, German footballer and coach (b. 1960)
    • Anfinn Kallsberg, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1947)
  • February 21
    • Roger Guillemin, French-American neuroscientist (b. 1924)
    • Micheline Presle, French actress (b. 1922)
  • February 22 – Artur Jorge, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1946)
  • February 23 – Wilson Fittipaldi Jr., Brazilian racing driver and manager (b. 1943)
  • February 24 – Kenneth Mitchell, Canadian actor (b. 1974)
  • February 26 – Charles Dierkop, American actor (b. 1936)
  • February 27 – Richard H. Truly, American astronaut (b. 1937)
  • February 28
    • Richard Lewis, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1947)
    • Nikolai Ryzhkov, Soviet and Russian politician (b. 1929)
  • February 29
    • Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1939)
    • Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania (b. 1925)
    • Paolo Taviani, Italian film director (b. 1931)

  March

  

  Iris Apfel

  

  Herbert Kroemer

  

  Steve Harley

  

  Daniel Kahneman

  

  Louis Gossett Jr.

  • March 1
    • Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer and fashion icon (b. 1921)
    • Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist and video game artist (b. 1955)
  • March 2 – Søren Pape Poulsen, Danish politician (b. 1971)
  • March 3
    • Edward Bond, British dramatist and theatre director (b. 1934)
    • Jaclyn Jose, Filipino actress (b. 1964)
    • Agbéyomé Kodjo, 6th Prime Minister of Togo (b. 1954)
  • March 4 – Kees Rijvers, Dutch footballer (b. 1926)
  • March 7 – Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
  • March 8 – Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist (b. 1928)
  • March 9 – Antanas Bagdonavičius, Lithuanian rower (b. 1938)
  • March 10 – Percy Adlon, German director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
  • March 11
    • Paul Alexander, American lawyer and paralytic polio survivor (b. 1946)
    • Eric Carmen, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist (b. 1949)
  • March 13
    • Marcello Gandini, Italian car designer (b. 1938)
    • Philippe de Gaulle, French admiral and politician (b. 1921)
    • Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Orthodox prelate (b. 1945)
  • March 14 – Frans de Waal, Dutch primatologist and ethologist (b. 1948)
  • March 15 – Paul Josef Cordes, German cardinal (b. 1934)
  • March 16 – David Seidler, British-American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • March 17 – Steve Harley, British singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
  • March 18
    • Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
    • Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut (b. 1930)
  • March 19
    • Ersen Martin, Turkish footballer (b. 1979)
    • M. Emmet Walsh, American actor (b. 1935)
  • March 20 – Vernor Vinge, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
  • March 21 – Frédéric Mitterrand, French politician (b. 1947)
  • March 22 – Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist (b. 1942)
  • March 23 – Abdulah Sidran, Bosnian poet and screenwriter (b. 1944)
  • March 24 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor (b. 1944)
  • March 25
    • Humphrey Campbell, Surinamese-Dutch singer (b. 1958)
    • Chris Cross, English guitarist (b. 1952)
    • Fritz Wepper, German actor (b. 1941)
  • March 26 – Richard Serra, American artist (b. 1938)
  • March 27
    • Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist (b. 1934)
    • Joe Lieberman, American politician, lobbyist, and attorney (b. 1942)
  • March 28
    • Larry Lloyd, English footballer (b. 1948)
    • Isa Kasimi, Latvian chess master (b. 1961)
  • March 29 – Louis Gossett Jr., American actor (b. 1936)
  • March 30 – Chance Perdomo, American actor (b. 1996)
  • March 31 – Barbara Rush, American actress (b. 1927)

  April

  

  Mahammed Dionne

  

  Peter Higgs

  

  O. J. Simpson

  

  Gediminas Kirkilas

  • April 1 – Joe Flaherty, American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1941)
  • April 2
    • John Barth, American writer (b. 1930)
    • Maryse Condé, French novelist, critic, and playwright (b. 1934)
    • Juan Vicente Pérez, Venezuelan farmer and construction worker (b. 1909)
  • April 3
    • Veljko Bulajić, Montenegrin film director (b. 1928)
    • Albert Heath, American drummer (b. 1935)
    • Vitus Huonder, Swiss prelate (b. 1942)
  • April 5 – Mahammed Dionne, Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1959)
  • April 7 – Joe Kinnear, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1946)
  • April 8
    • Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
    • Alexey Tsatevich, Russian professional road bicycle racer (b. 1989)
  • April 9
    • Vladimir Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
    • Jaime de Armiñán, Spanish screenwriter and film director (b. 1927)
  • April 10
    • Trina Robbins, American cartoonist (b. 1938)
    • O. J. Simpson, American football player, actor, and broadcaster (b. 1947)
  • April 11
    • Park Bo-ram, South Korean singer (b. 1994)
    • Akebono Tarō, American-born Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1969)
    • Shigeharu Ueki, Japanese footballer and manager (b. 1954)
  • April 12
    • Eleanor Coppola, American filmmaker (b. 1936)
    • Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer and inventor (b. 1940)
    • Olga Fikotová, Czech-American discus thrower (b. 1932)
  • April 13 – Faith Ringgold, American artist and author (b. 1930)
  • April 15
    • Bernd Hölzenbein, German footballer (b. 1946)
    • Josip Manolić, Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1920)
    • Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Colombian cardinal (b. 1932)
  • April 16 – Bob Graham, American lawyer, author, and politician (b. 1936)
  • April 18
    • Dickey Betts, American singer and guitarist (b. 1943)
    • Parviz Davoodi, 3rd First Vice President of Iran (b. 1952)
  • April 19
    • Daniel Dennett, American philosopher (b. 1942)
    • Muhammed Faris, Syrian military aviator and astronaut (b. 1951)
  • April 20 – Gediminas Kirkilas, 13th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1951)
  • April 21 – Andrew Davis, English conductor (b. 1944)
  • April 22 – Philippe Laudenbach, French actor (b. 1936)
  • April 23 – Terry Carter, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1928)
  • April 24 – Mike Pinder, English rock musician (b. 1941)
  • April 25 – Laurent Cantet, French film director (b. 1961)

Popular Television Shows:

List

• • 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)
  • Blue Bloods
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Glee (2009-2015)
  • Good Times (1974-1979)
  • Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
  • Gotham (2014-2019)
  • Grace Under Fire (1993-1998)
  • Grace and Frankie (2015-2022)
  • 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)
  • Highway to Heaven (1984-1989)
  • Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
  • Home Improvement (1991-1999)
  • Homeland (2011-2020)
  • Hot in Cleveland (2010-2015)
  • House of Cards (2013-2018)
  • How to Get Away with Murder
  • Hunter (1984-1991)
  • I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970)
  • Ice Road Truckers (2007-2017)
  • JAG (1995-2005)
  • King of the Hill (1997-2010)
  • Last Man Standing (2011-2021)
  • Laverne & Shirley (1976-1983)
  • Law & Order (1990-2010)
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001-2011)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Lost (2004-2010)
  • Lou Grant (1977-1982)
  • Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983)
  • Mad Men (2007-2015)
  • Madame Secretary (2014-2019)
  • 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)
  • Nashville (2012-2018)
  • NCIS
  • NCIS: Los Angeles (2009-2023)
  • NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2021)
  • New Girl (2011-2018)
  • Newhart (1982-1990)
  • Night Court (1984-1992)
  • NYPD Blue (1993-2005)
  • 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)
  • Prison Break (2005-2009, 2017)
  • Psych (2006-2014)
  • Ray Donovan (2013-2020)
  • Rhoda (1974-1978)
  • Robot Chicken
  • Roseanne (1988-1997, 2018)
  • Royal Pains (2009-2016)
  • Rugrats (1991-2004)
  • Sanford and Son (1972-1977)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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 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 of Us
  • The Love Boat (1977-1986)
  • The Mandalorian
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • The Mentalist (2008-2015)
  • The Middle (2009-2018)
  • The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
  • The Monkees (1966-1968)
  • The Odd Couple (1970-1975)
  • The Office (2005-2013)
  • The Partridge Family (1970-1974)
  • The Ranch (2016-2020)
  • The Rockford Files (1974-1980)
  • The Simpsons
  • The Sopranos (1999-2007)
  • The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017)
  • The Walking Dead (2010-2022)
  • The Walking Dead: Dead City
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • White Collar (2009-2014)
  • Who's the Boss? (1984-1992)
  • Will & Grace (1998-2006) (2017-2020)
  • Young Sheldon
  • Z Nation (2014-2018)

Popular in the 1970's:

List

• • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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:

List

• • 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:

List

• • Dan Aykroyd
  • Jason Alexander
  • Tim Allen
  • Woody Allen
  • Louie Anderson (1953-2022)
  • Roseanne Barr
  • 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
  • George Carlin (1937-2008)
  • Jim Carrey
  • Johnny Carson (1925-2005)
  • Dana Carvey
  • Dave Chappelle
  • Chevy Chase
  • Margaret Cho
  • Tommy Chong
  • Tim Conway (1933-2019)
  • Bill Cosby
  • Dave Coulier
  • Billy Crystal
  • Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)
  • Ellen DeGeneres
  • Phyllis Diller (1917-2012)
  • Fran Drescher
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • Chris Farley (1964-1997)
  • Tina Fey
  • Jim Gaffigan
  • Leo Gallagher (1946-2022)
  • Jeff Garlin
  • Brad Garrett
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)
  • Shecky Greene (1926-2023)
  • Dick Gregory (1932-2017)
  • Kathy Griffin
  • Tiffany Haddish
  • Arsenio Hall
  • Kevin Hart
  • Steve Harvey
  • Bill Hicks (1961-1994)
  • Kevin James
  • Leslie Jones
  • Mario Joyner
  • Mindy Kaling
  • Andy Kaufman (1949-1984)
  • 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)
  • Jon Lovitz
  • Bernie Mac (1957-2008)
  • Norm Macdonald (1959-2021)
  • Seth MacFarlane
  • Howie Mandel
  • Cheech Marin
  • Steve Martin
  • Jackie Mason (1928-2021)
  • Kate McKinnon
  • Tim Meadows
  • Paul Mooney (1941-2021)
  • Tracy Morgan
  • Garrett Morris
  • Charlie Murphy (1959-2017)
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Mike Myers
  • Seth Meyers
  • Kevin Nealon
  • Bob Newhart
  • Laraine Newman
  • Conan O'Brien
  • Amy Poehler
  • Colin Quinn
  • Gilda Radner (1946-1989)
  • Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
  • Carl Reiner (1922-2020)
  • Andy Richter
  • Don Rickles (1926-2017)
  • Joan Rivers (1933-2014)
  • Chris Rock
  • Seth Rogen
  • Ray Romano
  • Jeff Ross
  • Maya Rudolph
  • Bob Saget (1956-2022)
  • Adam Sandler
  • Andy Samberg
  • Garry Shandling (1949-2016)
  • Martin Short
  • Rob Schneider
  • Amy Schumer
  • Jerry Seinfeld
  • Sarah Silverman
  • David Spade
  • Ben Stiller
  • Jerry Stiller (1927-2020)
  • Wanda Sykes
  • Kenan Thompson
  • Lily Tomlin
  • Kristen Wiig
  • Robin Williams (1951-2014)
  • Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)
  • Henry Winkler

Popular Country musicians and singers:

List

• • 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:

List

• • Frank Abagnale
  • David Berkowitz
  • Whitey Bulger (1929-2018)
  • Ted Bundy (1946-1989)
  • Al Capone (1899-1947)
  • Mark David Chapman
  • Andrei Chikatilo
  • 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
  • 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)